Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, sees comedy’s ‘angriest optimist’ return for a hilarious, honest, and mostly historically accurate, exploration of …
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.
Amy Gledhill – Triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, National Comedy Award nominee and 1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage – returns with a brand …
Against all odds and filled with heaps of chemo Janey Godley returns this autumn.
Against all odds and filled with heaps of chemo Janey Godley returns this autumn.
Amy Gledhill – Triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, National Comedy Award nominee and 1/3 of cult double act The Delightful Sausage – returns with a brand …
CALLING ALL THE LADIES, GAYDIES and THEYDIES.
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
Who saw the Queen’s Bahookie? Which castle had an annual rent of one red rose? Which maiden was most feared by Scottish aristocrats? Which job is worse – turnbrochie or pigeon-…
The Some Laugh Podcast returns to the Fringe with Scottish comedians Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson having some laugh – or at least some laughs – discussi…
Kenneth starts his first day and manager Chris has big plans for the McGonagle Tavern: clean the place up, serve gourmet dishes, but above all else make the place a stylish and tra…
Why do we as humans lie? It’s in our nature, is it not? There’s a whole host of justifications, like not hurting someone’s feelings, protecting others, giving the illusion of…
August 1815.
Camilla is obsessed with stories, great stories, the greatest stories ever told.
Rosie Holt, the desperate and loyal Tory MP, famous for her viral twitter “interviews”, celebrates the launch of her new book as she explains to you, the British public, why the so…
Eric Davidson’s Amazin’ Prime Parodies (26 Songs to Make the Whole World Cringe).
When it comes to relationships, Shinanne is all about the D.
Amy Gledhill – Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, National Comedy Award nominee and 1/3 of cult double-act The Delightful Sausage – returns with a brand-new show about self-confid…
Learning a second language can change the way you use your first.
This new play by Michael Bryceson focuses on the relationship between a dying father and his son, Charlie.
A surreal journey about reconciling with grief through the natural world.
Bea visits her grieving friend Olivia in her ceramic studio.
Late at night at the corner store, your card got declined again.
Reeling in the midst of a family tragedy, Cleo Harris sits in a hospital waiting room recounting the key events and core relationships in her life that led to such a lonely and aim…
Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724.
A collage style devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene, this personal meditation on the climate crisis explores the beauty and inevitability of imperma…
Welshman Robin (as seen on Mock The Week) returns with a hilarious brand-new show.
Living.
Blood spots on my duvet.
The harbinger of rock’n’drole returns to the Fringe with his eighth must-see show.
A long-running staple of Edinburgh’s Fringe, The Really Terrible Orchestra return with their most ambitious programme of barely recognisable “music” to date! Will they finish Schub…
The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is both beautifully simple and yet complex to convey.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even …
More jokes from the UK Comics’ Comic Best Act winner Mark Simmons (Mock The Week), whilst taking a break from his sold-out national tour.
Return of the 2022 and 2023 hit show.
When there is no one left but a handful of the human race, what keeps them going? Are we hardwired to self-destruct or can we find something that unites us all to survive and thriv…
Somewhere, on an island, Gael, a gecko-like creature lives alone, in harmony with the surroundings.
A queer adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years presents an emotionally charged musical following Jamie and Cathy as they fall in and out of love over their turbul…
Joe and his wife want to have a baby.
A funeral you can’t keep your inappropriate self from laughing through: this one-person show is a love letter to the humiliating experience of becoming a grown up, and the way gr…
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
Dolly’s forlorn.
A stand-up show from a Geordie powerhouse comic that’s been doing it for 32 years.
Dive deeper into popular melodies of murder and mayhem in our original musical.
At 30, Nicole finally found out why she was like this (spoiler: it’s ADHD), but four years and one diagnosis later.
Does cancer change you? Jane was adamant it wasn’t going to change her.
Come join the University of York’s premier sketch troupe for another fantastic show of absurdist sketch comedy.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
Get a sneak peek of the upcoming new musical based on the cult-classic film, featuring an original score written by Riki Lindhome (Netflix’s Wednesday).
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
Sexy, camp and nepotistic.
A young writer is forced to face Death, his ego and his dying, critical mother after getting stuck in a play of his own creation.
A comedy storytelling show about sobriety, impulse control, and growing up from acclaimed comedy veteran Matt Davis (USA).
An Alice in Wonderland parody magic show! Come be part of the magic! Las Vegas magician Jordan Rooks combines magic, comedy and storytelling into an unforgettable time! Jordan’s un…
Warning: Dark comedy zone! Enter at your own risk! Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping…
Revealing the man behind the myth.
Designed by best-selling historical author and multi award-winning novelist, Jan-Andrew Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Teachers know the feeling all too well.
Durham University’s premier sketch comedy troupe is turning 50 – cue the mid-laugh crisis! With the big birthday bash looming, will the troupe conquer their 50th fears, or will t…
The award-winning, 7th highest rated comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 returns! When disaster strikes in Gary’s brain, it’s up to his brain cells to try and fix everything.
Andrew Silverwood will be alive on stage in a dead man’s shirt (don’t worry, the man doesn’t want it back).
In Leni’s Last Lament, which swept top awards at the United Solo Festival, Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, attempts to sanitize her past.
Fifth year on the Fringe! Join our comics as they battle it out, creating comedy from any thought you have.
When Terence Hartnett found out that his testicular cancer had spread to his lung, he got out his notebook and started writing jokes.
Shiny Things is a comedy variety show hosted by a delightful and mischievous duo, presenting guest acts performing improv, character and stand-up, as well as audience prizes, and a…
A storytelling odyssey through art, contemporary politics and twentieth-century history, told in Chris’s signature style: satirical stand-up meets art lecture-demonstration.
After a complete sell-out run in 2023, the Scottish comedian and viral sensation who has 50+million views online is back with a brand-new show or even a brand-new Joe.
An emotionally raw blend of memoir and song, Tracey Yarad’s All These Pretty Things is a phoenix rising from the ashes story, taking the audience from Australia and the fallout o…
The Last Laugh sees three legendary comedians – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse – sitting in a dressing room, discussing the secret of life, death, comedy and wh…
It’s the EURO 2020 Final at Wembley and Billy’s gone viral for sticking a flare up his arse! Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England is a blisteringly funny new play that return…
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show.
Nominee: Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer (2019).
100 years of television in one hour.
It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level.
Begins with the history of dating from dance halls and slow sets to modern ‘apps’.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out six years running.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
After touring the world and making a hit TV show as part of musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, Emmy-nominated actress, comedian, songwriter (and new mom) Riki Lindhome explore…
When his mother was diagnosed with cancer, Ricky was faced with a question: Is now the right time to come out? After rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Ricky Sim returns with t…
‘American labour icon!? Ridiculous.
While everyone’s settling down – marriages, mortgages, motherhood – Jo’s busy doing all the naughty stuff she’s yet to try! From clubbing with Gen Zs (she’s the hype-girl keepi…
As seen on The One Show (BBC One), BBC News, BBC Scotland.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Comedy’s angriest optimist returns for a hilarious, honest and mostly historically accurate, exploration of space travel, his totally insignificant place in the universe and how …
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard.
We all want to meet people from history.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
Minor Characters, Major Problems Step aside, Prince Hamlet, for this is the tale of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two hapless minor characters who find themselves thrus…
An exploration of the power boat-racer, war hero and one of 20th century’s boldest queer figure.
In the spirit of airing her dirty laundry in public, Bonnie Oddie tells her story of becoming “A bad mother and a bad daughter at the very same time”.
Joe Burkewood (Shortlisted for Brighton Fringe Best Newcomer) is a drug addict, that no longer takes drugs.
Amy wanders around her old dollhouse.
The year is 1916.
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Hypothetical and a number of apps on your phone.
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* Terrible people is a new stand up comedy show from comedy award finalist Jane Postlethwaite (Cumbrian / LGBTQI+ Stand Up Comedian) Ter…
My BF Wouldn’t Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don’t Regret It) is a brand new, gay rom-com about a neurodivergent queer man and his obsession over a window found in a thrift sa…
My BF Wouldn’t Buy A Stupid Window (Why I Did and Don’t Regret It) is a brand new, gay rom-com about a neurodivergent queer man and his obsession over a window found in a thrift sa…
After his 2018 sell-out run Join Ben Carter for ‘How to Approach People and Make Friends (Volume II)’ as he desperately attempts to boost his social circle, whether dressed as the …
Robin Morgan (as seen/heard on Mock The Week and The News Quiz) works up a brand new hour ahead of a nationwide tour.
The apocalypse as you’ve never seen it before - undead on stage! Audience suggestions are used to recreate a lost zombie movie where anything could happen! Blending fast-pace…
EEEEEEeeek! Experimental Performance Cabaret ‘Things That Go Eeek in The Night’ is coming from London to Brighton Fringe !!!!!!! A night of risky silly stupid sexy performance by…
Finlay and Joe are tired.
Emma was having the time of her life.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
When life feels like a test you didn’t study for, and you’re feeling as useful as an understocked mobile library, climb aboard Tanya’s dilapidated ‘fun’ bus as she navigate…
A BDSM Comedy Show.
After decades of procrastination, comedy writer Steve Parry (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Live At The Apollo, Gladiators, I’m A Celebrity, Love Island) has finally turned his back on the gl…
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Set in the head office of TPL inc.
You don’t get many second chances in life.
I AM MORE THAN supports women in the city who are experiencing homelessness, to use their creative voices to tell their communities who they are and that they are not defined by ho…
The Aid Fundraiser Presents Mark Dolan (MC) Adam Buxton Sindhu Vee Rhys James Nick Helm Simon Evans Arthur Smith Matt Richardson The Trussell Trust.
A woman has entered the chat.
The Hole.
The SpidersOld is the Web we WeaveCornucopia Jones Wants You to Succeed!Even You Could Have It All All The Spiders - Dermot Doyle The Spiders is a musical about large …
Amy Johnson had her ambitions and she flew at them.
Combining striking visuals and physical storytelling with dynamic projection and a resonant soundtrack, Ad Infinitum’s new non-verbal solo show explores a powerful journey of lov…
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre.
For one day only on 12 December 2023, Theatre Royal Drury Lane plays host to My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, featuring a 40-piece orchestra …
ALJO Entertainment presents a brand-new play from Mitchell J.
BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN… Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries.
The Edinburgh Fringe sensation transfers to the Bush for its first London run.
‘Bestselling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023’ The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns to the West End, fresh from a record-breaking sell out run at the Edinbu…
An original musical comedy about life, love, and wanting a dog.
It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out.
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
Robin Hood by The Three Inch Fools, presented at The Actors' Church as part of their Theatre in the Garden Summer Season.
One of the magpie people is here. Though there’s no point in searching for him. He’s going to tell you stories. But he won’t tell you if they’re true.
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns for his first month at the Fringe since 2016.
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
Christine invites you to enjoy JS Bach’s expressive, contemplative Cello Suite No.
Come and see student sketch comedy groups battle it out for the ultimate prize, power.
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
Have you heard that the three most stressful life events are bereavement, moving house and divorce? Well, funny story.
Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds.
Man down! Celebrated Scottish comedy legend Raymond Mearns has only gone and had a stroke and had to cancel his Fringe run….
The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring.
Impeccably written theatre with a biting comedic edge; SLT is an intimate hour of storytelling from your most charming, albeit dysfunctional, friend.
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
One fateful night, Tyler and Sam meet at a train station in the South of England.
One fateful night, Tyler and Sam meet at a train station in the South of England.
What’s the point? Don’t apply logic.
Part stand-up, part autobiographical theatre, Dead Inside is a rollercoaster ride through the hilarious topics of cancer, suicide and whether it’s possible to overdose on potatoes.
Our new young conductor is nearly as old as the orchestra.
Every show starts by asking the audience: Why can’t we have nice things? What are the little everyday niggles that irritate you? Does your flatmate squeeze the toothpaste from th…
Janey Godley is still alive by popular demand at this year’s Festival Fringe for one night only after her record-breaking Scottish tour and can’t wait to be back doing what she…
Nothing is stronger than female friendship, except maybe the pressures of adulting.
As seen on HBO & BBC, Dian Cathal brings you a new comedy hour about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us.
As seen on HBO & BBC, Dian Cathal brings you a new comedy hour about the best and worst of the Millennial Generation & how Pokemon ruined us.
All new and all Jew.
Andrea Burke-Bottom is a former alpha wife and boss babe, who took the pledge to become a traditional wife to avoid upsetting her husband’s floundering masculinity.
Join the Some Laugh Podcast live at the Fringe! Award-winning comedians Marc Jennings, Stephen Buchanan and Stuart McPherson have some laugh – or at least some laughs, discussing…
Andrea Burke-Bottom is a former alpha-wife and wannabe trad-wife.
Following double Fringe First winners (The Believers Are But Brothers; Rich Kids – A History of Shopping Malls In Tehran), the final piece of Javaad Alipoor’s trilogy is an inves…
“Who just sits and waits?” Nate and Quinn take residence in an abandoned warehouse to await details of their next job, just a phone and each other for company, wiling away the time…
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Conservation and comedy collide in this hour-long improvised play about endangered species.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
A performance from acclaimed composer/songwriter Gareth Williams, lyrically transforming iconic final pages from Scottish fiction into brand-new ‘literary chamber pop’ songs.
Ever wondered what would happen when Girl meets Ghoul? Aubury has the worst job in the underworld – training ghosts.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
After a completely sold-out Edinburgh 2022 run and her biggest tour to date, Grace returns with her hit show, A Show About Me(n), with some brand-new material never heard before! T…
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
New York-based comedians and writers, Liz Goldblatt and Matthew DuBois, deliver fresh and personal takes on sexuality, language, and religion.
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
Have you seen Hamlet? Of course you have, don’t worry this isn’t really that.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
‘I am Hamlet.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
Dead of Night by Hurly Burly is a traipse through gothic romantic literature in an exploration of the nature of humanity and monsters.
Two Russian artists in exile reveal the cruelty of Soviet life with a good dose of dark humour.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
Looking for a way out of their humdrum lives in the outskirts of Glasgow, straight-laced Sean, fresh from dropping out of uni, and the gallus Daro, overflowing with charisma and bu…
Accidental enemy of Mother Teresa.
Written by Kira Mason and directed by Matthew Attwood, Graveyard of the Outcast Dead is a musical play that tells a series of connected Gothic folktales.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name.
The harbinger of rock’n’drole returns to Edinburgh for the seventh time with his unique brand of axe-wielding wordplay and silliness.
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Moira’s back in this Fringe First-winning sequel.
‘Why do I speak English??’ I have been asked this in an accusatory manner.
The title, Dead Man’s Suitcase, doesn’t give much away and even at the end it’s a little unclear what the message of Felix Westcott’s musical is supposed to be.
An insane mixtape of silly songs, stupid sketches and crazy clowning! For over a decade the award-winning Listies have toured the world doing shows for literally gazillions of kidu…
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
There is secret connection among all of us.
There’s been a mix-up in the weekly appointment with her Sanatorium psychiatrist.
The play follows Billy, a young man whose love of football is the dominant feature in his life, religiously attending every match day without fail.
Do you misplace your glasses so often that you now have six pairs so you aren’t trapped inside and half-blind? How often do you have the brilliant idea to paint your nails five min…
Coming back from their five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022, the Dead Ducks are an incredibly talented sketch comedy troupe from the University of York.
The only stand up comedy show at the Fringe with jokes, stories and a definitive list of my favourite smells from last year.
Feel like life is getting you down? Ian Stone will make it better.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
Loudmouth Eve Ellenbogen will tell you pretty much anything, unless you ask about her dead mom.
Patrick has many dead friends, which is a huge bummer.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Did Cerys cause their parents’ divorce? Did they just make that interaction really awkward? Is a new year’s resolution ever going to be enough to fix their personality? In this sur…
This new translation by Illya Khodosh of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic novel, Dead Souls, follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as …
Why aren’t you rich yet? Why are people at the top nowhere near as smart as you? Nearly award-winning comedian Stanley Brooks (Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023) is he…
“The primary school teacher vibes don’t end here,” Sasha Ellen jokes lightheartedly at the start of When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.
Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping for air.
With such an emotionally heavy title as An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People, I was a little worried what to expect from this comedy show.
Join Brigitte Aphrodite on a wild literary road trip, celebrating Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) through punk poetry, songs, and stories.
This new translation by Illya Khodosh of Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1932 adaptation of Gogol’s classic novel, Dead Souls, follows the exploits of Chichikov, a social climbing conman, as …
Winner: Best Comedy, 2022 (Hollywood Fringe).
An uproarious and uplifting improv party, with prizes, songs, a clown and plenty of chaotic hilarity, not to mention the UK’s top improv talent making it up as they go along.
Rising stand-up star Freya Mallard is back with a hilarious work-in-progress stand-up show A Little More Conversation a Little Less Action Please, after her sold-out Edinburgh run …
Fresh from a TV appearance two years ago, Joe Sutherland returns with a brand-new PR strategy.
Jack is an unashamedly stereotypical left-wing, working-class, socialist comedian.
With only one ticket sold on opening night last Fringe, ‘it was every good thing it should be’ (Kate Copstick, Scotsman).
The apocalypse as you’ve never seen it before - undead on stage! Audience suggestions are used to recreate a lost zombie movie where anything could happen and anyone could be zom…
Robin’s first solo show was a disaster, but a disaster that ended with him punching a melon with Vernon Kay’s face drawn on it before singing Mustang Sally (still no cruise shi…
What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy.
Following the success of last year’s show, comic songwriter Liz Cotton is back.
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
50% Bristolian.
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
Tired of explaining his nationality to a crowd, Pierre Novellie has filled his new hour Why Are You Laughing? with a discussion on topics as distinct and unconnected as British dri…
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
The Doktor is back! With even more science! More laughs! More Kaboom! Spin the wheel and choose what happens next.
The apocalypse as you’ve never seen it before - undead on stage! Audience suggestions are used to recreate a lost zombie movie where anything could happen and anyone could be zom…
What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by …
UK Theatre Award Nominee 2022: Best New Play.
Multi award-winning Ad Infinitum (Odyssey, Translunar Paradise, Ballad of the Burning Star) returns with a breathtaking retelling of the Trojan War.
Winner of Best Comedy Weekly Award four years in a row at Fringe World, and Perth Critics Choice award, Joe was also selected as one of the top six comedy shows to watch with Ameri…
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean skipping-church-because-you’re-too-hungover bad.
As Adam Kay closes in on becoming a household name, he is evidently an Edinburghhold name, packing out the prestigious Pleasance Grand to brimming point.
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
Glaswegian comedian and popular Twitch streamer Rosco McClelland enters clad in a denim biker vest and a spider’s web tattoo coning one elbow.
The Last Living Libertine is the debut hour from John Tothill as he tries to dissect our attitude to life and prove that techno music is the true expression of human spirit and the…
Finlay and Joe are tired.
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which is now 20% more stupider than ever before.
Comedian Mamoun Elagab will not kiss your ass.
In a world with only one gun, one man stands in the way of world peace.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
As Robin Tran walks on stage, she greets us with a warm smile and soft voice.
Award-winning comedian and bibliomaniac, Robin Ince, takes audiences on a celebratory tour of the places books can take us, and of the ideas that can make wonder and widen the sky.
There are things that are visible and invisible in this world.
National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and multi award-winning novelist, J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest hist…
Monologues from beyond the grave.
Monologues from beyond the grave.
“My name is Harun Musho’d.
“My name is Harun Musho’d.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
1916.
Six Strangers.
We all want to meet people from history.
1916.
Six Strangers.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
Think you know the story of Robin Hood? Think again.
The myth of Robin Hood has been told and re-told through the centuries, and in the oral tradition, each storyteller has put their own spin on the tale.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
7 Years after it's first tour, Luke Adamson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama about Alzheimer's is being published.
The universal love story. Where you fall in love with someone for the first time but also for the last. Four Actors, cast live, whose story will you see?
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The very last splash of magic and sparkle this season with some of the amazing acts of our Spiegel family, including spots from Sassy, Head First Acrobats, Cabaret Continentale and…
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
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Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe festival for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in th…
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 …
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
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An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work In Progress) For the first time, internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great (‘lights up the stage’ -The Scotsman) br…
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
Two Jakes do not make a right, but what they DO make is a right good laugh! One Welshman and one Scouser join Jake & Jake for an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy.
Two Jakes do not make a right, but what they DO make is a right good laugh! One Welshman and one Scouser join Jake & Jake for an hour of hilarious stand-up comedy.
How far would you go for love? What would you be willing to change?A fast-moving and thrilling piece of theatre set on a college campus in small-town America.
Andrea Burke-Bottom is a former alpha-wife and wannabe trad-wife.
Andrea Burke-Bottom is a former alpha-wife and wannabe trad-wife.
Joe Orton’s Last Laugh is a fresh take on the fraught relationship between the celebrated writer Joe Orton and his aggrieved partner Kenneth Halliwell.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Monologues from beyond the grave.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Monologues from beyond the grave.
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
Part stand-up, part autobiographical theatre, Dead Inside takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the hilarious topics of cancer, suicide and whether it’s possible to overdose on…
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
Part stand-up, part autobiographical theatre, Dead Inside takes you on a rollercoaster ride through the hilarious topics of cancer, suicide and whether it’s possible to overdose on…
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy.
Jim Bowen! Joan Collins! Carol Smillie! Are they dead.
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
A work-in-progress hour of live comedy taking a leftfield look at all walks of British society from a revered scholar of hood philosophy.
Jim Bowen! Joan Collins! Carol Smillie! Are they dead.
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
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Seasoned mavericks, Matt Rudkin and Rikki Tarascas team up to perform their most iconic works in a deft double bill of pitch-perfect satire.
Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman teams up with acclaimed musician and singer, Joe Stilgoe, in a vibrant and entertaining potpourri of classic songs and wit, highlighting Joe…
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
Jody Kamali: Things we do for love 50% Bristolian.
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
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 …
50% Bristolian.
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
We fed an AI all of the Brighton Fringe listings from 2022, and this is what we got: Robin Hodges is a human being.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
In Schalk Bezuidenhout’s I’ll Make Laugh To You, the fun and games start before the show does, introducing us to his subtley pointed sarcasm before launching in a self-deprecat…
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Ida Barr is a former star of the British Music Hall.
What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy.
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What does it mean to be a terrible person? Why do we think these horrible things about ourselves? Joe is struggling with therapy.
Join Ben Carter and Joe Bunn two of the UK’s limpest forces that have been proper melted together for one hour of entertainment.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Glenda & Rita are two actresses from the Golden Era of cinema, immortalised in black & white and struggling to find work in this brutal, unforgiving technicolour world.
The silver starlets are back with a sequel to their ‘side-splitting’ show ‘Sing The Movie Greats’ with even more songs from the silver screen! From the award-winning musical comed…
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
For one night only, the iconic London Palladium welcomes a star-studded cast in the gala concert performance of an extraordinary new musical ‘AT LAST, IT’S SUMMER&rsquo…
“The Passmore Edwards Legacy: The Man Who Built Libraries and Much More” - a talk by biographer Dean Evans on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth.
OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE.
Filthy, fun and downright delicious.
Letters To My Dead Mother is a one-woman, “autofictional” show about grief.
Recently bereaved, Paul is haunted by visions of his deceased wife Marie.
Tension and comedy come together in this historical drama centred on David Lloyd George, where family dynamics provide much of the intrigue, and no one is who they seem.
The dilemma of settling for Mr Average in order to fulfill the dream of being a mother is something that so many women face.
Janey Godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best! Ja…
Janey Godley is ‘still alive, by popular demand’ with a brand-new show for 2023 and can’t wait to be back doing what she does best! Ja…
Are you ready to Twerk Out with your Dollars Out?! JuiceBox Presents London’s Award-Winning Womxn-Led LGBTQ+ Strxptease Experience.
A one-woman comedy musical about Post-Natal Depression.
In a remarkable follow-up to the Canterbury Tales, ancient vampire Geoff Chaucer presents his new collection, accompanied by live music from his lobster-themed band, ‘the Crusty As…
A Woman uncovering letters and photographs from her ancestors suddenly asks herself - “My Dead…Do I really know them?”
Been crying into ya SAD lamp and on the bakerloo line just to feel ya toes? Well worry no more lads, lasses, ENBY’s and beyond, cos LoUis, and his talented pals will give you the f…
Myths, mystical music and a magpie.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fi…
A theatrical comedy meta horror multimedia experience - this show has all the adjectives and more! A desperate actor seeks a friend to be the ‘reader’ for their self tape.
Shauna Carrick Wants A DogGirl Wants Dog.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
The Last Incel A woman has entered the chat Imagine If You Will.
Gary is in an accident and his condition is worsening by the minute.
To put it in perspective, the formative years of millennials have had: The US and UK in the longest war since WW2 The worst recession since the Great Depression Nazis are back Russ…
According to google Eva’s boobs weigh the same as an average newborn baby and that’s quite a weight to have on your back, metaphorically, and physically.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
Writing a positive review is quite difficult without using hyperbole, and in the spirit of Pierre Novellie’s Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things, it is prudent to at least attempt to…
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
It’s our last shout of 2022 at Dalston Superstore this 10th of December.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t fly a plane. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show.
A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t…
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café.
Mirror, semen, manoeuvre… HAM THEATRE bring their award winning play to The Bridge House Theatre - a fast paced comedy with bits of physical theatre, music and singing, set …
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
Mixing survivalism with psychoanalysis, Dave Bain’s Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse is a fractured and confused trip that leaves us with more questions than answers.
Like most dystopian stories, Simon Perrott’s Everybody Wants to Rule the World has a basis in reality which forces us to reflect on the issues of today.
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
Stories! One magical night with the best solo theatre makers and storytellers in the Fringe, nay, Britain! Nay, the world! The Last Thursday Club is a London institution so Fringe …
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
He’s Dead is a dark fantasy choreography asking the unanswerable question: Was Tupac depressed? This conceptual group work uses dance, live action and sound to unearth the unspoken…
Self-described musical genius James Love and his sequin-clad showgirl wife Stephanie have been married for 12 years.
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
Because Grindr hookups never quite go to plan.
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
Extra 10:15pm show added due to demand! World-class stand-up from live comedy’s internationally acclaimed Irish master.
Star of The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2), Netflix’s Flinch, Live At The Apollo (BBC Two), Tonight at The London Palladium (ITV), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Play To The Whistle (ITV),…
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
Spend a relaxed hour with Australian living legend John Bell, as he rummages through his swag of favourite things, fishing out poems, stories, backstage gossip: things he finds ins…
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
The rapidly ageing minor national treasure from Taskmaster and so on, begins building on the success of current show, This Can’t Be It by taking the first steps towards a new one.
‘Perspectives.
A one-woman show about Leda, an actor struggling to make it.
David and Emma arrive at work on Christmas Eve – the only two people in the office the morning after the Christmas party.
This show brings the comedian who played one of Father Ted’s most loved characters Father Damien Lennon (Father Damo) to the stage with stand-up and musical comedy, interspersed …
We live in a crazy world of fear and anxiety! But don’t worry, Dr Theatre is here to solve your problems in a show packed full of fabulous musical theatre songs with all the answ…
Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have.
In this cabaret exploring body standards in the entertainment industry, Abby Rose Morris details her experiences as a plus-size performer while dismantling the ever-present cultura…
The Really Terrible Orchestra has survived covid and reappears like a butterfly from the chrysalis.
Following three culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs, this bafflingly entertaining late-night comedy extravaganza returns to the Fringe for a fourth hammer blow.
Wing It Musical Theatre, by arrangement with Nick Hern Books, presents the following amateur performances: Georgia Christou’s Bright.
Enjoy some adult comedy entertainment with Shogun Joe and The Vagabonds as they complete their 2022 summer touring schedule at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
Chortle Student Comedy Award winner Joe Kent-Walters and runner-up Sam Williams join forces to bring you an absolute home run of a comedy show, covering two bases: stand-up and cha…
The harbinger of rock‘n’drole returns to Edinburgh with more guitar-wielding wordplay and silliness.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
A stand-up show to make you think: ‘Maybe I’m not doing so badly after all’.
Joe is not a “person with comedy”; he’s a comedian.
A stand-up show to make you think: ‘Maybe I’m not doing so badly after all’.
Watch 13-year-old Ahan Dasgupta make his debut with Feynman on Why Do Magnets Attract? Immerse yourself in an afternoon of monologue and drums, as we try to answer this probing que…
At the beginning of 2020 Joe Bates (BBC Radio 4Extra, Chorts 2021 finalist) started taking anti-depressants to check if things in the world were as bleak as they seemed or whether …
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name.
Award-winning comedian and activist Kate Smurthwaite takes one last long shot at saving us all from global fascist-led environmental Armageddon.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
A shameless ode to desolate puppy-love in all its mundane, absurdist glory, featuring toads, sperm-banks and carrots.
Let’s talk about sex, maybe? Or, maybe not? After having radically different experiences with Sex Ed, Lindsay and Lea try to figure out exactly what they were supposed to learn, …
High energy, observational stand-up with ‘fast-fire expert jokiness’ (BathEcho.
A man wakes up drunk, scared and alone, with no idea where he is or how he got there.
Greetings, weary traveller.
The sparkling eyes.
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…
Last year, while clearing out my grandfather’s house, I stumbled across hundreds of hidden envelopes.
Why aren’t you rich yet? How come there are people at the top nowhere near as smart, talented or good looking as you? Stanley Brooks is here to help you teach yourself the skills y…
Watch in amazement as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device: the Perpetual Hype Machine.
Game changer of an act Sam Serrano showcases their trademark self-deprecating and dark style in their debut show, Make Me Your Queen.
Maureen Langan doesn’t want to hate people; they make her hate them.
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
The Dead Ducks are back and raring to tickle your funny bone! This new generation of funny folk form York’s finest sketch comedy troupe – anyone saying otherwise is selling som…
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
In its seventh year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
Unfiltered compilation show, where the hecklers are being heckled.
A one-man show set in early 90s London about a band who didn’t become rich or famous but had a manager who did.
As we enter the venue, Chelsea Birkby is waiting at the entrance with a tray of glasses of water for us because it can get pretty hot inside the room.
After his highly acclaimed debut show in 2019, star of The Comedy Underground (BBC Scotland) Robin Grainger is back with more hilarious observations as he tries to put an end to pu…
Stanley Norman is an ideas man with big dreams trying to piece his life together and cut his teeth in the vicious world of business.
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
‘Absolutely cracking… Great material with fantastic execution’ (The Stand).
Susan Morrison is at an age and stage to get some funny stuff off her chest.
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
Lady Christina leaves the stage after another performance above another pub.
Star of The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2), Netflix’s Flinch, Live At The Apollo (BBC Two), Tonight at The London Palladium (ITV), Celebrity Juice (ITV2), Play To The Whistle (ITV),…
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket.
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Robin Morgan (as seen on Mock The Week) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden in our data that made Google $1.
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du…
A one-man performance spoken directly to the audience.
A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1.
Facing an existential crisis Anna powered off her phone and dived head first into an Ayahuasca retreat in the Irish wilderness.
Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
Adapted from the beloved children’s books by Mo Willems, Leonardo! tells the story of a monster who longs to be scary and the big decisions he must make along the way.
Fresh from their universally adored BBC Three pilot, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson make their long-awaited return to the Fringe with a sketch show about love.
Combining history, humour and horror, this walking tour culminates inside the Covenanter’s Prison – a locked section of a 16th-century walled cemetery.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
We all want to meet people from history.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Step back in time and experience the dark world of the theatrical seance.
Step back in time and experience the dark world of the theatrical seance.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show.
Freud’s Last Session returns to the King’s Head Theatre after a sell-out run in January and February 2022.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show.
‘Once upon a time’ seems quite some time ago for the cast of Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
The very last splash of magic and sparkle from this years Spiegel Fringe season, with some of the most amazing acts of our Spiegel family, plus special guests - Laurie Black, Alfie…
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Joe is not a ‘person with comedy’, he’s a comedian.
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Our hosts Risky Maracas (Rikki Tarascas), Honor Mission and their group of hip cats ensure you get fully immersed in the world epitomised by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Caroly…
Our hosts Risky Maracas (Rikki Tarascas), Honor Mission and their group of hip cats ensure you get fully immersed in the world epitomised by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Caroly…
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
A mixed bill show featuring stand-up and sketch from the people who brought you wacky conversations on the comedy driven life, here comes an hour of stand up and sketch from Toby a…
A mixed bill show featuring stand-up and sketch from the people who brought you wacky conversations on the comedy driven life, here comes an hour of stand up and sketch from Toby a…
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Ida Barr is a former star of the British Music Hall.
Premiering at Brighton Fringe 2021, ‘Tell Me Why’, a performance by the gender-neutral, avant garde collective NoAgEnDeR.
“Tell me why” A musical stage show that celebrates our cast’s right to live as their authentic selves without apology or judgement.
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a …
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
A five-star reviewed disability and mental health comedy night, with a stellar lineup of comedians and an *ALL STAR* headliner, showcasing a diverse range of talent from around the…
A five-star reviewed disability and mental health comedy night, with a stellar lineup of comedians and an *ALL STAR* headliner, showcasing a diverse range of talent from around the…
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in the decaden…
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
A show to make you think: “maybe I’m not doing so badly after all.
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’) has an hour of new jokes and stories.
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee 2021) presents a new work in progress show.
The true stories of four real astronauts, united by a common purpose and fate many years apart, four heroes who helped change the course of human history and push the world forward…
The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…
The true stories of four real astronauts, united by a common purpose and fate many years apart, four heroes who helped change the course of human history and push the world forward…
A night of conversation and song with Joshua Morgan (Ain’t Too Proud, Les Misérables), hosted by Off-Broadway actor Patrick Oliver Jones and his top 25 theater podcast Why I’ll …
Tremble in terror at the Tower! Sizzle at the Savoy! Give Cleopatra the needle! Be washed away at Westminster! Lose yourself in Lambeth! Get gobsmacked by the Globe! Hold onto your…
Things Fell Apart Strange Tales from the Culture Wars Jon Ronson LIVE Things Fell Apart is the live version of Jon’s hit BBC Radio 4 podcast.
For aficionados of Ibsen this is a production not to be missed; nor should those who just like to wallow in the velvety richness of traditional theatre ignore this rare opportunity…
An absurdity of love and laughterEmbracing the natural comedic elements of our friendship, we have curated an evening of music and magic.
The Documentary No One Asked ForThis absurdly hilarious radio play follows the investigations of a disgraced RTE journalist who has travelled to a strange island off the…
The (Not So) Quick Murder of Man Death over a bag of crisps Sorry, Denny's Dead.
Throughout his life, on his birthday, Krapp records a review of his year using an old fashioned tape recorder.
The first of September, 1939.
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 1998! It was the year pure pop really hit the big time with B*Witched …
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how…
Celebrating the musical numbers of the finest villains, evil doers, baddies and the downright despicable.
Welcome to the Museum of Marvellous Things, where the impossible can happen! Make stars in jars, catch moons like balloons, dance with Doo-Dahs in cages, sing with Noo-Nahs on sta…
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
Dad`s Army Vicar Frank Williams invites you to join him for a hilarious afternoon of TV nostalgia to celebrate his 90th Birthday! With Frank's special star gue…
Radio City is under threat.
Radio City is under threat.
As director Dominic Hill welcomes us to the Tron theatre for this triumphant double bill, the audience cheers midway through his announcement at his mention of the return of live t…
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
This panel will explore how female filmmakers in East Asia have fought to promote equality both onscreen and behind the camera, advocating for the importance of diverse representat…
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 2001! Its been 20 years since 2001, the year that Atomic Kitten swappe…
“Princes, start your engines! And may the best Princess WIN!” Love Disney? Love Drag Race? Then you’d be mad to miss out on the RETURN of London HOTTEST Drag Parody event: Dis…
Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical, The Last Five Years, returns to London’s West End for the first time in over ten years, after two sensational sell-out seaso…
A bridge between reality and fiction, Edith Alibec’s award-winning adaptation of Aglaja Veteranyi’s autobiographical book, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, will be head…
Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast…
Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast…
Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast…
Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast…
Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band.
Set against the backdrop of a Woodstock-vibe music festival in the height of the Summer of Love, Tomorrow May Be My Last marks a key moment in Janis Joplin’s all too brief existe…
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
The third generation of York Comedy Society’s premier sketch troupe, The Dead Ducks, are alive and kicking with their new show ‘Ducks out of water’.
The third generation of York Comedy Society’s premier sketch troupe, The Dead Ducks, are alive and kicking with their new show ‘Ducks Out of Water’.
The third generation of York Comedy Society’s premier sketch troupe, The Dead Ducks, are alive and kicking with their new show ‘Ducks out of water’.
Are you a witch with an itch? A wary sort of a fairy? Or just a saucy sorcerer with a craving for a kiki? Prick up your queer ears, dears: weve got you covered! Join esteemed …
"The legendary BBC Radio 4 series hits London’s Underbelly Festival for the first time in this special live residency starring the dream team of Jon Culshaw, Debra Steph…
Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet…
Neu! Reekie! presents a one-off happening in their distinct avant-garde style.
Myra is dead; long live Myra! Realising she stands to miss out on the most attention she’ll ever receive, the ‘acid-tongued and funny to the bone’ (Time Out) Myra brings forw…
Gangsters, attempted murder and actual sharks? Award-winning comedian and TV writer Kate Smurthwaite tells the most mind-blowing lockdown story you’ll ever hear.
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.
Some inherit from their mothers material possessions.
Join two of Scotland’s finest comedians for an hour of energetic stand-up with unique observations and hilarious stories.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
This revealing new online play tells the true stories of four astronauts, united by a common purpose and a common fate many years apart.
Trapped in a manor house, two hapless Glaswegian detectives must investigate the deaths of each family member, but try not to become victims themselves… A time-warp murder myster…
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.
Show about family, taking risks, and embracing change.
Michelle’s second solo show and sequel to 50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh.
Following two culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs in 2018 and 2019, this mind-bogglingly awful (and disquietingly successful) idea for a comedy extravaganza retur…
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Joe Stilgoe is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter.
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
By Karrim Jalali.
Two men, two different approaches to creating a good play.
I had very little idea of what this show was about, except that it had a bit of a cult following after its run on (and off) Broadway.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Bumfluffery and other silliness.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Part of The History Bois residency at ONCA barge, this online workshop run by poet, drag king and artist SL Grange is for folks wanting to connect with their Queer tr/ancestors.
Come and enjoy live, classical music in a relaxed, lunchtime performance with City of London Sinfonia.
Four local ‘Sing Out’ community choirs are singing together to celebrate Make Music Day 2021. As part of the Albany’s Summer in the Garden.
A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’.
A work in progress of the fourth hour from Robin Morgan (as seen on ‘Mock The Week’.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
One day perhaps someone will write a play about a drag queen where, beneath the frock and below the wig, above the high heels and under the layers of slap exists a man who is happy…
Lady Christina leaves the stage at the end of another performance in another venue above another pub.
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.
Michelle’s second solo show and sequel to ‘50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh’.
Michelle’s second solo show and sequel to ‘50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh’.
Show about family, taking risks, and embracing change.
Show about family, taking risks, and embracing change.
The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production.
Fragments of queer narratives, characters and confessions tie together with the question we all ask: what makes me an avocado? Am I ripe? Do I come in a pair with unnecessary plast…
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
A haunting tale of a woman on the edge, entangled by her raw love and lust for three women.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Join the pop star of the Proletariat, Des Kapital (winner of ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’, ‘The Ex-Soviet Republic Factor’ and ‘Strictly Commune Farming’) for a live, physica…
Ida Barr is a former star of the British Music Hall.
AM I A TERRIBLE PERSON? is an uncompromising, autobiographical, & darkly comic look into the mind of someone living with OCD and Depression.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
AM I A TERRIBLE PERSON? is an uncompromising, autobiographical, & darkly comic look into the mind of someone living with OCD and Depression.
A haunting tale of a woman on the edge, entangled by her raw love and lust for three women.
Join the pop star of the Proletariat, Des Kapital (winner of ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’, ‘The Ex-Soviet Republic Factor’ and ‘Strictly Commune Farming’) for a live, physica…
Quiet Little Things OddHouse are an emerging feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Quiet Little Things Will You Be A Quiet Little Thing? OddHouse are an emerging radical feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Premiering at Brighton Fringe 2021, ‘Tell Me Why’, a performance by the gender-neutral, avant garde collective NoAgEnDeR.
£8510am - 4pmAge suitability 16+Join International tutor Sarah Waters to learn how to create and wet felt your own unique felt bag.
£8510am - 3pmAge suitability 18+A whole day of leathercraft where you can create your own shoulder bag, while learning the basic leathercraft skills.
£4010am-12pmSuitable for ages 18+Learn how to mark, cut and saddle stitch your very own leather purse.
£8510am-4pmSuitable for ages 18+Learn how to use resin and make a beautiful pendant.
£709.
£8510am-4pmSuitable for ages 18+Make a silver pendant whilst learning how to work creatively with metal.
£130 for 2 days10am - 4pmSuitable for ages 14+A two-day course to give plenty of time to make a decent sized basket whether that be a wastepaper basket, shopper, f…
£8510am - 4pmAge 18+Design and make a pair of silver earrings whilst learning how to work creatively using precious metal.
Make a good impression is a stand up and impression show with Clare Harrison McCartney and Daniel Benisty.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and 2019, The Last Five Years returns! Written by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, this two-character musical tracks the emot…
Brand-new show from star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 cats, Celebrity Mastermind and regular on The News Quiz and Fighting Talk.
Smokey Joe’s Cafe celebrates many of the greatest hits of the golden age of rock’n’roll in America.
In proud association with Camden Fringe; Sexy, sizzling and single improvisers look for laughs and love in the hottest show of the summer.
Based on his book My Camino Walk – A Way to Healing, the author takes you on his life-changing journey through the mythic landscape on the ancient pilgrimage route of the Camino …
A modern musical by the Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown that follows the comedy highs and heartfelt lows of Jamie and Cathy’s five-year relationship.
Step into the green room and meet Lady Christina at the end of what could be her last ever performance.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Award-winning journalist and radio presenter Ira Glass, storyteller extraordinaire, has announced two UK dates for 2020.
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how …
Mark uses his trademark style of storytelling, stand-up, subversion and really, really well-researched material to try and find out how the hell we ended up in the middle of this s…
Mr Bear can’t sleep because Mrs Bear is snoring, so he goes to sleep in Baby Bear’s room.
A guided walking tour, conducted by Ian Townson, concentrating on the radical gay community and gay squats in Brixton from the mid 1970s to 1981, the year of the Brixton uprising.
Siân Docksey used to be a stripper talking rubbish to strangers in dimly-lit rooms and laying everything bare in public.
Linda, Brian and Nelly are new to the neighbourhood, everything seems perfect.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name. Good news is I can’t drive. Bad news is I have a rucksack. If you don’t like that joke, don’t come to this show.
Edinburgh Comedy Award and double BAFTA-nominated professional idiot Spencer Jones is back with his brand-new show.
Panto season is upon us (Oh Yes it is!) and Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch have repackaged the classic tale of Robin Hood and bought it to the stage in a wonderful way.
Falsettos Charity Gala Evening supporting the Make A Difference Trust.
Thursday 17th October, 7pm Friday 18th October, 10.
The Tower Theatre Company seek to outrage and (somewhat) inspire with their recreation of Dead Funny.
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind Why Mummy Drinks, its follow up Why Mummy Swears and the recently annou…
Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind "WHY MUMMY DRINKS", its follow up "WHY MUMMY SWEARS" and the recently announced "WHY MUMM…
Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind "WHY MUMMY DRINKS", its follow up "WHY MUMMY SWEARS" and the recently announced "WHY MUMM…
Rhys Nicholson is a nice man who is doing his best.
Author of online sensation Peter and Jane, Gill Sims is the number one best-selling author behind Why Mummy Drinks, its follow up “Why Mummy Swears and the recently announced Why M…
The artists have collaborated intensely on tango projects nationally and internationally, especially with the opera/tango/dance-fusion show Violetta’s Last Tango.
One man sits alone in a room. Why? Beckett’s master work brought to life for the modern day.
Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix.
The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
Na na na na na na na na Batman! Na na na na na na na na panto! Panto! Batman! Pantooooo! After a sell-out adult pantomime in 2018’s Fringe, WDG is back with a new not-family-frie…
Artificial Intelligence is not just coming, it is already here.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
The RTO will once again endeavour to transcend all the expected orchestral clichés.
Want Some More explores the harsh realities of living with a whole range of eating disorders from binge eating to diabulimia; retelling word for word accounts in Stage Strong Produ…
In 1815, seventeen European states declared war on one man and committed over a million soldiers to his capture.
An evolution of his successful 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and Perth Australia Fringe World show Twisted, Aaron Ayjay continues to take you down the dark and twisted road of musical come…
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
Part I: fool me once.
We miss Robin Williams.
The Songsmiths are pitching you the honest truth of what it’s really like to be in an a cappella group.
Coming from their success at the 2017 All-England Theatre Festival semi-finals, Our Star Theatre Company proudly presents their award-winning comedy, The Last Bread Pudding – a h…
In this amazing hour of comedy, Joe will distill what he’s learned about the history of everything and the future of everything, and what it all means.
Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua.
Ophelia is Also Dead follows Ophelia telling us the story of her whole life.
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
The Last Supper invites you to confess your deepest, darkest and funniest sins.
‘Welcome to the Dead Parents Society.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Join us for a magical, marvellous hour of songs from your favourite movie musicals including Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and some Disney classics.
Transform paper into 3D forms.
The Laugh 4 Change Comedy Fundraiser features some of the best comedians on the circuit who will come together for an hour of stand-up comedy in support of refugee action.
Staying sharp as you age is easy… just eat this super berry, do five simple things or play this game to beat dementia! But what if it’s not as simple as the hype suggests? If w…
Later! Ramblier! Jimeoin’s 26th Fringe! ‘Inspired ramblings.
Following a surprising (and culturally deeply unsettling) smash-hit, sell-out run at last year’s Fringe, this mind-bogglingly awful, disquietingly successful idea for a late-night …
An improvised comedy show of sketches, scenes, songs, and suntans.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
The Terrible Tail of Adelaide Worthing is all about a rat’s quest to be complete.
You can’t stop birds flying over your head, but you can definitely prevent them from building a nest in your hair.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Just what does it take to make a monster? Is inhumanity truly born simply from reanimation, or is it a product of the already inhumane environment? Re-investigating Mary Shelley’…
Young socialite Catherine Holly has been left traumatised and confined to a mental hospital after witnessing the horrific murder of her cousin Sebastian during a trip to Europe.
Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? You struggle, I struggle, and the world struggles.
Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A 50-minute long devised comedy, heading to the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2019.
Amused Moose Award nominee: Best Show, Edinburgh Fringe 2015.
People who walk too slow.
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh 2018 (Comedy.
Number eight will have you totally whelmed! 10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our …
Screwball comedians Dominic Goland and Matthew Tallon (Laugh Factory Chicago, Vodafone Comedy Festival) fight off the Forces of Darkness using the only weapon they’ve got– jokes.
A rock guitar-playing punsmith may sound like it has a niche appeal to a certain type of Fringegoer, but Robin Boot’s early afternoon show in Whistlebinkies managed to pull in a …
After performing at the Brighton and Ludlow Fringes this year, Majk Stokes returns to Edinburgh to bookend the Venue 40 programme.
The news is too horrible to joke about, so Joe’s looking for a new shtick.
After travelling the world with her first solo show 50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh, a lot had changed in Michelle’s life.
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
The legendary BBC Radio 4 series hits the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in this special live residency starring the dream team of Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod and D…
After a baffling 2018 run (The Wee Review Fringe Experience Award: ‘most memorable experience – be it good.
Show about family, taking risks and embracing change, Michelle unexpectedly fell into the world of comedy.
William Mastrosimone’s one-act play, Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, is a powerful response to the wave of school killings that have erupted in recent times.
Ten friends.
Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
Are you aware of the devastation that is possible by just one negative thought.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Like 50 Shades Of Grey, but funny on purpose.
Formed in 1965 in Edinburgh, Fayne and the Cruisers are still going strong, capturing the essence of those 60s dances in church halls and clubs and performing everything from The B…
Dead Equal is a resplendent feminist perspective on female involvement in combat.
Some people have called it ‘the biggest scam or our age’.
Joe Jacobs is back like he left his car keys.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned town planner Walter Bor) and his grandad’s best friend (world-renowned comedy…
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
Flora and Nic have been friends for years, for pretty much the whole of history.
The award-winning co-creators of smash-hit Fringe comedies Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy, top…
Following a sell-out 2018 Fringe and debut UK tour, the ‘utterly hilarious’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
In its seventh year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
‘One of the best roasters in Los Angeles’ (Jeff Ross).
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Raul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Dark, bold and razor sharp, Australian comedian Laura Davis is internationally critically acclaimed as one of the most unique comedic voices around.
Join two of Scotland’s fastest rising comics for a fun hour of stand-up comedy.
If you love sitting on a chair and watching stand-up comedy then this is the show for you! Joe is an up-and-coming comedian based in Edinburgh.
The University of York’s Dead Ducks take to the Fringe with their brand-new sketch show: York du Soleil.
Despite the title, it transpires that Joz Norris is not dead, but is merely busy having a bath.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
The black box space in Summerhall is perfectly suited to Zanetti Productions’ new one-woman show My Best Dead Friend, at once intimate and epic in its proportions.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
Baby Wants Candy has become almost as much a staple of the Fringe as being slapped in the face with flyers on the Royal Mile.
Everyone is at the Gilded Balloon to catch a glimpse of Alistair Campbell’s daughter, and Grace by name - but not by nature - gives us everything we want and so much more.
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
Robin Grainger (Best Newcomer nominee, Scottish Comedy Awards) just got a dog.
Twice-nominated Scottish Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Christopher KC, brings his riotous debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
Can stand-up save your love life? Self-confessed nice guy Steve thinks so.
Gooooood morning, Edinburgh! Live from Studio B, THSGD Productions presents Arguing On-Air! Talkback radio meets the stage in this three-man show: an intricate and funny rollercoas…
Spencer Jones took last year’s Edinburgh Fringe off, but did he waste his time idling? Not a chance.
Yorkshire’s finest Myra DuBois has tragically ‘died’ but on the upside, she’s invited you to the greatest funeral you will ever attend.
Fresh from the University of York, this double bill of comedy is the perfect way to celebrate the Great Yorkshire Fringe featuring the infamously impressive improv troup…
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Jerry Sadowitz, Britain's FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, is back! Yes, the man with no visible demograph returns to make you laugh while simultaneously parting you of hard ear…
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh Fringe 2018 (comedy.
Gillian English (creator of SHEWOLF) returns to Edinburgh.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Thursday 13th June, 7.45pmTickets: £16Duration:Suitable for: ages 18+
When you’re used to holding the whip hand, Death can be an unwelcome distraction.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
Sexy, sizzling and single improvisers look for laughs and love in the Brighton Fringe’s hottest show.
The third hour show from Robin Morgan (writer for BBC Two’s ‘The Mash Report’, BBC Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’, television warm-up for the Graham Norton Show and tour support for Ell…
Show about family, taking risks, and embracing change.
Michelle’s second solo show and sequel to ‘50% Canadian, 100% Crazy, Let’s Laugh’.
A new piece of work by a new BAME theatre ensemble The Last Company Theatre, Last Rehearsal is written and directed by Chilean Maria Jose Andrade.
Mayor Goodman has been assassinated.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Majk Stokes is a singer-songwriter, poet, environmentalist, Quaker and self-confessed caffeine-addict.
A dynamic new dance production exploring the impact of social media on the young female generation and how it effects the perception of themselves and others in the world.
One man.
Influencer.
Irish comedian Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Showtime’s Live from Amsterdam) brings us a stand-up show that celebrates failure and loss and incompetence and…
Joe used to do political comedy but recently the news has become so horrible that he can’t bear to do it any more.
In 2014, Eastern Ukraine sits on a knife edge.
Looking for piercing political satire? Comedic insights into the meaning of life? Then you are barking up the wrong tree my friends.
For almost sixty years, Hollywood superstar Lindsey Ordell has been drinking too much, smoking too much and over indulging in an endless parade of sexual conquests.
Infamous cabaret misfit and drag miscreant Joe Black invites you to indulge in a gloriously raucous gin soaked musical cabaret extravaganza.
Gillian English hates The Taming Of The Shrew.
Dead Happy? is a one man show about life and our journey towards the inevitable.
Styling itself as a 'heartfelt and hilarious musical tribute' to the city of Brighton, All Things Brighton Beautiful utterly triumphs as a celebration of everything we love…
Ridiculous Honeybee Sci-fi.
Lambert Jackson Productions are proud to present a new series of intimate concerts called ‘Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace’.
The award-winning co-creators of smash hit fringe comedies ‘Vampire Hospital Waiting Room’ and ‘Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair’ bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy …
“At Last, the Muppet Men”, a show many said would never happen and a few feared would.
THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, LONDON Based on George A.
Join us as we celebrate the impending end of the world with an evening of show tunes from the West End and Broadway, at the Crazy Coqs Live at Zédel on the 8th of April at 9:15pm.
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
£9510am - 4pmAge 18+ Create your own leather tote bag in this whole day workshop.
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop museum of the nicked.
Bold GirlDying Is No Excuse, Ma.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned architect Walter Bor) and his grandad's best friend (also wor…
An Evaluation Of Brian What does it mean to be good? Smile C**t, You're Not Dead YetDeath, Cancer, Existential Dread and Laughs An Evaluation Of Brian - Giant'…
MAKE, LEARN, PLAY and PERFORM on your own fully working ukulele, made from a spread tub! If you don't believe it, take a look at the YouTube extract below.
Performed in a unique dome structure, The Lost Things is about losing things and finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for.
An electro rock duo from Orange County formed by Justin Pointer and Tony Kim.
A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world.
Join Robin, Little John, Maid Marion and of course Friar Tuck, as they take on some of their hardest challenges to date: A conniving King, a sinister Sheriff and a downt…
£3516 February at 2.
£9510am - 4pmAge 18 Learn to work creatively with metal whilst making a beautiful silver bracelet.
Unhook your mindbras.
Christopher Robin is all grown up and all out of imagination.
Proforça Theatre Company presents the next generation of “Feel More”, Seven more stories from the universe of our main production of "Feel" returning in Spring 2019.
£5010am - 3pmAge 16+ On this workshop you will be guided through the process of sculpting in wire.
£12510am - 4pmAge 18+ This is a whole day workshop where you will create your own handcrafted A5 size leather messenger bag.
£9510am - 4pmAge 18+ Make your suede shoulder bag.
£502pm - 4.
Jerry Sadowitz, Britain's FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, is back! Yes, the man with no visible demograph returns to make you laugh while simultaneously parting you of hard ear…
Jerry Sadowitz, Britain's FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, is back! Yes, the man with no visible demograph returns to make you laugh while simultaneously parting you of hard ear…
“Let your Arrow of Destiny fly” It’s been a long, hungry winter, and the villagers of Nottingham need a hero.
TV and recording star Joe Longthorne returns to Leicester Square Theatre in 2018 as part of his 50th Anniversary Tour.
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
The Dead Daisies are making their highly anticipated return with their Welcome To Daisyland tour.
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Magicians Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
A band like no other on the pop landscape, Why Don’t We brings together five supremely talented singer/songwriters who have each built up a passionate following all on their …
TONY LAW “Form-busting and hugely enjoyable” - The Times ANDREW LAWRENCE“Anyone who gives this spikily inventive performer the time of day will realise…
In ten years’ time, we discover a way to record, store and replay memories at will.
Lakin McCarthy Robin Ince's Chaos of Delight ‘The winner and co-star of the Rose D'Or award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage, Sony Gold and, …
Authentic Indian & Slightly Racist Deported into the West with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
Returning for a fifth year, Majk Stokes hosts two evenings of music, poetry, comedy and storytelling to round off Venue 40’s Fringe programme for 2018.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful German lieder including the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Fraue…
Harriet Stand (Hatty to her friends) is auditioning for a part in the critically acclaimed play Life.
The biggest names – Coogan, Evans, Eclair.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Beira – Alison Bell and Heather Yule – weave songs and harp music into a rich fabric combined with traditional stories of the land, the sea and the people of Scotland.
Following a sell-out residency at London’s St James’ Theatre, Helen brings her chat format to the Fringe for the first time.
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
Membership of the local amateur drama society has dwindled to four.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Programme for Fringe participants.
Join a couple of Aussies on this off-beat excursion of naughty and ridiculous tales and oddly familiar tunes.
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
The Last Burrah Sahibs is a one-hour, one-man, spoken-word show about the mansion house dwelling life led by ordinary Scottish mill workers in the old jute colonies along the Hoogh…
Things Live! A variety cabaret of Dragtime’s most unusual and magical drag performances yet.
Britain’s most popular magicians and amateur bounty hunters, Joe and Ryan, perform an hour of classical music and salsa dance, with Claire Sweeney on banjo.
Have you ever wondered why you can’t speak to the dead? You aren’t drunk enough silly.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
The acclaimed hit podcast Book Shambles, recorded in front of a live audience! Hosted by Robin Ince who‘ll be joined by a different amazing guest each show.
Sew a coin purse by selecting soft leather and pure wool felt in contrasting colours.
Why are we fascinated by serial killers? They’re everywhere; on the news, in crime fiction, on television and in our daily lives.
Why Performance? is a series of panel discussions exploring the contributions that performance makes to human life and development.
Following sell-out shows in 2017, Bruce returns with more Dylan, Paxton, Seeger, Simon, etc.
For one day only! Live Art Bistro take on ZOO Southside, doing what they do best: presenting 12 hours of transgressive and experimental performance by world-renowned artists.
An artist’s manifesto of delight and curiosity from bohemians to black holes, Dali to DNA.
Fresh from his tour of Australia earlier this year, comedy singer-songwriter Majk Stokes presents a new collection of witty and whimsical songs and poems covering two of his bigges…
A lonely boy sat in graveyards waiting for zombies, predicted to be a serial killer by his sisters, grew up to be a comedian.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? We struggle, and the world struggles.
A man and a woman wait in a flat in Camden for a phone call from a colleague.
A new comedy drama.
Follow an eclectic group of twenty-somethings as they navigate wacky text messages, misleading profile pictures and awkward dates in search of true love.
Fringe Herald Angel Award winner for music returns with a cherry-picked selection from his extensive repertoire of over 100 songs.
He had full houses in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and now Robin Boot is back with more rock’n’roll hilarity with his new show: Welcome to the Pungle – the wild side of musical comedy! Vo…
Born in Kansas, home of the South Wind, in 1897, Amelia Earhart reigned as Queen of the Air until her mysterious disappearance over the Pacific in 1937.
We miss Robin Williams.
The Edinburgh Quartet, founded in 1960, is one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles.
The RTO has searched far and wide for music to play.
Psychiatrist Stephen Lawrie (The University of Edinburgh) thinks mental illness is needlessly controversial – and the controversy is destroying our mental health services.
As a reviewer I'm fortunate enough to get free tickets to many shows.
Start to End return with a live band interpretation of John Martyn’s classic fourth solo studio album Solid Air, following a sold-out appearance at Celtic Connections 2018.
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Discussions about drug use and drug policy often involve stories – personal experience combined with knowledge gleamed from the media and other sources.
Explore how the Wars of the Roses still has relevance today.
A sad and lonely cockroach climbs out from a cardboard box; she doesn’t know where she is and there in front of her is a group of furry blurry fluffy things.
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
Your pictures and regrettable digital utterings are public.
‘Unpretentious, informal, belly-laughs-a-minute stand-up’ **** (ThreeWeeks).
Hi! I’m American comedian Chris Laker.
Stunning, skilful magic from Caspar Thomas.
Visual theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell aim to inspire the imagination of their audiences with their creations.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The nation has never been healthier.
After a hugely successful run in 2017 – ‘I didn’t expect for it to be that damn excellent’ (LexicalLunacy.
It’s not the Fringe without Jollyboat! The cult hit, back for their ninth year.
Contemporary shamanic theatre inspired by the enchantment of timeless magician poets, mystics and dervish trance, unravels the threads of our time-spun space of dreams.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
After last year’s sell-out D Day Dodgers, the Woolly Sheep Theatre Company’s Not Dead Yet! is a one man play which challenges preconceptions about memory loss through real-life…
The Matrix, but with bees.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Magicians Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
Jerry Sadowitz, comedian, magician and all round scary man, is back in 2018! Actually, he saved petrol and never left! With his unique combination of comedy, absolute hatred and ca…
The Last One is the end of all things, and still needing more.
Anything goes at the Scottish Comedy Festival’s new official late-night Pick of the Fringe showcase with a phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from across the F…
Some people plan their murders meticulously.
In its sixth year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
Oliver Harris digs deeper into his journey through Elvis Presley’s great songs with a different show and an evening twist! From Love Me Tender, The Wonder of You, Are You Lonesome …
Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women with only a postcode in common.
There is something very reminiscent of Bill Murray in Matt Duwell: the optimistic sarcasm is the overlying note in his voice; he produces easy crowd-pleasing material, imbued with …
At the centre of its big, warm heart, The Sea Is Big Enough to Take It is a story about a non-activist boy and his activist mother, and by extension a story about all of us and our…
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Fresh from filming on an upcoming comedy show for Channel 4, Lenny brings his hotly anticipated debut hour to the Edinburgh Fringe.
July: Robin gets married.
Strap in for the sex-ed show of the century as we debunk the desire industry.
Joe Foster (Winner of South Coast Comedian of the year 2015) presents his eagerly anticipated debut stand-up show.
Irish comic Mike McCabe knew Frank.
Steve Bennett is the happiest man on the planet.
A beatboxing and storytelling comedy show.
Following his mother’s tragic death (freak accident with a Bic Razor), the misogyny apologist and comedian par excellent presents his debut hour! ‘Works the crowd like an Italian m…
Christy Coysh (as seen on BBC Three) and Kat Sadler (selected for BBC New Comedy Award 2017) debut their first work-in-progress show.
Can stand-up save your love life? Self-confessed nice guy Steve thinks so.
Show about family, taking risks and embracing change.
Rahul Kohli was unperturbed by the small audience on the evening this reviewer attended, likening it to ‘a Theresa May cabinet meeting’.
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award-winning novelist JA Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
One man.
The multi award-winning Fringe cult hit is back.
People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some…
After sell-out shows in 2016 and 2017 Gareth Mutch returns with a bucket list to help fix his tragic life.
Some years ago, comedian Lucy Frederick appeared in a reality TV show in which she had to get naked.
In this dark one-man comedy we get a glimpse into the world of Main Character and the everyday struggle of his normal life.
Masculinity – isn’t it, like, over? Or are there new ways to model manliness? Growing up Joe felt less like a boy, more like a Spice Girl.
A unique blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting stand-up and personal story telling about romantic love and why we prioritise it above all else.
Total sell-out 2015, 2016 and 2017! One of the best-known, longest-running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
Fringe First winner 2017.
‘My neighbours leave their flat one morning but don’t return.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
Unhook your mindbras.
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, but “overwhelmingly politically incorrect” (What’s Good, NZ) Alex Williamson knows how to banter.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Toxic is a collection of laugh-out-loud stories from Joe Sutherland’s life in Coventry, London and (briefly) a town in France which, when pieced together, create an intimately ho…
Caspar brings to York his stand up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of hand magic and mentalism - no suspicious looking boxes, no camera tricks, no stooges! &…
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Lenny Sherman is one of the best joke writers In comedy.
July: Robin gets married.
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
The Aid Fundraiser PresentsLaugh Till It HurtsIn Aid of MacMillan Cancer Support TERRY ALDERTON “This is a mainstream act that dares to be different, that comes fr…
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique an…
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Magicians Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
Prepare your family for a thrilling adventure as Robin and his merry band whisk you to Sherwood forest and rise up against the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham! Expect boo-able villain…
Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest magicians of the last 120 years) stand-up, interactive, before your very eyes sleight o…
James Dean.
Comedian David Callaghan brings his newest interactive technological comedy adventure.
After a successful run of ‘Sweet Things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Helen Bauer (BBC3 and Comedy Central) and Micky Overman (Funny Women and Leicester Square Finalist 2016) are …
Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy, the Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as a cop who moonlights as a killer-for-hire in the multi-award-winning…
Award-nominated comic Jim Campbell has been busy with a chart-topping podcast, an acclaimed book and his personal life exploding.
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.
Alan Felton and Tim Roycroft, in song, poetry and drama, present an entertainment depicting the Irish rebellions and famines from the Vikings to 1937.
Joe Wells returns with his unique brand of acerbic political humour about how we all grow increasingly right wing as we age.
The second hour show from Robin Morgan, writer for ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘The News Quiz’ and ‘The Now Show’, warm-up for ‘The Graham Norton Show’ and tour support for Ellie Ta…
An anonymous man and woman, confined in a space, are trying to pin down the facts.
Let’s get the review part over and done with; this was going to be a five star review from the moment I saw the title Joe Black - Touch of Evil: A Celebration of Villainy in Song…
Micronian Theatre make their return to the stage with their first original two-act play and debut at Brighton Fringe, fundraising for our charities, The Clock Tower Sanctuary and t…
Kevin and Babs Chisholm run The Dog and Dumplings pub along with a mute parrot and a lesbian cat.
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…
It was a balmy Sunday evening at the end of another warm and sunny weekend and many in the audience seem to have to enjoyed the weekend (and perhaps the wine) a bit too much by the…
The story of me; a misfit, growing up in the north west of England in the 1980s.
You know those brilliant ideas you get after last orders, and then in the morning you’re like, what was I thinking? This show must have been one of them: “Hey guys, what if we …
Dave Benson Phillips used to be on children’s TV all the time.
Matt Duwell is a Snowflake, and he is owning that label (despite thinking labels are pejorative).
Join local comedian Ben Carter on his debut hour, as he desperately attempts to boost his social circle, whether dressed as the lonely front half of a pantomime camel or a lousy fl…
Growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
Eagerly anticipated debut show from the South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015.
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, but “overwhelmingly politically incorrect” (What’s Good, NZ) Alex Williamson knows how to banter.
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West’s marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable,…
Five Star Awarded West End Actor & Singer Harry Kit Lee (Hair The Musical.
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
A comedy about family, taking risks, and embracing change.
Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the …
Make Believe - children’s songs for grown-ups! Like the lovechild of Noni Hazelhurst and your loveable drunk uncle, kid’s entertainer David Salter slurs his way through a songbo…
Loc Tran adds his own comical twist to random news stories with topics including: * The de-crimilisation of same-sex marriages In Vietnam.
Mullets, single Mums, Holdens, home done tatts.
The 2016 smash hit improv musical returns to Adelaide! Total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2015, 2016, 2017.
Award winning Irish Comedian Andrew Stanley returns to this years fringe after an explosive season last year selling out his solo show in Fringe World Perth and the Edinburgh Fring…
Babies, toddlers, stressed new parents swilling bottles of wine and some top Fringe comedians.
Tutti Arts in collaboration with the WCH Foundation presents Wild Things.
Alice is becoming more and more forgetful.
From the House of the Dead is Janáček’s final work and arguably his most powerful.
As seen on The Project.
A tiny ‘pop-up’ institute which invites you into a playful and poetic reflection on reality.
UK-based singer-songwriter, poet, musician, environmentalist and caffeine addict Majk Stokes comes to Adelaide for the first time to present a show built around two of his greatest…
In a fiery display of wit, comedy and anecdotes dressed up with glamour and style, Joanne Kam (Comedy Central Asia) will have you crying with laughter as she shares her views on li…
Al can’t sleep.
Housing affordability pushing you further away from civilization? Paying $7 for your skim soy latte? Are unhinged people attracted to you on the bus for no apparent reason? Not sur…
Pretending Things are a Cock is the product of Bennett’s three years of global wandering, and combines the artistic, phallic-filled photographic display with hilarious and surpr…
Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final …
Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia present, Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell.
Ride the wind with Air Play, a modern circus spectacle that brings to life the very air we breathe.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
She speaks! After two Emmys, a Grammy, decades of starring in television shows and touring, Kathy Griffin is launching her FIRST world tour after suddenly never being more in-deman…
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play on the spot, inspired by audience suggestion.
If you like murder mysteries and rapid-fire puns, then you’ll love Dead Drunk Detective: Live in the Rotten Flesh.
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea but ‘overwhelmingly politically incorrect’ (WhatsGood.
To tie in with the release of his new CD, comedy singer-songwriter Majk Stokes presents a new selection of silly songs and poems, along with a few old favourites, on topics includi…
Wicked musical comedy from the political parody specialists, singing truth to power for their ninth (and final) Fringe year and raising their game with a one-off, full-length extra…
The final anarchic annual two-hour charity variety show celebrating the life and random irresponsibility of the godfather of British alternative comedy, filled with bizarre acts, e…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Ever had to walk into that room where your boss, with fake concern in his eyes, tells you that he’s having to let you go? Ever wish you had the balls to say ‘f**k you’? Well, I did…
A man collects stories of lost keys and dreams gone astray, wayward wallets and absent loved ones, abandoned playthings and misplaced memories.
Cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis*.
An Eric Liddell inspired fundraising event encompassing a legends vs celebrities football match with family-friendly athletics activities for all age groups.
Join host Joe Lycett (as seen on TV giving Lorraine Kelly a quiche lorraine) and a bunch of special guest comedy friends (to be announced because I didn’t have a chance to book t…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Trumpet, electronics and text.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Back from a fantastic run in Australia, where he was reviewed as ‘Truly terrific’ (Melbourne Herald, George Zacharopoulos), is back with a questionably titled show defending accide…
Back from a fantastic run in Australia, where he was reviewed as ‘Truly terrific’ (Melbourne Herald, George Zacharopoulos), is back with a questionably titled show defending accide…
Back from a fantastic run in Australia, where he was reviewed as ‘Truly terrific’ (Melbourne Herald, George Zacharopoulos), is back with a questionably titled show defending accide…
We miss Robin Williams.
‘Punch the air to character comedy.
What do an Indian banker, a Chinese nurse and a Polish housekeeper have in common? Three young women search for love and find themselves in a unique love triangle.
Acclaimed storyteller Max Scratchmann celebrates seventy years of Indian independence from British rule and brings the lost world of the infamous Hooghly River Scottish colonies vi…
The RTO has had another successful international tour to add to New York, London, Utrecht and Glasgow.
Extra shows – later, ruder, sillier and absolutely full-on.
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.
Everyone has secrets.
Discover this award-winning triptych video installation in the tranquil beauty of Greyfriars Kirk – a haven in the festival city.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Back from a fantastic run in Australia, where he was reviewed as ‘Truly terrific’ (Melbourne Herald, George Zacharopoulos), is back with a questionably titled show defending accide…
Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year 2016, Top Joe, has invented a new word.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
Received opinion says that we become more right-wing as we get older.
These are the droids you’re looking for.
Rising comedy star Sarah Keyworth, a Funny Women finalist 2015 and tour support for Stewart Francis and Kerry Godliman, examines what it means to be a child raised believing you co…
Comedian and activist Coltrane returns with another hour of uplifting, Tory-smashing comedy.
Comedian and activist Coltrane returns with another hour of uplifting, Tory-smashing comedy.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
After enjoying full houses in 2015 and 2016, Robin Boot brings his new Rockomedy show to Edinburgh this summer.
Eric, ‘intriguing and amusing’ (Chortle.
Actors from the US, UK and Germany present this theatrical tour de force by Pulitzer winner Stephen Adly Guirgis that makes a case for the redemption of history’s most famous betra…
Join award-winning Irish comic Andrew Stanley as he returns with more messing, more questions and more mayhem.
When a man and a woman… or a woman and a woman… or a man and a man… or any combination really, love each other very much, they come together – well, not always together.
They’re back! Why? Money.
You’ll die laughing at this outrageous show about the thing we all have in common.
We all want to meet people from history.
‘The more I try to remember her, the more I’ve forgotten her.
A historical comedy exploring the life of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico.
Cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis*.
Taking its title from critic Waldemar Januszczak’s rundown of the 2016 Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy – ‘there is not enough emotion in our art any mo…
Think Less, Feel More is the second solo exhibition in Edinburgh by up-and-coming abstract artist Alice Boyle.
Rebellious, experienced, lyrical and courageous – this amazing multi-generational programme celebrates dancers from 12-85 years of life, dreams, hopes and fears featuring new wor…
Join Robin Hood on his thrilling quest to outwit the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian; all with a bit of help from his trusty band of merry …
Sam is scared of the dark.
Almost 50 years after George Romero launched the zombie film genre on a shoestring budget, Night of the Living Dead holds a dear spot in the hearts of horror film fans.
Samuel Beckett’s moving meditation on time, memory and ageing is performed by renowned Irish actor Barry McGovern, one of the world’s most revered interpreters of the great pla…
“Death Part 7: The Last Word” is the barely anticipated final installment in Jack Trinco’s fabled, quasi-epic, multi-part exploration of the theme of death.
An hour of comedy from two up-and-comers, Micky Overman – ‘a keen comic mind’ (Chortle.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
In its fifth year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
Looking past the sweltering hot and humid room that the Laugh Train Comedy Showcase takes place in, this show is enjoyable enough for a night out.
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
In Ripe, Jacobs takes us through the stages of a banana corresponding to the stages of life; through stand-up and rap.
When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience.
Is this Romanian guy supposed to be the future of stand-up comedy? Bold, brash and a total smartass, Victor Pãtrãscan wings it in this one-man show and tries to get away with it.
In April 2015, Robin Ince announced that he really had to stop doing stand-up as he was on the cusp of insanity.
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s…
Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth.
This slick performance of Robin Hood by Manhattan Children’s Theatre (Edinburgh) will leave you laughing, humming the songs, and with a strange desire to shout ‘Hail King Richa…
In its fifth year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
Have you ever dreamt about what it would be like to escape Debra from accounting? Bob from payroll? Candice from HR? Leave your life behind and start anew? Michelle went from sling…
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…
Abrasive satire for Guardian readers, disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
A show about being the only remaining singleton in a world full of weddings, mortgages, children, security and a lack thereof.
After Muslims Do It Five Times A Day and Aatificial Intelligence, Aatif Nawaz returns to the Fringe to have The Last Laugh.
C Theatre’s production of Robin’s Hood is a silly pantomime style show featuring the classic characters.
London.
Derevo are a legend.
The beginning of Last Resort definitely hooks you in.
Immersive Joe’s NYC Bar returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with two shows a day at Assembly Underground.
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
For a man who claims to be a ‘professional idiot’ Robin Ince sure seems to know a lot.
Master songwriter and Fringe favourite returns with more of his trademark smart and funny story songs (plus new gems).
Sofie Hagen won an award ages ago and she’s still banging on about it.
New interactive video game show from Joe Hart (SYTYF? Finalist and Tickled Pig Winner)! Nerd out, level up and just maybe live to respawn another day.
I first met Robin Hood in the Autumn of 1975, as a seven-year-old boy, and we have been good mates ever since.
Back after last year’s fantastic show, the Listies are just as wonderfully ridiculous as ever.
Brought to you by Parallax Theatre, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a riotous look at life beyond.
Mike McCabe (who worked with rapid-fire gagster Frank Carson in the 1980s and 1990s) reveals the man behind the mask – memories of the legend who (according to Chris Tarrant) nev…
From the Bronze Age to Brexit, get ready to laugh and learn with More or Less Theatre as they present to you a whistle-stop tour through European history that can be enjoyed by bot…
If you love Donald Trump, you’ll hate this show! Get ready for a hilarious, thought-provoking, heartbreaking yet inspiring experience – in glorious four-part harmony and over-the…
He may not be everyone’s cuppa tea but ‘overwhelmingly politically incorrect’ (WhatsGood.
Bigger, bolder and more brilliant than before! Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand-new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young…
Researched and designed by best-selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson, our walks combine the weirdest stories, wickedest humour and wildest history.
In the style of a choose your own adventure game, this performative workshop will include games and storytelling alongside arts and crafts.
Blue Masque Theatre’s staged playreading of new comic drama by Rhonwen McCormack.
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Double-Oh Heaven, Showtime, Elixir and more! Filled with Circus, …
‘Eve’s Dawning’ combines storytelling, live music and animation to tell the dystopian fairy tale of Eve, the last girl in the world, as she navigates a post-apocalyptic waste…
A lonely scientist clones a perfect army of women, until something goes horribly wrong.
Religion, rap, Pogs, sexism, Gaviscon, mental illness, success, commitment and coffee coasters.
Join Covent Garden’s cheekiest street performer, award-winning magician Tony Roberts for mind-blowing card magic and more! There’ll be laughs, mayhem and classic conjuring for …
Part Classical, part Folk - part Hymnal.
Star of ITV and BBC, Carly Smallman makes her Brighton Fringe debut with a work-in-progress hour of comedy.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected…
Cornish landscape artist Peter Lanyon’s untimely death after a gliding accident in 1964 is inspiration for this imaginative piece of physical theatre.
Do you remember Dave Benson Phillips? If you were a child in Britain from the 80s to the early 00s, there’s a fair chance you watched him on TV.
In a time of pre-war political tension, gone are the days of frothy fashion journalism for Pamela More, a feisty and glamorous Times journalist who stubbornly prioritises haute-c…
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 …
Brighton comics Vicky Gould and Joe McCarthy join forces to bring you an hour of quirky off-beat humour.
Three performers from the UK, Italy and Spain that belong to the so called Generation Y, are confronted onstage with a simple but controversial question: what do you want for your …
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” Evening Standard.
The award-winning team that brought you ‘A Puppet Named Desire’ and ‘Puppetgeist’ return with mayhem, masks, and sock monsters.
A name as loaded with dark, romantic foreboding as Poe’s Last Night incurs comparison with the titles of Poe’s own works; it suggests mystery, a locked room of buried secrets.
The bizarre tale of the boy Eli Hum, born with a baffling condition: his tummy can only digest honey.
A double bill from: Joe Hart (SYTYF finalist, Tickled Pig winner, as seen on BBC Trending) and Liam Webber (Best New Act nominee, Midlands Comedy Awards).
In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…
Boogaloo Stu’s dark comedy ‘Last Orders At The Dog & Dumplings’ is an uproarious and merciless exposé of the cold-blooded takeover striking our communities in the name of regene…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.
Following successful runs at Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more close-up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of …
“The man I love.
Abrasive satire for Guardian-readers disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun-readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
The utterly hilarious and utterly heartwarming debut hour of stand-up from Robin Morgan (Writer of ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Newzoids’, ‘The News Quiz’ and the ‘Now Show’).
Comedy Compilation show of some of the best up and coming comics from the UK Comedy Circuit.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Magicians Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, Foreign Goods returns with ‘Visions of England’ in April 2017 featuring fully-formed short plays by Chinese, South East…
Half a century after its premiere on The Old Vic stage, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight, return…
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic.
you thought Gleb was sizzling in the Master Chef kitchen and Kristina was stunning on Strictly then imagine how spicy it will be when you see the…
Fresh from their sell-out hit shows Midnight Tango and Dance ’Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing superstars Vincent Simone & Flavia Cacace have created their most movi…
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, starring Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey.
Kenny Rogers will perform at London's Palladium in November! The country music legend, known for tracks such as Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town, The Gambler and UK c…
When twenty year old Charles Sorley is killed in action during the First World War, his devastated parents are left with only his letters and poems to remember him by.
After numerous Off-Broadway and international productions as well as a film adaptation starring Pitch Perfect’s Anna Kendrick, The Last Five Years finally arrives on the West…
Eleanor wants a child.
Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” …
With the London production now spanning over 25,000 performances, it is clear that Agatha Christie’s play—set in the secluded, snow-bound Monkswell Manor Guest House where a …
Rapture Theatre Company’s production of Michael Frayn’s Democracy is a far cry from their rendition of the Bay City Rollers musical, Shang-a-Lang which they performed i…
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Son’s of Scotland! I am William Wallace.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Final special performances of this critically acclaimed 2015 sell-out show following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Drunk History.
Plastics harm our world, right? Costing us energy, using up resources and polluting? Wrong.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
Improvisation is the one word that can strike fear into the heart of any actor no matter what their experience.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
The Spelling Bee is a beloved American pastime, encouraging good sportsmanship and the pleasure of taking part; however, deep down it becomes clear every contestant has a thirst fo…
Do you have a cool idea for a new wearable device? Could you be a great inventor? Then this is a great workshop for you.
Shortlisted for a Channel 4 Comedy Award: a theatre play about a doting husband and double-glazing salesman who discovers his wife is going to relationship counselling and insists …
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
In a world where it’s possible to trade time off your life to change your body into society’s definition of perfection, how much time would you spare? 5 Years is a very eye ope…
Dan Offen (Amused Moose semi-finalist) and Jonny Gillam bring you this slice of alternative comedy.
Considering the Harry Potter phenomenon and other fantasy works, we will be mounting a defence of fantasy! It’s time to acknowledge the explosion of fantastical works in the 20th…
Ross and Tom return to the Fringe with a new show after their sell-out performances in 2013 and 2014.
Ever been called into that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you’d fought back and told them exactly what you thought of the whole bollock-brained process? Well,…
Famous as Father Damo from Father Ted.
On October third, 1849, Edgar Allen Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
In the summer of 1990, four lads from Liverpool were working on renovating and decorating the palace of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when they were taken hostage by Saddam and his…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Murderous intentions corrupt adolescent dreams in the chilling story of six teenagers living 20 years apart in an isolated girls’ school.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Making its European premiere, this Canadian comedy gem packs more ideas and laughs into 40 minutes than most plays triple its length.
We will have showstopping compositions from the RTO music competition for unpublished composers.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
We miss Robin Williams.
This is what happens when you ask a four-year-old to name the show while he’s busy playing with an empty yoghurt pot.
See the world through childlike eyes as this comic adventure plays out on an epic scale.
Madeline and Joe want to have a baby.
In this session, NVA Director and co-founder Iain Simons is going to explore these ideas, give examples of what the NVA is doing to help and generally get excited.
Join Gaulier graduates Georgia Murphy and Evie Fehilly for an hour of surreal comic madness.
The American High School Theatre Festival presents Little Shop of Horrors, a wacky musical journey downtown to Skid Row, a poor run-down neighbourhood where all its residents want …
Why Grimsby? by Reuben Ruiz-Daum is a story of secrets, lies and the extremes to which a mother will go in order to secure the hopes and dreams of her daughter.
World champion slam poet Harry Baker returns to the Fringe, accompanied by his talented friend Chris Read on guitar for a spoken word/acoustic fusion set.
Where Do All The Dead Pigeons Go? This is a production that doesn’t try to answer any of your questions - or refer to pigeons, for that matter, even as a metaphor, throughout the…
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and respect, but does that include UKIP voters? Follow up to the critically acclaimed **** (Chortle.
Harriet Dyer is accidentally alternative.
In this four person concert drama, a celebrated artist struggles to atone for the sins of his past, while desperately searching for a new future.
Here is all the chaos of a Fringe-like show turned into a Fringe show: a farce about two plays being performed by one cast while their unreasonable and definitely shady writer/dire…
After three weeks of full houses at Fringe 2015, Robin Boot’s Rockomedy returns bigger, better and bootier! Musical comedian or comedic musician, call him what you like, Robin Boot…
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
Have you been mistaken for a pervert? Are you awkward in a sex shop? Do you try to disguise your farts with a cough? Have you ever wondered how scissoring works? Do you enjoy havin…
As it turns out there are lots of reasons for Marcus to have a long face at the moment, not least because he was born with one.
Interactive theatre is a tricky beast.
‘My job as a comedian’, Tommy Tiernan clarifies at the beginning of his set, ‘is to undermine reality’.
I grew up on a hippy commune thinking my dad was a Spanish sailor called Manuel Sanchez Gomez, but I smelt a rat.
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
Vesna Tominac Matacic’s adaptation of the works of Croatian poet Vesna Parun is an impassioned and beautiful spectacle that somehow still manages to feel lacking in substance.
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
In the final days of mankind, the last nine human beings left in existence are holed up together in a sanctuary base dubbed ‘Plan Z’.
Start your Fringe day with a laugh-and-learn walk through some of Edinburgh’s weirder backstory.
Lying seems to be getting more and more fashionable.
A week of arts and crafts events: an interactive art event unlike any other.
A show about growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India (Southall) and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality or brains.
Towards the beginning of Image - Selfie with Eggs, gymnast Natalie Reckert describes herself as a ‘handstand machine’ and calmly guides us through the component ‘stability points’ …
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
A very well-structured and well-performed show, delivered from a fantastic up-and-coming comedian.
Actor Mat Ewins will make you a star in Mat Ewins: Mat Ewins Will Make You a Star.
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
To say Dolly Wants to Die is a dark comedy is like saying water is wet: the irreverent jokes come left, right and centre, but only a few of them properly hit their target.
Returning to the city of my momma’s birth, my life’s story about everything that led me back to Edinburgh.
US writer, actor and stand-up Joe DeRosa makes his highly anticipated UK debut.
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…
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
Enter the fascinating mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
BBC Radio 4‘s multi award-winner Viv Groskop presents Be More Margo, the follow-up to her sold-out five-star 2015 debut.
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
This is the forgotten story of a controversial gang that robbed the streets of London for over a hundred years.
In its fourth year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
This is the way the world ends.
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute sweetheart with the pipes of a jazz singer and a wicked sense of humour to match.
Conor lost another friend last year, now he’s on his own.
Push to Shove Theatre Company have devised a simplified version of Dracula giving it the justice it deserves without taking anything away from Bram Stoker’s original concept.
Femmetamorphosis is an easy going play that explores the relationships of five very different characters as they help one of their own through a nasty break up.
Liberated from sketch group WitTank, English-Turkish comedian and Naz Osmanoglu (a self-monikered ‘posh twat’) airs his own dirty linen in a no-holds-barred solo show around th…
With the ascendance of circus being one of the great success stories of the Fringe in the past few years, there is no shortage of breathtaking physical feats taking place all over …
Susie McCabe’s worst fears are coming true: she’s slowly turning into her parents.
“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie…
Come on a real bus with Phil, we’ll fit new tyres and go bloody double-decker off-roading, ram raid a few museums.
Triple Threat is a gloriously transgressive flurry of punky, feminist mayhem.
Russian Company Derevo’s Once takes place early in the morning by Fringe standards and many of the audience members at the George Square Theatre might have been wondering whether…
Join Danny as he goes through a year that has seen him dumped by his girlfriend on the set of a BBC drama, nearly get beaten up by his dad, discover internet dating, have a health …
Shoot From The Hip are coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time ever! With five years running weekly residencies at two of London’s hottest comedy clubs, Top Se…
The proper teaching of sex education remains a rather thorny topic, and this one-woman comedy-drama with songs positions itself to probe some of the more profound issues of this fi…
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
Joe Hart (SYTYF? 3rd Place 2014, Tickled Pig Winner 2014) has a brand new show all about the digital world.
Power yourself up with a cult Edinburgh favourite.
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
Part TED talk, part psychic extravaganza, Tom Binns’ extrasensory expert Ian D Montfort is back at the festival and he’s determined to convince the sceptics the dead are among …
Winner, Director’s Choice 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Life has given Australian performance artist Bron Batten what she calls ‘theatrical lemons’.
If a panto and a Sarah Kane play had an unimaginably grotesque love-child it would look a lot like this.
Delivered with buckets of energy and enthusiasm, Felicity Ward’s new show is lively, facetious and a little erratic.
When he wasn’t writing the books that have captivated children for fifty years, Roald Dahl wrote a collection of gleefully macabre short stories for adults, published in various …
Sell-out hit returns! Singer, pianist and entertainer Joe Stilgoe pays tribute to much-loved movies.
The gold from the Great Waverley Train Robbery was never found but, 30 years on, new information has come to light as to its whereabouts.
Australian musical trio Doug Anthony All-Stars were the anarchic kings of the alternative comedy scene in the late 80s and early 90s, achieving considerable success with such sleep…
The initial conceit of this show is that we’re all present at the funeral for Rose Matafeo.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A terrifying journey into the lair of the world famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
Njambi McGrath’s 1 Last Dance With My Father sells itself as a dark comedy telling the story of her Kenyan upbringing and her violent relationship with her father.
Last Orders is a post coming of age tale, exploring the loyalty of childhood friendships and how one of life’s greatest challenges is choosing between who you are and who you wan…
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique and…
We establish the core of the character, build the physicality, find the voice and explore interaction with the other characters.
Is it possible to communicate with the dead? Magicians Griffin and Jones intend to find out.
Delighting London audiences since 2013, The Science of Living Things bring their trademark show to Brighton.
An insight into the weird worlds of three up-and-coming local comics, with three very distinct voices: Joe Foster, Graeme Collard and Dave Fensome.
Internationally-acclaimed proponent of the steel pan (steel drum) Rachel Hayward returns to the Fringe with a solo recital in the beautiful setting of Brighton’s oldest building, p…
Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity.
House of Blakewell want to make you happy.
“Imagine if Derren Brown was funny” (Evening Standard) Doug Segal (Winner: Best Cabaret Act, Brighton Fringe) is back in Brighton to preview his new show which is designed to make…
In January 2015, topical comedian Alistair Barrie’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, which gave him some perspective on what really constitutes bad news.
Joe Wells believes that you should treat everyone with kindness, but that’s not easy when some of them vote UKIP.
Brighton’s very own Joe Foster (Winner of Foster’s South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015) presents his debut full length stand-up show.
A brand new work-in-progress about snobbery, class, Britishness and The Good Life, fuelled entirely by gin.
Show about my life growing up in the deepest, darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the West with no language, culture, looks or intelligence.
Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of the Hitchcock film of the John Buchan novel is certainly an impressive feat of theatre.
Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
“God is beauty with feeling” insists Nijinsky, gazing searchingly at his audience.
Everything you ever wanted to know about everything .
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
Storytelling feast of foolish kings, tree-climbing princesses, and one revolting woman, woven together by chief mischief-maker Damian BB Wood.
A work-in-progress of the debut hour from Robin Morgan, star of ‘The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of’ (BBC Radio), writer for ‘The News Quiz’ and Laughing Horse New Act of …
An intimate, audience-collaborative theatre show with projected imagery and text messaging, exploring love, desire and dating with your clothes on.
It is a tad ironic that, initially, the most overpowering element in this new show from Stellar Quines Theatre Company – established in 1993 to “celebrates the energy, exper…
Griffin Newman and Joe Garden return with another holiday-themed show, this one to celebrate “this most sacred Irish holiday.
This excellent long-running stand-up show, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould, has found a new home at this Williamsburg distillery.
Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination.
Modern-day deadbeat Simon (Eli Kent) would rather natter to his mum, objectify his girlfriend, and play video-games with a pothead gorilla than think about the recent death of hi…
(performances start on Thursday) The acclaimed experimental director Robert Wilson steps onstage (and into white makeup and ample hair gel) as the sole performer in Samuel Beckett&…
Keaton Patti hosts this homage to classic stand-up, in which comedians try to “cover” a famous comedy album by performing bits based on the titles of that album…
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…
(closes on Sunday) A white police officer is accused of pushing a black boy out a window, and this play, directed by Eric Tucker from a script by Barry Malawer, explores the afterm…
Glistening with sweat, Megan Hill’s comedy is essentially a real-time Jazzercise class with a wacky plot fused to it, as a willfully chipper exercise instructor (Ms.
FreddyG hosts this free late-night stand-up show at an up-and-coming Astoria space. Headliners include Aparna Nancherla and Mike Recine.
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas are the subject of this White Light Festival event, featuring this British pianist of uncommon eloquence and depth.
Fresh from a successful first show at the mac in Birmingham Spit ‘n’ Polish bring you six short plays ranging from the comic to the absurd, the tender to the oddball, and the m…
Some lives are touched by war.
Chisa Hutchinson’s two hander about an ailing woman and the Christian nurse she tries to bribe into killing her is a series of ethical skirmishes, but not only about the righ…
The Seattle Children’s Theater gives the Robin Hood legend a delightfully wacky telling that’s perfectly pitched to the 10-and-under crowd, and to anyone else who admir…
In anticipation of Douglas Tirola’s documentary “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon” (to be released on Sept.
Whenever your organisation enters into a business arrangement there is likely to be a contract in existence, whether it is written or just implied by conversation and actions.
Back by popular demand, Songs on Film – The Sequel sees pianist, singer, songwriter and film nerd Joe Stilgoe pay tribute to 100 years of music that aided and abetted the legenda…
I went into Tim Drain’s show fully prepared for some offensive stuff.
Live art every day.
Live art every day.
I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio…
Six months into their relationship, Bryony found out that Tim suffered from severe clinical depression.
Mediating Conversations about Conflict: The Church, the Constitution and the Climate.
Throwing a great party in an amazing house, what could possibly go wrong? Except you’re supposed to be house-sitting.
This is the first year of the ‘iF Platform’ – a new showcase featuring the UK’s top disabled artists and integrated arts companies.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
Improv comedy is a British export, adopted by America and is now making its way back across the pond to impact the ever developing UK comedy scene.
Mr. Horner and Mr. Zimmerman, both up-and-coming favorites in the city, each present a half-hour of their best material.
Heady musical cocktail of Fitkin, Nyman, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos served by master mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
Mark Dean Quinn returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fifth year running attempting to win the best newcomer award.
Sandy Nelson’s comic play examines the intriguing events of the 2010 Reykjavik Municipal elections, in which comedian and actor, Jon Gnarr, became the Mayor of Iceland’s capital, d…
Death is an important topic and it affects everyone, obviously.
The Graduation Show is where BWC’s Fringe Improv Intensive Workshop students strut their stuff in a showcase performance having learnt long-form improv from the finest! Find out …
Award-winning Fringe favourite musical improvisers present an evening of spontaneous music, monologues, mayhem and hilariously insane fun.
Learn musical improv from the best! Internationally renowned award-winning Chicago troupe, the ‘entertainment phenomenon’ (Scotsman) Baby Wants Candy invites you to learn to improv…
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.
Make Some Noize is Edinburgh’s most anticipated all day music festival featuring some of the world’s biggest music artists.
We celebrate our 20th Birthday this year.
Dead End” is a two act stage play that takes place in post-apocalyptic America.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
“The thing I was going to show you – well there’s a few things to show you – but I want to tell you something else first,” says Robin Ince some time into this intellectua…
How often is your creative practice playful? Is fun the thing we’re scared to have? Amid the pressures of the Fringe, Poorboy/The Bell Rock Co.
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
Surreal clown, singer and Phil Kay collaborator Cammy Sinclair (38yrs) accidentally took his son Robin (3yrs) to a gig.
Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti for 2015’s hottest, breakout stars-of-tomorrow: Colin Chadwick, Daniel Audritt, George Lewis, James Loveridge, Jay Hampson, Luke Cou…
A comedy show about comedy.
Anything is possible.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
Alistair Barrie (‘Excellent’ Independent) is one of the most widely respected topical comics on the international circuit.
The beginner’s guide to surviving the Apocalypse, or at least the months between seasons five and six.
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
Who knew that a Dusty Springfield favourite could provide such an effective description of man’s descent into unspeakable evil? Ewan Downie and Jonathan Peck from Company of Wolv…
Back from their unsuccessful world tour, the singing dictators of dark cabaret have come to Edinburgh.
I remember hearing Tony Benn speak many years ago, when I was still in school.
Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…
Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers.
A belated denouement to his lauded 2005 work The Factory, award-winning performer Al Seed returns to the subject of war with striking psychological rigour.
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers.
This is Glasgow-based comedian Harry Garrison’s debut festival show, but with his confident, flawless delivery and natural charm, one would never know.
The rhythm of obsession, a journey into mental illness.
Any intelligent person would despair at the world, so let me make you stupid for your own sake.
1822, Scotland eagerly anticipates the state visit by King George IV, especially the widowed Laird of Hawthornden, Sir Robert Drummond.
Working within the rather large shadow of the National Theatre’s verbatim triumph London Road, new Leeds-based company 203 Theatre have hopped on this particular niche musical ba…
‘A good way to be happy’, Alice Keedwell tells us, is ‘you’ve got to silence the critic inside your head for a moment or two’.
Dave Callan, Irish born Australian based comedian brings the sequel to last years must see comedy dance spectacular to Edinburgh.
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
Stand-up comedy and theatre rarely interact in meaningful ways.
Though billed as theatre, 101 Reasons Why I #@%$ Katie Hopkins is essentially a lecture on odious media figure Katie Hopkins, complete with biography and PowerPoint presentation, b…
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer Floe-Joe invites you to indulge in his wacky world of sketc…
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
‘The damn sea rolls on as it always has.
In its third year, the best comics of the Fringe are brought together for this premier comedy showcase.
Jean is sitting in a cafe enjoying a lobster bisque when a phone nearby starts to rings.
London’s Laugh Train Home host Robyn Perkins **** (ThreeWeeks, English Comedian of the Year Finalist) and Sarah Iles, (Comedy Network Award winner) are joined by their favourite aw…
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalist 2015 and Star of BBC Radio’s The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of presents a half hour of stand-up.
Bryony Kimmings is a theatre maker, performer and actor.
His parents and teachers told him it was rude to brag about giving money to charity or saving children from drowning.
According to Baudelaire, the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
Nicola Wren’s one-woman show describes the hundreds of modern-day anxieties we all face in the dating world due to social media and technology.
When Norris – one half of the outstanding comedy duo Norris and Parker (Katie Norris and Sinead Parker, directed by Lucia Fox) – learns that she was lured here labouring under …
Die-hard fans of classic BBC Sitcom Dad’s Army will particularly enjoy this panel discussion, Q&A and selection of nostalgic clips from Ian Lavender, aka Private Pike, and fellow…
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
Free trip to space.
Scott Redmond had a fun 2014; kidnapped, arrested, threatened at gun and knife point, disowned, broken up and dealing with bereavement.
Benji Waterstones (Frog and Bucket World Series winner 2014), Sean Cannon (Amused Moose finalist 2013) and Saskia Preston (Funny Women finalist 2013), will explore issues such as n…
‘Scripted comedy of the highest quality’ (Buxton Fringe).
I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio…
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.
Fight Back at 50 is the ultimate antidote to the mid-life crisis.
Not every comic has the wherewithal to build the feedline of a joke into the title of their show.
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…
Hijinks and flying kicks abound in this piece of non-verbal physical comedy from the Hong Kong-based Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, last unleashed on an unsuspecting Fringe in 2012.
Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption…
The Labour Of Laugh features the cracks in careers and the jokes in jobs, including incompetence, time wasters, blaggers and more.
The weird, wacky and wonderful all come together in this fantastically strange new show.
The self-proclaimed absolute lad returns, following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and a wine tour of the French Riviera.
If you’re planning on making the trip to see Baby Wants Candy, get your title suggestions ready now! The audience for his fully improvised musical comedy has barely taken their s…
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.
Apples are the most important fruit in the world: think the Garden of Eden, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers! Join Joe Hart (So You Think You’re Funny? finalist 20…
Millerick returns with his most acerbic and painfully funny hour yet.
This year, Yianni explores “the line”: how do we cross the line in telling jokes, and who decides where it is? He conducts his investigation through a series of anecdotes and d…
Edinburgh’s City of the Dead tour company guide fringe audiences along their graveyard route.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Aug.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
“Shakespeare’s R&J” is an exciting and refreshing new adaptation of Shakespeare’s original love story.
(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…
Special turns from Showtime, Lost In Transit, Elixir and other friends from the Spiegeltent and around town.
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and compassion, but that’s not easy when a quarter of them voted for UKIP.
An observational, tragi-comic and absurd stand-up comedy show.
The Last Five Years, by the darling of the Contemporary musical theatre world Jason Robert Brown, is about struggling actress Cathy and successful novelist Jamie’s five year rela…
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer, Floe-Joe, invites you to indulge in his wacky world of ske…
Whatever the election results, with no real economic recovery under austerity, what will Labour do for us? Join Jeremy Corbyn MP, Nancy Platts (hopefully Labour’s new MP for Brig…
‘Hello, Robin’ is a show that says “Hello, Robin” to me, Robin Morgan, 25 years old, male, GSOH, suspicious of long walks.
Peak into this perfect postcard of a play, following the McLeavy family deep in mourning.
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…
A unique and memorable musical experience, bringing a seamless link between classical, pop, folk and film music.
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…
Once a year the dead rise from their graves and dance with the living in an ecstatic frenzy and this year you get to watch.
Simon Lovat’s 2013 hit one-man show returns to Brighton! Experience the world of funeral directing in all its bizarre humour and pathos when Francis Putlock visits your home for an…
Sy Thomas is a nice guy.
Alex Eberhard presents a sublime 10-piece electric orchestra.
Enjoy Banyan Tree’s vibrant retelling of this African folktale told through spoken word fused with Latin and Caribbean sounds and featuring captivating puppets, original songs, d…
Though the music is catchy, the band is terrific, and the cast is strong, this jazz musical by Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz hasn’t reconciled its improbable source materia…
Brighton Fringe’s number one free family event will entertain both you and your little ones.
Lynn Ruth Miller is 80 years old.
Joe Foster and Mike Cox team up again for another JAM Comedy! After a successful run in Edinburgh ‘13 and a short run in Camden ‘14, JAM Comedy returns offering the ultimate combin…
Apples are the most important fruit in the world; from the dawn of man, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers and the medieval crusades.
You will sing.
After storming Brighton 2014, award-winning House of Blakewell return to take on the happiness industry.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on May 17) In the second play in A.
‘A moth came into my room.
This night of stand-up raises funds for Bideawee, an animal welfare organization that rescues and adopts dogs and cats around New York.
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
(performances on Jan.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This writer for “Saturday Night Live” performs a show of stand-up, sketch, short stories and silly experimentation.
Jo Firestone hosts this wonderfully ridiculous twist on a comedy show by challenging the audience to sit through five hours of “miserable, purposely boring and unbearable com…
Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould present this reliable weekly show, with stand-up from Mark Normand, Rob Cantrell and Giulia Rozzi.
Bathe in the risqué for an evening of all girl comedy, cabaret & burlesque hosted by Unruly Scrumptious with resident cabaret wrong’uns - plus special guests.
A thorough, measured account of a key moment in the history of Ireland, this opening production in the new run of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint” at Oran Mor in Glasgow’s West En…
(previews start on Sept.
Mary Beard is an unlikely rockstar.
Musically challenged friends from sister orchestras in the US join the RTO in a celebration of mutual virtuosity to entertain and amuse all with their fiendish interpretations of m…
Whenever your organisation enters into a business arrangement, there is likely to be a contract in existence, whether it is written or just implied by conversation and actions.
Legendary LA rapper from Scotland who conned the music industry as half of Silibil N’ Brains.
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
A young woman sits on the floor in a bright upper room in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, a large rucksack with a sleeping roll dumped by her side.
As you hire a cast for your latest production, send out mass promotional e-mails from a database or blog into the wee small hours, do you stop to consider whose personal data you a…
Inspired by the public performances of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the less decorated but more alive writer and actor B.
Hungry Wolf presents an energetic and enthusiastic offering for children at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Entering into a world of 1950s dating, Last Chance Romance is a fun hour for any adult.
The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator.
Anni Dafydd emerges onto the stage wearing layers of mismatched technicolour clothes.
Really Broadway Baby? You want me to review a one-off stand up show in which the venue description literally reads “On Top of Arthur’s Seat” (Venue 354)? Really? I got into c…
Replaceable Things features John De Simone’s Panic Diary and Thomas Butler’s Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You, performed by Scottish contemporary music company Ensem…
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
A new dark, comedy farce set in a dingy, small-town hair dressing salon; called Dead Ends Beauty Boutique.
You feel a certain apprehension going into a Miranda Sings live show.
How do you communicate your work to curators? And how do you develop your practice while earning a living? This event will provide useful advice and tips for putting together a por…
The California Musical Theatre Ensemble’s abridged version of A Chorus Line feels like a high school production.
Dead in the Water takes the odd story of Operation Mincemeat - where Welsh vagrant Glyndwr Michael’s body was dumped by MI5 off the coast of Spain, complete with documents iden…
Joseph is wiling away his days in a tea shop looking for inspiration.
The promotional blurb for Dead Fresh warns you that missing the secret of this dark comedy (or perhaps missing the comedy itself – there’s some pronoun confusion in there) ‘c…
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
Irene is desperate to escape her abusive husband Alex, and has found comfort and a deep connection with Charles, who lives just next door.
An ageing singer in a Buenos Aires cabaret, Violetta refuses to let illness overcome her as she sings her impassioned tango songs each night for her clients.
American improv comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy are among the most familiar veterans of the Fringe.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
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A man has come to see a psychic.
Described by TS Elliott as ‘the greatest Scots poet since Burns’, Joe Corrie was a Fife miner who influenced and inspired thousands through his plays and poems.
The big issue with Bristol Improv’s horror-comedy offering is sadly a brutal one: the show simply wasn’t funny enough.
In the 1970s, 9,000 people were employed at the Linwood car factory near Paisley.
This comedy workshop will get your kids writing their own jokes and performing them onstage - all within an hour! Course leader Paul B Edwards is a hugely experienced professional …
Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti, to raise aloft the hottest, breakthrough stars of tomorrow who battle brilliantly for fame, fortune, shiny moose trophies, plus £1…
(performances start on Aug.
Airbourne Theatre Leeds’ original piece is a live-action cartoon, bursting with energy, colour, and child-like enthusiasm.
Jon Pearson’s tale of a marriage erupting over chewy calamari and rum based cocktails, but who gets the Breaking Bad box-set and how do you split a cat? ‘Brilliant’ (Shropshire Sta…
“You don’t know what heckling is!” screams Michael Legge at a woman in the first row, cutting down her contention that the Northern-Irish comedian is lovely.
Sarah Parker wakes up in an empty room.
It’s four minutes in and I find myself clapping harder than ever while singing “Auld Reeke you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind.
Hang on.
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
Sunshine on Leith really is a daft musical.
Imagine the complete works of Oscar Wilde thrown into a box, shaken about a good bit and then dropped all over the floor.
Struan Logan and John Sheppard are funny, charming and handsome (on average) comedians.
The actress-playwright Laoisa Sexton — who wrote and starred in the bleak, funny and winning “For Love” at the Irish Rep last year — returns with this darkl…
Paul Foxcroft (everyone’s imaginary friend) and Briony Redman (sitting-room dancer) are doing their hit 2013 sketch show with a couple of new bits to keep each other surprised.
Madonna is the queen of pop.
Performed in the stately Edinburgh Elim church, Mary the Last Farewell is a historical drama about the life of the Queen of Scots.
Award-winning comedian James Cook tells the often hilarious, surprising and surreal true story of being the voice between pop records.
Seeking to explore the idea that you are your experiences, this positive and inspiring show details how these two up-and-coming comics are not Over It.
Watching Sister Amnesia’s Country and Western Nunsense Jamboree brought me right back to a long-forgotten primary school experience.
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up.
A show which does not allow us to forget the contradictions of a civil and democratic society.
Mr Susie, the innocent yet hopelessly confused alien, has one hour to save cabaret.
Rick Kiesewetter talks about being Asian (not Oriental), being raised on the Jersey Shore and how living in the UK for 18 years has made him wonderfully British.
Laugh Train Home brings together its favourite acts, with a different line-up each day, MC’d by Robyn Perkins.
“Death is very inconsiderate.
When did kissing and cuddling become vanilla? When did it become cool to be a geek? Are all failed artists doomed to work in Kwik Fit? What if Jesus Christ was a republican? Self-d…
Dan Willis has been obsessed with zombies for a decade.
Sometimes we’re too afraid of looking like an eejit to fully embrace life: whether it’s not standing up for something you believe in, or being too shy to ask out the handsome…
A high energy romp through Amanda’s psyche will produce songs such as Childhood: What a Load of Shit, Too Tall Blues and the VPL Blues.
Like The Mighty Boosh in a minor key, Dead Ghost Star present a weird and wonderful double act of surreal, whimsical and thoroughly endearing comedy.
All quirky and endearing romcoms would do well to learn a thing or two from A History of Falling Things.
A terrifying journey into the lair of the world famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
The Fringe’s late-summer position in the calendar means that few of those who visit the Scottish capital ever experience one particular form of indigenous theatre — pantomime…
William Luce’s 1984 play comes to life in this rendition by the Thespis Studio that is made vivid by the solo acting of Loana Pavelescu.
I think it’s fair to say that there are issues with your sketch show when the funniest thing that happens is that a man fingers a swiss roll.
The fastest and funniest globe-trotting impressionist returns for more comedy action, laughable adventures and romance in this mix of stand-up and stories featuring over 50 movie s…
Three Shot Mockery is a fine way to spend an hour of precious festival time.
When seeing a piece of new writing it can be best to have no expectations, to let the play lead you where it will.
Learn to Laugh with Keep Calm and Improv is a comedy show that attempts to deconstruct the notion of improvised comedy through improvised comedy.
Joe Stilgoe and his excellent band create a wonderful atmosphere with their musical stylings, charming personalities, and atmospheric lighting.
Al Donegan is a terrible human being who should be alone forever.
Welcome to the World Championships of Boozing 2014! Doesn’t matter if you’re a pitiful alcoholic or a hypocrite teetotaller, this invitation is for you! Come and see what happens …
Welcome to Jill’s cookery show! Well, technically it’s a pilot, but let’s be honest, it’s going to be a sure-fire hit.
Ever wondered what a conversation with a real-life ghost would be like? In this interesting take on the supernatural genre, writer/performer Lydia Nicholson shows her afterlife i…
Intelligent motherluvin’ 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.
A new stand-up show from Jewish Comedian of the Year, and the TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week. As seen on Dave.
The Dead Pony Society are going nowhere; quite literally, they’re performing sketches on a stationary bus for two weeks.
The Last Motel by Sheepish Productions is a dark two-hander with a neo-noir style akin to the works of cult film directors Tarantino and Lynch.
It’s the question on everyone’s lips.
Two Soviet cosmonauts orbiting the earth they left behind twelve years earlier.
The Fringe is absolutely saturated with wonderful improvised comedy.
In this era of electronic messaging devices, where nothing texted or emailed seems personal, permanent or important, there is something romantic about a tangible, hand-written le…
Even though this isn’t Baby Wants Candy’s headline show at the Fringe, you would still expect much more from such a highly regarded group.
After critically acclaimed performances to sell-out audiences in festivals around the world, and a legion of Facebook fans, Australian Jon Bennett brings his cult-hit show of 2012 …
Chris is on the precipice of an existential crisis.
The star of Weirdo’s cult hit The Colonel, Ali Brice brings his long-overdue, hotly anticipated and ridiculously silly debut show to Edinburgh.
Before comedy Robert did 67 jobs in seven years, went to prison for a practical joke and wrote symphonies for his sock-puppet.
The Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner explains why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games…
Most of your brain doesn’t know you exist; let’s find out how conscious we really are.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
If you are someone that enjoys magic in its more basic, “no frills” form, like sleight-of-hand tricks and close-up magic, you can’t go wrong with this show.
Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, my first experiences of academic lectures were either snatches of TV programmes aimed at those studying courses with the Open University (thankful…
Alex Williamson is energetic.
One of the best known, longest running and most celebrated improv shows in the world.
The Jest feels TV-ready and in more ways than one.
I must immediately declare that I have always liked Robin and Partridge.
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
Tensions are building north of the border.
80 years old and behaving like someone a quarter of her age, Lynn Ruth Miller is certainly not your typical OAP.
One of a stampede of comedians making the London-Edinburgh journey for the festival, Feilder knows his Fringe conventions well and isn’t afraid to use them to meta-comic effect.
Aw yeeeeaaahhhhhh! Come along, its gunna be tops! Fast-paced observational stand-up guaranteed! ‘Every joke - and I honestly do mean every single joke - is genuinely, gut-busting…
The Rules of Engagement, Tony Jameson’s latest Fringe hour, has the feel of bumping into a charming acquaintance that you haven’t seen in a while on the street.
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
Like many men of his generation, Simon Feilder talks about his insecurities about being a single man, but unlike a lot of them he spices his show up with multi-media presentation…
This weekly stand-up showcase, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera, and Charles Gould, features Wyatt Cenac, Sue Smith and Matt Ruby.
The up-and-coming favorites Sam Morril and Joe Machi host this weekly stand-up show, with performances from Josh Gondelman, Nick Vatterott, Anthony DeVito and Seaton Smith.
(previews begin on July 15; opens on July 20) As one of the original stars of Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep,” the actor Everett Quinton has long since…
Boat, an inventive and extremely funny sketch group comprising Amos Vernon, Mike Lane and Nunzio Randazzo, returns with a new show.
This internationally renowned Chicago troupe performs a completely improvised, hourlong musical.
Award-winning entertainer Doug Segal’s comedy mind reading show turns the audience into mind reading mentalists.
Legendary DJs, live music, special guests from ‘Lost in Transit’ and other shows around town and who knows what else… see website for details.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
This was by far one of the most outstandingly bizarre pieces of theatre I have ever seen; I am still not entirely sure what I actually witnessed, but I know that I liked it.
Following sold-out shows of ‘The Honey Hunters’ in Brighton Fringe 2012, we return with new puppets, live music and dance.
‘The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show’ is fun, interactive, educational, relevant, accessible and also great for mumosaurus and daddydactyl too.
Taking place in the dark and historic Old Police Cells Museum, These Precious Hidden Things is a cleverly written and produced piece by The Barefoot Players.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Presented by Theoretical Zombiologist Doctor Austin, discover how a Zombie brain works in this spoof lecture, featuring interactive demonstrations and a multi-media presentation.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Let me declare up front that I was injured during this show.
The Heath Quartet feature Roxanna Panufnik’s setting of Private Joe Wood’s letters from the Front, sung by his great-nephew Royal Opera House baritone Nigel Cliffe.
It’s Sunday lunch,and where the roast should be,there’s a tofu casserole! Butcher Albert’s table’s set for a monumental clash of values,knives and hearts.
You must experience the joy in your trousers, projectile vomit, rectal prolapse, bloody urinatin’, baby terminatin’, meth overdosin’, aubergine starin’, racist a-tweetin’, Sharia c…
Something Underground Theatre: Winner, Best New Play Brighton Fringe 2012.
This is one of the oddest true stories you will ever hear.
Clutching a handful of books, Robin Ince takes to the stage to welcome the audience into his world of lurid literature from across the ages.
Maggie lives in solitary confinement.
Work in progress stand-up comedy from Asian-American comedian Rick Kiesewetter, getting ready for Edinburgh 2014.
Comedian Joe Munrow takes you on a well-structured meander through his stupid brain.
Playwright Werner Schwab was just 35 when he died from what must have been quite a drinking spree after a New Year’s Eve party in 1994.
Nominated - 2013 Dave’s Comedy festival, Geoff debuts a hilarious new hour.
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.
Sketch group Clever Peter (BBC Radio 4) return with brand-new sketches and old favourites in a fun-packed hour of comedy.
Following a sell-out run at last years Brighton Fringe and described as “one of the highlights of The Brunswick’s Fringe programme for the 2013 Festival”, TPTPC are back with more …
Paul Grifiths is an artist, not because he spent a lifetime studying the grand masters or painting portraits and landscapes from a young age, but because of something primal that d…
Trace the story of Brighton’s secret river, flowing from the source’s solo in the attic to the sea-bound chorus in the cellar, then enjoy a feast of foods foraged en route! Thur/…
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
Do you have any regrets about your life? Celebrating ten years as a company, The Maydays pose questions to the audience about the last ten years of their own life: whether you have…
(previews start on May 13; opens on May 14) Dinner and a show? Sort of.
Things Unsaid is an evening of three one-act plays revolving around the theme of words that have been left unspoken.
A solid night of stand-up is sure to be had at this showcase, with sets from Mr. Hanley, Mr. DiStefano, Mr. List, Dave Smith, Maddog Mattern and Paul Virzi.
‘Above the Stag’ (ATS) is one of the most distinctive and necessary production houses in London.
From the team that brought you the huge success that is Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me will take you back through the “music and magic” of the e…
After last year’s debut solo show returns Jamie Dalgleish; this year looking at his life’s transition from ‘class clown’ and general wee bampot, to award winning Stand-Up Comedian.
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s sensitive, static drama set on an Irish farm comprises three intertwined monologues.
Captain Theatres production of this rarely performed piece is stylishly designed and features some committed performances.
International tours in the last few years (to Utrecht and Glasgow) have honed the orchestra’s skills.
Their unique musical abilities conquered Europe in Utrecht in 2011.
Women were created so that men would take showers.
WGGB is the union negotiating writers’ terms with broadcasters, theatres, etc; lobbying in Westminster, Edinburgh and Brussels; advising members over work issues.
Ragweed, a ‘scuzzy rock trio’ from Brighton, appreciate the importance of being immersed in live music.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play has big themes: the morality of art; the morality of love.
I don’t think I’ve felt as privileged to be in a performer’s company at a Fringe show as I felt when watching Keith Jarrett.
Laugh your Farce Off is a collation of three new pieces of farcical writing, performed and produced by multiple artists involved in other shows at the Fringe.
Aimed at those considering Conservatoire Drama School training.
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
For those who like to know these things, this play by Jim Cartwright was voted thirty-sixth best play of the twentieth century in a poll run by The Royal National Theatre.
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
It’s the old romcom cliché: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl marries into the suffocating institution to which boy belongs, girl divorces boy.
Last Embrace, a folk musical based on Romeo and Juliet set in Northern Ireland in 1970 at the height of The Troubles, is a true masterpiece of theatre.
It’s a well-worn formula: Man-child isn’t ready to completely give himself over to his relationships, ensnared as he is in a mentality of self-interest and a fear of commitment…
Z Theatre Company consists of a bunch of likeable first year drama students from Hull University.
Roddy Hart and his band, the Lonesome Fire, appear on the stage dressed as dapper as anything.
Vote for hot, breakthrough stars-of-tomorrow battling brilliantly for fame, fortune and shiny Moose trophies.
Students of Baby Wants Candy’s Improv Fringe Intensive strut their stuff in this showcase performance! To find out more or register for the award-winning BWC’s 4-day Improv Intensi…
The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final, as one might expect, was a one-off chance to see some of the comedians of tomorrow battle it out for the prestigious prize of £1500 and a moose s…
Richard Wiseman hosts an evening of ectoplasm and uncanny spectacle as we cross to the other side and communicate with the deceased. Tickets include one delightful cocktail.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Rachel Sermanni comes onto the stage and blithely announces that she has made a new instrument – out of spoons that she bought in a charity shop.
If you are yet to travel down to the Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge, I encourage you to.
The famous rebel is back! His gang is determined to stop Prince John from exploiting the citizens.
A haunting glimpse into one family’s past, Last One Out is a bittersweet tale of loss, memory and grief.
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
Doogie Paul may not be the most familiar name in music, but amongst those who know him, both directly and indirectly, he is spoken of with a great deal of admiration.
Dean Friedman is a personable guy.
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
A series of vignettes dedicated to ‘modern-day café culture and the problems that come with it’ doesn’t scream mirth, so I think the success of Kaffa! pays hearty testament …
The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane once stated his suspicion that ‘the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose’.
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
From the moment they step on stage, there’s no denying that Katie Norris and Sinead Parker have talent.
Phildel’s story is poignant and it is one to which she subtly but frankly alludes with explanations as to how each song came to be written.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
Tackling real contemporary issues, this poignant, hilarious play says a lot about finding love the second (or third or fourth) time.
The nature of the Spoken Word Showcase is such that each night is an entirely different affair, as Fay Roberts proudly announces at the beginning of the show.
It’s raining outside and our host – Stuart Laws – is on a mission to entertain us.
Back by popular demand.
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Imagine if Edgar Allan Poe and Marie Antoinette presented an hour of painfully terrible stand up, inviting guests to join them to plug their equally terrible shows, read poetry and…
Of all the ukulele workshops I’ve ever been to, this was by far the best, and let me tell you, I’ve uked a fair bit in my time.
Split between two comedians, Over It aims to lift the curtain on the taboo subjects of death and anorexia through the medium of laughter - and it kind of works.
Rowena Haley’s show has a simple, yet entertaining foundation: what is it like to grow up with a 93-year-old as your best friend? Through wittily penned songs, anecdotes and lar…
Hook up to the intensive comedy unit for revitalising laughter and life saving fun on the Free Fringe’s biggest stage.
Matt Panesh is Monkey Poet: A poet who runs out of poems after half an hour.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist.
Four Walls playfully follows the story of Sara, a girl who wakes up to her slippers farting, her mirror talking back to her and her kettle boiling at the brim.
S/He is Nancy Joe is more than just an exuberant dance performance.
A musical black comedy staged as an interaction between actor, screen projection and local choir.
Lapin Wants Breakfast is the bilingual story of a hungry rabbit desperate for his petit-dejeuner.
In Last Land and Il gioco, DanceBase presents an engaging double bill of contemporary dance which is certain to be loved by dance connoisseurs.
John Wills, guitarist of Pumajaw, the musical pairing behind Song Noir, entered the room and crossed the stage, barely acknowledging the audience as he picked up his electric guita…
Waiting in the Summerhall lobby, three other people and I are greeted by a smiling American in chunky glasses who takes us downstairs.
You’ve just received the news that the capital has been struck by a horde of flesh-eating limb draggers, with the power to infect and eradicate the human race from existence.
In a spoken word account – I would assume non-fictional, though this is never made clear – Laurel Lockhart tells us of her time in New York as she tries to hit it big in the gr…
I confess that I was not particularly looking forward to this show, struggling to imagine how, as the Fringe guide put it, a show ‘dotted with carefully repeated French keywords�…
Laugh & Cry is an exploration of public and private personas, choreographed by Evangelia Kolyra, and performed by three dancers.
Comedy debut of a small town little Welsh lady … who isn’t everything she seems.
To give these enthusiastic students credit, it is not easy to pull off a pantomime.
I forget where comic duo Damn Danes are from, but their comedy is in any case a welcome presence at this year’s Fringe.
Everyday society accepts woman who wear jeans, trainers and a t shirt as normal, yet if a man walked down the street in stockings, skirt and high heels that is seen as abnormal.
Hirsch is a well written and brilliantly performed biographical account of the turbulent life of Hungarian director John Hirsch from the perspective of an actor, Alon Nashman, who …
Sketch comedy group Graham present an hour long show based around a boy trapped in an underground bunker, following an apocalyptic badger invasion.
Free stand-up show from 21-year-old rising star, Patrick Morris.
At times contemporary dance and physical theatre is dismissed by new audiences as pretentious, shut off, or incomprehensible; Tangram is the opposite.
Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him …
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.
To spend one’s afternoon in the company of Raymond Considine is a relaxed and amusing affair.
Traverse Theatre is the central hub of Scottish new writing.
Ever wondered what radio DJs chat about when they’re off-air? No, me neither - but it turns out the topic provides a wealth of material for James Cook’s one-man show about the tria…
Pressing the right pedal records, pressing the left pedal replays.
In this rather indie-style, little comedy, Robin is a lonely continuity announcer with only his imagination to comfort him.
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been framed and is now forced to share a cell with a prostitute and possible murderer, Lina.
It may have just been that I was a good 20 years younger than most of the audience, but I felt like I’d gone back in time with Rosie Wilby’s Is Monogamy Dead?With frequent refe…
The absurdist mantle is an invaluable crutch for this play.
The onstage rapport of the three actors of Panto-Monium is nothing to be sniffed at.
I’m going to start simply: Liam Mullone is funny – much more so than his association with Russell Howard’s Good News would suggest.
Joe Munrow takes you on a hilarious ramble as the stand-up details his quest to find, from the observational to the surreal, his true comedy voice.
Ellie Taylor’s bold and vibrant style of stand up comedy makes her a pleasure to watch.
I’ve got a lot of time for people who don’t perform at the Fringe for any reason other than to exhibit a hobby.
McEwan Hall is one of the vastest spaces at the Fringe.
The name Ontroerend Goed packs a punch.
Try it at least thrice and you’re bound to get a laugh: so goes the philosophy of sketch duo Toby – consisting of siblings Sarah and Lizzy Daykin – and Nathan Dean Williams.
Despite the many celebrations for Drum Struck that have been quoted on its posters, I went in ready to be critical: I’m not impressed so easily, thought I.
Thünderbards present a two man sketch show that leaves the audience in stitches.
After two years dominating the Fringe with critically acclaimed Translunar Paradise, Theatre Ad Infinitum are back with a brand new show.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, charting the dual-natured existence of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is well-trodden turf, having seen adaptations aplenty on television, radio, film and…
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
This show is about suicide and death.
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
NPL Theatre are well known for tackling subjects that often don’t get an outing in mainstream theatre; previous work has included the thorny issue of Scottish sectarianism.
How long does it take to write, choreograph and rehearse a musical? For most musicals it’s a long, drawn-out process.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
I’ve little doubt that I’d have a lot of fun with a pony who knows one-trick but it’s safe to say that it would eventually get tiresome.
Critics’ Pick (New York Times).
Multi award-winning Doug returns with a brand new show that’ll turn you into mind reading mentalists.
The Man in the Moone, by the clearly passionate Rhum and Clay Theatre company, tells the story of Man’s fascination with the moon and his struggle to reach it.
Lead Pencil deliver a wacky, ‘90s themed sketch show, with nostalgic throwbacks and two dimensional, completely hand drawn set and props.
“You can leave, if you want to,” Laura Jane Dean tells her audience – a simple statement of fact about the freedom afforded to an individual untouched by obsessive-compulsive…
‘How’re yez?’ Eilish O’Carroll greets her audience as she steps out to affectionate applause, dressed all in black under her blue sequinned jacket: part theatre luvvie, part salt o…
Breaking the Silence follows the story of a Jewish grandmother, mother and daughter.
Fresh from the Namat Theatre in Cairo, Human and Other Things offers a select glimpse of Egypt, albeit in a rather frustrating manner.
Joe Fairbrother has talent in abundance.
What do you do when you realise that the life you have lived up until now isn’t the life you wanted to live? Who are you now and where are you going? How far will you go in searc…
One complaint reserved by many locals is that the Festival attracts a lot of sorts born with silver spoons in their mouths, or, as Joe Bor’s climber creation puts it, the sort wh…
It could be deemed ironic that our group was thrice threatened with murder before our tour had kicked off.
History, horror and a terrifying journey into the lair of the world-famous Mackenzie Poltergeist, the best documented supernatural case in history.
The Hill Street venue has a great find in their ‘Master’s Room’ space and Hinge Theatre has installed itself there to present Ordinary Things: a two-actor, four character pla…
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
The challenge with this musical has always been that, with only one actor on stage for most of the play, he or she must always be acting and can never take refuge in reacting or in…
The title of this show is a rather misleading one.
The title doesnt exactly sell the show as an evening of mirth and anarchy.
Jollygoodlarks conform to the internet school of naming: mash all your words together to form an unwieldy hybrid.
Willy Russells phenomenal West End hit musical succeeds for many reasons, but most of all because it has great tunes and in the final moments will make the hardest amongst us blu…
Prostitution is hardly an original subject for drama or even musicals - think Mrs Warrens Profession, Camille, La Boheme and more recently Baz Lurmans Moulin Rouge.
During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses.
This piece by Olivier Choinier, translated by Caryl Churchill was first presented at Londons Royal Court Theatre.
This is Shakespeares last play, you know, the one he wrote when he knew he was going to die explained the helpful American audience member to my right.
Welcome to the land of Tillys fantastical tails, I mean tales, where the line between fable and fact is not clear and brightly coloured clowns spring into song or into a story to…
The setting is a construction site outside a café on a day like any other.
Its strange to be reviewing this at all.
Can watching someone else’s psychedelic trip be interesting? This show proves that with the right cast, it can certainly have dazzling moments of fun.
Kate is a teenager staring out into the audience and smiling and muttering.
Four pupils await a class that will never start, in this new writing from Daniel Rayner, performed by Bleak Heart.
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Brief Candle describe this piece as a play for family audiences.
I dont like small rooms is the first line of this beautifully performed one-man show from Richard Fry.
Reviewing childrens shows can feel a little ridiculous; after all, Im not the target audience.
Two tramps spend each day much as the previous one, regaling each other with tales and seemingly waiting for something or someone to turn up to make life better.
Tom Owen does well to capture the raw physicality of Beckett’s anti-hero in this new production of Krapp’s Last Tape.
Productions of Berkoff used to be ten a penny on The Fringe.
On April 16 2007 a young student at Virginia Polytechnic carried out two separate shootings approximately two hours apart.
The ‘last days’ of the title is used in a Milennarian sense – we are at Judas’s Judgement Day, at a trial which ostensibly will determine whether Judas should be released f…
Okay, this is always a tricky one.
There’s a point in the torpid Last Train From Holyhead when the actor, Mick Lally, is left alone on stage waiting, it appears, for a light cue.
In his program notes writer Adam J A Cass remarks this one-person show is based on a boy who is out there somewhere, the out there being cyber space.
This two hander begins with both actresses acting out a dumb show to a music track.
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
Conor McPherson is an extraordinary writer.
An hour long performance constructed out of the colourful and controversial life, ambitions and writings of Oscar Wilde was always going to be an evening well spent.
Waiting to go into this production of Howard Brentons short, searing exploration of the nature of justice and retribution I witnessed the front of house staff refuse entry to a f…
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
The beginning of this production of Shakespeares most bitter- sweet comedy is stunning.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is often cited as the beginning, not only of ‘modern’ English Literature and as the legitimation of the vernacular language.
Living, as I do, in one of the London areas most badly affected by last summer’s riots, it was fascinating to watch this show almost exactly a year to the day.
Joe Wilkinson comments wryly that the convention is for a stand-up’s debut show to focus on what’s happened in their life so far, but unfortunately nothing interesting has ever hap…
As I collected my press ticket from the box office, a rather severe woman in the queue prodded me in the chest and said theyre only kids doing this show, so you be nice or you�…
This is one of Shakespeares toughest plays to pull off.
Marsha (Jessica Martin) and Elliot (Jason Wood) are flatmates.
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.
From the program: Analogue is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to producing challenging, visceral and exciting contemporary work, fusing mixed media on stage.
This 1980 play by Sam Shepard begins naturalistically enough.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Sacred And Profane’s stated aim is to produce ensemble theatre adapted from literary or folk traditions, using live music and live digital devices.
On entering the space the audience is presented with four-coloured globes set upon four shiny bar stools.
Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show.
Like tightrope walking over the Niagara Falls, Baby Wants Candy is an ambitious concept: either it works or it ends up six miles downstream.
This is as good a play as Ive ever seen about the absurdity of prejudice.
It is astonishing that Joe Orton only wrote six plays in his short life and yet is still so famous.
Bossa Nova and More is a Hungarian guitar duo that aims to play authentic Bossa Nova combined with less traditional numbers to create an entirely enjoyable experience.
Its quite tough to know by what standards to judge performances in Edinburgh.
Panto usually involves a cast of thousands, huge sets and the theatrical magic supplied by trap doors, smoke machines and flying apparatus.
It is almost impossible to sum up the style of this play by Enda Walsh.
I love this play, and love the film adaptation, which stars Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay.
This is David Mamets first play, written in 1972, and like many first plays is a two hander (and involves a park bench).
Starting with a school-girl strip routine that ends in crucifixion, The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper continues at a strapping pace, moving from Southern Country Singers to Hippy-c…
Okay, this does exactly what it says on the tin.
This trimmed down version of Shakespeares play is interestingly staged and mostly powerfully performed by Exeter University Theatre Company.
Initially I had high hopes for this young company.
Its fascinating watching the assembled audience as this piece warms up.
As I entered this new space at ten thirty last night after a full days reviewing my heart sank.
This is play by Maggie Nevill will resonate with anyone who has been dumped suddenly, or found out that their boyfriend or girlfriend has been cheating on them.
There is no such thing as a show that is too silly.
Old Compton Street in Soho is a place of fabulousness, where gay men and women can wander hand in hand, drink double skinny no-foam cappuccinos (with cinnamon) on the pavements, an…
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s Four Last Things is an evocative, but turbid, journey through the Irish country landscape and all unspoken things.
The basic premise behind this piece is a clever one.
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
This autobiographical account tells the story of the Irish playwright and poet Brendan Behans true-life arrest at the age of sixteen when he was caught in Liverpool carrying expl…
When she sees a stranger die in a café, Jean hardly thinks before answering his ringing phone.
In the late 1980s Brian Keenan, John McCarthy and Terry Waite were taken hostage in Beirut.
So, today I learnt to play the Ukulele and you would have too if you’d been at Robin’s Ukulele Extravaganza earlier like me.
This tale of how a brilliant man sells his soul to the devil in return for twenty four years of earthly pleasure has attracted writers in all genres for four centuries.
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…
Breaker Morant is an Ozzie legend.
This extraordinary play was written in 1956 by Swiss genius Friedrich Durrenmatt.
An actor Jack Treadwell known to his friends as Tread is giving his very last lecture/performance on dramatic method and the art of acting.
Things dont bode well when the author of this little piece has his name spelt wrongly on the programme! I hope his agent doesnt sue.
This is a shortened but fun version of Molieres final play.
William Goldings extraordinary novel was written in 1954, with a world still reeling from the horrors of the discovery of the extent of Nazi brutality and fearing for its very …
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
The authors mother is responsible for the above quote.
James Acaster claims to be very excitable, but this claim is not borne out by his laid back delivery and mundane choice of topics.
Wedekinds play was ground breaking when he wrote it in 1890.
In 1966, when the only definition of a hard drive was the jaunt to Edinburgh from London with a dodgy minibus full of props and costumes, and the beer at the venues was tuppence a …
Eighteen-year-old Brian has written fan letters to Avalyn.
About a decade ago there was a renewed interest in Schillers work.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
Mary Robinson so besotted the Prince of Wales (later George IV) with her performance as Perdita in The Winters Tale that he took her as a mistress.
This complicated farce by Italian writer Carlo Goldini was written in 1747 and is regarded as one of the great comedies of Italian theatre.
When John Peel died in 2004 a nation mourned.
Country Air ‘A Contemporary Ghost Story’ is, to be frank, confusing and confused about what it is.
Edinburgh show titles are fascinating.
There are three productions of Alan Bennetts wonderful play in Edinburgh this year.
As titles go this one is pretty much guaranteed to get your attention.
A show about one woman’s life-long love for Billie Holiday’s music, for the stars, and for her lost baby brother.
Director/performer Bill Aitchison addresses the audience at the beginning and asks for their co-operation.
First performed in 1993 at The National Theatre, this eloquent play about the Church of England is part of a trilogy by award winning writer David Hare.
This piece by director/writer Ryan J-W Smith garnered fantastic reviews and awards at last years Festival.
The mood when the audience enters this bleak and dimly-lit space is sombre.
It is an absolute delight to be able to report that Jeremiah Smallchild and Gideon Lamb have returned to the den of iniquity, incontinence, drug-peddling and pederasty that is the …
Apologies for the length of this review.
This play By Terence McNally caused great consternation on its 1998 opening in Los Angeles.
A marvellously vulgar performance of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape was performed upstairs at The Lectern last night, by the absolutely faultless Aidan Stephenson.
The title of this play by Jack Thorne might be misleading in Edinburgh where provocative or simply rude words are employed to get bums on seats.
Just as ones heart sinks when sent to review Shakespeare done by students or kids, when I was told that this young company were attempting their own version of the West End hit I…
This award-winning play by Timberlake Wertenbaker was first performed at Londons Royal Court in 1988 and has lost none of its power.
It’s hard to know how to judge Rare Notions Theatre Company’s first contribution to the Edinburgh Fringe.
These two Jesus loving friends are here from across the pond on a mission, to raise money to help a little boy with terminal cancer.
Imagine Richard and Judy.
Years ago, before my broad mind and narrow waist had changed places and I was a young actor, I went to Northern Ireland on tour.
The Dead, in the form of actors Andrew Oliveira and Jonny Iron caused quite a stir at the C venue launch when they turned up naked to promote this show.
Dead Cat Bounce embody all that a concept rock band should.
The highest tribute I can pay to this one man play about the notorious Robert Maxwell is that I really felt I had spent ninety minutes in the media tycoons presence.
Given the subject matter of this piece from Bad Penny Theatre the start couldnt be more chilling.
Daphne Pena returns to Edinburgh with a new show for 2007, adding more tales and dances from Cairo, following up her 2006 Bellydance Diaries.
Backed by ethereal, moody themes produced by the aptly titled Ragged Ragtime Band, Rex Ingram’s silent film version of The Magician was brought up from the vault to revel in the …
To sip on a quaint mug of English tea or to go to a bloody war in the Middle East?Make Tea, Not War presents its audience with this dichotomy and is set around the parochial, crump…
In their press release Blank Theatre Company describe this rarely performed one-act play by Yeats as a haunting scene of tragic intensity.
It seems unfair compare this with some of the other offerings on the Fringe.
Darragh Martins premise in An Air Balloon seems preposterous: a small, blonde, female explorer and an obese hamster are bored on a journey across the Antarctic in a hot air ballo…
Oh dear.
This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts.
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims…
The presentation of this piece, from the costumes, to the elaborate love letter style of the press release, is top notch.
Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go…
My heart usually sinks when I see the words ‘new interpretation’ or ‘re-imagined’ applied to productions of Shakespeare plays in Edinburgh.
Marlowes Doctor Faustus is notoriously hard to stage.
Equus is a popular choice with young companies coming to the Fringe, and Ive never understood why.
Z Theatre company are a bunch of schoolgirls who sing very nicely and try to put a new spin on the Kennedy assassination.
I am of the generation lucky enough to grow up with the Goodies and Monty Python.
Traverse has presented the most elegant of double bills for the Fringe by showcasing two of Scotland’s prized playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
This is an established production of Mike Maron Productions take on the book.
Though Tower Theatre Company describe themselves as a non-professional outfit its hard to tell they are amateurs.
A man singing Liza Minnelli in drag.
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
This version of Eric Bergosians mid-eighties tale of one broadcast in the life of trail blazing shock jock Barry Champlain is one of the most hyped in this years festival.
The focus in this studio production is on the music and on the actors voices: Jason Robert Browns jazz pop score and our double-star combo can hardly fail to please! Every son…
Bang Bang Youre Dead is largely based on a shooting in Oregon in 1998, in which a fifteen-year old boy killed his parents and then two of his fellow high school pupils, injuring …
Modus Operandi have chosen an unlikely subject for this new musical by writer/director James Michalos mental health.
You know youre not in for a conventional approach to the Scottish Tragedy when the Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow speech opens proceedings.
The poster for Perfume Productions presentation of this new play by Matt Harris is one of the most eye-catching and provocative, asking Have You Been To A Male Prostitute? I…
Imagine a story with two puppets struggling for consciousness, a sinister East-End Orator, and an arty pinch of German Expressionism and what do you have? A modern fairytale that a…
Dreamwalk productions are a young talented group of sixth form and gap year students who have brought Peter Shaffers ingenious piece to the Fringe.
Penny Dreadfuls are a comedy troupe with a difference all of the sketches are set in Victorian England.
The Tony Award winning musical revue Smokey Joe’s comes to the Fringe care of Tempo Productions, a native Amateur company with a long history of presenting musicals.
This lively bunch of performers from Kett Sixth Form College in Norwich have put together a piece of theatre about the dangers of over indulging in alcohol.
John Godbers work had always found a home at the Festival Fringe where he has directed and produced it himself and where many young theatre groups have also taken it on.
Bundle up for the cold-weather version of the annual summer Make Music New York festival.
Jessica Pidsley has given herself a challenge, one that she hopes will help her audience to change their attitudes towards their body.
The program for this show presented by Beacon Theatre Group points out that this group of youngsters will be the first generation to grow up with no survivors of the First World Wa…
Going to see Shakespeare done by a youth theatre doesnt necessarily fill ones soul with gleeful expectation.
Once upon a time gay men had to leave the house to find each other.
Its difficult to gauge how the audience is supposed to react to this tale of a bungled heist presented by Crumpet Theatre Company.
Writer Tim Fountain has gone back to James Leo Herlihys novel for this adaptation of the tale of a naïve and well meaning hustlers experiences in New York in the 70s.
Cambridge ADC have made a brave stab at this difficult piece.
When youre bored with Hampstead Heath youre bored with life.
As the press pack informs us Mary OMalleys Once a Catholic is a comedy centering around the lives of three Marys (Mooney, McGinty and Gallagher) at a convent school in North Lo…
There was a time when the Fringe was awash with Berkoff plays.
Lizzie Roper is a very funny stand up and talented actress.
Written in the fourth century BC by Euripides, this is the tragedy of the royal house of Cadmus in ancient Thebes.
Jan van Beek and Jonathan Brugh bill themselves as the Van Brugh family, and when this piece begins with them playing a very young brother and sister who talk about sucking cocks …
Pantomime is traditionally seen as more of a treat for the kids than the adults, but after hearing the raucous laughter from nearly every adult audience member in the building at s…
The young students of Ankle Productions have a mission statement in the program which says they want to appeal to those who favour content over style and want to laugh at uber-th…
The audience is confronted initially with two men tied to chairs, with hessian sacks over their heads.
Writer/director Oliver Mann has constructed this show entirely from edited extracts of internet blogs, and Connected Theatre crack through the snippets of the lives of eleven blogg…
Modest proposals have staged an atmospheric and mildly disturbing premiere of this surreal Gunter Grass play.
Kangaroo Court have devised and interesting take on DH Lawrences notorious tale of illicit love between the classes.
Bernie Kavanaghs anti-war play, presented by Feet and Fingers TC, has a brilliant premise.
There’s much to commend in Red Ladder Theatre’s ‘Forgotten Things’, written by Emma Adams.
I was unable to obtain any information or a cast list prior to this show, so apologies to the young American actors who have a brave stab at Wildes classic, thought by many to be…
Very soon after Joe Sutherland took to the stage, it was clear we were in good company: here was someone personable and inclusive, rude and funny with a penchant for great one-line…
This gentle comedy is set in Buncrana, County Donegal, just across the border from Northern Ireland, between 1943 and 1945, the last two years of what the Irish called The Emerge…
Theres a truly international flavour to this presentation by Teatro dei Borgia, written by Italian Natalia Capra, directed by her countryman Gianpiero Borgia and performed by Nor…
Beginning in the East End of Glasgow in 1979 when major supplies of heroin first appeared on the streets (and Margaret Thatcher on the steps of Number Ten), stand up comedian and w…
Made in China’s We Hope You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a 50 minute snapshot of two lifelong friends, Jess and Chris, sharing a night in, while everyone else is out getting…
Hayley Shillito and Laura Taylor spend the whole of this piece from Horizon Arts dressed in black and joined together by a piece of long elastic.
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
This was the grand opening of a new show which will happen regularly through this years Fringe, hosted by Joe Simmons at Symposium Hall.
This is one of Shakespeares most beautiful plays.
At the age of seven, Sorrow (Helen George), saw her parents brutally murdered by members of the Bewley family.
The title of this particular show may lead you to expect certain things that the final product fails to deliver in every way.
The lights go up on a run-down flat with a couple, Pat and Susan, that look like they’re in the middle of one hell of a row.
The novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne was first published in two volumes in 1759, with seven others following over the next 10 years.
The central premise of the play is that there is an afterlife which everyone goes to after they die.
This play by Shakespeares contemporary Marlowe is potentially thrilling.
This is certainly different.
Simply and elegantly staged, George Orwells Coming Up For Air is a breath of fresh air in the middle of all of the over dressed, multi-media, post-modern shows which seem to have…
In Any More Legroom?, Liverpool John Moores University showcases its recent graduates’ dissertation dance pieces.
If I tell you the TV version of this popular comedy by Tim Firth included performances by Tim Spall and David Bamber you will get some idea of the age range of the characters.
The problem with one-person shows from an audience point of view is that, if you don’t like what’s going on, you know that no one else is going to come along and perk things up…
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.
Kieran and Joe may have gone from a trio to a duo since their last trip to the Fringe but fans can rest easy: the loss of a man doesn’t mean a loss of laughs.
If theres one period of history, or one English monarch everyone thinks they know a bit about, its the reign of Henry VIII.
After starting with an epic video and launching straight into fast paced one liners, it’s clear that this parody show has the objective of mocking every action film we have ever …
I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute…
That Tom Binns’ now revered earlier creation, Ivan Brackenbury, has polarised opinion over the last few Fringes is undoubted.
It will come as no surprise that this is a controversial play.
The Terrible Infants is billed as a children’s show, and I’m a gnarly old hack, just the wrong side of 40.
Bouncing on stage with a declaration that he’s always wanted to play the smallest gig at the Festival, Luke Toulson is quick to establish a rapport with his small but perfectly for…
Willie Russell’s two-hander about a Liverpudlian housewife trying to better herself through an Open University literature course was hailed in 1980 as a Pygmalion for modern time…
There are actually plenty of comedy options at the Fringe if you want to avoid the ‘affable young bloke in jeans and a t-shirt telling jokes’ but perhaps none further removed t…
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward have both been celebrated countless times in musical biopics, but this could be the first time that their respective careers and lives have been combin…
Rosie Wilby is a funny lady.
A comedy night in aid of Friends of the Earth, this fast-moving show was jam-packed with talent.
Stick Stock Stone Dead is a piece written and performed entirely by the under 18-year-olds of the CrazySchemeTheatre company, and while the show is a decent first attempt at physic…
Written and first performed in the first half of the seventeenth century, John Fords tragedy of forbidden love amongst the Italian aristocracy has had a controversial history.
Ideally Edgar Allan Poe’s works should be read in the dead of night, in an armchair by a crackling fire with the slow tap of wintry branches against the window.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is based upon the two characters who appear sporadically in Hamlet.
After several sell-out Fringe shows and a run of worldwide appearances that have seen them tour almost continuously for the last four years, Dead Cat Bounce have honed their dysfun…
Jonny & Joe are couple of young lads with an inventive and interesting series of sketches.
Dylan Thomas wrote this extraordinary poem to humanity in 1954.
The set is nothing more than a small section of floor and two chairs.
Fat Joe’s Chicken Shack is a play about a football advertising company in London and its impact on the developing world.
Here was the biggest audience yet.
Pornography, we are educationally informed in this piece, means the writing of harlots.
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years is one of those musicals whose fanbase has crept up despite seldom being treated to professional productions, but it deserves every fan it can…
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
I attended this production as possibly the only person who was not a blood relative or class mate of someone connected to the show.
Theyre sold out until the end of time (well, the end of the run anyway) so its pretty academic if I say that this is the funniest, silliest, campest, rudest, coarsest, most pre…
After last year’s storming Edinburgh performance in All of Me, Stephen K Amos returns with another great comedy outing in More of Me.
Jennifer Lusk’s new piece of writing is a one-woman show recalling a time in the Second World War when a young nurse had a photograph taken of her in an underground station by a …
The streets, plazas, parks and waterfronts of the five boroughs will be alive with music during this free, outdoor extravaganza, which features over 1,300 concerts from dawn to dus…
This is adaptation of a short novel by Horace McCoy, presented by the Italia Conti Ensemble, recalls the Depression in America in 1935 when poverty drove young people to take part …
Anne Frank wrote arguably the most famous diary in history.
Just before the lights went down at the start of this production of Athol Fugard’s 1972 play, a front of house person barked at an audience member clambering over a seat ‘Stop …
And No More Shall We Part at the Traverse Theatre is the European premiere for Tom Holloway’s new play that oozes brilliance and subtlety as it gently explores what it means to b…
Is The Daily Mail Dead Yet? is a stand up comedy show which is intended to be a hilariously liberal attack against the Mail and other similar voices of outdated, emasculated racist…
The poet Bryon was famously described by one of his countless paramours as mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Peter Weisss The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, to give this …
For centuries scholars have disagreed about the authorship of the most famous plays in the world.
Robin Ince has had a bad month: after a major flood left his house and record collection full of human sewage, he talks to us about claiming compensation from Thames Water; about …
While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his…
So sexy that 70% of the room would leave pregnant with very hairy babies (and that’s not just the women) was the warning we received, as we sat ourselves down and prepared for th…
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
Edinburgh is a great place to take risks on a show, but Im sure we all also like to have a few safe-bets in our calendar to make sure a brief visit to the Fringe has some guarant…
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…
Edward Wren cuts a fine macabre master of ceremonies in The River Peoples Terrible Tales of the Midnight Chorus.
My main memory of French lessons is struggling to remember lists of increasingly bizarre irregular verbs, a recollection many will, sadly, find familiar.
A man in the front row at Bec Hill’s show accuses her of being the worst comedian he’s ever seen.
Theatre Corsair opens its doors to a space that is transformed seamlessly into an apartment where the lives of three women collide in this site-specific performance of The Dead Mem…
This young company have taken on a huge and emotive subject here; the plight of young children who arrive in this country as refugees, unaccompanied by adults.
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
Based loosely on Ibsens When We Dead Awaken, Dead follows artist Pauric Fermoy back to Ireland, his pretty young wife in tow.
In the wonderful location of the top deck of a stationary Edinburgh bus, two comedians try to find their feet on the comedy circuit.
From a rolling mass of protruding limbs, encased in a stomach-like skin which at first appears to be a boulder, five performers are regurgitated.
It occurred to me watching Neil LaBute’s 90-minute four-hander, that he is the nearest thing America has to George Bernard Shaw.
This short one-woman show starts very cleverly.
How much do you know about obscure mid 90s Britpop band Wilby? Not much? Evidently anyone with a real niche interest in obscure Britpop bands should make it their business to find …
Neil LaBute’s companion plays Land of the Dead and Helter Skelter explore a sudden change in life situations, portrayed through the lives of two couples.
Patricia Highsmiths novel, written in 1955, is the first of five about the eponymous fraudster who cons, cheats and lies his way through life and most of Europe.
Imagine you have a five-year-old child.
Attending free shows at the Fringe is something of a lottery.
To have in the publicity for your show the remark that ‘an artists masterpiece is a spectators nightmare’ is a dangerous hostage to fortune.
The students in this house-share face questions typical to their situation, like how do you split a broadband bill? Or does never doing the washing up make you a git? However, they…
Looking at people’s holiday pictures can be a downright dull experience.
Trevor Griffithss short (very short) play written in 1981 is a fascinating choice for a young company to present in 2010.
This play is a masterpiece.
In Ancient China the Emperor places his hand upon death’s door.
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
Ive seen this play a lot.
I love Lili.
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
I originally held out much hope for this production from How to Deal with Rude and Unruly Women, however being there was like serving a prison sentence.
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Comedy, circus, storytelling, poetry and stupid science.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Sikisa Bostwick-Barnes’ Her Me Out will be premiering at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August - you may have seen Sikisa on the BBC or Live at The Apollo, or even received legal...
James Macfarlane chats with comedian Robin Tran about her Fringe debut, how she deals with praise from big comedy names and her favourite way to control her audiences.
James Macfarlane chats with Tania Lacy about returning to the Fringe after 29 years with her show Everything's Coming Up Roses, her love of home crowds and her illustrious showbiz ...
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.
Serena Flynn might only reveal her darkest secrets after lots of gin, but her on-stage alter ego Prune is grotesque, fragile and ready to bear all.
You've probably walked the circumference of the globe the amount of times you've been up and down the pier.
Caitlin is a one-woman play by Mike Kenny about Dylan Thomas and his wife's tempestuous life together, written entirely from her point of view.
The relationship between poetry and alcohol is renowned and Joseph J Clark continues in this tradition with his show, Drunk With A Pen (Sweet Werks 2, 5th-13th May, 19:00).
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Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
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...
Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More is the story of a high-society fashion journalist recruited by MI5 to facilitate the abdication of King Edward VIII.
Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world.
Love for Sale a theatrical cabaret celebration of the music of Kurt Weill set in 1930s Paris.
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...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
To Kill a Machine by Catrin Fflur Huws tackles the life and times of Alan Turing.
It’s the iconic Edinburgh film and book - and now nearly 21 years since the film opened - a young theatre company brings Trainspotting to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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...
Broadway Baby chats to Gemma Wilson and Anna Thomas-Jones from The Well-Behaved Women about their upcoming show Dog Play Dead.