Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Nobody does it better than Q The Music.
This is a story about the rivalry between the two great northern cities of Liverpool and Manchester and, the fact that they have so much in common yet… it is ofte…
On the second night of their two-part gig, beloved orchestral-pop group The Magnetic Fields perform from their landmark concept album 69 Love Songs.
Join us on a hilarious journey through Barcelona’s vibrant comedy landscape, where laughter reigns supreme.
Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavours.
Two friends, one party, zero social skills.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Remember childhood-favourite Guess Who? It’s that, but based on vibes and played with you, the lovely audience.
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
From Frankenstein to The Invisible Man, James Whale directed some of the greatest movies of all time.
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…
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
Best Thai red curry – the national dish of Thailand.
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret…
America is the land of the free, home of the brave and homeland of two of the freest, bravest men to ever live: Mark Henely and Chris Warren.
Join Essex’s cheekiest chap for his debut hour of stand-up.
What would you do with an hour? What if it was your last hour ever? For James the answer is easy: he wants to tell you a story.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Astute observational humour with an irreverent flair from two of Birmingham’s silliest sausages.
After Endgame masterfully combines the strategic nuances of chess with the uproarious comedy of life.
The award-winning, 7th highest rated comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 returns! When disaster strikes in Gary’s brain, it’s up to his brain cells to try and fix everything.
‘Incredibly powerful.
James Gardner: Journeyman.
Two award-winning comics deal late-night craic in the mid-afternoon, a wild mix of dark, satirical stand-up and musical comedy.
‘A genuine laugh every ten seconds.
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand-new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spontaneity.
Chris and Seán are two sailors who are nuts! Comedians Chris Locke and Seán Cullen are on shore leave for an hour of hilarious madness! Learn about the sea! Milk a sea cow! Make …
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
New Zealand’s hottest comedy pop-music duo Two Hearts are back – now with more “vow” factor.
James Barr fearlessly tackles the aftermath of an abusive relationship in an hour of trailblazing stand-up.
Presented in pseudo-fairytale style, this one-woman dramatic comedy dares to expose what lies beneath the mask of the perfect mother.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
If entrepreneurship tickles your taste buds, then this is the event for you.
Welcome to the world of BGT semi-finalist Nerine Skinner.
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* An hour of fearless stand up comedy from James Barr.
Ten years after a horrible crime tore them apart, two lovers reunite at the worst time.
Triple Threat is a split bill divided by 3 with Monica, Aisha and Anais making jokes about their experiences living in London as hot immigrant girlies.
To the shock of all involved, a young woman’s claim to be one of the World’s most famous missing children is verified.
Big shoes to fill.
Set in the head office of TPL inc.
A brilliant gem, witty, gallus (cheeky) James V: KATHERINE by Rona Munro (a Raw Material and Capital Theatres Production) pulls no punches.
At St Pancras International, a woman sits at the piano and begins to play.
A hopelessly romantic modern musical that'll leave you beaming throughout, Two Strangers is all you could want from a feel-good evening of musical theatre.
The UK’s favourite monopedal Aussie (and host of Channel 4’s The Last Leg) is back with a brand new show, combining positive stand-up comedy with rampant spo…
A Dance of Two Halves A dance between bodies and souls.
Malignant Humour A death-defying circus act A Tale Of Two Chickens A Boy's Platonic Love For Chicken Malignant Humour - Hannah GumbrielleHannah found a lump.
We live in turbulent and deranged times.
Dougal is a naive, impossibly upbeat Brit, flying to New York for his Dad’s second wedding.
A true story.
Liam and Tom are two aspiring fablers who share a dream: becoming stars in the cutthroat world of medieval showbiz.
Liam and Tom are two aspiring fablers who share a dream: becoming stars in the cutthroat world of medieval showbiz.
How do you fill a minute? How do you fill an hour? How do you fill a slot when you’re Two Little Dickheads? Slot Fillers is the dickheads getting loose, getting groovy and gettin…
Horrigan & Howell return fresh from their sell-out run at Edinburgh and the Pleasance Theatre for another ‘uncompromisingly hilariously funny’ sketch show.
Horrigan & Howell return to London following last year’s sell-out show at the Pleasance Theatre for another ‘uncompromisingly hilariously funny’ sketch show (LondonPubTheatre…
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to do a work in progress of her 2024 tour show – yep, she’…
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
Horrigan & Howell return fresh from their sell-out run at Edinburgh and the Pleasance Theatre for another ‘uncompromisingly hilariously funny’ sketch show.
As part of his nationwide tour, the Britain’s Got Talent and ITV’s The Ultimate Magician finalist hits Edinburgh with a limited Fringe run in a show full of the most awe-inspir…
After a five-star, sell-out run at Edinburgh 2022, James is popping to the Free Fringe for an out-of-control hour of jokes.
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You) is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to do a work in progress of her 2024 tour show – yep, she’…
No use crying over spilt milk is a very commonly used proverb, and its familiarity and any possible connection to it is at the forefront of our minds as we watch this show.
This is a little treasure, the sort of performance that is easy to overlook but which enriches those who root it out.
Liselotte in May, written by Zsolt Pozsgai, is a bittersweet absurd comedy about a gentle, lonely heart.
Liselotte in May, written by Zsolt Pozsgai, is a bittersweet absurd comedy about a gentle, lonely heart.
Welcome to the world of BGT Semi-Finalist Nerine Skinner and Liv Struss (A Liz Truss Parody).
How did a Jewish immigrant to London’s East End end up as a General in the Chinese army and become “Two Gun” Cohen? This incredible true story is recounted by Cohen from his cell i…
Join us in a fabulous retelling of Roald Dahl’s classic peachy tale. Join James as he ventures into the wonderful world of whimsy and see if you can catch the ladybird.
The poetry of Rilke, Eichendorff (and more) set to original music written and performed by Christoph Hilger, with Janet de Vigne.
It’s 1940 and Bartók goes into exile in the United States, taking with him his 44 duos for two violins, based on Hungarian, Slovakian, Serbian, Romanian or Arabian folk tunes, s…
Accidental enemy of Mother Teresa.
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both Old and New Town, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh and revealing some of the secrets …
Jesse James, the famous outlaw, finds himself in hot water with the authorities and the rest of his crew.
With over 1,000 five-star sell-out Fringe shows in Edinburgh and around the globe under our kilts, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as she returns for …
The best Thai red curry – the national dish of Thailand.
James Allen and Annabelle Devey invite you to an hour of exhilarating and chucklesome stand-up; fresh from the North West comedy circuit.
Nearly-national treasure James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) plays Camden with a show that’s so far a masterpiece, but he’s …
‘Clever, funny and world-view-changing’ **** (InDaily.
Tragically weird.
Nearly-national treasure James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) plays Camden with a show that’s so far a masterpiece, but he’s …
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
Join rising stand-up chart-toppers James (Chortle Student runner-up, BBC New Comedy Award shortlist, Amused Moose New Comedian runner-up) and Sam (Komedia New Act nominee, West End…
An electric, joyful hour packed with fun and skewering takes on society, Right About Now is the brand-new show from the award-winning James Nokise.
Returning for another year, God Damn Fancy Man is the critically acclaimed show from internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Shared hour with two absolute stars of the future.
With such an emotionally heavy title as An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People, I was a little worried what to expect from this comedy show.
The Blundabus is absolutely packed for Amelia Bayler’s I Work in Customer Service but I’m Actually a Pop Star.
Phil Ellis.
A huge amount of fun and laughs are to be had with James Cook’s new stand-up show, Anonymously Viral.
James has been touring his storytelling theatre shows for half his adult life.
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
It’s a little dark and drab as the audience politely waits in Bunker Two at the Pleasance.
A microphone stand and a metal pole await a grinning Jay Lafferty as she takes to the stage.
As Robin Tran walks on stage, she greets us with a warm smile and soft voice.
Two Tigers is a kaleidoscopic musical drama about New Zealand-born modernist writer Katherine Mansfield, who lived and died with the Furies at her heels and her turbulent love affa…
Multi award-winning physical comedy that’ll whisk you off your feet.
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
This split-bill of comedy will showcase the best and brightest material Maddie and Serena have to offer.
This split-bill of comedy will showcase the best and brightest material Maddie and Serena have to offer.
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
Irish folk music act Hibsen pay homage to James Joyce with performances of their debut album ‘The Stern Task of Living’ under the aegis of the Bloomsday fest…
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
Two Jakes do not make a right, but what they DO make is a right good laugh! One Welshman and one Scouser join Jake & Jake for an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy.
Two Jakes do not make a right, but what they DO make is a right good laugh! One Welshman and one Scouser join Jake & Jake for an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy.
Award-winning Kirsty Munro is turning 40, but still loves a coupla slut drops and a chicken burger at 4am! Join her for a fun-packed show / 40th birthday party, as she chats about …
James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) returns to Brighton Fringe with a show that’s so far a masterpiece but he’s not ready fo…
Award-winning Kirsty Munro is turning 40, but still loves a coupla slut drops and a chicken burger at 4am! Join her for a fun-packed show / 40th birthday party, as she chats about …
James Barr (as heard every morning on ‘The Hits Radio Breakfast Show’ alongside Fleur East) returns to Brighton Fringe with a show that’s so far a masterpiece but he’s not ready fo…
Good friends David Ferguson and Phil Green present 30 minutes each of their new stand-up solo shows for your viewing pleasure.
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
Good friends David Ferguson and Phil Green present 30 minutes each of their new stand-up solo shows for your viewing pleasure.
Two by Jim Cartwright.
Two by Jim Cartwright.
This is a tale of life-affirming passion, of alienating shame, and, above all, of perseverance through persecution to dare to dance a different dance.
This is a tale of life-affirming passion, of alienating shame, and, above all, of perseverance through persecution to dare to dance a different dance.
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain was first published in 1997, and a hit film was made in 2005.
‘South Coast Comedian of the Year’ Finalist James Danielewski brings his debut work-in-progress show to the Brighton Fringe; relax, enjoy and lower your expectations, as he explain…
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Come join Boogie Roo as she takes you for the best silent disco dance-walk adventure through the streets and the beaches of Brighton.
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party It’s an outrageous outdoor party that will have you dancing and singing in the bracing sea air, as you weave your way through the street…
For our event this year the Fretful Federation will be hosting a 30 piece guitar and mandolin orchestra from Holland called Fusion.
For our event this year the Fretful Federation will be hosting a 30 piece guitar and mandolin orchestra from Holland called Fusion.
Kevin James Thornton is a rising TikTok/IG star with over 1 million followers and 500 million video views.
Kevin James Thornton is a rising TikTok/IG star with over 1 million followers and 500 million video views.
As the audience enter the auditorium at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, the four storytellers are already on stage: poet Janette Ayachi, powerhouse crime author Val McDermid, bur…
One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO.
The Totally Football Show returns to the Leicester Square Theatre just in time for the Premier League run-in.
A leading actress in the Spanish theatre scene, Magüi Mira plays Molly Bloom plainly and transparently.
A character comedy show in this world.
UPSTAIRS? “So can you still not see?” In Her Shoes A tale of hardship and survival.
Willy Russell’s iconic one-woman play Shirley Valentine premiered on the stage in 1986.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Gary is in an accident and his condition is worsening by the minute.
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, …
Dominic Cooke’s new production of Good was due to arrive in October 2020 but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is not easy for two performers to keep an audience engaged and enthusiastic throughout a 90+ minute show with no interval.
In front of a live audience, James and guests will be exploring the spectrum of food and the stories that blossom from culinary experiences, from filthy-delicious takeaw…
From the writer of the Academy Award-winning Bohemian Rhapsody, Darkest Hour and The Theory of Everything comes the play that sparked a major motion pictur…
Two Truth and a Lie.
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…
Tim performs songs he composed for Frederick McKinnon’s musical about Captain James Cook, and tells the story of the 18th-century explorer.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
James Yorkston is a singer/songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Captivate Theatre brings the smash-hit comedy to the Fringe! ‘You gotta concentrate ain’t ya, with two jobs.
Central London has been deprived of a venue that regularly hosts nights filled with Cabaret and Magic for some time.
The world has faced many disasters.
As I take my seat in Mono Restaurant for Drag Queen Wine Tasting, I’m immediately struck by how professional everything looks.
It’s pretty much what it sounds like! Two women using nothing but their imaginations, a skull and a couple of fancy scarves bring a fast-paced, inventive and surprisingly joyful pr…
Interdisciplinary dance artist, Kristen Helen Poppe, explores defining yourself when you feel undefinable.
Zany music and a psychedelic multimedia screen await the audience as we take our seats for Sam Nicoresti’s show Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture.
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
James Dowdeswell, as seen on “Russell Howard’s Good News” and “Ricky Gervais’ Extras” shares his passion for the funny side of Beer.
After a year away, Mabel Thomas brings her acclaimed show Sugar back to the Fringe, this time in person.
It’s pretty much what it sounds like! Two women using nothing but their imaginations, a skull and a couple of fancy scarves bring a fast-paced, inventive and surprisingly joyful pr…
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
The best Thai red curry – the national dish of Thailand.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Father-son stand-up comics Paul and Paul wish life was more like television and they had the power to rewrite and recast the characters in their lives.
Ireland’s comedy darlings Mark O’Keeffe (Winner Show Me the Funny 2019) & Richy Sheehy (viral sensation as seen on Sky, RTE, BBC) are back with their new best hour! ‘These guys are…
“Excuse me sir, would you mind if I gave this gentleman the free seat beside you?” says a keen and kind Aliya Kanani before the beginning of her sold-out show.
One of the (many) great things about Fringe is that new comics, who don’t yet have an hour’s worth of material, can buddy up to put on a show — Chris Hall and Mark Bittleston…
As we enter the venue, Chelsea Birkby is waiting at the entrance with a tray of glasses of water for us because it can get pretty hot inside the room.
It’s a loud and rowdy Saturday night at Monkey Barrel.
As the audience arrives for Morgan Rees’ show at the Pleasance, there’s a pair of shoes sticking out behind the curtain.
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
Two’s Company is Gillian Duffy’s take on rekindled romance and finding new direction in later life, following 55-year-old Maureen as she navigates life after her second divorce…
Dealing with grief is something that is very difficult because it’s so personal and particular to the individual.
Sexy Brain is Tiff Stevenson’s tenth Edinburgh show – a mighty feat for any comedian.
People keep telling James he’s “too gay”.
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? It’s Saturday night, the big girls’ night out and this girl is trying to get ready on time.
There’s not really any way to describe how much I enjoyed Glenn Moore’s show other than to say that by the halfway point, I had put my notepad away and was just enjoying the ri…
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back and a lot has happened over the last few years.
As we all know, COVID was invented to stop people from enjoying live music, but now Two Hearts are here to help us recover from two years of silence.
When Finlay Christie won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition in 2019, it seemed like his next year would be filled with preparation for his first Edinburgh sho…
Never Let Go is a thrilling, hilarious one-man show the New York Times calls ‘a feat of ingenuity’.
The year is 1914.
A favourite on the New Zealand comedy scene for the last 10 years, Kiwi-Filipino James Roque makes his debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Pleasance Attic on a sunny afternoon is hot, especially sitting in a sold-out crowd.
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
A series of monologues commissioned and curated by Matt Hansen.
Someone Else’s Shoes is a series of four monologues commissioned and curated by Matt Hansen.
Experience the best upcoming talent from the North of England as one cast stage two of Shakespeare’s least known plays… What comes to mind when y…
In 2017 I last saw Briefs in a Spiegeltent on the Southbank.
There has been much said in books and films about the life and times of Harvey Milk.
Daniel Craig has abandoned the James Bond franchise.
Daniel Craig has abandoned the James Bond franchise.
I had been looking forward to seeing The Lion for a long time.
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.
Two clashing comedians.
Two clashing comedians.
Robert Hamberger and Simon Maddrell deliver armchair poetry readings and intimate discussion between two old queens with subjects ranging from fatherhood to serenity, celebration t…
Robert Hamberger and Simon Maddrell deliver armchair poetry readings and intimate discussion between two old queens with subjects ranging from fatherhood to serenity, celebration t…
Join nearly national treasure, comedian and all-round hun James Barr as he returns to Brighton Fringe in 2022.
Join nearly national treasure, comedian and all-round hun James Barr as he returns to Brighton Fringe in 2022.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
Sharing funny stories from the front line of teaching, this live show will see the Two Mr P's reminiscing on their own school days and looking at the wonderful and …
Phil McIntyre Live LTD proudly presents TWO MR Ps IN A PODCAST - LIVE Mr P has been a primary school teacher for over 14 years.
Brecht would have felt at home watching two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court Theatre, Jerwood Studio.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party It’s an outrageous outdoor party that will have you dancing and singing in the bracing sea air, as you weave your way through the street…
Wanna find out how it ends? 3 stand-up comedians, 3 turbulent years and 3 hilarious stories, 3 lives rebuild? James OD(Angel Comedy London), Arna Spek (99 Comedy Club bursary)and C…
Wanna find out how it ends? 3 stand-up comedians, 3 turbulent years and 3 hilarious stories, 3 lives rebuild? James OD(Angel Comedy London), Arna Spek (99 Comedy Club bursary)and C…
Jude (Michael Lake) and Iris (Ella Muscroft) are a couple who care – both about each other and their respective careers in directing and acting.
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
A man seeking a gift for a dying lover confronts his impending grief and his own ageing.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make S…
James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make Some Noise.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage to raise money for LBC’s charity Global’s Make S…
Two Hundred Deer to Every Lion An (un)real history of Phoenix Park freddo bars and cigars Where do we go from here? Two Hundred Deer to Every Lion - bluehouse th…
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre continues its tradition of being non-traditional this Christmas season.
BirminghamFriday 19th November, The Nightingale Club Were finishing this year with a bang and pleased to announced the return of MAX to the U.
Pour le mois d’ octobre je vous propose Frank’s, en dessous de la Maison Franois.
From AWARD-WINNING comedy writers comes the hilarious, Flat & the Curves.
There’s magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded play in history and “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade&rdqu…
A pacey, taut double bill of two-handers make up this hidden gem of American theatre by the iconic Arthur Miller.
As director Dominic Hill welcomes us to the Tron theatre for this triumphant double bill, the audience cheers midway through his announcement at his mention of the return of live t…
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
THE PEPPER POT: CHAPTER TWOHosted by ANDREW PEPPER Saddle up, Clapham! Cabaret messiah ANDREW PEPPER is back! Again! For the second chapter of this new musical…
By James ColeBen battles to overcome his addiction while a ghost of his past seeks to destroy his future.
By James ColeBen battles to overcome his addiction while a ghost of his past seeks to destroy his future.
BANK HOLIDAYS are Back! DJ Steve James from 9pmSelected Drinks 1.
James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Two women on a mission is a full an engaging hour with stand up sets from both Clare Harrison McCartney and Sara Louise Aston.
Two women on a mission is a full and engaging hour with sets from both Clare and Sara.
There was a comment made in an article in the Edinburgh Evening News just before the Fringe began about how, after the amount of time comedians have had to prepare for the 2021 Fri…
Two women on a mission is a full an engaging hour with stand up sets from both Clare Harrison McCartney and Sara Louise Aston.
One of the Gals is completely packed.
Turning 33, Brian quit his job, packed his beard and took off on a 6-month round-the-world adventure.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Disco as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
One of the strangest Fringe shows of recent memory is A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for 56 Minutes and Then Leaves – a sh…
It’s time to walk the plank! With a twinkle in our eye, we pay tribute to men who wear sandals, as we celebrate the right to be yourself.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
Remember when your religion teacher taught you about ridin’? And the school nurse told you to shave your pits? Or here, discovering your clit the first time? Wait, you haven’t yet?…
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
On February 7th 1991, James Casey was found guilty of murder.
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New Towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret…
At just 22 years old, writer and performer Mabel Thomas brings her debut solo show Sugar to the Fringe.
If Carl Knif’s Fugue in Two Voices is a joke, then it’s a dud.
There is an incredible sense of comfort that I feel upon entering the Dining Room at Gilded Balloon to see Jay Lafferty’s Blether.
Is there a ‘right’ way to be in a gay relationship in the modern world? In this play, written by BAFTA Racliffe-winning, Offie-nominated writer Shaun Kitchener, two gay couples…
Writer/Director Ben Reid has made a stunning professional debut at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town, with his play Two Worlds No Family, originally written as his final y…
I had very little idea of what this show was about, except that it had a bit of a cult following after its run on (and off) Broadway.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Good friends David Ferguson and Phil Green present 30 minutes each of their 2021 stand-up solo shows for your viewing pleasure.
Good friends David Ferguson and Phil Green present 30 minutes each of their 2021 stand-up solo shows for your viewing pleasure.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Let’s admit it – Zoom calls are not ideal for stand-up comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
On February 9th 1964 four young men were on their way to perform their first major concert as ‘Forever Plaid’.
Hello Sailor! Fun Sun Seekers! An open-air dance-walk Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party returns to beautiful Brighton with their ‘Super Seaside Special’! It’s the outra…
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
Brighton got their boogie shoes on as they danced around Brighton with Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party under the guidance of our ship's captain Mama Roo and her shipmat…
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
‘Out! Why, what could have taken you out on Tuesday? What did you have to do?’ ‘Nothing.
Show And Tell in association with United Agents present RHYS JAMES: SNITCH Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his fir…
‘You do realise it’s not gonna be like England suddenly being not a shitty cold place to visit, or you know more wine tours in Scandinavia, and happier Arctic Wolves?’ Danie…
Moral obligations? Masked men? Ah, the story of Edna and Sarah’s lives.
The topic of death is so incredibly subjective, with reactions ranging from resignation and acceptance to angst and fearfulness.
Between Two Waves by Australian playwright Ian Meadows interweaves an urgent call to recognise the world’s impending climate crisis and the troubled smaller world of a young clim…
Show And Tell in association with United Agents present RHYS JAMES: SNITCH Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his fir…
On the 27th May something remarkable happened.
In July 2000 we found ourselves glued to our screens as series one of UK’s Big Brother aired for the first time and proved to be a major hit.
The world has faced many disasters.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
Charlotte Green, writer of Lest We Forget, and James Robert Moore, writer of POSTERBOY, join us for a chat about the process of developing their plays and their ambitions…
Just Two Guys have arrived to bring you an experience you won’t forget! Their unique blend of acoustic rock music, comedy, and food creates the most fulfilling musical performanc…
A live-from-home reading of a twenty minute section of brand new play POSTERBOY based on the autobiography OUT IN THE ARMY by James Wharton – telling the insp…
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New Towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Returning to the historic East Crosscauseway, Irene Campbell and John Nowak bring colour with a dash of monochrome in an exhibition of their paintings, prints and textiles.
Multi award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News for You, Live at the Apollo, 8 out of 10 Cats, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order) is back with her fourth full-len…
The lockdown goes on and theatre will likely not return anytime soon.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to the Lichfield Garrick Theatre and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
Multi-award-winning comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News for You, Live at the Apollo, 8 out of 10 Cats, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order) is back with her fourth full-len…
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
Mock The Week regular, star of his own BBC Radio 4 series and soon to be seen on Live At The Apollo, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Q The Music Show James Bond Concert Spectacular has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Full Disclosure With James O’Brien: Live James O’Brien is recording his podcast live on stage for the first time to raise money for LBC’s charity Globa…
Lizzy & Beth have been friends for as long as anyone can remember.
Panto season is upon us (Oh Yes it is!) and Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch have repackaged the classic tale of Robin Hood and bought it to the stage in a wonderful way.
Mock The Week regular and star of his own BBC Radio 4 series, Rhys James heads out on his first national tour.
Christian Patterson returns as the clumsy schemer Francis Henshall! Written by Richard Bean| Directed by Peter Doran| Designed by Sean Crowley This Autumn, the Torch Theatr…
Between Two Waves was premiered at Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney seven years ago.
While browsing some of the more risqué websites you may discover some titillating videos of various people trying to get each other to laugh, moan and groan simply by tickling.
After being fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall is skint and hungry.
We got an extension – it’s the Will of the People! After our 7pm show with James O’Brien sold out in record time, REMAINIACS is proud to present a seco…
Mental health.
Only a couple of weeks ago I, and some friends, were in an Escape Room.
James Grant is one of the most renowned and respected performers Scotland has ever produced.
Join today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of performed readings and interviews with presenter Shereen Nanjiani.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Funny Women One to Watch and Soho Radio presenter Kelly Ford AKA Book of Mum teams up with Max Turner finalist Naomi Wattis (BBC Two, BBC Radio 4 Extra) to talk about judgment, per…
Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes.
Almost a concert, kind of a stand-up comedy show, maybe a musical, The Bald-Faced Truth is a thrilling collision of song and satire.
After the appearance of a mysterious flashing red light two clowns decide that an audience awaits them.
A couple of years ago James’ best friends, Sarah and Emma, asked him for his sperm.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
2018 Fringe sell-out.
Join two of The Oxford Revue’s brightest talents as they take you through an hour of rogue, wild and laugh-out-loud comedy.
The 2018 critically acclaimed show is back, updated and longer! What’s the difference between an action figure and a collectable? Steve opens his toy box and looks at your childhoo…
Some women aspire to wearing their mother’s shoes.
In Moment of Truth, James Freedman opens with an air of mystery.
Five years ago, at his best friends Sarah and Emma’s engagement party, James met the love the love his life.
Edinburgh Fringe's premier magical twins, Kane and Abel, return for their sixth run here in their regular home as the flagship magicians of PBH's Free Fringe venue the Liqu…
An hour of gorgeous stand-up from two gorgeous comedians.
Eight years ago, James’ best friend Tom was diagnosed with heart cancer and told he had three months to live.
Bumper Blyton features a bumper cast of improv experts who give assured performances throughout, but too many bells and whistles lead to a muddled production.
Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret…
A true story of friendship told with an eclectic blend of folk, flamenco and contemporary dance.
Following two consecutive years of sell-outs and critical acclaim, the James Taylor and Joni Mitchell stories combine into one exciting show to take you on a journey through the in…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco as we return to our Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
Sarcastic nonsense, ridiculous stories and crackpot theories.
James Barr is single.
James returns with his most ambitious show to date – an epic, thought-provoking stage spectacular celebrating the 1000 great lives that shaped history.
The Two Little Dickheads are back with a fresh explosion of idiocy.
Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house…
What an honour to have New Zealand’s self-proclaimed ‘only popstars’ at our humble festival.
Award-winning comedian and UK board-gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage. Buckaroo, Guess Who, Hungry Hippos and more, played like never before.
Technology is making life easier, but at what cost? Join James Bran on a comedic exploration of phone addiction, privacy paranoia and his take on the “disruption” of democracy by a…
How am I doing? Never Better.
You can never be entirely sure if the material a comedian is sharing is true, based in truth, or completely fabricated.
Daniel Craig has pulled out of the next James Bond film.
For most of 2017 I received taunting messages from a fake Facebook account.
Ireland’s comedy darlings Mark O’Keeffe (Show Me the Funny 2019 winner) and Richy Sheehy (viral sensation, as seen on Sky, RTE and BBC) bring their best hour of classic club stand-…
Sophisticated wit and wordplay as The Two Moronnies lampoon the lampoonable in their unique, energetic musical style.
Join two of Scotland’s fastest rising comics for a fun hour of stand-up comedy.
We are living through a renaissance of plays in verse, and if you need proof I can furnish few better than Fires Our Shoes Have Made by Fringe newcomers Pound of Flesh Theatre.
For the first time James performs his multi award-winning trilogy of storytelling shows, Team Viking, A Hundred Different Words for Love and Revelations back-to-back in one evening…
To say that Murder She Didn’t Write, from Degrees of Error, is a slick production is an understatement.
The boy from Mock the Week (BBC Two), Roast Battle (Comedy Central), The News Quiz and star of Rhys James Is.
The brainchild of comedians Harriet Dyer and Scott Gibson, That’s Not a Lizard, That’s My Grandmother! is unlike any other show at the Fringe.
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Spontaneous Potter, from the eponymous Spontaneous Players, is just another improvised twist on a cultural classic.
Since their explosive debut a few years ago, Waiting For The Call Improv (WTFC) and their signature show, Notflix, have been tipped as rising stars.
During an odd and turbulent time in recent history Will found himself questioning every poor decision he has ever made (namely everything he has ever said or done).
There are two sides to every story.
‘Extraordinary’ (Mirror).
Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Have I Got News For You, The Russell Howard Hour) is working up a new show.
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically-acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
James’ grandad, Terry Downes, became world middleweight champion in 1961.
Friends are often made under unusual circumstances.
Above the Stag is – now that has two separate performance spaces – able to put on a dance production for the first time in its history.
Fraternity.
In 2005, at The Lincoln Center Theater, The Light in the Piazza premiered on Broadway.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to Lighthouse and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham.
James’ grandad was world middleweight champion.
Curious Shoes is a show that's unashamedly dominated by the perceived needs of its target audience, people living with dementia, and those who care and support them.
Brighton16 is a newly formed choir of 16 classically trained singers.
Technology is making life easier, but at what cost? Join James Bran on a comedic exploration of convenience addiction; a sidesplitting look at the value of personal data, and a hil…
‘Two the Power of Three’ is Theatre Handmade’s explosive new play.
Whilst training at drama school all performers undertake something called ‘Animal Studies’ where they learn to mimic those who have different motivations to humans.
The brilliant British pianist Jonathan Powell returns in a colourful programme of works by Granados: his Goyescas and Szymanowski: his Masques, Metopes and Mazurkas.
The current offering at The Space’s Foreword Festival, which champions new and upcoming playwrights, is Sink, by Tobias Graham.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
James’ grandad was World Middleweight Champion.
The Space is currently running its Foreword Festival, a wonderful scheme giving playwrights the chance to submit early drafts of scripts.
The Joni Mitchell & James Taylor Story played to a packed out audience at the Komedia.
Much-loved local violinist Ellie Blackshaw pairs up with London based pianist David Elwin to perform the rarely heard 1932 violin and piano sonata by Frank Bridge.
The brilliant British pianist Simon Ballard returns to play works by Schubert, Ries, Dvorak, Smetana, Ireland, Moszkowski, de Severac and Sydney Smith.
The latest offering in Above The Stag’s main auditorium takes us back in time to a Victorian Working Men’s Club in Bermondsey.
3 top professional oboists come together to play for us on the first May bank holiday Monday.
Join Steve as he takes a fun look at the toys of his childhood.
Born in 1972, Bitty’s earliest memories were punctuated by the music he would hear courtesy of his father’s sound system, where at the tender age of ten h…
Sold out at Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Boogie Shoes Silent Disco presents our ‘Cheeky Seaside Special’ tour of Brighton.
May is here, so we are now in one of the highlights of the homosexual calendar – Eurovision.
Stream: Two New Plays, is a show that explores the ebb and flow at the very core of being human.
Rebound Productions brings back their sell-out show FLIGHTS OF FANCY for three more nights at The Hen & Chickens Theatre.
The popular Q The Music Orchestra is bringing its James Bond Concert Spectacular to the Adelphi Theatre.
Kiri is back with her latest and greatest show to date, Victim Complex. Make sure you catch this unique, insightful, and utterly hilarious rising star of stand-up!
Kiri is back with her latest and greatest show to date,Victim, Complex.
Cult genius famed for the 1977 "Rhythm of Life" LP and club classic "Sweet Power, Your Embrace" which Norman Jay MBE proclaimed to be "One of the most infl…
Dating in 2018 is a total disaster! MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK's leading LGBTQ+ award-nominated podcast A Gay And A NonGay, and tragically single…
Ballets by Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett share the stage in this mixed programme with music by Messager and Poulenc.
Upon collecting my tickets for The Dip I was also given a pair of earplugs.
James Cary wonders what Christians think they’re trying to achieve.
Music poking fun at the well-known and narcissistic celebrities.
Extra Virgin tells the story of the awkward minutes after a Grindr hook-up.
James O'Brien’s giving you the chance to join him for an exclusive stage show to raise money for LBC's charity Global's Make Some Noise - get your t…
James O'Brien’s giving you the chance to join him for an exclusive stage show to raise money for LBC's charity Global's Make Some Noise - get your t…
In BOLSTOFF: A Modern Actor’s Introduction to Advanced Contemporary Performance the lads from Wicker Socks (Fionn Foley, Michael-David McKernan and Ronan Carey) help guide us thr…
A hilarious high-energy musical whodunit, Murder For Two is a madcap murder mystery with a twist.
To have an audience hanging on every word you say, for an hour, is a difficult feat indeed.
Why did the gay man cross the road? For attention.
Mikhail Lermentov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been newly adapted for the stage by Oliver Bennett, who also plays the lead - Pechorin, and Vladimir Shcherban.
At the exact same time that Theresa May’s cabinet is in turmoil over the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, Golden Age Theatre Company has set up camp in the Museum of Come…
Made up of the world’s most exhilarating early career dancers, the brand new Rambert2 attacks works from some of the world’s most thrilling choreographers: artistic dir…
From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes an explosive standalone thriller that will grip you and won’t let go until the very last page.
James Acaster reflects on the best year of his life and the worst year of his life and does stand-up comedy about them while throwing a strop.
Doktor James loves Halloween, it’s the one night he doesn’t try to take over the world.
Get a 'glimpse’ into what REALLY goes on in Donald Trump’s meetings with Putin; the inside scoop into New Royal Power Couple Meghan and Kate; and what i…
James Ehnes Violin Steven Osborne Piano Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 Prokofiev Violin Sonata No 1 Debussy Violin Sonata Prokofiev Five Melodies Ravel Tzigane, rapsodie de conce…
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Step into the glamorous Roaring Twenties as the inimitable Hester and Ruby bring their speakeasy spirit to Edinburgh.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
Physical theatre and contemporary dance collide in this all-female youth theatre production that begs the question: what would you do for fame? When a poor young girl is offered a …
Alasdair returns with another Romantic programme.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
This show is for anyone on the outside looking in, wondering how, what, where, when, why and.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Whether you’re after a relaxing lager or fancy a reminiscent Babycham, The White Oak is the pub for you.
Choosing to adapt a fairly obscure Greek text like The Battle of Frogs and Mice (also known as the Batrachomyomachia) as a storytelling show for children would be a bold choice for…
James Farmer (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Last Leg) is back for an hour of jokes about being a big scaredy cat.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos returns with his sequel to his solo show 2015 Walking the Cat.
One went to a south London private school, one went to a Catholic School in Glasgow’s East End.
Goldoni’s boisterous 18th-century Italian comedy collides with 21st-century American pop culture.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Improviser Mara Joy (TBC Improv, The Spontaneous Players) is joined by a different special guest every day to create an entirely unique two-person show based off one word from the …
Steve opens his old toy box and rediscovers your faves from He-Man, Transformers, Star Wars and many more (about three more).
A reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, the ‘superbly talented’ (List) Young Pleasance bring the glitz, glamour, and seedy underworld of interwar Berlin to life with chara…
A high octane, 80s inspired, dark comedy sketch show! Imagine if Dynasty and Desperate Housewives met on RuPaul’s Drag Race, in the 80s! Set in the power-dressed world of Cassandra…
The James Taylor Story returns with the addition of Carly Simon to take you through Taylor’s career as he embarks on a journey into superstardom and his turbulent relationship wi…
The scores are in.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Gordon Southern has successfully avoided winter for ten years, a feat only previously achieved by bees, some birds and most bears.
There are times when a particular title will jump out at you and niggle in the back of your brain.
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco on an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
**** (TimeOut).
On our tour we will reveal some of the secrets hidden within a city rich in culture and ancient history, and blessed with beauty.
Award-winning comedian and UK board-gaming champion James Cook invites you to play board games live on stage.
After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep.
More perverted, more depressed, more jokes.
To make James Veitch better for you, he brings regular updates to improve speed and reliability.
This is what happens when a cabaret clown and an improv master with a shared passion for cats spend way too much time together.
For a fourth killer year, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang! Armed with your suggestions, they weave together a brand-new film in the style of Britain’s favourite …
Experience catchy AF original bangers*, too much confetti and distractingly sexy dance moves as NZ’s hottest new comedy duo take on all the most ridiculous trends in the world of p…
On the second floor of The Caves, in an arched, brick room with streamers cascading down either side, stands Frank.
Despite the world being on the brink of collapse, its fair to say James is the happiest he’s ever been.
New Zealand’s favourite showband return to the Fringe with the world premiere of a new work.
‘A top class comic’ (Birmingham Mail).
Do you have the heart of an athlete, but the skills of a toddler? Then this is the show for you! James Hancox is rubbish at sports.
There is only one football champion in Scotland, and its colours are maroon and khaki.
2017.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
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.
James Farmer (Writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order and Last Leg) is back for an hour of jokes about being a big sc…
After last year’s sell-out run, Paul returns to Edinburgh with his life, seemingly, still bordering on disarray.
Power? Sex? Control? Part Two: Baby, the Barbie doll-playing prostitute, becomes more and more a doll herself.
After last year's sell-out show, Paul returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with his life, seemingly, still bordering on disarray.
This frantic, manic, family friendly, energy filled show features an explosive combination of cutting edge juggling, variety, technology and audience involvement.
Clueless Theatre makes a remarkable company debut with a production of Jim Cartwright’s Two.
“Hello” La Voix is the brand new show from ‘Ab Fab the Movie’ star La Voix! La Voix’s new show is a feast for the senses, with a show featuring her amazing live musicians, side-s…
James Acaster tries new material for an hour.
A rare chance to see a uniquely talented pianist/composer.
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
We’ve all had childhoods.
James Dean.
2018 dating is a disaster so it’s time to let the crazy out! MTV presenter, comedian and co-host of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ award-nominated podcast ‘A Gay and a NonGay’, J…
Frank was told it was a good idea to do a theme show, so he’s doing it about shoes.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
A split bill musical/absurdist stand up comedy show.
From our first dates, sexual frustration, sexual tension, Tinder, insecurities, boredom, to marriage.
John 3:16 is the verse to end all verses apparently.
America’s legendary singer-songwriter Don McLean returns to the UK in May for a select number of dates in support of his new album, Botanical Gardens, out in 2018.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
From the minds behind Brighton improv titans Off the Cuff and Blanket Fort comes a full-throttle fully-improvised musical performed in full by only two men (plus one on guitar).
Poet Andrew James Brown loves pubs.
Catch the sexiest couple to come from BBC’S Strictly Come Dancing in an incredible show, packed full of high-energy dance routines and steamy scenes.
Peter Hart has nice manners and always will.
★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened.
Should dogs be allowed sex changes? Is it okay to punch a Nazi puncher? Can refugees get gay married? James Donald Forbes McCann (hit107, The Project, Adelaide Comedy’s ‘Best A…
Two idiots.
Suspicious emails, unclaimed bonds, Nigerian princes; standard procedure is to delete on sight.
Shoes, as objects of desire, as metaphor for the journey, as fetish or function.
For over 10 years by luck or design Southern has only really experienced summer and autumn.
“A delectable evening, fraught with the kind of debauchery and delirium that makes you want to take both your extramarital lovers” - Broadway World Hot off the heels of their m…
Personally selected by Chris Rock to be a special guest on his Total Blackout arena tour, James is one of only four Australian comedians ever to perform on CONAN and the only Austr…
Cameron is one of the most exciting & hilarious rising comedy stars in Australia.
Christmas is the time to embrace your inner child and Doktor James’ Kristmas Karol provides the perfect excuse.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Loosely inspired by Twin Peaks, The Owls Are Not What They Seem will chart a brand new hidden mystery with each fully improvised performance.
Two Aussie blokes (Daniel Holdsworth and Tom Bamford) juggle over 20 instruments in a spellbinding performance of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells For Two - a show that is a multi-…
In the Science of Cringe, BBC comedy writer Maria Peters explores what cringe is, why we do it and how the world would be without it.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Nature, love and life: a programme of 19th-century art song devised by Stephen Morrison (guitar) and Jenny Nex (soprano) who bring an impassioned immediacy to performance of works …
Come and hear some of our most talented young players perform traditional and contemporary music in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. Refreshments included.
Men have all the power.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
Our piece reflects the external differences in society: how human beings are segregated by race, religion, gender and status, and how prejudice is a daily occurrence in the world w…
Jacques Tati once said ‘funniness starts in the feet’.
After five Fringe successes, celebrated vocalist James Lambeth returns with pianist Steve Hamilton.
Two huge and awful comedic talents, Michael Legge – ‘often copied, never matched’ (Time Out) – and Caroline Mabey – ‘oddball genius’ (Chortle) – fuse together and become …
Passionate international artist Martyna Kazmierczak has swiftly earned a specialist reputation for historical keyboard performance, mastering instruments from the 16th century thro…
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
Life is ordinarily quite reasonable for POIROT – the Penrith Organisation for Investigating the Reasonably Ordinary T (it’s a silent T).
Back for another year, Adam Meggido and Sean McCann of Showstoppers! fame return to wow us with what is possibly the most impressive improvisational feat at the Fringe.
Imagine a lifetime of feeling invisible.
A wordless blend of mime, clowning, dance and acrobatics, Two Little Boxes is a brand-new piece by Reallynice, exploring the construction of masculinities in young men.
All-female Australian group Essential Theatre present their own gender-swapped take on Shakespeare’s classic.
A topical and popular theme for this year’s Fringe – mental health – is explored and fleshed out in this beautiful, bittersweet tale of two childhood friends that battle to f…
Erich and Ada are separated by one of history’s most famous man-made divisions: the Berlin Wall.
(*A real-life quote from a real-life reviewer.
SCCC will carry on the splendid programme during the second day of the event.
Part confessional monologue, part lecture and part nostalgic trip back to the days of the BBC’s Jackanory, there’s no doubt that There Were Two Brothers is a funny, personal—…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
‘Filled almost to excess with cheesy-rom-com-buckets-of-feel-good, this act put a smile on every face’ (TheTab.
With sell-out shows in 2017 at an all-time high, Kit and McConnel return to the bang-central G&V Hotel with their latest collection: Pheasant Laughter.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Thought-provoking but with a humorous tone, this spoken word and physical theatre piece explores what it means to be a girl growing up today and the choices offered to young women.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
You would be forgiven for thinking that a production of The Tales of Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck performed in a circus tent might involve people dressed up as the character…
Come and spend an hour with us if you like! Third place in the Musical Comedy Awards 2017, Matt Hutson sings intense anthems about love, loss, friendship and the extent to which he…
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
Undercover cops.
The James Taylor Story is one of a series of shows at the Fringe under the Night Owl Shows, the company created by Dan Clews.
Magician Paul Nathan returns to Edinburgh once more with The I Hate Children Children’s Show for an hour of interactive magic, name-calling and the occasional glass of champagne.
On our tour we will reveal some of the secrets hidden within a city rich in culture and ancient history and blessed with beauty.
Both faithful and frantic, young company Flying Pig Theatre have produced a very satisfying version of Euripides’ Bacchae with a deft touch.
This show is so much more than a tale of two gays: it is a tale of success.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub, except in this place regulars include a New Age traveller, an old skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met Police chief.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
Raucous, fraternal comedy from award-winning sketch trio.
Undercover cops.
Let’s chat about your race relations issue.
Raised a devout Christian, Kevin knew sex was meant for marriage only.
Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming…
Following killer runs in 2015 and 2016, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang! Armed with your suggestions, they weave together a brand-new film in the style of Brit…
In a bustling northern English pub, a witty, bickering landlord and landlady and their twelve regulars masterfully lead you through one of Jim Cartwright’s most moving and exposing…
Enjoy some sophisticated wit and word play as The Two Moronnies lampoon the lampoonable in their unique, energetic musical style.
James Bennison.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Gentle and well-meaning, The Wonderful World of Lapin is a good attempt to introduce young children to the French language.
Despite the world being on the brink of collapse, it’s fair to say James is the happiest he’s ever been.
Incognito Theatre’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a solid, if predictable, production which ticks all of the necessary First World War boxes.
Kiri Pritchard-McLean creates a universe in the hot box room: dangling planets hang from the ceiling, and she wears a starry skirt and planet earrings to orbit her black-and-white …
Canadian Comedy Award winners, 16-time Best of Fest winners and 3-time London Impresario Award winners.
James Acaster is a comedian who, for many, requires no introduction.
Undercover cops.
Powerful and demanding, Red Ladder Theatre Company’s production of The Damned United is every bit as belligerent and uncompromising as the protagonist of its story.
Thought-provoking theatre and assured acting are on offer at this show, which is split into two plays, both written by the late playwright James Saunders, a one-time mentor to Tom …
I’ve never seen an hour of stand-up with such a high density of laughter points.
Take a trip into the mind of James Adomian, where his many celebrated characters and impressions vie with his real voice as he explores the twin nightmares of politics and pop cult…
From the team behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs comes a brand new adaptation of David Walliam’s children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon.
Tall Stories return to Edinburgh for their 20th birthday with an updated version of Future Perfect.
At a college songwriting class in Chicago, an end-of-year competition involves the students performing each other’s anonymous submissions for a celebrity guest judge.
Old meets New; East meets West.
A new play by MATTHEW DUNSTER Adapted from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of fool…
Three hilarious shows all made up on the spot by some of London’s top improvisers! This week we have Leave To Remain, Clusterfox & James And I.
Three idiots spoof Noel Coward in a unique and ridiculous vision of ‘Blithe Spirit’.
A stand-up show for children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
Ships! a.
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a supervillain.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Responsible for the most popular TED Talk of 2016, James Veitch brings his hilarious new show ‘Game Face’, with more geeky comedy about life, love and enabling Bluetooth.
It’s a new term and welcome to the Claremont School of Life where many a member of staff has plenty to say about their working day.
Voted ‘One To Watch’ at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2016 and nominated for Amused Moose Best Show 2016 at the Edinburgh Fringe, James is back with another hour of hilarious st…
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
The Townie Tavern is like any regular suburban pub except, in this place, regulars include a new-age traveller, an old-skool raver and a disgraced ex-Met police chief.
Statistically, January is the month in which tickets to musicals sell best, largely due to the miserable weather and post-Christmas blues.
A Russian twist on the poignant and compelling American drama Two for the Seesaw is performed by two of the country’s greatest actors, Chulpan Khamatova and Kirill Safonov.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
George Egg, the stand-up comedian who cooks onstage using absurd and innovative techniques, returns.
James Bennison.
Following Tabac Rouge in 2014, Thierree returns with his latest critically acclaimed creation, featuring a seamless mix of mechanical marvels, music, surreal humour and acrobatic f…
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
The Voice Factor [X] is the playwriting debut of Michael-David McKernan, an hour of sharp satire and musings on the nature of fame for those that are unprepared for it.
Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale Music by Bernard Herrmann A beloved fairy tale and Academy Awar…
Written and performed by Donal Courtney, God Has No Country is the story of Hugh O’Flaherty a priest from Killarney that saved 6,500 lives in Rome during World War 2.
Money For The Sun’s production of The Quare Fellow is an astounding bit of theatre.
A new production of the award-winning National Theatre comedy play.
When Goalen, Greenland and Wilkie sweep, commandingly onto the stage of the Soho Theatre, they announce their identity as goddesses ‘who know everything’.
Gargantuan tales of old Fleet Street adventures chasing celebrities, politicians and assorted crooks from TalkSPORT’s odd couple, Parry and Graham.
Two presents working-class life in a northern local, a place of failed aspirations, unfulfilled lives and long-kept secrets.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Award-winning comedian Lost Voice Guy started off in a disabled Steps tribute band.
Join us for this special event, presented by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and the Traverse Theatre.
Chief Inspector Abberline is known as the man that failed to catch Jack the Ripper.
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
James Acaster finds himself with something to look forward to.
Shoot the Women First revolves around a mercenary company.
Most will only know Colin Hay from his time as the frontman for Men at Work and appearing in an episode of Scrubs.
It’s quite a bold group that brings a show about life-failing drug users in post Thatcher Britain to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Ranging from the bittersweet to the rude and raunchy, Scotland’s former national poet and recent recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry weaves a spellbinding and beguiling …
The force of nature that is named Henry Rollins graces the Edinburgh Fringe once again, bringing with him another hour of profound advice and big laughs.
Billed as a “psychological drama conflating classical Greek mystery with jazzical profanity”, Medea: Greece Meets West contains very little Medea and not much more jazz.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Multi award-winning stand-up comedian, TV and radio presenter.
Currently cabaret in residence at London’s glamorous Crazy Coqs (recently voted best UK cabaret venue), Kit and McConnel return to the bang central G&V Hotel with their latest sh…
Though there are plenty of shows designed for children at the Fringe, finding shows aimed at the youngest can always be tricky.
The Tragedy of Two Tuesdays takes place in a restaurant called The Dream Cafe, wherein quiet cooks, sassy servers, a busboy and a menacing manager butt heads about nonsense and whi…
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
UCLU Runaground’s James and the Giant Peach is a fresh, fun and frantic adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic.
School group Centaurs of Attention have an excellent company name and a rather good Fringe show to boot.
Bablake Theatre’s take on the character of Sherlock delivers a few laughs, though it offers nothing new to the already long list of pastiches and homages the detective has receiv…
Ossining High School have delivered a solid and enjoyable, if somewhat flawed, production of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses.
Lady Shona and Natalie Sweeney tend to criminally overshare.
Big Bite is celebrating it’s 10-year Fringe anniversary with a ‘best of’ showcase: although an enjoyable selection of short pieces - effectively boiling down to long sketches…
A modern day analysis of the world of consumerism.
James Christopher looks back in anger at a government driven by greed, for the benefit of the privileged few.
If variety is the spice of life, then Tom, Matthew and Susie are a full rack of flavour.
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
In an explosion of energy, raw intensity and emotion, RashDash theatre company shatters preconceptions of the patriarchy.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
What’s in your shopping basket? Probably not the same as what’s in Steve’s.
Irons the new play from writer Colin Chaston certainly pushes the envelope of believability.
This production of Mary Poppins draws heavily from Disney’s 1964 film, but fails to conjure the same magic.
Opera Mouse is a pleasant Canadian import presented as a one-woman puppet show by Melanie Gall.
Tom Taylor has produced a show so funny at one point I thought my lungs were going to burst.
Wiley and The Hairy Man, based on African and Native American folklore, follows the tale of a boy in the Louisiana bayou who must conquer his fears to defeat the legendary hairy ma…
Interactive theatre is a tricky beast.
This educational, charming piece on an American folk-rock visionary is fittingly presented by an up-and-coming sensation of the same genre, Dan Clews.
Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair, two of Scotland’s more mature stand-up comedians return for the fifth year in a row with their successful Old Men show.
The genius of the Romantic poets was their ability to bring emotion to the forefront in a world where faux-rationality reigned.
We all have our price.
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
ShakeShakeTheatre present the tale of a man named Bumblegrum in a quirky and enjoyable puppet show for children.
Welcome to Woodburn.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
Johnny and Paddy return with another hour of rip roaring music based satire.
In a previous show, we witnessed Robert Newman intellectually tear down Dawkin’s view of evolution.
This tour covers both the Old Town and the New Town, and includes a wide breadth of history about Edinburgh.
Shaedates is a show about finding yourself – quite literally.
Award-winning stand-up from Birmingham’s 248th most influential tweeter.
There is always plenty of political comedy at the Fringe, but rarely as passionate and earnest as James Meehan’s Class Act.
He’s back with an even bigger, sillier show than last year.
This year Mark Steel aims to give a brief overview of the cities and sights of Scotland.
James once has sex in a cage, whilst a stranger’s rabbit watched him from an ironing board.
“You awaken to find yourself in a dark room”, it’s a phrase shouted many times during The Dark Room.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
After a blockbuster 2015, Alexander Fox and Dom O’Keefe are back with a bang.
Three top-line comics bring their fast-paced comedy showcase to the world’s most famous comedy festival.
This year Les Enfants Terribles are gracing us with a show that’s fun but is a hotchpotch of great performers, boring music, missed opportunities and laughs.
An audience with Rodney Bewes.
“If you don’t laugh at the disabled guy, you are going to hell!” Lee Ridley begins, and immediately inspires unanimous laughter.
James once has sex in a cage, whilst a stranger’s rabbit watched him from an ironing board.
John Robertson claims that comedy is a sick industry (and he should know).
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
James & Seaburn are back with a brand new show featuring their unique mix of sketch, stand-up, songs and general silliness.
The Satirists for Hire returns to the fringe with another hour of bizarre similes, half baked ideas, and desire for a better world.
Champs Mêlés’ production of Iphigenia in Tauris is a two hour, French language translation of J.
Some shows stick in your head even if they are flawed.
For many Rab Florence and Ian Connell are the unsung heroes of Scottish comedy.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
The internet seems to have triggered a new dawn for conspiracy nuts everywhere.
Useless former gang member James Nokise takes a light-hearted look at the way we see each other, examining how people end up in gangs and what happens when you’re kicked out.
Almost every review of Spencer Jones takes the lazy route of saying he’s like Mr Bean meets something/someone wacky.
Princes of Main return with another sketch show chock-a-block with odd characters, witty one liners and silliness.
Too often, successful American comedians make their way to the UK assuming that audiences are as easy to please as they are back home.
There comes a time in most good plays when you realise you’ve become completely lost in a moment due to its sheer brilliance.
Everyone wants to rule the world but Will Seaward actually has a list of ways to achieve this.
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
The MMORPG show is a good idea but lacks the slick execution required to fully succeed.
Swapping her musical trappings for the theatre, Horse McDonald takes to the stage to present an undeniably intriguing and raw, if occasionally sensational, biopic of her own life.
Mungo Park proved that any true Scotsman would do almost anything to avoid spending another bloody day in Selkirk.
This is Manual Cinema’s first visit to the Fringe and they have brought with them a technical and awe-inspiring show that combines live music and shadow puppets.
Intergalactic Nemesis was like being trapped in a lift that wouldn’t stop going up or down, it made me angry on so many levels.
Arriving fresh-faced from Dorset, young sixth-form group Harpoon present their take on Oliver Lansley’s hilarious play Immaculate.
Joyous in every way, The Snail and the Whale by Tall Stories is a textbook example of how to do theatre for children right.
Always the bridesmaid never the bride is perhaps a somber way to sum up James Acaster’s Fringe experience to date, having been nominated for more Edinburgh Comedy Awards than any…
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
We’ve all been irritated by unfair traffic fines and generic email newsletters.
A Tale of Two Cities: Blood for Blood is neither the best of times, nor the worst of times, but over a ninety-minute running time it is a something of an odd construction.
Wrong ‘Uns is aptly titled because there is plenty of them packed into this hour of sketch comedy.
Identical twins Annie McGrath and Jack Barry (as seen on ITV2’s @elevenish) return with their trademark hybrid of sketch and stand-up comedy.
Ribbet Ribbet Croak is a gentle and successful piece of theatre for younger children, as well as being very suitable for PMLD and ASD family groups.
Nish Kumar has provided a wily hour of satire as some people could sit for the entire show and not realise it’s really a show about politics.
It is a rare treat to see surrealist comedy this good.
For many like me Knightmare was watched with a religious fever back in the 90s.
Don’t worry about it.
Trundling into view as part of C Theatre’s 25th anniversary is The Snow Queen.
Unsurprisingly Darren Walsh’s S’Pun is an hour of puns.
Standing defiantly under the glare of a neon working men’s club sign, Kiri Pritchard-Mclean tackles schema in a bold and impressive solo hour.
For children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
The Tiger Lillies are a band that everyone should experience at least once in their life times.
Fringe veterans Max and Ivan bring their show Unstoppable to The Warren for this year’s Brighton Fringe.
Off the Cuff, the Brighton based improvisation troupe, bring their show Crime and Funishment to the Fringe.
Beautifully-crafted comedy from one of the country’s masters of anecdote and timing.
A thought-provoking, one-woman show exploring the themes of feminism, love, media, society and nature vs nurture.
A new play by James Aden.
The Bookbinder is Trick of the Light’s enchanting fairy tale of a young apprentice bookbinder’s encounter with an old woman and her mysterious book.
Multi award-winning creator of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Casual Violence’ (“Leading the new wave of sketch comedy” - The Sunday Times) and staff writer for Cartoon Network’s ‘The Amazing Worl…
Jacky Fong, piano, performs works by Brahms, Horowitz and Volodos on 20 May.
For those of you who have yet to encounter the fringe phenomenon that is Shit-Faced Shakespeare, this is a show that does exactly what it says on the tin.
The story of Macbeth’s tragic demise has been told many times by hundreds, if not thousands, of theatre makers.
When little in your life seems to be easy then perhaps, for some, the only way to take control is to adopt a persona.
Life-sized animal puppets with fully articulated limbs come to life in front of your eyes in a cacophony of singing, dancing and plenty of audience participation.
Free alternative comedy from Matt Hutson (Runner-up in Preston Comedian of the Year) and David McIver (Selected for the BBC New Comedy award 2015).
Award-winning comedian James Bennison has had enough and has decided to take over the world.
WANTED: Small minions to join Doktor James’ army of evil.
The Marked follows Jack’s crusade against the haunting demons that follow his life living rough on the streets of London.
Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires.
Thematically loose, structurally tenuous.
An inconspicuous townhouse in Fiveways plays host to the promenade performance Dancing in the Dark.
It’s happening again.
The fantastical, magical stories created by Roald Dahl have proven themselves to have the potential to inspire family shows that enthral rather than patronise with the award-winn…
A classic piece of American literature and a popular text for study in education, Of Mice and Men was John Steinbeck’s first venture into writing a novella aimed for the stage.
For those who patiently wait through musical theater ballads to get to the show stopping dance numbers, 92Y’s Dig Dance series presents “Broadway Takes Two,” reim…
Some people claim that the 1960s and 1970s were the golden age of British comedy.
I am Thomas is an economic show bound together with a fantastic cast.
Turning up to a Box Office and asking for “A Threesome” is always a great way to start the evening.
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
Hairspray is a breath of fresh from the normal Broadway musicals that trudge their way through the British stages.
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
One-man show The Tailor of Inverness first hit Edinburgh stages eight years ago and has been touring ever since.
The Marx Brothers greatest failing is at the circus.
Like the first, the final play in Rona Munro’s James Plays is part family saga, part love story.
Day of the Innocents takes place on the same set as the first James play, but it feels somewhat different thanks to subtle changes of dressing and lighting.
There’s the feel of a gladiatorial arena to the staging of Rona Munro’s trilogy of James Plays, not least because some audience members seated on a raised area above the sta…
Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman join forces (and faces, for a somewhat off-putting promotional poster) in this excellent stand-up show.
(previews start on Thursday; opens on Jan.
Cody Lindquist and Charlie Todd, both longtime improvisers, host this political roundtable with a boozy twist — all panelists will drink two beers on stage before jumping int…
Horsecross’s production of Beauty and the Beast holds a debt to the Disney version of the tale, and it never quite gets out from under its shadow.
It’s that magic time of year when we theatre critics stop watching plays about middle class people and their problems, and get to watch a man in a dress tell dirty jokes to ki…
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
There is an intrinsic roughness to this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena productions: performed “in the round” in a student bar within city’s Art College, th…
The York Shakespeare Project return to Upstage Theatre, marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt with an all-female production of Henry V.
(previews start on Oct.
One album, two men, too many instruments! Two crazy barefoot Aussies wield over 20 instruments to faithfully recreate Mike Oldfield’s epic 1973 masterpiece.
In “Tabac Rouge,” a mischievous dance-theater work that is part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, the unpredictable artist James Thiérr&…
Best known for the indie classics Sit Down and Come Home, James’ latest studio album La Petite Mort bristles with upbeat defiance and illustrates just why they remain one of Britai…
Through their use of improvisation and mime, backed with a fantastic live band (The Glue Ensemble), Cariad and Paul bring to life a series of hilarious stories, based solely on one…
Lancaster Offshoots have created an enjoyable and surprisingly funny offering with their take on Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit and Other Tales.
The link between Greek myth and a deprived district of Cardiff is not an obvious one, and Iphigenia in Splott raises this intriguing question tantalisingly.
An hour of hilarious true stories from an exciting young stand-up comedian/loveable idiot, James Loveridge brings his 2014 show back to the Fringe for a limited run.
Rowan is a hip hop and punk-inspired poet diagnosed with a specific learning difficulty and speech impediment, often disabled by other people’s perceptions.
In Silver Darlings, celebrated writer Alexander McCall Smith has joined forces with innovative Scottish composer James Ross, to write a song cycle about Scotland and the sea.
Get up if you want to get down! Creamy, full-fat, calorie-laden funk from Edinburgh’s premier groove machine, JBiA.
Potemkin’s People is one of two shows performing on alternate nights under the joint title of Elysium Fields from B-Land Productions.
Setting the evening’s tone from the outset, the audience take their seats while the actors prep onstage, cycling through an exaggerated array of warmup exercises that any perform…
If you are looking for some respite from hackneyed scripts and dodgy accents, you are not going to find it in Sanctuary.
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Ferdinand from Tasty Monster Productions is genuinely one of the nicest productions I have seen.
How can you review Barry Cryer? He’s a British comedy legend, practically an institution.
Two Thirds charts the endlessly tangled lives of a group of university friends after graduation.
There is only one bar in Edinburgh that is fit for a man possessing such talent like James Lambeth: the Jazz Bar.
Ian Hall and Bruce Edhouse (both former Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival award winners) present a daft but affectionate tribute to some of the great comedy double acts of our time.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
There’s more to comedy than just three depressed comedians working through their issues! Steve McLean delivers a Fringe show filled with laughter, fun and quite a few inappropriate…
Eddie McGuire, former Chairman of the Musicians’ Union (Scottish Region), and classical zheng performer Dong Yi, the first and so far only musician of any Chinese instrument to g…
Stories old and new for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words from the man who invented the genre.
Seated and ready for some late night entertainment in the Pleasance Dome, Best of HUB brings the best of the best from the Fringe arena, providing a mixture of stand-up comedians a…
Award-winning vocalist Ali presents a heartfelt homage to Lady Day with a selection of both rare and familiar songs.
An hour of storytelling that will begin by transporting the audience around the British Isles through fairy stories provided by Taffy Thomas, first Laureate for Storytelling, and m…
Antiwords is a piece inspired by Václav Havel’s play Audience, featuring an awkward dialogue between a dissident playwright and a drunken brew master.
Once the show begins and the lights come up, the lighting designer (or so we thought) walks away from the desk and takes to the stage in silence, before introducing himself as our …
Having ventured far away from the Fringe into a tucked away little village hall in a particularly small auditorium, the first thing that you clasp your eyes on is the absolutely re…
‘A thoroughly enjoyable and funny experience.
Moribund: a show about death and the afterlife that fails to get a rise out of the audience.
The Letter J’s production of Grandad and Me is simple, moving and effective.
The Glass Menagerie is a hard play to get wrong.
Since Nick Doody’s first fringe show Before He Kills Again I would have expected him to have achieved more success than he seems to as he is simply one of the best gimmick-free sta…
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
A stand-up poetry show about dreams from 2014 AAA star and BBC New Comedy Award London runner-up.
Jay Handley’s first show contained ‘.
Join this pair of idiots for all the bits too stupid for their “proper” shows in this ‘deeply flawed event’ (Threeweeks).
Join James (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You) as he worries about worrying too much, about worrying too much.
High-energy, left field stand-up for people who’ve read a book, without pictures, and enjoyed it.
Delving into the short life of 20th century photographer Francesca Woodman, Francesca, Francesca.
The hotly anticipated solo debut of a multi award-winning sketch comedian is probably happening elsewhere.
Known for his deadpan delivery of pun-filled one-liners, Milton Jones returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his latest show, The Temple of Daft.
Dolls is about our relationships with toys, but there is nothing wooden about this show.
Part of the American High School Festival, Antigone Now is nothing if not endearing in its attempts to impress.
Napier University Drama Society presents a musical retelling of the Trojan War as their offering to the gods this festival.
‘Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.
Thrown together by quirk of fate and sticking together though necessity, Nicola James and Ian Seaburn present Piano Chocolat, a fun-filled journey through modern life, touching on …
Car chases, fan fiction and Westlife are all stories that Danish comedian Sofie Hagen brings to her set with a bubbly personality and fills the room with life with tales of the bes…
Counter Culture is a very clever show; so clever that it took me halfway through it to realise that the title is quite a good joke.
Why go to the trouble of raising the funds and making the trip to the International Collegiate Theatre Festival, only to present plays nobody back home would want to see, much less…
Consumption is a somewhat-successful commentary on the state of 21st century society, one obsessed with technology, appearances and consumerism, navigated by the central story of S…
After a quick introduction to the performers, a few improvisational examples, such as a Lonely Hearts Ad from a toilet and a first date at the Battle of Waterloo, we were introduce…
New York Times best-selling author and subject of a major Hollywood film starring Ted Danson, James Van Praagh demonstrates his unique talent and psychic abilities in a demonstrati…
We May Have To Choose is a one-person show performed by Emma Hall.
No Strings tells the unoriginal tale of two, middle-aged married people hooking up for one night of meaningless, pure sex, with Shona looking to get back at her cheating husband an…
The Dream Sequentialists is a show about dream goblins.
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Johnny has accidentally told his niece that he can single-handedly stop climate change and so he embarks on a musical adventure with his bandmate Paddy to save the world.
The Rules: Sex, Lies and Serial Killers is a witty and intelligent black comedy with psychopathic humour that will chill and charm you in the same sitting.
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, as you’ve never seen it before.
A bare stage, obscured by low lighting and backed by an eerie sinister soundtrack set the tone for this gripping retelling of the classic children’s fairy-tale, but this telling …
A stand-up poetry show about dreams from 2014 AAA star and BBC New Comedy Award London runner-up.
From Georgia State University comes a wonderful reimagining of the Medea myth, reset in the colourful trappings of Trinidad’s carnival.
On our tour we will reveal some of the secrets hidden within a city rich in culture and ancient history and blessed with beauty.
Two Thirds of a Trio is a comedy show like.
Persuader.
Trick of the Light presents a charming and an enjoyable addition to your afternoon in the form of The Bookbinder.
Two Sore Legs is an affecting testament to the fierceness of a mother’s love and the determination of one woman in the face of oppressive societal expectations.
George Orwell wrote an essay on the perfect pub.
Having been turned away from a packed venue on the day I was originally scheduled to attend, I was anticipating great things on my return the next day.
Learning difficulties, the truth in conspiracy theories and politics are the topics of a brave stand up.
It’s amazing how much you can get out of the word ‘Ak’ – the only word in the troll language.
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
In one week, Brydie fell in love twice.
Of the two offerings of Julius Caesar that the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School are offering this year, this review concerns the all-male version: a show brimming with great ideas ye…
The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world.
Bob Monkhouse was a complicated and enigmatic man.
Chris Martin is trying something a little different this year by having his show underpinned with a musical soundtrack.
Abnormally Funny People showcases some of the best and brightest comedians living with disabilities on the circuit, oh and a token “normal”.
Arrangements is about death and depression but doesn’t leave the audience down in the mouth.
Let Michael Hill entertain you with his misadventures living in Japan’s capital – battling cultural differences and language barriers, braving earthquakes, teaching English poo…
James Veitch appears, at first, a bit like a protagonist in a young adult novel (probably one by John Green), in the way he combines a bildungsroman with popular culture, or sees m…
Will Seaward Has a Really Good Go at Alchemy is probably unlike anything you will have ever seen.
Rhys James does not make it easy for his audience to get a handle on him.
Who Do I Think I Am? is an hour long rip roaring stand up performance.
Gein’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe once again to showcase their brand of dark sketches.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Parading onto the stage to a gangster soundtrack and with the threatening stance of a dormouse, Hal Cruttenden jumps in with his first gag and the laughs just keep rolling with thi…
Returning for their fourth Fringe, Sparkle and Dark bring their own fascinating and fantastical take on experiences of death and loss.
Barnie Duncan’s alter-ego Juan Vesuvius has returned to Edinburgh with a DJing set unlike any other.
The nervous Barry Twyford (from Crackwhore and Mingpiece Market Research) takes to the stage and explains that he has accidentally booked himself to do a show at the Edinburgh Frin…
When you see a comedian get a laugh from taking a sip of water you know they’ve got good timing.
With over twenty different instruments played by only two men, this performance of Mike Oldfield’s masterpiece Tubular Bells is an astounding, explosive, truly incredible feat.
Greeting the guests on the door with a bubbly personality in an attempt to brighten up the dark, underground bunker that would play host to his stage, Stephen Bailey set the mood f…
Jetting in from Toronto come clown sisters Morro and Jasp, masters of their craft and hilarious to boot.
It’s hot in the Pleasance This: hot and dark and funny.
Jetting in from Dublin, Pilgrim is a unique exploration of the maturity in valuing what you possess rather than clinging onto vain dreams of the future.
Amelia Ryan is accustomed to accidents, inclined to insult, prone to gaffs, whoopsies, and boobies.
The Secret Garden from Not Cricket Productions is a faithful and on-the-whole, effective, adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic tale.
This year, Squint presents Molly – a show investigating the mindset of a sociopath with eerie echoes of the things you might see in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
Haste Theatre’s new take on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one full of charm and humour.
“Good girls should be seen and not heard”.
‘I know why you’re here’, James Acaster begins, ‘for the celebrity gossip’.
Tar Baby is a show caught between two worlds, comedy and drama, poignant and silly, white and black.
‘One-man Titus Andronicus for Kids’ sounds like one of those joke titles you suggest to late-night improv troupes.
What would the word be like if homosexuality was the norm? Zanna Don’t is here to answer that question and bleed the concept dry, long after the amusement has left the building.
Holding the attention of a room full of six to eleven year olds armed with nothing more than a microphone is quite some feat, but for James Campbell – widely acknowledged as t…
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
For children over six, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
‘The True Tale of the Life and Death of Billy the Kid as Told by Pat Garrett’: Billy the Kid, bushwhacker, back shooter, downright no good or honourable and misunderstood youngster…
On 16th May, Sahajatara explores how “being here, now” opens us to nature’s beauty and our duty to protect it.
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
James Veitch feels the same way about adulthood as he does about Woody Allen movies; we all keep going in the hope that one day it’ll be as good as it was.
Following a successful run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, quirky and exciting rising comedy talent James Bran brings his solo show to Brighton Fringe.
BBC Young Musician of the Year 2014 pianist Martin James Bartlett plays Mozart Concerto No.
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
If you like loud musical comedy, this is the place to be Wednesday night, as James McDonnell stomps through an hour of high energy, surreal music and hilarity.
Two Choirs:Two Styles Two dynamic styles of singing blended together for an evening’s journey through a capella and chamber choir under the direction of Zoe Peate.
James has hit a lot of stumbling blocks in his life, and maybe, just maybe, food is something he just can’t get past! Join James for his first solo hour (work in progress), as h…
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
James Bennison has spent the last year going to extraordinarily dangerous lengths to gain superpowers so that you don’t have to.
(previews begin on Friday; opens on Thursday) This early Shakespeare comedy has roles for 13 actors, whose characters include outlaws, servants, musicians and one disagreeable dog.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This Long Island native and actor (“The King of Queens,” “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”) brings his national stand-up tour to the majestic Beacon Theater.
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
Until a few weeks ago, Mr.
Using his trademark stand-up style, insights and anecdotes on classical music, maverick pianist James Rhodes makes his fringe debut.
The point of a thought-experiment is to provide a way of exploring the consequences of an idea, not through a metaphorical prism, but through a literal imagining of what might happ…
The Rite of Spring lends itself extremely well to jazz interpretations: those wild off-beats and dissonances must be a jazz artist’s wet dream.
Hungry Wolf presents an energetic and enthusiastic offering for children at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
James Bannon’s story has all the ingredients of a good novel: a down-to-earth setting; some very shady characters, some good guys and some dumb ones; a developing plot; plenty of…
A completely spontaneous improv adventure, taking one word from the audience and immersing them in a bespoke world of bizarre scenes and bold characters.
James Lambeth returns to the Fringe for the third year running with companions Steve Hamilton on piano and Mario Caribe on the double bass.
In this production of Nikolai Gogol’s satirical masterpiece, Sedos, ‘The City of London’s premier amateur theatre company,’ have forwarded the action a hundred years to 1…
This offering of Peter Pan from the American High School Theatre Festival never reaches the heights of the Second Star to the Right.
Youth Music Theatre Scotland return for another successful year at the Fringe, this time with a remarkably professional and well-executed production of West Side Story, perhaps t…
Despite a fun-sounding premise, A Race of Robots unfortunately does not live up to its name.
Nick Helm’s Two Night Stand in the Grand is an epic comedy rock show worthy of its massive venue.
Harry Buckoke’s Occupied is an intelligent and refreshingly light-hearted dissection of the 2011 occupation of Lady Margaret Hall by students of Cambridge University.
With such an intriguing name, the cynical part of me was almost prepared to be let down.
‘First night in here? Well, you’ll get used to us.
Combining an interesting program with an intimate setting and impressive technique, this concert of classical guitar music will be of interest to specialists and those who will enj…
This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions.
We don’t see one of the most important events in the life of James II, just its immediate consequences; a hurried, chaotic, almost dream-like explosion of fear and movement fo…
If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture…
Updating Greek myths and tinkering with texts is a finicky process; how to maintain the spirit of the original while providing an audience with something new? Yet this new produc…
I really hope there wasn’t an adult in charge of this.
James jokes about booze.
Cambridge Shortlegs and Pembroke Players return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their production of The Penelopiad, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novella.
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society have brought their leisurely afternoon stroll Sunday in the Park with George to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
More merriment for anyone over six who enjoys stand-up comedy without rude words.
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host James McVeigh as part of our Fringe serie…
Before this show, I had not heard of Patsy Cline.
A beautifully ragged caravan hung with various bits and bobs sits in a corner of the stage.
From the critically acclaimed SU Drama company comes a double play performance that combines Brien Friel’s Afterplay and an original piece named The White Peacock.
With such a wonderful title, it’s a shame that The Bee-Man of Orn is not as thrilling as it sounds.
Uncommon Productions Staffordshire should be commended for their bravery in presenting their debut effort at the Edinburgh Fringe.
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
A celebration of human flaws.
Before Phill Jupitus was a panel show staple (but in a good way) he was a performance poet.
Hang on.
The word ‘rap-dragon’ might simultaneously spark intrigue and a sense of unease, but fear not.
There’s nothing I would like to do more than go for a pint with Giacinto Palmieri and discuss Wagner.
After a lifetime studying hustlers, conmen and other thieves, ‘the world’s number one pickpocket’ (Time Out) is still an honest man.
Jay Rayner is a real presence, a big guy with a big voice who is very comfortable with addressing an audience.
Struan Logan and John Sheppard are funny, charming and handsome (on average) comedians.
About halfway through this performance, a mobile rings in the audience.
James Loveridge’s Funny Because It’s True is indeed funny and is presumably also true.
Flying High Theatre Company’s adaptation of The Jungle Book is a charming lunchtime production, faithfully recreating its source material and providing entertaining moments of ph…
Patch of Blue return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their scrumptious offering of Beans on Toast: a triumph of simplicity which still captures the imagination and the heart.
Fighting a giggle fit is not what an audience member should be doing during the first half of Julius Caesar.
A two-hour and fifteen minute walk through Edinburgh’s city centre, with a good coverage of the history of Edinburgh’s Old and New towns.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned; so quotes or paraphrases every production of Medea ever made.
Who was first unfaithful: woman or man? A scientific experiment designed to recreate the garden of Eden and answer this question “once and for all” is the premise of this he…
Oh, boy.
It’s a rare show that can successfully entertain children of all ages.
A joint exhibition of contemporary ceramics and traditional pottery by two Edinburgh potters with more than 60 years of pot making between them.
Nick Dixon ‘Well worth looking out for’ (Jason Manford) and Sunil Patel (BBC New Comedy Awards) perform half an hour each of finely-crafted hilarity.
An intense, poetic study of loneliness, cruelty and rural isolation, Kitty in the Lane is a mesmeric continuation of the Irish literary tradition, a reminder that our cousins over …
You can sense when an audience is tense even without turning around.
Cabaret Nova has undergone a transformation since last year.
I didn’t expect to be hearing hard-hitting political satire this afternoon, but wow, that was actually quite a good Tibet joke.
New Comedy in the style of Orton and Fo.
Plays by leading contemporary playwrights are becoming more common at the Fringe.
Mike Belgrave is a brave man.
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
Rachel Stubbings gave me a Maoam.
Not be confused with the Milton epic, Leodo: Paradise Lost follows the story of a young girl lost at sea and transported to a magical island beyond the horizon, Leodo.
It takes a brave soul to attempt to tackle ancient Greek comedy with a modern audience.
With a free croissant and tea in hand, Shakespeare for Breakfast almost had me sold before kick-off.
Triumphantly sailing into Edinburgh come Audacious Productions with their frankly magnificent production The Odyssey: An Epic Musical Epic.
This is a show about poo.
Acaster strides onto the stage with purpose; his floppy fringe and corduroy jacket giving him the mild air of an English schoolboy.
What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally…
Bouncing into Edinburgh from Australia, No Mate Productions have arrived with their enjoyably infectious offering Jungle Bungle.
James’ appropriately named debut show at the Festival is fast paced, anecdotal and comfortably funny throughout.
Oddball alert! A guy wearing headphones sits strangely close to me and asks whether I like “communist romcoms.
You wake up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
60% of emails sent are spam, and James Veitch turns this cyber curse into a comic blessing.
Steen Raskopoulos turns up to the Fringe in style.
As a recipient of the Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny? Award Demi Lardner belongs to an elite group of comedy talent.
A master of impressions, Mr.
Ross Leslie and Chris Griffin are joined by Gareth Mutch for an hour of solid observational stand-up as part of the Free Fringe at the Beehive Inn.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
When author Edward Packard created the Choose Your Own Adventure genre in 1979, he probably didn’t expect their huge success.
Imagine you’re a sausage.
‘Bette Bourne: It Goes with the Shoes’ paints an uproarious and moving portrait of an engaging and charismatic gay hero.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
After winning Best New Comedy at last year’s Brighton Fringe, the puppet-based sketch comedy group Stickyback returns this year with new show Puppetgeist.
This musical represents a massive achievement in many senses.
Do you like family? Do you like values? Then get ready to see a comedian with no awards to his name break your disappointment hymen.
Two Dutch Girls and an Aussie decided to dream and become London-based stand-up comedians.
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
As the house lights dim and the small projector set up on stage starts flashing the words, ‘Turps is here!’, you know you are in for something a little bit different than your …
The term ‘live-action video game’ is usually reserved for disappointing Hollywood adaptations of your favourite computer games (Tomb Raider, Silent Hill, the list could go on).
Pointy-faced comedian Rhys James writes jokes, poems, stories, ideas and tweets.
Menier Chocolate Factory: 3rd Apr 3pm.
When you go undercover remember one thing, who you are… The film was I.
After a successful run at Second Stage Uptown, this show returns to another Off Broadway space, New World Stages.
After an unassuming entrance where he wanders onstage in jeans and a checked shirt, Jason Manford thrust aside his microphone stand and quipped “Alright chairs in here, aren’t …
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (from here on mercifully abbreviated to APCSP) follows the trials and tribulations of six young spellers, along with some extremely fortu…
A fast-paced, brutally poignant coming of age story that explores the pain and adventure of growing up, the moment when innocence suddenly turns into experience and the fear of loo…
Someone once wrote of the novel Vernon God Little that it ‘was a work of unutterably tedious nastiness and vulgarity’, and its author DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre ‘a man with…
Based on David Hare’s knowledge of 1960’s private school politics from the position of a boy attending on a scholarship, South Downs is an excellent play: funny, intelligent an…
Ironic isn’t it? A show about a psychopath and it made me want to kill someone.
Flanders and Swann’s songs occupy a strange position in British consciousness: some are well renowned and regularly emerge on adverts, whilst others are forgotten gems only known…
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play has big themes: the morality of art; the morality of love.
Hailing originally from East Anglia (“the sticky out bit of Britain… that isn’t Wales”, as it was helpfully described), Jake Morrell and his Magnificent Band’s musical ex…
The beginning of The Beginning does in fact begin before you realise it.
It can’t have been more than fifteen minutes into James Lambeth’s hour long set that I decided I had already had enough.
The Edinburgh Academy makes for a spacious yet slightly odd choice of venue for music and comedy due Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel.
‘Wow’ doesn’t even begin to describe the talents of these two comedians.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
Hannah Nicklin is a remarkably unpretentious, simple, intelligent theatre-maker.
A one-man show scheduled for over an hour and a half can be a daunting prospect for both performer and audience.
For many people, a date in August had been looming.
Star of Fringe favourite The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly, Siôn James, ‘utterly charming .
On the first night I tried to go to Vanity the tiny room was completely full: I couldn’t even see past people hanging around at the door.
These celebrated musicians give a presentation with bamboo flutes, classical flutes and Chinese zheng (zither) on the music of the two nations in comparative perspective.
To choose Seneca over Euripides (thus making this a Roman rather than a Greek tragedy) is a brave decision by Kudos and one that occasionally backfires.
The 27 Club as a concept is comprised of a much revered collection of musicians who died aged 27.
Any venue that gives out wine on entry is likely to endear itself to the audience, but ROSL on Princes Street is endearing even without such generosities; a delightful space lined …
The two nations represented in this one-off concert were China and Scotland, with Dong Yi and Eddie McGuire as representatives.
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
The Mad Hatter Bum Party confers a false and fairly nauseating dignity on being without a home.
The funniest piece in this collection of performed poems isn’t about the human body.
Buried deep under Edinburgh, accessible only via a side street and past an inconveniently parked white van, Paradise in the Vault is the perfect venue for this chilling chamber ope…
Discussing the topic of abortion in a church venue may seem like a controversial and edgy thing to do.
If the fringe has a competition for ‘the most cool stuff a director can think of and put into a show’, Junk is a shoe-in.
It’s difficult not to enjoy yourself watching Pirates of Penzance and this production from Durham is no exception, although it does occasionally feel like it’s trying to undo i…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
One night only! Award-winning songwriter and blues picker Eddie Walker together with legendary acoustic guitarist John James present a grand reunion concert in one of the most exci…
Kids’ comedy is harder than you’d think.
Watching James Campbell launch into his family friendly stand-up routine makes one wonder why there are not more stand-ups for children around.
An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country.
James Morton, Great British Bake Off finalist 2012, with historian Susan Morrison, performs extreme baking - can James really raise dough in 60 minutes whilst explaining the scienc…
Hosted at the Edinburgh Christadelphian Church by the local community group there, Inquiry into the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ purportedly sets out to examine evidence …
Find Me manages to reveal simultaneously how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in our attitudes to mental illness.
The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning does three things: it tells the story of Manning’s life; it calls into question the ethics of the army culture in which he found himself; an…
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group’s Romeo and Juliet is just the sort of production that can give Shakespeare a bad name.
Jamie Hamilton is an energetic and inventive sketch writer, with an unusual ability to take conventions from other genres and spin them until they become surreal.
Ethics and morality aren’t typically seen as trendy when it comes to comedy, poetry and performance; they are often seen as unfun and old-hat.
Bursting onstage in a blaze of colour, noise and applause at half past midnight in Bedlam, the Improverts return once more to the Fringe.
Events like The Bear Goes Walkabout are premonitions of the future of British classical music.
What are you doing here? Although he says it’s a show which may answer some of the big questions of being, I expect James Christopher doesn’t really mean this in an existential…
It’s the worst kept secret at this year’s Fringe that the UK debut of little-known alternative 80s comedian Baconface is in fact enormously well-known alternative comedian Stew…
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
No in-depth knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons lore is required to appreciate the excellent comedy this show provides.
A plane crash; tanks stopped on Tiananmen Square; a ruler standing on a palatial balcony; the interrogation of the perpetrator of a mass shooting.
Paper Birds’ On the One Hand looks and feels a lot like a John Lewis advert.
That’s an awfully good-looking prop, I think to myself as a character takes a knife to an apparent rabbit carcass.
In Static, a man in his early twenties describes growing up.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
George Galloway arrives on stage chewing gum and wearing a military style jacket.
It was strange returning from Tejas Verdes.
Ron Butlin is the Edinburgh Makar (poet laureate) and he is a skilled and sensitive writer.
Our bodies are not challenged in the way our ancestors would have been used to.
Watching Americans do sketch comedy can be painful for the British.
Another outing for put-upon mother-of-three Ruth Rich, Something Fishy charts an ill-fated school trip to Marrakech.
Last time someone ‘breathed new life’ into Beckett they were issued an injunction.
Knee-high boots, a wayward German accent and a toothbrush moustache – major alarm bells for any production, but even more so for a one-man show.
Hush Theatre is on a mission ‘to deliver a comparable experience to both deaf and able hearing audiences.
The big problem with A Circus Affair is that its performers, Sarita and Mr Kiko, spend too little time doing what they are good at (circus) and far too much time filling out the sh…
Who is Duvet Dave? I’m not really allowed to say exactly who, but I can describe him.
Our host Bob Starrett is a cartoonist, writer, trade unionist and political activist heavily involved personally and politically with the history of the Glasgow shipyards.
SWEARING?! LESBIANS?! DRUG ABUSE?! HOW TERRIBLY AVANT-GARDE! Apologies for the shouting but Facehunters seems keen to stress that if you have a message of any kind, you’re best o…
PhD student Carrie leads us through several case studies of female mental illness, spanning centuries and hitting quite close to home.
Rhys will tell some brilliant jokes, do some incredible poems and then leave.
Director Matt Dann writes that his production of Macbeth is ‘informed, not by an imposed concept, but by the texture of the text itself: lean, taut, bristling with muscular tensi…
The best allegories can stand on their own two feet.
Who doesn’t love a good meta-play? One of three Fourth Monkey plays up this year, San Salome has two parallel storylines: Oscar Wilde attempting to stage his controversial late w…
Alice Mary Cooper ushers us into a tiny black room, onstage are a cup, saucer and red cork cricket ball resting on a cardboard box.
It is perhaps embarrassing how long into Colin Hoult’s The Real Horror Show it took me, until I realised what I was watching.
This darkly comedic two-hander plunges us straight into the aftermath of a murder in the Scottish Highlands.
Grounded is the tale of a female fighter pilot (Lucy Ellinson) who loves the freedom of the blue sky.
Ruth Rich’s madcap scheming to avoid a diary clash fills this hour of light comedy at the Pleasance Courtyard.
Join two of the most promising up-and-coming comedians, Pete Otway, ‘devastatingly funny’ (Chortle.
Some good friends snubbed the opportunity to see this with me: I was made to see my first cabaret all alone.
We really don’t know much about beer.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
There is much about Stephen King’s novella The Shawshank Redemption that is suited to a stage adaptation, the action taking place in the claustrophobic rooms of a prison, its nar…
Recommended as a nationwide top five pick in the Times; Jim Cartwright’s witty and thought provoking modern classic follows an evening’s events in a northern pub.
Setlist is just a bloody good idea.
In the wake of Thatcher’s death, Jim Cartwright’s two-hander continues to challenge audiences, presenting the lives of the marginalised regulars from a 1980s northern pub.
Sing, muse, of three sweaty men, dressed all in white; James Dunnell-Smith, Joshua George Smith and John Woodburn are The Sleeping Trees and their Odyssey is lively, loud and ebull…
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been framed and is now forced to share a cell with a prostitute and possible murderer, Lina.
Edinburgh is a city of beauty, history and incredible inspiration.
Satisfying energetic children can be a task for even the most patient of adults, but CeilidhKids seem to have found a simple but effective solution to combine family bonding with c…
Plays based on historical and significant conflicts often tend toward the bombast and spectacle: either exploring the actions and feelings of the major players in positions of powe…
Accompany us to discover the organic medieval Old Town and the planned Georgian New Town.
When Lampaert appears on TV, he gets heckled or internet abuse.
Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales immerses children and parents alike into a world of wonder.
‘You can tell the bits, but can never complete the picture.
This show consisted of political satire.
A show title that implies a comparison between Bob Dylan and a minor comedian is clearly a rather ambitious, even presumptuous one.
Alan Conway spent several years pretending to be Stanley Kubrick, a man he knew very little about – and people believed him.
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Aidan Roberts announced ‘And… tubular bells!’ A sudden burst of light brought the bells into view, like a heavenly apparition.
Take Two Every Four Hours is a heart wrenching tale of friendship in the face of illness.
‘New writing? New wronging!’ proudly exclaims production company Kill The Beast’s website.
It can be annoying when someone points out that being schizophrenic has nothing to do with split personalities, but they would be right.
From Malmesford to Hollywood, the UK’s favourite neo-vaudeville double act reveals all.
The concept sketch show has been gaining prevalence at the Fringe in recent years, and key proponents of this must be Betamales.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
James will never leave his hospital bed.
Back at the Fringe for the twentieth year in a row from his native San Francisco, Greg Proops is a veteran who has spent years on the comedy circuit in a variety of roles and an ev…
The Cambridge University team behind Oresteia have achieved many things I would have considered impossible with Aeschylus’ source material.
A cynic would suggest that a one-man show written and performed by an acclaimed director is one likely to fall into certain pitfalls; history is littered with those who have steppe…
For those not in the know, James Acaster is a nice man from Kettering who will happily tell you that all of his clothes are from Marks and Spencer.
Choreographers Chan and Cunningham want to show you their inner dance and say that ‘dance is more than aesthetics’.
Though a wayward arachnid hanging from the ceiling threatened to steal Walsh’s show on the night I was there, his genuine reaction to it – ‘HOLY SHIT’ – turned into ten m…
People who have seen Squidboy will be competing to find the best way to describe it.
From the moment this quirky Cornish duo burst onto set with an eclectic combination of 80s-style electronic music and energetic moves, you know you’re in for something a little d…
Mike Oldfield’s critically and commercially successful prog-rock album ‘Tubular Bells’ has been lovingly recreated by Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts as a live, two-man perform…
Fresh from the Namat Theatre in Cairo, Human and Other Things offers a select glimpse of Egypt, albeit in a rather frustrating manner.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
Recast in a WWI bunker, claustrophobia is the order of the day as you watch events unfold in a very small room from an even smaller bench.
As he confesses in the opening lines of his show, Alex Horne ‘hates stand-up’.
The title is probably the most interesting thing about this adaptation of Lysistrata, but any potential that it implies is sadly missed by the show itself.
The Kings Head Theatre is once again offering multiple seasonal shows for their audiences to enjoy.
Suspicious Package is an interactive film in which the audience of five play the main characters.
Tick…Tick…Boom! is a show created by Jonathan Larson (of RENT fame) centred around a promising musical theatre writer ‘Jon’, who is running out of time.
Flamenco dancing is perhaps not the first thing I would associate with the legend of the Minotaur and indeed neither is the idea that the conflict between the monster and Theseus h…
At the beginning of the The Consort of Voices, the Edinburgh-based choir providing the music for this concert, strode in dramatically from the back of the church led by their bashf…
If the title has somehow not given it away already, a warning should be given to the unenlightened.
Dinner and a show: a winning combination.
Singer-songwriters such as James Grant are tasked with the difficult job of keeping an audience entertained with merely a voice and a guitar, but James Grant proves in this hour-pl…
Paul Browde and Murray Nossel have been friends since they were young boys in South Africa.
‘This is much more than just a tale of physical erosion off the coast’, promises the flyer for newly written play On the Edge.
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale about a boy finding friendship and adventure with a bunch of idiosyncratic insects astride a giant peach is translated faithfully to the stage …
Who am I? What price, fame? What is reality? These are just some of the inane issues dredged up to validate this otherwise empty narrative.
Welcome to Skid Row, a New York slum where only those who dont have any choice would go.
The self-proclaimed professors of ‘pop hermeneutics’ return in stunning form to the Udderbelly, revealing their miraculous insights into the world of music and mass-culture, li…
At some point in the creation of this production, somebody decided that they were better at writing than Euripides.
Although dangerously like an extended Russian Eurovision entry, Above the Clear Blue Skys stadium rock surrealist take on the standard a capella ensemble is an entertaining and i…
In this North London retelling of Bizet’s opera, our feisty titular heroine is caught between two men in a world of crime, sleaze, and skinny black jeans.
If you are a fan of hilarious songs and impeccable singing then this is the show for you.
James Lambeth has a gorgeous voice and has selected a good list of Duke Ellington standards for his tribute ‘Drop Me Off in Harlem.
Weirdly, the house lights come on as the show begins and by house lights, I mean the ordinary light-switch for the room.
The Sears Basset Glee Club is looking for a soloist for its London debut, and we - the audience - get to vote on who it will be.
The title here is very much self-explanatory.
Even in the death throes of the Fringe, it seems nobody is prepared to sleep at a sane hour.
Bette/Cavett is a hilarious re-enactment of the 1971 chatshow encounter of Bette Davis and Dick Cavett.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Stand Up Hero and The World Stand-Up’s performer Andrew Watts is angry.
Five new students arrive at university for a year of alcohol-fueled partying.
In this energetic operetta, The Tabard’s own in-house company Pulling Focus give us a bizarre romp through a blood-thirsty country club.
Somebody’s Theatre from Sheffield offers us a piquant slice of life with this story of the tangled lives of four twenty somethings who share more than toothpaste - entirely set i…
A co-production with Vertical Line and Greenwich theatre, Take Two Every Four Hours is a work in progress by Henry Regan and Ross Stanley.
Lili la Scala leads us through an hour of song from the world wars.
Adelmo Guidarelli fills the space with his rich baritone, and with impressive poise for such an energetic act.
Neither hilarious nor haunting, the claim this play makes to such titles falls as flat as the claim that it is a comedy.
A scream offstage and Laura enters covered in blood.
This picture-book musical follows a young orphan girl who casts off her mourning clothes and warms the hearts of those around her.
Congratulations to Byteback Theatre for presenting a splendid physical show and going some way to alleviating my, not-uncommon, instinctive scepticism for the genre.
It is generally accepted that the best facet of Shakespeare’s work and what has made him stand the test of time is his verse.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
35MM is subtitled ‘a musical exhibition’.
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
This musical is about adolescent sex.
Two for None comedians Mark Simmons and Danny Ward display, between them, vastly different comedy styles.
James Acaster claims to be very excitable, but this claim is not borne out by his laid back delivery and mundane choice of topics.
‘I haven’t played original stuff for a while’ was Austen George’s mumbled apology to the Acoustic Music Centre audience after encountering difficulty remembering his chords…
Geoff Paine (from Neighbours) leads a team of experienced improvisers in this never-before performed musical based on audience suggestion.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
Trailblaze Theatre Company are a young company with bags of enthusiasm who, according to their website blurb, specialise in interactive and immersive theatre.
The Two Worlds of Charlie F is a rare example of a play in which fiction and reality collide to create something very special indeed.
I have never met a more adorable fringe performer than Jack Barton.
Greeted by the eccentric theatre owner and a glamorous showgirl, the audience wander into a Pleasance Dome transformed especially for this one-off show into the elegant Empire Thea…
Before the lights had barely dimmed, the main actor confidently strode on stage and began the central monologue of how his life in Hull was bad.
There’s no one quite like Roald Dahl for children.
Hildegard of Bingen is a twelfth-century German abbess now famed for her extraordinary writings and music.
Imagine Richard and Judy.
When strangers Bill and Jim get stuck in a lift, it’s pretty inevitable that they should end up reflecting on life and end up best of friends.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Meet Mr Clart, the drunken and prurient tour guide of the famous Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour.
After the bustle of Princes Street and the Royal Mile with their American Indian/Celtic/Oriental drumming combos and hundreds of flyers, the last thing I expected in the middle of …
Imagine if Frank Sinatra and David Walliams put on a film noir parody with Deano Wicks from Eastenders.
Dont let the Edinburgh Academy theatre and the audience of grandmas put you off the scent: this is a professional production of an off-Broadway show.
In this offering from the American High School Musical Theatre Festival, Shakespeare’s text is revamped into a slick news room in a specially commissioned work from Chris Wynters…
For all the excellent performances and wonderfully controlled aesthetic, this production amounts to nothing more than average; because it’s Belt Up, that’s disappointing.
James Smiley, Public School Twat is described as ‘One young man.
After striding into the Assembly Ballroom to tumultuous applause, guitarist Ewan Robertson’s wry remark was, ‘Hope you enjoyed the dramatic entrance there.
Give it a catchier name and the Beijing Young Dramatist Association’s production of Two Dogs could be the inspiration for another talking-animals Pixar movie.
Misdirected sexual attraction is the plate of the day from the Cambridge University Opera Society.
The focus in this studio production is on the music and on the actors voices: Jason Robert Browns jazz pop score and our double-star combo can hardly fail to please! Every son…
Nominative determinism is a theory that someone’s name will influence or even dictate their life.
JamJar’s follow up to Following Wendy is a disappointment on the scale of Grease 2, The Matrix Reloaded and Godfather 3 combined.
Thank goodness they didn’t call it Greenday: The Musical, because if they had, they wouldn’t have got half the audience they did.
Maybe it was lack of sleep.
‘Improv Comedy’, for a genre whose very definition implies limitless scope, seems to be becoming an increasingly tired medium.
Call me strange, but watching this show twice (in English and in Japanese) has been my most fascinating theatre experience in a long time.
This gal can play the piano.
One looks like a children’s TV presenter: all big beaming smiles and thumbs ups, with show tunes always just bubbling under.
Let me start by suggesting that people of a nervous disposition need not read this review, since you sure as anything won’t enjoy the show.
A gaggle of children charged into Paradise at the Vault for Scotch Broth, promised sing-a-long fun with long-time Fringe performer Dennis Alexander.
Not another comedy about nuns! I cried, being one of those people who dont find nuns intrinsically amusing, but I must confess I found it difficult to suppress a giggle when the …
The marketing for Auntie Myra’s Fun Show misleadingly promises something pretty outrageous.
In a blank-canvas office, the corporate machine squeezes one last drop of inspiration from two ad-men at the end of their tether.
‘An oasis in the Fringe… with bagpipes’ is how piper and most talkative Battlefield Band member Alasdair White described their show.
‘Ooh, he were good, that Mercutio! Shame he had to die, really.
Chris Corcoran and Elis James aka Mr Chairman and Rex Jones, the Caretaker, invite you to join them (and the third mystery comedian who remains un-credited) at the committee meetin…
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
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…
Zennor is not, as it turns out, a distant alien empire, but a small fishing village in Cornwall.
Palamon and Arcite are the two noble kinsmen at the heart of this adaptation of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s Jacobean tragicomedy.
Sovereign debt, bad credit, riots and scandals – the Euro, and the sky, is falling.
General Silliness Productions transports their audience to Venice using the sixteenth-century Italian style of Commedia dell’arte.
I had never been to a strip club before.
Ellis James is a natural stand-up comedian.
Just Up The Stairs at The Caves is packed to the rafters for this mid-afternoon hour of sketch comedy.
Alone in a sixth-floor storeroom, will Lee Harvey Oswald use his gun to kill John F.
A huge final number, full cast on stage, twiddly runs over the final note.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
Sadly displaced from their usual venue, the St Andrew’s and St George’s West festival-within-the-festival have set themselves up in Royal Overseas House.
A musical theatre fan (á la Wayne Koestenbaum) shows the audience one of his favourite records to find respite from his non-specific sadness.
Deep in the bowels of the Barbican lies a show which defies categorisation.
The Governor and his wife are forced to flee in the wake of a peasant uprising, but neglect to take their newborn baby with them.
Combine the Tellytubbies with a political agenda and you wouldnt be too far off this exuberant adaption of the story of the double-helix hypothesis.
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
‘Colour and light’ exclaims Georges, and this production takes that seriously.
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Its easy to lie into a computer keyboard, isnt it? Its also frighteningly easy to tell the truth more of the truth that perhaps you should.
Glasgow’s Tramway has a reputation for cutting-edge visual and performing arts; so it’s something of a radical change for them to join Glasgow’s other theatrical venues with …
When extremely enthusiastic New York comic Abigoliah Schamaunn bounded in “from the back of the room to the front of the room!”, her iPod stopped dead as she arrived onstage.
It is a great honour for any composer to have their work cherry-picked by fans and turned into a revue.
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward have both been celebrated countless times in musical biopics, but this could be the first time that their respective careers and lives have been combin…
This high-school production of the Broadway classic hits the ground running with its tale of big-name theatre-star Margo Channing gradually usurped by the devious and considerably …
The A-level drama students of St Marylebone CE School in London give this frothy oldie a new lease of life.
The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway…
Naturalism, at its best, carefully communicates the subtle stories behind the realistically portrayed events on stage.
Delamere Mortal is a stand-up show with a difference.
Jean Paul Jones is an eighteenth-century US naval commander with Scottish roots; and this is the musical of his life.
The “romantic and provocative” Remember Me, while initially a little obtuse, strikes a neat balance between art installation, audible sensation and theatrical performance.
Lewis Barlow is an old-school parlour magician working within the great close-up tradition of tricks with coins, cards, ropes and money borrowed from the audience.
Never before has a kazoo been blown with such gusto; so far so good as the two performers began the show with a confident song.
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, Jons pre-life crisis takes the form of a musical monologue with supporting cast.
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
The audience quietly filed in to see Tim Key pacing the stage like a panther, brandishing a rose like an inept but enthusiastic fencer and weaving around his microphone stand, a la…
This show is a pleasant mix of upper-middle class safe humour combined with more crude, but successful, crafty one-liners from this truesome twosome, showing how a fully develo…
When I was little I had a Jackanory audio tape which I would listen to as I fell asleep.
Hudson & Hackett are two young women with an established entertainment background (Hudson presents Brainiac, whilst Hackett has written for ‘Smack the Pony’), and they come togethe…
What happened in this hour long show is still not quite clear; there was singing, nudity, drag, and a large cupboard to be sure.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Have you seen that Jason Robert Brown musical where the smart Jewish guy falls for the neurotic Irish Catholic girl? Despite being the premise of three of his shows to my mind, in …
This show suffers from a major conceptual problem.
Tight collars and tighter dialogue were on display as Charlotte Productions continued their ‘adaptations of forgotten literature’ with Miss Marchbanks, a delightful romp of a V…
This show, says its author and performer Daniel Cainer, has been catalogued under theatre because its neither particularly funny or particularly musical.
I knew three things about the show before it started; that there are horror stories, that there are three of them and that they are presumably related to Poe.
It’s rare for a Fringe stand-up show to devote a significant stretch of time to the correct pronunciation of Kettering Town F.
This was my first venture over to C eca, a venue with a reputation amongst some as being out of the way.
If you are bored of current TV comedians or just want a bit of old school classic comedy then here is a show for you.
I didn’t know where to look.
Burst is a highly ambitious set of interlinked character portraits set in 20s England and Sudan.
When is a musical not a musical? When it’s a sung play, of course.
Five students meet for the first time in the flat they are to share for their first year of university.
I’ve no idea why this show is called Flame and Frost, but I don’t really mind.
Set in a 1950’s Catholic School, you just know this is going to be a cheeky little number.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Zanna is a match-making fairy at Heartsville High, where the school Chess club rule the school and being gay is normal.
Edinburgh is a beautiful city, with its ancient monuments, imposing churches and symmetrical townhouses.
The songs of Belgian-born chanteur Jacques Brel are renowned for their colourful imagery and dramatic storytelling.
The black man and the white man find themselves in a children’s playground, telling each other their tragic stories.
Jonathan Storeys beautiful paper theatre is the setting for the tale of Jack Pratchard, the falling-piano casualty who discovers the City of the Dead under a drunk mans hat.
A common adage given to budding creative writers is “Write what you know” to allow for the honesty and candour that makes your output more accessible.
How much do you know about obscure mid 90s Britpop band Wilby? Not much? Evidently anyone with a real niche interest in obscure Britpop bands should make it their business to find …
Searching for words to describe Fabled is difficult, which is appropriate as Lois Tucker does not utter a single one for the entire hour she is on stage.
Are you back for more Dick, or are you inexperienced in these areas? Of course I’m referring to the madcap world of adult panto at the Leicester Square Theatre.
You may recognise these two from TV.
What a charming narrative – a mountain man cons a young lady into marital servitude, at which point his six younger brothers steal six other women, holding them captive over wint…
This bitter-sweet musical errs self-consciously on the side of the sweet, providing a Rom Com where everything seems to go right.
One Rogue Reporter describes its presenter Rich Peppiatt’s progression from Daily Star lackey to vehement tabloid terror.
A wonderful farsical musical romp in the tradition of Mapp and Lucia, Glee and The Stepford Wives, Swing! is the story of a lower-class family who move to wealthy suburban Wafthead…
I love Lili.
What can a reviewer say about a musical that’s different every night? By extension, what can a reviewer say about any show, since surely no two performances are the same? If you�…
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
You might have seen Kiri on Comedy Central at the Comedy Store, The Russell Howard Hour or heard her on The Now Show.
The outstanding young performers of the National Youth Choir of Scotland are joined by Whitburn Band for Sir James MacMillan’s poignant oratorio All the Hills and Vales Along, w…
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Comedy Editor and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with RuPaul's Drag Race royalty Monét X Change to discuss her debut Fringe show Life Be Lifein', why audiences today a...
James Macfarlane sits down with André De Freitas to discuss his Edinburgh debut What If, some of the best advice he's received from his peers and the unexpected moment that got hi...
James Macfarlane chats with Phil Ellis about his new show Phil Ellis' Excellent Comedy Show, celebrating 10 years at Edinburgh and his biggest achievements outside of comedy
James Macfarlane chats with Dominique Salerno about her debut Fringe show The Box Show, the relationship between creativity and constraint and just what she gets up to in that box.
James Macfarlane interviews Sid Singh about his new Fringe show Table For One, the differences between UK and American audiences and standing up to the government.
We've seen from shows such as Fleabag in 2013 that success at your Edinburgh debut show can lead to worldwide success.
James Macfarlane chats with the one and only Paul Merton about 20 years of Impro Chums, how to succeed in improvisational comedy and some of his favourite on-stage moments.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
James Macfarlane chats with comedian Robin Tran about her Fringe debut, how she deals with praise from big comedy names and her favourite way to control her audiences.
James Macfarlane chats with Tania Lacy about returning to the Fringe after 29 years with her show Everything's Coming Up Roses, her love of home crowds and her illustrious showbiz ...
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with magician and mentalist Colin Cloud to discuss his new Edinburgh Fringe show After Dark, adjusting to Zoom life and why he...
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with MC Hammersmith to discuss raps, rhymes and his new Edinburgh show Straight Outta Brompton.
James Macfarlane sits down with the one and only Danny Beard to discuss their debut Fringe show Danny Beard and Their Band, life since winning RuPaul's Drag Race UK and why the art...
"I think it just reminds people of a simpler time. So it is comforting. And not so politically correct!"
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
After the glorious sunshine of the opening weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking that the fun might be over.
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Daphne is a coming-of-age movie about a 28, sorry, 31-year-old woman who witnesses a stabbing in a corner shop.
Rehearsal photos released of Julian Clary and James Nelson-Joyce in the world première of the two-handed black comedy, Le Grand Mort.
Mutterings about star ratings are as much a part of the Fringe as plastic pint glasses.
In 2005 it was revealed that author JT LeRoy was in fact a hoax – written by Laura Albert but played in person by her sister in law Savannah Knoop.
Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil.
Writer and actor Milly Thomas is best known in the theatre world for her 2016 play Clickbait and for writing an episode of Clique on BBC Three.
Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and The American Music Theatre Project at Northwestern University have teamed up to bring two brand-new musicals to the Fringe.
Glenn Chandler, creator of the legendary Taggart, has become known at the Fringe for his plays exploring different facets of gay life.
As the Edinburgh International Festival and its Fringe celebrate their 70th anniversaries, Broadway Baby’s James T.
West End and Broadway sensation Rachel Tucker makes her debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in two intimate concerts at the Pleasance.
Modern Life Is Rubbish is romantic comedy about a couple whose love of music brings them together as well as revealing their differences.
Let Me Go is a feature film based on the true life of Helga Schneider (Juliet Stevenson) - whose mother was a Nazi war criminal.
When it was first staged in 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s prison-set Julius Caesar was called “gimmicky, humourless and slow” by the Telegraph and “witty, liberating and inventive...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
At the largest arts festival in the world, it's easy to forget that theatre wasn't always welcome in Britain.
Macabre comedy company Kill The Beast (Peter Brook and Manchester Theatre Award winners) return to the Fringe with their 70s werewolf spectacular He Had Hairy Hands and a new 80s f...
Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More is the story of a high-society fashion journalist recruited by MI5 to facilitate the abdication of King Edward VIII.
How To Win Against History has been awarded the prestigious Bobby Award, Broadway Baby’s sixth star awarded to the very cream of Fringe performances.
It’s been 400 years since William Shakespeare shuffled off to wherever he is now, and the Fringe guide is filled with his plays—possibly even more productions than usual, which...
Alice Munro’s short-story collection The View from Castle Rock fictionalises the real-life history of her ancestors’ economic migration from Scotland to Canada.
How to Win Against History is a new musical about Henry Cyril Paget, an eccentric, cross-dressing marquis who was written out of history by his family.
Poet Rupert Brooke is known for the patriotic poetry he wrote as World War One got under way, but most know little about the trail of broken hearts he left through Edwardian counte...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
Based on it’s performers’ real-life stand-up material, Jailmates is a love story about an unlikely couple who meet on a pen-pal website jailmates.
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...
The elderly residents of a care home just off the A1 are waiting to die, some of them less quietly than others.
Does a prophesy merely predict the future, or does it help to make it happen? New comedy drama In Tents and Purposes at the Assembly aims to find out, via time travel, Brechtian al...
He prefers getting up early, likes music and isn't adverse to a man in a kilt. We take Canuck Christopher Wilson on a first date (and we quite liked it).
It’s the late 80s.
Multi award-winning comedian James Meehan wonders where all the working class comedians have gone.
Screenwriter, producer and director Tom Kinninmont’s latest feature film, The Carer, starring Brian Cox, made its European premiere at 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Kids in Love made its world premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Kevin Mclean is one of the organizers of Loud Poets, a poetry collective entering its third year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Ever needed a guide to be a man? Perhaps you've read books, looked on the internet and searched for answers.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
Rona Munro is an award-winning Scottish writer for theatre, television and radio.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe...
Matt Tedford’s drag incarnation as Margaret Thatcher started life as a simple Halloween joke but has since taken on a bit of a life of her own, winning him Best Male Performer at...
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
Special guest Pete Shaw, Publisher of Broadway Baby, joins James T Harding and Grace Knight for ice cream and the second episode of Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Join Broadway Baby Features Team James T Harding and Grace C Knight for the very first ever of all time Broadway Baby Breakfast.
Well-travelled poet Carys ‘Matic’ Jones brings Professional Nomad: What Happens When a Gap Year Becomes a Gap Decade? to Clerk's Bar this August.
Poet and performer Harry Giles, of former Guardian Best-of-the-Fringe fame, is bringing his new show Drone to Summerhall with the SHIFT/ collective this August.
Poet Stan Skinny brings Love Poems For The Feint Hearted to the PBH Free Frnge this year.
In the first of Broadway Baby's The Poets are Coming series, Ben Norris tells us about his one-man show The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Family, a look at fathers and sons thro...
Ali Maloney of the SHIFT/ collective tells us about HYDRONOMICON, his tentacle-related spoken-word show at Summerhall this August.
Andrew Blair gives Broadway Baby a taste of his spoken-word show This is Poetry with Ross McCleary, an exploration of fictional Edinburgh not at all based on the film Troll 2.
TED talk-giver Agnes Török gives us a tantalising preview of her spoken-word show If You're Happy and You Know It – Take This Survey, which is set to premiere&nb...
Matthew Harvey is bringing his stand-up poetry show Matthew Havey is... Dangerman! to the Fringe all the way from New Zealand.
Slam champion and Fringe veteran Tina Sederholm is bringing The Good Delusion to the Banshee Labyrinth this August.
Broadway Baby favourite Sophia Walker has won Best Spoken Word Show for two years running.
Scientist Mike Galsworthy is doing something rather different at Clerk's Bar this Fringe...
Fig leaves, female figures and chocolate cake will feature heavily in poet Alex Marsh's Fringe.
Dan Simpson is doing six shows at the Fringe this year. Six. Did I mention he's doing SIX SHOWS?
Six months after his first poetry collection is published, world slam champion Harry Baker is heading to the Fringe with Harry Baker - The Sunshine Kid.
Edinburgh man Matthew Macdonald brings Something Wicked This Way Comes to the Fringe this August, following his debut with Who Are Your People? last year.
Hairy poet and impro pianist Colin Bramwell brings his debut solo show Scale to the Pilgrim this Fringe. Expect Highlands kitsch without the kitsch.
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
Loud Poet Sara Hirsch is bringing her debut spoken-word show, How Was It For You?, up to Clerk's Bar this August.
Poet Max Scratchmann will star alongside Alec Beattie in Edinburgh in the Shadows this August.
Scottish poet Rachel Amey is set to perform Peacock Blue as part of the SHIFT/ collective at Summerhall this August.
Gerard Logan will be performing in three spoken-word shows this Fringe, two based on the work of Oscar Wilde and one on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece".
Glaswegian-born poet Colin McGuire is set to debut his first solo show, The Wake Up Call, themed around sleep and sexuiality.
Director Alexandra Spencer-Jones of Action to the Word made her name with her all-male production A Clockwork Orange, currently touring with Glynis Henderson Productions.
Comedian Lucy Porter’s first foray into theatre, The Fair Intellectual Club, plays at the Assembly Rooms this August.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was the first show to win a coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award this Fringe.
Miles Allen is the star of One Man Breaking Bad, a solo show which ambitiously retells all of Breaking Bad in sixty minutes - that's just under one minute per episode.
Chris Dolan is a Fringe First-winning writer, whose Scottish Independence-themed play The Pitiless Storm runs at the Assembly Rooms until the end of August starring David Hayman.
Oliver Lansley (artistic director) and James Seager (associate producer) are the masterminds behind Les Enfants Terribles, a theatre company now in its thirteenth year at the Fring...
withWings Theatre Company's The Duck Pond, a music and physical theatre-heavy adaptation of Swan Lake, has enjoyed a sell-out run at the Bedlam Theatre so far this August.
Stephanie Dale is a playwright with work produced by BBC Radio 4 and Birmingham REP among others.
Sophia Walker is the reigning BBC Slam champion and winner of multiple awards for her spoken-word show Around the World in Eight Mistakes.
Casual Violence are a five-man comedy sketch troupe who have been performing sketch comedy at the Fringe since 2010, this year bringing the comedy play The Great Fire of Nostril to...
Dag Andersson and Tove Sahlin are a real-life couple and the artistic directors of Shake it Collaborations, a Swedish performance company examining body and identity politics.
Steve Green is the artistic director of Fourth Monkey Theatre company, which this year brings five productions to the Fringe including Alice, a site-specific adaptation of the Lewi...
2013 Performance Poetry World Cup Champion Scott Wings, part of the Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company in Brisbane, is performing his one-man spoken word/physical theatre Icarus F...
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Alex Brockie is a midlands-based theatre maker whose play about a Mexican-wrestling star fallen on hard times, El Británico, is coming to theSpace this August.
Lewis Ironside is the director of Shit-faced Shakespeare, everyone's favourite inebriated classical theatre series, returning to the Fringe for the fifth year with a run at the Und...
Sam O’Rourke is co-writer and co-director of Much Ado About Zombies, a play coming to theSpace this August that.
Andrew J Davies is the writer and producer of What A Gay Play, a shamelessly raunchy play about a group of gay friends playing at C venues this August.
Patrick Wilde is a writer and director who's been a formative influence in British gay theatre since his What’s Wrong With Angry? was first mounted in 90s London.
Comedian David O'Doherty will host a one-off gig tomorrow to pay the temporary theatre license fee for his friend’s site-specific comedy horror show in a six-seater caravan.
Best known for playing Albert in the National Theatre's War Horse, actor Jack Holden is about to star in Awkward Conversations With Animals I've F*cked, Rob Hayes's new play about ...
Laura Witz founded the Edinburgh-based Charlotte Productions in 2009 and has since brought numerous plays about female history to the Fringe, including 2012’s Miss Marchbanks.
MargOH! Channing and MAN-ee Champagne are two delightful queens bringing fermented realness from New York to Edinburgh this August for a late-night run at The Laughing Horse.
A finalist at the Windsor Fringe Drama Festival, Julie Ford is preparing to premiere her new play, Totally Devoted, at theSpace this Fringe.
Musician, comedian and actor Ben Fairey, known for his acting roles in Channel 4’s Random Acts and M.