A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
What exactly is acting your age? And who decides? These are the questions Alan Cumming has been grappling with for a very long time.
This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing.
Alan Bennett reminisces about his life.
Falkirk’s hardest woman faces her greatest challenge yet: surviving a pandemic with only vodka, fags and her BFF Babs on Zoom.
This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a new script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing.
Moira’s back in this Fringe First-winning sequel.
Everyone knows about the code-breaking genius of Alan Turing, but behind the mathematical genius lay a man of great passion.
Join writer-performer Bissett as Moira: cleaner, single mum and the hardest woman in Falkirk, as she protects her wee Pepe from a neighbour’s dug, seduces a teacher in the school…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
One of The Guardian’s top five shows of 2021 returns for a limited run! Join The Duchess of Canvey on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart…
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Alan Turing – A Musical Biography.
Diane Chorley brings you her chart-topping podcast Chatting with Chorley live from the glamour of her cult 1980s nightclub The Flick.
Join cult songstress Diane Chorley, and sidekick Milky, as they bring back their iconic 80s nightclub The Flick, where the dancing doesn’t stop, the band keeps playing and the Baby…
Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World celebrates the life and work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014).
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Alan Cumming employs his usual charm and wit through story and song in a wickedly memorable performance.
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Miss Ruddock writes letters — not, unfortunately, social communications filled with harmless news — but letters of complaint, comment and, occasionally, officious praise to var…
Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.
After their sell-out success last year with three Alan Bennett plays, BCP return with two of Ayckbourn’s short comedies performed back to back.
After their sell-out success last year with three Alan Bennett plays, BCP return with one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most recent tragi-comedies.
Join Diane as she recuts the red ribbon on her iconic 80s nightclub The Flick.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
The Duchess of Canvey returns with a new show and new songs! Join her on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart of a divided Britain.
If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim.
When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy.
Alan Bennett is an institution in Britain - he can encapsulate a world of voices within a single monologue.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion football manager and now club Ambassador, discusses his life and the major incidents that have helped shape a successful playing career for England, T…
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with ‘Talking Heads’, his award-winning series of 12 monologues.
Ernie Fraser is a dreamer with a difference.
Back-to-back performances of two of Alan Ayckbourn’s shortest plays.
One of Ayckbourn’s newest plays, only previously performed in Scarborough.
Tickets: £23Duration: approx 2hrs with an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
Alan Carr: Work In Progress (plus support)
Bill Bailey and Alan Davies trialling new material.
Club Cumming began in Alan’s Studio 54 dressing room after performances of Cabaret on Broadway in 2015, where pals like Sting, Gareth Pugh and Monica Lewinsky would come backst…
An Alan Bennett one act play originally written for TV in 1978.
Alan Bennett is a national treasure, and his writings are justly well respected.
Highly acclaimed but rarely performed hilarious Ayckbourn double bill.
An Alan Bennett one act originally written for TV in the late 1970s.
An Alan Bennett one act play-originally written for TV in 1982.
Returning for its fifth year, the smash-hit, sell-out show returns to Edinburgh! Written and directed by award-winning playwright Liam Rudden and featuring the hit Bay City Rollers…
Walking into the dark depths of the Big Belly at Underbelly, my expectations are low as I take my seat and note there’s a leak in the roof above my chair.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Being a small-time drug dealer in Cardiff is tough.
Alan Bennett is something of an institution in Britain, known for the way in which he can encapsulate a world of voices within a single monologue.
Fronted by Ireland’s piano accordion maestro and with four critically acclaimed masters of their craft in tow, the Alan Kelly Gang sit firmly at the cutting edge of the tradition…
NZ based Irish comedian Alan McElroy brings his new show “Wingin’ It” to Adelaide Fringe! As a busy MC, Alan relies on his quick wit and improvised banter with the crowd, whi…
Dirty Protest’s Sugar Baby was an entertaining hour of theatre at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, Summerhall.
Direct from a sold-out appearance in Toronto, the 2014/15/16 smash-hit sell-out show returns.
Meet Diane Chorley, legendary 80s superstar, part-time piccalilli representative and full-time diva.
A problem that a lot of shows face is an inability to commit to tone, or to perform in agreement with the tone that the show sets forth.
Alan Bennett’s Bed Amongst the Lentils is one of the great observational pieces from the master wordsmith’s influential Talking Heads series.
This semi-staged professional show is set in the same form as Christ’s Passion.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Graham Whittaker is a middle-aged bachelor who still lives at home with his mother.
On top of his myriad accomplishments and accolades, Alan Cumming has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most fun people in show business! This October UK audiences will hav…
Moira Bell – single mum, cleaner, hardest woman in Falkirk, and the alter ego of writer/performer Alan Bissett – is back at the Fringe for a limited run after six years’ abse…
Reminiscent of an Irish Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Howie the Rookie is a two-hander exploring the journeys of Howie (Tom Taplin) and the Rookie (Ed Limb) as they become i…
Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers.
When reading the marketing blurb for Luna Park, I must confess I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.
Global sell-out show 2010-2015.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
Alan Bennett has a problem: he can’t stop talking to himself.
This world premiere by Chicago’s award-winning Wego Drama is a family friendly show! The audience gets to choose what adventure Alan will take.
Now in its third year at the Fringe, I Ran With The Gang written by Liam Rudden for his company LR Stageworks returns this year to the cosy yet lavish surroundings of Le Monde in u…
“This shit definitely passes the Bechdel test,” is a statement that can be found emblazoned on the show’s marketing material.
A production without any set or props is a risky move.
Being both a chronic worrier and a huge fan of television from the 1990s, I had high hopes for Don’t Panic! It’s Challenge Anneka: a one woman show that uses the programme, Challen…
Mix together a dollop of Alan Partridge, a squirt of Bear Grylls and a spoonful of Stephen Toast and what do you get? Celebrity explorer, Stackard Banks! Stack is a hilarious comed…
I can count on one hand the number of plays that have sent shivers down my spine: Us/Them is one such show.
We Live by the Sea is a feel-good tale, exploring the day-to-day life of an autistic teenager in Filey.
A Moment in Time, new works by Tom White and associates from Clifton Fine Art, Bristol and Chroma, paintings by Jackie Higgs and Alan Chapman and jewellery by Eleanor Symms.
For Little Alan comes to London’s Lyric Theatre, with Al Murray, Stewart Lee, Tim Vine, Gayle Tuesday, Harry Hill and Stouffer The Cat.
Mr. Zweibel and Mr. Short, both prolific comedians and writers, will discuss their new books and reflect on their decadeslong careers.
Professor Chris Carter talks to the Rt Hon Alan Johnson about his career in the trade unions, Labour party politics, and his time as a government minister and author.
For one week only Alan will try to sift through the frazzled hollow mass of his head for new stories and jokes.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
The 2014 smash-hit sell-out show returns, starring Alan Longmuir.
Join Diane, former owner of 80s Essex nightclub The Flick, and her band, The Buffet, for a showbiz, late-night musical spectacular, with comic tales of her troubled and infamous pa…
When Alan discovers a mysterious young woman lying amongst the seals, their lives become irreversibly entwined.
The fallen 80s icon and Canvey Island nightclub owner, has chosen Edinburgh to reclaim her crown of stardom.
Led by Barrowland Ballet’s Artistic Director Natasha Gilmore and playwright Robert Alan Evans (Pondlife McGurk, Sleeping Beauties), a lively workshop on adapting ideas for differ…
Much lauded as resident dunderhead on QI or the charming but reticent crime solver Jonathan Creek, Davies virtuosic story-telling and whip-smart funny bones combine to make this a …
Whisky for Dafties is a mostly derisive overview of Scotch whisky history and appreciation from whisky-swigging Scottish stand up Alan Anderson, complete with whisky tasting, non…
Irish comedian Alan Irwin has transformed himself into a man who parties hard and he can transform you too! Well, sort of.
Magic, funnies and audience participation from one of UK’s best comedy conjurers.
Lorraine and Alan adapts an Orkney folktale about selkies - seals who shed their skin to become human - and places it in the contemporary world.
Buddy is the story of the last three years of Buddy Hollys life, from when he made his first record at the age of 19 to his death, at 22, in a plane crash.
This production of Hamlet is greatly abridged in order to fit Shakespeares longest play into a seventy-five minute slot.
Greshams school is performing at the Fringe for the 13th consecutive year.
HomewoodRose Theatre produce two short plays, both of which challenge our preconceptions but which approach the issue from starkly different directions.
Arcadia is set in one location, a country house named Sidley Park, but in two different times, the early nineteenth century and the late twentieth, with two sets of characters who …
London-based comedy group The Spider Blues make a splash with their brand new adventure comedy show, Captain Alan of Canary Wharf, in association with PBH’s Free Fringe.
Adapted from a book of interviews with American workers by Studs Terkel and first performed in 1978, Working explores American working life through the actual words of those interv…
Top South African comedian shares his madness, abseiling the absurd, bouncing between the surreal and cereal! Fully Committied shows why contemporary dance is the answer, how 50 Sh…
Andy Warhol said we would all be famous for 15 minutes.
Lionel Barts Oliver! does not, in my opinion, get all the credit it deserves.
Alan is surrounded by idiots; fortunately, he’s one of them.
Super strength, X-ray vision and lightning fast speed can be fantastic fun if used for personal gain, without saving the world.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
It seemed very strange to be watching something called ‘An Adult Evening’ at 9.
Pythonesque is a tribute to Monty Pythons Flying Circus, forty years after it first appeared on television.
Greshams is a private school in Norfolk which has been in existence for well over four hundred years, with notable alumni including WH Auden and Benjamin Britten.
Alan Hudson tries something a little different with this magic show, choosing to weave his tricks around a story of how he came to be at the Fringe in the first place.
Dames At Sea is a parody of the 1930 Hollywood movie musicals.
Precarious is a young, Bristol-based company which seamlessly combines physical theatre and contemporary dance with modern technology.
The star of Jonathan Creek and QI returns to the stage in his first foray into the world of stand-up since 2001.
Guys and Dolls is well known both as a Hollywood film and a stage musical.
2Faced Dance Company has been one of the major successes of the Fringe over the last few years, with several critically-acclaimed sold-out shows.
An Ofsted Inspector Calls is set in the Sir Christopher Woodhead Memorial Secondary school just prior to, and during, the visit of three inspectors from Ofsted.
Amadeus tells the story of the last years of Mozarts life, when he was living in Vienna, and of his death, possibly at the hands of his rival composer Salieri.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
Alan Bennetts play, The History Boys, is about a group of eight history pupils in a Sheffield grammar school who are preparing to take their Oxbridge entrance examinations.
All In The Timing is a collection of one act plays by David Ives, each lasting around ten minutes.
Next to The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance is probably the best known and most loved Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, with songs that everyone knows and can sing along with such a �…
Bang Bang Youre Dead is largely based on a shooting in Oregon in 1998, in which a fifteen-year old boy killed his parents and then two of his fellow high school pupils, injuring …
This musical is based on the old B movie, The Forbidden Planet, which was itself loosely based on Shakespeares The Tempest.
Monsters is set in Livingston in 2022, four years into a civil war taking place in Scotland.
This version of Hamlet is set in a high school classroom, where a group of schoolchildren decide to act out the play, partly to prove to their more sceptical colleagues that plays …
Davie and Geordie are two teenage boys, the best of friends, just getting to the point in their lives where they begin to establish relationships with girls.
Harrys father is the chief executive of a cardboard box factory and he expects Harry to join the family firm and do a proper job, but Harry is a dreamer who is more interested in…
This play is set in England, but in some kind of frightening, futuristic police state.
Youth Music Theatre make a welcome return to George Square, where their last production was the brilliant Goblin Market in 2005.
Viva Youth Theatre have an excellent record of success at the Fringe.
Broadway Baby gave 2FaCeD DaNcE Company five stars for each of their last two Edinburgh productions, in 2005, for Acetylene, and in 2007 for State Of Matter.
Archie Stringweed has just reached his tenth birthday.
Seymour Krelborn, a florists assistant, has his life turned around when he comes across an unusual plant after an eclipse of the sun.
After Magritte is a very short, surreal comedy by Tom Stoppard, inspired by the paintings of Rene Magritte.
This play, which is an updated version of Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing, is set amongst the staff in a modern secondary school, Hazel Valley.
This production is from the Denver School of the Arts.
UT Serveris Seges Theatre Company is a community drama group which has evolved from Sandbach School Theatre.
The two plays can be seen as complete plays in their own right or as two parts of a whole.
The play opens with four American boarding school boys preparing for the start of their day and we are then taken briefly through it, from church through their daily classes.
This play explores the events leading up to and during the day of 20th April 1999, when two teenagers murdered thirteen of their fellow students at Columbine High School and then k…
This is a very abbreviated, comic production of the eighteenth century novel by Henry Fielding.
This play is about the battle of Agincourt, but from an unusual perspective, that of the boys who were employed to haul the Kings baggage.
Paul Merton introduces a selection of silent film classics, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy.
A highly challenging story which draws on the Arthurian story of Gawain and the Green Knight, and references many others.
This production is a set of four or five unconnected stories about love, enjoyed, gained, lost and destroyed.
Hamlet! The Musical has been around for a few years now, since being first introduced to the Fringe in 2001.
This production is directed by Jeremy James Taylor, founder of the National Youth Music Theatre and is an adaptation by Michael Bogdanov of Henry Longfellows epic poem .
Chekhovs play, The Cherry Orchard, is about changing times and how people adapt, or fail to do so.
This show is loosely based on the story by Hans Christian Anderson.
This show is very much a stage version of Five Go Mad In Dorset, the first Comic Strip production on Channel 4, except that much of the action is transferred to Scotland.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Forth Childrens Theatre have been performing at the Fringe for many years and this is their 30th production.
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
Mort is a young man whose father is trying to find him an apprenticeship at the apprentices hiring fair.
Andrew Lawrence is a young, talented stand-up comedian who has already had two successive if.
Dorian Gray is probably Oscar Wildes most well-known work.
This is a play about Hal, who climbs without ropes.
Rich Hall is familiar to most of us mainly through his work as a comedian on TV, particularly on panel shows.
Flowers For Algernon is based on a short story by Daniel Keyes.
Opera Shorts was created in late 2007 with the objective of creating a platform for young up-and-coming composers in Scotland.
Guys and Dolls is based on the well known Hollywood film and stage musical.
Show Down is a contemporary dance show based upon Irving Berlins Annie Get Your Gun.
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
This short play deals with the issue of teenage suicide and is in support of Childline.
Titus Andronicus is Shakespeares earliest tragedy and one of his most bloodthirsty plays.
This production starts off with a bang.
The play is about twins separated at birth and brought up in very different environments.
Academy Of Death is one of two musicals at this years Fringe in which the major theme is body-snatching in Edinburgh in the 1820s, the other being Burke And Hare A Musical P…
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
Danton was one of the architects of the French Revolution and was instrumental in the execution of the King, his family and other aristocratic leaders.
This musical was first performed in 1954 but is set in the late 1920s or early 1930s.
This is the fifteenth successive year that Youth Arts Leicestershire have been performing at the Fringe.
Gilbert & Sullivans opera The Mikado was written over a hundred and twenty years ago but still entertains all around the world and particularly in North America.
This is a production about the modern phenomenon of text messaging on mobile phones.
This play is about a couple, Tom and Amy, whose lives have been disrupted by a hit and run accident which has left their daughter, Patricia, in a coma.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
An amnesiac is being interrogated.
Two years ago Youth Music Theatre: UK performed the acclaimed Goblin Market, a big-budget musical with stunning scenery and costumes, which had a long run in a large theatre.
This fun production satirises Agatha Christie type murder mysteries, The Love Boat and even Titanic (an iceberg does appear at the end).
This production is set in a museum.
Two hit men are in a dismal basement in Birmingham, waiting for instructions from Wilson, their mysterious and unseen boss, about their next hit.
Shakespeare Shattered is performed by the Mainstage Theatre, Washington, as part of the American Highschool Theatre Festival.
This is a cut-down, updated version of Purcells Dido & Aeneas, created by Howard Goodall in 1986 for the South Bank Show.
The play is set entirely in the middle of the night in the caretakers storeroom of a school in the North of England.
This fun musical is set in a 1950s American High School and shows how true live can survive, even after death!The action takes place in 1958 at Enrico Fermi High School.
Jigsaw is a play about a youth theatre group which has decided to put on a play at the Edinburgh Festival.
The central premise of the play is that there is an afterlife which everyone goes to after they die.
This is the story of Jason and the golden fleece.
This play is inspired by Sophocles Antigone but has been updated to 1970s Belfast at the height of The Troubles.
This play is set in a penal colony in eighteenth century Australia.
This play, written and directed by Kevin Holladay, makes broad fun of politicians, reporters, TV presenters and others.
John Fords seventeenth century play is still controversial even today, with its central element being incestuous love between brother and sister.
Nottingham Youth Dance was created to provide young dancers from the East Midlands with additional training and performance opportunities and to develop the level and quality of da…
This is a very unusual and enjoyable production.
This performance is by a group of students from Stanford University in California.
This play is a newly written sequel to Eugene ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra.
Daniel Cainer plays keyboard and guitar, sings and tells stories about the beginning of Judaism, Jewish migration and his childhood experiences.
Fahrenheit 451 is based on the book of the same name by Ray Bradbury and is set in a future time when all books are banned.
The Liars is set in a near future where homosexuality has become the norm.
Twin bothers Pyrrhus and Tol are extremely close but their mothers death causes them to take different paths, ultimately leading to betrayal and death.
This is the story of the women of Troy, the day after the Greeks have captured the city using their Trojan horse.
The musical is based upon the life of Jesus as described in the Gospel according to St Matthew, with parables from St Lukes Gospel also included.
This brilliant one man show covers the entire, short life of Tommo Peaceful, from starting school until his execution by firing squad in the First World War, at the age of around s…
The play looks at an incident in Los Angeles, starting from a minor accident with a football and ending in mass murder.
Burke and Hare A Musical Play is based on the true story of Edinburghs notorious murderers William Burke and William Hare.
This production is split into two parts of thirty minutes each.
This show was written by Adam Long, a founder member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.
Tamsin Shasha, the artistic director and co-founder of Actors of Dionysus, is the sole performer in this play.
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
For this production the songs of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are stripped of their high-energy content and reinvented as cabaret or musical theatre.
The play is set largely in and around a hotel, part of the Global Hotel chain.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are stranded alone on a small desert island.
In this play by Caryl Churchill a hospital discovers the long-lost records of twenty male clones made thirty-five years earlier.
Reflex Action is a quick-fire send-up of theatrical conventions, traditions, and techniques.
Musical Of Musicals (The Musical) is performed by the Woodlands High School Theatre, Texas, as part of the American High Schools Theatre Festival.
This is Lawrence Dance Academys second time at the Fringe, having previously performed Town in 2003.
A recreation, by David Benson, of scenes from Kenneth Williams life, together with episodes from his own childhood.
This musical tells the story of Mary Shelley, her marriage to Percy Shelley and the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein.
Youth Arts Leicestershire has been coming to the Fringe for thirteen years.
A modern interpretation of Macbeth, with atmospheric effects, bright lights and the songs of Frank Sinatra.
The action is set in the Emerald Shitty nightclub somewhere in Australia, hosted by drag queen Patty OFurniture.
The action is set in and around William Ocean High School during the 1980s.
The story is set in 1860s Italy, in and near Milan.
This production condenses the entire story of Macbeth into a frantic hour, beginning with Macbeth and Banquo coming across the heath and meeting the witches, and ending with Macbe…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is based upon the two characters who appear sporadically in Hamlet.
Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Suki Webster, Richard Vranch and Jim Sweeney improvise for an hour using suggestions from the audience.
What lengths would you go to just to taste a dram of whisky? Would you beg for it? Steal for it? Endure an hour of atrocious comedy for it?These are the questions you must ponder b…
The Hired Man is set during the first quarter of the Twentieth Century when many country people worked on the land or in the pits.
The Fall Of Man is a reinvention of Miltons Paradise Lost, set in a bedsit in 2006.
A travel writer returns to Scotland after twenty years travelling the world.
The Young Pleasance company celebrates its tenth birthday with the return of this award-winning show, its first revival since it won a Fringe First Award in 1994.
Blonde twins Pablo and Pierre Caesar performs athletic stunts and physical feats, usually wearing as few clothes as possible.
The careers of all 43 Presidents of the USA, from George Washington to George Bush, covered in an hour and a half.
The writer and main performer, Richard Sandling, has appeared once before at the Fringe.
This is the first visit to the Fringe for this young company from Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.
The performance begins in what appears to be a prison camp.
This is a one-man show covering the life and death of Eric Morecambe, still regarded as Britains funniest comedian twenty-five years after his death.
The Old Gaol Theatre Company was created in 1978 in Abingdons Old Gaol building.
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and tortured to death near Laramie.
Norfolk Youth Music Theatre has a history of successful Fringe productions, including The Enchanted Lovers A New Dido, based on Purcells Dido & Aeneas and Little Shop Of Horro…
Paul Robeson was a great singer and actor and, throughout his whole life, a political activist on behalf of black, poor and working-class people everywhere.
In this UK premiere of Streetlife, French choreographer Lorca Renoux works with an eclectic ensemble of dancers representing the various hip hop dance styles in Germany today.
The Royal Holloway Music Theatre returns for its ninth consecutive year.
More than forty talented and enthusiastic performers sing and dance a medley of Broadway show tunes, on and off the stage.
This production, of songs by David Shire and Richard Maltby, takes an unconventional look at various kinds of relationships, including love, family, obsession, friendship and rejec…
The show is set entirely to parodies of songs from well-known musicals and classic 80s pop hits.
This is a production of the well-known story of Aladdin, performed by the Burklyn Youth Ballet from New Jersey, who have been coming to Edinburgh for five years.
Harry Shearer and Judith Owens are fascinated by Americas obsession with democracy, free markets and cosmetic surgery.
Stephen Sondheims musical Into The Woods is updated to an urban setting, telling the story of two children lost in the hood.
Jesus Christ Superstar is based on the last week of Jesus life as documented in St.
An Australian and an American talk about what they like about living in Britain (drinking and sex) and about what they dislike (almost everything else).
This musical does not have a linear narrative, but presents a series of scenes and songs showing events that take place during the last year of high school.
The Road is an original modern dance piece from the Andover Dance Group that explores a fast-paced digital world as foil to the world of dreams and possibilities.
It is the school year 2506-7 at Apple Valley Preparatory School.
This is a new, all-male company making its first visit to the Fringe.
This production, a one person show by Lisa Turner, tells the story of Iphigenia, using Glucks music and dance.
In his second appearance in Edinburgh, Nick Mohammed brings an all-new set of characters to his one-man show.
Is The Daily Mail Dead Yet? is a stand up comedy show which is intended to be a hilariously liberal attack against the Mail and other similar voices of outdated, emasculated racist…
This play is from the book of the same name by Herman Meville, about life and death on a British warship during the Napoleonic Wars.
Shrewsbury School has a reputation for successfully staging ambitious, new musicals at the Fringe.
Because Of Reginald D Hunters greater exposure on television, particularly on Have I Got News For You, there are large, sell-out crowds for his show at Udderbelly s Pasture.
‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th…
Terry Pratchetts Lords And Ladies is part of his hugely successful Discworld series.
Ragtime is a musical set in the USA in the early years of the 20th Century, when racism was more blatant than it is today and civil rights movements were barely under way.
This is a difficult play to review as it is very clever and well-acted but also hard to understand.
It's only open from July to the end of September, but Richard's sought out pop-up bar Whisky Or Death to find today's Edinburgh Barstar Of The Day, Alan Mulvihill.
To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Huws tackles the life and times of Alan Turing.