John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown: Born Evil?

John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown: Born Evil?

John Wayne Gacy was one of the worst serial killers in US history: responsible for the rape, torture and murder of at least 33 teenage boys and young men in the 1970s. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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… 

Coral Bevan: Wayne Wayneson's Rock Hard

Coral Bevan: Wayne Wayneson's Rock Hard

A cowboy rock fantasy. 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

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, … 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

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… 

Wayne Marshall Plays Gershwin

Wayne Marshall Plays Gershwin

Wayne Marshall joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra for an evening of rip-roaring tunes and joyful American classics, including Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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. 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

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… 

Cathedral Organ Restoration Celebrity Recital: Wayne Marshall

Cathedral Organ Restoration Celebrity Recital: Wayne Marshall

One of the world’s most famous musicians comes to St Mary’s to give the first organ recital on the magnificent and newly restored Father Willis organ. 

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

One of the most ground-breaking arena tours of all time, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of ‘The War of the Worlds’ - Alive on Stage is to make its return to the UK … 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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. 

West End Magic Presents... Wayne Trice

West End Magic Presents... Wayne Trice

West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle. 

New Wayne McGregory / The Age of Anxiety / New Christopher Wheeldon

New Wayne McGregory / The Age of Anxiety / New Christopher Wheeldon

The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with an all-Bernstein programme from the Company’s three associate choreographers, Wayne McGregor… 

Comedy Hypnosis with Wayne Donnelly

Comedy Hypnosis with Wayne Donnelly

Be ready to be entertained in this hilarious hypnosis comedy show. 

Wayne McGregor - Autobiography

Wayne McGregor - Autobiography

The visionary contemporary choreographer, Wayne McGregor has led his company onto ever more radical and challenging innovations. 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

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

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality. 

Wayne McGregor

Wayne McGregor

Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2010 novel “Tree of Codes” was part book, part sculpture, created by extracting words from Bruno Schulz’s 1934 story collection, R… 

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Final Arena Tour

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Final Arena Tour

Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti… 

Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds

Jeff Wayne's The War of The Worlds

Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti… 

An Evening with Matt Wayne, Selena Coppock and George Gordon

An Evening with Matt Wayne, Selena Coppock and George Gordon

Kendra Cunningham hosts these three impressive young talents from the Park Slope area for half-hour sets. 

Wayne Thallon: Procreation

Wayne Thallon: Procreation

Award-winning comedy film-maker’s riotous experiences with procreation. 

Knee Deep

Knee Deep

Knee Deep jumps into a pair of fisherman’s waders and wanders well out beyond the shallows of the physically possible. 

Sheriff Wayne and the Sundance Cave

Sheriff Wayne and the Sundance Cave

What do you want from a show for children? Well, maybe good stories with catchy songs, told by witty and memorable characters. 

Leo

Leo

Face, then fist, then thigh-first onto the stage tumbles Leo with a silent and excellently choreographed crash. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

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

Card Ninja: ReDeal

Card Ninja: ReDeal

Aimed for children above the age of twelve, Javier Jarquin is a card dealing Ninja who quite literally aims at children. 

Jonny & the Baptists

Jonny & the Baptists

Musical comedy is a genre where the mediocre can prosper with average comedians hiding behind averagely strummed guitars. 

Luke Milford Things I Like

Luke Milford Things I Like

Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show. 

Morgan & West: Lying, Cheating Scoundrels

Morgan & West: Lying, Cheating Scoundrels

Two self-confessed dirty rotten scoundrels did much more than waxen twist their moustaches when they lured the unsuspecting audience into their card den of delectable deception; li… 

Machinal

Machinal

Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 Broadway hit resurfaces here in Edinburgh to discuss the plight of a woman subjected to the pressures and expectations of a male dominated world. 

The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute

The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute

This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts. 

Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free

Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free

Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure. 

Bottleneck

Bottleneck

This production simply explodes out the top of a teenage bottle of pent up pop, going everywhere and covering everyone - not just those in the front row - with raw, untutored energ… 

Fragment

Fragment

A Mused Collective’s interpretative dance to live music attempts to ‘connect a disjointed world with pillows, neckties, a French horn, and groovy beats. 

Life As We Know It

Life As We Know It

‘Life as we know it’ turns out to be about a very specific time in life: the teenage years. 

The Leeds Tealights: Sexy Chubby

The Leeds Tealights: Sexy Chubby

If you subconsciously reach for a bag of salt and vinegar crisps when you notice a paper cut on your thumb, then this acerbically doused sketch show is the one for you. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly… 

An Indie Boy's Guide to Sex and Girls

An Indie Boy's Guide to Sex and Girls

Marc Burrows borrows from the 90s genre of Britpop all he needs to know about sex and girls. 

Ciaran O'Driscoll Launching His Novel: A Year's Midnight

Ciaran O'Driscoll Launching His Novel: A Year's Midnight

Word Power Books on West Nicholson St played host to Ciaran O’Driscoll, an Irish poet and prose writer of distinction, as part of their Edinburgh Book Fringe programme. 

The Idiot at the Wall

The Idiot at the Wall

Two sisters are reunited under the dark cloud of prophecy and superstition in the wake of WWI. 

Des Bishop Likes to Bang

Des Bishop Likes to Bang

Des Bishop bangs a lot more than just his drum in this visceral performance about. 

After the Rainfall

After the Rainfall

Ants successfully colonised the world; Britain didn’t. 

Jack Foster and Carolyn Anona Scott

Jack Foster and Carolyn Anona Scott

Sitting on the edge of the stage, this adept duo quite literally comes down to the level of the audience. 

Dan Wright: Michael Jackson Touched Me

Dan Wright: Michael Jackson Touched Me

Dan Wright, with his highly controversial and misleading title, attempts to lure all the Whacko Jacko conspirators under one roof and, Guy Fawkes-like, burn them all down with a fi… 

The Humour League Presents - Free

The Humour League Presents - Free

Farting at a funeral could be quite funny. 

Amusements

Amusements

Step inside the auditorium of Sleepwalk Collective and let yourself be taken on a cognitive journey through the subconscious that stimulates from inside out. 

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

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… 

All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free

All Star Stand-Up Showcase - Free

As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it. 

Undercovered

Undercovered

Seven performers stand statue-like awaiting the start of the show.