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Brighton Academy Performing Arts Showcase

Brighton Academy Performing Arts Showcase

The Brighton Academy (TBA) Performing Arts Degree Showcase.  

Brighton Academy Musical Theatre Showcase

Brighton Academy Musical Theatre Showcase

The Brighton Academy (TBA) Musical Theatre Degree Showcase.  

Garrett Millerick Needs More Space

Garrett Millerick Needs More Space

Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, sees comedy’s ‘angriest optimist’ return for a hilarious, honest, and mostly historically accurate, exploration of … 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Mazz Murray: The Music of Dusty Springfield

Mazz Murray: The Music of Dusty Springfield

Current star of the West End’s *Mamma Mia!* and the voice of so many iconic musical roles, Mazz Murray will put her powerhouse vocals behind the songs of Dusty Springfield this N… 

Janey Godley: Why is She Still Here?

Janey Godley: Why is She Still Here?

Against all odds and filled with heaps of chemo Janey Godley returns this autumn. 

Janey Godley: Why is She Still Here?

Janey Godley: Why is She Still Here?

Against all odds and filled with heaps of chemo Janey Godley returns this autumn. 

The Legend Of Barry White: Let the Music Play

The Legend Of Barry White: Let the Music Play

THE ONLY UK TOURING SHOW DEDICATED TO THE MAESTRO AND LEGEND- BARRY WHITE! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Will… 

The Legend Of Barry White: Let the Music Play

The Legend Of Barry White: Let the Music Play

The only UK touring show dedicated to the maestro and legend - Barry White! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Wil… 

Why Am I So Single?

Why Am I So Single?

CALLING ALL THE LADIES, GAYDIES and THEYDIES. 

Keynote Talk: Gordon Brown

Keynote Talk: Gordon Brown

‘The world as it is and the world as it can be’. 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2024

Cadenza at the Fringe 2024

Edinburgh chamber choir Cadenza, under director Timothy Coleman, performs its ever-popular Fringe concert in the wonderful setting of Greyfriars Kirk. 

Celtic Harmonies: Àirdan Live at the Fringe

Celtic Harmonies: Àirdan Live at the Fringe

‘Raw energy and a modern young twist’ (Celtic Music Radio). 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe returns for a 12th year, presenting a unique and unforgettable way to entertain clients, colleagues and friends at the festival. 

Weather and People and Time

Weather and People and Time

Alan Reid, one of the most influential Scottish folk artists of his generation, and founding member of Battlefield Band, joins Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Larry Kaplan fo… 

ITVX Presents: Edinburgh Fringe

ITVX Presents: Edinburgh Fringe

Don’t miss the ultimate late-night comedy extravaganza! Join us for different line-ups every night, with known faces and new acts – all broadcast LIVE on ITVX. 

PBJ Presents... Favourites of the Fringe

PBJ Presents... Favourites of the Fringe

PBJ presents some of the best up-and-coming and established stand-up talent at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Book now to avoid disappointment! 

Are People Bad for You?

Are People Bad for You?

To live longer we should avoid smoking and fast food. 

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits A… 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in our 11th season, Nightpiece has screened over 335+ short films from the UK and across the world since 2014. 

Creationing Your Award-Winning Fringe Show with The Director!

Creationing Your Award-Winning Fringe Show with The Director!

The visionary behind the viral short film The Director – Work At Home (viewed in excess of a dozen times in four years) and champion of off-off-off-off-off-off Broadyway, The Dir… 

The Academy Trust: Under New Management!

The Academy Trust: Under New Management!

‘Should I hand in my notice?’ A question that resonates with every teacher, and Rachel is no exception. 

Why Do We Lie?

Why Do We Lie?

Why do we as humans lie? It’s in our nature, is it not? There’s a whole host of justifications, like not hurting someone’s feelings, protecting others, giving the illusion of… 

Fringe Fragments

Fringe Fragments

Produced by Dance Base, Fringe Fragments is a new pitching platform showcasing dance talent from around the world. 

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents and Other Really Old People – The Christmas Special

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents and Other Really Old People – The Christmas Special

It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha). 

Rosie Holt MP: Why We Were Right

Rosie Holt MP: Why We Were Right

Rosie Holt, the desperate and loyal Tory MP, famous for her viral twitter “interviews”, celebrates the launch of her new book as she explains to you, the British public, why the so… 

Keynote Talk: Caroline Criado Perez

Keynote Talk: Caroline Criado Perez

Discover the power of feminist data to brighten the world as we know it. 

Commedia and Half Mask Talk by Action Theatre (Italy)

Commedia and Half Mask Talk by Action Theatre (Italy)

Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the… 

Curmudgeon – Traditional Scottish Folk Music

Curmudgeon – Traditional Scottish Folk Music

A regular sell out at Edinburgh Fringe (including 2022 and 2023), Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots folk songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe reg… 

Sounds of St Cecilia's IV: A Music Notebook

Sounds of St Cecilia's IV: A Music Notebook

A programme exploring guitar music in Europe in the early 19th century, presented by Italian guitarist Luca Soattin. 

Bach Organ Music

Bach Organ Music

Programme includes the Partita O Gott, du frommer Gott, Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 535), and a selection of Chorale Preludes, on the world-famous Frobenius organ in the fabulous a… 

In the Mood – A Tribute to Glenn Miller and the Music of the 40s

In the Mood – A Tribute to Glenn Miller and the Music of the 40s

Immerse yourself in the timeless music of Glenn Miller and the music of the fabulous 40s with record-breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Festival closing service: Vespers. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Chapel

Nil penna sed usus – not the pen itself, but the skill in using it. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul’s Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul’s Church

Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise. 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Chapel

La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ. 

Murder at the Fringe

Murder at the Fringe

Mr John Winner has been found dead in his house in Morningside on the first anniversary of his huge lottery win. 

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

BEANBAG CONCERT SERIES Find a beanbag and lose yourself in the hypnotic sound of Alexander Grechaninov’s Passion Week. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Chapel

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Chapel

The Lord is my Shepherd: Sacred song of the English musical renaissance. 

Leith Comedy Festival Presents... The Edinburgh Fringe Edition

Leith Comedy Festival Presents... The Edinburgh Fringe Edition

Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians on the Fringe at the iconic Biscuit Factory in Leith. 

Celtic Harp Music with Harriet Earis

Celtic Harp Music with Harriet Earis

A lively, foot-tapping concert of Welsh, Irish and Scottish harp music from one of Europe’s finest exponents of the Celtic harp. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Music at the Church of the Sacred Heart

Faure’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms – The Howe Street Singers, directed by Les Shankland, perform Faure’s much loved Requiem and equally beautiful Cantique de Jea… 

20 Years of the Free Fringe Festival – Charity Gala Show

20 Years of the Free Fringe Festival – Charity Gala Show

A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Canongate Kirk

Refuge and the road home. 

David Vernon and Dick Lee: Reeds United. Music for Accordion and Clarinet from Around the World

David Vernon and Dick Lee: Reeds United. Music for Accordion and Clarinet from Around the World

‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com). 

Phil Henderson: Space Cowboy

Phil Henderson: Space Cowboy

‘Phil has extracted my loudest laugh of the Fringe’ (Scotsman). 

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibition at St Vincent's Chapel: Triptych of the Book of Revelation

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibition at St Vincent's Chapel: Triptych of the Book of Revelation

A three-panel painting depicting 122 texts from the last book in the Bible. 

Sacred Arts Festival Architecture at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Architecture at Church of the Sacred Heart

Living stones. 

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at Old Saint Paul’s Church: Dancing Ash Wednesday

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at Old Saint Paul’s Church: Dancing Ash Wednesday

TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth. 

Tez Ilyas: Talk to Tez

Tez Ilyas: Talk to Tez

Tez Ilyas, one of the most celebrated stars in British comedy, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour of his trademark, no-holds barred, hilarious, raucous crowd wor… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral: Sacred Jazz

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral: Sacred Jazz

Swing with the Spirit! In this innovative performance of sacred Jazz Schola Cantorum, the Catholic Cathedral’s celebrated choir directed by Michael Ferguson, is joined by Scottish … 

Janis: The Story, the Music, the Legend

Janis: The Story, the Music, the Legend

Presented by Rockology Productions Australia, this is a rockumentary showcasing Janice Smithers fronting a world-class band performing the hits of superstar Janis Joplin whilst gui… 

Fringe – The Musical

Fringe – The Musical

A hilarious musical comedy about a cherished family-run hairdressing salon in Essex. 

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

Sacred Arts Festival Exhibitions at St Columba's by the Castle: Re-imagining the Ruthwell Cross

The Ruthwell Cross is Scotland’s oldest Anglo-Saxon Christian monument. 

Green Home Festival

Green Home Festival

The climate emergency, net zero and soaring energy prices are the driving factors behind the Green Home Festival. 

Sacred Arts Festival Architecture at St Cuthbert's Parish Church and the Church of St John the Evangelist

Sacred Arts Festival Architecture at St Cuthbert's Parish Church and the Church of St John the Evangelist

Guided Tours. 

Edward's Talk – What's Driving You?

Edward's Talk – What's Driving You?

Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Church of the Sacred Heart

Live performance of selections chosen by the editors from the new edition of Scottish Religious Poetry. 

Festival

Festival

Festival at the Fringe 2024. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Canongate Kirk

Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts 2024 opening service, Sunday worship. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Kate Garraway

Iain Dale: All Talk with Kate Garraway

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk Election Hustings with Andrew Bowie MP, Stephen Flynn MP, Christine Jardine MP and Ian Murray MP

Iain Dale: All Talk Election Hustings with Andrew Bowie MP, Stephen Flynn MP, Christine Jardine MP and Ian Murray MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton

Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton

Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul. 

Classical Bagpipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

Classical Bagpipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument. 

Keynote Talk: Akala

Keynote Talk: Akala

Find solidarity in understanding the world we live in with the British Hip hop artist, author and social entrepreneur. 

Lady Chatterley's Liver / PBH Free Fringe

Lady Chatterley's Liver / PBH Free Fringe

Chaos Theory specialises in sketch, character and general off-the-wall comedy. 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Prière. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk Election Review with Michael Crick, Sir John Curtice and Brian Taylor

Iain Dale: All Talk Election Review with Michael Crick, Sir John Curtice and Brian Taylor

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi… 

The Corner Room at The Fringe

The Corner Room at The Fringe

A unique space hosted by Hope City Church nestled in the South Gyle Industrial Estate. 

Fever Pitch Academy Showcase 2024

Fever Pitch Academy Showcase 2024

A musical revue, featuring music from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, SpongeBob, Legally Blonde, Grease and loads more! For the students at FPA, it’s our Edinburgh Fringe debut … 

Django at the Fringe – Hard-Swinging Early Jazz

Django at the Fringe – Hard-Swinging Early Jazz

Straightforward hard-swinging string-led early jazz with a unique drummerless line-up evoking a collective spirit reminiscent of pre-war jazz. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Anas Sarwar MSP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Anas Sarwar MSP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia’s Hall for the third time. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Miriam Margolyes

Iain Dale: All Talk with Miriam Margolyes

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs 12” and 7” singles. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Humza Yousaf MSP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Humza Yousaf MSP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

The Stuff of Legends: The Sequel – Music of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole

The Stuff of Legends: The Sequel – Music of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole

The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic. 

Eurovision Binge at the Fringe

Eurovision Binge at the Fringe

Fresh from performing across Malmo and Copenhagen during this year’s Eurovision, Liverpool’s Over the Water Show Choir bring their set of chorally innovative Eurovision classics fr… 

The Music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass

The Music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass

The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is both beautifully simple and yet complex to convey. 

Swingtime with Brian Kellock and Dick Lee: The Music of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson

Swingtime with Brian Kellock and Dick Lee: The Music of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson

Piano wizard Brian and clarinet ace Dick combine to pay tribute to the King of Swing. ‘Fine playing, with some deliciously liquorice-toned clarinet’ (Scotsman). 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ben Shephard and Chris Kamara

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Dino Wiand: I Don't Like People Who Look Like Javier Bardem 2

Dino Wiand: I Don't Like People Who Look Like Javier Bardem 2

Dino Wiand is a Chaos Comedian who grew up in Glasgow and New York, often mistaken for looking like Javier Bardem. 

How to Mate: The Ted XXX Talk

How to Mate: The Ted XXX Talk

Last year Steve aced feminism. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Wes Streeting MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Wes Streeting MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Liz Truss MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Liz Truss MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Gina Miller

Iain Dale: All Talk with Gina Miller

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rachel Reeves MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rachel Reeves MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Pub Choir – Fringe Benefits

Pub Choir – Fringe Benefits

Pub Choir is low-key a big deal in Australia, but we realise that counts for nothing because it’s so far away! So here we are, flying around the world to prove our point: everybody… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ruth Davidson

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ruth Davidson

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Ukrainian Festival

Ukrainian Festival

The Ukrainian community has left its cultural mark on Scotland for generations, none more so than the displaced families who have settled temporarily in Scotland since 2022 after R… 

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

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… 

Marchmont Music

Marchmont Music

A series of free concerts at 2.30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the festival from up-and-coming young musicians. See website for details. 

A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – The Fringe Fatality

A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – The Fringe Fatality

Agatha Mystery’s The Rat-Trap makes its Fringe debut! But will it be curtains for the show when an actor is gruesomely murdered? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect ret… 

This is No Safe Space: Art in Capitalist Realism

This is No Safe Space: Art in Capitalist Realism

$65 billion USD worth of art was sold last year, yet 95% of artists can’t make a living. 

After the Rainbow: A Mystical Music-full Midlife Journey Through Oz

After the Rainbow: A Mystical Music-full Midlife Journey Through Oz

Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz. 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism

Return of the 2022 and 2023 hit show. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alex Salmond

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alex Salmond

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big Band Music

Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big Band Music

We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big band era. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

The smash-hit West End comedy, as heard on BBC Radio 4, celebrates its 11th glorious year at the Fringe! The all-star cast (featuring Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Graham Dickson an… 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at the Fringe for 20 years, an annual selection of the best in stand-up comedy in Edinburgh. 

Wait, Why Don't We Just Build a Boy?

Wait, Why Don't We Just Build a Boy?

Dolly’s forlorn. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr… 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me

June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me

The story of one of country music’s most iconic voices: June Carter Cash. 

21: The Music of Adele

21: The Music of Adele

Heartfelt homage to one of music’s most-awarded females. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

Why Am I (Still) Like This?

Why Am I (Still) Like This?

At 30, Nicole finally found out why she was like this (spoiler: it’s ADHD), but four years and one diagnosis later. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras, soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi platinum-selling records for the likes of Alfie Boe and Luke Evans, but now Juli… 

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

On an endless summer night, love’s joys and complications play out in triple-time. 

Lee Kyle and Friend: Not Morning People

Lee Kyle and Friend: Not Morning People

Lee has absolutely no wish to be up at this time, but he’ll do his best. 

Altitude Comedy Festival: The Late Show

Altitude Comedy Festival: The Late Show

The world’s best late show comes to the Fringe for the first time! Altitude Comedy Festival (Winner of Best Overseas Festival) boasts previous performers that include. 

Ollie Horn: Comedy for Toxic People (and Their Friends)

Ollie Horn: Comedy for Toxic People (and Their Friends)

Stick your tongue out, do a peace sign, and tilt your head. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a 12th hilarious year with another hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across the Fringe. 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

Walk on the wild side and go off the beaten track with a witty guided tour packed full of stories from Edinburgh’s past and present music scenes. 

The Sound of the Space Between

The Sound of the Space Between

In the darkness of grief, a man hears something calling. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a 12th hilarious year with another hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across the Fringe. 

A Dram Good Whisky Festival

A Dram Good Whisky Festival

After the success of last year’s inaugural event, we return, bigger and better. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Following sell-out runs worldwide, this award-winning show returns to take you on a moving journey through the career of a modern legend. 

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents and Other Really Old People

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents and Other Really Old People

Title says it all! *Evil laugh*. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone is welcome. 

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by Francesco Cardina… 

Dragon Shows for Babies

Dragon Shows for Babies

The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons. 

The History of Electronic Music

The History of Electronic Music

Vinney, a Comedian/DJ, uses a sampler to travel through time, raising the hairs on your neck. 

Conversations We Never Had, As People We'll Never Be

Conversations We Never Had, As People We'll Never Be

Have you ever wondered what your life would look like without the memory of the person who changed the way you see the world? After buying and consuming a pill online, Gina and Fra… 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy

The perfect way to start and end your Fringe day with late and afternoon shows consisting of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming stand-up comedians from a… 

Dragonory: Magic and Music at Edinburgh Fringe!

Dragonory: Magic and Music at Edinburgh Fringe!

Dive into Dragonory, the captivating family show at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosted by the charismatic George. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe, for all the family to enjoy together. 

Family Fortunes (But for Bad People)

Family Fortunes (But for Bad People)

Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people. 

Festival Exhibitions 2024

Festival Exhibitions 2024

Beyond the Clouds features new work from Geoff Uglow’s ongoing series inspired by Edinburgh alongside his evocative Italian landscapes, serene seascapes, and lush rose garden. 

Footstomping: Live Scottish Music

Footstomping: Live Scottish Music

Join us for a foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during August. 

Walls Talk

Walls Talk

Walls Talk brings together solo dancer Breandán de Gallaí and singer Gina Boreham in a deeply moving work. 

1001 Space Adventures: Breadlove and Poophead – Interactive Children Show

1001 Space Adventures: Breadlove and Poophead – Interactive Children Show

Join Breadlove and Poophead in a cosmic journey where your child isn’t just an audience member – they’re the hero of their own interstellar adventure! Will they save the galaxy? … 

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

Following on from it’s success in previous years, this delightful, funny show returns with a revolving line-up of the best and up-and-coming female comedians from around Edinburgh … 

UNPACKED at Camden Fringe

UNPACKED at Camden Fringe

In a new show about the dark truths lurking in the dance and fitness world, Aging Ballerina finds herself tumbling down a body-dysmorphic rabbit hole at her Hollywood audition for … 

Celya AB: Of All People

Celya AB: Of All People

Celya is good in a crisis but cries at flashmob videos. 

Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England

Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England

It’s the EURO 2020 Final at Wembley and Billy’s gone viral for sticking a flare up his arse! Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England is a blisteringly funny new play that return… 

Captain Zak's Space Pirate Problems

Captain Zak's Space Pirate Problems

Captain Zak: Space Pirate has crash landed his ship back at the Pleasance, and he needs your help! He’s stuck with his broken-down spaceship but with your help answering questions,… 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment. 

Mum and I Don't Talk Anymore by Milanka Brooks

Mum and I Don't Talk Anymore by Milanka Brooks

A funny, candid and poignant solo show about the unique and crazy relationship between Milanka and her flamboyant Serbian mother, Lela. 

Katie Pritchard: I Kiss The Music

Katie Pritchard: I Kiss The Music

The Stand 4 Arena. 

Horatio Gould: Return of the Space Cowboy

Horatio Gould: Return of the Space Cowboy

After his sell-out debut, Horatio brings his much-anticipated second show. 

Why Did I Crush My Balls? And Other Tales from the Generation of Too Much

Why Did I Crush My Balls? And Other Tales from the Generation of Too Much

It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level. 

Fringe! The Musical

Fringe! The Musical

Chantelle Duprée always dreamed of becoming a star! From her “humble” upbringing in an American mid-western town, she decides to travel across the pond to perform a one-woman show… 

Serious Theatre from Serious People

Serious Theatre from Serious People

At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success. 

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian. 

An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People

An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People

When his mother was diagnosed with cancer, Ricky was faced with a question: Is now the right time to come out? After rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Ricky Sim returns with t… 

Will Sebag-Montefiore: Will of the People

Will Sebag-Montefiore: Will of the People

Will Sebag-Montefiore is a satirist who turns the news into sketches and songs despite not being very smart. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase, hoste… 

Character Building Experience

Character Building Experience

Character Building Experience is a Dungeons-and-Dragons-style comedic interactive roleplaying game show, suitable for the experts, the novices and the uninitiated-but-curious. 

Erin Farrington – Think Better: Manifesting Money, Real Estate and Hot People

Erin Farrington – Think Better: Manifesting Money, Real Estate and Hot People

Ugly? Poor? Does your life suck ass? Or do you just think it does?! Learn how to manifest a better life by simply just thinking hard and good. 

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

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 … 

Garrett Millerick Needs More Space

Garrett Millerick Needs More Space

Comedy’s angriest optimist returns for a hilarious, honest and mostly historically accurate, exploration of space travel, his totally insignificant place in the universe and how … 

Erika Ehler: I Got Some Dope Ass Memories With People That I'll Never F*ck With Again

Erika Ehler: I Got Some Dope Ass Memories With People That I'll Never F*ck With Again

Erika Ehler navigates the disturbing reality of what it’s like to be young, hot and yet so alone; platonic relationships and the bittersweet transition of hangouts becoming reuni… 

Invisible Space

Invisible Space

Invisible Space connects you with familiar and the new, redefining inessential relationships. 

Procreate at Ventnor Fringe

Procreate at Ventnor Fringe

“Remember - your life is over when you become a parent. 

South London Previews Festival: Oh, Calm Down

South London Previews Festival: Oh, Calm Down

1999. 

South London Previews Festival: Battle Counters!

South London Previews Festival: Battle Counters!

Inspired by noughties cartoons such as Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragonball-Z, Battle Counters! is a sugar rush of a two-hander. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

Binge on the Edinburgh Fringe without leaving London! The UK’s leading comedy website, Chortle, presents a jam-packed bill of 28 comedy and variety acts headi… 

Irish Youth Dance Festival

Irish Youth Dance Festival

The Irish Youth Dance Festival (IYDF), produced by Dublin Youth Dance Company, offers a national platform to showcase young emerging dancers performing works of leading … 

What If You Could See Music?

What If You Could See Music?

What if you could see music? Award-winning concert pianist and inventor Larkhall takes us on a virtuoso multi-sensory journey. 

That F*cking Seagull or Why Masha Always Wears Black

That F*cking Seagull or Why Masha Always Wears Black

Welcome to Russia! With your help Maria uses live cinema, a killer soundtrack, a questionable Russian accent, and the only lines from the play she can remember to transport you … 

BUILDING

BUILDING

A performance in French Building or the ordinary madness of the corporate world gone wrong. 

That’s Why Mums go to Switzerland

That’s Why Mums go to Switzerland

In the spirit of airing her dirty laundry in public, Bonnie Oddie tells her story of becoming “A bad mother and a bad daughter at the very same time”. 

PACE+ Lab ‘The Artist as Cultural Diplomat - Building International (Performing) Arts Networks’

PACE+ Lab ‘The Artist as Cultural Diplomat - Building International (Performing) Arts Networks’

BUILDING INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS & THE ARTIST AS CULTURAL DIPLOMAT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-Executive directors of the Pan-Afric… 

Why I Won't Miss My Mother

Why I Won't Miss My Mother

Amy wanders around her old dollhouse. 

Fringe Academy: An Introduction to Forum Theatre

Fringe Academy: An Introduction to Forum Theatre

Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th. 

Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act Fringe Management (Scotland)

Sherlock Holmes: The Last Act Fringe Management (Scotland)

The year is 1916. 

Ollie Horn: Comedy for Toxic People

Ollie Horn: Comedy for Toxic People

Ollie Horn returns to Brighton with an unmissable hour of highly-interactive, energetic and laugh out loud stand-up comedy. 

Jane Postlethwaite: Terrible People

Jane Postlethwaite: Terrible People

*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* Terrible people is a new stand up comedy show from comedy award finalist Jane Postlethwaite (Cumbrian / LGBTQI+ Stand Up Comedian) Ter… 

KOMEDIA Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

KOMEDIA Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe. 

Fringe Academy: The Future of Brighton Fringe

Fringe Academy: The Future of Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

MY BF WOULDNT BUY A STUPID WINDOW (Why I Did and Don't Regret It)

MY BF WOULDNT BUY A STUPID WINDOW (Why I Did and Don't Regret It)

My BF Wouldn’t Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don’t Regret It) is a brand new, gay rom-com about a neurodivergent queer man and his obsession over a window found in a thrift sa… 

My BF Wouldn't Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don't Regret It)

My BF Wouldn't Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don't Regret It)

My BF Wouldn’t Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don’t Regret It) is a brand new, gay rom-com about a neurodivergent queer man and his obsession over a window found in a thrift sa… 

Llama On The Fringe!

Llama On The Fringe!

JoeJas is bringing his brain child Fat Llama to Brighton fringe for a fun night of genre bending! JoeJas started Fat Llama 2014 and the events portion in 2016 because he felt there… 

Fringe Flicks

Fringe Flicks

Join Brighton Fringe for our first ever shorts programme, Fringe Flicks. 

Ben Carter: How to Approach People and Make Friends (Volume II)

Ben Carter: How to Approach People and Make Friends (Volume II)

After his 2018 sell-out run Join Ben Carter for ‘How to Approach People and Make Friends (Volume II)’ as he desperately attempts to boost his social circle, whether dressed as the … 

Festival of Korean Dance

Festival of Korean Dance

  • Listing
    • Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
  • UK Regional & Tours
  • Multiple Venues
  • 16th - 24th May 2024

A Festival of Korean Dance will return to The Place for its seventh year, and for the first time will tour to Scotland followed by its UK tour in Newcastle, London and Bournemouth … 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Join Geoff Robb, winner of the Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and virtuoso guitar that promises to transport you out into the woods. 

Pop Collaborate and Listen 90's Music Quiz

Pop Collaborate and Listen 90's Music Quiz

Comedian Dave Fensome and Krister Greer, the team behind the chart topping podcast Pop, Collaborate & Listen, bring you a panel-based 90s music quiz where the audience can play alo… 

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with Chichester Festival Theatre

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with Chichester Festival Theatre

Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe. 

People Places and Things

People Places and Things

Emma was having the time of her life. 

Music for Cats

Music for Cats

Time travel has always been in the public consciousness, with early influences such as HG Well's The Time Machine. 

Fringe Academy: Engaging with UK Fringe Festivals, featuring Edinburgh Fringe

Fringe Academy: Engaging with UK Fringe Festivals, featuring Edinburgh Fringe

Meet the Edinburgh Fringe team for coffee, biscuits and chat! Get an insight into how open-access arts festivals work in the UK and how to get involved. 

Rhapsodising in Blue - the music of Gershwin

Rhapsodising in Blue - the music of Gershwin

Kate Daniels has a beautiful voice perfectly suited to the elegance of Gershwin, as well as an enchanting way of dropping nuggets of biographical detail. 

Paul Richards: I Could Literally Talk For Hours About What Went Wrong

Paul Richards: I Could Literally Talk For Hours About What Went Wrong

Multi-award-winning writer/performer Paul Richards returns with a radical percussion-led comedy about the perils of turning middle age and suddenly doubting absolutely everything. 

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with World Fringe and NRTF

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with World Fringe and NRTF

Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe. 

Sex Academy: Open Day

Sex Academy: Open Day

Welcome to Sex Academy Open Day. 

Fringe Academy: Networking at The Ledward Centre

Fringe Academy: Networking at The Ledward Centre

Come to The Ledward Centre for an hour of networking with the Brighton Fringe team, artists and participants. 

Fringe Academy: Networking at North Laine Brewhouse

Fringe Academy: Networking at North Laine Brewhouse

Come to the North Laine pub (Wiff Waff area) for an hour of networking with the Brighton Fringe team, artists and participants. 

Organ Music at St. Barts

Organ Music at St. Barts

Lunchtime concerts on the fine organ at St. 

Delivering the Impossible: A Short Talk About How to Rule the World

Delivering the Impossible: A Short Talk About How to Rule the World

Do you have an idea for a creative project? How can you make that idea a reality? Mark Stringer can help you. 

Beach Box returns to the Fringe: Where Brighton's love of sauna all began

Beach Box returns to the Fringe: Where Brighton's love of sauna all began

Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey. 

Saint Michael's Church: Music Events

Saint Michael's Church: Music Events

Bank holiday 6/5 classical music with the Elegia Consort [Daria Robertson, soprano, Paul Houston, clarinet, Andrew Storey, piano] including music by Rimsky-Korsakov 12/5 Ellie Bl… 

Lewes Curious - Music Bites

Lewes Curious - Music Bites

A feast of Music Bites at Depot, Lewes, under their Dalliance event. 

Mic Records Fringe 2024 Edition

Mic Records Fringe 2024 Edition

Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts. 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at Brighton Fringe for 16 years, an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from the Fringe and around Brighton in a late afternoon show full of fun and laughter. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Family Fortunes (But for Bad People)

Family Fortunes (But for Bad People)

Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people. 

Fringe Academy: The Mark Carr & Co Sessions

Fringe Academy: The Mark Carr & Co Sessions

Time for you, coffee, cake and chat. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

  • Listing
    • Comedy
  • Brighton Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 5th May 2023 - 2nd Jun 2024

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Brighton Fringe! This show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastical… 

People, Places & Things

People, Places & Things

You don’t get many second chances in life. 

Falmer Fringe Concerts

Falmer Fringe Concerts

A selection of recitals: Friday 3rd May, 7. 

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe

Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and… 

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

This festival concert is a highlight of the year. 

Peckham Fringe Festival

Peckham Fringe Festival

Returning for a third year, Peckham Fringe are back for 2024! This inclusive and dynamic performing arts festival will take place at Theatre Peckham, showcasing a lineup of over 20… 

Fringe Academy: How to Flyer in 2024

Fringe Academy: How to Flyer in 2024

Flyering regulations have changed in Brighton and Hove for 2024, join the Brighton Fringe team to learn about flyering this Fringe. 

Fringe Academy: Meeting Other Brighton Fringe First-Timers

Fringe Academy: Meeting Other Brighton Fringe First-Timers

A networking opportunity to meet other Brighton Fringe artists and venues who are also taking part for the first time in 2024. 

Fringe Academy: Press Panel

Fringe Academy: Press Panel

Wondering how to attract press to your Brighton Fringe event? Join this panel session to learn about press releases, reviews, and more! This Fringe Academy will operate in a Q&A s… 

Elixir Festival

Elixir Festival

Grand Junction has announced its programme for Elixir Festival taking place from 12th April, celebrating Arabic artworks culturally resonant for local communities and wider London … 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Space Deli: The Musical

Space Deli: The Musical

A new-wave comedy musical in space!Work is normally boring for best friends Thordan and Fourdee, until a new co-worker shakes things up at Ralph’s Space Deli!Writt… 

An Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People

What is truth without power?Matt Smith stars in the critically acclaimed An Enemy of the People, Thomas Ostermeier’s bold reimagining of the classic play by Henrik Ibsen. 

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

Music is something that we are all touched by. 

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

Music is something that we are all touched by. 

Shimmy & Shine Festival

Shimmy & Shine Festival

Immerse yourself in belly dance as world-class performers take the stage. 

Pram Talk

Pram Talk

Pram Talk is a timely, authentic and entertaining dramatic monologue which follows a new mum who has kept her baby a secret from the toxic father. 

Life Lines: Poetry, Dance and Music by Sage Dance Company, Rack Press Poets

Life Lines: Poetry, Dance and Music by Sage Dance Company, Rack Press Poets

A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry … 

Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton

After a hugely successful sell-out world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013, and a further two performances in December 2014, Danny Elfman’s Music from the… 

Legend-The Music Of Bob Marley

Legend-The Music Of Bob Marley

When you think reggae, there is only one name that comes to mind. 

Talk Of The Devils Live

Talk Of The Devils Live

Talk of the Devils - the world’s biggest Man United podcast - is live in London for the very first time, one night only this September. 

International Ghost Appreciation Academy

International Ghost Appreciation Academy

With a curriculum drawn from the seminal ghost hunting manual Ghost Hunting for Dummies, the International Ghost Appreciation Academy is a 45-minute introduction to ghost hunting, … 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2023

Cadenza at the Fringe 2023

Under new director Timothy Coleman Cadenza performs music of three women composers: a new commission for choir by Janet Wheeler dedicated to our former Director Jenny Sumerling, Th… 

Music in Charlotte Square

Music in Charlotte Square

A free, open-air celebration to close out the final weekend of the 2023 International Festival. 

LS2 F'n Good Music

LS2 F'n Good Music

An Americana-soul acoustic group from California, Linda Stonestreet – a honeyed voice full of grace and fire – lends beautiful melodies with intelligent heartfelt lyrics and is… 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

An exclusive evening that presents the best of the year’s Fringe acts together in one evening of comedy and fine dining. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Curmudgeon: Scottish Folk Music

Curmudgeon: Scottish Folk Music

Sold out at AMC 2022! Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Media, the production company of filmmaker Al Carretta, have been filmmaking disruptors since 2010. 

Scottish Traditional Building Festival

Scottish Traditional Building Festival

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum presents the 11th annual Scottish Traditional Building Festival by bringing you 12 information-packed shows for those who love, care for, o… 

The Sorcerer

The Sorcerer

St Andrews University’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society is in sparkling form with their presentation of this little known show. 

We Are, in Fact, the Problem

We Are, in Fact, the Problem

That most middle class of events, the dinner party, can be a night of stimulating conversation, wonderful company and dramatic revelation. 

A Night at the Musicals – Spotlights Show Choir

A Night at the Musicals – Spotlights Show Choir

Is Exeter University emerging as the new powerhouse in student musical groups on the Edinburgh Fringe? Let’s not complicate this - the answer is simply but emphatically Yes. 

The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance

Cat-Like Tread makes a welcome post-Covid return to the Fringe with this ever-popular jolly romp, a Gilbert and Sullivan classic and a dashed good night out. 

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Thomas Hughes’ novel of 1857 is as seminal as Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby in exposing scholastic malpractice in the 19th century. 

Conversations We Never Had, as People We'll Never Be

Conversations We Never Had, as People We'll Never Be

Have you ever wondered what your life would look like without the memory of the person who changed the way you see the world? In the depths of heartbreak, Gina takes a pill that sh… 

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Where would school theatre be without A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night? The latter is certainly a popular Shakespeare play for drama educators, with its saga of shipwr… 

The Father

The Father

It isn’t easy representing old age on stage. 

The Bite, Late-Night (A Mouthful of Fringe Mayhem)

The Bite, Late-Night (A Mouthful of Fringe Mayhem)

Raucous, wild and an incy bit different – this one-hour compilation show with a changing nightly lineup, gives you a fabulous cross section of Fringe mayhem in one wild bite-size… 

The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie – Martin Kershaw/Colin Steele Quintet

The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie – Martin Kershaw/Colin Steele Quintet

A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators. 

Django at the Fringe: A Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli

Django at the Fringe: A Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli

Scottish/English violinist Matt Holborn and a group of London-based musicians formed for this year’s Fringe, known internationally for their distinctive hard-swinging approach to… 

Rave Forever – Fringe Special feat Yogi Haughton

Rave Forever – Fringe Special feat Yogi Haughton

Rave Forever is back at Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms this August for a 5am-finish Fringe special with the man responsible for bringing Acid House to Scotland back in the late 80s, the … 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent's Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent's Stockbridge

The Robin Chapel, built in 1950 at the centre of a unique Edinburgh housing complex, The Thistle Foundation, is a memorial to Robin Tudsbury and well known for its excellent choir. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 3

The Art of Ecclesiastical Heraldry. 

Deaf Festival Party

Deaf Festival Party

Join Deaf Action as we celebrate the end of our second annual Edinburgh Deaf Festival! Get into the groove with renowned deaf DJ John McDevitt (Def Beatz) as he guides you through … 

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Every show starts by asking the audience: Why can’t we have nice things? What are the little everyday niggles that irritate you? Does your flatmate squeeze the toothpaste from th… 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's Church

Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry. 

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music by British Composer Girish Paul is a dramatic concert by the multi-instrumentalist and his virtual orchestra. 

Cathedral Choir Concert: Music for Royal Occasions

Cathedral Choir Concert: Music for Royal Occasions

The internationally renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings music from coronations and royal occasions past and present. 

Cello and Piano Recital: Music of Love

Cello and Piano Recital: Music of Love

Christine and Nancy invite you to a lunchtime recital of beautiful music including the joyous Beethoven Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Cesar Franck’s passionate Sonata for pian… 

Between the Lines: Music, Poetry and the Spaces Between

Between the Lines: Music, Poetry and the Spaces Between

Nicola Burnett Smith, together with her ensemble of actor-musicians, explores how the written word can ignite and inspire musical composition. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s Window. 

Music of Morris Pert

Music of Morris Pert

Arbroath-born Morris Pert (1947-2010) was best known for his session work with Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and many others. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 2

Basia Mindewicz, Director of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, explains the artistic techniques and spiritual inspiration behind one of the most venerated forms of sacred art. 

The Fringe at Prestonfield: Hosted by Christopher Biggins

The Fringe at Prestonfield: Hosted by Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins requests your pleasure for our inaugural season of cabaret and chat at this illustrious venue. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent's Stockbridge

God’s Craftsmen. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 1

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent's Stockbridge 1

The Art of the Icon. 

The White Heather Club's Fringe Ceilidh

The White Heather Club's Fringe Ceilidh

Book your spot at the The White Heather Club for a night of traditional Scottish dancing at Bonnie & Wild’s legendary Food Hall in the St James Quarter. 

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

Sacred Arts Festival Film at St Vincent's Undercroft

The Desert in the Heart of the World is a filmic study of the impact of the Carthusian monastic movement on the French landscape. 

I'm Doing the Edinburgh Fringe With My Grandad

I'm Doing the Edinburgh Fringe With My Grandad

Offbeat intergenerational stand-up from two of Bristol’s most inventive new comedians, Greg Curzon (‘hilarious. 

Tim Kraft Live at the Edinburgh Fringe

Tim Kraft Live at the Edinburgh Fringe

All the way from Canada, Tim Kraft joins Hootenannies (Hoot 4) at The Apex for an hour of stand-up comedy live at the Edinburgh Fringe, from 17th to 20th August at 18:20. 

Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)

Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)

World-class entertainer Brown returns from his five-star musical A Man, A Magic, A Music presenting a dazzling journey through Sam Cooke’s life: The King of Soul Music. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation. 

Jacob Hawley: SPACE WIP

Jacob Hawley: SPACE WIP

Jacob Hawley is a SILVER ARIA Winner, has been recommended by the British Comedy Guide for producing ‘an impeccable hour of man and mic stand up’, has been awarded 4 stars by T… 

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Constantly rotating line-up of the best comics at this year’s festival. 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

As seen on HBO & BBC, Dian Cathal brings you a new comedy hour about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us. 

Jacob Hawley: SPACE WIP

Jacob Hawley: SPACE WIP

Jacob Hawley is a SILVER ARIA Winner, has been recommended by the British Comedy Guide for producing ‘an impeccable hour of man and mic stand up’, has been awarded 4 stars by T… 

Scottish Traditional Music – Old and New

Scottish Traditional Music – Old and New

Come and enjoy our blend of Scottish traditional instruments! In decades of developing our sound we’ve brought together fiddles, concertina, clarsach, wire-strung harp, flute, smal… 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

As seen on HBO & BBC, Dian Cathal brings you a new comedy hour about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sanctified Royalty: Jacobite Relics and the Divine Right of Kings. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Greyfriars Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at Greyfriars Kirk

Spirituality, Faith and Belief: Voyages of Discovery. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Old Saint Paul's Church

In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape. 

Little Shop of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors

Flower arranging becomes a life and death hobby in Little Shop of Horrors, a popular-on-the-circuit science fiction cult musical classic. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old Saint Paul's

Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension. 

Here You Come Again

Here You Come Again

Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral

Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Michael and All Saints

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Michael and All Saints

In Robes of White. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Michael and All Saints

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Michael and All Saints

The Art of Vestment. 

DNA

DNA

What a wonderful play is DNA. 

Green Home Festival

Green Home Festival

The climate emergency, Net-Zero and soaring energy prices are the driving factors behind the Green Home Festival. 

Ed Gaughan: Words and Music

Ed Gaughan: Words and Music

Ed Gaughan has written, directed and performed work for and with the UK’s most-loved acts – including Milton Jones, Josie Long, Barry Cryer and Pappy’s. 

A Little Night Music: Cabaret After Dark

A Little Night Music: Cabaret After Dark

Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics. 

MacBeth

MacBeth

Some say that when actor-managers were struggling for money, they used to turn in desperation to the one play that could always guarantee an audience. 

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary pop icon status for chart-topping hits … 

Sounds of Simon, The Music of Paul Simon

Sounds of Simon, The Music of Paul Simon

From his years as the visionary in Simon and Garfunkel through to his many solo hits, journey through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time. 

Stanislaus and James

Stanislaus and James

This is a little treasure, the sort of performance that is easy to overlook but which enriches those who root it out. 

Edinburgh Fringe Fling

Edinburgh Fringe Fling

The Edinburgh Fringe Fling will debut at the Old Dr Bells Baths at this year’s Festival Fringe. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral

Gilbert Scott’s dramatic architectural landmark, with its three spires prominent in Edinburgh’s distinctive skyline, provides a magnificent setting for the Opening Service of t… 

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at St Vincent's Chapel Undercroft

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at St Vincent's Chapel Undercroft

The Mysteries – Reimagined. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St John's Princes Street

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St John's Princes Street

Songs of Displacement. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir John Curtice and Brian Taylor

Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir John Curtice and Brian Taylor

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Darren McGarvey’s Common People

Darren McGarvey’s Common People

On a sunny afternoon in the mid-90s, a young ginger-haired boy is making his way across town to reach his psychologist appointment. 

Healthy Harmonies at the Fringe

Healthy Harmonies at the Fringe

Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife staff choir, is once again delighted to be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe – very much a highlight in the choir’s diary. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Attila the Stockbroker's Early Music Show

Renowned punk poet and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker has loved early music ever since he grabbed a recorder aged about 8. 

Thank You for the Music

Thank You for the Music

Thank you for the Music takes you on a comic and quizzical journey through tough times. 

Museum Late: Fringe Fridays

Museum Late: Fringe Fridays

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Humza Yousaf MSP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Humza Yousaf MSP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie by Peter Bream. 

Cathedral Talk and Music: John Stainer – A Life in Music

Cathedral Talk and Music: John Stainer – A Life in Music

Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University), authority on British music from the 19th century, reflects on the life of Sir John Stainer and his most famous work, The Crucifixion. 

Roast Battle Scotland: Fringe 2023

Roast Battle Scotland: Fringe 2023

The show that turns smack talk into an art form. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s, 00s to present day. 

Leith Comedy Festival Presents...

Leith Comedy Festival Presents...

One night only! Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians at the legendary Biscuit Factory in Leith. 

Supporter Event: Budapest Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal

Supporter Event: Budapest Festival Orchestra Open Rehearsal

An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival. 

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Weber & Mendelssohn

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Weber & Mendelssohn

Discover an evening bursting with drama, mysticism and irresistible folk melodies from three great early 19th-century Romantics. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon MSP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon MSP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Bartók & Kodály

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Bartók & Kodály

Pianist Sir András Schiff and NYCOS National Girls Choir join the orchestra for a folk-influenced, all-Hungarian programme. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir Vince Cable

Iain Dale: All Talk with Sir Vince Cable

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Peter Hitchens and Polly Toynbee

Iain Dale: All Talk with Peter Hitchens and Polly Toynbee

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Dvořák Inside Out

Budapest Festival Orchestra: Dvořák Inside Out

Immerse yourself in Dvořák’s lively Eighth Symphony in this evening of music and conversation, presented in the round. 

Caledonia – Words and Music for Sir Walter

Caledonia – Words and Music for Sir Walter

Alasdair Hutton, the narrator of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo for 30 years, and Brian Taylor, former Political Editor of BBC Scotland, give readings from Scott’s works on th… 

Budapest Festival Orchestra: A Model for the Future

Budapest Festival Orchestra: A Model for the Future

Join Festival Director Nicola Benedetti in conversation with orchestra founder-conductor Iván Fischer, before a special performance showcasing the orchestra’s warmth, versatilit… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alex Salmond and David Davis MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alex Salmond and David Davis MP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Spirit of Ireland

Spirit of Ireland

Ireland has magnificent spirit, particularly when supported by the French. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Harriet Harman MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Harriet Harman MP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Wes Streeting MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Wes Streeting MP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Classical Bagpipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

Classical Bagpipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument. 

Press Start! A Live Video Game Music Adventure

Press Start! A Live Video Game Music Adventure

From the iconic themes of Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, to the funky beats of Sonic and Persona 5, this gig has something for everyone! With a fusion of different genres and sty… 

Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big-Band Music

Sound of Seventeen Big Band Celebrates the Golden Era of Big-Band Music

We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big-band era. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Penny Mordaunt MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Penny Mordaunt MP

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Chris Mullin and Sasha Swire

Iain Dale: All Talk with Chris Mullin and Sasha Swire

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

Drunk Fringe

Drunk Fringe

In Drunk Fringe, you will see some of the best comedy and variety acts after they’ve had one too many. 

Just Festival

Just Festival

Just Festival is Edinburgh’s human rights and social justice festival. 

Opening Fanfare: Scotland Makes Music

Opening Fanfare: Scotland Makes Music

Join us for this joyful celebration of Scotland’s homegrown music scene in Princes Street Gardens. 

Best of Camden Fringe

Best of Camden Fringe

Four mixed-bill nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe! Come down to Camden Comedy Club to see your fellow festival funny people get on stage and entertain us for 10-12 min… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey

Iain Dale’s ALL TALK political interviews have in recent years become something of a regular fixture of the Fringe circuit. 

Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People)

Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People)

Funny, horrible and a little bit naughty, this poetry show is perfect for children no matter how old. 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. 

Sofa SoFunny So Fringe

Sofa SoFunny So Fringe

Fringe version of the five-star hit comedy show by Leslie Gold (American) and Nick Kirk (not), with a different guest comedian each show. 

Best of Camden Fringe

Best of Camden Fringe

Four mixed-bill late nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe comedy! A set of different comic performers from across Camden Fringe will be on each night at Camden Comedy Clu… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Brave Space

Brave Space

Seeing the stars spangling Chicago based company Aloft Circus Arts’ posters for Brave Space, last year’s hit, you might wonder – is it as good as all that? The answer is yes,… 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

The smash-hit West End comedy, as heard on BBC Radio 4, celebrates its 10th glorious year at the Fringe! The all-star cast (featuring Rachel Parris, Graham Dickson, Cariad Lloyd an… 

Eva Cassidy Celebrating 60 Years

Eva Cassidy Celebrating 60 Years

I’m more of a casual Eva fan. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People)

Serious Nonsense (for Terribly Grown-Up People)

Funny, horrible and a little bit naughty, this poetry show is perfect for children no matter how old. 

Twenty People A Minute

Twenty People A Minute

Set not too far in the future, Twenty People a Minute follows four refugees of tomorrow on a perilous journey across the earth. 

Marchmont Music

Marchmont Music

A series of free afternoon concerts at 2:30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the festival from up-and-coming young musicians. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Mick Lynch

Iain Dale: All Talk with Mick Lynch

Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions. 

The Academy Trust

The Academy Trust

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the school gates? Why do people become teachers and then leave so soon? With schools being asked to become multi-academy trusts, the scho… 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

18 nights of the best in folk and acoustic music entertainment showcasing a different act each night. Seating is limited so book early to save disappointment. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for an 11th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across… 

Fringe Act of the Year

Fringe Act of the Year

The only Fringe award entirely decided by the audience. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show

A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from around the Fringe in a late show full of fun and laughter. 

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c… 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at the Fringe for 19 years, an annual selection of the best in stand-up comedy in Edinburgh. 

Why English?

Why English?

‘Why do I speak English??’ I have been asked this in an accusatory manner. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Following consecutive sold-out performances and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back To Black returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe to take you on a moving and energizing… 

Bad Play

Bad Play

Okay, let’s start at the beginning. 

If Walls Could Talk: The VAB Lab® HQ

If Walls Could Talk: The VAB Lab® HQ

The VAB Lab® – 2023’s urban-contemporary show partnered with the CyanSub™ for a full 24-hour experience! As the Vab Lab evolves, this year’s Fringe installment comes from our … 

Thank You for the Music

Thank You for the Music

Thank You for the Music, a new American musical revue, celebrates the greatest hits from radio, stage and screen. 

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

JazzMain presents Blue Note Nights. 

Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn't Fear The Dark)

Beasts (Why Girls Shouldn't Fear The Dark)

When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil. 

The Dram Good Whisky Festival

The Dram Good Whisky Festival

The Merchants Hall will be open for the complete whisky experience with open tastings and talks about this wonderful industry. 

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe – The Stand’s hand-picked selection of great comedy from across the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre every Friday and Saturday night. 

The George Lucas Talk Show

The George Lucas Talk Show

Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a “normal talk show”. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for an 11th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across… 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

The play follows Billy, a young man whose love of football is the dominant feature in his life, religiously attending every match day without fail. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Flamenco Fringe

Flamenco Fringe

Award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company returns with the stunning flamenco music and dance they are known for. 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

Get off the tourist trail and explore Edinburgh’s music scene with irreverent stories of the performers who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city. 

Why Am I Like This?

Why Am I Like This?

Do you misplace your glasses so often that you now have six pairs so you aren’t trapped inside and half-blind? How often do you have the brilliant idea to paint your nails five min… 

Amanda Tovalin: Música Verde (Green Music)

Amanda Tovalin: Música Verde (Green Music)

Música Verde (Green Music) is a live looping concert where Mexican singer/songwriter Amanda Tovalin shares her views about nature in the cities with her sonic experimentation. 

Report to an Academy

Report to an Academy

Report To An Academy is not Franz Kafka’s best work, but Robert McNamara brings the elusive central character with precision and animal rage that is very watchable. 

Scottish Sessions: The Story of Scottish Pop Music

Scottish Sessions: The Story of Scottish Pop Music

Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists. 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Have you ever wanted to visit a mosque? Do you have any burning questions about Islam? Would you like to discover more about a faith which is often misunderstood? Every year at Fri… 

Midnight Building

Midnight Building

Following an NYC preview run, Midnight Building is a contemporary drama that is guaranteed to spark debate and make you question your morals. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Best Comedy Show Edinburgh Fringe

Best Comedy Show Edinburgh Fringe

Woah. 

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around the Fringe in a hilarious early evening showcase guaranteed to raise more than just a few… 

Scotland's Best Comedians at the Fringe

Scotland's Best Comedians at the Fringe

A selection of Scotland’s best comedians hosted by five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist, Ross Leslie. 

Character Building Experience

Character Building Experience

You enter a tavern. 

Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People

Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People

WPB are six rising comedy stars who’ve been performing in prisons across Scotland since November 2022. 

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

V&C Festival Sparkling Wine Tasting

Celebrate the arrival of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in style at Valvona & Crolla (established 1934), with this relaxed tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines, tutored by F… 

Eva Bindeman: Semi Killer

Eva Bindeman: Semi Killer

Eva Bindeman has made it to every comedy semi-final there is and absolutely no further. 

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings. 

Manifest Destiny's Child

Manifest Destiny's Child

I don’t think you can ever go wrong watching a Guy Masterson production in the Assembly Rooms. 

Jon – The Music Man

Jon – The Music Man

Jon Lawrence has entertained thousands of children all over the world over the last ten years with his collection of silly songs which encourage the children to sing, dance, laugh … 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Conway is a vivacious performer who does not shy away from the grotesque. 

The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)

The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)

Raucous, wild and a little bit different, this one-hour compilation show with a changing daily line-up, gives you a fabulous cross-section of Fringe madness in one crazy bite-sized… 

An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People

An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People

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. 

Afrique en Cirque

Afrique en Cirque

My friend greets me in the queue, waving her ticket in the air. 

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... And Other Really Old People

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... And Other Really Old People

Winner of Best Kids Show at Adelaide Fringe 2023. 

A Terrible Show for Terrible People

A Terrible Show for Terrible People

Winner: Best Comedy, 2022 (Hollywood Fringe). 

A Leftie's Guide to Why Everyone Hates Lefties

A Leftie's Guide to Why Everyone Hates Lefties

Jack is an unashamedly stereotypical left-wing, working-class, socialist comedian. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe. 

The Queer Comedy Club Fringe

The Queer Comedy Club Fringe

The UK’s first permanent LGBTQ+ comedy club comes to Edinburgh Fringe and we’ve got a bunch of queer comedians who we know you’re going to love! Every night join us for an hour sho… 

Cheekykita: Octopus in Space

Cheekykita: Octopus in Space

Join Octopus on a fantastical, crazy and silly adventure from the bottom of the ocean all the way to space and in-between! High-energy interactive fun with dancing cats, silly song… 

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy. 

Bowjangles: Dracula in Space

Bowjangles: Dracula in Space

If you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. 

Summer Camp for Broken People

Summer Camp for Broken People

Emily’s life is falling apart. 

Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?

Pierre Novellie: Why Are You Laughing?

Tired of explaining his nationality to a crowd, Pierre Novellie has filled his new hour Why Are You Laughing? with a discussion on topics as distinct and unconnected as British dri… 

Dahn Rozario: White People Need to Relax

Dahn Rozario: White People Need to Relax

TikTok sensation Dahn Rozario brings his very first full hour of stand-up to Edinburgh. 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment. 

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy. 

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

Kym Nash hosts 70 Minutes of some of Reckless Comedy’s favourite up and coming acts on the circuit. 

MUSIC

MUSIC

Dave is house band / receptionist at streaming service Stripefy, but he wants more: he dreams of going full-time on reception. 

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk

How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk is a fun and interactive comedy lecture with a lot going for it. 

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

Kym Nash hosts 70 Minutes of some of Reckless Comedy’s favourite up and coming acts on the circuit. 

Murder, She Didn't Write

Murder, She Didn't Write

The Improv Fringe is alive and kicking this year, as witty and inventive as ever. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase, hoste… 

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People

Comedian Mamoun Elagab will not kiss your ass. 

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

Sitting at the front of the queue, an hour before the show started, I was stung by a bee. 

Bacon

Bacon

A good story is surely one that absolutely demands to be told. 

Footstomping Live Scottish Music

Footstomping Live Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August. 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

“My name is Harun Musho’d. 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

“My name is Harun Musho’d. 

Lynn T. Walsh: Before The Drugs Kick In (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

Lynn T. Walsh: Before The Drugs Kick In (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

One of America’s top comedians, Lynn T. 

Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company. 

Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Durham Shakespeare Festival - A Midsummer Night's Dream

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company. 

Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH

Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH

MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company. 

Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH

Durham Shakespeare Festival - MACBETH

MACBETH by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s thrilling drama of the power of evil presented by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company. 

Penge Comedy Festival

Penge Comedy Festival

 

Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail (WIP) - Penge Comedy Festival

Olga Koch: Prawn Cocktail (WIP) - Penge Comedy Festival

Star of Mock the Week, QI and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Olga Koch, got a master’s degree and she won’t shut up about it. 

Gay Witch Sex Cult - Penge Comedy Festival

Gay Witch Sex Cult - Penge Comedy Festival

A sticky, spooky horror comedy about gender reveal parties, demons from hell, and above all, a Gay Witch Sex Cult (a sex cult for gay witches)As Kaelan Trough and his husband celeb… 

Andy Barr's Ill Defined Extravaganza - Penge Comedy Festival

Andy Barr's Ill Defined Extravaganza - Penge Comedy Festival

You sense the presence of an Extravaganza. 

Footface: How To Radiate Sexual Allure - Penge Comedy Festival

Footface: How To Radiate Sexual Allure - Penge Comedy Festival

How to achieve a powerful and radiant sexual allure. 

Polite Notice: Comedian Sean Morley Has Been Banned From Penge Comedy Festival

Polite Notice: Comedian Sean Morley Has Been Banned From Penge Comedy Festival

If any staff or patrons see Comedian Sean Morley on the premises of festival grounds please go to red alert. 

Ali Brice: I'm More Interested In What You Have To Say - Penge Comedy Festival

Ali Brice: I'm More Interested In What You Have To Say - Penge Comedy Festival

What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you … 

Shyma: Threats & Violence (WIP) - Penge Comedy Festival

Shyma: Threats & Violence (WIP) - Penge Comedy Festival

An absurdist menagerie of clown, characters and non- sequiturs. 

Michael Brunström: A Sequence of Baffling Enclaves - Penge Comedy Festival

Michael Brunström: A Sequence of Baffling Enclaves - Penge Comedy Festival

Michael Brunström is a surrealist comedian based in London, a member of Weirdos Comedy Collective and winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. 

Lulu Popplewell: Actually Actually - Penge Comedy Festival

Lulu Popplewell: Actually Actually - Penge Comedy Festival

Lulu Popplewell is a recovering addict, failed 'Love Actually' child actor, and hilarious comedian. 

Adam Larter: *Cricket Noises* - Penge Comedy Festival

Adam Larter: *Cricket Noises* - Penge Comedy Festival

Adam has set off for the wilderness, determined to find meaning in solitude, embracing a new life of nothing but moss-covered rocks and the sound of crickets. 

Hannah Platt: Work in Progress - Penge Comedy Festival

Hannah Platt: Work in Progress - Penge Comedy Festival

Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt. 

Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly - Penge Comedy Festival

Benjamin Alborough: Absolute Monopoly - Penge Comedy Festival

Monopoly is a terrible game. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

Binge on the Edinburgh Fringe without leaving London! Leading comedy website Chortle presents a jam-packed bill of 28 comedy and variety acts heading to the festival in … 

Arabs Are Not Funny - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

Arabs Are Not Funny - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival

Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond! Arabs Are Not Funny sees comedians with roots in the Arab world attempt to prove… 

Enfin en scène 2 ! festival

Enfin en scène 2 ! festival

After last year’s ENFIN EN SCENE festival succesful edition, which stands as the BIG return to the stage of our Workshop amdram participants, Exchange Theatre re-invites you to dis… 

Best of Brighton Fringe: Theatre

Best of Brighton Fringe: Theatre

About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers… 

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak. 

Drag Queen Wine Tasting @ Leith Festival

Drag Queen Wine Tasting @ Leith Festival

A Scottish Drag Queen and an Irish Sommelier walk into a bar in Leith. 

Wandsworth Arts Fringe

Wandsworth Arts Fringe

SW London’s bold and boundary-pushing festival of arts and culture returns for 17 brilliant days, taking over Wandsworth from 9-25 June with a jam-packed, belly-laughing, awe-ins… 

Extravaganza 3: Fringe Benefits

Extravaganza 3: Fringe Benefits

All That Bex is back with a third instalment of the most fantabulous cabaret event of recent times, Extravaganza – this time, with Fringe Benefits! Hosted by the sensational St… 

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

THE PARTY DISGUISED AS A QUIZ. 

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe. 

'The Front Room' Book Launch & Artist Talk with Michael McMillan

'The Front Room' Book Launch & Artist Talk with Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane… 

'The Front Room' Book Launch & Artist Talk with Michael McMillan

'The Front Room' Book Launch & Artist Talk with Michael McMillan

Michael McMillan’s The Front Room: Diaspora Migrant Aesthetics in the Home draws on his critically acclaimed and internationally renowned installation The Front Room, now permane… 

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B Takeover Gig

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Artists Talk

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Artists Talk

North Africa is often ignored when considering African history and identity, the idea being that the ‘real’ Africa only begins with Black Africans below the Sahara Desert. 

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Film Screening ‘The Pan-African Festival of Algiers’

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Film Screening ‘The Pan-African Festival of Algiers’

Reflecting the politics of the African continent in the 60s/70s, in this seminal documentary William Klein captures the radical atmosphere of the first Pan-African Cultural Festiva… 

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Artists Talk

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Artists Talk

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK North Africa is often ignored when considering African history and identity, the idea being that the ‘real’ Africa only begins with Black Africans b… 

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Film Screening ‘The Pan-African Festival of Algiers’

ALGERIAN PERSPECTIVES: Film Screening ‘The Pan-African Festival of Algiers’

Reflecting the politics of the African continent in the 60s/70s, in this seminal documentary William Klein captures the radical atmosphere of the first Pan-African Cultural Festiva… 

Black@Sussex Artist Talk: 'Inside/Outside' with Eddie Otchere

Black@Sussex Artist Talk: 'Inside/Outside' with Eddie Otchere

The other history of photography, encapsulated in the work of Vanley Burke, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, shares overlapping stories of absence, resistance and emergence that … 

'Inside/Outside' Artist Talk with Eddie Otchere

'Inside/Outside' Artist Talk with Eddie Otchere

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK The other history of photography, encapsulated in the work of Vanley Burke, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, shares overlapping stories of absence, re… 

'Inside/Outside' Artist Talk with Eddie Otchere

'Inside/Outside' Artist Talk with Eddie Otchere

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK The other history of photography, encapsulated in the work of Vanley Burke, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, shares overlapping stories of absence, re… 

Black@Sussex Artist Talk: 'Deep History' with Photographer Charlie Phillips

Black@Sussex Artist Talk: 'Deep History' with Photographer Charlie Phillips

Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories. 

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories. 

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

'Deep History' Artist Talk with Photographer Charlie Phillips

A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories. 

An evening of Piano Music at Brighton Unitarian Church by Yosi Marshall : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

An evening of Piano Music at Brighton Unitarian Church by Yosi Marshall : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no. 

An evening of Piano Music : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

An evening of Piano Music : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no. 

An evening of Piano Music : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

An evening of Piano Music : Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Janacek and jazz pieces.

Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no. 

Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio

Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio

“Don’t touch that dial, it’s time to tune into Talk Radio!” Inspired by a vast library of tunes that have never existed before (and will never be heard again), DJs Bird and … 

Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio

Bird & Tax Collector Present: Talk Radio

“Don’t touch that dial, it’s time to tune into Talk Radio!” Inspired by a vast library of tunes that have never existed before (and will never be heard again), DJs Bird and … 

Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

Celebrate the start of the May half term with a family friendly pick of the fringe! Enjoy 10 minute performances of Brighton Fringe shows that will be performing over half term we… 

Suspiciously Elvis LIVE at the Brighton Fringe

Suspiciously Elvis LIVE at the Brighton Fringe

As a last minute addition Brighton’s own Suspiciously Elvis performs at the fringe festival bringing his own unique take on the king of Rock and Roll in his glorious Las Vegas ye… 

Awful People

Awful People

Awful People by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven. 

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras on the world’s greatest stages, they’ve soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi-platinum-selling records, but now Julie… 

The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra

The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra

A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work. 

The Future of Brighton Fringe

The Future of Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Eddy MacKenzie: Music A'Plenty

Eddy MacKenzie: Music A'Plenty

Eddy MacKenzie and his tiny guitar, have come to play songs so bold and bizarre! A short round man with a big loud voice who wants to make you boogie! Holidays, Dinosaurs, and MD2… 

The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra

The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra

A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work. 

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras on the world’s greatest stages, they’ve soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi-platinum-selling records, but now Julie… 

Eddy MacKenzie: Music A'Plenty

Eddy MacKenzie: Music A'Plenty

Eddy MacKenzie and his tiny guitar, have come to play songs so bold and bizarre! A short round man with a big loud voice who wants to make you boogie! Holidays, Dinosaurs, and MD2… 

The Future of Brighton Fringe

The Future of Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Awful People

Awful People

Awful People by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven. 

Euphoria: An evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Euphoria: An evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Join us for a wonderful evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra starting with Shostakovich’s dynamic Festival Overture, followed by a world premier … 

Euphoria: An evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Euphoria: An evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra

Join us for a wonderful evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra starting with Shostakovich’s dynamic Festival Overture, followed by a world premier … 

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

Split show from Leslie Gold (So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist) and Nick Kirk (West End New Act semi-finalist), usually seen collaborating on the hit London comedy show Sof… 

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

Split show from Leslie Gold (So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist) and Nick Kirk (West End New Act semi-finalist), usually seen collaborating on the hit London comedy show Sof… 

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)

A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy. 

If they could see me now: the words & music of Dorothy Fields

If they could see me now: the words & music of Dorothy Fields

Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an… 

If they could see me now: the words & music of Dorothy Fields

If they could see me now: the words & music of Dorothy Fields

Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an… 

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)

Mamoun Elagab: Why I Love White People (Work-in-Progress)

A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy. 

Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)

Movin' Melvin Brown presents Sweet Soul Music (The Sam Cooke Story)

World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse captured the world with her unique vocal stylings and unapologetic lyrics combined with a sassy, yet dark brooding personality. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

As one of the most iconic members of the 27 club, Amy Winehouse left an indelible impression, not just on popular music, but on popular culture as a whole. 

Future Jazz At The Fringe

Future Jazz At The Fringe

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

Join Paul Levy from FringeReview as he talks through the ins and outs of selling your show, writing press releases and how to attract an audience. 

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

Join Paul Levy from FringeReview as he talks through the ins and outs of selling your show, writing press releases and how to attract an audience. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

Fringe at Falmer 2023

MAY 13th (Saturday, 5. 

Global Local Festival

Global Local Festival

GLOBAL LOCAL FESTIVAL – FREE ENTRYGlobal and UK Artists from all corners of the Global Local Project, and the people behind Shangri La Glastonbury, Caravanserai at Camp Bestival,… 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

When 30 years of family silence is broken Helen begins a detective-like quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

Fringe at Falmer 2023

May 13th - THE COPPER FAMILY May 20th - THE AMITY SINGERS May 27th - BELLADONNA, Sue Mileham, Soprano, Jane Plessner, Clarinet and Nicola Grunberg, Piano 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

When 30 years of family silence is broken Helen begins a detective-like quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide. 

Global Local Festival

Global Local Festival

GLOBAL LOCAL FESTIVAL – FREE ENTRY Global and UK Artists from all corners of the Global Local Project, and the people behind Shangri La Glastonbury, Caravanserai at Camp Bestiva… 

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

Special charity showcase for Clowns Without Borders, your support spreads laughter and joy to children and families living in crisis throughout the world. 

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Organ Music at St. Barts

Organ Music at St. Barts

Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the the fine organ at St. 

Fringe Networking Drinks

Fringe Networking Drinks

Join fellow participants, venue managers and industry professionals every Tuesday evening 7pm-9pm at Caravanserai to network, talk about your show, and find out more about other Br… 

Fringe Networking Drinks

Fringe Networking Drinks

Join fellow participants, venue managers and industry professionals every Tuesday evening 7pm-9pm at Caravanserai to network, talk about your show, and find out more about other Br… 

Organ Music at St. Barts

Organ Music at St. Barts

Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the the fine organ at St. 

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see this Fringe? Our Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe is the perfect place to start your Brighton Fringe journey. 

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy. 

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see this Fringe? Our Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe is the perfect place to start your Brighton Fringe journey. 

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

A Guide to Therapy for Terrible People

What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy. 

Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends

Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends

Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif… 

Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends

Festival of Europe Presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends

Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif… 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

It’s an early evening comedy bonanza! Back for a 4th year in Brighton, this stand-up comedy selection is an exciting mixed-pack of comics, with top headliners and the best up-and-… 

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Egyptian/Irish Comedian, raised in Saudi. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Join us every weekend 11. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Join us every weekend 11. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

It’s an early evening comedy bonanza! Back for a 3rd year in Brighton, this stand-up comedy selection is an exciting mixed-pack of comics, with top headliners and the best up-and-… 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ has been a hit show at Brighton Fringe for 15 years, an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Egyptian/Irish Comedian, raised in Saudi. 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

  • Listing
    • Comedy
  • Brighton Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 6th May 2022 - 3rd Jun 2023

Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a child free badass, this award-winning stand-up is back with a sex positive… 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

A child-free badass on the search for orgasm equality. 

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe 2023

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe 2023

Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and… 

Police Cops In Space

Police Cops In Space

Hot off the back of sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Soho Theatre London & San Francisco Comedy Fest; multi-award-winning troupe POLICE COPS return with their SELL-OUT, Sci-… 

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music. 

Police Cops In Space

Police Cops In Space

Hot off the back of sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Soho Theatre London & San Francisco Comedy Fest; multi-award-winning troupe POLICE COPS return with their SELL-OUT, Sci-… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Brighton Fringe! This show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastical… 

STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey

Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space. 

Why Would You Tell Me That?! - Live Podcast

Why Would You Tell Me That?! - Live Podcast

OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Where have all our women gone? (International Women's Day Festival)

Where have all our women gone? (International Women's Day Festival)

Sort Sol presents their third original theatre production, created by Artistic Director, Elizabeth Huskisson. 

Going Straight to Gay (International Women's Day Festival)

Going Straight to Gay (International Women's Day Festival)

Imagine being in a new relationship. 

By The Light Of The Moon (International Women's Day Festival)

By The Light Of The Moon (International Women's Day Festival)

We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928. 

Cheers to you, Jenny! (International Women's Day Festival)

Cheers to you, Jenny! (International Women's Day Festival)

What do Mother Teresa, Napoleon and Hitler have in common? Well, they all have what Hedda Gabler wants most of all. 

Polly Peculiar (International Women's Day Festival)

Polly Peculiar (International Women's Day Festival)

There is something peculiar about Polly Tips. 

VIRGIN-ia (International Women's Day Festival)

VIRGIN-ia (International Women's Day Festival)

VIRGIN-ia is a one-woman play about a sexually motivated virgin. 

Ed Gaughan: Words and Music (Work in Progress)

Ed Gaughan: Words and Music (Work in Progress)

Come and discover UK comedy’s best kept secret! Over many years Ed has written, directed and performed work for and with many of the UK’s most loved acts- including Milton Jones… 

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Bass

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Bass

In a remarkable follow-up to the Canterbury Tales, ancient vampire Geoff Chaucer presents his new collection, accompanied by live music from his lobster-themed band, ‘the Crusty As… 

Brighton Fringe 2023 Launch

Brighton Fringe 2023 Launch

Don’t miss a night of comedy, cabaret and music to celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe 2023. 

CREATIVES IN CONVERSATION Scene + Heard festival Directors, Caoimhe Connolly + Clíona Dukes

CREATIVES IN CONVERSATION Scene + Heard festival Directors, Caoimhe Connolly + Clíona Dukes

How it began, where it is now and plans for Scene + Heard's Future. 

The Buzztones present 'Now That's What Someone Might Call Music!'

The Buzztones present 'Now That's What Someone Might Call Music!'

The Buzztones are back! Following smash-hit shows in 2019 and 2020, the pop-comedy maestros return to VAULT with a brand new, feel-good set of tracks and nonsense. 

Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

'Ridiculously silly… wickedly funny’ ★★★★★ The Times 'A joy to behold’ ★★★★ The Guardian The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as heard … 

Kaleidoscope Festival

Kaleidoscope Festival

The Kaleidoscope Festival returns for its second year at the Golden Goose Theatre, showcasing five nights of new writing from recent graduates of the Mountview MA in Acting course. 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

To put it in perspective, the formative years of millennials have had: The US and UK in the longest war since WW2 The worst recession since the Great Depression Nazis are back Russ… 

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?

Writing a positive review is quite difficult without using hyperbole, and in the spirit of Pierre Novellie’s Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things, it is prudent to at least attempt to… 

Sasha Ellen: Character Building Experience

Sasha Ellen: Character Building Experience

You enter a tavern. 

VAULT Festival Birthday Bash

VAULT Festival Birthday Bash

Join us for our big brash birthday bash to kick off VAULT Festival 2023 and celebrate a decade of bold and original live performance! This is our chance to raise a toast (and the r… 

We Need To Talk, a Jazz Cabaret

We Need To Talk, a Jazz Cabaret

A Jazz Cabaret exploring the journey of a break-up through an honest, raw and unappetising lens, sharing the most vulnerable moments with a sprinkle of humour and Mancunian charm. 

We Need To Talk, a Jazz Cabaret

We Need To Talk, a Jazz Cabaret

Nominated for Best Theatre at the 2022 Greater Manchester Fringe, Mancunian, Queer and Working-Class writer and performer Jas Nisic makes their VAULT Festival Debut with their crit… 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

Unsolicited (An Unsafe Space for Straight Men)

Unsolicited (An Unsafe Space for Straight Men)

Oi! Men! Yes, You. 

Unsolicited (An Unsafe Space for Straight Men)

Unsolicited (An Unsafe Space for Straight Men)

Oi! Men! Yes, You. 

Lesbian space crime

Lesbian space crime

It is the dawn of space-crime, and a new era for queer representation. 

Connections – The One-Acts Festival

Connections – The One-Acts Festival

A festival celebrating the connections we make throughout our life, an ode to family, friends, and lovers alike. 

Lesbian Space Crime

Lesbian Space Crime

An intergalactic queer comedy romp with songs. 

Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t fly a plane. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show. 

Thank You For The Music

Thank You For The Music

Thank You for The Music - The ultimate tribute to ABBA This international smash-hit tribute show brings all of ABBA’s number one hits to the stage in a production … 

Lost in Music

Lost in Music

One Night at The Disco Get ready to recreate the Magical 70’s and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco! Relive some of the greates… 

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Discovery Hub

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Discovery Hub

An interactive exhibition with an exciting mix of science and creativity at Senate House for three days at the heart of the festival. 

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Store Street Global Garden Party

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Store Street Global Garden Party

Join us on Alfred Place Gardens and Store St as we celebrate the opening of the Bloomsbury Festival 2022. 

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Remembering the Streets of the Past

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Remembering the Streets of the Past

Jessica Strang’s images of Kings Cross taken during 1987 are a reminder of how Kings Cross looked before being given a new lease of life with its redevelopment around the turn of… 

Bloomsbury Festival 2022

Bloomsbury Festival 2022

The Bloomsbury Festival has announced the initial lineup of shows, exhibitions, events, concerts, walks and talks in the 2022 programme with the theme ‘Breathe’ encouraging us … 

TALK by Kill The Cat Theatre

TALK by Kill The Cat Theatre

Have you ever sat opposite someone on a bus quietly, both on your phones, and not say a word? Perhaps you glance up for a second and smile at each other. 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Mirror, semen, manoeuvre… HAM THEATRE bring their award winning play to The Bridge House Theatre - a fast paced comedy with bits of physical theatre, music and singing, set … 

Nosferatu … A Symphony of Spookiness but, Like, it’s Also Funny and There’s Bits Set to Music – Wait, why are you Still Writing? That’s not all the Title! Nooooooooooooooo!

Nosferatu … A Symphony of Spookiness but, Like, it’s Also Funny and There’s Bits Set to Music – Wait, why are you Still Writing? That’s not all the Title! Nooooooooooooooo!

On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead. 

Connect Music Festival – Sunday

Connect Music Festival – Sunday

Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy. 

Music for the Festival

Music for the Festival

Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band from the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional. 

Music of the Night

Music of the Night

Building on his award-winning London debut, the new extended show Music of the Night is a feast for the eyes, ears and soul. 

Beyond Borders International Festival 2022

Beyond Borders International Festival 2022

The Beyond Borders International Festival is a weekend of discussion, debate, music, art, food and drink with Scottish and international artists, authors, broadcasters, politicians… 

Connect Music Festival – Saturday

Connect Music Festival – Saturday

Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy. 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2022

Cadenza at the Fringe 2022

Cadenza performs Handel’s joyous coronation anthem Zadok the Priest and his Foundling Hospital Anthem with its famous last chorus, Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae, admired by Handel (who … 

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Brian Cox In Conversation

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Brian Cox In Conversation

Emmy and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox arrives in Edinburgh to discuss his life and work, from Dundee Rep and Hannibal Lecktor, via cheeseburger tycoon Bob Servant… 

Connect Music Festival – Friday

Connect Music Festival – Friday

Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy. 

Back to the Fringe

Back to the Fringe

Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, The Rolling Hills Chorus under the direction of Rosalind Johnson return again to the Edinburgh Fringe as Scotland’s Premier Barbersh… 

Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe

Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe

The Trashfuture crew of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate and Alice are back at the Fringe and ready to dissect all of the absolute worst aspects of the age we live in, from nonsense star… 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

An exclusive event that presents the best of the world famous Edinburgh Fringe in an evening of comedy, fine dining, networking and entertaining. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show – in this stuffed selec… 

Curmudgeon Scottish Folk Music

Curmudgeon Scottish Folk Music

Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC. 

Philip Glass at 85 (Part 2): Music for Organ

Philip Glass at 85 (Part 2): Music for Organ

Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, three of his compositions are performed at the Wells Kennedy organ by Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding: Music in Fifths… 

The Music of Trees

The Music of Trees

Join Geoff Robb, winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and guitar mastery that promises to transport you into the forest. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in its ninth consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe. 

Why I Hate My Penis

Why I Hate My Penis

Because Grindr hookups never quite go to plan. 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

Modular Music and Pattern Language Workshop

Modular Music and Pattern Language Workshop

The four-hour modular music creation workshop, designed and led by Raphael Mak based in Stockholm, Sweden, leads participants through a unique creative process by exploring and cre… 

10th Annual Festival of Traditional Buildings

10th Annual Festival of Traditional Buildings

Immerse yourself in the beauty and romance of Scotland’s old buildings as we celebrate the Festival of Traditional Buildings! To mark our landmark 10th year, we’re bringing you a w… 

A Little Night Music: Cabaret After Dark

A Little Night Music: Cabaret After Dark

Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics. 

Phil Kay & Stacey Clare: Book Festival Fringe Launch Show

Phil Kay & Stacey Clare: Book Festival Fringe Launch Show

Come! Welcome to the inaugural Book Festival Fringe. 

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument. 

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans se… 

Shakespeare Festival 2022

Shakespeare Festival 2022

After sell-out seasons for the last two years, The One Fell Swoop Project returns for its third slightly shorter three-week run this summer. 

Basically Bond – The Music of 007

Basically Bond – The Music of 007

Basically Bond a musical celebration of 60 years of thrilling movie magic. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Les Shankland directs the Chapter House Singers in Choral Evensong. 

Away Vain Warld: The Music and Poetry of Elizabeth Melville

Away Vain Warld: The Music and Poetry of Elizabeth Melville

The Scottish Reformation: a time of conflict and transformation. 

Andrew Leslie Music Ensemble

Andrew Leslie Music Ensemble

A concert of original and traditional acoustic music from these indefatigable Fringe and AMC regulars. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Spoken Word)

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Spoken Word)

The Art of Illumination. 

The MAKING-SPACE Programme: this is not a party.

The MAKING-SPACE Programme: this is not a party.

You are formally and informally invited to this is not a party. 

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Poetry at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Love of Creation: Poetry’s power for the present. 

THE MAKING-SPACE Programme: this is not a party.

THE MAKING-SPACE Programme: this is not a party.

A party. 

Àirigh Orchestra – Piano Concerto Festival

Àirigh Orchestra – Piano Concerto Festival

Àirigh Orchestra celebrates the amazing depth and variety of the classical piano concerto genre: Bach D minor (BWV1052), Koželuch concerto for piano duet and a recently composed … 

Cathedral Concert: Music for Royal Occasions with the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral

Cathedral Concert: Music for Royal Occasions with the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral

Music from across the ages marking important royal events from deaths and funerals to weddings and coronations, sung by ‘one of Scotland’s (indeed the UK’s) musical jewels’… 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out!). 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge

Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at St Vincent’s Chapel Stockbridge (Exhibition)

Exhibition: The Art of Illumination. 

Latchepen – The Music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli

Latchepen – The Music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli

The word Latchepen is an exclamation of happiness in the Romani language. 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Sacred Arts Festival Music at Canongate Kirk

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19… 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show – in this stuffed selec… 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a child-free badass, this award-winning stand-up is back with a sex-positive… 

Celebrating the Music of Einaudi: A Solo Piano Recital

Celebrating the Music of Einaudi: A Solo Piano Recital

A selection of music by Ludovico Einaudi, performed by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead. Contemplative and beautiful classical piano in a gorgeous ambience.  

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at Old St Paul’s Church

Sacred Arts Festival Drama at Old St Paul’s Church

Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises. 

Found Our Funny at the Fringe

Found Our Funny at the Fringe

After searching far and wide, Barcelona’s finest comedic talents have Found their Funny, packed it in a bag and brought it all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe for your amusement! B… 

John Bishop and Tony Pitts: Three Little Words Podcast – Presented By Amazon Music

John Bishop and Tony Pitts: Three Little Words Podcast – Presented By Amazon Music

Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them. 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Mansfield Traquair

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Mansfield Traquair

Painting Heaven on Earth. 

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Linen and Mindfulness

Bloomsbury Art Festival: Linen and Mindfulness

Made using hand-dyed linen and quilted with hand embroidery, Christina Rose Brown’s textile works feature drawings of the artist in bed with her two young children, in a liminal … 

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral

Sacred Arts Festival Music at St Mary’s Catholic Cathedral

Schola Cantorum sings MacMillan. 

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems and Why Truth Matters

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems and Why Truth Matters

Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have. 

Royal Scottish Pipers' Society Festival Fringe Performance

Royal Scottish Pipers' Society Festival Fringe Performance

Performances of Highland bagpipes and small pipes by the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and guests. Featuring light music and piobaireachd. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jess Phillips MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at St Michael and All Saints

Sacred Arts Festival Dance at St Michael and All Saints

Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees. 

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival Church Service at Old St Paul’s Episcopal Church

Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist… 

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Sacred Arts Festival Visual Art at Church of the Sacred Heart

Painting the Way of the Cross. 

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley

Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with David Starkey

Iain Dale: All Talk with David Starkey

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Exploring Deaf Heritage: Stories from People and Places

Exploring Deaf Heritage: Stories from People and Places

Explore Scotland’s oldest Deaf Centre as we share stories from the community, from Deaf History Scotland archives to screenings from contemporary artists. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Keir Starmer MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Keir Starmer MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Keir Starmer MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Keir Starmer MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews. 

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Presents Perspectives with Gavin Lilley

Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe. 

Pick of the Fringe by Johnnie Walker Princes Street

Pick of the Fringe by Johnnie Walker Princes Street

At Johnnie Walker Princes Street, we know a thing or two about creating the perfect blend. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles – 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s to present day. 

Anthems – 40 Years of Edinburgh Music Theatre

Anthems – 40 Years of Edinburgh Music Theatre

Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue. 

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe, Or Is He?

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe, Or Is He?

Just what is the Edinburgh Fringe? Some say it’s the world’s greatest uncensored platform for freedom of expression; some see it as a free market, money-driven fun-fest. 

Old Saint Paul's Music at 8pm

Old Saint Paul's Music at 8pm

Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church. 

Philip Glass at 85 (Part 1): Music for Piano

Philip Glass at 85 (Part 1): Music for Piano

Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding returns with a programme of compositions from six decades performed at the piano. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jeremy Corbyn MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Jeremy Corbyn MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nicola Sturgeon

Award-winning LBC presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with an in-depth interview featuring audience questions. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Mary Beard

Iain Dale: All Talk with Mary Beard

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Angela Rayner MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Angela Rayner MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Clara: Sex, Love and Classical Music

Clara: Sex, Love and Classical Music

Clara tells the story of 19th century piano star Clara Schumann. 

I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass

I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass

I never felt unwelcome at the Fringe until this performance. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rory Bremner

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rory Bremner

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

The Lost Letters

The Lost Letters

Does it matter that snail mail letters are dying out in our fast moving world? We can now email instead, cutting down fewer trees, so what have we actually lost? Plenty, say Newbur… 

Brainstorm

Brainstorm

Recent studies in education suggest that the two best ways for students to boost their educational development (by eight months in each case) are immediate feedback from a teacher … 

Madagascar Jr

Madagascar Jr

Madagascar Jr is the stage musical version of the 2005 children’s movie, a charmingly simple story of friendship amongst lovable animals. 

The Memphis Music Story

The Memphis Music Story

Veteran singer/songwriter/keyboardist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the rich musical history of his hometown, performing songs by WC Handy, BB King, Otis … 

Music from a Grand Tour

Music from a Grand Tour

Presented by the Barsanti Ensemble and the University of Edinburgh Musical Instrument Collection, this concert highlights a manuscript collection of music in Edinburgh University L… 

Eva Bindeman: It’s Going Whaley Well

Eva Bindeman: It’s Going Whaley Well

5 years ago, Eva decided to become an entertainer. 

Folksville at the Fringe

Folksville at the Fringe

Edinburgh’s favourite folk music night returns, packed with outstanding singer-songwriters, acoustic musicians and poets. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ruth Davidson

Iain Dale: All Talk with Ruth Davidson

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton

Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton

Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nadine Dorries MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Nadine Dorries MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Simply Blue

Simply Blue

There is a real physicality in music. 

Tapestry of Strength

Tapestry of Strength

Lekker. 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Diane Abbott MP

Iain Dale: All Talk with Diane Abbott MP

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Local jazz quartet JazzMain has built its reputation around the 50s and 60s Blue Note Jazz era, closely studying exceptional jazz artists like Dexter Gordon and his contemporaries … 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Marchmont Music

Marchmont Music

Come and enjoy a free afternoon concert from quality performers for your delight lasting approximately an hour. 

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Grand Cafe

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Grand Cafe

Join us for an afternoon of free jazz every Saturday and Sunday during the Fringe at The Grand Cafe. 

Scotland's Piano Music: Another Short Introduction

Scotland's Piano Music: Another Short Introduction

The sequel concert to 2018’s A Really Short Introduction to Scotland’s Piano Music exploring the work of 19th and 20th-century Scottish composers. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Free Fringe Music – Live at Southpour

Free Fringe Music – Live at Southpour

Join us for free music every Saturday night during the Fringe at Southpour with great acoustic artists playing great pop covers.  

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rory Stewart

Iain Dale: All Talk with Rory Stewart

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin… 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

Feynman on Why Do Magnets Attract?

Feynman on Why Do Magnets Attract?

Watch 13-year-old Ahan Dasgupta make his debut with Feynman on Why Do Magnets Attract? Immerse yourself in an afternoon of monologue and drums, as we try to answer this probing que… 

Bird 'n' Diz – The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Bird 'n' Diz – The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators. 

Eva Cassidy: The Story

Eva Cassidy: The Story

‘Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice’ ***** (Tom King, Southside Advertiser). 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk to People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. 

Brave Space

Brave Space

There’s a famous quote from the film The Third Man. 

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Golf Tavern

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Golf Tavern

Join us for a huge selection of free music every Friday and Saturday night during the Fringe at The Golf Tavern with different rock/pop cover bands with a great selection of music … 

Sport on the Fringe

Sport on the Fringe

New to the Fringe, a chat show with leading sports figures from across the UK. 

People are Cats, People are Dogs

People are Cats, People are Dogs

Which are you? Five darkly comic, Covid-era monologues can help you find out. 

Arthur Smith: My 75 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

Arthur Smith: My 75 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food. 

O, for a Muse of Fire: Henry IV 1, Henry IV 2 and Henry V

O, for a Muse of Fire: Henry IV 1, Henry IV 2 and Henry V

Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V - two great plays and one that’s a bit of a stinker. 

Holyrood Distillery Fringe Tour

Holyrood Distillery Fringe Tour

Enjoying a guided flavour-forward experience, you will learn how our whisky and spirits are made, and about both the traditions and innovative new methods in craft distilling emplo… 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Late Bloomers' Tales: Chasing Time Through Songs

Late Bloomers' Tales: Chasing Time Through Songs

I think I’ve fallen in love. 

A Journey Within: An Artistic Blend of Sufi Music and the Motions of Sama

A Journey Within: An Artistic Blend of Sufi Music and the Motions of Sama

Let the ensemble take you on a journey of sound and motion through a modern artistic portrayal of this 1,400 year-old spiritual practice. 

Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music

Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music

Living legend, world-class entertainer returns with Broadway version of a five-star journey through Black music and his incredible life, with songs, tap dance, stories, comedy. 

Daffodil Tramples the Fringe

Daffodil Tramples the Fringe

Daffodil has seen it all before. 

Flamenco Fringe

Flamenco Fringe

The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company returns to the Fringe to deliver the truly authentic flamenco music and dance that they are well known for. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show – in this stuffed selec… 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a 10th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across … 

Fab: Funny Stand-Up for Sad People, Sad Songs for Funny People

Fab: Funny Stand-Up for Sad People, Sad Songs for Funny People

Comedian Fab La Roche-Francoeur loves the feeling of being surrounded by an audience laughing at his jokes. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Granary

Free Fringe Music – Live at The Granary

Join us for free music every Friday night during the Fringe at The Granary with our house musician playing great acoustic pop covers.  

Stand Up for the People

Stand Up for the People

Since his first sell-out Edinburgh show That Bloke Who Does Voices, Danny Posthill, has decided to put the world to rights with a brand-new show Stand Up for the People, where he t… 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

After its sensational debut in 2019 and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back to Black returns, taking you on a moving and energising journey through a modern legend’s ca… 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2022!

Edinburgh’s best-rated, award-winning comedy club welcomes back last year’s sold-out Fringe showcase for 2022! A new line-up every night showcasing the very best acts from the Monk… 

Scottish Sessions: The Story of Scottish Pop Music

Scottish Sessions: The Story of Scottish Pop Music

Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak. 

Manhood

Manhood

Let me tell you about Ryan. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Clowntown In Space @theSpace: Adventures Back to Earth

Clowntown In Space @theSpace: Adventures Back to Earth

Canada’s award-winning clown band sparks the imagination with… clowns in space! Join Patty as she ventures to Clowntown Colony on the mysterious Planet X to bring her clown frien… 

The Roaring of the Voices

The Roaring of the Voices

Gosh this is good. 

Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space

Space Mystery: A Mystery in Space

Disaster strikes aboard the S. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a 10th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across … 

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

Music, Mayhem and a Mezzo

‘Absurdly talented’ (FringeBiscuit. 

Filthy Fringe

Filthy Fringe

The best comedians at the Fringe do the dirtiest jokes they have in hopes that they will get cancelled. Hosted by Chicago comedian Matt Castellvi. 

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c… 

Character Building Experience

Character Building Experience

You enter a tavern. 

Comedy for Hot People

Comedy for Hot People

A comedy showcase for hotties! No uggos allowed! Previous acts have been Alfie Brown, Olga Koch, Phil Ellis, Stephen Bailey, Aurie Styla, Aaron McCann and Sophie Duker. 

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Celebrate the return of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at V&C with this relaxed, tutored tasting of delicious Italian sparkling wines: Prosecco, Metodo Classico, Spumante and more. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe. 

Love and Sex on the Spectrum

Love and Sex on the Spectrum

It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage… 

Space Hippo

Space Hippo

Earth is dying. 

Gash Theatre Needs Some Space

Gash Theatre Needs Some Space

Boy, you’re an alien. 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Discover new artists from around the world! Come and enjoy the warmth of the world through a hand-picked selection of of bands, singers and instrumentalists, and soak up their soun… 

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... and Other Really Old People!

101 Ways to Annoy Your Parents... and Other Really Old People!

Title says it all! (Evil laugh). 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome. 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty to Me

Following her first US tour and millions of views over lockdown for her blunt takes on dating and being a child-free badass, this award-winning stand-up is back with a sex-positive… 

Gulliver

Gulliver

Oooh, tell me stories. 

Free Fringe Music – Live at Biddy Mulligans

Free Fringe Music – Live at Biddy Mulligans

Join us for a huge selection of free music every night of the Fringe at Biddy’s with different rock/folk cover bands and a big selection of music right through the festival.  

Stanley Norman: Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear When I Throw Crisps at Dogs?

Stanley Norman: Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear When I Throw Crisps at Dogs?

Stanley Norman is an ideas man with big dreams trying to piece his life together and cut his teeth in the vicious world of business. 

The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)

The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)

Raucous, wild and a little bit different – this one-hour compilation show with a changing daily line-up, gives you a fabulous cross section of Fringe madness in one crazy bite-si… 

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Constantly rotating line-up of the best comedians at this year’s festival. 

Josh Jones: Waste of Space

Josh Jones: Waste of Space

Debut stand-up hour from Mancunian ray of sunshine, Josh Jones. 

Blodlina: The Viking Musical

Blodlina: The Viking Musical

Where do you start if your ultimate goal is a West End and Broadway musical? Revivals often start at Chichester and new concepts here at the Fringe. 

Captain Zak and the Space Pirates

Captain Zak and the Space Pirates

Captain Zak Space Pirate needs your help! He’s lost in a broken-down spaceship and only with your help answering questions, solving puzzles and singing songs can we survive the bub… 

Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

Join the Superhero Academy to be part of the greatest quest of all: to save the world. 

One of Two

One of Two

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… 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

Many of us can relate to the concept of families not talking about things – but Helen Wood (The Usherettes, The National Trust Fan Club, The OS Map Fan Club) shows us the extre… 

Free Fringe Music – Live at Ghillie Dhu

Free Fringe Music – Live at Ghillie Dhu

Join us for free live music every Wednesday to Sunday during the Fringe at Ghillie Dhu with different indie and rock/pop artists with a great selection of music. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Edinburgh Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showc… 

The Big Free Festival Launch Show

The Big Free Festival Launch Show

Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,… 

Assume People Like You

Assume People Like You

A robot, an alien and a human. 

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du… 

The Land of Lost Content

The Land of Lost Content

The end of show speech to an audience. 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide. 

Anna Clifford: I SEE DEAD(LY) PEOPLE

Anna Clifford: I SEE DEAD(LY) PEOPLE

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

Re:ACTION: Inspired by the Album How We React and How We Recover by Jason Robert Brown

Re:ACTION: Inspired by the Album How We React and How We Recover by Jason Robert Brown

“Eagles! The eagles are coming” says Pippin Took in Lord of the Rings. 

Epic Film Music Concert

Epic Film Music Concert

The most iconic film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Interstellar and many more) played live in a unique, e… 

Let's Talk About Philip

Let's Talk About Philip

When 30 years of family silence is broken, Helen begins a quest to discover the hidden story behind her brother’s suicide. 

Epic Film Music Concert

Epic Film Music Concert

The best film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Game of Thrones and more) played live in a unique classical-electronic performance featuring violin, … 

Two Hearts: We're Pregnant and the Baby is Music

Two Hearts: We're Pregnant and the Baby is Music

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. 

The People vs The Oxford Revue

The People vs The Oxford Revue

After almost two years of silence, Oxford’s critically acclaimed student sketch troupe are making a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe with The People vs. 

Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood

Looking For Me Friend: The Music of Victoria Wood

Funny and touching tribute to this much-loved national treasure. 

7 Seventeen-Year-Olds in a Screwed-Up World

7 Seventeen-Year-Olds in a Screwed-Up World

You can have too many carrots in one show. 

Moira in Lockdown

Moira in Lockdown

It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-… 

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)

Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act… 

Jo Griffin: People Person

Jo Griffin: People Person

Everyone ok? Everyone happy with their life choices? Everyone got high self-esteem and zero regrets? No? Great! People Person is for anyone who thinks they’re failing at life and t… 

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak. 

Footstomping Live Scottish Music

Footstomping Live Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during Aug… 

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid. 

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast. 

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

Poppy & Charlie Music (Young acoustic duo)

Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast. 

Music Access All Areas Gig

Music Access All Areas Gig

Join Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre for an evening of great music as they showcase their stunning musical talents. 

We Need To Talk: A Jazz Cabaret

We Need To Talk: A Jazz Cabaret

We Need To Talk: A Jazz Cabaret is a show produced, directed and performed by Jas Nisic and accompanied by Dave Cavendish. 

Out of the Wings Festival 2022

Out of the Wings Festival 2022

Out of the Wings returns to the Omnibus for its annual festival of theatre from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking worlds. 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show. 

Midnight Snacks (Fringe Preview Special)

Midnight Snacks (Fringe Preview Special)

Midnight Snacks is a new breed of late-night show - a chilled out hour designed to relax you before bed, featuring surreal stories, strange sketches and tall tales. 

HEATWAVE HOUSE PARTY: Penge Festival Closing Event

HEATWAVE HOUSE PARTY: Penge Festival Closing Event

Celebrate the closing of the 2022 Penge Festival with the Heatwave House Party at The Bridge House!An all day party downstairs in the pub with special live music sets in our theatr… 

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism (Ludlow Fringe Festival)

Harun Musho'd: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism (Ludlow Fringe Festival)

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show. 

Brighton Fringe Awards Ceremony

Brighton Fringe Awards Ceremony

On the final day of Brighton Fringe 2022, Brighton Fringe CEO Julian Caddy leads our annual awards ceremony, handing out awards to the best of the festival, as we take the time to … 

People Do Stupid Things

People Do Stupid Things

A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations. 

People Do Stupid Things

People Do Stupid Things

A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations. 

BE Festival

BE Festival

BE FESTIVAL exists to challenge and turn the notion of theatre upside down, crossing borders, creative disciplines and blurring boundaries between audiences and artists. 

Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2022 Brighton Fringe. 

Bag Lady's Fringe

Bag Lady's Fringe

Brighton’s very own Sarah Davies brings you her new one-woman clown show, created especially for everyone’s favourite festival: Bag Lady’s Fringe. 

Bag Lady's Fringe

Bag Lady's Fringe

Brighton’s very own Sarah Davies brings you her new one-woman clown show, created especially for everyone’s favourite festival: Bag Lady’s Fringe. 

EVA VON SCHNIPPISCH

EVA VON SCHNIPPISCH

Eva is following her lifelong dream and is Tinseltown-bound. 

The Future of Brighton Fringe

The Future of Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Flamenco Fringe

Flamenco Fringe

Award-winning flamenco guitarist and composer Daniel Martinez presents an evening of truly authentic flamenco music and dance. 

Flamenco Fringe

Flamenco Fringe

Award-winning flamenco guitarist and composer Daniel Martinez presents an evening of truly authentic flamenco music and dance. 

Take Up Space!

Take Up Space!

Want to learn how to use performance skills to express yourself and take up space? Join the multi-talented BiBi Crew for an immersive ½ day workshop led by Judith Jacob, Suzette… 

Every Young Adult Novel Ever: The Musical

Every Young Adult Novel Ever: The Musical

‘Did you grow up loving Young Adult Fantasy novels (and do you maybe still love young adult fantasy novels)? Are you a ride or die Team Edward or Team Jacob fan? Then this may be t… 

Every Young Adult Novel Ever: The Musical

Every Young Adult Novel Ever: The Musical

‘Did you grow up loving Young Adult Fantasy novels (and do you maybe still love young adult fantasy novels)? Are you a ride or die Team Edward or Team Jacob fan? Then this may be t… 

Festival of Europe presents...

Festival of Europe presents...

A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas. 

Take Up Space!

Take Up Space!

Want to learn how to use performance skills to express yourself and take up space? Join the multi-talented BiBi Crew for an immersive ½ day workshop led by Judith Jacob, Suzette… 

Festival of Europe presents...

Festival of Europe presents...

A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas at 3pm at Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UF Featuring live music, debate, and poetry on the… 

Whirlpool People: Deconstructing the Illusion of the Self

Whirlpool People: Deconstructing the Illusion of the Self

This provocative and life affirming one-man show and book talk invites you to the core of spiritual and scientific debate to experience a journey of life, death and transcendence. 

Whirlpool People: Deconstructing the Illusion of the Self

Whirlpool People: Deconstructing the Illusion of the Self

This provocative and life affirming one-man show and book talk invites you to the core of spiritual and scientific debate to experience a journey of life, death and transcendence. 

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch

Led by Vanessa (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away. 

Enlightened: Soul Music Night

Enlightened: Soul Music Night

Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto… 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Join Geoff Robb, winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and virtuoso guitar that promises to transport you out into the forest. 

Enlightened: Soul Music Night

Enlightened: Soul Music Night

Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto… 

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch

Led by Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away. 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, Geoff Robb is back with new stories inspired by trees. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

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

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: The Fringe Show. 

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: The Fringe Show. 

Tell Me Why?

Tell Me Why?

Premiering at Brighton Fringe 2021, ‘Tell Me Why’, a performance by the gender-neutral, avant garde collective NoAgEnDeR. 

Tell Me Why?

Tell Me Why?

“Tell me why” A musical stage show that celebrates our cast’s right to live as their authentic selves without apology or judgement. 

Marcus Megastar's

Marcus Megastar's "The Music Of The Night" Fringe '22 Showcase

Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase. 

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg… 

Marcus Megastar's

Marcus Megastar's "The Music Of The Night" Fringe '22 Showcase

Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase. 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Saved Hollywood

How Eva Von Schnippisch Saved Hollywood

Eva Von Schnippisch is back – and this time she means show business! After becoming a double-agent, winning World War II and working for the British Secret Service for a decade, … 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Saved Hollywood

How Eva Von Schnippisch Saved Hollywood

From the company that brought you the award-winning one-woman hit musical ‘How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII’, our cabaret-superstar-turned-double-agent bridges the gap between caba… 

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg… 

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, either in person or online? Come along and virtually meet the team from the Fringe Society and find out wh… 

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year or in the future? Maybe it’s on your bucket list, or a new year’s resolution; perhaps you’ve been bef… 

Jane Postlethwaite & Joe McCarthy: Terrible People (Work in Progress)

Jane Postlethwaite & Joe McCarthy: Terrible People (Work in Progress)

Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a … 

Future Jazz at The Fringe

Future Jazz at The Fringe

Future Jazz At The Fringe returns to Brighton Spiegeltent for 2022 . 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre. 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre. 

Future Jazz at The Fringe

Future Jazz at The Fringe

Future Jazz At The Fringe returns to Brighton Spiegeltent for 2022 . 

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

Red Dragonfly’s New Writing Festival and nationwide Competition is back! In the fourth season Taking Flight will help new and emerging BESEA playwrights develop their exciting id… 

Organ Music at St Barts

Organ Music at St Barts

Recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. 

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

Special charity showcase for Clowns Without Borders - your support spreads laughter and joy to children and families living in crisis throughout the world. 

Organ Music at St Barts

Organ Music at St Barts

RECITALS ON TUESDAYS BY DISTINGUISHED LOCAL ORGANISTS ON THE FINE ORGAN AT ST. 

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

‘Taking Flight’ is Red Dragonfly Productions successful New Writing Programme, where we showcase new work by up and coming writers. 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes. 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes. 

Generation WHY

Generation WHY

The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes. 

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers. 

Fringe at Falmer

Fringe at Falmer

FRINGE AT FALMER: May 8th: UNFENCED UNWRAPPED: Sally Wilson, Sam Brennan, Liz Woodhouse, Jane Peckham & Barney Guy- a musical confectionery: female voices, sophisticated piano, str… 

UpRoar People’s Ceilidh Featuring Bird in the Belly

UpRoar People’s Ceilidh Featuring Bird in the Belly

Singing, dancing, feasting! ‘UpRoar People’s Ceilidh’ is a monthly Sunday soiree - a smörgåsbord of community connection and celebration; part concert, part singing workshop, … 

Fringe at Falmer

Fringe at Falmer

FRINGE AT FALMER: May 8th: UNFENCED UNWRAPPED: Sally Wilson, Sam Brennan, Liz Woodhouse, Jane Peckham & Barney Guy- a musical confectionery: female voices, sophisticated piano, str… 

UpRoar People’s Ceilidh Featuring Bird in the Belly

UpRoar People’s Ceilidh Featuring Bird in the Belly

Singing, dancing, feasting! ‘UpRoar People’s Ceilidh’ is a monthly Sunday soiree - a smörgåsbord of community connection and celebration; part concert, part singing workshop, … 

The Radical History Tour! A People's History of Brighton & Hove

The Radical History Tour! A People's History of Brighton & Hove

Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also … 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Kick start your Brighton Fringe with a bank holiday weekender of free, outdoor fun at Fringe City on Jubilee Square! Join us on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, for a three-day e… 

Fringe Family Picnic

Fringe Family Picnic

Calling all picnickers; Brighton Fringe’s wildly popular family picnics are back for 2022! Join us as we take over Pavilion Gardens with more free family entertainment than you can… 

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

Ahead of their event at Brighton Spiegeltent on 14 May and 2 June, the English Disco Lovers join us at Fringe City with their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclu… 

Fringe Family Picnic

Fringe Family Picnic

Calling all picnickers; Brighton Fringe’s wildly popular family picnics are back for 2022! Join us as we take over Pavilion Gardens with more free family entertainment than you can… 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

It’s an early evening comedy bonanza! Back for a 3rd year in Brighton, this stand-up comedy selection is an exciting mixed-pack of comics, with top headliners and the best up-and-… 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ has been a hit show at Brighton Fringe for 15 years, an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

The Radical History Tour! A People's History of Brighton & Hove

The Radical History Tour! A People's History of Brighton & Hove

Who built this town?! Who won your freedoms?! Walk in their footsteps and find out! Brighton & Hove has always been a city of radicals, free-thinkers and libertarians – but also … 

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

Ahead of their event at Brighton Spiegeltent on 14 May and 2 June, the English Disco Lovers join us at Fringe City with their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclu… 

...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)

...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)

We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe. 

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music. 

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Fringe! The show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastically funny stand-u… 

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

Eleanor Conway: Talk Dirty To Me

Eleanor Conway is a woman on a mission. 

Me? No Pause! PREMIERE (Brighton Fringe Preview)

Me? No Pause! PREMIERE (Brighton Fringe Preview)

Me? No Pause!From the first medical reference to menopause in the 17th century to menopause management tips with social media influencer Adriana Mole. 

Why I’ll Never Make It with Joshua Morgan

Why I’ll Never Make It with Joshua Morgan

A night of conversation and song with Joshua Morgan (Ain’t Too Proud, Les Misérables), hosted by Off-Broadway actor Patrick Oliver Jones and his top 25 theater podcast Why I’ll … 

Vault Unlocked: Arthur Smith - My 75 years at The Edinburgh Fringe

Vault Unlocked: Arthur Smith - My 75 years at The Edinburgh Fringe

My 75 years at the Edinburgh FringeFor the 75th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Arthur Smith writes a love letter to this playground of his imagination and recalls some of the tri… 

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1s

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1s

Book yourself a session with a member of the Brighton Fringe Box Office team who can talk you through all aspects of the reporting system, including checking your ticket sales, set… 

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1s

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1s

Book yourself a session with a member of the Brighton Fringe Box Office team who can talk you through all aspects of the reporting system, including checking your ticket sales, set… 

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring. 

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase  

Fringe Academy: Being a Young Reviewer with Voicemag.uk

Fringe Academy: Being a Young Reviewer with Voicemag.uk

POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL. 

Fringe Academy: Being a Young Reviewer with Voicemag.uk

Fringe Academy: Being a Young Reviewer with Voicemag.uk

POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Ruby and the Vinyl by John Godber & Elizabeth Godber. Music by Ruby Mackintosh

Ruby and the Vinyl by John Godber & Elizabeth Godber. Music by Ruby Mackintosh

In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli… 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Performing Arts (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Ruby and the Vinyl by John Godber & Elizabeth Godber. Music by Ruby Mackintosh

Ruby and the Vinyl by John Godber & Elizabeth Godber. Music by Ruby Mackintosh

In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli… 

Fringe Academy: Marketing Team 1-2-1s

Fringe Academy: Marketing Team 1-2-1s

We’re running another batch of 1-2-1’s! Book a 1-2-1 session to go through your marketing plan with a member of the Brighton Fringe marketing team. 

Fringe Academy: How to Market your Brighton Fringe Event

Fringe Academy: How to Market your Brighton Fringe Event

Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team. 

PLEASE COME TALK TO ME | Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)

PLEASE COME TALK TO ME | Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)

PLEASE COME TALK TO ME Let us not remain strangers Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)A Stuttering Comedy Show in Development PLEASE COME TALK TO ME -&nbs… 

Space Girls | stop BUS STOP bus

Space Girls | stop BUS STOP bus

Space Girls You. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Love. 

Juanita's Talk | Nice Girls Don't

Juanita's Talk | Nice Girls Don't

Juanita's Talk Time to clean up our act Nice Girls Don’t. 

TALK

TALK

Have we forgotten how to socialise?During the past 18 months we’ve all had to avoid human interaction. 

Fringe Academy: Funding Your Event

Fringe Academy: Funding Your Event

Robert Batson (Brighton Fringe Development) will host this session about fundraising options and opportunities. 

Fringe Academy: How to Crowdfund

Fringe Academy: How to Crowdfund

The arts and creative industries have been hit hard by the consequences of the pandemic, but Crowdfunder is here to help. 

Fringe Academy: Looking Forward to Fringe

Fringe Academy: Looking Forward to Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

HOLST: The Music In The Spheres

HOLST: The Music In The Spheres

In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a… 

Fringe Academy: Starting a Performing Arts Company

Fringe Academy: Starting a Performing Arts Company

Thinking of setting up your own performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal and Industrial Relations Manager at ITC, for a workshop about the legal and administrative basic… 

People’s Players Christmas Cracker

People’s Players Christmas Cracker

It’s time to celebrate everything that is good about Christmas with our very own People’s Players!Liverpool’s Royal Court’s amateur dramatic grou… 

Fringe Academy: Arts Council Project Grants Surgery

Fringe Academy: Arts Council Project Grants Surgery

Theatre Relationship Managers, Anna Jefferson and Claire Soper, from Arts Council England will be holding an online advice session on Zoom to talk you through the National Lottery … 

TALK

TALK

Have we forgotten how to socialise? Well, come and join Kill The Cat’s new social-scientific-experimental-game-show-insatallation-theatre-extravaganza and we’ll help you all to… 

Homotopia Music Night

Homotopia Music Night

The official Homotopia Festival laid-back vibes closing party. 

An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlist at Dublin Book Festival | In-person Tickets

An Post Irish Book Awards Shortlist at Dublin Book Festival | In-person Tickets

Meet some of the shortlisted authors from the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 at this year’s Dublin Book Festival. 

MUSIC CURRENT SOLOISTS | CURRENTS

MUSIC CURRENT SOLOISTS | CURRENTS

In this concert the seven composers and five soloists involved in this project reveal the results of their extended in-depth collaborations, and present seven new works … 

Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club

Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club

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AT HOME: A Toast to the People: Inua Ellams & Saul Williams

AT HOME: A Toast to the People: Inua Ellams & Saul Williams

Inua Ellams and Saul Williams bring their own distinct styles to this not-to-be-missed A Toast to the People filmed event. 

Lachlan Werner's Voices Of Evil - London Horror Festival

Lachlan Werner's Voices Of Evil - London Horror Festival

Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen it! The Exorcist… with puppets!Lachlan Werner (ventriloquist, clown) presents an hour of frights, where demonic voices come from every corner… 

Bloomsbury Festival 2021

Bloomsbury Festival 2021

Bloomsbury Festival is an annual celebration of the area’s pioneering creativity, presenting an inspiring programme of arts, science, literature, performance, discussion and refl… 

Music @ the Space

Music @ the Space

Live music makes its first steps back to the Space Theatre! Three solo artists share their unique perspective and take on guitar-based rock music, from grungy existentialism to … 

Spray It Out: Banksy & Beyond A talk by Niki Natarajan

Spray It Out: Banksy & Beyond A talk by Niki Natarajan

Join us on 7 October for a live online talk presented by Street Art photographer Niki Natarajan, presented by Tavistock Heritage Trust and Tavistock Guildhall. 

Fringe! 2021 Programme Launch Party!

Fringe! 2021 Programme Launch Party!

Cum kids! Gather round. 

Talk discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villaronga with translator Louise Johnson

Talk discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix by Llorenç Villaronga with translator Louise Johnson

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… 

Lectura en directo del Cadáver Exquisito escrito por les participantes del festival

Lectura en directo del Cadáver Exquisito escrito por les participantes del festival

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

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Linocut Print Art Workshop for LGBT+ Women, Trans and Non-Binary People

Linocut Print Art Workshop for LGBT+ Women, Trans and Non-Binary People

Learn how to make a lino-cut print from start to finish in a friendly in-person workshop with LGBT+ women, trans and non-binary people, led by Wild Water Art Store’s Gemma Curtis. 

Alt Pride Festival

Alt Pride Festival

Surreys genderless drag artist SemiColon is coming to South London with a BANG with their Alt Pride Festival! Featuring a queer arts fair, live entertainment and food in the commun… 

A Festival of Korean Dance

A Festival of Korean Dance

As the country unlocks and live performance returns to London, Korean dancers will once again make the journey to the UK and take to the stage at The Place.  

JOY Festival

JOY Festival

JOY Festival is a celebration of local disabled artists, produced by Turtle Key Arts in partnership with HF ArtsFest and the Lyric. 

Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta

Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta

A bridge between reality and fiction, Edith Alibec’s award-winning adaptation of Aglaja Veteranyi’s autobiographical book, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, will be head… 

THE ALPHABET PEOPLE

THE ALPHABET PEOPLE

Hey Bubs, How are you today? Who the DEVIL ARE WE ANYWAY? WE ARE THE ALPHABET PEOPLE BABES! A Fabulously funny Collective of Drag Queers. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

As the audience settle back for an evening of cosmic cabaret, all is not well at Saucy Jack’s. 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast… 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast… 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast… 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast… 

Members of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus

Members of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus

The Edinburgh Festival Chorus return in smaller form, with a concert as wide-ranging as in previous years. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

The Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a ninth hilarious year with another phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from acr… 

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Nikita Lukinov plays Beethoven, Scriabin and Debussy

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Nikita Lukinov plays Beethoven, Scriabin and Debussy

Outstanding young Russian pianist Nikita Lukinov gives a recital of Beethoven (Sonata No. 

A Toast to the People: Francesca Beard & Rafeef Ziadah

A Toast to the People: Francesca Beard & Rafeef Ziadah

Francesca Beard and Rafeef Ziadah share their human-focused works for A Toast to the People’s powerful finale. 

Francis Rossi: I Talk Too Much

Francis Rossi: I Talk Too Much

Legendary Status Quo lead singer Francis Rossi shares the extraordinary secrets of his 50-plus years in rock’n’roll in this intimate evening of chat and music. 

A Toast to the People: Vanessa Kisuule & Safiya Sinclair

A Toast to the People: Vanessa Kisuule & Safiya Sinclair

Vanessa Kisuule and Safiya Sinclair impart their wide-ranging experiences for an unforgettable A Toast to the People performance. 

Cecily's Belly Laugh Picnic – Musical Balloon Band – Free Festival

Cecily's Belly Laugh Picnic – Musical Balloon Band – Free Festival

Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band. 

Brownton Abbey: Talk Show

Brownton Abbey: Talk Show

An evolving, international performance collective, centring and celebrating disabled, queer people of colour, Brownton Abbey’s kaleidoscopic events investigate and reclaim tradit… 

A Toast to the People: Hollie McNish & Wana Udobang

A Toast to the People: Hollie McNish & Wana Udobang

This A Toast to the People event features Hollie McNish and Wana Udobang in an evening of electric performance. 

Linocut Print Art Workshop for LGBT+ Women, Trans and Non-Binary People

Linocut Print Art Workshop for LGBT+ Women, Trans and Non-Binary People

Learn how to make a lino-cut print from start to finish in a friendly in-person workshop with LGBT+ women, trans and non-binary people, led by Wild Water Art Store’s Gemma Curtis. 

A Toast to the People: Inua Ellams & Saul Williams

A Toast to the People: Inua Ellams & Saul Williams

Inua Ellams and Saul Williams bring their own distinct styles to this interactive and not-to-be-missed A Toast to the People event. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Now in its 8th consecutive season, Nightpiece continues to platform exciting filmmakers from across the globe. 

Sam and Tim Present: Behind the Fringe

Sam and Tim Present: Behind the Fringe

A series of quick-fire sketches riffing on ten years’ worth of observations on the bizarre quirks that make the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the collection of misfits and mishaps that… 

Paul Dennis: Imashination (Free Festival)

Paul Dennis: Imashination (Free Festival)

Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and stand-up, Paul Dennis brings his music and comedy together for the first time. 

A Toast to the People: Jay Bernard & Jefferson Tshabalala

A Toast to the People: Jay Bernard & Jefferson Tshabalala

Awarded young performers Jay Bernard and Jefferson Tshabalala unleash dynamism in this exciting A Toast to the People offering. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Choral Evensong

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Choral Evensong

The 2021 Festival of the Sacred Arts concludes with a service of Choral Evensong. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility

Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility. 

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Jessie Bates and Haftor Medbøe

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Jessie Bates and Haftor Medbøe

Singer Jessie Bates and Guitarist Haftor Medbøe perform songs by Joao Gilberto, Michel Legrand, Tommy Wolf and more in the studio at the Scottish Arts Club. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture

Lunchtime lecture: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical Embroidery

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical Embroidery

One-day exhibition: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Embroidery

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Embroidery

Lunchtime talk: Ms Zoe van Zwanenberg, embroiderer, discusses the art of embroidery. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from the Fringe Box Office.  

Camden Fringe - Joseph Parsons: Equaliser

Camden Fringe - Joseph Parsons: Equaliser

Joseph Parsons presents a fun-filled hour of stand up comedy about the joys of sport and the joys of homosexuality. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up every night – as this show returns to Edinburgh for its 18th year. 

Best of Fringe Stand-Up

Best of Fringe Stand-Up

It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Hymns

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: The Art of Hymns

Lunchtime lecture: The Art of Hymns. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. 

Eva Cassidy and Me

Eva Cassidy and Me

Celebrating Cassidy’s music with a Scottish lilt and, due to high demand, more violin and original songs! After sell-out tours with The Story, Elsa is ready to launch the sequel… 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Festival Opening Service

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Festival Opening Service

Mass setting: Lassus’ Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ altera. 

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross

Sacred Arts Festival at St Vincent's: Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross

Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet… 

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Euan McLaughlin and Nicky Kirk

Virtual Fridays on the Fringe: Euan McLaughlin and Nicky Kirk

Fiddler Euan McLaughlin and Guitarist Nick Kirk play a selection of folk and traditional tunes at the Scottish Arts Club. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s and 00s to present day. 

A Space to Bless (BSL-Interpreted)

A Space to Bless (BSL-Interpreted)

Queen Jesus Productions presents A Space to Bless, live from St Mary’s Cathedral – a radical queer space for contemplation, connection and meditation. 

A Space to Bless

A Space to Bless

Queen Jesus Productions presents A Space to Bless, live from St Mary’s Cathedral – a radical queer space for contemplation, connection and meditation. 

Music, Poetry and Silence for Healing at Greyfriars

Music, Poetry and Silence for Healing at Greyfriars

Music, Poetry & Silence for Healing: We have planned a series of events that both reflect on the atmosphere of live music and of quietness and reflection – a time for sharing our… 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary… 

Cathedral Festival Evensong

Cathedral Festival Evensong

Choral services sung by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with the tradition of daily services. Full details of music at cathedral.net. 

The Scottish Gallery Festival Exhibition Programme

The Scottish Gallery Festival Exhibition Programme

The Scottish Gallery presents their Festival Exhibition Programme featuring a major exhibition of Joan Eardley to mark the centenary of her birth alongside further exhibitions; The… 

Best of Fringe Stand-Up

Best of Fringe Stand-Up

It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up every night – as this show returns to Edinburgh for its 18th year. 

Mustard by Eva O'Connor

Mustard by Eva O'Connor

Triple Fringe First and Olivier-winning Fishamble, in association with Fringe First-winning Sunday’s Child, return to Summerhall with the 2019 hit show Mustard by Eva O’Connor. 

Afloat by Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan

Afloat by Eva O'Connor and Hildegard Ryan

The climate apocalypse has hit. 

Twisted Tales Goes to the Fringe

Twisted Tales Goes to the Fringe

Owdyado Theatre present a darkly comic evening of mini Twisted Tales by writers from Cornwall and across the UK. 

Funbox: Back to the Fringe

Funbox: Back to the Fringe

Funbox are back at the Fringe. 

Twisted Tales Goes to the Fringe

Twisted Tales Goes to the Fringe

Owdyado Theatre present a darkly comic evening of mini Twisted Tales by writers from Cornwall and across the UK. 

Feelgood Academy

Feelgood Academy

At the Feelgood Academy of Performing Arts, competition is tough, even for the school’s two best singers. 

A Space to Bless

A Space to Bless

Queen Jesus Productions presents A Space to Bless, live from St Mary’s Cathedral – a radical queer space for contemplation, connection and meditation. 

Eva Cassidy and Me

Eva Cassidy and Me

Celebrating Cassidy’s music with a Scottish lilt and, due to high demand, more violin and original songs! After sell-out tours with The Story, Elsa is ready to launch the sequel… 

Let’s Talk About… Being a Woman

Let’s Talk About… Being a Woman

A lighthearted comedy about university student Sophie, and her journey of discovering what it means to be a woman in this world. 

Flamenco Fringe

Flamenco Fringe

Award-winning flamenco guitarist and composer Daniel Martinez and the exceptional TuFlamenco join forces to deliver the truly authentic flamenco music and dance they are well known… 

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

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. 

Those People: A Play About QAnon

Those People: A Play About QAnon

Those People: A Play About QAnon is based on interviews with young people from the UK, conducted online and from accounts written on the subreddit: r/QAnoncasualties. 

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

Local jazz quartet JazzMain has built its reputation around the 1950s and 60s Blue Note jazz era by closely studying exceptional jazz artists like Dexter Gordon and his contemporar… 

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome Sessions – Chamber Music Scotland Special

Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary… 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

The Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a ninth hilarious year with another phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from acr… 

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe

Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe

Presented by comedian and financial writer Dominic Frisby, this one-hour feature documentary also stars Jimmy Carr, Al Murray, Shazia Mirza, Henning Wehn and Arthur Smith. 

Music in the Gardens

Music in the Gardens

Join us in the fabulous atmosphere of Assembly George Square Gardens for some of the best in local, Scottish and festival music on our new, open-air stage! Featuring your favourite… 

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things. 

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?

Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things. 

Jasmin Gleeson & Dan McKeon: Are Funny People Confirmed

Jasmin Gleeson & Dan McKeon: Are Funny People Confirmed

It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other… 

Jasmin Gleeson & Dan McKeon: Are Funny People Confirmed

Jasmin Gleeson & Dan McKeon: Are Funny People Confirmed

It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other… 

Report to an Academy

Report to an Academy

Acclaimed German director Gabriele Jakobi has adapted a classic Franz Kafka short story into a provocative drama featuring American actor/director Robert McNamara. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s… 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s… 

Future Jazz at the Fringe

Future Jazz at the Fringe

A celebration of the most exciting new jazz in the South East. 

Gays in Space: a Murder Mystery Cabaret

Gays in Space: a Murder Mystery Cabaret

Follow the Gays’ tantalising tales of devious destruction as they battle the heinous Hetero Sector! Enjoy a drink or two as a colourful cacophony of creativity causes chaos right… 

Gays in Space: a Murder Mystery Cabaret

Gays in Space: a Murder Mystery Cabaret

Follow the Gays’ tantalising tales of devious destruction as they battle the heinous Hetero Sector! Enjoy a drink or two as a colourful cacophony of creativity causes chaos right… 

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch Picnic

Children's Pottery Festival at the Patch Picnic

Led by Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics), we will be making pots on the wheel for you to take away. 

Lionhouse Cabaret: Comedy ft. Dyball & Kerr, Live Music and More

Lionhouse Cabaret: Comedy ft. Dyball & Kerr, Live Music and More

Bumfluffery and other silliness. 

Music and Arts Night

Music and Arts Night

Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/funk and gospel influences, playing songs from their forthcoming album. 

Music and Arts Night

Music and Arts Night

Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/R&B playing songs from their forthcoming album - guest artist Mark Edwards on piano… 

The History of Electronic Music

The History of Electronic Music

Using a sampler to travel through time, DJ and funny man Vinney White takes us from bone flute to drum loop. 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Throughout lockdown, many of us have enjoyed reconnecting with the natural world. 

Fringe Academy: The Future of Brighton Fringe

Fringe Academy: The Future of Brighton Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Fringe Academy: Looking Forward to Fringe

Fringe Academy: Looking Forward to Fringe

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Summer in the Garden: Make Music Day 2021 with Comfortable Classical

Summer in the Garden: Make Music Day 2021 with Comfortable Classical

Come and enjoy live, classical music in a relaxed, lunchtime performance with City of London Sinfonia. 

Summer in the Garden: Make Music Day with South London Choirs

Summer in the Garden: Make Music Day with South London Choirs

Four local ‘Sing Out’ community choirs are singing together to celebrate Make Music Day 2021. As part of the Albany’s Summer in the Garden. 

Live Music Disco-Funk Night

Live Music Disco-Funk Night

This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin… 

Live Music Disco-Funk Night

Live Music Disco-Funk Night

This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin… 

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade. 

Eva Cassidy: The Story

Eva Cassidy: The Story

“Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice ” ★★★★ (Southside Advertiser) “Blown away from sta… 

Eva Cassidy: The Story

Eva Cassidy: The Story

“Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice ” ★★★★ (Southside Advertiser) “Blown away from start… 

Love Is The Sweetest Thing: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Ray Noble

Love Is The Sweetest Thing: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Ray Noble

‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble. 

Love Is The Sweetest Thing: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Ray Noble

Love Is The Sweetest Thing: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Ray Noble

‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble. 

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Fringe Academy: Rural Touring in the UK

Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring. 

Fringe Academy: Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Academy: Fringe Festivals Around the World

Meet and hear from inspirational Fringe Directors and Producers from around the world. 

Fringe Academy: Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Academy: Fringe Festivals Around the World

Meet and hear from inspirational Fringe Directors and Producers from around the world. 

Sussex Festival of Ideas

Sussex Festival of Ideas

A free, four-day festival celebrating the work of the newly-formed School of Media, Arts and Humanities and local partners. 

Sussex Festival of Ideas

Sussex Festival of Ideas

A free, four-day festival celebrating the work of the newly-formed School of Media, Arts and Humanities and local partners. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Royal Court Theatre Heritage Talk

Royal Court Theatre Heritage Talk

This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre. 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production. 

Lucky Maclean's Festival in the Bin

Lucky Maclean's Festival in the Bin

“A great little fringe experience that I can highly recommend” (The Scotsman) ‘Lucky Maclean’s Festival in the Bin’ premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 to delighted audie… 

Lucky Maclean's Festival in the Bin

Lucky Maclean's Festival in the Bin

“A great little fringe experience that I can highly recommend” (The Scotsman) ‘Lucky Maclean’s Festival in the Bin’ premiered at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 to delighted audie… 

Falmer Fringe Concerts

Falmer Fringe Concerts

June 5, 5. 

Why I Am an Avocado

Why I Am an Avocado

Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast… 

Falmer Fringe Concerts

Falmer Fringe Concerts

June 5, 5. 

Eva Bindeman: It's Going Whaley Well

Eva Bindeman: It's Going Whaley Well

5 years ago Eva decided to become an entertainer. 

Arts Industry Networking Mixer with Brighton Fringe and Ironclad Creative

Arts Industry Networking Mixer with Brighton Fringe and Ironclad Creative

An online event, in association with the free digital platform The Ironclad Hub ( https://ironclad-hub. 

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1-2-1 Sessions

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1-2-1 Sessions

Thinking about putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, or already in the process for 2021? Book a one-to-one slot with Alan Gordon (Registration Manager) and Katie Quee… 

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1-2-1 Sessions

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1-2-1 Sessions

Thinking about putting on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, or already in the process for 2021? Book a one-to-one slot with Alan Gordon (Registration Manager) and Katie Quee… 

The World in Words and Music, According to Coward and Porter

The World in Words and Music, According to Coward and Porter

A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra… 

Organ Music at St Barts

Organ Music at St Barts

RECITALS ON TUESDAYS BY DISTINGUISHED LOCAL ORGANISTS ON THE FINE ORGAN AT ST. 

The World in Words and Music, According to Coward and Porter

The World in Words and Music, According to Coward and Porter

A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra… 

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Fringe Academy: Edinburgh Festival Fringe: What to Expect

Are you thinking about bringing a show to the Edinburgh Fringe this year, either in person or online? Come along and virtually meet the team from the Fringe Society and find out wh… 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: British Shorts

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: British Shorts

Discover some of the best current British LGBT+ filmmaking. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Youth Shorts

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Youth Shorts

How does it feel to grow up believing you’re different to everyone else around you? Suitable for the whole family, these LGBT+ short films explore friendship, crushes and feeling… 

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see? Don’t fret, we’ve done the work for you and hand-picked this week’s top tips. 

Fringe Club

Fringe Club

Continue your evening with the Fringe’s wildest late-night show. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Becoming

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Becoming

Exploring gender in a variety of ways, these LGBT+ short films tell moving stories of self-acceptance, family and discovering the person inside you’ve always dreamed of. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Best of Iris

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Best of Iris

These award-winning films from Iris 2020 tell LGBT+ stories from around the world with humour, heart and honesty. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Joy

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Joy

Need a laugh? Expect comedy of all kinds - from dark and surreal to laugh out loud joy – in this selection of LGBT+ short films guaranteed to get you giggling. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Audience Favourites

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival: Audience Favourites

There’s something for everyone in this diverse mix of crowd-pleasers from Iris 2020. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see? Don’t fret, we’ve done the work for you and hand-picked this week’s top tips. 

Fringe Academy: How to Crowdfund

Fringe Academy: How to Crowdfund

The arts and creative industries have been hit hard by the consequences of the pandemic, but Crowdfunder is here to help. 

On The Edge Comedy: Best of the Fringe

On The Edge Comedy: Best of the Fringe

On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round. 

On The Edge Comedy: Best of the Fringe

On The Edge Comedy: Best of the Fringe

On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round. 

Nowhere People

Nowhere People

Kinsmen: ‘Nowhere People’ is a South African production that extends on themes investigated in their debut album ‘Window to the Ashram’, 2017. 

Nowhere People

Nowhere People

Kinsmen: ‘Nowhere People’ is a South African production that extends on themes investigated in their debut album ‘Window to the Ashram’, 2017. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Fringe! The show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastically funny stand-u… 

UnLocked: People's Music Collective

UnLocked: People's Music Collective

Join the People’s Music Collective for the launch of their debut EP - ‘UnLocked’! The PMC is a Soundcastle band based in Worthing, which celebrates the creativity, resilience and … 

UnLocked: People's Music Collective

UnLocked: People's Music Collective

Join the People’s Music Collective for the launch of their debut EP - ‘UnLocked’! The PMC is a Soundcastle band based in Worthing, which celebrates the creativity, resilience and … 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Kick start your Brighton Fringe with a bank holiday weekender of free, outdoor fun at Fringe City on Jubilee Square! Join us on Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, for a three-day e… 

Bignell & Andrews Do A Fringe!

Bignell & Andrews Do A Fringe!

So, ages ago, we did a show, and it sold really well and we were super excited about doing the Fringe. 

Bignell & Andrews Do A Fringe!

Bignell & Andrews Do A Fringe!

So, ages ago, we did a show, and it sold really well and we were super excited about doing the Fringe. 

Tell Me Why?

Tell Me Why?

Premiering at Brighton Fringe 2021, ‘Tell Me Why’, a performance by the gender-neutral, avant garde collective NoAgEnDeR. 

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s… 

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s… 

Lionel - The Music of Lionel Richie

Lionel - The Music of Lionel Richie

Following his recent appearances with Lionel Richie himself on ITV’s ‘Sunday Night At The Palladium’ and the ‘Graham Norton Show’ for the B… 

Jacqueline Wilson at Brighton Festival

Jacqueline Wilson at Brighton Festival

The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online… 

Fringe Academy: Creating a COVID-safe event with Hybred Consultancy

Fringe Academy: Creating a COVID-safe event with Hybred Consultancy

Becky Stevens, Managing Director of Hybred Consultancy (www. 

FRANCIS ROSSI: I TALK TOO MUCH

FRANCIS ROSSI: I TALK TOO MUCH

Legendary Status Quo lead singer Francis Rossi will share the extraordinary secrets of his 50-plus years in rock’n’roll when he takes to the stage for an int… 

Fringe Academy: Learn How to Review Arts and Cultural Works with Voicemag.uk

Fringe Academy: Learn How to Review Arts and Cultural Works with Voicemag.uk

Are you aged 16- 25? Fancy getting involved in Brighton Fringe and becoming a young reviewer for Voice? Join Alice online on Monday 26th April, 2pm for this free workshop where we … 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid. 

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

YNWA - Let's Talk About Six...Baby

The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid. 

Fringe Academy: PR & Media

Fringe Academy: PR & Media

Find out how best to grab media attention from members of the press themselves! This will be a panel event hosted by Brighton Fringe with PR and media professionals. 

Fringe Academy: How to Market your Brighton Fringe Event

Fringe Academy: How to Market your Brighton Fringe Event

Find out more about marketing your Brighton Fringe event from the Brighton Fringe marketing team. 

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1 Sessions

Fringe Academy: Box Office 1-2-1 Sessions

Book yourself a session with a member of the Brighton Fringe Box Office team who can talk you through all aspects of the reporting system, including checking your ticket sales, set… 

Fringe Academy: Box Office Tips and Tricks

Fringe Academy: Box Office Tips and Tricks

Find out more about how the Brighton Fringe box office works from our Box Office Manager, Ellie Brayne-Whyatt. 

Brighton Academy Showcase 2021

Brighton Academy Showcase 2021

Come and watch our 3rd year Musical Theatre & Performing Arts students perform in their graduating showcase  

Brighton Academy Showcase 2021

Brighton Academy Showcase 2021

Come and watch our 3rd year Musical Theatre & Performing Arts students perform in their graduating showcase  

Living Roots Festival

Living Roots Festival

Hot in the heels of the debut Living Record Festival in January-February 2021, the Living Roots Festival launches this April. 

Fringe Academy: Producers - who are they, what do they do, where do I find one?

Fringe Academy: Producers - who are they, what do they do, where do I find one?

A two hour introductory workshop for self-producing artists and others interested in producing. 

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Showcase

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Showcase

This Showcase is the culmination of the first International 10-Minute Play Competition organised by the Soldiers’ Arts Academy which attracted submissions from across the UK, Eur… 

Fringe Academy: Fundraising Platforms

Fringe Academy: Fundraising Platforms

Robert Batson (Brighton Fringe Business Development Advisor) will host this session about fundraising platforms. 

The Scottish Online Student Drama Festival

The Scottish Online Student Drama Festival

Presenting the Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s latest project: The Scottish Online Student Drama Festival, in aid of Acting For Others. 

Neurodiverse Space

Neurodiverse Space

Join us on the second Sunday of every month at 7. 

The Backwards People

The Backwards People

This surrealist, comedic drama explores the fear of moving forward, as four characters try to absorb the entire history of the world and rebuild society, living their lives on a lo… 

Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival

Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival

Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival. 

SHORTS: A Festival of New Writing

SHORTS: A Festival of New Writing

Welcome to the first season of Make It Beautiful Theatre Company’s festival of new-writing: SHORTS. 

Bogowie (15) (Gods) - Polish Cinema Screening and Talk

Bogowie (15) (Gods) - Polish Cinema Screening and Talk

This the second in a series of screenings and talks exploring gems of Polish cinema, hosted by Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke. 

Centenary Music Hall

Centenary Music Hall

Westcliff High School for Boys’s troupe of players from all year groups brings the late 19th century tradition of Music Hall back to life with some wonderful old songs, glorious … 

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Scotland’s LGBT choir returns to the Fringe in support of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C charity. 

Jeremy Sassoon's MOJO (Music of Jewish Origin)

Jeremy Sassoon's MOJO (Music of Jewish Origin)

Renowned UK singer/pianist Jeremy Sassoon presents and performs his history of Jewish songwriters from the piano, supported by his trio. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, the show premieres at Brighton to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend. 

Love, War, Myth And Reality: Combining Academic Research With Mask, Movement, Text and Music To Create New Work With NMT Automatics

Love, War, Myth And Reality: Combining Academic Research With Mask, Movement, Text and Music To Create New Work With NMT Automatics

Embodied Theatre: explore theatre makers NMT Automatics and classicist Jon Heskers’ creation process questioning the role of ancient battle narratives in modern perceptions of wa… 

Big Ideas vs Limitations – Achieving Ambitious Designs at Edinburgh Fringe

Big Ideas vs Limitations – Achieving Ambitious Designs at Edinburgh Fringe

Learn the ins and outs of the logistics behind achieving ambitious designs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Anna Driftmier, designer of Army @ The Fringe 2019 show Dead E… 

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alastair Campbell

Iain Dale: All Talk with Alastair Campbell

It shouldn’t be controversial to assume that one’s ability to enjoy this particular interchange may well rest ultimately on personal politics and the level of individual anger … 

The Music of Trees

The Music of Trees

Guitarist Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award and since then he has been writing music inspired by trees. 

Bringing a Show to Army @ The Fringe

Bringing a Show to Army @ The Fringe

Find out more about bringing a show to Army @ The Fringe, what we’re looking for and our unique offering for artists. 

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Dean Friedman – Words and Music

Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits, … 

Jo Jingles – Jo Visits Outer Space

Jo Jingles – Jo Visits Outer Space

Following successful sell-out shows in previous years, Jo Jingles is back for more Fringe fun. 

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Live Every Moment - Creating dance for film, tv and theatre with Rosie Kay

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Live Every Moment - Creating dance for film, tv and theatre with Rosie Kay

Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith. 

Creating Atmosphere Through Music

Creating Atmosphere Through Music

Captain Ben Mason (Director of Music Band of the Grenadier Guards) and Lance Sergeant Ian Shepherd (Band of the Grenadier Guards) lead a session on creating atmosphere through musi… 

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Film Night

Soldiers’ Arts Academy Film Night

A screening of short films curated by Soldiers’ Arts Academy, hosted by Román Baca. 

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: The War Photographer

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: The War Photographer

Join Rebecca Brown, the first female soldier to win Army Photographer of the Year 2019 for a conversation on her experiences. 

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Projection & Choreography

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Projection & Choreography

Join Suba Subramaniam to explore the use of projection in dance and theatre productions. 

Al Start's Go Kid Music Club: Tall Tales

Al Start's Go Kid Music Club: Tall Tales

Brighton resident and local legend Al Start is heading to the beach this Summer with an array of stories and songs for kids and their grown-ups. 

Coburg House Festival Exhibition

Coburg House Festival Exhibition

A showcase exhibition from the 70+ residents of the buzzing Coburg House studio complex. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in its 13th year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Eva Cassidy and Me

Eva Cassidy and Me

Celebrating Cassidy’s music with a Scottish lilt and, due to high demand, more violin! After sell-out tours with The Story, Elsa is ready to launch the sequel show with Eva’s g… 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

Discover the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city with these entertaining, guided walking tours. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Following a sell-out run at Fringe 2019, Back To Black returns to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend. 

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, informal relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and other fine fizz. 

Josh Jones: Waste of Space

Josh Jones: Waste of Space

Born and bred in Manchester and just your atypical northern bloke, Josh Jones is taking the circuit by storm. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! Twelve top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

August 2nd-30th. 

McFly - Greenwich Music Time

McFly - Greenwich Music Time

McFly are confirmed for a night of explosive pop on Sat 11 July. 

Ms. Lauryn Hill - Greenwich Music Time

Ms. Lauryn Hill - Greenwich Music Time

Eight-time Grammy award winning Ms. 

Lewis Capaldi - Greenwich Music Time

Lewis Capaldi - Greenwich Music Time

Artist of the moment, Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi scored the biggest selling album and single of 2019. 

Lea Salonga & John Barrowman - Greenwich Music Time

Lea Salonga & John Barrowman - Greenwich Music Time

Continuing the classic theme is Olivier and Tony Award-winner, Lea Salonga. 

Sarah Brightman - Greenwich Music Time

Sarah Brightman - Greenwich Music Time

Sarah Brightman, international singing superstar and world’s best selling soprano, is confirmed to open Greenwich Music Time on Mon 6 July. 

Adventures with The Painted People

Adventures with The Painted People

Coming to BBC Radio 3. 

Café Named Desire at the Online Fringe Festival

Café Named Desire at the Online Fringe Festival

“Café Named Desire” is a musical about love, sexuality, and self discovery. 

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

Owned by 4 west end performers and with patrons including Sir Matthew Bourne, Stephen Mear, Bill Deamer, Carole Tood and Pearson Casting, The Brighton Academy has now be… 

Women Over 50 Film Festival: Best of the Fest

Women Over 50 Film Festival: Best of the Fest

Focusing on the work and lives of older women - both in front and behind the camera - this year’s line-up includes Japanese animation Mix, eco-comedy The Last Mermaid starring Jane… 

Why is the Stripper Talking?

Why is the Stripper Talking?

Siân Docksey used to be a stripper talking rubbish to strangers in dimly-lit rooms and laying everything bare in public. 

Q The Music's James Bond Concert Spectacular

Q The Music's James Bond Concert Spectacular

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. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

See a regency tale like no other featuring wilful heroines, haughty gentlemen, wayward vicars and hilarious consequences – no two shows are ever the same and swooning is gu… 

W*nk Buddies

W*nk Buddies

“It’s about us—together,” explain Jake Jarratt and Cameron Sharp, in their new play in which two drama students – straight “Jake”, gay “Cameron” – end up trying… 

Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti

Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti

Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti is that relatively rare thing for the Royal Lyceum Theatre—a star vehicle, rather than an ensemble production, that happens to have two audience fav… 

Women's Writes at VAULT Festival

Women's Writes at VAULT Festival

We’re back! This time with 3 new short plays by female identifying playwrights. Prepare to see plays with female driven narrative and none of those boring archetypal forms! 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

Essence at VAULT Festival

Essence at VAULT Festival

Laquaya (15 - hip-hop, feminism, Peperami) has broken into Elyot’s house. 

On the Hoof: Speculation in Unimagined Space

On the Hoof: Speculation in Unimagined Space

A Performance Lecture by Forster & Heighes 

Pride Plays

Pride Plays

Edinburgh’s Traverse has long-championed new drama—indeed, the venue’s self-description is the simple goal of being “Scotland’s new writing theatre”. 

Talk

Talk

Set in 1854 in the criminal wing of Bethlem Hospital for the Insane and being about the birth of psychotherapy, you would be forgiven for assuming this play will be heavy going. 

Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d: Why I Don’t Talk To People About Terrorism

Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show. 

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala

From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas… 

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala

From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas… 

A Kind of People

A Kind of People

One party gone wrong and a constellation of friends, family, and sacrosanct values falls apart. 

A Little Space

A Little Space

Watching A Little Space made me think of Marmite. 

Oor Wullie

Oor Wullie

Many Scots first experience of comics is likely to be two series published by Dundee-based D C Thomson in their long-running newspaper, The Sunday Post. 

2100: A Space Novelty

2100: A Space Novelty

Join Cut Mustard at the Cockpit for the Voila Europa Theatre Festival as they present their show 2100: A Space Novelty! A hapless human, an unbeatable heroine and a Dark Lord be… 

Live Forever - Britpop Tribute Festival feat Definitely Oasis + Blur2 + Pulp'd + Lucky Man (Verve)

Live Forever - Britpop Tribute Festival feat Definitely Oasis + Blur2 + Pulp'd + Lucky Man (Verve)

Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is. 

Colin Geddis: Safe Space

Colin Geddis: Safe Space

Ahead of his two night run at Belfast’s SSE Arena in 2020, Colin Geddis (Creator of The General Banter Podcast, Gedzilla Films, Barry The Blender…) brings y… 

Mr Fox (London Horror Festival)

Mr Fox (London Horror Festival)

‘Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, lest that your heart’s blood should run cold. 

The Stornoway Way

The Stornoway Way

“We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond,” argues Roman Stornoway, a struggling musician and the central protagonist in Kevin MacNeil’s thea… 

Carole: The Music of Carole King

Carole: The Music of Carole King

From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t… 

Carole: The Music of Carole King

Carole: The Music of Carole King

From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t… 

The Panopticon

The Panopticon

I well remember when Jenni Fagan’s explosive debut, The Panopticon, first appeared in 2013. 

Fly Me To The Moon

Fly Me To The Moon

Having this year reached the notable landmark of their 500th new production, the team behind the award-winning lunchtime theatre phenomenon that is “A Play, A Pie and a Pint” i… 

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

A couple confront impending death with bawdy humour and burgeoning sadness in Ridiculusmus’s unsettling two-hander, set in a future cursed by eternal life without eternal youth. 

MERCY @ Clapham Fringe Festival

MERCY @ Clapham Fringe Festival

‘Mercy’ is a dark comedy with a spiritual twist, centring on a headstrong matriarch of a Persian family and her unyielding decision to break tradition. 

Brooklyn The Musical

Brooklyn The Musical

Set in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge on a shabby corner, Brooklyn The Musical is a play-within-a-play staged by a rag-tag bunch of street performers who call themselves the Ci… 

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** - An Evening with Gill Sims

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** - An Evening with Gill Sims

Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind Why Mummy Drinks, its follow up Why Mummy Swears and the recently annou… 

London Punk Festival 2019

London Punk Festival 2019

Anti Nowhere League released their debut single "Streets of London" b/w "So What" in 1981. 

Star Shaped Festival 2019

Star Shaped Festival 2019

Star Shaped Festival returns for its fourth year! Having become known by fans and artists of the Britpop era as the must-see event of the year, it’s back for another all-day … 

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** An Evening With Gill Sims

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** An Evening With Gill Sims

Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind "WHY MUMMY DRINKS", its follow up "WHY MUMMY SWEARS" and the recently announced "WHY MUMM… 

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** An Evening With Gill Sims

Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A **** An Evening With Gill Sims

Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind "WHY MUMMY DRINKS", its follow up "WHY MUMMY SWEARS" and the recently announced "WHY MUMM… 

Electric Soul Festival

Electric Soul Festival

Four iconic acts will appear on the smoothest line-up of the year at The O2 on Saturday 7 September 2019, in what will be THE key date in the calendar for funk and soul fans, the i… 

Traditional Music With a Modern Twist

Traditional Music With a Modern Twist

GWC Trad Band is a nine-piece band playing Scottish and traditional music with a vibrant, modern twist. 

Fringe Swap Shop

Fringe Swap Shop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Scottish Music Old and New

Scottish Music Old and New

The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, lowland pipes, Scottish small-pipes, double bass and percussion has captivated audiences a… 

Praise at the Fringe

Praise at the Fringe

Great AMC sell-out show in 2018! The vision of the Sound of Many Waters is to promote the rediscovery of God’s voice through music and the arts. 

Beyond Borders International Festival 2019

Beyond Borders International Festival 2019

Beyond Borders International Festival returns to the tranquil setting of Traquair House for its 10th year, bringing together world-renowned broadcasters, writers, thinkers, artists… 

Fringe 2019: What’s Your Story? 

Fringe 2019: What’s Your Story? 

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Cadenza at the 2019 Fringe

Cadenza at the 2019 Fringe

Puccini’s beautiful Messa di Gloria, Haydn’s joyous Te Deum and energetic Insanae et Vanae Curae with orchestral accompaniment, plus first Scottish performance of Janet Wheeler’s p… 

How to do a Show at the Fringe

How to do a Show at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

Aaah! The Fringe of the Fringe is back!

Aaah! The Fringe of the Fringe is back!

It’s back, the show on the fringe of the Fringe! Come join us at the Fringe’s best up-and-coming venue for an unpredictable night of music, comedy, dance, magic, poetry and circus!… 

The Choicest Music of the Kingdom, by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

The Choicest Music of the Kingdom, by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

Internationally acclaimed choir The Sixteen, led by Harry Christophers CBE, present an exclusive programme of Elizabethan and Jacobean choral works, spanning the life of Richard Bu… 

'Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Donovan in conversation with Eddi Reader

'Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Donovan in conversation with Eddi Reader

Legendary singer-songwriter Donovan performs an acoustic set in this very special event showcasing the documentary film Donovan and The Beatles in India. 

Power of Music 3

Power of Music 3

Val McDermid, best known for her Wire in the Blood series which was adapted for television, published Broken Ground, 5th in the Karen Pirie series earlier this year. 

Fringing 9 to 5 – 20 Hours at the Fringe

Fringing 9 to 5 – 20 Hours at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Paul Feig

The creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids brings his perspective on the global television and film landscape in this special one-off event. 

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations

Rhys Nicholson – Nice People Nice Things Nice Situations

Rhys Nicholson is a nice man who is doing his best. 

ETBF – Dublin and Edinburgh’s Divergent Building Traditions Seminar

ETBF – Dublin and Edinburgh’s Divergent Building Traditions Seminar

Do you love Georgian architecture? Come and join Graham Hickey, Conservation Director of the Dublin Civic Trust, for a fascinating lecture exploring the architectural development o… 

ETBF – Building Stones Geology Tour of Calton Hill

ETBF – Building Stones Geology Tour of Calton Hill

Join us for a unique tour of Edinburgh’s iconic Calton Hill, lead by the British Geological Survey, and learn more about the stones that were used to build Edinburgh! Walk with us … 

Discover Melbourne Fringe

Discover Melbourne Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Gill Sims: Why Mummy Doesn’t Give A ****!

Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind Why Mummy Drinks, its follow up “Why Mummy Swears and the recently announced Why M… 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

A must-do in the corporate calendar, Pick of the Fringe brings a hand-picked selection of top acts to one stage for an exclusive evening of comedy, entertainment and fine dining.  

Mémoires d'un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie)

Mémoires d'un Amnésique (The Life and Music of Erik Satie)

In equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique theatrical experience. 

Power of Music 2

Power of Music 2

Geoff Palmer, born in Jamaica immigrated to London in 1955. 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Fringe Society where activity is reviewed, accounts are presented and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard. 

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Showcase

From the management of Micky Flanagan, Mark Watson, Zoe Lyons, Gary Delaney and Hal Cruttenden, don’t miss the chance to see some of the hottest up-and-coming comedy acts of the mo… 

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Russell T Davies

Russell T Davies is the man behind classic and acclaimed TV series Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Torchwood and Cucumber, among many others. 

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival

Mother and the Monster / Free Festival

Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago. 

The Voicebox Toolbox: How to Avoid Cracking Your Voice During the Fringe

The Voicebox Toolbox: How to Avoid Cracking Your Voice During the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Shifting Identities

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Shifting Identities

A small allocation of tickets available on the door, first come, first served. 

ETBF – Home Maintenance Seminar – Maintaining Your Traditional Building

ETBF – Home Maintenance Seminar – Maintaining Your Traditional Building

A talk by Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) on their approach for maintaining your traditional building throughout the year. 

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man

Remind Me Again Why I Need a Man

Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix. 

Power of Music 1

Power of Music 1

Louise Welsh appeared on the literary scene with her debut novel The Cutting Room. 

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

A showcase of the best new and up-and-coming acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Scottish jazz/funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas… 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants. 

Funny Women on the Fringe

Funny Women on the Fringe

Join Funny Women for a sparkling mix of comedy featuring the brightest new, emerging and established talent at the Fringe. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Hosted by director Al Carretta and now in its sixth year, if you love independent film, then Nightpiece is the event to attend. 

One Woman, One Cello, and 500 Years of Music

One Woman, One Cello, and 500 Years of Music

The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe. 

Ted Hill: All the Presidents Man (Camden Fringe)

Ted Hill: All the Presidents Man (Camden Fringe)

Comedian & silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show is about every single U. 

Why AI is a bigger threat than Global Warming

Why AI is a bigger threat than Global Warming

Artificial Intelligence is not just coming, it is already here. 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Notes 3; Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel; Dances gothiques; Croquis et agaceries d’un gros bonhomme en bois; 6 Gnossiennes. 

How to Take Part in Brighton Fringe

How to Take Part in Brighton Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh is open to everyone, old or young, with any faith or none. 

Questions for Quiz Shows

Questions for Quiz Shows

Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform. 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

AMDA Scholarship Auditions at Edinburgh Fringe

AMDA Scholarship Auditions at Edinburgh Fringe

AMDA will be conducting placement and scholarship auditions for its BFA and Conservatory programs in Acting, Music Theatre, Dance Theatre and Performing Arts. 

Bessy Bass Band's Munchtime Music!

Bessy Bass Band's Munchtime Music!

Come and join Bessy and friends in their new lunchtime chamber music concerts for children! Bring along your own picnic and munch your lunch as Bessy and friends serenade you in ou… 

Barefoot (Camden Fringe)

Barefoot (Camden Fringe)

‘Forever in a hurry to meet expectations and cover expenses, but forgetting what is important in life. 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out!). 

Cathedral Choir Festival Concert

Cathedral Choir Festival Concert

‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record review). 

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9

Found Footage Festival: Volume 9

In a world where we see some form of video footage every day – on small and big screens, down on our phones, around us on animated billboards – and where we can tumble headfirs… 

Intellectual Property Rights for Fringe Performers

Intellectual Property Rights for Fringe Performers

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Lost Keys and Orgasms At the Pasty Motel (Camden Fringe)

Lost Keys and Orgasms At the Pasty Motel (Camden Fringe)

A poignant, bittersweet comedy about Dino, a lost soul from a small town in Sicily, and Fran, his American boss, both transplanted to the UK. 

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Ridiculusmus. 

Festival Strings 2019

Festival Strings 2019

Festival Strings is a unique collaboration between two outstanding youth music string organisations. 

Working-Class Artists’ Gathering at the Edinburgh Fringe

Working-Class Artists’ Gathering at the Edinburgh Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

I Don't Want to Talk About It

I Don't Want to Talk About It

Being a teenager is hard and nobody wants to talk about it. 

All-Star Cabaret: The Free Fringe Gala

All-Star Cabaret: The Free Fringe Gala

Best of magic, dance, comedy, singing and more. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen. 

Dinner Party Debates: The Case for a Deaf Festival in The Festival City

Dinner Party Debates: The Case for a Deaf Festival in The Festival City

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

In this concert you will hear a wide variety of piobaireachd (pronounced approximately ‘pee-broch’), the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national in… 

Talk

Talk

Bethlem Royal Hospital, 1854. 

The Discount Comedy Checkout Raw & Unscripted Improv Show (Camden Fringe)

The Discount Comedy Checkout Raw & Unscripted Improv Show (Camden Fringe)

The Discount Comedy Checkout have been wowing crowds for over 10 years on the UK comedy circuit with 100% raw and unscripted comedy improvisation shows. 

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Scotland’s LGBT choir Loud and Proud is back at the Fringe in support of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C charity. 

Music-Making at St Michael and All Saints

Music-Making at St Michael and All Saints

Morning: coffee concert of informal music-making. 

Ska at the Fringe

Ska at the Fringe

If you were into music in the late 70s and early 80s, the chances are you were into 2 Tone, the iconic Coventry based label that was home to ska revivalists like The Beat, The Sele… 

Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe

Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe

Trashfuture, the political comedy podcast about how the future is trash, is doing its first ever show at the Edinburgh Fringe, for one night only on 10th August. 

The Halls of Ridiculous Comedy Panel Show (Camden Fringe)

The Halls of Ridiculous Comedy Panel Show (Camden Fringe)

The comedy panel show NO ONE is talking about - but they should be! Two teams of two comedians compete in a series of ridiculous quiz rounds to win a very ridiculous prize. 

Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe

Dominic Frisby Presents Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe

Nowhere has Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand been harder at work than at the festival itself. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in it’s 12th year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

A Mentally Well Fringe

A Mentally Well Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Dealing with Reviews at the Fringe

Dealing with Reviews at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Showcase includes: In Mist and Rain by Arts of China, Letter from An Unknown Woman by The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Hear of The Lights by Ningbo Municipal Culture &… 

Museum Late: Fringe Fridays

Museum Late: Fringe Fridays

Fringe Fridays at the museum are a magical experience! There’s a plethora of acts which span the genres available at the festival, each act performing a 15 minute taster on a mai… 

Laugh Island (Camden Fringe)

Laugh Island (Camden Fringe)

An improvised comedy show of sketches, scenes, songs, and suntans. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Bits & Bots

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Bits & Bots

One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. 

Bits & Bots: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Bits & Bots: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure. 

When Frankie Meets Benny – The Music of Sinatra and Goodman

When Frankie Meets Benny – The Music of Sinatra and Goodman

Their iconic songs and swing instrumentals are performed by Roy Mac (Spatz Showband), Dick Lee (Dick Lee’s Sextet), Malcolm MacFarlane (Scottish Guitar Quintet) and Ed Kelly (bass)… 

Children’s Large-Scale Painting Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Children’s Large-Scale Painting Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

An exciting and engaging art workshop that children really enjoy. 

Rory Motion - All Manner of Things Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory Motion - All Manner of Things Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i. 

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

Fringe University believes that the Edinburgh Fringe makes an excellent classroom. 

Rory Motion - All Manner of Thing Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory Motion - All Manner of Thing Shall be Well Good: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i. 

Food & Folk with Iona Lane: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Food & Folk with Iona Lane: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A hearty meal with a helping of folk. 

ROSL Recitals: 20 Years of Music at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

ROSL Recitals: 20 Years of Music at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Adelaide Fringe Artist Info Session

Adelaide Fringe Artist Info Session

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s 90s, 00s to present day. 

Fira B! Balearic Music Nights

Fira B! Balearic Music Nights

Everybody knows Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, our beaches and landscapes, but the Balearics are not only sand and sun. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Apps & Austerity

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Apps & Austerity

The 2010s. 

Lizabett Russo Trio: A Night of Romanian Traditional Music

Lizabett Russo Trio: A Night of Romanian Traditional Music

A night of Romanian traditional music with songs from Maria Tanase, Ileana Sararoiu, Liviu Vasilica, Surorile Osoianu and many more. 

Apps & Austerity: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Apps & Austerity: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The 2010s. 

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be … 

The Edinburgh Fringe as a Classroom

The Edinburgh Fringe as a Classroom

Fringe University invites you to meet with students, graduates, and professors to find out how you can get the most out of the Fringe. 

Diversity in the Fringe Media Landscape

Diversity in the Fringe Media Landscape

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords with Rory Motion: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Solving the Mystery of Cryptic Crosswords with Rory Motion: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be … 

Music from the Heart, Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts

Music from the Heart, Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts

Music from the Heart with Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts is a concert for lovers of acoustic music featuring compositions by Andrew Leslie played on acoustic guitars and double … 

Old Saint Paul's Music at 8pm

Old Saint Paul's Music at 8pm

Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church just off the Royal Mile. 

Float Tank #5: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Float Tank #5: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de… 

Villain, Interrupted - Camden Fringe 2019

Villain, Interrupted - Camden Fringe 2019

Meet Gina, a therapist working in a prison for super-villains - determined to turn every last one of them into a Hero. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv… 

Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Raphael Wallfisch: Solo Cello Performance: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv… 

Highlight Tours of St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum

Highlight Tours of St Cecilia's Hall: Concert Room and Music Museum

Join our curators, conservator and volunteers on special highlight tours of St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home of the University of Edinburgh’s world renown… 

Fringe First Aid

Fringe First Aid

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Float Tank #4: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Float Tank #4: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de… 

Sounds of the Fringe: Speaking for Wellbeing

Sounds of the Fringe: Speaking for Wellbeing

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Geoff Robb – The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb – The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award and since then he has been writing music inspired by trees. 

Movie Music

Movie Music

Join us on the red carpet for the big premiere of this concert featuring hit songs from the silver screen, including The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia, James Bond, La La Land and mor… 

Surfing the Holyland (Camden Fringe)

Surfing the Holyland (Camden Fringe)

Heather is allergic to politics, religion and exercise. 

Festival Well-Being Workshops

Festival Well-Being Workshops

Therapists from our treatment rooms will show you how to stay healthy during the Fringe using herbs, with a series of free evening workshops mixing herbal teas and essential oil bl… 

Brewhemia's Festival Showcase

Brewhemia's Festival Showcase

After the success of 2018 Brewhemia is returning with our platter of showstopping acts from this year’s festival favourites and our very own Creative Clique. 

River Voices: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca… 

Festival Sustainability: A Practical Skills Workshop

Festival Sustainability: A Practical Skills Workshop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Sustainability at the Fringe: Reception

Sustainability at the Fringe: Reception

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

River Voices - Poetry: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices - Poetry: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca… 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Anthony Jeannot: I Want To Buy A House (Camden Fringe)

Anthony Jeannot: I Want To Buy A House (Camden Fringe)

I feel ripped off, and frankly you should too. 

The Wild and Crazy Adventures of Tom Wayfinder: Story time Spectacular: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The Wild and Crazy Adventures of Tom Wayfinder: Story time Spectacular: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen. 

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? You struggle, I struggle, and the world struggles. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Mischief

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Mischief

Mischief Night. 

The Mother Music Daughter Dance

The Mother Music Daughter Dance

The Mother Music Daughter Dance is a lively, funny, bittersweet theatrical duet between a real-life mother and daughter. 

Choral Festival Evensongs

Choral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. Full details of music at cathedral.net. 

Mischief: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Mischief: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Mischief Night. 

Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Interactive story telling, plus Riddling Competition! Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure. 

Tom Wayfinder’s Mexican Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Mexican Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom signs up as a driver for Eduardo Dorado, gold-hunter, on a trek that takes him up a ziggurat and a volcano, where he encounters an Aztec god of fire called Xiuhtecuh… 

Tom Wayfinder’s Pacific Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom Wayfinder’s Pacific Adventure: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tom signs on as a ships cook on the good ship Sinkfast, bound from Japan to Mexico, falls foul of the Genie of Chilli Sauce, El Roja The Sweat-head, meets a mermaid call… 

A Taste of Scotland (Whisky Tasting and Three-Course Meal) at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A Taste of Scotland (Whisky Tasting and Three-Course Meal) at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

A sensory experience, teaching you how to nose and taste whisky, helping to discover the perfect dram for your palate. 

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin: Open air Cinema: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Modern Times - Charlie Chaplin: Open air Cinema: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin. 

Epic Film Music Concert

Epic Film Music Concert

Venture into a magic land of epicness with this film music concert. 

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show

Lucky Maclean: Festival in the Bin – Walking Tour/Show

A hilarious street cleaner sweeps you off on an outdoor journey into the unknown festival, uncovering its secrets and making an ingenious show out of rubbish with his extraordinary… 

A Glory to Our Race, and a Nightingale to Our People: The Music of William Byrd

A Glory to Our Race, and a Nightingale to Our People: The Music of William Byrd

Crichton Kirk welcomes internationally renowned ensemble The Marian Consort, whose dynamic, fresh approach to Portuguese polyphony entranced audiences in 2017. 

The Festival Showcase at Black Ivy

The Festival Showcase at Black Ivy

A taste of the Fringe comes to Bruntsfield in true Black Ivy style. 

Filament

Filament

Whether it’s because Hollywood has force-fed us with them for decades, or simply because the concerns of teenage life are pretty universal across most of the Western world, we’… 

Free Fringe Festival Music: Live on the Grassmarket

Free Fringe Festival Music: Live on the Grassmarket

Join us for a huge selection of free acoustic music, duos, bands, singers and more through the day and night on this launch day of Fringe Music on the Grassmarket. 

Laurie Black: Space Cadette

Laurie Black: Space Cadette

Laurie Black is back and she’s green, keen and featuring a plethora of originally written electro synth space cabaret songs. 

My Land

My Land

I have absolutely nothing but admiration to the performers of Recirquel Company Budapest, given that some of their number must have spent their entire lives training their lean, mu… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

Harun Musho'd: Dark Side of Harun

Harun Musho'd: Dark Side of Harun

Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s and today. 

Kombini

Kombini

Let's be honest here: I've never particularly liked clowns. 

'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

When He Fell - Camden Fringe 2019

When He Fell - Camden Fringe 2019

A God who chooses to sleep. 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for 2019, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. 

Robert Powell 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Robert Powell 'The Creative River' - River Walk & Writing Workshop: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York… 

BBC: Susan Calman's Fringe Benefits

BBC: Susan Calman's Fringe Benefits

Susan Calman takes a fast-paced whistle-stop tour of Edinburgh’s comic delights. 

Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading

Freeing the Edinburgh Fringe: Book Reading

PBH reads from his book, the story of the Free Fringe from 1996 to now: how we became the Fringe’s biggest show provider and the many catastrophes and odd triumphs along the way. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music. 

Dome Nights: Wish You Were Here – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Dome Nights: Wish You Were Here – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics. 

Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self

Whirlpool People; Deconstructing the Illusion of the Separate Self

This provocative, comic and life-affirming one-man show invites you to the core of spiritual debate to experience a journey of life, death and transcendence. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

‘It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe’. 

Space Junk: A Soviet Musical

Space Junk: A Soviet Musical

The first man in space is back on Earth and facing new temptations. 

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand Comedy Club’s hand-picked selection of great comedy at the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre almost every Friday and Saturday night. 

Live Music at The Granary

Live Music at The Granary

Join us down at The Shore for live music every Friday and Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon during the Fringe. 

Renaissance Choral Music from Scotland and England

Renaissance Choral Music from Scotland and England

The Byrd International Singers, directed by Markdavin Obenza, participates in an annual Renaissance course offered by the Byrd Ensemble (US). 

Vigil

Vigil

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has, for many years, produced and maintained a “Red List” of species which are either already extinct or in danger of bei… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!

The Strut Club Cabaret presents. 

The Brooklyn Scotsman

The Brooklyn Scotsman

A teenage Scottish rapper leaves home to pursue his dreams across the Atlantic in New York City. 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mile

Your Fringe adventure starts here! Now in its 21st year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of… 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Catch some world-class street performers, bag a bargain at the Half Price Hut or browse through the arts and crafts markets – all against the stunning backdrop of the National Ga… 

Creative People Need Data!

Creative People Need Data!

Nicola Osborne (#CreativeInformatics, University of Edinburgh) reckons that data-driven technologies are inspiring new and unexpected opportunities for creative people and organisa… 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

Entertaining and informative guided walking tours that tell the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh. 

Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The Strut Club Cabaret presents. 

The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

The Big Show: Fringe Showcase!

Edinburgh’s #1 rated comedy club and three-time Scottish Comedy Award winner brings you its pick of the Fringe for the very first time! Showcasing the very best acts from the Mon… 

Eva Cassidy: The Story

Eva Cassidy: The Story

A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy. 

Strut Club Cabaret Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Strut Club Cabaret Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

The Strut Club Cabaret presents. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe

Is the Fringe guide too wide and confusing? We understand. 

The People's Boat

The People's Boat

One dinghy. 

In Space...

In Space...

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Short Film Open Screen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Short Film Open Screen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity. 

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back to Black: The Music of Amy Winehouse

Back To Black premiers at the Fringe to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who shattered records and moved millions. 

Fox-tot!

Fox-tot!

There are two challenges at the heart of Fox-tot!, a new work from composer Lliam Paterson and director Roxana Haines for Scottish Opera. 

First Time at the Fringe: A Newcomers Guide

First Time at the Fringe: A Newcomers Guide

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Chaika: First Woman in Space

Chaika: First Woman in Space

Discover the true story of Valentina Tereshkova, a young textile worker plucked from obscurity to lead the Soviet Union’s race to the stars. 

Dome Nights: Dark Side of the Moon – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Dome Nights: Dark Side of the Moon – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.  

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

Late Show Great Show / Free Festival

The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink. 

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

The Official Edinburgh Fringe Christmas Show

Richard Duffy’s been celebrating Christmas every day since the day he was born. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

The Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a eighth hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from a… 

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free and Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly lunchtime stand-up showcase, from the people behind… 

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Best Show We've Ever Done at the Edinburgh Fringe

A year ago, the world ended. 

Daniel and Ralph Won't Talk About Brexit

Daniel and Ralph Won't Talk About Brexit

Fresh from selling out their Glasgow Comedy Festival show for two successive years, Daniel and Ralph are bringing their show to the Edinburgh Fringe! Join us – two Scottish comed… 

Shattered

Shattered

As a reviewer, there are several situations that I normally hope to avoid while covering the Fringe: it may surprise you, given that essentially I’m here to force my opinion on you… 

Paris de Nuit

Paris de Nuit

There appears, these days, to be an almost apologetic desire among directors and producers to find ways of presenting traditional circus acrobatics and high-wire acts with some add… 

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

A revolving line-up of hilarious female comedians from around the Fringe with an hour of stand-up comedy to be enjoyed by all. 

James Barr: Thirst Trap

James Barr: Thirst Trap

James Barr is single. 

Police Cops: Police Cops in Space

Police Cops: Police Cops in Space

Hot off the back of total sell-out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2016, 2017 and 2018, and Soho Theatre, multi award-winning Police Cops return with their sci-fi comedy blockbuster. 

Jasper Cromwell Jones' Alternative Book Festival

Jasper Cromwell Jones' Alternative Book Festival

Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful authors. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of The Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different line-up of top comedians at every show. 

Free Live Music at Ghillie Dhu

Free Live Music at Ghillie Dhu

The Ghillie Dhu’s very own local artists performing every night of the week with a mixture of traditional and popular classics. Come and join us for drams, jigs and reels! 

Godley on the Fringe

Godley on the Fringe

Godmother of Scottish comedy. 

Talk a Big Game

Talk a Big Game

After shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns with last year’s hit show on… sports! Yep. 

Kelsey De Almeida: I'm Very Different People (WIP)

Kelsey De Almeida: I'm Very Different People (WIP)

Fresh from performing at the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe festivals 2019, catch South End Comedy Festival’s Best Newcomer Winner in this revealing one-man show. 

General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe

General Loledge: The Best Pub Quiz on the Fringe

The perfect end to a day at the Fringe: deep in the bowels of the best pub in Edinburgh, a raucously competitive late-night feast of trivia, festival in-jokes, physical challenges,… 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August. 

Rib Ticklers' Pick of the Fringe

Rib Ticklers' Pick of the Fringe

Is a variety show with a mixed bill line-up. 

Jasmine: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Jasmine: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Jasmine is a saxophone-led from Leeds, performing music composed by saxophonist Jasmine Whalley. 

It's All Going To Be OK – Free Festival

It's All Going To Be OK – Free Festival

The world is going to sh*t! Or so it seems. 

When the Birds Come

When the Birds Come

As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin… 

Sam See: Coming Out Loud

Sam See: Coming Out Loud

It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it. 

Common People (Again)

Common People (Again)

Following a very successful run in 2018, the Common People are back for more! Janet and Paul are ordinary, common people and very happy with it! They aren’t trying to educate any… 

Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival

Comedy Gobbledygook Showcase / Free Festival

London Bermondsey’s beloved local comedy show comes to Edinburgh! Hosted by a podgy gay comic from the remote island of Taiwan, this comedy show has, for month after month, enterta… 

Viva Music!

Viva Music!

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, emote to electronica, caper to classical, wave to world music and tuck into techno with our cherry-picked musical assortment! A powerhouse o… 

The Human Show / Free Fringe

The Human Show / Free Fringe

Join Those Big Bois for the award-submitted, The Human Show – a journey inside the mind of one confused specimen and the two voices in his head as they navigate a day in this wei… 

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c… 

Alan Shed's Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show

Alan Shed's Music, Comedy and Everything Else Interactive Quiz Show

If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim. 

A Free Festival Friendly Walking Tour

A Free Festival Friendly Walking Tour

We are the top-rated walking tour company for English tours in Edinburgh on TripAdvisor and we have put together a special festival friendly walking tour of the Old Town for you to… 

Live Music at Southpour

Live Music at Southpour

Join us for a prime selection of acoustic music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with different musicians and duos specially chosen for the Fringe; performing each night i… 

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Festival Celebration V&C Sparkling Wine Tasting

Join Francesco Cardinale for an informative, relaxed tutored tasting of delicious sparkling Prosecco, Metodo Classico and fine fizz. 

Character Building Experience

Character Building Experience

You enter a tavern. 

Son of Dyke

Son of Dyke

I have a slight confession of bias. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome, regardless of age or ability. 

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine

Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine

There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs. 

Normaler Than Everyone

Normaler Than Everyone

It may be because of the stage productions and films which I saw growing up, but my innate and core expectation about musical theatre is that it tends to be on the big size, if not… 

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they… 

Chris Parker: Camp Binch

Chris Parker: Camp Binch

"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o… 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase. 

Andrew Maxwell: All Talk

Andrew Maxwell: All Talk

Living in Kent - Maxwell tells us – he is surrounded by the sort of puce-faced, fake WWII heroes who seem to think that having once watched a film with John Mills in it automatic… 

Leo Kearse: Transgressive

Leo Kearse: Transgressive

Leo Kearse isn't, by his own admission, a 'woke' comedian. 

Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

Superhero Academy: Environmental Adventure!

Join the Superhero Academy to be part of the greatest quest of all: to save the world… quite literally! The planet needs all the help it can get and we can’t rely on David Attenb… 

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care

Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care

In a festival where comedians eager to share their personal histories, foibles and perspectives on the world can oft seem ten-a-penny, it makes a pleasant change of pace to spend a… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves

Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y… 

Iain Dale: All Talk

Iain Dale: All Talk

Award-winning LBC radio presenter, CNN political commentator and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs to the Fringe for the first tim… 

PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

PechaKucha York Vol.19: Making Waves: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y… 

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man

Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says. 

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy, at heart, has a Unique Selling Point—the show’s creator, Anita Rochon, isn’t actually in Edinburgh. 

Where to Belong

Where to Belong

What makes a home? It’s one of a number of questions that Victor Esses asks of audience members as they come in, taping their responses for use later on in his show. 

Fred Cooke: Fred Space

Fred Cooke: Fred Space

Fred Cooke is leaving his twinkle toes behind him after Dancing with the Stars and is coming to Edinburgh with his new show of musical madness. 

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People

The Land of My Fathers and Mothers and Some Other People is an all-singing, all-dancing re-enactment of what Rhys’s Mam wrote down 40 years ago. 

Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics

Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics

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

For All I Care

For All I Care

For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women. 

She Can't Half Talk

She Can't Half Talk

This new-to-the-fringe five-star monologue show explores the conformities of gender and sexuality in modern day society, through the wickedly absurd lenses of The Foetus, The Camer… 

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night

See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri… 

Short Film Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Short Film Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity. 

Sketching Workshop with Pennie Lordan: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Sketching Workshop with Pennie Lordan: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

During this two hour sketching workshop, you will have the opportunity to be supported to explore your surroundings and views from the arts barge with artist Pennie Lord… 

York Symphony: Marinella Senatore: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

York Symphony: Marinella Senatore: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Another chance to see the films by Italian artist Marinella Senatore for her York Symphony piece, created through a series of workshops and conversations, collecting ind… 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its 14th season, C’s critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day. 

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

Resurrecting Bobby Awl

"Poor Fellow. 

Christopher KC: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Rice

Christopher KC: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Rice

Twice-nominated Scottish Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Christopher KC, brings his riotous debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Inflatable Space

Inflatable Space

A visually stunning theatrical odyssey exploring space, time and our human condition, from internationally acclaimed theatre artist, Thaddeus Phillips. 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

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

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Live at the Fringe

Not many comedy fans would turn down the chance to see the legendary Whose Line Is It Anyway? gang live. 

Deer Woman

Deer Woman

Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us. 

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut

You’ll learn two things from Aaron Simmonds’ Disabled Coconut. 

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders

Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders

Bystanders begins with staging reminiscent of a police detective’s office – plain desks, a few chairs, and piles of boxes full of paperwork and evidence. 

Rachel Fairburn: The People's Princess

Rachel Fairburn: The People's Princess

Rachel’s been described by some losers as obnoxious, rude and contrary. 

Don't Bother

Don't Bother

It takes a certain bravery, or innocence, to name your debut full-hour show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Don’t Bother. 

On the Other Hand, We're Happy

On the Other Hand, We're Happy

"It looks nice. 

Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

Andy Smart: 40 Years at the Edinburgh Fringe

Andy has performed at 40 Edinburgh Festivals. 

Edinburgh Festival Tales Tour

Edinburgh Festival Tales Tour

Join this lively and entertaining guided walking tour and enjoy decades of thrilling Fringe stories from today to Edinburgh’s first festivals in 1947. 

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Liam Malone: No Limbits

Liam Malone, it’s fair to say, is not backwards at coming forwards. 

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto

Titania McGrath may just be a young Kensington girl with a modest Trust Fund and a thirst for social justice, but she’s in Edinburgh to make a difference, and inspire us common peo… 

Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe

Adam Hess: My Grandad Has a Fringe

The star of Tonight at the Palladium (ITV), Stand Up Central (Comedy Central) and Live from the BBC is back with, without doubt, his funniest show yet. 

Family Yoga: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Family Yoga: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Family Yoga on the Arts Barge! This is an informal yoga session that brings together elements of traditional yoga practice, play and discovery. 

Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam

Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam

The hugely anticipated new show from Best Newcomer nominee. 

Typical

Typical

Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Made of Nowhere

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Made of Nowhere

Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Say Owt Showcase

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Say Owt Showcase

Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK. 

Made of Nowhere: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Made of Nowhere: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit… 

Say Owt Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Say Owt Showcase: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK. 

Out of the Wings Festival 2019

Out of the Wings Festival 2019

Out of the Wings presents its fourth annual festival, exploring untapped theatre from the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

Twenty-nine nights of the best local and international folk music showcasing a different artist each night. There are only 30 seats so book early to save disappointment. 

How To Beat Up Your Dad (The Musical): Arts Barge Riverside Festival

How To Beat Up Your Dad (The Musical): Arts Barge Riverside Festival

This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad. 

Tommy Foggo, Superhero!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tommy Foggo, Superhero!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

A magical multi-media tale of a life saved by music. 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Final

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Final

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year. 

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

Come and join us for the York Fringe Dog Show in aid of RSPCA York. 

Alan Shed's “Music, Comedy and Everything Else” Interactive Quiz Show (Edinburgh Preview)

Alan Shed's “Music, Comedy and Everything Else” Interactive Quiz Show (Edinburgh Preview)

When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets

Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear. 

Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Fenist the Falcon - Phoenix Puppets: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear. 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Semi-Finals

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Semi-Finals

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year. 

Georgie Morrell: Eyecon (Ed Fringe Preview)

Georgie Morrell: Eyecon (Ed Fringe Preview)

Join award-nominated comedian and one-eyed legend Georgie Morrell as she explores disability and celebrity. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Heaven's Gate

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Heaven's Gate

Four cups of Apple Sauce. 

Heaven's Gate: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Heaven's Gate: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Four cups of Apple Sauce. 

The York Dungeon Fringe Show

The York Dungeon Fringe Show

For 3 nights only, the York Dungeon will open their cages to the city of York, open their arms to new audiences, and expose their smelly armpits at the Great Yorkshire F… 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Tim Eriksen

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Tim Eriksen

Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos… 

The Great Yorkshire Comedy Fringe Workshop Showcase

The Great Yorkshire Comedy Fringe Workshop Showcase

A bunch of comedy virgins  have spent the weekend with Logan Murray, the man who taught Greg Davies, Rhod Gilbert, Josh Widdecombe, Andi Osho, Luisa Omielan, Diane … 

Tim Eriksen - Hardcore Americana: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tim Eriksen - Hardcore Americana: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos… 

Shape Note Singing Workshop with Tim Eriksen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Shape Note Singing Workshop with Tim Eriksen: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Come and learn shape note singing with Tim Eriksen! We are delighted to welcome Tim to York to lead a workshop and a singing on the Arts Barge in advance of his evening … 

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Ed Fringe Preview)

Richard Stott: Right Hand Man (Ed Fringe Preview)

A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand. 

Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: The Improvised Jane Austen Novel

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that anyone in possession of wit and good taste must be in want of great entertainment… Austentatious is an entirely impro… 

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Two days of Jazz and Manouche as part of The Arts Barge Riverside Festival. 

Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Award-winning saxophonist Alex Hitchcock returns to York, with his powerhouse quintet that combines a compelli… 

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival

Arts Barge Jazz & Manouche Festival

A two day Jazz and Manouche Festival of performances, workshops and open sessions. 

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Northern Electric - Rust

Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Northern Electric - Rust

Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel… 

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut (Ed Fringe Preview)

Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut (Ed Fringe Preview)

“A Comedian going places” *Join the 2017 BBC New Comedy Award finalist and wheelchair enthusiast as he tells you about how his first paid gig led to him perf… 

Rust: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rust: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel… 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Heats

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Heats

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year. 

Opening Night at The Arts Barge with Alistair Anderson: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

Opening Night at The Arts Barge with Alistair Anderson: Arts Barge Riverside Festival

We are very excited and privileged to welcome Alistair to play for the opening of York’s Arts Barge. 

Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival

Jasper Cromwell Jones’ Alternative Book Festival

Famous adventurer and posh idiot Jasper Cromwell Jones (played by award-winning comedian Joe Bor) presents an Alternative Book Festival with other weird and wonderful au… 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Janet Kay & Carroll Thompson

Innervisions Festival Presents - Janet Kay & Carroll Thompson

The Queen's of Lovers Rock announce an exclusive London concert as part of the 2019 Innervisions Festival. 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Fela Kuti - Saluting the Black President

Innervisions Festival Presents - Fela Kuti - Saluting the Black President

After sell out shows at the Electric Ballroom, 229 and The British Library, the Innervisions Festival is Saluting the Black President himself, Fela Kuti, tonight with the Dele Sosi… 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Maceo Parker

Innervisions Festival Presents - Maceo Parker

Iconic American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, Maceo Parker is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960’s as well as George Clinton's&nbs… 

Innervisions Festival Presents - RAMP (Roy Ayers Music Production)

Innervisions Festival Presents - RAMP (Roy Ayers Music Production)

Rare Groove Legends RAMP announce an exclusive European Concert. 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Mavis Staples

Innervisions Festival Presents - Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples' recording career spans from the 1950s to the current day. 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Saul Williams

Innervisions Festival Presents - Saul Williams

American rapper, singer-songwriter, poet, actor Saul Williams is coming to London to appear as part of the breath-taking Innervisions Festival line up between 3… 

The Ugly One

The Ugly One

At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical. 

Innervisions Festival Presents - Aloe Blacc

Innervisions Festival Presents - Aloe Blacc

Aloe Blacc is best known for his UK No. 

Them!

Them!

First, let’s get the biggest disappointment out of the way first: Them!, a joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland, writer Pamela Carter and director Stewart La… 

Nomad Short Film Festival

Nomad Short Film Festival

As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre. 

WHY MUMMY DOESN'T GIVE A ****! AN EVENING WITH GILL SIMS

WHY MUMMY DOESN'T GIVE A ****! AN EVENING WITH GILL SIMS

Thursday 13th June, 7.45pmTickets: £16Duration:Suitable for: ages 18+  

Sea Changes

Sea Changes

Jim Brown's Sea Changes is a play that delightfully and unashamedly embraces the info-dump, to the extent of having most of its characters directly introduce themselves to the … 

Q The Music – James Bond Concert Spectacular

Q The Music – James Bond Concert Spectacular

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. 

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

Taking Flight New Writing Festival

As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre. 

World renowned music sensation Q The Music – James Bond Concert Spectacular

World renowned music sensation Q The Music – James Bond Concert Spectacular

COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham. 

Stripped - Liverpool Fringe Festival

Stripped - Liverpool Fringe Festival

After it’s sell-out debut, Stripped is back and more revealing than ever!!! Succour Punch Theatre are proud to be baring all once again for this ‘stripped back’ performance o… 

Curious Shoes

Curious Shoes

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. 

A Festival of Korean Dance

A Festival of Korean Dance

Following an inaugural year enjoyed by audiences and critics alike, A Festival of Korean Dance will return in 2019. 

Country Music

Country Music

1983, Gravesend. 

University of Brighton Refugee and Migration Film Festival, Part 2

University of Brighton Refugee and Migration Film Festival, Part 2

“Bodies on the move: on screen and in the street” This event will involve responding collectively to a variety of audio-visual material, exploring movement and migration, shift… 

Us/Them

Us/Them

Arguably a surprise word-of-mouth hit during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this physical-theatre exploration of a mass hostage-taking returns to the Scottish capital with - t… 

University of Brighton Refugee and Migration Film Festival, Part 1

University of Brighton Refugee and Migration Film Festival, Part 1

“Refugees and migration in anthropological cinema” ‘Travel’ (63 mins). 

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz

Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers. 

I Wish I Was A Mountain

I Wish I Was A Mountain

It's appropriate that this particular production within the 2019 Edinburgh International Children's Festival is the only one slotted into the schedule for the Netherbow sta… 

Science Fiction Theatre Festival

Science Fiction Theatre Festival

It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition. 

Emil & The Detectives

Emil & The Detectives

I have a confession: I’d never previously heard of Erich Kästner's 1929 novel, Emil and the Detectives; It just wasn't a part of my childhood. 

Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man

Remind Me Again Why I Need A Man

When you’re used to holding the whip hand, Death can be an unwelcome distraction. 

Music and Meditation

Music and Meditation

An invitation to take part in this unique evening featuring uplifting and meditative musical performances from the Indian spiritual tradition. 

Lights! Planets! People!

Lights! Planets! People!

Renowned space scientist Maggie Hill is giving a lecture about her career, to inspire young women to work in science. 

BraTon Fringe Comedy

BraTon Fringe Comedy

Following the inaugural season success of the ‘EdinBra Fringe Comedy’ north of the border, ‘LassTer Festival Comedy’ in the Midlands and hosted by Scotland’s Jeannie Jones, this we… 

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Another triumphant show from Ciadhra McGuire and Erik Igelström or, as they’re better known on stage, Earnest and Wilde. 

The Treason Show Festival Special

The Treason Show Festival Special

Brighton’s much-loved, resident satirists with their legendary mix of bang up to date topical sketches and songs, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s f… 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts at GBMet. 

French Music Showcase

French Music Showcase

What’s happening on the French live music scene Right Now? Come and check out a selection of fine French bands playing a rich mix of originals and covers. 

Lachlan Werner: What A Doll! Brighton Fringe

Lachlan Werner: What A Doll! Brighton Fringe

What happens when a 90-something year old kitschy charlatan and a post-millennial ventriloquist host a British daytime TV show?Lachlan Werner (19-year-old Gaulier graduate) seeks t… 

Music with Mike: The Big Gig

Music with Mike: The Big Gig

Join Brighton’s award-winning Music Mike in an action-packed musical adventure. 

Hey Clay Children's Pottery Festival

Hey Clay Children's Pottery Festival

Join Vanessa Cox Pendray (MA, CE, PDD Ceramics). 

Hove Park Community Festival

Hove Park Community Festival

A free two day interactive arts festival suitable for all ages. 

The Duchess (of Malfi)

The Duchess (of Malfi)

There's little doubt that The Duchess of Malfi has become the most popular and successful work written by the English Jacobean playwright John Webster. 

2100: A Space Novelty

2100: A Space Novelty

‘2100: A Space Novelty’ makes full use of physical comedy that goes beyond any regular comedy show and takes audiences on an epic space adventure leaving them wanting a sequel! Wit… 

Round Midnight: The Magic & Music of Thelonious Monk

Round Midnight: The Magic & Music of Thelonious Monk

A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk. 

Laurie Black: Space Cadette

Laurie Black: Space Cadette

Join alien babe cabaret queen Laurie Black and her spaceship-synth for the journey of a lifetime to be the first woman to set foot (stiletto heel) on the moon! Adelaide Fringe’s Em… 

The Power of Love: Talk and Meditation

The Power of Love: Talk and Meditation

There is no greater power than love to heal our own heart of hurt and resentment from the past, vastly improve all our relationships and to bring true happiness into our world. 

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing

Three, as the song goes, is a magic number. 

Super Human Heroes

Super Human Heroes

Super Human Heroes from theatre group The Letter J (in association with Paisley Arts Centre) has a simple message: We all need to do our little bit to help make the world a better … 

Lewes Chamber Music Festival Launch Concert

Lewes Chamber Music Festival Launch Concert

Musicians appearing in the 8th Lewes Chamber Music Festival in June 2019 will perform chamber music by Mozart, Faure and the little-known Lekeu in this special Festival Launch conc… 

Dark Side of Harun

Dark Side of Harun

Harun Musho’d’s second solo stand-up show compares life and events in the 70s to today. 

Artist Speed Dating by Nordic Fringe Network

Artist Speed Dating by Nordic Fringe Network

After successful editions in Cyprus, Iceland and Sweden, the traditional Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF) style artist speed dating touch down in Brighton! Meet artistic peers, in… 

Krent Tablowski: I Can Make You Make Yourself Better at Public Speaking in Front of People

Krent Tablowski: I Can Make You Make Yourself Better at Public Speaking in Front of People

Influencer. 

Fringe City Night

Fringe City Night

Party with us all evening at this one-off ‘Fringe City Night’ extravaganza! Join the night creatures, the weird and the wonderful in a celebration showcase of the very best of Brig… 

Festival Classics

Festival Classics

Parry ‘I was Glad’. 

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing. 

Fringe Sessions 2019

Fringe Sessions 2019

Intimate live music showcase featuring a selection of Brighton’s finest musicians and songwriters. Hosted and curated by BBC 6 Music featured act Warsaw Radio. 

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb: The Music of Trees

Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award for his solo show. 

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!

A funny and fragile farce about ageing, dying and mourningExpect fumbling, coffee, call centres and cat food… rants, dribbles, pills and cough bombs… symbolist mysticism and sy… 

Organ Music at St Barts

Organ Music at St Barts

Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St Bartholomew’s Church. 

The Red Lion

The Red Lion

There’s something reassuringly "classy" about this production of Patrick Marber's The Red Lion, now touring Scotland for the first time courtesy of Glasgow-based Ra… 

Sunday Encounters: Dame Patricia Routledge: Facing the Music - A Life in Musical Theatre

Sunday Encounters: Dame Patricia Routledge: Facing the Music - A Life in Musical Theatre

It is still one of the best kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in… 

SKREW LOOSE BOOKING FRINGE SHOWCASES

SKREW LOOSE BOOKING FRINGE SHOWCASES

Skrew Loose Booking is a Brighton based live music company focused on showcasing upcoming and established talent from Brighton and further afield. 

The Spire Festival Bar

The Spire Festival Bar

A festival oasis in the heart of Kemptown, an atmospheric bar stocked by the best local suppliers where you can discover experimental art, unusual performances and out of the ordin… 

Sound Sculptures and Giant Percussion Music Workshops

Sound Sculptures and Giant Percussion Music Workshops

Sound Sculpture and Giant Percussion Workshops This fun music workshop is divided up into two sections. 

Let The Music Take You: Sober Rave

Let The Music Take You: Sober Rave

A fun space to connect with music and dance! DJs playing vinyl only, hosted by Nin Warrior guesting local legends. 

Classical Indian Music at the Brighton Ki Centre Santoor, Voice & Tabla

Classical Indian Music at the Brighton Ki Centre Santoor, Voice & Tabla

Kaviraj Singh - Santoor & Voice and Upneet Singh - Tabla Combining musicality with complex rhythm, Kaviraj Singh is emerging as a unique and celebrated talent of the new generatio… 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Fancy a show but not sure what you’re in the mood for? Get a taste of Brighton Fringe at our Fringe City festival showcase! Expect crazy cabaret, tremendous theatre, live music, co… 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

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

The Fringe Show

The Fringe Show

The Maydays present: the Fringe Show. 

The Secret Comedy Club: Fringe Comedy Hub

The Secret Comedy Club: Fringe Comedy Hub

We have over 80 professional comedy acts who applied to Artista Cafe & Gallery. 

We Need to Talk About Bobby (off Eastenders)

We Need to Talk About Bobby (off Eastenders)

12-year-old Annie has hit the big time – but she’s no idea how hard it is going to be. 

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival

Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival

Iris Prize brings outstanding LGBT+ film from around the world to Brighton. 

Police Cops in Space

Police Cops in Space

Multi-award-winning company, Police Cops, fresh from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe and winners of ‘Amused Moose Outstanding Show Award 2018’, bring you a comedy bl… 

Other People's Money

Other People's Money

Funny, serious, suspenseful and, above all, expertly crafted…. 

COPPELIA - Vienna Festival Ballet 2019

COPPELIA - Vienna Festival Ballet 2019

Saturday 20th April, 5pm Tickets: £22, £20 concessions or £79 for a Family Ticket (4 people, including at least 1 child)Duration: 2 hour… 

A Simple Space - The Belly

A Simple Space - The Belly

Seven acrobats push their physical limits without reserve; this performance is simultaneously raw, frantic and delicate. 

Matilda The Musical

Matilda The Musical

When Noel Coward warned a certain Mrs Worthington against putting her daughter on the stage, it's highly likely that he didn't have Matilda The Musical in mind at the time. 

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

Now in its 8th year and offering BA courses in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts, in collaboration with Bath Spa University. 

(Can This Be) Home

(Can This Be) Home

It’s seldom fun to leave a venue thinking: "Well, that's an hour of my life I'm never getting back. 

Get a Life!

Get a Life!

The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame. 

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert II

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert II

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert II The second of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musi… 

Farnham Festival 2019: Madrigals to Musicals

Farnham Festival 2019: Madrigals to Musicals

Farnham Festival 2019: Madrigals to Musicals This concert opens with students from Farnham Music and Drama performing excerpts from their upcoming show Our House, f… 

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

The Brighton Academy: Showcase

Now in its 8th year and offering BA courses in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts, in collaboration with Bath Spa University. 

Farnham Festival 2019: Ensembles Together

Farnham Festival 2019: Ensembles Together

Farnham Festival 2019: Ensembles Together Our KS2 choir will recount the story of the first lunar landings, through song and narration, followed by performances from a v… 

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert I

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert I

Farnham Festival 2019: Infants Schools’ Starship Concert I The first of two performances involving pupils from the local Infant schools, this musical adventur… 

Farnham Festival 2019: Rock and Pop

Farnham Festival 2019: Rock and Pop

Farnham Festival 2019: Rock and Pop A new inclusion in this year’s Festival; Tuesday’s concert will involve rock and pop groups, as well as singer-songwriter… 

Farnham Festival 2019: Symphony and Song

Farnham Festival 2019: Symphony and Song

Farnham Festival 2019: Symphony and Song Our second concert of the day will feature musicians from More House School and Lord Wandsworth College, as well as a full orche… 

Farnham Festival 2019: Young Voices

Farnham Festival 2019: Young Voices

Farnham Festival 2019: Young Voices This exciting concert will include performances from pupils at the Ridgeway School, plus Surrey Arts’ Just So Singers and the A… 

Sunday Encounters-Kerry Ellis, An Evening of Music and Memories

Sunday Encounters-Kerry Ellis, An Evening of Music and Memories

West End and Broadway star Kerry Ellis chats to broadcaster Gaby Roslin about her 20 years in show business and performs songs with her band from throughout her illustrious career. 

Farnham Festival 2019: Jazz Café

Farnham Festival 2019: Jazz Café

Farnham Festival 2019: Jazz Café The exciting opening to this year’s Festival is an informal late afternoon concert, featuring jazz groups from the local ar… 

Nearly Dan perform the music of Steely Dan - Tribute

Nearly Dan perform the music of Steely Dan - Tribute

Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of&n… 

The Swallowsfeet Collective: OOPS Festival

The Swallowsfeet Collective: OOPS Festival

OOPS is a movement to be different, to stand up and make bold choices. 

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton is described as many things in addition to being a stand-up comedian – a philosopher, thinker, poet, surrealist. 

Fat Blokes

Fat Blokes

This is a Spoiler. 

Local Hero

Local Hero

When Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre announced that they were producing a stage musical based on the iconic 1983 Scottish film Local Hero, I must admit to wondering if it was … 

The Funeral Director

The Funeral Director

In drama, an audience can either be ahead of what the characters know, or behind them, catching up; each approach has its dramatic advantages and disadvantages, but what is needed … 

Illegal: The Making of a Graphic Novel

Illegal: The Making of a Graphic Novel

A fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of ILLEGAL the award-winning graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and artist Giovanni Rigano. 

Lost in Music

Lost in Music

“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else. 

OOPS Festival

OOPS Festival

OOPS is a movement to be different, to stand up and make bold choices. 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

unravel... a festival of knitting 2019

unravel... a festival of knitting 2019

Since its launch in 2009, unravel has become one of the leading independent events for knitting and crochet enthusiasts. 

Tragedy is for Tall People | Starship Valentine

Tragedy is for Tall People | Starship Valentine

Tragedy is for Tall People How (not) To Write For Television Starship Valentine SPACE JUST GOT A LOT SEXIER   Tragedy is for Tall People - Charisma CheckTune i… 

TRAJECTORIES II WORKSHOPS:What is public space?

TRAJECTORIES II WORKSHOPS:What is public space?

The workshop proposes to model and visualise personal concepts of public space. 

Theme Show! - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Theme Show! - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Edy Hurst battles to create the world’s greatest theme park. 

The Adventures of the Bearded Lady - Dumfries Fringe 2019

The Adventures of the Bearded Lady - Dumfries Fringe 2019

The peculiar tale of the bearded lady who ran away from the circus! 

The Silent House - Dumfries Fringe 2019

The Silent House - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Something between two refugees gradually changes the shape of their relationship. 

The Moira Monologues - Dumfries Fringe 2019

The Moira Monologues - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Meet Moira; a cleaner, single mum and Falkirk's hardest woman 

In Search of Myself - Dumfries Fringe 2019

In Search of Myself - Dumfries Fringe 2019

A close-up look at how bipolar disorder affects a couple’s relationship. 

Showmanship - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Showmanship - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Darkly funny psychological thriller follows a circus through 1935 America. 

Rosie Sings: Facts About Love - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Rosie Sings: Facts About Love - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Rosie sings about dating apps, turning 30 and marrying Batman. 

A Curse of Saints - Dumfries Fringe 2019

A Curse of Saints - Dumfries Fringe 2019

A shepherd grows suspicious when a boy is found dead in British occupied Cyprus. 

James Carey: The Sacred Art of Joking - Dumfries Fringe 2019

James Carey: The Sacred Art of Joking - Dumfries Fringe 2019

James Cary wonders what Christians think they’re trying to achieve. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence. 

The Two Moronnies - Dumfries Fringe 2019

The Two Moronnies - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Music poking fun at the well-known and narcissistic celebrities. 

Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019

A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II. 

Manifest - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Manifest - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Dancers reveal and express the trials and tribulations of life. 

Magic, Mindreading and Telerabbitry - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Magic, Mindreading and Telerabbitry - Dumfries Fringe 2019

This show promises amazing magic; an incredible hour of entertainment. 

We Know Now Snowmen Exist - Dumfries Fringe 2019

We Know Now Snowmen Exist - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Based on the real events of the Dyatlov Pass Incident – Five women go camping in a remote mountain range. None return. 

Magic Circus - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Magic Circus - Dumfries Fringe 2019

An exciting, fast-paced and colourful show for all the family. 

25/ The Decriminalisation Monologues - Dumfries Fringe 2019

25/ The Decriminalisation Monologues - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Three monologues exploring the recent Decriminalisation of Homosexuality in Ireland. 

LGBTQZX - Dumfries Fringe 2019

LGBTQZX - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Jealousy is a terrible thing. Laura possesses an infinite amount. 

American Bot - Dumfries Fringe 2019

American Bot - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Sid Singh humorously explains how billionaires are destroying his city. 

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019 From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebr… 

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019

Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019

From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas… 

Personal Space Volume 2

Personal Space Volume 2

After last year’s sell out inaugural show ‘Personal Space’, an anthology of the dark, weird and deeply funny. 

An Enemy Of The People

An Enemy Of The People

‘Enemies of the People’ is a welcome and observant theme for a theatre programme as we enter another year of post-truth politics, domestic division, and the third year in the r… 

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

When Jo Clifford ("proud father and grandmother") first performed her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, it attracted bo… 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for a brand new adventure anywhere… 

The Rave Space

The Rave Space

A 90 minute mix of jungle music, theatre, spoken word and ritual. 

ZEIT 3 : A Collective Improvisation of Electronic Music

ZEIT 3 : A Collective Improvisation of Electronic Music

Z E I T is an Irish electronic music synth collective borne out of a common passion for synthesizers and the pioneering electronic music era of the 1970s and 1980s. 

Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

It's said that Edinburgh is a city, the size of a town, that feels like a village; or, in other words, the Scottish capital is sufficiently small and compact that you don't… 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

What makes a "traditional" pantomime? It's certainly not just a case of blowing the dust off a 1970s panto script and hoping for the best; here, the Brunton’s now r… 

Shakespeare Schools Festival

Shakespeare Schools Festival

Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at Greenwich Theatre. 

Why Don't We

Why Don't We

A band like no other on the pop landscape, Why Don’t We brings together five supremely talented singer/songwriters who have each built up a passionate following all on their … 

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

The works by French poet and playwright Edmond Rostand, just one of the victims of the influenza pandemic which swept the world in 1918, are today largely forgotten; the one except… 

Arctic Oil

Arctic Oil

Watching Clare Duffy's one-act play "Arctic Oil", a particular phrase kept coming back to me: that mantra of 1960s' student protests and second-wave feminism, &qu… 

Kick The PJ: Space Trip

Kick The PJ: Space Trip

A brand new live comedy show, from the surreal mind of YouTube storyteller KickThePJ. 

Winchester Comedy Festival

Winchester Comedy Festival

It is time to laugh out loud as Winchester Comedy Festival rolls back in to Winchester with a stellar line-up of homegrown talent performing at various venues across the city from … 

Scotties

Scotties

"Best leave history in the history books—get on with living. 

Nests

Nests

Within a cluttered clearing in some woods that's neither town nor countryside and so somehow feels like nowhere, an unnamed Man (David McKay) sleeps the sleep of the just-finis… 

Cathedral Concert – Music of Mystery and Devotion

Cathedral Concert – Music of Mystery and Devotion

The captivating sound-world of medieval music, featuring Scottish chant from Inchcolm Abbey, music by Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury – an eight-part work by … 

The Yellow on the Broom

The Yellow on the Broom

It's just four years since Pitlochry Festival Theatre put on a production of Anne Downie's 1989 play The Yellow On The Broom, based on the autobiographical novel by Betsy W… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Fringe Swap Shop

Fringe Swap Shop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Scottish Music Old and New

Scottish Music Old and New

The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, clarsach, lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, doublebass and percussion has captivated aud… 

Praise at the Fringe

Praise at the Fringe

The vision of the Sound of Many Waters is to promote the rediscovery of God’s voice through music and the arts. 

The Fringe of the Fringe

The Fringe of the Fringe

The Fringe of the Fringe is back! For the fourth year running, Edinburgh Festival Camping is hosting the show on The Fringe of the Fringe! An unpredictable night of performers from… 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Beyond Borders International Festival 2018

Beyond Borders International Festival 2018

Join authors, politicians, artists, diplomats and international cultural leaders for a weekend of panel debates, music, performing and visual arts, storytelling, poetry, walks and … 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday today, culminating with his choral masterpiece, Chichester Psalms. 

Ska at the Fringe

Ska at the Fringe

If you were into music in the late 70s and early 80s, the chances are you were into 2 Tone, the iconic Coventry based label that was home to Ska revivalists like The Beat, The Sele… 

Festival Lights – The Songs of Nick Keir

Festival Lights – The Songs of Nick Keir

Nick Keir, the Edinburgh folksinger and songwriter, left us too early in 2013. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Hand-picked selection of top acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A perfect way to entertain guests with a unique blend of fine dining and laughter-driven entertainment! 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano music of Erik Satie. 

Perth Youth Orchestra – Fringe Concert

Perth Youth Orchestra – Fringe Concert

Perth Youth Orchestra will perform works by Holst (The Planets Suite), Khachaturian, and Weber conducted by Mr Allan Young – with soloists Shona Rae (bassoon), Sophie Chisholm (x… 

Contracts: The Why, What and How Explained

Contracts: The Why, What and How Explained

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Big Girls Don’t Cry – Celebrating the Music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Big Girls Don’t Cry – Celebrating the Music of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys. 

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Karlheinz Stockhausen 90th Anniversary: Intuitive Music

Karlheinz Stockhausen 90th Anniversary: Intuitive Music

Aberdeen-based ensemble marks 90th anniversary of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and 50th anniversary of his Intuitive Music by performing selected compositions from his Aus den Si… 

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Special

Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Special

CKP and InterTalent present: Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Special. 

A Gathering: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Artists at the Fringe

A Gathering: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Artists at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Regional Focus – Latin America

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Regional Focus – Latin America

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants. 

Helen Lederer Asks Why The Fuss?

Helen Lederer Asks Why The Fuss?

Following a sell-out residency at London’s St James’ Theatre, Helen brings her chat format to the Fringe for the first time. 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The Annual General Meeting of the Fringe Society where activity is reviewed, accounts are presented and directors elected. 

COMMON: Networking Event for Working-Class Artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

COMMON: Networking Event for Working-Class Artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

COMMON is an arts organisation which exists to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, and help working-class artists build sustainable caree… 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Since 2014 we’ve platformed over 200 films giving premieres to shorts that have gone onto much bigger things in festivals across the world. 

Funny Women on the Fringe

Funny Women on the Fringe

Join Funny Women for a sparkling mix of comedy including performances by special guests and the brightest new talent at the Fringe. 

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

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… 

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Brass Gumbo Plays the Music of The Beatles

Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, mixing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas… 

Academy and Pitch Fight Present: Buy One, Get One Free

Academy and Pitch Fight Present: Buy One, Get One Free

Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene. 

Fringes Around the World: What Fringe Next?

Fringes Around the World: What Fringe Next?

Performer/producer? Want to tour the world? What touring opportunities are out there? A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from fringe festival directors from around the world; al… 

Devoted and Disgruntled: What Can We All Do to Build a More Sustainable Fringe for Everyone?

Devoted and Disgruntled: What Can We All Do to Build a More Sustainable Fringe for Everyone?

Part of the Fringe Central Programme for Fringe participants. 

One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music

One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music

One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music. 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Beyond the Fringe: Touring to London

Beyond the Fringe: Touring to London

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Brighton Up Your Fringe!

Brighton Up Your Fringe!

Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to these questions, this is the event for you! Lea… 

The Fringe World Fair

The Fringe World Fair

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Carl Donnelly Speaks to Dead People

Carl Donnelly Speaks to Dead People

Have you ever wondered why you can’t speak to the dead? You aren’t drunk enough silly. 

Let's Talk About Porn

Let's Talk About Porn

Is porn misogynistic or female empowerment in action? Why don’t we talk about porn? What impact does porn have on teenagers, adults and children? Is porn ultimately a good thing … 

Holy $#!% It's Music and Comedy With Matt Griffo

Holy $#!% It's Music and Comedy With Matt Griffo

Matt Griffo from Chicago is an internationally touring musical comedian, combining music with comedic lyrics. 

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Scotland’s LGBT choir, Loud and Proud, is back in support of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C charity. 

Fringe Queer Artists Kiki

Fringe Queer Artists Kiki

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Reviewing Different Genres at the Fringe

Reviewing Different Genres at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Book Shambles Live at the Fringe with Robin Ince

Book Shambles Live at the Fringe with Robin Ince

The acclaimed hit podcast Book Shambles, recorded in front of a live audience! Hosted by Robin Ince who‘ll be joined by a different amazing guest each show. 

We Need To Talk About

We Need To Talk About

Award-winning Jolyon Rubinstein’s hit satirical podcast is leaving the comfort of the Spotify studio and traveling to Edinburgh for three exclusive recordings. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For two nights only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

Creative Talk: Let's Talk Blocks

Creative Talk: Let's Talk Blocks

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Edinburgh International Marketing Festival

Edinburgh International Marketing Festival

Edinburgh International Marketing Festival. 

Lunafruit / Free Festival

Lunafruit / Free Festival

Fresh new band from London bring their summer 2018 tour to Edinburgh, with members having performed at Love Supreme Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Cambridge Folk Festival. 

Found Footage Festival: After Dark

Found Footage Festival: After Dark

Childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back after their smash-hit Fringe debut, serving up their dirtiest, most disturbing and patently misguided VHS finds from 25 year… 

Cathedral Choir Concert: Coronation Anthems and Music for Royalty

Cathedral Choir Concert: Coronation Anthems and Music for Royalty

‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review). 

Edinburgh's Traditional Music: Allan Ramsay's Songs. John Morran (Vocals, Cittern), Frank McLaughlin (Pipes, Guitar), Fred Freeman (Commentary)

Edinburgh's Traditional Music: Allan Ramsay's Songs. John Morran (Vocals, Cittern), Frank McLaughlin (Pipes, Guitar), Fred Freeman (Commentary)

Featuring musicians from the internationally acclaimed Complete Songs of Robert Burns (Linn Records). ‘Great voices, great songs… Who could ask for more?’ (fRoots). 

COMMON: GROUND – Barriers to Staging Work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Working-Class Artist

COMMON: GROUND – Barriers to Staging Work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Working-Class Artist

COMMON: GROUND is an initiative developed by COMMON, an arts organisation who exist to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, delivered with… 

The Charisma of Evil: Why Are We Obsessed by Serial Killers?

The Charisma of Evil: Why Are We Obsessed by Serial Killers?

Why are we fascinated by serial killers? They’re everywhere; on the news, in crime fiction, on television and in our daily lives. 

Schools at the Fringe

Schools at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! – The Music of Cannonball Adderley

Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! – The Music of Cannonball Adderley

A quintet of Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians pays joyous tribute to the bebop/soul music of Cannonball and Nat Adderley. 

Why Performance?

Why Performance?

Why Performance? is a series of panel discussions exploring the contributions that performance makes to human life and development. 

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Who Pays the Artists?

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Who Pays the Artists?

Costs are rising, while subsidies are shrinking and consumer behaviours are changing rapidly. 

Mental Health Is a Fringe Issue

Mental Health Is a Fringe Issue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Space Gecko Project

The Space Gecko Project

In 2014, The Telegraph released an article headlined: “Five Geckos Freeze to Death on Space Sex Mission. 

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

Fringe University believes that the Edinburgh Fringe makes an excellent classroom. 

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

The Biggest Problem in the World: Our Problem With Problems (and Why Truth Matters)

Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? We struggle, and the world struggles. 

The Jive Aces: Swingin’ the Fringe

The Jive Aces: Swingin’ the Fringe

The UK’s number one jive and swing band, The Jive Aces are teaming up with the all-dancing, all-singing, all-tapping pinup darlings The Satin Dollz to bring you a swingin’ vintage … 

Malones Free Fringe

Malones Free Fringe

Malones Irish Bars Edinburgh hosts a large variety of live musical acts all day every day throughout the fringe. This begins at 12pm and continues until late at night! 

The Edinburgh Festival on Film

The Edinburgh Festival on Film

We’re hosting drop-in screenings of Festival in Edinburgh (1955) and Edinburgh on Parade (1970). 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen. 

Voice Festival UK – An A Cappella Extravaganza

Voice Festival UK – An A Cappella Extravaganza

The Voice Festival UK once again returns to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen. 

One Belt One Road: Chinese Culture and Art Festival

One Belt One Road: Chinese Culture and Art Festival

With the theme ‘the starting point of love, silk road and art’, our festival has a variety of performances and art from countries on the One Belt One Road. 

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

Classical Pipe Music – Scotland's Hidden Treasure

This is a chance to hear some of the finest exponents of classical pipe music, or piobaireachd (pronounced peebroch). 

Women of the Fringe: A Networking Event

Women of the Fringe: A Networking Event

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Surviving and Moving Forward from the Fringe

Surviving and Moving Forward from the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Geraldyne: Improv from Music

Geraldyne: Improv from Music

One of London’s hottest improv teams returns to the Fringe to bring you an hour of comedy inspired by music. 

Why Is Mental Illness So Goddamn Controversial?

Why Is Mental Illness So Goddamn Controversial?

Psychiatrist Stephen Lawrie (The University of Edinburgh) thinks mental illness is needlessly controversial – and the controversy is destroying our mental health services. 

Museum After Hours: Friday Fringe Takeover

Museum After Hours: Friday Fringe Takeover

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours. 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for 2018, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. 

A Mentally Well Fringe

A Mentally Well Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Dream Weaving and Art Forwarding – Shanghai Baoshan Little Ginkgo Students’ Art Troupe’s Performance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Dream Weaving and Art Forwarding – Shanghai Baoshan Little Ginkgo Students’ Art Troupe’s Performance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Cello and Harp Music from Cuerdas

Cello and Harp Music from Cuerdas

Cuerdas features professional musicians, Lindsay Martindale (cello) and Sophie Askew (harp) who show their amazing versatility and artistry with performances which include works by… 

Discover Down Under at Adelaide Fringe

Discover Down Under at Adelaide Fringe

Discover Adelaide Fringe, Australia’s largest open access festival! The Fringe transforms Adelaide into a festival wonderland, with over 1,200 events across every art form in ove… 

The Power of Music 1

The Power of Music 1

Bernard MacLaverty was born in Northern Ireland and brought his family to Scotland in 1975. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Allander Record Fairs bring a great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s to present day (even the odd 78). 

Pushan Bose Live at Fringe 2018

Pushan Bose Live at Fringe 2018

Pushan Bose is a South Asian music composer, producer, singer and rapper who has been creating and releasing original music on digital platforms with a reach of 20 million listener… 

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Generational Divides – In Transition

ISPA Series at the Fringe: Generational Divides – In Transition

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Power of Music 2

The Power of Music 2

One of the BBC’s best-known journalists and presenters, James Naughtie is now is now special correspondent for BBC News. 

Mouse Music!

Mouse Music!

The talented vocalists of Edinburgh Music Theatre return with another fantastic musical extravaganza for all the family this August. 

Brewhemia's Festival Showcase

Brewhemia's Festival Showcase

Brewhemia are presenting some of the finest acts of this year’s festival. 

A Really Short Introduction to Scotland's Piano Music

A Really Short Introduction to Scotland's Piano Music

Renowned Scottish pianist Christopher Guild offers listeners the chance to become acquainted with a burgeoning force in Scotland’s culture: its classical music. 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Funbox at the Fringe Again

Funbox at the Fringe Again

After sell-out shows last year, Funbox are back! Don’t miss Anya, Kevin and Gary (formerly of The Singing Kettle) as they return to the Fringe for a fun-filled hour of family singa… 

Edinburgh Quartet: The World's Greatest Chamber Music

Edinburgh Quartet: The World's Greatest Chamber Music

A journey through chamber music gems with the Edinburgh Quartet – featuring works by Mozart, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak and Gesualdo over three performances. 

Sunday Assembly at the Fringe

Sunday Assembly at the Fringe

Join Edinburgh’s secular congregation to celebrate life with pop songs to sing with the house band, talks, poems, reflections, coffee and cake! Special guest speaker and Fringe com… 

Intellectual Property Rights for Fringe Performers

Intellectual Property Rights for Fringe Performers

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

Stealth Aspies – Autistic People Speaking

Stealth Aspies – Autistic People Speaking

Unlike anything you have ever experienced before. 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Gabriel Jackson, William Byrd and Antonín D… 

Festival Masses

Festival Masses

Come and listen to uplifting music performed in its liturgical context by one of Edinburgh’s best church choirs in the glorious setting of this church. 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits – The Story of the Capital's Music

These entertaining and informative guided walking tours tell the story of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh. 

Kathy Lette's Girl Talk

Kathy Lette's Girl Talk

It’s a psychological striptease with tales of love, lust, men, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, mastitis, sexist bosses, teenage daughter wrangling, ageing, toy boys and Close Enco… 

Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face?

Lloyd Langford: Why the Big Face?

A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

Edinburgh’s iconic Jazz Bar showcases some of their favourite resident bands and the very best of Edinburgh’s local talent with late night funk, blues and soul, as well as special … 

Islam Festival Edinburgh 2018

Islam Festival Edinburgh 2018

Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh. 

Skeptics on the Fringe

Skeptics on the Fringe

Returning for the ninth consecutive year, a two-time award-winning series of talks that get you thinking critically and skeptically about things you thought you were familiar with. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best young contemporary music talents perform an exciting blend of Scottish pop, traditional Scottish songs and instrumental s… 

Battle of the Superheroes – The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival)

Battle of the Superheroes – The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival)

This worldwide hit show for geeks and non-geeks everywhere returns with a changing line-up of hilarious comedians with a mixture of stand-up comedy and interactive debate to find o… 

The Sound of Their Music

The Sound of Their Music

An evening celebrating the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free!

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Me Plus One – Improv with Two People – Free

Me Plus One – Improv with Two People – Free

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 … 

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear? (The Best Of Jollyboat)

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear? (The Best Of Jollyboat)

It’s not the Fringe without Jollyboat! The cult hit, back for their ninth year. 

Free Fringe Festival Music: Live on the Grassmarket

Free Fringe Festival Music: Live on the Grassmarket

Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe. 

Tygers Of Pan Tang – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Tygers Of Pan Tang – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

In the May 1979 issue of Sounds magazine the term ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal’ was used to describe a second wave of heavy metal bands that emerged in the late 1970’s. 

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Mark Thompson is quite clear about what his (modestly) titled Spectacular Show isn't: "It's not a science lecture," he insists. 

What Girls Are Made Of

What Girls Are Made Of

The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo… 

The Flop

The Flop

It seems that Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre Company are happy to take risks. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Music to Watch Girls By

Music to Watch Girls By

After last year’s sell-out show, Pete Sinclair returns with his cool crooners and a new mix of hits from The Great American Songbook: numbers like Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, S… 

The Brooklyn Scotsman

The Brooklyn Scotsman

A teenage Scottish rapper leaves home to pursue his dreams across the Atlantic in New York City. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

The Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for a seventh hilarious year with another phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from a… 

Small Talk at Chambers and South: The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook

Small Talk at Chambers and South: The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook

Making their Edinburgh Fringe debut, Aki Remally and Fraser Urquhart play a whole set of jazz, funk and soul from the songbook of the godfather of hip hop, Gil Scott-Heron. 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Catch some world-class street performances, bag a bargain at the Half Price Hut or browse the arts and craft markets – all against the stunning backdrop of the National Galleries… 

Dome Nights: The Wall – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Dome Nights: The Wall – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall. Travel back in time to 1979 with this progressive rock album enhanced with spectacular wrap-around immersive dome visuals. 

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel. 

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe

Sugar Rush: The Best of the Fringe

Is the Fringe guide too wide and confusing? We understand. 

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Fresh from selling out the National Theatre in Oslo. 

Music at Lunchtime

Music at Lunchtime

Visit St Giles’ Cathedral and enjoy a relaxed musical concert from performers from all over the world in a unique and beautiful historical setting. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival

Touch and feel Chinese arts and culture by attending CACF 2018. 

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Your Fringe adventure starts here! For the 20th year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of al… 

Comedy Queers / Free Festival

Comedy Queers / Free Festival

A raucous late night show offering a fabulous selection of the most outrageous queer performers from across the Fringe. 

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Join Deborah Frances-White, stand-up comedian, screenwriter and host of podcast The Guilty Feminist, to formally welcome you to Fringe Central and mark the start of the 2018 Fringe… 

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

The Stand Comedy Club celebrates its 21st anniversary at the Edinburgh Fringe with the best of 20 years visiting the stage at New Town Theatre. Different line-up nightly! 

Eva Cassidy: The Story

Eva Cassidy: The Story

A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy. 

Live Music at the Golf Tavern

Live Music at the Golf Tavern

Enjoy a rotating line-up of bands featuring a host of top local musicians doing a collection of familiar and unique covers, a great night to sing along and get your toes tapping at… 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure every day based… 

Dome Nights: Dark Side of the Moon – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Dome Nights: Dark Side of the Moon – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound. 

Dome Nights: Wish You Were Here – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Dome Nights: Wish You Were Here – Inspired by the Music of Pink Floyd

Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics. 

First Time at the Fringe

First Time at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Stu and Garry's Fringe Improv Show

Stu and Garry's Fringe Improv Show

Our long-running improvised comedy show will have you in stitches. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Returning for it’s 10th year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Other People’s Teeth

Other People’s Teeth

Other Peoples Teeth is a unique, visceral and violent vignette, exploring the emotional depths of brutality. 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Now in its eleventh year, Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe brings you, once again, the best in Scottish writing. 

Ed Fringe: The Musical Revue

Ed Fringe: The Musical Revue

Fun and frenetic cabaret revue combining songs, sketches and observations in a hilarious celebration of the world’s biggest arts festival. 

Sofía and Marcelo – The World Music Experience

Sofía and Marcelo – The World Music Experience

Sofía & Marcelo are an innovative Mexican duo who combine different musical elements to achieve an experience in the spectator. 

Midsummer

Midsummer

What a difference a decade can make. 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

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

Dream On – Kirsty Munro / Free Festival

Dream On – Kirsty Munro / Free Festival

‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge). 

James Nokise: Talk a Big Game

James Nokise: Talk a Big Game

After two years of shows on gangs, golliwogs, racism and politics, James Nokise returns to The Stand with his new show on… sports! Yep. 

Vivian’s Music, 1969

Vivian’s Music, 1969

Inspired by real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14-year-old black girl, Vivian, was shot by a white cop, igniting one… 

Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space

Planet Caramel: Rotations in Flavour Space

Free Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer for every audience member! Scotland’s fastest, best and only sketch trio present a light-speed comedy experience like no other. 

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

EdinBra Fringe Comedy

The debut season of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Jack and Claire / Free Festival

Jack and Claire / Free Festival

An American-Scottish duo performs wild long-form improv developed at the renowned iO Theater in Chicago! Jack and Claire is Chicago-based improv comedy duo Claire McFadden and Jack… 

Kaput

Kaput

For anyone who thinks they don't make physical comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton any more, here's a word from the wise—which, in this context, essentially … 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with different line-ups at every show and four performances daily. 

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

Rob Auton: The Talk Show

This is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about talking. 

Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down

Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down

Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab… 

Def Comedy Space Jam

Def Comedy Space Jam

Tom Lawrinson and Josh Jones present an hour of stand-up comedy direct from outer space! Jokes that are absolutely raw and positively looney. 

Succubus Fringe Edition

Succubus Fringe Edition

Razor-sharp women’s satirical magazine, Succubus, brings you a mixed-bill hour of comedy championing new female comedy writers and stand-ups. 

Britain, Let's Talk About the Golliwogs

Britain, Let's Talk About the Golliwogs

***** (Scotsman, 2017). 

Jordan Gray: People Change

Jordan Gray: People Change

On April 1st 2017, following a 10 year career in the music biz, recording artist Jordan Gray announced a sudden and surprise leap into stand-up comedy. 

Best in Class / Free Festival

Best in Class / Free Festival

Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers. 

Common People

Common People

Janet and Paul are ordinary, common people and very happy with it. 

Providence

Providence

"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori… 

Des Kapital: Mao That’s What I Call Music!

Des Kapital: Mao That’s What I Call Music!

Following sell-out shows on the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes for Never Mind the Cossacks – ‘brilliantly conceived’ (FringeGuru. 

Live Music at SouthPour

Live Music at SouthPour

Join us for a prime selection of acoustic music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with different musicians and duos specially chosen for the Fringe, performing each night i… 

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres worldwide, this hit show returns with a changing line-up of various comedians with hilarious material based on sex and relat… 

Free and Proud

Free and Proud

Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl… 

James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free

James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free

Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety. 

Sustainability at the Fringe Reception

Sustainability at the Fringe Reception

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Cat Pictures to Music for an Hour

Cat Pictures to Music for an Hour

No refunds. @catpicsmusicFU #catpicsmusicFU 

Peatbog Faeries – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Peatbog Faeries – Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Hailing from the Isle of Skye, the legendary Scottish trailblazers have created a glorious mixture of traditional sounds and dance floor grooves that have been embraced worldwide. 

Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro

Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro

So what exactly IS the Trouble with Scott Capurro? Is it that this left-leaning liberal American (yes, he’s the one, apparently) seemingly talks without pausing for breath? (“Are y… 

A Joke

A Joke

It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc… 

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Join a local guide for a fun and informative introduction to Edinburgh’s Old Town. 

David Mills: Focus People!

David Mills: Focus People!

David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age. 

Rik Carranza: Still a Fan

Rik Carranza: Still a Fan

Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan. 

Police Cops in Space

Police Cops in Space

It's obvious from the loud, excited audience in Assembly Studio 3 that London-based comedy theatre trio The Pretend Men – Nathan Parkinson, Zachary Hunt and Tom Rose – have… 

Edd Hedges: For Eva, from Forever Ago

Edd Hedges: For Eva, from Forever Ago

In 1988 a teenager lost control of his car. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

The Last Straw

The Last Straw

People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some… 

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Show 2018

The Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Show 2018

See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr… 

Maz and Bricks by Eva O'Connor

Maz and Bricks by Eva O'Connor

Triple Fringe First and Olivier Award-winning Fishamble present Maz and Bricks. 

My Left Nut

My Left Nut

“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve. 

Space Doctor

Space Doctor

This November happens to mark the 55th anniversary of the BBC broadcasting the first ever episode of Doctor Who, so it’s hardly surprising that several shows on this year’s Fringe … 

Barry's Fringe Audio Walking Tour

Barry's Fringe Audio Walking Tour

An immersive, downloadable, free, 45-minute audio tour of the Festival Fringe – featuring interviews about its history with many Fringe comedy legends as you walk through the cha… 

Marmite

Marmite

Marmite: it’s the breakfast spread that we apparently love or hate, and the word has – in that way the English language often does – subsequently evolved far wider metaphoric… 

Why Even Bother

Why Even Bother

In this dark one-man comedy we get a glimpse into the world of Main Character and the everyday struggle of his normal life. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! Twelve top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase. 

Statements

Statements

Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio… 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its 13th season, C’s critically-acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day. 

Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity

Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity

Tom Neenan has been a regular Fringe attraction for several years now, bringing a succession of one-man pastiches - Edwardian ghost story, Vaudeville Horror tale, 1950s British Sci… 

Erewhon

Erewhon

Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a fantasy novel by Samuel Butler which, first published anonymously in 1872, presented itself as the experiences of its narrator on discovering the m… 

The Edinburgh Fringe Magic Gala

The Edinburgh Fringe Magic Gala

Sell-out 2017. 

Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger's)

Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger's)

I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s… 

Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery

Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery

If you like your cabaret kick-ass, feminist, patriarchy-smashing and unabashedly consensual, do not miss Glittery Clittery Fringe Wives Club. 

Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe

Twenty Minutes to Nine / Free Fringe

Nominated Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe. 

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story

If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is the plastic-and-glitter-wearing spiritual sister of shows such as The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 

I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss

I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With Why Have You Been Sleeping With My Wife: A Play by Christopher Bliss

Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back. 

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Here is something special and unusual: the life and death of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke and heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, remixed into a cabaret history lecture b… 

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2018: Pillow Talk

Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) as they embark on another world tour. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

Thirty nights of the best local and international folk music showcasing a different artist each night. There’s only 30 seats, so book early to save disappointment. 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the extraordinary world of the Fringe through the eyes of schoolchildren from across Scotland at this free exhibition of entries in the 2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition, … 

Huggers (Free Festival)

Huggers (Free Festival)

Following more successful shows at festivals worldwide, the popular show returns with a revolving line-up of acts selected from the best comedians, cabaret acts, children’s ente… 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Final

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Final

Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond. 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Semi-Finals

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Semi-Finals

Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond. 

Ian Smith: Craft (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

Ian Smith: Craft (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

Ian Smith is multi-award winning comedian. 

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

The York Fringe Dog Show – In aid of RSPCA York

Come and join us for the York Fringe Dog Show in aid of RSPCA York. 

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Belvoir Castle)

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Belvoir Castle)

The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is. 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure base… 

The Ronnie Scott’s Allstars play The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

The Ronnie Scott’s Allstars play The Music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz… 

Ealing Comedy Festival 2018

Ealing Comedy Festival 2018

Ealing Comedy Festival is back for its 25th consecutive year with a stellar line up of internationally renowned comedians and homegrown talent to keep you entertained throughout Ju… 

Laura Lexx: Trying (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

Laura Lexx: Trying (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

“One can only hope there’s some life altering catastrophe around the corner for Lexx” (Broadway Baby 2015). 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Heats

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Heats

Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond. 

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Stansted Park)

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Stansted Park)

The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is. 

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Ragley Hall)

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Ragley Hall)

The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is. 

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Englefield Estate)

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Englefield Estate)

The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is. 

Irish Youth Dance Festival

Irish Youth Dance Festival

Dublin Youth Dance Company are thrilled to present an evening of dance at the Smock Alley Theatre as part of the 18th Irish Youth Dance Festival. 

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Euston Park)

Metropolis Music Presents Tom Jones (Euston Park)

The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is. 

Festival Concert – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Festival Concert – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

A spectacular musical celebration of the West End to close the Arts Festival, featuring the very best of musicianship from across the College and concluding with a masse… 

Steps at Greenwich Music Time 2018

Steps at Greenwich Music Time 2018

Pop superstars Steps are the first headline act to be announced for Greenwich Music Time 2018. 

Collaborative Community Drama Project - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Collaborative Community Drama Project - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

This is a new collaboration with a local drama company that will see an external director working collaboratively with members of the local community and our own student… 

Hairspray - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Hairspray - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Good morning, Baltimore! It’s 1962 and change is in the air. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe Launch Showcase

The Great Yorkshire Fringe Launch Showcase

Don your flat cap, grab your whippet and come and join us for the launch of 2018’s Great Yorkshire Fringe! Lineup to include Tony Slattery, Harry & Chris, Thin… 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe Launch Gala

The Great Yorkshire Fringe Launch Gala

Don your flat cap, grab your whippet and come and join us for the launch of 2018’s Great Yorkshire Fringe! Lineup to include Paul Foot, Tony Slattery, Harry & … 

A Midsummer Night's Fringe

A Midsummer Night's Fringe

Join us for our summer showcase fundraising gala at Brighton Open Air Theatre on July 3rd for an extravagant evening of everything Fringe! See all your Fringe favourites from our 2… 

Other People's Teeth

Other People's Teeth

  • Listing
    • Theatre
  • London Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 2nd - 15th Jul 2018

Balancing work and love is a struggle, but what if your job is killing people? A hitwoman is trying to reconcile these two aspects of her life. 

Samuel Beckett : Words and Music

Samuel Beckett : Words and Music

A rare concert performance of Samuel Beckett’s radio play Words and Music with American composer, Morton Feldman’s score. 

Junior School Concert - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Junior School Concert - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

The Junior School pupils of St Dunstan’s College invite you to attend their annual Summer concert. 

Black Box Devising – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Black Box Devising – St Dunstan’s College Arts Festival 18

Led by Drama Prefect, Beatrice Swordy, and her team, Black Box devising is an improvisation work created by Year 7 - 9 students over the last two terms, drawing inspirat… 

The Pin & Moon: Edinburgh Fringe Previews

The Pin & Moon: Edinburgh Fringe Previews

The Pin: Backstage (Edinburgh Fringe Preview) After 3 multi-award winning series on BBC Radio 4, “the next Mitchell and Webb” (Times) are going back to the F… 

Briony Show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival

Briony Show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival

This time-limited devising project welcomes the return of Briony O’Callaghan, a professional director, who, working with a select number of Year 10 - 13 student… 

Vibe Dance show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Vibe Dance show - St Dunstan's College Arts Festival 18

Vibe Arts are delighted to be working with the St Dunstan's College Dance Company for their first appearance in this year’s Arts Festival. 

Jason Byrne - You Can Come In, But Dont Start Anything

Jason Byrne - You Can Come In, But Dont Start Anything

Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos. 

Catford Fringe - Vivalicious

Catford Fringe - Vivalicious

A brand new show from Viv Groskop, star of BBC1's 'This Week' and Radio 4's 'Its Just a Joke Comrade'. 

Catford Fringe Romeo+Juliet

Catford Fringe Romeo+Juliet

 

Sound of Music

Sound of Music

Join us in the Victorian setting of Brighton’s Old Courtroom for a special screening of this classic film. 

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh 2018

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh 2018

Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing. 

Expedition Peter Pan

Expedition Peter Pan

"Grow up, mature, and come back when you have something to contribute!" It's not the most sympathetic way to address a young audience; nevertheless, it succinctly sho… 

Mbuzeni

Mbuzeni

Part of the inherent challenge for Noel Jordan and the Imaginate team when putting together their annual Edinburgh International Children's Festival is their very diverse poten… 

Museum of Ordinary People

Museum of Ordinary People

A temporary museum of new exhibitions celebrating the ripples that ordinary people leave behind, created through a series of workshops held for members of the public where they lea… 

Gretel and Hansel

Gretel and Hansel

Fairy tales survive because they can be constantly retold, uncovering new depths and relevancies to the world today. 

Mao That's What I Call Music!

Mao That's What I Call Music!

Everyone had a favourite subject at school taught by their favourite teacher. 

Stick By Me

Stick By Me

Andy Manley is undoubtedly one of the treasures of Scotland’s current theatrical landscape, all the more so given his seemingly innate (but presumably hard-learned) skill in hold… 

Tits in Space

Tits in Space

‘Tits in Space’ - are they idiots or are they boobs? A sketch show involving two idiots, some space, emails, death, plankton, voiceovers, and boob hats. 

Other People's Teeth

Other People's Teeth

Balancing work life with a love life is a struggle, but what if your job is killing people? A hitwoman is trying to reconcile these two aspects of her life. 

On Behalf of the People

On Behalf of the People

The Melting Shop presents Ray Castleton’s new play, a powerful and engaging story of a post-war Yorkshire mining family coming to terms with their rapidly changing world. 

Music for Meditation

Music for Meditation

A unique blend of meditation and music performance to enlighten the soul and lift your spirit! Come and experience a mix of live Eastern and Western vibrational music to help brin… 

Equity: Fighting for a Fair Fringe

Equity: Fighting for a Fair Fringe

Fringe theatre can be some of the most exciting and rewarding work out there, but all too often it’s unpaid and can price ordinary people out of the industry. 

Brighton Rocks Film Festival

Brighton Rocks Film Festival

Brighton has long been a home for artists, creators and the alternative. 

Live Music in Theatre: Creating and Playing Music for a Theatre Piece

Live Music in Theatre: Creating and Playing Music for a Theatre Piece

How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise. 

Matt Green: These People!

Matt Green: These People!

Matt’s been doing stand up for 15 years and he’s got pretty good at it. 

Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak Out

Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak Out

The Stealth Aspies Company - the world’s first performance collective entirely run by autistic adults. 

People Usually Are The Happiest At home

People Usually Are The Happiest At home

William Shakespeare claimed “People usually are the happiest at home”. 

A Report To An Academy

A Report To An Academy

Based on the short novel by Franz Kafka. 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

Free Yoga All Day at Space Yoga Studio

Free Yoga All Day at Space Yoga Studio

Come stretch, unwind, strengthen and get to know your body more during a day of yoga, meditation and celebration at Brighton’s newest and most attractive studio. 

Bach: Goldberg Variations Rachel Fryer Piano + pre-concert talk

Bach: Goldberg Variations Rachel Fryer Piano + pre-concert talk

Pianist Rachel Fryer plays the Aria and 30 Variations that make up J. 

Space Doctor

Space Doctor

Have you ever turned up at a party to find yourself surrounded by people you didn’t know who all seemed to be united by an in-joke you didn’t get? That was my Space Doctor expe… 

Fringe City Night

Fringe City Night

Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special. 

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

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. 

Swing Out! A Night of Live Swing Music and Dancing

Swing Out! A Night of Live Swing Music and Dancing

Rouge your knees, shine your shoes and prepare to enter a razzling dazzling world of Swing! From the decadent 20s Jazz age, the glamourous 30s, the spirit of the 40s, to the rebels… 

Making the Most of the Edinburgh Fringe

Making the Most of the Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe. 

Kelsey de Almeida: I'm Very Different People (Work in Progress)

Kelsey de Almeida: I'm Very Different People (Work in Progress)

Winner of South End Comedy Festival’s ‘Best Newcomer’ competition 2017, Kelsey is one of the youngest working comedians in the UK. 

Family Day - Space Girl

Family Day - Space Girl

‘Space Girl’  written & performed by Helen Stanley Mary Moon is 9 years old. 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

Grab a bunch of mates and hit the dance floor with Australian party machine Tomas Ford for Brighton Fringe’s most ridiculous party. 

Woods and Water: An Exhibition of Sussex Landscape Paintings by Eva Peel

Woods and Water: An Exhibition of Sussex Landscape Paintings by Eva Peel

Eva Peel grew up in Sussex and finds this landscape beautiful. 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

Brighton’s much-loved resident satirists with their unique brand of topical comedy, all wrapped up in Brighton Fringe award-winner Mark Brailsford’s festival package. 

Fringe Sessions 2018

Fringe Sessions 2018

Unfortunately, I was only able to see the first two acts of Fringe Sessions due to time constraints, which was so disappointing as there was so much talent. 

Spiegeltent: Heart of the Fringe Show

Spiegeltent: Heart of the Fringe Show

Tonight was Brighton's chance to show the size of its heart – and its wallet. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

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… 

Organ Music at St. Bart's

Organ Music at St. Bart's

Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. 

Why I Had To Leave The North

Why I Had To Leave The North

The story of me; a misfit, growing up in the north west of England in the 1980s. 

Jon Mcleod Music Showcase at Artista

Jon Mcleod Music Showcase at Artista

Singer/songwriter, Jon McLeod, brings his original acoustic compositions to Artista Cafe & Gallery. 

Ben Carter: How to Approach People and Make Friends

Ben Carter: How to Approach People and Make Friends

Join local comedian Ben Carter on his debut hour, as he desperately attempts to boost his social circle, whether dressed as the lonely front half of a pantomime camel or a lousy fl… 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see? Don’t fret, we’ve done the work for you and hand-picked this week’s top tips. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Fringe City is a free outdoor event in the centre of Brighton taking place every weekend of Brighton Fringe 2018. 

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic is a free outdoor event taking place on the 5th and 26th May in the Pavilion Gardens, a showcase of family friendly shows, plus free fun activities for ch… 

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo + Chamber Music: String Trio & Guitar

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo + Chamber Music: String Trio & Guitar

Violinist Benedict Cruft and J. 

Police Cops In Space

Police Cops In Space

Forget Spaceballs, there is a new sci-fi comedy champion in town. 

Round Georges Jazz Festival

Round Georges Jazz Festival

Every Saturday during the month we will be providing you with incredible, outstanding and inspiring musicians delivering an energetic array of jazz for all ears. 

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival Brighton

The UK's biggest Foodies Festival returned to Hove Lawns this sunny bank holiday weekend. 

Inside The Fringe

Inside The Fringe

‘Inside The Fringe’ shines a light on some of the artistic and cultural talents that make up Brighton Fringe. 

David Mills: Focus People!

David Mills: Focus People!

Focus people! Stand-up comic David Mills is back with another free hour of sharp and hilarious rants. 

The Spire Festival Bar

The Spire Festival Bar

Step into Brighton’s most atmospheric bar. 

Refugee Festival

Refugee Festival

What challenges are refugees facing? And what can we do about it all? MARS is organising a series of events on refugeedom in and out of the UK today. 

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays invite you to tear up the Fringe in the name of comedy! You choose performances or events from the Fringe Guide and then delight as these award-winning improvisers give… 

Brighton Gay Men's Chorus: Gayz into Space

Brighton Gay Men's Chorus: Gayz into Space

A long time ago in a venue far, far away. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

It’s a comedy bonanza! A brand-new stand-up comedy selection from Laughing Horse. 

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

FEM. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

A selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

York Dungeon Venue Template

York Dungeon Venue Template

 

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

Pick of the Fringe: Launch Night Special

A sensational line-up of Fringe favourites assemble to launch Brighton Fringe 2018. 

Brighton Fringe Opening Night and Fireworks at The Warren

Brighton Fringe Opening Night and Fireworks at The Warren

The launch of Brighton Fringe 2018 at The Warren. 

Fringe Club: A Silent Disco

Fringe Club: A Silent Disco

The legendary Fringe Club returns to the Warren in 2018 with it’s own version of the legendary night out, Silent Disco. 

Creditors

Creditors

August Strindberg apparently subtitled his play Creditors (in Swedish: Fordringsäxgare) a “tragicomedy” but, while David Greig’s 2008 adaptation does indeed contain a few de… 

Eddie and the Slumber Sisters

Eddie and the Slumber Sisters

Sometimes, when it comes to suspending our disbelief, we just have to go with the flow. 

Mood Music

Mood Music

‘Music is medication. 

Gut

Gut

“In my day, we trusted people. 

Passing Places

Passing Places

A road movie, according to Wikipedia, is “a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip,” during which “the hero changes, grows or improves over the cou… 

Sir Michael Parkinson - Our Kind of Music

Sir Michael Parkinson - Our Kind of Music

Alongside his interviewing and writing Sir Michael Parkinson has spent much of his career promoting the appreciation of the music of the Great American Songbook and encouraging t… 

The Basement Venue Template

The Basement Venue Template

 

Space Ape

Space Ape

Once upon a time, approximately twenty years from now, Yorick stands alone, suited up and ready to blast off in a rocket on his celebrated journey to Mars. 

uneARTh Festival

uneARTh Festival

For two days and nights, the Ada Ryan Gardens will come alive with circus, music, cabaret and more for the City of Whyalla’s uneARTh Festival. 

The Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase

The Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase

The Brighton Academy Of Performing Arts presents its 5th MT Graduating year Showcase  

Fringe in Mount Gambier

Fringe in Mount Gambier

Fringe in Mount Gambier is back with another extravaganza taking over the Cave Garden with a program of world-class performers and local artistic talent. 

Fringe@REC

Fringe@REC

Fringe@REC is a multi-arts presentation at Reynella East College. 

Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice

If theatre is home to lies that impart truths, then this Actors Touring Company’s production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice (translated by David Tushingham) makes … 

Sanaa Street Festival

Sanaa Street Festival

From around the world, to the streets of Adelaide. 

Arj Barker - We Need To Talk

Arj Barker - We Need To Talk

At the start of the show there’s a lot of emphasis on switching off and putting away our mobile phones. 

Deep Space

Deep Space

An immersive moving-image experience that explores the extraterrestrial. 

Eclipse performing music by the Legendary Pink Floyd

Eclipse performing music by the Legendary Pink Floyd

After the sell-out success of their 2017 Fringe performance, the all-star cast of musicians that are ‘Eclipse’ are coming together once again to perform one show only for the 2… 

Evolution Festival: Journeys

Evolution Festival: Journeys

Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London. 

BEST OF FRINGE: Early Show: FREE!

BEST OF FRINGE: Early Show: FREE!

The Original and still the BEST “Best of Fringe”. 

Best of Adelaide Fringe: Late Show

Best of Adelaide Fringe: Late Show

After three highly successful years in Adelaide The very best in late-night Fringe Comedy is back! Four top-notch comedians are picked from venues across the Fringe especially f… 

Switch SA; 50 Shades of Fringe

Switch SA; 50 Shades of Fringe

Switch SA is proud to announce its 2 part shows of Fringe 2018. 

Evolution Festival: Lyric Ensemble: Work in Progress

Evolution Festival: Lyric Ensemble: Work in Progress

The Lyric Ensemble is a group of 15 actors led by international director Anne Louise Sarks. 

Evolution Festival: The Blind Truth

Evolution Festival: The Blind Truth

Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London. 

1960-today: A History of Modern Music

1960-today: A History of Modern Music

THE DEER JOHNS get the party going as they take you on a trip through your favourite eras, playing a song-per-year chronological musical history. 

Blues at the Fringe

Blues at the Fringe

The blues exists in Adelaide in all of its glorious variations. 

THE ALAN KELLY GANG - THE HATS FRINGE FINALE

THE ALAN KELLY GANG - THE HATS FRINGE FINALE

Fronted by Ireland’s piano accordion maestro and with four critically acclaimed masters of their craft in tow, the Alan Kelly Gang sit firmly at the cutting edge of the tradition… 

Cafe Boite World Music & Culture

Cafe Boite World Music & Culture

Cafe Boite Presents 3 Friday events presenting a variety of music and dance from SA’s newest communities, Afghan, Persian, Syrian, South Asian and African. 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

Grab your mates and hit the dance floor with hyperactive party machine Tomás Ford for the Fringe’s most ridiculous night. 

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a … 

Adeladies - Best of the Fringe's Funny Women

Adeladies - Best of the Fringe's Funny Women

Girls just want to have fun! And that’s why The Adeladies are back for another year at the Fringe! Enjoy the Fringe’s premier selection of the very best in female comedy, with… 

Red Fez Tours The Fringe

Red Fez Tours The Fringe

Can’t decide what to see? Let our tour guides take you on a magical mystery tour of the Fringe. 

Best of Adelaide Fringe: International Comedy Showcase

Best of Adelaide Fringe: International Comedy Showcase

Who, What, Where, When? There’s so much to choose from at the Adelaide Fringe! And if you can’t decide which international comedians to see at the Fringe, then this is the show… 

Sip'n & Sup'n: A tapestry of space, place & words

Sip'n & Sup'n: A tapestry of space, place & words

In this writer’s residency, the writer, Michelle Fairbairn, equipped with laptop, Indian ink, watercolours and black ink pens, will immerse herself in the space and culture that … 

Evolution Festival: Express Yourself

Evolution Festival: Express Yourself

Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London. 

On the Fringe - RAH Art Exhibitions

On the Fringe - RAH Art Exhibitions

The new Royal Adelaide Hospital has three galleries along the main Outpatients corridor, level 3, accessible to the public. 

Huggers - Best of Adelaide Fringe Kids & Family Selection

Huggers - Best of Adelaide Fringe Kids & Family Selection

With comedy, cabaret & fun for all the family to enjoy Huggers returns to Adelaide with enough variety to entertain all ages. 

James Nokise: Talk A Big Game

James Nokise: Talk A Big Game

★★★★★ The Scotsman James has spent the last few years performing biting political satire, then Brexit happened, then Trumpocalypse happened. 

Righteously - The Music of Lucinda Williams

Righteously - The Music of Lucinda Williams

Adelaide based singer/songwriter Tara Carragher makes a long awaited return to this years Adelaide Fringe for ‘Righteously - The music of Lucinda Williams’. 

Fringe Lodge Acoustic Sessions

Fringe Lodge Acoustic Sessions

Join us here at the Buckingham Arms Hotel every Sunday afternoon for the Fringe Lodge Acoustic Sessions. 

Adelaide Fringe Comedy @ The Griffin's Hotel

Adelaide Fringe Comedy @ The Griffin's Hotel

A revolving line-up of fine International and Australian comedians that are performing at shows around the Adelaide Fringe in an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy. 

Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music - The Story continues!

Movin' Melvin Brown: A Man, A Magic, A Music - The Story continues!

Rich acapella singing opens this show as Melvin Brown takes to the stage. 

Laconic: A Short Film Festival

Laconic: A Short Film Festival

Often we say a lot without actually saying anything at all, but is it possible to express much in fewer words? Laconic is a selection of short films and animations for you to ex… 

Best of Kids Fringe

Best of Kids Fringe

From a creator of “Best of Fringe Variety”. 

Marvellous Music at Mary Mags

Marvellous Music at Mary Mags

A wonderful program of three concerts featuring voice and organ that make the most of the gorgeous acoustic of this space. 

Fringe on Vardon

Fringe on Vardon

Come and enjoy food and wine on our beautiful Vardon Ave, Cafe style alfresco dining with a lovely bottle of wine and watch the show float by. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the best of Fringe Comedy from the UK

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the best of Fringe Comedy from the UK

After 7 sell-out years, The Laughing Horse is back with more of the finest UK comedians to hit the Fringe. 

FRINGE ON WORLD TOUR

FRINGE ON WORLD TOUR

Join us as we share the colour, the sounds and magic of the Adelaide Fringe - with the world. 

Fringe in Goolwa!

Fringe in Goolwa!

Enjoy a whole weekend of events in Goolwa, a full weekend program coming soon! March 9, 10 & 11! Centenary Hall, Goolwa library, Signal Point Gallery, Jaralde Park , The Goolwa Wha… 

Adelaide Fringe Comedy Showcase

Adelaide Fringe Comedy Showcase

Adelaide Fringe Comedy Showcase returns chock full of some of the best comedians from across the Fringe, both local & International. 

Fun-Size Fringe

Fun-Size Fringe

Whether you like to dance or design, move or make, paint or play, we’ve got it all. 

2018 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition

2018 Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition

The Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition brings together the best and brightest graduate visual artists from Adelaide College of the Arts (TAFE SA) / Flinders University and Univer… 

Music with Motion

Music with Motion

Come and experience Music with Motion. 

A Simple Space

A Simple Space

The must-see, internationally acclaimed circus sensation returns to the Adelaide Fringe! A show that is simultaneously raw, frantic and delicate. 

Fringe at Adelaide Airport

Fringe at Adelaide Airport

Hundreds of Fringe artists fly into Adelaide every year for the Fringe. Catch them at the departures terminal for three Fridays across the Fringe! 

Fringe of the Fringe Comedy Show

Fringe of the Fringe Comedy Show

A comedian walks into a bar. 

Fringe Gin Garden

Fringe Gin Garden

Electra House proudly introduces the Fringe Gin Garden from 16th February - 18th March 2018. 

International Women's Day Festival

International Women's Day Festival

A day to celebrate and share stories of women and how we contribute to the world we live in. 

SCC Fringe Artspace

SCC Fringe Artspace

The #SCCFringe ArtSpace is an opportunity for friends and family to come together in a creative and imaginative market style gathering. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

“Pick” is back again! Following Edinburgh Fringe’s popular show, “Pick” presents a variety of artists performing a short “taster” of their show. 

Reginald D Hunter: Some People V Reginald D Hunter

Reginald D Hunter: Some People V Reginald D Hunter

For 15 years Reginald D Hunter has been casting a wry eye over the ways of his adopted homeland. 

Best of Fringe Variety

Best of Fringe Variety

Back for a 7th year! Catch the very best the Fringe has to offer with a huge range of exceptional acts every night in this slick, fun spectacle. 

Bollywood Flashmob at the Fringe!!

Bollywood Flashmob at the Fringe!!

The Bollywood Flashmob is back!! With SELL OUT workshops over the last 3 years, don’t miss your chance to shake those hips, twist the lightbulb and bounce your way through Bollyw… 

Fame, Fortune & Lies: The Life and Music of Eileen Joyce

Fame, Fortune & Lies: The Life and Music of Eileen Joyce

Fame, Fortune & Lies : the Life and Music of Eileen Joyce is a window into the life of Eileen Joyce; an Australian concert pianist, recording artist, radio performer, fashionista a… 

Koto Music Concert -

Koto Music Concert - "10 Years in Adelaide"

2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe. 

DESERT FRINGE

DESERT FRINGE

Now in its eleventh year prepare for a program packed full of circus, comedy, music, dance, visual art and free family entertainment! With a mix of local, national and internationa… 

Fringe @ Molly’s

Fringe @ Molly’s

We’re bringing the Fringe to the Vale. 

Doctor Trek in Space

Doctor Trek in Space

3 of the best sci-fi series to ever grace the screens! 3 of the best improv actors we could find! No rules. 

Greenstate Summer Garden Festival

Greenstate Summer Garden Festival

The Greenstate Summer Garden Festival will be a celebration of art, music, comedy, and amazing physical feats. 

Flip Side Festival

Flip Side Festival

After the sucess of Fort Dreamland, Flip Side Up (FSU) is officially launching in 2018 with some quirky events planned for the year. 

Space Encounters

Space Encounters

Space Encounters is a 50 minute interactive family opera created by Sean O’Boyle and Ian McFadyen. 

Soorya India Festival 2018

Soorya India Festival 2018

Soorya India Festival 2018 ” (An Indian Classical Dance event) - Another Soorya team is all ready to mesmerise you with their breathtaking performance. 

Edinburgh Fringe Info Session

Edinburgh Fringe Info Session

Hear Fringe Society staff and participants discuss how you can be part of the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Port Community Arts Centre Members Fringe Exhibition

Port Community Arts Centre Members Fringe Exhibition

An eclectic collection and exhibition of Port Community Arts Centre Members artworks - fabrics, mosaics, printmaking, drawing, woodwork, watercolour, ceramics, oils - explore our m… 

Fleurieu Fringe

Fleurieu Fringe

Adelaide’s Southern Outdoor Fringe Hub over two massive weekends. 

Sanctuary Festival

Sanctuary Festival

The Sanctuary Festival invites you to a day of music, yoga and good vibrations! Held at The National Wine Centre as a part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival, prepare to be inspired b… 

Fringe Fun Day

Fringe Fun Day

A family friendly event including Cool 4 Kids entertainment and shows, face painting, balloon sculpting, outdoor games plus lunch and a drink provided for every guest. 

Laziza Multicultural Festival

Laziza Multicultural Festival

Laziza are hosting a Multicultural Street Festival! Laziza promotes a fantastic day out to enjoy a culturally enriching day for the entire family. 

Born a Shadow, Comapania Rafaela Carrasco, Flamenco Festival 2018

Born a Shadow, Comapania Rafaela Carrasco, Flamenco Festival 2018

Flamenco and the lives of female artists from the Spanish Golden Age combine in this show inspired by the hidden voices of Teresa de Jesús, María de Zayas, Marí… 

Fringe Church

Fringe Church

Church of the Trinity and Trinity Sessions present Fringe Church where you can be inspired by music from Adelaide’s Tara Carragher, Snooks La Vie, Courtney Robb, Cosmo Thundercat a… 

Buffet Dinner with Rock Music by

Buffet Dinner with Rock Music by "Skullduggery"

Staged within the famous Buckingham Arms dining room with their traditional “All you can eat” menu whilst being entertained by “Skullduggery” one of Adelaide’s great dynamic and di… 

Tusk!FM - A Tribute to the Music of Fleetwood Mac

Tusk!FM - A Tribute to the Music of Fleetwood Mac

Love passion deceit betrayal and some of the most iconic songs ever written formed a soundscape that touched every listener of popular music in the 70’s and 80’s. 

The Dark Space Performances

The Dark Space Performances

At Home Records presents The Dark Space Performances. 

Welcome To The Mystic Hole: A presentation about being in your body and in other people's.

Welcome To The Mystic Hole: A presentation about being in your body and in other people's.

Inspiring, intriguing, tender and true. 

Ballet Flamenco Jesus Carmona, Impetus, Flamenco Festival 2018

Ballet Flamenco Jesus Carmona, Impetus, Flamenco Festival 2018

Former dancer with Ballet Nacional de España, Jesús Carmona is a pioneer in flamenco’s evolution. 

Glenn Shorrock: A Lifetime in Music, Picture and Conversation

Glenn Shorrock: A Lifetime in Music, Picture and Conversation

English-born Australian singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock is known for being a founding member of The Twilights, Axiom, and Little River Band, as well as his extensive solo career. 

Dupang Festival

Dupang Festival

Traditional Aboriginal Culture Festival at a spectacular waterfront location on the Coorong S. 

Space Doctor

Space Doctor

Time Travel, Space Ships, Evil Aliens, Sexy Assistants, Demented Fans. 

The Last Bordello

The Last Bordello

Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final … 

Gala Flamenca La Chana, Godess of Compas, Flamenco Festival 2018

Gala Flamenca La Chana, Godess of Compas, Flamenco Festival 2018

Four champions of flamenco puro come together in a homage to La Chana. 

Kangaroo Island Fringe - Charolais

Kangaroo Island Fringe - Charolais

‘Charolais‘ takes the age old story of female jealousy and gives it a new twist: the other woman is cow, a literal one, a purebred Charolais (French) heifer. 

Kangaroo Island Fringe - Mother's Ruin

Kangaroo Island Fringe - Mother's Ruin

Equal parts historical and hysterical explore the history of gin through story and song, as we stumble and soar through tales of love and women, gin and secrets travelling through … 

Isabel Bayon Compania -Dju-Dju, Flamenco Festival 2018

Isabel Bayon Compania -Dju-Dju, Flamenco Festival 2018

In an extraordinary collaboration, avant-garde choreographer and dancer Israel Galván directs classical dancer Isabel Bayón as she reinvents herself, exploring the de… 

The Adelaide Fringe Comedy Gala hosted by Mick Molloy

The Adelaide Fringe Comedy Gala hosted by Mick Molloy

The hottest ticket of the Adelaide Fringe Festival is for the opening weekend Comedy Gala at The Royalty Theatre. 

Painter and Flamenco: J.R.T. - Flamenco Festival 2018

Painter and Flamenco: J.R.T. - Flamenco Festival 2018

The Symbolist painter Julio Romero de Torres is famous for his portrayals of the archetypal ‘Spanish woman’. 

Gawler Fringe Opening Event

Gawler Fringe Opening Event

Join us in the heart of Gawler at Walker Place for the Gawler Fringe Opening Event. 

H G Wells' The Time Machine

H G Wells' The Time Machine

While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te… 

Ngundakati: music

Ngundakati: music

Celebrating the rich contribution to the world’s culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, this performance brings together leading contemporary SA artists Corey T… 

The Nova & RCC Fringe Gala

The Nova & RCC Fringe Gala

Join Lewis & Lowe with Hayley Pearson for the Nova & RCC Fringe Gala, showcasing the best of what Royal Croquet Club has to offer this Fringe. 

The Belle's Stratagem

The Belle's Stratagem

Writer and director Tony Cownie has established a particular niche at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, taking potentially overlooked 18th century comedies (like Carlo Goldoni’… 

Welcome to the Music Hall

Welcome to the Music Hall

The Old Married Couple may be married but they’re certainly not old. 

Maria Pages Compania: Yo Carmen - Flamenco Festival 2018

Maria Pages Compania: Yo Carmen - Flamenco Festival 2018

María Pagés searches for the woman behind the femme fatale of Prosper Mérimée’s novel, a character appropriated by so many generations of men. 

Showtime from the Frontline

Showtime from the Frontline

Most stand-up comedy these days is based on the lives of the people standing behind the microphone, albeit reshaped to varying degrees to ensure their material matches the “rule … 

Tempo of Light - Flamenco Festival 2018

Tempo of Light - Flamenco Festival 2018

Featuring the leading voices in Spain today, revered singer Carmen Linares and brilliant rising stars Arcangel and Marina Heredia perform with Miguel A. 

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

It’s 36 years since Andrea Dunbar’s breakthrough play announced the all-too-brief flowering of a new writing talent – “a genius straight from the slums,” as the Mail on S… 

The Match Box

The Match Box

The central metaphor running through Frank McGuinness’s 2012 monologue The Match Box is almost breath-taking in its simplicity; it’s that all of us, all of our lives, are ultim… 

It's Behind You!

It's Behind You!

Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre. 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Time & Space

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Time & Space

Ever wanted to experience your own Doctor Who adventure? Our team of time lords will whisk you round the universe and home in time for tea in this hilarious improvised parody! ★�… 

FLEURIEU FILM FESTIVAL

FLEURIEU FILM FESTIVAL

From a great passion for film, the 3rd FLEURIEU FILM FESTIVAL celebrates Australian filmmaking encouraging filmmakers to interpret the #FFF18 theme, “FIRE”. 

Assmonkey: In Conversation @ Vault Festival

Assmonkey: In Conversation @ Vault Festival

A HILARIOUSLY HONEST AND FAST PACED COMEDY ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH ‘A glorious, farcical conglomeration of a show made up of jokes, hilarious characters, song, science experiments a… 

Knives in Hens

Knives in Hens

David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens, made a big splash back in 1995, recognised as a modern classic which has since seen revivals by companies as diverse as the Nation… 

The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

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

The Lover

The Lover

When watching the stage adaptation of any book, especially one I’ve not read, there’s often a question lingering at the back of my mind; would I appreciate this more, would I… 

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

There’s a deliberate cheapness to the temporary, painted proscenium arch erected in the Brunton’s theatre-space, indicative of this local panto’s rough ’n’ ready (and n… 

Shona Reppe’s Cinderella

Shona Reppe’s Cinderella

This revival of Shona Reppe’s acclaimed puppet retelling of the iconic fairytale is a fascinating jewel of a production, ideal for young children and families alike; subtle, s… 

The Tin Soldier

The Tin Soldier

It’s a real shame temporary roadworks make accessing this show’s venue ever-so-slightly off-putting; also, that the venue is still relatively new, especially when it comes t… 

How To Disappear

How To Disappear

As Scotland’s self-declared “new writing theatre”, Edinburgh’s Traverse does like to offer up an alternative to the pantomimes and decidedly family-focused fare on offer… 

Tommy and the Snowbird

Tommy and the Snowbird

It’s said that actors should never work with children or animals, presumably because of their unpredictability and the extra work this requires. 

The Arabian Nights

The Arabian Nights

Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N… 

Side Shows

Side Shows

Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows. 

A Celebration of the Music from Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit

A Celebration of the Music from Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit

They are the most beloved and recognisable big and small screen creations of all time – let alone just in the world of the Fantasy genre – and now, for the first time, … 

Darbar Festival of Sitar & Dance

Darbar Festival of Sitar & Dance

A rare chance to see two internationally acclaimed dance artists. 

Darbar Festival-Ragas, Sarod and Fiery Dance

Darbar Festival-Ragas, Sarod and Fiery Dance

A triple bill of dynamic new talents with international star of bharatanatyam, Mythili Prakash and noted kathak performer Dheerandra Tiwari, plus a music concert by a remarkable … 

Darbar Festival-Akram Khan

Darbar Festival-Akram Khan

Akram Khan performs an excerpt from his upcoming solo. 

Climb That Tree - A Family Music Show

Climb That Tree - A Family Music Show

Join award-winning songwriter and musician David Gibb on a musical journey through his hilarious and often surreal imagination. 

Blackshaw's Scare Slam - at the London Horror Festival

Blackshaw's Scare Slam - at the London Horror Festival

Lovers of scary stories, unite. 

"Katharine Ferns is in Stitches" at the Women in Comedy Festival

“It is a pitch perfect performance and a beautifully-written, perfectly-paced comedy script. 

Our Fathers

Our Fathers

It’s mildly amusing to see two grown men briefly falling into a childish bragging-match about their fathers—one a retired Church of Scotland minister, the other a former Bis… 

The Maids

The Maids

“We’re beautiful, wild, free and full of joy,” say the titular Maids, Solange and Claire, towards the close of Jean Genet’s 1947 drama, courtesy of Martin Crimp’s 1999… 

Thingummy Bob

Thingummy Bob

There’s a wonderful clarity to Linda McLean’s short play Thingummy Bob, a firm favourite with Scotland’s leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, Lung H… 

Love Song to Lavender Menace

Love Song to Lavender Menace

“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem… 

Man to Man

Man to Man

There were a lot of expectation around this new Wales Millennium Centre production of Manfred Karge’s one-woman play, Man to Man. 

One Mississippi

One Mississippi

There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in. 

Without a Hitch

Without a Hitch

There’s no doubting the raw energy and physicality of this show, a work of dance theatre that definitely prefers choreography to speech, and uses it—along with some pretty st… 

Cockpit

Cockpit

Site specific theatre is nothing new in Scotland; from the numerous innovative creations by the likes of Grid Iron Theatre Company to much of the work by the “without walls” … 

Damned Rebel Bitches

Damned Rebel Bitches

Historically speaking, the original “Damned Rebel Bitches” were—according to the “butcher” Duke of Cumberland—the Jacobite women who marched behind their men in order… 

The Coolidge Effect

The Coolidge Effect

During the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation, its first Director-General Lord Reith established the BBC’s mission as being to “inform, educate and entertai… 

Cilla – The Musical

Cilla – The Musical

Given that she’s such a much-loved public entertainer, an all-too-obvious challenge in creating a musical based on the early life of the late Cilla Black—born Priscilla Mari… 

Objectively Funny Festival

Objectively Funny Festival

9 days & 42 shows of the finest live comedians in Britain. 

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / A Midsummer Night's Dream from China by Whispering Lotus Artists (Guqin, Dizi, Xiao, Pipa and Zheng)

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / A Midsummer Night's Dream from China by Whispering Lotus Artists (Guqin, Dizi, Xiao, Pipa and Zheng)

Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu… 

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / Dong Yi's Special Programme on the Zheng for Chinese Lovers' Day

8th Glamour of Jasmine Chinese Arts Festival / Dong Yi's Special Programme on the Zheng for Chinese Lovers' Day

Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Fairmile at the Fringe

Fairmile at the Fringe

Sold out AMC (2016) and were accordingly awarded a coveted Fringe sell-out laurel. 

Fringe Swap Shop

Fringe Swap Shop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Dirty Harry – Supported by Talk of the Town

Dirty Harry – Supported by Talk of the Town

Dirty Harry captures the rapture of Blondie and has not only the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of the band, but a look-a-like of Debbie. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Brahms’ powerful Deutches Requiem, Rheinberger’s exquisite unaccompanied double-choir Mass in Eflat, Cantus Missae, and Monteverdi motets performed by one of Scotland’s foremos… 

The Fringe of the Fringe

The Fringe of the Fringe

An impromptu evening of entertainment. 

Music and Lyrics

Music and Lyrics

After an exciting run at the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival the companies of three musicals (Porn, X and Suicide) come together to perform musical highlights from the shows in what… 

Beyond Borders International Festival 2017

Beyond Borders International Festival 2017

Join politicians, authors, artists and international cultural leaders for a weekend of panel debates, tête-à-tête discussions, music and art in the grounds of Scotland’s oldest … 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Songerie vers Jack. 

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Accordionist Paul Chamberlain returns to the Fringe with a programme of original works and transcriptions from Russia, France, Spain and Argentina - including pieces by Khachaturia… 

Discover Melbourne Fringe

Discover Melbourne Fringe

Sure, Edinburgh’s pretty awesome, but Melbourne Fringe is one of the most adventurous, edgy, exciting festivals around (even if we do say so ourselves). 

Whose Line is Anyway? – Captioning your Fringe show

Whose Line is Anyway? – Captioning your Fringe show

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Support indie film! Now entering its fourth year and including the premiere of event director Al Carretta’s 10th indie feature Precious Little Things, we present a curated selectio… 

The Future of the Fringe as a World Stage

The Future of the Fringe as a World Stage

As we mark 70 years of this phenomenal festival we want to take stock and explore the future of the Fringe. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

A specialist corporate evening which brings a hand-picked selection of top acts from the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat… 

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Beyond the Transaction: Creating Internationalism

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Beyond the Transaction: Creating Internationalism

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Get Your Brighton Fringe on!

Get Your Brighton Fringe on!

Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, this is the event for yo… 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard. 

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat… 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Contracts: The What, Why and How Independent Theatre Council

Contracts: The What, Why and How Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 from Outer Space

The worst movie of all time comes to the Edinburgh stage. 

Sustaining a Career on the Fringe

Sustaining a Career on the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Locker Room Talk

Locker Room Talk

Delve into an hour of real Locker Room Talk, a term made infamous by Donald Trump, and allow yourself to be immersed into the murky and dark world of everyday sexism that society d… 

Amino No; the Building Blocks of an Australian Life in Scotland

Amino No; the Building Blocks of an Australian Life in Scotland

Two years a Leither and it feels so good! But a Penguin is not a Tim Tam, and a Penguin is not a straw. 

The Romance Novel as High Art?

The Romance Novel as High Art?

Anyone can write a romance novel. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Scotland’s LGBT a capella singing sensation is back at the Fringe! Loud and Proud, Scotland’s LGBT choir, performs its annual Fringe concert in support of Scotland’s HIV and Hepati… 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Fringe Artists of Colour Meet-Up

Fringe Artists of Colour Meet-Up

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Unprecedented and Unpresidential: How Hillary Clinton Lost the Election – Free Festival

Unprecedented and Unpresidential: How Hillary Clinton Lost the Election – Free Festival

It was the race they said Clinton couldn’t lose. 

Big Fringe Magic Gala

Big Fringe Magic Gala

Edinburgh Fringe’s biggest and best mixed bill magic night! The best illusion, magic and cabaret acts from the Fringe have assembled for one night only at Gilded Balloon’s biggest … 

Performance of Chinese Culture Festival: Closing Ceremony

Performance of Chinese Culture Festival: Closing Ceremony

Brahma (Sanskrit Brahama) was founded in early 2011 in Beijing, China. 

Festival Firsts

Festival Firsts

Sir James MacMillan has a long and fruitful relationship with both the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh International Festival. 

Playing Politics – A Fringe Taster

Playing Politics – A Fringe Taster

Wicked musical comedy from the political parody specialists, singing truth to power for their ninth – and final – year at the Fringe, previewing new material targeting Bolshevi… 

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

From Live at the Apollo and Radio 5’s Fighting Talk. 

World Fringe Street Café

World Fringe Street Café

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

From Live at the Apollo and Radio 5’s Fighting Talk. 

Mr Scruff on the Fringe

Mr Scruff on the Fringe

Carthy, AKA Mr Scruff, is renowned for his hugely popular eclectic mix of music which fits between soul, funk, hip-hop, jazz, reggae, Latin, African, ska, disco, house, funk. 

Surviving & Moving Forward from the Fringe

Surviving & Moving Forward from the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Why Postgraduate Study? A panel Discussion

Why Postgraduate Study? A panel Discussion

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Opportunities for new Musical Theatre after the Fringe

Opportunities for new Musical Theatre after the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Festival Strings

Festival Strings

Talented young string players perform together in a series of concerts at St Giles Cathedral. 

The Music of The Incredible String Band

The Music of The Incredible String Band

Whimsical, surreal, truly inspirational: psychedelic pioneers The Incredible String Band entranced listeners in the late 1960s and early 1970s with their visionary, dream-like so… 

Mercy Mercy Mercy! The Music of Cannonball Adderley

Mercy Mercy Mercy! The Music of Cannonball Adderley

A quintet of Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians pays joyous tribute to the bebop/soul music of Cannonball and Nat Adderley. 

Geraldyne: Improv from Music

Geraldyne: Improv from Music

Geraldyne are a team of improvisers that grew up mishearing song lyrics. 

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Art and Power: Creating New Models

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Art and Power: Creating New Models

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

This is the year 1929, Tom is a happy, wealthy and young broker who lives in London and whose life is about to radically change. 

Devon Camerata and String Academy

Devon Camerata and String Academy

Andrew Bernardi and Fiona Mclean Beuchel direct an eclectic virtuoso string music programme with their outstanding tutors students and the 1696 Stradivarius violin. 

Festival Cup of Golf

Festival Cup of Golf

Watch an almighty golfing battle for festival bragging rights and a trophy! Teams representing promoters, venues, the press and locals play nine holes of golf to discover who the g… 

Adelaide Fringe Information Session

Adelaide Fringe Information Session

Adelaide Fringe is Australia’s largest open access festival, with over 1,100 events across every art form in over 400 venues. 

Cook and Davies: Space-Ark

Cook and Davies: Space-Ark

The very last sketch show in the universe! Earth has been destroyed. 

A Machine they're Secretly Building

A Machine they're Secretly Building

The audience were completely absorbed by Proto-Type Theater’s exposition of global mass-surveillance in A Machine They’re Secretly Building, the title aptly born from whistlebl… 

Mark Watson's Festival of Bad Ideas

Mark Watson's Festival of Bad Ideas

Mark Watson asked a range of top comedians: ‘what is your bad idea? What show would you like to put on, but never dare?’ Now, one a night, they attempt these projects. 

In The Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

In The Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

Jump aboard the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and join Scotland’s top jazz musicians Brian Kellock (piano), Colin Steele (trumpet), Roy Percy (bass) and Tom Gordon (drums) to celebrate t… 

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale. 

Space Dogs

Space Dogs

Space Dogs is a historical comedy drama set in the early days of the Cold War. 

Mental Health is a Fringe Issue

Mental Health is a Fringe Issue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

#Magical Mystery Walking Tour of the Fringe

#Magical Mystery Walking Tour of the Fringe

A light-hearted unofficial free walking tour of the Fringe, meeting outside Burgers and Beer Grillhouse at 10:30 – ending in a 15-20 professional magic show in The Newsroom on Le… 

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

A showcase of the best new and up-and-coming acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Dick in Space

Dick in Space

The biggest Dick in the universe is on a plural mission: murder investigation, self-destruction and solving the riddles of the universe – taking on God, Napoleon and unruly human… 

Voice Festival UK - An A Cappella Extravaganza

Voice Festival UK - An A Cappella Extravaganza

The Voice Festival UK once again return to the Fringe with an evening of a cappella for all the family to enjoy. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Join us for traditional Choral Evensong and Benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day Two

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day Two

SCCC will carry on the splendid programme during the second day of the event. 

Janey Godley's Podcast Live at the Fringe

Janey Godley's Podcast Live at the Fringe

The Scottish Godmother and multi award-winning comedian Janey Godley (acclaimed comic famous for her Trump is a c*nt protest) and her award-winning comedian daughter Ashley Storrie… 

Elgar and His Contemporaries – Music for Horn and Piano Performed by Neil and Gill Mantle

Elgar and His Contemporaries – Music for Horn and Piano Performed by Neil and Gill Mantle

An ear-opening recital of music for Horn and Piano – including an Elgar first – by leading Edinburgh musicians, Neil and Gill Mantle. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day One

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival Day One

SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences. 

There Were Two Brothers

There Were Two Brothers

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—… 

Pretenders – By Talk of the Town

Pretenders – By Talk of the Town

Pretenders by Talk of the Town are the UK’s only tribute to the music of Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders, covering classics like: Brass in Pocket, Don’t Get Me Wrong, Back on t… 

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017 - BONUS SHOW

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017 - BONUS SHOW

“An epic improvised comedy battle. Who wins? You decide!” 

Museum After Hours: Friday Fringe Takeover

Museum After Hours: Friday Fringe Takeover

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours. 

Divine Melody from Chinese Fiddlers: Shanghai Yangpu Children’s Palace Students’ Art Troupe’s Concert at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Divine Melody from Chinese Fiddlers: Shanghai Yangpu Children’s Palace Students’ Art Troupe’s Concert at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

With the combination of classic melody and innovative performing methodology, the concert will demonstrate the charms of traditional Chinese music and dance with the spirits of the… 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for a fifth year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. Hosted by Bec Hill, full line up at forthone.com 

Islands in the Stream: The Music of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

Islands in the Stream: The Music of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

The music of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Join us at our new venue in Leith! Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs, 12” and 7” singles and a gaggle of 78s. 

Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak

Stealth Aspies: Autistic People Speak

Autistic people speak for themselves in this ensemble show, written from surveys completed only by Autistic people. 

Stand By

Stand By

There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town. 

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Access Fringe: What Next?

Access Fringe: What Next?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Future of the Fringe in Edinburgh

The Future of the Fringe in Edinburgh

As we mark 70 years of this phenomenal festival we want to take stock and explore what the Fringe should look like in the future. 

Camden Fringe Presents - Huw Joseph and Bandini + Guest

Camden Fringe Presents - Huw Joseph and Bandini + Guest

For one night only Proud Camden is hosting a night of music and comedy with an all killer no filler line up: Australian comedy rock artist Huw Joseph, the incredible talent of quir… 

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Powerful, poetic, effortlessly charismatic, Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti is one of today’s most admired and cherished performers. 

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Festivals: Creating Opportunities

ISPA Series at the Fringe – Festivals: Creating Opportunities

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Blue Fox Knights at the Fringe

Blue Fox Knights at the Fringe

Vocals and guitar are performed live (Phil and Dave), along with complex backing tracks to provide a full band sound experience. 

Why do we need Amateur Theatre?

Why do we need Amateur Theatre?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Edinburgh Fringe as a Classroom

The Edinburgh Fringe as a Classroom

International workshop, professional development and networking event. 

Fringe Fantasmic

Fringe Fantasmic

Following sell-out success in 2016, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be returning with another fantastic musical production for all the family this August. 

A Mentally Well Fringe

A Mentally Well Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

How to Win the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practice Award

How to Win the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practice Award

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Mia: Daughters of Fortune

Mia: Daughters of Fortune

This startling, if indistinct production from Mind the Gap, England’s largest learning disability theatre company, gets straight to its point, with cast members slipping into ‘… 

Macbeth: Fringe of Cantonese Opera

Macbeth: Fringe of Cantonese Opera

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the world most renowned plays, however this year the production will be performed in an entirely unique style, that of traditional Cantonese opera… 

Dead People Don't Have Secrets

Dead People Don't Have Secrets

Everyone has secrets. 

Break Up (We Need to Talk)

Break Up (We Need to Talk)

Five hours is a long time for everyone – it’s a long time for a viewer, it’s a long time for an actor, and it’s a long time to have an excruciating conversation about your … 

A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

Returning from Australia after a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, A Case of You is a poignant, imaginative and dynamic homage to one of the greatest songwriters of the Wo… 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

Funbox at the Fringe

Funbox at the Fringe

Funbox at the Fringe! Join Gary, Anya and Kevin (the former stars of The Singing Kettle) for songs and silliness that all the family can enjoy! The Funbox has everything you need i… 

Ewan Spence's Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show and Podcast

Ewan Spence's Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show and Podcast

Join Ewan Spence and the team behind the BAFTA nominated ‘Edinburgh Fringe Radio Show And Podcast’ at this year’s daily recordings of the live show in the Rose Theatre . 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little Music

Doig the Musical, With No Singing, No Dancing and Very Little Music

Doig, a disgraced businessmen, has fallen into despair. 

Festival Masses

Festival Masses

Come and listen to beautiful sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written in the setting of one of Edinburgh’s finest churches. 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Jonathan Dove, Vaughan Williams and Mozart. 

Music Diaspora

Music Diaspora

Internationally acclaimed British/Syrian musicians Waseem Kotoub (piano) and Ayman Jarjour (guitar) in concert, accompanied by a visual display of Syria before and after the war. 

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear?

#Jollyboat: Why Do Nerds Suddenly Appear?

These are the droids you’re looking for. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

GooseChase: The Fringe Game

GooseChase: The Fringe Game

Get ready to immerse yourself as Edinburgh becomes your playground thanks to GooseChase and the Adelaide Fringe! Edinburgh’s biggest scavenger hunt, The Fringe Game challenges yo… 

Prospect High: Brooklyn

Prospect High: Brooklyn

Listen closely with empathy to what high school students are saying. 

Sarah Keyworth: Why Not? (WIP)

Sarah Keyworth: Why Not? (WIP)

Rising comedy star Sarah Keyworth, a Funny Women finalist 2015 and tour support for Stewart Francis and Kerry Godliman, examines what it means to be a child raised believing you co… 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best contemporary talents take inspiration from our Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition to perform traditional … 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

An action-packed, spy thriller, one-woman musical. 

The Amorous Ambassador

The Amorous Ambassador

There’s nothing that says ‘Edinburgh Festival Fringe’ quite like the portrayal of sex on stage: that said, compared with many of the thousands of shows in Edinburgh this August, … 

Eleanor Tiernan – People Pleaser

Eleanor Tiernan – People Pleaser

A stranger asks a small favour. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

Edinburgh’s famous multi award-winning venue stages its own extensive programme of evening jazz and late-night funk every night of the Fringe. 

You Need People Like Me

You Need People Like Me

It’s just like the famous ‘bad guy’ scene in Scarface, when Tony Montana rants that iconic phrase, ‘You need people like me. 

Harun Musho'd: Harun With a View

Harun Musho'd: Harun With a View

Harun Musho’d’s stand-up comedy explores his own identity, weaving politics and history into the story of his family and their antics. 

Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival)

Battle of the Superheroes: The Great Superhero Debate (Free Festival)

Come watch and be part of this interactive, fun mixture of stand-up and interactive comedy debate as a compere and a number of the best comedians from around the Fringe converge in… 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin. 

Skeptics on the Fringe: Enlightening the Fringe - Free

Skeptics on the Fringe: Enlightening the Fringe - Free

We are Edinburgh Skeptics. 

Islam Festival Edinburgh 2017

Islam Festival Edinburgh 2017

Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh. 

Outer Space – The Next Empire?

Outer Space – The Next Empire?

Join space innovation researcher Matjaz Vidmar (University of Edinburgh) and acclaimed science fiction author Pippa Goldschmidt to debate the future of human activity beyond Earth. 

Live Music at SouthPour

Live Music at SouthPour

A good dose of local acoustic talent, join us for a selection of music treats from some of Edinburgh’s finest musicians. 

Gordon Southern: That's a Fun Fact!

Gordon Southern: That's a Fun Fact!

Upbeat Gordon Southern may dress like the kind of supply teacher that the kids love to bully (his words) but, despite his repeated mantra of ‘Not Laughing, Learning’, his lates… 

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge

Gilbert and Sullivan's Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: The Fringe Lozenge has, as you might expect from the title, a very specific target audience. 

Space Rocket Oddity Man

Space Rocket Oddity Man

Floating in deep space, an astronaut pleads with his lover to let him back in the airlock. 

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017

Improv Deathmatch at Camden Fringe 2017

An adrenaline fuelled improvised comedy show where two teams battle to see who can make the audience laugh hardest in the ultimate improvised comedy battle. 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

I remember when Doctor Who was a practically forgotten, long cancelled show that was only the domain of nerds (like me). 

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Bella Freak: Unwritten

Bella Freak: Unwritten

Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive … 

Tommy Miah Street Food Festival

Tommy Miah Street Food Festival

After last year’s successful fringe event, celebrity chef, Tommy Miah is running another Street Food Festival experience. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe. 

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in its tenth year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

First Time at the Fringe

First Time at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People

Baby Mama: One Woman's Quest to Give Her Child to Gay People

Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly… 

Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams' Ivan's Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Fox and Hound Presents Tennessee Williams' Ivan's Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin… 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe. 

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People

Terror. 

Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

‘The King of Edinburgh’ (List) and multi award-winning ‘Podfather’ (Elle) returns with the internet chat show, that all the cool kids who hang around the Omni Centre call RHEFP (RH… 

The Free Fringe Festival Music Stages Launch Day

The Free Fringe Festival Music Stages Launch Day

It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day. 

The Free Fringe Festival Music Stages Launch Day

The Free Fringe Festival Music Stages Launch Day

It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day. 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

Caravaggio: Between the Darkness

“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’… 

Why Stop There?

Why Stop There?

Rebellious, experienced, lyrical and courageous – this amazing multi-generational programme celebrates dancers from 12-85 years of life, dreams, hopes and fears featuring new wor… 

Eva Cassidy the Story

Eva Cassidy the Story

A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy through video, voice and song. 

A Tutti Frutti Cabaret / PBH's Free Fringe

A Tutti Frutti Cabaret / PBH's Free Fringe

Tragic diva Glenda Campari (Nina Baldini) has travelled the world, searching for her favourite fierce females for this world premiere cabaret. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Alive: Music for Night of the Living Dead

Alive: Music for Night of the Living Dead

Almost 50 years after George Romero launched the zombie film genre on a shoestring budget, Night of the Living Dead holds a dear spot in the hearts of horror film fans. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

The Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe show returns for a sixth hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across… 

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish

What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks… 

Meet Me At Dawn

Meet Me At Dawn

Zinnie Harris has five plays on in Edinburgh this August, including two within the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme. 

Tomás Ford: Crap Music Rave Party

Tomás Ford: Crap Music Rave Party

Grab your mates and hit the dance floor with hyperactive Australian party machine Tomás Ford for the Fringe’s most ridiculous party. 

Martin Creed's Words and Music

Martin Creed's Words and Music

Artist, musician and Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed invites you to a delightfully nonconformist evening of words, music and more, as he takes up residence for the 2017 Internatio… 

Music at Lunchtime

Music at Lunchtime

Visit St Giles’ Cathedral and enjoy a relaxed musical concert from performers from all over the world in a unique and beautiful historical setting. 

The Audio Tour of the Fringe

The Audio Tour of the Fringe

An immersive audio tour of the Festival Fringe – featuring interviews about its history with many Fringe comedy legends as you walk through the chaos and fun of the 2017 Fringe. 

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Shaggers (Free Festival)

The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year. 

Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)

Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)

To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special. 

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot. 

Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes

Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes

Andrew Doyle has, allegedly, lost quite a few friends this last year. 

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand – Yorkshire Ripper / Free Festival

Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat… 

Blank Tiles

Blank Tiles

It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’. 

I Can Make You Tory

I Can Make You Tory

When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience. 

Nasty Women on the Fringe – Sajeela Kershi and Friends

Nasty Women on the Fringe – Sajeela Kershi and Friends

Did you support the #WomensMarch? The only place to march this August is down to this female-led show! A rotating line-up of talented, award-winning, critically acclaimed guests, t… 

Emotional Terrorism

Emotional Terrorism

In this one woman show, Ellyn Daniels takes us on an intoxicating ride from Orlando to Togo, from ballet to bulimia, from walking the runways of Paris to blacking out in Hollywood … 

A Struggle: Work in Progress / Free Festival

A Struggle: Work in Progress / Free Festival

What happens when we struggle to do anything? A series of in-development clown and theatre pieces. Themes will include difficulty, struggle, Ludwig Wittgenstein and snakes.  

Nik Coppin: Globetrotter (Free Festival)

Nik Coppin: Globetrotter (Free Festival)

The UK-based comedian returns with new and hilarious anecdotes and jokes from his many comedy journeys around the world. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. 

Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)

Afternoon Shaggers (Free Festival)

To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special. 

James Nokise: Britain, Let's Talk About the Golliwogs

James Nokise: Britain, Let's Talk About the Golliwogs

Let’s chat about your race relations issue. 

Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks

Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks

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… 

Dick in Space

Dick in Space

The biggest Dick in the universe is on a plural mission: murder investigation, self-destruction and solving the riddles of the universe – taking on God, Napoleon and unruly human… 

Lilith: The Jungle Girl

Lilith: The Jungle Girl

This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly … 

Rhinoceros

Rhinoceros

Time and again during Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s famous farce, people tell each other not to be absurd. 

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth. 

The Road That Wasn't There

The Road That Wasn't There

The truth about fairy tales, all too often forgotten by us grown-ups, is that the best ones are meant to be scary, albeit in an ultimately reassuring context. 

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

We present a sumptuous selling exhibition of kilim and textile cushions, chairs, fenders, pouffees, hall seats and sofa stools in vibrant colours and contemporary and traditional d… 

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Martin “Bigpig” Mor. 

The Truman Capote Talk Show

The Truman Capote Talk Show

Truman Capote regards us with a look that cannot be readily deciphered. 

Andrew Ryan's Pick of the Fringe

Andrew Ryan's Pick of the Fringe

Irish comedian Andrew Ryan brings you some of the best acts performing at the Fringe in this showcase. 

Zahra Barri: Talk Like an Egyptian

Zahra Barri: Talk Like an Egyptian

Zahra’s a bit like the country of Turkey, in that she’s a mix of Eastern and Western culture, and also she is a bird. 

Guns 'n' Rosé With Peter E Davidson / Free Festival

Guns 'n' Rosé With Peter E Davidson / Free Festival

Peter E Davidson is a wine drinking man adrift in a sea of beer drinkers. 

Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People

Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People

Multi award-winning power wizard of comedy Tony Law is heading back to the top. 

Letters to Morrissey

Letters to Morrissey

Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Whose Line is It Anyway? – Live at the Fringe

Whose Line is It Anyway? – Live at the Fringe

Improv comedy at the Fringe? It’s practically become a punchline in itself but the art of making it up on the spot is big business in Edinburgh in August. 

Performers

Performers

One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe… 

Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver

Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver

Given that so much of the stand-up comedy you’ll find on the Fringe is blatantly autobiographical—at least to some extent—it’s not surprising that a lot of Jamie MacDonald�… 

Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Thoroughly Pleasant People

Afternoon Tea With Ray Fordyce and Other Thoroughly Pleasant People

Ray Fordyce is back to host another afternoon feast of comedy and entertainment. Featuring three or more acts each day, this is a must for every Fringe visitor. 

I Hate Myself So People Will Like Me (and Other Strategies for Success)

I Hate Myself So People Will Like Me (and Other Strategies for Success)

A show for anyone who ever worried they weren’t normal. 

Found Footage Festival

Found Footage Festival

Curating a collection of the most bizarre instances of human behaviour recorded on esoteric VHS tapes, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher do little more throughout the evening than brief… 

Reginald D Hunter: Some People vs Reginald D Hunter

Reginald D Hunter: Some People vs Reginald D Hunter

Reginald’s searingly honest material has garnered him a fan base spanning the generations. 

Victorian Gothic

Victorian Gothic

Thanks to the numerous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, we arguably don’t have the best impression of the Victorian Police Detective—especially when it comes to either their inte… 

Ancient Shrines and Half Truths

Ancient Shrines and Half Truths

Tripadvisor meets Pokemon Go in this absurd, fantastical tour that proves how liable we are to being led. 

Police Cops in Space

Police Cops in Space

When a Fringe show sells out on opening night, you know it’s doing something right. 

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

Snowflake by Mark Thomson

Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th… 

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity

Briony Redman: Theory of Positivity

Briony Redman’s solo show revolves around a screenwriter who wants to test out her movie-in-the-making on a fresh audience. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists

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

Heather

Heather

Fifty years ago, Roland Barthes told us to forget what we know about an author when reading a text. 

Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Ian Talk Three

Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: Ian Talk Three

Ian D Monfort communicates with many famous figures who have passed to the other side. 

BlundaBuskers Fringe After-Party & Piano Bar

BlundaBuskers Fringe After-Party & Piano Bar

BlundaBus infamous and intimate late-night knees-up that probably isn’t for you. 

(More) Moira Monologues

(More) Moira Monologues

Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! Twelve top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night!

Aaaaaaaargh! It's the Big Free Fringe Festival Launch Night!

Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person… 

Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning

Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning

There’s one point during Geoff Norcott’s latest show when it really flies, when you sense he really has most of the audience on his side — even though at least one or two of … 

A Strange New Space

A Strange New Space

Amira is obsessed with space and dreams of becoming an astronaut. 

Kat Bond: Loo Roll

Kat Bond: Loo Roll

Loo Roll is a comedy sketch show about a woman who’s been left in a giant green bin. 

Who, Me

Who, Me

It’s four years since Rob Lloyd first brought this autobiographical, Doctor Who-related show to Edinburgh. 

Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady's Face

Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady's Face

Burly Glaswegian stand-up Scott Agnew has for many years joked about “blow-job knee”—wear and tear arising from too much time on his knees providing oral sex. 

Fauxchella Music Festival

Fauxchella Music Festival

The greatest comeback concert ever! Featuring all your favorite groups you’ve never heard of from the 80s to the present day, including Familiar County, Simon Never Said and The … 

Knock Knock

Knock Knock

It’s 54 years since the last conscripted British citizens returned to civilian life after completing their National Service. 

Ramy: In the Frontline

Ramy: In the Frontline

We all saw the coverage of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, but who can say they’ve been in the same room as someone personally involved? Ramy wasn’t just a participant in the … 

5 Guys Chillin'

5 Guys Chillin'

Many an article’s been written on how the gay scene appears dominated by drugs and sex. 

Sarah, Sky and Seven Other Guys

Sarah, Sky and Seven Other Guys

“Ah yes. 

Let Me Look at You

Let Me Look at You

Starving Artists are back with a compelling show about homosexuality in which Mark Pinkosh shares how being gay has affected his life. 

St Cecilia's Hall and Museum of Music

St Cecilia's Hall and Museum of Music

Originally opened in 1763, St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland. 

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Join a local guide for this fun and informative walk through 900 years of Edinburgh’s history. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us Whiski Bar for a vibrant, foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands during August. 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the extraordinary world of the Fringe through the eyes of schoolchildren from across Scotland at this free exhibition of entries in the 2017 Fringe Schools Poster Competition. 

Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People

Tony Law: Absurdity for the Common People

Multi award-winning surreal wizard of comedy, Tony Law is heading back to the top. 

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Shaggers (Free Festival)

The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year. 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its 12th season, this critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year Final 2017

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year Final 2017

The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts. 

Huggers (Free Festival)

Huggers (Free Festival)

With comedy, cabaret and fun for all the family to enjoy, the Huggers show returns to Edinburgh. 

Dartington Summer School and Festival

Dartington Summer School and Festival

Present concerts of all kinds of music. 

Hyena Lounge At The Great Yorkshire Fringe - Stephen K Amos, Allyson June Smith & Dan Nightingale

Hyena Lounge At The Great Yorkshire Fringe - Stephen K Amos, Allyson June Smith & Dan Nightingale

York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows featuring the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit. 

Any Suggestions Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

Any Suggestions Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

The most fantastic improvised parody in all of space & time is back! Brand new episodes of Doctor Who created with your suggestions and a live radiophonic workshop. 

Eleanor Tiernan - People Pleaser

Eleanor Tiernan - People Pleaser

A stranger asks a small favour. 

Lunchbox Theatre: Everyday People

Lunchbox Theatre: Everyday People

Squeeze some culture into your lunchbreak! Grab a sandwich and join Lightbox Theatre this July for a lunchtime serving of darkly comic gems by some of theatre’s most prominent p… 

Beyond the Senses – Atmospheric Music Theatre by Law Wing-fai

Beyond the Senses – Atmospheric Music Theatre by Law Wing-fai

Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses 

Katharine Ferns is In Stitches at the Greater Manchester Fringe

Katharine Ferns is In Stitches at the Greater Manchester Fringe

Brutally funny storytelling show from Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns (MTV) is a comedic journey about learning to laugh at the visible and invisible scars of surviving mental il… 

Music Lab: Fingerman X Beloved Clara X SMASH

Music Lab: Fingerman X Beloved Clara X SMASH

Put classical, jazz, and pop music under the microscope and watch it metamorphose in Music Lab. Full Price £10 to £18; Concessions £8 to £16 Ticket link: bit.ly/HKMusicLab 

Why Does Everybody Want To Move To Australia?

Why Does Everybody Want To Move To Australia?

Blue Masque Theatre’s staged playreading of new comic drama by Rhonwen McCormack. 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Improvable!

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Improvable!

Our closing night extravaganza features PHIL LUNN IS. 

Music Interflow – a Dialogue of Two Cultures

Music Interflow – a Dialogue of Two Cultures

Old meets New; East meets West. 

The Jacksons at Greenwich Music Time

The Jacksons at Greenwich Music Time

Signing their first record deal in 1967, the group (with the late Michael Jackson) made history in  1970 as the first recording act whose first four singles reached No. 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by The Nursery

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by The Nursery

THURSDAY NIGHT LIGHTS features PAPER PLANES with Imaginarium, an improvised musical, plus THE LEMONADE BRIGADE, an all-gay group assembled for the festival, and RITA SUSZEK with Pa… 

The Lying Kind

The Lying Kind

“O, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott wrote in his epic poem Marmion, “when first we practise to deceive!” It’s a life lesson we can only hope unfortunat… 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Hoopla!

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Hoopla!

Improv legends Maria Peters and Lauren Shearing are BREAKING AND ENTERING a two-person tour-de-force of improvisation! Plus QI: QUEER IMPROV, all-female 20% LESS, IMOGENE and a MIX… 

Alexander O'Neal at Greenwich Music Time

Alexander O'Neal at Greenwich Music Time

Alexander O'Neal, who came to prominence in the late 80s thanks to a string of chart-topping singles including Criticize, If You Were Here Tonight and Never Knew Love Like This… 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Duck Duck Goose

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by Duck Duck Goose

THE BAREBACK KINGS is a new drag king show from Lynsey Bonell, Abbey Kos, Juliet Morrish, Fran Reid, Alice Sanders, Rebecca Schuster and Anne Zander. 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by C3Something!

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by C3Something!

MUSIC BOX creates a one-act improvised musical inspired by a title and location from the audience! Plus CITY IMPRO, JESUS LOPEZ, BEYOND THE RIDICULOUS, “RAINBOW SOMETHING” and a M… 

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by The Free Association

Zeal: The Pride Improv Festival hosted by The Free Association

Naughty compare LUKE MEREDITH hops into the jacuzzi at The Free Association as their guest monologist! Prepare for a fast-paced and witty evening of titillating banter and scenes! … 

Edinburhg Fringe Preview: Bright Lights, Big City Impro

Edinburhg Fringe Preview: Bright Lights, Big City Impro

Six improvisers barrel through the funnies in a special Edinburgh Fringe preview show where suggestions provided by you inspire an epic series of improvised comedy games, sketches … 

Refugee Cultural Festival

Refugee Cultural Festival

Friday 23 June, 16:00 - 20:30, Z-arts Our Refugee Week programme culminates with a celebratory event organised in conjunction with Manchester Refugee Support Network. 

The Waves on the Seas

The Waves on the Seas

A marriage isn’t just the joining of two people, or even two families—it marks the coming together of two communities. 

Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Music Festival: Trout Quintet & The Art of Song

Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Music Festival: Trout Quintet & The Art of Song

Join us for the first program of Orchestra of St. 

Penelope Solomon: I was a Penis at the Royal Festival Hall

Penelope Solomon: I was a Penis at the Royal Festival Hall

Following her success of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Penelope brings her unique combination of stand-up, character comedy and songs in this nationwide tour of ‘I was a penis. 

The Warren End of Fringe Party

The Warren End of Fringe Party

A 90s-themed night to close Brighton Fringe 2017 in style. 

Ambrose Page & friends present The Mendelssohn's, their lives & music with Marcia Bellamy Mezzo

Ambrose Page & friends present The Mendelssohn's, their lives & music with Marcia Bellamy Mezzo

A concert of words and music focusing on the relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny. 

How To Make Friends - and Imitate People

How To Make Friends - and Imitate People

A lonely scientist clones a perfect army of women, until something goes horribly wrong. 

American Piano Music: Joel Sachs (USA)

American Piano Music: Joel Sachs (USA)

Renowned American pianist and conductor Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) performs piano music by three of America’s greatest composers: Charles Ives’ First Piano Sonata, pio… 

Fringe City Night

Fringe City Night

Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special, celebrating the Brighton Fringe finale weekend. 

Bounce!

Bounce!

It’s fair to say that Bounce!, created and performed by French company Arcosm, is a delightfully playful blend of music and dance, performed with real skill and alleged wild a… 

Carly Smallman: A Work in Progress and Other Terrible Stories About Why I Keep Ruining it for Myself

Carly Smallman: A Work in Progress and Other Terrible Stories About Why I Keep Ruining it for Myself

Star of ITV and BBC, Carly Smallman makes her Brighton Fringe debut with a work-in-progress hour of comedy. 

You and Me and the Space Between

You and Me and the Space Between

The island is sinking. 

Falling Dreams

Falling Dreams

Recent years have seen a significant rise in the number of (usually) London theatre productions being transmitted live to cinemas and other venues across the UK. 

Tennessee Williams Double: Ivan's Widow & Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Tennessee Williams Double: Ivan's Widow & Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen

Written by Williams in the period before his death, Fox and Hound take on two of his most difficult one act plays. 

Sacred Music Sessions

Sacred Music Sessions

Music can nurture us, music can uplift us. 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

The WWII official secrets act is over and Eva is ready to set the record straight. 

King of the Fringe: Best Of

King of the Fringe: Best Of

Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions. 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

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

Any Suggestions, Doctor?: An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor?: An Improvised Adventure in Space & Time

Taking a much loved pop culture reference point is always a sure fire way to fill seats. 

All Talk: Apples and Snakes and NWS presents...

All Talk: Apples and Snakes and NWS presents...

Apples and Snakes and New Writing South team up to present a programme of poetry, spoken word and live literature. 

Harun Musho'd: Harun With a View

Harun Musho'd: Harun With a View

Harun Musho’d’s stand-up comedy explores his own identity, weaving politics and history into the story of his family and their antics. 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd - Udderbelly

Festival of the Spoken Nerd - Udderbelly

The science comedy phenomenon returns , and this time they're off the chart. 

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra’s a bit like the country of Turkey, in that she’s a mix of Eastern and Western culture, and also she is a bird. 

Bach's Goldberg Variations with a pre concert talk by Rachel Fryer piano

Bach's Goldberg Variations with a pre concert talk by Rachel Fryer piano

We are pleased and delighted to be welcoming the return of Pianist Rachel Fryer performing the Goldberg Variations. 

Duo Maddalena: A Feast of Medieval Music

Duo Maddalena: A Feast of Medieval Music

In the beautiful, atmospheric church of St Nicholas, dating back to 1091, Duo Maddalena recreate the soundscape of medieval France, England and Spain. 

Glory on Earth

Glory on Earth

At one point during Glory on Earth, its two main characters—stage right, the young, romantic Mary, Queen of Scots; stage left, the firebrand Protestant preacher John Knox—ar… 

Festival Tchaikfest

Festival Tchaikfest

An evening of the incredibly powerful music of Tchaikovsky. 

Carnesky's Finishing School: Brighton Fringe Graduation Night

Carnesky's Finishing School: Brighton Fringe Graduation Night

Described as an esoteric St Trinian’s for the queer cabaret generation, Carnesky’s Finishing School has been helping people discover and hone their creative talent since 2010. 

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

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 … 

Music Is Torture

Music Is Torture

“Keep going,” actor Andy Clark says repeatedly to the musicians behind the glass screen in the unsubtly-named Limbo Studio created on stage, ensuring that we find our seats … 

Generation Why

Generation Why

Three performers from the UK, Italy and Spain that belong to the so called Generation Y, are confronted onstage with a simple but controversial question: what do you want for your … 

Die Die Die Old People Die

Die Die Die Old People Die

Indie theatre legends David Woods and Jon Haynes of ‘Ridiculusmus’ as two crustaceous elders putting off death in a snail paced farce. 

The Dove in Spring: American Chamber Music in Recital

The Dove in Spring: American Chamber Music in Recital

Soaring soprano and passionate cello lines intermingle with sumptuous piano writing in a recital programme featuring Esther Ward-Caddle (cello)and Nicole Panizza (piano) performing… 

Making the Most of the Edinburgh Fringe

Making the Most of the Edinburgh Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe. 

Refugee Film Festival

Refugee Film Festival

Art projections, feature films, documentaries and accompanying talks including film-makers exploring the experiences of refugees. 

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Join the irrepressible Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing. 

Fiesta Fringe

Fiesta Fringe

Brighton meets Bristol for an evening of brassy skanks, intense grooves, conscious lyricism and wild rhythm. 

From Muses to Music: The Sonnets by The Shakespeare Heptet

From Muses to Music: The Sonnets by The Shakespeare Heptet

Blending many influences, The Shakespeare Heptet’s distinct sound is alluring and wholly contemporary, providing a stunning soundtrack to the sonnets. 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

No one does satire quite like Brighton’s very own ‘The Treason Show’. 

Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound

Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound

In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop. 

Organ Music at St. Bart's

Organ Music at St. Bart's

Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. Bartholomew’s Church. 

Spiegeltent: Heart Of The Fringe Show

Spiegeltent: Heart Of The Fringe Show

A special Spiegeltent charity showcase with the very best ‘Heart of the Fringe’ performers helping kick off the season. 

Curry Leaf Cafe – Cooking Masterclasses & Food Talk

Curry Leaf Cafe – Cooking Masterclasses & Food Talk

Brighton’s award-winning Curry Leaf Cafe is running a series of interactive talks & cookery masterclasses at its new Kemptown Kitchen. 

Lachlan Werner: Belly Talk (A Language of Love)

Lachlan Werner: Belly Talk (A Language of Love)

“Venter”-To speak. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

“The true mystery of the world is the visible . 

Thomas Wolfe Presents: The Brighton Fringe Poets

Thomas Wolfe Presents: The Brighton Fringe Poets

Local author and poet Thomas Wolfe presents a night of spoken word, poetry and storytelling from some of Brighton’s best poets. 

Good People, Bad Day

Good People, Bad Day

Everyone has experienced the dreaded ‘bad day’ where nothing seems to work out. 

Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue

Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue

Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles. 

Lachlan Werner: Belly Talk (A Language of Love)

Lachlan Werner: Belly Talk (A Language of Love)

‘Venter’-To speak. 

Pauline Quirke Academy

Pauline Quirke Academy

PQA is a weekend Performing Arts Academy providing tuition for children and young people from 4-18 years. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

Not sure what to see? Don’t fret, we’ve done the work for you and hand-picked this week’s top tips. 

Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for solo Violin & Chamber music for String Trio & Guitar

Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for solo Violin & Chamber music for String Trio & Guitar

We welcome violinist Benedict Cruft along with his fine Cruft-Robertson-Pleeth String Trio and guest guitarist, Paul Gregory. 

Joan Eardley: A Private View

Joan Eardley: A Private View

The London-born artist Joan Eardley, who settled in Scotland to study and whose artistic career was cut short when she died—aged 42—in 1963, is best known for two very diffe… 

Colour Me Choral: A Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

Colour Me Choral: A Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

Did you know that every sound has a colour? What are your true colours? And what happens when all those colours blend together in a choir? Come and discover an amazing choral rain… 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Fringe City is a free outdoor event in the centre of Brighton taking place every weekend of Brighton Fringe 2017. 

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic is a free outdoor event taking place on the 6th of May and 27th of May in the Pavilion Gardens. 

The 306: Day

The 306: Day

The 306: Day is the second of a three play trilogy instigated by the National Theatre of Scotland, inspired by the stories of the 306 British soldiers that we know were executed… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

A selection of the very best stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

FEM. 

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present: The Fringe Show

Turn up, tear out and laugh lots as we give other fringe shows a unique makeover! Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show … 

Pick of the Fringe Launch Night Special

Pick of the Fringe Launch Night Special

Pick of the Fringe Launch Night Special, kicked off Brighton Fringe at The Warren with fragments of 7 shows. 

Brighton Fringe Launch at The Warren

Brighton Fringe Launch at The Warren

Come and celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe at The Warren. Help us start the 2017 Festival with a bang! 

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt

This is a homecoming, of sorts; the revival of a play, first performed at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre back in 1989, which subsequently enjoyed successful productions in the West … 

Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine

“I used to be Shirley Valentine,” explains the focus of Willy Russell’s 1986 one-woman play; a 42 year old Liverpudlian woman who, now that the children have flown … 

Confessional

Confessional

The comedic tone of David Weir’s Confessional is clear from the start; as Schubert’s beautiful Ave Marie fades into silence, “Good Catholic” Kevin—or, as he puts it, th… 

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival Brighton

Join us at Foodies Festival, the largest food and drink festival in the UK, returning to Hove Lawns this summer on the bank holiday weekend of April 29th - May 1st. 

Charlie Sonata

Charlie Sonata

There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always … 

Monstrous Bodies

Monstrous Bodies

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s debut novel has become so iconic in Western culture that the word “Frankenstein” is now used pejoratively to describe any scientific o… 

Orlando

Orlando

If the usual writerly advice is to always “show, not tell”, then biography is arguably one of the few artistic forms where a certain amount of direct author-to-audience expl… 

The Edinburgh Easter Play

The Edinburgh Easter Play

The Biblical narrative that is the foundation of the Christian faith has been described, on numerous occasions, as “The Greatest Story Ever Told. 

One Man Shoe

One Man Shoe

Children’s entertainer Jango Starr is a total clown, but that’s certainly not meant as a criticism; sans white-face, he instead relies on a pair of trousers just sufficientl… 

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Almost at the start, Gilchrist Muir—here inhabiting the tweed suit of our lecturer, Glasgow University-based Theoretical Zombiologist Dr Ken House—insists that Zombies are no… 

A Stone’s Throw

A Stone’s Throw

A young girl, annoyed by being made fun of by her seven older brothers, joins in the family’s evening game of throwing stones and unintentionally shatters the sun from the sky… 

Isaac’s Eye

Isaac’s Eye

From the start of his exploration of the scientific method, through the prism of the 17th century rivalry between Isaac Newton and the now little-remembered Robert Hooke, playwr… 

A Number

A Number

In one sense, this Lyceum revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play is exactly the “dynamic two-hander” described in the programme: the only actors on stage are Peter Forbes,… 

Girl in the Machine

Girl in the Machine

The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to. 

Cosmonaut

Cosmonaut

There’s always a risk attempting to present previously “unknown” stories as theatre. 

Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery

Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery

I’m not a fan of promenade performances, especially those involving the audience being led in a group from one set piece to another. 

The Nether

The Nether

Science Fiction isn’t the most common genre you find on stage; ironic, really, since it was Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R. 

Hay Fever

Hay Fever

Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c… 

Girls Like That

Girls Like That

Evan Placey’s Girls Like That (first performed at London’s Unicorn Theatre three years ago) came to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—courtesy of the neighbouring Lyceum Thea… 

La Cage Aux Folles

La Cage Aux Folles

There’s much to love about this new touring production of La Cage Aux Folles; gloriously Technicolor™ sets, gorgeous costumes, tight choreography, clearly enunciated sin… 

The Beaches of St Valery

The Beaches of St Valery

Three-quarters of a century on, there are still stories of the Second World War that aren’t as well known as they should, but Stuart Hepburn’s new play—while promoted as t… 

The Play That Goes Wrong

The Play That Goes Wrong

The old showbiz adage that “the show must go on” is usually invoked—in the aftermath of some behind-the-scenes calamity—before curtain-up, but the point of The Play That… 

The Orchestra Now: Free Concert in Brooklyn

The Orchestra Now: Free Concert in Brooklyn

As part of its Around Town series, The Orchestra Now will be performing a free concert of works by Glinka, Messiaen, and Tchaikovsky. 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

How Eva Von Schnippisch Won WWII

Germany’s greatest cabaret star and Britain’s No. 

Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show

Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show

There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B… 

Flamenco Festival 2017-Manuel Linan

Flamenco Festival 2017-Manuel Linan

Choreographer, director, and multi award-winning dancer Manuel Liñán returns to Sadler’s Wells with an emotional voyage back to the memories and instincts of ch… 

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

The writer and historian James Truslow Adams once defined the “American Dream” as the potential for life to be “better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity … 

Flamenco Festival 2017- Mercedes Ruiz

Flamenco Festival 2017- Mercedes Ruiz

Let me dance for you – this is the caption of this night. 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Beginner Workshop

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Beginner Workshop

Want to learn the basics of improv comedy in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere? Join Naomi Petersen an actor, comedian, writer and singer, who will introduce participants to the jo… 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

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 Shoreditch Improv Festival Grand Finale

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Grand Finale

Closing-off the 2017 Shoreditch Improv Festivals will be Left Foot First (“I laughed so hard I had to apologise to the guy next to me for accidentally hitting him” ***** - Get Re… 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival improvised tour of Shoreditch street art

The Shoreditch Improv Festival improvised tour of Shoreditch street art

Enrol in Balderdash Academy and join your improv professors on a tour de force of this century’s best street art focused in its natural home: Shoreditch. 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Saturday Afternoon Giggles

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Saturday Afternoon Giggles

The Water Poet was easy to spot on Saturday afternoon. 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Saturday Night Smash

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Saturday Night Smash

7pm-8pm Kicking-off the evening’s shenanigans will be… Comedy Shenanigans, who are Irish comedians Aislinn (Best Female Improviser – Improvaganza 2015) and Noel (Best Improv… 

Shoreditch Improv Festival

Shoreditch Improv Festival

Across three days, thirty of London’s best comedy improv and sketch groups will be amazing audiences (and themselves) with their spontaneous, quick witted and absurdly funny scen… 

Shoreditch Improv Festival

Shoreditch Improv Festival

Across three days, thirty of London’s best improvised comedy and sketch groups will be amazing audiences with their spontaneous, quick witted and absurdly funny scenes, sketches,… 

Flamenco Festival 2017 - Eva Yerbabuena

Flamenco Festival 2017 - Eva Yerbabuena

Flamenco superstar Eva Yerbabuena is renowned internationally as being one of Spain’s leading dancers. 

Shoreditch Improv Festival Opening Show

Shoreditch Improv Festival Opening Show

Opening the festival will be City Impro (“Incredibly Good” ****– Arts Award Voice), who make up crazy characters and silly scenes all based on suggestions provided by the aud… 

Flamenco Festival 2017 - Israel Galván

Flamenco Festival 2017 - Israel Galván

Israel Galván likes nothing more than pushing boundaries and surprising with a know-how fed by the best Flamenco tradition. 

The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has all the characteristics of a Tragedy, as we speedily witness the horrendous consequences of King Leontes’ groundless jealousy for pregnant … 

69 Shades of Gay

69 Shades of Gay

“I’m so excited”—that iconic 1982 hit by the Pointer Sisters—is an apt intro to a show with a predominantly female audience that’s already wound up to have a good ti… 

Cirque Berserk!

Cirque Berserk!

“Not a circus, it’s a Berserkus!” Cirque Berserk! boldly comes with two USPs. 

Dusty Won't Play

Dusty Won't Play

18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl… 

New York Jazz Academy

New York Jazz Academy

New York Jazz Academy, a music school based in New York City, is the only place that welcomes artists of all ages and skill levels to become fully engrossed in the study and perfor… 

The House of Bernarda Alba

The House of Bernarda Alba

If politics is about people—specifically the ever-fluctuating power imbalances between people in different situations—then Federico García Lorca was right to focus his “po… 

The Miller Comedy Festival Opening - Sara Pascoe - Carl Donnelly - Glenn Moore - Abigoliah Schaman MC

The Miller Comedy Festival Opening - Sara Pascoe - Carl Donnelly - Glenn Moore - Abigoliah Schaman MC

As Sara Pascoe explains, the peculiarities of a ‘job’ as a comedian, that is more ‘craft’ than job equally applies to describing whether something is funny or not. 

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

There is, ironically enough, a lot that’s incredibly old-fashioned about Thoroughly Modern Millie; it’s a feel-good, song and dance show about a young gold-digger who, while se… 

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

We're Going On A Bear Hunt

You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an… 

Wonderland

Wonderland

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland isn’t known for its plot; in fact, it’s essentially a succession of wonderfully fanciful sketches which happen to share … 

Fresh Grind Festival

Fresh Grind Festival

The Fresh Grind Festival will showcase ten staged readings of plays/ musicals. 

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Picnic at Hanging Rock

As titles go, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a fine conflation of the innocent and disturbing, although the cultural impact of Joan Lindsay’s novel is arguably more down to Peter W… 

London International Mime Festival - Familie Flöz

London International Mime Festival - Familie Flöz

Sneak a glimpse of the real drama going on back stage as three stage hands at an Italian opera house are brought to life by the mask theatre masters of Berlin. 

Cinderella

Cinderella

Pantomime, as we’re reminded by the Ambassador Theatre Group’s pre-show video (narrated by Brian Blessed), is a peculiarly British theatrical tradition, although it’s a sha… 

Last Christmas

Last Christmas

“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic. 

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Scottish writer Stuart Paterson now has a back catalogue of sufficient scale to warrant a revival or two; his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is curre… 

Black Beauty

Black Beauty

It’s a brave show which starts with the words: “I don’t like it. 

Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets

Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets

Inside Out Theatre’s second pantomime for relatively news arts venue Websters (located in Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge area) is another self-consciously low-rent production which … 

Mamma Mia!

Mamma Mia!

Reviewing Mamma Mia! almost feels like a lost cause; it’s an unstoppable global phenomenon and, if this touring production—setting up home in the Edinburgh Playhouse for Chri… 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk

There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits. 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” … 

The Unapologetic Feminist Festival

The Unapologetic Feminist Festival

T. 

George’s Marvellous Medicine

George’s Marvellous Medicine

“Small boys are not to be trusted,” says the titular George’s gleefully malevolent Grandma in this new production—by Dundee Rep’s Associate Artistic Director Joe Dougla… 

Green Tea

Green Tea

The master of the English ghost story, M R James, once described Irish author Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank” among supernatural storyteller… 

The Rivals

The Rivals

First performed in 1775, Sheridan’s The Rivals remains surprisingly relevant, not least thanks to its inter-generational conflict. 

Jumpy

Jumpy

You get a strong sense of what Jumpy is going to be like from Jean Chan’s impressive set—two jumbled piles of household goods, surrounded by an off-kilter frame of plain wall… 

Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland

Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland

A risk when putting any historical figure on stage—let alone a writer and thinker of the calibre of Dr Samuel Johnson—is that using their own words makes them appear less a … 

Invisible Army

Invisible Army

It’s not every play that starts with a reaffirmation of one of the basic fundamentals of theatre: that things which aren’t true can be imagined, and that what can be imagine… 

Him

Him

“It’s quite comfortable being old,” 80 year old actor Tim Barlow tells us at the start of his latest one-man show, a work co-devised with the writer Sheila Hill. 

Grain in the Blood

Grain in the Blood

For at least some of its audience, it’s enough that Grain in the Blood reunites actors Blythe Duff and John Michie—long-time compatriots on STV’s Taggart. 

Walking on Walls

Walking on Walls

There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a… 

A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

A Gambler’s Guide to Dying

This one-man show, written and performed by Gary McNair, won lots of praise during its initial run as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

It was the head-to-head that, even at the time, seemed almost unthinkable; a televised face-off between British chat-show host David Frost—certainly at the time not exactly kn… 

Mischief

Mischief

We’re somewhere among the Western Isles, and at least a thousand years back in time. 

Crude: An Exploration of Oil

Crude: An Exploration of Oil

Edinburgh-based Grid Iron Theatre Company has long specialised in creating immersive, site-specific theatre. 

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[title of show]

If you’re a student theatre company with somewhat limited resources, but still want to try your hand at a reasonably successful Broadway musical, then [title of show] is argua… 

The Shape of Things

The Shape of Things

Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” … 

The Suppliant Woman

The Suppliant Woman

In ancient Greece, it was the practice before any theatrical performance to name those citizens who had financed it, and for a respected citizen to give “the libation” to th… 

The Course of True Love

The Course of True Love

Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s… 

Journey's End

Journey's End

R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis… 

Breaking The Ice

Breaking The Ice

It’s fitting, in the weeks running up to the latest Arctic Circle Assembly (running from 7-9 October in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the team behind A Play, a Pie and a Pint opted… 

Britten in Brooklyn

Britten in Brooklyn

New York City, 1940. 

Fringe Swap Shop

Fringe Swap Shop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Lach in Conversation With Rock Writer Zoë Howe About Her Debut Novel, Shine On, Marquee Moon

Lach in Conversation With Rock Writer Zoë Howe About Her Debut Novel, Shine On, Marquee Moon

Rock ‘n’ roll fun alert! Celebrated music writer/musician Zoë Howe sits down with Lach to read from and discuss her upcoming debut rock ’n’ roll novel Shine On, Marquee Moon (… 

Venue Marketplace

Venue Marketplace

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Beethoven’s glorious Choral Fantasy, Cherubini’s Mass in C minor, much-admired by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, and Schubert’s Gebet and Gott ist mein Hirt (Psalm 23) perfo… 

Rab's Videogame Empty - Presented by Glasgow Film Festival

Rab's Videogame Empty - Presented by Glasgow Film Festival

Rab’s Videogame Empty is coming to Edinburgh! Come and join Rab Florence for a night of videogame weirdness, music, and entertainment. 

Music to Inspire a Nation

Music to Inspire a Nation

The music of old and new Scotland – misty isles, enchanting glens, awe-inspiring mountains, history, passion and ambition. 

We Paved the Streets With People

We Paved the Streets With People

The culmination of a week-long workshop, EurekaEnsemble, to challenge and develop performers interested in more physical ways of working. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Like independent film? Support Nightpiece. 

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Craigmillar Castle Craft Skills Festival

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Craigmillar Castle Craft Skills Festival

Something for the entire family! Come along and learn about the science of medieval construction, try stone carving and join our expert guided tours! See website for details: histo… 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

NEHH Presents… Mediterraneo Festival Edition: A Wild Night of Live World Music

NEHH Presents… Mediterraneo Festival Edition: A Wild Night of Live World Music

Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert. 

Scottish Music – Old and New

Scottish Music – Old and New

This famous traditional music ensemble has thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the USA, with their unique blend of fiddles, smallpipes, harp, flute, concertina, doub… 

Camden Fringe: Stella Graham - StellaGram

Camden Fringe: Stella Graham - StellaGram

Stand-up comedian Stella Graham brings her new show to the Camden Fringe! Stella fights to contain a gobby, aggressive inner self, watch the battle commence with hilarious conseque… 

Let's Talk

Let's Talk

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Pick of the Fringe

Pick of the Fringe

A specialist corporate evening for companies and guests to enjoy a selection of Fringe acts over dinner, in a relaxed and enjoyable entertaining environment. 

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Calton Hill Geology and Building Stones Walk

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Calton Hill Geology and Building Stones Walk

Stone me! Luis Albornoz and Paul Everett of the British Geological Survey deliver a rewarding walking talk on Edinburgh’s geology, providing information on the bedrock of our bui… 

Music of Gyorgy Kurtag: 90th Anniversary Tribute

Music of Gyorgy Kurtag: 90th Anniversary Tribute

Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding follows on from last year’s warmly received recital marking 40 years of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, with a programme honouring veteran Hungarian … 

Whose Work Is It Anyway? (The Space Between Us and the Things We Do Together)

Whose Work Is It Anyway? (The Space Between Us and the Things We Do Together)

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Fairmile at the Fringe

Fairmile at the Fringe

Foot-tapping, sing-along folk with music ranging from Scotland to America, traditional and contemporary, with the emphasis on tuneful harmony, social comment and a liberal sprinkli… 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (SingOut. 

Celtic Music from the Isle of Man

Celtic Music from the Isle of Man

The award-winning trio with a big band sound, Barrule elevates the Isle of Man’s native music to a new level of performance and musicianship; a knockout live act performing Manx … 

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

Celebrating Edinburgh’s Traditional Buildings: Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting. 

A Dave Cohen Show: Music Was My First Love

A Dave Cohen Show: Music Was My First Love

Edinburgh Fringe veteran, Perrier nominee, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players, multiple BAFTA-winning Horrible Histories songwriter, inadvertent creator of the phrase ‘comedy i… 

Building Robustness: How to Deal with 'No'

Building Robustness: How to Deal with 'No'

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants. 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. If you’re passionate about the Fringe, come and be heard. 

Brighton Fringe: Can You Cut It?

Brighton Fringe: Can You Cut It?

Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered ‘yes’ to these ques… 

Cathedral Chamber Music

Cathedral Chamber Music

Sophie Williams (violin), Hugh Mackay (cello), Anna Michels (piano) and Emilia De Geer (piano) perform Smetana Piano Trio in G minor and music by Ravel and Debussy. 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Open Forum: Racial Diversity at the Fringe

Open Forum: Racial Diversity at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Contracts: The What, Why and How

Contracts: The What, Why and How

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

What Fringe Next

What Fringe Next

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Like independent film? Support Nightpiece. 

West End Has Faith at the Fringe

West End Has Faith at the Fringe

West End Has Faith gathers professionals working within London’s West End and on tour who have a desire to share their journey and life experiences. 

Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music

Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music

For those of you not yet converted, Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music is a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen technicolor, with subtitles – s… 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Gin on the Fringe

Gin on the Fringe

Gin on the Fringe is a boutique gin event at the Surgeon’s Hall in Edinburgh during the final two weekends in August at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world’s largest arts … 

Spirit of the Fringe – Whisky Tasting

Spirit of the Fringe – Whisky Tasting

Exclusive Scotch whisky tasting presented by member of the Keepers of the Quaich society, Ronnie Berri and whisky ambassador, Alister McDermott. 

Ai WeiWei at the Royal Academy

Ai WeiWei at the Royal Academy

Cinema screening of live performance. 

The Ukeladeez – Gin Bunnies Free Festival

The Ukeladeez – Gin Bunnies Free Festival

Two ladies who like tea, cake, gin and playing ukulele. 

The Attenborough Tours: Life on Fringe

The Attenborough Tours: Life on Fringe

Life-changing daily walking tours with Stompy (Half Naked Chef). 

In The Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

In The Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

In this performance, three talented musicians play some of Glenn Miller’s greatest hits. 

LuckyMe Festival Party

LuckyMe Festival Party

LuckyMe Records return with the best party of Edinburgh Festival once again. 

Young People – Building Peace Through the Arts

Young People – Building Peace Through the Arts

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Like independent film? Support Nightpiece. 

Voicebox Toolbox: How to Avoid Cracking Your Voice During the Fringe

Voicebox Toolbox: How to Avoid Cracking Your Voice During the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

600 People

600 People

Is anybody out there? It’s a question that’s inspired generations of writers and filmmakers, religious leaders, astrophysicists and, of course, conspiracy theorists. 

Why Harry Potter Matters

Why Harry Potter Matters

Considering the Harry Potter phenomenon and other fantasy works, we will be mounting a defence of fantasy! It’s time to acknowledge the explosion of fantastical works in the 20th… 

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

Justin Moorhouse: People and Feelings

From Live at the Apollo and Radio 5’s Fighting Talk. 

Piano Masterworks at the Fringe 2016

Piano Masterworks at the Fringe 2016

USA-based, New Zealand pianist Charles Whitehead programmes an intriguing recital of Bach, Chopin, the grand Liszt Sonata, plus Persian-influenced music by fellow New Zealand piani… 

Fringe Artists of Colour Meet Up

Fringe Artists of Colour Meet Up

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme. 

International Shalom Festival Gala Concert

International Shalom Festival Gala Concert

The International Shalom Festival is a celebration of the diverse culture, music, art, dance and food of Israel aiming to build cultural bridges and develop international friendsh… 

Cathedral Chamber Music

Cathedral Chamber Music

The Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble perform the best of the city’s new chamber music with works by Peter Nelson, Harry Whalley, Kostas Rekleitis, Stuart Taylor, Julien Loncha… 

Can Anyone Write a Romance Novel?

Can Anyone Write a Romance Novel?

Anyone can write a romance novel. 

Adelaide Fringe Information Session

Adelaide Fringe Information Session

Adelaide Fringe is Australia’s largest open-access festival, with over 1,000 events across every art form in over 300 venues. 

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady

Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens. 

Leicester Comedy Festival Presents Best of That Other Fest With Sarah Millican & Special Guests

Leicester Comedy Festival Presents Best of That Other Fest With Sarah Millican & Special Guests

Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England. 

String Academy

String Academy

String Academy first met on the historic Elizabethan Long House Estate in West Sussex through the generous support of Gordon and Alexandra Tregear DL. 

An Introduction To Music Virtual Reality With MelodyVR

An Introduction To Music Virtual Reality With MelodyVR

When it comes to music, virtual reality will change the industry. 

Penelope Solomon: I Was a Penis at the Royal Festival Hall

Penelope Solomon: I Was a Penis at the Royal Festival Hall

With stand-up, character comedy and a sprinkling of original songs, BBC Radio 4 TV critic Penelope (BBC’s Goodnight Sweetheart and Fist of Fun and BBC Radio 2’s Sony nominated King… 

If Walls Could Talk

If Walls Could Talk

‘We are the reckless, we are the wild youth!’ In the ruins of an old derelict church, secrets and lies strain friendships to breaking point. 

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body. 

Novel Experiments in Living

Novel Experiments in Living

In the opening tableau, the stage is littered with a collection of bodies sprawled all over the stage, all paper white overalls and unsettling masks. 

Improvised Adventures in Time and Space

Improvised Adventures in Time and Space

The Doctor’s back and combating rogue aliens at the Fringe! Directed by one of the makers of Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes, we take you on a transcendental journey… 

A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

Breezing in as part of the Made In Adelaide initiative after a sold out run there, I had high expectations of this presentation. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Join us for traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church. 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Afternoon)

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Afternoon)

Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival. 

Rayguns Look Real Enough in Space... Man

Rayguns Look Real Enough in Space... Man

Having assembled a crack team of musical legends from across the globe, notorious rock stars Rayguns Look Real Enough are now heading into space to bring home the Best Band in the … 

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Morning)

Chinese Arts and Culture Festival (Morning)

Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses

Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen. 

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages. 

Nosferatu (1922): Silent Film with Live Music

Nosferatu (1922): Silent Film with Live Music

Two late night showings of Murnau’s classic 1922 German expressionist film Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror, with live music provided by the ensemble Gladstone’s Bag. 

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

BBC: Fresh from the Fringe

A showcase of the best new and up-and-coming acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Noah & Jordan Present - INSERT TITLE HERE at Camden Fringe 2016

Noah & Jordan Present - INSERT TITLE HERE at Camden Fringe 2016

Award-winning comedy duo Noah & Jordan will debut their sketch show, ‘INSERT TITLE HERE’. A series of fast paced and energised sketches, each with their own caption or title. 

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor. 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for a fourth year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents some of the best names in children’s entertainment. Hosted by Bec Hill, full line-up at forthone.com/kidsdo. 

Dr David Silkenat Presents The Long Life of the Lost Cause: Why it Took 150 Years for the Confederate Flag to Come Down

Dr David Silkenat Presents The Long Life of the Lost Cause: Why it Took 150 Years for the Confederate Flag to Come Down

The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e… 

A Little Byrd told me... An Evening of Renaissance Music

A Little Byrd told me... An Evening of Renaissance Music

Escape into the Renaissance for an hour with music from Octavoce in the beautiful surroundings of the Robin Chapel, Edinburgh. 

Chechelele World Music Choir

Chechelele World Music Choir

For over twenty years Chechelele have been delighting audiences with songs about love, freedom, slavery and everyday life: music with stories and meaning performed with energy and … 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs 12” and 7” singles and a gaggle of 78s. 

Museum After Hours – Friday Fringe Takeover

Museum After Hours – Friday Fringe Takeover

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our spe… 

Elegant Charm of Traditional Chinese Music

Elegant Charm of Traditional Chinese Music

Folk music is the treasure of the splendid Chinese civilization, with its elegance, charm, neatness and harmony and the beauty of Oriental Art in the folk music melody, we will bui… 

Fringe Fantasmic! Heroes and Villains

Fringe Fantasmic! Heroes and Villains

Don’t miss this spellbinding show full of modern and classic songs from the house of mouse! Fun for all the family, including singalong favourites from Frozen, Mary Poppins, The … 

Music of Dowland, Purcell and the Stuarts

Music of Dowland, Purcell and the Stuarts

Countertenor James Laing, theorbo player James Akers and bass violist Susanna Pell’s hour long feast of Dowland was one of the most spectacular concerts I have attended in a whil… 

Actors Wanted for Fringe Show: No Mobile

Actors Wanted for Fringe Show: No Mobile

Three-hour fast-moving, fun workshop for up to 20 children (11 to 14-year-olds) exploring how young people use their mobile phones and what happens when a teenager is left without … 

Paul Harrison’s Trio Mágico Play the Music of Gismonti

Paul Harrison’s Trio Mágico Play the Music of Gismonti

The music of Egberto Gismonti is like a microcosm of his native Brazil – diverse, joyful and unique. 

Access Fringe

Access Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Arthur Conan Doyle – Man of Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle – Man of Mystery

There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs. 

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Get Your Show Seen by the Right People

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Fringe Sustainability Drop-In Sessions

Fringe Sustainability Drop-In Sessions

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

...And I Learned How to Make It Talk – How You Can Use Games for Creative Expression

...And I Learned How to Make It Talk – How You Can Use Games for Creative Expression

In this session, NVA Director and co-founder Iain Simons is going to explore these ideas, give examples of what the NVA is doing to help and generally get excited. 

Along the Silk Road: Dance and Sing at a Tibetan Festival

Along the Silk Road: Dance and Sing at a Tibetan Festival

Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da… 

The Sick of the Fringe - Opening Event

The Sick of the Fringe - Opening Event

The Sick of the Fringe is in its second year, building conversation, collaboration and community between the arts and medical science. 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Prière; 3 Gymnopédies; 3 Embryons Dessèchés; 6 Pièces Froides: 3 Airs à Faire Fuir; 3 Danses de Travers. 

John Porter – Lunatic (of the) Fringe

John Porter – Lunatic (of the) Fringe

John Porter always wanted an interesting life. 

Van Helsing's Music Box

Van Helsing's Music Box

Join Dracula’s arch-nemesis Professor Van Helsing in a gothic camp vamp romp of biting satire punctuated with sucky songs. 

Music Tricks for Trade

Music Tricks for Trade

Really? Music tricks are the only resource for this group of orphans? They’re losing hope. 

Festival Masses

Festival Masses

Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s best amateur choirs sing uplifting music in the liturgical context it was written for. 

Folk at the Fringe

Folk at the Fringe

Lost Horizons presents some of the finest folk and acoustic music from across the UK. 

TalkFest 2016: Building Worlds

TalkFest 2016: Building Worlds

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

Funk on the Fringe

Funk on the Fringe

Royal, calorie-laden, whipped up funk courtesy of Scotland’s premier groove band. 

Folk at the Fringe

Folk at the Fringe

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

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting Choral Eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Schubert, Victoria and Kodàly. 

Big Fish Little Fish – Ravin' Fringe

Big Fish Little Fish – Ravin' Fringe

Real DJs, in real clubs playing real music, free glow sticks and transfer tattoos. 

Skeptics on the Fringe

Skeptics on the Fringe

Edinburgh Skeptics Society returns for the seventh year with more undiluted brilliance. 

People of the Eye

People of the Eye

‘Of course, you shouldn’t use sign language’. 

Why Grimsby?

Why Grimsby?

Why Grimsby? by Reuben Ruiz-Daum is a story of secrets, lies and the extremes to which a mother will go in order to secure the hopes and dreams of her daughter. 

Along the Silk Road: Dance and Sing at a Tibetan Festival

Along the Silk Road: Dance and Sing at a Tibetan Festival

Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da… 

Carey Marx, Hero of the People

Carey Marx, Hero of the People

I wrote this show because I love you and wanted to tell you in person. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Experience the joy of live music at the museum with the best contemporary talents from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Edinburgh Central Mosque opens its doors and warmly invites you to Islam Festival Edinburgh. 

Fringe Masterclasses @Spotlites

Fringe Masterclasses @Spotlites

Inspiring, innovative and international theatre masterclasses, to empower emerging artists by working with leading professionals from the theatre world. 

Untraditional Music

Untraditional Music

Genre-defying Nu Nordic pioneers Auvo Quartet, the stage-melting powerhouse duo Ross Couper and Tom Oakes and his many forays into cinematic, classical and improvised material. 

Free Fringe Music at Stramash

Free Fringe Music at Stramash

Live music throughout the day and night at Stramash, featuring the best Edinburgh-based and visiting musicians. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe! 25th year! Mervyn and his team carefully research the Fringe and bring you live extracts from seven top shows in a packed 90 minute … 

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Worst Show on the Fringe – Free

Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Miranda Hart. 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

Grab your mates, request a crap song and hit the dance floor for a ridiculously fun night! Tomás Ford, (Craptacular!) is proudly the worst DJ in the world, returning with his idio… 

The Man Who Knows Everything

The Man Who Knows Everything

It’s pretty clear what kind of show we’re about to see when – as it becomes obvious that there isn’t actually a sufficient number of seats for all of the audience that’s … 

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Fringe Central Welcome Address

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

As it turns out there are lots of reasons for Marcus to have a long face at the moment, not least because he was born with one. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in its ninth year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

As well as a full daily schedule of incoming Fringe shows, Edinburgh’s famous multiple award-winning venue stages its own programme of jazz and late-night funk every night, with 5a… 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Sitting into a dark room, crammed with many other eagerly awaiting strangers, Stephen K Amos enters, his booming voice announcing his talk show and diving into some sarcasm-laced m… 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

SKAL and Silent Space

SKAL and Silent Space

Silent Space crosses the boundaries between classical and contemporary Indian dance and between sound and silence. 

You Tweet My Face Space

You Tweet My Face Space

Ever wondered, or perhaps dreaded, what it would be like if your search history could talk? With a host of zany characters and one wonderfully surreal party, You Tweet My Face Spac… 

First Time at the Fringe

First Time at the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day. 

Sweet Nothings: We Need to Talk

Sweet Nothings: We Need to Talk

Exeter’s first, all female a cappella group are getting vocal about breakups. 

Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good

Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good

It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good. 

Malones PBH Free Fringe

Malones PBH Free Fringe

Part of the PBH Free Fringe, Malones will play host to a variety of musicians from across the globe. 

Tommy Miah's Indian Street Food Festival

Tommy Miah's Indian Street Food Festival

Experience the delights of India with a blend of delicious Indian street food and traditional dance.  

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows. 

Poggle

Poggle

“Poggle’s not scared of climbing trees,” we’re told early on in this beautifully clear and uncluttered piece of vibrant dance theatre aimed at very young children. 

Richy Sheehy: People Are Strange

Richy Sheehy: People Are Strange

Amsterdam’s soaring Irishman Richy Sheehy delivers a satirical cocktail of musings and music. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

The Royal Oak, an all year round folk music venue, again hosts Festival Folk at the Oak during August, when the Downstairs Lounge becomes the intimate Fringe hub for folk, acoustic… 

Dani Girl

Dani Girl

Trust me, Fringe magic still happens. 

Fraxi Queen of the Forest

Fraxi Queen of the Forest

Some stupid adults, having forgotten what it’s actually like to be children, are often surprised, disturbed and horrified by the serious issues lurking in the heart of the most s… 

Jo Caulfield: Pretending to Care

Jo Caulfield: Pretending to Care

It’s clearly an uncomfortable time of life for Jo Caulfield; a succession of musical heroes have died, she’s moved from middle-class Morningside to somewhat more “cosmopolita… 

Music to Watch Girls By

Music to Watch Girls By

Pete Sinclair returns with a brand new show titled after an Andy Williams hit. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

An improvised Jane Austen novel was always going to be a lot of fun, and Austentatious’s talented cast certainly delivered an amusing hour of comedy. 

Shit of the Fringe

Shit of the Fringe

Tired of all of the Pick of the Fringe shows? Worn out by Fringe hyperbole? This lunchtime showcase has all the great comedians who’ve had bad reviews and deserve much more! The be… 

Talk Hard

Talk Hard

15 years as a global stand-up have made Wayne one of the sharpest and most insightful comics working in the UK today. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Sell-out in 2012, 2013 2014 and 2015, and a big hit at Adelaide Fringe. 

A Simple Space

A Simple Space

Gravity and Other Myths are the future of contemporary circus and their show A Simple Space is utterly unmissable. 

Pete Johansson: Good People

Pete Johansson: Good People

Good People is a light-hearted exploration of what should be a natural journey towards being a better person. 

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

Any Suggestions, Doctor? An Improvised Adventure in Space and Time

An episode of Doctor Who improvised before your eyes! From a fantastic team, including five-star directors, producers, actors and comedians, (Nouse, 2015). 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Expensive Shit

Expensive Shit

Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled… 

Andrew Doyle: Future Tense

Andrew Doyle: Future Tense

Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne… 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Now in its ninth year, Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe brings you once again the best in Scottish writing. 

Space Cat Pasta Bake

Space Cat Pasta Bake

Space Cat Pasta Bake is a two-handed comedy experience by up-and-coming London comedians Bob Munro (Golden Jester winner 2015) and Ross Smith (So You Think You’re Funny? semi-final… 

Katie Mulgrew: Saboteur / Free Festival

Katie Mulgrew: Saboteur / Free Festival

It’s a stand-up comedy show from a stand-up gal about confidence and self-sabotage. 

African-Czechoslovakian / Free Festival

African-Czechoslovakian / Free Festival

She’s been described as the best African-Czechoslovakian comic on earth. 

Crack Comedy Club's Pick of the Fringe

Crack Comedy Club's Pick of the Fringe

If you’re a real fan of comedy, Crack Comedy’s Pick of the Fringe is the place for you. 

Sarah Laing Sings the Music of Doris Day

Sarah Laing Sings the Music of Doris Day

Doris Day is one of the most loved singers and actresses of the 1950s and 60s. 

Last Dream (on Earth)

Last Dream (on Earth)

While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in… 

Will Franken: Little Joe

Will Franken: Little Joe

There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing. 

Irish Comedy – No Safe Space

Irish Comedy – No Safe Space

It’s late. 

Aidan Goatley: Mr Blue Sky

Aidan Goatley: Mr Blue Sky

Aidan Goatley’s stand-up show isn’t, despite its title, about ELO; indeed, there’s no obvious guarantee that he will get round to telling us why he chose one of that band’s… 

John Gordillo: Love Capitalism

John Gordillo: Love Capitalism

Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system. 

The Amazing Bubble Man

The Amazing Bubble Man

Underbelly’s largest venue is the huge tent – shaped like an purple cow tipped onto its back – that this year has been transplanted into the western half of George Square Gar… 

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures. 

Siân and Zoë’s Luxury Cruise Through the Horrifying Vacuum of Space

Siân and Zoë’s Luxury Cruise Through the Horrifying Vacuum of Space

Alternative comedy duo Siân and Zoë are taking a ship (theatre) full of lucky cosmonauts on a relaxing mindfulness retreat. 

Gillian Cosgriff: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Gillian Cosgriff: This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute sweetheart with the pipes of a jazz singer and a wicked sense of humour to match. 

Alistair Williams: I've Started So I'm Finished

Alistair Williams: I've Started So I'm Finished

Alistair Williams is a bit of a lad. 

The Weaning of Life / Free Festival

The Weaning of Life / Free Festival

If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you. 

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Pick of the Fringe

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Pick of the Fringe

Hilarity Bites Comedy Club present their Pick of the Fringe, following full houses from 2013-2015. 

Joe Jacobs: Orthodox Joe

Joe Jacobs: Orthodox Joe

“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie… 

Burnistoun Live at the Fringe

Burnistoun Live at the Fringe

For many Rab Florence and Ian Connell are the unsung heroes of Scottish comedy. 

Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist

Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist

“Every woman is a riot,” is roughly painted on the wall behind the stage area of this hidden-away New Town bar’s seldom used attic space. 

Secrets of the Fringe Walking Tour

Secrets of the Fringe Walking Tour

Life behind the scenes at the world’s largest trade show for the arts. 

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous

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

Singsing Bathtub and Fernando, the Space Elephant

Singsing Bathtub and Fernando, the Space Elephant

A surprise invitation for all adventure seekers! Let’s follow this whimsical crew for the ultimate experience of space. 

Twisted Edge Showcase / Free Festival

Twisted Edge Showcase / Free Festival

Twisted Edge Comedy presents the participants of their newly founded stand-up workshops. 

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the … 

Bricking It

Bricking It

Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years. 

Trash Test Dummies

Trash Test Dummies

There’s an anarchic edge to the Trash Test Dummies – as might be expected from a circus troupe who go on to perform a succession of tricks and humorous gymnastics using that mo… 

Sam Simmons: Not a People Person

Sam Simmons: Not a People Person

“It’s a bit tense in here tonight. 

My Name is Gideon: Songs, Space Travel and Everything In-Between

My Name is Gideon: Songs, Space Travel and Everything In-Between

Gideon Irving is a travelling musician looking for new friends all over the world. 

Scott Agnew: I've Snapped My Banjo String, Let's Just Talk

Scott Agnew: I've Snapped My Banjo String, Let's Just Talk

Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s… 

Geoff Norcott: Conswervative

Geoff Norcott: Conswervative

Geoff Norcott, as he points out quite early on in his set, has not been seen on television. 

Phil Dunning: The People's Prince

Phil Dunning: The People's Prince

As his simple but extremely catchy theme tune states at the outset of The People’s Prince, his name is Phil. 

David Mills: Shame!

David Mills: Shame!

The sharp-suited David Mills is already seated on stage when his audience comes in, chatting with us, riffing along to a Barry Manilow hit; while he later insists that the role in … 

Lords of Strut: Late Night TV Talk Show

Lords of Strut: Late Night TV Talk Show

Lords of Strut is hands-down the most fun I’ve had at Fringe this year. 

Johnny Cochrane: Appeal

Johnny Cochrane: Appeal

When life gives you lemons, those with an optimistic, can-do attitude invariably suggest you make lemonade. 

Monkey Barrel Comedy @ The Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Monkey Barrel Comedy @ The Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Every night of the Festival, Edinburgh’s famous Monkey Barrel Comedy Club (Winner, Best Small Comedy Club, Scottish Comedy Awards 2016), brings you a cracking showcase of premier s… 

Mikey and Addie

Mikey and Addie

Mikey and Addie is a story about two pre-teen kids who couldn’t be more different – Mikey’s life is all about imagination and play, while Addie’s is focused on enforcing rule… 

Tom Neenan: Vaudeville

Tom Neenan: Vaudeville

Tom Neenan appears to be making his way through the genres with his one-man/many characters shows: Edwardian ghost story in 2014, and 1950s-styled British science fiction thriller … 

Randy Writes a Novel

Randy Writes a Novel

Randy is a bald, bright purple Australian stand-up puppet with a really quick wit and a sharp tongue. 

Michelle Brasier: Space Tortoise

Michelle Brasier: Space Tortoise

Michelle Brasier (Backwards Anorak’s Winter is Coming, Aunty Donna’s 1999) presents Space Tortoise. 

Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity – A Live Action Graphic Novel

Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity – A Live Action Graphic Novel

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. 

Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: How to Touch Dead People

Tom Binns is Ian D Montfort: How to Touch Dead People

Part TED talk, part psychic extravaganza, Tom Binns’ extrasensory expert Ian D Montfort is back at the festival and he’s determined to convince the sceptics the dead are among … 

Jonathan Pie: Live

Jonathan Pie: Live

Pretend news reporter Jonathan Pie – the creation of actor Tom Walker – has risen to public attention, during the last year, thanks to a succession of videos on YouTube which a… 

James Veitch: Game Face

James Veitch: Game Face

We’ve all been irritated by unfair traffic fines and generic email newsletters. 

Gráinne Maguire: Great People Making Great Choices

Gráinne Maguire: Great People Making Great Choices

Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle. 

Kill the Beast: Don't Wake the Damp

Kill the Beast: Don't Wake the Damp

The reason to go and see Don’t Wake the Damp is simply for the moment after you’ve walked out, sat down with your pint, and think: ‘There’s no way I could’ve predicted an… 

Larry Dean: Farcissist

Larry Dean: Farcissist

Male stand up comedians from certain parts of Glasgow often face a significant impediment; they can’t help but sound like Billy Connolly, and so inevitably find themselves compar… 

Dominic Frisby: Let's Talk About Tax

Dominic Frisby: Let's Talk About Tax

Comedy can be incredibly effective as a vehicle for delivering a message. 

Moo on the Fringe

Moo on the Fringe

Moosical fun for your little one. 

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

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

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

So many comedians, so little time! Twelve top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase. 

Laurence Clark: Independence

Laurence Clark: Independence

Some things never change; despite more than a decade performing stand-up, Laurence Clark still opens his set by drawing attention to his cerebral palsy: “This is just how I talk. 

Scottish Folk Music

Scottish Folk Music

Step back in time for a relaxed afternoon with our Scottish folk musician. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August. 

Huggers (Free Festival)

Huggers (Free Festival)

The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year. 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the vibrant world of the Fringe through the eyes of schoolchildren from across Scotland at this free exhibition of entries in the 2016 Fringe Schools Poster Competition, includ… 

What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?

What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Festival Chill Out

Festival Chill Out

Step into an oasis of calm, and escape the hustle and bustle of the festival. 

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Shaggers (Free Festival)

Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the … 

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and getting in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff for Happy People, where the adults can have just as good… 

Harun Musho'd: Harun with a View

Harun Musho'd: Harun with a View

Harun Musho’d jokes about a wide range of subjects including UKIP, FIFA, his dad, Take a Break, music journalism, the gym, Boko Haram, other family members, Nazis, suicide bombers,… 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its 12th season, the critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day. 

Huggers (Free Festival)

Huggers (Free Festival)

The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year. 

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Edinburgh – Festival City Explorer Tours

Join a fun and informative small group tour through Edinburgh’s historic city centre, led by a knowledgeable and experienced local guide. 

Women Redressed: Theatre Festival

Women Redressed: Theatre Festival

Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre. 

The Hairy Maclary & Friends Show

The Hairy Maclary & Friends Show

Making a musical out of poetic animal stories aimed at children is nothing new but, while Andrew Lloyd Webber opted to turn T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats int… 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

A mammoth showcase of 28 comedy and variety acts, all performing three-minute extracts of their shows heading to the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

A mammoth showcase of more than 20 comedy and variety acts, all performing three-minute extracts of their shows heading to the Greater Manchester or Edinburgh Fringes. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Comedy improvisation troupe Austentatious have been reducing erstwhile sensible audiences to fits of hysteria all over the UK since 2012. 

Tales From The Hanging Captain

Tales From The Hanging Captain

If theatre is all about holding a mirror up to ourselves, then Tales From the Hanging Captain certainly makes the grade – it’s the first performance piece arising from the thr… 

The Wee One

The Wee One

The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t… 

Crouch End Festival

Crouch End Festival

Crouch End Festival is now the UK’s biggest community arts festival, with over 200 performers, over 160 events, over 10 days in over 70 venues, from cafes to pubs, open spaces to… 

What Next?

What Next?

Strange Town is an Edinburgh-based company which offers opportunities for young people between the ages of five and 25 to fulfil their creative potential though drama and perfor… 

What Now?

What Now?

There’s a definite shift in the second play in this double bill from Edinburgh-based theatre company Strange Town. 

End Times Steampunk Festival

End Times Steampunk Festival

A Steampunk fandazzle eruption. 

That’s Why I Act!

That’s Why I Act!

We establish the core of the character, build the physicality, find the voice and explore interaction with the other characters. 

The Great Illusionist

The Great Illusionist

Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done. 

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams

“The here and the now is wow!” we’re told at the start of Broken Dreams. 

Hammer and Tongue Festival Slam Special

Hammer and Tongue Festival Slam Special

Brighton’s biggest monthly performance poetry and open slam event presents a clash of the titans of spoken word: Three-times World Slam Champion Buddy Wakefield v European Slam Cha… 

The Treason Show: Festival Special

The Treason Show: Festival Special

Treason Show: Festival Special. 

Fluff – A Story of Lost Toys

Fluff – A Story of Lost Toys

There’s a simple idea at the heart of Australian company cre8ion’s show Fluff; rescuing and giving a new home to lost and abandoned toys. 

Traces

Traces

Traces is a theatre show with no obviously clear-cut beginning or end; if there’s a start at all, it might be when the two principal performers – Marko Werner and Michael Lur… 

Constellations

Constellations

Sometimes words feel unworthy of the task when it comes to describing and reviewing a performance, especially a dance-piece as vibrant, colourful and joyous as this. 

Walden

Walden

On 4th July 1845 – Independence Day, suitably enough – the young Henry David Thoreau went into the woods at Walden Pond, near the town of Concord, Massachusetts, and lived t… 

Funk The Format Festival 2016

Funk The Format Festival 2016

Hot on the heels of their sell-out Club Tropicana events and Funk The Family festivals, Funk The Format curates a magical, musical shindig. 

More Beautiful Music

More Beautiful Music

Internationally-acclaimed proponent of the steel pan (steel drum) Rachel Hayward returns to the Fringe with a solo recital in the beautiful setting of Brighton’s oldest building, p… 

Tales of a Grandson

Tales of a Grandson

There is much more to history than just learning dates and facts. 

All Saints Church: Flower Festival

All Saints Church: Flower Festival

Our Flower Festival, entitled “LOVE IS . 

Pop Up Cinema: Music & Rap ft Mrisi (18+)

Pop Up Cinema: Music & Rap ft Mrisi (18+)

Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi has performed his unique mix of hip hop, jazz, African, reggae and other genres as part of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and all over the UK, su… 

The Story of the Little Gentleman

The Story of the Little Gentleman

The physical core of the The Little Gentleman is a large wooden crate, addressed to the show’s venue, which is slowly revealed to include numerous small doors and openings from… 

Funk The Family Festival 2016

Funk The Family Festival 2016

Funk The Family returns for another magical instalment of fantastical fun for all the family. 

Fringe City Night

Fringe City Night

Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special, as part of the Fringe All-Nighter. 

Maria: The Life, Loves, and Music of Callas

Maria: The Life, Loves, and Music of Callas

Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis. 

Drawing People on Stage: Brighton Workshop 2016

Drawing People on Stage: Brighton Workshop 2016

An intensive, three-day urban sketching on-location workshop, led by world class sketchers, Isabel Carmona, Swasky and Rolf Schroeter. 

Pop Up Cinema: Music & Rap ft Mrisi

Pop Up Cinema: Music & Rap ft Mrisi

Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi has performed at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and all over the UK, supporting the likes of Omar, Prince Fatty and Rizzle Kicks. 

Balkan Cypriot Greek & Traditional Ottoman Music: Michalis Kouloumis: Solo Violin

Balkan Cypriot Greek & Traditional Ottoman Music: Michalis Kouloumis: Solo Violin

Virtuoso solo violinist Michalis Kouloumis performs traditional music from the Balkans, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. 

The Bear Space

The Bear Space

“We are sorry to have to tell you that in this country it all began with a bear. 

George Egg: Anarchist Cook

George Egg: Anarchist Cook

Touring stand-up George Egg has spent – and, presumably, continues to spend – a lot of his life in hotels the length and breadth of the UK. 

Thon Man Molière

Thon Man Molière

Never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the rich and powerful; that’s certainly one of the obvious lessons you can get from Liz Lochhead’s brilliantly funny take on the sc… 

University of Brighton's Festival of Social Science Annual Lecture: Fairness and the City - A Better Politics

University of Brighton's Festival of Social Science Annual Lecture: Fairness and the City - A Better Politics

In this lecture, Danny Dorling considers how the UK, one of the 25 richest countries in the world, has become one of the most unequal and is on course to win the ‘global race’ to b… 

Living Like a Moth

Living Like a Moth

There are some incredible strengths in this latest production from Edinburgh’s most inspiring new theatre company. 

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra Barri: Talk Like An Egyptian

Zahra’s a bit like the country of Turkey, in that she’s a mix of Eastern and Western culture, and also she is a bird. 

Dirty Dusting

Dirty Dusting

I must admit to feeling a tad confused after experiencing Dirty Dusting. 

Role Shift

Role Shift

Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company continues to lead the way in producing theatre that’s fully accessible to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, both … 

An Dhá: Urban Folk Music

An Dhá: Urban Folk Music

Experience the fire of Scottish traditional music, the delicacy of classical perfection, the spirit of jazz and the life of the city from Urban Folk duo, An Dhá. 

Pathways Through the South Downs: An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Eva Peel

Pathways Through the South Downs: An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings by Eva Peel

Eva is often drawn to paint the pathways through the chalky hills of Sussex and loves the challenge of capturing its contours and shifting colours and light. 

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Big Brighton Fringe Festival Ceilidh

Join Brighton Ceilidh Collective for an evening of raucous nonsense and ceilidh dancing. 

The Black Fields' Circus of Lujuria (Fringe Special)

The Black Fields' Circus of Lujuria (Fringe Special)

The Black Fields’ Circus of Lujuria is back! The Black Fields will be tearing the place down with new music from their upcoming EP. 

Mediterranean and Middle Eastern folk music from Oudolin

Mediterranean and Middle Eastern folk music from Oudolin

Hastings-based Oudolin will be bringing you authentic music from a range of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, Syria, Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and Moorish S… 

How Eva Von Schnippisch Single-Handedly Won WW2

How Eva Von Schnippisch Single-Handedly Won WW2

The official secrets act is over and Eva is ready to set the record straight. 

King of the Fringe

King of the Fringe

Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding … 

Zaza Music Presents: Martha Tilston

Zaza Music Presents: Martha Tilston

Martha Tilston has carved her unique niche in the modern English folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world. 

Avenue Q

Avenue Q

All theatre requires some degree of “suspension of disbelief”. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Get a taste for Brighton Fringe 2016 at our outdoor showcase. 

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic

Bring your picnic blankets and hamper down to Brighton’s biggest family picnic with free family friendly performances, games, crafts and activities galore. 

Musical Refuge: A Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

Musical Refuge: A Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

We all know the refuge that music and singing can bring. 

Iris Prize Film Festival/Love Bites

Iris Prize Film Festival/Love Bites

Award-winning short films from the internationally acclaimed ‘Iris Prize Film Festival’: a collection of the winners and runners-up from the 2015 prize. 

Fringe Festivities at the North Laine Brewhouse

Fringe Festivities at the North Laine Brewhouse

Join us at the North Laine for a weekender of art, music, performance and general fringy goodness! We’ll start on Friday evening and won’t stop until Sunday night! Expect live art,… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

A selection of the best stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

FEM.ALE Brewster Beer Festival

Celebrating women in the brewing industry, we’re dedicating three days to the finest brewster stouts, saisons, pilsners and pales. 

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone

During the 2008 Spring Season of “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” at Glasgow’s Òran Mór, writer and director Selma Dimitrijevic presented audiences with a delicate, poignant e… 

Organ Music at St. Barts

Organ Music at St. Barts

Recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. 

Second Hand

Second Hand

It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl… 

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival Brighton

Enjoy a taste-bud-tickling day out at the UK’s biggest celebration of food and drink. 

The Iliad

The Iliad

It says something about us as a species that one of our oldest myths, crystallised in the form of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, is about war – specifically the bloody climax of th… 

This Restless House

This Restless House

Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H… 

Mary Barnes

Mary Barnes

As a playwright, David Edgar long ago sped past the number of plays written by Shakespeare, but it’s fair to say that – while often making a big impact at the time – not m… 

Right Now

Right Now

First lines are important; as attention grabbers, but also as indicators of what’s to come, tonally at least. 

The Rave Space - Will Dickie

The Rave Space - Will Dickie

Live artist and performance maker Will Dickie presents The Rave Space. 1 DJ, 1 Crowd and 1 journey. An experience beyond the theatre and beyond the dance floor. 

Ring Road

Ring Road

Ring roads are not usually places you go to; they’re a means of avoiding congestion, of giving a wide berth to somewhere. 

Lost at Sea

Lost at Sea

On 10 January 1992, the container ship Ever Laurel, several days out from Hong Kong en route to Tacoma, Washington, hit a storm in the North Pacific Ocean. 

Neither God Nor Angel

Neither God Nor Angel

There’s are plenty of laughs in this imaginary conversation between King James VI of Scotland – preparing in March 1603 to make his stately progress south from the Palace of… 

The Silent Treatment

The Silent Treatment

It has become traditional for Lung Ha Theatre Company – Scotland’s principal theatre group for people with learning disabilities – to present at least one large show every… 

Little Red and the Wolf

Little Red and the Wolf

Most of us come to fairy tales – folk tales in general – courtesy of their so-called “traditional” retellings by Disney or the local panto. 

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley

In the near-century since Czech writer Karel Capek first gave us the word “robot” (in his play R. 

The Air That Carries The Weight

The Air That Carries The Weight

It is a tad ironic that, initially, the most overpowering element in this new show from Stellar Quines Theatre Company – established in 1993 to “celebrates the energy, exper… 

International Waters

International Waters

David Leddy’s apocalyptic fable International Waters certainly starts as it means to go on; loud and bold, with the memorable image of four gas-masked figures performing a tab… 

An Evening with Phil Differ

An Evening with Phil Differ

Phil Differ is not someone you’d immediately recognise. 

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People

The Delights of Dogs and the Problems of People

A dark comedy following the journey of a relationship. 

People, Places and Things

People, Places and Things

Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination. 

Rapid Departure

Rapid Departure

Most theatre audiences have an anonymous – some might even suggest voyeuristic – role, viewing the action on stage from the safety of a darkened auditorium. 

King of the Fringe: Heat Two

King of the Fringe: Heat Two

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. 

For the Love of Cousins

For the Love of Cousins

In one sense this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena Theatre Company is nothing more than a theatrical game in which writer Jack Elliot creates a succession of… 

I Dont Get It

I Dont Get It

Regina Decicco is the guest host of this free weekly comedy show that mixes stand-up with improv. 

Iphigenia In Splott

Iphigenia In Splott

In Greek mythology, princess Iphigenia is the eldest daughter of King Agamemnon, sacrificed to the goddess Artemis in order to allow her father’s warships to sail off to Troy. 

Sprint Festival 2016

Sprint Festival 2016

This March, Sprint returns: London’s biggest and best festival of new, adventurous theatre from across the UK and beyond. 

Purposeless Movements

Purposeless Movements

There’s a beautiful symmetry to this new production from Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company; the start and end deliberately remind us that the four disabled men o… 

King Lear

King Lear

At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a … 

World Music Institutes Flamenco Festival

World Music Institutes Flamenco Festival

The 13th iteration of this festival celebrating all things flamenco brings a bright lineup of music and dance to locations throughout the city. 

At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness

I’ve long been a fan of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, in which an Antarctica exhibition uncovers the still-living legacy of a previously unknow… 

The Destroyed Room

The Destroyed Room

With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and … 

Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Arguably, the most important part of any Agatha Christie play doesn’t happen on the stage at all; it takes place in the rest of the theatre during the interval, when there’s… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i… 

Avant Festival

Avant Festival

“Micro-operas” and monster drone epics share billings in this ambitious new-music festival. 

National Sawdust Percussion Festival

National Sawdust Percussion Festival

This five-hour percussion marathon curated by Andy Akiho and Ian Rosenbaum features works by Steve Reich, Jason Treuting, Mark Applebaum, Paul Lansky and a premiere by Mr. 

My Name is Saoirse

My Name is Saoirse

Outside of the almost factory-like default setting of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s one hour time-slot (long-since exported around the world), it actually feels somewhat odd… 

The Crucible

The Crucible

In the face of something terrible, we can either laugh or cry. 

Friends of Single People

Friends of Single People

Jo Firestone hosts a special Valentine’s Day edition of her live dating game show, where single audience members send up friends to act as proxies in a hilarious “Datin… 

Valentines Shows

Valentines Shows

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… 

Cock

Cock

In the run-up to Mike Bartlett’s play Cock opening at the Tron Theatre, a lot of people – myself included – clearly couldn’t help have some innocent adolescent fun with … 

Blood Brothers

Blood Brothers

All theatre requires a certain suspension of disbelief, musical theatre even more so. 

Endgame

Endgame

“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. 

A Murder is Announced

A Murder is Announced

Coming to a “classic” Agatha Christie whodunnit after a full day’s binging on the latest series of the BBC’s Silent Witness – oh, the life of a reviewer! – is, frank… 

Seeing Music

Seeing Music

On Saturday, in this series blending sight and sound, the Brentano Quartet plays Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” in a performance installation thought out by Gabriel Ca… 

CauseWay

CauseWay

“A dastardly attempt was made in the early hours of yesterday morning by suffragists to fire and blow up Burns’s Cottage, Alloway, the birthplace of the national poet,” rep… 

The Weir

The Weir

If there’s one moment in this new production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir that encapsulates the quality of its cast and director, it’s towards the close when a moment of … 

VIA Ferus Festival

VIA Ferus Festival

This festival of new music, run by VisionIntoArt, is now in its third season. 

An Evening of Comedy With Two People Whose Faces Look Weird as One Face

An Evening of Comedy With Two People Whose Faces Look Weird as One Face

Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman join forces (and faces, for a somewhat off-putting promotional poster) in this excellent stand-up show. 

The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II didn’t shirk from social issues within their musical theatre productions: racism (South Pacific), transient/absent fatherhood (Carouse… 

Composers Now Festival

Composers Now Festival

This worthy festival showcases an eclectic range of composers, including Steve Mackey, beginning on Jan. 

Smart People

Smart People

 (previews start on Jan. 

Focus! Festival: Milton Babbitt

Focus! Festival: Milton Babbitt

The centenary of the composer Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) is celebrated in the Juilliard School’s annual Focus! Festival. 

Exponential Festival

Exponential Festival

(performances start on Wednesday) A collaboration among a quartet of performance spots — the Silent Barn, the Brick, the Bushwick Starr and Cloud City — this new festiv… 

Excognito Dance Festival

Excognito Dance Festival

This Brooklyn-based festival alternates between mixed-bill programs featuring the three participating companies, and programs where each gets the stage all to itself. 

Coil Festival

Coil Festival

The annual performance jubilee from Performance Space 122 has always been a boundary buster, but at this year’s festival, borders are an explicit theme: question them, cross … 

Aladdin

Aladdin

Strange Town is a theatre company based in Edinburgh which aims to “enable young people to fulfil their creative potential”, by providing five to 25 year olds with the opport… 

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Annual Winter Wonderlandia Holiday Variety Show

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Annual Winter Wonderlandia Holiday Variety Show

This event promises to be “everything you wish your company’s holiday party was but isn’t. 

Tracks of the Winter Bear

Tracks of the Winter Bear

At a time of year when most theatres across the land are bursting with colour, raucous laughter and the panto spirit, it’s typical of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, long-esta… 

American Dance Guild Festival

American Dance Guild Festival

This annual festival celebrates dance of the past, promotes dance of today and honors those making significant contributions to the field. 

A Belter of a Cinderella Story

A Belter of a Cinderella Story

When it comes to retelling Cinderella, two of the three most important roles in terms of plot and audience participation are Cinders’ best pal Buttons and her Fairy Godmother. 

Rapunzel

Rapunzel

Like most of Scotland’s producing theatres, the Citizens Theatre does not, as a matter of principle, “do” panto. 

Twelfth Night Festival

Twelfth Night Festival

Trinity Church’s annual festival gets under way after Christmas. 

Movement Research Festival Fall 2015

Movement Research Festival Fall 2015

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko begins this festival on Monday at Judson Memorial Church, a dance venue that for him raises questions about history, memory and space. 

Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs

Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs

Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four… 

Music on the Edge

Music on the Edge

For its first New York show, this Pittsburgh-based new music series offers Burr Van Nostrand’s “Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival,” performed by the cellist Dave … 

To Breathe

To Breathe

To Breathe starts with its six performers standing in a circle, staring at the audience, just breathing. 

Cinderella

Cinderella

“Smells like Seton Sands” is precisely the kind of line you expect in a pantomime at The Brunton theatre in Musselburgh; it’s hooked on local rivalries, and grounds the ubi… 

The Further Adventures of… and Adam & Eva

The Further Adventures of… and Adam & Eva

The Further Adventures of… tells the story of a little girl who grows up to be a writer. 

One, Two, Three, Yippee

One, Two, Three, Yippee

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… 

Funny People: Alan Zweibel in Conversation With Martin Short

Funny People: Alan Zweibel in Conversation With Martin Short

Mr. Zweibel and Mr. Short, both prolific comedians and writers, will discuss their new books and reflect on their decadeslong careers. 

Comedy Central Live in Brooklyn

Comedy Central Live in Brooklyn

Comedy Central shows off its impressive array of comedic talent with this show, which features performances from Hannibal Buress, Nathan Fielder, Big Jay Oakerson, Jeff Ross and Ro… 

New York Comedy Festival: Comics to Watch

New York Comedy Festival: Comics to Watch

Comedy Central hosts this annual event, which showcases some of the finest up-and-coming stand-up talent in the country. 

Women Redressed : Theatre Festival

Women Redressed : Theatre Festival

Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte… 

New York Arab-American Comedy Festival

New York Arab-American Comedy Festival

This annual event — now in its 12th year — showcases the talents of Arab-American comedians, actors, playwrights and filmmakers. 

The Bruce in Ireland

The Bruce in Ireland

“A truce is a truce, but war is war,” we’re told early on in Ben Blow’s history play focusing on the all-too-forgotten consequences of Robert the Bruce’s victory over … 

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala

Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers. 

You Dont Know the Half

You Dont Know the Half

Two of the city’s finest rising comics, Janelle James and Kerry Coddett, each perform a half-hour of stand-up. 

Cagebirds

Cagebirds

Leicester-born David Campton, who died in in 2006, was a prolific British dramatist, especially adept at writing thought-provoking one act plays that make us laugh as much as we … 

The 666th Annual Lord Satan Festival

The 666th Annual Lord Satan Festival

A night of comedy, music and horror to celebrate Halloween, this show advertises to “test the extreme horizons of your mind ocean. 

The Smallest Show on Earth

The Smallest Show on Earth

“Juke-box musicals”, which essentially use existing songs as their musical score, may strike you as a relatively modern theatrical phenomena – think Mamma Mia! or We Will … 

Why That and Not This?

Why That and Not This?

Fresh from a successful first show at the mac in Birmingham Spit ‘n’ Polish bring you six short plays ranging from the comic to the absurd, the tender to the oddball, and the m… 

Panopticon

Panopticon

Panopticon, written and directed by second year University of Edinburgh student Liam Rees, is set in a women’s prison, into which well-meaning dramatist Julia comes to run a s… 

Loserville

Loserville

“One day every company will fear a geek in a garage,” we’re told early on in Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s Loserville. 

Hidden

Hidden

One of the strengths of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company during the last half-century has been its ongoing commitment to providing quality drama education and performance opport… 

Doug Segal: How To Read Minds And Influence People

Doug Segal: How To Read Minds And Influence People

‘Imagine if Derren Brown was funny’ (Evening Standard) Doug is an exciting new breed of psychological entertainer combining comedy with seeming feats of mind reading. 

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

The first thing that strikes you about this new stage adaptation of William Golding’s classic dystopian novel is Jon Bausor’s astounding set: the huge section of a passenger… 

I Dont Get It New York Super Week Edition

I Dont Get It New York Super Week Edition

This bi-monthly stand-up show presents a special performance in honor of New York Super Week and New York Comic Con. 

Italian Academy

Italian Academy

On Wednesday, Emanuele Arciuli, an Italian pianist known for his thoughtful juxtapositions of repertory, offers a program called “Five Versions of Darkness,” featuring … 

A Fistful of Hunny / HELL + OTHER PEOPLE - Double Bill

A Fistful of Hunny / HELL + OTHER PEOPLE - Double Bill

‘A Fistful of Hunny’ is a dark, frenzied comedy about kidnapping, blackmail, extortion, and heffalumps. 

Tribes

Tribes

The family at the heart of Nina Raine’s Tribes is liable, at least initially, to make you yearn for the exit. 

Lot and his God

Lot and his God

“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room. 

Twin Peaks UK Festival

Twin Peaks UK Festival

Celebrate the 25th anniversary – and impending rebirth – of the cult television series as the Twin Peaks UK Festival returns to the Genesis Cinema in London’s East End in a f… 

The MsFits: Fur Coat & Magic Knickers

The MsFits: Fur Coat & Magic Knickers

A criticism sometimes made about Edinburgh – especially by Glaswegians – is that, while the city appears sophisticated and morally upstanding, this is just a facade hiding a … 

SONiC Festival

SONiC Festival

 This adventurous festival of new sounds spreads its wings wide across the city with a presentation on Friday at Brookfield Place in Battery Park City by the American Composer… 

Kettle Corn New Music

Kettle Corn New Music

This enterprising series, dedicated to the pairing of invigorating contemporary music with comfort snacks, presents New Morse Code, a duo made up of the cellist Hannah Collins and … 

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti… 

Artists at the Noguchi: Bang on a Can Music Series

Artists at the Noguchi: Bang on a Can Music Series

The latest edition of this now happily long-running series comes on the Noguchi Museum’s Community Day, when admission is free. 

The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil

The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil

Arguably the most significant work of new theatre from “north of the border” in recent years is the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an excellent example of inve… 

Moving Sounds Festival

Moving Sounds Festival

This series, organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum, continues on Friday with Michel Galante conducting the Argento Ensemble and the violinist Hanna Hurwitz in the Violin Concert… 

Origins First Irish Festival

Origins First Irish Festival

(performances start on Wednesday) The Emerald Isle meets the Big Apple in this festival devoted to work from Irish artists. 

Free Standup Festival 2015

Free Standup Festival 2015

This festival — now in it’s second year — gathers some of the city’s finest free stand-up shows under one banner for a week of top-notch comedy at venues in… 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel, 6 Gnossiennes, 3 Sarabandes, Dances Gothiques. 

Celebrating Edinburgh's Traditional Buildings: Craigmillar Castle Craft Skills Festival

Celebrating Edinburgh's Traditional Buildings: Craigmillar Castle Craft Skills Festival

Activities for all the family – learn how castles were built, see stone masons in action and hear about the area’s geology. 

BBC: Live Music With Radio Nan Gàidheal

BBC: Live Music With Radio Nan Gàidheal

BBC Radio Nan Gàidheal host an evening of the best new music from Rapal radio. 

Contracts: The What, Why and How?

Contracts: The What, Why and How?

Whenever your organisation enters into a business arrangement there is likely to be a contract in existence, whether it is written or just implied by conversation and actions. 

Scottish Traditional Music Old and New

Scottish Traditional Music Old and New

This annual concert has built up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi… 

Edinburgh Arab Festival 2015

Edinburgh Arab Festival 2015

Marhaba! We invite you to experience the beauty, diversity and richness of the Arab world, right here in Edinburgh! This vibrant two-day cultural festival will provide visitors wit… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

The Sick of the Fringe – Main Events

The Sick of the Fringe – Main Events

Are you The Sick of the Fringe? Commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and conceived by Brian Lobel, The Sick of the Fringe is a curated programme of events aiming to inspire collabora… 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Like independent film? You’ll love Nightpiece. 

Fran Macilvey at the Fringe

Fran Macilvey at the Fringe

Fran Macilvey is a bestselling author. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Celebrating Edinburgh's Traditional Buildings: Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

Celebrating Edinburgh's Traditional Buildings: Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

Edinburgh provides a magnificent festival setting. 

Cathedral Chamber Music – String Quintet

Cathedral Chamber Music – String Quintet

Senior players from St Mary’s Music School perform Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C major and a new work by Tom David Wilson. 

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio… 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. 

Song to Me – The Music and Songs of Julian Wagstaff

Song to Me – The Music and Songs of Julian Wagstaff

The popular Scottish composer presents highlights from his chamber music, musicals and operas. 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

An opportunity to meet key organisations such as funders, arts councils, training providers and agencies. 

Velvet Donkey: The Music of Ivor Cutler

Velvet Donkey: The Music of Ivor Cutler

Award-winning New York-based saxophonist and composer Ben Bryden brings the songs of eccentric poet/songwriter genius Ivor Cutler into the jazz canon, with his indie-rock-infused j… 

Edmund the Learned Pig

Edmund the Learned Pig

Barry Bonaparte’s Travelling Circus is in trouble. 

Why Didn't We Have This Conversation a Year Ago?

Why Didn't We Have This Conversation a Year Ago?

Mediating Conversations about Conflict: The Church, the Constitution and the Climate. 

My People

My People

Six exceptional performers delve into the dark and turbulent village of Manteg. 

Academy of Risk

Academy of Risk

Academy of Risk explores the tremendous pressure placed on students through their own eyes. 

The Power of Music

The Power of Music

There’s something infectious about certain ad jingles. 

On the Road: Touring Your Fringe Production to South Africa

On the Road: Touring Your Fringe Production to South Africa

South Africa’s National Arts Festival is Africa’s largest and most colourful multi-discipline arts event held in Grahamstown each July. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

The Misfit Analysis

The Misfit Analysis

Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec… 

Welcome to the Fringe | Palestine Day

Welcome to the Fringe | Palestine Day

Twelve Palestinian artists come to Scotland for storytelling, poetry, stand up comedy, performance art, music and dance, a short film showing, photography, and discussion. 

The Fallen Angel Show

The Fallen Angel Show

Vesper Walk describe themselves as a “quirky five to eight piece band performing art-pop music in a gothic style. 

Euan Drysdale – The Music and Words of Burns and Gow

Euan Drysdale – The Music and Words of Burns and Gow

Featuring singer/songwriter Euan Drysdale on vocals, guitar and piano and Alastair Savage on fiddle. 

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud on the Fringe

Loud and Proud, Scotland’s LGBT choir, performs its annual Fringe concert in support of Scottish HIV and Hepatitis C charity, Waverley Care. 

The People's TV Show

The People's TV Show

A raucous, fun-filled cabaret show dedicated to all the best things on the box. 

Magners Comedy Festival Winner – Jim Brewsky

Magners Comedy Festival Winner – Jim Brewsky

The Big V comedy competition is the search for a new star across Asia, sponsored by Magners cider. The search is over and Matthew Giffen is here to present the winner, Jim Brewsky. 

Scots Wha Hae (Music That Inspired a Nation)

Scots Wha Hae (Music That Inspired a Nation)

Edinburgh’s very own established 40-strong Capital Concert Band plays stirring Scottish themes in an hour’s tour of iconic music, including Highland Cathedral, Braveheart, A Scotti… 

In the Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

In the Mood: The Music of Glenn Miller

Jump aboard the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and have fun as top jazz players Brian Kellock (piano), Colin Steele (trumpet) and John Rae (drums) celebrate the greatest American dance band… 

Consort of Voices at the Fringe

Consort of Voices at the Fringe

Based in Edinburgh and founded in 1991, Consort of Voices specialise in performances of a cappella music and small-scale choral repertoires from the 15th century to the present day… 

Love Over Scotland – Haiku and Music

Love Over Scotland – Haiku and Music

An hour of pure delight. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

The renaissance of vinyl continues! Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs and singles from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s to the present day. 

Larry Kaplan– Folk Music

Larry Kaplan– Folk Music

Song for The Bowdoin, Old Zeb, and Song for Gale – examples from a writer considered a leading voice in the American folk tradition. 

Chinese Art and Culture Festival

Chinese Art and Culture Festival

Edinburgh’s first ever Chinese Arts and Cultural Festival featuring a traditional opera, authentic singers, a spectacular troupe of young drummers and more all set alongside a thre… 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from Fringe Festival directors around the world. 

Classical Music Night

Classical Music Night

Classical Music Concert @ connected - musical miscellany with the Rasaratnams. Enjoy a relaxing evening in an intimate venue with a selection of solo and chamber works. 

Cathedral Chamber Music – Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, Piano

Cathedral Chamber Music – Mezzo-Soprano, Viola, Piano

Three of Scotland’s most exciting young professional musicians unite to perform ravishing repertoire for voice, viola and piano, including Brahms, Poulenc, Rubbra, Falla and Loeffl… 

Achieving Social Change, Festival by Festival

Achieving Social Change, Festival by Festival

Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change. 

Brighton Up Your Fringe

Brighton Up Your Fringe

Ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Want to showcase your work to a fresh audience? Fancy a new Fringe experience? If you answered yes to these questions,… 

Achieving Social Change, Festival by Festival

Achieving Social Change, Festival by Festival

Stella Hall is an agent of social and artistic change. 

Piano Transcriptions of Irish and Scottish Music by Mary McCarthy

Piano Transcriptions of Irish and Scottish Music by Mary McCarthy

Piano Transcriptions of Irish and Scottish Music by Mary McCarthy. 

Jean-Luc Picard and Me

Jean-Luc Picard and Me

Recent cinematic reboots notwithstanding, there’s arguably at least one generation of television viewers for whom Star Trek’s starship captain of choice is not James Tiberius K… 

Music for Dogs

Music for Dogs

Written by Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, Music for Dogs is a story of survival, set during Ireland’s Celtic Tiger years, and takes place on Dublin’s Burrow beach. 

James Brown is Annie – Funk on the Fringe

James Brown is Annie – Funk on the Fringe

Get up if you want to get down! Creamy, full-fat, calorie-laden funk from Edinburgh’s premier groove machine, JBiA. 

Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight

Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight

Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful… 

Cathedral Chamber Music – Piano

Cathedral Chamber Music – Piano

Exciting, young French pianist Louise Cournarie will give a recital on the Cathedral’s Steinway, including music by Handel, Schubert and Mendelssohn. 

Matt Abbott is Skint and Demoralised

Matt Abbott is Skint and Demoralised

Matt Abbott admits that poetry is a hard sell on the Fringe, impossible to talk about without coming across as pretentious – which may well explain why one of his bespoke marketi… 

Saltire – Scottish Song, Music and Comedy – Supper and Show

Saltire – Scottish Song, Music and Comedy – Supper and Show

Scottish song, music and comedy at its finest. 

Music for Strings

Music for Strings

Ian Munro leads the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble in music for strings including Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue. 

Rhymes with Orange

Rhymes with Orange

Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick. 

Donald Does Dusty

Donald Does Dusty

Donald Torr was, apparently, the best big brother any little girl could have, especially growing up on the outskirts of 1960s’ Aberdeen. 

Tibetan Monks Sacred Music and Masked Dance

Tibetan Monks Sacred Music and Masked Dance

Eight Tibetan monks present an exciting performance of sacred masked dance from their New Year festival, interspersed with the mesmerising chant and music of the Buddhist monastic … 

Flow! FRINGE

Flow! FRINGE

Flow! is a revolutionary open stage event that sees dancers in close conversation with poets. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. 

Mark Thompson's A Space Traveller's Guide to the Solar System

Mark Thompson's A Space Traveller's Guide to the Solar System

Is it possible for one person to journey around the solar system in the space of a human lifetime? This show is as much about the alien worlds in our planetary neighborhood as it i… 

Fife Youth Arts Hub Fringe Picks

Fife Youth Arts Hub Fringe Picks

Supporting the progression of youth arts in Fife, FYAH are delighted to offer this varied programme of four individual performances from groups who are working in Fife creating wor… 

Village Pub Theatre

Village Pub Theatre

For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f… 

Make Some Noize Music Festival

Make Some Noize Music Festival

Make Some Noize is Edinburgh’s most anticipated all day music festival featuring some of the world’s biggest music artists. 

Fischy Music

Fischy Music

After a sell-out show in 2014, Fischy Music return to connected@the Fringe. 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Will Todd’s Mass in Blue (Scottish première), Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor, Tippett’s Five Negro Spirituals, performed by one of Scotland’s most exciting and versatile … 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music all day at the famous Inn on the Mile, at the crossroads at the heart of the Fringe. 

Cathedral Chamber Music – Violin and Piano

Cathedral Chamber Music – Violin and Piano

Charlotte Rowan is recognized for her compelling, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance. 

Chechelele World Music Choir

Chechelele World Music Choir

Ranging from pleasantly slow and soothing to fast and excitable and even angry, the sounds produced by the Chechelele World Music Choir were vibrant and vast. 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for a third year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents a morning of some of the best names in children’s entertainment. 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Like independent film? You’ll love Nightpiece. 

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. 

Museum After Hours – Friday Fringe Takeover

Museum After Hours – Friday Fringe Takeover

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore our galleries after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our … 

Edinburgh Book Fringe

Edinburgh Book Fringe

As part of the Edinburgh Book Fringe, for an hour on Sunday afternoon theatre director and performer Morna Burdon takes the audience through a series of real-life stories and songs… 

Music of Two Nations

Music of Two Nations

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… 

Fringe Fantasmic!

Fringe Fantasmic!

Don’t miss this fantasmagorical show full of classic and current songs from the house of mouse! A fringeful of fun for all the family including sing-a-long favourites from Frozen… 

The Edinburgh Fringe In A Nutshell

The Edinburgh Fringe In A Nutshell

Paul Eccentric will be performing and reading excerpts from his book, ‘The Edinburgh Fringe In A Nutshell’. 

Booking Dance Festival

Booking Dance Festival

This is the seventh year that producer and curator of dance Jodi Kaplan has brought the variety of American dance to the Fringe with this “festival within a festival”. 

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

Fringe University believes that the Edinburgh Fringe makes an excellent classroom. 

Troublesome People by Jill Haas

Troublesome People by Jill Haas

The challenge for any writer tackling the well-worn topic of WWII is to find a particular niche or angle which has not previously been given adequate treatment. 

God's Waiting Room

God's Waiting Room

Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round. 

To Space

To Space

Dr Niamh Shaw is that relatively rare thing – a skilled and engaging stage performer who also happens to be a scientist and engineer, with both a degree and PhD to her name. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers. 

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival returns to Edinburgh with another stellar a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our earlier daytime wo… 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for uplifting choral eucharists with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Stravinsky, Schubert and Martin. 

Greyfriars Festival Sunday Worship and Lunchtime Organ Classics

Greyfriars Festival Sunday Worship and Lunchtime Organ Classics

Celebrate the 25th birthday of the magnificent Peter Collins organ at Greyfriars Kirk with festival Sunday worship and a series of classic lunchtime organ recitals, featuring some … 

Scaling Up: From Fringe to Number One Touring

Scaling Up: From Fringe to Number One Touring

Producers David Hutchinson and Phillip Rowntree discuss how they grew touring company Sell a Door from a shoestring Fringe company to a large scale and West End production company. 

Festival Masses

Festival Masses

Come and listen to one of Edinburgh’s finest church choirs perform sacred music in the liturgical context for which it was written, in the beautiful setting of this stunning church… 

Festival Radio Scotland – See Us Live!

Festival Radio Scotland – See Us Live!

See how radio is made. 

The Sound of Hungary in Choral Music and Choral Singing

The Sound of Hungary in Choral Music and Choral Singing

The New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir was established on 1 February 2010 from the members of the Liszt Academy’s Alma Mater Choir and from the freshly graduated students of the Lisz… 

Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times

Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times

Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from… 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music is an event which shows off the musical skills of several different performers, making each night different. 

From The Horse's Mouth @ Edinburgh Fringe

From The Horse's Mouth @ Edinburgh Fringe

Performance poets, a hip-hop vocalist and a jazz singer coming together with a live band to create something truly special. 

Tales from a Cabaret

Tales from a Cabaret

The Creative Martyrs, that white-faced Laurel and Hardy of existential cabaret terrorism, are not men to be trifled with, as some rather talkative front-row audience members discov… 

BBC: Mitch Benn Has Left the Building

BBC: Mitch Benn Has Left the Building

Mitch Benn best known to impersonate Elvis. 

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Audio Tour

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Audio Tour

Download this audio walking tour – any day, any time – and become intimate with Fringe history, even perform yourself if you choose. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Experience the joy of live music at the museum. 

Tall Tales for Small People: American Folk Stories and Songs

Tall Tales for Small People: American Folk Stories and Songs

We all love a good story! Multi award-winning singer-songwriter Mike Willis and his rovin’ band transport you to the smoky mountains of America. 

John Osborne - Most people aren't that happy, anyway

John Osborne - Most people aren't that happy, anyway

Radio 4 poet and author John Osbourne presents his first poetry set at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Festival Radio Scotland – Workshop for Children (8-13)

Festival Radio Scotland – Workshop for Children (8-13)

Fun workshop delivered by experienced media professionals. 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh

Islam Festival Edinburgh invites you to gain a genuine insight into Islam. 

Skeptics on the Fringe 2015

Skeptics on the Fringe 2015

Skeptics on the Fringe, a free show in the belly of Banshee Labyrinth, is a daily show based around the more general theme of science, rationality and logic. 

Most People Aren't That Happy, Anyway

Most People Aren't That Happy, Anyway

John Osborne has been performing poetry since 2006 at festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival and Latitude. 

Tiernan Douieb: The World's Full of Idiots, Let's Live in Space

Tiernan Douieb: The World's Full of Idiots, Let's Live in Space

Commander Chris Hadfield said that six months on the International Space Station made him feel a great sense of just how much the world is all one place and we are all one people l… 

Festival Radio Scotland – Workshop for Young People (14+)

Festival Radio Scotland – Workshop for Young People (14+)

Fun workshop delivered by experienced facilitators and media professionals. 

Dead Letter Office

Dead Letter Office

Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli … 

Sweeney Todd

Sweeney Todd

Stephen Sondheim’s score for his self-described “black operetta” Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, must rank among his most complex and challenging works, if on… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Just arrived? Then here’s the showcase just for you. 

Worst Show on the Fringe

Worst Show on the Fringe

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin . 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Music all day at the smallest pub in Scotland or probably anywhere. Visit and enjoy. 

The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe

The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans… 

The Celtic Mystery Festival

The Celtic Mystery Festival

The Celtic Mystery Festival will take place at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in its eighth year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment. 

How to Read Minds and Influence People

How to Read Minds and Influence People

Doug Segal opens the show with a unique and refreshing approach to mentalism - it’s easy, you can do it too, and here’s how. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

A compilation of comedic talent from across the Fringe, two shows a day, and all for free – the Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe showcases some of the best comedic talent t… 

Complex

Complex

A man is desperate for a job. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Sell-out in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and a big hit at Adelaide Fringe. 

Free Fringe Music Festival

Free Fringe Music Festival

From now until August 31st, visitors can soak in the buzzing atmosphere at Edinburgh’s premiere music venue. 

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival attendees are welcomed with some free cider, ice-cream, and a range of other delicious freebies to try. 

Building God

Building God

David Lee Morgan’s Building God is a poetry performance that discusses, deals with, judges and examines past state revolutions and the present state of affairs. 

Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe

Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe

Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK. 

Mark Thompson’s Space Cadets Training Academy

Mark Thompson’s Space Cadets Training Academy

Mark Thompson, well known as a TV astronomer and author, has joined the ranks of Space Command to help recruit some new space cadets. 

Trudelights of the Fringe

Trudelights of the Fringe

Trudelight knows the Fringe inside out. 

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on the Royal Mile

Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows. 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

Shit of the Fringe

Shit of the Fringe

Tired of all of the Pick of the Fringe shows? Worn-out by Fringe hyperbole? This afternoon showcase has all the great comedians that get bad reviews and deserve more! It’s the best… 

Block

Block

Block is a production that constantly surprises, though not always in ways that are comforting. 

A Reason to Talk

A Reason to Talk

Sachli Gholamalizad moved from Iran to Belgium when she was five. 

NCCGB Fringe Concert

NCCGB Fringe Concert

With singers from throughout the UK, 200 young musicians from the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain will perform a wide variety of repertoire on their first visit to the… 

Soho Comedy at the Fringe

Soho Comedy at the Fringe

An hour and a half of top-quality comedy by the best acts at the Fringe chosen by London’s famous Soho Comedy Club, rated by Time Out as one of the Top 10 Best Comedy Clubs in Lo… 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

The anarchic late night DJ party is back! Request any song you want, so long as it’s crap. 

Martin ‘Bigpig’ Mor’s Funny Stuff for Happy People

Martin ‘Bigpig’ Mor’s Funny Stuff for Happy People

Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and going in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff for Happy People, where the adults can have just as good a… 

Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe

Lost Horizons Presents Folk at the Fringe

Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK. 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Fasten your knickerbockers and hold onto your bonnets: Austentatious is back for a fourth year of frilly-meets-filthy improvisation, based exceptionally loosely on the collected wo… 

Thief

Thief

Sailor – he had a real name once, but he believes “Sailor” suits him now – is a street hustler, thief and raconteur; the illegitimate son of a prostitute who has taken up h… 

Pip Utton: Playing Maggie

Pip Utton: Playing Maggie

Margaret Thatcher was – still is, two years after her death – a divisive figure, loved and hated in equal measure. 

Fern Brady: People Are Idiots

Fern Brady: People Are Idiots

Lots of people are surprised when other people turn out to be idiots. 

Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas

Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas

“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot. 

101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins

101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins

Though billed as theatre, 101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins is essentially a lecture on odious media figure Katie Hopkins, complete with biography and PowerPoint presentation, b… 

39 Steps by Patrick Barlow

39 Steps by Patrick Barlow

It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th… 

Welcome to Clown Town – At the Fringe!

Welcome to Clown Town – At the Fringe!

MCs Hjalmar Tjan and Benji Waterstones welcome you to Clown Town, as they host a daily variety show review of top national and international stand-up comedy. 

Scaramouche Jones

Scaramouche Jones

‘God, what a day’ is the first thing said to us by Scaramouche Jones, the red-nosed, white-faced clown who – sensing the ghosts of an audience in his dressing room – decide… 

CELL

CELL

There is something inherently heartbreaking about the small metal-framed chair standing centre-stage as the audience comes in, but no more so than when one of the show’s co-devis… 

Satan Speaks: 'Why I Don't Exist' A TED-ish Talk

Satan Speaks: 'Why I Don't Exist' A TED-ish Talk

According to Baudelaire, the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist. 

The Music of Doris Day

The Music of Doris Day

Doris Day is one of the most loved singers and actresses of the 1950s and 60s. 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Now in its eight year, Blackwell’s Writers at the Fringe brings you once again the best in Scottish writing. 

Good Music Cave Party

Good Music Cave Party

A dirty afternoon party hosted by the king of alternative cabaret, Tomás Ford. 

Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

One of several pieces of modern American writing brought to the Fringe by Phantom Owl Productions, Neil Labute’s 1989 play Filthy Talk for Troubled Times takes a frank look at ge… 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens follows the unfolding story of a group of misfits working the infamous den of iniquity – Saucy Jacks space bar. 

Trudelights of the Fringe

Trudelights of the Fringe

Trudelight knows the Fringe inside out. 

The History of Music

The History of Music

Award-winning brass ensemble Buzz presents The History of Music, a fabulous theatrical odyssey that travels through space and time at a thrilling tempo to explore the music of the … 

Abigoliah's GoPro Comedy Talk Show!

Abigoliah's GoPro Comedy Talk Show!

NYC Comic, Abigoliah Schamaun, has devised a talk show where you, the audience, are the star! Armed with a GoPro Camera atop her head, Schamaun will host an hour of games, fire tri… 

Jordan Brookes: Adventures in Limited Space

Jordan Brookes: Adventures in Limited Space

Truth and fiction knock lumps out of each other on the battleground of a pale, malnourished man’s body and mind. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers. 

Jokes About Things (Redinburgh Fringe)

Jokes About Things (Redinburgh Fringe)

Scott Redmond had a fun 2014; kidnapped, arrested, threatened at gun and knife point, disowned, broken up and dealing with bereavement. 

Generation whY?

Generation whY?

Benji Waterstones (Frog and Bucket World Series winner 2014), Sean Cannon (Amused Moose finalist 2013) and Saskia Preston (Funny Women finalist 2013), will explore issues such as n… 

Abnormally Funny People

Abnormally Funny People

Abnormally Funny People showcases some of the best and brightest comedians living with disabilities on the circuit, oh and a token “normal”. 

I Went To A Fabulous Party...

I Went To A Fabulous Party...

During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug… 

Phil Nichol: I Don’t Want to Talk About It

Phil Nichol: I Don’t Want to Talk About It

The main thing that you need to know about this show is that something about it is absolutely and completely unexpected. 

48 Minutes / Free Festival

48 Minutes / Free Festival

I am not entirely sure why comedians Ben Shannon and Mike Reed decided their set should be forty-eight minutes long, rather than a full hour, but it actually doesn’t really matte… 

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?

I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio… 

The Underbelly Radio Shows

The Underbelly Radio Shows

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… 

May I Have the Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell

May I Have the Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell

Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption… 

Will Franken: Who Keeps Making All These People?

Will Franken: Who Keeps Making All These People?

One-man sketch show Will Franken serves up another smorgasbord of multi-voiced madness. 

Michelle Brasier: Space Tortoise

Michelle Brasier: Space Tortoise

In 1968 the Soviet Union sent the first tortoise into deep space. 

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

The Solid Life of Sugar Water

Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba… 

Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox

Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox

Following last year’s generally well-received comic homage to the Edwardian Ghost Story (The Haunting of Lopham House), writer and performer Tom Neenan shifts his genre gaze forw… 

George and Co (the Solo Tour)

George and Co (the Solo Tour)

At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea… 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe is a comedy showcase of comedy and variety acts from all over the fringe with a simple but entertaining premise: each performer, all selected by comedy website Chortle,… 

Some People Talk About Violence

Some People Talk About Violence

With the title Some People Talk About Violence one would be forgiven for thinking Barrel Organ’s new show is serious and depressing. 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Just for Graphs

Festival of the Spoken Nerd: Just for Graphs

Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’. 

Trans Scripts

Trans Scripts

One of the challenges of reportage theatre – works in which the words and experiences of real people are edited and put into the words of actors – is to justify the process as … 

Alfie White: Space Explorer

Alfie White: Space Explorer

In this excellent piece of story-telling, Alfie White embarks upon a thrilling everyday adventure that is engaging for all ages. 

Yianni: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Line?

Yianni: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Line?

This year, Yianni explores “the line”: how do we cross the line in telling jokes, and who decides where it is? He conducts his investigation through a series of anecdotes and d… 

Bears in Space

Bears in Space

King Joffrey, a Scottish koala bear and a Jane Austen loving, guitar-strumming narrator walk onto a spaceship. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August. 

Scottish Beer Festival

Scottish Beer Festival

Established in 1995, and set in the historical former All Saints Parsonage, Cloisters has been a stalwart of the Edinburgh real ale scene for 20 years. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

The Royal Oak is one of the most famous hubs of folk music in Edinburgh; the 30-seater downstairs lounge has been dubbed the ‘folk living room’ of Scotland’s capital. 

Edinburgh: Festival City Explorer Tour

Edinburgh: Festival City Explorer Tour

New in town? Start your day with a fun and informative walking tour, following a scenic route through Edinburgh’s city centre. 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the vibrant world of the Fringe through the eyes of schoolchildren from across Scotland at this free exhibition of entries in the 2015 Fringe Schools Poster Competition, includ… 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

C’s Fringe Film Festival is a smorgasbord of productions shuffled neatly into one come-and-go styled theatre. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian: Final

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian: Final

After six successful years of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year in London the competition comes to York, with a brand new contest to find the best up and coming… 

Battery Dance Festival

Battery Dance Festival

On the water’s edge at the southern tip of Manhattan, this free and popular annual event begins with the Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance to commemorate India’s… 

The 2015 Empire Biscuit Comedy Festival

The 2015 Empire Biscuit Comedy Festival

This new indie festival takes over a Southern-style biscuit shop for three nights of stand-up comedy. 

Ballet Festival

Ballet Festival

The Joyce Theater celebrates the diversity of ballet with a two-week buffet of companies and choreographers who are molding the form in interesting ways. 

Barnes Fringe Festival

Barnes Fringe Festival

It’s your last chance to check out some of Britain’s best performers in London before they head north for Edinburgh at the new Barnes Fringe, 28 July - 1 August. 

Mixtape: Ed Fringe preview

Mixtape: Ed Fringe preview

Mixtape preview a selection of their favourite sketches before they head to The Underbelly for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Thursday 6 to Sunday 30 August). 

Matsuri - A Festival of Music Inspired By Japan

Matsuri - A Festival of Music Inspired By Japan

A man walks slowly onto the stage with his back to the audience, he holds himself in a wide stance and begins to strike the taiko drum. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year – Heats

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year – Heats

An exciting new competition has opened in the heart of the city; for one week only, every night from the 24th to the 31st July, there will be a raucous gathering of stand-up come… 

One Hour Play Festival

One Hour Play Festival

Over 20 plays, some well known pieces, some new writing, some one person plays, some with a massive cast but all performed in 1 hour or less by numerous theatre companies 

Check Us Out Dance Festival

Check Us Out Dance Festival

Stuyvesant Cove Park, which abuts the East River, is home to over 100 native plants and dozens of native birds. 

Washington Square Music Festival

Washington Square Music Festival

This lively summer festival offers free concerts on Tuesdays on the main stage of Washington Square Park. 

Danny Elfmans Music from the Films of Tim Burton

Danny Elfmans Music from the Films of Tim Burton

It might be difficult for patrons in Edward Scissorhands costumes to get past security at Avery Fisher Hall. 

Under One Roof Comedy Festival

Under One Roof Comedy Festival

We have the best of the Edinburgh Fringe Under One Roof in South London for one special week 6th - 11th July. 

Lincoln Center Festival

Lincoln Center Festival

 (performances start on Thursday) All the world’s onstage when this internationally engaged summer festival encamps at Lincoln Center. 

The New York Musical Theater Festival

The New York Musical Theater Festival

(performances start on July 7) Villainous ice skaters, superhero pontiffs, a purple platypus and Napoleon congregate at this summer’s incarnation of the New York Musical Thea… 

Tap City Festival

Tap City Festival

This weeklong celebration by the American Tap Dance Association returns for its 15th year to celebrate the form’s pioneers and innovators with award shows, master classes and… 

Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance

Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance

Each summer this ambitious institute and festival, founded and directed by the pianist Marc Ponthus, brings together exceptional student performers with established artists and com… 

When The War Came Home

When The War Came Home

It’s not often that I’m asked back to see a show, let alone because those involved have openly taken on some of the points I made in my review!When the War Came Home is a … 

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Frühlings Erwachen – written around 1891 but not performed until 1906 – deliberately kicked against sexually-oppressive fin d… 

The Driver's Seat

The Driver's Seat

Described as “a metaphysical shocker” on its release in 1970, The Driver’s Seat was apparently author Muriel Sparks’ favourite amongst her own stories, in part thanks to th… 

Stand

Stand

“This is not just about me,” says one of the cast at the start and close of Chris Goode’s Stand. 

Electroacoustic Music Festival

Electroacoustic Music Festival

With ever more sophisticated technology at their fingertips, composers of electronic music are producing a dizzying array of works that often draw on video and performance art, too… 

American Contemporary Music Ensemble

American Contemporary Music Ensemble

As part of the Pop Up Concerts series at the Miller Theater, the adventurous American Contemporary Music Ensemble offers a program of works by the pianist and composer Timo Andres,… 

Shows for Days

Shows for Days

(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… 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd vs Go 8-Bit!

Festival of the Spoken Nerd vs Go 8-Bit!

Sunday Night: Nerd Night! Two geek/comedy shows for the price of one: [1] Festival of the spoken nerd: Just for graphs. 

Vulture Festival: Comedy Night

Vulture Festival: Comedy Night

As part of what Vulture calls its city-wide “pop culture extravaganza,” it presents this jam-packed night of comedy, with performances from Kevin Barnett, Wyatt Cenac, … 

Brighton Fringe Awards

Brighton Fringe Awards

The official awards ceremony to mark the end of Brighton Fringe 2015, with free flowing entertainment and mercifully short acceptance speeches. 

Funk The Family Festival

Funk The Family Festival

Following 2014’s debut, sell-out family festival, FTF return bigger and better! Hove Park is transformed into a musical wonderland. 

Yer Granny

Yer Granny

Having enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood and colourful teenage youth during the 1970s, I’m often still annoyed by the apparent cultural consensus which dismisses those y… 

ACT Kids Theatre Festival

ACT Kids Theatre Festival

A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights. 

Come to the Music Hall

Come to the Music Hall

The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today. 

The Light and The Dark: The Music of a Changing England

The Light and The Dark: The Music of a Changing England

Saturday May 23rd All Saints Church, Hove, 7:30pm. 

Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre

Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre

See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details. 

Poetry and Music

Poetry and Music

Poet Charles Antony is well known in Sussex for his performances which bring his poetic stories to life. 

A Clockwork Orange: Viddy & Talk

A Clockwork Orange: Viddy & Talk

A special screening of the 1971 Kubrick classic, A Clockwork Orange. 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

Hit the dancefloor for party monster Tomás Ford’s late night rave. 

Dean Friedman: Words & Music

Dean Friedman: Words & Music

This critically acclaimed recording-artist performs popular hits, Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia, and more. 

Persevere

Persevere

Site-specific works can be accused of relying on their location to do the heavy-lifting, theatrically speaking. 

Brighton i360 - exclusive tour and talk with the architect

Brighton i360 - exclusive tour and talk with the architect

Meet David Marks, the architect behind Brighton’s most innovative project, and learn why the team behind the London Eye chose the West Pier site to build such an iconic, modern … 

The Bookish Supper Society: Fringe Edition

The Bookish Supper Society: Fringe Edition

In a Fringe edition of The Bookish Supper Society, Myriad authors Emily Bullock and Jonathan Kemp will be in conversation with Laura Lockington discussing their new novels. 

New York New Music Ensemble

New York New Music Ensemble

This adventurous group celebrates the music of Mathew Rosenblum and Lee Hyla, an American composer who died last year and whose scores mesh elements of classical, rock and jazz. 

Music and Meditation

Music and Meditation

Please join us for a unique evening combining a short guided meditational experience with a variety of live music and spoken word performances. 

Voca People

Voca People

With more than 50 million YouTube hits to their credit and a global live audience of over 1 million, Voca People are a musical comedy sensation with a show that features 80-plus al… 

Troublesome People by Jill Haas

Troublesome People by Jill Haas

A punchy, pertinent and striking production, character led drama ‘Troublesome People’ examines the Second World War through the lens of Jewish Refugees and Conscientious Objectors … 

Doug Segal's How To Read Minds and Influence People

Doug Segal's How To Read Minds and Influence People

“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny. 

The Improverts - Exam Shows

The Improverts - Exam Shows

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… 

Why So Serious?

Why So Serious?

A unique and memorable musical experience, bringing a seamless link between classical, pop, folk and film music. 

Time to Talk to Jane

Time to Talk to Jane

Delve into the world of a depressed bulimic, it might surprise you. 

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

If you are preparing for the Edinburgh Fringe or performing in Brighton, this expert panel discussion can help with getting your show noticed by media, arts industry and audiences. 

Live 'Open Jazz Music' with DJO plus guests

Live 'Open Jazz Music' with DJO plus guests

Deux Johns Orchestra, formed two years ago by John Trelawney, is a Jazz outfit that adapts in size for varying original material and venues. 

John Osborne: Most People Aren't That Happy, Anyway

John Osborne: Most People Aren't That Happy, Anyway

Writer and performer John Osborne (John Peel’s Shed, Sky 1’s After Hours) performs his first ever hour long poetry show. 

Sidewinder Fringe Festival!

Sidewinder Fringe Festival!

Music, magic, burlesque, piñata smashing, sticker workshops, nacho hats, body-doodling, art battles, and loads more brilliant Brighton kookiness! Check www. 

King of the Fringe

King of the Fringe

Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati… 

Brooklyn Studios for Dance Studio Show

Brooklyn Studios for Dance Studio Show

It’s been a productive spring for Pepper Fajans, the founder of this new space at Cadman Congregational Church in Fort Greene. 

Traumfrau Does Fringe

Traumfrau Does Fringe

Traumfrau’s queer disco for the unusual crowd makes its Fringe debut in style(ish) at the Spiegeltent. 

Music in the Dark

Music in the Dark

French-Mexican acoustic guitar duo JP & Leonardo bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music. 

Tectonics Festival

Tectonics Festival

This enterprising new-music festival offers a focus on experimental performance and multi-disciplinary works. 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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… 

Foil, Arms and Hog: The Building

Foil, Arms and Hog: The Building

Irish comedy, potato, potato, potato, potato, potato. 

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Enjoy Banyan Tree’s vibrant retelling of this African folktale told through spoken word fused with Latin and Caribbean sounds and featuring captivating puppets, original songs, d… 

The Marlborough Fringe Street Party

The Marlborough Fringe Street Party

Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best Fringe music, off-beat performance, plus there’ll be arty surprises! Choose from a selection… 

The Maydays Present The Fringe Show

The Maydays Present The Fringe Show

Taking the Brighton Fringe brochure as their inspiration, The Maydays create an entirely new show every night. 

We Need to Talk About Jesus

We Need to Talk About Jesus

Richard Wright is a Christian. 

Musical Babble: a Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

Musical Babble: a Choral Concert of Gospel, Classics & New Music

MUSICAL BABBLE For twelve years, MJ Paranzino, composer and director has commissioned New Choral Music for Brighton Fringe. 

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival returns to Brighton’s Hove Lawns for another fun Bank Holiday weekend. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Get a taste for Brighton Fringe 2015, summed up in our outdoor city centre showcase. 

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic

Our Family Picnic is so much fun we’re holding it twice this year. 

Funny Women Weekend Comedy Academy

Funny Women Weekend Comedy Academy

Funny Women, the UK’s leading female comedy community, curates a weekend to give women a helping hand to find their funny. 

Look & Listen Festival

Look & Listen Festival

New-music royalty including the violinist Miranda Cuckson, So Percussion, and the cellist Jeffrey Zeigler take to art venues in Brooklyn and Manhattan for this wide-ranging festiva… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

A selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Fringe Club on the Neilson Stage

Fringe Club on the Neilson Stage

The best place to hang out this May, the Neilson Fringe Club Stage features a busy line-up of fantastic free performances this Fringe with family entertainment, followed by live mu… 

Hobgoblin's Musical Festival!

Hobgoblin's Musical Festival!

Join our friendly team of eclectic instrument experts in an Aladdins cave of musical instruments! We have a whole range of FREE musical events planned throughout the month of May … 

New York Festival of Song: Letters From Spain: A World of Song in Spanish Poetry

New York Festival of Song: Letters From Spain: A World of Song in Spanish Poetry

Spanish verse is the inspiration for this program, which features music by Shostakovich, Schumann, William Bolcom, Taneyev, Wolf, Peter Lieberson, Xavier Montsalvage and Granados, … 

No Nothing

No Nothing

Alan Spence is not the first to imagine a meeting between two famous people from different worlds, though there’s certainly a whiff of wishful thinking in this thoughtful, if … 

The Venetian Twins

The Venetian Twins

For some, he was “Italy’s Shakespeare”, “the Moliere of Venice”; yet it’s only relatively recently that British theatre audiences have warmed to work by 18th centur… 

Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr / Whisky Galore

Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr / Whisky Galore

On 5th February 1941, during heavy gales, the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides. 

People of the Eye

People of the Eye

A show about D/deafness. 

The Woman in Black

The Woman in Black

Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time… 

Boston Early Music Festival

Boston Early Music Festival

The erotically charged music of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and glittering arias by Handel are the focus of this concert presented by this cele… 

Broth

Broth

It’s fitting that, this Eastertide, a resurrection of sorts lies at the heart of this latest collaboration between Glasgow’s Òran Mór and Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre. 

Boys

Boys

Even the greatest of parties end with the hangover of cleaning up afterwards. 

Brooklyn Dance Festival

Brooklyn Dance Festival

This one-night-only affair offers a sampling of 10 dance companies representing a broad swath of contemporary dance in the city. 

Fools

Fools

Fools and their stories were the theme of this latest set of short plays, dramatic monologues and glorified sketches presented in rehearsed readings by the Village Pub Theatre t… 

Music Hall

Music Hall

Jean-Luc Lagarce’s beautiful, incantatory play is about a company of three performers who cling to art and shredded dignity as they hoof from stage to ever more pathetic stag… 

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

Many of the world’s greatest Tragedies – Shakespeare’s in particular – are grounded on the character flaws of their titular characters: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and so … 

The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde

The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde

No less a figure than Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin once insisted that the only author to ever “nail” Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson in his classic 1886 novella, S… 

The History Boys

The History Boys

The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”. 

Beating McEnroe

Beating McEnroe

Life was so much simpler, back in 1980. 

Edgar and Annabel

Edgar and Annabel

Only a clever or ignorant writer would deliberately choose to begin a play with that most egregious of sitcom clichés: “Hi Honey, I’m home. 

Chess - The Musical

Chess - The Musical

There’s one thing I hate about musical theatre, which is especially common with “amateur” productions – there’s seemingly no way of stopping audiences full of family an… 

Early Music New York

Early Music New York

(Saturday) The clarity and grace of Mozart and his contemporaries is the focus of a concert by this organization’s classical orchestra. 

Equus

Equus

There’s something particularly appropriate about experiencing Peter Shaffer’s Equus at the Bedlam Theatre. 

Clarion Music Society Orchestra

Clarion Music Society Orchestra

Steven Fox conducts this excellent period instrument ensemble, expanded for the occasion, in Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony. 

NYC Improv Festival

NYC Improv Festival

The Peoples Improv Theater plays host to this annual event, which features teams from around the country performing over five days. 

Ecstatic Music Festival: Bang on a Can

Ecstatic Music Festival: Bang on a Can

A highlight of the Ecstatic Music Festival is Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert, which highlights imaginative new works by a range of composers… 

The Judas Kiss

The Judas Kiss

At one point in the first act of The Judas Kiss, Oscar Wilde admits to always having had “a low opinion of what is called action. 

Jekyll & Hyde

Jekyll & Hyde

Since its first publication in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been adapted for stage, cinema and television hundreds of times. 

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

The Caucasian Chalk Circle

There’s rumbustious joy aplenty in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s infamous examination of legality and justice. 

Fleabag

Fleabag

Unexpected pre-show choice of “Easy Listening” music notwithstanding, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is an exciting theatrical ride, slipping from laugh-out-loud humour to… 

Netting

Netting

They say that, while you can choose your friends, you can’t choose your family; even when you pick a partner, you have no say about the family that comes along with them. 

Music Before 1800

Music Before 1800

The Boston ensemble Blue Heron delves into richly expressive secular and religious vocal music from the 15th century by composers including Johannes Ockeghem, Gilles Binchois and G… 

Music From Japan

Music From Japan

Juilliard’s “Focus!” festival of Japanese music has concluded, but  Asia Society’s series is still going strong. 

When The Rain Stops Falling

When The Rain Stops Falling

Those who don’t know history, according to the Irish statesman Edmund Burke, are destined to repeat it, while the Bible insists more than once that the sins of the father will b… 

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”. 

Digital Dance Festival

Digital Dance Festival

To attend this festival, simply tune in on your device of choice. 

Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets

Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets

Ballet and contemporary dance sometimes seem like estranged relatives, but with its latest platform, inspired by the dance critic Edwin Denby, Danspace Project collapses the space … 

The Real Inspector Hound

The Real Inspector Hound

When reviewing a play – especially one verging on farce – where two of the main characters are professional theatre critics, it’s hard not to become a tiny bit defensive … 

Butterfly

Butterfly

Men – especially working class men from the West of Scotland – are not known for expressing their emotions, instead hiding behind either brutish silence or dry humour. 

Filter's Macbeth

Filter's Macbeth

The “Scottish Play” is among Shakespeare’s shortest, but for critically acclaimed theatre company Filter to edit it down to barely more than 90 minutes, without missing an… 

When The War Came Home

When The War Came Home

The First World War is often described as the first “total war”, that is involving the entire population, at home as well as on the battlefield. 

Faith Healer

Faith Healer

Reality and performance lie at the heart of this solid production of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. 

The Improverts - London Shows

The Improverts - London Shows

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… 

Focus! Festival

Focus! Festival

This annual Juilliard School festival, organized by Joel Sachs, is an opportunity to focus, as it were, on a particular place and time, and this year, the theme is “Nippon Ge… 

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra

Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra

This sprightly community orchestra performs an intriguing program of British music, including works by composers like Delius, Vaughan Williams and Holst and lesser-known figures li… 

Julio Torres: Space Prince

Julio Torres: Space Prince

Mr. 

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Winter Wonderlandia

Brooklyn Comedy Festivals Winter Wonderlandia

Brooklyn Comedy Festival returns for a night of seasonal comedy, with appearances from Mark Normand, Michelle Wolf, Jared Logan, Kyle Ayers and possibly Father Christmas. 

People Movers

People Movers

This Brooklyn-based troupe is taking on curatorial duties and reaching beyond dance with Crawl, a new multidisciplinary series that takes place at various sites. 

Josh Gondelman and People He Admires

Josh Gondelman and People He Admires

Josh Gondelman welcomes some of his favorite performers, including Jared Logan, Michelle Wolf, Nick Vatterott, Naomi Ekperigin and Prince Paul. 

Slope

Slope

There’s a moment in Pamela Carter’s play Slope when the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, ensconced in a seedy London flat with his young lover Arthur Rimbaud, fears t… 

New York Festival of Song

New York Festival of Song

This popular festival opens its season with an intriguing program,  “Art Song on the Couch: Lieder in Freud’s Vienna. 

New York Comedy Festival: Paula Poundstone

New York Comedy Festival: Paula Poundstone

A favorite of the NPR crowd for her regular appearances on “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me,” Ms. 

New York Comedy Festival: New Yorks Funniest Finals

New York Comedy Festival: New Yorks Funniest Finals

Carolines again hosts this competition of young local comedians. 

New York Comedy Festival: Eric Andre

New York Comedy Festival: Eric Andre

This host of Adult Swim’s “The Eric Andre Show” is a fearless, energetic performer known for his unpredictable antics and surreal bits. 

New York Comedy Festival: Bill Cosby

New York Comedy Festival: Bill Cosby

At 77, Mr. Cosby continues to perform stand-up, and his clean-cut storytelling is dominated by tales of married and family life. 

New York Comedy Festival: Maria Bamford

New York Comedy Festival: Maria Bamford

This rare gem of a comedian is beloved within the comedy community for her heart-wrenchingly honest stand-up and precise, carefully constructed bits. 

New York Comedy Festival: Emily Heller

New York Comedy Festival: Emily Heller

A bright young comedian seen regularly on TBS’s “Ground Floor,” Ms. Heller was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch in 2011. 

New York Comedy Festival: Brent Morin

New York Comedy Festival: Brent Morin

Mr. Morin, known to some for his turn on the NBC summer sitcom “Undateable,” is a rising star in the Los Angeles comedy scene and an always charming stand-up. 

New York Comedy Festival: Kathleen Madigan

New York Comedy Festival: Kathleen Madigan

(Friday) A 25-year veteran of the stand-up scene, Ms. 

New York Comedy Festival: Uncivil Union

New York Comedy Festival: Uncivil Union

This comedy and music extravaganza is a fund-raiser for the Ally Coalition and New Alternatives, which works to protect and support L. 

Chamber Music Society

Chamber Music Society

The versatile and fiercely accomplished Pacifica Quartet offers an unusual program with string quartets by Haydn (“Sunrise”) and Mendelssohn framing a newly commissione… 

New York Comedy Festival: Josh Rabinowitz

New York Comedy Festival: Josh Rabinowitz

One of the cleverest young comedians in New York, Mr. Rabinowitz performs an hour of material at Stand Up NY. 

New York Comedy Festival: Tig Notaro

New York Comedy Festival: Tig Notaro

Ms. Notaro, whose strikingly candid and piercingly funny “Live” album was nominated for a Grammy, performs her new show, “Boyish Girl Interrupted.” 

New York Comedy Festival: Nate Bargatze

New York Comedy Festival: Nate Bargatze

After supporting Jimmy Fallon on his “Clean Cut Comedy Tour,” Mr. 

New York Comedy Festival: Monroe Martins Six Foot Nothing Show

New York Comedy Festival: Monroe Martins Six Foot Nothing Show

Mr. 

New York Comedy Festival: This Is Not Happening

New York Comedy Festival: This Is Not Happening

Ari Shaffir hosts this popular storytelling show, which is set to debut on Comedy Central next year. 

New York Comedy Festival: Time Out New York Women of Comedy 2014

New York Comedy Festival: Time Out New York Women of Comedy 2014

Robin Montague hosts these stand-up shows featuring some of the top female talents in the business, including Sasheer Zamata, Michelle Wolf, Sara Schaefer, Emmy Blotnick, Aparna Na… 

New York Comedy Festival: Shtick or Treat

New York Comedy Festival: Shtick or Treat

An annual tradition in the New York comedy world, this show, hosted by Matt Ruby and Mark Normand, invites dozens of comedians to perform (in costume) as their favorite comics, fro… 

New York Comedy Festival: Stand Up for Heroes

New York Comedy Festival: Stand Up for Heroes

Now in its eighth year, this megastar comedy and music show benefits the Bob Woodruff Foundation, which supports wounded veterans and their families. 

New York Comedy Festival: Friends of the People

New York Comedy Festival: Friends of the People

Kevin Barnett, Jen Bartels, Lil Rel Howery and Josh Rabinowitz, stars of the new TruTV sketch show of the same name, perform a night of sketch and improv. 

New York Comedy Festival: HERsterical

New York Comedy Festival: HERsterical

Cristina Cote hosts this variety show, a fund-raiser for the cancer support charity Gilda’s Club. 

Paper Music

Paper Music

Sound and image mingle in illuminating ways in this production by the composer Philip Miller and the artist William Kentridge, two South Africans and longtime collaborators. 

The Gamblers

The Gamblers

Nikoli Gogol’s The Gamblers (premiered in 1843) is relatively rarely-performed, at least in comparison with the writer’s most famous work, The Government Inspector. 

Bondagers

Bondagers

“Nobody thought to save any of the roots,” says Sara towards the end of The Bondagers. 

Cardinal Sinne

Cardinal Sinne

There’s a strong whiff of Farce about Cardinal Sinne from the off; only that particular genre, after all, requires quite so many doors in a set—in this case three interior d… 

Brooklyn, Stand Up

Brooklyn, Stand Up

The Knitting Factory’s front bar now features another stand-up show. 

Hudson Valley Dance Festival

Hudson Valley Dance Festival

For 20 years, Dancers Responding to AIDS has been producing a popular potpourri of dance on Fire Island to raise money for its myriad services. 

White Light Festival

White Light Festival

This innovative festival, which explores themes of spirituality, continues on Friday with a performance by the Radio Choir Berlin of Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers” at t… 

Myq Kaplans Pre-Birthday Comedy Show and Freestyle Rap Extravaganza Unless People Get Scared

Myq Kaplans Pre-Birthday Comedy Show and Freestyle Rap Extravaganza Unless People Get Scared

The comedians and storytellers Myq Kaplan, Nick Vatterott, Giulia Rozzi, Ophira Eisenberg, Joe List, Adam Wade, Chris Sullivan and Nick Turner perform in this show, whose title say… 

Fall for Dance Festival

Fall for Dance Festival

The first program of this frequently sold-out festival features, on Wednesday and Thursday, the San Francisco Ballet; the New Zealand company Black Grace; a premiere by the Mark Mo… 

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space

Sacred Music in a Sacred Space

The organist K. 

Kill Johnny Glendenning

Kill Johnny Glendenning

Kill Johnny Glendenning is a play of two halves; each a brutally funny, finely-tuned treatise on the various overlapping hierarchies of power and violence that, while shaping ou… 

New York Philharmonic: La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema

New York Philharmonic: La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema

Once again the Philharmonic begins a new season with the Art of the Score film series. 

4x4 Baroque Music Festival

4x4 Baroque Music Festival

The harpsichordist Avi Stein directs this festival, which features some of New York’s top period instrument players. 

Dancenow Joes Pub Festival

Dancenow Joes Pub Festival

Think of it as speed-dating for dance: Over four nights, 40 different artists each get five minutes on Joe’s Pub’s sliver of a stage to win over audiences. 

Olivier Saillard: Models Never Talk

Olivier Saillard: Models Never Talk

Billed as a “performance event” — expect more talking than dancing, and maybe some cat walking — Mr. 

New York Chamber Music Festival

New York Chamber Music Festival

During what is usually a slow week in the classical music season, the New York Chamber Music Festival has been stepping up for several years with an ambitious series of programs. 

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

There are five characters in Tennessee William’s breakthrough “memory play” The Glass Menagerie. 

BEAT Festival

BEAT Festival

The Brooklyn Museum is once again the epicenter of this exuberant festival, which inserts dance, theater and music into alternative spaces throughout the borough, including a farme… 

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival

Eugene Mirman, a Brooklyn favorite, brings his eponymous festival back to Gowanus and Park Slope for another eclectic weekend of stand-up, music and a bit of science, as Mr. 

Queer New York International Arts Festival

Queer New York International Arts Festival

“Queer” has gained mainstream momentum as an umbrella to capture the ever-shifting terrain of gender identity and sexuality. 

Metropolitan Operas Summer HD Festival

Metropolitan Operas Summer HD Festival

As the Met concludes its free screenings of recent HD movie-theater broadcasts in Lincoln Center Plaza, the focus is on the star soprano Anna Netrebko. 

1984

1984

When a work of fiction becomes so iconic a cultural “classic” that it’s known and understood by people who have never read it, it’s unsurprising that a few inaccuracies cre… 

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Soul Music by Terry Pratchett

Directed by Luke Sheppard, Associate Director of Matilda in the West End and Broadway, Soul Music is written by stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle with music by resident composer of th… 

Music @ St Cuthberts

Music @ St Cuthberts

Come and hear accomplished music scholars from Fettes College, Edinburgh give a lunchtime recital of vocal and instrumental music in the magnificent surroundings of St Cuthbert’s P… 

Bookshop Fringe Encore

Bookshop Fringe Encore

The Fringe ain’t over yet! Bob Slayer hosts Bookshop mayhem until the end of August. 

Piano Music of Erik Satie

Piano Music of Erik Satie

In the surrounds of St Cecilia’s Hall, my view of pianist Peter Bream is through a glass case displaying a set of tartan-clad bagpipes. 

The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Perfomers

The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Perfomers

The Free Fringe invites all Fringe performers, wherever they’ve been performing, to its end of Fringe event. Mingle, wind down, dance, drink and reflect. Second annual event. 

The Edinburgh Festival Comedy Roast

The Edinburgh Festival Comedy Roast

This will be the most talked about event in Edinburgh history. 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Greyfriars Kirk was the perfect setting for this Edinburgh based choir’s return to the Fringe after sellout shows in previous years. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

For one night only! ‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

Loud & Proud on the Fringe

Loud & Proud on the Fringe

Loud & Proud, Scotland’s LGBT choir, performs its annual Fringe concert in support of Scottish HIV and Hepatitis C charity, Waverley Care. 

Contracts: The What, Why and How?

Contracts: The What, Why and How?

Whenever your organisation enters into a business arrangement, there is likely to be a contract in existence, whether it is written or just implied by conversation and actions. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Scottish Music Traditional and New

Scottish Music Traditional and New

This annual concert has built-up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi… 

Dr Simon Gage OBE - Director of the Edinburgh International Science Festival

Dr Simon Gage OBE - Director of the Edinburgh International Science Festival

The EClub, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host Simon as part of our Fringe series. 

Brains Mcloud: 15 Reasons Why Justin Bieber is Gay

Brains Mcloud: 15 Reasons Why Justin Bieber is Gay

Legendary LA rapper from Scotland who conned the music industry as half of Silibil N’ Brains. 

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

How to Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open access arts festival in the world. 

Scotland - A Journey in Music and Song

Scotland - A Journey in Music and Song

Richard Lewis, Edinburgh’s Convener for Culture, and international mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker look at how Scotland has inspired other nations. 

Adelaide Fringe Info Session

Adelaide Fringe Info Session

It’s all about Adelaide. 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

The formal meeting where accounts are presented, activity reviewed and directors elected. 

£500,000? Fine! Why Data Protection Matters

£500,000? Fine! Why Data Protection Matters

As you hire a cast for your latest production, send out mass promotional e-mails from a database or blog into the wee small hours, do you stop to consider whose personal data you a… 

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival

Nightpiece Film Festival is attempting to do something quite lovely. 

merry christmas, Ms Meadows

merry christmas, Ms Meadows

During the last few years, the Belarus Free Theatre company has built a strong reputation in issue-based theatre, utilising a wide range of performance techniques to frame and ex… 

David Kay

David Kay

Successful stand-ups usually have a memorable on-stage persona; it may be manic, taciturn or just ‘nice’, but it’s what they’re remembered for. 

The Man, the Music, the Panj

The Man, the Music, the Panj

The Man, the Music, the Panj is a conversational songwriting showcase by wheelchair bound singer/songwriter Shaun Shears and the stories that have created his work. 

Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe

Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe

We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten… 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

An opportunity to meet key organisations such as funders, arts councils, training providers and agencies. 

Tibetan Monks Dance and Music

Tibetan Monks Dance and Music

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Auditions for the New York Film Academy

Auditions for the New York Film Academy

The New York Film Academy is auditioning students for the New York Film Academy’s BFA, AFA, MFA and Conservatory programs in Acting for Film and Musical Theatre. 

Peter Seivewright Performs Piano Music by Cyril Scott

Peter Seivewright Performs Piano Music by Cyril Scott

Peter Seivewright performs piano music by the English romantic composer Cyril Scott (1879-1970). 

Building the City of Light

Building the City of Light

After last year’s sell-out shows as a duo with Steve Rutherford, and playing guitar on Sydney Carter’s songs and poems with Gordon Funky Socks choir, Mark returns to the Fringe wit… 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

Music for the Book of Deer

Music for the Book of Deer

Inspired by the extraordinary tenth century Aberdeenshire gospel book, Richard Ingham leads an evening of plainsong, reels and electronic soundscapes. 

Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Kiss Me Honey, Honey!

Kiss Me Honey Honey! appears to be attracting a decidedly local crowd of middle-aged women, at least if this performance is anything to go by. 

Why Is Life Like Sparrows?

Why Is Life Like Sparrows?

Anni Dafydd emerges onto the stage wearing layers of mismatched technicolour clothes. 

The World Fringe Fair

The World Fringe Fair

This is your chance to meet Fringes from across the globe and find out how you can take part in their festivals. 

Edinburgh University and Greyfriars’ Fringe Sunday Service

Edinburgh University and Greyfriars’ Fringe Sunday Service

Singing in English and six other South African languages, Soweto Melodic Voices are no ordinary choir. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the Catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. 

Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Fringe

Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Fringe

Does the Fringe work for women? What images and messages do we see and hear? Are women fairly represented? Join us for a conversation about where women stand in the world’s large… 

Booking Dance Festival - Split Bill

Booking Dance Festival - Split Bill

See two amazing dance companies captivate through rhythm! The Bang Group bangs it full force and (very) out loud with smiles in tow while Antara elegantly counterbalances the hypno… 

Fischy Music @ Connected

Fischy Music @ Connected

Fischy Music play fun and thoughtful songs to primary school-aged children, but the adults will love it too. 

Breaking Down Barriers: Early Years Arts @ the Fringe

Breaking Down Barriers: Early Years Arts @ the Fringe

Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe. 

Festival Concert

Festival Concert

The choir was founded by Arthur Sutton in 1994 and has performed in Scotland and Germany and we are proud to perform in Edinburgh as a testimony to his vision of two decades ago. 

Brighton Fringe: Bring It On!

Brighton Fringe: Bring It On!

Are you ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Do you have a new piece of work to showcase to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to either of these, this … 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from national and international Fringe Festival Producers. 

LuckyMe Annual Festival Party

LuckyMe Annual Festival Party

Club show with special guest DJs. 

Brighton Fringe: Bring It On!

Brighton Fringe: Bring It On!

Are you ready to take your show to England’s largest arts festival? Do you have a new piece of work to showcase to a fresh audience? If you answered yes to either of these, this … 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Performer? Where should you go next? What touring opportunities are out there? A fascinating insight to other Fringe festivals from a performer’s point of view! Hear from and mee… 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Performer? Where should you go next? What touring opportunities are out there? A fascinating insight to other Fringe festivals from a performer’s point of view! Hear from and mee… 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from national and international Fringe Festival Producers. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Calton Hill Geology Walk

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Calton Hill Geology Walk

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Traditional Building Skills and World Heritage

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Roof Slating Demonstration

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Roof Slating Demonstration

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Streaming and the Music Industry

Streaming and the Music Industry

What impact has streaming had on the music industry? What are the pros and cons? A panelled discussion focusing on the key details involved in streaming music and the future of mus… 

Building Peace in Lebanon

Building Peace in Lebanon

Lebanon is home to most refugees fleeing Syria. 

Booking Dance Festival - Showcase

Booking Dance Festival - Showcase

One of the best things about dance is that it can transcend the boundaries of language or culture. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Restoration and Development of Riddles Court

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Restoration and Development of Riddles Court

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe

Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe

We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten… 

Invisible People

Invisible People

3rdthought, the over 60’s theatre company, is showing its intimate face-to-face, one-to-one series of short performances all over Edinburgh but notably at the International Book Fe… 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Painting and Decorating Demonstration

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Painting and Decorating Demonstration

Nevin of Edinburgh and MacKay Decorators Perth Ltd. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Stone Masonry Demonstration

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Stone Masonry Demonstration

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Fisher Lassies

Fisher Lassies

The Fisher Lassies are an a cappella group with a well-established reputation in their home territory of the Scottish Borders. 

BBC: Live Music with Radio nan Gaidheal

BBC: Live Music with Radio nan Gaidheal

Radio nan Gaidheal hosts an evening of the best new music from Rapal radio. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Iron Work Demonstration

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Iron Work Demonstration

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Georgian Edinburgh Before the New Town

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Georgian Edinburgh Before the New Town

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings, offering everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build and… 

Extremely Bad Dancing to Extremely French Music

Extremely Bad Dancing to Extremely French Music

This is not for everyone. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Maintaining Sash and Case Windows

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Maintaining Sash and Case Windows

If you think the Fringe is just about theatrical performances then think again. 

Naumburg Orchestral Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Naumburg Orchestral Concerts: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Though the inviting Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park is just over 90 years old, this summer is the 109th season of free classical music at  that site. 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Lead Roofing Demonstration

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival - Lead Roofing Demonstration

The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an… 

New Zealand Music Showcase

New Zealand Music Showcase

The New Zealand Music Showcase is a great way to see some of New Zealand’s greatest artists here at the fringe. 

Carnatic Nomad: Music from South India – Jyotsna Srikanth

Carnatic Nomad: Music from South India – Jyotsna Srikanth

Jyotsna Srikanth, an exciting and amazing South Indian carnatic violinist presents Carnatic Nomad, a traditional South Indian offering with classical, folk and contemporary South I… 

Invisible People

Invisible People

3rdthought, the over 60’s theatre company, is showing its intimate face-to-face, one-to-one series of short performances all over Edinburgh but notably at the International Book Fe… 

James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock

James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock

This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions. 

James II: Day of The Innocents

James II: Day of The Innocents

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… 

James III: The True Mirror

James III: The True Mirror

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… 

Acting and Technical Theatre Careers Talk

Acting and Technical Theatre Careers Talk

World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses. 

Festival Masses

Festival Masses

Come and hear one of Edinburgh’s best church choirs perform beautiful music in the liturgical setting it was written for. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ. 

Marlboro Festival

Marlboro Festival

The penultimate weekend of this first-rate chamber music festival features works by Beethoven (the Quintet for Piano and Winds), Bartok, and Tchaikovsky (“Souvenir de Florenc… 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for an uplifting service with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Rheinberger, Stravinsky and Mozart. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral Choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

Songs by Three Teachers of the Royal College of Music

Songs by Three Teachers of the Royal College of Music

Songs by three teachers of the Royal College of Music (Ireland, Howells and Horowitz) and piano solos by Lambert, a student of the Royal College of Music, are contrasted with the g… 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Returning for a second year, Kids Do Forth on the Fringe presents a morning of some of the best names in children’s entertainment from this year’s Edinburgh Festival. 

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival Edinburgh Showcase

The Voice Festival UK returns to Edinburgh Fringe, with a jam-packed a cappella showcase featuring groups of all ages, plus a special collaborative number created at our workshop h… 

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox. 

Edinburgh Book Fringe - Free

Edinburgh Book Fringe - Free

Word Power Books hosts free daily events with writers and activists from around the world in Edinburgh’s only independent and radical bookshop. 

Bard Music Festival

Bard Music Festival

“Schubert and His World” is the most ambitious undertaking of the Bard Music Festival in its 25th anniversary summer season. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Collectors and discerning listeners have long realised the unique quality of music recorded on vinyl; the sleeve, the art, and yes, even the hisses, crackles and pops. 

Pillow Talk and Sweet Nothings

Pillow Talk and Sweet Nothings

Ernest Hemingway - Boxer, bullfighter, soldier … romantic? Naomi Wood explores the four marriages, inflammatory letters, billet-doux and sensual telegrams that reveal the softer… 

A Novel Cure

A Novel Cure

In need of life rejuvenation? Join School of Life bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud as she offers advice and inspiration from the world’s most renowned writers and prescribes much ne… 

Trinity College London on the Fringe

Trinity College London on the Fringe

Learning to play an instrument? Hear a selection of repertoire from Trinity’s exciting new 2015 syllabuses for piano and other instruments, including first performances of selected… 

Music from The Mandolin Lesson

Music from The Mandolin Lesson

A programme of Italian baroque mandolin music accompanied by harpsichord and interspersed with readings from Frances Taylor’s evocative memoir, The Mandolin Lesson. 

Fringe Fantasmic!

Fringe Fantasmic!

Local company Edinburgh Music Theatre return to the fringe for their annual production with a double offering, the first of which is Fringe Fantasmic. 

Barbara and Yogashwara's Safe Space

Barbara and Yogashwara's Safe Space

Ruthless adult comedy horror in a caravan exploring power, abuse and New Age spirituality, via an exceptionally close mother-daughter relationship. 

Leith Artists' and Makers' Festival Exhibition

Leith Artists' and Makers' Festival Exhibition

A mixed show of contemporary paintings, textiles and jewellery produced by artists and makers based at Coburg House Art Studios in Leith. 

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Accordionist Paul Chamberlain returns to the Fringe with a programme of original works and transcriptions including Weber’s famous Konzertstück in F Minor, along with pieces by Ra… 

The Music Hall Menajerie

The Music Hall Menajerie

Join the gang as they sweep you down to the grand old days of London, packed full of extreme patriotism and purpose, The Music Hall Menagerie promises singing, dancing, comic caper… 

Inge at the Fringe

Inge at the Fringe

People know Kansas-born William Inge for his full length plays made into successful movies. 

Playtime: New Adventures in Music

Playtime: New Adventures in Music

Billing their series of gigs as Playtime, some of Edinburgh’s finest Jazzers are creating very interesting and enjoyable music in the intimate space of The Outhouse’s attic. 

Gary Little: The Thing Is

Gary Little: The Thing Is

Gary Little isn’t. 

Conversations with Boring, Ugly People

Conversations with Boring, Ugly People

A decent show is worth the price of a ticket and a bad show isn’t, but in the case of Conversations with Boring, Ugly People, I’d pay good money not to have to watch this exerc… 

Live Music at Victor & Carina Contini Caffe

Live Music at Victor & Carina Contini Caffe

Sunday evening live piano with Robert Harrison in Edinburgh’s newest Royal Mile venue by Victor & Carina Contini. 

A Bonanza of Festival Comedy and Cabaret

A Bonanza of Festival Comedy and Cabaret

A Sunday more like Saturday! The comedy version of a Mexican stand-off featuring a smorgasbord of classic international Fringe Comedy, with a selection of the very best acts from … 

Crap Music Rave Party

Crap Music Rave Party

An anarchic late night DJ party where you can request anything you want. 

Shit of the Fringe

Shit of the Fringe

The Shit of the Fringe is a weird show to review. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

From bold brass to fabulous fiddlers, soprano soloists to singer/songwriters, enjoy daily live music performances at the museum, showcasing the best contemporary talents from Scotl… 

PBH's Free Fringe: 5 Characters in Search of a Guitar

PBH's Free Fringe: 5 Characters in Search of a Guitar

Musical comedy meets character comedy in the debut solo show from stand up and improviser, Jacky Wood. 

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin . 

The Pros and Cons of Small Talk

The Pros and Cons of Small Talk

A comedy play. 

Jagged Little People

Jagged Little People

A character and storytelling show about life’s little losers. 

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

The first weekend of the festival kicks off with the pianist Joyce Yang performing in Schumann’s Piano Quartet for a  benefit concert on Saturday. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. 

Critical! (A Sociopath’s Guide to Influencing Edinburgh Fringe Reviewers)

Critical! (A Sociopath’s Guide to Influencing Edinburgh Fringe Reviewers)

How to review a Fringe show whose cast kidnaps and threatens a theatre critic at gunpoint? Will any positive comments be interpreted as surrendering to the demands of terrorists? W… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter has been sourcing and sharing his picks of the Fringe for, unbelievably, 28 years and he is clearly not waning when it comes to separating the wheat from the chaff. 

Skeptics on the Fringe

Skeptics on the Fringe

Skeptics on the Fringe are a non-profit branch of the Edinburgh Skeptics who are celebrating five years at the Fringe with a catalogue of guest speakers, aimed at the seasoned free… 

Christian Reilly: Lost in Music

Christian Reilly: Lost in Music

Perrier/Chortle award-winning musical comedian makes sense of your universe. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

An afternoon of Jazz from the Jazz Bar’s very own Jazz Trio; Ed Kelly on double bass, David Patrick on piano and Bob Kyle on drums. 

Funny Stuff For Happy People

Funny Stuff For Happy People

Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and going in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff For Happy People, an hour of comedy, circus, storytelling,… 

Casting the Runes

Casting the Runes

For several decades, it was the habit of the acclaimed medieval scholar Montague Rhodes James (who died in 1936) to entertain his Christmas guests with an especially composed tale … 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

God's Own Country

God's Own Country

“Gossip,” we’re told, “travels fast in a valley. 

Factor 9

Factor 9

If this show was a stick of rock, it would have “Anger” written all the way through it in blood red: specifically anger at the medical, commercial and political establishments … 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the vibrant world of the Fringe through the eyes of Scotland’s schoolchildren at this free exhibition of entries in the 2014 Fringe Schools Poster Competition, including the … 

Floe-Joe's Music and Character Platter

Floe-Joe's Music and Character Platter

Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

CeilidhKids at the Fringe – Free!

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers. 

Soho Comedy Club at the Fringe

Soho Comedy Club at the Fringe

An hour of top quality comedy by the best acts at the Fringe bought to you by London’s famous Soho Comedy Club, rated by Time Out as one of the Top 10 Best Comedy Clubs in London… 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Gus Lymburn hosts Scotland’s Pick of The Fringe in this hour long comedy romp that is funny, witty and refreshingly original. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us at the multi-award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August. 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on The Royal Mile

Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows. 

Festival Folk at the Oak

Festival Folk at the Oak

The Royal Oak is one of the most famous hubs of folk music in Edinburgh. 

Forth on the Fringe

Forth on the Fringe

Now in its seventh year, Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Guns Don't Kill People, Rabbits with Batteries Do

Guns Don't Kill People, Rabbits with Batteries Do

At the beginning of this bizarre show, we are told by comic duo Matt Francis and Russ Haynes that over the course of the performance we would do two things as an audience. 

18b

18b

Regulation 18b of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 is a now little-remembered piece of legislation which came into force just before the outbreak of the Second World War. 

The Free Fringe Festival Outdoor Launch

The Free Fringe Festival Outdoor Launch

Launching a season of outdoor performances in the courtyard at the Pear Tree with buskers, musicians, cabaret, comedy and much, much more. And it’s all free! www.freefestival.co.uk 

3,000 Trees by George Gunn

3,000 Trees by George Gunn

“When a man starts a war against the State, it’s a war he cannot win,” says our nominal hero Willie McKay at the point in this play when the writer presumes we will sympathis… 

The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant

The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant

The Fringe’s late-summer position in the calendar means that few of those who visit the Scottish capital ever experience one particular form of indigenous theatre — pantomime… 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Billing itself as “The Rocky Horror Show for the new millennium”, this is a raucous, glitter-fuelled ride through a disco universe. 

The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast

The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast

In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon. 

Aidan Killian: Jesus Versus Buddha

Aidan Killian: Jesus Versus Buddha

Irish comedian Aidan Killian certainly cuts a surprising figure with his new show; not so much for the long, simple robe he wears, but the fact that he’s shaved off half his bear… 

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae

3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae

Sometimes, we can miss what’s important. 

Bears in Space

Bears in Space

Puppetry. 

Old Folks Telling Jokes

Old Folks Telling Jokes

As a card-carrying, paid-up member of the Grumpy Old Men squad, I occasionally look at all those fresh-faced stand-ups staring out from the posters plastered across the city like S… 

Stories of My Life, Played By Other People

Stories of My Life, Played By Other People

‘The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children’ (Jim Henson). 

Tomas Ford Stop Killing People

Tomas Ford Stop Killing People

With a strange, original and interesting production, Tomás Ford brings his Patrick Bateman of the Fringe to the Mash House to tell a one-man-musical tale of double crossing deceit… 

Tim Renkow: At Least Hell Has Ramps

Tim Renkow: At Least Hell Has Ramps

Tim Renkow has cerebral palsy. 

Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up

Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up

“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Comedy presents a stand-up show featuring the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe. 

Music, Speech and the Sound of a Wheelbarrow

Music, Speech and the Sound of a Wheelbarrow

Music, Speech and the Sound of a Wheelbarrow. The static crackle prior to a record starting, how we learn language and various celebrities losing their heads! Funny. 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Heading to a bookshop in the middle of the fringe festival might seem an obvious choice to get a little peace and quiet. 

GIRAFFE: Let's Talk About Sketch Baby

GIRAFFE: Let's Talk About Sketch Baby

Ali James, George Kemp and John Oakes comprise Giraffe, a hysterical sketch comedy trio bent on filling an hour of your lives with their own brand of hilarious original comedy. 

Playdough Face

Playdough Face

Scheduling is an often overlooked aspect of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, not least by venues attempting to squeeze in as many popular shows as possible. 

A Simple Space

A Simple Space

Get up close and personal with one of Australia’s hottest and most original circus ensembles! In the award winning show that has captivated sell-out festival audiences world wide… 

CineFringe Film Festival

CineFringe Film Festival

As featured on BBC Radio Scotland! The number one film event at the Fringe is celebrating its fifth year! Join CineFringe as we proudly present four days of exceptional screenings. 

Fin Taylor: Real Talk

Fin Taylor: Real Talk

Fin Taylor only has one joke, he explains, and he gets it out of the way early on. 

The Pitiless Storm

The Pitiless Storm

For all its claims of being a one-man show, the stage can get pretty crowded during The Pitiless Storm. 

Stephen Bailey: Neon Heart

Stephen Bailey: Neon Heart

Stephen Bailey—all silver dickie bow tie, floral grey suit and camp demeanour—is clearly in love with love and romance. 

Dan Schreiber: C*ckblocked from Outer Space

Dan Schreiber: C*ckblocked from Outer Space

Dan Schreiber is a fact-obsessed Aussie who has spent parts of his life in Hong Kong and London and most of it in denial of being a complete and utter geek. 

Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret

We all have them, if we’re honest; those moments in our lives where we’ve reacted without thinking and “put our foot in it”, slipping from innocent victim to outright offen… 

The Dirty Talk

The Dirty Talk

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

Jim Campbell's Personal Space

Jim Campbell's Personal Space

A bedroom can be many things: Sanctuary. 

Hayley Ellis: We Need To Talk About Kevin

Hayley Ellis: We Need To Talk About Kevin

Loser at life and winner at losing Hayley Ellis presents her debut hour of stand-up about love, loss and a little Lhasa Apso dog called Kevin. 

Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead

Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead

Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, my first experiences of academic lectures were either snatches of TV programmes aimed at those studying courses with the Open University (thankful… 

Laika: A Space Dogyssey

Laika: A Space Dogyssey

One of the best things about the Fringe is the energy and ingenuity of the young companies performing here and these are both words that apply perfectly to Double Edge Drama, creat… 

Matt Forde: 24 Hour Political Party People

Matt Forde: 24 Hour Political Party People

Matt Forde loves politics, and he’s going to make sure that you do too - whether you want to or not. 

Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des

Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des

The Trouble with Being Des, according to Des Clarke, is that he has an inner demon man child inside him which makes him “weird”—not least within the context of growing u… 

Voca People

Voca People

“Everything you are about to hear is pure human vocals,” a voiceover announces before the show begins. 

Andrew Doyle: Zero Tolerance

Andrew Doyle: Zero Tolerance

During the last few years, Andrew Doyle has made a name for himself as a frequently hilarious, sharply intelligent, and fearless comedian, ready to push his audiences’ tolerance … 

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

This excellent one-man show from Mark Farrelly portrays the transformation of Denis Charles Pratt, born in suburbia, into Quentin Crisp. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

The line-up of this comedy showcase changes daily, making each viewing unique. 

A TED* Talk with Clay JW Crowne (*not affiliated with TED.com, its members, fellows, organisers, partners, subsidiaries, sponsors or stockholders)

A TED* Talk with Clay JW Crowne (*not affiliated with TED.com, its members, fellows, organisers, partners, subsidiaries, sponsors or stockholders)

Needless to say, the selling point of Nathan Roberts’ show is its title which promises an hour of ruthless satire. 

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario

“There has not been a single incidence of Zombieism anywhere in the world to date,” according to Doctor Austin of the Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, but “this does… 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

It is a truth universally acknowledged that starting a review of Austentatious with ‘it is a truth universally acknowledged’ is so cliché that the author should be beaten. 

Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House

Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House

“What is it that frightens you?” Tom Neenan asks at the start of this one-man pastiche of an Edwardian ghost story. 

Dane Baptiste: Citizen Dane

Dane Baptiste: Citizen Dane

Dane Baptiste is a confident performer. 

The Free Festival Launch Night

The Free Festival Launch Night

The big launch night for this years’ Free Festival! See a show with the best of this years’ free Fringe performers, mingle with the acts and VIPs and dance the night away. 

Talk About Something You Like

Talk About Something You Like

Byron Vincent enters the venue in pinstriped pyjamas and a pair of tatty trainers, wiping his long fringe out of his eyes. 

Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly

Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly

Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”. 

Scott Capurro Islamohomophobia: Reloaded

Scott Capurro Islamohomophobia: Reloaded

Age hasn’t softened Scott Capurro; nor, it has to be said, has marriage. 

Oz and the Space Pirates

Oz and the Space Pirates

Battle the West Witch with real laser-swords! Blast Space Pirates in the ruby asteroids! Jump black holes! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don’t just want to sit stil… 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its tenth season, the critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, everyday. 

Neal's Yard Remedies Festival Chillout Zone

Neal's Yard Remedies Festival Chillout Zone

Step into an oasis of calm at Neal’s Yard Remedies Edinburgh, for a cup of herbal tea and a hand massage (subject to availability). 

Mostly Mozart Festival

Mostly Mozart Festival

The festivities kick off this year with the premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Sila: The Breath of the World,” a site-specific work inspired by Inuit traditions. 

Miss Givings – a play with music

Miss Givings – a play with music

A one-woman cabaret show presenting the life of Anita Boult, a jobbing musical actress trying to cope with life in New York city. 

Between the Seas Festival

Between the Seas Festival

This festival enlightens audiences to the Mediterranean region’s growing contemporary arts scene. 

HOT! Festival

HOT! Festival

The 23rd edition of this festival celebrates and explores sexuality and gender identity in all forms with humor and compassion. 

City Academy Musical Theatre Company Present Cabaret

City Academy Musical Theatre Company Present Cabaret

Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin. 

Marlboro Music Festival

Marlboro Music Festival

Rising stars perform with prominent musicians at this prestigious festival, directed by Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, who will perform in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G mino… 

Fire Island Dance Festival

Fire Island Dance Festival

In 1995, the Fire Island Dance Festival began as a way to raise funds for those suffering from H. 

The Festival Wheel

The Festival Wheel

Located in the heart of the city centre at East Princes Street Gardens, the newest addition to Edinburgh’s Festival season provides unrivalled views of Edinburgh’s Old and New Town… 

Lincoln Center Festival: The Passenger

Lincoln Center Festival: The Passenger

Suppressed when it was written in Soviet Russia in the late 1960s, Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s unsparing Holocaust opera, based on a radio play by Zofia Posmysz and with a libretto… 

Indie-pendence Day Festival

Indie-pendence Day Festival

Dozens of independent improv teams, including favorites like GUS and Austen Family, celebrate the Fourth of July with 12 hours of long-form improvised comedy and a barbecue. 

International Keyboard Institute and Festival

International Keyboard Institute and Festival

For those who love piano music, this institute and festival at Mannes, now in its 16th season, is a highlight of the summer. 

Glimmerglass Festival

Glimmerglass Festival

It is always worth the four-hour drive to Cooperstown from New York to attend the summer Glimmerglass Festival. 

Lincoln Center Festival: Rosas

Lincoln Center Festival: Rosas

Last fall, the renowned Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Belgian company was in New York with a pair of new, starkly minimalist works that bore little resem… 

Tragic Magic

Tragic Magic

Four times Scottish champion of close up magic Michael Neto is an assured and amiable stage magician, whose slight of hand is smooth, assured and doubtless the result of decades … 

Aston Magna Festival

Aston Magna Festival

“A season of romance, war, and other human follies” is the theme this year of this prominent period-instrument festival. 

The Up Festival

The Up Festival

In collaboration with IdeasTap, General Gough’s Speakeasy at Earl Haig Hall pub will be showcasing an array of new and exciting work to kick off the Edinburgh Fringe Preview Season… 

Caramoor Music Festival

Caramoor Music Festival

This international music festival at the bucolic Caramoor Center opens with a gala program featuring, as so many gala festival do, the violinist Joshua Bell, who is appearing with … 

Lifeline at Leith Festival

Lifeline at Leith Festival

Lifeline is a highly entertaining portrayal of people from all areas of society facing difficulties in their own way. 

Lifeline

Lifeline

Phil Roach isn’t the first man to be dumped by his girlfriend and realise his life isn’t quite working out as expected but, as Julian Wickham’s “Lifeline” quickly shows, he’s pos… 

In My Father's Words

In My Father's Words

Louis is one of Canada’s most respected teachers of classical literature. 

Performance Mix Festival

Performance Mix Festival

This smorgasbord of performance, with a different lineup each night, features 32 artists from New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Salt Lake City and beyond. 

Music Mountain

Music Mountain

This long-running festival kicks off its summer season with a gala performance by the Emerson String Quartet. 

Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Brooklyn Youth Chorus

This admirable group presents its annual program devoted to contemporary music, “Soundscapes,” at Roulette in Brooklyn. 

NY Phil Biennial: American Composers Orchestra New Music Readings

NY Phil Biennial: American Composers Orchestra New Music Readings

The NY Phil Biennial is meant as a forum for new music, but 11 days is not enough time to explore all the recent works worthy of attention. 

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Budapest Festival Orchestra

One of the most dependable conductor-ensemble pairings in classical music is Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. 

Early Music Festival

Early Music Festival

Jolle Greenleaf and Donald Meineke are at the helm of the inaugural Early Music Festival: NYC, which will present 16 concerts featuring first-rate soloists and ensembles at churche… 

Jacobs Pillow Festival

Jacobs Pillow Festival

Each summer, a lush 220-acre swath of the Berkshires transforms into a hotbed of dance. 

Funk the Family Festival

Funk the Family Festival

8 hours of funky fun for all the family! Keep the kids happy and the grownups smiling at this seaside festival. 

Brighton Fringe Urban Artfest

Brighton Fringe Urban Artfest

Discover a world of street art live at the Brighton Fringe finale! A collaboration of Fringe & Youth Group performances and top named artists from artrepublic, working with Tarner … 

King of the Fringe

King of the Fringe

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

Chelsea Music Festival

Chelsea Music Festival

Brazil and bratwurst, Bach and potatoes are among the unlikely pairings in this festival, which sparkles with invention. 

Children's Shows and Workshops

Children's Shows and Workshops

A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement. 

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears

Following sold-out shows of ‘The Honey Hunters’ in Brighton Fringe 2012, we return with new puppets, live music and dance. 

Myq Kaplan Album Release Show Party Fun Time Featuring Many Fun People (and a Too Long Title)

Myq Kaplan Album Release Show Party Fun Time Featuring Many Fun People (and a Too Long Title)

The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher… 

Sahaja Yoga Presents: Sacred World Music

Sahaja Yoga Presents: Sacred World Music

Sitting in the pews of Brighton’s Unitarian Church and readying myself for an evening of devotional music largely centred on Hindu and Sufi traditions, I felt slightly dubious. 

How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe

How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe

Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va… 

Venue B

Venue B

What kind of music do you like? We got it. 

Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender

Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender

2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�… 

Music & Conversation with Caroline Lucas

Music & Conversation with Caroline Lucas

Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, reflects on the importance and value of music in her life with live illustrations from the Sussex Symphony Orchestra. 

Chamber Music with Yefim Bronfman

Chamber Music with Yefim Bronfman

As part of his season as artist-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic, the brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman plays a chamber music program with top players from the orchestra. 

Tectonics Festival New York

Tectonics Festival New York

This new-music festival founded in Iceland in 2012 has since spread internationally. 

Accidental Festival 2014

Accidental Festival 2014

The Accidental Festival returns from Thursday 22nd to Sunday 25th May at the Roundhouse, Camden, with an eclectic mix of dance, puppetry, physical theatre, cabaret, film, live musi… 

British Music Reloaded

British Music Reloaded

Play your part in creating a modern musical response to a First World War poem. 

St Lucia on the Fringe: Launch Reception

St Lucia on the Fringe: Launch Reception

Celebrating the launch of ‘Fringe St Lucia’ at the ‘official’ Fringe St Lucia venue. 

Free Talk on Classical Buteyko Method

Free Talk on Classical Buteyko Method

Prof Buteyko discovered in the ‘50s that people who develop chronic symptoms breathe more than the physiological optimal norm of 3-4 litres per minute. 

An Evening of Americana Music

An Evening of Americana Music

I greatly admire Union Music Store’s mission to bring their home-grown acts to the masses – a labour of love and angst warding off cynics like me, to be sure. 

The Greatest Shows on Earth

The Greatest Shows on Earth

A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals. 

St Ann's Well Gardens Spring Festival

St Ann's Well Gardens Spring Festival

Fun for all ages. 

British Music and the Great War

British Music and the Great War

A concert of British music to mark the 2014 centenary of the Great War and the impact of the conflict on heritage and culture. 

St Ann's Well Gardens Spring Festival

St Ann's Well Gardens Spring Festival

Community festival for all the family with live music stage,roller disco,skate park,arts and crafts market,samba band,children’s craft workshops,peaceful retreat,concert band,food … 

The Shakespeare Heptet Fringe Show

The Shakespeare Heptet Fringe Show

As a Bard-olator, I was keen to see this show. 

EastEnd Cabaret: Dirty Talk

EastEnd Cabaret: Dirty Talk

A review of EastEnd Cabaret seems almost redundant nowadays, given the number of years that these two girls have prevailed in the Fringe circuit. 

Music in the Dark

Music in the Dark

Acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music. 

Tribeca New Music Festival

Tribeca New Music Festival

Always rich in young composers, this series has taken on venerable status by this, its 13th season. 

Queens New Music Festival

Queens New Music Festival

The composers’ collective Random Access Music presents a vibrant offering of new music. 

Farewell the Trumpet: Music by Purcell

Farewell the Trumpet: Music by Purcell

Emma Kirkby, Gavin Henderson, BREMF Singers, Orchestra and Brass Ensemble, Conducted by John Hancorn. 

Space & Time: Landscapes by David Cundy

Space & Time: Landscapes by David Cundy

‘Space and Time’ is an exhibition of unexpected landscape photographs. 

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Sell Your Show on the Fringe

Whether you are preparing for Edinburgh or performing in Brighton, our expert panel is here to help you get your show noticed by media and arts industry professionals. 

A Gay Show for All People!

A Gay Show for All People!

Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp host this night of music and comedy with performances from Sasheer Zamata, Eliot Glazer, Justin Sayre and Jason Michael Snow. 

The People's Champion

The People's Champion

Cab Productions is dedicated to showcasing new writing in and around the Kingston area. 

Chamber Music at the Weekend

Chamber Music at the Weekend

Chamber Music had a small turn out in beautiful St Nicholas’ Church. 

The Fishing Museum's Fringe of Fun

The Fishing Museum's Fringe of Fun

Puppet shows each followed by a treasure hunt. 

The People's Champion

The People's Champion

Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins was a storm from the moment he arrived on the professional snooker scene. 

Spring for Music: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Spring for Music: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

This festival continues with James Conlon conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus in a program that opens with John Adams’s exhila… 

Festival of Oddity

Festival of Oddity

Laughing Horse’s Festival of Oddity is a platform for new work heading to the Edinburgh Fringe by clowns in the ascendant, Cheekykita and Jody Kamali. 

Brighton Fringe Focus Groups

Brighton Fringe Focus Groups

What do you love about Brighton Fringe? What could be improved? How could the Brighton Fringe team help you now and in the future? Come along and talk to us! 

Spring for Music: Seattle Symphony

Spring for Music: Seattle Symphony

The second concert of the Spring for Music series features this ensemble and the dynamic conductor Ludovic Morlot, who has galvanized the group and excited Seattle audiences since … 

Geoff Norcott: I See Dead Stupid People

Geoff Norcott: I See Dead Stupid People

Nominated - 2013 Dave’s Comedy festival, Geoff debuts a hilarious new hour. 

Jack and the Beans... Talk

Jack and the Beans... Talk

You think you know the story? Think again. 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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. 

Lewis Black Presents: Big Stars, Big Cure An Unforgettable Night of Comedy and Music to Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Lewis Black Presents: Big Stars, Big Cure An Unforgettable Night of Comedy and Music to Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Mr. 

MyMiniDisco: Cool Music for Cool Kids

MyMiniDisco: Cool Music for Cool Kids

A dance party for kids and social event for adults too. 

Poets-SLASH-MC's Festival Showdown

Poets-SLASH-MC's Festival Showdown

Heroes of performance poetry Hammer and Tongue and rap warriors Slip Jam proudly present a spiralling twist on their annual battle (‘A legendary fixture’ Latest 7) Gauntlets thrown… 

In Our Hands: Public Services for People

In Our Hands: Public Services for People

Inspired by national campaign ‘We Own It’, Caroline Lucas MP and a panel of high profile speakers will explore why public services should be brought back into public hands. 

The Libertine

The Libertine

“You will not like me,” insists John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, at the start of The Libertine; not so much presented an unreliable narrator, more the self-created bad … 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

This revolving showcase of Brighton Fringe’s top comedians sees five different acts performing short sets every night throughout the festival. 

The Marlborough Fringe Street Party

The Marlborough Fringe Street Party

Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best of the Fringe’s alternative music, snippets of off-beat theatre plus there’ll be arty surpri… 

Dance to the Music

Dance to the Music

Directed by MJ Paranzino. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Fringe City is Brighton’s free outdoor showcase of unique fringe performances and a chance to celebrate everything fringe. Taking place on New Road,every Saturday throughout May. 

Nights at the Music Hall

Nights at the Music Hall

I love a bit of late night showbiz. 

The George Lucas Talk Show

The George Lucas Talk Show

Connor Ratliff, an Upright Citizens Brigade regular, embodies the filmmaker George Lucas for this costume-friendly talk show, which counts down to Star Wars Day (on Sunday). 

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival returns to Brighton’s Hove Lawns this May Bank Holiday bringing with it the very best in fine food and drink. 

Fringe City

Fringe City

Experience what Brighton Fringe is all about at our free outdoor showcase. 

Fringe City Family Picnic

Fringe City Family Picnic

Join us for a family picnic in Pavilion Gardens. 

Fringe Club

Fringe Club

Continue your Brighton Fringe evening at our late-night show. Music from Brighton’s finest bands and a bar that won’t break the bank. For full listings see www.warrenvenue.com 

Brooklyn Comedy Festival Presents: An Evening in the City

Brooklyn Comedy Festival Presents: An Evening in the City

The producers of last year’s inaugural Brooklyn Comedy Festival continue their cultivation of the city’s best comedy. 

Original Festival Ghost Walk

Original Festival Ghost Walk

It was a dark and stormy night in Brighton. 

Fringe Club

Fringe Club

As a child of rural Somerset, I am no stranger to folk music. 

Pressure

Pressure

Us inhabitants of the British Isles can spend an inordinate amount of our time discussing the weather, yet it doesn’t automatically follow that our “four seasons in a day”c… 

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Brimming with bold ideas, this festival continues with performances that range from fiercely political to poetically formal. 

Music in the Dark

Music in the Dark

French-American acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music. 

Dear Scotland

Dear Scotland

As part of its contribution to the many debates in Scotland during 2014—sparked into life, of course, by this September’s independence referendum—new National Theatre of Sc… 

Masterworks Festival Chorus

Masterworks Festival Chorus

Jim Rodde conducts this choir and the New York City Chamber Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’s 1936 cantata “Dona Nobis Pacem,” in which the composer uses texts by W… 

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival

This adventurous series, organized by the composer Victoria Bond, continues with the New York debut of the Blue Streak Ensemble, a chamber group founded by the composer Margaret Br… 

The Complete Aspen Music Festival & School (Abridged)

The Complete Aspen Music Festival & School (Abridged)

The storied festival offers a tantalizing program of teasers from its two-month season, including appearances by the soprano Dawn Upshaw and the conductor-pianist Robert Spano, in … 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

Festival of the Spoken Nerd

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

Good People

Good People

South Boston, the place of ‘cahs’ instead of ‘cars’, is the all-encompassing setting for Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire’s fascinating story of pride, poverty and the p… 

Manhattan School of Music Orchestra

Manhattan School of Music Orchestra

A major American conductor, Leonard Slatkin, takes the podium for a concert at Carnegie Hall with the orchestra of the renowned Manhattan School of Music. 

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler

The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler

When the Glasgow-born poet, playwright, song-writer, musician, cartoonist, humorist and story-writer Ivor Cutler died in March 2006, the nation’s obituarists remembered an “una… 

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Musicians including the violinist Daniel Hope, the clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and the cellist David Finckel offer a program exploring music by 20th-century composers who w… 

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices … 

Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

A double bill of landmark 20th-century choral writing provides a showcase for the conservatory’s symphonic chorus and chamber choir. 

The Pitchfork Disney

The Pitchfork Disney

There’s no doubting that Philip Ridley’s debut play, even now, feels like a strange beast; a modern fairytale of two infantalised and orphaned twins, Presley and Haley, somehow… 

Union

Union

Big, bold and buxom; playwright Tim Barrow’s Union, directed for the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s artistic director Mark Thomson, starts as it means to go on, with blocks of “sce… 

This Wide Night

This Wide Night

A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t… 

Music @ St Cuthberts

Music @ St Cuthberts

Come and hear accomplished music scholars from Fettes College, Edinburgh give a lunchtime recital of vocal and instrumental music in the magnificent surroundings of St Cuthbert… 

Oxygen - Music of Charlotte Seither

Oxygen - Music of Charlotte Seither

A unique opportunity to hear these extraordinary works prior to their outing at the BBC Proms. 

Peter Bream: Piano Music of Eric Satie

Peter Bream: Piano Music of Eric Satie

Eric Satie: 3 Sarabandes, 3 Gnossiennes, 3 Danses de travers, 3 Gymnopedies. www.peterbream.com 

German Romantic Piano Music

German Romantic Piano Music

It has always amazed me how classical musicians are able to perform a twenty-minute long sonata without a note of music in front of them. 

The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Performers

The Free Fringe and Jam House Closing Event for All Fringe Performers

Close of Fringe event for all performers no matter what venue or organisation. Come to famous Jam House: mingle, drink, celebrate, wind down, live music. First annual event. 

Chinese Music Traditional and New

Chinese Music Traditional and New

Enjoy Fong Liu’s entrancing voice, Chinese traditional instruments (including Hooi Ling Eng’s percussion and zheng, Xian Shan’s accordion, Yulu Wang’s zheng and Eddie McGuire’s bam… 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

This concert from Cadenza (an amateur choir founded in 1992) at Greyfriars Kirk proved to be a beautiful evening of accomplished music from both the choir and orchestra. 

Cadenza at the Fringe

Cadenza at the Fringe

Dvorak Mass in D, Rutter Gloria and Britten Rejoice in the Lamb performed by one of Scotland’s most exciting choirs. 

Archie Fisher

Archie Fisher

‘One of Britain’s finest song interpreters’ (Sing Out). 

Scottish Music Traditional and New

Scottish Music Traditional and New

This annual concert has built a loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty and power of the blend of pipes, fiddle, harp, concertina, flute, bass and drum. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

How To Do a Show at the Fringe

How To Do a Show at the Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest open festival in the world. 

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Stephen K Amos Talk Show

Join festival favourite Stephen K Amos as he chats with guests hand-picked from the worlds of theatre, comedy and music. 

The New Age Labrador

The New Age Labrador

Singer-songwriter Shaun Shears sort of fancies himself as a 21st Century reincarnation of the medieval Troubadour, travelling the country performing his songs about life, love and … 

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival

Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival

This was really quite a wonderful event, although not one I would have necessarily picked for purely entertainment purposes. 

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society AGM

New date, time and location. 

A Reason to Smile

A Reason to Smile

Two wooden chairs, some books, an otherwise empty stage. 

Landfall

Landfall

The idea of some supernatural being falling down to Earth and helping change the lives of us mere mortals is a powerful myth that resonates down human history, from the biologicall… 

Who We Are, What We Do and Why We Do It

Who We Are, What We Do and Why We Do It

WGGB is the union negotiating writers’ terms with broadcasters, theatres, etc; lobbying in Westminster, Edinburgh and Brussels; advising members over work issues. 

The Fringe Fair

The Fringe Fair

An opportunity to interact with key organisations such as funders, arts councils, training providers and agencies. 

Royal Mile Book Fringe

Royal Mile Book Fringe

Join the banter with some of the most outspoken writers in independent Scottish publishing. 

Small Talk

Small Talk

Tallulah Bankhead once said, ‘Acting is a form of confusion’ - she would find no better corroborator than Antonia Grove in Small Talk. 

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Matt and Ian's Improv Show

Comedy improvisers Matt and Ian are sensible enough to start their show with what the unkind might describe as their get-out clause; they admit, from the start, that they ‘might … 

Brighton Fringe: Take Part 2014

Brighton Fringe: Take Part 2014

Come and find out about participating in Brighton Fringe, England’s largest arts festival. 

ComedySportz @ Laughing Horse Free Festival

ComedySportz @ Laughing Horse Free Festival

Manchester’s top improv troupe is back for its fifth Edinburgh outing. 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Where to go next? Hear from, and meet, performing companies and venues who have recently experienced other Fringe festivals. 

What Fringe Next?

What Fringe Next?

Where to go next? Make the most of your Edinburgh experience and meet performing companies and venues who have recently experienced other Fringe festivals. 

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test and Other Real Life Mysteries.

Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test and Other Real Life Mysteries.

Given that, at one point, Jon Ronson describes himself as ‘essentially [just] a humorous journalist out of his depth,’ you might be surprised that the Cardiff-born writer and docum… 

Loud & Proud on the Fringe

Loud & Proud on the Fringe

Scotland’s first and foremost LGBT choir returned to the Fringe with a selection of a cappella music which stirred the soul. 

Booking Dance Festival Split Bill

Booking Dance Festival Split Bill

  • Listing
    • Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
  • Edinburgh Fringe
  • 17th - 18th Aug 2013

Exquisite, enticing, exhilarating dance from two top USA companies. 

Fringe Festivals Around the World

Fringe Festivals Around the World

A once-a-year chance to meet and hear from Fringe Festival Directors from around the world. 

CineFringe Film Festival 2013

CineFringe Film Festival 2013

CineFringe is a small affair, yet its efforts to fly the filmic flag at the Fringe are admirable. 

Booking Dance Festival - Split Bill

Booking Dance Festival - Split Bill

  • Listing
    • Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
  • Edinburgh Fringe
  • 17th - 18th Aug 2013

Exquisite, extraordinary, captivating dance from two top USA companies. 

World Fringe Fair

World Fringe Fair

Meet other Fringe Festivals from across the globe and find out how you can take part. 

Stuart Maconie - The People’s Songs

Stuart Maconie - The People’s Songs

‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. 

Heavy Petting / Free Festival

Heavy Petting / Free Festival

Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group are back with their spookiest show yet. 

Funny Women Pop Up Fringe

Funny Women Pop Up Fringe

Unfortunately, it still seems remarkable enough for a comedy show’s bill to be entirely populated by women that the Funny Women Pop-Up Fringe marketed their lineup as such. 

Story's End

Story's End

Even on paper, this ‘reconnaissance mission into the no-man’s land where death borders storytelling’ has the potential to be either really good or a recipe for self-indulgence; a… 

Booking Dance Festival Showcase

Booking Dance Festival Showcase

Booking Dance Festival’s annual Fringe show always promises a high-octane hybrid of dance styles, with seven companies participating in one enticing show. 

Booking Dance Festival - Showcase

Booking Dance Festival - Showcase

The Booking Dance Festival is a self-titled ‘dance festival within a festival,’ and their annual Fringe showcase certainly offers the opportunity to experience a smorgasbord of… 

Our Father

Our Father

Honesty’s important in stand-up; so’s making stuff up, obviously, but audiences can generally sniff out if the person on stage doesn’t – at least for that moment – believe in … 

The Fringe Comedy Academy: Class of 2013

The Fringe Comedy Academy: Class of 2013

Join the graduates of the Fringe Comedy Academy, a unique project supporting the development of emerging comedy talent. 

Drama School: Which Course? Where? When? Why?

Drama School: Which Course? Where? When? Why?

Aimed at those considering Conservatoire Drama School training. 

Producers' Panel - Life After the Fringe

Producers' Panel - Life After the Fringe

Stage One, the charity dedicated to developing the next generation of commercial theatre producers will be putting together an industry panel to discuss the producing profession an… 

Blues! Live at Venue 45

Blues! Live at Venue 45

The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45. 

Music of Two Nations

Music of Two Nations

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. 

Traditional Piano Music from Scotland and Ireland

Traditional Piano Music from Scotland and Ireland

Like other communities in Europe that have historically suffered political repression the Celtic peoples of the British Isles have for centuries expressed their culture through mus… 

Music in Manufacture

Music in Manufacture

Comprised of 9 silent short films with musical accompaniments from Dmytro Morykit, Music in Manufacture seeks to bring together two different mediums to create something entirely n… 

Music of Two Nations

Music of Two Nations

The two nations represented in this one-off concert were China and Scotland, with Dong Yi and Eddie McGuire as representatives. 

Poems and Pots

Poems and Pots

John Rivers is the first to admit he’s not an entertainer and that Poems and Pots isn’t a ‘show’ as such, but hopefully a relaxing opportunity to tease out and encourage the creati… 

A Hundred Minus One Day

A Hundred Minus One Day

Playwright Idgie Beau sets out the parameters of A Hundred Minus One Day quickly and economically; 20 year old Jen, who has lived away from home for many years, has returned to her… 

Easter Eggs

Easter Eggs

There’s an unfortunate earnestness to this short piece from the Bangor English Drama Society, as they attempt with both script and performance to be all grown up and serious about … 

The Ivor Novello Story

The Ivor Novello Story

‘A successful bachelor is always a puzzle to others,’ says the singer James Dinsmore, playing the composer and actor Ivor Novello. 

Ceòl na Pìoba is Ceòl na Gàidhealtachd - An Evening of Traditional Highland Music

Ceòl na Pìoba is Ceòl na Gàidhealtachd - An Evening of Traditional Highland Music

A celebration of Scottish Highland music featuring the great Highland bagpipe, the clarsach (harp), and traditional singing. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church. 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Join the Cathedral’s choir and congregation for an uplifting Sunday service with the finest cathedral music, featuring mass settings by Palestrina (11), Mozart (18) and Kenneth L… 

76 Million People and Me

76 Million People and Me

Four dictators are in a rowing boat to hell. 

The Perilous Botanical Expedition

The Perilous Botanical Expedition

In May 2013, David Piper - the modestly-titled ‘Global Ambassador’ for Scottish boutique gin producer Hendrick’s - accompanied master distiller Lesley Gracie and celebrated a… 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Choral services sung by the Cathedral choir, the only choral foundation in Scotland with a tradition of daily services. 

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

Cathedral Festival Eucharists

It is barely a week since I reviewed Cathedral Festival Evensongs at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place but these two services are listed separately in the Fringe Programme … 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Old Saint Paul's Festival Masses

Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ. 

Val McDermid - Killing People For Fun and Profit

Val McDermid - Killing People For Fun and Profit

As a writer I am always keen to find out how other writers tap into their creative process, and the opportunity to delve into the mind of such a prolific writer as Val McDermid in … 

Origin: Music's Creation from Page to Stage

Origin: Music's Creation from Page to Stage

An exploration of our life’s journey through original song in multiple genres, enhanced by visual imagery, that tells a story of finding our way in the choices we make through st… 

Why Let Death Get in the Way of a Good Conversation?

Why Let Death Get in the Way of a Good Conversation?

Richard Wiseman hosts an evening of ectoplasm and uncanny spectacle as we cross to the other side and communicate with the deceased. Tickets include one delightful cocktail. 

Robert Louis Stevenson - Songs and Music

Robert Louis Stevenson - Songs and Music

Sold out Fringe 2012! This lovely show returns with the critically acclaimed From a Garden of Songs, RLS’s own songs, poems from a Child’s Garden of Verses and a performance of Ste… 

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

Kids Do Forth on the Fringe

This show offers a wide variety of acts that are sure to excite and amuse all the family. 

Edinburgh Book Fringe

Edinburgh Book Fringe

World Power Books is Scotland’s most famous radical independent bookshop, situated in the heart of Edinburgh, and host of the Edinburgh Book Fringe. 

The Four Seasons in Music and Verse

The Four Seasons in Music and Verse

Youth string ensemble South West Camerata, a JUTP Music ensemble perform Vivaldi Four Seasons with poetry recitations at St Giles’ Cathedral on Friday 9th August at 12.15pm. 

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox. 

Sharing the Space: The Role of Collaboration in Contemporary Performance Practice

Sharing the Space: The Role of Collaboration in Contemporary Performance Practice

A workshop exploring collaboration and devising in contemporary theatre, led by Tashi Gore and Jess Thorpe, Artistic Directors of Glas(s) Performance and producers of the award-wi… 

Writing Plays for Young People

Writing Plays for Young People

Head of Drama at Trinity College London, John Gardyne does not lecture in the art of playwriting, yet he makes an engaging host for this one-hour workshop encouraging the craft. 

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival

The Foodies Festival largely delivers what it promises: ‘Artisan producers’ - check; ‘Michelin-starred chefs cooking live’ - check; ‘the best in fine food and drink’ �… 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

The renaissance of vinyl continues! This year’s event contains an even greater selection of collectible LPs and singles. 

Festival CD and Record Fair

Festival CD and Record Fair

Great selection of collectable vinyl! LPs and singles from the 50s to present day. 

Edinburgh Book Fringe

Edinburgh Book Fringe

Join writers, comedians and activists from around the world in Word Power Books, Edinburgh’s independent radical bookshop. 

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Funny Stuff for Happy People

Wearing a kilt, a red stripy top and a pair of gold earrings, the bearded Martin ‘Bigpig’ Mor somehow made me think of a Scottish pirate in a children’s storybook. 

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival

Foodies Festival moves to Inverleith Park this year, opposite the Botanical Gardens, bringing you the best in fine food and drink. 

Why We Make Mistakes

Why We Make Mistakes

If you are yet to travel down to the Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge, I encourage you to. 

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!

It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun … 

Dean Friedman - Words and Music

Dean Friedman - Words and Music

Dean Friedman is a personable guy. 

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

University Professors at the Fringe Networking Event

Fringe University believes that the Edinburgh Fringe makes an excellent classroom. 

A Play With Songs ... and Music and Film and Dance

A Play With Songs ... and Music and Film and Dance

Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme. 

Fringe Comedy Academy: In Conversation With...

Fringe Comedy Academy: In Conversation With...

The Fringe Society chats with comedians at the top of their game. 

Music from a Piece of Leaf

Music from a Piece of Leaf

Music from a Piece of Leaf. 

Robin Ince - Importance of Being Interested

Robin Ince - Importance of Being Interested

The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane once stated his suspicion that ‘the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose’. 

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Classical Accordion at the Fringe

Paul Chamberlain, professional accordionist and accomplished musician in the field of classical music, brings a fresh performance to the Fringe Festival with his accordion music, a… 

Invisible People Journeys

Invisible People Journeys

3rdThought, the renowned over-65’s theatre company, have bestowed upon the public an utterly charming new idea that revolves around personalised one-to-one performances. 

Kafka’s A Report to an Academy

Kafka’s A Report to an Academy

Warning: this show opens with a man middle-aged man clad only briefs. 

His Majesty, the Devil – a Play With Music

His Majesty, the Devil – a Play With Music

Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them. 

That's Not How You Spell Pedantic

That's Not How You Spell Pedantic

Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’. 

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations. 

Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar

Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar

Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan… 

British Vocal Jazz Festival

British Vocal Jazz Festival

Manhattan has The Carlyle, London has Ronnie’s, Edinburgh has Le Monde playing host to the finest jazz singers - Carol Kidd, Gwyneth Herbert, Clare Teal, Joe Stilgoe, Niki King, To… 

Chops

Chops

Chops is not a piece of naturalistic theatre, but then that’s hardly to be expected, given that this ‘linguistic farce’ by Brooklyn-based artist Kirin McCrory, performed by an all-… 

Death Ship 666

Death Ship 666

Death Ship 666 is Airplane meets Titanic; an exuberant rollercoaster ride of humorous grotesques, which revels in its own clichés and absurdities. 

Celebrating 40 Years of the Fringe Firsts

Celebrating 40 Years of the Fringe Firsts

The Pleasance in association with The Scotsman celebrates the Fringe First Awards with four readings, one from each decade. 

The Sunday Assembly

The Sunday Assembly

It’s said that the Devil has all the best tunes, but why shouldn’t the Godless also enjoy the fun and sense of community that comes from gathering on a Sunday morning to enjoy coff… 

Shit of the Fringe

Shit of the Fringe

Tired of all the Pick of the Fringe shows? Worn-out by Fringe hyperbole? This late-night showcase has all the great comedians that have got bad reviews, and deserve more! The best … 

High Masses - Music for the Liturgy

High Masses - Music for the Liturgy

Experience Mass settings within their original church context. 

Ginger Nation

Ginger Nation

Canadian Shawn Hitchins bounces onto the stage with puppy-like energy, rushing straight into a ‘blond, brunette and a ginger’ joke to make the point that, as ‘a person of primary c… 

Moraletry - PBH's Free Fringe

Moraletry - PBH's Free Fringe

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. 

Young & Strange - Magic, Illusion and a Hate for Each Other

Young & Strange - Magic, Illusion and a Hate for Each Other

Most magic shows you find on the Fringe nowadays are necessarily intimate, close-up affairs – not least because of the size of the available venues, budgets and the ‘close magic’… 

Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret

This all-female spoken word cabaret claims to offer ‘a veritable smorgasbord of poetry’; yet even though it is, to a certain extent, a daily-changing ‘sampler’ of numerous performa… 

Barry's Audio Tour of the Fringe

Barry's Audio Tour of the Fringe

This downloadable tour invites you into the Fringe’s histories, through intimate anecdotes from veteran performers like Arthur Smith and Simon Munnery. 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Head to the magnificent Grand Gallery to celebrate the Museum’s collections through daily live music performances, from Renaissance to the best young contemporary Scottish tal… 

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Now enjoying its third year in Edinburgh, the Magic Faraway Cabaret has a reputation for presenting the best burlesque, variety and sideshow skills available in the Scottish capita… 

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Magic Faraway Cabaret

Cabarets are, by their very nature, fluid and changeable beasts, especially those in Edinburgh which act as convenient samplers of what’s available elsewhere on the Fringe. 

Music on the Street

Music on the Street

An event to bring Christian gospel music from the church to our streets. 

Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)

Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)

I first saw Alexis Dubus perform in 2008, when his ‘A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing’ provided an interesting spine on which to hang some very funny material – and a justificati… 

Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive

Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive

Last year, with Activism is Fun, comedian Chris Coltrane explained how he had returned to political action after years of apathy, not least because – thanks to the likes of direc… 

Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured

Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured

According to the neat-suited Paul Dabek, the Magic Circle demands that all its members must include a card trick at some point in their act, otherwise there’s a terrible risk of ‘m… 

Bristol Improv Presents... / PBH's Free Fringe

Bristol Improv Presents... / PBH's Free Fringe

Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever. 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Enjoying a 22nd season with one of the most-established revue shows on the Fringe circuit, Mervyn Stutter at one point implores his audience to ‘pass the message on’ about his … 

Phillip and Marjorie's Marriage Preparation Course for Regular People and The Gays

Phillip and Marjorie's Marriage Preparation Course for Regular People and The Gays

Phillip and Marjorie are a skilled double act whose thoroughly entertaining Marriage Preparation Course will hopefully not be taken seriously by many. 

At the Fringe of Reason

At the Fringe of Reason

Entertainment comes in many forms during the Fringe and for those of us who value cerebral stimulation as much as funny-bone tickling, I cannot recommend the Edinburgh Skeptics eno… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

The wonderfully-named Mervyn Stutter bounds to the stage, resplendent in an outrageous pink suit. 

Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH's Free Fringe

Tickled Pig Presents: The Noon Show / PBH's Free Fringe

Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the… 

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem. 

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Worst Show On the Fringe - Free

Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Julian Clary. 

George Galloway’s Fighting Talk

George Galloway’s Fighting Talk

George Galloway arrives on stage chewing gum and wearing a military style jacket. 

Evie and the Perfect Cupcake / PBH's Free Fringe

Evie and the Perfect Cupcake / PBH's Free Fringe

Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist. 

We Are All Orange Ghosts

We Are All Orange Ghosts

Popular culture often gets derided by critics because, unlike many of the so-called ‘great’ works of art (you know, the ones that allegedly make you look good when ‘appreciat… 

Huggers - Free Festival

Huggers - Free Festival

This show is something of a smorgasbord of family entertainment. 

Radio Forth on the Fringe

Radio Forth on the Fringe

Radio Forth on the Fringe opened its sixth annual showcase with a bang last night at Edinburgh’s Playhouse. 

Wine School at the Fringe

Wine School at the Fringe

Wine School at the Fringe presents off the beaten rack - hidden gems for the adventurous wine explorer. Join Claire Blackler for this guided tasting tour of alternative wines. 

Tales from the Fringe

Tales from the Fringe

A stand-up comedy show about the Fringe - the Edinburgh Fringe, the fringes of life, the fringes of the comedy circuit itself. Hosted by Barry Ferns. ‘Surreal genius’ (Metro). 

Virgin Money Fringe on the Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on the Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

First Time at the Fringe

First Time at the Fringe

Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience. 

Emerging Music Showcase

Emerging Music Showcase

A beautiful way to start your Fringe! Three of Scotland’s most critically acclaimed new artists, Turning Plates, Jo Mango and The State Broadcasters, perform an intimate seated eve… 

Björn Gustafsson

Björn Gustafsson

From the start, I must point out that I fully accept that standing up on a stage, making people laugh in a foreign language, even if it’s the ‘lingua franca’ of the western world (… 

In Tune With Dementia

In Tune With Dementia

It has been said that the one ‘mercy’ dementia offers is that the person who has it doesn’t know they do; so it is with the emotive subject of this solo play written and perf… 

Radio Forth On the Fringe

Radio Forth On the Fringe

The largest showcase of Fringe entertainment at this year’s festival! Featuring a selection of some of the biggest names in music, comedy and entertainment. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

Edinburgh’s famous quadruple award-winning music venue hosts Fringe shows daily and also promotes its own superb jazz and funk programme. 

West End at the Fringe

West End at the Fringe

With a cast featuring London-based professionals, this show-stopping production is brilliant for lovers of classic and contemporary musicals. 

Gay Straight Alliance

Gay Straight Alliance

In some 4,000 High Schools across the US, you’ll find a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) group. 

French Kiss

French Kiss

One of the delights of the Fringe is that it can throw up the unexpected; so, for example, the first time I hear a delightfully bad-taste joke about a recent double suicide in one … 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Virgin Money Fringe on The Mound

Watch spectacular street entertainment on the doorstep of the National Galleries of Scotland. 

We, Object

We, Object

‘We, Object. 

Shaggers - Free Festival

Shaggers - Free Festival

The hit show returns after more sell-out shows around the world. 

Macbeth

Macbeth

Returning to, and re-staging, the “classics” is not without challenges, not least because they were often originally written at a time when actors were considerably cheaper to hire… 

Virgin Money Fringe on The Royal Mile

Virgin Money Fringe on The Royal Mile

Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows. 

Alistair Green: Ping Pong

Alistair Green: Ping Pong

Ping Pong is an energetic game usually involving two or four people, but this latest stand-up show from Alistair Green is very much a one-man endeavour, with the only significant b… 

Rick Kiesewetter: Chink

Rick Kiesewetter: Chink

Identity is a complicated matter for Rick Kiesewetter; not least because, as he points out from the start, his Asian face doesn’t match most people’s expectations of his adoptive f… 

Shaggers - Free Festival

Shaggers - Free Festival

An hour long comedy show featuring five different acts talking about sex? After a few pints this starts to seem like a great idea and I would recommend the show to any finding them… 

The Year I Was Gifted

The Year I Was Gifted

The anthemic song ‘We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ by The Animals sets the scene for this one-woman, biographical monologue by the writer and performer Monica Bauer. 

Rhys James Prepares / Free Festival

Rhys James Prepares / Free Festival

Rhys will tell some brilliant jokes, do some incredible poems and then leave. 

Jazz Bar Music

Jazz Bar Music

Edinburgh’s famous, multiple award-winning atmospheric music venue hosts all kinds of shows all day from 1pm, and stages its own fantastic programme of high-quality modern jazz, la… 

First Time at the Fringe

First Time at the Fringe

Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience. 

Gay Straight Alliance

Gay Straight Alliance

Nominally, a Gay Straight Alliance is a pupil-based group found in some (though sadly too few) US schools, which meets regularly to discuss issues around homosexuality in order to … 

Sandel

Sandel

‘I’ll save you yet,’ says the precocious Antony Sandel to the object of his desires, David Rogers. 

Kevin Dewsbury Out Now

Kevin Dewsbury Out Now

Kevin Dewsbury is a bloke. 

EastEnd Cabaret: Dirty Talk

EastEnd Cabaret: Dirty Talk

The award-winning musical comedy duo return with all-new and hilariously naughty original songs. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free

  • Listing
    • Children’s Shows / Children’s Shows
  • Edinburgh Fringe
  • 1st - 25th Aug 2013

Scottish dancing for all the family. 

It Goes Without Saying

It Goes Without Saying

When Broadway veteran and world-famous mime Bill Bowers starts his show talking about sitting in a Hollywood make-up truck at three in the morning, with Hugh Grant to his left and … 

Way Back

Way Back

Beachy Head in East Sussex has the tallest chalk sea cliffs in Britain, offering some fabulous views along the south east coast and across the English Channel. 

Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?

Why Is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt?

Everyday society accepts woman who wear jeans, trainers and a t shirt as normal, yet if a man walked down the street in stockings, skirt and high heels that is seen as abnormal. 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe. 

Burton's Last Call

Burton's Last Call

Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him … 

Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy

Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy

It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’… 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Once a week during the Fringe, Blackwell’s is hosting evenings dedicated to celebrating Scotland’s rich literary scene. 

Luke Wright: Essex Lion

Luke Wright: Essex Lion

‘Officer don’t be a Benny/the thing we saw was MGM-y. 

Roll It in Sequins

Roll It in Sequins

There’s a playful, rough-round-the-edges physicality throughout this new show by Megan Heffernan and Sophie Fletcher. 

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

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. 

The Pyramids of Margate

The Pyramids of Margate

While the BBC’s iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who is currently one of the biggest, most popular shows on television at the moment - and it’s likely to be everywhere this November, wh… 

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe. 

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide

Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide

Science reveals, magic conceals, but both can inspire a sense of wonder, according to stage magician Oliver Meech. 

Liz Lochhead: Apple Says Aaah - and Other Poems, Pommes and People

Liz Lochhead: Apple Says Aaah - and Other Poems, Pommes and People

Liz Lochhead is the Scots Makar (the Scottish equivalent of the Poet Laureate) and she begins her performance with a poem from the perspective of an apple (entitled ‘The Apple’s … 

Rob Lloyd: Who, Me

Rob Lloyd: Who, Me

This is not the first time Doctor Who has been put on trial. 

Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free

Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free

In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours. 

The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Bonanza / Free Festival

The Bob Blackman Appreciation Society Bonanza / Free Festival

A mad mish-mash of absurdism and warped nostalgia, encountering the Bob Blackman Appreciation Society felt more akin to my psyche bleeding out into the back room of an old boozer t… 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

The six players that make up the Milk Monitors attempt to bring to life those Jane Austen novels which history has forgotten. 

Nik Coppin - Mixed Racist (Free Festival)

Nik Coppin - Mixed Racist (Free Festival)

Addressing race related issues for an hour can potentially be very uncomfortable. 

Shelby Bond: People Pleaser

Shelby Bond: People Pleaser

Shelby Bond is a self-professed ‘nice guy’ who suffers the wrath of a world that never repays his kind. 

Daly's Comedy Club @ The Edinburgh Fringe

Daly's Comedy Club @ The Edinburgh Fringe

In this special free Fringe show you can expect the unexpected with some of our favourite acts handpicked for each show and a different line-up every day, there is something for ev… 

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe

This series of free events gives the public a chance to see, listen to and meet Scottish literary performers, from poets to crime novelists, folk musicians to a-capella singers; a … 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free

CeilidhKids at the Fringe - Free

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… 

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Commercially, Austentatious is perhaps one of the easiest sells on the Free Fringe: a popular and intensely loved literary brand – Austen – combined with the most crowd-pleasin… 

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival

Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival

Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything. 

Zapp and Dembina - Comedy After Lunch / Free Festival

Zapp and Dembina - Comedy After Lunch / Free Festival

Inveterate gagster Ivor Dembina **** (Guardian) chaperones you through an hour of comedy, music, guest and surprises, news and reviews all in collusion with the Orchestra of An… 

The Phantom of the Fringe

The Phantom of the Fringe

A famous and glamorous actress finds herself in the worst situation: acting in Fringe theatre! A tragicomedy about illusion, fantasy, and their dark sides… 

Festival of the Spoken Nerd - Full Frontal Nerdity

Festival of the Spoken Nerd - Full Frontal Nerdity

Warning: Do not attend this show if you do not want to learn something new. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

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

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

‘The King of Edinburgh’ returns to The Stand with the daily podcast all the cool kids are calling ‘RHEFP!’ Running almost every day throughout the Fringe, each show consist… 

A Simple Space

A Simple Space

It is not often you leave a performance lost of words. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - In Space

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - In Space

If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you. 

Scott Agnew - Something's Gotta Give

Scott Agnew - Something's Gotta Give

There’s a point in every show when stand-up Scott Agnew drops what he calls ‘the G bomb’; that is, he mentions that he’s gay. 

Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol

Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol

Dan Nightingale wants us to like him. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

Sell-out Edinburgh 2012 and 2013 Adelaide Fringe. 

Jamie Demetriou: People Day

Jamie Demetriou: People Day

Jamie Demetriou has come up with and employed a great and original idea for his Pleasance comedy set. 

Music Show - Wedding!

Music Show - Wedding!

It is rather difficult to pinpoint exactly why Music Show, Wedding! is so enjoyable. 

Fast Fringe

Fast Fringe

Are you the indecisive sort who suffers a meltdown at the thought of having to decide between shows from the novel-thick Fringe guide? Are you loath to bend to the will of the more… 

Russ Powell: Powell to the People

Russ Powell: Powell to the People

Power to Powell and his people, with a show that had plenty of promise and, at moments, was particularly perfect. 

Bright Club: Scotland's Fringe

Bright Club: Scotland's Fringe

A show that gathers different academics, doctors, scientists and the like to intellectually entertain has real potential and if the hour had been filled with funny facts from enter… 

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

During the Fringe, a haven for ill equipped hastily prepared venues, it can be reassuring to witness a comedy show at a place dedicated to stand up all year round. 

Festival Chill-Out Zone

Festival Chill-Out Zone

The Fringe doesn’t offer many opportunities for a bit of a breather, which is why Neal’s Yard Remedies have created a Festival Chill-Out Zone for the duration of the festival. 

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Footstomping Traditional Scottish Music

Join us for a footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the WHISKI Bar during August. 

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

Fringe Schools Poster Exhibition

See the vibrant world of the Fringe through the eyes of schoolchildren from across Scotland at this free exhibition of entries in the 2013 Fringe Schools Poster Competition, includ… 

Festival Folk @ the Oak

Festival Folk @ the Oak

Edinburgh’s famous hub for folk music presents 35 nights of acoustic folk and traditional music, featuring a different singer, musician or group every night, including some of th… 

Absolutely Free Live Music

Absolutely Free Live Music

Situated on the historic Royal Mile, open from 9am – 3am every day. 

Fringe Film Festival

Fringe Film Festival

Returning for its ninth season, critically acclaimed curated programme showcases silver screen shorts and contemporary filmmakers all day, every day. 

Absolutely Free Live Music

Absolutely Free Live Music

Whistlebinkies really wants you to know they have free live music. 

Absolutely Free Live Music

Absolutely Free Live Music

If you find yourself staggering down the Royal Mile at 2am desperately looking for a drink, there is a string of late-night live music bars ready to keep your liver happy and suppl… 

New York Musical Theater Festival

New York Musical Theater Festival

(performances start on July 7) Summer will become just that much more harmonious when this festival opens its 11th season. 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Given that the original award-winning novel by Mark Haddon is told from the very singular, focused perspective of a 15-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, it’s surprising that… 

People Will Talk: An Improvised Play

People Will Talk: An Improvised Play

Five experienced improvisers each request an audience suggestion, ranging from an item found in an attic to anyone’s favourite chocolate bar, and on the spot create characters and… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Fringe venue behemoth Laughing Horse present a mixed bag of comedy upstairs at the Quadrant hosted by mentalist magician Mr. 

Funny Women at the Fringe

Funny Women at the Fringe

A soggy Sunday afternoon spent in a cosy tent with the rain pitter-pattering on the roof felt much better than the battle of brollies it took to get there. 

Loretta Maine: I'm Not Drunk, I Just Need to Talk to You

Loretta Maine: I'm Not Drunk, I Just Need to Talk to You

The Caves on the Cowgate certainly can’t be accused of over-selling itself as a venue - you get exactly what it says on the ticket as you’re ushered into their dingy cellar, alread… 

Quantum Battlestar Deep-Space Voyager Tardis Wars: The Million-Dollar Space Epic

Quantum Battlestar Deep-Space Voyager Tardis Wars: The Million-Dollar Space Epic

If the title has somehow not given it away already, a warning should be given to the unenlightened. 

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

Cathedral Festival Evensongs

I have reviewed a number of services in ordinary churches and I am comfortable reviewing them as performances while not covering the worship aspects that are between God and the wo… 

Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?

Why Do You Stand There in the Rain?

During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses. 

Laurent Piron - Unusual Day

Laurent Piron - Unusual Day

Are our lives ruled by fate or chance? It’s hard to decide most of the time but even harder when a stage magician is making the seemingly impossible happen before your eyes. 

Allotment

Allotment

At the heart of Allotment is a simple, visual metaphor: the burial and later uncovering of objects in the earth that clearly mirrors the suppression and later resurrection of memor… 

Funny's Funny: Fantastic Fringe Finale - Free

Funny's Funny: Fantastic Fringe Finale - Free

‘Funny’s funny, except when it’s not’ seems to be the general message of this compilation show. 

Robert Louis Stevenson - Songs and Music

Robert Louis Stevenson - Songs and Music

An evening dedicated to songs and music inspired by Stevenson and his writings, this one-off performance of the critically acclaimed CD ‘From a Garden of Songs’ was a rare trea… 

Music at St Michael and All Saints

Music at St Michael and All Saints

This venue has just one entry in the Fringe Festival programme and this covers 11 different events. 

Chortle Presents: Fast Fringe

Chortle Presents: Fast Fringe

Chortle has long been a staple for any keen comedy fan. 

Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club

Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club

Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I … 

Paul Dabek - Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Paul Dabek - Nothing Up My Sleeve!

Can a magician’s hand really be faster than the human eye? Paul Dabek may well use that serious question as an excuse for a simple physical joke, but by the end of this excellent… 

Nicki Hobday Conquers Space

Nicki Hobday Conquers Space

Nikki Hobday is worried about her onstage identity and what she’s going to achieve with the space she’s been given. 

Live At The Electric: Live At The Fringe

Live At The Electric: Live At The Fringe

Live at The Electric promised some of the best sketch comedy of the Fringe hosted by the extremely likable and endearing Russell Kane. 

Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets

Grainne Maguire - We Need to Talk About Bonnets

There are about ten people in a dank attic room for what Grainne Maguire repeatedly describes as a ‘late night bonnet show’, meaning that for the majority of her set she doesn’t ev… 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title. 

From Houdini to Potter

From Houdini to Potter

Yorkshire-born Chris Cassells seems such a trustworthy young man that it’s somewhat disconcerting to realise that he’s already recognised as a rising star among the UK’s stag… 

The Beta Males in... The Space Race

The Beta Males in... The Space Race

In a market saturated by sketch comedy, The Beta Males understand that something more is needed to entice the audience. 

Chamber Music

Chamber Music

We are given a window into a mental asylum as this absurdist tale of tragic delusion unfolds before us. 

Wild Allegations

Wild Allegations

Matthew John Curtis is famous. 

Music for All

Music for All

Covering a range of singer/songwriter greats, Juliet Nisbet and Bruce Birrell, collectively known as Spirit of Love, take us on a musical journey across Scotland, Ireland, France a… 

People

People

The premise of this show seems slightly crazy: writer and director David Levin wrote a series of poems that were then sent out to nine different composers across the world, and the… 

The Music Box

The Music Box

The Music Box, a new play by Cambridge University’s Emma Stirling is not only bad, but bad for theatre. 

Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking

Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking

A dinner party and a stand-up comedy performance might not seem to have much in common - and, in social terms, they don’t - but Xavier Toby gamely welcomed his first Edinburgh au… 

The Hand-Me-Down People

The Hand-Me-Down People

The story of toys coming to life and conducting their own lives in the absence of children may sound familiar but The Hand-Me-Down People takes a far bleaker look at these discarde… 

My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver

My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver

Like much of the comedy currently clogging up Edinburgh, Toby Hadoke’s latest show is fundamentally about the man on stage, about his life experiences and his personal relationsh… 

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

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… 

Belgrave and Manera's Music Club

Belgrave and Manera's Music Club

Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success. 

Harry Baker: Proper Pop-up Purple Paper People

Harry Baker: Proper Pop-up Purple Paper People

Harry Baker: World Slam Champion 2012, immaculate wordsmith and genuinely nice guy. 

Bank On Music

Bank On Music

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

Stories from the Middle

Stories from the Middle

Contrary to what some critics might suggest, it’s not a comfortable experience seeing someone ‘coming off the rails’ on stage, especially when they’re clearly talented and … 

Doug Segal: How to Read Minds and Influence People

Doug Segal: How to Read Minds and Influence People

If we believe everything we see, at least on the video screen, the stage mentalist Doug Segal can get from his hotel bed to the venue — stopping off mid-route to buy a lottery ti… 

Free Fringe Music

Free Fringe Music

Thomas Annand and David Day have come all the way from Ireland to prove that there’s far more to African drumming than monotonous banging. 

The Birdies Film Festival

The Birdies Film Festival

The Birdies Film Festival at the Odeon in Kingston left everyone with a chippering sensation of delight. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

The cozy upstairs room of The Quadrant was all-abuzz with the sound of glasses clinking and chitter-chatter, preceding what I hoped would be a night of raucous laughter and merrime… 

Age of the Geek

Age of the Geek

You know you’ve experienced a genuine one-man Fringe show when the guy who’s been performing on stage for the previous 50 minutes has to jump down, run to the tech desk at the … 

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go… 

Music at Palmerston Place

Music at Palmerston Place

This was the first of a series of 6 evening concerts They are free, though a retiring collection is requested. 

The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People

The Letter of Last Resort and Good With People

Traverse has presented the most elegant of double bills for the Fringe by showcasing two of Scotland’s prized playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower. 

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

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

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

Talk Radio

Talk Radio

This version of Eric Bergosian’s mid-eighties tale of one broadcast in the life of trail blazing shock jock Barry Champlain is one of the most hyped in this year’s festival. 

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking. 

Scotland in Song

Scotland in Song

It’s no small challenge to summarise a country and its history in a single hour, which is perhaps why Carolyn Anona Scott and Jack Foster instead choose to pay ‘homage’ to Sc… 

Scottish Music Traditional and New

Scottish Music Traditional and New

The bagpipes might be the butt of more jokes at the Fringe than any other subject. 

Make Music Winter

Make Music Winter

Bundle up for the cold-weather version of the annual summer Make Music New York festival. 

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of The Fringe

Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of The Fringe

In an age of ever rising ticket prices and purple cow shaped venues it is nice to find something that represents good old fashioned value. 

Sanderson Jones - ComedySale.com/Fringe

Sanderson Jones - ComedySale.com/Fringe

There aren’t many taboos left in comedy. 

An Evening With Dementia

An Evening With Dementia

In his book about the onset of his wife’s dementia, former ITN journalist John Suchet explained that the one ‘mercy’ he could see about the condition was that the person with… 

The Edinburgh International Circus Festival

The Edinburgh International Circus Festival

I have a confession to make: until recently, I’d never been to the circus. 

Gráinne Maguire: Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun?

Gráinne Maguire: Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better Fun?

Comic and self-confessed ‘try-too-hard’ Gráinne Maguire visits Edinburgh this year with her latest show Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better… 

'Ave a Banana: A Knees Up Through Time and Space

'Ave a Banana: A Knees Up Through Time and Space

Make sure you are on time for this show: you’ll get enough exercise during this hour-long musical romp without sprinting down Nicholson Street beforehand. 

Re-Animator The Musical

Re-Animator The Musical

You know something’s different about a show when the people in the first three rows - also known as the slosh pit - are issued with cheap Scotland-branded ponchos. 

Author

Author

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

We Hope That You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?)

We Hope That You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?)

Made in China’s We Hope You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a 50 minute snapshot of two lifelong friends, Jess and Chris, sharing a night in, while everyone else is out getting… 

Nik Coppin's Caricatures - Free Festival

Nik Coppin's Caricatures - Free Festival

Sometimes a gig feels like visiting an old friend - the audience have never seen the comedian before, but we have seen comics like him and he’s had audiences like us. 

Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens. Dr. Marigold and Mr.Chops - The Dwarf.

Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens. Dr. Marigold and Mr.Chops - The Dwarf.

Callow has a strong and long relationship with Dickens including a hugely successful performance as the author himself in “The Mystery of Charles Dickens“, and appearing as the m… 

Prototype Festival: Opera/Theater/Now

Prototype Festival: Opera/Theater/Now

(performances start on Jan. 

Academy Of Death

Academy Of Death

Academy Of Death is one of two musicals at this year’s Fringe in which the major theme is body-snatching in Edinburgh in the 1820’s, the other being Burke And Hare – A Musical P… 

Why Do All Catherines Call Themselves Kate?

Why Do All Catherines Call Themselves Kate?

The lights go up on a run-down flat with a couple, Pat and Susan, that look like they’re in the middle of one hell of a row. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

I must start with two clear statements. 

Mil's Trills' Music and Stories

Mil's Trills' Music and Stories

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

The Curious Couple from Coney

The Curious Couple from Coney

The exquisitely moustached showman Donny Vomit was just 14, visiting an Oklahoma County Fair, when he saw a man swallow a long balloon. 

Scottish Falsetto Socks – In Space

Scottish Falsetto Socks – In Space

Let’s see, how can I describe this one? There are a couple of socks that like to sing (up high, mind). 

Irreconcilable Differences

Irreconcilable Differences

There’s one small, very special audience that most of us will be legally obliged to join at some point in our lives — a jury. 

Music @ St Cuthbert's

Music @ St Cuthbert's

The best often start out young. 

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

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

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

Chinese Music Traditional and New

Chinese Music Traditional and New

The connection between traditional Scottish music and Chinese music is something I had given no thought to until this concert, but the Harmony Ensemble changed all that with their … 

When Holidays Attack

When Holidays Attack

Given the importance many people put on their annual holiday — the glittering gift to themselves for enduring the hard slog of everyday life for the rest of the year — there�… 

Bespoke Magic - On the Fringe of Reality

Bespoke Magic - On the Fringe of Reality

I may be wrong - and do tell me if you know how it’s done - but I think I may have just seen the best, simplest, most perplexing and gob-stoppingly awesome trick I’ve ever seen. 

Montmorency

Montmorency

There’s a long tradition of the gentleman thief - not least in Edinburgh, the city of Deacon Brodie - so it probably seemed apt to bring to the Fringe an adaptation of Eleanor Up… 

Music Bugs Presents It's Carnival Time...

Music Bugs Presents It's Carnival Time...

Music Bugs is a company which provides music classes for ‘babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers’, an age group whose three primary occupations seem to be screaming, laughing and f… 

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

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. 

Red Shoes

Red Shoes

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 … 

Enough Already

Enough Already

Written and animated by the alleged French “polymath” François Sarhan, Enough Already incorporates live music, theatre and film in a frustratingly pretentious, paralysingly du… 

People Show 121: The Detective Show

People Show 121: The Detective Show

The People Show 121 delivers an hour of captivating truly British murder mystery fun in this charming three-person show. 

In Time o' Strife

In Time o' Strife

The Pathhead Halls on the corner of Commercial Street and Broad Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife were built in 1882, originally as a theatre and music hall although one room was later used fo… 

Mini-Mahler at the Fringe

Mini-Mahler at the Fringe

The stunning opening of Debussy’s ‘Prélude à L’après midi d’un faune’ set the standard for the rest of the night as the trilling flute and solemn oboe against the bac… 

Prototype Festival

Prototype Festival

This bracingly innovative festival of music theater is only in its third season, but it has already become a point of reference. 

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

There’s a brazen, wonderfully self-conscious theatricality in how director Dominic Hill approaches Chris Hannan’s new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s iconic novel, C… 

Let The Right One In

Let The Right One In

There is one word that, quite deliberately, is never uttered by anyone on stage during the National Theatre of Scotland’s Let The Right One In—vampire. 

Calum's Road

Calum's Road

Although based on true events, the story of Calum’s Road is so unique that it comes with a strong sense of some greater story being told, one of mythical proportions. 

Running On The Cracks

Running On The Cracks

Children’s and young adult’s fiction have long been populated by orphans, characters who are both usefully free from parental restraints while also cut adrift from the traditio… 

Harold and Maude

Harold and Maude

Inter-generational relationships are always controversial, especially when questions of predatory abuse arise in these Savile-dominated times. 

Foodies Festival Brighton

Foodies Festival Brighton

Now making its third appearance on Hove Lawns, the Foodies Festival is steadily becoming an established name on the Fringe circuit. 

New York International Fringe Festival

New York International Fringe Festival

(performances start on Aug. 

Any Objections?

Any Objections?

Can you do anything of theatrical note in under 10 minutes? Is there a place for a theatrical equivalent of flash fiction, whether as a testing ground for new writers or as a form … 

Talk To Frank

Talk To Frank

Billed as “a heart-warming tale of smack heads, pimps and psychotic medics”, I really wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about ‘Talk to Frank’. 

Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle

Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle

When does real life stop and the cabaret begin? Or the cabaret stop and real life return? On this occasion, Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle offer no simple or easy answers in this in… 

Activism Is Fun

Activism Is Fun

Chris Coltrane is the first to admit that any political radicalism he might once have possessed had faded over time, thanks in part to a depressing sense of powerless after the UK … 

Macbeth

Macbeth

Arguably the most famous Scottish story written by an Englishman is re-imagined as One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest by the National Theatre of Scotland, and showcases a remarkable sol… 

An Audience With Tomás Ford - Free

An Audience With Tomás Ford - Free

From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman. 

Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music

Suggs: My Life Story in Words and Music

Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title. 

Rob James: Magicana

Rob James: Magicana

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… 

Dance Theater of Harlem Street Festival

Dance Theater of Harlem Street Festival

Dance Theater of Harlem is back with its annual block party. 

Rock and Pop on the Fringe

Rock and Pop on the Fringe

The Fringe is often praised for its glorious variety but there are some things listed in the Fringe guide that exceed the proper constraints of a show. 

Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free

Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free

Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo… 

What's He Building in There?

What's He Building in There?

The absurd and often hilarious What’s He Building In There? from STaG productions opens with a sawdust-spattered man lovingly caressing a chair, and only gets weirder after that. 

2011: A Space Oddity

2011: A Space Oddity

Normally when someone is not laughing, and everyone else is, it is because they don’t get the joke. 

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

Cape Academy of Performing Arts presents a showcase of their students that more than holds its own against many of the professional companies at the Festival. 

Joe Power - The Man Who Sees Dead People

Joe Power - The Man Who Sees Dead People

Here was the biggest audience yet. 

Pistol & Jack – Smash.Glam.Sex.Music.

Pistol & Jack – Smash.Glam.Sex.Music.

Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well. 

Shane Koyczan - Talk Rocker

Shane Koyczan - Talk Rocker

Canadian spoken word artist Shane Koyczan is an intense young man whose poems explore some thoroughly emotional ground regarding his childhood, his grandparents, his early relation… 

The Music of Friends

The Music of Friends

St Mark’s is an excellent space for chamber music, and I suspect, many other types of music. 

Huggers - Free Festival Family Fun

Huggers - Free Festival Family Fun

I imagine as a children’s performer you’re probably prepared for a great deal. 

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows. 

Have a Nice Life

Have a Nice Life

In these increasingly cash-strapped times putting on any musical on the Fringe is worthy of praise, even if — with a cast of six accompanied by electric piano and drums — the d… 

Stephen K Amos - Weekend Talk Show

Stephen K Amos - Weekend Talk Show

Stephen K Amos joins the chat show brigade, setting out his sofa in the Teviot Ballroom. 

Nggrfg

Nggrfg

As a show, NGGRFG has one obvious problem: people are either uncertain how to say it, or are simply reluctant to say out loud the two words it represents, because — quite underst… 

Brooklyn Comedy Festival

Brooklyn Comedy Festival

Returning for a second year, this excellent festival showcases the best of New York’s comedy scene in several of Brooklyn’s comedy-friendly venues. 

Just a Gigolo

Just a Gigolo

Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects. 

Bogan Bingo / Free Festival

Bogan Bingo / Free Festival

A Bogan is an Antipodean term for a somewhat uneducated, mullet-wearing, hard-rock loving man. 

Movin' Melvin Brown: 'A Man, A Magic, A Music' Live!

Movin' Melvin Brown: 'A Man, A Magic, A Music' Live!

Much celebrated world-class performer Melvin Brown, better known as Movin’ Melvin Brown, gives another uninhibited, inspiring and entertaining performance at the Edinburgh Festiv… 

Make Music New York

Make Music New York

The streets, plazas, parks and waterfronts of the five boroughs will be alive with music during this free, outdoor extravaganza, which features over 1,300 concerts from dawn to dus… 

Legs 11

Legs 11

In an increasingly categorised Fringe (this year added Spoken Word to an already multi-colour-coded Fringe programme), it can still be a delight to come upon a show that just doesn… 

Sammy J and Randy - The Inheritance

Sammy J and Randy - The Inheritance

The Australian duo of musical comedian Sammy J and puppeteer Heath McIvor - best known for his purple puppet Randy - are now experienced Fringe regulars who, quite rightly, are mor… 

76 Million People and Me

76 Million People and Me

It’s extremely disorientating to wander into a tiny room tucked away at the top of the Caroline of Brunswick and be met with Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot lounging around. 

Chris Henry: We Need to Talk!

Chris Henry: We Need to Talk!

Chris Henry would be the first person to admit that the words “we need to talk” do not inspire confidence. 

River to River festival

River to River festival

This summer’s outdoor arts festival in Lower Manhattan continues on June 20 at 7:30 p. 

Festival Fun Ceilidh Dinner

Festival Fun Ceilidh Dinner

The Scottish National Gallery’s Festival Fun Ceilidh Dinner lives up to its claim of being a ‘truly Scottish experience’. 

Kin

Kin

Three tables, each filled with the paraphernalia of different daytime meals; on each table, there’s an hourglass, progressively smaller. 

Music of Les Misérables and West End Musicals

Music of Les Misérables and West End Musicals

Dysart Productions return to the Fringe with an updated version of their 2011 show and really wows the crowds with their peerless vocal performances of some of the great songs from… 

The Music of Les Miserables

The Music of Les Miserables

Les Misérables fans will be disappointed to discover that this show not in fact a musical revue of the West End hit. 

Is It Really Good to Talk?

Is It Really Good to Talk?

A fear of the unknown is at the heart of ‘Is It Really Good to Talk?’ and it’s a fear that most of us know well, one way or another. 

The Long and the Short of It

The Long and the Short of It

From the start Richard Purnell (the short one) and Gary From Leeds (the horribly tall one) insist that their teaming up as ‘360 degree poetry consultants’ is not a gimmick. 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is a glam-rock musical that returns to its spiritual home in Edinburgh. 

Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?

Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?

While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his… 

Edinburgh Folk Club Festival Showcase

Edinburgh Folk Club Festival Showcase

Established in 1973, the Edinburgh Folk Club was represented at the Fringe for the first time this year with a showcase at the Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride’s that displayed … 

Murder, Marple and Me

Murder, Marple and Me

Despite a long and successful career in both British film and theatre, Dame Margaret Rutherford is now best remembered for a role she didn’t, initially, care for at all — Agath… 

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

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

A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid… 

Paul Chowdhry - What's Happening White People

Paul Chowdhry - What's Happening White People

Describing his genre as ‘racist comedy’ and insisting that the show is not funny, Paul Chowdhry presents 55 minutes of offensive material that is often as uncomfortable as it i… 

DJ Danny - Music Therapy

DJ Danny - Music Therapy

High-school teachers by day, DJ Danny and his glamorous assistant (the P. 

Other Voices: Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices: Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret

Other Voices promised much — ‘comedy, politics, naughty lyrics, free sweets… And a veritable smorgasbord of poetry antics’, but the most significant terminology on its titl… 

Andrew O'Neill and Marc Burrows Do Music and Comedy and Hideous Murders

Andrew O'Neill and Marc Burrows Do Music and Comedy and Hideous Murders

Playing songs about the goriest aspects of the Victorian era, Steampunk band Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, deliver an hour of music and comedy. 

Pillow-Talk

Pillow-Talk

Pillow Talk is a play from Paperfeet Theatre Company, who advertise themselves as a physical theatre company. 

Booking Dance Festival - Festival Showcase

Booking Dance Festival - Festival Showcase

Thanks to the vagaries of Lothian Buses I missed the first number in this multi-company showcase of short dance items. 

Lucy Porter - People Person

Lucy Porter - People Person

Despite announcing that she wanted to kill a journalist who referred to her as a ‘mumedian’ in a pre-Fringe interview, Lucy Porter puts on a decidedly maternal show. 

Max and Iván: Exposed – The Edinburgh Fringe

Max and Iván: Exposed – The Edinburgh Fringe

Two comic actors play numerous different quirky characters, as the quest to read the big, breaking news goes on. 

If Walls Could Talk

If Walls Could Talk

The premise of If Walls Could Talk is deceptively simple. 

Music at St Michael's

Music at St Michael's

More and more churches are using Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival as a window for their work. 

Jamie Demetriou's People Day (and Special Guests)

Jamie Demetriou's People Day (and Special Guests)

Jamie Demetriou was in the Bristol Review last year at the Fringe and now returns to go solo in ‘Jamie Demetriou’s Peoples Day’, his new show in which he showcases just some … 

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism. 

The Thrill of Irish Music

The Thrill of Irish Music

It was an evening to be remembered for up-tempo tunes mixing Irish, Bluegrass, Country and Folk. 

Why We Ate Cliff Richard

Why We Ate Cliff Richard

Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival. 

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut

Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a strong pedigree and reputation, built on its debut as part of Glasgow’s Òran Mór’s iconic A Play, … 

The Space Between My Head and My Body

The Space Between My Head and My Body

A new theatre company created in 2007, Gin in the Tea’s first production The Space Between My Head and My Body shows promise for the future but lacks narrative drive and clarity. 

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs

The Glasgow King’s Theatre panto, which last year marked its half century, is a much-loved institution in the city. 

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

Old Saint Paul's Festival Evensongs

I live in Edinburgh and choose to go to this throughout the year because it is so good week after week. 

The Gentlemen of Leisure Present: The Death of the Novel

The Gentlemen of Leisure Present: The Death of the Novel

With their smart suits and elaborate PowerPoint presentation, the Gentlemen of Leisure have the air of two eager-to-please, newly qualified teachers trying to pep up an A-level Eng… 

Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow

Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow

Mid-afternoon, an audience of just 10 people is not what most standups would want to see in front of them. 

The Sound of Music Drag Show

The Sound of Music Drag Show

How do you solve a problem like Maria? Well take all the glitter and Lamee in the world and you’ve got a start. 

Chris Cross: Loose Cannon 2012

Chris Cross: Loose Cannon 2012

There are many things you can say about Chris Cross; that he’s a shrinking violet is not one of them. 

Nick Cope: Family Songs and Music

Nick Cope: Family Songs and Music

Nick Cope is the children’s singer-songwriter who brings acoustic, folky indie rock to the under-fives. 

La Femme est Morte or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son

La Femme est Morte or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son

Imagine you have a five-year-old child. 

Nice People Have Ruined My Life

Nice People Have Ruined My Life

There are some shows where you have to wonder ‘what is this person doing here, and more importantly why?’ Simon Lilley and Asli Akby have entered this show in the Fringe, payin… 

Malones Live Music

Malones Live Music

There are certain criteria that a Free Fringe Show should fulfil when performed in a public bar. 

James Redmond and Ellie Taylor - Free Festival

James Redmond and Ellie Taylor - Free Festival

You may recognise these two from TV. 

Lara A King - People Pleaser

Lara A King - People Pleaser

Lara A. 

Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass

Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass

‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th… 

Sesame Street Live - Elmo Makes Music

Sesame Street Live - Elmo Makes Music

How do you get to Sesame Street? This is a question many of us have asked throughout our lives and receiving a ticket to Sesame Street Live was, for me, like someone had suddenly h… 

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music promised a delightful evening of choice piano pieces associated with the night-time. 

Ward and Bartlett's Double Impact

Ward and Bartlett's Double Impact

If comedy often rises out of adversity, could this help explain how Northern Ireland has proved such fertile ground over the years — from Frank Carson and Roy Walker to Patrick K… 

The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show

The Reduced Edinburgh Fringe Impro Show

The Soap Kitchen have an act which will be familiar to anyone who’s seen Who’s Line Is It Anyway. 

Newcastle University Comedy Society Showcase / PBH's Free Fringe

Newcastle University Comedy Society Showcase / PBH's Free Fringe

‘I was going to have a cucumber down my pants’ says compere Marc Smethurst, removing a cucumber from his pants, ‘but there’s a reviewer in tonight. 

Phill Jupitus - You're Probably Wondering Why I've Asked You Here...

Phill Jupitus - You're Probably Wondering Why I've Asked You Here...

Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions. 

Nightvision x Kölsch presents IPSO – Fringe Closing Party

Nightvision x Kölsch presents IPSO – Fringe Closing Party

Marking the closing weekend of the Edinburgh Fringe, the legendary Kölsch is bringing his fresh new international party, IPSO, to the capital for one night only. 

Cowboys, Country Music and Queers

Cowboys, Country Music and Queers

Stand-up comedy and storytellin’ with Brandon Burke. 

Building Emily Warren: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge

Building Emily Warren: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge

It’s 1870. 

We Have Ways of Making You Talk

We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Achtung! Achtung! Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland are bringing their highly acclaimed World War II podcast to the Edinburgh Festival. 

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

It was the title, I must admit, which first attracted me to review Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation; its promise of combining "stage action and illust… 

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True

"Hear Word!" is how Nigerians start a story, a sort of town crier’s call and Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True co-written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa is definitely at… 

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak… 

Festival Hellenika

Festival Hellenika

FESTIVAL HELLENIKA Adelaide’s oldest festival celebrating Hellenic connections in the arts. 

Port Fringe

Port Fringe

Spend a balmy evening with artists, musos, muses, comedians, pranksters, foodies and funksters … We are inviting you to laugh yr face off, eat yr heart out, dance yr pants off, p… 

Celia Pacquola – All Talk

Celia Pacquola – All Talk

Celia Pacquola returns to the Adelaide Fringe Festival with a brand new show. 

DESERT FRINGE – MARTIN MOR: MORE FUNNY STUFF

DESERT FRINGE – MARTIN MOR: MORE FUNNY STUFF

Comedy, circus, storytelling, poetry and stupid science. 

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about... 

Excitement Abounds as 2024 Prague Fringe Programme Unveiled​

Excitement Abounds as 2024 Prague Fringe Programme Unveiled​

The curtain is about to rise on another year of the Prague Fringe Festival which is entering its 23rd year. This year's line-up features about 40 different shows over 6 days 

Double Fringe First Winners Xhloe & Natasha Share Secrets Of Their Edinburgh Fringe Success

Double Fringe First Winners Xhloe & Natasha Share Secrets Of Their Edinburgh Fringe Success

Double Fringe First Winners, Xhloe & Natasha talk to us about the Edinburgh Fringe and what made them want to bring their Fringe First winning shows, And Then The Rodeo Burned Down... 

VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024

VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024

VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn. 

Wandsworth Announces Fringe Funding

Wandsworth Announces Fringe Funding

Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2024 is now open for declarations of interest and grant application  

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Aims to Increase Inclusivity

Edinburgh Deaf Festival Aims to Increase Inclusivity

Simon Ximenez talked to the coordinator of this year’s Edinburgh Deaf Festival, Jamie Rea. 

Comedians Speaking Out About Addiction At Fringe: Interviews With Ginny Hogan and Nick Pupo

Comedians Speaking Out About Addiction At Fringe: Interviews With Ginny Hogan and Nick Pupo

Ginny Hogan and Nick Pupo are two New-Yorkers who will be debuting their solo comedy shows Regression and Addicted at Edinburgh Fringe this year. 

The Empowerment of Edinburgh Fringe

The Empowerment of Edinburgh Fringe

We asked Charlotte Anne-Tilley ​to reflect upon her journey to becoming an actor/writer prior to opening with her show Almost Adult at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

A Baptism of Fire - the Edinburgh Fringe Debut Show

A Baptism of Fire - the Edinburgh Fringe Debut Show

We've seen from shows such as Fleabag in 2013 that success at your Edinburgh debut show can lead to worldwide success. 

Sikisa Wants You To Hear Her Out At Fringe This Year

Sikisa Wants You To Hear Her Out At Fringe This Year

Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes’ Her Me Out will be premiering at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August - you may have seen Sikisa on the BBC or Live at The Apollo, or even received legal... 

Why Robin Tran wants to make us laugh at terrible things

Why Robin Tran wants to make us laugh at terrible things

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. 

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme: Over 360 Exciting Shows Await Theatre Enthusiasts at the Edinburgh Fringe 

Celebrating its 50th year, the Durham Revue are headliners at the 2023 Durham Fringe Festival

Celebrating its 50th year, the Durham Revue are headliners at the 2023 Durham Fringe Festival

With alumni including Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Jeremy Vine, the Durham Revue are celebrating their 50th year with sketch show comedy Death on the Mile at this year’s Durham Frin... 

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 6: Leith

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 6: Leith

The sixth pub crawl in our series takes place in Leith. 

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 5: New Town

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 5: New Town

The fifth in our festival pub crawls traverses the New Town.  

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 4: Old Town South

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 4: Old Town South

Unlike its sister crawl, Old Town North, Old Town South traverses more of the South Side’s bars that lie adjacent to many Fringe venues. 

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 3: Old Town North

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 3: Old Town North

The third of our pub crawls, the Old Town North trail has an extensive list of both core and optional bars to choose from. 

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 1: South By Southwest

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 1: South By Southwest

The first in our series of Fringe Festival pub crawls 2019 takes us from Morningside to the Meadows. 

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 2: Newington Drinking Trail

Fringe Festival Pub Crawl 2: Newington Drinking Trail

The second crawl in our festival pub crawls 2019 takes you through Newington.  

Brighton Fringe Broadway Bobby Award Winner 2019 Announced

Brighton Fringe Broadway Bobby Award Winner 2019 Announced

After a year of excellent shows, picking the winner was harder than ever. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe 2019 Final Weekend

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe 2019 Final Weekend

There’s been disco-dancing to Madonna in an old church, vegan based stand up in a room above a pub, incredible acrobatics, hilarious cabaret songs about near-death experiences an... 

theSpaceUK announces their Edinburgh Fringe Programme

theSpaceUK announces their Edinburgh Fringe Programme

Today theSpaceUK announces its 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Season with over 400 shows and the biggest new-writing programme at the Fringe. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 4

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 4

There have been some stellar hits and some definite misses, but with some five star performances just starting their runs it could be that your favourite show of Brighton Fringe 2... 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 3

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 3

That’s right, we’re already coming towards the halfway point of Brighton Fringe. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 2

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 2

From dark comedies, to sci-fi authors, to an uncooked lump of dough, Brighton Fringe certainly offers surprises for everyone as we head into this second weekend. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 1

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 1

Welcome to Brighton Fringe 2019! We’re ready to welcome back old favourites, discover new talent and generally have a jolly good time. 

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

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. 

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

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. 

The Warren Relocate For Brighton Fringe 2019

The Warren Relocate For Brighton Fringe 2019

The Warren will be relocating for Brighton Fringe 2019 to a brand new venue in the heart of the city 

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

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.  

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Final Weekend

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Final Weekend

Just like that, we approach the final weekend of Brighton Fringe. 

What's The Point Of Exhibiting Laundry Detergent? The Museum Of Ordinary People Discover The Poignancy And Importance In Our Everyday Items

What's The Point Of Exhibiting Laundry Detergent? The Museum Of Ordinary People Discover The Poignancy And Importance In Our Everyday Items

The Museum of Ordinary People (MOOP) is a pop-up museum, running for one week only, as part of The Spire’s secret Fringe programme. 

How Fundraising Has Taken Over Brighton Fringe

How Fundraising Has Taken Over Brighton Fringe

Despite the costs many performers experience putting on a production there are plenty who use the platform provided to them to fundraise or raise awareness for a cause close to the... 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 4

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week 4

​​May is marvellous. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week Three

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week Three

We're almost mid-way through the Fringe and it seems like there are more shows than ever to pick from. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week Two

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Week Two

After the glorious sunshine of the opening weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking that the fun might be over. 

Christine Kempell thinks Caitlin Thomas needs her story to be told. We found out why.

Christine Kempell thinks Caitlin Thomas needs her story to be told. We found out why.

Caitlin is a one-woman play by Mike Kenny about Dylan Thomas and his wife's tempestuous life together, written entirely from her point of view. 

The Brighton Fringe Guide For... Sci-Fi Geeks

The Brighton Fringe Guide For... Sci-Fi Geeks

Do you always listen out for the screeching sound of the TARDIS? Have you dreamed of captaining the Enterprise to boldly go where no one has gone before? Does other people’s lack... 

Brighton Fringe: Something For The Opening Weekend

Brighton Fringe: Something For The Opening Weekend

It’s the bank holiday and you’re ready for the long weekend – but what to do? Read on to discover how to kick-start your weekend with comedy, beer, parties and Julie Andrews. 

Brighton Fringe: Opening Night Fireworks

Brighton Fringe: Opening Night Fireworks

The Warren once again joined with Brighton Fringe to celebrate the opening of Brighton Fringe 2018 with a fantastic free firework display on Thursday 3rd May.  

The Brighton Fringe Guide For...Foodies

The Brighton Fringe Guide For...Foodies

Know your camembert from your comté? Your seitan from your soy? If you serve your steak on a Himalayan salt block or enjoy covering your chargrilled cauliflower with chermoula the... 

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at a fringe festival such as Edinburgh with tips on budgets, creating a press release, socia... 

Sweet Venues expands for Brighton Fringe 2018

Sweet Venues expands for Brighton Fringe 2018

As one of the heavy hitters at Brighton Fringe, Sweet Venues have announced they doubling their number of spaces in 2018 with two new venues. 

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers. 

Laura Albert & Susie Orbach Attempt Live Therapy at the Book Festival

Laura Albert & Susie Orbach Attempt Live Therapy at the Book Festival

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. 

A Woman’s Place is on the Fringe…

A Woman’s Place is on the Fringe…

As we celebrate 70 years of Edinburgh Fringe defiance, Fay Roberts suggests that more work is needed to make it truly open access for everyone. 

The Edinburgh Cocktail Festival is this Year’s New Kid on the Block

The Edinburgh Cocktail Festival is this Year’s New Kid on the Block

Back in 1947 the founders of the Edinburgh International Festival could hardly have imagined what their legacy would be. 

The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices

The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events... 

Will Naameh, Steve Hartil and Sean McCann Talk Improv at the Fringe

Will Naameh, Steve Hartil and Sean McCann Talk Improv at the Fringe

Improv is as big as it’s ever been at the Fringe, with well over a hundred shows for you to choose from. 

Clique’s Milly Thomas Dives in at the Deep End with Two Plays this Fringe

Clique’s Milly Thomas Dives in at the Deep End with Two Plays this Fringe

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. 

7 Ways to Escape the Fringe

7 Ways to Escape the Fringe

With the second and most exhausting weekend of the Fringe nearly in the rearview mirror, it’s time to have a rest day. 

Prom Kween’s Rebecca Humphries on Why she Won't be Doing a Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Prom Kween’s Rebecca Humphries on Why she Won't be Doing a Phoebe Waller-Bridge

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. 

Virtual Reality Comes to the Fringe at Assembly's FuturePlay Festival

Virtual Reality Comes to the Fringe at Assembly's FuturePlay Festival

Could virtual reality and interactive media become a staple of the Fringe programme? Housed in Assembly Rooms on George Street, FuturePlay is an artist-led technology festival that... 

Yes, There's a Fringe for Books Too

Yes, There's a Fringe for Books Too

As the Edinburgh International Festival and its Fringe celebrate their 70th anniversaries, Broadway Baby’s James T. 

Brighton Fringe Broadway Bobby Award Winner Announced

Brighton Fringe Broadway Bobby Award Winner Announced

Another stellar year of entertainment at Brighton Fringe has once again made choosing the winner of the coveted Broadway Bobby incredibly difficult. 

Brighton Fringe: Something For The Opening Weekend

Brighton Fringe: Something For The Opening Weekend

May Bank Holiday weekend can only mean one thing; Brighton Fringe is almost upon us. 

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

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... 

Gilded Balloon launches New Town festival hub at Rose Theatre

Gilded Balloon launches New Town festival hub at Rose Theatre

Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros... 

Brighton Fringe: Top 10 Stand-Ups You Shouldn’t Miss:

Brighton Fringe: Top 10 Stand-Ups You Shouldn’t Miss:

Renowned for its comedy, Brighton Fringe is the perfect time to discover brand new talents. Here’s our guide to stand-ups you’d be totally crazy to miss. 

Brighton Fringe: Top 10 Hidden Gems

Brighton Fringe: Top 10 Hidden Gems

Last week saw 10 shows that will be selling out shortly, this week brings 10 shows that might be currently flying under the radar, but not for very much longer. 

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

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. 

988 Brighton Fringe listings now on Broadway Baby

988 Brighton Fringe listings now on Broadway Baby

Are you excited about Brighton Fringe yet? We are! And with 988 Brighton Fringe shows and events now listed on Broadway Baby you've found the right place for the best coverage of t... 

Brighton Fringe Announces 2017 Programme

Brighton Fringe Announces 2017 Programme

Comedy from Jerry Sadowitz, mime from Trygve Wakensha and music from U. 

Shoreditch Improv Festival Returns

Shoreditch Improv Festival Returns

In the last two years, improv comedy has experienced a surge of popularity around London with great new groups popping up on the scene. 

The Counting House returns to the Laughing Horse’s Free Festival

The Counting House returns to the Laughing Horse’s Free Festival

For the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe free shows will return to The Counting House venue on West Nicolson Street, following a one year hiatus with the venue being programmed under a paid s... 

The Highs and Lows of Flyering at the Fringe: Interview with a Professional Flyerer

The Highs and Lows of Flyering at the Fringe: Interview with a Professional Flyerer

Handing out flyers on the street is one of the most famously unpleasant parts of putting on a show at the Fringe. 

Cocktail of the Day: Fringe First

Cocktail of the Day: Fringe First

A delicious Fringe First cocktail at Brookes Bar with the super funny and talented Naomi Petersen! Go see her show I Am Telling You I'm Not Going... and tonight she didn't! 

Fossils’ Nel Crouch: “Theatre is alive and well at the Fringe!”

Fossils’ Nel Crouch: “Theatre is alive and well at the Fringe!”

Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do... 

Student New Writing at the Fringe: Oxford, Warwick and St Andrews Students Compare Notes

Student New Writing at the Fringe: Oxford, Warwick and St Andrews Students Compare Notes

The Fringe is the single most exciting date in the student-theatre calendar. 

Us/Them's Carly Wijs & Gytha Parmentier are Talking Terrorism to Children at Summerhall

Us/Them's Carly Wijs & Gytha Parmentier are Talking Terrorism to Children at Summerhall

Us/Them, a family dance show about terrorism, has been one of the surprise hits of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. 

Stop The Train's Rick Guard on the Magic of New Musicals at the Fringe

Stop The Train's Rick Guard on the Magic of New Musicals at the Fringe

Stop The Train is a new musical from Rick Guard and Phil Rice following the story of commuters plunged into a dangerous situation - and forced to talk to each other. 

​Why Attila the Stockbroker Quit the Fringe, and Why He Came Back

​Why Attila the Stockbroker Quit the Fringe, and Why He Came Back

Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world. 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 6

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 6

Join Adrian Bradley for Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Shruti Chauhan on Competing in the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam

Shruti Chauhan on Competing in the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam

Shruti Chauhan is a poet and performer from Leicester. 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 5

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 5

Join Adrian Bradley for Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 4

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 4

Join Adrian Bradley for Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 3

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 3

Join Adrian Bradley for Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Georgian Director Keti Dolidze calls for more International Theatre at the Fringe

Georgian Director Keti Dolidze calls for more International Theatre at the Fringe

The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre... 

Tarot Talk with In Tents and Purposes’ Roxy Dunn & Alys Metcalf

Tarot Talk with In Tents and Purposes’ Roxy Dunn & Alys Metcalf

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... 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 2

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 2

Join Adrian Bradley for Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. 

Playwright Becky Owen Fisher Lets Actors Change the Order of her Scenes

Playwright Becky Owen Fisher Lets Actors Change the Order of her Scenes

In a world boiling over with police invasion of privacy, romance and rising sea levels, what could possibly go wrong? Part eco-political rally cry, part meditation on the collapse ... 

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 1

Fringe Diary with Adrian Bradley - Day 1

Join Adrian Bradley for the inaugural Fringe Diary, your bulletin on the news, views and schmooze at the Edinburgh Fringe. How far will some performers go to promote their shows? 

​Sophia Walker: A Call to Arms for Fringe Performers

​Sophia Walker: A Call to Arms for Fringe Performers

Poet Sophia Walker, former BBC Slam champion, is back! But this time she’s on the other side of the clipboard: organising and hosting the competition she once won. 

A Fringe PokéFest

A Fringe PokéFest

Looking to catch ‘em all while in Edinburgh? Well you’re in luck. The festival is stuffed with PokeStops and Pidgeys. We run down what’s on offer at the main venues. 

Patrick Turpin: A Performers Guide to Romance at the Fringe

Patrick Turpin: A Performers Guide to Romance at the Fringe

Thinking of getting some leg-over whilst in the Scottish capital? Funny man Patrick Turpin is here with a four-step programme to ensure you get the right release. 

Sebastian de Souza & Preston Thompson talk Kids in Love

Sebastian de Souza & Preston Thompson talk Kids in Love

Kids in Love made its world premiere at the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival. 

Kevin Mclean: 'The Edinburgh Fringe is a monster'

Kevin Mclean: 'The Edinburgh Fringe is a monster'

Kevin Mclean is one of the organizers of Loud Poets, a poetry collective entering its third year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

One-man play sweeps the board at Brighton Fringe Awards

One-man play sweeps the board at Brighton Fringe Awards

Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, swept the board at the Brighton Fring... 

Something for the Weekend: Brighton Fringe 21-22 May

Something for the Weekend: Brighton Fringe 21-22 May

It’s the halfway point for Brighton Fringe and there are still hundreds of shows left to see. 

SpaceDating: A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

SpaceDating: A Case of You: The Music of Joni Mitchell

Today we're chatting to A Case of You: The Musical of Joni Mitchell, a contemporary interpretation of the hits that made Joni an icon of the 70's. 

Road to the Fringe - Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time

Road to the Fringe - Captain Morgan and the Sands of Time

Our panel of judges were unanimous in voting Captain Morgan as the winner of the 2015 Broadway Baby Bobby award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe. 

​Interview: How Eva Von Schnippisch Single-Handedly Won WW2

​Interview: How Eva Von Schnippisch Single-Handedly Won WW2

Eva tells a comedic story of love, frankfurters, the other Eva and de-bunks the bunker story once and for all. 

Road to the Fringe - Memories of a Lullaby with Saras Feijoo

Road to the Fringe - Memories of a Lullaby with Saras Feijoo

Memories of a Lullaby is a one woman show about Saras' experiences growing up in Venezuela. 

Road to the Fringe - Through the eyes of a technician

Road to the Fringe - Through the eyes of a technician

Ever wondered who works behind the scenes at Brighton Fringe? We've been talking to sound designer and technician Daniel Stevens to find out what he's been up to this festival. 

News - Brighton Fringe Opening

News - Brighton Fringe Opening

After months of waiting, Brighton Fringe opened its doors last night with the launches of three major venues. 

Road to the Fringe - The Marlborough Theatre

Road to the Fringe - The Marlborough Theatre

A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city. 

Road to the Fringe - Through the eyes of a producer

Road to the Fringe - Through the eyes of a producer

A well seasoned Brighton-Fringer, Rosie Blackwell-Sutton certianly has her hands full this year producing her own show as well as marketing three interestnig performances. 

Road to the Fringe - Lamb Comedy

Road to the Fringe - Lamb Comedy

For this year’s Brighton Fringe, Broadway Baby Editor Beth Troakes has been on the hunt to for the insider information as our performers, venue mangers, programmers, press team... 

Brighton Insider: Comedy at the Fringe

Brighton Insider: Comedy at the Fringe

With close to 300 different comedy shows at the Brighton Fringe, you might find yourself a bit over-whelmed by the choice. 

Brighton Insider: 10 tips for the Fringe

Brighton Insider: 10 tips for the Fringe

Hundreds of shows, thousands of performers and one unique city. 

Brighton Fringe To Start Off With A Bang

Brighton Fringe To Start Off With A Bang

To celebrate the opening of its biggest ever festival, Brighton Fringe has joined forces with The Warren to kick things off with a bang by laying on its first ever fireworks displa... 

Dukebox seeks performers for Open Mic during Fringe

Dukebox seeks performers for Open Mic during Fringe

The Dukebox Theatre are looking for a plethora of Open Mic Brighton based performers to grace their stage this Brighton Fringe. 

C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge

C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge

Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable. 

Olivier Award-nominated Les Enfants Terribles to open Greenwich festival

Olivier Award-nominated Les Enfants Terribles to open Greenwich festival

A theatre company nominated for an Olivier Award will open the ninth annual Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival at Greenwich Theatre on Good Friday, March 26. 

New festival launched in Brighton

New festival launched in Brighton

Expectantly waiting for the Brighton Fringe? Then we’ve got the perfect antidote. 

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Brighton Fringe has officially launched. 

Henry St Leger named Editor for the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe

Henry St Leger named Editor for the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe

Broadway Baby, the largest reviewing publication at the Edinburgh Fringe, has named Henry St Leger as the Editor for this year’s festival. 

Summer Days Festival Announces Peter Hook, Tom Robinson & Hugh Cornwell

Summer Days Festival Announces Peter Hook, Tom Robinson & Hugh Cornwell

Summer Days – the UK’s newest boutique music and food festival – has unveiled a trio of post-punk legends to bolster an already incredible and eclectic line-up. 

Bigger and better than ever: Brighton Fringe 2016

Bigger and better than ever: Brighton Fringe 2016

Comedy from Max and Ivan, music from Cassetteboy and DJ Rubbish, cabaret from Le Gateau Chocolate and world premieres galore are among the many highlights at the 2016 Brighton Frin... 

VAULT Festival Returns

VAULT Festival Returns

Since its inception in 2012 VAULT has hosted over 250 productions, from outrageous comedy acts to hard-hitting political theatre and experimental new work from Britain’s most exc... 

Shona McCarthy appointed as Chief Executive of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

Shona McCarthy appointed as Chief Executive of Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

Shona McCarthy has been named as Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, filling the post Kath Mainland will vacate in March. 

Brighton Fringe Crowdfund Opening Night Parade

Brighton Fringe Crowdfund Opening Night Parade

Brighton Fringe is asking people in Sussex to give the gift of joy this Christmas by helping the Fringe put on its first ever opening night parade.  

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre. 

James Plays Playwright Rona Munro does Christmas at the Traverse

James Plays Playwright Rona Munro does Christmas at the Traverse

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... 

New bursary to help Fringe virgins get to Brighton

New bursary to help Fringe virgins get to Brighton

If you have never dipped your toe in the Fringe waters as a performer, now is your chance to take part in England’s largest arts festival 

The Fringe through the lens of my iPhone camera

The Fringe through the lens of my iPhone camera

Broadway Baby publisher Pete Shaw wraps up his Edinburgh experience via his iPhone photo stream. 

Steffan Alun: The Festival is Always Worth It

Steffan Alun: The Festival is Always Worth It

Stand Up Steffan Alun has a fair few things to say about stepping up to stand up at the Free Fringe. 

Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe

Bobby or not Bobby? Emily Carding as Richard III is Broadway Baby’s pick of the Fringe

In Brite Theatre's production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, Emily Carding stars as Richard but all the world’s a stage and the audience literally players in it - taking on the ... 

‘We just ran up and down the Royal Mile shouting at people’ - The IdeasTap Underbelly and Les Enfant Terribles Award Winners’ Panel

‘We just ran up and down the Royal Mile shouting at people’ - The IdeasTap Underbelly and Les Enfant Terribles Award Winners’ Panel

The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd. 

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

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. 

Fringe Food Bank Invites Performers to Donate Unused Food

Fringe Food Bank Invites Performers to Donate Unused Food

Every year performers stock up their flat fridges with sustenance for the Fringe, but what happens to their leftovers when August winds up? Comedian Simon Caine has founded the Edi... 

‘The Festival is Like Nothing Else’: Meet Shane Robson from Hedwig and the Angry Inch

‘The Festival is Like Nothing Else’: Meet Shane Robson from Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell’s rock opera, has passionate, protective fans. 

'39 Steps meets Naked Gun but for children' - Adapting the Falcon’s Malteser for the Fringe

'39 Steps meets Naked Gun but for children' - Adapting the Falcon’s Malteser for the Fringe

The Falcon’s Malteser is the story of private detective Tim Diamond and his younger brother Nick becoming embroiled in a malteser-related mystery. 

​Mad Scientist Academy: Interactive Children’s Theatre at Boxsmall Festival

​Mad Scientist Academy: Interactive Children’s Theatre at Boxsmall Festival

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 ... 

William McGeough: Swearing in Front of Old People

William McGeough: Swearing in Front of Old People

Actor William McGeough was terrified to perform a sexually explicit extract from his one-man play Mistaken to the august Edinburgh establishment that is the Scottish Arts Club. 

‘I’ve always found it very easy to fall in love with life, and people, and sparkle’ - Brigitte Aphrodite Extended Interview

‘I’ve always found it very easy to fall in love with life, and people, and sparkle’ - Brigitte Aphrodite Extended Interview

Brigitte Aphrodite describes herself as a punk pop poet showgirl who was on the 2009 shortlist for the Musical Comedy awards - but she’s almost impossible to categorise. 

Going To Space: Violin Variations

Going To Space: Violin Variations

Violin Variations is one of our reviewers' top requested shows this year! Broadway Baby finds out why. 

Going To Space: A Face That Fits

Going To Space: A Face That Fits

Moon Fly Theatre Company is bringing its debut production to EdFringe 2015. A Face That Fits deals with the differences and clashes across generations. 

Going To Space: The Absence Of

Going To Space: The Absence Of

Plexus Theatre Company question the all-important parent-child relationship. 

Going To Space: 5 Kilo Sugar

Going To Space: 5 Kilo Sugar

Tik-sho-ret seeks to bring a touch of Israeli culture to Edinburgh this year with its fast paced comedy 5 Kilo Sugar.  

Going To Space: The Dock Brief

Going To Space: The Dock Brief

Cian and Al are bringing The Dock Brief, a legal satire revolving around a murder and an unsuccessful barrister. Broadway Baby has a little chit-chat. 

Going To Space: STAIRCASES

Going To Space: STAIRCASES

L'esprit de l'escalier - "Staircase Wit" - is the French term used to describe the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late. 

Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly

Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly

Acclaimed choreographers and performers Ramesh Meyyappan and Claire Cunningham bring two startling – and highly personal – shows to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Going To Space: Bones

Going To Space: Bones

Gritty Theatre lives up to its name, bringing Bones to Edinburgh this year. Bones tells the story of Mark; let down by society or a let down to society?  

Going To Space: Dust Never Settles In Torchlight

Going To Space: Dust Never Settles In Torchlight

Dust Never Settles In Torchlight explores a dark, immersive landscape through a poetic sequence of choreography and movement. Broadway Baby has a chat. 

Going To Space: Baron Sternlook's Improvised Musical

Going To Space: Baron Sternlook's Improvised Musical

Intending to improvise over 20 back-to-back on-the-spot musicals this year, Baron Sternlook's Improvised Musical returns - with an enormous cast and full ensemble! Broadway Baby ch... 

Going To Space: Paradise: Lost

Going To Space: Paradise: Lost

Based on the the poem by Milton of the same name, Paradise: Lost is a sinister thriller exploring the fall of Man and the origin of original sin. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Mrs Dalloway

Going To Space: Mrs Dalloway

Theatre Paradok's adaption of Mrs Dalloway explores our near-constant use of technology to convey our thoughts, feelings and interests while we interact with others.  

Going To Space: Cautionary Tales for Daughters - Songs your mother never taught you

Going To Space: Cautionary Tales for Daughters - Songs your mother never taught you

Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Dearly Beloved

Going To Space: Dearly Beloved

What happens when three complete strangers are whisked away to a mysterious room to confront ghosts of their past? You'll have to see Dearly Beloved to find out! Broadway Baby inve... 

Going To Space: Romeo & Juliet

Going To Space: Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet, set in the 60's and with not an adult in sight. Broadway Baby is intrigued.  

Going To Space: All’s Well That Ends Well

Going To Space: All’s Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well shows strong women winning the battle of the sexes set against the backdrop of World War II. 

The Fringe Incubator: Why Greenwich Theatre Supports EdFest.

The Fringe Incubator: Why Greenwich Theatre Supports EdFest.

Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from... 

Going To Space: Cross Wire

Going To Space: Cross Wire

Secret agents, spies, world domination, illegal aliens, real ones - what could be better? Broadway Baby talks to Split Trunk Productions about Cross Wire, coming to Fringe '15. 

Going To Space: Get Jazzy On It

Going To Space: Get Jazzy On It

The Bluebelles are an all-female A Cappella group with a taste for jazz. They promise singing, solos and dancing to boot. Broadway Baby has a natter. 

Going To Space: Poppies

Going To Space: Poppies

Poppies is a show set during WWI - it's also aiming to raise money for Poppy Scotland. Broadway Baby talks to Laura Kaye Thomson, director of Music Box Theatre. 

Going To Space: Church Knight

Going To Space: Church Knight

Church Night is a Washington based production company bringing a show of the same name to Edinburgh. But this isn't your average service.. 

Going To Space: The Final Act

Going To Space: The Final Act

The Final Act tells the musical tale of one last chance, promising catchy songs and laughs aplenty. Broadway Baby has a chat. 

Going To Space: ShellShock! Improv Live!

Going To Space: ShellShock! Improv Live!

Shellshock! puts you, the audience, in control. Sit back, relax, and watch the madness ensue! Broadway Baby has a little chat. 

Going To Space: Pitch Please

Going To Space: Pitch Please

Pitch Please is an a cappella group from St Andrews University, Edinburgh. 

Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street

Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street

A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street promises to be absurd, dark, surreal yet humorous. A severed finger in the mail sets off a chain of unlikely events. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Orpheus and Eurydice

Going To Space: Orpheus and Eurydice

The About Turn Theatre Company are bringing Orpheus and Eurydice to EdFringe '15. 

Three Minute Interview: Dandy Darkly

Three Minute Interview: Dandy Darkly

New York City's "rapid-fire raconteur of sex and death" returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, where it’s fair to say he’s decidedly Trigger Happy! 

Going To Space: MUSE

Going To Space: MUSE

There is no doubt Jean Ross inspired many with her unconventional lifestyle. MUSE explores her life. 

Going To Space: Reconciling

Going To Space: Reconciling

What do you get when you mix a Baptist, a bro in 'cuffs, a botched funeral and a bottle of vodka? Reconciling. 

Going To Space: Father Christmas needs a WEE!

Going To Space: Father Christmas needs a WEE!

Father Christmas has a problem! After a few mince pies, a glass or two of milk and a little eggnog he finds himself in dire need of a bathroom! 

Going To Space: Macaroni on a Hotdog

Going To Space: Macaroni on a Hotdog

What do you do after a wedding dress impulse buy? Sandra Thomas wrote a show to justify the expense. 

Going To Space: Kitty's Bound For Broadway

Going To Space: Kitty's Bound For Broadway

Kitty's bound for Broadway, baby! We chat to Kerry Miller, the woman behind this one-woman show. It promises to be lighthearted, entertaining and musical. We find out more! 

Going To Space: Tension Square

Going To Space: Tension Square

Broadway Baby talks to Tension Square. 

Going To Space: Follow/Unfollow

Going To Space: Follow/Unfollow

Follow/Unfollow explores internet fame and the rise of the vlogger. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Dog Play Dead

Going To Space: Dog Play Dead

Broadway Baby chats to Gemma Wilson and Anna Thomas-Jones from The Well-Behaved Women about their upcoming show Dog Play Dead. 

Going To Space: Tissue

Going To Space: Tissue

Tissue is a about cancer - something that will affect most, if not all, of us in some way. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: The Norman Conquests

Going To Space: The Norman Conquests

Broadway Baby talks to Stephanie Biggs about The Norman Conquests! 

Going To Space: The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

Going To Space: The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show

The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show promises to amaze adults and kids alike! Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Labyrinth

Going To Space: Labyrinth

Labyrinth is a theatrical mashup of three Greek myths. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Sanctuary

Going To Space: Sanctuary

Broadway Baby talks to Susanne Sulby, the writer of Sanctuary, a show dealing with the impact of war on women. 

Going To Space: Giving Up The Ghost

Going To Space: Giving Up The Ghost

Broadway Baby chats to Butterfly with a Bomb Productions, who are bringing the supernatural Giving Up The Ghost to EdFringe '15. 

Going To Space: The State of Concrete

Going To Space: The State of Concrete

Broadway Baby talks to the talent behind The State of Concrete, a show exploring the stereotypes and exceptions to the rule in modern council estates. 

Going To Space: One Above

Going To Space: One Above

Broadway Baby and PALP have a chat about One Above. 

Going To Space: Notflix

Going To Space: Notflix

Broadway Baby chats to Notflix. 

Going To Space: Real Life Becomes a Rumour

Going To Space: Real Life Becomes a Rumour

Real Life Becomes a Rumour asks what three people have really done in their lives. We investigate.  

Going To Space: Fiesta de los Muertos

Going To Space: Fiesta de los Muertos

Today Broadway Baby talks to the talent behind Fiesta de los Muertos. 

Going To Space: After We Danced

Going To Space: After We Danced

After We Danced is a story about love, mystery and tragedy bundled up into one neat package. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Flight Lessons

Going To Space: Flight Lessons

Flight Lessons is a new piece of South African theatre, having taken Jermyn Street Theatre by storm. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Accidental Death of An Anarchist

Going To Space: Accidental Death of An Anarchist

Accidental Death of An Anarchist is being brought to Edinburgh this year by The Hoghead Theatre Company. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Classically Chilled Piano

Going To Space: Classically Chilled Piano

Broadway Baby talks to Rich Batsford, the pianist behind the keys in Classically Chilled Piano. 

Going To Space: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Going To Space: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Broadway Baby talks to the young talent behind The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. 

Going To Space: The Dolphin Hotel

Going To Space: The Dolphin Hotel

Thread Theatre talk to us about The Dolphin Hotel: a show tackling the subject of sex trafficking while remaining funny and thought provoking. 

Going To Space: Kind Hearts and Cormorants

Going To Space: Kind Hearts and Cormorants

Broadway Baby and Flightless Birds, the hodgepodge group of students behind Kind Hearts and Cormorants have a little chat about their show. 

Going To Space: A Little Respect

Going To Space: A Little Respect

Broadway Baby talks to Hungry Wolf Visionary Youth Theatre about their upcoming show, A Little Respect. 

Going To Space: Free For All

Going To Space: Free For All

Have a thing for iambic pentameter and ghosts of politician's past? Then this might be the show for you! Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Sweet Nothings: Unwrapped

Going To Space: Sweet Nothings: Unwrapped

Broadway Baby talks to Exeter's sassiest all-female a cappella group! 

Going To Space: Since Maggie Went Away

Going To Space: Since Maggie Went Away

Broadway Baby learns more about Since Maggie Went Away. 

Going To Space: Sweetness and Light

Going To Space: Sweetness and Light

Broadway Baby talks to Sweetness and Light. 

Going To Space: HAPPY GIRL

Going To Space: HAPPY GIRL

HAPPY GIRL takes a look at sexism and inequality amongst teen girls. Broadway Baby investigates. 

Going To Space: Ozymandias

Going To Space: Ozymandias

Ozymandias is a mish-mash of the historical and literary Ozymandias. Broadway Baby has a chat. 

Going To Space: Plain English

Going To Space: Plain English

Broadway Baby talks to Terry Burns, the man behind the one-man show Plain English. 

Going To Space: Wild Bill: Sonnet of a Bardsterd

Going To Space: Wild Bill: Sonnet of a Bardsterd

Enter the world of Wild Bill: Sonnet of a Bardsterd! Shakespeare as you've never seen him. Broadway Baby investigates.  

Going To Space: AVICIDE

Going To Space: AVICIDE

AVICIDE looks at the person behind the label. Broadway Baby has a little chat. 

Going To Space: Normal Is An Illusion

Going To Space: Normal Is An Illusion

Normal Is An Illusion delves into the depths of the human mind. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Odd Shaped Balls

Going To Space: Odd Shaped Balls

Odd Shaped Balls is a show that tackles homophobia in sport. Broadway Baby talks to Ellie Claughton to learn more. 

Going To Space: The Graduettes

Going To Space: The Graduettes

Broadway Baby talks to Sean Wilkie of The Graduettes. 

Going To Space: H.P Lovecraft's The Statement of Randolph Carter

Going To Space: H.P Lovecraft's The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Statement of Randolph Carter promises to whisk you away for an hour. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Block

Going To Space: Block

Broadway Baby and Duncan Ellis, director of Block, have a little chat. 

Going To Space: Luca Wu & Reverse Context Live!

Going To Space: Luca Wu & Reverse Context Live!

Broadway Baby and Luca Wu have a chat about his upcoming show. 

Going To Space: Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

Going To Space: Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions

Broadway Baby talks to Ian Pearce, the man behind this retelling of Dickens' little-known Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions. 

Going To Space: Iolita

Going To Space: Iolita

Broadway Baby chats to the talent behind Iolite. 

Going To Space: The Heist

Going To Space: The Heist

The Heist promises to be comedy horror - "Corror". Broadway Baby was intrigued, so we set out to learn more. 

Going To Space: The Main Yvette

Going To Space: The Main Yvette

Good Punch is bringing The Main Yvette to EdFringe this year. Broadway Baby finds out more. 

Going To Space: Bench

Going To Space: Bench

The humble bench. Sturdy furniture, or something more? Broadway Baby wants to know more. 

Going To Space: Consumption

Going To Space: Consumption

Broadway Baby talks to Joanne Griffiths, part of the team bringing Consumption to EdFringe '15. 

Going To Space: Captain Of The Lost Waves - 'Unsolved Mysteries'

Going To Space: Captain Of The Lost Waves - 'Unsolved Mysteries'

Meet The Captain! A vaudevillian space detective! Broadway Baby asks why. 

Going To Space: Jane And Lizzy

Going To Space: Jane And Lizzy

BB talks to the talent behind Jane and Lizzy, a reinterpretation of Pride and Prejudice with a comical twist. 

Going To Space: Farewell, My Concubine - The Movement of the Martyr

Going To Space: Farewell, My Concubine - The Movement of the Martyr

Broadway Baby chats to the talent behind Farewell, My Concubine - The Movement of the Martyr, a show that incorporates "martial dance", a fascinating mix of martial arts and modern... 

Going To Space: Life Jim (But not as we know it)

Going To Space: Life Jim (But not as we know it)

Rob Grace and BB are having a little chinwag about Life Jim (But not as we know it), a comedy sketch show incorporating pre-filmed tidbits. 

Going To Space: Re:member

Going To Space: Re:member

Re:member, a show that questions memory through form, structure and movement. Broadway Baby wants to know more. 

Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street

Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street

Broadway Baby chats to the absurdists behind A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street. 

Going To Space: Supertown

Going To Space: Supertown

Supertown, a town beset by supervillains and home to superheroes. Do you need super powers to be a superhero? Broadway Baby finds out. 

Going To Space: Flamin' Dames

Going To Space: Flamin' Dames

Broadway Baby is talking to a couple of spicy, camp ladies about their upcoming show Flamin' Dames. 

Going To Space: Pick N Mixx

Going To Space: Pick N Mixx

Broadway Baby is having a little chat with Louisa Lorey, "a top heavy heterosexual actress" and her partner in crime, "chubby homosexual writer" Geraint Jones. 

Going To Space: Fifty Shades of Fizzgog

Going To Space: Fifty Shades of Fizzgog

Dancing grannies galore! Broadway Baby has a little chat with 50 Shades of Fizzgog. 

Going To Space: Frame Narrative

Going To Space: Frame Narrative

Broadway Baby, Victoria Bastable and Rosalie Falla talk about Frame Narrative, a comedy exploring the person behind the painting. 

Going To Space: The King of Monte Cristo

Going To Space: The King of Monte Cristo

The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more. 

Going To Space: Generation Y

Going To Space: Generation Y

Broadway Baby is chatting to Mark Donald, proudly representing Generation Y. 

Going To Space: Heart of Darkness

Going To Space: Heart of Darkness

We're talking to Hannah Edwards of Scandal And Gallows Theatre, who are a bringing a one man staging of Heart of Darkness, a show that deals with the harrowing underside of sa... 

Going To Space: Elsa Jean McTaggart AKA THE MERCENARY FIDDLER

Going To Space: Elsa Jean McTaggart AKA THE MERCENARY FIDDLER

We're having a chat with Gary, who alongside Elsa Jean McTaggart is bringing The Mercenary Fiddler to Fringe 15! 

Going To Space: The Colours of Kenny Roach

Going To Space: The Colours of Kenny Roach

Broadway Baby is delighted to chat with Lisa Stenhouse, Artistic Director for PepperMint muse about The Colours of Kenny Roach. 

Going To Space: Tumbling After

Going To Space: Tumbling After

Broadway Baby is chatting to Kate Goodfellow of RedBellyBlack and the show she is bringing to Ed Fringe, Tumbling After. 

Going To Space: Titus Andronicus

Going To Space: Titus Andronicus

Broadway Baby has a chat with Georgia Harris, creative director of Tripped Theatre Company. This year they will be taking on Shakespeare's bloodiest play with an updated script. 

Going To Space: The Shambles

Going To Space: The Shambles

Max Adams, producer of Duck Productions talks to us about The Shambles, a shambolic comedy troupe once again gracing the stage this Ed Fringe. 

Going To Space: Buckle Up

Going To Space: Buckle Up

In the first of a new feature for 2015, we talk to companies attending The Edinburgh Fringe with theSpaceUK. 

Going To Space: The Black Hoods Cabaret

Going To Space: The Black Hoods Cabaret

Broadway Baby talks to Rebecca O'Brien, joint artistic director of Knuckle and Joint about their upcoming show The Black Hoods Cabaret, which promises adult humour, puppet murder a... 

Going To Space: The Jäger Maestros Oompah Band

Going To Space: The Jäger Maestros Oompah Band

Broadway Baby is talking to Chris Haigh of the The Jäger Maestros, an oompah band that promises to have crowds laughing, drinking and bouncing.  

Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October

Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October

Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October. 

The Doctor Austin Three Minute Interview

The Doctor Austin Three Minute Interview

Doctor Austin of the renowned Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, based in the University of Glasgow, has come to educate the Edinburgh Fringe about the inevitable Zombie Apo... 

Feelgood Fringe Stories: David O'Doherty & The Caravan on the Cobbles

Feelgood Fringe Stories: David O'Doherty & The Caravan on the Cobbles

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. 

The David Leddy Three Minute Interview

The David Leddy Three Minute Interview

Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio... 

The Liam Rudden Three Minute Interview

The Liam Rudden Three Minute Interview

Game-keeper turned poacher? Liam Rudden may be Entertainment Editor for the Edinburgh Evening News, but he also has decades’ experience as a writer and director for the stage–i... 

Win a £150 ad package in our Brighton Fringe Twitter Compo

Win a £150 ad package in our Brighton Fringe Twitter Compo

If you're taking a show to Brighton Fringe this year you want some free advertising, don't you? Sure you do. 

Brighton Rocks! The 2014 Fringe Programme is Launched.

Brighton Rocks! The 2014 Fringe Programme is Launched.

England's largest mixed-arts festival, the Brighton Fringe, has launched its online programme. 

The Brighton Fringe Marketing Guide

The Brighton Fringe Marketing Guide

Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at the Brighton Fringe with tips on budgets, creating a press release, social media and bran... 

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