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Opening Concert: St Matthew Passion

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Edinburgh International Festival
Usher Hall
4th Aug 2024

Edinburgh Festival Chorus revives Mendelssohn’s arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sublime piece about Christ’s last days on earth before his resurrection.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Riddles Court
2nd - 24th Aug 2024

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…

Matthew Herbert

In this world premiere Matthew Herbert is joined by 12 orchestral musicians as they breathe life into The Horse.

An Afternoon with Matthew Herbert at The Hub

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Edinburgh International Festival
The Hub
17th Aug 2023

Join composer, DJ and producer Matthew Herbert for a discussion on his approach to musical innovation.

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

The subtitle A Gothic Romance is added to Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty for a good reason.

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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London Fringe
The Bridge House Theatre
26th Jan 2023

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, …

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
29th Nov 2022 - 15th Jan 2023

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty reawakens in 2022, celebrating 10 years since its premiere at Sadler’s Wells, when it became the fastest selling production in the comp…

Death of an Author

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Nicolson Square
22nd - 27th Aug 2022

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…

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Brighton Fringe
The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
21st - 22nd May 2022

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.

"Who's Matthew Liu???" - Live From The Green Room 42

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Off Broadway
The Green Room 42
7th Jan 2022

Fresh from music directing in Mandarin for Nederlander Worldwide in China, Juilliard grad Matthew Liu makes the leap from orchestra pit to the spotlight with a concert of original …

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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UK Regional & Tours
Online Event
1st Oct 2021

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…

The Network with Andrew Fordham and Matthew Powell

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London Fringe
The Civil Service Club
12th Aug 2021

The Network is hosting a social & business networking event at the Civil Service Club and online.

Matthew Bourne: Romeo & Juliet

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UK Regional & Tours
Farnham Maltings
19th Jan 2021

Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.

In Conversation With: Richard Beck (Broadway Baby) & Matthew Shelley (Scottish Festivals PR)

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Online & Broadcast
A Company 6 Scots
20th - 30th Aug 2020

A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.

THE ST MATTHEW PASSION: REIMAGINED

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London Fringe
Omnibus
29th Mar 2020

This is the St Matthew Passion as you have never heard it before.

Matthew Bourne's Romeo & Juliet

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
7th Aug 2019 - 2nd Sep 2023

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic love story.

Meatball Séance

As the caffeine levels increase and you approach the final week of the Festival Fringe, it is a fair observation to make that your shock tolerance increases.

Table Manners with Jessie Ware

Uber ratings, patisserie and misophonia.

Atomic Saloon Show

Welcome to the Atomic Saloon: a place where the beer is flowing and anything goes, so long as you can afford it…Madam Boozy Skunkton is our host for the evening – the straight-…

Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Meet Sam Morrison: a 24-year old American comedian with a theatrical flair and a penchant for daddies.

Square Go

Max has done something stupid.

Pamela's Palace

Welcome to Pamela’s Palace.

Since U Been Gone

No one ever said that life was easy, but it’s what you make of it which defines who you are.

E8

It’s a late Friday afternoon and Polly is packing her things before she starts her PhD.

It's Britney, Bitches

Oops, I did it again.

The Populars

So, you think you’re cool? The stage is non-existent, you’re stood beneath the pseudo-stage lights and it seems as though you might be a part of the performance… So, what exa…

Spray

We find ourselves between a neighbourly feud in a block of flats in Seoul.

Parakeet

In a bizarre but glorious amalgamation of all things good, Parakeet stands as a protest piece that calls for greater measures against climate change and, well, a commitment towards…

Sex Education

As I write this review I find myself enveloped by a certain degree of caution.

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
4th Dec 2018 - 27th Jan 2019

When it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake turned tradition upside down, and took the dance world …

Matthew Highton – Insufficient Memory

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West End
Museum of Comedy
23rd Nov 2018

Matthew Highton invites you to come celebrate the small moments and memories that makes us who we are.

Matthew 19:14

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Edinburgh Fringe
Greenside @ Infirmary Street
3rd - 25th Aug 2018

A bar.

Dep

ĐẸP is a Vietnamese word that translates as ‘beautiful’, and is also the starting point for Dam Van Huynh’s dance work that explores the nature of the human condition, tak…

Matthew Highton – Insufficient Memory

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Edinburgh Fringe
Heroes @ Dragonfly
2nd - 25th Aug 2018

After his gran got dementia (funny start) cult favourite and master storyteller Matthew Highton wanted to figure out what makes us, us and does it all matter in the end? Joy, silli…

Toujours et Près de Moi

Toujours et Près de Moi is a holographic puppet opera by multi-disciplinary arts company, Erratica.

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
1st - 27th Aug 2018

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.

Feed

Feed is a thought-provoking and memorable piece by Theatre Témoin that explores the insidious relationship between the Internet and capitalism.

Matthew Bourne's Cinderella

Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella does what all modern adaptations of traditional stories should do: it turns it into something new, something pulsing with relevance for the new settin…

Matthew Gest's Boogie Troop

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Brighton Fringe
The Brunswick
24th May 2018

Blues and boogie piano.

Matthew Bourne's Cinderella

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West End
Sadler’s Wells
9th Dec 2017 - 27th Jan 2018

Matthew Bourne's interpretation of the classic fairy tale, has, at its heart, a true war-time romance.

Departure Lounge

Set in the airport returning home after a lads’ holiday to Malaga, Departure Lounge takes a look at the fragility of hegemonic masculinity and its effects on teenage life.

Tinder Rehab

A friend of mine and I were recently chatting about how – even today – sexism is still very much in existence.

Bat Boy: The Musical

Billed as a uniquely grotesque combination of satire, horror and comedy, Bat Boy: The Musical has a small but dedicated cult following.

City Love

City Love provides an honest and hard-hitting look at relationships, starting with a chance encounter between two young London professionals on a night bus.

Alice – Underground Lives My Buried Mind (Deflowering Lewis Carroll's Script)

Review
★★★
Matthew Sedman
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
16th Aug, 2017

Physical theatre can always lend itself to a degree of interpretation, and inevitably the risk of confusion.

What Lies Beneath

Review
★★
Matthew Sedman
Edinburgh Fringe
Zoo
19th Aug, 2017

What Lies Beneath is a semi-absurdist exploration into male grief, observing how it plays out in our minds and affects those close to us.

Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays

This show is so much more than a tale of two gays: it is a tale of success.

Perhaps Perhaps Quizás

I have a great admiration for clowning; whilst superficially there is most certainly a stereotype of the heavily made-up children’s entertainer doing nothing more than blowing up…

Auditions

The premise of this musical is that four professional actors share their insights into the scary world of auditions.

Gayshit

If I were to condense this review into a single word, it would unfortunately have to be the title.

Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face

Meet Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face, not Tape Face.

Will Seaward's Spooky Midnight Ghost Stories IV

There has never been a more perfect match for the phrase ‘larger than life’ than Will Seaward.

Myra DuBois: DuBois Entendre

Perhaps the definition of late-night Fringe; the ever-talented and always vulgar Myra DuBois will have you reeling off your chair – both from laughter and from shock.

And For My Next Trick

It’s a fair statement to make that there are both straight-up sceptics and those who actively try to believe when it comes to magic, but the fact still remains that an audience f…

Hans: Mein Camp

Certain thoughts are inevitable when you hear the title Hans: Mein Camp, and the chances are they will probably be accurate.

Out of the Blue

I remember the time when, several years ago, Out of the Blue came to my school and did an assembly.

Choir of Man

There is something remarkably welcoming about being handed a free pint with a smile as you walk into a show.

Soweto Gospel Choir

The Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in 2002 and embraces the diverse music of South Africa, a country with eleven official languages and subsequent communities.

Tshepang: The Third Testament

Casting a blinding light on the atrocities of human nature, Tshepang: The Third Testament is a harrowing portrayal of the true story of Baby Tshepang – a nine-month-old South Afr…

Oyster Boy

Oyster Boy is a comic telling of the fictional relationship between two young lovers on Coney Island and their subsequent journey into marriage.

Diane Chorley: Rhythm of Live

Meet Diane Chorley, legendary 80s superstar, part-time piccalilli representative and full-time diva.

Workshy

Workshy is a performance art piece by Katy Baird, a lady more experienced in customer service roles than theatrical ones.

Wall 2.0! A Thinly Veiled Manifesto for How to Mend Our Broken World Disguised as a New American Musical

Wall 2.

Yvette

Every once in awhile a piece of theatre comes along so powerful that it wobbles you, requiring time long after the curtain call to be processed in its entirety.

Underground Extreme Paranormal Ghost Tour

Renowned for being an especially haunted city, Edinburgh has many mysterious secrets lurking beneath the cobbled façade of what we wrongly assume to be ground level.

Storyland Author Readings

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Brighton Fringe
Jubilee Library
26th May 2017

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.

Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes

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London Fringe
Sadler’s Wells / Sadlers Wells
6th Dec 2016 - 19th Jan 2020

Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Music by Bernard Herrmann A beloved fairy tale and Academy Awar…

The Great Hipster Songbook

Angus Munro and band offer you a medley of ‘Hipster’ songs reimagined as 20th Century Jazz classics.

Mixtape

This is a pleasant little show which deserves a bigger audience.

Matthew Giffen, Cocaine and Potatoes

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
14th - 25th Aug 2016

A Colombian/Irish/Englishman takes on identity, the world and why you have to try a Japanese toilet.

Nick Harper

Nick Harper is a great guitarist and a good singer, but a middling lyricist.

The Beatbox Collective

Watching beatboxing is fun for most of us in the same way that watching acrobatics is – it’s the enjoyment that comes from thinking ‘I could never do this in a million years�…

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Rooms
13th - 21st Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance.

An Evening of Ryan Adams With Easy Tigers

A brief introduction to Ryan Adams for the uninitiated - he’s a rock/country singer from Carolina who’s released a new album every year or two since the turn of the century; so…

The Sorries

Douglas Kay and Martin Philip of The Sorries are likeable, witty, and talented performers, and they put on a great show here.

Folk at the Fringe

We walk down into the stone basement of the Royal Oak; a tiny room, space for a couple of performers and a crowd of about thirty, all crammed in.

Matthew Bourne's The Car Man

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Rooms
7th - 25th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance.

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

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Edinburgh Fringe
Assembly Rooms
6th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance.

John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing

The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.

Ross Leadbeater's Great British Songbook

Ross Leadbeater is an alumnus of the all-male Welsh choir Only Men Aloud!, who won the 2008 television show Last Choir Standing.

The Red Guitar

The Red Guitar is, essentially, the story of John Sheldon’s life.

Gone Native

Gone Native is made up of two Scottish musicians, Kevin Gore and Bobby Nicholson, who decided that there wasn’t enough of a local presence at the Fringe.

My Leonard Cohen

My Leonard Cohen is, above all, very, very fun.

Matthew Highton's I, the Universe

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Edinburgh Fringe
Heroes @ The Hive
4th - 28th Aug 2016

3016, space is overrun with tourists.

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue are something of a Fringe staple by now.

Strange Face – Adventures With a Lost Nick Drake Recording

Strange Face is Michael Burdett’s story; Drake himself is something of a side character.

One Hundred Homes

Yinka Kuitenbrouwer welcomes you into her shed, pours you a cup of tea, gives you a house-shaped biscuit, and the words come out in a torrent.

(I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow

It’s a strange and unsettling thing being stood stock-still for a few minutes, gazing into a stranger’s eyes.

Epic Love and Pop Songs

This is a pretty great show.

Matthew Culmer: Born at an Early Age

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Camden Fringe
The Rabbit Hole
3rd - 5th Aug 2016

Matthew Culmer brings his observational comedy style to Camden Fringe in his debut show Born at an Early Age which touches on everything from the absurdity of social media, the ter…

Tonight Matthew Live! Rock

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Brighton Fringe
Latest Music Bar
7th May 2016

Race down the memory lane of rock with ultimate seven-piece band, Tonight Matthew, in a twin-carb, Mk II Lotus Cortina, revved-up joy ride of homage to The Beatles, Bowie, Johnny C…

Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty

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London Fringe
Sadlers Wells
5th - 24th Jan 2016

New Adventures’ 25th birthday culminates with the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s latest re-imagining of a ballet classic.

Matthew Harvey is... Dangerman!

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Edinburgh Fringe
The Banshee Labyrinth
8th - 30th Aug 2015

Jump onboard this steadily paced, tea fuelled ride through a stand-up poetry world with no rules (excepting those of the Health and Safety act 1992).

Karl Schultz: Matthew Kelly – Hypnagogia

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Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
8th - 30th Aug 2015

‘Seems to be the genius among the young ones.

Matthew Dames – Cold Stars Tour

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Espionage
7th - 30th Aug 2015

Matthew Dames is a seasoned performer who migrated to Tasmania, Australia from Cambridge in 2011.

Matthew Collins: The Benefit of Several Doubts

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde
7th - 30th Aug 2015

Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) is an Irish comedian, but also a computer scientist with moral objections to his own research.

Matthew Collins: My Favourite Waste of Time

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Edinburgh Fringe
New Waverley Arches
7th - 30th Aug 2015

Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.

Karl Schultz: Matthew Kelly – Hypnagogia

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
7th - 29th Aug 2015

‘Seems to be the genius among the young ones.

Matthew Collins: The Benefit of Several Doubts

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Edinburgh Fringe
Cowgatehead
7th - 31st Aug 2015

Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) is an Irish comedian, but also a computer scientist with moral objections to his own research.

Matthew Collins: My Favourite Waste of Time

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Edinburgh Fringe
St John’s
7th - 31st Aug 2015

Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.

Matthew Crosby: Smaller Than Life

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Edinburgh Fringe
Just the Tonic at The Mash House
6th - 30th Aug 2015

Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy’s, co-star/co-writer of BBC Three’s Badults) returns to Edinburgh with another lovely little show.

Matthew Polenzani

Today’s lyric tenor of choice and the pianist Julius Drake have an unexpected, likely-to-be fascinating program for their appearance at Lincoln Center’s Great Performer…

Matthew Highton's Good Luck Sleeping Jerks

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Edinburgh Fringe
Heroes @ The Hive
4th - 24th Aug 2014

A strange uplifting new comedy from a master storyteller about sleep problems, past, family and featuring a haunted doll.

Matthew Collins: My Favourite Waste of Time

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Edinburgh Fringe
Laughing Horse @ The Phoenix
31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014

Irish comedian and computer nerd Matthew Collins, Puzzled 2013, **** (ThreeWeeks) and BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions, returns with a handpicked selection of comedy pals.

Matthew Gest’s Boogie Woogie Troop

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Brighton Fringe
The Brunswick
26th - 30th May 2014

A steaming set of good time, blues piano grooves.

St. Matthew Passion

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USA Regional & Tours
Saint Thomas Church
10th Apr 2014

John Scott conducts the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys with the period-instrument Concert Royal in Bach’s intensely dramatic oratorio.

Matthew Highton's It Came from the Mud

Review
★★★
Milly Reilly
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2013

In this comfortable fifty minutes or so, likeable Matthew Highton delivers good stand-up comedy that won’t leave you looking at your watch, but you won’t be wishing that it’s…

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Review
★★
Joseph Cunningham
Edinburgh Fringe
8th Aug, 2013

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.

24h

Summerhall has been serving up a remarkable slice of Polish avant-garde theatre this Fringe.

Matthew Highton's End of the Road

Review
★★★★
Anna Cory
Edinburgh Fringe
6th Aug, 2012

Matthew Highton will deceive you.

Matthew Crosby is Matthew Crosby in Matthew Crosby (The Show)

Review
★★★★
Joanna Alpern
Edinburgh Fringe
18th Aug, 2012

Matthew Crosby is a five foot five bearded man with a side parting, who wears short-sleeved checkered shirts and black, thick-framed glasses.

Author

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…

Shopping Centre by Matthew Osborn

Shopping Centre is the second show by Matthew Osborn in as many years.

Now and at the Time of Our Turn

Edoardo Okamoto has played this piece for seven years now and it has become part of his identity.

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Review
★★★
Matthew Hawkins
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Aug, 2011

From where I’m sitting, Irish Modern Dance Theatre is a hefty heading, especially given that the troupe exists solely to create the work of a single choreographer, John Scott - in …

Matthew Crosby: AdventureParty

Review
★★
Emily Priestnall
Edinburgh Fringe
28th Aug, 2011

Think of a Dad-joke at a family party when everyone groans but laughs at Dad’s attempt at being funny.

Matthew Highton's Shadowed Vagary

Matthew Highton had absolutely no right to make this an enjoyable show.

Matthew Sharp In ... Johnny's Midnight Goggles

Review
★★★★★
Leon Conrad
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2009

Hes a velvety-voiced opera singer with a voice to die for.

Matthew Sharp In ... Finklestein's Castle

Review
★★★★★
Leon Conrad
Edinburgh Fringe
17th Aug, 2009

With deliciously ridiculous names, fantastic situations, a plot that would make Ian Fleming grin with delight, and toothpaste taking on a significance you would never credit it wit…

Unfaithful's Niamh Cusack & Matthew Lewis: “I really like smelling the audience!”

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George Meixner
Edinburgh Fringe
15th Aug, 2016

Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter film series, The Syndicate) and Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) will appear in Unfaithful by Owen McCafferty...

The Poets are Coming: Matthew Harvey

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James T. Harding
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Jul, 2015

Matthew Harvey is bringing his stand-up poetry show Matthew Havey is... Dangerman! to the Fringe all the way from New Zealand.

The Poets are Coming: Matthew Macdonald

Feature
James T. Harding
Edinburgh Fringe
10th Jul, 2015

Edinburgh man Matthew Macdonald brings Something Wicked This Way Comes to the Fringe this August, following his debut with Who Are Your People? last year.

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