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Anna Akana: It Gets Darker

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 28th Aug 2024

After performing stand up for over a decade, a stalking incident forced Anna into retirement for six years. 

Ligeti Quartet performs Anna Meredith

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Queen’s Hall
• 16th Aug 2024

Nuc (a Top Ten Contemporary Album of 2023 – The Guardian) was developed by frequent collaborators, Anna Meredith and Richard Jones (Ligeti Quartet’s viola player whose previous… 

Grace Campbell Is On Heat

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon at The Queen’s Hall
• 12th - 13th Aug 2024

The unwaveringly honest comedian returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show. 

INTERVIEW

• Listing
Theatre
• Camden Fringe
• Etcetera Theatre
• 9th - 10th Aug 2024

A fading political journalist is forced to interview a famous soap actress. 

A Girl Called Grace

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Speakeasy at The Royal Scots Club
• 6th - 10th Aug 2024

Grace is kicking back for the summer holidays when her step mother orders her to go to her aunty Baba Yaga. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

• Listing
Theatre
• 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… 

Anna Clifford: Got Jokes? (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hootanannies @ Home Street
• 2nd - 15th Aug 2024

After the successful debut of her comedy hour, I See Deadly People (available on YouTube), Anna is back with new jokes, a nearly there show, and you decide what stays and what goes… 

An Act of Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Niddry St
• 2nd - 24th Aug 2024

Grace, a wealthy and mysterious woman, invites an ex-golf pro turned financial advisor and a lawyer with sordid secrets to her country home to discuss her estate and update her wil… 

Anna Beros – Creampie Curious

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Romping through the feats, fiascos and fluids of her 30s from Melbourne to Berlin, Anna celebrates nasty sex with manners, German empathy and non-judgmental feminism. 

The State of Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 1st - 24th Aug 2024

Grace was a high-class sex worker, who rose to meteoric fame on social media. 

Anna Beros – Creampie Clarity

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Self-realisation might include a bunch of dicks, drugs and aspirations to motherhood. 

Grace Mulvey: Tall Baby

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Roxy
• 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Grace Mulvey wants to be a human adult who has fun. 

Grace Jarvis: Oh! The Horrors!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, George Square
• 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Grace Jarvis is a stand-up comedian, she has been told her material is too dark for how sweet her face is, she cannot change either. 

Jazz Emu: Knight Fever

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024

Musical supernova Jazz Emu (Telegraph’s 26th Funniest Comedian of the 21st Century) is back with a brand-new show, with a full live band, The Cosmique Perfectión. 

Knight, Knight

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, George Square
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

A knight pulls a sword from a stone and, as the prophecy foretold – becomes king. 

Anna Akana: It Gets Darker

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2024

After performing stand-up for over a decade, a stalking incident forced Anna into retirement for six years. 

Chris Grace: Sardines (A Comedy About Death)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square Studios
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

Chris Grace returns to Fringe after his 2023 sell-out show, Scarlett Johansson. 

Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 18th Jun 2024

Folk singer, lesbian and checked-shirt-collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir every day of her adult life, and, having finally run out of things to write… 

Grace Mulvey: Work in Progress

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Presuming Ed’s
• 30th May 2024

Grace Mulvey (BBC Galton & Simpson Comedy Winner) fresh from a sold out run at the Dublin Fringe is bringing her hotly anticipated new WIP show to Brighton. 

The Book of Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Arcola Theatre
• 16th May - 18th Jun 2024

Grace lives with her husband Vet, a patrol officer on the Texas-Mexico border. 

Grace Jarvis: Oh! The Horrors!

• Listing
Comedy
• Adelaide Fringe
• Gluttony
• 16th - 25th Feb 2024

Following her critically acclaimed debut and global touring Grace brings her sophomore show to the Adelaide Fringe. 

Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 25th Nov 2023

Folk singer, lesbian and checked-shirt-collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir every day of her adult life, and, having finally run out of things to write… 

The Interview

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Park Theatre
• 27th Oct - 11th Nov 2023

“Why should I stay silent? They’ve been trying to shut me up from day one. 

The Knight, The Fool and A Budgie

• Listing
Theatre
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 16th - 18th Oct 2023

A quest that goes wrong. 

Grace Petrie - Butch Ado About Nothing

• Listing
Comedy
• UK Regional & Tours
• Royal Court Liverpool
• 28th Sep 2023

Folk singer, lesbian and checked-shirt-collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir every day of her adult life, and, having finally run out of things to write… 

Anna Vanosi Jazz Trio

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Jazz Bar
• 15th - 27th Aug 2023

Anna Vanosi and her ensemble bring you on a journey filled with tasteful jazz, early blues standards and some Italian tunes. 

Anna Beros – Creampie Curious

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 15th - 28th Aug 2023

Romping through the joys, disappointments and semen of her 30s in Berlin, Anna stays surprisingly optimistic. 

A Girl Called Grace

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Royal Scots Club
• 14th - 18th Aug 2023

A little girl is sent to retrieve a needle and thread from the ferocious Baba Yaga and must outrun the witch to reach her father’s hut. 

Grace Campbell: A Show About More Me(n)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 12th - 17th Aug 2023

After a completely sold-out Edinburgh 2022 run and her biggest tour to date, Grace returns with her hit show, A Show About Me(n), with some brand-new material never heard before! T… 

Anna Piper Scott: Such an Inspiration

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• House of Oz
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

Comedian. 

Grace Jarvis: This Is the Last Goldfish That I Am Going to Eat for You

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, George Square
• 2nd - 28th Aug 2023

I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends. 

Chris Grace: As Scarlett Johansson

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square Studios
• 2nd - 28th Aug 2023

Chris Grace, Chinese-American character best known for playing Jerry on Superstore, portrays the greatest living Asian actor Scarlett Johansson through comedy, theatre, stand-up an… 

Green Knight

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Poets Ale and Smoke House
• 10th - 14th May 2023

Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight. 

Green Knight

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Poets Ale and Smoke House
• 10th - 14th May 2023

Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight. 

ANNA & MARINA

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• Latest Music Bar
• 5th - 6th May 2023

Two rival poets meet for the first time just as their country is being invaded by the largest military force in world history. 

ANNA & MARINA

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• Latest Music Bar
• 5th - 6th May 2023

Two rival poets meet for the first time just as their country is being invaded by the largest military force in world history. 

Charlie George: Grace (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Vault Festival
• The Basement at Vaulty Towers
• 7th Mar 2023

Charlie George Swindon’s finest queer, mixed-race, neurodiverse, working class, ex-Jehovah’s Witness comedian longs for Grace. 

Saving Grace 2023 Tour

• Listing
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 22nd - 23rd Feb 2023

Join Tik Tok’s GK Barry for some absolutely outrageous conversations with some very special guests!   

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

• Review
• ★★★★
• Katerina Partolina Schwartz
• West End
• Alexandra Palace / Leicester Square Theatre
• 14th Mar, 2023

Grace Campbell has been called a multitude of things, but after her most recent comedy set A Show About Me(n) she can add electrifying, iconic and all around spectacular to the lis… 

The Interview

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Blue Elephant Theatre
• 17th - 18th Feb 2023

“I think when it comes down to it Daniel, we’re probably looking for the same thing. 

Anna Marie Simonsen: Naughty

• Listing
Comedy
• Vault Festival
• Crypt
• 31st Jan 2023

‘You look 15, but I like that. 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

• Listing
Theatre
• 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, … 

Colin Hoult - The Death of Anna Mann

• Listing
• UK Regional & Tours
• Royal Court Liverpool
• 16th Nov 2022

Berk's Nest in association with United Agents presents Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2022, Best Comedy Show Nom… 

Vanishing Grace

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 2nd - 4th Nov 2022

For Grace, the World Irish Dancing Championships have been a life-long dream; a dream that’s about to become a reality. 

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

• Review
• ★★★★
• Rebecca Vines
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 24th Aug, 2022

Grace Campbell is a one-woman manifesto for body, sex and mental health positivity. 

Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 26th - 27th Aug 2022

Anna Mann is back! The acclaimed actress, singer and welder (gotta have a back up) returns after five long years to tell the incredible story of her life in the arts in this, her f… 

BOLERO – EXTENDED

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Dance Base
• 23rd - 28th Aug 2022

Boléro was written in 1928 as ballet music and the work is one of Ravel’s last and most famous. 

Death of an Author

• Listing
Theatre
• 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… 

Maggie MacInnes with Anna Massie

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
• 9th Aug 2022

Following her sell-out performance last year, singer/celtic harp player, Maggie MacInnes, returns to the Fringe at the AMC to sing Gaelic songs from her family tradition. 

A Mighty Fall from Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on North Bridge
• 8th - 27th Aug 2022

A Mighty Fall from Grace follows the life of a Bradford Bulls fan, who over several years watches his club deteriorate on and off the field and whose mental health deteriorates thr… 

Green Knight

• Review
• ★★★★
• Daniel Pereira
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• 12th Aug, 2022

Where are the knights of yesteryear? A masterclass in barebones storytelling, Debbie Cannon’s one-woman Green Knight has us spellbound. 

Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 4th - 21st Aug 2022

Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s Lee and Dean, BBC’s Outnumbered, The First Team, Count Arthur Strong) brings her BBC Radio 4 special to life in this debut… 

Colin Hoult: The Death of Anna Mann

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 3rd - 28th Aug 2022

Anna Mann is back! The acclaimed actress, singer and welder (gotta have a back up) returns after five long years to tell the incredible story of her life in the arts in this, her f… 

Anna Clifford: I SEE DEAD(LY) PEOPLE

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 3rd - 28th Aug 2022

Facing an existential crisis Anna powered off her phone and dived head first into an Ayahuasca retreat in the Irish wilderness. 

Grace Campbell: A Show About Me(n)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 3rd - 29th Aug 2022

Grace, ‘one of the funniest women in Britain’ (Times), makes her eagerly awaited Fringe return following 2019’s sell-out run, with a new show about her two lifelong passions; men a… 

Grace Petrie: Butch Ado About Nothing

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square
• 3rd - 28th Aug 2022

‘Whining folk singer’ (Telegraph), lesbian and checked-shirt collector Grace Petrie has been incorrectly called Sir everyday of her adult life, and, having exhausted her capacity f… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Sascha Cooper
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 22nd May, 2022

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

• Listing
Theatre
• 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. 

The Unforgettable Anna May Wong

• Review
• ★★★
• Elanor Parker
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 19th May, 2022

You’ve probably heard of Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich - but what about Anna May Wong? Wong fought against racism, societal expectations and stereotypes to be… 

The Unforgettable Anna May Wong

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 18th - 22nd May 2022

Anna May Wong, the pioneering Chinese-American actress who, despite the odds, became one of Hollywood’s best-loved stars. 

Finding Grace

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent / The Old Market - Standing
• 14th - 29th May 2022

A tragi-comic tale about an existential, self-styled guru who thinks they can lead humanity to salvation. 

Finding Grace

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent / The Old Market - Standing
• 14th - 29th May 2022

A tragi-comic tale about an existential, self-styled guru who thinks they can lead humanity to salvation. 

Charla con Camila Sosa sobre su libro Las Malas Interview with Camila Sosa about her book Las Malas

• Listing
Music
• UK Regional & Tours
• Online Event
• 1st Oct 2021

Romancero Books con el apoyo de la Oficina de Asuntos Culturales y Cintificos de la Embajada de Espaa en Londres presenta el Festival de Literatura Queer Espaola en Londres - FLQEL… 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

• Listing
Music
• 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… 

Anna Clifford’s Stand Up Special “Ghosted”

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 23rd Sep 2021

“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t… 

Anna Clifford’s Stand Up Special “Ghosted”

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 23rd Sep 2021

“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford dissect t… 

Anna Clifford's WIP

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 23rd Sep 2021

“ I can’t tell if I am being ghosted or that person is practising social distancing very well” Watch Irish comedian Anna Clifford's work in p… 

Anna Meredith

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Park
• 20th Aug 2021

International Festival favourite Anna Meredith returns to Edinburgh to perform her second album accompanied by her live band. 

Lily Phillips and Anna Clifford: Work In Progress

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 19th - 21st Aug 2021

Lily Phillips has been seen on BBC Three, ITV2 and All4, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year runner-up, Funny Women finalist and Pleasance Reserve comedian Lily Phillips … 

Anna X

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• The Harold Pinter Theatre
• 10th Jul - 4th Aug 2021

Immersed in an addictive world of front-row fashion shows, private views, and endless parties, Anna and Ariel find themselves struggling to keep up with New York’s dazzling s… 

Anna Marie Simonsen: Naughty

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: The Oil Shed
• 5th - 6th Jul 2021

Little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things NAUGHTY. 

Anna Marie Simonsen: Naughty (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: The Oil Shed
• 5th - 6th Jul 2021

Little girls are made of sugar and spice and all things NAUGHTY. 

Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 21st - 24th Jun 2021

Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage. 

Anna Morris: Kid-Life Crisis (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 21st - 24th Jun 2021

Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage. 

A Mighty Fall from Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• theSpaceUK
• 29th May - 28th Jun 2021

Jake Thompson is a West Yorkshire based actor/writer, who’s debut play ‘A Mighty Fall from Grace’ tells a gritty, relatable story, about the demise of the Bradford Bulls rugby leag… 

A Mighty Fall from Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Fringe Streaming
• 28th May 2021

Jake Thompson is a West Yorkshire based actor/writer, who’s debut play ‘A Mighty Fall from Grace’ tells a gritty, relatable story, about the demise of the Bradford Bulls rugby leag… 

Knight & Spiers

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 24th Mar 2021

This event has been rescheduled from Fri 20 March 2020. 

Anna Jochymek: Crowd Crystal

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 14th Jan - 14th Mar 2021

Crowd Crystal is a video-performative project conducted by Anna Jochymek. 

Anna Jochymek: Crowd Crystal Online Launch

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 14th Jan 2021

Book here to join the free online public opening of Anna Jochymek's video-performative artwork Crowd Crystal. Find out more about the work here.  

Anna KareniNa Na Na

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Roxy
• 5th - 31st Aug 2020

A hilarious and ludicrous take on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. 

Elliot Wengler: Special Features

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 16th Jul 2020

Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200… 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann Work in Progress

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 12th Mar 2020

Colin Hoult’s critically acclaimed alter-ego Anna Mann, Actress, Singer, Welder (got to have a back up) returns in the workings of a brand new show,… 

Angela Barnes: Rose-Tinted

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Lucia
• Brighton
• Komedia Theatre
• 25th Oct, 2019

It’s a Wednesday night in Brighton and Komedia is packed. 

Geoff Norcott: Taking Liberties

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Lucia
• Brighton
• The Old Market
• 9th Oct, 2019

Geoff Norcott is a working class comedian with an (oven) chip on his shoulder. 

Luisa Omielan: Politics for Bitches (Extended Cut)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 23rd - 25th Aug 2019

Three nights only! After a sell-out run in 2018 and a BBC One series of the same name, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and star of Live at the Apollo, Luisa returns with her third smash-hi… 

Football, Feminism and Everything in Between: Live with Alastair and Grace Campbell

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon at the Museum
• 21st Aug 2019

Football and feminism are both huge parts of our culture and everyday lives, but rarely have they been brought together and forced to get along. 

Comedy Hypnotist and Mentalist Mark Knight

• Review
• ★
• Victor Black
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
• 19th Aug, 2019

Mark Knight had the honour of performing to a packed-out room, clearly up for a fun Friday night of Mind Reading and Hypnosis – any Edinburgh performer’s dream scenario. 

Some Things are Meant to Be, Anna

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on North Bridge
• 12th - 17th Aug 2019

Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua. 

Green Knight

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Poetry Library
• 7th - 14th Aug 2019

Christmas at Camelot: a monstrous green warrior issues an unwinnable challenge to Arthur’s finest knight. 

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2019

Following her critically acclaimed debut show Woman of the Year, meet Anna’s brand-new characters and join some returning favourites all trying to Get Happy. 

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
• 1st - 18th Aug 2019

‘Character comedy at its finest’ ***** (EdFestMag. 

99 (First World) Problems feat Andy Quirk and Anna J

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Sofi’s Southside
• 1st - 25th Aug 2019

Andy Quirk, the UK’s premier rapper of first world problems and his surly lead backup dancer Anna J invite you to join their crew for their latest musical comedy show dealing wit… 

Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics

• Review
• ★★★
• Jodie McVicar
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 9th Aug, 2019

Everyone is at the Gilded Balloon to catch a glimpse of Alistair Campbell’s daughter, and Grace by name - but not by nature - gives us everything we want and so much more. 

Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019

Ever found yourself stuck in a rat? Unpleasant, isn’t it? Time marches on, but you’re on the spot. 

Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019

The Saturday Night Live writer and former editor-at-large of online satirical women’s magazine Reductress comes to the Fringe for the first time with a show all about true crime, t… 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Sunil Patel: White Knight

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019

Fire emoji. 

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy (Edinburgh Preview)

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 23rd Jul 2019

Following her critically acclaimed debut show 'Woman of the Year', meet Anna's brand-new characters and join some returning favourites all tryin… 

Anna & Helen: Stuck in a Rat

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 17th Jul 2019

Ever found yourself stuck in a rat? Unpleasant, isn't it. 

Anna Nicholson: Get Happy

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• Canal Cafe Theatre
• 11th Jul 2019

Award-winning comedian returns to the Canal Cafe Theatre with a brand new character show all about finding happiness. 

Grace Campbell & Tamsyn Kelly - Work in Progress

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• Canal Cafe Theatre
• 9th Jul 2019

Grace Campbell is a comedian rapidly making a name for herself in the UK stand up scene. 

Anna & Helen: Stuck in a rat

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Canal Cafe Theatre
• 22nd Jun 2019

Ever found yourself stuck in a rat? Unpleasant, isn’t it. 

Hidden Stories On Tour

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Lucia
• Brighton Fringe
• Jubilee Library
• 30th May, 2019

Presented by Root Experience, Hidden Stories is back in its hometown of Brighton for an informative and uplifting day at the Jubilee Library. 

Anna and Sarah: Would Rather Do a Sudoku

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Sweet @ The Welly
• 5th - 27th May 2019

Sarah Mann (BBC New Comedian finalist 2018, So You Think You’re Funny runner-up 2017) and Anna Dominey (Bath New Act semi-finalist 2018) are the opposite of party people. 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Theatre Box
• 4th - 6th May 2019

One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. 

Anna Mann's Late Night Cheese and Sex Party

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 21st - 25th Aug 2018

Colin Hoult’s ‘masterclass in character comedy’ (Time Out). 

The Interview

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on North Bridge
• 20th - 25th Aug 2018

In a comic exploration of the disjoint between what we think and what we say, The Interview questions the meaning of living a life worth rewarding. 

Anno: Vivaldi, Anna Meredith, Eleanor Meredith

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance at EICC
• 17th - 18th Aug 2018

Combining Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with electronics and visual art, Anno is a year of music, performed across an hour; a sensory experience of the passing of time; a critically accla… 

Safeword with Anna Phylactic and Ruth Cockburn

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Liquid Room
• 13th - 16th Aug 2018

Anna Phylactic and Ruth Cockburn come together to bring you a cabaret show about love and friendship, with a few history lessons along the way. 

Grace

• Review
• ★★★
• Catriona Scott
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 17th Aug, 2018

Nigel (Jonny Davidson) and his wife Sarah (Ella Dorman-Gajic) are sitting down to a dinner of soup and parsnip wine when they are interrupted by a knock on the door. 

Anna Meredith & Southbank Sinfonia

• Listing
Music / Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Leith Theatre
• 11th Aug 2018

Anna Meredith performs her debut album Varmints, in a specially expanded version for her band and the 30-piece Southbank Sinfonia orchestra. 

Grace the Former Child: The Bi-Polar Express

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ The SpiegelYurt
• 9th - 13th Aug 2018

Grace the Former Child was diagnosed at 14 with bipolar disorder. 

Ministers of Grace: The Unauthorised Shakespearean Parody of Ghostbusters

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 6th - 10th Aug 2018

Whom wilt thou call? What if Shakespeare had written Ghostbusters? Ministers of Grace is a wickedly funny, ruff-and-ready mash-up joyride of one of the best-loved films of all time… 

Mandy Knight: The Dark Knight

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Voodoo Rooms
• 4th - 25th Aug 2018

Mandy Knight has never had a birthday party. 

Anna Morris: Bombastic

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Voodoo Rooms
• 4th - 26th Aug 2018

The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4’s Lee and Dean celebrates four sell-out shows at the Voodoo Rooms with a mash-up of her favourite creations. 

Grace Notes

• Review
• ★★★
• Pete Shaw
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 21st Aug, 2018

Becky Williams delivers an emotionally charged monologue about murderess Grace Miller somewhat reluctantly seeking a second chance at series of rehab sessions entitled Notes. 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals at the Mansfield Traquair Centre

• Listing
Exhibition / Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Mansfield Traquair Centre
• 3rd - 26th Aug 2018

Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. 

Clif Knight Sucks!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Place
• 3rd - 9th Aug 2018

Clif Knight is a trainwreck and he’s bringing comedy, music and mistaken world outlooks to make you feel better about yourselves. 

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Meet the nominees for Woman of the Year in Anna Nicholson’s debut character-comedy show. 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Mockingbird
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2018

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Sam & Tom: Interview

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Black Medicine Basement & Heroes
• 2nd - 13th Aug 2018

After reviewing your application, Sam & Tom are pleased to offer you the opportunity to interview for the position of audience in their new cult comedy show. 

Grace

• Review
• ★★
• M Johnson
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Teviot
• 25th Aug, 2018

Katie Reddin-Clancy’s solo show has the potential to be fantastic – with a delicious, sharply observed script that is slickly performed. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

• Listing
Theatre
• 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. 

Emma Sidi: Faces of Grace

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Christine Kempell
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 15th Aug, 2018

Emma Sidi’s one-woman show Faces of Grace is absolutely bonkers. 

Anna Nicholson: Woman of the Year (Edinburgh Preview)

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 12th - 13th Jul 2018

Meet the nominees for Woman of the Year. 

Sam & Tom: Interview

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 7th Jul 2018

After review of your recent application Sam & Tom would like to extend to you the opportunity to interview for the position of ‘Audience’ for their new c… 

Anna Morris: Bombastic (Edinburgh Preview)

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 21st Jun 2018

The award-winning character comedian and star of Channel 4’s 'Lee and Dean' celebrates four sell-out shows with a mash-up of her favourite creations. 

Matthew Bourne's Cinderella

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Kings theatre
• 2nd Jul, 2018

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… 

LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 30th May 2018

LEE NELSON - Tour extended to cover legal fees for Theresa May stunt   Due to huge demand, and over-priced lawyers, Lee is extending his smash-h… 

Grace Eyre Street

• Listing
Events
• Brighton Fringe
• Purple Playhouse Theatre
• 23rd - 30th May 2018

Following a successful debut in 2017, we’ll be taking another trip to ‘Grace Eyre Street’ to meet some new characters! A showcase of live short performances made by artists with … 

Anna Nicholson: NICKNACKS

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• St Andrews Church
• 11th - 13th May 2018

Character comedy inspired by every age of woman: from the teenager who wants to be Gandhi, to a bra saleswoman stirring up the next generation, to the empty-nester mum now filling … 

Anna Morris: Under the Sea (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 9th - 14th May 2018

A brand new show from the creator of award-winning wedding comedy ‘It’s Got to be Perfect’. 

Anna

• Review
• ★★★★
• Sebastian Beaumont
• Brighton Fringe
• Rialto Theatre
• 20th May, 2018

The past is littered with magnificent women who deserve to be remembered and Anna Brassey is one of them: curator, collector, philanthropist, photographer, founder member of St Joh… 

Anna Morris - Bitchelors

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• Udderbelly
• 6th May - 18th Jun 2018

The critically acclaimed character comic and creator of the award winning international sell-out It's Got To Be Perfect presents Bitchelors. 

Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Theatre Box
• 4th May - 3rd Jun 2018

Zora walks on stage for the first time as a woman - it’s time for her to compere a comedy gig on her own. 

Legally Blonde

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• King’s Theatre
• 29th Apr, 2018

Legally Blonde (based on the movie of the same name) tells the story of Elle Woods, a party girl who decides to go to Harvard Law School to convince her ex-boyfriend that she can b… 

The Parent Teacher Interview

• Listing
Comedy
• Adelaide Fringe
• Gluttony
• 12th - 18th Mar 2018

Ever wondered what teachers really think about you, your kids and the education system? Ben Knight delivers a brutally honest musical/standup fusion of what teachers REALLY think … 

Grace

• Review
• ★★★
• Frodo Allan
• Adelaide Fringe
• Tuxedo Cat at broadcast bar
• 26th Mar, 2018

Some performances defy genre and this production features elements of solo theatre, sketch comedy and stand-up. 

Anna Cherkasova: Farrago / DARTS: Diverse Screens

• Listing
Events
• Adelaide Fringe
• Nexus Arts
• 9th - 23rd Mar 2018

An evolving participatory drawing project by artist-illustrator Anna Cherkasova (RUS-AUS) in which the gallery space is her canvas. 

Tracing Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Theatre503
• 20th - 24th Feb 2018

After a sell-out show at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, performances in York and The Menier Gallery (London Bridge) Tracing Grace arrives at Theatre 503. 

The Sound of Music

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• King’s Theatre
• 25th Jan, 2018

The Sound of Music is a beautiful, uncomplicated musical about courage, love and doing the right thing, and this production is a beautiful, uncomplicated rendition that stays true … 

Beverley Knight

• Listing
Music
• West End
• London Palladium
• 13th Oct 2017

Following the release of last year’s acclaimed Top 10 album Soulsville, singer songwriter and actress Beverley Knight announces a new UK Tour for 2017. 

Anna Savory: Tales from the Satanic Library

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• Camden Comedy Club
• 7th - 9th Aug 2017

Anna Savory is a comedian & condemned woman. 

The Interview

• Review
• ★★★
• Caitlin Powell
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 8th Aug, 2017

An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes. 

Green Knight

• Review
• ★★★★
• Stephanie Green
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Royal Scots Club
• 16th Aug, 2017

A one-woman dramatic monologue performed with great storytelling skills, Green Knight is an enthralling show. 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Mansfield Traquair Centre
• 6th - 27th Aug 2017

Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. 

Anna Morris: Bitchelors

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Voodoo Rooms
• 5th - 27th Aug 2017

The critically acclaimed character comic and creator of last year’s award-winning sell-out wedding comedy It’s Got to be Perfect returns. 

Sir Dickie Benson - Knight On The Tiles

• Listing
Comedy
• Great Yorkshire Fringe
• The Shed
• 3rd Aug 2017

Sir Dickie Benson, king of anarchy, the last of the Hollywood hell-raisers writ large, invites you to a riotous afternoon of heavy drinking, hilarious anecdotes and scandalous cele… 

Anna Karenina - Mariinsky Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Royal Opera House
• 3rd - 4th Aug 2017

The Mariinsky Ballet presents the highly anticipated revival of Alexei Ratmansky’s acclaimed Tolstoy adaptation. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

• Review
• ★★★★
• Paul Fisher Cockburn
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 8th Aug, 2017

Anna Mann is, according to herself, the greatest actress of her generation—a quote she can now legitimately edit for future Fringe posters with no fear of censor. 

The Art of Grace

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Lauriston Halls
• 5th Jul - 5th Aug 2017

A stunning, unique experience from the heart of China, performed by award-winning Tai Chi instructors and talented young people aged 7 and up. 

The Crucible

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Theatre Royal Glasgow
• 13th Jun, 2017

Arthur Millers most-performed, and perhaps most popular, play, The Crucible, is set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. 

Jane Eyre

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Theatre Royal Glasgow
• 8th Jun, 2017

The latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre, was devised by the company at the Bristol Old Vic, led by Sally Cookson. 

Grace Eyre Street

• Listing
Events
• Brighton Fringe
• Purple Playhouse Theatre
• 31st May 2017

A showcase of live performance and film made by artists with learning disabilities from Brighton & Hove and beyond. 

Storyland Author Readings

• Listing
Spoken Word
• 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. 

Colin Hoult: Anna Mann Extravaganza

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Theatre Box
• 16th - 18th May 2017

As seen in ‘Derek, Murder in Successville’ and ‘Being Human’, award-winning character comedian Colin Hoult brings his hit show ‘Anna Mann’s Sketch Show for Depressives’ to The Warr… 

Little Shop of Horrors

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Theatre Royal Glasgow
• 19th Nov, 2016

Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic that brought us endlessly popular tunes such as “Suddenly Seymour” and “Somewhere that’s Green” tells the story of Seymour and… 

Sister Act

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• King’s Theatre
• 6th Oct, 2016

Sister Act, the ever-popular stage musical based on the successful Whoopie Goldberg film, is a feel-good delight, and this latest production starring X-Factor winner Alexandra Bu… 

Chicago

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• King’s Theatre
• 20th Sep, 2016

World-famous musical Chicago follows the lives of two women in a Chicago prison in the 1920s, both awaiting trial for murder. 

Mairearad and Anna

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
• 13th Aug 2016

Two of Scotland’s most revered multi-instrumentalists, Mairearad (accordion, bagpipes, voice) and Anna (guitar, banjo, fiddle, voice) are a captivating duo, providing an energetic … 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Mansfield Traquair Centre
• 8th - 31st Aug 2016

Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. 

Anna Morris: It's Got to Be Perfect

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Voodoo Rooms
• 6th - 28th Aug 2016

The critically acclaimed character comic and star of ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid and BBC One’s Outnumbered returns with her smash hit, sell-out 2015 show. 

Tracing Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in The Vault
• 6th - 13th Aug 2016

Enter a world where not everything is as it seems. 

Coup de Grâce

• Review
• ★★★
• Dixon Baskerville
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Sweet Grassmarket
• 21st Aug, 2016

Coup De Grâce follows the supposed mental rehabilitation (through advanced experimental therapy) of Emma, a young woman haunted by her past. 

Grace

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Checkpoint
• 4th - 28th Aug 2016

Grace is popular, successful and happy, loving her life and her hidden wild side. 

Grace the Former Child: Party Politics

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
• 4th - 8th Aug 2016

Don’t miss stand-up veteran Grace, formerly The Child, revealing all about being a 13-year-old. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

• Review
• ★★★★
• Paul Fisher Cockburn
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 12th Aug, 2016

There’s surely no better sign that mental health issues – and depression in particular – are becoming more openly discussed than for the likes of Colin Hoult to come along an… 

Robinson Crusoe the Lost Jedi Knight

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Spotlites
• 2nd - 28th Aug 2016

Battle the Sith Pirates with real lightsabers! Blast the Dark Side’s droids! Master the Force with Jedi Knight Crusoe! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don’t just want… 

Macbeth

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 28th Jul, 2016

Shakespeare’s much performed, much studied and much loved “Scottish Play”, Macbeth, is the third in this year’s “Vaulting Ambition” season of Bard in the Botanics. 

Doctor Faustus

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 30th Jul, 2016

Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play, Doctor Faustus, tells the story of a man who, having learned everything it is possible to learn, is tempted to seek greater knowledge b… 

Coriolanus

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 30th Jun, 2016

William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus tells the story of the Roman General Caius Marcius Coriolanus. 

Twelfth Night

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 27th Jun, 2016

Twelfth Night, the opening show in this season’s Bard in the Botanics, takes place outdoors in Glasgow’s beautiful Botanic Gardens. 

Beverley Knight

• Listing
Music
• West End
• London Palladium
• 25th May 2016

Beverley Knight, the ‘Queen of UK Soul’, and now doyenne of the West End, is back with a brand new album and UK tour for 2016. 

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Multiple Venues
• 28th May, 2016

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart. 

Airs & Grace Notes

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Friends’ Meeting House
• 19th - 28th May 2016

Local Brighton pianist, Johan de Cock, presents an hour-long recital of Baroque sonatas by Antonio Soler, a classical sonata by Joseph Haydn, two late elegies by Franz Liszt, selec… 

30: 60: 80

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Tron Theatre
• 7th Mar, 2016

Writer-performer Amy Conway’s new piece takes the form of a verbatim performance of three interviews: one with her mother, one with her grandmother, and one with herself. 

Anna Netrebko

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
• 28th Feb 2016

Singers who are charismatic on the opera stage often find solo recitals a daunting prospect. 

Blackbird

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Citizens Theatre
• 29th Feb, 2016

The Citizens’ Theatre’s new production of David Harrower’s Olivier Award Winning 2005 play Blackbird is an engaging and thought-provoking piece of theatre. 

Anna Bolena NEW YORK

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Broadway
• Metropolitan Opera
• 5th - 9th Jan 2016

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky embarks on her quest to vocally conquer all three of Donizetti’s historic Tudor queen operas in the same season, here as a young royal grasping at powe… 

Slightly Fat Features in A Fat lot of Good

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Roundhouse
• 25th - 28th Nov 2015

A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness. 

An Inspector Calls

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Theatre Royal, Glasgow
• 12th Nov, 2015

JB Priestly’s much beloved, taught-in-schools play, An Inspector Calls, is a perennial favourite with British theatre-goers. 

Ghosts

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Tron Theatre
• 15th Oct, 2015

Megan Barker’s courageous new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts follows the story of Helen Alving as she attempts to arrange funding for a children’s home. 

Anna Bolena

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
• 26th Sep - 13th Oct 2015

The Metropolitan Opera jumps on the Tudor bandwagon this season, giving Sondra Radvanovsky the chance to sing all three of Donizetti’s so-called “Tudor queens. 

Mairearad and Anna

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Ella Moran-Jones
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
• 17th Aug, 2015

Mairearad Green and Anna Massie know how to put on a show – they combine warmth, wit and banter with supreme musicianship to create an enjoyable, varied, and polished set. 

Losing Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Nicolson Square
• 10th - 13th Aug 2015

One life. 

Trevor Feelgood: The Dork Knight Rises in 3D

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 9th - 23rd Aug 2015

Trevor is back with another late night show. 

Grace the Child: Playground Politics

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
• 8th - 9th Aug 2015

The only 12-year-old comedian performing on a bus. 

Anna Morris: It's Got To Be Perfect

• Review
• ★★★★
• Will Roberts
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Voodoo Rooms
• 20th Aug, 2015

I’ve always somewhat despised weddings. 

Anna Lou's Contes D'Amour

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• CC Blooms
• 8th - 30th Aug 2015

Through her indecorous musical storytelling, Cabaret Roulette’s own petite Parisienne powerhouse teaches us everything she knows about love. 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals – Free

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Mansfield Traquair Centre
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2015

Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel, and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair. 

Slightly Fat Features in VarietySoup

• Review
• ★★★
• Emily Blackwell
• Great Yorkshire Fringe
• The Turn Pot
• 26th Jul, 2015

Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics. 

Richard II

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 26th Jul, 2015

Shakespeare’s popular play Richard II recounts the fate of the famously decadent king as he spends his father’s fortune, places punitive taxes onto the poor, and spends his no… 

Love's Labour's Lost

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Glasgow Botanic Gardens
• 1st Jul, 2015

Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the fortunes of King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends, who have made a vow that they will eschew women (among other things) for three years… 

Puttin' on The Ritz

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• King’s Theatre, Glasgow
• 11th Jun, 2015

Puttin’ on the Ritz is an all-singing, all-dancing tour of the highlights of the 1920s music scene, with occasional forays into the 30s and 40s. 

Amazing Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Broadway
• Nederlander Theater
• 2nd Jun 2015

(previews start on June 25; opens on July 16) A new Broadway musical? How sweet the sound. 

Into That Darkness

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Citizens Theatre
• 22nd May, 2015

Franz Stangl oversaw the deaths of almost a million people during the fourteen months he was Commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. 

Anna Morris: It’s Got to be Perfect

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 2nd - 30th May 2015

The critically acclaimed character comic and star of ITV2’s ‘Bad Bridesmaid’ and BBC1’s ‘Outnumbered, returns to Brighton with a work in progress of her new show. 

Rob Deb: Dork Knight Forever

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
• 1st - 17th May 2015

Stand-up comedy from the original dork knight. Rob Deb returns as the Duke of Dorkdom as he brings comedy and jokes about a world that hates and fears him. 

Vlad the Impaler

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 30th Apr, 2015

Richard Crane’s latest play takes as its subject the life of Vlad the Impaler, famous Romanian prince and the inspiration behind Dracula, blending folk songs, the recreation of … 

Extended Play

• Listing
Comedy
• USA Regional & Tours
• Knitting Factory
• 24th Apr 2015

Kenny DeForest hosts long stand-ups sets from two of the city’s finest, Ben Kronberg and Brooke Van Poppelen, and featuring Greg Stone. 

Fever Dream

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Citizens Theatre
• 15th May, 2015

Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill. 

Composer Portrait: Anna Clyne

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Miller Theater
• 23rd Apr 2015

Miller Theater’s last composer portrait of the season sketches the work of the London-born Anna Clyne, who is just completing her tenure as composer in residence at the Chica… 

Peter Pan Goes Wrong

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Theatre Royal, Glasgow
• 17th Apr, 2015

Peter Pan Goes Wrong invites you to watch the latest show by the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a production of Peter Pan which starts badly and ends in a medley of perfectly… 

And The Beat Goes On

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Tron Theatre
• 26th Mar, 2015

Glasgow based playwright Stef Smith’s latest play, The Beat Goes On, ushers us into the lives of Lily and Peter, a couple of Sonny and Cher tribute artists who practice in their … 

Fat Alice

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Oran Mor / The Lemon Tree / Traverse Theatre
• 31st Mar, 2015

Acclaimed playwright Alison Carr’s latest offering, Fat Alice, opens on a familiar scene. 

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
• 27th Mar, 2015

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha is the first of three plays in this season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Russia and Ukraine, curated by playwright Nicola McCartney who also direct… 

A Streetcar Named Desire

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh
• Festival Theatre Edinburgh
• 23rd Mar, 2015

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche du Bois, a beautiful Southern Belle whose husband commits suicide after she catches him with another m… 

The Day The Pope Emptied Croy

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
• 20th Mar, 2015

After a very strong debut with Squash in last season’s A Play, A Pie and a Pint, playwright Martin McCormick returns with his second play, The Day the Pope Emptied Croy. 

Leviathan

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 12th Mar, 2015

Leviathan, produced in association with Sherman Cymru and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, is among the best plays to appear on the Òran Mór stage this season or last. 

Sprint 2015

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Mitcham
• London Fringe
• Camden People’s Theatre
• 8th Mar, 2015

A festival for ‘new and unusual theatre’, Sprint - now in its 17th year - is famous for providing a platform for rising theatre-makers who have something urgent to say and a uniq… 

Anna Caterina Antonacci

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
• 5th Mar 2015

This passionate, fiercely idiosyncratic singer returns to Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for an ambitious immersion in the French repertory with the pianist Donald Sulzen. 

Rum and Vodka

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Citizens Theatre
• 8th Mar, 2015

Rum and Vodka, the 1992 debut play by Olivier Award-winning playwright Conor McPherson, is a simple and effective one man show. 

Lifesaving

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 5th Mar, 2015

Lifesaving is an entertaining and surreal hour of theatre which focuses on the lives of two teenage siblings, Sandra and Jamie. 

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 25th Feb, 2015

Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon is an account of what happens when “our man” (Òran Mór veteran Billy Mack) spends four weeks in Japan. 

Hooray for All Kinds of Things

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 25th Feb, 2015

Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010. 

We Can All Agree to Pretend This Never Happened

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 11th Feb, 2015

As an ongoing celebration of –and opportunity for –new playwriting talent, A Play, a Pie and a Pint – originated at the Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End – has decided to m… 

The King's Kilt

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 2nd Mar, 2015

Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King … 

Theatre Uncut

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 20th Nov, 2014

In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays… 

Bridge

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 27th Feb, 2015

Bridge opens with a woman sitting on an isolated bridge being harassed by a stranger who won’t let her be. 

The Happiest Day of Brendan Smilie's Life

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 27th Feb, 2015

The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar… 

Crash

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 23rd Oct, 2014

Andy Duffy’s new one-man play is a psychological drama following the life of a stock market trader during the economic crash. 

Flying With Swans

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• UK Regional & Tours
• Gaiety Theatre, Ayr / Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
• 6th Nov, 2014

Flying with Swans focuses on three women, all now well into retirement, who reignite their old tradition of taking the ferry to watch the arrival of the whooper swans as they mig… 

Squash

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 18th Nov, 2014

Squash is the third play in this Autumn’s “A Play, A Pie and a Pint”season at Òran Mór produced in association with Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—following on from Flame… 

Mrs Barbours Daughters

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 4th Mar, 2015

Mrs Barbour’s Daughters centres around Mary, an elderly blind woman who refuses to move out of her tenement flat and into her niece’s home. 

Anna Lucia Richter

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Park Avenue Armory
• 2nd - 6th Oct 2014

This young German soprano makes her United States recital debut with an unusual program in the intimate Board of Officer’s Room — three concerts dedicated to the songs … 

Three Sisters

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 17th Oct, 2014

Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work… 

Flame Proof

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 17th Oct, 2014

Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro… 

Flame Proof

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 30th Sep, 2014

Lesley Hart’s latest play begins when Health and Safety Officer Lyssa is disturbed from her work of securing a wedding marquee at three in the morning by Buddy, the alcoholic bro… 

It's Only Words

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 23rd Sep, 2014

It’s Only Words tells the story of Mrs Moore, an old woman who has locked herself in a public bathroom while she thinks about her life and the choices she has made. 

Hamlet

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Citizens Theatre
• 26th Sep, 2014

Director Dominic Hill’s new production of Shakespeare’s most popular play takes the radical step of giving us a Hamlet who is essentially the villain. 

Miss Shamrock’s World of Glamorous Flight

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 17th Sep, 2014

The third play in Oran Mor’s Autumn/Winter Season is a breath of fresh air, a nuanced and enjoyable picture of a thoroughly likeable character. 

A Terrible Beauty

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Glasgow
• Oran Mor
• 9th Sep, 2014

A thorough, measured account of a key moment in the history of Ireland, this opening production in the new run of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West En… 

Chariot: The Eric Liddell Story

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Palmerston Place Church
• 24th Aug, 2014

This intelligent piece of theatre focuses on the religious faith of the famous Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell and his trainer, Tom McKerchar. 

Verbatopolis

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C
• 26th Aug, 2014

Verbatopolis is the name an ageing anthropologist has given to his series of lectures, delivered for you by a talented group of actors who illustrate the scenes he has studied. 

The Last Piemen

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 24th Aug, 2014

The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator. 

The Villains, the Vote and the Black, Black Oil

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Sweet Grassmarket
• 31st Aug, 2014

The show uses a mixture of devised and traditional songs, short sketches, narration, and pantomime versions of figures from recent history to recount some of the most important e… 

Superfluous

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
• 20th Aug, 2014

Superfluous is a show with plenty of energy, enthusiasm and warmth, but a lack of more fundamental theatrical skills means it falls flat. 

Amazing Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Palmerston Place Church
• 13th - 16th Aug 2014

Press ganged into the navy at 19, flogged for desertion, torn from the girl he loves, John Newton feels he has nothing to live for. 

Raymondo

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Summerhall
• 13th Aug, 2014

Raymondo is a piece of magical realist storytelling which combines an evocative musical accompaniment with an endlessly strange and beautiful script. 

Oliver Twist

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 19th Aug, 2014

This is a heartfelt piece of theatre which demonstrates just how far passion and enthusiasm can get you. 

Harry the King

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo Southside
• 20th Aug, 2014

This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w… 

Nathan Penlington: Choose Your Own Documentary

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon
• 15th Aug, 2014

This is a surprisingly intimate glimpse into the inner world of multimedia artist Nathan Penlington, with plenty of exciting decisions along the way. 

The Importance of Being Earnest

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C too
• 19th Aug, 2014

University theatre group Gone Rogue Productions brings us a genuinely funny hour’s entertainment with this production of a beloved classic. 

My Rabbi

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• New Town Theatre
• 31st Aug, 2014

My Rabbi follows the story of two best friends: an atheist man (whose family are mostly Muslim) and a Jewish man. 

The Day Sam Died

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• New Town Theatre
• 14th Aug, 2014

This piece of surrealist theatre successfully dramatises the issues it sets out to explore and uses neat theatrical devices to do it. 

Grace and the Sea

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Sweet Grassmarket
• 4th - 9th Aug 2014

A new play by Rob Brannen set on Crosby beach. 

Guinea Pigs on Trial

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Summerhall
• 15th Aug, 2014

The latest offering from the award winning Sh!t Theatre is an all singing, all dancing critique of the pharmaceutical industry which is at all points informative and entertaining. 

The Initiate

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Summerhall @ Roundabout
• 5th Aug, 2014

It is almost worth going to see The Initiate for the theatre space alone. 

The Secret Wives of Andy Williams

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Cowgate
• 4th Aug, 2014

The Secret Wives of Andy Williams is an enjoyable hour of theatre that is occasionally funny and often moving, with plenty of eccentricity to keep things interesting. 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Mansfield Traquair Centre
• 1st - 25th Aug 2014

See Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel. 

Claustrophobia

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo
• 13th Aug, 2014

Claustrophobia conjures the atmosphere of being trapped extremely effectively, as well as delving into the idea that we are all, in a way, trapped in prisons of our own making. 

The Tulip Tree- The Love Story of J Enoch Powell

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on Niddry St
• 4th Aug, 2014

The Tulip Tree is a very intelligent piece of theatre that crams a lot of subtlety into a short period of time. 

Giulietta

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 4th Aug, 2014

Despite extremely promising material, Giulietta manages to ultimately be prosaic and, frankly, a bit boring. 

Please Don't Cry (At My Funeral)

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo Southside
• 5th Aug, 2014

Please Don’t Cry (At My Funeral) isn’t exactly the show advertised. 

Blood at the Root

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square Studios
• 2nd Aug, 2014

The latest offering from acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau is an ensemble piece in every sense of the word. 

The Interview

• Review
• ★
• Joanna Alpern
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Cowgate
• 12th Aug, 2014

A quick glance into the Fringe brochure may lead an innocent punter to think The Interview is an intriguing show. 

True Brits

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Hall
• 2nd Aug, 2014

True Brits is an unusually subtle and warm one man show. 

Phone Whore: A One Act Play With Frequent Interruptions

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Sweet Grassmarket
• 4th Aug, 2014

If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore. 

The Ruby Dolls: Fabulous Creatures

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Checkpoint
• 2nd Aug, 2014

The first original musical from The Ruby Dolls is a triumph. 

An Audience With Shurl

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall
• 3rd Aug, 2014

An Audience With Shurl is a highly intimate, moving picture of the inner life of a very lonely woman. 

First Class

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Espionage
• 31st Aug, 2014

First Class takes the form of three intercutting monologues which follow the lives of three different people. 

The Dirty Talk

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C
• 2nd Aug, 2014

Michael Puzzo’s popular play is a solid piece of theatre—it knows exactly what it wants to achieve and pulls it off. 

Mock Tudor

• Review
• ★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 4th Aug, 2014

On paper, this looks like a good show: everyone involved has pretty impressive credits to their name and the concept is the sort of thing that’s fantastic when it’s done well. 

The Player's Advice to Shakespeare

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C nova
• 2nd Aug, 2014

Brian K. 

Black Grace

• Review
• ★★★★
• Faith-Ashleigh Wong
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Roxy
• 12th Aug, 2014

Black Grace is touted as New Zealand’s leading contemporary dance group and they certainly live up to this title. 

Anna Morris: Would Like to Thank

• Review
• ★★★★
• Gordon Noele
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 5th Aug, 2014

This is character comedy at its best. 

A Little Nonsense

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 1st Aug, 2014

It is a rare and precious thing to find a show which is not only brilliant, but which is brilliant in such a wide range of ways. 

Altamont

• Review
• ★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C nova
• 5th Aug, 2014

If you want to know what it felt like to be part of one of the most disastrous free concerts of the ’60s, this atmospheric show is a good place to start. 

FOMO: The Fear of Missing Out

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly @ Forth FM Radio Station
• 19th Aug, 2014

Zoe McDonald’s one-woman show is a masterpiece of characterisation, and a very successful piece of comedy. 

The Match Game

• Review
• ★★★★
• Grace Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 4th Aug, 2014

The Match Game creates a fantastical dystopia and uses it to consider our notions of romance, and the existence of ‘the one’. 

Anna Myer and Dancers

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• USA Regional & Tours
• Harlem Stage Gatehouse
• 21st Jul 2014

The basketball court is as much a stage for life as any platform found in a theater. 

Anna Sperber: “Every Room is Open”

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• USA Regional & Tours
• Brooklyn Arts Exchange
• 22nd Jun 2014

With its heady mix of lyricism and rigor, Ms. 

Chloe Kernaghan and Anna Marie Shogren

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• USA Regional & Tours
• Dixon Place
• 5th Jun 2014

It’s New Year’s Eve 1968, and Jerry Wolfert, the “most hated man in the San Fernando Valley,” is celebrating his first night in Hollywood. 

King of the Fringe

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• St James’s Street Pop Up
• 2nd Jun, 2014

Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe. 

Florence Foster Jenkins

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Main House
• 4th Jun, 2014

Florence Foster Jenkins was an American amateur opera singer under the impression that she was amazingly talented when actually she was really very bad. 

Twenty To Something

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• The Dukebox Theatre
• 28th May, 2014

Twenty to Something is a funny, moving and truthful show about student life, university culture and the deeper issues affecting today’s young people. 

These Precious Hidden Things

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Old Police Cells Museum
• 26th May, 2014

Taking place in the dark and historic Old Police Cells Museum, These Precious Hidden Things is a cleverly written and produced piece by The Barefoot Players. 

An Evening with Patti DuPont

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Upstairs at Three and Ten
• 19th May, 2014

Anna Emerson gives an entertaining performance in her latest show, An Evening with Patti DuPont. 

What would Beyonce do?

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
• 28th May, 2012

A stand up comedy show with a unique twist. 

Foil, Arms & Hog: Irish Sketch Comedy

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Upstairs at Three and Ten
• 10th May, 2014

So, Foil, Arms and Hog are my new favourite people. 

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Main House
• 26th May, 2014

This colourful, vibrant performance of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was well received by children and adults alike. 

Sean McLoughlin: I Will Prevail

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 4th May, 2014

If you’re looking for some light hearted comedy to pass the time, don’t go to see Sean McLoughlin. 

Bitchelors (Work in Progress)

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 4th May, 2014

Anna Morris’s new show might be a work in progress but it’s already pretty brilliant. 

Brighton Gay Men's Chorus: Nautical but Nice

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• St George’s Church
• 4th May, 2014

I can’t stop grinning as I leave the church. 

The Lady Boys of Bangkok

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Pitts
• Brighton Fringe
• Sabai Pavilion
• 6th May, 2014

The Ladyboys of Bangkok is all hyped up. 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
• 4th Aug, 2012

‘Everything is easier to explain if you use lots of fire. 

Red-Eye to Havre de Grace

• Listing
Theatre
• Off Broadway
• New York Theater Workshop
• 2nd Apr 2014

(previews start on April 22; opens on April 30) Edgar Allan Poe believed that the death of a beautiful woman “is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. 

Twelfth Night or What You Will

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• Abrons Arts Center
• 11th May, 2012

For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria. 

Rabbitskin by Dominic Grace

• Review
• ★★★★
• Laura Hutton
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 20th Aug, 2013

Rabbitskin is a glorious demonstration of simple storytelling, weaving a touch of magic into the everyday tale. 

Mozart Requiem

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 11th Aug, 2012

CoroEdina, a Scottish chamber choir was formed in 2008. 

Red Hot Chilli Pipers

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 16th Aug, 2012

From the tremblingly loud intro to the wild medley of an ending, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers were magnificent. 

All the King's Men - Knight Fever!

• Review
• ★★★★
• Justin McCarthy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 17th Aug, 2013

A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t… 

Parkin'Son - Giulio D’Anna

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th - 25th Aug 2013

Giulio is 31 and Choreographer. 

Bach for Solo Violin

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 8th Aug, 2012

Hungarian virtuoso Tamas Fejes is a delight to listen to. 

Songs of Struggle

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

ongs of Struggle sees a fine collection of Scottish folk singers gather together to celebrate Woody Guthrie’s centenary in an evening of inspiring and compelling music. 

Vanessa Knight

• Review
• ★★★
• Bryce Lucas
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 11th Aug, 2013

With great loop pedal power, comes great loop pedal responsibility. 

Vanessa Knight

• Review
• ★★★
• Sarah McIntosh
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 15th Aug, 2012

Vanessa Knight is the most glamorous thing to come out of Birmingham since Duran Duran. 

Anna.

• Review
• ★★
• Rohanne Udall
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 14th Aug, 2012

Anna is missing, but why, and what happened in the day leading up to her disappearance? This non-linear play cuts back and forth from evening to daytime to unveil the truth behind … 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals

• Review
• ★★★★
• Gwen Sims-Williams
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2013

In 1893 the Irish artist Phoebe Anna Traquair, a notable adherent of the Arts and Crafts movement, was asked to decorate the Catholic Apostolic Church on Mansfield Place. 

Phoebe Anna Traquair Murals

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2013

Come and see ‘Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel’. 

The Knight of the Box Near The Station

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2013

A fairytale for grown-ups … don’t let truth get in the way of magic! Join commuter Sam on his unexpected quest to help The Knight find his voice and rescue The Lady. 

Anna

• Review
• ★★★
• Hannah Mirsky
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2013

This is not an easy show to watch. 

Longing for Grace

• Review
• ★★★
• Heather Bagnall
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2013

Alfred Hitchcock once said of Grace Kelly, she is a ‘volcano covered in snow. 

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. 

Slightly Fat Features

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013

Riotous comedy cabaret troupe. 

The Mid-Knight Cowboy

• Review
• ★★★
• Alex Reeves
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2013

As a child, William/Billy plays Cowboys and Indians, takes great pride in his cowboy hat, and wants to grow up to become a cowboy like John Wayne, partly because his father nicknam… 

Naked Homo Live!

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 28th May, 2012

Naked Homo Live! is set in a members’ only gay club, with an intimate audience of around twenty people, and one naked – completely hairless – performer. 

Anna & Katy

• Review
• ★★★
• Rob Marks
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 19th Aug, 2009

According to Anna and Katy there are two things a comedy double act need: chemistry and jokes. 

Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines

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

Likely the most enjoyable corporate seminar you’ll see at the Fringe, Jack and Nikki: Killing Machines is warm and entertaining from the start. 

Hypnotist,Titan Knight

• Review
• ★★★
• Sam Kingston-Jones
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2011

Titan Knight sure knows how to put on a show. 

Bob and Jim - Go

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 20th Aug, 2012

Bob and Jim are a self-proclaimed neo-vaudeville phenomenon. 

La Clique

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 8th May, 2013

This is a wild and wacky experience of burlesque, cabaret and circus. 

Life, the Universe, Whatever...

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

If ever there was a lesson in the value of being patient, this show is it. 

Sister Acts

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 3rd May, 2013

On the whole, the show was quite amateur and left a lot to be desired. 

Will Marsh's Ruination

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 11th Aug, 2012

Britain is in a bad way. 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! It's the Monster Stand-Up Show - Free

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2012

The problems started right from the word go. 

Sir Gawain, the Yellow Knight

• Review
• ★★★
• Peter Scott-Presland
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 18th Aug, 2012

Port Dover, a Canadian High School, brings a simple and charming cod Arthurian fable to Church Hill. 

Rory & Tim: Good for Nothing

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 14th Aug, 2012

It’s usually a good sign when a sketch group can make you smile before you even enter the venue. 

Bourne ImprovABLES: Hilarious Improvised Comedy Show

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 6th May, 2012

A fun, eclectic group of amateur comedians took to the stage with an endearing, though not hilarious, improvised comedy set. 

GirlBand Improv - Free

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2012

The GirlBand Improv was an entirely enjoyable experience but not quite what I expected. 

Major Jack Union's Victorian Monster-Hunting Tea

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 28th May, 2012

Entering a room full of trays of sandwiches, scones, cakes and ‘tea’ which turned out to be minty cocktails in tea-cups (it is sponsored by Hendricks after all) held a whole lo… 

Anna the Slut and the (almost) Chosen One

• Review
• ★★★
• Kathryn Mack
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 10th Aug, 2008

Hunger Warrior Theatre, a group of young American Theatre professionals present this tale of lust and its dangers, written Andrew J Hungerford. 

Geoff the Entertainer

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 14th Aug, 2012

Comic actor and character comedian Lee Fenwick brings his latest created personality to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Geoff, the loveable tramp. 

Amateur Transplants: Adam Kay's Bum Notes

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 6th Aug, 2012

With 20 million YouTube hits and three number one albums in the iTunes comedy charts, Adam Kay is going from strength to strength. 

Lost Props

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 10th May, 2012

The sweetness and innovation of this young children’s puppet show was overshadowed by some of the flaws in its production. 

The Graduate-an adaptation for the stage

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 3rd Jun, 2013

This stage adaption of the book and film was experimental, wacky and creative – a cocktail which at times proved highly successful and at other times fell completely flat. 

Barbershopera: The Three Musketeers

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2012

Join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they take on a new recruit and set out to rescue the King’s golden plums!In this wonderfully camp late-night operetta jokes fly and genders bend… 

Bank On Music

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 7th May, 2012

An ambient evening of harp music and vocals which was enjoyable, but not exceptional. 

Matthew Highton's End of the Road

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

Matthew Highton will deceive you. 

Sad Faces Remember It Differently

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

Less than a minute into the show and there’s a bomb, some sort of wizard and someone getting punched in the face. 

Paul Ricketts - Ironic Infinity

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 10th Aug, 2012

Paul Ricketts is a natural storyteller. 

Rhinoceros

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

Ionesco’s Rhinoceros depicts a sleepy French town where the inhabitants are slowly overcome by a strange phenomenon turning them into rampaging rhinos. 

Angela Barnes and Matt Richardson

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 3rd Aug, 2012

There are two possible reasons why Angela Barnes and Matt Richardson are sharing a stand-up show: a) they’re friends; or b) they both attribute a lot of material to their mums. 

Gareth Morinan Explains Why David Cameron Should Be Fired for Crimes Against Short People (Among Other Things)

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 24th Aug, 2012

It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show. 

The Pardoner’s Tale

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 13th May, 2013

This was a weird and wacky take on the old Chaucerian tale which left itsaudience members altogether bemused. 

I'm High On Life: What Are You On?

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 9th Aug, 2012

Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are. 

1969 Show and Abbey Road

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 5th Jun, 2013

The Brighton Beach Boys gave a fairly electric rendition of some of the greatest and most celebrated musical bangers from the year 1969, as well as the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’. 

Les Clochards: Dirty But Nice

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 9th Aug, 2012

I cannot praise this show highly enough. 

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - A Celebration in Song

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 6th Aug, 2012

Scottish jazz singer Pam Lawson is joined by pianist Tom Finlay and double-bassist Ed Kelly for a musical celebration of the infamous partnership that was Fred Astaire and Ginger R… 

Tom Goodliffe: All in Good Time

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2012

In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd. 

Jarlath Regan: The Audacity of Hope and the Inspirational Stupidity of Perseverance

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2012

It’s a bit of a cliché to say, but Jarlath Regan oozes charm. 

Author

• Review
• ★★★★
• Louisa-Claire Dunnigan
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 8th Aug, 2010

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… 

Joe Lycett: Some Lycett Hot

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 8th Aug, 2012

Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue. 

Pam Ford Salon Secrets - Free

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2012

Pam Ford presents a friendly and funny stand-up show focussing on her past career as a hairdresser. 

Cariad Lloyd - The Freewheelin' Cariad Lloyd

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 15th Aug, 2012

From the moment she wheels on stage on a blue plastic tricycle Cariad Lloyd lights up the room, fizzing with an infectious and vivacious energy. 

1912

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 10th May, 2012

1912 is a fairly unsuccessful attempt to reinvent old magic shows from the early 20th Century. 

Mil's Trills' Music and Stories

• Review
• ★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 5th Aug, 2012

Mil’s Trills, starring a very bubbly Amelia Robinson on the ukulele, has travelled all the way from New York City to introduce the little ones of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fri… 

James Christopher: Bring Me the Head of Russell Kane - Free

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 9th Aug, 2012

James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice. 

The Tragedie of MacClegg

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 23rd Aug, 2012

It’s not immediately easy to find any correlation between Macbeth and the deputy Prime Minister, but this new satire from Oxford University creates one with great wit and a marve… 

By Grace: A New Musical

• Review
• ★★
• Jay Hobday
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2009

The epitome of Hollywood glamour, Grace Kelly’s perfect face beams at you from a screen as you enter the space. 

Molly Naylor and the Middle Ones: My Robot Heart

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

Molly Naylor is a storyteller and accomplished writer who has written programmes for Radio 4 before her foray into Fringe. 

No Poofs No Piano

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 10th Aug, 2012

The show gets off to a slick and simple start by introducing each member of HyHo Productions to the stage. 

Ladies Live Longer: Ladylike

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 11th Aug, 2012

Ladylike gets off to a rather standard start with an introduction to the double act’s caricatured personalities, which aren’t anything novel: Victoria Temple-Morris is arrogant… 

The Ejaculate Conception

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 24th Aug, 2012

Right from the word ‘go’ it appears this won’t be the most original sketch show ever to grace the Fringe – the Gubernaculum, a group of Oxbridge doctors, are just one in a … 

Wet Paint: A Magic Variety Show - Free

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 15th Aug, 2012

‘I thought it was a magic show. 

Sunday Lunch in 2063

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 31st May, 2013

This was the event to wrap up all of the weird, wacky and wonderful treats that the Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge had put on over the past five days. 

Would Like to Meet - Free

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 22nd Aug, 2012

Would Like to Meet highlights in its description its daily change of acts which apparently brings ‘fresh appeal’ to the show every day. 

Chris Kent - Plugged In

• Review
• ★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

Chris Kent managed to fill most of the room in the Turret of the Gilded Balloon, but there are many others comedians far more deserving of these bums on seats. 

Spiegel Supper Club

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 22nd May, 2013

Broadway Baby doesn’t often get the chance to turn restaurant critic, but as Sam’s of Brighton have added their pre-show Supper Club at the Spiegeltent to the official Fringe p… 

I'm Not Crying in the Bathroom: I'm Crying in the Supply Closet

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2012

If this show were a child, it might be described as a ‘late developer’. 

Andrew O'Neill is Easily Distracted

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012

Warnings about what not to do in the presence of Andrew O’Neill put you in mind of safety signs around zoos, which is apt given that his stand-up set is pretty wild and erratic. 

Who's Dorian Gray?

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2012

A man who is scared of women, a man in a long-term relationship, and a man who has seven women in one week - in Who’s Dorian Gray, we are introduced to all these characters. 

A Tchaikovsky Gala Concert

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Gross
• Brighton Fringe
• 21st May, 2013

An impressive and beautiful rendition of Tchaikovsky’s music, performed with great talent by the Sussex Symphony Orchestra. 

The 27 Club

• Review
• ★★★★
• Anna Cory
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2012

The 27 Club is a club in which all members died at the age of 27, explains Jack Lukeman, having strutted onto the stage in sunglasses to a hefty round of applause. 

The Magnets: Homegrown

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alexandra Knight
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2012

The Magnets are, in their own words, ‘a six-man sound machine’. 

Dan Mitchell - Free Egg

• Review
• ★★★
• Anna Reid
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th Aug, 2012