Close a pit, kill a community.
Catherine Bohart’s back and ready to talk about her feelings (again).
Piano wizard Brian and clarinet ace Dick combine to pay tribute to the King of Swing. ‘Fine playing, with some deliciously liquorice-toned clarinet’ (Scotsman).
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…
Craig Wilson is a smart, nice and really cool guy, but none of that matters because he is the most forgettable man in the world.
Catherine McCafferty is (Not) That Bad.
Catherine Cohen is back.
After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.
Trad fiddle player Jennifer Wrigley is highly respected globally as a cultural ambassador for the music of her Scottish homeland, the Orkney Islands.
This year, celebrating his 50th birthday, Alastair presents a unique series of concerts highlighting the various strands of the Scots fiddle tradition and his own diverse musical c…
Craig Wilson is a nice boy.
The giddy inner workings of a comedy show in its beginnings.
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, …
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
AboutFACE is delighted to present its 10th annual NEWvember Festival of New Plays! Come and join us for a weekend of rehearsed readings of the most exciting new plays fr…
Kirkos presents The Song Ring’d Sky a new piece by Irish composer Ian Wilson and bayou-borne, for Pauline by New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
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…
The twist.
Catherine Bohart loves control, hates change and is a serial planner.
Following her Netflix special The Twist.
Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r…
Despite what Catherine Bohart tells us in This Isn’t For You, she is more emotionally articulate than she gives herself credit for.
This is really special.
Sold-out run: Off-Broadway, Asylum NYC (2022).
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…
At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…
At the beginning of 2020, Catherine Bohart was busy writing a stand-up show about moving into a new home with her long-term partner and about how life in general was going pretty w…
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, library music producer, Siobhan Wilson was born in Elgin, Scotland, UK.
Rich Wilson is fast becoming one of the most in-demand comedians in the land with his award-winning shows, podcasts and radio shows.
Thomas de Quincey once wrote of murder as ‘one of the fine arts’, and with regards to The Establishment [versus] Sidney Harry Fox, the statement is true.
Host of Leicester Comedy award finalist podcast ‘The Comedy Arcade’, Welsh stand up comedian Vix Leyton lives a life of French farce and chaos that she justifies as research for he…
Amy cannot socialise with the other mums after the school run because she is needed in the office.
The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online…
Unless you want it to be.
Viv (Katherine Parkinson) has lost her shoe on her London commute.
Join the star of BBC2’s The Mash Report as she smashes stereotypes around sex, sexuality and relationships.
Welcome to The Republic of Biafra, 1967.
One party gone wrong and a constellation of friends, family, and sacrosanct values falls apart.
In Midnight Movie, Eve Leigh presents a universe of bedrooms where disabled people are unable to sleep due to the pain of having a body which is, right now, ‘glitching’.
Connor is on a night out and ready to be open about his sexuality.
A long table stretches across the expansive floor of the Coronet.
Suspended from the ceiling of the Coronet Theatre are five crystalline orbs that almost look like faces.
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
"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…
‘What’s going on…??’ Rosana Cade cries, with their head in the seat of a swivel chair, spinning slowly in front of a fixated and silent audience.
Within a basement room of the Hanover Suite (Venue 119) is perhaps the best musical sketch comedy you will find this Fringe.
What happens when you’re at a private fetish party, and you bump into the daughter of your boss? Such is the premise of Kim Davies’ Smoke.
It’s probably worth clarifying in the first sentence of this review that I was not expecting to be drawn into the bureaucratic complexities of being the Easter Bunny whilst at th…
Eleanor Conway's vagina has a name (Jenny), and this is important to know.
James Stuart – or Stuart James – is passed out at his desk as the audience file into the space.
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
YesYesNoNo are searching for the truth.
Writing a Fringe show on the premise of an audience member who hated your show last year is a bold move, but Catherine Bohart pulls it off and even manages to make a political poin…
‘Woke, feminist, geezer’ (List).
A show about living, laughing, loving and losing your debit card five times in one year.
Fresh from "the sort of perfectly structured Edinburgh debut you always hope for and rarely get to see" (The Times, ★★★★), Catherine Bohart has some ne…
"The Wave is THE WAY", boom the Almeida Young Company (14 – 18) before thudding their fists into their chests.
‘When on Earth did everyone become a detective?’ The voice rings out across the Almeida Young Company ensemble as they huddle beneath Sasha Venmore Rowland’s grief-stricken g…
Playwright Ben Weatherill is right to call Jellyfish a love story.
Critically-acclaimed pianist and composer, Helen Anahita Wilson, returns to the Fringe to perform her debut solo album, BHOOMA.
‘I haven’t had a Trump free 24-hours for… I don’t know how long’ complains a house-guest, ushered in from the cold before a snowstorm strikes a recently purchased farmste…
Paved with Gold and Ashes is the story of five women who survive a hideous factory.
Dog and Actor are two short, explosive and vulnerable plays written by Steven Berkoff.
Bethany Fox’s script explores the relationship between two jobbing actors, Jess (Bethany Fox) and Jack(Oliver Burkill), who, after a chemistry-charged first meeting outside an au…
The critically acclaimed, award-winning comedian and actor Catherine Tate, will bring THE CATHERINE TATE SHOW - LIVE to London’s Wyndham’s Theatre.
‘Enemies of the People’ is a welcome and observant theme for a theatre programme as we enter another year of post-truth politics, domestic division, and the third year in the r…
John Wilson’s 70 piece superstar orchestra returns with their brand new show ‘At The Movies’.
‘Tell them…! Tell them…! Tell them…!’ Shouts Alun Armstrong, disgraced deputy headmaster Edward, as he brandishes the eponymous cane in one hand whilst walls close in aro…
Hole is a piece of theatre that has been in incubation for a long time.
Walk Swiftly And With Purpose is a coming-of-age narrative, which calmly sets ablaze the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, History Boys, and Dead Poets’ Society and, with a short sharp …
Creation Theatre’s The Pit and the Pendulum is an immersive adaption of Edgar Allan Poe’s work of the same title.
The Wider Earth is a chimera.
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Brian Wilson returns with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin! Wilson will deliver his greatest hits live including selected songs from Pet Sounds, his top hits and fan favourites spann…
Brahms and Liszt – two great masters of German song in a luscious recital by internationally renowned bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott, rising star soprano Catherine Hooper and legenda…
Rich Wilson is still very much relevant, even though he’s over 40.
Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world.
Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination.
Propeller is a play which relates a small town’s struggle to reinstate a railway line, in order to make a much wider statement on the merits and masquerade of social action.
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of an Irish Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Never Vera Blue is a brave and commendable production, which interrogates the effects of gaslighting in an emotionally abusive relationship.
The Fetch Wilson is the type of play that might work very well as a film, or so you might think upon leaving the theatre.
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
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.
Yummy is what it says on the tin – a gooey, delicious, and extremely well-crafted sequence of performances from an ensemble of drag queens who are masters of their respective cra…
If you have a ticket to Pants On Fire’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you have in your possession a way of securing the ferryman’s passage to one of the most mischievous and charming…
A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
Here is something special and unusual: the life and death of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke and heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, remixed into a cabaret history lecture b…
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic Deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
A wild and darkly comic journey down the streets and back alleys of modern Dublin, from award-winning writer, Stewart Roche and ground-breaking young Irish theatre collective.
Catherine Bohart is the bisexual, OCD daughter of a Catholic deacon and she’s got a hell of a lot to say about it.
Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks deliver a blistering set of hits from the 5 decades spanning Ross’ spectacular career as singer, songwriter and producer.
Cal’s made some awful decisions - relationships, jobs, the 90s.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy teams up with incredibly talented musician John Sampson to bring a unique blend of reading with live music.
Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland.
All hell breaks loose when a tortured young misfit named Catherine strikes up a friendship with the mysterious Anita.
It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton.
It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …
It’s 1979 and Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson is in America to play an exhibition match.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
In 1987, celebrated BBC weather forecaster Michael Fish stood up on national television and shrugged off reports of an oncoming hurricane.
Settling into a pew at Sweet St Andrew’s along with a small but eager crowd, I had no idea what to expect from I Will Carry You Over Hard Times.
In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…
Meet Megan and Sophie.
It shouldn’t take long for you to notice that despite his name, Alfie Ordinary is as far from the boy next door as you’re likely to get.
In the era of Serial, Making a Murderer and Casting JonBenet, it can be easy to forget that the public’s taste for true crime is not a particularly modern phenomenon.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
It’s very difficult to dislike Tommy, the narrator of this one man show.
“Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere.
I should have known from the start.
It’s a dangerous move to end your fringe show with a cover of Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? as you run the risk of audiences leaving with that very question ringing in…
Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary celebration & final performance in its entirety.
“We are in uncharted territory when we sit with death,” Liz Rothschild says in her one-woman show, Outside the Box: A Live Show About Death.
The basement of the Blue Man is a cosy Aladdin’s cave of a space, all cushions and tapestries and tasteful lighting.
Why is Brighton the LGBTQ capital of the United Kingdom? That’s the question tour guide Ric Morris poses at the start of Piers & Queers, a queer-historical walking tour that span…
Come join Brimson and Wilson, purveyors of the finest comedy for men and women since the year 2000, as they present to you a veritable cornucopia of fun-filled frolics, sketches an…
Kiwi comedian Cal Wilson invites us to imagine what her life would have been like if she’d made different choices (or if she’d been born a man).
The zheng, whilst perhaps an unfamiliar sight to a British audience, has a history that dates back over 2,500 years and yet remains the most popular instrument in China.
Catherine Semark is a sharp, witty woman with some generally comical banter.
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
Along a cobbled alley, in a candlelit attic, it’s easy to forget the thronging crowds in the centre of Edinburgh just outside.
Comedy troupe To Be Continued.
Geoff Cotton presents and stars in a two-person sketch show involving comedy songs and impressions.
Improv shows are very difficult to do well, so kudos to York’s improv group The Shambles for making a gutsy attempt.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Croydon’s amateur dramatics club brings to the Fringe a perfectly nice but mediocre sketch show.
The volume of shows presented at the Edinburgh Fringe can sometimes be overwhelming, so the Waterloo Comedy Club has put on a free show to give the audience a taster of some of the…
From Manchester’s Monkeywood Theatre comes a drama set in 1970s-80s Manchester.
The songs of Glen Miller and Frank Sinatra are brought back to life by the brilliant big band Moonlight Serenade.
Based on the Strauss-Kahn case in New York 2011, a small and talented cast enact the possible events that might have followed after the initial alleged assault and before the start…
In a passionate display of the spoken word, Joe Hakim, Mike Watts and Ruth E Dixon provide an insight into a world of low self-esteem, loneliness and anxiety.
Kev Orkian of Britain’s Got Talent! fame has toured the world and performed for royalty.
Love in The Key of Britpop is spoken word artist Emily Andersen’s performance of her self-professed ‘ode to Britpop, nightclub romance, visa marriages and anglophilic love’.
Paralleling the lives of a 1930s German who has been sent into exile by the Nazis and a 2012 actor who has been sent into exile by a theatre company, Script in Hand tells the story…
Hilarious and original, Luke Benson presents a highly polished routine complete with sound effects and little dances.
Wojtek Ziemilski presents a part-lecture, part-film during which he tries to express his take on life, but doesn’t get very far.
Zimbabwean theatre company, Grassroots, presents a show combining succulent, sun-drenched vocal harmonies with wonderfully choreographed dances that has been put together around th…
Kicking off his show by saying ‘I’m not funny all the time, I wish I could be’, Henry Rollins set the audience up to watch a very alternative comedy show.
Caroline Hardie is one half of the double act Thomas Hardie, presenting a mixture of stand-up comedy and sketches.
Gregory Charles’ show Music Man centres around his truly encyclopedic knowledge of music.
The premise of Mace and Burton’s show draws quite a crowd into the Medina.
In a production set to rival The Thick of It and In the Loop, a hilarious cast present a comedy proving that recent political events really have been a joke.
The comedy club of Trinity College Cambridge consists of a stuffed bird (Magpie) and a handful of aspiring stand-up comedians.
Just so you’re perfectly clear, You Will Be Rare is hugely engaging and memorable; but it’s not a piece of theatre.
On first reading, the show’s title may sound almost childlike, reading like the name of a children’s music book.
Gavin Paul takes on the role of Robert Burns in an intimate account of the poet’s time spent in Edinburgh.
In an hour long history of medicine in Edinburgh, Professor David Purdie and librarian Ian Milne talk about royalty, body snatchers and herbal remedies.
In Mike McShane’s Mon Droit, an American psychiatric patient copes with a growing obsession with the Queen and decides to move to London.
Fans of the film ‘Cabaret’ and 80’s cheese will enjoy this show: a jazz and blues mash-up of 80’s and 90’s hits.
Light in the Dark Storytellers present a dark portrayal of the naivety and vulnerability of a young man with learning difficulties.
The morning recital at the Royal Over-Seas Legion was exquisite and perhaps proves once and for all that there is a great deal of truth in the old housewives saying that ‘the ear…
French singer, Eve Loiseau, presents the life and music of Edith Piaf in this show.
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…
Smooth and soulful jazz from this talented duo slowly hypnotises the audience into silence.
In a powerful depiction of the turbulent year Britain faced in 2005, Organised Crime Theatre presents Pornography.
Unneeded Baggage is a devised piece in which Elea Ineson, Tilda O’Grady, Eleanor Rushton try to find out ‘what it is to be a goddess in our time’.
The Circus In Hand experience is almost undoubtedly one unlike anything you’ve seen before.
Stella Graham’s routine is fun and original: she recounts amusing anecdotes of good and bad things she has done and the audience have to decide if she should go to heaven or hell.
In a powerful display of live art theatre, Jenna Watt invites the audience to help her conquer the bystander effect.
In a very surreal take on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, FramBag Theatre present a performance in which the women play the men and the men play the women.
Original and intelligent, Rachel Stubbings presents her live agony-aunt show.
In a portrayal of the not so very glamorous life of being a gangster, Gone Rogue Production’s Ruthlessness does exactly what it says on the tin.
There’s nothing like brutal honesty to kill a festival mood and the atmosphere thickened with Sean Hughes’ dark cynicism.
There is something vaguely terrifying about Charlie Chuck, real name David Kear.
The Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It is utterly bizarre.
Eric Davidson is like a showman from a bygone era, blinking behind his thick-rimmed glasses like a cynical Ronnie Corbett.
Tim Shishodia and Pat Cahill make up The Tim and Pat Show, a comedy double act proving itself to be a real highlight of the Free Fringe.
In an attempt to dispel ignorance, Imaan Hadchiti explores public reactions to his restricted growth.
In a forty-five minute interpretation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story The Yellow Wallpaper, students from Bangor University question the derivation of madness.
The phrase ‘Finnish one-man play’ may not sound gripping, but ten seconds into the performance the audience is utterly absorbed in this moving and honest drama.
The wife of Nikolai Nikotine forces him to give a boring lecture about the harmful effects of tobacco, and ends up discussing the woman herself.
Packed into a crowded, stuffy room in the turrets of Teviot, Ruaraidh Murray gives a schizophrenic performance in a production that’s somewhere between a play and stand-up comedy.
A very American story, with a very European style, Dylan Dougherty’s tale of the balance of freedom and captivity has been brought to Edinburgh by Belgian director Christoffel He…
Before the acts even take to the stage the atmosphere anticipating Battle Acts! Present is electric.
In the wonderful location of the top deck of a stationary Edinburgh bus, two comedians try to find their feet on the comedy circuit.
A breath-taking display of passion and heartache, Camille Claudel is a one-woman show based on the real-life love affair between Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel.
LSE drama society’s ‘Blake’s Doors’ opens with a monologue describing how much the character enjoys listening to other people’s conversations on buses, as he gets a thril…
As I took my seat to watch The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, I wondered if the performance could be quite as amusing as its title, and I was not disappointed.
German comedian Michael Mittermeier makes his début at the Fringe with a sell-out show, packed into an unfairly tiny venue.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng...
Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds.