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.
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…
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
Upon a young woman’s decision to admit herself to rehab, she decides to get back into contact with her estranged mother.
2022 and 2023 Fringe sell-out show.
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act, The Beached Boys return to the Edinburgh Fringe by popular demand for a third successive year! Hear live hits including Surfin’ USA, I Get …
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
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…
Step into the spotlight! We all crave a moment to shine, but what happens when we change ourselves to fit in? Join Hannah for her new hilarious 45-minute show as she navigates our …
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The award-winning comedy trio Bad Clowns are putting on a night of the best comedy acts from this year’s festival every Friday and Saturday of the Fringe, and you’re invited!
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
They’re outrageous, late for school drop-off and definitely not on the PTA! After a sold-out Aussie tour, Gill Cordiner and Nikki Valentine bring you Bad Mums: an hour of hysteri…
The award-nominated, five-star immersive, theatrical whisky tasting from Fringe 2023 is back! Immerse yourself in a captivating journey, as the essence and soul of whisky unfolds t…
After the success of last year’s inaugural event, we return, bigger and better.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
Catherine McCafferty is (Not) That Bad.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people.
Discover Scotland’s national drink! Explore four single malt Scotch whiskies as your guide weaves history, stories and whisky tasting together into an unforgettable two-hour experi…
It is the opening night of the Fringe theatre show The Worrisome Troubles of Timothy Potts.
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.
Alan Bleasdale’s BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF by James Graham Gizza job.
They’re finally coming out! Of their bedrooms! After an excruciating wait, the Boys Gone Wild Podcast (Horatio Gould and Andrew Kirwan) is going live again.
It is the opening night of ‘The Worrisome Troubles of Timothy Potts’, and its director/performer/caterer cannot wait to bring it to life, with the help of his fellow actor.
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…
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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…
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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’…
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.
London stabbings 2017.
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
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.
Remember Family Fortunes? This is like that, but for horrible people.
The big anniversary show, with a glamorous cast of 16, packed with the biggest floor fillers from your favourite music superstars, performed by the biggest showbiz divas in the wor…
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.
Alan Bleasdale’s BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF by James Graham Gizza job.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
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.
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 …
Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, is now in its fourth run and second West End transfer with a brand new cast, and it …
BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up.
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.
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 …
De Beer Theatre presentBoys by Ella HicksonAs they battle the transition from university to adulthood, 4 boys experience the trials of career pressure, real-world responsibility an…
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…
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.
Now in its 14th year.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
Cinderella? Loses a shoe, marries a Prince, blah, blah, blah… whatever! We've seen the story, read the book and endured many a dodgy pantomime version.
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…
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.
Get ready to have your socks knocked off and your heart racing with The Barricade Boys! These four dazzling performers are taking the world by storm with their electrifying show th…
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.
The Unauthorised ‘Breaking Bad’ Parody Methsical.
Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improv comedy to the West End! Fresh from the Fringe, their show features chaotic games, epic scenes, an…
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improvised comedy to the West End! Featuring chaotic g…
Alan Bleasdale’s BOYS FROM THE BLACKSTUFF by James Graham Gizza job.
The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series.
The multi-award-winning Brendan O’Carroll and Mrs.
Join the Arbikie team to learn about their field to bottle whisky production and sample some of their award-winning whisky.
Imagine Margot Robbie mixed with Steve Irwin, that’s Nikki! The controversy queen of Australian TV.
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.
Direct from London’s West End, The Barricade Boys are the UK’s most exciting theatrical vocal group.
Tasteful, melodic, attractive and readily accessible new music for guitar and double bass.
A work in progress from BBC New Comedy Awards finalist Hannah Platt.
Tom Bruce-Gardyne is an award-winning drinks writer, specialising in whisky.
Hannah is a violinist from Aberdeen, Scotland.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
The Good, the Bad and the Irish! has been performing all over the UK, Ireland and Europe for the last 14 years, showcasing only the best in Irish comedy! We’re all about the craic!…
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…
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
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.
2022 Fringe sell-out show.
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act The Beached Boys returns by popular demand to the Edinburgh Fringe.
It’s hard to imagine that any show called, in full, A Shark Ate My Penis: A History of Boys Like Me could be weirder or more fun than it sounds.
Shaper/Caper presents Small Town Boys - a captivating new immersive show, exploring the escapism of queer nightlife during the 80s AIDS crisis through contemporary dance and spoken…
The Good, the Bad and the Irish! has been performing all over the UK, Ireland and Europe for the last 14 years, showcasing only the best in Irish comedy! We’re all about the craic!…
Let’s take the party into 2023 and come join our Party Queens tour with 16 of the world’s most glamorous and beautiful showgirls.
Wendy and Liam embark on a first date both assume is doomed for failure.
Whisky and Witches sees the combination of Danish-born Christine Kammerer’s musical forte with the whimsical storytelling of Jane Ross.
Okay, let’s start at the beginning.
A young man visits his dying father in the ICU and uncovers a shocking revelation: his father’s secret second family.
Funny in any accent, Becky Umbers from New Zealand and Hannah Campbell from Scotland explore how The North/South Divide applies to a myriad of situations, and how misunderstandings…
Having a bad night’s sleep has an effect on your whole day; having not slept well for 30+ years changes the way you see the world.
The Merchants Hall will be open for the complete whisky experience with open tastings and talks about this wonderful industry.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
It’s time.
Join award-winning Brummie comedians, Tal Davies and Hannah Weetman, as they humorously pick apart every aspect of their own, and each other’s, dreadful life choices.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Melbourne-born and based but cosmopolitan at heart, Hannah flies to Edinburgh for the very first time to give you a taste of her funny little bag o’ sketch comedy sweets.
You’re invited: twin orphans, The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party.
After doing his show “You Don’t Look Autistic” for the past few years.
Bad Teacher is a solo show by Erin Holland with contributions from other teachers that follows Holland’s character through a hectic day in the life as a drama teacher.
Have you ever felt judged for not having the right body shape? Not eating the right foods or going to the gym? Our Photoshopped world is not always kind to our feelings of self-wor…
After doing his show “You Don’t Look Autistic” for the past few years.
Get ready to embark on a decadent journey through Scotland’s rich whisky heritage! After a three-year absence, our top-rated, Forbes-featured whisky tasting experience returns to T…
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.
Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt.
Having recently lost his mum, Mickey and his best mate Darren are tired of the little respect they have on their estate.
About the company It is the opening night of ‘The Worrisome Troubles of Timothy Potts’, and its cast cannot wait.
“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…
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Breaking the conventions of what it means to create art, Bad Taste Collective is a safe space where nobody’s final product is the definition of their artistic worth.
During the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Hannah Fairweather was included on Dave’s Top Ten Jokes of the Fringe, The Telegraph’s 20 Best Jokes & Funniest One-liners, The Times 20 Best …
During the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Hannah Fairweather was included on Dave’s Top Ten Jokes of the Fringe, The Telegraph’s 20 Best Jokes & Funniest One-liners, The Times 20 Best …
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.
'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 …
“You see the problem with the quote is that ‘friends don’t ignore the fence, friends help build it back up’.
“You see the problem with the quote is that ‘friends don’t ignore the fence, friends help build it back up’.
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A fast Fringe favourite, Bad Luck Cabaret is a showcase of the best in alternative cabaret.
Boys don’t cry, they just drink beer, get fat, and then get hit by a truck.
Boys don’t cry, they just drink beer, get fat, and then get hit by a truck.
It is the opening night of ‘The Worrisome Troubles of Timothy Potts’, and its director/performer/caterer cannot wait to bring it to life, with the help of his fellow actor.
Comedians Robin Hodges and Dom Kerridge make their full length Brighton Fringe debut with ‘The Bigger Boys’, a split stand-up show/therapy session where two men work through their …
We fed an AI all of the Brighton Fringe listings from 2022, and this is what we got: Robin Hodges is a human being.
Leeds’ hottest alternative comedy cabaret comes to Brighton! Join award-winning sketch comedians, The Lovely Boys and Freddie Hayes, on the big night out of your lives! Present…
Leeds’ hottest alternative comedy cabaret comes to Brighton! Join award-winning sketch comedians, The Lovely Boys and Freddie Hayes, on the big night out of your lives! Presenti…
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Aideen McQueen: Sugar Baby The tale of how a day-drinking primary school teacher changed her life.
Award-winning musical comedian Hannah Brackenbury is putting on her Sunday Finest to present an hour of music & laughter including a special guest act and a quirky collaboration! …
Award-winning musical comedian Hannah Brackenbury is putting on her Sunday Finest to present an hour of music & laughter including a special guest act and a quirky collaboration! …
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.
Liz and Michael are comedians well-known in the worst stand-up spots of London.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back on VICTORIA GARDENS in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
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.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19.
Liz and Michael are comedians well-known in the worst stand-up spots of London.
A brutal and hilarious emotional rollercoaster that follows three women’s struggles, decision making and unpredictable reactions in the aftermath of violent encounters.
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.
'I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me' Father figures and fashion tips.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Work in progress show from BBC NCA Finalist Hannah Platt.
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…
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.
The Queens of Cups draw upon their years teaching in Bad Teacher, a surreal dark comedy about the trials and tribulations a 20-something female teacher faces in the British educati…
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…
For many years the Bureau for Alien Defence has kept the world safe from extra-terrestrial threats.
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 …
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
When two 9-year-old boys kiss in the school playground of a small town, two sets of parents are told to ‘do something about it’ – but neither of them is entirely sure what.
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.
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.
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…
Award-winning and acclaimed sketch comedy double-act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Museum of Comedy for an evening of new and not-so-new material after a three year hiatus.
A brutal and hilarious emotional rollercoaster ride that follows three women’s struggles, their decision making, and unpredictable reactions in the aftermath of violent encounter…
Victoria Amelina will talk about the role of writers and artists who chose to remain in Ukraine after the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24th and discuss her ne…
It’s 1977 and for the first time in Fire Brigade history, a national strike threatens to bring the country to a stand still.
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.
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…
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Big Boys and Friends is a silly lil’ mixed-bill comedy-cabaret from Channel 4’s critically acclaimed Big Boys, comedian Jack Rooke and character comic Jon Pointing.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Do you want to be desirable? Do pretty people have better friends? Let’s look at research on attraction and inspect the Carl Rogers’ famous quote, ‘What is most personal is most ge…
A heated argument and an all-night conversation leaves childhood friends Max and Kieran shaken, with suppressed emotions exploding to the surface.
Charles Maclean has been researching and writing books and articles about whisky since 1981.
The Lovely Boys come to Camden Comedy Club. Do you like boys? Do you like lovely boys? We are doing 20mins of stand up about life and times of being Jewish and being short.
You’ve seen them in their sketches now come and watch a double bill of stand up comedy as Benny and Willy give you their perspective on love life and parenting.
Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald return to the Fringe this year in an act that delivers a whisky-soaked night of tremolo and bass that walks through the annals of blues classic…
Split hour of stand-up from rising stars ‘brilliant.
Tam O’ Shanter, Tales & Whisky is a comic celebration of the gothic poems of Robert Burns.
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Twin orphans The Creepy Boys are throwing their very first birthday party.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
The UK’s leading Beach Boys tribute act The Beached Boys comes to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Bold, glamorous and sassy, your festival favourites are back with their most sensational show yet! A must-see new production for 2022 with plenty of fun-filled comedy and outrageou…
Join Colin (Whisky Forager) every midnight for an extra special flight of three fantastic single malts from his private reserve collection.
Join the Arbikie team to learn about their field to bottle whisky production and sample some of their award-winning whisky.
High-energy Australian sketch-meisters Beak are bringing their fast-paced silliness to Edinburgh (Scotland) but this time, they’re hot! Since touring Australia with our last show �…
Jez, Luke, Gary and Mark are die-hard football fans podcasting about the club they love: Third-division Invercreiff FC.
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…
After a fully sold-out run at last year’s festival we’re back for the show’s 10th year at the Fringe! Recommended as the best late-night Irish show by the Edinburgh Evening News in…
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
It’s time for us to play.
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
The award-winning Irish comic has stayed busier than ever over the last two years! From making one of the highest-viewed stand-up specials in Irish television history to somehow sp…
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…
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…
Boy, you’re an alien.
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
Joe and Mikey are Lovely Boys.
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…
Joe and Mikey are Lovely Boys.
I’m sure we can all remember seeing our teachers feeling the pressure on the cusp of parents evening, and as we’re beginning to realise in light of the unprecedented events of …
Brown Boys Swim is Karim Khan’s hilarious, touching tale of best friends Kash and Mohsen learning how to swim for a pool party.
For years the Bureau for Alien Defence has kept the world safe from extra-terrestrial threats.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Hannah makes her solo debut at the Fringe and she is on the verge in more ways than one.
Chris Cantrill (half of 2019 Dave’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show nominees, The Delightful Sausage) is The Defendant.
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…
The Queens of Cups draw upon their years teaching, in OffFest nominee Bad Teacher.
Plunging us deep inside the mind of a young actor after a very public meltdown, Bad Sex is a character study of a lost boy trying to piece his life together as he navigates the pro…
Following two record-breaking, sold-out engagements, the original West End production of Bad Jews returns to the Arts Theatre in London for 11 weeks only! Set over one night in a M…
Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
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.
For many years the Bureau for Alien Defence has kept the world safe from extra-terrestrial threats.
Everything begins with movement.
For many years the Bureau for Alien Defence has kept the world safe from extra-terrestrial threats.
Everything begins with movement.
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.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
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…
Please note: Boys Will Be Boys will be a rehearsed reading as part of the companies development process for the scriptA group of suburban teens grappling with the anxiety of youth …
Bad Luck Boss Laurie Black is smashing mirrors and screens to summon the best acts in alternative cabaret for your live viewing pleasure.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back at the Brighton Fringe Festival with their most sensational show yet, SUMMER OF FUN! Let’s make Brighton Fringe a “Summer of Fun” with 16 of t…
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back at the Brighton Fringe Festival with their most sensational show yet, SUMMER OF FUN! Let’s make Brighton Fringe a “Summer of Fun” with 16 of t…
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
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.
The Museum Of Yesterday, TomorrowDynamic indoor walking tour comedy theatre: A museum curator from the year 3022 needs your help to avoid the ultimate destruction of the…
Now in it’s 12th year.
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.
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.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
A collection of documentaries that seeks to generate debate around popular conceptions of gender expression, challenging commonly-accepted standards of bodily beauty.
A new play written by Laura Genders | directed by Holden Oak It’s 1977 and for the first time in Fire Brigade history, a national strike threatens to bring the country to a stand …
A new play written by Laura Genders | directed by Holden Oak It’s 1977 and for the first time in Fire Brigade history, a national strike threatens to bring the country to a stand …
A new play written by Laura Genders | directed by Holden Oak It’s 1977 and for the first time in Fire Brigade history, a national strike threatens to bring the country to a stand …
A new play written by Laura Genders | directed by Holden Oak It’s 1977 and for the first time in Fire Brigade history, a national strike threatens to bring the country to a stand …
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 …
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.
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…
Hannah and Erika are two of the most exciting rising stars on the comedy scene.
BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2018 winner, vocalist Hannah Rarity, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after her sell-out appearances at the Acoust…
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
Bad Teacher is a dark comedy about the trials and tribulations a 20-something female teacher faces in a London based Catholic Sixth Form College.
Bad Teacher is a dark comedy about the trials and tribulations a 20-something female teacher faces in a London based Catholic Sixth Form College.
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
We’ve been entertaining audiences all over Europe and Ireland since 2012, with sell-out shows in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moscow and many mo…
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…
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.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
Climb aboard for the trip of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous showgirls (who just happen to be men!) send you soaring to spectacular diamante-dipped song and dance destin…
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Taste four deliciously different whiskies while taking a journey into the history of whisky in Scotland and its profound importance within Scottish culture.
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
SOLD OUT! Join us for the 8pm show live stream on YouTube for free: https://youtu.
From South London, Barbadian citizen Sikisa presents her work-in-progress show about being a work in progress.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus members present a show of solos and duets under the direction of Joe Paxton.
The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Bad Luck Boss Laurie Black is smashing mirrors and screens to summon the best acts in alternative cabaret for your live viewing pleasure.
Joe and Mikey are Lovely Boys.
Joe and Mikey are Lovely Boys.
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.
We all lie to ourselves.
We all lie to ourselves.
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…
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 Lady Boys of Bangkok are back with their most sassy and outrageous show yet, ‘Flight of Fantasy’! Climb aboard for the holiday of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous L…
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back with their most sassy and outrageous show yet, ‘Flight of Fantasy’! Climb aboard for the holiday of a lifetime as the world’s most glamorous L…
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Here Come The Boys features four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’ in a dazzling new production that includes special guest star, Strictly’s stunning Nadiya Bychkova.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
The beloved Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning smash hit musical JERSEY BOYS is returning to London’s West End, opening at the new sparkling new Trafalgar Theatre on Wedn…
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.
Following a sold-out UK national tour, Here Come The Boys, featuring the four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’, is set to transfer to the West End in a dazzling new productio…
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
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.
Nic Dodson Productions, Andrew Kay and Associates and Great Leap Forward presents… An exhilarating tap dancing and beatboxing spectacular straight from a smash hit run…
Direct from London’s West End, THE BARRICADE BOYS are theatre lands most exciting new vocal group.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
Blazin’ Fiddles celebrate 22 years of touring and recording and are delighted to honour this birthday with a string of special performances with special guest singer Hannah Rarity.
Sugar and spice / partners in crime / he-said-she-said / not talking / can’t believe / only joking / why did I / hate you / forgive you / miss you.
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 Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
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.
Diana Diamonte inspires her four boys to explore something we’re all interested in: bodies.
What happens when a crazed madman takes an Edinburgh show and its audience hostage? Packed to the brim with escape attempts, hostage negotiations, and intriguing backstory, the aud…
An interactive show where the audience finds themselves in the hands of three friendly faces of a demonic cult.
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…
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.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Now in it’s 11th year.
1950.
After a 7 year hiatus, Scottish Comedian Samantha Hannah blasted back onto the stand up scene in 2018 by trying to find a husband in a year and writing a show about it&h…
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
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 performance Boys in Sync presents three young men with different archives exploring the concept of masculinity.
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.
Nick is 14 years old.
BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2018 winner, vocalist Hannah Rarity, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after her sell-out appearance at the Acousti…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Charles MacLean has been researching and writing books and articles about whisky since 1981.
The Scottish Gantry Whisky Sessions will welcome you to enjoy some of the best whiskies in the world.
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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.
A show about a Sue Perkins stan who has a life-size cardboard cut-out of the former Great British Bake Off presenter and an unwavering belief that she “will be glad to have someb…
How do you read? Drowning in never-ending email? Rapidly devouring whodunnits, then immediately forgetting them? Perhaps you are seduced by clickbait or read the news and get depre…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A honky-tonk opera by Jo Carol Pierce, ‘the greatest Texas songwriter you’ve never heard of’ (Texas Monthly).
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Is the Big Bad Wolf really bad, or just misunderstood and trying to trigger his muddled memory? Could music or something else beginning with M be the answer? Its a mystery that wil…
In this fully immersive tasting experience, you sample five different whiskies from the very young to the old and rare.
A sensory experience, teaching you how to nose and taste whisky, helping to discover the perfect dram for your palate.
Writer, theatre-maker and creator of cult Edinburgh hit John Peel’s Shed, John Osborne has a new storytelling show about music and dementia.
Bugle Boys wowed crowds at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and are back for more this year.
Come taste and learn about whisky with Blair Bowman, the author of the bestselling Pocket Guide to Whisky, featuring the WhiskyTubeMap.
When a package bound for Good Good Island is mistakenly delivered to Bad Bad Island, the Bad Bads find something frighteningly horrible inside: a little girl named Rosa! Unable to …
A stand-up comedy show with two halves, by two comedians united by the powerful force of convenience.
Robert Graham is celebrating its 145th Anniversary this year and we have organised some fantastic educational whisky tasting afternoons in our atmospheric underground tasting room …
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.
Colt Cabana Is a world-famous wrestler who has wrestled around the world from Dundee to Japan and back including a short, not so successful, run in the WWE as Scotty Goldman.
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.
Brexit, eh? Depending on your point of view and when you are reading this, Brexit is a triumph/success/step forward/minor improvement/non-event/problem/mess/shambles/disaster.
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 …
Those dazzling divas are back, ready to party, celebrating being 21 with The Greatest Show Girls Tour! So let’s hear it for the boys as they transform into 16 of the world’s mo…
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
Nestled in New Town and overlooking Princes Street Gardens and the Scott Monument, The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant makes for a very pleasant spot for enjoying Afternoon Tea whil…
Jamie ‘an engaging presence’ D’Souza and Chelsea ‘good gags’ Birkby (Chortle.
Two young women from different sides of Dublin city attending the same festival meet in the girls' toilets (always the best place to make new friends) and strike up a connectio…
Discover a world of flavour on an expert-led guided tour at Edinburgh’s only single malt whisky distillery, the first in the capital for nearly 100 years.
If you’re ever feeling stressed or exhausted by the craziness of the Edinburgh Fringe, just remember this: the Lunar God Nallagog loves you, and he wants you to join him on his g…
Critically acclaimed, maverick of the Fringe and victim of The Luke McQueen pilots (BBC Three) returns to perform his fifth solo show.
An hour of non-stop nonsense, original music and uncomfortable crowd work.
In 2018 Samantha, ‘one of the funniest ladies on the planet’ (RemoteGoat.
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…
Beyoncé’s Diva is blasting out as we wait for London Hughes to arrive.
Sleeping Trees are silly, funny boys.
Edinburgh Fringe – and let’s be honest, the comedy world in general – is saturated with male comedians.
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Noise Boys, playing at the Assembly at George Square, is an exhilarating evening of tap, beatbox and music that you and your entire circle of friends can’t miss.
It’s hard to make a comedy about the murder of 45,000 women but Holly Morgan does just that, and then some.
The Crown Dual is a play within a play.
Subverting the Saturday night staple, meet Maz, Jo and Dee: three women on the wrong side of 40 – your chat show hosts.
We’ve been entertaining audiences all over Europe and Ireland since 2012, with sell-out shows in Holland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and many more.
Shakespeare for Breakfast is a great show to start your day… and that’s not just because of the complimentary coffee and pastries!It’s the 28th year C theatre have put on a S…
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…
Yorkshire’s finest Myra DuBois has tragically ‘died’ but on the upside, she’s invited you to the greatest funeral you will ever attend.
Joe and Mikey are lovely boys, they want to show off their jumpers, and play with their toys.
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.
The Beach Boys return to London for two nights at the Royal Albert Hall in 2019.
What do we feel, what do we show, what do you see? We are throwing ourselves headfirst into exploring this question; with a cast of young men of colour, sharing their stories, the…
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
Stoph Demetriou’s Grandfather was raised on a peasant farm, left school at 11, fled a war in his home country and became an active member of the communist party be…
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.
The Brighton Beach Boys and Psychedelic Love Orchestra recreate The Beatles classic of 1969, ‘Abbey Road’.
Stand-up comics Blake AJ and Adam Flood unpack the funnies in an hour-long show split between them.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
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 …
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…
Inspired by ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ and the podcast ‘My Dad Wrote a Porno’, ‘Sh*t Scripts: Bad Manors’ is a larger than real-life script written by Annie’s ex-boyfriend Zach whe…
John Osborne is a writer known for his poetry and his popular Edinburgh show John Peel’s Shed.
Mammy’s Boys are back in town.
The Brighton Beach Boys turn their laser-sharp gaze towards this classic of 70s Rock.
An interactive (work in progress) experience in which the audience find themselves in the hands of three friendly faces of a horrific, demonic cult.
Award-winning Oxford research chemist Peter Rook is a stickler for scientific detail.
Stoph Demetriou is a comedian and actor with issues (shocker).
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…
Come and see James McDonnell; “A breath of fresh air” (We Love Brighton) and Ben Carter; “A force of Nature” (Chortle).
Join ‘Bad Aunts’ Maria, Jo, and Donna, three women on the wrong side of forty (or so they’re told), for their sitcom chat show, subverting the Saturday night staple.
There are some predictable events in Brighton and Hove; a seagull swooping down on your lunchtime sandwich, sequins on the beach after Pride, and the Ladyboys of Bangkok strutting …
Bad Bat Productions presents ‘The Future Boys’ – a science fiction audio sitcom by Steve Jordan (Terror Tales, Doctor Who).
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
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.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
BOYS Single Launch Take It Or Leave It.
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…
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine comes another hilarious, heartwarming tale of animal misfits.
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 …
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 …
Bad Manners formed in 1976 whilst still at school.
BUGLE BOYS wowed crowds at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and will be back to town with CHRISTMAS CRACKERS! Frocked up to the nines in faux military costumes, these three …
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…
It’s a matter of days before Benny, Mack, Timp and Cam have to move out of their student flat.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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.
Toxic masculinity is blamed for everything from the #MeToo movement to rates of male suicide.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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…
Billed as part cabaret, part wannabe warehouse rave, my expectations were prepared.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Like a piano player in brothel or a chanteuse at an orgy, Sabrina Chap is the fallen woman of cabaret.
Hello! I’m Charlie Miller, and I was in Budgie the Little Helicopter.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Sports and sex.
Pete wants to keep The Burnt Part a shrine.
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.
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.
Nature versus nurture? Are villains born or bred? Can they ever find true redemption? Theater OCU explores Shakespeare’s most villainous characters – Macbeth, Iago, Aaron, Tamora…
A Whisky Masterclass with the legendary Charles MacLean.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The nation has never been healthier.
OK.
Each evening we will be performing our sultry cabaret which includes three free samples of either whisky or gin in your free shot glass as we inform you how whisky and gin are made…
The scores are in.
Grace comes home to find a crime scene in her living room.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Our Boys exquisitely showcases life on the battlefield from the setting of an army hospital.
You first descend into a low-ceilinged basement.
Fringe first for this unique, entertaining, interactive single malt experience, featuring a taste of Scotland’s best gastronomy at Cannonball.
Uncork the champagne! Dress to kill! Party like there’s no tomorrow! Celebrating 20 diamante-decorated years, The Lady Boys of Bangkok Wonder Women Tour will take the Fringe’s nu…
This is a highly original one-man show – a combination of acoustic guitar and light-hearted verse touching subjects as diverse as vanity, marriage, safaris, demolition, ambition,…
Before The Spice Girls, before The Supremes.
The award-winning sketch duo is back to bring their trademark high-energy nonsense to a variety of news topics.
In association with Bar Brig, and after four sold out tours in Europe, The Good The Bad and The Irish return to the festival for our eighth year! Join host Michael Porter as we sho…
Last year Gadsby won every major live comedy award.
What happens when a crazed madman takes a comedy show and its audience hostage? Find out in the Bad Clowns maddest show yet.
‘Brilliant’ ***** (Sydney Morning Herald).
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Ever wondered what happens when nice manners go head to head with a Russian gangster? In a fusion between theatre, comedy and cabaret, James McLean is a one-man theatre company and…
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.
Grace comes home to find a crime scene in her living room.
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…
The Lisa Richards agency present a week of top stand-up comedy! Each night, two comedians will perform their new work-in-progress shows.
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 …
“Pint-sized vixen” Laurie Black (Rogue Romantic, Briefs Factory Sweatshop) returns to the Spiegeltent to taunt the gods of bad luck and smash some mirrors - metaphorically! Joined …
Doktor James is sick of living at home and not being taken seriously as a super villain.
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
Fired in the kiln of the Free Association’s long-form improv training, this band of reprobates have become regulars on the London improv circuit and have been 3-time champions at t…
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.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
The Brighton Beach Boys perform The Beatles ‘White Album’.
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.
What happens when a crazed madman takes a comedy show and its audience hostage? Find out in the Bad Clowns’ maddest show yet.
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…
Laurie Black’s back in town to taunt the gods of bad luck.
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
Celebrating 20 diamante decorated years, the Lady boys ‘Wonder Women’ tour takes the UK’s number one cabaret show to a new level.
The award-winning sketch comedy double act are back with a brand new hour! Expect loud fast nonsense.
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…
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…
Fun, goofs and sadness are all a part of life, and this fringe show written and performed especially for boys. And also people who are not boys.
“like something straight out of a Tarantino film.
Laurie Black is back to taunt the gods of bad luck to bring you the best in alternative cabaret! Joined by a variety of performers including music, comedy and cabaret, this is a gl…
Dance, theatre and comedy are fused into a great big hilarious wonderland that you can’t resist! Take a wild ride on this rollicking adventure that unleashes the untamed inner w…
Sean and Darren went to the same primary school in Ireland and now they’re both tellin’ jokes in Australia.
What’s that? Something’s coming and it’s going to shake things up, you say? Well, you’ve had a premonition.
“She notices it bubbling at the bottom of her stomach.
Exploring subjects that affect us all: body image, bullying, photoshop, exercise, selfies, diets, weight, beauty treatments, photoshop.
Join performance poet Joseph Coelho, winner of the 2015 Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award, as he unwinds the true stories behind the happily ever afters and discover they…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
The Barricade Boys showcase some of the world’s finest male voices from the West End, International Tour and Hollywood movie of the world’s longest running musical - Le…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Ukrainian playwright, Natal’ya Vorozhbit may be one of the few global voices for a conflict many of us seem to have ‘forgotten’, as though the Russian intervention happened…
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.
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.
This isn’t a comedy show, it’s raw storytelling.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
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.
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.
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.
Join the 18th-century’s wildest nuns as they act out the story of their Mother Superior: a young lady forced to don increasingly ridiculous disguises to seduce the same man over …
Mark Watson asked a range of top comedians: ‘what is your bad idea? What show would you like to put on, but never dare?’ Now, one a night, they attempt these projects.
Winner: 2017 Best Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Unless you’re already a fan, many people are put off by the idea of drinking whisky.
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’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A harrowing and bitterly funny new play about Ukraine at war – seen through the eyes of the women fighting, reporting and enduring the conflict.
Sherlock Holmes, whisky lore, and a wee dram in a haunted venue! Join Scots whisky expert Charles MacLean and Sherlockian author/expert Bonnie MacBird as they talk history, murder …
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
Glamour, glitter and girls - The Lady Boys of Bangkok is a fabulous collection of performers who lip sync and dance to feel good songs opening with Gloria Gaynor’s First Be A Wom…
A black comedy dealing with complicated lives, loves and buried secrets.
Ever wanted to drink whisky, eat cheese, chocolate and scotch eggs while cruising along a canal? Well now you can! Scotch Egg Club brings you a Whisky tasting with a difference, wh…
What it says on the tin.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Multi award-winning stand-up and absolute mess Harriet Kemsley has survived another year and returns with her best show yet.
Everyone has a crazy family.
Imaginative, imbalanced and imbecilic sketch duo Dirty White Boys are proud to present a brand-new show for 2017! The boys bring their trademark fast-paced idiocy to a whole new se…
A Scottish malt whisky tasting in the historic Captain’s bar.
Muriel (Janine Harouni, Meg Salter and Sally O’Leary) are multi award-winning actresses and comedy performers.
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…
Cameryn Moore has made a name for herself as one of the Fringe’s great taboo busters, especially on the subject of sex.
‘Men are from Earth.
Winner: 2017 Best Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Actor-comedian Chris Dingli comes to Edinburgh for a limited run of his hit one-man comedy, Bad Dad, ahead of a US tour.
This is Aunty Donna’s fourth Edinburgh Fringe, they have a huge following and return as popular as ever.
Join a small group tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four Scotch whiskies.
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.
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 father returns home with a magical cloak.
Too fat? Too thin? Never exercise? Gym crazy? Addicted to diets? Hate how you look in the nude? Then this musical revue is for YOU! It’s a riotous evening of fun, flesh and f…
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
What to wear to a cabaret show where the dress code was “dress for the end of the world or the beginning”? Sorry, my supernova outfit is still in the laundry.
Imaginative, imbalanced and imbecilic sketch duo, Dirty White Boys, are back in Brighton for their 3rd year running; presenting a brand new show for 2017! The **** pairing bring…
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
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.
The spectators are early, her lover is late, and the players are due any minute.
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 …
Muriel Comedy, creators of viral videos ‘If Tube Lines Were People’ and ‘The Great British Political Bakeoff’ bring you their offbeat brand of peculiar characters, political satire…
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
Captivating harp duo, 94 Strings, is a collaboration between Sussex-based harpists Alexandra King and Fiona Hosford.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Everyone has experienced the dreaded ‘bad day’ where nothing seems to work out.
From the slapstick physical beginning of this self-penned one-man monologue, through to the show’s philosophical conclusion, the laughs come thick and fast in Bad Dad.
Hotter, cheekier, funnier than ever: the country’s number one touring cabaret show The Ladyboys of Bangkok return with a Bang in 2017 with their lavish new production ‘Who Runs the…
Everyone has a crazy family.
Chigger Foot Boys is an intoxicating cocktail of love, duty, death and dominoes.
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…
Mark Gatiss stars in this strictly limited West End transfer of the first major revival of this iconic play in two decades.
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…
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From BBC Radio Scotland’s Breaking the News, ‘Scotland’s brightest comedy talent’ **** (Sun), this is a must-see for 2016.
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.
Fraser and Ian Bruce (Mrs Bruce’s Boys) released three albums in the 1980s and appeared at festivals, clubs and concerts in many countries.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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…
Exclusive Scotch whisky tasting presented by member of the Keepers of the Quaich society, Ronnie Berri and whisky ambassador, Alister McDermott.
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.
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.
Prospero Theatre have decided it’s their turn to roll out a dark retelling of a well-known fairy tale, showcasing a unique-ish take on Little Red Riding Hood, with their producti…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Based on the Frank Wedekind play of the same name, the musical Spring Awakening tells the controversial story of a group of young adolescents trying to deal with the tumultuous pro…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
As an Edinburgh based act performing in the Edinburgh Fringe there’s always going to be a certain level of expectation from the local crowd.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This is no ordinary birthday party.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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.
Global sell-out show 2010-2015.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The bagpipe is about as intrinsically Scottish as you can get.
Cinema screening of live performance.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Come to the College’s spectacular hall to be shocked by our seventh Fringe event.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
Cinema screening of live performance.
One of the primary aims of The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten, an opera for children, is to demystify the genre to a younger generation.
It didn’t take me long into this show to realise two things: that this as clearly a piece of community theatre and should be recognised as such and that there is clearly somethin…
Your chance to meet our whisky ambassador and learn about the history of whisky.
LITTLE BOYS are award-winning improviser Alexander Fox and Oxford Revue president Jack Chisnall in a new surreal double act.
It’s no secret that a lackadaisical approach to dental care leads to fillings and gum disease.
As the Melbourne Ska Orchestra marched their way down the middle aisle of the theatre, carrying and playing their instruments and shouting through a megaphone, I knew I was in for …
Cinema screening of live performance.
Hailing from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas, The Shadow Box is a reflection of the stages of grief, represented through a series of linked vignettes and monologues.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Often described as a ‘Polypill’ against a variety of illnesses and diseases, is exercise really the elixir for health? Can exercise prematurely wear out your joints? Does excessive…
Morningside Malcolm’s daughter has married into a family of Glasgow gangsters.
Welcome to Dreamform.
Energetic, exotic, eclectic and completely unpredictable; those glamorous Lady Boys are ready with a dazzling new production of the country’s most popular cabaret show.
It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
The work of playwriting powerhouse Ella Hickson has always been connected to the Edinburgh Fringe, since her debut show Eight premiered there in 2008.
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…
Something of a misnomer, Bad Shakespeare does not reflect the quality of the acting or of the performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Combining clownesque joy with jaw-dropping skill, a quartet of multi-talented virtuosos escapes the critical eye of their instructor and embarks on a musical journey from Tchaikovs…
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
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…
Over the past few years, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland haven’t failed to impress me with their performances at the Fringe and this year is no exception.
I attribute quite a lot of my adult personality to my love affair with girl power and how swept away I got in all things noughties.
Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group return with sketches, jokes, songs and a big bag of hammers.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group return with sketches, jokes, songs and a big bag of hammers.
Written by John and Gerry Kielty, Confessions of a Justified Songwriter takes us on a journey through the creative processes and struggles of writing music when chasing that elusiv…
As yet undiscovered comedians, Chazz Redhead and Jack Robertson love making jokes almost as much as they hate each other.
Laurie Black taunts the gods of bad luck in her first ever show at the Fringe.
It’s always exciting to witness the world premiere of new writing, especially when it’s a British born production.
As soon as Stuart Mitchell entered the room, I knew I was in a safe pair of hands.
Is Russ Peers a bad gay? He’s chunky, over 40, and knows more about pies than poppers.
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…
Serge Gainsbourg in sequins brandishing a flick-knife; Duane Eddy brawling on with the Shangri-Las; Connie Francis fresh from juvy hall with only vengeance on her mind.
I have binge-watched six series of RuPaul’s Drag Race on Netflix and I love drag queens.
I’m a lover of musical theatre but I’m prepared to be really honest here: the genre is crammed with suitable material for a hilarious and even brutal send-up.
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
Join a fun and informative walking tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town, followed by a tutored tasting of four single malt Scotch whiskies.
This is an entertaining and informative tasting, aimed at those who would like to improve their knowledge of whisky.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
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.
Astrid Wentworth is ruthless.
A group of Sixth Form boys in a Comprehensive School in Sheffield set their sights on Oxford and Cambridge.
Stars of CBeebies’ ‘SpotBots’, The Three Half Pints ***** (ThreeWeeks), present a slapstick misadventure for the whole family! “Your cheeks will hurt from smiling so much” **** (Br…
Brighton-based musical comedian Hannah Brackenbury performs silly songs on the themes of pound shops, vodka, selfies, tiny horses, cake, country music, cats and more!
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…
Brighton Beach Boys with the Psychedelic Love Orchestra present Pet Sounds vs Sgt Pepper.
After having a splendid time in their debut year, Dirty White Boys have returned with a selection of brand-new material.
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.
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
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).
“Scotland’s brightest comedy talent” **** (The Sun) presents his hilarious and hugely anticipated debut.
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.
Ascending the back stairs of the Marlborough to be greeted by the towering and magnificently coiffed Dr Sharon Husbands, doesn’t quite give an accurate taste of what follows.
This was my first close encounter with the Lady Boys; I’ve never been to Bangkok, but I’ve seen The Hangover II.
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…
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
It’s a Wednesday night in March and the UK tour of Jersey Boys has reached its final destination: the Edinburgh Playhouse.
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…
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…
Following sold out runs at the Ustinov Studio in Bath and St James Theatre in London, the Theatre Royal Bath production of Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews transfers to Lon…
Mark Vigeant and Yoni Lotan take over this music space for their high-energy monthly comedy show, during which they promise to “sing, dance, give out candy and loudly s…
THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES BROADWAY MUSICAL ABOUT FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS Now a Major Motion Picture! They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first not…
Dan Fox, Ian Stroud and Mark Vigeant are the Trumpet Boys, three brass-playing comedians who work their instruments into this hilarious night of sketch comedy as the trio records a…
It’s 1988 and Brandon is embarking on his Senior year at St.
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…
Mark Vigeant and Yoni Lotan are hosts of this boisterous comedy show who promise to “sing, dance, give out candy and loudly shout at each other.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Fledgling theatre company Open Letter were immediately onto a winner when they chose Ella Hickson’s recent hit Boys to bring to the Fringe.
By the Bi is a show that offers to tackle the heady subject matter - of the difficulties of being bisexual - head on.
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.
This is the first year of the ‘iF Platform’ – a new showcase featuring the UK’s top disabled artists and integrated arts companies.
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.
This show brings the arts of dancing and paper folding together in an exploration of how the two mediums can unite.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
This play within a musical aims to show us what life as part of a touring company is really like.
It’s 2015.
The title of [Title of Show] tells you quite a lot about what you need to know! This musical, within a musical, within a musical writes itself as it plays out.
Low fidelity musical based on the horror-romantic comic saga by Davide Toffolo with the songs of Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti, the popular indie band with the skull masks.
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…
Ross Wilson of Blue Rose Code has gone through quite a transformative journey in the past 18 months.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
One of Scotland’s best-loved comedies.
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…
This two-person dance and physical piece is performed and choreographed by Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel, a male-female duo who have worked successfully both separately and toge…
This is the seventh year that producer and curator of dance Jodi Kaplan has brought the variety of American dance to the Fringe with this “festival within a festival”.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
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 …
Kursk is a play attempting to offer real insight into the life of a submariner and the pressures and realities of life below the sea.
“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.
Roaring Boys makes a welcome and very successful return to the Festival Fringe this year adding a further chapter to its interesting history.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
Closer Than Ever is a revue musical wherein each song takes us to a different scenario within the complex theme of love and relationships.
Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is being presented by The Kinkaid School of Houston, Texas, as part of The American High School Theatre Festival.
Limbo is a pretty hot ticket this fringe.
Uncover the linguistic layers of a Russian doll! Hear yourself in Nastya Rybachuk’s contemporary, provocative and witty verses.
201 Dance Company’s Smother sets out to do something very exciting.
Discoteque Machine, brought to us by Gianmarco Pozzoli and Alice Magione is a morphsuits show.
This one-woman musical show sets out with a pleasant and watchable enough idea.
Deciding to paint Ukip leader Nigel Farage as a troubled “anti hero” in a cleverly sarcastic musical romp was always going to be a bit of a treat.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a show centered around just that; children taking part in their local spelling competition.
Now running for just over 17 years and seen by one million people, the Lady Boys are most certainly back in town and after all these years you would think it would be hard to keep …
Billed as a rom-com, Bear Hug looked to be a pretty safe bet for some laughs – described as a story about how coming out is easy but how getting back in is harder.
The breakdancing robots (B-bots) have landed in Edinburgh and they’re being chased all over town! Can the B-boys and B-girls of Edinburgh use their breakdancing skills to help the …
Glasgow based Royal Conservatoire are now in their 11th year of performing in the Fringe with their masters level students and Urinetown is one of this year’s offerings from them.
An all female cast takes some of the classic soliloquies and scenes from Shakespeare’s work and deliver them in an almost cabaret, review format, with the addition of new contempor…
This show has the kind of title that gets you feeling excited right away.
Pretty self-explanatory, really.
With current situation in Calais, the rise of UKIP, depressing rhetoric used by politicians to describe migrants, this play could not be staged at a more fitting time.
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-…
The Addams Family is an updated take on the iconic family of twisted misfits that brings the story forward from where it left off.
“Shout! The Mod Musical” has an exclamation mark in the title, which inevitably garners a certain level of expectation: you want explosive energy and a load of volume.
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
Sixty episodes.
Balletronic has a name that intrigued me from the get-go.
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…
Out she comes, toes pointed, slim legs scissoring the air, arms pressed stiffly to her sides.
Fifty minutes of the classic Rat Pack numbers with a full swing orchestra, bringing a little bit of that onstage banter that the trio are known for, and adding in the two Burelli s…
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
When Breaking Bad came to an end at season five, everyone thought that this would be it for the franchise.
(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.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
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…
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…
No quotes.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
The hottest, funniest show this side of Bangkok.
This Mafia-themed comedy is best suited to small stages; here, most of its laughs are swallowed up by a large space, leading to a lackluster show (1:40).
On 5th February 1941, during heavy gales, the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.
Even the greatest of parties end with the hangover of cleaning up afterwards.
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”.
Shaina Stigler and Natalie Wall have assembled this weekend conference in Brooklyn to address underlying sexism in the comedy industry, with panels and many excellent lineups for s…
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
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…
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…
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.
Members of this sketch group from Los Angeles present a live show, during which they’ll preview the second season of their IFC sketch show.
The stand-up Giulia Rozzi’s one-woman show recounts her ill-conceived decision to marry young despite the fact that her “cold feet” never quite warmed up.
1914 - The dawn of the Great War.
Greyfriars Kirk was the perfect setting for this Edinburgh based choir’s return to the Fringe after sellout shows in previous years.
In the 1993 family film “Free Willy,” a boy bonds with a captive whale before helping him escape to freedom.
Green Snake, brought to the Fringe by the National Theatre of China, promises to be a modern take on a old Chinese myth.
The concept of YOLO or You Only Live Once for those of you who aren’t in the know about these kinds of things, has been a trendy phrase for the past couple of years.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
I Am The Wind not only plays with these idea of meaningful space but relies upon it.
The true story of a father, reimagined by a son.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes is the inspiration for this in-house created musical which sees the return of Shrewsbury and Severn Opera group to the Edinburgh Fringe.
“She wasn’t abnormal.
One of the best things about dance is that it can transcend the boundaries of language or culture.
Sixty Episodes in 60 Minutes.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
This is not for everyone.
Little Giant Theatre Company presents a commemorative adaptation of true stories from the Great War in honour of the centenary.
Shakespeare in Song attempts to bring the works of Shakespeare to life using songs from through the centuries and chosen complimentary verses.
Seated Reservations’ description as a “one act comedy play about life, death and coffee” doesn’t raise expectations sky-high, but I was very quickly converted by the fast-pac…
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.
With The Three Peaks, the Dunnington Players explore not only the three peaks of Yorkshire but also what can happen to us over the course of a year.
Telly Box is a difficult show to describe: a bombardment of amusing ideas and parodies that take the form of a Sunday morning television show.
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
Momma was a Bad Mutha’s flyer touts it as ‘the universal story of a young girl’s untimely coming of age amidst her momma’s weekend house parties.
Gilbert and Sullivan musicals aren’t to everyone’s taste, and could most definitely do with an injection of a more modern approach.
A historic mining village in the North East is under threat when Superco want to open an EnormaStore on land that has been inherited from an old miner, George.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
Scotland is the ‘sick man of Europe’.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
Whisky for Dafties is a mostly derisive overview of Scotch whisky history and appreciation from whisky-swigging Scottish stand up Alan Anderson, complete with whisky tasting, non…
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
The break-dancing robots (B-bots) have arrived in Edinburgh and they’re being chased all over town! Can the B-boys and B-girls of Edinburgh use their break-dancing skills to help t…
The premise of this devised piece, championed by Director Alex Hargreaves, is to break down the usual comforts of viewing horror in a cinema and instead bring the story to a place …
Following huge success at last years Fringe, LCP Dance Theatre return this year with an extended version of this multimedia dance performance.
No Fringe is complete without the inclusion of the Lady Boys, who return to their Edinburgh home – for what could be the last time – under the Sabai Pavilion on The Meadows for…
Wellington College make their return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with the wacky jukebox musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.
Soldier Box is a new play brought to this year’s Fringe by New Celt Productions, a company that amalgamates the talents of both Queen Margaret and Napier university’s recent grad…
The writers and performers of Bonded by Blood could have possibly struck gold with having me there to review the show.
There’s no way to review this show without first admitting that the title does half the job.
“A girl.
One Man Breaking Bad is impressionist Miles Allen’s attempt to squeeze 60 Breaking Bad episodes into 60 minutes.
A light-hearted introduction to the making and distinctive flavour of Scottish malt whisky.
Informal demonstration on Scotch Malt Whiskies in one of Edinburgh’s oldest and most historic pubs.
There are no actors in this show.
Off The Curtain is described as an ‘East-meets-West’ one-woman show, using a mixture of storytelling, acting and poetic narrative.
‘The mindless monotony of routine in the workplace’ is how Blue Moon Theatre describe the show that they have brought to this year’s Fringe.
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
An Irish showcase, bringing you the best in Irish comedy!
The idea of a comedy play that’s centred around something we are all really familiar with at the moment - ‘listicles’ - is quite intriguing.
Braz Dos Santos has quite the tale to tell.
Australian award-winning comedienne and author of the successful Australian television art doco Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, Hannah Gadsby is back this Edinburgh Fringe with a fresh batch…
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
Apphia Campbell brings an all-encompassing presence to the stage during this solo performance.
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.
(performances begin on Wednesday) As director of Public Works at the Public Theater, Lear de Bessonet has been known to corral more than 200 amateur actors for a musical version of…
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Established in 1959, Dutch dance company Nederlands Dans Theatre strove to break away from the expectations and traditions of ballet.
Sexual infidelity, internet cruelty and secrecy - how much should one tell and how much should one hide? Queen of psychological crime and prize-winning poet Sophie Hannah in conver…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
The Wine and Whisky Comedy Show definitely encourages the room to drink, although wine and whisky may be the only thing that keeps the comedy alive.
Bonny Boys are Few is a multimedia storytelling performance of wonderful depth and colour.
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 Ladyboys of Bangkok is all hyped up.
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 …
The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected is a comedy panel game where the audience helps decide who’s good, who’s bad and who’s unexpected.
Jersey Boys, the internationally acclaimed hit musical, tells the remarkable rise to stardom of one of the most successful bands in pop music history.
Nighttime.
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…
It’s not hard to be cynical.
Imagine trying to get somewhere in a hurry, when all of a sudden you get stuck behind someone who’s walking painfully slowly.
As anyone who’s ever been involved in any kind of show will know, they’re not easy things to put on.
Given the title of this show, you might have been expecting action, adventure and plenty of pyrotechnics.
Angus: Weaver of Grass is an unusual and beautiful production that weaves together music, puppetry, and mask into a visual and aural spectacle.
The word I would use to describe this production is ‘intricate’.
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
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…
This is a strange addition to the Fringe programme - and I’m not talking swastika-straddling naked physical theatre or radical juggling Shakespeare revamp.
The Booking Dance Festival is a self-titled ‘dance festival within a festival,’ and their annual Fringe showcase certainly offers the opportunity to experience a smorgasbord of…
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…
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
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.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
Scotland’s version of Peter and the Wolf is an enchanting tale with a lot of heart.
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…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A truly Scottish experience with a dram of Highland Single Malt whisky from Glengoyne.
The Les Clochards combine high-jinx, cheeky-chappy, faux-Francais, ‘Allo ‘Allo, theatrics with a level of musical inventiveness and professionalism that can only have come from…
Is there any better way to spend an afternoon than sitting in a wood panelled, beautiful, archaic board room, sipping on an array of expensive, high class, tasty beverages from aro…
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.
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 …
Bennets Bar, as it has been my delight to discover, is one of Edinburgh’s best-kept secrets, stocking and selling only the finest malts from across the world.
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�…
No Edinburgh Fringe is complete without the inclusion of the Lady Boys, who return to their Sabai Pavilion home on The Meadows for another season with a new production, Glamorous A…
There were many moments in this show where I really wanted to enjoy it.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Exactly what it says on the tin. Only in Edinburgh baby! Special guests each night. Bring your own matches! Adults only!
I really wanted to like this show.
Torsos, buttocks and breasts were bountifully put on display in Hannah Gadsby’s comic art history lecture.
Waiting in the Summerhall lobby, three other people and I are greeted by a smiling American in chunky glasses who takes us downstairs.
This is a show about a man living on his own in an isolated arctic base listening to whale song.
There’s one astonishingly effective scene of violence in this show.
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 .
The food’s great in Edinburgh, isn’t it? You’ve got all those stalls selling gourmet hot dogs and falafel, every venue has its own cafe - I’m even sitting in a coffee shop …
This is a show that is sumptuous to look at: the atmospheric lighting, projections of blue skies and clouds, the dancing, the synthetic 80s glamour which pervades the set and costu…
The Jocks and Geordies is a show that has found an audience.
The opening of Solfatara prepares you for something atmospheric - a bit creepy, a bit strange.
Shall I compare this show to a summer’s day? I wouldn’t call it lovely or temperate.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
The strains of, ‘Ali Bali, Ali Bali Bee’, belt out from the PA as the cast tap their feet along with the rhythm.
Magical comedy theatre.
Mixed Doubles is billed as ‘An Entertainment on Marriage’ and so it is, specifically marriage grown old and a little bit stale.
For many, a stand-up show themed around the worst moments of a performer’s life sounds like the least comedic thing imaginable, but Hannah Gadsby’s show is nothing if it is not…
A first-class, provocative sketch comedy performed by the trio Bad Bread, full of amusing anecdotes, Glove Contractually kicked off with the Proclaimers’ ‘500 Miles’.
Remember those Choose Your Own Adventure Books, where you got to pick what happens at the end of each page? Nathan Penlington does.
You know that uncle you have who doesn’t know when to stop talking? Who assumes you’re interested in every conversation he had with every person he spoke to today and thinks hi…
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
James Whiteaker is a train announcer who has never been on a train.
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
‘Oh yeah! Harder! Do it to me!’ Would you eavesdrop on your neighbours’ sex life? It’s hard to not be a little curious about what other people get up to.
Ah, the classic boy-meets-overcoat tale.
This is already a popular show: the queue outside the venue stretched halfway down the street; once inside, the less punctual audience members were scanning the crowd for a single …
This gig is a total surprise – just what the Fringe should be.
Bad Play is almost becoming a permanent fixture on the Fringe, this being the fourth outing for this frenetically paced absurdist comedy.
I didnt know what to expect from a show with the title Naked Boys Singing.
The Fringe cliché about performing to an audience of two men and a dog is every company’s nightmare.
What is a Ladyboy exactly? How different the founding principle of The Ladyboys of Bangkok is from any old drag show you see in Brighton.
This show is really fun: three performers in some barebones theatre - ultimate Fringe style, nothing but a black box - telling a comic version of Treasure Island.
We are warned at the beginning of this show that audience interaction is imminent.
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…
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…
It’s nice to get out of the manic hustle and bustle of the old town during the festival, so it’s with welcome relief I went to the Theatre Workshop in quiet and leafy Stockbride to…
Taking us through a short history lesson in marriage and art through the ages, Hannah Gadsby’s show is stand-up comedy with a little social, cultural and even educational twist.
Lewis Schaffer’s schtick is that he is an ex New York Jew making his way in this strange foreign land and hating every minute of 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.
The Fringe Festival may be the home of the new and outrageous but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some classic hits as well.
This is a one man play that has already enjoyed a considerable amount of success at some festivals throughout the UK.
I approached “Big Boys Don’t Dance” with trepidation.
Mick Foley has a hardcore fan base.
In this free one-woman show, Clara Lilly shares a string of stories collected from ten years of hitchhiking.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
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…
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
The Old Spice Boys make their debut on the Fringe with a fun show that will get your toes tapping to swing, jazz, reggae and blues rhythms.
There are three productions of Alan Bennetts wonderful play in Edinburgh this year.
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.
In the second floor of a pub off Grassmarket, a sweaty singer belts out peculiar variations on show tunes from Oliver! This is Oliver Pissed, as presented by The Sensational Alex S…
The Bane trilogy - a one man tribute to film noir and American gangsters featuring hitman Bruce Bane who ‘always gets his man’ in a series of perilous exploits - is a cult hit …
Alan Bennetts play, The History Boys, is about a group of eight history pupils in a Sheffield grammar school who are preparing to take their Oxbridge entrance examinations.
This show marks the 164th anniversary of the visit Chopin made, beleaguered by illness, to Edinburgh in 1848.
Power corrupts, whether you are a totalitarian dictator or a comedian trying to win over a room of comedy-hungry punters.
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
As the Lady Boys left the stage in a flurry of flashing feathers I questioned whether I may have accidentally taken some kind of hallucinogen.
The bright lights and cheer of the festival suddenly seem a distant memory as we step into the eerily lit entrance hall of the University of Edinburgh Anatomy Department in Grid Ir…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Peter Pan as your friend? Have you ever questioned what made the witch in Hansel and Gretel so inconsiderate? If you have, this…
In Working the Devil, dance collective Dog Kennel Hill Project present two courses of stylistically contrasting dance that explore the world of work from differing perspectives.
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.
In this show, Hannah Gadsby takes us through an art history lecture covering the developing representation of the Virgin Mary in Eastern and Western art since the 3rd Century AD.
After taking a break in 2011, Jo Caulfield returns to Edinburgh for her ninth solo fringe show with a deliciously witty and razor sharp routine.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
Twice Total Theatre Award-nominees You Need Me tackle heavy subject matter and live up to their reputation for creating evocative physical theatre in this highly-charged drama, wit…
As promised in the blurb, In-Transit Dance Company deliver a fast-paced and energetic dance performance, to the degree that at times the onstage action is almost dizzying.
Away from the battlefield, one of the most challenging aspects of war is displacement.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
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 …
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
Acclaimed choreographer Jean Abreu, returns to the Fringe in collaboration with Jorge Garcia, following the success of last year’s Inside.
The clinical, modern lecture theatre of the Symposium Hall, undoubtedly one of the less atmospheric fringe venues, is rather at odds with the style of this show.
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…
I’m not convinced there’s still a place for The Lady Boys of Bangkok anymore.
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
This full house was eager to be entertained by a certain caped crusader.
Socks playing guitar.
In Snails and Ketchup, Glasgow-based Singaporean Ramesh Meyyappan tells the dark tale of a dysfunctional family through solo mime.
This show is comedy flying by the seat of its pants: not exactly improvised, but certainly thrown together.
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…
William Luce’s dramatisation of the life and times of nineteenth-century poet Emily Dickinson, draws directly and extensively on excerpts from Dickinson’s own works and letters…
Fringe theatre is often about taking risks, so you have to applaud Croft Vaughn for the bravery of his one-man show in which he plays a nine-year-old boy up in his attic with an ov…
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 …
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.
There are no tickets for The Good, The Bad and The Extra-terrestrials but every audience member is presented with a cowboy hat and a toy revolver to get into the spirit of things.
In a story that’s somewhere between Mrs Henderson Presents and The Full Monty, Boys In The Buff tells the story of Diane Diamante (Faith Brown), the owner of a failing seaside thea…
Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play has a script that dazzles, full of wordplay and witty one-liners.
Meryl O’Rouke is worried about being a bad mother.
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
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.
For this production the songs of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are stripped of their high-energy content and reinvented as cabaret or musical theatre.
As soon as Andrew Doyle came on stage, donning rubber gloves and attempting to do unsightly things to a cuddly toy, I had a feeling things weren’t going to go very well.
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.
What a joy and a rarity it is to see a cross-generational cast of performers, ranging in age from 28-78, share the stage in dance theatre of this calibre.
What lengths would you go to just to taste a dram of whisky? Would you beg for it? Steal for it? Endure an hour of atrocious comedy for it?These are the questions you must ponder b…
According to the women of Greenham, sex is power, sex gives women leverage and sex makes men vulnerable.
Diane Spencer bursts onto the stage and within seconds stuns the audience into shocked silence with her new show Exquisite Bad Taste.
In a venue with no natural light, these two shine.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
If there’s one theatre company that can claim to have built an episodic comedy-of-errors at the Fringe, then it’s The Trap.
When in the first ten minutes of the show there have already been several jokes about vaginas and a song essentially about paedophilia, it quickly dawns that few sacred cows are go…
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…
Finch is in emotional turmoil.
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…
I’ve lived in or near Brighton for decades now.
Somewhere in this show there is a turning point.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
The six-strong cast of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein Dance vividly captures the extremes of excitement and loneliness associated with mobile communication and online social media in…
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
The old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’ is not one that Hannah Ringham subscribes to.
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.
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…
Pat Burtscher has more charm than sense.
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.
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
All Marvellous can hear are the sounds in his head and the music in his heart.
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…
American gospel voyages back to its African roots in this compelling collaboration between two of today’s greatest world music groups.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
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.
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.
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.
Hannah Chutzpah is a performance poet, writer and activist.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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...