The Brighton Academy (TBA) Musical Theatre Degree Showcase.
Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings…” It’s Christmas Eve, Bedford Falls.
South African-New Zealander Comedian, Urzila Carlson returns to tour the UK with her new show 'Just Jokes'.
Fearlessly hilarious delivery combined with honesty and sincerity, Kane Brown is 19 years in the game.
Sungho Kim, the South Korean tenor, in a world-premiere recital with Llyr Williams on piano.
After sell-out concerts at the Fringe last year, the Bohemians are back, taking you through all aspects of life in their jam-packed, fun-filled concert.
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
Andrew White has been described by Joe Lycett as ‘very exciting and very funny’ and by teachers as ‘a pleasure to teach (gay)’.
Join us for Arkle’s second Wester Ross radio play, combining mythical creatures, illicit whisky and the 19th century scientific survey of Scotland’s lochs, with gentle humour, …
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
Catherine, a modern girl in love with Jane Austen’s world, can’t believe her luck when she meets her very own Mr Tilney.
A solo narrative navigating life with neurodiversity.
‘London’s best cliché-free drag nights’ (Time Out).
When I am on stage performing stand-up comedy I feel like a wild horse galloping through the plains of Ohio, the wind running through my mane, the hot sun shining down on my sturdy…
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…
A Fringe premiere of Francis Poulenc’s early 1950s iconic opera La Voix Humaine (lyrics by Jean Cocteau).
Escape the hubbub of the Fringe and spend a relaxing hour sketching in the company of canines.
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
British singer Ian Bostridge joins Edinburgh-born pianist Steven Osborne for Franz Schubert’s visionary song cycle Schwanengesang.
Tune-in for a mockumentary edition of This Is Your Life as our imposter Michael Aspel interviews Ludwig van Beethoven.
Life is but a complex, dynamic mix of chemicals.
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
After last year’s successful Fringe debut, legendary accordionist and funnyman Sandy Brechin returns with another hilarious hour of music and comedy in his one-man show, featuring …
You know the guy.
A country house weekend takes a turn for the worse when Bertie Wooster, loveable layabout, must play matchmaker for his newt-loving friend Gussie Fink-Nottle.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show nominee 2023 Ian Smith returns with a limited work in progress run.
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Just Aretha is the story of a black disabled woman navigating an able-bodied world, striving to hold onto her African and disabled identity.
From an illegal rave in an abandoned vagina museum to the PTA cheese and wine – mid-life dating with the mindset of a teen is a wild ride.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Free exhibition of international artists brought together by the SBLDC weekly online sessions with models and artists from four continents.
Andrii Kymach, baritone – a unique recital celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Edinburgh-Kyiv twinning (1989-2024).
Are our memories important in our day-to-day present lives? How can sociologists uncover people’s memories and why should they bother to do so? Delve deeper with Dr Sophie Athert…
Unravel the curious case of Agnes Finnie, a mid-17th century shopkeeper in Edinburgh’s Potterrow accused of witchcraft.
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Scotland’s other national tongue has been misunderstood and (officially) mistreated for centuries.
Join Professor Alan Riach, author of Scottish Literature: An Introduction (‘magisterial’ (Times)), for a dynamic encounter with literary luminaries! Explore creativity, unravelling…
Have you ever wondered what life is like being 3’10”? What it’s like doing day-to-day activities? What questions people ask you everyday? Well wonder no more, as George Coppen tak…
Kane & Abel return with magic and comedy based on being twins.
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…
‘Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Embark on a musical odyssey with One Acchord: That’s Life in Harmony.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from Fringe legend David Alnwick.
Mona Mae is a Juicy Jurassic Southern Belle transplanted in Scotland.
When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy.
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Pure horror… Pushing the boundaries of magic as a genre’ ***** (WorldMagicReview.
Queer, chic and outrageous – you’re invited to the biggest, gayest party at the Fringe (fun straights allowed).
Astrophysicist Dr Julian Mayers asks whether studying the Universe gives us any insight into earthly matters of life, death and love.
Dark obsessions. Evil desires. Twisted kinks. But enough about my priest. Sit back. relax. And enjoy some quality scripted stand-up. Entertaining and fun.
Dolly’s forlorn.
Can too much religion in your teens screw up your sex life in your 50s? Then how come Mormons have so many babies? Is eternal life really worth the hassle? Forever is a long time.
1572.
Unhinged, in the best way, and genuinely original.
In the dusty confines of her late mother’s attic, secrets unravel like cobwebs as Charlotte embarks on a darkly comedic journey through the forgotten chapters of her family’s twist…
After 10 years in the UK, Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the test: The Life in the UK test.
Biblical characters David and Jonathan feature quite prominently in present discussions about the Bible and same-sex relationships.
2023 Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe/sold-out run in Edinburgh! ‘A sold-out Fringe classic!’ **** (BritishTheatreGuide.
Calling all musical lovers! Clara, an employee of furniture store, helps people establish their homes but wrestles with the idea to create a home of her own.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe, 2019, 2021, 2023) hosts this show for history fans, its fourth year at the Fringe.
The 2023 Fringe First-winning club/theatre immersive experience returns for eight performances only! Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin hosts an interactive joy-ride through his 80s/90s clu…
A hilarious and heartfelt musical that tackles modern love in all its forms.
Voices of Israel and Palestine.
Following in the footsteps of the great time travellers of the past, present and future, the woman with the purple hat, the painted boots and the little wheelie suitcase invites yo…
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
Award-winning David Hoare returns with another bumper show, brimming with silliness.
The award-winning musical comedy revue revealing all about musicals and the people who love them – on both sides of the curtain.
Returning after a total sell-out run in 2019, Fragility of Man follows one man’s epic, lifelong battle with the justice system.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Following her award-winning debut and sell-out run, Chelsea Birkby’s back with a meditation on lust for life.
Keyworth returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a joyous new show about family, acceptance and a pair of big (well, not super-big) losses.
In spite of everything, Ian Stone is trying to keep it together.
Libyan Arab stand-up Mustafa Algiyadi – **** (The Voice) – longs to be part of the European way of life but is confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing,…
Love at first sight is easy, letting it through the front door is a goddamn Odyssey.
Ellis wakes up in a turbulent fever dream created by the Gods of Sapphic Desire.
The adventures of blind comedian and folk singer David Eagle: accosted by faith healers, bamboozling aggressive Australians and escaping arrest after a nocturnal accordion-based an…
House of Life is a place of worship with one goal: happiness for all, at any cost.
Belles was the it girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl.
Think you’ve hit rock bottom, then realize you’re nowhere near? Become a life coach.
Late-night delights from sultry songstress Sarah McGuiness.
Online comedy sensation Henry Rowley (1.
A poignant exploration of comedy intertwined with the essence of life’s ups and downs.
A sticky, spooky horror comedy about gender-reveal parties, demons from hell, and a Gay Witch Sex Cult (a sex cult for gay witches).
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Fresh from his USA/Australia tour, Danish magician Martin Brock presents completely original magic, enhanced by unique music, witty comedy and high-tech video production.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Famous musician Ian Lockwood has accomplished everything he’s ever wanted during his illustrious and extremely successful career, and thus, he’s ready to die! See him in concert fo…
The David O’Doherty of comedy is back! Having trained his body and mind to the point of peak perfection, he has used a very nice pen to write a new concert of talking and songs.
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
The incredible true story of missing WWII soldier Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew David William Bryan.
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 …
This is a tell-all, personal storytelling comedy show.
Join BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani.
“If that makes sense” Common Phrase.
Despite being dragged by the wig from her seat in Westminster, Babs Romance MP holds a celebratory ‘evening with’ and reflects on her absurdly privileged life and sketc…
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
After 10 years in the UK Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the Test, the Life in the UK test.
Poor Archy - trapped in the body of a cockroach - reflects on the insanity and inanity of humanity as he records his memoirs on a newly-discovered typewriter.
Dragged by the wig from her seat in Westminster, Babs Romance MP holds a scandalous press conference and reflects on her absurdly privileged life and sketchy career as a Preservati…
Meet the intern.
Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and tea…
Old Movies Saved My Life: 2.
Comedy Stand-Up for LGBTQ+ and Allies ONLY.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show BIG FAT GAY (he’s used the title before, it’s a good title).
Travel back and forth in time with Through the Ages at Downsview Life Skills College.
From New York-based comedian—and former tech employee—Alexis Gay, “Unprofessional” is a comedy solo show debut about working (or, uh, not working) in tech, and one very specifi…
After sell out sessions in March and April, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr…
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
Tides.
Ever wanted to tell your story but don’t know where to start? Explore how to tell the tales of your own life in a fun, relaxed environment with award-winning storyteller and th…
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
Join David Ingram, a 40-something retired twink, as he discusses his life as a gay man, the ups and downs, the tops and bottoms of growing up in a small town in Scotland in the 80�…
Inspired by true events, Swipe, Life & Gate Number 5 is an exceptional lesbian love story between a white and a black immigrant.
Join David Ingram, a 40-something retired twink, as he discusses his life as a gay man, the ups and downs, the tops and bottoms of growing up in a small town in Scotland in the 80�…
This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality.
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).
Local Brighton alternative comedian Brad Jon Kane presents a character comedy show, where all the characters have been politely asked to ‘Please Slow Down’.
Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe.
Libyan Arab stand-up Mustafa Algiyadi longs to be part of the European way of life but is confronted with some cultural differences that make it confusing, chaotic and sometimes hi…
David has undergone changes and is happier than he looks, promise.
Rip-roaring, off-the-wall stand-up from one of the silliest people I know.
London stabbings 2017.
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
Discover the power of laughter with life coaches extraordinaire, Sydney and Silvana! What are the chances that two talented and passionate life coaches who also happen to be hila…
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
Johnny Wardlow is trying to live his best life in a world that’s falling apart.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public.
Thought Eurovision couldn’t get any camper? Join Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they whisk you away on an exploration of the past, present and future of everyone’s favourite so…
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
In a frenetic on-stage exorcism, actor and filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his rollercoaster journey from South London to Sunset Boulevard.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Based on the best-selling book by Yann Martel, the five-star hit show comes to Hull.
Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the …
An ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
The war is over, and the Allies have won.
Set to an eclectic, upbeat score, Kipling’s famous tales are woven with wit and imagination into a song-filled journey through the jungle
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
Just a Song at Twilight A contemporary James Joyce flashback mashup Jester’s Privilege Jester VS Eating Disorder.
It’s 1948 and on board the Windrush Empire, journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie are full of expectations and aspirations.
HUMAN // ROBOTlaugh_if_you_are_humanJust One Law .
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Meta vs Life is a theatre gaming experience that can be played online or in-person.
‘We can be us, just for one day’ Relive the day music brought the world together.
After a 3 and half-year-run on Emmerdale that was tragically ended by a fictional car crash, Louise Marwood started to design a car crash of her own and inspired by her wild endeav…
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
The culmination of a two-year project working with carers, who are often excluded from cultural activities because of their responsibilities, Heart of Care is an artwork made up of…
Does the name of the father matter on a birth certificate in a post-modern world where gender fluidity is the norm and relationships non-committal? Transgression is set in the Nine…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Charles Bukowski is a true literary legend, the king of the underground and a “laureate of American lowlife”.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
“A uniquely Dublin take on a beloved Christmas classic” It’s Christmas Eve 2007 and Georgie Travers is propping up the bar in his Dublin local, the we…
Christmas is just around the corner and Holly Stars' husband Gary is finally getting out of prison.
Christmas is just around the corner and Holly Stars husband Gary is finally getting out of prison.
Now in its 14th year.
The human brain doesn’t allow us to remember pain.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G…
Mukul and Ghetto TigersExploring the dark inner life of one of India’s most loved Bollywood icons, Meena Kumari and how it contrasted with the glamour the public saw on the silve…
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 …
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee 2023 Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-hosting the Northern News podcast) presents a show about stress, love and …
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
The award winning Shane Daniel Byrne is Irish comedy’s new wonderkid (in his mid 30's).
ÓDÚ brings her one woman album to Dublin Fringe Festival.
Cathartic Party presents Second Life an ecofeminist thriller about vintage clothing, exploring grief, trauma and the possibility of redemption, brought to life by a fusion of dance…
Time: the not so distant future.
James Seabright presents I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL by Alexander S.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
Direct from Broadway, a special one-off benefit performance of Alex Edelman’s award-winning show in honour of the show’s late director, Adam Brace.
An in-depth dissection of the 2016 episode of British reality TV show Come Dine With Me in which a contestant, incensed at having lost, berated his fellow diners in a virulently im…
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
The creatives behind this year’s production of Life is a Dream discuss working across different languages and cultures.
Sarah Keyworth (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, House of Games) delivers a brand-new hour of comedy every day as they work up a new show.
Rising stars Nick Pritchard and Ian Tindale celebrate three outstanding song composers: Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc and Benjamin Britten.
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
Legendary Scottish folk accordionist and wisecracker, Sandy Brechin, accompanied by his loyal stuffed dog on wheels, Roveroller, brings his successful weekly Facebook music and com…
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Old movies saved Mel Byron’s life a few Fringes ago and they can save yours too.
David Rivera and La Båmbula will make you dance with their Caribbean sounds from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
An adorable work-in-progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
The Project, I Am Not Just Me in Me is the first theoretical-practical application procedure of the new research object of Grupo Cena 11 for 2023/2024.
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
Sarah Keyworth (Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, House of Games) delivers a brand-new hour of comedy every day as they work up a new show.
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
How to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit musical ‘cats’ is as bonkers as it sounds, whilst still adding to the philosophical debate on how to live a good lif…
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
It ain’t easy being Jack.
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
Spoken word theatre in a debut one woman show that gleefully jumps from one subject to another in the way only an ADHD brain can.
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat…
The brave corporate professionals of the world just have to accept it.
The Victorian music hall: a hotbed of scandal and home of betrayal, discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Scott McPherson: Life is an intimate window into the inner-workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro…
Join self-proclaimed theatre “impresario’” Israel Hands as he brings his own unique touch to his latest production, A Life Less Lived, starring the hapless Richard Bridgerton.
Minnie Rubinski, now in her eighties, looks back on her fantastic life.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
My Life Online is an incredibly well performed piece of modern opera, with an unfortunately lacklustre story.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Singing, dancing, butt stuff.
It’s 1723 and writing while Black could get a girl hanged in Virginia.
This evening’s performance will include an eclectic mix of solo and ensemble song and dance pieces from some of the West End’s best-loved musicals.
Life been hard lately? Channel this: You can do anything!! Life coach Lex will manifest your deepest wishes, even those you didn’t know you had! Be pitched into radical self-acce…
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
Life Flash (2023) interprets what one could potentially see, hear and feel in the final moments of life.
Life Flash (2023) interprets what one could potentially see, hear and feel in the final moments of life.
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
A stand-up comedy show in BSL by the funniest deaf actor in the world, David Sands (aka Chris Baker from Small World). Come and laugh with… or at… David Sands.
Martin J Dixon brings his hilarious show Big Fat Gay to Camden Fringe.
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
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.
Juliet Meyers (writer on ‘Sarah Millican’s TV Programme’ and Radio 4 show) presents her stand-up/Storytelling show about loving and cursing her overly-sensitive Portuguese rescue d…
Two queer Jews.
Witness first-hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
Juliet Meyers (writer on ‘Sarah Millican’s TV Programme’ and Radio 4 show) presents her stand-up/Storytelling show about loving and cursing her overly-sensitive Portuguese rescue d…
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment - French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango, etc.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
Preaching the word to thousands in football stadiums and evangelising undercover in China, amidst 30 years of door-knocking, and all the while the sound of sexuality was knocking l…
Enjoy four wines paired perfectly with four dance pieces in this original Australian wine-tasting-meets-dance-theatre production.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, smallest, most normal comedian.
Just Festival is Edinburgh’s human rights and social justice festival.
A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre.
Griffin and Jones have decided to change the world.
It is genuinely difficult to keep track of all the wellness tips that you’re supposed to follow to have a healthy body and mind.
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Scary, especially for the easily frightened.
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from fringe legend David Alnwick.
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to.
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
Wake up to the World Premiere of this raw, funny, and poignant solo show from narcoleptic comedian Sarah Albritton, host of the podcast Sleeping with Sarah.
This highly awarded, inspirational true story returns to Edinburgh after an exceptionally successful 2022 visit.
When life deals you a grim hand it’s easy to choose oblivion.
As Women, when are choices not really choices? Woman.
A mind-blowing, hilarious, heartwarming and true story.
Still Life: A Gallery in Motion is a devised physical-theatre dance piece brought to you by The Canyon Collective of West Texas A&M University.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe 2019, 2021 and 2022, Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up 2021, UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show …
Quirky, surreal, highly original stand-up.
If you can’t hate yourself, how the hell you gonna hate anyone else? Makes you laugh. Makes you think.
A show dedicated to Mr Segway, the man who invented the Segway, all performed entirely on Segways.
WOMAN.
Wake up to the World Premiere of this raw, funny, and poignant solo show from narcoleptic comedian Sarah Albritton, host of the podcast Sleeping with Sarah.
Australia’s campest drag queen bares all in this chaotic cabaret about her double life as a drag queen accountant.
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life.
It’s time.
David Ellis is a terrible Jew.
Feel like life is getting you down? Ian Stone will make it better.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
In what could be crowned the most uplifting show of the Fringe, The House of Life aka Ben Welch and Laurence Cole from Sheep Soup combine preaching, live music, comedy and all roun…
Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history.
After a decade of performing all over the world, in over 50 countries and countless viral videos, European-Canadian comedy star Daniel-Ryan Spaulding brings his new solo show to th…
Irish female sketch-comedy duo MEELAGOOLA bring you a fast-paced, high-energy, satirical spectacle! Have we actually progressed backwards? Is wellness really that well at all? We�…
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
Join New York comedian Alexis Gay and her funniest comedian friends for an hour of fresh, fun, fast-paced stand-up comedy.
In 1941 a precocious young upstart of New York’s glittering theatre scene tried his hand at making a movie and accidentally created the greatest motion picture of all time.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
“The primary school teacher vibes don’t end here,” Sasha Ellen jokes lightheartedly at the start of When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in the most ridiculously playful adventure comedy you’ve never had.
Life With Oscar is Nicholas Cohen's brutally honest first person (and occasionally third person) account, detailing his own personal heroes journey from Lewisham, South-east Lo…
Australian comedian David Quirk quit comedy in 2017.
Winner of Best Cabaret and Variety Show at Fringe World 2022, Life’s a Drag takes you on a reality-shaking rollercoaster ride of what it really takes to be a queen! Vocal powerhous…
With the brash vocals of an Australian zookeeper addressing an unruly tour group, Davis commands the room, immediately taking charge with her distinct brand of offbeat comedy.
This is the definitive piece of musical theatre for musical theatre lovers.
Mixing documentary footage, storytelling, and live music, The Death & Life of All of Us is a funny and poignant exploration of family secrets, shame, and embracing our imperfection…
Packed into a very small room on Chambers Street, Almost Adult certainly didn’t win the venue lottery, but once settled into your seat Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s protagonist Hope …
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
Club Life is club promoter Fred Deakin's personal autobiography.
The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair.
At a post-scandal press conference, Preservative MP Babs Romance guides the audience through the highs and lows of her political career, with archive footage, dance numbers, speech…
Official Selection: Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch (2022).
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
Award-winning musical comedian and viral internet-hit-maker Anesti Danelis returns with his hit comedy concert that will change your life.
Jack’s love of Bowie is the jumping off point for an hour of comedy about his teenage years, first love, hedonism, families, AI, culture wars, mortality and why you should always m…
With sex, Siri, and the familiar mundane at the top of the mind, operatic bass-baritone and comedienne Monét X Change shares her anecdotal, intrusive thoughts and opinions on life…
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
This wholehearted and heartwarming family orientated show, from the creators of Commitment, The Wrestling, and Deep Heat is the classic story of a life-long friendship and quirky f…
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and co-host of the Northern News podcast) presents a new show about stress, love and driving a tank with your …
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
The creators of smash-hit The Man Who return with an explosive new show.
But he’s gay.
PLEASURE CHAPTERS: I can’t just live on a salad! Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelm…
Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelming and triggering our food and even life choices!…
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape, setting the record straight about his background and his actions as he prepares to e…
Kane and Abel perform comedy and magic based on the cliches of being twins.
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape, setting the record straight about his background and his actions as he prepares to e…
Kane and Abel perform comedy and magic based on the cliches of being twins.
Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy…
After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show.
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…
James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A LITTLE LIFE.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
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…
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Author and social media sensation Laura Belbin is on a mission to make people laugh.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
A dramatic retelling of the life of Jeremy Segway.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Award-winning performer Max Norman invites you to join the crew of a ship and unleash your inner pirate in this absurdly epic adventure comedy quest bursting with nautical nonsense…
A well-respected scientist in the International community, UK national treasure Mark Silcox makes his Brighton Fringe debut.
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in this family-friendly comedy epic ideal for all loose cannons aged 8 to 88.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human is an ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human is an ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
Award-winning performer Max Norman invites you to join the crew of a ship and unleash your inner pirate in this absurdly epic adventure comedy quest bursting with nautical nonsense…
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take …
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) returns with a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
Scott McPherson: Life, is an intimate window into the inner workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
Scott McPherson: Life, is an intimate window into the inner workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (don’t look that up).
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
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Join life models and circus performers for a series of evening life drawing events with different costumes and themes each week.
Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
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Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
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Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
Martin J Dixon returns to the Fringe with his hilarious show Big Fat Gay.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
The Victorian Music Hall: Discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus present their annual Fringe Festival show - After Dark.
London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee.
We have more than likely at some point in our lives, heard of music hall star Marie Lloyd.
UPDATE: Tickets for tonight’s performance are no longer available through the Fringe Box Office.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c…
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (Network, Hedda Gabler) stages the English language premiere of A…
Imagine being in a new relationship.
The ancient practice of whirling is being re-purposed in this offering as surreal, female only physical theatre, that not only puts the HER back into heresy, but a soul into solida…
A dramatic retelling of the life of Jeremy Segway.
After a smash-hit, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre, and on tour across the UK, Olga Koch is bringing one of the best reviewed shows of …
JUST BE NORMAL is the moving true story of two sisters, Sophie and Emma, as they navigate Autism in a world that refuses to understand them.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Tamina was from Pakistan but living in London’s Notting Hill area during the 1950s, in the times before the decriminalisation of homosexuality came in 1967.
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
Is It Just Us?! It’s all a bit serious lads! HYPER Voice.
Stuck in a dead-end job serving coffee, Kayla longs for something more.
Get ready for some sparkly dance floor joy with Chrissy Bray’s brand new show, Just Act Normal.
An adorable work in progress from the world’s youngest, most normal comedian (do not look that up).
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and…
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
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 cel…
David Ferguson: Nice Bum is a show for people who like a little tragedy with their comedy.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
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…
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith presents a work in progress of his seventh solo show.
Have you ever had your heart broken? Have you ever regretted last night? Have you ever passed your lover’s husband in the street? Well, grab a glass (or a bottle) as Arran Bell t…
Growing up gay in a small town in 90s Kent, it is easy to think your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
Just For Us takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian brother AJ, an unconventional holiday season, and a gorilla that can …
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
Following Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Mark Farrelly returns with his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Opening the London Coliseum festive season is the UK premier of It’s a Wonderful Life, based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra movie.
Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl…
What else does a young Black man have to say if it isn’t about racism? Too busy trying to be an adult, leaving Nigeria and settling in Ireland, he has to find…
Kirkos presents The Song Ring’d Sky a new piece by Irish composer Ian Wilson and bayou-borne, for Pauline by New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
If you missed Esther Manito on Live at the Apollo, this is fantastic chance to see the Lebanese-British stand up in person.
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
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.
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
What if life came with a rewind button? Jumping across time, Bright Half Life tells the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, start a family, and…
Following on from the success of the first event, My Kind of Musical is back with more fat, more songs, more revenge, and more spiralling over whether or not you should feed the bi…
A mixed-bill comedy, cabaret and variety show to celebrate the life of maverick producer David Johnson who died in 2020.
Konkoba, from Upper Guinea, is a rhythm used to encourage farm workers as they toil with the daba (hoe) in the fields.
The Fife-born international best-selling author chats to Graham Spiers about Rebus, writing, favourite books and music and all things Edinburgh.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
First elected to parliament in 2015, Ian became the SNP’s Westminster Parliamentary Leader in 2017, a position he still holds.
James Barr and Dan Hudson present the UK’s funniest LGBTQ+ podcast live, with iconic special guests.
Estranged mother and daughter Ruth and Laura haven’t spoken in years.
Estranged mother and daughter Ruth and Laura haven’t spoken in years.
The quiz with just one question! Ollie Horn challenges a different comedian friend each show to a deceptively difficult game of putting things in order.
Set to excerpts of Glenn Gould’s rendition of Bach’s Two and Three Part Inventions, and accompanied by a luminous sound design by John Gzowski, A Perfect Day speaks to Laurence L…
Practically Perfect! takes a light-hearted and affectionate look at the many aspects of Julie Andrews’ career and personal life, exploring the contrast between the public face of…
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
A washed-up television personality lives out a Dickensian nightmare when they are visited by the ghost of their past.
As an international Chinese student who has been impacted by different thoughts from the East and the West, he often loses sleep and has many weird dreams from the anxieties of Uni…
Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove adapts Hanya Yanagihara’s novel for the theatre, crafting a deeply moving performance of epic proportions.
Troubled? Weak? Feel like a fraud? Good.
YOU’RE INVITED TO THE BIG TOP BIRTHDAY! Join Sarah and her best friend Duck as they plan the ultimate circus soiree to help Scarf Lady celebrate her birthday.
A split hour of comedy from two southern acts trying to make it in the no-nonsense northern comedy scene.
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
When you grow up gay in a small town in nineties-Kent, it is easy to think that your sexuality is the reason you don’t fit in.
A Polish migrant, David Tasma, is dying from cancer in post-war London.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
The brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
There’s a point beyond burnout where all you can do is laugh and Deirdre O’Kane has well and truly reached it.
Singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher, Miss Angela Bra invites you to share in her words of wisdom as an international online su…
Multi award-winning comedian and critically acclaimed loud Northerner Ian Smith (as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show – and seen on Comedy Central Live) retur…
A show that provides a jellicle discussion about the jellicle aspects of the jellicle cats in CATS and how you can apply them to your life in order to make it truly jellicle.
Scotland’s home-grown ensemble of musicians will perform their spectacular critically-acclaimed show that gives you a concert experience of pure Beatles nostalgia.
Chevron Theatre’s A Wilde Life is absolutely hypnotic, hinting at a time of debauchery and a glamour that has long since passed.
We live in a crazy world of fear and anxiety! But don’t worry, Dr Theatre is here to solve your problems in a show packed full of fabulous musical theatre songs with all the answ…
Hailing all the way from the bright lights of New York, Sarah Sherman’s self-described horror comedy show - with the emphasis on the horror - is incredibly ghastly and overly gra…
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Rarely off our screens and about to embark upon a 35-date Scottish tour of his new one-man play, Time’s Plague, Scottish acting’s national treasure revisits a highlight-strewn …
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…
Rwandan writer and activist Kiki Katese takes to the stage with her all-female drumming group to share the powerful stories of those affected by the Rwandan genocide, in a performa…
From the makers of Legs and Logs.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Join Edinburgh’s prestigious Poosie Nansie Burns Club in this their centenary year for a lively celebration of the life and works of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others…
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Playing the nice guy card pretty convincingly, and striking the right balance between self-deprecation and self-awareness, Josh Curiel and his more talented friends, Alf White and …
Playing the nice guy card pretty convincingly, and striking the right balance between self-deprecation and self-awareness, Josh Curiel and his more talented friends, Alf White and …
Almost 13 is a highly thoughtful and at times disturbing portrayal of the childhood experiences of a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, New York.
All abilities, untutored life drawing accompanied by live music at the Pianodrome – a playable amphitheatre constructed entirely from upcycled pianos.
New Show for 2022.
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
A perfect show to start your day! Card tricks, mind-reading, all the magic show stuff! Magician, on stage, doing magic in a magic show; what more do you want? Oh and it’s literally…
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as: ‘the relationship.
Debut show from Sarah Southern who pulls the curtain back on gossip and political scandal.
A Romantic Comedy.
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot…
The world’s changed, Michaels confused and snowflake is a cold dessert? Is it just me? Let’s find out together.
It is difficult to work out exactly who this play is for.
Life is a game.
How to remember the hermit of Hull? Almost Instinct, Almost True may refuse us anabsolute answer, but with moments of lyricism, connection and surprising political relevance, it as…
One of 18 worldwide ‘Best of’ shows selected to participate in the Fringe Encore series, Off-Broadway, at the historic Soho Playhouse in New York City in 2019.
Life, relationships, the world! Everything seems to be coming to an end.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes, 2019 and 2021; Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up, 2021; UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show f…
The Edinburgh Fringe may have a porn addiction.
Any one person show relies heavily on the performance of the central cast member and the quality of the script, luckily The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuiness is blessed with exc…
Set to excerpts of Glenn Gould’s rendition of Bach’s Two and Three Part Inventions, and accompanied by a luminous sound design by John Gzowski, A Perfect Day speaks to Laurence L…
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
It’s time for us to play.
Join the longest-running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News for his new show! Endorsed by Hollywood superstar Will Ferrell.
Witness first–hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
‘They said it’s your fault.
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Mr Brightside hasn’t left the UK charts in 18 years.
A split bill stand-up hour with a cherry on top.
Life drawing meets comedy! That’s right, if our jokes don’t make you laugh our poses will.
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
‘Oy Gay! is hilarious, clever and filthy! These talented comedians charm and entertain whilst exploring faith, community and life, with some classic material that still makes me la…
When Gavin Webster was a kid, he liked kings and queens from history, space and the solar system as well as singing, skipping and running.
Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She.
She’s back, the 6’5” towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher, Miss Angela Bra invites you to share in her words of wisdom as an international online su…
‘Russell’s mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the…
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s Lee and Dean, BBC’s Outnumbered, The First Team, Count Arthur Strong) brings her BBC Radio 4 special to life in this debut…
Boy, you’re an alien.
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to (NB you’ll still have to).
A series of unfortunate events led Riley to realise that there is no place for him in society.
For the eighth year of this universally unique, neurodiversifying, audience-participatory solo show, Paul Wady has changed the name to Guerilla Autistics and wants to take you all …
Musical comedian and viral internet songboy, Anesti Danelis, presents a comedy concert inspired by all of those stupid self-help books.
Award-winning documentary film about one of the most popular, controversial and troubled comedians in the UK.
So many wrongs, so little time.
Rachel Jackson is an award-winning, Scottish comedian with TV credits such as The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and Edinburgh Unlocked (BBC).
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
A twisted stand-up comedy quest to understand fatherhood.
What sort of a prick is living their best life? Richard Branson? Elon Musk? The Dalai Lama? Yes, the Dalai Lama is a prick – all will be explained in the show.
From exes to golf coaches, Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge is an eloquent, biting and well-structured analysis of situations when Hannah Fairweather was right and when she wa…
Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day.
Rachel and Colin muse over their different realities of parenthood: the highs, lows, irritations and chaos.
Sex.
Winner of Best Cabaret and Variety Show at Fringe World 2022 Life’s a Drag takes you on a reality-shaking rollercoaster ride of what it really takes to be a queen! Australian vocal…
A sample show of different acts from within Just the Tonic venues, and maybe some guests.
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
Sarah Keyworth’s Lost Boy is very difficult to fully describe.
From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and offstage feuds, award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical reveals ever…
The happiest show in Edinburgh! Those of you familiar with the noble Baron and his far-fetched tales of daring do (riding half a horse, flying to the moon on a cannon ball etc) wil…
A magical, charming show of dance and acrobatics which will delight children and adults alike.
Here he comes, trotting back onstage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.
Alexander S.
With a forensic talent for pinpointing the precise foibles, flaws and faults of a character and an uncanny capacity for evoking their vocal DNA, Jon Culshaw gives new life to one o…
Life is Soft – Martin Creed, Turner prize-winning artist.
Tatum, a university student, becomes the virgin bride of her sweetheart, entering an eternal marriage in the the Mormon church.
What do you do when the end of the world finally comes and you realise it’s going to happen slowly and boringly? No sudden meteor strike.
This personal account from Ian Lynam draws on his own experiences and research to break down the superficial stereotypes, misleading media presentations, and poor psychological pra…
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London.
Sikisa is the life and soul, the hostess-with-the-mostess and the party don’t start ‘til she walks in.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
With three five star sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, over 60 million views online and a tendency to list things in threes, Just These Please are back with 25 brand new sketches and…
Dr Silcox returns with his perfect show for the fourth time for his hardcore fans; a unique and no-nonsense approach to exposing big pharmaceutical companies who rip off their cust…
Thanyia Moore was going to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2020 with a heartfelt, emotional show, that was about to rock your socks off… but then 2020 happened.
For the last eighteen years Out of the Blue has built a vibrant reputation as one of the finest acapella groups at Edinburgh.
The central conceit of this production is that Johan Christensen and Ian McKellen slip symbiotically between being Hamlet’s inner voice and outer actor.
Olga Koch is winning at life and she wants us to know it.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s complications.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
This incredible retrospective spans 20th-century British artist Hepworth’s entire career.
A split bill stand-up comedy show featuring two of the country’s most attention seeking stand up comedians.
Michael is a lonely undertaker in his Late 20’s.
Michael is a lonely undertaker in his early 30s.
Nana Rabbit’s Cake-off! Join Nana Rabbit and her friends as they re-enact her most famous adventure yet; The Quest for the Whisk of Destiny! Nana, who was once named ‘The Greatest…
Acclaimed stand ups Sarah Keyworth (as seen on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and 8 Out of Ten Cats) and Dan Cook (as seen on Absolutely Fabulous, Toast of London and Man v Bee)…
In the centenary year of Marie Lloyd’s death this is the story of how the “Queen of the Music Hall” came to fame, told from the perspective of male impersonator Nelly Power.
Sarah Southern pulls the curtain back on gossip and political scandal.
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Drawing on their own experiences with mental health issues, scriptwriters and actors Samantha Crilly and Megan Kerby have produced a light-hearted but equally respectful and inform…
Older & Wiser is a show about life and everything it can throw at you, from the perspective of two different comics.
Our Jubilee Bank Holiday Friday special! For the first time live on stage in Vauxhall in too many years, Eagle London is proud to present LIVE on stage, the one and only David Dale…
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Everything begins with movement.
Everything begins with movement.
Alex Camp and Dom Hatton-Woods - regulars at comedy clubs across the north-west - present their Fringe debuts in their split show entitled Hard Knock Life.
Alex Camp and Dom Hatton-Woods - regulars at comedy clubs across the north-west - present their Fringe debuts in their split show entitled Hard Knock Life.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m…
When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
A Substitute for Life was a different and exciting take on a Victorian thriller, as we were introduced to Francis Kentworthy.
‘Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for real life.
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…
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…
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
New material from the blogging comic.
Irish writer Connor O’Donoghue tells stories, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, of his fat gay body, including reflections on his foreskin, his relationship with the “chubby ch…
Irish writer Connor O’Donoghue tells stories, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, of his fat gay body, including reflections on his foreskin, his relationship with the “chubby ch…
New material from the blogging comic.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
Four varied life drawing events for all the family in a nature-themed wonderland at the Bosco with live music jazz trio! Come and draw circus performers as they pose in costume, wi…
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Just Relax is a new play that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health challenges.
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Sarah Southern presents her work in progress show, ‘Scandalous!’ Political scandal never stops but what happens when you’re the centre of it? Sarah’s gripping storytelling takes yo…
Sarah Southern presents her work in progress show, ‘Scandalous!’ Political scandal never stops but what happens when you’re the centre of it? Sarah’s gripping storytelling takes yo…
A Life in Progress Show - Not Done Yet! After thirty years of listening to others, one day Stewart listened to himself and left his job - Now he wants you to listen to him.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
Simon David invites YOU to the live recording of his horrible DEBUT ALBUM From tender ballads (Daddy I Wanna Dance & Shitting On A Dick) to crowd favourites (Straggot, Why…
Kathleen loved to write.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Betrayal, Age Discrimination, Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Violence, Press Intrusion, Robbery….
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
Now in it’s 12th year.
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER A play, with songs.
Call Mr.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Ladies, Gaydies, Theydies, straight people who can take a joke Fashionista, and musical comedian, Simon David is back at The Glory trying out some horrible new songs LIVE! Fro…
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
AN EVENING OF CELEBRATED INTERNATIONAL LGBTQ+ SHORT FILMS AND Q&A.
‘Just Relax’ is a new play inspired by the writer's own journey with anxiety, that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health …
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
The Gay Happiness Project is an 8-week mindfulness-based group training programme designed for gay men who want to increase happiness and life satisfaction.
Just May & Mark T Cox Do the NoughtiesLondon’s newest and least-known cabaret show is coming BACK, for more LIVE frolics in the simmering East End this summer.
South East London’s favourite alternative drag show and queer cabaret revue returns after its sellout relaunch with a truly phenomenal smorgasbord of LGBTQ+ talent.
Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our …
NOBODYS BUSINESS? Is our discretion killing us?What is the cost to us of privacy about our sexuality?Have sex, sexual identity, and politics become so intertwined that i…
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Gay ShameSaturday 11 September 20219pm 4am Royal Vauxhall Tavern & Railway ArchNarcissus, Crumpet & ChippyStarring Scottee’s Fat Blokes, Harry Clayton-Wright, Thick & …
Biting political satire The Guardian Observer”The perfect mash-up of drag, political satire, catchy music and entertainment” - Broadway Baby The critically acclaimed LIKE A S…
This is the fourth retreat we have run from this venue, Gayles Retreat as we all love it so much and keep coming back!It’s nestled deep in the Sussex countryside, a haven…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
It’s been a long year.
Simon David (A hoot - The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Farmers-turned-entertainers David & Sam are ploughing up to George Square with their rambunctious family comedy, littered with the absolute best showmanship they can muster.
The Coming Out team at Pride in London have teamed up with an amazing LGBTQ+ friendly venue in the heart of Brick Lane .
The rumours are TRUE.
Making their debut at the Fringe this year, Perfect Forth are an a cappella ensemble that formed just before the first lockdown struck.
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
An hour of new material from Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee Sarah Keyworth.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
A live gig! Wow! I have great memories of audiences singing along.
Meet Sarah and her best friend Duck! Join us for a magical adventure live on stage with a whole host of your favourite friends including The Ribbon Sisters, The Sha…
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz and The Now Show) presents some new ideas (and some old ones) through a mixture of theatrical techniques, such…
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else.
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
Get back on board with Club Kali Independence Gay Boat Party! Saturday August 14th on board Bar&Co.
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, not to mention a wealthy property owner who performed a daring rescue at sea, Nelly Power was a for…
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT Festival 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing across to Islington with their rambunctious family comedy, littered wi…
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
A stand-up comedy one woman theatre piece that casts light on how society, your partner and yourself cause a lot of difficulties in your relationship.
A stand-up comedy one woman theatre piece that casts light on how society, your partner and yourself cause a lot of difficulties in your relationship.
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
Awkwardian - Snapshots from an awkward life.
Awkwardian - Snapshots from an awkward life.
A ghost story told with magic.
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
A Work In Progress from TV’s Tez Ilyas of his upcoming Autumn tour.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
A Work In Progress from TV’s Tez Ilyas of his upcoming Autumn tour.
It’s a Fringe 1st.
In 1970 Virgil Fox played the music of JS Bach at the Mecca of rock’n’roll, Fillmore East.
In this show, I Robert Inston(is), narrate as informatively as I am able, on the mythology that surrounds the murders in Whitechapel in 1888.
Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is a supercharged combination of old-school joke-telling and modern, autobiographical wit.
Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
The Life of Hokusai: a freak or a great artist? This work takes you on a non-verbal journey that depicts the anguished inner life of Hokusai through dance, Japanese traditional ins…
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
A site-specific theatrical performance combining movement and text, featuring two women and two couches in two different cities.
After spending 5+ decades on the stage, Siobhan Bremer’s life is more than just a bit theatrical.
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.
A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities.
Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
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Just These Please are back with 25 sketches and songs in 55 minutes.
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? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
Two of the most medicated comedians on the circuit bring you a night of pure self-indulgence.
You’re invited to celebrate Annabelle’s 10th birthday, hosted by everyone’s favourite MP candidate, Janet Crumb! (Almost) everyone is welcome… that is, everyone apart from …
Every Tuesday, come down to Bar CMYK in Wimbledon for South London’s only weekly LGBTQIA+ comedy night.
Join poet Adam Kammerling as he launches his debut collection Seder, alongside a gang of hyper-talented poets and musicians.
SOLD OUT! Join us for the 8pm show live stream on YouTube for free: https://youtu.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus members present a show of solos and duets under the direction of Joe Paxton.
This work of documentary theatre offers a rare glimpse into a queer life during the Holocaust.
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton is a riveting, witty, kinetic solo show vividly portraying the life of one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard is 38 years old.
Whenever we think of Jack the Ripper, immediately we think back to Whitechapel and his gruesome victims.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else .
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else .
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
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.
An immersive museum about life in Brighton during WW2, built inside an original school air raid shelter.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Nadia is a veteran journalist of The Balkan and Iraq wars.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Drag Bingo is BACK at the 2 Brewers and this time, it’s permanent!Pulling your balls is the ever wonderful Topsie Redfern with her right hand man, David Robson over on sound and vi…
Are you socially awkward? Do you worry about your reaction face when someone else is talking? Do you use your partner as a human shield at a social gathering? Fellow Awkwardian (An…
Are you socially awkward? Do you worry about your reaction face when someone else is talking? Do you use your partner as a human shield at a social gathering? Fellow Awkwardian (An…
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
Lord of Life Winner of a Standard Bank Ovation Award for innovation and excellence at the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival, South Africa.
Lord of Life Winner of a Standard Bank Ovation Award for innovation and excellence at the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival, South Africa.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Lloyd Griffith: Not just a pretty faceLloyd is back on the road with his latest stand up tour.
Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through song and over gesticulation.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
Simon David (‘A hoot’ The Guardian) pulls painful pranks in an online, comedy fundraiser for transfem fund, FiveforFive.
We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators.
“It’s what we do.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
What do tomatoes, banjos and a recovering executive have in common? Keith Alessi, who used to consume excessive amounts of tomatoes and had 52 banjos in his closet, but couldn’t …
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
Now in it’s 12th year.
An exciting video story about the development of Unicorns, Almost(Army @ The Fringe 2019 Show).
Get started with writing that story you’ve always dreamed of telling in this interactive one-hour workshop.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
Come and enjoy our music.
In 2017, Watson – prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
In proud association with Camden Fringe; Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through song and over gesticulation.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
Orlando, an attractive, swashbuckling, time-travelling nobleman, favourite of Queen Elizabeth and lover of Princess Sasha, lives over 500 years.
Just Two Guys have arrived to bring you an experience you won’t forget! Their unique blend of acoustic rock music, comedy, and food creates the most fulfilling musical performanc…
This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…
Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai…
Join the bestselling, much-loved author and LGBTQ+ activist, Armistead Maupin, live on stage in a special one-off event, as he discusses his career with Ian McKellen.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music.
Two friends, Jack and Phil, meet in a hotel, bringing a video camera.
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, Nelly Power was a force to be reckoned with in an era before female emancipation.
Fresh off a successful, sold-out, Off-Broadway run, this show will inspire you, make you laugh and will tug at your heartstrings.
Things are getting way too tense out there, aren’t they? The powers that be are peddling anger to the masses and we’re all becoming rage junkies.
Here he comes again, trotting on to the stage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing up to Bristo Square with their rambunctious comedy spectacular decorated with t…
Lil’ Keys, big jokes.
Sarah Brightman, international singing superstar and world’s best selling soprano, is confirmed to open Greenwich Music Time on Mon 6 July.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixt…
A night to remember our daughter, sister and friend Janine Benecke and all the other victims of drunk drivers.
Lloyd is back on the road for his third UK stand up tour.
Carrying David, which is the dramatic story of how David McCrory inspired his bother Glenn to become the cruiserweight champion of the world, will play the Canal Cafe Theatre in Li…
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
An award winning play by Laura Harper - From the outside, Dawn has it all; nice house, fast car, great friends and family, and a new job out in sunny Dubai.
As Lin Hwai-Min, founder of the world-renowned Taiwanese company, steps down in 2020, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre brings works from the current and new artistic directors.
It ain\'t easy being Jack.
Jingan Young is a fascinating writer to follow, as her play Life and Death of a Journalist explores the hardships of journalism amid political turbulence and cultural difference.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Acclaimed actor Mark Farrelly presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Being in a gay relationship is not always a dance on roses (yes, that’s a Danish expression), especially if you used to be in straight relationships.
Join us, farmers, David and Sam, under the watchful eye of our rumbustious Gran, as we courteously portray to you our untold and epic adventures right here at VAULT Festival, in th…
Two distinguished musicians – violinist Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) – bring their own interpretation to Bach’s profound wor…
Now in it’s 11th year.
“The precision and sophistication of the writing and playing blows me away.
A simple production, A Life Twice Given stretches itself to do justice to a very complicated idea, with only limited resources and space.
Following the huge success of the first season of Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace, Lambert Jackson are thrilled to return with another star-filled line-up of intimate West En…
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK!TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Sarah Southern had her political awakening very early: at three she was dressing up as Maggie! She worked at the heart of the political machine and her story of election…
A modern re-telling of ‘Dracula’ written by Olivier award winning and ‘Top Boy’ actor Alessandro Babalola, where the Gothic Classic has been flung into a real time intimate ‘…
An intergenerational cast of performers explore the difference age brings and the constant things in life that bind us all together.
Tangled Feet have created a unique intergenerational company of ten year olds, 20 year olds and 80 year-olds to address life’s big questions: How does our perspective change as …
Theatre No More present their current theatrical challenge, Martin Crimp’s unconventional 1997 theatre piece “ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (17 Scenarios for the Theatre)” - a play that has…
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Directed by Sean Mathias“Taking this new Show to 80+ theatres around the country, has been a joyful birthday present to myself.
Best remembered for playing Mr Banks in Disney's classic film Mary Poppins, David Tomlinson was renowned for playing the classic English gent, forthright, proper, and a loveabl…
Saturday 14th September, 7.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Monty Python’s Life of Brian is back on the big screen.
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
The Fife-born international best-selling author chats to Graham Spiers about Rebus, writing, all things Edinburgh, favourite books and music.
Lift your spirits with a selection of spine-tingling choral gems to inspire and delight.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
In equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique theatrical experience.
Sarah McGuinness welcomes you Back to Blacks, the eclectic live music and chat show streaming regularly from Blacks Club, Soho.
Just Beatles have firmly established themselves on the tribute band scene in their native Scotland and have received invitations to play at Beatles festivals all over the UK and Eu…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The Hart Players theatre company brings Noël Coward’s Still Life to the Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
David Harmer and Ray Globe recently turned 60.
Contemporary mime inspired by daily life.
Waking in the bridal suite on his wedding day, Bill finds a strange girl in his bed.
Everyone has a soundtrack to their life – from the songs that get you up on the dance floor to the ones that get you singing in your car, the songs that get you through hard time…
Perfect looks into gender identity issues, mostly in those who deem themselves as genderless.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Central to Bach’s output as a composer are his chorale preludes.
Gay and straight worlds collide, as unlikely friends James Barr (Gay) and Dan Hudson (NonGay) plus special guests bring their award-winning comedy podcast to Edinburgh! Expect audi…
If you have ever wondered how contemporary dance choreography is created (as opposed to classical ballet) this fascinating show, CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Body Language directed …
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
If you were invited to a 50th birthday party in Ibiza, would you go? Are you a party animal? Can you get a sitter for the kids? Can you get the time off work? Have you got £1k for…
Name a Second World War poet.
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What was the first thing you bought? Is there something you would like to pass on? If you were a pharaoh, what thing would you like to be buried with? Still Life is a piece that fo…
In this alternative history show four panellists each deliver an original stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some point in his…
Come and enjoy our music.
Wolfgang Borchert.
What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
England, 1585.
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following two consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe.
A cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter.
Fresh from touring The Benny Lynch Story, completing the film comedy Fisherman’s Friends, and playing Private Frazer in the remake of the lost episodes of Dad’s Army (and a few…
In Tin Pan Alley it was rare to find women, but Dorothy was prolific.
Kimjang is a Korean foodie tradition, where families and friends come together to make kimchi.
Living in a world where people don’t say what they mean or mean what they say can be tricky, and Reilly has questions.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
When Edinburgh’s pandas disappear suspicion falls on gangsters from Glasgow.
The magic of David Attenborough live on stage! A blue whale swims through the ocean depths.
For the 16th year, this brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their world music mix with virtuoso skill and infectious enjoyment.
When the UK’s finest spy, Bonnie, is sent on a mission in the Swiss Alps, everything goes wrong when she discovers that her arch-rival, Soviet spy L, is at the same hotel with a mi…
Come along to Just a Minute’s special recordings in Edinburgh.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
It’s a new millennium.
Join David Rudolf, defence attorney for Michael Peterson in the hit Netflix documentary series The Staircase, for an evening of discussion into the intimate details of the case and…
Icelandic folk songs and bits of Icelandic culture.
All abilities life drawing accompanied by live music at the Pianodrome – a playable amphitheatre constructed entirely from upcycled pianos.
Tired of Tinder? Had it with Hornet? Ghosted on Grindr? You are not alone – come to this combined cabaret, comedy and bingo show.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight.
In a world where we learn to hate the bodies of others and fear our own, MUSE offers a chance to find them instead.
A ridiculously surreal celebration of human existence, journeying from the womb to above and beyond.
I’m back with a new show delving into all the things I hate about myself, in under an hour! From my ‘gay voice’ to my fat arse; I’m learning how scary it can be to love you…
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Character comedian David McIver’s Teleport takes us on a deliciously low-budget, self-deprecating, dynamic quest through the online fantasy character games he used to play as a c…
Sarah Southern had her political awakening very early: at three she was dressing up as Maggie! She worked at the heart of the political machine and her story of elections, campaign…
Experience the Trainspotting walking tour on location in Leith.
Sean expects a quiet night alone in the pub, but Lisa catches his eye.
Love! Death! And a pantomime camel! After extensive audience research, we listed the 47 things people demanded in operas and shoehorned them into this show.
The boy I love is up in the gallery.
When you are given a class project of Flat Stanley who better than your stand-up comedian Uncle Dave to do it for you.
Life Between Yes and No follows Anna, a call handler for the Department of Work and Pensions, as she answers the phone to people in crisis.
Edinburgh Fringe's premier magical twins, Kane and Abel, return for their sixth run here in their regular home as the flagship magicians of PBH's Free Fringe venue the Liqu…
Almost, Maine is a town so far north that it is almost not even a town.
David Kilimnick puts on his rabbi hat and brings the rabbinical mind to the stage as he expresses his irreverence for what is wrong.
Ellie, Liz and Tig have worked in the factory for a very long time.
Paul Nathan is a name often associated with the I Hate Children Children’s Show, a firm Festival favourite for years amongst little ones, but he is back this year with a brand ne…
An immersive audio installation based on the play by Owen Sheers about the life and work of WW2 poet Keith Douglas.
Amy Matthews blends observational routines with offbeat whimsy, resigning to the absurdity of modern life.
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends …
Ten strangers visit the same park bench on the same day.
Hi, I’m Eddy Brimson.
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
The Perfect Body is a one woman show written and performed by Lavinia Savignoni.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Former “straight” and rising NYC star Keenan Steiner (NY Comedy Festival) makes his Fringe debut with a high-octane hour on the hilarity of coming out late and living life gay.
A half-hour from half a man (her father was a man).
Scotty D, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a journey, showing how karaoke saved his life and how it can save yours, too.
A stand-up comedian sees his world fall apart when his wife decides he can no longer mention her onstage.
Remember Bravo Two Zero? Of The First Gulf War fame? Ian Lane does.
After last year’s sell-out smash hit Mum’s Going to Ibiza, Sarah returned home to her two wonderful children and noticed they were losing the art of play due to excessive technolog…
Occasionally you will see a TV star wandering the Festival crowds during August in Edinburgh, but at A Pig in Japan you can see real-life Japanese TV star, Ollie Horn perform his d…
Amanda donated her kidney for her sister.
Join the longest running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News as he runs through new material for his next tour.
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, laconic, quirky, surreal, unexpected and awesome.
HD Management presents multi award nominee and the official face of the ITV Hub and uSwitch, Lateef Lovejoy with his solo stand-up show Life, Times and Society’s Crimes where he ex…
David Tieck is a big absurdist, idiotic, teddy-bear type person.
A struggling movie actress and an aspiring horror writer are on the very brink of success – each just a compromise away.
Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Carl Donnelly (‘Observational genius’ (Guardian)) returns with a new show about how difficult it is to be a good person in the modern age.
‘It’s difficult, I think, being a human person.
A cabaret with desserts could have been light, fluffy fare but Michelle Pearson isn’t afraid to get into the more bitter ingredients in life.
This one person play, written and performed by Sarah-Jane Scott, introduces us to Sorcha who is fresh from fleeing her wedding.
Benson shares his fascination with the infamous plot to murder Lord Liverpool’s entire cabinet and the grisly aftermath on the gallows at Newgate.
In 2017, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls.
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…
‘Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel and from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new.
After suffering another excruciating, yet hilarious, revelation about his weird little behaviours and ticks, Gareth has decided to come clean and share his innermost embarrassing s…
The biggest, gayest set of tales the Fringe has ever heard comes out to play in this theatrical performance-meets-storytelling competition.
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Sarah Jane Morris with her unique and powerful voice celebrates John Martyn illuminating his life and art in her new show Sweet Little Mystery.
Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
There’s only one person who could compel people from their homes on a day when the rain is coming down in sheets and thunder crashes less than three Mississippi’s away.
Multi award-winning comedian Sarah Kendall returns to Edinburgh with a spellbinding hour of storytelling.
Just These Please are back with their brand new show Suitable.
Keyworth has become something of an internet sensation in the last year, and her performance showcases a very confident and comfortable performer, owning her space and her audience…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
When critiquing a musical about the difficulties of being a performer, there’s nothing to do but write a review about the difficulties of being a critic.
Tommy Fury once said “if life is a game, then love is the prize”.
Celebrity impression shows have a Marmite-esque quality: whether they are a hit or a failure depends largely on their consumer and there is rarely an 'in between'.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet…
Meet Melissa.
Music, quotes and verse.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some poin…
Remember Bravo Two Zero? Of The First Gulf War fame? Ian Lane does.
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Do you know how to safely operate a butter knife? Do you know how to minimise injury from an unsupervised fork? Do you have spoon-sense? Health and safety really has gon…
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee for Best Newcomer and winner of the Herald Angel Award returns with a brand-new hour of comedy about the little things, the smallest detai…
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
Remember Bravo Two Zero? Of The First Gulf War fame? Ian Lane does.
just JOSH & WonderPhil are proud to present their debut double act.
Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth.
It’s 2016.
Agatha Christie’s The Rats - one of her perplexing shorter plays in all its intrigue and deceit.
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Just These, Please are back with their brand new show ‘Suitable’.
Multi-award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, Dave’s ‘The Magic Sponge’) returns to Brighton with a work in progress of his sixth solo show.
Have you ever thought “Wow, I could push that person in front of that train”.
Paperweight.
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
Can a young astronaut and a fallen star save a former dancer who is fighting a bizarre illness and her bohemian roommate? Or will they be captured and tortured with no end in sight…
Canadian stand-up comic David Tsonos has been auditioning for acting roles for 20 years.
Charming sketch group seek friendly audience for their Brighton debut.
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion football manager and now club Ambassador, discusses his life and the major incidents that have helped shape a successful playing career for England, T…
Do you want to know how to solve your problems and become practically perfect in every way? Whenever you are in a stew, just ask “What would Julie Andrews do?” Eliza von Poppins …
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC.
For Jacques, the journey from cradle to grave is fraught with the negative voices of our culture; but, in our show, Jacques finally gets to see the possibility of hope and life-for…
Fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, avantguardian, all singing, all raging wonder.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through both song and over gesticulation.
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos has had pet cats for the last 20 years, from the early days of Mittens to his new cat Mitzy, come watch him as he deals with problems of adopti…
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
Roll up, roll up! Come and feast your eyes upon our collection of curious characters at the ‘Carnivale de Robotique.
Scotty D, just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a Journey, showing how karaoke has saved his life and could save yours (and maybe even save the world)…
Politics, celebrity, the media, technology, our 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia.
“I’m sick to death of this particular self.
On 14 August 2018, Robyn Perkins ★★★★ (Voice Magazine) participated in a dating show in front of a live audience.
After being diagnosed with schizophrenia aged 20, Joe’s life becomes a cacophony of visions, voices and questionable media stereotypes.
The daily blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
Join freelance first aid instructor Roger Clammy on this taster course covering some of the most essential life-saving skills.
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
Andrew Steiner has French-kissed trees, studied under a Zen Master in Japan and trained kick-boxing in Thailand.
For decades, science has been fascinated by the LGBTQ+ community.
Sarah Mann (BBC New Comedian finalist 2018, So You Think You’re Funny runner-up 2017) and Anna Dominey (Bath New Act semi-finalist 2018) are the opposite of party people.
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…
A funny, poignant and uplifting account of what cosmology, and those who study it, have to say about the more earthly matters of life and love.
The Ballad of Sarah Callaghan Award-winning comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from hugely successful tours of Australia and New Zealand, returns to Brighton with a powerhouse mash-u…
Lee Griffiths, household name* and all-round philanthropic hero has given himself the honour of hosting a charity telethon to help those less fortunate.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short set based around an event that happened on the same date as the show at some point in history.
Come! Escape into the Kingdoms of Ashgorn, where you can level up, complete quests, defeat monsters and watch a very cheeky young man doing some really stupid character comedy.
What do evil tomatoes, heroic banjos and a recovering executive have in common? Former executive Keith Alessi reinvents himself as a writer-performer and banjo enthusiast to tell u…
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
Through her own brilliant interpretive vocal talents, Sarah Jane will be illuminating the work of John Martyn in her new show Sweet Little Mystery, accompanied by her regular colla…
The Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus return to the Brighton Fringe festival with their customary wry look at life.
You enter an enclosed, somewhat claustrophobic room, to find a young woman laying on a makeshift bed.
Christian Kane is an American actor and singer.
Tickets: £23Duration: approx 2hrs with an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
Following on from their successful visits with The Nutcracker and Storyteller Storyteller, StoryPocket return with David Baddiel’s ANiMALCOLM the Musical.
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
A World Premiere from Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company, in association with Lyra.
The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
He is Britain’s first Black judge, a fine singer and keen cricket lover.
Imagine if women weren’t just stuck playing Juliet and Desdemona and Lady Macbeth over and over again.
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
A-GAYI've just been feeling a bit forgotten? PollyLovingly allowing you other loves.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Sex! Fantasies! Voyeurism! Vacuuming!In the cosy atmosphere of London’s living rooms and untraditional spaces, Ethan is Coming Clean.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
A creative programming session that is designed for those who are interested in the idea of artificial life.
Unhook your mindbras.
As Brexit screeches towards a nightmare climax that not even the Prime Minister can predict, the REMAINIACS podcast crew return for an evening of high-end Brexit talk an…
Ambassador Theatre Group presents IAN MCKELLEN ON STAGE With Tolkien, Shakespeare, others…and you! A message from Ian McKellen: I’m celebrating my 80th birt…
Ambassador Theatre Group presents IAN MCKELLEN ON STAGE With Tolkien, Shakespeare, others…and you! A message from Ian McKellen: I’m celebrating my 80th birt…
Our incredibly popular, long-running evening of easy listening music and comedy entertainment in the friendly atmosphere of the Cellar Bar.
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
An actress nervously awaits a life-changing audition.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Unmasked Theatre are filling the week before Christmas with a stage adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1946 festive favourite.
Fresh from their sold-out, five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe, join multi-award-winning duo, Zak Ghazi-Torbati & Toby Marlow (co-writer of SIX), for the cabaret comedy extra…
Fragments of a Complicated Mind is the first of any works I have come across by multidisciplinary artist Damilola DK Fashola, exploring the many facets of blackness and how it is p…
An evening with Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist and broadcaster Rebeca Wilcox For one night only broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughte…
Russell Kane: Work In Progress
Award-winning singer songwriter David Gibb returns with a brand new musical show for families and children, after sold out performances in 2017.
Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed and multi award winning, The Morning After The Life Before, at The Liverpool Irish Arts Festival.
A crazy look at a not altogether crazy world!
Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are coming to Greenwich in the first ever Bing stage show!Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by preten…
One night only! Edinburgh encore.
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?
Across four limitless, unplanned evenings of hilarity, protest and misrule, cabaret terrorist and avantguardian David Hoyle RETURNS, supercharged and offroad, to the R…
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Jean Genie are the ultimate tribute to David Bowie, fronted by John Manwaring and his band, expect a 2 hour show packed with all the hits from the Ziggy and White Duke e…
Footloose from a glittering turn on Dancing with the Stars and revelling in her return to stand-up, Deirdre has really hit her stride.
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Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band are delighted to be debuting at this year’s Fringe! The band, renowned for its vast repertoire covering everything from jazz standards to c…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
British jazz diva Jacqui Dankworth and American vocalist/pianist Charlie Wood get together for a husband and wife duet concert celebrating some of the great musical partnerships of…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
16m subscribers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Rachel Sambrooks is trying to love life even when it’s rubbish.
Come and enjoy our music.
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…
‘Combined blistering pace with beautifully crafted melodies’ (BroadwayBaby.
Edinburgh-raised drag queen Ripley makes his Fringe debut this year with Like A Sturgeon.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
Open the window, take a breath – outside it’s grey.
Eivind Ringstad ViolaDavid Meier Piano Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’Schumann MarchenbilderPeder Barratt-Due Correspondances (world premiere)Franck Sonata in ASchu…
Prepare for the gay and straight worlds to come together, as unlikely friends James Barr and Dan Hudson bring their hugely successful podcast to Edinburgh – live! James will expl…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Colin McKenzie has only forty minutes left to live! Come join us for the final moments of Colin’s brilliant, majestic and totally mundane existence! A once in a lifetime opportunit…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Fifty minutes of country music from Jonny Brick, songwriter and broadcaster, who wants to tell you through song about his love of all forms of country, from Willie Nelson to Luke B…
Last year, Mark Watson – a man prone to considerable anxiety, with multiple phobias and a history of piss-poor self-esteem – was asked to go on Celebrity Island with Bear Gryll…
True Arrow presents a series of scenes which readjust the balance of male to female dialogue by putting women front and centre with a multi-rolling cast of four women and one man.
Schalk Bezuidenhout steps out dressed like an East London hipster, all bright, quirky knits, socks printed with bananas and a distinguishable moustache and hairstyle.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The UK’s number one Tommy Cooper tribute returns to the Fringe! Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
BBC’s Angelos Epithemiou and Channel 4’s Barry from Watford return with a new show following their sell-out tour.
The National Theatre of China have brought their visually stunning production of Life On The Silk Road to Zoo Southside.
Robert Schumann’s song cycle of a woman’s life, paired with music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Alma Mahler.
Broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist Rebecca Wilcox, discuss careers and family ties.
Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that’s so far north, it’s almost not in the United States, it’s almost in Canada.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Chris Difford celebrates the release of his autobiography with some very special shows.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight.
Experience the iconic Trainspotting on location in Leith, including places featured in the book such as Central Station and Leith Dockers Club.
The debut solo show from ex-President of the Oxford Revue, Georgia Bruce.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos returns with his sequel to his solo show 2015 Walking the Cat.
Dark comedy exploring morality and mortality.
Welcome to the Good Life! A split-bill stand-up comedy show from two fun-loving, good-time-having, honest to goodness proper cute comedy lads.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Look, it’s David McIver, the nicest little man in town giving it a good go with his debut hour of riffs, bits and skits.
Full of joy and love following the royal wedding, the Wedding Guest Extraordinaire has brought her obsession with love matches to Edinburgh and wants to share her tales with you.
This is one of those shows where to review too closely is to spoil the experience for future audiences, so I’ll stick to the abstract.
“Who are we, now that we don’t have kids?” Matthew Roberts performs as three key characters in this touching one-man performance: as two fathers, David and Tom, that lose the…
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
It’s August 1918 and it’s finally beginning to look like an Allied victory is on the cards.
Two little words and suddenly your whole world changes.
‘Forgive me? For everything.
A “nearly” comedy about my memories as a professional stripper and near-hero during London Bridge terror attack in 2016.
August 1916, the great explorer Alexandra David-Néel has been in her hermitage cavern in the Himalayas for two and a half years, following the teachings of her guru, the Lama Gomc…
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, quirky, surreal, surprising and awesome.
When the naive straight-out-of-Africa student Njambi McGrath was invited to a Thanksgiving meal by her new college friend, she could hardly have known that some areas in America ar…
If you were invited to a 50th birthday party in Ibiza, would you go? To help you decide, Sarah takes you on her journey and it’s one you’ll never forget.
The Ballad of Sarah Callaghan.
According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to f…
Voted at school ‘Most Likely to be Forgotten’.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for real life’.
All month I have spotted Scott Swinton, star of Karaoke Saved My Life, on the streets of Edinburgh, flyering for his show.
After their multi award-winning debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the hot gays are back.
‘Is it too much to ask for everything?!’ she shouted drunkenly at a bin.
In an affectionate tribute, leading impressionist Julian Dutton of BBC One’s The Big Impression brings to life one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
A letter from the past, a date with a doomsday survivalist and the start of your dream career.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
As seen on Ricky Gervais’ Derek, Sky’s Rovers and Channel 4’s Gittins.
A fun stand-up show where comedian Sarah Iles invites you to her life of trying to date after 12 years out of the game (she was married, not in prison – insert a hack witty comme…
This is a show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two.
FoxDog Studios are back – and they are as witty, quick and entertaining as previous years.
Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub…
Every now and then a sparkling gem comes bubbling to the surface of the Fringe.
“Arf, Arf, Arffff.
The 1991 holiday camp talent show winner, frontman of Best Hertfordshire Band 1998 and Most Promising Student 2002 pinpoints where things went wrong.
The invincible William Brown considers he is ‘jolly well equal’ to solving most of life’s trickier problems, although devising a plan to get the elder brothers of the Outlaws marri…
A wonderfully hilarious hour of stand-up comedy by two comedians that have been thrilling audiences throughout Europe with their show It’s A Joke Life.
Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination.
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
Alma: A Human Voice is a one-person performance focused on portraying and contrasting two characters from the early 1900s.
Emil Nolde was one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC Three’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns.
There are a lot of innovative and unique venues at this year’s Festival, but Wrecked might be just one of the most original and weirdest, as this entire performance takes place i…
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them.
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…
Alex Edelman’s full name is David Yosef Shimon Ben Illouz Haleivi Alexander Edelman.
“Have you ever fantasised about someone like me?” Katy Dye asks the audience, not as an adult woman, not as a performance artist, but as a 15-year-old school girl.
When you think of Russians, funny and comedian are probably not two words that instantly spring to mind; but in time, Olga Koch will change that.
After their five star runaway success with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Middle Child were always going to suffer from difficult second album syndrome and it’s a real shame …
New Zealand’s David Correos has blown away audiences from Auckland to Adelaide, now he returns to Edinburgh with his debut solo show.
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
Unhook your mindbras.
‘What is best in life?’ If you know the answer, come to this show.
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
Ian Smith is multi-award winning comedian.
Ian is the keyboards player with the HOLLIES and CLANNAD.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Life & I is the new album from DUSTY LIMITS and MICHAEL ROULSTON, featuring a glorious selection of songs about everything from Life to Death and whatever happens in between, inclu…
You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC, now see Nottingham-born rising star Sarah Keyworth’s debut hour.
Ian Smith (BBC3's Sweat the Small Stuff) is a multi-award winning comedian, fuelled by 35p energy drinks.
Award-winning UK comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from hugely successful tours of Australia and New Zealand, returns to the Fringe with a powerhouse mash-up of comedy and poetry abo…
Who says stand-up and poetry don’t go together? Sarah Callaghan was told it wouldn’t work, that it just wasn’t, well, fun enough.
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Alex Edelman returns to Edinburgh with his third solo show.
Leading US Humorist, David Sedaris, is coming to London for his 2018 UK tour supporting the release of his book of essays ‘Calypso’.
Standup and improv comedy unite in one explosively funny night! Join us as a group of experienced improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) story in three acts based on the …
Energetic, playful stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian Russell Arathoon.
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only…
In a time when we’re all threatened by a rhetoric of hate from the people in power ‘A Gay & a NonGay’ challenges many of our differences head on and promises that no matter who y…
The SLJO are back with an all-new set featuring tunes from the golden era of Big Band and other jazz classics.
When no one else can help, there’s only one thing to do.
Ian Smith is a multi-award-winning comedian; this is a work in progress of his fifth solo show.
24th May 2015 was the day that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
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.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Comedian David Callaghan brings his newest interactive technological comedy adventure.
Following on from the phenomenal success of Transfigured Night, Danish choreographer and two time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup creates a new work for Rambert.
Adam Astra, a young rocketeer witnesses a star-girl fall to earth one night and vows to rocket her back among the stars.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
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.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend ‘David Hoyle’ returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
When life fell apart, Rob moved into a caravan.
For the first time ever in the UK…TWO classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Anarchic twin tricksters Kane & Abel will break all the rules of the Magicians’ Code of Conduct passed down to them by their grandfather, to prove that it feels great to be bad! Co…
The daily-blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
Feel-good stand-up show on how to love life even when it’s rubbish.
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…
Bisha K Ali brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe.
Wow, it’s time for the debut hour of comedy from hot ticket and nice friend David McIver! That’s right girls and boys, your special little man is all grown up and raring to do some…
Rising star Sarah Keyworth, tour support for Stewart Francis and Kerry Godliman, brings an hour of brand new stand-up that shines a light on the relationship between a little girl …
'I’m frightened', my proudly-feminist husband says while reading a Google-searched summary of Just Don’t Do It as we sit waiting for the start of the show.
With the release of ‘Compared to What’, Sarah Jane Morris teams up with the guitar artistry of world-renowned Antonio Forcione, producing a compelling, unique and haunting album.
For the first time at Brighton Fringe, Martin brings you ‘BIG FAT GAY’.
Dom Mackie, with support from Harrison Salter, present stand up that will leave you in constant stitches.
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
Focus people! Stand-up comic David Mills is back with another free hour of sharp and hilarious rants.
Fresh from their five-star, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and winners of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2017, ‘Hot Gay Time Machine’ cover all the most important m…
A long time ago in a venue far, far away.
Exclusive after hours tours of Brighton’s aquarium! A unique opportunity to go off the public route to learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly co…
Previously seen at the BT with On The Edge of Me, Quarter Life Crisis continues Yolanda’s humorous exploration of the world young people find themselves in, using her trademark m…
Performed dramatic reading by Fenella Fielding & Stephen Greif.
Direct from Paris, multi-award-winning magician David Stone presents his unique brand of comedy & illusion live in Leicester Square.
David Byrne’s The Secret Life of Humans is a captivating insight in to what it means to be part of human civilisation.
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical sets out to present everything that you could possibly want to know about being a musical theatre performer.
What price the truth? Oxford Theatre Guild returns to the Playhouse with a striking production of this classic, translated by one of our greatest contemporary playwrights, David H…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Back for its third year.
Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday 18th March 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to give inspiring theatre experiences to ch…
Make Believe - children’s songs for grown-ups! Like the lovechild of Noni Hazelhurst and your loveable drunk uncle, kid’s entertainer David Salter slurs his way through a songbo…
Acclaimed locals Slingsby present a 10th anniversary season of this captivating international hit show! Suitable for adults and children 8+.
When Josh Belperio survived flying over the handlebars of his pushbike, rupturing his spleen and nearly bleeding to death, he did the only rational thing an artist would do – he …
Have you ever gone crazy over an $89 vacuum? Drunk the sweet nectar of Australia’s Choice Cola? Ate crinkle cut chips from the world’s finest restaurant Holly’s? Join Jason P…
Do you want to see a show but can’t get a babysitter? Worry no more.
Following the roaring success of the premiere, THAT’S LIFE is back!!! Unexpectedly, Carla became 1⁄2 an orphan just before she turned 30, happy birthday! With Carla’s unique …
hit107’s Amos Gill remains one of Australia’s most prolific young comedians.
In every 24 hour cycle, experience Lindy Lee’s ‘The Life of Stars’.
The award-winning cult hit of the Edinburgh Fringe hits Australia! 1989.
How would a balloon dog survive in the real world? What kind of job would he be successful at? This is the light-hearted story of a balloon dog who tries different occupations, all…
This is a tale of a man that lost his mullet and his identity.
‘Life of Stars’ is based on the incredible works of renowned Biennial artist Lindy Lee and the processes and themes behind her work.
See the World’s Greatest Record Holder For Jokes told in a Minute team up with Triple J Raw Comedy Winner team up with New York Comedian Shane Kaminowitz along with a few other Fun…
Terry Who? (Final Touch/Gen XYZ) performs a tribute to the fantastic works of Sir Paul McCartney (Singer/Songwriter, Beatle, Trainee Bass Player, Trainee Piano Player, multi-lingua…
Malcolm Turnbull’s bio begins with his great grandfather in the fledgling colony of Sydney, back then known as ‘Brisbane’.
Britain’s bad boys of magic have finally arrived in Australia, direct from London’s West End via the world’s largest arts festivals including Edinburgh Fringe and Glastonbury Festi…
Billy T Award winner David Correos has developed a reputation for delivering full noise, powerful, messy comedy defying genre and labels.
“A delectable evening, fraught with the kind of debauchery and delirium that makes you want to take both your extramarital lovers” - Broadway World Hot off the heels of their m…
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…
Armed with an extraterrestrial keyboard, Sarah sets out to battle her inner darkness the only way she knows how: THE POWER OF MUSIC AND THEATRE!.
What is Best in Life? Well… After 10 years in the UK, and performing at the last 3 Adelaide Fringe’s with non-stop compering and guest spots, a superhero kids show, and the h…
Awarded Broadway composer & pianist, John Bucchino, will be performing for the S.
Larry’s got no time for fun, but that’s all about to change.
He’s not the messiah, He’s a very funny boy! Brian has been performing open mic spots in Adelaide and around the world for 8 years and has now combined all of his best work into 4…
With Science telling us the prospect of life everlasting is just around the corner, Mike Rudd’s 1st BASE in Life after Life sees piano accordionist George Butrumlis and bassist J…
An actress nervously awaits a life-changing audition.
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
An extremely flamboyant, ‘riotous but subtly moving’ (The List) extravaGAYnza, fresh from its sold-out, award-winning run at Edinburgh.
Ground-breaking dance-maker Shobana Jeyasingh brings her radical imagination to Petipa’s legendary ballet La Bayadère.
Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f…
This is a mating ground.
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and total Fringe sell-out 2015 and 2016, Sarah Kendall returns with her brand-new show One-Seventeen.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
G and Ste are Fringe fanatics who felt that becoming part of the Fringe was the perfect way to celebrate their nuptials.
Polly Toynbee and David Walker join Professor Chris Carter to discuss their dream government, constructing an imaginary cabinet from politicians of the past half century.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jim Naughtie is one of Britain’s most distinguished radio broadcasters and journalists.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
Russell Arathoon brings his previous sold out debut stand up show to London.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
I Love you, You’re Perfect, Now Change is earnestly performed by a youthful and small cast – the reason for scraping the second star – but the uninspired script and the overa…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
Perfect As You Are is an internationally touring production by Massive Vibe Live! with production and lyrics by Queen Be! It brings alive everyone’s power to benefit all.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
What’s the deal with children anyway? Why do parents get such crappy birthday presents? Isn’t it enough to be married – does one have to be happy as well? These and many other qu…
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione are promoting their collaborative album Compared to What.
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…
A unique journey into the private life of a gadget you thought was on your side.
David Earl’s alter ego, Brian Gittins is an utter prat and according to the Sussex Argus, ‘The World’s Worst Comedian’.
Two years a Leither and it feels so good! But a Penguin is not a Tim Tam, and a Penguin is not a straw.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
One of Scotland’s great contemporary artists discusses his career.
2017 marks 50 years since the partial legalization of abortion in the UK.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A mind reading show based on the true story of America’s psychic spies.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Prescribed (A Life Written For Me) by performance artist Viv Gordon opens a window for us to peer into the claustrophobically grim life of a GP working at an NHS practice today.
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
This is My Life is a witty, engaging and entertaining theatre show commissioned by RCET, which has been a huge hit in schools throughout Scotland.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
A topical and popular theme for this year’s Fringe – mental health – is explored and fleshed out in this beautiful, bittersweet tale of two childhood friends that battle to f…
Nick Elleray - ex-pat Aussie and Old Comedian of 2017 (seriously, google it) - performs a stand-up show about ageing, family and this grim carnival we call life.
Ami and Tami is a reimagined Hansel & Gretel for the modern day.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Tom McNab, using a rich range of film, provides a vivid account of Leni’s life as dancer, actress, director and stills photographer.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
‘From tango to polka, Bulgarian Horo to hot New Orleans jazz – great skill.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Come along and celebrate the 50th year of Just a Minute with special recordings in Edinburgh.
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 …
There’s something both hilarious and poignant about the dynamic between younger and older generations, the way in which the older relate the tales of their own youth to younger n…
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Judy began performing on stage before other children had started kindergarten.
David McIver is a refreshing breath of air in every sense.
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…
Comedy conjurors Kane & Abel invite you to join them for an evening of close-up magic, comedy and silly stunts.
Following last year’s smash-hit, these anarchic twin tricksters return to break more rules of the Magicians’ Code of Conduct.
Dan is English, Mick is Australian, and their comedy stats are impressive.
It was an inauspicious beginning for Martin J Dixon’s new stand-up show, with only 11 audience members, some of whom were loud and rowdy throughout the show.
Unhinged physical comedy from Rob Cawsey on dating, sex and trying to find love.
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
Miranda Kane’s show, 07800 834030: Thank You For Waiting returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for more secrets, confessions and answers – the dirtier the better.
Just Like the Movies is a cheery musical exploring the world of show business as the characters battle to make a statement in a world where success is often decided by major realit…
Over 20 years as a wishful thinking stand-up comedian left me fat, broke and on me own in a two bed flat above a beauty salon.
We all have our idols and for one girl growing up that was a singer and actress from a bygone age.
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…
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
If Shakespeare’s greatest characters could talk, what would they say? Would they be happy about their storylines and demise, and how would they feel about all of the… “modern…
The Edinburgh International Festival was established in 1947 in the aftermath of the Second World War to ‘provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit’.
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows.
A small northern Maine town.
Viggo Venn’s act is a hard one to categorise.
At 36, David is still unable to function in society.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
What do you get when you put a Scotsman and three Irishmen in an upstairs bar? A bunch of jokes that are a bit out of the mainstream but comfortably reside above the others: Semi-P…
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
One year late, because he got the maths wrong, Ivan celebrates 11 years actually on the Fringe with guest appearances from other creations of Tom Binns, who have recently featured …
Take a deep breath and join me on a multimedia rampage.
Somewhere between a social commentary and philosophical essay, but written by a comedian with the purpose of being somewhat funny. A not to be missed hour of comedy.
“Manuel, please sit the guests down,” from the very first sentence, you know this is not going to be any ordinary evening meal – and I’m already clutching my glass of wine,…
Prolific children’s author, conservationist, believer in fairies – Angela Brazil was a complicated and determined woman with a tendency to write her personal life into her book…
“A musical about two serial killers,” is how Buried: A New Musical by Colla Voce Theatre describes itself.
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
Adapting well-loved source material can be a tricky art, but Shedload Theatre have managed to maintain the essence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories in this riotous hour…
You don’t need to be a hippo expert to help Dr Zieffal and Dr Ziegal catch a hippo in Edinburgh – all you need are the right tools and to keep your eyes peeled! The Hippo that …
A brand new improvised radio show from the team behind Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film.
Meet Helga, cabaret diva extraordinaire! At least, she used to be… Through mime, clowning and circus, this poignant physical comedy reflects on how it feels when our bodies don�…
Award-winning comedian Sarah Callaghan, fresh from two hugely successful shows and tours of Australia, returns with a show inspired by an incredibly lucky escape, forcing her to re…
In the world premiere of Pulitzer/Tony Award nominee Craig Lucas’s (Prelude to a Kiss, An American in Paris, Amelie) zany and touching new play, three stories collide in a world of…
Winner: Piece of Wood (Comedian’s Choice) 2012, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
If you are looking for an unpretentious, heart-warming comedy show at the festival, Quarter Life Crisis is where you will find it.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
Jason Byrne is no stranger to festival stand-up, or festival audiences, and he has returned once again to Scotland’s capital with his new tour, The Man with Three Brains (althoug…
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
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…
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
Noel has multiple sclerosis.
Juliet (writer on The Sarah Millican Television Programme and 8 out of 10 Cats) and her dog have issues.
Amy’s best friend pushes her to go out to last-minute drinks with a hunky model she meets unexpectedly.
Join David Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
Ian D Monfort communicates with many famous figures who have passed to the other side.
The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never is exactly what you want from a cabaret.
In 1986, the Kendall family stood in their back-garden, staring at the Australian sky and hoping to catch a glimpse of Halley’s comet.
A sketch show based on an end of 2017 new year’s eve party, Princes of Main: New Year’s Eve might miss the mark occasionally, but if you stick with it until the bells, it will …
As seen on Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central and Live from the BBC.
This show is a mixed bag.
Gloria and Padraic are best friends whose relationship changes forever.
Perhaps you thought, as admittedly I did, that Ian Smith’s 2017 show title was making some kind of reference to the much used and abused colloquial term for “special snowflake�…
Conspiracy theorist and slacker Elliot Steel has grown up a lot in the last year.
This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever.
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
An eclectic and beautiful production – Secret Life of Humans combines a baffling diversity of genres into a single theatrical masterpiece.
Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
Can I get an Amen?! Is the subtitle of Aussie Comic Kaitlyn Rogers’ show and I do feel like yelling ‘Amen’ by the end of the show, because I’d been praying for it to be over.
Following his sell-out shows in theatres in the UK, comedian and award-winning broadcaster Bernie Keith makes his hilarious Edinburgh debut.
From the team behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs comes a brand new adaptation of David Walliam’s children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon.
That’s Life on Lisgar is a story of family fissures and the intimate workings of life as a daughter of a Portuguese family in Canada.
How many times in the past year can you say that you felt genuinely sorry for Michael Gove? Or that you felt goose-bumps (the good kind!) when you heard Theresa May speak? Or perha…
Tall Stories return to Edinburgh for their 20th birthday with an updated version of Future Perfect.
“Ah yes.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
Bringing together more than 80 paintings by an almost forgotten generation of artists, this exhibition explores the figurative tradition in British art between the two World Wars.
Only four years after the invention of photography was announced to the world in 1839, two Scots had mastered the new medium and were producing works of breathtaking skill in extra…
Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, BBC1’s The Ark) is an award-winning comedian.
For the School Colours is an interestingly educational piece of theatre about a forgotten pioneer of school-based children’s literature made popular by Enid Blyton and J.
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…
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
A cheesy caricature of itself, Dirty Dancing is full of moments that will make you physically cringe but, if you’re after a literal movie-to-stage adaptation of the so-bad-it�…
Sarah Callaghan brings you a brand new hour of comedy .
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978.
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
Opening with the ever-familar chord progression of Stand by Me this tribute to Ben E King and the Drifters by Othello Music had the audience in the palm of their hand from …
This show is about two things: home and the body.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
Loud rhythmic music and screens with flashing slides with We Are Ian written on them in different colours and fonts, provoke high expectations for something cool and exciting fo…
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
If you are only half of who you are, would there still be enough of you to be the same as you were? Mary suffers with demons in her life, day in, day out.
Skyfall, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Ghost, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Beauty and the Beast, Notting Hill, 50 Shades Darker and Beetleju…
Award-winning stand-up comedian David Mills struggles to stay modern in a world quickly reverting to more medieval tendencies.
Funny. Political. Ends with a hanging.
Have you been more naughty or more nice this year? Are you sure?A company of gentlemanly vagabonds introduce themselves with a reminder to relax before the “Art” starts.
In a time of pre-war political tension, gone are the days of frothy fashion journalism for Pamela More, a feisty and glamorous Times journalist who stubbornly prioritises haute-c…
Nick Elleray is happy to be back at Brighton Fringe.
Poetry reading, exhibition, workshop and photography.
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 …
Life is a hilarious high-energy rant from multi-award-winning South African cult comedic phenomenon Rob van Vuuren.
A light-hearted mind-reading show with amazing and impossible mind stunts! No dead relatives will be contacted throughout the evening, however they may be interrupted with the laug…
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
Winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2016; this show tells the story of the three weeks that changed Scott’s life forever.
Winner, Rising Star: The Media Eye, 2016.
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner is an immersive theatre show about sexual fantasy- it’s also funny and true and asks us to look at our own vulnerabilities.
At thirty-six, David is still unable to function in society.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for an unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song…
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Fans of rock and roll won’t be left disappointed by the musical numbers in teenage romance production, Dreamboats and Petticoats.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Welcome to Crossbones Graveyard: last resting place of The Winchester Geese.
David McIver is one of the most fun guys around these days.
“This parable of limiting life down to human usefulness is as beautiful as it is bleak” (Exeunt).
Exclusive after hours tours, just on offer as part of the Brighton Fringe in May.
Miranda has been trying to get a flying penis for four years, but every year it eludes her.
Ian Smith (BBC3’s ‘Sweat the Small Stuff’, BBC1’s ‘The Ark’) is an award-winning comedian.
Crazy, voyeuristic, unexpected and fast paced, SOHO is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre in a diverse trip around the streets where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Following a sell-out performance of Katherine Chandler’s ‘Hood’ at the National’s Dorfman Theatre, Found in the Forest return with a new world premiere.
‘Love a Positive Life’ is a multimedia exhibition telling the positive stories of young people living with HIV in Africa and Asia.
They move among you unseen.
Benjamin and William are waiting, but as time progresses, so do their differences of opinion, from ‘Doctor Who’ to Brighton seagulls.
In case you were wondering.
Revivals always run the risk of not resonating with a contemporary audience, or relying wholly on nostalgia, but Michael Mayer’s touring production of the Fanny Brice story, m…
You’re not in Kansas anymore… A thrilling exposé of the darker side of 1980’s New York, The Life is a defiant and heartfelt musical lament for the old Tim…
Back by popular demand following a critically-acclaimed West End run and sold out residency at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not the Sitcom is a massively disrespectful …
Start with a few cold-reading tricks, dash in some sleight of hand, add in a heavy dose of comedy on top and you’ve got the recipe to make any mind-reading show come out well.
“Please don’t be charmed, he’s not a lovable rogue.
Nostalgia is big business.
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…
“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…
This is the unlikely story of an unlucky man, Leonard Langley.
Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment buy the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike…
Forget what you know about the traditional Brothers Grimm fairy tale; Christopher Hampson has taken this classic tale and injected it with magic and modern charm, his choreograp…
Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si…
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
Great for Christmas gifts and parties, this fabulous show in London’s West End is now booking until 30 April 2017.
Following a critically acclaimed, complete sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not The Sitcom comes to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited 5 we…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
After a seven-year break from stand-up, during which she had babies, made a movie in Vietnam and became the mother of Moone Boy, Deirdre O’Kane returns with a brand new show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione come together in a worldwide tour to promote the launch of their collaborative album Compared to What.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio…
Conman, faith healer and US Army reservist.
Life in the office, it is dull.
Life-changing daily walking tours with Stompy (Half Naked Chef).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We all leave a trace.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
The Life of St Margaret provides a unique insight into late 11th-century Scotland and her profound influence on her husband and his kingdom.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Twentieth anniversary performance of David Benson’s Fringe First Award-winning tour de force, showing Kenneth Williams at his funniest and his most badly behaved.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change takes you through a series of hilarious vignettes that show the roller coaster ride that is relationships.
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Corelli Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre presents Just, by Ali Smith and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
On a cold, clear, moonless night in the middle of winter, all is not quite what it seems in the remote, mythical town of Almost, Maine.
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
The smash hit, sell out production from Hartshorn - Hook Productions returns for one night only, reuniting the stellar cast of Simon Lipkin, Julie Atherton, Gina Beck and Samuel Ho…
Join us for a gala night of comedy featuring a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Travel across time from mod to rave to disco with Calling All Parties in a vivacious interactive theatrical and film experience.
With a style that’s been described as ‘creative… engaging… conversational’ (Jazz Journal), Vocalist Cindy has captured audiences’ imaginations and won admirers among jazz afi…
UCLU Musical Theatre Society’s Fringe production of the Joe Dipietro’s fast paced musical comedy is an incredibly entertaining and fast paced journey into the world of dating, …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Ian Bruce is undoubtedly one of the finest singers ever to appear on the Scottish folk scene.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Returning once again to the Pleasance stage, Mark Watson is not all there.
Your Clubcard may say more about you than your DNA, so should it be considered more private? When it comes to understanding patterns in health and illness, examining our data may b…
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…
The film invites the audience on a journey to the cold, bare Hungarian woods where you could meet a young girl searching the unknown and the non-existent, and fighting the invisibl…
Simon David is the next big music sensation but what makes him unique? He’s a virgin! Co-written by Fringe First Winner Chris Larner, Simon & his live band tell the story of his di…
Into the Water promises to be a family-friendly show full of dancing and imagination.
Lord David Steel joins Professor Chris Carter to reflect on an illustrious career in public life.
David Kay, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 as one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried! The hilarious, heartwarming true story of how The Fabulous TT came to write Robert Burns: The Musical.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Dying is a universal human activity, and it shows no sign of abating.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment – French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango etc.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Ever wondered how celebrities became the people we know and love? Well-known faces chat about their lives in the world of show business – an exclusive insight into the worlds of …
Cinema screening of live performance.
You don a white mask and read a list of instructions upon entering The Space at Jury’s Inn.
Did the world come about just so? Have forces of science and evolution been the only things at work? How did the world come to be filled with so many strange wonders? A new reworki…
Harbouring secret feelings for Geoffrey Boycott? Fantasising about Edwina Currie? Join David as he deconstructs the cult of celebrity with a collection of love songs, poems and let…
Cinema screening of live performance.
It’s a party… and you’re invited! Join human jukebox, musical comedy maestro and birthday girl Kirsty for a feel-good celebration of growing older disgracefully.
After 13 years abiding by the magicians’ code of conduct, Kane & Abel will break every rule in the book passed down to them by their grandfather to discover how different their l…
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows.
The critically acclaimed character comic and star of ITV2’s Bad Bridesmaid and BBC One’s Outnumbered returns with her smash hit, sell-out 2015 show.
Oh boy, this looks good! David McIver is a silly little man and he’s got a bit of fun for you.
Kane Brown has a lot to get off his chest.
“All the Australians in the room put your hands up,” a splattering of us raise our hands, and little do we realise that Dan Willis will heavily rely on us to make up a good pro…
After almost three decades, it’s time for Turps to curl back into the foetal, reconnect the umbilical, and tell himself that everything will be alright.
Cinema screening of live performance.
A semi-improvised stand-up show about mental illness and pest control.
In spite of the morbid title, Dr Phil Hammond’s stand-up show makes mischief of the macabre.
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…
Welcome to Dreamform.
An “Original Lord of the Rings Parody” One Musical to Rule them All is full of puns, mocks the bits of Lord of the Rings that we all thought were a bit ridiculous and illogical…
Bursting with musical variety and talent, razor-sharp lyrics and incredible chemistry, Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston return to this year’s Fringe with Cabaret Whore Pre…
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
‘Consistently boasting some of the most interesting line ups in the country’ (Times).
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
Lock up your children, goldfish and everything in between as The Scotney Rascals are in town! A pair of wannabe Rock stars with absolutely no following are forced to do comedy.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph…
We very rarely think about our own deaths.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
A daily showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe.
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
Experience the shocking, beautiful true story of Tahirih, a Persian poetess and the first female suffrage martyr.
Juliet (writer on Sarah Millican Television Programme and 8 out of 10 Cats) and her dog have issues.
A fun-packed hour of stand-up where Saskia Preston and Sarah Iles bring along their comedy chums to have you laughing your bellies off.
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…
Part stand-up show, part planetarium experience.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Wahoo! And also hooray! It’s David Stanier’s Silly Party – the party based comedy show.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
Star of the critically acclaimed BBC One TV show Hospital People is back with an updated version of his sell-out five-star one-man variety show Club Sets.
David Ephgrave enters the room in an endearing manner, commanding the audience’s attention with music and his upbeat persona.
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
A new stand-up and sketch show by Sarah Bennetto.
“If you don’t laugh at the disabled guy, you are going to hell!” Lee Ridley begins, and immediately inspires unanimous laughter.
Doris Day is one of the most loved singers and actresses of the 1950s and 60s.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you.
Susie McCabe’s worst fears are coming true: she’s slowly turning into her parents.
Approaching Perfection is the new film¹ by award-winning director² David Quirk.
Meet Luke (the uptight one), Joshan (the cool one) and Archie (the third one) as they take you forth into a calamitous hour of high-energy skits.
Is there a moment from your past that you’d like to change? Dominic’s certainly got one.
Elliot Wengler and Farhan Mitha’s Fringe debut show is surprisingly educational.
If you are a millennial/Gen-Y/Gen-X-er you need to see Neel Kolhatkar.
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Is Russ Peers a bad gay? He’s chunky, over 40, and knows more about pies than poppers.
I like Sarah Callaghan.
You are immediately struck by Alice Fraser’s triumphant gentility as she graces the stage.
Carl Donnelly has reached peak age, he’s a vegan, he recently took up yoga, and he’s content with his life – I know it doesn’t sound like a good recipe for stand-up but som…
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…
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 …
A cross between the mass appeal of Amy Schumer and the niche quirkiness of Jenna Marbles, Loren O’Brien is trying to work out her own identity.
A totally unique and mind-blowing musical comedy experience, if you’ve never seen or heard of Abandoman before then here is your chance to rectify that.
Triple Entendre is directed, created and designed by Emily Cairns and is a comic musical cabaret about “Love, Life and Other Stuff”, consisting of a collection of original song…
Few would disagree that our world is in dire need of fixing.
It’s a struggle to review Holly Burn.
The beauty of a new play, from a new company, is that expectations are at rock bottom.
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 …
This is Scott Gibson’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, and he is fantastic.
Are you crippled by student debt? Working an unpaid internship? Trying to find prince charming on Tinder? Welcome to the life of a modern day twenty-something! Join Katie for a new…
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
The self-empowerment of interesting American women from history is a dramatic premise that instantly arrests your attention.
Do you remember the warmth and magic you felt being told stories before bed as a kid? That elation you feel when you’re totally engrossed in a book? A Pocketful of Grimms brings …
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Sarah Kendall’s stand-up routine has a different format to most: it’s all centred around a single tale, and it’s in the hands of someone who really knows their way around sto…
Lucky pup Elms is back chasing his tail again; he’s learning about sacrifice, guilt, and, as always, love.
Ed Gamble used to be a fat.
It’s difficult trying to describe We Are Ian.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
New solo show written & performed by Elaine Fellows.
The Andrews Sisters meets ‘Smack the Pony’ in this new musical comedy cabaret.
Bringing a host of exceptional exclusive artists from around the globe along with their authentic comedy carnival atmosphere! Russell Square will be transformed into the home of …
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
Ken Harrison is a talented sculptor and teacher whose career is cut short after a horrific car accident.
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
Taught by established professional performers and University of Brighton staff, this five day course provides intensive training in physical skills and creative approaches for devi…
This is a true story.
This is a true story.
Aidan Killian’s World Tour - ‘Around the World in 80 Jokes’ is here.
A man with a stammer has an hour to tell his love how he feels.
Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play.
Beautifully-crafted comedy from one of the country’s masters of anecdote and timing.
A man with a severe stammer teams up with a massive pile of cards that detail his thoughts, to tell his love how he feels.
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.
Tommy Cooper, with his impeccable timing, love of slapstick and one-liners was a true comic genius.
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione come together in a worldwide tour to promote the launch of their collaborative album, ‘Compared to What’, which includes some wry comedy, lov…
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
Stranded by severe snowstorms, three identically dressed strangers disturb the rural calm of a young woman in a remote Sussex cottage.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
Are the Chinese solely to blame for the housing crisis? “I’m Just Here to Buy Soy Sauce” follows a pair of cut-throat real estate agents as they attempt to sell their latest mi…
The back end of the comic duo Doggett and Ephgrave turns the spotlight on himself for an hour of solo stand-up.
The half life of love is forever - it remains toxic, poisoning life long after love is over.
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
Gavin Henderson regales first hand hilarious stories of the many conductors he has worked with: Stokowski, Otto Klemperer, Giulini, Svetlanov, Barbirolli, Sargent and Rattle among…
Mr.
Work-in-progress show about life with an overly-sensitive clingy rescue dog and an evil imaginary child, acceptability and the joy of loving ‘imperfection’.
Sarah Kendall brings her sell-out Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy award nominated show to Brighton Fringe.
Rob’s life fell apart five years ago.
A unique opportunity to go off the public route and learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
Every Christmas, comedians Andy Thomas (‘Crimes Against Humanities Teachers’) and Sarah Charsley (‘Ghost Sex’) meet to mime a rant, then do it for real.
Follow our characters on an everyday journey through Battersea hearing their inner thoughts via an app previously downloaded to your smartphone.
Free alternative comedy from Matt Hutson (Runner-up in Preston Comedian of the Year) and David McIver (Selected for the BBC New Comedy award 2015).
Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out.
Broadcaster and comedian Dolan is one of the most in-demand MCs.
Join Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they explore their dark side.
Using their trademark blend of audience interaction and razor-sharp improvisation, Abandoman (Ireland’s top comedy hip-hop improv team) present their biggest and best show to dat…
Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da…
BalletBoyz are back with a brand new show, performed by its all-male company of ten incredible dancers.
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
Everyone has a story about Tom, says the narrator.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is the second-longest running off Broadway musical.
Any production of The Perfect Murder, Peter James’ bestselling novella set in Brighton, was always going to generate interest in its hometown.
Combining a mixture of dance theatre, audio-description and imaginative storytelling with Casson & Friends’ trademark interactivity; Night at the Theatre is a fun, family adventu…
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…
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…
Following the Sept.
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…
Like the first, the final play in Rona Munro’s James Plays is part family saga, part love story.
Day of the Innocents takes place on the same set as the first James play, but it feels somewhat different thanks to subtle changes of dressing and lighting.
There’s the feel of a gladiatorial arena to the staging of Rona Munro’s trilogy of James Plays, not least because some audience members seated on a raised area above the sta…
With a performance and choreography career spanning more than half a century, David Gordon has accumulated a lot of mementos.
Mr.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II didn’t shirk from social issues within their musical theatre productions: racism (South Pacific), transient/absent fatherhood (Carouse…
The actor, choreographer and esteemed hoofer Maurice Hines has had an illustrious career spanning Broadway and Hollywood, with cameos from luminaries like Gypsy Rose Lee and Frank …
Australia is home to many curious creatures; a place where men are macho, except when they put on a frock, heels and make-up to sing along to disco classics.
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
Ms.
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…
This program of seven short plays by David Ives is presented by New York Deaf Theater and employs both spoken English and American Sign Language to tell its comedic tales (2:00).
Mr.
If you grew up in the 1970s it was almost compulsory to know the music of Burt Bacharach and lyrics of Hal David - Alfie, Anyone Who Had a Heart, Look of Love and What the World N…
This English pianist begins a new series called “Preludes, Etudes and Variations – Downtown/Uptown,” six programs he will present at SubCulture in Greenwich Villa…
This elegant young French pianist has attracted attention in recent years for his insightful performances and recordings of Schubert.
(previews start on Sept.
Having won the Comics’ Choice Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, multi award-winning comedian Sarah Kendall is back with a hilarious new hour of storytelling.
Mark McGann brings his acclaimed show based on the life of John Lennon, IN MY LIFE, to the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
A recital by Karen West, Elizabeth Woollven and George Ross, accompanied by Helen Maddox and Alan Graham, to include Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben and John Maxwell Geddes’ …
Polly Toynbee and David Walker are two of Britain’s leading social democratic commentators and policy analysts.
A sage said ‘nothing can be certain but death and taxes’.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Join us for a gala night of comedy with a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit.
A mash-up of dance, music, mobile phones and you! FlashMob begins as a game of words and ends as a dance party for all participants – with audience members interacting with movem…
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
Is there one kind of life that is the true and right life for all human beings, or are many kinds of good lives possible? If the latter, does this mean that there are no absolutes …
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Chap-hop, the hottest trend since hipster beard balm that makes your beard smell like woodsmoke and whisky, hits the Fringe this year in the form of Mr B’s Guide to Modern Life.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
It’s 2015.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry.
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…
A young Filipina-American confronts the mystery of her origin and her experience of molestation in an attempt to crush the damaging shadows of her past and find a love of self.
Dumfries and Galloway based printmaker Sarah Stewart creates fresh contemporary works inspired by patterns and typography found within her environment and found objects.
‘The play, Scarfed for Life, is a loud, lively piece about sectarianism in Glasgow .
The David Latto Band bring their brand of celtic-tinged Americana to AMC@St Bride’s and the Fringe for the first time.
Globally inspired, but distilled in Scotland.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
This was a talk for the footballing purist – a no-frills, brief chat with two of the footballing world’s most renowned authors.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
The British soul, jazz and r’n’b singer who topped the UK pop charts with The Communards in 1986 with ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’.
What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in…
Jimmy Shand to Johnny Dodds, a virtuoso mix of music unfolds before you: French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
Replicate on stage the chance and excitement of daily life.
Explore the labyrinth of secrets lurking behind the Edinburgh Playhouse foyer doors as the custodians (past and present) of this stunning theatre lead you through the history of a …
Sketch Club 7 has six members.
“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer.
Come with us on a journey through the ups, downs and sideways of life.
In film musicals of the 1950’s, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood mimed to the uncredited voice of Marni Nixon.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
GM Bacteria? Noooo! But what if I told you that GM Salmonella might save your life one day? Most people remember Salmonella because of the controversy with eggs, and many know that…
Stephanie Laing is Chesney Hawkes’ number one fan.
I wouldn’t normally mention a show’s venue in a comedy review, but David Mills is performing in a gorgeous space in the Voodoo Rooms.
One of the biggest names in crime writing, McDermid’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
I’ve always somewhat despised weddings.
From the star of Audible.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Alternative comedy-themed stand-up from the melancholic David McIver (Tickled Pig finalist 2014), mischievous storyteller Sophie Henderson (Max Turner Prize finalist 2015), absurdi…
If Dan Willis is targeting the annoying Australian Uncle demographic with his show Australia: A Whinging Pom’s Guide, he’s got it completely spot on.
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer.
This is a lewd, ridiculous and over the top show that will leave you stunned and cackling.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
For actors, writers, directors, performers and creatives of every kind (all of us), this entertaining and interactive talk reveals a fresh way to spark imagination and surprise in …
‘At the end of a long day’s Fringe-going, this club is Just the Tonic’ (Scotsman).
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
Following a bad break-up (although is there ever a good break-up?), David somehow gained custody of the cat, Mittens.
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
In this play, the North/South divide is a reality.
He likes Bad Manners and football and dislikes bad manners and liver.
Alice Fraser’s kindness immediately hits you like a warm hug: as her audience filter in she’s chatting, pointing out the air conditioning (a small fan that she’s bought herse…
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives.
Uncle Sam Wants You For U.
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy’s, co-star/co-writer of BBC Three’s Badults) returns to Edinburgh with another lovely little show.
George Orwell wrote an essay on the perfect pub.
Ian Macpherson is perhaps best known for a joke he came up with years ago: ‘They say you play at _____ twice in your career.
Join Sarah Keyworth (Amused Moose Semi-Finalist) and Alex Hylton, (Macmillan Comedian of the Year Runner-up) as they take on love, sexuality and dating in this debut show.
The Beau Zeaux are impressive in their intensity.
Fringe favourite returns with limited run presenting reworked classics alongside newly crafted tales that always challenge, enlighten and leave you laughing.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
Outrageously over-the-top characters, a raucous Edinburgh Fringe audience and lashings of inappropriate advice from a self-styled flirt coach, sexologist and dating guru.
A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club.
Join Ryan Cull (2013 BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Award winner) as he describes his personal life in progress, from his boyhood adventures in leg braces to becoming a man combating h…
Following a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2013, and a successful first UK tour, Tony Jameson gives his critically acclaimed show Football Manager Ruined My Life a bit of an end …
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder.
Forget typewriters, what would happen if you gave an infinite number of monkeys a camera each? **** (BroadwayBaby.co.uk). **** (Comedy.com).
An adventure through a moral maze.
American comic Erich McElroy presents a brand new hour of stand-up.
The nightly cabaret features a selection of the best festival entertainment with a changing line-up of international and local singers, musicians and entertainment, all in the oak-…
Storytelling as you’ve never seen it! Join in with Meg Harper’s unique stories! Maybe you’ll be a princess, maybe you’ll be a frog, maybe you’ll even be a giant head louse! Fresh s…
Attempts on Her Life has a notoriety surrounding it that most shows would kill for.
Is this a damn early time to start a show? Yes! Is it the only way to start your Fringe? Yes! With an interactive musical improv ending, this show you want to set your alarm for.
The first solo show from David Callaghan (BBC New Comedy Awards 2012 and 2013).
A Day in October centres around Kendall’s teenage years at a rough high-school in Newcastle, Australia.
Just So Stories is a fun, interactive storytelling of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales.
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
Twenty-three-year-old Sarah Callaghan lives at home with her mum – and for this hour we are transported to her three-by-five-metre bedroom in her home in working-class London.
David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.
I think I’ve found my new favourite musical, thanks to Tangram Theatre and their amazing piece on one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.
Ian Smith is a wonderful comedian with a beautiful imagination.
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…
Tania Edwards opens by criticising the elderly.
It all begins with a suicide threat.
You cannot criticise Rhys Nicholson for a lack of clarity.
According to Andrew Ryan, he is a failure.
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 Binns has a huge reputation to protect.
This time next year, the Assembly George Square Theatre will not be big enough to contain David O’Doherty.
Post-coitus: it’s that intimate moment of openness, where people say weird, wonderful and often brutally honest things.
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’.
‘I know why you’re here’, James Acaster begins, ‘for the celebrity gossip’.
Tokyo Tapdoare a company of Japanese tap dancers, percussionists, circus artists.
With the blessing of the Cooper Estate, John Hewer takes to the stage in the guise of one of Britain’s most loved comedians.
(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…
An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
Benjamin and William are waiting, but as time progresses, so do their differences of opinion, from Doctor Who to Brighton Seagulls.
An emotionally charged coming-of-age story, blending wry comedy and the music of a beloved cult band, sung live.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
Be part of a national project and keep a diary of your day on May 12, then bring your family along to our event on 23 May at The Keep and add your diaries to the Mass Observation A…
Visceral solo show on Sussex-born writer Patrick Hamilton, author of classic plays ‘Rope’ & ‘Gaslight’ and iconic novels including ‘Hangover Square’ and ‘The West Pier’.
A brave and fiercely honest memoir of one person’s loss, her grief at her husband’s suicide and the long road to healing and recovery through a unique spiritual and artistic quest.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
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…
For those who haven’t seen David Hoyle perform before, throw out your preconceptions and definitely expect the unexpected; for David is not your typical drag queen, and I’m s…
A moving and hilariously funny exploration into the life and lungs of Julie Andrews! A fast-paced, musical journey into the public and very private life of the star.
Free stand-up comedy: Focus people! David Mills is back with brand new razor sharp rants, cocktail swagger and a biting, acerbic wit.
‘Our Perfect Child’ explores the development of a Criminal Psychopath; we entice you through the looking glass as you experience the evolution of a psychopathic mind.
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…
My grandfather used to be old.
Musical theatre that packs a punch.
Famed for her association with the ‘Communards’ in the mid-80s (the fabulous hit ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ is still requested at every party!) and infamous for a banned rendi…
Elephant - impossible to overlook and the biggest brain of any land mammal.
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
The music programming at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building downtown begins, in a collaboration with Issue Project Room, with four concerts over three days.
Weifan (Ophelia) Chen - founder of Namasia Tea House from Taiwan, would like to introduce the art and culture of Taiwanese tea to the UK.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
The critically acclaimed character comic and star of ITV2’s ‘Bad Bridesmaid’ and BBC1’s ‘Outnumbered, returns to Brighton with a work in progress of her new show.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Guns! Gags! Gizmos! Be shaken, stirred and seduced by the heady cocktail that is the Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they go back to the Bond Age.
An internationally renowned Irish comedian, Mr.
The vast drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory has become a site of choice in New York for unusual opera productions and ambitious multimedia concerts.
This velvet-voiced, effortlessly communicative mezzo-soprano is joined by the pianist Joseph Middleton in an exquisite program: Schubert’s three “Ellens Gesang” (…
David Carl and Katie Harman star in their new play about a couple who have decided to remarry after their “violent and expensive divorce.
Mr.
The American pianist David Witten, currently the coordinator of keyboard studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, has long been curious about overlooked piano repertory…
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
The title of Schumann’s piano piece “Davidsbündlertänze” takes some explanation.
Matteo Lane fronts this LGBT-friendly alternative to the St. Patrick’s Day parade, with an excellent lineup including Sabrina Jalees, Julio Torres, and Emma Willmann.
The Guggenheim’s behind-the-scenes series usually features new works and creative collaborations in their incubator stage.
Billed as “a story of women’s courage, of sisterhood and pride”, A Bench on the Road is a work in progress based on the true experiences of Italian immigrants, Scottish-bo…
With the death of the last surviving veterans a few years back, the so-called Great War of 1914-18 slipped from living memory, but some records remain preserved none-the-less, n…
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
(in previews; opens on Feb.
In honor of the composer Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, this poetic pianist hosts a “piano party” that will feature solo works written in Mr.
In the 19th century, the painter Paul Cézanne bragged, “I will astonish Paris with an apple!” He did so by painting hundreds of them, from every angle, in extraord…
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…
(previews start on Jan.
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre always has a Christmassy feel to it, with its gilded pillars and Arabian Nights ceiling, and this enchanting adaptation feels like an early Ch…
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Following the last year’s sell out, it’s back!
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar…
Ahead of her next premiere — coming in February to Works & Process at the Guggenheim — Ms.
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
Jen Kirkman, a performer based in Los Angeles, brings a show of brand new stories and jokes to Brooklyn.
Bringing together the many strands of the festival in words, music, and dance.
In the lavish surroundings of the Assembly Rooms, Guardian journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker dive straight in at the deep end.
Legendary LA rapper from Scotland who conned the music industry as half of Silibil N’ Brains.
He’s not Nick Grimshaw! Russell Kane is a superstar entertainer who often gets confused for the Radio 1 DJ.
Come and play?The invitation to play is timeless, but could you, would you play with God? Godly Play does just that.
Majk (pronounced Mike, for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) presents a witty collection of finely crafted comedy folk songs on topics ranging from sc…
After three previous Edinburgh shows and supporting Alun Cochrane on two UK Tours, Mike Newall performs an hour of stand up.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
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.
You, the audience, become the friends and family of this psychotic gangster’s victims.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
This special tribute to Tommy Cooper is a compilation of rarely seen material from his cabaret days and the very best of Cooper’s classic gags and tricks.
Two improvisers take you on a hilarious, musical and sometimes unnervingly familiar journey through a myriad of characters, places and worlds.
Anni Dafydd emerges onto the stage wearing layers of mismatched technicolour clothes.
Life on the One Wheel experiments with everyday experience and elements of popular culture to explore the fragile simplicity of human emotion.
Originally from the US, now based in Singapore, Vernon Lewis has quickly become one of the rising stars in the comedy scene and has opened and performed with comedians such as Tom …
Mr.
Led by poet and translator Ian McDonald and director Liz Carruthers, this practical workshop will explore innovative ways of adapting Shakespeare and other works of fiction.
Practical workshop about making experimental multi-artform performance.
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
It was a shock just sitting down in the Stroke Association Scotland’s venue - on every seat was a leaflet telling us that one in six people in Scotland will suffer a stroke in thei…
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Kafka meets Alice in Wonderland in award-winning Scottish writer Ali Smith’s absurd take on the English concept of justice.
This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
If this show had simply featured the songs of the Three Belles – an Andrews Sisters-inspired act with delightful voices and glorious harmonies – and some references to the 1…
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
This show is a little different from what the rest of the Festival has to offer.
In Hong Kong, thousands of people – poor families, students, white-collar workers – live in dystopian-sounding “sub-divided units” that sometimes only amount to 50 square f…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
The Man Who Almost Killed Himself is a funny and tragic true story inspired by the work of anthropologist Andrew Irving in Uganda and Eastern Africa.
Russell Kane sparks back into action with a new format, anchoring a podcast about various news stories from the last few days.
George Galloway is best known as the fiercely pro-Palestinian Respect Party MP for West Bradford.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
Fun for all ages.
Tom Thumb, a character who is small in stature and status, yet is granted the hand of a princess in marriage.
Ian Dunnett is an 18 year old, first year piano student at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
Stop all the clocks.
Join the conversation as we explore a different subject each day surrounding equality, religion and ethics.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform a highly enjoyable eclectic mix.
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
Have you been mis-sold PPI? Me neither.
In 2007, Eurobeat: Almost Eurovision exploded on the Edinburgh Fringe and has appeared practically every year since with a few tweaks.
Join us in celebrating the kicking off just 2014.
PHB’s Free Fringe often uses some odd venues and this one, in the small disco downstairs at The Street, is cramped with awkwardly-shaped seating making it difficult for the whole…
Last year I bought myself a ukulele but I have to confess that most of the time it looks really cute hanging on my wall.
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
This comedy show started with a question: Why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
Paolo Scheriani, Italian theatre author, winner of several prizes, performs I am Sarah Kane - An Almost Perfect Life.
The tiny venue was packed so tight for the opening performance of Burton no one in the audience dared breathe.
Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts’ musical comedy, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change has become a staple of the fringe in recent years, probably because it requires a small, …
There are no actors in this show.
This is a traditional staging of The Who’s rock opera, first performed in 1973.
Despite what the show’s title states, Ian D Montfort explains that there has actually been a mixup with the show time.
What happens to the thousands of people who go missing every year? And what happens to the people left behind? How can anyone accept they might never know what happened to their lo…
Mark Farrelly’s The Silence of Snow is a charming and funny, if not particularly deep, depiction of the life of Soho author Patrick Hamilton, best known for penning Rope and Hang…
What happens when a geezer only starts doing all those wild and crazy things he should have done in his youth when he is approaching his 50s? When a guy gets himself married young,…
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
Blues and Burlesque, featuring sexy Scarlett Belle, sassy and silly Vicious Delicious and their smooth accompanist, Pete Saunders, is a good value 50 minutes of raunchy entertainme…
Rising stars Pete Otway and Brennan Reece present a nightly showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe, featuring award-winning comedians from the circuit, TV and the best of th…
Sarah Callaghan wants to tell us a secret in her first one hour Fringe show.
A powerful portrait of the artist Francis Bacon.
The Bilborough College Players make their Edinburgh debut with a double-bill production featuring absurdist and epic theatre, Life with Crayons.
The Matchmaker is a light-hearted show about Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor, a self-made cupid for rural Ireland’s slightly-more-than-middle-aged singletons.
Race first opened on Broadway in 2009 and ran for almost 300 performances, directed by its Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, David Mamet.
‘The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children’ (Jim Henson).
Everything seemed against this performance from the start.
“This is the time for you to win.
At the meagre price of four pounds per ticket, and at one of the smallest venues in town, you get what you expect from Tom Short and Will Hutchby’s Only Child Syndrome: self-cons…
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google.
Is it really 20 years since the publication of Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting? This immersive stage version adapts Danny Boyle’s celluloid presentation of the novel brings…
Returning to Edinburgh after a three-year hiatus which has seen him performing around the world, on radio and on television.
The Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner explains why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games…
Bud wants to leave home, but when doing so breaks the tradition of four generations of farmers in rural West Wales, it is a tough decision for the aspiring artist.
Mothers always know best – as frustrating as it can sometimes be; but surely not so frustrating when it forms the foundations of your next stand up show.
Join a group of ordinary gay friends for an honest and intimate evening together.
Attention grabbing opener! Brief description of performers involved: Stephen Harvey (Perrier nominee), Marcus Garvey (Peep Show, Psychoville, Four Lions), Gareth Kane (What’s On St…
A visceral performance, The Time of Our Lies benefits greatly from the impassioned commitment of its five-strong cast.
David Morgan has two obsessions in his life: TV and the Internet.
Felicity Fitz Frisky and Hansel Amadeus Mannish are the quintessential Fringe success story.
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
The chatty Yorkshire patter of Ian Smith’s comedy offers an incredibly relatable show in the Pleasance comedy programme at this year’s festival.
Andrew Ryan’s show this year sees him look at where he is in his life, how he got here and how he’s enjoying it - or not enjoying it, as the case may be.
David Trent enters to thunderous music and revs up the crowd with a flurry of fist pumps and screaming; only to cut it all off with a delightfully anticlimactic start to the show.
During this peculiar hour, David Elms takes a different approach to the usual bravado of musical comedy in a consciously quiet, ungainly performance.
Many consider Stuart Goldsmith’s career as a comic to be “living the dream.
A few years ago I took my children to a circus.
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.
This blitz through dates, relationships, marriages, kids, divorces and funerals is a joyous and occasionally moving romp.
Royal Festival Hall: 8th Jul 7pm.
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
(previews begin on July 15; opens on July 20) As one of the original stars of Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” the actor Everett Quinton has long since…
Leicester Square Theatre: 30th Jun 7pm.
A former member of the ’90s sketch troupe the State, Mr.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The brilliant pianist David Greilsammer, who is also a conductor, has a gift for devising programs and recordings that juxtapose old and new music.
“Very, very funny.
Ever wonder how the elephant got his trunk? Or the leopard got his spots? Then don’t miss ‘Just So!’; a brand new play based on the famous stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Megan Gray, Magnet Theater’s artistic director, hosts this night of all-lady improv comedy.
A startling and original portrayal of the fallibility of relationships in a technological age, Brewers Fayre demonstrates how theatre can be used to critique contemporary societal …
Yiri Baa – West African Roots Manding AfroBeat Band brings you a performance of the wildest music from The Gambia, Senegal and Mali, West Africa.
Inspired by the five-star production of ‘Killing Roger’, Sparkle and Dark invite you to join a dynamic panel to talk about how art can tackle challenging ethical issues.
West End performers and award-winning writer and director bring this true story of land grab and lost love to Brighton for the first time.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Disgraced teacher James Bennison takes to the stage in his debut stand up show, tackling that untapped comedy gold mine, mathematics! Join him as he takes you on a journey of hila…
All day event with distinguished novelist Philip Hensher, poet Jo Skelt and other compelling speakers.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
Awaking in a mental hospital with no idea who she is, Jude begins a comic odyssey into the obscure, where reason is treason, sanity is a sickness and the only truth is that everyth…
Irishman Andrew Ryan is 31 years old and he could not be happier, or could he? When his Dad was his age, he was very happily married, with a house and three kids.
‘Space and Time’ is an exhibition of unexpected landscape photographs.
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.
Touted as the next big thing in comedy, Leicester Square New Comedian Finalist and One to Watch Winner 2013, Sarah asks you for at least one more year of anonymity by keeping this …
Spoken Word Poet, Tommy Sissons presents a one-man poetry performance exploring the themes of urban lifestyles, working class values and the impact of politics in a coarse and inte…
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.
The best of Brighton and Hove’s young musicians performing in and around Pavilion Gardens.
The ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ writer and Radio 4-featured stand-up finds out whether the world is basically fine or whether everything’s going to shit.
(in previews; opens on June 3) The Tony Award-winning actor Jim Dale is such a song-and-dance man that when he wants to warn audiences to switch off their cellphones, he does it vi…
I can’t stop grinning as I leave the church.
(previews start on May 24; opens on June 2) The Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada manages to make the ordinary seem fresh, the inarticulate expressive.
Come and curl up with a living book.
Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
London-based American comic David Mills combines a sharp-suited cocktail swagger with tremendous fire-and-brimstone rants.
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 …
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.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
Don’t be put off by the title: this is a completely fresh reworking of the 19th century story by the Brothers Grimm.
The fireball of Scottish comedy, ‘uniquely dry, understated performer’ (Chortle.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
Matt and Ian provide an hour of laughs with their improvised show at the Sweet Venues.
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 …
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
American song and dance man Movin’ Melvin Brown is not content to have just one show at the Fringe (The Ray Charles Experience), or two (an interactive workshop Tap into Health -…
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…
Each time a mountain rescue is reported in the media, it is difficult not to think ‘Why would they climb that alone/in that weather/at that time of year?’ But the truth for som…
David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humour writers.
Kershaw has had a lot of bad press over the last decade for his personal life but he’s back on track and promoting his autobiography No Off Switch at the Auditorium, Ghillie Dhu …
As part of the American High School Theatre Festival at Church Hill Studio Theatre in Bruntsfield, Van Buren High School brought to life the colourful and well-loved characters fro…
The Edinburgh Academy makes for a spacious yet slightly odd choice of venue for music and comedy due Kit Hesketh-Harvey and James McConnel.
To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien…
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Amy Duncan performs songs from her new Linn Records release, Cycles of Life. www.amyduncan.co.uk / www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com
Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories are fanciful tales that will delight.
A new black comedy musical set within the confines of the nuclear family home of the seemingly perfect Biktrakarawitz’s, which quickly descends into a gruesome world of murder, inc…
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
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…
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Simon Cowell says I’m ‘.
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
Chances are you know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ already but you’ve probably never been told those stories quite like this before.
Sondheim’s Assassins sounds like a show that should not work; a musical exploration of some of the United States’ most famous attempts (and successes) to kill the President.
This tense drama, nominated for two best new play awards in 2010, centers around the lives of seven young people as they sit their mock ‘A’ Levels at a public school.
Fold fitted sheets, design perfect desserts and create consummate canapés! A rich but practical diet of the responsibilities, realities and rituals of domesticity to entertain, ed…
Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings.
Armed with a bottle of vodka, this retired football manager wins the applause of both his seasoned fans and those newer to the game.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
TTMOOTV Theatre & Film Company’s Journos is the new play by producer/actor Jamie Alexander Eastlake and co-writer/actor Adam Donaldson who did rather well at last year’s Fringe…
Last year I regretted not taking my junior reviewers to see the Three Half Pints.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
A Matter of Life and Death by Tom Morris and Emma Rice, as well as being a loving ode to the classic film by Powell and Pressburger, is also an original work in its own right.
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 …
About as far down the opposite end of the spectrum from disappointing as you could get, McCabe’s set is an insight into her coming out at the age of 17 (her dad asked, ‘Susie, …
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
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.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites: ‘Jenny and the Cold Caller .
Vanessa Knight is the most glamorous thing to come out of Birmingham since Duran Duran.
Sarah Kane was an explosively controversial playwright who suffered from depression, communicating worlds of psychological turmoil through incredibly disturbing theatre.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites.
How do you stop people from getting scared by the word ‘feminism’? Why do we live in a world that presents the size zero as the bodily ideal, and any normal, curvaceous figure …
What is it with us and smallness? The Brits love it - being tiny but fierce.
Despite being described in the Fringe brochure as a ‘walk and talk exhibition’, the audience of the Arthur Conan Doyle Experience was sat in a lecture room upon arrival and a s…
A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl…
Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style.
Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their eclectic worldwide musical mix and also pay tribute to the giants of British Trad jazz: Ball, Barber and Bilk.
This accordion and clarinet duo based in Edinburgh gave a showcase of different music styles from around the world.
Fringe First, Herald Angel, Spirit of the Fringe award winners Theatre Uncut return with a brand new collection of short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action on …
This Life Chose Me: A Ninja Musical written/performed by Katie Wilbert.
Undertaking the staging of David Copperfield is a tricky, if not impossible, task for any theatre company.
Tells the life, dreams and disenchantments of a concert pianist at the end of her career, accompanied by live piano.
Here we are in sunny Sarajevo for the greatest, gaudiest and most glorious celebration of dodgy Europop that we call Eurovision - well almost.
[Life] - An Everyman’s Tale.
Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�…
Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets.
Wave your hands in the air like you don’t feel self-conscious! First world agony from the Russell Howard’s Good News writer.
Although Italy’s economy and political system have of late appeared to be on the verge of total collapse, at least her sixty-odd million citizens can take solace in the fact that t…
Stories of a girl who lived life by the seat of her pants, even when she wasn’t wearing any.
Fringe debutant Patrick Turpin takes his audience on a trip down memory lane, as he bids for their approval.
Rowena Haley’s show has a simple, yet entertaining foundation: what is it like to grow up with a 93-year-old as your best friend? Through wittily penned songs, anecdotes and lar…
Life-long coward, Sarah Hendrickx, travels back in time to her past in a bid to become brave and fearless.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Sam Brady ushers us into his gig and then darts behind the curtain to announce his own entrance.
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.
Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two.
Life Sentence follows the story of Theo, who has just been diagnosed with immortality.
It’s true: All the nice girls really do like a sailor.
We live in a world where technology is changing the way we see ourselves and other people.
Fantasy No.
Life in 3 Words is a solo piano and song show written and performed by Irish singer/songwriter Emer O’Flaherty.
In some 4,000 High Schools across the US, you’ll find a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) group.
The rise in popularity of Burlesque at the Edinburgh Fringe means there is sometimes no telling what is tacky and what is classy.
Stories of hilarious, heart-warming and often bizarre moments in a unique career. Even if it’s not your first time with a prostitute, it’ll be the funniest!
Sign on to Sh!t Theatre’s JSA: ‘a curious though immensely likeable duo who merge stand-up with physical theatre and biting socio-political satire .
Part of Just Festival, discussions are being held in St John’s Church throughout the course of the month, targeting important, interesting and sometimes controversial matters under…
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…
Madame Chabane will give you an insight into the daily life of an Arab woman and hopes to make you laugh!
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 …
Rob Deb, ‘the Lenny Bruce of sci-fi’ (Skinny), returns retooled and rebooted.
British Comedy Award winner Sarah Millican is settling down (taking her bra off), she has a cat (furry baby) and even a tree (she has lots of mugs).
Having lived in Edinburgh all my life, I wondered how much Saints and Sinners Walking Tours could really tell me about my city.
Douglas Adams said the answer to the big question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. I am 42 this year. Find out what I have learned and questions I have.
Tony, 33, wonders: could he have achieved more in life by not spending 20 years playing video games? Join one of the north-east’s hottest talents in his debut hour to find out.
Award-winning stand-up from two of the country’s best newcomers Adam Hess and David Elms (as seen on BBC3).
Ian Fox has come up with a fairly novel twist on observational comedy: his show centres on a series of photographs shown on television screens around the room so that the audience …
The memories of an unknown 50-year-old, who happened to meet many characters along his path in life from the rich, powerful and famous to those who make life interesting…
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.
A little spitfire of a songstress has entered the forum of the Fringe, bound for greatness – or so she hopes.
Droll, stylish stand-up! Inspirational rants! Mills dissects celebrity, relationships, politics with cutting accuracy.
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 …
The Big Man’s back.
Any single live performance can be affected by many things; a cold venue, a small audience, a slightly fidgety child in the second row (BBR8, sorry!), but when a performer is bille…
It’s a stand-up comedy show. At half 11 in the morning. In a tent. Two comedians. We’re not seeing anything else at that time. It’s a yurt tent apparently. Let’s definitely go.
This Was Your Life is a rethink of the classic game show, in which its audience can decide whether its contestant, Michael, will go to heaven or hell.
Danny’s a winner, by which we mean he isn’t but he thinks he is. Come and spend an hour with someone who isn’t a winner but most definitely an above average comedian.
The lunchtime concerts at St Mary’s take place every day of the festival and the programme changes day by day.
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
With only four simply dressed actresses and a range of household objects, Red Table Theatre act out four of Kipling’s tales from The Just So Stories, sticking very closely to his…
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
Other stand-ups stand up.
Jack Thorne’s stage adaptation of Alexander Masters’ biography of Stuart Shorter is simultaneously sweet and violently hard-hitting.
Ian Smith is the first to admit that Anything is perhaps too generically named, so the audience are forgiven for being apprehensive.
After triumphant BBC Radio 2 series, the New Age guru, psychic and medium returns; passing on messages, making predictions and telling fortunes.
After my initial panic at being stuck in a room where the mean age of the audience was about four, I began to relax to the dulcet tones of the performing quartet.
David Quirk, an unapologetic child of the ‘80s, paints the scene immediately with his passion for Guns N’ Roses, leather trousers and idolatry of Slash.
David Trent has labelled each of his possessions: ‘This is a screen’, ‘This is a laptop’, ‘This is a projector’, etc.
Pattie Brewster is a normal girl desperately in need of three things: friends, cat food and a crash course in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
David Morgan is someone you want to be friends with.
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
This gig is a total surprise – just what the Fringe should be.
The scene a producer’s office in that place where men sit waiting to throw money at the moon.
Firstly, don’t be fooled by the title like I naively was – this is not a lecture on the downfalls of Buddhism nor is it someone trying to sell their faith.
To suggest that this Dickens classic suffered a stage death is a slight exaggeration of the Space’s production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, but I must confess…
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters has an interesting premise.
David Trent calls live comedy ‘the only true spontaneous art form’.
There is something rotten in the state of Hampstead.
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.
I didnt know what to expect from a show with the title Naked Boys Singing.
Bach before breakfast is a rather lovely, if bleary way to start the day.
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…
Advertised in the Fringe guidebook as ‘David Kelly is Shameless’, the show turned out to be rebranded as ‘David Kelly and Laura Carr Have No Shame’.
There’s nothing more exhilarating than to find yourself amongst a gurglesome, gleeful group of giggling kids, as I recently did at C aquila.
The format for this show is very simple.
Im beginning to think that Musical Theatre @ George Square are like some dodgy wartime butcher, whos keeping all the good stuff round the back.
A teenager walking away from her love in order to get closer to him; a woman literally returning the love her boyfriend gave to her; a widow camping in a stranger’s backyard to …
It is easy to lose St Giles’ Cathedral in the haze of the Mile, where every square inch is covered with thespians still needing to sell the last few tickets.
Located in the small but cosy performance space underneath the main café area of Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, Life or Something Like it sees Mancunian singer-songwriter Claire…
Here in a school’s performance hall is one of the best shows of the festival, in this humble reviewer’s opinion.
Future Perfect is a writers’ collective that in several formations organise readings of their own work.
On entering the venue, Tom Wrigglesworth perches on a stool playing melodious chords on the guitar, whilst passing a running commentary on the audience members as they enter the sp…
Pop band related shows seem to be something of a trend nowadays.
The posse return to the Fringe for yet another healthy dose of good old fashioned entertainment.
Ill be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotlands…
Everyone loves a good scandal and this is probably why Sheridans most famous play has stood the test of the time for the last two hundred and thirty years.
We are invited to a party.
A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods…
There is a moment a third a way into Fergus Fords play when the lights dim, the comedy darkens and the plot takes a sharp and unsettling swerve into territory already occupied by…
At first glance, Tissue is an exploration of a fascinating topic: breast cancer.
The sights, smells and sounds of eighteenth century London live on in the Gilded Balloons Debating Hall.
Tudur Owen has a story to tell, and he is determined to share it.
Tom is a modern boy living an openly gay life but unable to get it together.
Doug Segal delivers a perplexing array of mind-blowing, mind-reading tricks modulating gradually to a standing ovation climax.
Sanderson Jones lost his mother at the age of 10 and has been thinking about death ever since.
The inevitable has happened, a comedy show dedicated to the social network site that is Facebook.
Three hapless 20 something men hang out in a bedroom, no longer at college but not yet ready for the world of grown-up relationships in ‘Boys’ Life’, Howard Korder’s Pulitz…
When the matchmakers of Austens time are no more, fear not: I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change negotiates, with excruciatingly spot-on humour, the difficulties of the mo…
The star of Jonathan Creek and QI returns to the stage in his first foray into the world of stand-up since 2001.
A night of cabaret at St Marys Church which brought together the quirky poetry of Sue Pearson, with the ethereal music of Astra and the opera-meets-musical-theatre style singing …
Jazz is a study of madness, perhaps.
An am-dram production in a church hall, this show comes from another world entirely to even the worst of fringe shows: a world where a serviceable witch’s hat can be made from a …
At the age of 18, Allegra Levy is already a considerably more compelling performer than handfuls of Parky regulars.
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
When DeAnne Smith entered the stage dressed in an adorable ensemble, picks up her ukulele and started singing a tune that sounded like it had been lifted from the soundtrack of 500…
If there’s one near-forgotten art form due for a revival – along with storytelling and morris dancing – it’s surely ventriloquism.
The duo of Ian Millar on tenor and soprano saxes and Dominic Spencer on (electric) piano play a standards-based set at the Radisson Hotel every lunchtime (though, 12:30 is breakfas…
Based on Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, transplanting its protagonist to modern-day Soho, attaching the story to a real alleged bomb plot on the London Eye, incorporating so…
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
Off-Broadway’s longest running musical comes to the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
I caught this troop of budding young comedians last year and was mightily impressed by their ingenuity, their sense of comic timing, and the wonderfully risqué formula of getting …
No matter how annoying you find flyerers on the Royal Mile, even the most exasperated Fringe-goer would probably agree that rounding them up to be slaughtered in death camps is qui…
Jamie and Matt are two young men indulging in the exchange of sexual fantasies over the internet.
I stumbled into FxP2 in Trouble out of an Edinburgh drizzle and initially thought to myself, oh well, another shower of rain, another comedy sketch show.
Harp and poetry isnt the coolest gig in town and on a cold blustery Sunday night during the busy festival period the tragically poor turn out could testify to that.
I have been to Walberswick and I never caught crabs, but Im glad I caught this new play by Fringe First Winner Joel Horwood.
It is easy to forget that in the tempest of the Edinburgh Festival, between the international plays and the famous comedians, there is still a strong Scottish backbone to many of t…
If ever there was a lesson in the value of being patient, this show is it.
Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
This concert proved to be a bit of a gem.
With a razor-sharp tongue and ever sharper wit – think 1940s American reporter meets cocktail bar swagger – David Mills delivers an hour of comedy that you may mistake for an h…
This is as good a play as Ive ever seen about the absurdity of prejudice.
The Sitcom double bill has a pleasingly simple premise: the hour long show is divided into two and a sitcom is performed in each half.
This is a sketch show occupying a very special niche in the imagination of the Fringe.
If scientists on the Human Genome Project fancied isolating the gene responsible for insufferable smugness, might I suggest taking a blood sample from Benet Brandreth.
Naked Pictures of my life is a no holds barred look at Petes life as he approaches middle age and starts to experience and think about aging.
There’s a line early on that unintentionally sums up this show: ‘None of us is nervous but if we were this is probably how we’d be behaving.
Just follows Victoria, a regular passerby in a not so regular English town.
Ivor Novello was the Andrew Lloyd-Webber of his day.
It is not often at the Fringe when you are welcomed into the auditorium by the performer himself with the house lights fully up.
The last time I ‘did Greek’ was the NTS’s production of The Bacchae with Alan Cumming.
Frying Nemo, billed as a barely credible tale of adventure on the high seas and performed around a rather large shark tank, full of real sharks was always going to be a fishy tale.
Planet Lem is a captivating and sometimes baffling exploration of the sci-fi works of the author Stanislav Lem.
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
Hunger Warrior Theatre, a group of young American Theatre professionals present this tale of lust and its dangers, written Andrew J Hungerford.
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…
Struggling to Evolve ‘promises a guide to sex, drink and violence’ – which sounds like prime material for an edgy comedian seeking to unsettle his audience.
This is Ian Kendalls 16th year performing magic at the Edinburgh fringe and his best show yet.
When a show advertises itself as involving ‘heavy music, headbanging and a smidgen of angst-ridden poetry’, it does not sell itself well to a punter like myself, especially as …
In this hour long lunchtime concert, the Wordsworth Singers verified the health and vigour of the contemporary choir scene in England.
Markus Birdman’s comedy dwells on serious themes, a fact that is perhaps unsurprising considering the 40-something stand-up suffered a stroke a few years ago which caused him to …
It feels important to say before we discuss a show about such a sensitive issue that its engagement with the topic of women being raped is sensitively handled and that the dancer i…
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
Steve Hall, part of the sketch comedy show We are Klang, is an appealing comic.
Billed as storytelling, I didnt actually believe that after I was sitting comfortably a story would begin.
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
Out with the old and in with the new.
There’s a definite buzz on George Street.
The show starts with a projection poorly shone onto the back wall; ‘Lie Back And Think Of Sodom’.
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
Dee Mardi gives us a cabaret of life, with the twist that everything is related in some way to laundry pegged on the line.
Where in Edinburgh can you get a three-tier stand of scones and cakes and sandwiches that would do justice to Jenners, a glass of bubbly, and a Victorian thriller all for the price…
To hear that a company is performing a classic poem like The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner with dance, acrobatics and music is the sort of combination of ideas and media that can lea…
An exploration of modern society and our responses to it, Life Is Too Good To Be True is a one-man show presented by the Netherlands’ Het Geluid (The Noise).
Stand up comedian Stephen Grant hilariously analyses the problems of modern society.
When I was a small boy, they filmed some of the outdoor scenes of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in my grandmothers street in Edinburgh.
This is Lucy Porter’s 5th visit to the Fringe and at last she’s managing to fake sincerity.
Double Edge’s Almost Nothing to Do with Frogs is a witty modern interpretation, and sometimes parody, of the Ancient Greek play The Frogs by Aristophanes.
Maff Brown’s Parade of This present the audience with a tight, irreverent and thoroughly silly sketch show.
It is often easy to think that a top quality set and good technical support can make a performance great in and of itself; shows like Turandot exist to demonstrate that this is not…
This is frighteningly honest stuff.
I love Ontoerend Goed; whether it’s their audience-dividing masterpiece that was Audience last year or something life changing and unique like A Game Of You, I have been a massiv…
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Billed as a ‘drama’, Heaven’s Gate, which explores the Titanic disaster (this year is the centenary of the sinking), proved to be a seemingly unintended comedy.
Should he go to heaven or face eternal damnation? The audience decide in this fresh and raucously funny musical.
Talented Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford has the infectious ability to find hilarity and absurdity in the banality of his everyday routine.
It’s 6.
After winning last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell Kane’s marriage fell apart, he had a breakdown, and didn’t perform for a considerable part of the year.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
It seems ironic that a show about heroin lacks so much speed.
David ‘Perrier Award winning’ O’Doherty has grown a beard especially for his role as the intrepid – read: inept - explorer Rory Sheridan.
Davie and Geordie are two teenage boys, the best of friends, just getting to the point in their lives where they begin to establish relationships with girls.
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
The excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.
It seems a shame that effort should so hurt a production, but the illusion of ease is critical to cabaret especially when the lead is supposed to be a beguiling and sexually emanci…
I’ve never been a huge fan of improvisational comedy for its sheer clever-dick-ness and the prospect of spending an hour with five testosterone-fueled young guns filled my heart …
I’ve often wondered what was going on behind the life models eyes.
Chris Ramsey bounds onto the stage undaunted by the damp crowd and trails of water across his venue and immediately engages the crowd with a vibrant and glowing confidence.
Six Ways is one of those small musicals that sends you out into the Edinburgh rain with a big heart.
Part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival, comedian and photographer Ian Fox delivers an hour of very amusing entertainment through a selection of photos.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
In a festival filled with shows about wonderland and Lewis Carroll, Ontroerend Goed’s new production, the latest in a long line of probing pieces, stands tall as the true master …
Join rising stars Ant Craven, ‘Wonderfully funny’ (BritishComedyGuide.
The man looks like a comedian.
The story of a World War Two child survivor is delightfully told in a simple production which exudes energy and passion.
In a blank-canvas office, the corporate machine squeezes one last drop of inspiration from two ad-men at the end of their tether.
‘Life as we know it’ turns out to be about a very specific time in life: the teenage years.
The first thing you notice is that David Reed really has created a Shamblehouse in the Pleasance.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Not quite a film night and not quite a variety show, sketch comedy troupe The Beta Males play host to a feast of entertainment from some of the Fringe’s finest comedy acts while …
How is it I’ve been watching stand-up for more than 20 years, including a decade of Fringe going, and I have never got round to seeing Andrew Maxwell.
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
Terezin Concentration Camp is an utterly fascinating story; built in the Czech Republic, it was inspected by the Red Cross, and during the visit the Nazis turned the camp into a ho…
Theres always a plethora of musicals on the most unlikely subjects at the Fringe.
Andrew Lawrence is a young, talented stand-up comedian who has already had two successive if.
St Giles’ cathedral, built in honour of Giles the Hermit, is certainly grand and the atmosphere is an appropriate one for an organ concert.
Britpop band Cast’s live performances have been compared to a ‘religious experience’ by the Gallaghers.
I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change is a comedy musical from the pen of Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts.
Circus Oz bounds on to the stage showing no sign of slowing after 30 years of hoops, balls and ropes.
You know when you come out of a show that its going to sell out fast.
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…
This is consumate top-class stand-up comedy from Danny Bhoy.
Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography…
A sterling selection of inspired nonsense.
David Hasselhoff has a large and committed international following: Pleasance Grand was sold out on his opening night and at almost £20 a ticket, this is one of the more expensive…
Despite almost drowning amidst a tidal wave of props, costumes and word-play Dan and Jeff emerge from the blue-briny with a blistering hour of high-ranking kids comedy.
Two stunning blonde acrobats vaulting, twisting, lunging and splashing their way through a a perfectly structured set of jaw-dropping skills and inspiration.
Catie Wilkins works in a call centre, has a gay brother and parents who are both completely normal and yet very unusual - all great topics for a comedy set.
A piano, a music stand, a garden hose plus two finely dressed English fellows - and you have the main ingredients of this stiff-upper-lipped-tribute band.
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
Watching Jonelle Allen in Harlem Renaissance, you can’t help thinking you’re in the presence of Broadway Royalty.
A strong old Broadyway warhorse,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum originally opened with Zero Mostel in the lead followed by Frankie Howerd in the UK.
It promised to be a fun show.
Fringe mainstay Sean Hughes is performing two shows at this year’s festival and has perhaps bravely decided to make his earlier show, Life Becomes Noises, an extended discourse o…
Tim Vine gallops onto stage to a hearty yee-har of approval from a punloving posse corraled in the Pleasance 1.
And hast thou slain the air-conditioner?A valiant troupe of young players take on not only Carroll’s epic rhyme but a ludicrous space and some pretty dishevelled costumes and d…
A monolithic unblinking TV screen sits quietly upstage setting the tone of safe, snug reliability - and that’s what we get but with the added twinkling charm of a man whose act has…
This is fast-moving musical treatment of the bubonic plague of London performed by a bouyant cast of young actor/singers, but the strong and vibrant performances all round are let …
Socks playing guitar.
The Oxford Belles are a small set of seven, performing upon a dauntingly massive black stage but as soon as they burst into song they fill the entire space with life.
A high-octane thundering spectacular neatly wrapped in BacoFoil.
Heath Franklin’s Chopper claims to be the ‘International Ambassador of Hard’.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
Two women, one food queue and one unlikely friendship.
Rash Dash are a theatre company to watch.
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
Dead Posh’s production immediately struck on a winning note before the play had even begun, endearing themselves to hungry reviewers by providing Tunnocks teacakes and plastic cu…
There’s something of an impressive atmosphere even as you queue for Eurobeat.
The Just So Stories, written in 1902, are Kipling’s accounts of how various natural phenomena came about.
An absolutely captivating production of one of Strindberg’s best-loved plays.
Based on the true story of a man who emerges from the sea in a suit with amnesia, who then draws a picture of a piano and proves he can play as a virtuoso, Piano Man is a play abou…
Steve Shanyaski provides an hour of solid laughs; this loveable Mancunian has a twinkle in his eye and a high energy routine that will leave you giggling.
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 …
It is difficult for a fan of Ontoerend Goed to try and compare their output this year with their previous work, and that is mainly because they have little in common.
‘You’re a funny crowd tonight aren’t you? For the first ten minutes I was sure this gig had bombed’.
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Nathan Caton is possibly the most amiable comedian you will ever witness on a stage.
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.
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…
We are in a strange building in an unidentified city, and not even the country is clear.
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.
To say that the audience was full of women of a certain age at Colours of Tango would be slightly unfair.
This is the European debut of Anthony J.
It all started well enough.
It was not wholly surprising to see Footlight’s ex-president David Mitchell in the auditorium inspecting his former outfit in the context for which they are best known, the Fring…
Amongst the many funny moments provided by this trio, the performance I attended also has a side attraction: a mother, unaware the show is 14+, who’s brought along her two daught…
That Tom Binns’ now revered earlier creation, Ivan Brackenbury, has polarised opinion over the last few Fringes is undoubted.
Recursion is a play that explores a plethora of different and fascinating themes, tapping into some intriguing sections of psychology in the process; a man who has lost his memory …
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
The infectious enthusiasm of this comedy duo is apparent from the off, their chaotic get-in generating a fair few belly-laughs.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
In the beautiful St Mark’s ArtSpace, Arash Bazrafshan improvises pieces of piano music inspired by a set of four pieces of art provided by his sister, Roza, which sit next to the…
‘We can’t all overthrow the government through tweets but we can all unbuckle our seat-belts on a plane before they tell us to.
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward have both been celebrated countless times in musical biopics, but this could be the first time that their respective careers and lives have been combin…
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
A recreation, by David Benson, of scenes from Kenneth Williams life, together with episodes from his own childhood.
What a lovely, original and unpredictable show this is.
After winning Best Newcomer at last year’s If.
We’re not seeing the best of Andrew Bird tonight, I suspect.
‘Shelf Life’ is an interactive, site-specific piece which makes use of the labyrinths of the old BBC Radio London studios in Marylebone.
The Ugly Sisters should not work.
At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain.
Take six social misfits with relationship worries, throw them into group therapy, and then you have the basis for Conor Mitchell’s brilliant musical Have A Nice Life.
Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title.
Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play.
I got pulled into this pure wee gem of a show at almost the last minute.
Bounding on stage to the fading strains of Total Eclipse of the Heart, circuit stalwart Mark Olver instantly puts the crowd at ease: this guy knows what he’s doing.
‘Do you like bubbles?’ asks Louis Pearl of the audience, which was mainly comprised of families with small children.
It can be difficult, in a festival crammed with a cappella acts, to tell the talented from the dross.
The Unexpected Items come with great credentials: they are the team responsible for the famous ‘Gap Yah’ videos on YouTube and have a poster covered in recent reviews decrying …
It is incredible how the Internet can expose and produce brand new superstars.
If you saw Stephen Frears movie My Beautiful Launderette, made way back in the mercifully distant days of Thatcherite Britain, or even if youre too young to remember it (like m…
Stephen Schwartz, long before he became famous for Wicked, collaborated with fellow student John-Michael Tebelak to create a highly experimental show that combined the parables of …
The show begins in a Greek restaurant.
George’s Marvellous Medicine had the children in the audience bemused at some points and enthralled at others.
In this UK premiere of Streetlife, French choreographer Lorca Renoux works with an eclectic ensemble of dancers representing the various hip hop dance styles in Germany today.
Sarah Hamilton relates a story drawn from the annals of her family history.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
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…
Its a perennial problem in plays where the actors are continually taking their clothes off: how do they get them back on, or off the stage cleanly between scenes? Theres a lot …
Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects.
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
Theyre sold out until the end of time (well, the end of the run anyway) so its pretty academic if I say that this is the funniest, silliest, campest, rudest, coarsest, most pre…
It is rare that, as a reviewer, to see a show that struggles even to reach the praise of a single star.
I was just about getting weary of anything with The Musical after it when I went in to see this show by StoppedClock.
This is not a prospect faced with every day: a musical journey through the history of the Papacy.
Take a liberal helping of Ayckbourn, add a sprinkling of Sondheimesque songs, stir well with a cupful of Joe Orton, and what do you get? A unique show which pulls the rug from unde…
Simon Egerton is already playing the electric piano when we enter the bar.
It is the school year 2506-7 at Apple Valley Preparatory School.
If reindeer could really speak, what awful tales would we hear? My hackles rose in the lobby when I was confronted with early November shiny baubles and other such Christmas frippe…
How can a full house of adults be entertained for an hour by a couple of grey socks in a tartan Punch & Judy tent? Ask Kev Sutherland, the writer and performer, who returns for fo…
Oleanna is David Mamets unflinching and controversial portrayal of power relations as viewed through the prism of a potentially fraudulent allegation of sexual harassment.
Lick and Chew are a boy/girl duo taking you through a whirlwind series of sketches held together nicely by an underlying travel theme.
Hurt, the theatrical offering from Aztikeria Teatro feels a little all over the place.
I used to know a guy with a small penis.
At the start of this amateurish pub stand-up set, we are told the reasoning behind its name.
The Man Who Planted Trees is a consummate piece of children’s theatre.
In a squat in Edinburgh in the midst of the riots, Miles and Kristy have set up their own little home of pillaged potpourri and Wetherspoons sauce sachets.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a director’s dream.
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
It takes a lot of courage to put on a tribute composed entirely of musical numbers from shows which flopped.
Mod Girl tells the story of a young prostitute’s evening with an older and, as it turns out, psychopathic man.
Three sisters sit in a shop dressing room trying to find the perfect dress.
You can almost smell the testosterone coming off the stage in this raunchy and sexy play, an all-male take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
It takes some pluck to produce, write, direct and star in your own play.
Although Sarah Millican tackles such familiar themes as bras, knickers, her boyfriend, her parents, her vagina (which is no castle) and eating, she invests them with enough South S…
Reduced to one hour, Deadkat productions version of Macbeth galloped through Shakespeares tragedy using light projections and puppetry to enhance their interpretation of the Sc…
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
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…
The first thing that was instantly noticeable about this ensemble was its intelligent manipulation of the acoustics of the St Mary’s Cathedral to create appropriate sounds for th…
Updating Shakespeare into modern dress may be de rigeur, but it takes a lot of nerve to do the same with restoration comedy, much of the appeal of which for modern audiences - and …
Ian Billings was one of the writers behind Chucklevision.
There once was a skinny redhead who wanted to sing in Les Miserables.
Shadow puppetry has delighted people for about 1,000 years and little has changed.
Piazzolla Late proved to be a charming evening of classical music performed by two rising stars of the classical music scene.
Colin Mars put on a brave face for a disappointing turnout.
What did Lloyd Langford want for his birthday? Who knows.
This is Ian Kendalls 18th birthday magic show, having first shared his love of magic with Fringe audiences on the Mound back in 1992.
Smoke rings, remote control candle snuffers, fizzy IRN-BRU and the world’s first steam engine are worth the entrance fee alone.
Longley quickly explains the plan for his show, that he calls A Joke is Just A Joke.
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.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
It was an evening to be remembered for up-tempo tunes mixing Irish, Bluegrass, Country and Folk.
There’s a familiar traditional-northern-comic style about Kevin Dewsbury as he welcomes the audience to the room above the Meadows Bar, mixed with a bit of laddish banter.
So, another year another thousand student companies bringing I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change to the Fringe.
Many comics wouldnt risk starting a show chatting about their hernia, but Tonkinson quickly gets up close and personal with his audience and their experiences.
The thoughtful touch at this venue was two rows of weenie seats at the front that my petit companion Olivia (4) announced she was going to sit in, next to the girl at the front.
Given that I am Welsh and probably genetically hardwired to love close-harmony singing, I do not normally go out of my way to find it.
Starting with a song, Felix Dexter quickly moved onto gags, explaining the slightly racially dramatic title, and covering issues of black stereotypes.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
A concert in a modest and handsome Unitarian church situated underneath the castle sounds like a perfect way to spend lunchtime.
David ODoherty has been going from strength to strength since winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2008, and this show is a total delight.
The history of Edinburgh opens up so many opportunities for brilliant site specific work, which is rarely properly realised.
A new play written by Lou May Miller, a modern take on Pedo Calderon’s ‘Life Is A Dream’ ,finds an early grave in this debut performance by Kudos.
We were repeatedly warned, by the man himself, that Sarfraz Manzoor is not, nor will he ever be, a comedian.
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…
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
I hated history lessons at school - all those dates and names of Kings and Queens, so long ago that they seemed totally irrelevant.
Grit tells the tale of Amy, a girl whose father has recently died in the Middle-East whilst photographing the conflicts.
Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li…
Veterans of the French theatre scene, Vincent Courtois and Pierre Baux, are two rather extraordinary performers and I would thoroughly recommend that everybody watch this show.
The Life Doctor’s vital signs are all there: lights, music, movement and a very talented cast.
Comedian Ian Stone proudly wears his ranking as one of ‘the top ten stand-ups in Britain’ today, and I have to say it is rightly deserved.
Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task.
Stand & Stare Theatre Company create immersive theatre, which is like gold dust for me at the Fringe.
As I took my seat to watch The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, I wondered if the performance could be quite as amusing as its title, and I was not disappointed.
This debut show from Danny Buckler is a resounding success.
If you revel in the musicality of the 1930s, take pleasure in performance poetry or wish to be swept away with some old world charm, then push the boat out and go see this show.
If I were an anthropologist or a linguist I could write a thesis on non-verbal communication through shared laughter.
The host for this chat show is Mark Olver, a stand up who has supported Russell Howard on tour and is the warm-up for such television favourites as Deal or No Deal and Vicar of Dib…
Chris Dugdale is an instantly likeable magician.
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
At theatre festivals there are often two types of show; dark and serious theatre that achieves acclaim, and theatre that acts as the tonic.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
Through Kane’s discussion of procreation, something great is indeed born, and that is great comedy.
Director and singer/songwriter Sarah McGuinness presents Back To Blacks, the eclectic live music and chat show streaming regularly from Blacks Club in Soho.
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Sir Ian McKellen celebrates his 80th birthday with an ambitious, 80-date tour across the UK — stopping off for four very special performances in Edinburgh’s Assembly Hall, the …
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…
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...
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Part animation, part-visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, Everything That’s Me is Falling Apart promises to be a unique comedy show at Edinburgh this year.
We take a look at the intriguing and slightly macabre story of Wendy Weiner's Mystery House at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
After taking on a LOT of research to create their new cabaret show, What Doesn’t Kill You [blah blah] Stronger, Tyler and Erin have discovered some tips on how to survive some pr...
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
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Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei...
Australian comedians Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew made their duo debut at this year’s Fringe as Double Denim, having previously performed as part of Backpack Anorak.
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
Binge Culture are a performance-art group of five that originated in Wellington, New Zealand.
Tucked on the corner of Queensferry Street and Charlotte Lane you'll find the ultra-hip bar and eatery, Foundry 39.
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
In Sarah Kendall: One-Seventeen, Fringe stalwart Sarah Kendall breaks down what we mean when we talk about good and bad luck.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
Glenn Chandler, creator of the legendary Taggart, has become known at the Fringe for his plays exploring different facets of gay life.
Richard takes us just a few steps from Princes Street today for the discovery of Hoot The Redeemer and the wonderful Sarah Urwin serving cocktails.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Modern Life Is Rubbish is romantic comedy about a couple whose love of music brings them together as well as revealing their differences.
Sarah Callaghan returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, with the show, 'The Pigeon Dying Under The Bush'.
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...
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...
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.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
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Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More is the story of a high-society fashion journalist recruited by MI5 to facilitate the abdication of King Edward VIII.
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...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
One Day Moko is a devised solo show following the life of a homeless busker and the characters he meets in his daily life.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
What do you do if you have to have a circumcision at age 27? Well if you’re Dave Chawner, you write an Edinburgh show about it.
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...
He prefers getting up early, likes music and isn't adverse to a man in a kilt. We take Canuck Christopher Wilson on a first date (and we quite liked it).
Iona Lee was born in Edinburgh and brought up in East Lothian.
It’s the late 80s.
Broadway Baby chews the fat with It Just Takes One - something that ought to appeal to any fans of The IT Crowd or The Office.
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
Nye Russell-Thompson invites you to take a look into the mind of a man who stammers in this dark comedy that was nominated for a Total Theatre award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
If the new i360 on Brighton seafront has inspired you to raise your gaze or you’re suddenly feeling the need to quit your job and run away with the circus, then it's time to ch...
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Need something to keep the kids occupied this half-term? Looking for shows that suit parents and kids alike? We’ve trawled Brighton Fringe and discovered some perfect shows for 4...
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
The night Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett smuggled Princess Diana into an iconic gay venue is the stuff of legend.
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
In their companion piece to 2013’s Fringe First Award-winning Dark Vanilla Jungle, writer Philip Ridley and director David Mercatali tell the story of Donny, a boy who has commit...
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 ...
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.
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...
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
Focus people! David Mills returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with brand new, razor sharp rants delivered with his signature cocktail swagger and his biting, acerbic wit.
Real Life Becomes a Rumour asks what three people have really done in their lives. We investigate.
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.
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
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.
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...
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
A regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe from North America, Ian Garrett not only has brought many shows across the pond but also created the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practi...
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...