What has quickly became an annual tradition.
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.
Connor Masich, best known as Connor Wood or @fibulaa across his socials, is a 28-year-old comedian based in Venice, CA.
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.
“Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings…” It’s Christmas Eve, Bedford Falls.
Online sensations and stars of hit podcast Sports Horn, The Exploding Heads, bring their characters to life on stage for the first time in their debut national tour comi…
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
From award-winning Hambledon Productions (‘Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show’, ‘Steptoe and Son’) comes the Godfather of all sitcoms, Hancock…
Charismatic virtuoso musician, pianist and composer Kirill Richter returns to the UK to make his debut at The Coliseum for the premiere of this unique, dazzling and deeply immersiv…
CALLING ALL THE LADIES, GAYDIES and THEYDIES.
A show that joyfully celebrates the achievements of musicians who are disabled and/or neurodivergent.
After sell-out concerts at the Fringe last year, the Bohemians are back, taking you through all aspects of life in their jam-packed, fun-filled concert.
There are two sides to every story.
Alan Reid, one of the most influential Scottish folk artists of his generation, and founding member of Battlefield Band, joins Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Larry Kaplan fo…
Entrancing concert of Vivaldi and Handel’s sublime music exploring love and redemption.
Don’t miss the ultimate late-night comedy extravaganza! Join us for different line-ups every night, with known faces and new acts – all broadcast LIVE on ITVX.
PBJ presents some of the best up-and-coming and established stand-up talent at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Book now to avoid disappointment!
A Prime Minister with troubles in Europe and within his own party.
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
Join us for Arkle’s second Wester Ross radio play, combining mythical creatures, illicit whisky and the 19th century scientific survey of Scotland’s lochs, with gentle humour, …
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…
A woman embarks on an epic quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Blind Mirth returns to Edinburgh Fringe once again in a blaze of glory and parental disdain.
A solo narrative navigating life with neurodiversity.
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…
Do you want to hear a scary story? Mac and Beth will try anything to speed up their work team bonding session.
When I am on stage performing stand-up comedy I feel like a wild horse galloping through the plains of Ohio, the wind running through my mane, the hot sun shining down on my sturdy…
Escape the hubbub of the Fringe and spend a relaxing hour sketching in the company of canines.
Concerned about the economy? Bloomberg’s Merryn Somerset Webb returns to Panmure House to interview, talk over and argue with prominent economists, politicians and finance gurus.
Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes…
Dave Kirby (Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds & Blues) is back at The Court with the smash hit sequel to Lost Soul! Smigger&rsqu…
After three consecutive sold-out runs, Paul Black returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new hour.
Dave Kirby (Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds & Blues) is back at The Court with the smash hit sequel to Lost Soul! Smigger&rsqu…
Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians on the Fringe at the iconic Biscuit Factory in Leith.
Tune-in for a mockumentary edition of This Is Your Life as our imposter Michael Aspel interviews Ludwig van Beethoven.
A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Life is but a complex, dynamic mix of chemicals.
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Diverse compositions spanning Janáček to Lianne La Havas are woven together by Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Harry Baker.
TikTok is the virtual stage of Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Unearthed Dance Company bring a newly developed contemporary dance work to the stage.
At Come to Mommy nothing is off the table! Having a problem at work? A tiff with your spouse? Did you commit arson? No matter the problem, you can always Come to Mommy, hosted by G…
Tired of looking at bad screen? Come and look at good screen! Join regular host Fearghas Kelly as he presents some of the festival’s best acts in this unique and exciting new multi…
The latest chapter in the theatrical saga of ex-detective Richard P Cooper, who now finds himself sucked into a time-bending sci-fi caper! In an impromptu trip to the future, Richa…
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Edinburgh Fringe for 2024, and we’ve got some incredible new recipes! We’ll be chopping, stirring, kneading and boiling to serve you some deli…
Sammy and Clyde are on their first date.
Vox Stars, winners of the Spirit Of The Fringe Award (2022) present a new show for 2024, celebrating aspiring singers through the music of their idols.
You know the guy.
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…
Well, hello there, Mary Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie! With award-winning author, storyteller and drama teacher Barbara Henderson, the Stuarts leap from the page in this…
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
From an illegal rave in an abandoned vagina museum to the PTA cheese and wine – mid-life dating with the mindset of a teen is a wild ride.
How well can you know your own family? A grandson discovers the hidden secrets behind his grandparents’ ordinary yet curious marriage.
In their Fringe debut, the UK’s No.
But some are useful.
Roll up for a brand-new series of shows: it’s election year in the UK and US.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Relive the golden age of Hollywood as our cinema pianist improvises a film score to Charlie Chaplin’s best silent films including The Gold Rush (1925) – live! During the silent f…
Free exhibition of international artists brought together by the SBLDC weekly online sessions with models and artists from four continents.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Are our memories important in our day-to-day present lives? How can sociologists uncover people’s memories and why should they bother to do so? Delve deeper with Dr Sophie Athert…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
The hits of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons performed by UK tribute act The False Seasons.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Comedy and therapy for PTSD have a lot in common: both deal with the absurd and rely on authenticity to be good.
Scotland’s other national tongue has been misunderstood and (officially) mistreated for centuries.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Join Professor Alan Riach, author of Scottish Literature: An Introduction (‘magisterial’ (Times)), for a dynamic encounter with literary luminaries! Explore creativity, unravelling…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Come and join us for the original free walking tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town and enjoy the stories of the many colourful characters who lived here.
Have you ever wondered what life is like being 3’10”? What it’s like doing day-to-day activities? What questions people ask you everyday? Well wonder no more, as George Coppen tak…
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
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…
A rule-breaker, a risk taker, a wave-maker and a convention-shaker – all phrases never before used to describe Jake Baker.
‘Modern dance isn’t anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.
Last year in Edinburgh rocked, so we’re back, baby! Awkward Question Time is the hit show that takes a different panel of comedians and performers from across the Fringe each day…
They say that history repeats itself.
In the last few years, poet, performer and slam champion Jonathan Kinsman has lost two grandfathers, a great aunt, a cat and his sanity.
Return of the 2022 and 2023 hit show.
Embark on a musical odyssey with One Acchord: That’s Life in Harmony.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from Fringe legend David Alnwick.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Candid and hilarious new stand-up hour, talking about who I am, in an era where people are really keen to hear about who you are, so long as who you are is something they want to h…
Mona Mae is a Juicy Jurassic Southern Belle transplanted in Scotland.
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…
Following last year’s debut Topical Comedian Show at the Fringe, Peter Merrett is back with more news, in fact new news; same venue, earlier time.
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Pure horror… Pushing the boundaries of magic as a genre’ ***** (WorldMagicReview.
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
‘Chock-full of humor and satire, accompanied by a constant vein of honesty and self-analysis, Rachel Pollock’s solo performance is a hidden gem amongst the Fringe scene’ **** (DC…
Join the guys for a visual feast and hilarious tales of touring Scotland to shoot this year’s topless calendar.
Astrophysicist Dr Julian Mayers asks whether studying the Universe gives us any insight into earthly matters of life, death and love.
Following their hugely successful run at last year’s Fringe, CRE8IV are back with their show that encourages you to sing along! You won’t be thrown out for belting out these musica…
Dolly’s forlorn.
Can too much religion in your teens screw up your sex life in your 50s? Then how come Mormons have so many babies? Is eternal life really worth the hassle? Forever is a long time.
Step into the electrifying atmosphere of the All Made Up Podcast live show, where storytelling takes centre stage! Join our charismatic hosts Harry Stachini, Ben Hart and Lewis Col…
Unhinged, in the best way, and genuinely original.
To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong.
Two boys meet.
Virginia Woolf, Ophelia and ADHD.
In the dusty confines of her late mother’s attic, secrets unravel like cobwebs as Charlotte embarks on a darkly comedic journey through the forgotten chapters of her family’s twist…
After 10 years in the UK, Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the test: The Life in the UK test.
The Pigeons are up against the clock! Running Out of Time! is The Milky Pigeons’ debut full-length sketch-comedy show.
At 30, Nicole finally found out why she was like this (spoiler: it’s ADHD), but four years and one diagnosis later.
In his brand new, thought-provoking show, magician and mind illusionist Sean Alexander reflects on the defining moments in time that shape each and every one of us.
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’.
2023 Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe/sold-out run in Edinburgh! ‘A sold-out Fringe classic!’ **** (BritishTheatreGuide.
Calling all musical lovers! Clara, an employee of furniture store, helps people establish their homes but wrestles with the idea to create a home of her own.
The award-winning Northern Irish stand up, BBC New Comedy Award finalist and winner of Dublin’s Laughter Lounge Irish Comedian of The Year brings his hilarious debut show to the Fr…
Lonely musical composer Randy Thatcher has finally found the confidence to share his magnum opus (to an imaginary audience in his bedroom).
Elvis-inspired musical that will have you dancing in your seats! When a strange biker shows up in small-town USA all hell breaks loose! Brilliant show from the New York-based cast …
The Momma Drama presents the hilarious and heartfelt show: Stretchmarks! An original play written by mums for mums, about the adventure of a lifetime: motherhood.
Herstory, ancestry and f*ckupery - it’s all in the making of show.
The 2023 Fringe First-winning club/theatre immersive experience returns for eight performances only! Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin hosts an interactive joy-ride through his 80s/90s clu…
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
The Mountebank Comedy Walk is Edinburgh’s hysterical, historical and completely original comedy walking tour.
Voices of Israel and Palestine.
This crowd-pleasing musical is inspired by and features the songs of Elvis Presley.
Adele’s mad journey into comedy started because her kids bought her a comedy course for her birthday.
New Zealand Comedy Award Winner Sully O’Sullivan hosts a rolling showcase of some of the best comedic talent Australasia has to offer.
Following in the footsteps of the great time travellers of the past, present and future, the woman with the purple hat, the painted boots and the little wheelie suitcase invites yo…
Walk on the wild side and go off the beaten track with a witty guided tour packed full of stories from Edinburgh’s past and present music scenes.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
Things have gotten a little bit harder lately.
Singh’ing in the Rain – Mandeep Singh brings a feel-good comedy hour about cracking on regardless of the circumstances.
Acclaimed international vocalist Georg Tormann (BBC One’s All Together Now) brings all of Frank’s greatest hits to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a touching and entertaining trib…
After last year’s sell-out run, they’re back and still the best in the business! Ian Coppinger (Dublin Comedy Improv), Stuart Murphy (Stu and Garry’s Improv Show), Stephen Frost an…
Award-winning David Hoare returns with another bumper show, brimming with silliness.
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory… but only to a lucky few.
The award-winning musical comedy revue revealing all about musicals and the people who love them – on both sides of the curtain.
This was supposed to be an ode to creativity and words.
A lifetime being a professional f*cking lunatic that enjoys swearing in front of people.
Join Essex’s cheekiest chap for his debut hour of stand-up.
Be the first to see two new radio sitcoms performed by a cast of top comedians and recorded live for podcast.
A revolving door of different African, Australian and British comedians every show! Come support your home country’s roots while learning about other cultures in the funniest way p…
Returning after a total sell-out run in 2019, Fragility of Man follows one man’s epic, lifelong battle with the justice system.
The ultimate international burlesque extravaganza has returned due to high demand! Sold-out run 2023.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Piggy Time is a mixed-bill show featuring the funniest and weirdest comedy acts of the Fringe.
A groundbreaking one-woman immersive musical written and performed by Daisy Boulton.
What goes up, must come down… but not necessary in the way that you expected.
The longest-running burlesque show at Fringe returns for a tenth dazzling edition.
On the heels of a major childhood event, K Lorrel Manning’s Lost.
Last year’s sell-out show returns with more magic, more puppets and even more laughter! A great show for all the family to start your festival day! Advance booking advised! Featuri…
Join host Rik Carranza as comedians from across the Fringe battle it out to discover which is the best franchise, Star Trek or Star Wars, the ultimate clash of fandoms.
Following her award-winning debut and sell-out run, Chelsea Birkby’s back with a meditation on lust for life.
A very funny sex-positive comedy show for people with genitals and a good sense of humour.
Which is the true home of heroes – Marvel or DC? In this interactive show, kids battle it out on behalf of their heroes in games and challenges to decide which franchise has the …
Astute observational humour with an irreverent flair from two of Birmingham’s silliest sausages.
Sasha doesn’t need a child to be a MILF.
Crosswords is exactly what is says. Top comedians angry about the news, and top comedians and the audience doing the crossword. Get angry, get the clues and get laughs.
This show is autobiographical, about growing up as a vicar’s daughter and being a student at Gordonstoun, where our King Charles went.
Catherine Cohen is back.
‘A Rollicking Roller-Coaster Ride!’ ****½ (TheWest.
Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Toby was, until he discovered the ancient lost Gaelic secrets to love, life and the universe.
Returning again to the Fringe, and as always featuring students from the University of Salford.
One-of-a-kind interactive comedy show featuring Australia’s most eligible bachelor Daniel Delby who had his first girlfriend at 33.
Come and experience the globe-trotting international Irish storyteller, Ronnie Neville! From Cork to Edinburgh via New York and Melbourne with a suitcase full of stories.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Multi award-winning live music sensation direct from Australia makes its Edinburgh debut with a celebration of Aussie hit-makers and songs that spurred change throughout history.
Celebrating their 10th year as the No 1 party of the Fringe, Massaoke is coming to McEwan Hall! Join Rockstar Weekend, the ‘greatest party band of all time’ according to the Britai…
Addicted to any mobile devices or know others who are? If so, Wen-Jen Huang’s restlessly swift, hot-wired dance quartet should produce jolts of recognition.
US comedian Kyle Ayers (Conan, Comedy Central) tries to make light of having Trigeminal Neuralgia, a rare nerve disorder known as Suicide Disease.
The adventures of blind comedian and folk singer David Eagle: accosted by faith healers, bamboozling aggressive Australians and escaping arrest after a nocturnal accordion-based an…
House of Life is a place of worship with one goal: happiness for all, at any cost.
With a heart of gold, a silver tongue and a steel-trap wit, Lucy combines her experience as as a folk singer, Human Biology teacher and Sexual Health Educator to ‘edutain’ one and …
Celya is good in a crisis but cries at flashmob videos.
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…
Belles was the it girl, hip girl, oh-so-very-fit girl.
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…
Think you’ve hit rock bottom, then realize you’re nowhere near? Become a life coach.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene is back with a whole new show and he wants you to forget everything you know about stammering.
A joyful, captivating comedy about love, cancer and running for a really long time.
A poignant exploration of comedy intertwined with the essence of life’s ups and downs.
It’s gonna be a bloody night! This dude has taken his crazy kink to a whole new level.
In a closed park at night, a security guard on his patrol finds a young woman in a ballet dress sitting on the bench making paper swans.
Award-winning comedian and international rising star Amos Gill is back at the Fringe with another boundary-pushing hour of hilarious, challenging and sometimes caustic stand-up.
The 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee and winner of the Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality returns with a brand new show! After the huge success of his 2023 Phil…
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Social media sensation Christopher tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Fresh off the back of his triumphant sold-out Leicester Comedy Festival show and supporting Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger) on his world tour performing at Hammersmith Apollo, Dublin’s 3Oly…
This feral equine fantasia follows 11-year-old Audrey who is telepathically linked to all the other horse-girls in the world.
The David O’Doherty of comedy is back! Having trained his body and mind to the point of peak perfection, he has used a very nice pen to write a new concert of talking and songs.
Once upon a time, a little girl and a little boy were lost in the woods.
Star of New Zealand Today and last-place finisher on Taskmaster NZ, Guy Williams makes his Edinburgh debut! Nominated for Best Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2023.
The incredible true story of missing WWII soldier Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew David William Bryan.
Trumpets: parp parp parp paaarp, Fringe favourite and Disney Prince heartthrob of Extraordinary (Disney+) descends from his ivory (Fairtrade) tower to glisten your eyes with this m…
Birdy is 19.
Take a bunch of tuneful strangers.
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 …
After a five-star sell-out run in 2023, Burning Down the Horse is back! This immersive comedy epic drops you into the heart of the most iconic wooden animal in history – the Troj…
This is a tell-all, personal storytelling comedy show.
Join BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani.
After a sellout Edinburgh Fringe Run and subsequent 40-date UK Tour, World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker is back with a brand new show celebrating the wonder that is …
Lift your spirits, soothe your soul with fun, laughter, storytelling, comedy and music.
1999.
Based on true events, The Lost Lionesses tells the story of a team of pioneering young women who travel to Mexico to play in the 1971 women’s football World Cup in front of 90,000 …
The arrival of a new Baker and his younger wife turns a provincial French village upside down in this cult classic musical from the legendary Stephen Schwartz (composer of Godspell…
“If that makes sense” Common Phrase.
Despite being dragged by the wig from her seat in Westminster, Babs Romance MP holds a celebratory ‘evening with’ and reflects on her absurdly privileged life and sketc…
Welcome to Russia! With your help Maria uses live cinema, a killer soundtrack, a questionable Russian accent, and the only lines from the play she can remember to transport you …
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
The Theatrical Guild presents an intimate insight into the life and work of Worldwide Superstar Brian Cox (“Succession” & “Long Day’s Journey…
Brothers from other mothers, Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and story-lines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
After 10 years in the UK Canadian stand-up comedian David Tsonos is taking the Test, the Life in the UK test.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Edinburgh.
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”.
Join AFLO.
Poor Archy - trapped in the body of a cockroach - reflects on the insanity and inanity of humanity as he records his memoirs on a newly-discovered typewriter.
Dragged by the wig from her seat in Westminster, Babs Romance MP holds a scandalous press conference and reflects on her absurdly privileged life and sketchy career as a Preservati…
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
Amy wanders around her old dollhouse.
With big laughs, big illusions and even bigger characters, Houdini’s Greatest Escape is a fast paced, madcap adventure about the world’s most famous escapologist, fresh from a …
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
For millennia, men have written about sex and their work has been called Great Literature.
Experience the first on-screen adventure of everyone’s favourite archaeologist/action hero, with live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
Old Movies Saved My Life: 2.
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…
Travel back and forth in time with Through the Ages at Downsview Life Skills College.
An exhibition to celebrate Brighton’s bond with Bhopal, illuminating the appalling, inspiring story of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas tragedy…
Ten years after a horrible crime tore them apart, two lovers reunite at the worst time.
Gay culture.
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
A Summer of Love-style Dada Happening blurring the boundary between audience and performers featuring live music, art, dance, performance poetry and an improvised album driven by c…
After selling out last time David Nihill is back with his new show, Shelf Help.
Ever wanted to tell your story but don’t know where to start? Explore how to tell the tales of your own life in a fun, relaxed environment with award-winning storyteller and th…
After a critically acclaimed and award-nominated debut hour Daddy’s Home, Philipp returns to Brighton to work out jokes for his new show.
The 2023 Brighton Fringe award-winning show returns! Disability in society: fairytale or pigging nightmare? It seems the Big Bad Wolf’s blown your house down: with two life-cha…
Inspired by true events, Swipe, Life & Gate Number 5 is an exceptional lesbian love story between a white and a black immigrant.
Join David Ingram, a 40-something retired twink, as he discusses his life as a gay man, the ups and downs, the tops and bottoms of growing up in a small town in Scotland in the 80�…
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
For over a decade, KLH Dance has been nurturing the talents of youth dancers in Brighton, and now, our Elite and Junior squad dancers, along with some of our KLH alumni, are taking…
Come join Bobby Prezinsky and Louis George as they debut their split bill comedy show, Best of Greatest Hits GOLD [Platinum Edition].
A blistering new hour from Jacob Hatton about home and the people in it.
Only Fans sensation LJ DA FUNK discovers that even when making a living showing off his hanging chads to the world, he cannot escape the conniving clutches of the capitalists.
Local Brighton alternative comedian Brad Jon Kane presents a character comedy show, where all the characters have been politely asked to ‘Please Slow Down’.
Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe.
In 1810 a brave Scottish man named Sir George Steuart Mackenzie ventured all the way to Iceland with some pals.
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…
“Nighty Night meets Benidorm” in this dark, satirical one-queen show.
David has undergone changes and is happier than he looks, promise.
After its hit run at last year’s Brighton Fringe, Chet Baker: Let’s Get Lost comes to The Bridge House.
Rip-roaring, off-the-wall stand-up from one of the silliest people I know.
The Black Diamonds UK present ‘Stealing the Show’.
Dylan and Lucy are best friends and housemates, but the fallout of a tragic accident causes the trajectory of their relationship to descend into unexpected chaos.
The sell-out poetry night, Off The Chest, makes its Brighton premiere at Komedia on 7th May.
Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey.
Figment Arts will be sharing the folklore, heritage and history of Sussex this May in association with Artist Open Houses.
This debut show weaves together the insightful storytelling of David Sedaris and the clever stand-up of John Mulaney, welcoming you to the world of Renata, a non-native speaker bol…
Discover the power of laughter with life coaches extraordinaire, Sydney and Silvana! What are the chances that two talented and passionate life coaches who also happen to be hila…
Johnny Wardlow is trying to live his best life in a world that’s falling apart.
Lost to the Sea is an exploration of grief after losing a child to an accident at sea and how the power of words can be a huge part of the healing process going forwards.
Behind the Georgian facades of the seafront has always lain another town entirely.
The winner of Sweden’s Got Talent is back with Magical after selling out at the Edinburgh Fringe and at last years FRINGE WORLD.
Thought Eurovision couldn’t get any camper? Join Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus as they whisk you away on an exploration of the past, present and future of everyone’s favourite so…
Online viral comedian, takes to the stage for his new show of stories from a life of a dreamer with odd ways of handling what life had to throw and an obscure view of the world tha…
Brighton's South Laines is not just about cobbled streets, boutique shops, interesting pubs and restaurants.
Welcome to The Secret Comedy Club’s “Best of the Fest” shows throughout Brighton Fringe Festival 2023! Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt as we bring you a hilarious lineup o…
Jamie Osman and Tom Hollings are two old friends who after over thirty combined years in the music industry decided to challenge their relationships with alcohol and dru…
Jamie Osman and Tom Hollings are two old friends who after over thirty combined years in the music industry decided to challenge their relationships with alcohol and dru…
If Emily Burns’ immaculately realised Love’s Labour's Lost is anything to go by, there is a fresh new breeze whispering through the corridors of the RSC.
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Wowza! Multi Award-Winning rapping teacher, and World Book Day Ambassador, MC GRAMMAR is LIVE and in the HOUSE! Grab your caps, shades and chains and get ready…
Wowza! Multi Award-Winning rapping teacher, and World Book Day Ambassador, MC GRAMMAR is LIVE and in the HOUSE! Grab your caps, shades and chains and get ready…
A West End Gala at the Adelphi Theatre will celebrate over 75 years of the NHS.
In a frenetic on-stage exorcism, actor and filmmaker Nick Cohen relives his rollercoaster journey from South London to Sunset Boulevard.
A captivating, joyful comedy about love, cancer and really long journeys.
Based on the best-selling book by Yann Martel, the five-star hit show comes to Hull.
Lost and Found is a re framing of the story of the highwayman MacHeath, and his gang of men, Peachum the Thieftaker, his daughter Polly and all the murky underworld of L…
‘The Greatest Play Of All Time’ tells the story of 1&2, characters in the mind of a Writer trying to create a career defining play.
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Olivier award-winning actor Brian Cox, makes his return to the London stage in Spring 2024 starring in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
An ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
The war is over, and the Allies have won.
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today.
The Pretty Pill What's the real cost of beauty? Close All Tabs These are my emotional support tabs The Pretty Pill - Kate Devaney Naomi navigates fitting int…
You Got It, Boss! Life at #2: A Henchman's Tale Stand up, Smack down! Where comedy and wrestling collide You Got It, Boss! - Charisma CheckWhat's a goon su…
Get ready for the premier of In the Time of Dragons, an action packed, funny and ultimately heartwarming new musical from the creators of Spinach.
The Lost Bride A journey through heartbreak and grief.
It’s 1948 and on board the Windrush Empire, journeying over from the West Indies to England, Ferdy, Bernie, Dennis and Lennie are full of expectations and aspirations.
Come join us for a night of pure gold at Piano Smithfield! Get ready for an unforgettable event filled with music and laughter as we shine a spotlight on the Golden Age of Hollywoo…
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Meta vs Life is a theatre gaming experience that can be played online or in-person.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
After a 3 and half-year-run on Emmerdale that was tragically ended by a fictional car crash, Louise Marwood started to design a car crash of her own and inspired by her wild endeav…
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
The culmination of a two-year project working with carers, who are often excluded from cultural activities because of their responsibilities, Heart of Care is an artwork made up of…
Based on conversations with activists, academics and diplomats, theatre maker Chris Thorpe’s new show focuses on the human story of the struggle of nuclear disarmament, and the g…
Does the name of the father matter on a birth certificate in a post-modern world where gender fluidity is the norm and relationships non-committal? Transgression is set in the Nine…
Ryan Long is an NYC Comedian who has amassed more than 100 million views with his viral digital shorts, and is currently the host of popular podcast 'The Boyscast&a…
Ryan Long is an NYC Comedian who has amassed more than 100 million views with his viral digital shorts, and is currently the host of popular podcast 'The Boyscast&a…
The Muse Group Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the return of its sell-out production The LOST Lombi.
Charles Bukowski is a true literary legend, the king of the underground and a “laureate of American lowlife”.
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
“A uniquely Dublin take on a beloved Christmas classic” It’s Christmas Eve 2007 and Georgie Travers is propping up the bar in his Dublin local, the we…
ChoirCo is the UK’s biggest a cappella choir.
The human brain doesn’t allow us to remember pain.
“There are stories in everything.
The must-see comedy of 2023 hits London this Christmas.
Time travel as a sci-fi trope is fascinating and presents us with endless possibilities and frontiers.
To celebrate 30 years of the PDC World Darts Championship, some of the biggest names in the sport will take to the stage in London for a night that no darts fan will wan…
The show is a candid look into what life is like as a young woman in the world today consisting of silly stories and anecdotes covering topics such as growing up with a priest for …
Comic legend Frank Skinner brings his critically acclaimed new show ‘30 Years of Dirt’ to London’s West End for seven nights only, following a sell-out run at the…
Mukul and Ghetto TigersExploring the dark inner life of one of India’s most loved Bollywood icons, Meena Kumari and how it contrasted with the glamour the public saw on the silve…
A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry …
Touring the UK in Black History Month and into November is Philip Okwedy’s The Gods Are All Here, a one-man show about the performer's distant relationship with his parents a…
Based on Audrey Niffenegger’s internationally best-selling novel, this new British musical is thrillingly brought to life with original songs from Grammy Award winners Joss S…
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
The Standard Short Long Drop is Rachel Garnet’s powerful new 90-minute drama filled with gallows humour.
What if the Big Bad Wolf blew your house down? What if you had to start building your life all over again? Award-winning show about family disability and being an accidental carer…
ÓDÚ brings her one woman album to Dublin Fringe Festival.
My First Time was in a Car Park tells the story of Mira who lives by the sea with her mum and loses her virginity to her teacher.
'Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
From his Cats Does Countdown clips that quickly went viral to Hollywood TV hits like Ted Lasso and Intelligence, Nick Mohammed is known for his silly-yet-scientific comedy, broad a…
Cathartic Party presents Second Life an ecofeminist thriller about vintage clothing, exploring grief, trauma and the possibility of redemption, brought to life by a fusion of dance…
Time: the not so distant future.
James Seabright presents I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL by Alexander S.
Concerned about the economy? Join Merryn Somerset Webb as she interviews, talks over and argues with a well-known group of economics, politics and finance gurus.
Get ready for an electrifying night of absolute bangers as we welcome the incredibly talented LEVS DJ duo to The Liquid Room, Edinburgh.
The Defectors present the next chapter in the theatrical saga of eccentric ex-detective Richard P.
An in-depth dissection of the 2016 episode of British reality TV show Come Dine With Me in which a contestant, incensed at having lost, berated his fellow diners in a virulently im…
Enter the depths of the Haus Obscura basement and discover a world unseen.
The Defectors present the next chapter in the theatrical saga of eccentric ex-detective Richard P.
Join the Haus Obscura as we present our Dark Stars! Returning performers from the deepest, darkest, dankest pits of drag and cabaret in our abhorrent Haus Obscura basement.
Edinburgh-based cult-indie songwriter Withered Hand (Dan Willson) is back with his first new album in nine years.
Hot off the back of huge sold-out shows in Manchester, Birmingham and London, stellar comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean once again bring their smash-hit true crim…
The creatives behind this year’s production of Life is a Dream discuss working across different languages and cultures.
Rozarina Larsen presents: White Fishing – a work-in-progress comedy about finding your authenticity.
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
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.
I’m the Greatest Starr (but no one knows it) takes a musical trip down memory lane as the award-winning Starr Domingue shares the herstory of an aspiring musical theatre performer …
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Four loudmouth lords vow to study for three years to win fame for denying their desires.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
When Cynthia’s husband dies during her pregnancy, she’s expected to mourn.
Old movies saved Mel Byron’s life a few Fringes ago and they can save yours too.
Ho ho ho ho! Come celebrate that special time of the year with Santa (Ray Badran) and his Elf (Josh Glanc).
Soul Penny Circus is honored to present Dreams of a Clown, an original circus experience.
Comedian Matt Storrs (San Francisco SketchFest) makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his critically acclaimed solo show Portly Lutheran Know-It-All.
David Rivera and La Båmbula will make you dance with their Caribbean sounds from Puerto Rico and Cuba.
Maddie Carpenter, a pop Americana artist deeply inspired by the sun-soaked landscapes of California, brings her own enchanting songwriting to the forefront alongside a tribute to f…
Do you want to know what it’s like to make heads turn, all eyes on you? Or would you rather get lost in the crowd? Join Ellie, as she navigates you through her unnervingly nonsen…
The University of St Andrews’ funniest, sexiest and incidentally only improvised comedy troupe returns to the Fringe and this year, it’s back to school.
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
Alice can’t find herself but she is certain she wants to help.
A comedy told by mad people, for mad people.
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
2023 finally sees the return of Danny Bhoy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the world premiere of his brand-new show.
Glaswegian musician, producer, DJ and curator Rebecca Vasmant, leads a live ensemble featuring some of the movers and shakers of the new Scottish jazz scene.
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in this profound exploration of human nature and our collective search for light i…
International comedy superstar Jack Whitehall returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new live show.
With her family having worked in Faslane all her life, and her friends protesting at the gates, Jenna endeavours to understand her relationship to Trident, the wider nuclear debate…
Hot Dub Time Machine is the World’s First Time Travelling DJ, a global festival smash-hit and the best party ever! Hot Dub has broken dance floors at sold-out shows all over the …
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…
Paper Sparrows are an alt-folk trio whose distinctive sound centres on twin acoustic guitars.
Essex-born Gavin Lilley, through his masterful use of sign language, has done stand-up shows all over Europe and the UK, bringing laughter to many deaf and hearing people with his …
Join Suse for a stand up show about economics, magic, and making things disappear.
Are you ready to groove your stuff to motown, a little Northern soul with a sprinkling of disco? Then hold on to your Detroit vinyl, as this band are right up your alley.
Celebrating 100 years since the iconic Disney title sequence first graced our screens, award-winning international vocal ensemble Octavoce present a whirlwind a cappella trip throu…
The rodeo is the best place in the world.
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles.
Principal musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra perform this 20th-century masterpiece.
Francis Daulerio is a poet and teacher from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.
How to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit musical ‘cats’ is as bonkers as it sounds, whilst still adding to the philosophical debate on how to live a good lif…
Eigg-based independent label Lost Map celebrates its 10th year with full band performances from Pictish Trail, L T Leif.
World-class entertainer Brown returns from his five-star musical A Man, A Magic, A Music presenting a dazzling journey through Sam Cooke’s life: The King of Soul Music.
Back again after sell-out shows in 2019, swing jazz sensations Out of the Blue Jazz will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook, a classic mix of great lyrics, grea…
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.
Spoken word theatre in a debut one woman show that gleefully jumps from one subject to another in the way only an ADHD brain can.
Imagine you had a time machine so you could travel back to the past to fix your mistakes.
For one night only, double Emmy Award nominee and star of Ted Lasso Nick Mohammed brings Mr Swallow back to the Edinburgh Fringe.
An explosion of nostalgia, joy and love releases itself on the stage, in the form of a poetic love letter.
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
Aalex believes her basic bitch mentality gets her far in life when used to hone in on big grown-up things, like human psychology.
The brave corporate professionals of the world just have to accept it.
Don’t be put off by the topic - this dance show about death is far from gloomy.
The Victorian music hall: a hotbed of scandal and home of betrayal, discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Scott McPherson: Life is an intimate window into the inner-workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
The Bristol Revunions are back at the Fringe with a brand-new sketch show, Ready to Board! Get your passports out and get ready for the flight of your life! The Bristol Revunions a…
Join self-proclaimed theatre “impresario’” Israel Hands as he brings his own unique touch to his latest production, A Life Less Lived, starring the hapless Richard Bridgerton.
Comedic and twisted love letter to my younger 20 year old self about all the men who have traumatized and destroyed my self esteem.
Minnie Rubinski, now in her eighties, looks back on her fantastic life.
Chris Difford is the founding member of Squeeze, formed 50 years ago in South London.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
A hilarious stand-up show all the way from Barcelona about communication, culture and.
Join us for a free, fun, family-friendly guided walk filled with fascinating and moving historical and contemporary stories through Edinburgh’s Old Town.
After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
In Robes of White.
The Art of Vestment.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
A cappella sensation Semi-Toned are back for their ninth run at the Fringe.
We invite you to watch our very raw, honest and unfiltered tragicomedy show.
Are things feeling hectic? In need of some sacred space? Lost in wonder is an immersive storytelling experience, offering you a micro-sabbath experience while you’re in Edinburgh.
My Life Online is an incredibly well performed piece of modern opera, with an unfortunately lacklustre story.
Vox Stars, winners of the Spirit of the Fringe Award 2022, present a new show for 2023, celebrating aspiring singers through the music of their idols.
Fast-paced comedy magic.
Two clowns, Anna and Felix, set out on a quest for home.
It’s 1723 and writing while Black could get a girl hanged in Virginia.
Have you ever wondered what the people on the other side of your wall are talking about? Two couples separated by a paper-thin wall, Max and Billie have been friends forever but is…
This completely original chamber musical by Shaye Poulton Richards is a darkly charming piece of new writing.
Join guests from the worlds of comedy, literature, music and faith for a series of live recordings of the popular All Terrain Podcast.
In the last full year before the general election the legendary show returns with all the latest political dramas, characters, questions and unreliable predictions.
Life been hard lately? Channel this: You can do anything!! Life coach Lex will manifest your deepest wishes, even those you didn’t know you had! Be pitched into radical self-acce…
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
SAY Award winner, Kathryn Joseph returns to Summerhall’s Dissection Room playing songs from her new album, For You Who Are the Wronged.
Life Flash (2023) interprets what one could potentially see, hear and feel in the final moments of life.
Amy Murray wants to break down all the taboos about womanhood, so she has now created a piece called Red Aphrodite that she will share through Edinburgh Deaf Festival.
Life Flash (2023) interprets what one could potentially see, hear and feel in the final moments of life.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Fàilte Gu BSL (Welcome to BSL) is an immersive showcase of Gaelic and Scots signed-songs celebrating different aspects of traditional culture.
Revered jazz drummer Sarathy Korwar and global dance music pioneer Auntie Flo present their debut collaborative project – a bold sonic exploration of propulsive, tabla-infused rh…
A stand-up comedy show in BSL by the funniest deaf actor in the world, David Sands (aka Chris Baker from Small World). Come and laugh with… or at… David Sands.
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Bruce Springsteen, Elvis, Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Billy Joel, The Beatles, The Temptations – and many more! Enjoy some of the best-loved songs from the past 100 years, made famou…
Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University), authority on British music from the 19th century, reflects on the life of Sir John Stainer and his most famous work, The Crucifixion.
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
One night only! Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians at the legendary Biscuit Factory in Leith.
Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…
Juliet Meyers (writer on ‘Sarah Millican’s TV Programme’ and Radio 4 show) presents her stand-up/Storytelling show about loving and cursing her overly-sensitive Portuguese rescue d…
Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…
Catch award-winning rhythm and blues band The Blueswater for their only performances at the Fringe this year; five raucous gigs in Edinburgh’s best live music venue, The Jazz Bar.
Join Charlie Jackson, the improvising clown, on his first foray into written solo comedy with a show that promises to take you on a strange and wonderful journey into the mind of T…
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Witness first-hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Juliet Meyers (writer on ‘Sarah Millican’s TV Programme’ and Radio 4 show) presents her stand-up/Storytelling show about loving and cursing her overly-sensitive Portuguese rescue d…
You’re invited to so much more than dinner.
An improv show of infinite possibilities but probably the worst ones.
The country’s best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated.
John Cambo Cambridge lived with David Bowie at Haddon Hall when he had his first hit-record Space Oddity and toured Scotland with him in Junior’s Eyes.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
An improv show of infinite possibilities but probably the worst ones.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment - French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango, etc.
We bring you some of our favourite comedians to our sessions with a different line-up each show.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Celebrated indie favourites We Were Promised Jetpacks formed in Edinburgh back in 2003 whilst still at school.
Asian Arts Award 2014 - Best Production (for Brush); ***** (ThreeWeeks for The Tiniest Frog Prince in the World, 2016.
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
Returning to Edinburgh following his successful tribute show, Frank & Dean, at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pete Sinclair returns with a full-hour show celebrating the hi…
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Edinburgh’s home-grown queer cabaret is back at the Fringe with a high altitude, scripted comedy! Take your seats on board a real, replica aircraft and enjoy some in-flight enterta…
What does it take to be cool? As a teenager of the Eighties, Rozarina had her clues from MTV Real World, Brooke Shields, Empress Masako and weirdly the series Dallas.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Hip words, cool jazz, hot bebop.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
Come and join us for the original free walking tour, packed with the rich historical sites and tales of the many colourful characters around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
Impro Poet Presents: What If History? They say that history repeats itself.
The Grumpy Magicians present: If All Else Fails, Read the Instructions.
Iain Dale’s ALL TALK political interviews have in recent years become something of a regular fixture of the Fringe circuit.
An all-American line-up show, featuring the very best comedians from across the pond! Discover the freshest comedy talent on the Fringe as they make their Pleasance debuts this sum…
A double bill from Cincinnati LAB Theatre.
The winner of Sweden’s Got Talent is back with Magical: a beautiful, multi award-winning magic show.
Griffin and Jones have decided to change the world.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name.
Aloft Circus Arts of Chicago (USA) burst onto the Fringe scene with their hit Brave Space last year.
Having led a bit of nomadic existence since the closure of The Electric Circus in 2017, the club famed for its spinning wheel of musical categories returns to Summerhall.
‘Extraordinary’ (Daily Mirror).
It is genuinely difficult to keep track of all the wellness tips that you’re supposed to follow to have a healthy body and mind.
Join me as I put the fun back into searching for meaning in a chaotic universe, if we agree to spell universe as ‘fun-iverse’ which I believe we agreed to.
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
The Pink Cactus Collective Presents PESTILENCE: WOW! Written by Savannah Reich Directed by Brandon Boruch 5th, 6th, 8th August at 6:00 pm 7th August at 7:30 pm London, 1348:…
The hit streaming show and podcast are live for the first time in Edinburgh.
Inspired by 90s VHS horror board games, can you beat the Necromancer? ‘Scary, especially for the easily frightened.
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
I’m more of a casual Eva fan.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Upbeat, hilarious magic with heart from fringe legend David Alnwick.
The London Astrobeat Orchestra have ignited a movement where cult western band repertoires are blended with African influences.
‘Have you ever been told that you’re too much? Too loud? Too chaotic? Too ambitious? Too Scottish? I have.
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to.
The Quest to Save Neverland: Peter Pan and the Lost Souls Epic Tale.
Get ready to sing your heart out at Sing-a-Long to Smash-Hit Musicals! CRE8IV presents an exhilarating revue show that brings together the best of Broadway’s iconic tunes.
This unique (probably) show allows mere mortals like us to experience the world of the TV actor.
Whisky and Witches sees the combination of Danish-born Christine Kammerer’s musical forte with the whimsical storytelling of Jane Ross.
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic songs and music.
It’s Berlin 1914, a younger, pre-crazy-haired Albert Einstein awaits news from an eclipse expedition that will prove his theory of general relativity.
Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse.
After last year’s sell-out run, they’re back and still the best in the business! Stephen Frost (Who’s Line Is It Anyway), Ian Coppinger (Dublin Comedy Improv), Sally Hodgkiss (Who’…
Set in the unconscious mind of a tortured poet, Mahan Nikbakhsh’s new play Lost in Translation examines cultural and intellectual disconnection that seeks to unpack the British-I…
‘Why do I speak English??’ I have been asked this in an accusatory manner.
This highly awarded, inspirational true story returns to Edinburgh after an exceptionally successful 2022 visit.
Childhood tales of flying boats inspired Brian to travel the world.
Like an electrocuted Tommy Cooper in a car crash with Frank Sidebottom, ‘being in his presence for an hour is delightful’ **** (Times).
The Wheel of Misfortune returns to the Fringe with new stories and new quirky tales full of funnies and frights, all presented by the Games Master.
When life deals you a grim hand it’s easy to choose oblivion.
As Women, when are choices not really choices? Woman.
Long-Distance Roommates is an hour of stand-up comedy, split between up-and-coming comedians Casey Filips and Ollie West.
When Ruva experiences street harassment, her entire world is thrown into chaos and turmoil.
Still Life: A Gallery in Motion is a devised physical-theatre dance piece brought to you by The Canyon Collective of West Texas A&M University.
Quirky, surreal, highly original stand-up.
A show dedicated to Mr Segway, the man who invented the Segway, all performed entirely on Segways.
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
JJ Pyle finds herself accidentally, unfortunately, home for Christmas and stuck in this little truck with her dad in Indiana, where everything is surrounded by cornfields.
WOMAN.
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.
The show is performed by a brilliant pair of queer, tumbling, absurdist clowns.
‘Clever, funny and world-view-changing’ **** (InDaily.
Australia’s campest drag queen bares all in this chaotic cabaret about her double life as a drag queen accountant.
Colin MacIntyre is a multi award-winning musician, producer, author for adults and children, and playwright, who has been voted Scotland’s Top Creative Talent.
David Baddiel presents work-in-progress revivals of his smash-hit stand-up trilogy of ‘Not the.
Get off the tourist trail and explore Edinburgh’s music scene with irreverent stories of the performers who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city.
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…
The Sauchiehall Comedy Club is proud to present their first full run at the Fringe, with a series of compilation shows, featuring the finest up-and-coming comedians, plus guest app…
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape as he prepares to end his life.
15 years after the brutal events of February 2020 in Delhi, a nation reckons with the truth of what really happened.
The Mountebank Comedy Walk is the hysterical, historical and completely original walking tour of Edinburgh led by professional local award-winning comedian Daniel Downie.
Our long-running weekly beginners’ showcase is considered one of the best open mics in the UK.
The duo of JD Twitch and JG Wilkes return to Summerhall’s Dissection Room with another one of their eclectic and euphoric sessions which has made them legends in the Glasgow and in…
David Ellis is a terrible Jew.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
In what could be crowned the most uplifting show of the Fringe, The House of Life aka Ben Welch and Laurence Cole from Sheep Soup combine preaching, live music, comedy and all roun…
Ed Byrne breaks the five-star rating system to the point where multiples of stars could be added to this review and it will still not be close enough to what he deserves for this s…
The hit show Clash of Fandoms returns! The ultimate geek comedy debate show! Hosted by Pure Radio Scotland’s Rik Carranza and featuring a rotating line-up of guests representing ea…
‘Down the hatch!’ yells our vicious Queen as yet another storyteller disappoints her.
Fresh from his critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut, Jake Baker returns with his follow-up hour.
Alice-India – 2Northdown New Comedian of the Year finalist, Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian finalist – is just like a regular person.
Dark jokes only! An irreverent comedy show where comedians push boundaries, slice and dice edgy topics and are not afraid of taking the risk.
The ultimate international burlesque extravaganza has arrived! A celebration of bodies, tradition and inclusivity by award-winning world-class artists and rising stars on the scene…
Songs, sketches, a cat! Catnip! is bringing the most unique and exciting comedy music show to the festival this year with his debut, Catnip! Greatest Hits.
The Durham Revue presents: Death on the Mile.
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
In Frank Skinner's Thirty Years of Dirt (a clever pun I shamefully only just got this second), Skinner proves exactly what makes him such a dab hand at this comedy malarkey.
It’s Sunday.
The incredible Oliver Harris sings the great songs from Les Misérables, Chess, Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, We Will Rock You and many more.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
The planet is melting and life’s spinning out of control.
A revolving door of different African, Australian and British comedians every show! Come support your home country’s roots while learning about other cultures in the funniest way p…
“The primary school teacher vibes don’t end here,” Sasha Ellen jokes lightheartedly at the start of When Life Gives You Ellens, Make Ellenade.
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
In this immersive production for children from Punchdrunk Enrichment, the guardians of the Lost Lending Library are in urgent need of stories to fill a mysterious new department.
Back In Time for Tea is a concept imagined to challenge the notion of musical genre.
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in the most ridiculously playful adventure comedy you’ve never had.
An Aussie vagabond’s gruelling pilgrimage: 1,000km+ Camino de Santiago, surviving 40 days of blisters, snorers and dodgy WiFi in search of life’s answers and wine! Award-winning co…
Best friends Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and storylines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
What happens when a philosopher and a comedian come into a bar? In this case, a long night of drinking alone.
Irish madman John Spillane is back with the return of his 100% improvised stand-up show.
Life With Oscar is Nicholas Cohen's brutally honest first person (and occasionally third person) account, detailing his own personal heroes journey from Lewisham, South-east Lo…
Daniel Delby has been single for 35 years.
A highly anticipated brand-new hour from comic legend Frank Skinner (‘King of stand-up’ (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard)), following his sell-out hit Showbiz.
Jack is an unashamedly stereotypical left-wing, working-class, socialist comedian.
A ridiculous variety show featuring the visually absurd, the whimsically witty and the wildly beautiful.
Australian comedian David Quirk quit comedy in 2017.
Winner of Best Cabaret and Variety Show at Fringe World 2022, Life’s a Drag takes you on a reality-shaking rollercoaster ride of what it really takes to be a queen! Vocal powerhous…
Best friends Hamza and Jake discover characters, scenes and storylines on the spot, without the faintest idea what might happen next.
This is the definitive piece of musical theatre for musical theatre lovers.
Mixing documentary footage, storytelling, and live music, The Death & Life of All of Us is a funny and poignant exploration of family secrets, shame, and embracing our imperfection…
Winner: Best Newcomer – Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2021).
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
This is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut from performer, writer and creative activist Lilly Burton.
‘Once upon a time, a little girl and a little boy were lost in the woods.
Club Life is club promoter Fred Deakin's personal autobiography.
The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair.
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…
One hundred brave (or not so brave) Trojan Soldiers are trapped inside the infamous giant wooden horse, plotting their escape….
A show about the times*.
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
At a post-scandal press conference, Preservative MP Babs Romance guides the audience through the highs and lows of her political career, with archive footage, dance numbers, speech…
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
Award-winning musical comedian and viral internet-hit-maker Anesti Danelis returns with his hit comedy concert that will change your life.
If you do meal prep and watch Ted Lasso you’re typical.
Brand new for 2023! Join magician and mind reader Tom Brace for a trip down memory lane that you simply won’t forget.
Jack’s love of Bowie is the jumping off point for an hour of comedy about his teenage years, first love, hedonism, families, AI, culture wars, mortality and why you should always m…
With sex, Siri, and the familiar mundane at the top of the mind, operatic bass-baritone and comedienne Monét X Change shares her anecdotal, intrusive thoughts and opinions on life…
‘This is the show to see!’ ***** (Entertainment-Now.
“If you fall off the stage: leg extended, boobs up.
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Indonesia’s leading English language stand-up comedians visit Edinburgh for the first time! The Indonesian stand-up comedy scene exploded 15 years ago and since then many performer…
This wholehearted and heartwarming family orientated show, from the creators of Commitment, The Wrestling, and Deep Heat is the classic story of a life-long friendship and quirky f…
Comedian Mamoun Elagab will not kiss your ass.
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
SYBMAP? is a lecture-performance that investigates Faizal’s Muslim-Malay-Singaporean identity and his relationship with each noun, especially the latter two.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
Visionary theatre director and designer, Thaddeus McWhinnie Phillips, reimagines his classic work about a Wyoming tap dancer that’s stranded in Cuba.
“If you fall off the stage: leg extended, boobs up.
The creators of smash-hit The Man Who return with an explosive new show.
“My name is Harun Musho’d.
The group that brought you Liz Kingsman, Ed Gamble, Stevie Martin, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod and more are back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
“My name is Harun Musho’d.
The group that brought you Liz Kingsman, Ed Gamble, Stevie Martin, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod and more are back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
A girl washes up aboard a ship in the middle of a vast void.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape, setting the record straight about his background and his actions as he prepares to e…
Calling all T-Birds and Pink Ladies: it’s time to immerse yourself in the world of Grease like never before! Step back in time to the 1950s and experience those summer nights…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celebrat…
From his cell in the early hours of the morning, Dr Harold Shipman records a confessional tape, setting the record straight about his background and his actions as he prepares to e…
About the show The world is dying.
A meditation on motherhood, Hendon’s writing is first class in this surprising, shocking and heart wrenching monologue, brought to life theatrically by director Paula Chitty and …
James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A LITTLE LIFE.
About the show Recipients of last years FUSE International's 'Best Dance Show' award, Dillon Dance Youth returns for successive year.
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
AboutYou might think about mindfulness and meditation when you think of healing and you might even think it’s quite boring to just sit there with your eyes closed.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of Roald Dahl’s best known books, which is why the expectations are high for James Brining’s tour.
Escape to a world of pure imagination with ROALD DAHL’S Charlie and The Chocolate Factory – The Musical.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Author and social media sensation Laura Belbin is on a mission to make people laugh.
Following the highly successful all-male tours of H.
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We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
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A dramatic retelling of the life of Jeremy Segway.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
Join Suse for a stand up comedy show about economics, magic, and making things disappear.
Some time ago, Suse Steed was an economist.
A comedy about the passing of time.
Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.
A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.
Charlie Partridge performs as Klaus from Stuttgart “Sonic Clown, Vocal Looping, Beat Boxing and Occasional Smut.
A BLACK@SUSSEX ARTIST TALK Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.
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A comedy about the passing of time.
“Miss Googiepants is a lovely performer, dressed as a 1950s prom girl and surrounded by a variety of props and toys.
The Brighton Swing Community are back for our annual Fringe afternoons of music and dancing, in one of the festival’s most iconic venues! Our All-Stars band features musicians fro…
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
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“Miss Googiepants is a lovely performer, dressed as a 1950s prom girl and surrounded by a variety of props and toys.
Award-winning performer Max Norman invites you to join the crew of a ship and unleash your inner pirate in this absurdly epic adventure comedy quest bursting with nautical nonsense…
Join the crew of a saucy ship and unleash your inner pirate in this family-friendly comedy epic ideal for all loose cannons aged 8 to 88.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
3 comedians, 1 show! Hannah Lloyd-Davies: A one-liner comedian who is too honest for her own good! Connor Yeates: A slick, sharp narcissist, who really wants you to know that he’…
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith” Bruce Dessau (The Times) This is Arthur Smith’s love letter to the world of comedy and the playground of the…
”There are Edinburgh Fringe legends and then there is Arthur Smith’ Bruce Dessau” (Times).
David McIver (Chortle Student Comedy Award Entrant 2013) celebrates a decade of crushing gigs and raising the roof off of commercial venue spaces with a new hour of mildly mannered…
Burnham meets Boosh.
Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human is an ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
Life Learnings of a Nonsensical Human is an ode to the joy and complexities of friendship, queerness and raving.
Award-winning performer Max Norman invites you to join the crew of a ship and unleash your inner pirate in this absurdly epic adventure comedy quest bursting with nautical nonsense…
A deeply moving, fast-paced true story of catastrophe, survival and love from Britain’s home front: these uniquely told stories intertwine and unfold to take you on a journey you…
Fierce, funny, and wonderfully frank, Poppy and Rubina have sex and they aren’t ashamed to talk about it.
A deeply moving, fast-paced true story of catastrophe, survival and love from Britain’s home front: these uniquely told stories intertwine and unfold to take you on a journey you…
Celebrating 50 years of Rocky Horror and one wild ride of a life.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
“I wrote a piece they all want to play” Mark Glentworth composes the world-famous percussion piece ‘Blues for Gilbert’ and becomes long-time musical collaborator with celeb…
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Yehaaa! Its gold rush time at the Lost Chance Saloon.
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Fail Better Presents: Bigger is Better - Spiegeltent Takeover! Brighton’s very own Latin/Ska pioneers ‘Town of Cats’ and the Klezmer-Punk lunatics ‘Buffo’s Wake Big Band’ will be …
Yehaaa! Its gold rush time at the Lost Chance Saloon.
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.
With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding.
With a combination of physical theatre and vivid storytelling, BHASVIC players presents a unique take on Federico García Lorca’s classic tale ‘Blood Wedding.
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.
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
Mixture of music and dramatic monologue.
Mixture of music and dramatic monologue.
Dive down the rabbit hole at Down the Hatch, Komedia’s newest off-the-wall comedy club.
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Your chance this season to keep the faith with Northern Soul, returning to the beautiful Brighton Spiegeltent for its sixth year! Sells out well in advance every year so don’t miss…
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
Scott McPherson: Life, is an intimate window into the inner workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
Scott McPherson: Life, is an intimate window into the inner workings of Scott’s mind on the often bewildering nature of modern life.
The world is dying.
The world is dying.
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
There are two things that get better with age - Cheese and Carnival Collective.
A dark comedy set in a prison.
There are two things that get better with age - Cheese and Carnival Collective.
The Big Bad Wolf’s destroyed everything.
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The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
Comedian Tom Mayhew (as heard on BBC Radio 4) brings a work in progress show to the Brighton Festival! There will be stuff about being working-class, being skint, how annoying the …
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Join life models and circus performers for a series of evening life drawing events with different costumes and themes each week.
Fiery and vibrant Klezmer, Balkan, Serbian, Greek & Roma world-music! 2 accessible, child friendly matinee concerts from 2 of the brightest lights in the world-music scene current…
Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
Taiwanese dance company B.
Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
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Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
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Festival of Europe presents: Vocal Explosion & Friends Featuring the Ukrainian Voices Brighton Choir and award winning guitarist Geoff Robb! An afternoon of music and song to lif…
Many of the questions that Cosmologists attempt to answer are grand, noble, big questions about the nature of the Universe itself.
Fiery and vibrant Klezmer, Balkan, Serbian, Greek & Roma world-music! 2 accessible, child friendly matinee concerts from 2 of the brightest lights in the world-music scene current…
Discover the underdog history of Brighton with a radical ramble around the city centre.
The Online Bicycle Museum has arranged for vintage bicycles, tricycles and pedal cars to be displayed at various locations around Brighton and Hove.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Discover the underdog history of Brighton with a radical ramble around the city centre.
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
Geoff Steel is bringing his premier solo show to the Brighton Fringe in 2023.
The Victorian Music Hall: Discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence and press intrusion.
“Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
A brand new show of ideas, jokes and stories.
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
You want a blurb? I’ll give you a blurb right now.
Geoff Steel is bringing his premier solo show to the Brighton Fringe in 2023.
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
We have more than likely at some point in our lives, heard of music hall star Marie Lloyd.
The Ghost Walk of the Lanes is an undemanding 80-minute tour of Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter, visiting eight locations.
“Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
“I think it’s quite a shit time to be a young person.
You want a blurb? I’ll give you a blurb right now.
A brand new show of ideas, jokes and stories.
Once Upon a Time is a fairy tale like no other.
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
Tommy Cannon is one of Britain's greatest ever straight men.
Are authentic selves only attainable in our own safe spaces? Is acceptance only possible through compromise? Can we really be understood through our words, raw and uncensored?Lost …
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage with her first-ever, hour-long special, Quarter-Life Crisis, named “Best of 2020” …
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.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
A new musical for families adapted from the book by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris.
Masters Of Comedy Come Mek We Larf promises a night of funtastic entertainment, featuring the Best in Stand-Up Comedy.
James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (Network, Hedda Gabler) stages the English language premiere of A…
Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian.
Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian.
Sort Sol presents their third original theatre production, created by Artistic Director, Elizabeth Huskisson.
The dilemma of settling for Mr Average in order to fulfill the dream of being a mother is something that so many women face.
The ancient practice of whirling is being re-purposed in this offering as surreal, female only physical theatre, that not only puts the HER back into heresy, but a soul into solida…
ToskaToska is a new piece of political physical theatre created by Elizabeth Huskisson, based on the true story of the Khachaturyan sisters who murdered their father; a case that p…
A dramatic retelling of the life of Jeremy Segway.
Bill’s been feeling more and more like a ghost these days.
What’s the only thing proven to change the world? That’s right: issue-led fringe theatre.
Are you ready to Twerk Out with your Dollars Out?! JuiceBox Presents London’s Award-Winning Womxn-Led LGBTQ+ Strxptease Experience.
Sit down for a game of Mahjong with one of the most feared and powerful women of all time, Ching Shih 鄭石氏.
Charlie George Swindon’s finest queer, mixed-race, neurodiverse, working class, ex-Jehovah’s Witness comedian longs for Grace.
TIME is the story of a middle-aged female cliché, who uses her post-menopausal superpower to visit her successful friends from her past and reinvent her life.
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…
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…
After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
This is the story of the greatest Black Briton to have ever been forgotten.
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze.
Back-stabbing, betrayal and improv comedy.
Join the raunchy revolution: say no to the fast and flaccid romance of the digital age, as we revive the lost art of the smutty letter! Enjoy a selection of salacious readings of…
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
The planet is melting and life is spinning out of control but maybe Charlie can save it all with a nice picnic.
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013.
You're accepted.
Part Time Freaks trawls the depths of the hosts’ lives for all their freakiest moments and experiences.
Wo/MiYou don’t even look sick.
The Greatest Story Ever CastThe Devil is in the detail You Who!Knock knock: who's really there? The Greatest Story Ever Cast - Frank Notions Mary is auditionin…
Stuck in a dead-end job serving coffee, Kayla longs for something more.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
if all the times i cared had names.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
The wonderful Zoe Ball takes a quick break from her BBC Radio Two Morning slot, to chat with her dear old Dad, Johnny Ball.
Brixton’s creative and wellbeing hub, Raw Material features our in-house band, Raw VIBRATION! alongside other members of our Raw Sounds creative mental-health and wellbeing program…
Following a successful debut hour, award winning Big Lew is at it again, dusting off the notebook and turning his attention to mental health, men and why we find talking to bloody …
Newly announced Drag Race UK S4’s JustMay will be sashaying to Manchester and you’re invited! This show will include: 4 hour interactive experience with drag queens Glas…
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…
David Ferguson: Nice Bum is a show for people who like a little tragedy with their comedy.
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…
Siapa Yang Bawa Melayu Aku Pergi? (Who Took My Malay Away?) is a lecture-performance that was inspired by the creator’s early experiences of living in London, and made with the kno…
In April 2015, four (hopeless) hopefuls met in the basement of a theatre for a comedy course.
All Falls Down is an interactive and improvised storytelling show about a group of friends trying to make contact with civilisation, and survive in the wilderness, after a plane cr…
You know that we are celebrating because there is a countdown.
Russian Doll meets clowns in And Then the Rodeo Burned Down, a circular metaphysical piece that combines elements of dance, comedy and mystery to form a labyrinth equivalent of a s…
It certainly ain’t their first rodeo when this pair of clowns are trapped in a time-loop.
Featuring South African artist and theatre maker Jemma Kahn and directed by Lindiwe Matshikiza, We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants is a unique solo performance of seven st…
A group of friends try to reach civilisation after a plane crash in an improvised, interactive show.
SESSION TIMES: 19.
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
WE’RE BACK BABY! All You Can Eat Cabaret is back for the new year and we”re bringing you more fat joy, beauty and excellence.
Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard Mclean bring their hit true crime podcast, All Killa no Filla to the Royal Court in a special, one off small experimental show lookin…
Following Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Mark Farrelly returns with his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
A performed reading of new plays by Citadel Arts Group.
FunnyBoyz Liverpool presents the ultimate tribute night with Cher! About this event SESSION TIMES: 19.
Opening the London Coliseum festive season is the UK premier of It’s a Wonderful Life, based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra movie.
Kick off is at 2.
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.
On the 125th anniversary of the publishing of Dracula, join Dacre Stoker, one of Bram’s only living descendants, along with actors Margaret McA…
One Night at The Disco Get ready to recreate the Magical 70’s and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco! Relive some of the greates…
If you missed Esther Manito on Live at the Apollo, this is fantastic chance to see the Lebanese-British stand up in person.
When Intelligence Squared and History Hit joined forces on this event, neither company imagined it would take place after the death of Britain’s longest serving mo…
Dan Snow’s History Hit and Intelligence Squared have joined forces for this in-person debate to discuss a question that spans more than 1000 years: who was the gre…
Dan Snow’s History Hit and Intelligence Squared have joined forces for this in-person debate to discuss a question that spans more than 1000 years: who was the gre…
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
Charlie Berens live at Leicester Square Theatre.
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.
Kenneth Grahame claimed the only period in his life he enjoyed was his carefree childhood.
All The Fraudulent Horse Girls is a premiere one-act play with surreal monologues, music, and drag for anyone who has ever been a Horse Girl, Train Boy, or weird kid defined by the…
25 years on from the release of The Seahorses’ seminal album Do It Yourself, vocalist Chris Helme will revisit the iconic record with a series of one-off acoustic performances ac…
What if life came with a rewind button? Jumping across time, Bright Half Life tells the four-and-a-half-decade story of Vicky and Erica, who meet, fall in love, start a family, and…
A mixed-bill comedy, cabaret and variety show to celebrate the life of maverick producer David Johnson who died in 2020.
NOMEETS is challenging ‘Global Sync Theatre’ that spins a single story in real time.
Konkoba, from Upper Guinea, is a rhythm used to encourage farm workers as they toil with the daba (hoe) in the fields.
Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling.
Emmy and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox arrives in Edinburgh to discuss his life and work, from Dundee Rep and Hannibal Lecktor, via cheeseburger tycoon Bob Servant…
Mediterraneo brings South America, Southern Italy and Greece crashing into Summerhall for a huge 2022 festival edition of their live world music concert series.
Playwright Sergio Blanco explores his relationship with death in this moving, autobiographical work.
Concerned about the economy? Moneyweek Editor-in-Chief and Financial Times columnist Merryn Somerset Webb takes on well-known economics, politics and finance gurus in an interactiv…
Scottish singer/songwriter Gill Bowman shares a collection of songs, mostly self-penned, looking at the many aspects of love we encounter through life and set to her unique pared-b…
Estranged mother and daughter Ruth and Laura haven’t spoken in years.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Estranged mother and daughter Ruth and Laura haven’t spoken in years.
For over twenty years, Efterklang have been pushing the barriers of experimental, electronic, emotional chamber-pop.
From 2009 to 2018, Tune-Yards (Merrill and her partner and collaborator Nate Brenner) released four critically acclaimed albums on 4AD, travelled the world relentlessly to play liv…
The latest surrealist caper from Michael Brunström, award-winning comedian and creator of The Human Loire, The Hay Wain Reloaded, Parsley and The Great Fire of London.
Alpha’s All Stars – We live in interesting times.
A selection of music of all styles performed by the best musicians in Scotland.
Kakatsitsi are a group of traditional drummers, dancers and singers from Ghana.
A man walks into a train station to find two strangers waiting on the same platform.
Because Grindr hookups never quite go to plan.
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
In her most intimate work, cellist Justyna Jablonska explores how identities are made, unmade and remade in music.
Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends.
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe and they’ve officially given up.
Set to the last tour of the Tragically Hip, They’ve All Gone and We’ll Go Too explores what it means to be Canadian in an American world, how music can save your life and how the u…
Four students stuck in an elevator, with nothing to do except to talk to each other.
With maps on every phone and immediate access to the finest cartography ever produced, it’s hard to get properly lost in the modern landscape.
A washed-up television personality lives out a Dickensian nightmare when they are visited by the ghost of their past.
Straight from the mean, cobbled streets of Durham comes a troupe of student comics with a mission: making you laugh so hard you forget the overwhelming futility of life.
11 generations, 11 songs, but only one winner in The 11th Hour.
Scotland’s music industry social night, Born To Be Wide, presents a celebration of Edinburgh’s scene, past and present.
As an international Chinese student who has been impacted by different thoughts from the East and the West, he often loses sleep and has many weird dreams from the anxieties of Uni…
David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.
The hit show Star Trek vs Star Wars evolves and returns in a new form! This is the ultimate geek comedy debate show! Hosted by Rik Carranza and featuring a rotating line-up of gues…
Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove adapts Hanya Yanagihara’s novel for the theatre, crafting a deeply moving performance of epic proportions.
Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi…
Having run a series of successful nights in 2021 and 2022, dynamic duo Petfood and Harley Beentjes present their Fringe edition of Revolt; non-stop techno and high-octane beats on …
This discussion looks back over the Festival’s 75 year history and delves into the importance of the arts in times of crisis as part of our Refuge series.
Quintet of sketch comedians seeking fun-loving and friendly audience, interested in a short, passionate fling, and maybe more.
James Yorkston is a singer/songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Troubled? Weak? Feel like a fraud? Good.
Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval unveils her new, critically acclaimed album Classic Objects, focusing on things Hval missed throughout lockdown; imagined, future places,…
A woman embarks on a quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Americans are fat, find out why.
A woman embarks on a quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Journey into the unknown with musical pioneer Jordi Savall, his Hespèrion XXI ensemble and guests, in a concert inspired by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta.
A split hour of comedy from two southern acts trying to make it in the no-nonsense northern comedy scene.
Cate Le Bon is a celebrated musician and producer who since 2009 has been a singular voice in the UK’s musical community.
Comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean bring their smash-hit true crime podcast, All Killa no Filla, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker’s heart and humour has been watched by millions online and allowed him to perform all over the world, until suddenly he couldn’t.
Jon Long (star of Radio 4’s Extinction Compendium) is back with more stand-up and songs about our impending doom, with thoughts on how we might yet avoid it.
A Polish migrant, David Tasma, is dying from cancer in post-war London.
Frighthouse presents – The Wheel of Misfortune.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
The brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
Comedy-drama ‘Keep It Down’ follows Daisy - a 23 year old singleton as she stumbles between shady one night stands, failed relationships, and yet another celebration that revol…
Mr Swallow returns with a mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material before hitting the road.
In a room of questionable hygiene.
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.
Join us for a free, fun, family-friendly guided walk filled with fascinating and moving historical and contemporary stories through Edinburgh’s Old Town.
The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show.
Singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher, Miss Angela Bra invites you to share in her words of wisdom as an international online su…
A show that provides a jellicle discussion about the jellicle aspects of the jellicle cats in CATS and how you can apply them to your life in order to make it truly jellicle.
Hot off the heels of his critically acclaimed Netflix special, Phil’s bringing his highly infective British-Malaysian variant of comedy to the Edinburgh Fringe once more.
Celebrating his 40th anniversary earning his living as a poet/musician, Attila is using this year’s Fringe to launch Heart On My Sleeve, his collected works published by Cherry Red…
All About the Drama is an insight to the worrying mind of Jovis Hart.
Chevron Theatre’s A Wilde Life is absolutely hypnotic, hinting at a time of debauchery and a glamour that has long since passed.
We live in a crazy world of fear and anxiety! But don’t worry, Dr Theatre is here to solve your problems in a show packed full of fabulous musical theatre songs with all the answ…
A special school assembly harking back to the grand old days of the bawdy British boarding school, hosted by drag king and self-proclaimed “Head” Master Mr Brake Down.
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following four consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe! This time, the boys in burgundy want to attemp…
The legendary behind the scenes guide to all the epic political dramas and characters… plus unreliable predictions and questions.
Following a sell-out UK tour, Lost Voice Guy returns to Edinburgh with his brand-new show.
Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have.
Comedy-drama ‘Keep It Down’ follows Daisy - a 23 year old singleton as she stumbles between shady one night stands, failed relationships, and yet another celebration that revol…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
It’s a day like any other.
Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees.
The rodeo is the best place in the world.
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
Rarely off our screens and about to embark upon a 35-date Scottish tour of his new one-man play, Time’s Plague, Scottish acting’s national treasure revisits a highlight-strewn …
A group of Scotland’s leading young musicians perform a selection of albums from Start to End.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Rwandan writer and activist Kiki Katese takes to the stage with her all-female drumming group to share the powerful stories of those affected by the Rwandan genocide, in a performa…
From the makers of Legs and Logs.
Brian d’Souza is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, producer and performer ‘taking world music into the future’ (Guardian).
It’s time to get your head in the game: Bristol’s best trans/non-binary/female comedy night is taking Edinburgh by storm for one night only.
High octane R’n’B performed in the raucous atmosphere of Edinburgh’s world-famous Jazz Bar.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews.
Gavin Lilley is a deaf comedian who’s performed his signed shows to audiences across Europe.
Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations.
Withered Hand is Edinburgh based singer-songwriter Dan Willson, who started writing songs and singing in his thirties following the birth of his first child and the death of a clos…
Taking inspiration from dark and cloudy 90s indie rock luminaries like PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, and Throwing Muses, Honeyblood is the project of Scottish singer/songwriter Stina Twe…
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
New York-raised, London based comedian Mike Capozzola’s live multimedia show about the unexpected consequences of irresponsible time-travel and ways to outsmart historical adversar…
New York-raised, London based comedian Mike Capozzola’s live multimedia show about the unexpected consequences of irresponsible time-travel and ways to outsmart historical adversar…
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Rura, an award-winning act are one of Scotland’s most popular folk-based bands.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Award-winning LBC presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with an in-depth interview featuring audience questions.
Join Edinburgh’s prestigious Poosie Nansie Burns Club in this their centenary year for a lively celebration of the life and works of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns.
This Is Us – The Greatest Showman Tribute you will Never Get Enough of! A show of A Million Dreams, so Come Alive and Rewrite the Stars! Come sing along to This is Me.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Winners of Cleveland’s Best Sketch Comedy Group in 2020 (Cleveland Comedy Awards), Flamingo City is hot off their 2022 US Midwest tour! Joe and Greg are willing to do anything sh…
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Caliban needs to leave Liverpool and get back to London.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Davina is searching for a long-lost family member.
NYT return with a magical portmanteau production of love, friendship and forgotten messages that connect people across warzones and Christmas wish lists in a collection of heart-wa…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Does it matter that snail mail letters are dying out in our fast moving world? We can now email instead, cutting down fewer trees, so what have we actually lost? Plenty, say Newbur…
You’re only a missing person if someone misses you.
All abilities, untutored life drawing accompanied by live music at the Pianodrome – a playable amphitheatre constructed entirely from upcycled pianos.
‘Extraordinary’ (Daily Mirror).
POV: you’re a vlogger.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
A poetic, subtle and witty dance performance on conventions, expectations and perception.
London’s premier hip-hop improv group Track 96 present “The RAPture”, where members of the audience will help determine whether the human race survives or is consigned to obl…
Come join us for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
Sacred Paws don’t take things too seriously.
Crazy Coqs’ iconic Saturday night residency show, The Black Cat Cabaret presents an evening of old school Hollywood glamour meets underground London nightlife, performed…
New Show for 2022.
Celebrate the return of the Fringe at Summerhall with the legendary wheel of musical chance! Every 30 minutes at Magic Nostalgic, we’ll invite someone from the crowd to come up ont…
Fringe legend David Alnwick performs his favourite tricks.
Having grown up working in his family’s Memphis barbecue restaurant, US comedian Charlie Vergos is 100% southern on the surface, but his understated intelligence and wandering year…
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featurin…
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…
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
Harun Musho’d is an Arabic name.
Even more fast-paced comedy magic from fringe legend David Alnwick.
Christian Löffler’s art is heavily inspired by his environment.
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
There are some things as regular at the Fringe as Biblical downpours and overpriced street food.
Mark Glentworth returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique biographical musical about a successful musician and composer who suddenly and rapidly suffers a career-sto…
Having written over 200 songs during lockdown exploring some of the more comical aspects of the pandemic, Siobhan Argyle is bringing her sold-out show from Glasgow to the Edinburgh…
Take an easy walking tour to discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
I think I’ve fallen in love.
It is difficult to work out exactly who this play is for.
In 1992 Gavin Webster was in a double act where he was actually the straight man, so he decided to go it alone.
Life is a game.
My show is about growing up, getting old and having an 88-year-old Jewish mother (now with no filter) who is making me ‘Jewrotic’ (neurotic and Jewish.
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show, Queens of the Blues, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years.
A mysterious broadcast from the future causes 85% of the world to abandon their friends and family forever.
One of 18 worldwide ‘Best of’ shows selected to participate in the Fringe Encore series, Off-Broadway, at the historic Soho Playhouse in New York City in 2019.
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? MARK GLENTWORTH returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his uni…
What if Christ returned and we all missed it? From an award-winning theatrical duo, Down to Earth is the entirely untold and untrue story of Gene Christ: a veteran park ranger and …
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
Any one person show relies heavily on the performance of the central cast member and the quality of the script, luckily The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuiness is blessed with exc…
The All Stars have toured the world, playing New York’s Webster Hall (with Eddie Izzard and Mike Myers), Prague, Sydney, Paris, Shanghai, Beirut and Baku.
The rodeo is the best place in the world.
MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London.
Witness first–hand all of the glamour, passion, excitement and sheer electric atmosphere of the archetypal 1970s Bowie experience.
This is the story of Bob Hecklestein, a boy born without a sense of humour, who learned to overcome his disability and grew up to become the world’s greatest heckler.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
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…
Edinburgh’s hysterical, historical, and completely original comedy walking tour will take you through the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town with comic inspiration coming from…
Critically acclaimed as one of the greatest tribute shows in the world, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years has toured extensively in the UK, Europe, Australia and USA for over 10 …
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Join cult songstress Diane Chorley, and sidekick Milky, as they bring back their iconic 80s nightclub The Flick, where the dancing doesn’t stop, the band keeps playing and the Baby…
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Has it really been 10 years since Sheeps first performed in Edinburgh? No.
Life drawing meets comedy! That’s right, if our jokes don’t make you laugh our poses will.
Top leaders, love bombing, results driven expectations, endless tasks – is your family a cult? Is society a cult? Is the lollipop lady the benign face of cultism? Are we all in t…
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Watch the German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
When Gavin Webster was a kid, he liked kings and queens from history, space and the solar system as well as singing, skipping and running.
Live! Laugh! Liquidate! is the message 8-year-old Charmian got from Hammer film She.
She’s back, the 6’5” towering Scottish drag legend Nancy Clench, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Singer/songwriter, rising star on social media and part-time primary school music teacher, Miss Angela Bra invites you to share in her words of wisdom as an international online su…
Come See.
‘Russell’s mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the…
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s Lee and Dean, BBC’s Outnumbered, The First Team, Count Arthur Strong) brings her BBC Radio 4 special to life in this debut…
The Just Us League of Javier Jarquin and Gary Tro return with an update of their whistlestop tour of the first 3 Marvel Cinematic Universe phases (somewhat contradicting their titl…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
In 1810 a brave Scottish man named Sir George Steuart Mackenzie ventured all the way to Iceland with some pals.
Ted Hill is incredibly brave for putting on his show, All The Presidents Man, which in itself is a very clever title.
Come Sit on the Couch With Me: is this a therapy couch or a casting couch, and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical – but true – look at communication in …
Join this multi award-winning comedian for his debut hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great questions of our time, like: Why does anyone believe the Earth is flat? Can you…
David nails losing parents, so you don’t have to (NB you’ll still have to).
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
A series of unfortunate events led Riley to realise that there is no place for him in society.
Cameron Cook pushes character work to incredible new heights in his debut solo show, previously performed to sold-out audiences at Soho Theatre.
For the eighth year of this universally unique, neurodiversifying, audience-participatory solo show, Paul Wady has changed the name to Guerilla Autistics and wants to take you all …
Musical comedian and viral internet songboy, Anesti Danelis, presents a comedy concert inspired by all of those stupid self-help books.
Ever wondered if what you are seeing and hearing is real? Feel like your trust in the audio-visual spectrum has been shaken? Charlie explores the increasing dangers – and benefit…
No Limits – an irreverent stand-up comedy show where comedians push boundaries, slice and dice edgy topics and are not afraid of taking the risk.
Not ready for the night to end? Neither are we! So head on over to The All Irish After Party, where the craic is only just beginning!! A true late night show, this show is always b…
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…
A camp play on the Lizzie Borden case, Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchet is a comedy about axe murder, sexual depravity, and the installation of a toilet.
Award-winning documentary film about one of the most popular, controversial and troubled comedians in the UK.
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.
A strong female lead (detective) faces the toughest case of her career in this comedy crime show by Tamar Broadbent (BBC Radio 4, Boom Chicago).
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
What sort of a prick is living their best life? Richard Branson? Elon Musk? The Dalai Lama? Yes, the Dalai Lama is a prick – all will be explained in the show.
Hey everyblobby! Come along and see what hastily cobbled together pile of shite I’ve managed to pull out my arse this year! There’ll be a start, some stuff in the middle and anothe…
Under Covid, every day is like Groundhog Day.
Comedian Tom GK has decided to record the greatest album of all time and he has just 50 minutes to prove he’s up to the job.
Multi award-nominated comedian, Adam Greene takes his debut hour to Edinburgh talking quick fixes for self-improvement, clean living and long-term mental well-being.
Winner of Best Cabaret and Variety Show at Fringe World 2022 Life’s a Drag takes you on a reality-shaking rollercoaster ride of what it really takes to be a queen! Australian vocal…
A revolving door of different African, Australian and British comedians every show! Come support your home country roots while learning about other people’s cultures in the funnies…
“The dramatic tension is palpable in this intriguing narrative that cleverly underlines the old adage that money doesn’t buy happiness.
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
Lanessa has been performing shows all her life.
High-octane character comedy from one of the UK’s foremost TV sketch comedians, as seen in the BAFTA-winning series Horrible Histories, Class Dismissed and People Just Do Nothing…
One small step for man, one giant pile of rubbish left behind! Man’s dream to reach the stars leaves the world in ruins and disturbs the sleeping dinosaurs.
All of Us is an attack on welfare state reform.
Debut hour from one of the most exciting acts on the UK comedy circuit and one of the most pathetic cringing worms (as seen on The Mash Report (BBC2), BBC3 and Channel 4 Online.
A melancholy artist and a mute architect take a road trip of the soul.
Sarah Keyworth’s Lost Boy is very difficult to fully describe.
From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and offstage feuds, award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical reveals ever…
The happiest show in Edinburgh! Those of you familiar with the noble Baron and his far-fetched tales of daring do (riding half a horse, flying to the moon on a cannon ball etc) wil…
A magical, charming show of dance and acrobatics which will delight children and adults alike.
Lily hasn’t heard from John in weeks.
Award-winning actor and cabaret artist, Keith Ramsay, blends live music and and spoken word to deconstruct the concepts of camp and queer mythology for a post-Stonewall generation.
‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once’ (Albert Einstein).
As the title Charlie Russell Aims to Please suggests, the entire show is an amalgamation of various theatre techniques from musical to slapstick to the dramatic in Russell’s atte…
Best Debut show Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 and Funny Women runner-up.
Here he comes, trotting back onstage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
The end of show speech to an audience.
This is an engaging exploration of the friendship of two of the most iconic British Prime Ministers of all time.
Alexander S.
Why does time often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show and part heart-rending personal quest, this theatrical, musica…
Life is Soft – Martin Creed, Turner prize-winning artist.
Tatum, a university student, becomes the virgin bride of her sweetheart, entering an eternal marriage in the the Mormon church.
Sikisa is the life and soul, the hostess-with-the-mostess and the party don’t start ‘til she walks in.
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.
Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020).
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
‘A rollicking roller-coaster ride!’ ****½ (The West Australian).
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
Braving the smells and humidity of the Niddry Street Hive, Alex Kealy’s The Winner Takes All explains the inner workings and purpose of Silicon Valley and tech monopolies better …
Every night at 11:20pm this Fringe, we bring you the very best in live podcasts, stand-up specials, cabaret and clowning, compilation shows and much more.
A rapid-fire musical comedy trip through the insanities of the everyday with hooks you’ll be singing in the shower.
Lost & Found is an hour-long tale of two women who have ended up living in foreign countries as ethnic minorities.
Lost & Found is an hour-long tale of two women who have ended up living in foreign countries as ethnic minorities.
This incredible retrospective spans 20th-century British artist Hepworth’s entire career.
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like: what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and …
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like: what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and …
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.
Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.
An evening of all of your favourite show tunes! From the household names, to the hidden gems, these boys will be sure to take you on your Musical journey and will have you tapping …
Michael is a lonely undertaker in his Late 20’s.
Michael is a lonely undertaker in his early 30s.
Join Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre for an evening of great music as they showcase their stunning musical talents.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
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.
A rip-roaring ride through the plagues of history! From swarms of locusts to vine-destroying bugs, from the Black Death to Covid.
In the centenary year of Marie Lloyd’s death this is the story of how the “Queen of the Music Hall” came to fame, told from the perspective of male impersonator Nelly Power.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Sir Charlie stinky Socks – the brave little knight with the heart of gold, who just happens to be celebrating his 15th anniversary this year…
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.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Drawing on their own experiences with mental health issues, scriptwriters and actors Samantha Crilly and Megan Kerby have produced a light-hearted but equally respectful and inform…
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
Our Jubilee Bank Holiday Friday special! For the first time live on stage in Vauxhall in too many years, Eagle London is proud to present LIVE on stage, the one and only David Dale…
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
Charlie Partridge performs as Klaus from Stuttgart “Sonic Clown, Vocal Looping, Beat Boxing and Occasional Smut.
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas.
Derby Pride’s Rainbow Walk is back for 2022.
A MINI FESTIVAL IN SUPPORT OF DEMOCRACY AND PEACE chaired by Caroline Lucas at 3pm at Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton, BN1 1UF Featuring live music, debate, and poetry on the…
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
Welcome to Gämez TV, where shows are made up on the spot using suggestions from the audience — you! We improvise TV pilots to create never-before-seen TV, from game shows, roma…
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Alex Camp and Dom Hatton-Woods - regulars at comedy clubs across the north-west - present their Fringe debuts in their split show entitled Hard Knock Life.
Exhibition and performances from learners at Downsview Life Skills College.
Alex Camp and Dom Hatton-Woods - regulars at comedy clubs across the north-west - present their Fringe debuts in their split show entitled Hard Knock Life.
Exhibition and performances from learners at Downsview Life Skills College.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares into the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carrying…
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
In the greatest underwater discovery since the Titanic, the wreck of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship has been found and Dan Snow and Saunders Carmichae…
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Your chance this season to keep the faith with Northern Soul, returning to the beautiful Brighton Spiegeltent for its sixth year! Sells out well in advance every year so don’t miss…
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
A Substitute for Life was a different and exciting take on a Victorian thriller, as we were introduced to Francis Kentworthy.
‘Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for real life.
All You Can Beat Workshop.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
All You Can Beat Workshop.
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.
New material from the blogging comic.
New material from the blogging comic.
The Brighton Swing Community are back for our annual Fringe afternoons of music and dancing, in one of the festival’s most iconic venues! Our All-Stars band features musicians fro…
Let’s put on a show! We learn it and perform it all in one hour and fifteen minutes! No need to know how to dance – just be willing to have fun and try something new.
69 sketches in the space of an hour! Hyperactive comedy group Biscuit Barrel return to Brighton Fringe! A quickfire sketch show with a mechanical murderer on-the-loose - no charact…
Biscuit Barrel: No Time to Digestive is a whistlestop sketch show that ate and left no crumbs.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
Let’s put on a show! We learn it and perform it all in one hour and fifteen minutes! No need to know how to dance – just be willing to have fun and try something new.
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
Guava Palava Arts present an award-winning comedy theatre show.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre.
The sweet journey of an unlikely pear of lovers.
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
Four varied life drawing events for all the family in a nature-themed wonderland at the Bosco with live music jazz trio! Come and draw circus performers as they pose in costume, wi…
The generation of entitlement, participation trophies and snowflakes.
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Robert Inston battles with labels, types and even psychological profiles.
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
A Life in Progress Show - Not Done Yet! After thirty years of listening to others, one day Stewart listened to himself and left his job - Now he wants you to listen to him.
A victorian inventor is flung into the distant future where he discovers a seemingly peaceful society; But when his precious Time Machine is stolen the fraught Traveller must place…
Loss and loneliness stalked Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in The Willows.
'Hello! What time do you call this?' A friendly voice called out to the audience as we entered the Rotunda performance space.
Loss and loneliness stalked Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in The Willows.
A character comedy extravaganza with comedy legends: President Obonjo, Julie Jepson as Shannon Crabsticks, Bunny Hopkyns, Alpha Wolf, Kitty Cassis, Michael Buttersworth, Ella the G…
A character comedy extravaganza with comedy legends: President Obonjo, Julie Jepson as Shannon Crabsticks, Bunny Hopkyns, Alpha Wolf, Kitty Cassis, Michael Buttersworth, Ella the G…
Three siblings are in isolation having had contact with a Covid victim.
Three siblings are in isolation having had contact with a Covid victim.
6, 7, 8 May: Eliza Skelton: “haunting & melodically beautiful” Sunday Times, plays songs from her wonderful new album ‘The Lookerer’ 10, 11 May: Local wordsmith Sophie Reid with d…
The Ghost Walk of the Lanes is an undemanding 80-minute tour of Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter, visiting eight locations.
6, 7, 8 May: Eliza Skelton: “haunting & melodically beautiful” Sunday Times, plays songs from her wonderful new album ‘The Lookerer’ 10, 11 May: Local wordsmith Sophie Reid with d…
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and w…
Join this award-winning comedian for an hour of laughs as he tries to unravel the great issues of our time like what to say to a flat-earther, how to win gold at the Olympics and w…
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 …
Monday, April 25th 7:30pm - Audrey Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992Trailer: https://www.
My 75 years at the Edinburgh FringeFor the 75th birthday of the Edinburgh Fringe Arthur Smith writes a love letter to this playground of his imagination and recalls some of the tri…
Simon David invites YOU to the live recording of his horrible DEBUT ALBUM From tender ballads (Daddy I Wanna Dance & Shitting On A Dick) to crowd favourites (Straggot, Why…
A group of university friends reunites over dinner with lots to catch up on.
A group of friends take on Corona O Virus in a battle during “The Strangest Time”Blue Diamond is a third-level drama training academy for people with intell…
Betrayal, Age Discrimination, Sexual Exploitation, Domestic Violence, Press Intrusion, Robbery….
Wilton’s Music Hall has come a long way since 1885 when Nelly Power sang The Boy I Love Is Up in the Gallery.
Join us for a night of celebration with the Gay Liberation Front for its 50th anniversary! The event will feature a spectacular panel led by: Dan Glass, author of United …
There’s something truly life-affirming about theatre that entertains and makes you think.
PLEASE COME TALK TO ME Let us not remain strangers Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)A Stuttering Comedy Show in Development PLEASE COME TALK TO ME -&nbs…
Come for a walk with us.
You pull the strings.
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
If you feel the blue in January, join us for 3 nights of fun. Thursday 13th, 20th and the 27th of January at Bar Soho!Ticket link
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
FUNNYBOYZ LONDON presentsLorraine Bowen ( ages 18+ )CITY OF QUEBECFriday 10th December 2021 Britain’s Got Talent star Lorraine Bowen, known for her song ” Crumble ” is coming …
Local legend, icon and star, Ivy Alexxander presents Lip Service, Sheffield’s biggest drag lip-sync battle! Join Ivy as she brings local drag artists together to battle it out for …
Call Mr.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
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 …
There are few things worth travelling the length of the Jubilee Line for on a cold and wet rush-hour on a December night.
Dublin, 1742.
Dublin, 1742.
Ladies, Gaydies, Theydies, straight people who can take a joke Fashionista, and musical comedian, Simon David is back at The Glory trying out some horrible new songs LIVE! Fro…
Steam Down return to the Albany for a special homecoming gig.
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
FUNNYBOYZ LIVERPOOL presentsKylie Vs Madonna ( ages 18+ )BLUNDELLS SUPPER CLUBFriday 12th November 2021 Beth McCann as Madonna will join Heather Marie as Kylie Minogue and giv…
After the success of all our sell out House of Allure burlesque shows, we are happy to invite you to Dominus Von Vexo presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN! Piano’s playing, trumpets…
Sam Delaney and Andy Dawson have converted their nonsense podcast into a grand theatrical experience once again, with some of the most popular characters and features fr…
It is the True Crime Convention at the Museum of Comedy and fans have gathered to see their favourite True-Crime stars, get autographs and watch live podcast recordings …
FunnyBoyz London presents Drag Race UK S3 Elektra Fence About this event SESSION TIME: 19.
Keep It Down, is a new writing piece about navigating life as a socialite whilst trying to recover from an eating disorder.
PopHorror presentsSlash Vegas! Buckle up for the most outrageously entertaining Halloween event of the season.
DIVAS introduce this sensational new fine dining experience with drag queens SESSION TIME: 18.
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 Comedian and musician Jon Courtenay is the first ever Golden Buzzer act to win Britain’s Got Talent.
Winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 Comedian and musician Jon Courtenay is the first ever Golden Buzzer act to win Britain’s Got Talent.
Winner of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 Comedian and musician Jon Courtenay is the first ever Golden Buzzer act to win Britain’s Got…
FUNNYBOYZ MANCHESTER presentsSCARLETT HARLETT ( ages 18+ )NEW YORK NEW YORK BARSaturday 16th October 2021 Drag Race UK Season 3 Scarlett Harlett is coming to Manchester this O…
Mira loses her virginity in the car park at her school.
Drag-A-Long is BACK! With another incredible night of dragifying your favourite musicals.
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
WELCOME MY TREATS! To the new instalment of the KHANDI SHOP! Its halloween time treats! And this theme is all about the witchcraft! KAULDRON! with a line up that you wont forg…
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
FUNNYBOYZ LONDON presentsFizz & Frocks ( ages 18+ )ZODIAC BAR Italian Live Singer SISSY LEA is bringing the FunnyBoyz team to Zodiac for a night full of entertainmen…
Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland’s greatest living female voice.
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons- but for how long?Playful, th…
Joanna Neary – Wife On Earth, The Tour Brief Encounter-inspired Fantasist-housewife Celia (‘A pitch-perfect impersonation’ Observer) and friends take their Cosmic Shambles N…
Joanna Neary – Wife On Earth, The Tour Brief Encounter-inspired Fantasist-housewife Celia (‘A pitch-perfect impersonation’ Observer) and friends take their Cosmic Shambles N…
Joanna Neary – Wife On Earth, The Tour Brief Encounter-inspired Fantasist-housewife Celia (‘A pitch-perfect impersonation’ Observer) and friends take their Cosmic Shambles N…
Joanna Neary – Wife On Earth, The Tour Brief Encounter-inspired Fantasist-housewife Celia (‘A pitch-perfect impersonation’ Observer) and friends take their Cosmic Shambles N…
SESSION TIME: 19.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Love, Genius and a Walk, at Theatro Technis, a venue billed as ‘one of London's best-kept secrets’, is an ambitious exploration of how artistic individuals struggle with ma…
Clubs and shows are BACK BABY which means it’s time for VOL.
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…
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
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…
Evelyn Carnate Presents FILTHY IN PINK Featuring a cabaret dreamhouse of DIRTY BURLESQUE, FILTHY FANTASIES & HOT n HILARIOUS NIGHTMARES Plus a Filthy in Pink PARTY…
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…
Chaos reigns in this brand-new farce of mistaken identities and disastrous decisions from the witty pen of star of stage and screen, Nigel Planer (The Young Ones, The Comic Strip P…
Chaos reigns in this brand-new farce of mistaken identities and disastrous decisions from the witty pen of star of stage and screen, Nigel Planer (The Young Ones, The Comic Strip P…
Chaos reigns in this brand-new farce of mistaken identities and disastrous decisions from the witty pen of star of stage and screen, Nigel Planer (The Young Ones, The Comic Strip P…
Chaos reigns in this brand-new farce of mistaken identities and disastrous decisions from the witty pen of star of stage and screen, Nigel Planer (The Young Ones, The Comic Strip P…
Arch Clapham + Fetch presents:PRIDE FEDERATION: United In LoveA day + night of Pride celebration.
Biting political satire The Guardian Observer”The perfect mash-up of drag, political satire, catchy music and entertainment” - Broadway Baby The critically acclaimed LIKE A S…
After the success of all 7 sell out House of Allure burlesque shows, we are happy to invite you to Dominus Von Vexo presents GLITZ! GLAM! HOT DAMN!Saddle up and give a YEEEHAWWW! J…
FUNNYBOYZ LIVERPOOL presentsDolly Parton ( ages 18+ )BLUNDELLS SUPPER CLUBFriday 10th September 2021 Beth McAnn as Dolly Parton is coming to London this September! This s…
Tavistock Heritage Trust and Tavistock Guildhall are pleased to present another in their series of online Arts Society talksDOWN UNDER: Australian painting from ancient times to Eu…
PSA is a small collective of visual artists, performers and musicians formed in the wake of the pandemic to bring people together after so long apart.
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…
DAVID HOYLE: REBELLION Out of the darkness and loneliness of life in lock-down David Hoyle returns to the stage lights of his beloved RVT to create an opportunity for healing,…
Simon David (A hoot - The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
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…
Pussycat dahlsIn a world where the queer and drag and cabaret scene loves to put people to creat me super groups and commercialise .
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…
Farmers-turned-entertainers David & Sam are ploughing up to George Square with their rambunctious family comedy, littered with the absolute best showmanship they can muster.
Oh, you like Josie Long? Political and personal in one sentence, angry but tender, did a brilliant and much-lauded Fringe show when we last had civilization.
Andrew Wasylyk is a Scottish composer and producer who has conceived and contributed to over 25 albums.
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
In 1982, Simon Callow wrote his first book: it was called Being An Actor, and it was his reckless attempt, after not even ten years of acting, to describe the physical, psychologic…
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
Join Jim Parkyn – professional plasticine player, expert Aardman Animator and the mysterious man behind The Amazing Scene Machine.
Withered Hand is the songwriting output of Edinburgh-based Dan Willson.
Monkey Barrel Comedy’s alternative comedy night, Project X presents, all the way from Tennessee (US of America), The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky! Join Dusty and his ban…
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, library music producer, Siobhan Wilson was born in Elgin, Scotland, UK.
The Coming Out team at Pride in London have teamed up with an amazing LGBTQ+ friendly venue in the heart of Brick Lane .
The Coming Out team at Pride in London have teamed up with an amazing LGBTQ+ friendly venue in the heart of Brick Lane .
Cameron Cook pushes character work to incredible new heights in his debut solo show, previously performed to sold-out audiences at Soho Theatre.
The All Stars have toured the world playing in Prague, New York’s Webster Hall (with Eddie Izzard and Mike Myers), Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Beirut and Baku, Azerbaija…
These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf…
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling out for six consecutiv…
This Edinburgh Fringe, Clarissa Maycock will explain it all (briefly.
After six years together, one of which was particularly crazy, an American says goodbye to Scotland with the help of a song and a puppet and tries to figure out why she’s leaving.
MC Hammersmith (aka Will Naameh, the tall skinny posh one from Spontaneous Potter) is a freestyle rapper straight outta middle-class west London.
WELCOME to Killer Queens Presents: Choke In The Big Smoke! This is the first London outing of our award winning sell out drag murder mystery shows, and in true Killer Queens fashio…
WELCOME TO DRAG-A-LONG! A queer musical cabaret.
We Do Good Disco PresentsThe All Out Dynasty Extravaganza Party!To celebrate all things Dynasty we are having a super glam party upstairs in the Carrington Lounge at Ninth Life in …
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Admiral Fallow released their much-beloved debut album, Boots Met My Face, in 2011 and its widely acclaimed successor, Tree Bursts In Snow, the following year.
DOLLY TROLLEY - UP & DOWN THE AISLESFind her in the car park at 3am, find her upturned in a ditch, find her making a mess in the canned goods section, its Dolly Trolley waiting…
The All Stars have toured the world playing in Prague, New York’s Webster Hall (with Eddie Izzard and Mike Myers), Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Beirut and Baku, Azerbaija…
Making their debut at the Fringe this year, Perfect Forth are an a cappella ensemble that formed just before the first lockdown struck.
James Yorkston is a singer-songwriter and author from the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.
Carla J Easton is an award nominated singer-songwriter, releasing four critically acclaimed albums.
Why would a man disappear inside his own home for seven and a half years, just when he has the most to share? This isn’t a story about being sick, it’s a story about healing yourse…
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
Hamish Hawk is an Edinburgh-based songwriter.
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field As seen/heard on BBC One, Radio …
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Set in the wonderfully open, socially-distanced and drinks-to-your-seats Garden Theatre of theSpaceuk’s Symposium Hall, the a capella group Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with f…
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else.
For All the Love You Lost is presented by Morosophy at theSpace@Surgeon’s Hall.
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else.
Come on a musical journey through time as we perform tracks across the years using only our voices! The University of Birmingham A Cappella Society is back for their fifth time at …
Kapil Seshasayee is a polymath, and a true original talent, both as a songwriter and as a soundsmith, a one-man combination of Scott Walker, Blood Orange, Arca and Richard Dawson.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
KOSMOSHello Khandi treats and welcome back to the third instalment of the Khandi shop, a night to showcase some of the tastiest talents in the queerosquere.
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
Stanley Odd make music for people that get tongue-tied talking to girls; clumsy people that dance awkwardly in their bedrooms; people that are generally uncomfortable in social sit…
After their successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, the stars of The Football Show on Yahoo Sport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, “Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bib…
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim Daly (50+million views online, "Very, very funny” - Kevin Day) and Dave Bibby (Comedy Central, BBC Radio 4, &ldq…
Heather Duster presents Funny Girl: A one woman retelling of the iconic musical with a little more drag! Join Heather as she takes you on a musical journey with her one woman …
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, not to mention a wealthy property owner who performed a daring rescue at sea, Nelly Power was a for…
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT Festival 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing across to Islington with their rambunctious family comedy, littered wi…
Classic Them, a London improv duo, bring their (pre-pandemic) monthly night to the Camden Fringe.
Sacred Paws don’t take things too seriously.
Boisterous tear up the stage in a revamped production of the John Godber award- winning classic about a team of Bouncers, now known as Door Supervisors.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
Awkwardian - Snapshots from an awkward life.
Awkwardian - Snapshots from an awkward life.
Come and join us online or live for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
A ghost story told with magic.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill's debut stand-up show covers every single US President, and one man's recovery from a mental breakdown.
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
A Work In Progress from TV’s Tez Ilyas of his upcoming Autumn tour.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
” The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery - and I can’t even get a seat in the crowd” In the true spirit of all comedy, which is based on tragedy, Nelly Power, one of the biggest star…
A Work In Progress from TV’s Tez Ilyas of his upcoming Autumn tour.
A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.
It’s a Fringe 1st.
In 1970 Virgil Fox played the music of JS Bach at the Mecca of rock’n’roll, Fillmore East.
A brand new work-in-progress stand up show from a rising comedy star and very old baby.
In this show, I Robert Inston(is), narrate as informatively as I am able, on the mythology that surrounds the murders in Whitechapel in 1888.
Playing for the first time since ‘you-know-what’, Neil Pennycook and band take to the stage to perform material spanning Meursault’s entire back catalogue, as well as a few sly nod…
Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is a supercharged combination of old-school joke-telling and modern, autobiographical wit.
A brand new work-in-progress hour from former BBC Comedy staff writer and very old baby Charlie Dinkin.
Your Perfect Life is a loosely autobiographical story, inspired by the lives of the writers and performers: Erika Marais and Faeron Wheeler.
The Life of Hokusai: a freak or a great artist? This work takes you on a non-verbal journey that depicts the anguished inner life of Hokusai through dance, Japanese traditional ins…
Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk (Scottish Gaelic for Rainbow) is a community of queer folk musicians based in Scotland and beyond.
Charlie is a kleptomaniac – the doctor told her.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling out for six consecutiv…
Fiercely fabulous and fictitious Las Vegas lounge legend, Trudy Carmichael has lived (and nearly died), loved (and often lost) more than most mere mortals, but she gets through all…
A site-specific theatrical performance combining movement and text, featuring two women and two couches in two different cities.
Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country.
After spending 5+ decades on the stage, Siobhan Bremer’s life is more than just a bit theatrical.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
St Andrews’ oldest, funniest and – incidentally – only improv comedy troupe are back at the Fringe with their unique mix of sparky, spontaneous and side-splittingly funny short…
Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy.
It’s been years since anyone has been allowed outside, mandated by the Executives.
The story of Emily: brassy, funny and forthright.
Boiler suits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! A truly mesmerising twinning of music and storytelling of how a global communi…
To celebrate the opening of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021, Dovecot is excited to present Little Sparta in a live in-person instrumental performance of their latest album, Lost…
Come and join us online or live for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
‘Laugh-out-loud funny, bold, fascinating, whip-smart’ **** (Everything-Theatre.
Like Fresh Skin.
Come on an Edinburgh Food Safari, where we do the hunting and you do the eating.
Doctor Who: Time Fracture, a ground-breaking Immersive Theatrical Adventure, plunges you into the incredible Universe of Doctor Who.
The tour will start at the Netherbow Port, broached by the Jacobites before dawn on Tuesday, September 17th 1745 (just outside the World’s End public house), proceed through the Gr…
At the start of 2020 Patrick was blindly working on a fun new comedy show, when he was personally attacked by something that rhymes with hamdemic.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
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.
Take an intriguing and entertaining stroll with our guide as you investigate some of the old wynds and closes on the Royal Mile, which are steeped in a sometimes violent and bloody…
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons, but for how long? Playful,…
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons, but for how long? Playful,…
You’re invited to celebrate Annabelle’s 10th birthday, hosted by everyone’s favourite MP candidate, Janet Crumb! (Almost) everyone is welcome… that is, everyone apart from …
After the rip-roaring success of Twelfth Night, Troubadour Stageworks is back and bigger than ever with this summer’s outdoor tribute to the bard! All’s Well That Ends Well …
Is there a ‘right’ way to be in a gay relationship in the modern world? In this play, written by BAFTA Racliffe-winning, Offie-nominated writer Shaun Kitchener, two gay couples…
Tomorrow’s Warriors are proud to present the return of Romarna Campbell in our in-person gigs series, Live at the Albany.
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
For many it will be impossible to see writer/director Jack Fairey’s every seven years at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre and not be reminded of the groundbreaking sociological T…
Secret Cinema Presents DIRTY DANCING The year is 1963 and Kellerman's Resort is back for another summer of love! Step into the world of Dirty Dancing in this 4+ hour immersive …
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and pr…
Join poet Adam Kammerling as he launches his debut collection Seder, alongside a gang of hyper-talented poets and musicians.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
Award-winning actress presents a different take on the well-established tales of addiction.
Award-winning actress presents a different take on the well-established tales of addiction.
Pass the lemonade! Join our two lovable clowns as they weeble and wobble their way through a chaotic picnic.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
A string of questionable relationships leaves one painfully optimistic girl grappling with the realisation that she doesn’t know how to be both happy and alone.
A string of questionable relationships leaves one painfully optimistic girl grappling with the realisation that she doesn’t know how to be both happy and alone.
Pass the lemonade! Join our two lovable clowns as they weeble and wobble their way through a chaotic picnic.
Your chance this season to keep the faith and polish up our dance floor with Northern Soul dancing, returning to the beautiful Brighton Spiegeltent for its sixth year! Sells out we…
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
SOLD OUT! Join us for the 8pm show live stream on YouTube for free: https://youtu.
Musician and sound activist Charles Hayward presents a wild mix of genre fluid music from the London underground and beyond.
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus members present a show of solos and duets under the direction of Joe Paxton.
This work of documentary theatre offers a rare glimpse into a queer life during the Holocaust.
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton is a riveting, witty, kinetic solo show vividly portraying the life of one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
The History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender residency, 23-26 June, @ ONCA Barge.
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
‘Vox Stars Presents Star Inspirations-Brighton Edition’ celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey through the music of their idols.
Award-winning character comedian Anna Morris (Channel 4’s ‘Lee and Dean’) brings her BBC Radio 4 stand-up show to the stage.
In the first of our in-person gigs in the Live at the Albany series, Tomorrow’s Warriors are proud to present Xhosa Cole.
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
A rip-roaring improvised comedy show where teams battle it out in a high-octane, high-energy and high-stakes competition.
Whenever we think of Jack the Ripper, immediately we think back to Whitechapel and his gruesome victims.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else .
You may be asking “Who even is Sam Carlyle?”, but after this cabaret you’ll certainly know her name (along with way too much else .
Time has a habit of taking its revenges.
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
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.
History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se…
Chamberlain in the run-up to his declaration of war includes popular songs of WW2.
An immersive museum about life in Brighton during WW2, built inside an original school air raid shelter.
The title of the show and the name of the company drew me to this production.
Saturday 5th September, 7.
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…
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
New material from the newly-40-year-old comic.
New work-in-progress show from a master at making the seemingly unreliable, relatable.
New work-in-progress show from a master at making the seemingly unreliable, relatable.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
The burst of applause did not mark the end of the performance.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Nadia is a veteran journalist of The Balkan and Iraq wars.
The legendary fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, David Hoyle, stares in to the abyss of the unprecedented times we find ourselves in and says ‘there has to be a point to carryin…
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Anjali Singh has created a show that is a fusion of a Ted Talk, comedy and musical theatre, to depict how much time changes in the blink of an eye.
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Losers are funny! Come and laugh with the losers! Anti-heroes Arna Spek, Clive Coopman and James OD will perform stand-up routines about finding funny in the sadder end of life.
Char Brockes and Jack O'Neill (Ava Cardo) brought the Rialto Theatre to life with their unique styles of drag and slapstick comedy, in order to explore the theme of Romantic Co…
Drag Bingo is BACK at the 2 Brewers and this time, it’s permanent!Pulling your balls is the ever wonderful Topsie Redfern with her right hand man, David Robson over on sound and vi…
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Are you socially awkward? Do you worry about your reaction face when someone else is talking? Do you use your partner as a human shield at a social gathering? Fellow Awkwardian (An…
Are you socially awkward? Do you worry about your reaction face when someone else is talking? Do you use your partner as a human shield at a social gathering? Fellow Awkwardian (An…
Following our hugely successful postcard drama Love From Cleethorpes, enjoyed by audiences in 26 countries worldwide, New Perspectives brings six gloriously made postcards in a dra…
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Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
‘Finneys Ghost’ is a a ghost story and maybe a love story told through the photographs left by a dead boy.
In the midst of a global pandemic, Stacey has reluctantly agreed to chat with her ex, Curtis, after six months apart.
A sensational TRIPLE-BILL of full-scale productions staged with unparalleled panache by the graduating Musical Theatre Triple Threat students of one of the country’s leading Cons…
Lord of Life Winner of a Standard Bank Ovation Award for innovation and excellence at the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival, South Africa.
Lord of Life Winner of a Standard Bank Ovation Award for innovation and excellence at the 2020 Virtual National Arts Festival, South Africa.
Hitcher Encounters brings you a quarantine friendly show designed to be experienced from the comfort of your home and in your own time.
Hitcher Encounters brings you a quarantine friendly show designed to be experienced from the comfort of your home and in your own time.
A sensational DOUBLE-BILL of full-scale productions staged with unparalleled panache by the graduating Musical Theatre Triple Threat students of one of the country’s leading Cons…
Premiering at Brighton Fringe 2021, ‘Tell Me Why’, a performance by the gender-neutral, avant garde collective NoAgEnDeR.
Three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Josie Long is back with her most critically-acclaimed show to dateAfter a brief hiatus, during which she had a baby, started bringing the …
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
Here Come The Boys features four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’ in a dazzling new production that includes special guest star, Strictly’s stunning Nadiya Bychkova.
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
Enjoy the atmosphere of the live music experience with this special online stream of with vocalist Loucin presented in partnership with renowned talent development organisation, To…
After phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is.
Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through song and over gesticulation.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
The smash hit film as you have never experienced it before.
Saturday 3rd April 2021, 8pmTickets: £16Suitable for: ages 14+Duration: 30mins with support act, interval and then 60-70mins with Lost Voi…
The award-nominated sell out show will be available to stream online! Some people are inherently unlikeable.
Sit down for a game of Mahjong with one of the most feared and powerful women of all time, Ching Shih.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Following a sold-out UK national tour, Here Come The Boys, featuring the four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’, is set to transfer to the West End in a dazzling new productio…
Henry Churniavsky is a Jewish, Scouse Stand-Up Comedian.
What do tomatoes, banjos and a recovering executive have in common? Keith Alessi, who used to consume excessive amounts of tomatoes and had 52 banjos in his closet, but couldn’t …
The phrase "Every Time a Bell Rings" is well known and resonates especially at Christmas time: straight away we expect a link to the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and …
The works of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are jewels in the English theatrical treasury and I, generally, have scant patience (no pun intended) with 'reimaginings'.
Before “It’s a Wonderful Life” the angels were still at work.
OffWestEnd commended Conflicted Theatre are delighted to return to Omnibus Theatre following their success with Fiji, reuniting once more with Pedro Leandro.
Mama G is out of lockdown and on her way to Brighton with an array of fabulous frocks and stories about being who you are and loving who you want! There’ll be singing, laughter,…
Broadway / West End veteran Timothy Quinlan exposes the humbling truth about life in musical theatre.
A practical session breaking down the stigma surrounding poetry during which participants will write a short verse.
A woman tries to reconcile her identity as a Canadian-born child of British parents living in the United States while she desperately tries to score a ticket to the final show of C…
Following a sold-out UK tour, the smash-hit, true crime podcast All Killa no Filla is back for a limited run of huge shows including a one-off special at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Domesticated Diva in Distress as lockdown hits.
In proud association with Camden Fringe; Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through song and over gesticulation.
It shouldn’t be controversial to assume that one’s ability to enjoy this particular interchange may well rest ultimately on personal politics and the level of individual anger …
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment.
A powerful musical about living with dementia.
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
Steelworks present their debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Silver Linings, an exploration of the boundless possibilities of a cappella.
A wild political landscape opens up – election-winning Boris is not as mighty as he seems; Brexit not done, a new Labour leader, SNP storms: epic dramas for a brand new show.
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…
Phil Spencer will discuss the financial challenges of making a short film and how to overcome them.
Back from sell-out shows in 2019, this band are swing jazz sensations, Out of the Blue Jazz, who will be performing the ever-popular Great American Songbook in the style of iconic …
Conceived, written and acted by Timothy Quinlan, this short film features some of the better acting on offer at the Fringe, and like so many others, is inspired by the strange real…
A series of four afternoon concerts, featuring soloists Chris Black (organ), Sarah Moore (soprano) and Sophie Horrocks (mezzo-soprano) and sacred choral music from Eastern Europe, …
Join our expert guides for a free walk around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
**** (Daily Express).
Male impersonator, soubrette and headliner at all the major theatres, Nelly Power was a force to be reckoned with in an era before female emancipation.
Discover the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city with these entertaining, guided walking tours.
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 …
Fresh off a successful, sold-out, Off-Broadway run, this show will inspire you, make you laugh and will tug at your heartstrings.
Mama G is out of lockdown and on her way to Brighton with an array of fabulous frocks and stories about being who you are and loving who you want! There’ll be singing, laughter,…
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.
After a sell-out run in 2019, Elsa Jean McTaggart returns with Hebridean Fire.
One traveler is catapulted on a journey through space-time, only to find himself on a desperate hunt to reconnect with those he left back home.
The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that …
The legendary dark prince of comedy-cabaret has brought his new show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit returns to the Fringe with her sell-out show Queens of the Blues, a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we kn…
Discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town: behind the historic buildings, find the surprising number of little gardens and green nooks and crannies, all with a story to …
The very best burlesque performers at the Fringe come together for more glamour and risqué late-night entertainment.
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years makes its return to the Edinburgh Fringe after selling-out for six consecutiv…
Best in Fringe Kids 2019.
Chris Dugdale, the only act ever to win the Edfest Bouquet four times! Total sell-out 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Things are getting way too tense out there, aren’t they? The powers that be are peddling anger to the masses and we’re all becoming rage junkies.
Cameron Cook’s debut solo show, previously performed to full houses at Soho Theatre, offers up that rare and sought-after Fringe experience – you see a show, you know next to not…
Baker (GameDay Warm-Up and Glory Hunters co-host on talkSPORT) is Devonshire and proud.
What do we make with our lives? An artist worries his work has lost its way.
Here he comes again, trotting on to the stage with all of the misplaced confidence of a waiter with no pad.
After an outstanding premiere at VAULT 2020, farmers-turned-entertainers David and Sam are ploughing up to Bristo Square with their rambunctious comedy spectacular decorated with t…
The remarkably funny and true story of actor Nigel Miles-Thomas putting on the first-ever Pantomime in Los Angeles in 1991.
McFly are confirmed for a night of explosive pop on Sat 11 July.
Eight-time Grammy award winning Ms.
Searching for meaning in the art of flamenco, María Pagés beautifully blends art and life in her in-depth explorations of the genre itself.
Artist of the moment, Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi scored the biggest selling album and single of 2019.
Celebrating the most innovative and inspirational artists working in hip hop today, Breakin’ Convention Presents brings you b-boy world champions The Ruggeds.
Continuing the classic theme is Olivier and Tony Award-winner, Lea Salonga.
Sarah Brightman, international singing superstar and world’s best selling soprano, is confirmed to open Greenwich Music Time on Mon 6 July.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, there are five survivors stranded on a lifeboat - a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, a Royal Bengal tiger, and a sixt…
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
A night to remember our daughter, sister and friend Janine Benecke and all the other victims of drunk drivers.
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Following their smash-hit run of the Pirates of Penzance last year, the award-winning All-Male Company invites landlubbers below deck for a bold re-imagining of W.
balletLORENT returns as part of Family Weekend, Sadler’s Wells’ annual throwing-open of doors with free activities taking place alongside the performance.
Carrying David, which is the dramatic story of how David McCrory inspired his bother Glenn to become the cruiserweight champion of the world, will play the Canal Cafe Theatre in Li…
Hi-De-Hi, David Croft and Jimmy Perry's spirited love letter to the declining days of the British holiday camp, was first broadcast in the January of 1980 and prove…
Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide…
The Golden Age of Television was blessed with some of the best-loved of comedians, but why are Eric & Ernie and Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd so fondly r…
A dream odyssey into the world of the woman who waited 20 years for her bloke to return.
Siân Docksey used to be a stripper talking rubbish to strangers in dimly-lit rooms and laying everything bare in public.
The heritage of comedy is a troubled one - littered with the shells of those whose genius is inextricably linked with struggles with mental health.
Comedy legend Tony Slattery is live on stage in conversation with Britain's foremost comedy historian Robert Ross.
Performed at Soho Theatre to standing ovations, IT ALL returns to VAULT Festival for one night only.
North Coast, New York City’s premier hip-hop improv team, has long been known for their seamless melding of freestyle rapping and long form improv comedy.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
An award winning play by Laura Harper - From the outside, Dawn has it all; nice house, fast car, great friends and family, and a new job out in sunny Dubai.
Jingan Young is a fascinating writer to follow, as her play Life and Death of a Journalist explores the hardships of journalism amid political turbulence and cultural difference.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Acclaimed actor Mark Farrelly presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years.
Guaranteed to be the only comedy show about Spolia.
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.
Join us, farmers, David and Sam, under the watchful eye of our rumbustious Gran, as we courteously portray to you our untold and epic adventures right here at VAULT Festival, in th…
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because the Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for…
Two distinguished musicians – violinist Krysia Osostowicz (Dante Quartet) and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) – bring their own interpretation to Bach’s profound wor…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
Miss Kiddy and the Cads - the UK’s hottest vintage show, for one night only presents 'A Vintage Christmas’.
“We’re leaving the EU!” “OH NO, WE AREN’T.
A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
It's 2050 and in a galaxy not too far from our own, Planet Trash is the most dangerous place in the solar system - the dumping ground for the universe.
Sketchley Park is the home of the weirdest and most wonderful new sketch writing from members of the London Comedy Writers group.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
Winner of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe funniest joke, Olaf Falafel is back once again like a renegade master.
Acţiunea gravitează în jurul familiei formate din Maurice (Marius Manole), Margaret (Medeea Marinescu) şi fiica lor Adele (Diana Roman).
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
A simple production, A Life Twice Given stretches itself to do justice to a very complicated idea, with only limited resources and space.
Following the huge success of the first season of Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace, Lambert Jackson are thrilled to return with another star-filled line-up of intimate West En…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
The ALBUMS SHOW is BACK!TWO more classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
In a country on the verge of doom and murderous clowns on the loose on our cinema screens, Join Awk this October and allow it to show you there’s more to life than work.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
An intergenerational cast of performers explore the difference age brings and the constant things in life that bind us all together.
Tangled Feet have created a unique intergenerational company of ten year olds, 20 year olds and 80 year-olds to address life’s big questions: How does our perspective change as …
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic and skates into a city near you.
Theatre No More present their current theatrical challenge, Martin Crimp’s unconventional 1997 theatre piece “ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (17 Scenarios for the Theatre)” - a play that has…
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Explore the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family life.
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…
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As Time Goes By is a fast paced, high energy musical marathon through the ages, featuring toe tapping tunes and the blissful close harmony of the UK's finest vintag…
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…
Best remembered for playing Mr Banks in Disney's classic film Mary Poppins, David Tomlinson was renowned for playing the classic English gent, forthright, proper, and a loveabl…
Saturday 14th September, 7.
Following the unprecedented success of his appearance on the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2018, BBC New Comedy Award winner and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s comedy…
Andy Dawson and Sam Delaney’s highly-acclaimed podcast is finally reimagined as a theatrical experience.
Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Monty Python’s Life of Brian is back on the big screen.
"The new A Star is Born is a total emotional knockout…rapturous and swooning, but also delicate and intimate and luminous.
The world famous Jazz Bar Edinburgh proudly hosts the JazzMain quartet, performing the music of Dexter Gordon.
Following last year's sell out screening of The Greatest Showman, The Luna Cinema returns to the Open Air Theatre with the long awaited sequel to Disney’s musical ma…
Join the star of Parks and Recreation and Fargo for an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that will compel you to chuckle whilst enjoining you to brandish a better sid…
The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time.
Legendary singer-songwriter Donovan performs an acoustic set in this very special event showcasing the documentary film Donovan and The Beatles in India.
Wind down and immerse yourself in an intimate, candlelit performance in this evocative location.
The creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids brings his perspective on the global television and film landscape in this special one-off event.
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…
In equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique theatrical experience.
Danish storyteller Svend-Erik Engh and Scottish musician/singer Neil Sutcliffe share a story inspired by the Viking’s arrival in Scotland.
Join us for a hedonistic hour of weird, funny and confusing entertainment direct from the seething capital of culture and queerness, Berlin.
Russell T Davies is the man behind classic and acclaimed TV series Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Torchwood and Cucumber, among many others.
Four people.
Edinburgh-based promoter The Soundhouse Organisation presents Three Times Five, featuring Moishe’s Bagel, Kinnaris Quintet and John Goldie and the High Plains.
How do we define success? Is failure ever an option? Is a teasmade an appropriate 60th birthday gift? Does anyone really know what is going on at all, ever? Expect beguiling storie…
Losing someone you love is never easy, especially when you don’t understand why they’ve gone.
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix.
After sell-out shows in 2017 and 2018, Durham University’s award-winning Northern Lights return with their most ambitious and best show yet.
Imagine you can travel through time.
What happens when eccentricity meets electricity? What connects the invention of the lightbulb to the Berlin techno scene? Take a tour with Hypnotique (Britain’s third best there…
Award-winning production.
Ever been called a bitch? Want to escape reality? Or simply want to have a motherf*cking good time? Welcome to the Bitch Ball.
There are quite a few variations on the Romeo & Juliet theme at this year’s Fringe, but few have as many puns as AcadePitch Presents - Romeo and Juliet: An A Capella Tragedy.
This show celebrates aspiring singers as they take you on their singing journey and development, through the music of their idols.
The Hart Players theatre company brings Noël Coward’s Still Life to the Fringe.
Moon Walk is a funny play, with fast paced, quippy dialogue, but it is also a sad and gripping portrait of the effects of mental illness on American men.
All the way from the land of sun, sea and Mexican* sombreros (*not Spanish!) these intrepid comedians have made their way to Edinburgh by sea, air and Megabus, to show the world th…
Contemporary mime inspired by daily life.
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now, John Goldie, is joined by his brand-new backing band, the High Plains.
Soundhouse presents one of Scotland’s hottest new folk bands.
What is Caledonian Soul? Ross Wilson (AKA Blue Rose Code) will, with help from some very special guests, attempt to answer this question by offering his unique take on generations …
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care! Join them as they improvise a …
Everyone has a soundtrack to their life – from the songs that get you up on the dance floor to the ones that get you singing in your car, the songs that get you through hard time…
Comedian & silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show is about every single U.
Discover the secrets of the universe.
Artificial Intelligence is not just coming, it is already here.
Folk and Americana from Scotland and the heart.
Learn the art of paper folding with designer/maker Kate Colin.
This is your chance to bring the whole family and sing along with the fantastic and versatile Massaoke Band, guided by giant video lyrics, as they raise the curtains on your favour…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Central to Bach’s output as a composer are his chorale preludes.
For the seventh year at this wonderful venue, William Alexander again gives a recital of Chopin’s piano music and performs a selection of preludes, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises a…
It’s Friday night.
Soundhouse favourites Moishe’s Bagel return with their thrillingly original, cutting-edge klezmer and folk music.
If you have ever wondered how contemporary dance choreography is created (as opposed to classical ballet) this fascinating show, CoisCéim Dance Theatre’s Body Language directed …
Be a passenger on our cliche-free poem/song journey tonight: relationships, nature, places and much more! It’s alternative.
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
I’m 55.
A poignant, bittersweet comedy about Dino, a lost soul from a small town in Sicily, and Fran, his American boss, both transplanted to the UK.
Presented by Indigenous Contemporary Scene, performance-based installation This Time Will Be Different denounces the Canadian government’s discourse on Indigenous people and takes …
A stand-up showcase featuring purveyor of one-liners and ‘Long Man’, Josh Massen, and storyteller and ‘Short Man’, Phil Green.
What was the first thing you bought? Is there something you would like to pass on? If you were a pharaoh, what thing would you like to be buried with? Still Life is a piece that fo…
Wolfgang Borchert.
Internationally acclaimed writer John Philip Newell works with some of the most talented young artists of Scotland to tell the story of an enchanted Hebridean world that was lost b…
Joanne and Lisa were like sisters.
Fabulous swing jazz band.
Forty singers including Barbara Dickson, Karine Polwart, Archie Fisher, Adam McNaughtan, Dick Gaughan, Arthur Johnstone, Ian McCalman and Canadian Iain Rankin, singing the great so…
England, 1585.
The Edinburgh Fringe exists as a kind of suspended adolescence allowing creatives to live the experience of their art being the most important thing in the world.
A brand new behind the scenes guide to the latest epic political dramas.
Best of magic, dance, comedy, singing and more.
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
Welcome to Bert and Horace’s junkyard.
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following two consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe.
A stripped back, thrilling and edgy contemporary dance work.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Join us in the stunning Brewhemia beer palace at 8.
Following the unprecedented success of his appearance on the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2018, BBC New Comedy Award winner and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s comedy series Abil…
Fresh from touring The Benny Lynch Story, completing the film comedy Fisherman’s Friends, and playing Private Frazer in the remake of the lost episodes of Dad’s Army (and a few…
In Tin Pan Alley it was rare to find women, but Dorothy was prolific.
Kimjang is a Korean foodie tradition, where families and friends come together to make kimchi.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Living in a world where people don’t say what they mean or mean what they say can be tricky, and Reilly has questions.
Hilarious hour of stand up comedy.
Can olives and gravy ever be mixed? The story of a working-class northern girl bringing up three middle-class children in London is told in this very funny, warm hearted and livel…
Join farmers David and Sam, as they share with you their untold adventures, full of mishaps and misfortunes.
Morning: coffee concert of informal music-making.
Nowhere has Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand been harder at work than at the festival itself.
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.
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.
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Confused about money? Concerned about the economy? Join editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek and FT columnist Merryn Somerset Webb and/or financial writer and comedian Dominic Frisby as th…
In this special one-off event, Plastic Elvis will thrill you with an evening of full throttle charisma, unstoppable rock’n’roll and jaw-dropping excitement.
The magic of David Attenborough live on stage! A blue whale swims through the ocean depths.
For the 16th year, this brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their world music mix with virtuoso skill and infectious enjoyment.
Scotland is one of the first countries to buy into the Adverse Childhood Experiences Movement wholesale and has highlighted this as a key public health concern.
When the UK’s finest spy, Bonnie, is sent on a mission in the Swiss Alps, everything goes wrong when she discovers that her arch-rival, Soviet spy L, is at the same hotel with a mi…
Existing deep within the mind of writer Jonathan P Sims, two friends debate the legitimacy of platonic relationships between men and women, which leads them (and Jonathan) to obser…
Lost in a Book! Too much of a good thing is still too much! When Melissa keeps re-reading her favourite fairy tales at the expense of family and friends, she goes from turning page…
Join David Rudolf, defence attorney for Michael Peterson in the hit Netflix documentary series The Staircase, for an evening of discussion into the intimate details of the case and…
Icelandic folk songs and bits of Icelandic culture.
Discover how we are beating heart and circulatory diseases with a different interactive workshop every day where science meets art.
The circus has come to town, a circus that is quite unlike any other.
All abilities life drawing accompanied by live music at the Pianodrome – a playable amphitheatre constructed entirely from upcycled pianos.
Performing Arts Studio Scotland: Dance at Edinburgh College present an eclectic mix of original choreographic work created by the staff, students and recent graduates of PASS Dance…
London, 1887.
Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5.
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.
Following their run of sell-out lunchtime acoustic blues shows in Fringe 2018, Whisky Road are back with their lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Following 2018’s sold-out run, Scottish virtuoso Andy Gunn’s back with his homage to the greats of electric blues guitar with a multimedia experience featuring projected films, nar…
Ben likes Al, but Al says he’s straight.
In a world where we learn to hate the bodies of others and fear our own, MUSE offers a chance to find them instead.
A ridiculously surreal celebration of human existence, journeying from the womb to above and beyond.
In our twenties, an independent lifestyle seems liberating.
Mr Fibbers is back and funnier than ever with Back in Tune: a show packed with jokes, games and comedy songs that kids just love.
If you were to ask every magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe who their favourite magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe is, you could expect the majority of them to respond in…
Character comedian David McIver’s Teleport takes us on a deliciously low-budget, self-deprecating, dynamic quest through the online fantasy character games he used to play as a c…
Described last year as the best-kept secret of the Fringe, one of Ireland’s best comedy writers returns with another brand-new show.
Dynamite! is the regular showcase of the University of Bristol’s improvised comedy society, Bristol Improv.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
As part of celebrations all around the world in honour of International Scottish Gin Day, we’ll be having our own celebrations in the heart of Edinburgh.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
Experience the Trainspotting walking tour on location in Leith.
Sean expects a quiet night alone in the pub, but Lisa catches his eye.
Afternoons: organ concert by Christopher Black; Sarah Moore sings Rachmaninoff/Mozart; Roxburgh Quartet playing Barber/Schostakovich; Hadley Court Singers/SMAS choir/orchestra musi…
Edinburgh’s leading independent music venue showcases the very best local talent with nightly danceable funk, blues and special jazz performances (including The Jazz Bar’s 17-piece…
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
The boy I love is up in the gallery.
Stars of The Football Show on YahooSport, Jim and Dave perform a comedy show about the beautiful game.
When you are given a class project of Flat Stanley who better than your stand-up comedian Uncle Dave to do it for you.
Join Gareth Richards, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards best newcomer nominee 2010 for his ninth stand-up comedy show, with some hilarious songs played on the Q Chord.
Paul Currie is bringing his sell out 2014/2015 award-winning masterpiece back to Edinburgh.
Life Between Yes and No follows Anna, a call handler for the Department of Work and Pensions, as she answers the phone to people in crisis.
Magic.
Following on from their success in London, Blazers Comedy brings you an outstanding mixed bill from a plethora of hot-to-trot, up-and-coming, award-winning stand-up comedians, seen…
Candy’s stories, musicality and legs will take you on a journey of her/his adventures through time.
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Join Diane as she recuts the red ribbon on her iconic 80s nightclub The Flick.
Join our expert guides for a free walk around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
David Kilimnick puts on his rabbi hat and brings the rabbinical mind to the stage as he expresses his irreverence for what is wrong.
‘The writing is fabulously blackly comic and timed to perfection’ (Deirdre O’Halloran, Literary Associate Soho Theatre).
This is a show for the fans.
The Weegie boys are back again after two consecutive sellout runs at the fringe! They can’t wait to go mental in the capital with an even bigger and bamier show than the last! From…
After numerous fires and showbiz bombs, The Grand Carlysle Theatre is amazingly celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Hailing from Scottish seaside town St Andrews is the award-winning a cappella group Bells.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
When you watch a show, you only see half the action.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Your Fringe adventure starts here! Now in its 21st year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of…
Entertaining and informative guided walking tours that tell the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
Rakish aristocrat and first-time detective Charlie Montague must prevent a murder.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Amy Matthews blends observational routines with offbeat whimsy, resigning to the absurdity of modern life.
Booking is essential for this sell-out tour.
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
Direct from the Wild West, the infamous Gravel Road Show presents Oklahoma, USA!, a world-premiere cabaret featuring blood and thunder melodrama, heel-kickin’ musical theatre and…
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
From early Celtic tradition, through Shakespearean superstition to modern high fantasy, everyone has heard of fairies.
In Bed With My Brother spend the largest portion of this, notably their third Edinburgh show, conducting a kind of aural warfare on their audience.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
The McTaggart sisters Elsa Jean McTaggart and her youngest sister Miss Irenie Rose present a rare opportunity to hear these two highly acclaimed singers/songwriters/multi-instrumen…
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Returning for their ninth year, the award-winning Blueswater tell the stories and perform the songs of the artists that defined popular music around the world.
Star of Scot Squad, Darren Connell comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for one night only! Nominated for a BAFTA, Darren is best known for portraying the lovable Bobby Muir on B…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society will be bringing a true taste of Scotland to the Fringe, with an all-encompassing sensory feast that celebrates the best of our culture.
Based on Robert Fulghum’s best-selling books, this musical takes a funny, insightful, heart-warming look at what is profound in everyday life.
Limbo: The Twelve is one of the latest pair of musicals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, allowing a group of talented young performes the opportunity to perform an origina…
This crowd-pleasing musical is inspired by and features the songs of Elvis Presley.
Get ready for word-bending, thought-provoking, side-splitting comedy.
This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends …
Written/performed by John McCann and directed by Erasmus Mackenna, who brought you last year’s Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning play DUPed.
Direct from great success in Australia, A Stand-Up for the Mystery Hour is a show like no other.
Those dazzling divas are back, ready to party, celebrating being 21 with The Greatest Show Girls Tour! So let’s hear it for the boys as they transform into 16 of the world’s mo…
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show 2018! ‘Absolutely phenomenal, sensitively portrayed with painstaking accuracy’ (BroadwayBaby.
Ten strangers visit the same park bench on the same day.
Hi, I’m Eddy Brimson.
It’s been 50 years since the world’s most pivotal music festival.
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.
A spectacular mixed bill variety show bursting with the best stand-ups, character comedians, musical acts and the most original performers at the Fringe.
Hello, my name is Edd Hedges.
Six actors.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
A Songwriters’ Circle returns to the Fringe in a slightly different format for 2019, presenting two of Scotland’s finest songwriters playing a one-off show as a duo.
Critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest tribute shows, Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after five consecutive sell-out years with …
A completely unique, side-splittingly hilarious walk of Edinburgh’s Old Town with local comedian Daniel Downie that promises to be more hysterical than historical.
After a swift rise to fame with her Nobel-nominated book Diary of a Drag Queen, DENIM’s Crystal is back.
Suren Jayemanne (Aus) has made a splash on the Australian scene, with his debut TV stand-up special featured as part of ABC’s Comedy Next Gen series.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Henry Churniavsky (2019 Not So New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist) is a grumpy Jewish sexagenarian who’s just got through a mid-life crisis and now old age approaches.
As a teenager, Calum asked a famous comedian how to get into comedy.
A one-man variety mash-up of story, song and stupidity.
Tokyo Rose is a complex story, told phenomenally well by a company quickly proving itself to be one of the hottest theatre groups in the country.
Got a burning problem? Got an itching question? Time to visit the clinic.
The Bristolian bumbling ex-darts champ is back.
A mix of comedy, storytelling and even a poem or two.
You never know what’ll change your life.
Scotty D, a city boy born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a journey, showing how karaoke saved his life and how it can save yours, too.
Conceptual art, dance, theatre, somebody sh*tting on stage.
A stand-up comedian sees his world fall apart when his wife decides he can no longer mention her onstage.
Acclaimed stand-up (and the UK’s foremost gilet apologist) Stuart Laws reflects on the day his life changed forever when he risked everything in a Vegas poker tournament.
What happens when two circus performers are sent to prison? They come up with a new Fringe show of course.
What do you get when you blend the works of William Shakespeare, with an all singing and dancing musical extravaganza? You get the Elizabethan’s answer to Flight of the Conchords…
Freddie Folkston takes a whimsical look at three decades and the generations which helped shape a brave new world for millennials.
With an all-new line-up and fresh material, the St Andrews Revue are back at the Fringe.
We all have to work.
Limbo: City of Dreams charges itself with the difficult task of cramming an entire world into its hour-long runtime.
The world is going to sh*t! Or so it seems.
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
A split bill comedy show featuring Thanyia Moore (Funny Women Award winner 2018) and Sian Davies (Hilarity Bites New Act winner 2018).
Raul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Critically acclaimed idiot Olaf Falafel is back once again like a renegade master.
Ockham’s Razor, winners of the Total Theatre and Jacksons Lane Award for Circus 2016 for their hit show Tipping Point, return with their new aerial theatre show, This Time.
A light-hearted musical trip through the big issues du jour: addiction, narcissism and compulsive snacking.
Possibly the best musical comedy show with live piano and a Romanian performer! It is a 50-minute journey through life.
Winner of Fringe World 2019 Best Children’s Show Weekly Award! The multi award-winning, sell-out sensation of 2018, The Greatest Magic Show is coming to Edinburgh for the first tim…
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, laconic, quirky, surreal, unexpected and awesome.
Horror meets hilarity! Spine-tingling original theatre that is hilariously dark and frighteningly funny.
HD Management presents multi award nominee and the official face of the ITV Hub and uSwitch, Lateef Lovejoy with his solo stand-up show Life, Times and Society’s Crimes where he ex…
Following last year’s sell-out run, All Together Irish returns with a daily selection of Ireland’s top comics plus guests from other countries.
David Tieck is a big absurdist, idiotic, teddy-bear type person.
A struggling movie actress and an aspiring horror writer are on the very brink of success – each just a compromise away.
Chris Dugdale: Down to One.
After getting dragged along to the smelliest, most infamous night club in Edinburgh by her new friends, Frida the Fresher meets Matt, a posh English guy from the rival university.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Carl Donnelly (‘Observational genius’ (Guardian)) returns with a new show about how difficult it is to be a good person in the modern age.
‘It’s difficult, I think, being a human person.
If a show combining maths, poetry, comedy and rap sounds like it may be up your street, then boy, oh boy, do I have a show for you?! The youngest ever World Slam Poetry champion, H…
Britain’s Got Talent approached Mark Bunyan last October to sing on their programme but two days before his London Palladium debut, the BGT lawyers decided that his song about ap…
Despite the title, it transpires that Joz Norris is not dead, but is merely busy having a bath.
Vauxhall Comedy presents two of the brightest up-and-coming comedians on the UK circuit: Tom Elwes and Ali Woods (as heard on BBC Radio 4).
Josie Long has spent twenty years being a beacon of hope amongst the cynical cruelty of stand-up comedy.
There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs.
Benson shares his fascination with the infamous plot to murder Lord Liverpool’s entire cabinet and the grisly aftermath on the gallows at Newgate.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it can often feel very hard to be alone.
‘Sometimes I think I have felt everything I’m ever gonna feel and from here on out, I’m not gonna feel anything new.
This is definitely not the first time I have seen a play about being gay or about the AIDS epidemic, but it is the first time I have seen an eclectic and moving look at life post H…
Divet Show will bring glitter, glamour, fun and over 30 world-class stars like Adele, Whitney, Celine, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Freddie Mercury, Cher.
Living in Kent - Maxwell tells us – he is surrounded by the sort of puce-faced, fake WWII heroes who seem to think that having once watched a film with John Mills in it automatic…
Trauma is never an easy thing to talk about.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter, CNN political commentator and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs to the Fringe for the first tim…
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
Charlie returns with more historical comedy, characters and stand-up.
An abandoned party; a neglected bedroom; a cluttered AV desk.
‘Their versions of the Marvel films might even be better’ ****½ (fb.
Multi award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Doug Crossley’s solo show brings together songs, comedy and the heartache of trying to understand a friend’s suicide.
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
How much of your future would you sacrifice in order to preserve the past? Sarah Burns is a mother and wife, but in 1865 she gave up her life in Australia to return to Britain.
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.
There’s only one person who could compel people from their homes on a day when the rain is coming down in sheets and thunder crashes less than three Mississippi’s away.
London’s best comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh to ask the funniest people on the Fringe if they have what it takes to be heroes.
For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
Multi award-winning comedian Sarah Kendall returns to Edinburgh with a spellbinding hour of storytelling.
Post Popular is Lucy McCormick's attempt to follow-up her fantastic and hugely popular show Triple Threat.
Twice-nominated Scottish Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, Christopher KC, brings his riotous debut show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
‘I’m not going to gamble the happiness I have with you for a chance at happiness with someone else – what’s the point?’ Ollie and Laura have been together for three years, and ar…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
When critiquing a musical about the difficulties of being a performer, there’s nothing to do but write a review about the difficulties of being a critic.
Tommy Fury once said “if life is a game, then love is the prize”.
Star of BBC Radio 4’s Chinese Comedian and co-host of E4’s The Hangover Games, Ken Cheng is back with a complete treatise on racism.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
This brand-spanking-new hour by the 2018 Chortle Best Newcomer nominee finally answers the question no one is dying to have answered: ‘where is she from?!’.
Andy has performed at 40 Edinburgh Festivals.
Finally, after years of toil, Gary Tro has perfected quite possibly the greatest superhero movie screenplay ever written.
Taking on the voices of a group of monumental and important women throughout history, MARA embodies them physically and vocally with stunningly committed and skillful character wor…
Silly, surreal show about time travel, love and time travel.
One Duck Down.
Meet Melissa.
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
With 25 years of experience at the Fringe, the Lisa Richards agency is excited to showcase some of our new and established talent.
The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art play host to the first-ever survey exhibition of collage in the world.
EDINBURGH PREVIEW It's 1616.
Music, quotes and verse.
Somehow Comedy Historian Robert Ross and Hi-De-Hi star Jeffrey Holland didn't meet until a Comedy Legends cruise in the autumn of 2018, but it was an instant connec…
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
In this, the 60th Anniversary of one of the world’s most iconic music venues, the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars take to the road to celebrate the ‘Ronnie Sc…
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Multi-award winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff, Dave’s The Magic Sponge podcast) returns with his sixth solo show.
Star of Radio 4’s Chinese Comedian, E4’s The Hangover Games and winner of Dave’s Joke of the Fringe, Ken returns with a love-letter to all the Twitter …
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars presents a tribute to perhaps the most significant and popular composer of all time…
Award winning jazz vocalist and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal and her All Stars will traverse a rich landscape of timeless and sparkling material as they celebrate the Gr…
The Queen's of Lovers Rock announce an exclusive London concert as part of the 2019 Innervisions Festival.
After sell out shows at the Electric Ballroom, 229 and The British Library, the Innervisions Festival is Saluting the Black President himself, Fela Kuti, tonight with the Dele Sosi…
Iconic American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, Maceo Parker is best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960’s as well as George Clinton's&nbs…
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Rare Groove Legends RAMP announce an exclusive European Concert.
Mavis Staples' recording career spans from the 1950s to the current day.
American rapper, singer-songwriter, poet, actor Saul Williams is coming to London to appear as part of the breath-taking Innervisions Festival line up between 3…
Aloe Blacc is best known for his UK No.
Agatha Christie’s The Rats - one of her perplexing shorter plays in all its intrigue and deceit.
Previewing his eagerly anticipated return to the Edinburgh Fringe in August, Comedy Legend Tony Slattery reveals all in conversation with comedy historian Robert Ross.
Join comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean as they explore a shared passion, serial killers.
Stand up comedy show as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe.
Tuesday 18th June, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsDuration: 165minsSuitable for: no age guide has been given about this screening yet…
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Thursday 13th June, 7.45pmTickets: £16Duration:Suitable for: ages 18+
Enter the darkness, take a seat and prepare as your master of ceremonies ‘Jen’ guides you through this chilling theatrical experience.
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Writer/comedian David Head and singer/songwriter Matt Glover of Sincere Deceivers are proud to present their critically acclaimed story and song show “A Good Service on All Other…
After a phenomenal sell out tour in 2018, Walk Right Back is.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
Dave Kirby (Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds & Blues, The Wrath of Ann Twacky, Barry White Christmas) is back with a brand new seque…
After sell-out shows in 2016 and 2017, Theatre InThe Garden return with an exciting and very funny new production of this well-loved play.
All My Sonsby Arthur Millerdirected by Jeremy Herrin Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters…
Tony Slattery is back in his natural habitat, joining forces with his improvisation partner, Allan Lear, for a brand new show of spontaneous laughter.
50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck is back in theatres in 2019 with a brand new show, bringing to the stage a…
The first British tribute band performing the classic songs of Don Williams.
It’s systematic, it’s hydromatic… Why it’s Grease lightin’. Back at the Courtroom for another spin. T-Bird, Pink Ladies and Beauty School Dropouts all welcome.
Still got an itching problem? For the third year running, join drag-ony aunt Gloria Hole and a panel of top comedians for another year of solving your pressing concerns.
Monsteers Artistry Presents: All The Ladies Mic Night! All the Ladies Mic Night Includes Live Performances from Sarah Dorsett, Pippa Lea, Lauren Garnder, Christine Maia …
Ferocious clubber Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journo, made porn, Tinder’d her way through most of London.
A comedy cabaret (or summin’ like that) that asks the question: Have you ever just closed your eyes and hoped that it’ll all just go away? This is a bracing, booming and brash…
A stand-up showcase featuring purveyor of one-liners and ‘Long Man’, Josh Massen, and storyteller and ‘Short Man,’ Phil Green.
Amazing tales elegantly told.
Can a young astronaut and a fallen star save a former dancer who is fighting a bizarre illness and her bohemian roommate? Or will they be captured and tortured with no end in sight…
“Wait, what was that whole last part about copyright? I don’t feel like I got that.
When you’re used to holding the whip hand, Death can be an unwelcome distraction.
Come have the the time of your life, with the cult-dance musical of the 80’s. Our very own Steph will get you in the mood before the screening.
Canadian stand-up comic David Tsonos has been auditioning for acting roles for 20 years.
Be our guest at our Beauty-and-the-Beast sing-a-long. Free sweets for everyone in fancy dress.
The name of the game is, Mamma Mia 2… Here we go again! Calling all Super Troupers, Dancing Queens and Fernados. Join us for the second instalment of the smash hit film.
David and Sam know every story ever told.
Brighton favourites The Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand! Join the jet set when you book with Electric Cabaret Airlines.
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion football manager and now club Ambassador, discusses his life and the major incidents that have helped shape a successful playing career for England, T…
Do you want to know how to solve your problems and become practically perfect in every way? Whenever you are in a stew, just ask “What would Julie Andrews do?” Eliza von Poppins …
For Jacques, the journey from cradle to grave is fraught with the negative voices of our culture; but, in our show, Jacques finally gets to see the possibility of hope and life-for…
After the success of his debut last year at the Brighton Fringe, Jake presents his highly-anticipated second show.
Fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, avantguardian, all singing, all raging wonder.
Peter Hose is a respectable adult, and it’s tearing him apart! He doesn’t know what to do anymore, but he’s gotta do something.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
We all have to work.
Eva and Billie found each other; searching for someone to commit suicide with.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
The Greatest Love of All is a critically acclaimed live concert honouring the talent, music and memory of Whitney Houston.
Its supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
There was once an industry joke that Sam Kydd was in every British film ever made.
Everyone I mentioned this show to asked the same question: 'What’s a theremin?' I'd try and explain: 'it’s an instrument, the one you play by just waving your h…
Now in its 18th successive year, this stunning 100% live show combines first class music with the slickest choreography and an amazing band, to deliver truly outstanding…
Sketch comedy hat-trick ‘PÖJJ’ return to Brighton Fringe.
Sam Carlyle: My Life and Other Jokes is a fun evening of storytelling through both song and over gesticulation.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos has had pet cats for the last 20 years, from the early days of Mittens to his new cat Mitzy, come watch him as he deals with problems of adopti…
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
Roll up, roll up! Come and feast your eyes upon our collection of curious characters at the ‘Carnivale de Robotique.
Scotty D, just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit, will take you on a Journey, showing how karaoke has saved his life and could save yours (and maybe even save the world)…
Politics, celebrity, the media, technology, our 24-hour reality television cartoon dystopia.
Comedy actor Peter Butterworth is undoubtedly best-loved as an integral member of the Carry On team, appearing in sixteen of the film classics as well as an eighteen-mon…
Brighton is known for its alternative politics and anything-goes attitude and the Subversive Sussex Walk is packed full of stories about the rabble-rousing Brightonians who did any…
Calling all dancing queens! Come and sing-a-long to the original smash hit film!
In this, the 60th Anniversary of one of the worlds most iconic music venues, the Ronnie Scotts All Stars take to the road to celebrate the Ronnie Scotts Story.
Heidi Regan, winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2017 and So You Think You’re Funny 2016, presents a work in progress of her new show.
After being diagnosed with schizophrenia aged 20, Joe’s life becomes a cacophony of visions, voices and questionable media stereotypes.
The daily blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
Following its sell-out run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2018, Paul Bunyan will receive its first revival at Alexandra Palace Theatre this May.
Pit your wits against JB Fletcher at this interactive screening of the classic ‘Murder, She Wrote’ episode, ‘Birds of a Feather’.
Lucy Peach is a folk singer from Fremantle WA, with a parallel career as a Sex Ed teacher.
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
Join freelance first aid instructor Roger Clammy on this taster course covering some of the most essential life-saving skills.
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…
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
Unforgettable bank holiday fun for all the family from our own ‘Greatest Showman’, Des, as he presents some of the most talented circus performers at the Fringe.
Andrew Steiner has French-kissed trees, studied under a Zen Master in Japan and trained kick-boxing in Thailand.
“One of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit” (Guardian), Vladimir McTavish became a full-time comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences across the g…
It is still one of the best kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in…
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (‘Harry Hill’; Sky1, ‘Dog Ate My Homework’; CBBC, ‘Doctor Wh…
A funny, poignant and uplifting account of what cosmology, and those who study it, have to say about the more earthly matters of life and love.
Bobby works on Woolies’ record counter.
Lee Griffiths, household name* and all-round philanthropic hero has given himself the honour of hosting a charity telethon to help those less fortunate.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Come! Escape into the Kingdoms of Ashgorn, where you can level up, complete quests, defeat monsters and watch a very cheeky young man doing some really stupid character comedy.
What do evil tomatoes, heroic banjos and a recovering executive have in common? Former executive Keith Alessi reinvents himself as a writer-performer and banjo enthusiast to tell u…
Fresh from his sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run at the Pleasance Courtyard, Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe! Expect the unexpected…
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
Late Night Gimp Fight compile their best material from the last ten years to provide a crude and raucous evening of entertainment.
We are calling all fellow reprobates, sinners and free love enthusiasts to join us for a night of ceremonial debauchery as we launch the Spiegeltent season! The year is 2030 and p…
Roll up, roll up, to the greatest show on earth! Sing-a-long with all your favourite songs, fancy dress encouraged.
British Comedy Guide Recommended Show 2018 In this affectionate tribute to one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars, leading impressionist Julian Dutton (BBC1&rsqu…
There are some predictable events in Brighton and Hove; a seagull swooping down on your lunchtime sandwich, sequins on the beach after Pride, and the Ladyboys of Bangkok strutting …
180! Jody Kamali is hapless Mike Daly.
All About EveBy Joseph L MankiewiczAdapted and directed for the stage by Ivo van Hove Gillian Anderson (X-Files, NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire) and Lily James (Mamma…
Ebdon Management presents a tremendous selection of up and coming talent for your delectation.
Tickets: £23Duration: approx 2hrs with an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
ON SALE AT 10AM FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMEBER Join Limmy for a night of anecdotes and chit-chat as he introduces his autobiography - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny - …
Join Limmy for a night of anecdotes and chit-chat as he introduces his autobiography - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny - featuring the true stories of how thi…
You don’t realise how people can hate, Chris, they can hate so much they’ll tear the world to pieces…’ America, 1947.
Performed by The Liberties, the songs and tunes of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Burke and John Sheehan is brought to life using the exact same instrum…
Following on from their successful visits with The Nutcracker and Storyteller Storyteller, StoryPocket return with David Baddiel’s ANiMALCOLM the Musical.
Tickets: £13.
50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck – The Rod Stewart Story is back in theatres in 2019 with a bran…
From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
The Time Machine From the creators of Orlando, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Austen’s Women, Christmas Gothic, Dalloway, I, Elizabeth, The Unremarkable Death of Mar…
Andrew Bird is the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of.
Andrew Bird is the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of.
Ferocious clubber Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journo, made porn, Tinder'd her way through most of London.
A World Premiere from Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company, in association with Lyra.
The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame.
Three explosive new shows by three exciting new companies, all wrapped into one evening for your entertainment! A Sticky Season explores sticky queer histories through a languag…
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop museum of the nicked.
£5010am - 4pmAge 18 This workshop is the perfect opportunity to learn how to make high quality, hand printed greetings cards and wrapping paper using linocut.
Charlie is a kleptomaniac - the doctor told her.
Tickets:£15, £13 concessions on Tuesday night£17, £15 concessions on Wednesday night£18, £16 concessions on Thursday night &…
ELIO PACE Presents ELVIS PRESLEY On August 16th, 2017, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the death of…
The curious little owl is back, and this time she’s ready to discover the wonders of night-time, from the big, bright moon to the bats in the sky and the foxes dee…
Master of the monologue, Mark Farrelly, sits slumped forward in an upright chair shrouded in a white smock, whose back-ties make it resemble a cross between a straight jacket and a…
“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else.
A brand new show from 'The Outright King of Live Comedy’ - The Times.
‘Vincent identifies, with forensic precision, the way men react to changing times’ ★★★★ The Observer Directed by ‘one of the m…
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Sex! Fantasies! Voyeurism! Vacuuming!In the cosy atmosphere of London’s living rooms and untraditional spaces, Ethan is Coming Clean.
In this class, we’ll discuss embarking on making a top-down yoked sweater to fit you – without using a pattern! Knitting from the top down, with a particular…
Featuring an all-star cast, All Is True is a theatrical drama that sees Branagh portray the famous playwright, William Shakespeare in his retirement years.
Get ready to start a fancy brioche project tonight! You have never or hardly ever tried brioche but you're a confident knitter, and this fancy brioche shawl caught …
Like a graphic novel burst into life, 1927 invites you on a theatrical journey of startling originality.
All Good GuysIrish Men.
Lost in TransmissionA deranged channel-surfing sketch show StarletGet a lad with a car Lost in Transmission - Shabadoo TheatreTake a trip through the strange, les…
A hilarious, poignant play about falling out, making up, and the joy of true friendship.
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.
A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world.
A creative programming session that is designed for those who are interested in the idea of artificial life.
Unhook your mindbras.
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
An evening of stand-up comedy supporting Nerve Tumours UK and helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 in every 3,000 …
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Archaeologists from the Museum of Comedy are excited to reveal their discovery of an ancient comedy artefact: the remains of the long-thought-mythical Mark Bunyan have b…
Archaeologists from the Museum of Comedy are excited to reveal their discovery of an ancient comedy artefact: the remains of the long-thought-mythical Mark Bunyan have b…
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
As Brexit screeches towards a nightmare climax that not even the Prime Minister can predict, the REMAINIACS podcast crew return for an evening of high-end Brexit talk an…
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle pieces together Alexandra and Kate Donnachie’s sometimes heartbreaking but often hilarious memories of growing up together and managing their cl…
Classic Hollywood film All About Eve comes to the West End in a new stage adaptation starring Gillian Anderson and Lily James.
Don’t miss this brand knew exciting 2 hour action packed family event starting its 2019 UK tour here in Catfords Broadway Theatre, the venue ASW featured on …
Friday 1st February, 7.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
The Ronan Collins Showband Show Reeling In the Showband Years has been a smash hit for the past 9 years, and we are delighted to say it returns once again to the Civic T…
Tickets: £13.
The smash hit, sell out, sketch show that squeezes a decade of the Marvel Cinema Universe into one action packed hour of comedy.
A scathing and bitterly amusing attack on the increasingly powerful and narcissistic super-rich, set against the backdrop of terrifying state oppression, the highly pertinent Party…
Directed and written by Suzanne Andrade with film, design and animation by Paul Barritt, The Animals and Children Took to the Street arrives at The Old Market theatre in Brighton.
A Christmas revue show parodying all things festive and topical.
Booming surrealist storytelling comedian Will Seaward (“part Brian Blessed, part Oscar Wilde” - the Telegraph, “genuinely, terrifyingly chari…
Unmasked Theatre are filling the week before Christmas with a stage adaptation of It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1946 festive favourite.
♫On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, some dodgy meat off the back of a lorr-ry♫ The nation’s favourite publican, Al Murray – The …
It’s time to get well and truly in the Christmas spirit as smash-hit musical production The Elvis Years brings its very special seasonal twist to theatres across t…
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for a brand new adventure anywhere…
Swedish metal band, Clawfinger are returning to the UK for an exclusive headline show this December, where they'll be celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Dea…
Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but there is a sinister secret wrapped in the stories we tell.
Join comedians Rachel Fairburn and Kiri Pritchard-McLean as they explore a shared passion, serial killers.
Join us for a soaring celebration of love through the ages as we open London's first ever purpose-built immersive theatre venue with an evening of romance, dance and decadence.
Fresh from their sold-out, five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe, join multi-award-winning duo, Zak Ghazi-Torbati & Toby Marlow (co-writer of SIX), for the cabaret comedy extra…
“Mother Goose Presents….
Critically acclaimed idiot Olaf Falafel presents his award winning Edinburgh show.
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
Mikhail Lermentov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been newly adapted for the stage by Oliver Bennett, who also plays the lead - Pechorin, and Vladimir Shcherban.
An evening of stand-up comedy with stars of many of the funniest shows on TV helping to raise awareness of neurofibromatosis, an incurable genetic condition affecting 1 …
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
The ‘Outright King of Live Comedy’ (The Times) Jason Byrne is back at the Leicester Square Theatre for more comedy chaos.
Walk Swiftly And With Purpose is a coming-of-age narrative, which calmly sets ablaze the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, History Boys, and Dead Poets’ Society and, with a short sharp …
An evening with Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist and broadcaster Rebeca Wilcox For one night only broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughte…
Fresh from his SELL OUT Edinburgh Fringe run, Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe.
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 …
Award-winning singer songwriter David Gibb returns with a brand new musical show for families and children, after sold out performances in 2017.
Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed and multi award winning, The Morning After The Life Before, at The Liverpool Irish Arts Festival.
A crazy look at a not altogether crazy world!
One night only! Edinburgh encore.
Join musical maniac Katie Pritchard & a whole heap of her favourite comedy pals for a night of entertainment.
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?
The Lost Disc is a riotous quest for the holy grail of recorded music.
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Across four limitless, unplanned evenings of hilarity, protest and misrule, cabaret terrorist and avantguardian David Hoyle RETURNS, supercharged and offroad, to the R…
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Jean Genie are the ultimate tribute to David Bowie, fronted by John Manwaring and his band, expect a 2 hour show packed with all the hits from the Ziggy and White Duke e…
“Comedy’s own Leonard Cohen” - ★★★★★ FringePigAshley Haden is back with the eagerly-awaited final chapter of the C*nting Trilogy.
From the professional pissheads behind the international hit show Shit-faced Shakespeare comes an all new cockney knees-up musical extravaganza.
2 Brand New Radio Comedies - For Free! This event is ticketed through EventBrite - please click belwo to reserve your free ticket: https://www.
Ronnie and Maggie have been a regular feature around the Midlothian folk scene for a number of years.
Club Cumming began in Alan’s Studio 54 dressing room after performances of Cabaret on Broadway in 2015, where pals like Sting, Gareth Pugh and Monica Lewinsky would come backst…
Samuel Ch.
At Secret Cinema, we take the essence of the film and build a living, breathing world that you can be a part of.
The Guilty Feminist joins forces with Amnesty International UK to bring The Secret Policeman back to life for 2018! Following the magnificent Secret Policeman’s tradition of presen…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A storytelling, poetry and music performance filled with Viking tales and Nordic myths about the Vikings’ arrival in 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…
Rachel Sambrooks is trying to love life even when it’s rubbish.
All That Remains is a moving reflection on loss and memory based on true stories from the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Not All Men wash their hands after going to the toilet, not all men brush their teeth twice daily.
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…
Fronted by Scottish guitar virtuoso Andy Gunn, From T-Bone to Trucks will take you on a journey through the decades, showcasing the most loved and respected exponents of the blues.
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.
East meets West in this wild mash-up of comedy, electric violin, characters, spoken word and songs from legendary AmerAsian duo Slanty Eyed Mama.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
‘Combined blistering pace with beautifully crafted melodies’ (BroadwayBaby.
Things Live! A variety cabaret of Dragtime’s most unusual and magical drag performances yet.
Meet Leah and Chris: raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as special as their parents promised.
For one night only, the award-winning cast of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches in aid of Waverley Care.
Pechorin is a superfluous man.
Join us for a postmodern take on popular songs from the past decade as well as standards by the likes of Gershwin, Berlin, and Ellington.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
Open the window, take a breath – outside it’s grey.
Consort of Voices return to the historic Canongate Kirk in what will be our tenth year of Fringe performances.
Music by 17th-century composer John Dowland for lute, soprano and viol.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Eivind Ringstad ViolaDavid Meier Piano Tartini Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’Schumann MarchenbilderPeder Barratt-Due Correspondances (world premiere)Franck Sonata in ASchu…
Virtuoso pianist Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West in two recitals centred on favourite works by Bach and Chopin.
Confused about money? Concerned about the economy? Join editor-in-chief of Moneyweek and FT columnist Merryn Somerset Webb as she interviews, talks over and argues with a well-know…
The feelings and concerns of women are very much in our thoughts at the moment and their songs have always been at the centre of our tradition.
JazzMain honours the true pioneers of 50s and 60s American West Coast jazz, when The Blue Note record label was home to iconic talent such as Horace Silver and Dexter Gordon blazin…
Colin McKenzie has only forty minutes left to live! Come join us for the final moments of Colin’s brilliant, majestic and totally mundane existence! A once in a lifetime opportunit…
Why are we fascinated by serial killers? They’re everywhere; on the news, in crime fiction, on television and in our daily lives.
I’m not sure how to explain The Fun Club Presents… Three performers – Sara Page, Franny Anne Rafferty and Alistair McPhail – in a room, all in animal face-paint, talk obliq…
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Hello! I’m Charlie Miller, and I was in Budgie the Little Helicopter.
Why Performance? is a series of panel discussions exploring the contributions that performance makes to human life and development.
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.
We’re all brainwashed, biased and influenced by personal experience, even scientists.
Lost Lore is a production by new company Lost Tail Theatre.
Fifty minutes of country music from Jonny Brick, songwriter and broadcaster, who wants to tell you through song about his love of all forms of country, from Willie Nelson to Luke B…
Audible hosts two weeks of completely free live comedy shows, showcasing the finest acts the festival has to offer, all being recorded for audio series Audible Presents.
Linking Old and New Towns, Princes Street Gardens are truly amazing in their unique geology, disputed history, diverse planting and the myriad ways that ordinary folk have used and…
What is Caledonian Soul? Ross Wilson (aka Blue Rose Code) will attempt to answer this question with the help of a 14-piece band and some well-known musical friends.
Who hasn’t had a problem they’ve struggled to solve? We struggle, and the world struggles.
Vocal Force returns to the Fringe with an all-new line-up of songs! These young, enthusiastic performers from the USA harmonise their way through beloved hits that will inspire and…
The Time Traveller dedicates his life to creating a time machine in an attempt to alter the moment of his greatest loss.
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, ‘voice.
True Arrow presents a series of scenes which readjust the balance of male to female dialogue by putting women front and centre with a multi-rolling cast of four women and one man.
Whether you’re after a relaxing lager or fancy a reminiscent Babycham, The White Oak is the pub for you.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood. Humorous, full of fun and fabulous musical numbers.
University is the best time of your life, isn’t it? So what do you do when every day is a struggle? In Seven Ways to Calm the Fuck Down, directed by Ruth Berry, 3BUGS Fringe Thea…
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
Join us for an evening of chilled jazz as new Scottish quintet The Misinformed Quintet makes their Edinburgh Festival Fringe and AMC debut with One Note at a Time, a one-time perf…
History Boys meets Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour as we follow four girls on the cusp of adulthood in this new take on the classic coming of age tale.
BBC’s Angelos Epithemiou and Channel 4’s Barry from Watford return with a new show following their sell-out tour.
Fringe newcomers all the way from Canada, Yonge Guns packed their bags full of all that influences them as musicians, teachers and accountants.
In a different show every day the audience has the chance to seize back control of Rock’n’Roll Politics as broadcaster and author Steve Richards conducts a tour of the latest seism…
The National Theatre of China have brought their visually stunning production of Life On The Silk Road to Zoo Southside.
Robert Schumann’s song cycle of a woman’s life, paired with music by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn and Alma Mahler.
After sold-out shows, rave reviews and standing ovations at Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, Lord of the Strings! – the ultimate one-man guitar show, first created for touri…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Bill Alexander returns to the Fringe to give a piano recital of a favourite selection of rondos, nocturnes, waltzes, études and the sonata in B minor Op 58.
Trump, Putin and Kim Jong-un live on tour! King of the modern protest song Beldon Haigh and Mother Of All Bands bring a weird and wonderful live band performance.
Psychiatrist Stephen Lawrie (The University of Edinburgh) thinks mental illness is needlessly controversial – and the controversy is destroying our mental health services.
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Kevin Rowland – Style icon and leader of the band Dexys (formerly Dexy’s Midnight Runners) is renowned for his vast wealth of musical knowledge and a highly charged eclecticism, …
Join us on an exotic journey all the way from Barcelona, via Seattle, Paris and Leeds?One very single Spaniard, one very married Englishman, one very real question.
Discover Adelaide Fringe, Australia’s largest open access festival! The Fringe transforms Adelaide into a festival wonderland, with over 1,200 events across every art form in ove…
It’s her singing and their playing that helps to bring it alive for audiences.
Join multi award-winning Amersham A Cappella as they celebrate their Fringe debut.
The history of mental disorder is full of instances of labels of mental disorders being used to control what was deemed as unacceptable or dangerous.
Broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist Rebecca Wilcox, discuss careers and family ties.
‘Leeson in the title role is absolutely phenomenal.
Logan’s Close are an Edinburgh based four-piece, performing original music with strong influence from 60s rhythm and blues.
Advanced technology indistinguishable from magic! Robots of varying complexity, from AI research platforms to homemade junkbots, interact with international magician Charlie Caper …
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.
All Change is a new bittersweet comedy about growing old.
Scotland’s own Soul Nation Rock Choir are back again with a sizzling hot show to lift you even higher and higher.
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…
Bala Baile is an Edinburgh-based Latin trio.
Heather and Harry is a romantic yarn detailing the story of Heather, an angel cast out of heaven by her misogynist rapping boyfriend Zeus, of Greek mythology fame.
The Blueswater is an award-winning Edinburgh band.
Little Shakespeare Company returns once again to the Fringe with a talented group of Scottish young actors.
A journey through chamber music gems with the Edinburgh Quartet – featuring works by Mozart, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak and Gesualdo over three performances.
Chris Difford celebrates the release of his autobiography with some very special shows.
All Killa No Filla Live.
Italian Horror legends GOBLIN are coming to the UK to perform 6 very special shows in London and Edinburgh as part of their 40th Anniversary Celebrations.
Fringe hit! A different daily bill of global stand-up comedy stars.
These entertaining and informative guided walking tours tell the story of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
A brand-new and free stand-up show from one of the biggest faces in comedy.
Past secrets remain hidden, not by the sinister or well-meant, but from fear.
Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson weaves through time with jokes, anecdotes and storytelling.
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
Experience the iconic Trainspotting on location in Leith, including places featured in the book such as Central Station and Leith Dockers Club.
It’s Story Slam time! Bristol Improv’s brand new show uses your ideas and experiences as the basis for its improvised stories.
Your pictures and regrettable digital utterings are public.
Wouldn’t it be great if we had superpowers that could get us out of hopeless situations? Or a hero or heroine who stands by our side? Brand-new international ensemble Donkey for …
The Edinburgh Revue – the Titanic of comedy.
Up ‘til now, I had only ever seen Tom Crosbie perform short spots at Fringe cabaret shows where his skill with a Rubik’s Cube and his awkward, amiable persona intrigued me.
Smitten are a minimalist, smoky, pop three-piece.
Join Jem (Best Newcomer Midlands Awards 2018), Joe (Chortle finalist 2015) and Horatio (Chortle semi-finalist 2018) for an absurd hour of stand-up about dads, insects, long hairy l…
Join Meg and her band of misfits on a voyage through time and space.
Canadian comedy veteran David Tsonos returns with his sequel to his solo show 2015 Walking the Cat.
Dark comedy exploring morality and mortality.
A nice, relaxed way to spend an hour of your Edinburgh Fringe with conversational-style delivery from ‘one of the best comedy writers in Ireland’ (Aidan Bishop, The International C…
The bathroom of a student flat is not a place you'd want to spend 5 minutes, let alone an hour.
At first glance The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's two collaborative productions with the American Music Theatre Project may seem remarkably similar to last year's pair.
Welcome to the Good Life! A split-bill stand-up comedy show from two fun-loving, good-time-having, honest to goodness proper cute comedy lads.
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.
Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r…
There’s a fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous.
All About Her — Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera creatively combines traditional Chinese Opera with contemporary ideas, exploring feminism in the traditional opera repertoir…
Look, it’s David McIver, the nicest little man in town giving it a good go with his debut hour of riffs, bits and skits.
It’s not the Fringe without Jollyboat! The cult hit, back for their ninth year.
Neverwant: the algorithm of life.
Assassins is a show of rich thematic complexity, difficult harmonies and challenging characterisation.
Misha Rachlevsky and Russia’s finest string players engage, educate and entertain youngsters of all ages in a musical journey full of fun, interaction and surprises.
Romina Puma comes back and is darker than ever! It’s a show about love, or the lack of it, a show about a child longing to be cared for by her mother while having to care for her…
This jukebox musical, based on Twelfth Night and Elvis music, is a fantastic, foot-tapping show.
After a sell-out, five-star run in 2016, One Musical to Rule Them All returns to parody everyone’s favourite trilogy about wizards, hobbits and a quest to destroy some magical je…
Legacy: A Mother’s Song, one of two devised musicals under the ‘Legacy’ banner at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is the distinctly less crowd-pleasing of the pair.
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Got a burning problem? Got an itching question? Time to visit the clinic.
Vivaldi’s classic Four Seasons, hacked by electric violin and laptop, then reconstructed live into a personal and innovative take on one of classical music’s most well-loved work…
Come along and enjoy a fantastic sing-along to the musical classics.
Chuckle award runner-up (1998) Berlinda will take you on a journey to The Lost Matriarch, leaving behind all you have ever known about gender.
A unique concert, which celebrates the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
After exploding all over last year’s Fringe, the doyenne of erotic fiction, Pamela DeMenthe, returns with her seminal scorcher, Sticky Digits: an interactive masterclass in salacio…
Take an easy walking tour to discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Being in love is.
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
It’s 2005 and somehow Liverpool are back in the European Cup Final.
London’s best comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh to ask the funniest people on the Fringe if they have what it takes to be heroes.
Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe’s best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCA have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman a…
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
It’s August 1918 and it’s finally beginning to look like an Allied victory is on the cards.
‘The children grabbed him (the father) and put him on the table.
‘Forgive me? For everything.
‘There’s two kinds of blues, happy blues and then sad blues.
Punk and theatre aren't the strangest of bedfellows, but there is something that often feels false when collectives of art school graduates and professionally-trained actors at…
Jo Caulfield strides on stage with all the self-assuredness of the seasoned performer that she is.
Six actors.
The most entertaining film of the year is swinging onto the Fringe.
A “nearly” comedy about my memories as a professional stripper and near-hero during London Bridge terror attack in 2016.
On average, victims of domestic violence experience 35 assaults before calling the police.
Your Fringe adventure starts here! For the 20th year, Edinburgh’s historic High Street is transformed into a huge open-air performance playground featuring thousands of shows of al…
Popular or unknown, apps are part of our daily lives.
November 22nd 1963.
Bare Productions are a new, fresh Edinburgh-based company comprising of some of the best local talent who have all performed in multiple five-star sell-out shows at the Fringe.
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure every day based…
Steve Chang takes you on an introspective journey to find meaning in life by means of ayahuasca, hookers and gay conversion camp.
Excitement! Drama! Romance! And… knitting? A scintillating cabaret, featuring the lost knitting songs of WWI and WWII from Canada, Britain, America and France.
Join Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, on a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired each other.
August 1916, the great explorer Alexandra David-Néel has been in her hermitage cavern in the Himalayas for two and a half years, following the teachings of her guru, the Lama Gomc…
Join our expert guides for a free walk around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
Swallow finds a man hiding in the barn, when she asks who he is his words are ‘Jesus Christ’.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten shows you don’t have to use a chalkboard to teach what we’ve known all along.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One hundred years of blues, 60 minutes to play it.
David Kay, one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit, quirky, surreal, surprising and awesome.
Take well-known Elvis songs, some less known, mix in a boy from Tupelo’s story, add a quartet of musicians and gently shake, rattle and roll.
After winning the Edinburgh Panel Prize in 2014 with Funz and Gamez, Phil’s ready to bring his unique, anarchic and unreliable comedy to the masses.
According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to f…
Fringe legend and ‘outright king of live comedy’ (Times), Jason Byrne, is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
FunnyHappyStuff.
Trump.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Stand-up comic Gareth Berliner was cast in Coronation Street four years ago to play dodgy drug dealer Macca, and was told he didn’t need make-up! He’s also very funny.
Drag Superstar, Jonny Woo and Olivier Award-winning composer, Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer The Opera) bring you this sequin-spangled musical ripped straight from the headlines.
There are too many shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Worst Little Warehouse In London is crammed into The Box, which appears to be an actual shipping crate housed in Assembly Gardens.
‘Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for real life’.
All month I have spotted Scott Swinton, star of Karaoke Saved My Life, on the streets of Edinburgh, flyering for his show.
After their multi award-winning debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the hot gays are back.
Join us on a thrilling journey to a future age where things are not as they seem.
‘Is it too much to ask for everything?!’ she shouted drunkenly at a bin.
Twice featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week.
Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab…
Felicity’s on a fantastic date.
‘Unbeatable comedic timing’ ***** (DurhamStudentTheatre.
In an affectionate tribute, leading impressionist Julian Dutton of BBC One’s The Big Impression brings to life one of Britain’s best-loved comedy stars.
Following last year’s sell-out run, All Together Irish returns with a daily selection of Ireland’s top comics plus guests from other countries.
A letter from the past, a date with a doomsday survivalist and the start of your dream career.
Step aside Ricky and Bianca, there’s a new duo in town.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Ashley Haden is back with the eagerly awaited final chapter of the C*nting Trilogy.
Ever tried to order a curry with all ten members of the Wu Tang Clan? Ever thought about what it all means (love/life/lager) mid downward-dog? Ever scored the winning goal in the l…
A love story, set on Preston Road, and also in space and in time.
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Dog Ate My Homework, Doctor Who) and…
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
As seen on Ricky Gervais’ Derek, Sky’s Rovers and Channel 4’s Gittins.
A journey through the side and under-mind.
What if you didn’t know you were dead? A dark new comedy.
Puns! Lots of puns! Spoken puns, visual puns, musical puns, contrived puns and a lot of props.
Jon Long (Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2016) is out to entertain you and he’ll be using all the tricks of the Troubadour trade.
Australian comedian Ross Voss’s show in the form of a basketball game! Four quarters of 12 minutes of comedy! Each quarter is different, from more about me to storytelling, longe…
Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub…
Writer/comedian David Head and singer/songwriter Matt Glover of Sincere Deceivers present a performance of silly love stories and melancholy folk pop.
20 years of Fringe shows, 20 years of touring and so many stories.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
Every now and then a sparkling gem comes bubbling to the surface of the Fringe.
Circus Sonas presents: Dirty Tattooed Circus Bastards. Cirque Du Soleil meets Motorhead. A circus show for adults. This show is probably not for you..
‘…Conway is chaotic and electric’ **** (Skinny).
The 1991 holiday camp talent show winner, frontman of Best Hertfordshire Band 1998 and Most Promising Student 2002 pinpoints where things went wrong.
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
When you step into the venue for Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard, you don’t expect much.
A wonderfully hilarious hour of stand-up comedy by two comedians that have been thrilling audiences throughout Europe with their show It’s A Joke Life.
The St Andrews Revue are back for their eighth Edinburgh Fringe! This year they’re on the run from the law, and their ‘extremely funny’ (BroadwayBaby.
Tessa Waters is an experienced Fringe act, falling into a large group of fantastically-exuberant physical comedians who enliven any number of venues from large to small over the mo…
‘Brilliant’ ***** (Sydney Morning Herald).
Rahul Kohli was unperturbed by the small audience on the evening this reviewer attended, likening it to ‘a Theresa May cabinet meeting’.
Hold on to your raincoats! Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe! Expect the unexpected in this mind-boggling variety show.
Vladimir McTavish became a full-time stand-up comedian in 1993, since then he has performed to audiences worldwide and gigged with some of the biggest names in the business.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
What happens to the women that men can’t write? In this showcase of strong female characters, a group of Cambridge’s finest lady and non-binary comics will endeavour to find out.
Dystopia is a tricky subject matter to get right in a world obsessed with its own destruction as our current one.
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
Cleaning out her grandmother's old basement after her death, amongst the usual detritus a woman finds a tape recorder and an accompanying tape which tells the kind of story usu…
Scottish comedy award winner Gary Meikle premieres his debut hour and lays bare his remarkable life story and how he’s defeated the odds set against him from surviving children’s h…
This is an intensely personal, sometimes funny, sometimes uncomfortable window into the relationship of two sisters at the toughest point of their lives so far.
Elf Lyons should be feeling pretty good right now.
In this dark one-man comedy we get a glimpse into the world of Main Character and the everyday struggle of his normal life.
Demi Lardner feels the need, at one point in their most recent show, to unveil a banner listing their previous accomplishments and awards they have won.
At first sight it would seem that Boondog Theatre's latest outing at the Edinburgh Fringe is somewhat ironically titled.
Emil Nolde was one of the greatest colourists of the twentieth century.
Don Rodolfo opens his debut fringe hour duelling with an unseen coat rack.
Christmas is a time for joy and happiness, but there’s a sinister secret wrapped in the stories we tell.
New York’s cosmic comedian Myq (Mike) Kaplan takes you (and himself, and the universe) on a journey of kindness in his Edinburgh debut.
Direct from a standing room only season at Edinburgh Fringe last year, and a critically acclaimed tour of Australia this, the world's premier nerd-culture double-act, The Just Us …
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family love them.
A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.
A 1960s caravan housing a left-luggage Museum.
I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s…
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
As the audience file in Rose Matafeo is playing table tennis with members of the front row, in a gimmick that does not factor into the later story at any point.
The hit show of 2016 and 2017 returns! The ultimate comedy panel show that boldly goes to a galaxy far far away.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
Sheeps are officially back, following previous acclaim and an underground status as one of the Fringe's finest sketch groups and then a three year sebatical.
Welcome to The 24/7 Club, where everyone was born on the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in Charlie V Martin’s new solo show about her birthday.
Typical Emmy, to turn brain cancer into a game! Her husband attempts to care for her, even as the illness eats away the woman he knows and loves, and her mother holds faith with in…
John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
After their five star runaway success with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Middle Child were always going to suffer from difficult second album syndrome and it’s a real shame …
Jake lives alone, cuts his own hair, has an ability to remember the exact date he first tasted each specific food for the first time and has a one-eyed cat.
New Zealand’s David Correos has blown away audiences from Auckland to Adelaide, now he returns to Edinburgh with his debut solo show.
Dark Horse covers lots of ground and it is evidently the result of Keyworth tirelessly exploring multiple comic avenues.
Unhook your mindbras.
There’s a line in How to Keep Time that sat very deeply in my heart: “All my memories have been rewritten for who you are now.
‘What is best in life?’ If you know the answer, come to this show.
Gripping World Premier drama of Cowgate fire.
Taking the form of both an exhibition and a book, The Lost Words celebrates the relationship between language and the living world, and of nature’s power to spark the imagination…
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
York’s answer to the Moulin Rouge! After sell out performances at previous Great Yorkshire Fringe festivals, Coquette will be celebrating our 10th birthday with a brand new…
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Trump.
Hotly tipped Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan brings his debut solo show down south where he regales his tales of living out of a backpack for 18 months trav…
Rahul Kohli grew up with many heroes.
Celebrating collaboration, a sensational vintage night of swing music and dance - Rinkadon Jukeboy and his Blind Tiger Dance Band, the hottest sounds this side of the Pe…
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Any Elvis Presley fan will tell you that August 16th, back in 1977, was the day the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ died at only 42 years of age.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure base…
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz…
Ashley Haden is back with the eagerly awaited final chapter of the ‘C*nting Trilogy’.
Inspirational internet memes are everywhere these days and Lost Voice Guy is sick of being an unintentional porn star.
Following on from her successful ‘Ella’ tour, Annette will captivate you with The Ladies Of Jazz.
Life & I is the new album from DUSTY LIMITS and MICHAEL ROULSTON, featuring a glorious selection of songs about everything from Life to Death and whatever happens in between, inclu…
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
A play promising to be the first of its kind premieres in July at Landor Space, Clapham, inviting audiences to take control of a show where every night really is different.
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
Michael Bublé – a true global superstar in his only UK performance is coming to Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2018! The undisputed ‘King of …
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Leading US Humorist, David Sedaris, is coming to London for his 2018 UK tour supporting the release of his book of essays ‘Calypso’.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Standup and improv comedy unite in one explosively funny night! Join us as a group of experienced improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) story in three acts based on the …
Fresh from performing to a sold-out audience at VAULT festival and the Brighton Fringe, up-and-coming comedian Jake Baker, twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award (…
Pop superstars Steps are the first headline act to be announced for Greenwich Music Time 2018.
An idyllic new estate in a commuter town (very convenient for the M50 and the direct train to Dublin) is flipped on its head when divine forces begin to interfere.
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Based in Dresden, the Semperoper Ballett has conquered the world with its now acclaimed blend of fierce ballet technique with both classical and contemporary repertoire.
Energetic, playful stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian Russell Arathoon.
Sketch Off 2018 runners up Bread & Geller bring you their sell-out debut hour, a hot mix of character comedy, observational sketch and musical parody.
Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Is a musical comedy show with live piano.
Back for 2018! Another fantastic day out for art lovers everywhere.
The SLJO are back with an all-new set featuring tunes from the golden era of Big Band and other jazz classics.
Once there was a boy and one day he found a penguin at his door.
Join multi award-winner and Britain's Got Talent 2017 semi-finalist Jess Robinson for an evening of spot-on celebrity impressions, musical comedy and stunning vocal gymnastics.
Brighton College have taken on a demanding task with their production of Mark Ravenhill’s Candide, first performed by the RSC in 2013.
Some Guys Have All The Luck is a fantastic theatrical production celebrating the career of one of rocks greatest icons, Rod Stewart – from street busker through to…
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
24th May 2015 was the day that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Two English gentlemen (or are they?) pull surprises out of the hat (and the audience).
Scottish comedy-award-winner and BAFTA nominee Vladimir McTavish celebrates a quarter-century in the business with an hour-long show featuring some brand-new topical gags, some old…
A belly dance showcase presenting incredible talent from around the world.
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South present .
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
James Dean.
History; Comedy; Songs.
Comedian David Callaghan brings his newest interactive technological comedy adventure.
Following on from the phenomenal success of Transfigured Night, Danish choreographer and two time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup creates a new work for Rambert.
Spilt Milk are back in Brighton and they’re milkier than ever! After a great run at Brighton Fringe 2017 they are returning to Brighton to spread the love and calcium.
Adam Astra, a young rocketeer witnesses a star-girl fall to earth one night and vows to rocket her back among the stars.
What if Frankenstein’s monster were transported to our modern-day technological world and treated with the same fear and disgust he encountered in the original story? Not so hard…
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Romina Puma comes back and is darker than ever! It’s a show about love, or the lack of it, a show about a child longing to be cared for by her mother while having to care for her…
Your chance this season to keep the faith and polish up our dance floor with Northern Soul dancing, returning for the second time at Brighton Spiegeltent.
Inspirational internet memes are everywhere these days and Lost Voice Guy is sick of being an unintentional porn star.
For queers and their allies who like their cabaret feminist, political, patriarchy-smashing, sex positive, riot grrl and kick ass, Pussy Liquor is most definitely the night for you…
Come stretch, unwind, strengthen and get to know your body more during a day of yoga, meditation and celebration at Brighton’s newest and most attractive studio.
Debut hour from award-winning new comedian Jon Long (Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2016, Winner of Comedy Store King Gong 2015).
Enjoy a night of rhyming, rice and peas with Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger alongside a menu of performers chosen for their wit, wisdom and ability to move you.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend ‘David Hoyle’ returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
A new piece of devised work making its debut at this year’s Brighton Fringe.
When life fell apart, Rob moved into a caravan.
For the first time ever in the UK…TWO classic Billy Joel albums performed in their entirety… in ONE sensational show.
Following last year’s sell-out performances, vocalist Edana Minghella returns with ‘From Ella to Elvis’: gorgeous songs of love and longing from jazz standards to contemporary clas…
Come and enjoy the benefits of yoga, open to all.
‘My Apple Dumpling Girl’ is a powerful small-scale play featuring a beautiful set and puppets (evening).
The daily-blogging comic presents a work in progress for his new show.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
Vesper Walk, led by piano-duetting sisters, presents original songs in this quirky celebration of womanhood and midlife.
Feel-good stand-up show on how to love life even when it’s rubbish.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Up-and-coming comedian Jake Baker (twice nominated for the BBC New Comedy Award) brings his first solo hour to Brighton.
Bisha K Ali brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe.
Wow, it’s time for the debut hour of comedy from hot ticket and nice friend David McIver! That’s right girls and boys, your special little man is all grown up and raring to do some…
"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug": So begins Franz Kafka’s …
The story of me; a misfit, growing up in the north west of England in the 1980s.
This is a jam-packed musical comedy performance of fun storytelling rhymes set to an original soundtrack.
Flamboyant, political and riotously funny, Luke Wright creates inventive poems with loads of heart.
Dom Mackie, with support from Harrison Salter, present stand up that will leave you in constant stitches.
Set in London during the devastating plague of 1665, Lost in the Fog’s A Song of Plague blends music, puppetry and poetry to tell the story of a physician’s attempts to find a …
The game show where celebrities compete to become UN Goodwill Ambassadors.
Free creative-fun for families.
In the hotly tipped debut hour from Scottish comedian and podcaster Struan Logan, he regales his tales of 18 months living out of a backpack through Australia, New Zealand and Sout…
Neverwant.
15 years at Brighton Fringe! MJ Paranzino’s choirs will be performing the ‘Best of the Best’ from the last 15 years at Brighton Fringe; from new choral music as well as jazz,…
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
Focus people! Stand-up comic David Mills is back with another free hour of sharp and hilarious rants.
I’m happy to admit that my knowledge of Norse mythology is patchy, but becoming more familiar with what was advertised as a fusion of "ballad song, galdr chant and ancient E…
‘Ghost Walk of the Lanes’ is a 75 minute tour of Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter where hardly a street or lane does not have a spectral connection.
Fresh from their five-star, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and winners of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2017, ‘Hot Gay Time Machine’ cover all the most important m…
‘All City Movement’ is series of street paintings which indicate motion.
Seeing work at Brighton Open Air Theatre (BOAT) is a treat because you have that unusual experience of sharing the same sky with the players.
Exclusive after hours tours of Brighton’s aquarium! A unique opportunity to go off the public route to learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
John Godber’s Bouncers in a new version by Maurice Bessman Boisterous tear up the stage in a revamped production of the John Godber award- winning classic about a…
All the King’s Men bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
West End Magic presents:A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
Previously seen at the BT with On The Edge of Me, Quarter Life Crisis continues Yolanda’s humorous exploration of the world young people find themselves in, using her trademark m…
Walk Right Back tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
Direct from Paris, multi-award-winning magician David Stone presents his unique brand of comedy & illusion live in Leicester Square.
David Byrne’s The Secret Life of Humans is a captivating insight in to what it means to be part of human civilisation.
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical sets out to present everything that you could possibly want to know about being a musical theatre performer.
Come and join The Banana Bunch – Bex Darmody, Annalea Doyle and Emma Stroud as three bananas on the run from the boring, mundane and downright crazy world we live …
1965.
What price the truth? Oxford Theatre Guild returns to the Playhouse with a striking production of this classic, translated by one of our greatest contemporary playwrights, David H…
Best Children’s Show Award 2016! Buckle up and take a trip in a giant time machine to get up close and personal with a life sized T-Rex! Incorporating science with circus, pu…
The Fame Train gang star in this awesome show that sees the kids travel through the ages from the prehistoric times, to the swinging 60’s, all the way to the modern day! Cool chara…
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…
“Time and Machines - gymnastics in motion” has it’s premiere in SA and introduces acrobats, gymnasts, dancers, aerialists and circus performers to Adelaide audiences.
The Mosaic Cat (UK) & Emma Knights Productions (SA) Celebrating the life and loves of one of the great jazz singers of the 20th century.
Mullets, single Mums, Holdens, home done tatts.
Get yourself ready Australia, America’s favourite daytime TV show is coming down under! That’s right Sharon Van de Meer (two years probation DUI) and Shaleese Wildcat (People�…
Acclaimed locals Slingsby present a 10th anniversary season of this captivating international hit show! Suitable for adults and children 8+.
All I Really Want - A show dedicated to the music and lyrics of Alanis and Etheridge.
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
When Josh Belperio survived flying over the handlebars of his pushbike, rupturing his spleen and nearly bleeding to death, he did the only rational thing an artist would do – he …
‘It’s about the randomness of life … of how you’re here one minute and gone the next, and how you’d better get relationships established because there’s not much else tha…
Have you ever gone crazy over an $89 vacuum? Drunk the sweet nectar of Australia’s Choice Cola? Ate crinkle cut chips from the world’s finest restaurant Holly’s? Join Jason P…
This is a professional contemporary dance made specially for young audiences (aged 2-7) that takes you on a journey into the whims of imagination through dance, physical theatre, m…
Direct from a standing room only season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world’s premier nerd double act The Just Us League present MARVELus: the sketch show that squeezes alm…
Following the roaring success of the premiere, THAT’S LIFE is back!!! Unexpectedly, Carla became 1⁄2 an orphan just before she turned 30, happy birthday! With Carla’s unique …
hit107’s Amos Gill remains one of Australia’s most prolific young comedians.
In every 24 hour cycle, experience Lindy Lee’s ‘The Life of Stars’.
It’s been a big year for Amelia Ryan (Storm In A D Cup, Lady Liberty, Livvy & Pete).
Love a bargain? Love to sing along? Join us for some op shopping bargains as we head to a number of Op Shops around Adelaide.
How would a balloon dog survive in the real world? What kind of job would he be successful at? This is the light-hearted story of a balloon dog who tries different occupations, all…
Get your old-school 50s gear on and make like Greased Lightning to the ARC Campbelltown for some hard-hitting roller derby action! The T Birds will be taking on the Pink Ladies i…
This is a tale of a man that lost his mullet and his identity.
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
How do you condense ten years of music into just one show? Short answer: you don’t.
Canada’s reigning “Queen troubadour of intelligent black-comic sex balladry” (Edmonton Journal) returns to Adelaide for four nights only with a collection of songs and covers from …
The Scottish “Globetrotting Comedian” (Broadway Baby) returns to Perth after previously living in the country on a working holiday visa for a year and a week.
In a world of synergy and leverage, a shining beacon of resilience remains - the unpicked cherry of the Papercorp empire.
‘Life of Stars’ is based on the incredible works of renowned Biennial artist Lindy Lee and the processes and themes behind her work.
See the World’s Greatest Record Holder For Jokes told in a Minute team up with Triple J Raw Comedy Winner team up with New York Comedian Shane Kaminowitz along with a few other Fun…
The play revolves around Sarah, a photo journalist who has just returned from covering the war in Syria after being severely injured.
Malcolm Turnbull’s bio begins with his great grandfather in the fledgling colony of Sydney, back then known as ‘Brisbane’.
Have you ever watched a comedy show and thought to yourself, “Cathy, I hate how these theatre types are just so written and rehearsed! And when do I get to talk?!” Well then, Cathy…
This extraordinary show is for the shy who want to be bold, the different who’d like to belong, the humble who need a stage, the confident who want to yell, the fun-loving who just…
Billy T Award winner David Correos has developed a reputation for delivering full noise, powerful, messy comedy defying genre and labels.
Based on Robert Fulghum’s best-selling books, Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life.
Are you a fan of Trivia? Stand-up? Karaoke? Well this is the show for you.
Following tours through the United States and Europe, come see the Australian premiere of “Years to the Day.
Fame, Fortune & Lies : the Life and Music of Eileen Joyce is a window into the life of Eileen Joyce; an Australian concert pianist, recording artist, radio performer, fashionista a…
2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe.
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…
After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years.
What is Best in Life? Well… After 10 years in the UK, and performing at the last 3 Adelaide Fringe’s with non-stop compering and guest spots, a superhero kids show, and the h…
Awarded Broadway composer & pianist, John Bucchino, will be performing for the S.
“Chaotic & electric” ★★★★ The Skinny Ferocious clubber Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journo, made porn & Ti…
Finger Bun are back! Now and for the first time ever, Finger Bun will put the titans of rock from the UK and Oz head to head in a competition unlike any other.
Larry’s got no time for fun, but that’s all about to change.
This unmissable acoustic experience debuts it’s all-star collaboration of Lindsay Field, Sam See and Glyn Mason for one night only at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe.
The show that’s Rocking Aus comes to Adelaide Fringe.
He’s not the messiah, He’s a very funny boy! Brian has been performing open mic spots in Adelaide and around the world for 8 years and has now combined all of his best work into 4…
On a spring day in 1939, The Prince of Soul, Marvin Gaye, was born to loving parents in Washington DC and became one of the elite few who shaped the sound of Motown in the 1960’s…
With Science telling us the prospect of life everlasting is just around the corner, Mike Rudd’s 1st BASE in Life after Life sees piano accordionist George Butrumlis and bassist J…
Bring your best mates, your Mama, even your Last Time Lover.
While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te…
The initial impression of this show is that it’s going to be an hour of magic with a bit of banter and it’s exactly that but it’s also wonderful.
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in January …
Ever wanted to experience your own Doctor Who adventure? Our team of time lords will whisk you round the universe and home in time for tea in this hilarious improvised parody! ★�…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
Based on a true story, is about two women, working side by side in a school infirmary who discover a startling truth about one another.
Following its sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season, Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed produ…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you…
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
An improvised drag extravaganza to raise money for Mermaids UK! Werking it onstage we have: Brent Would Christian Adore and Eaton Messe Sue Gives A F*ck Ariel Starbuck The Barebac…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
A night of celebration – whether it’s cheering or your team or the whole of mankind! United is an improvisation show played with the energy of a sports match.
EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Launching their 2017-18 concert season, the Reid Consort performs Rachmaninov’s serene All Night Vigil (Vespers) on Saturday 11 November, 7.
An extremely flamboyant, ‘riotous but subtly moving’ (The List) extravaGAYnza, fresh from its sold-out, award-winning run at Edinburgh.
Pippa Evans Presents… – Join Pippa Evans (founder member of Showstoppers) and some of her favourite improvisers as they explore the world through your eyes and theirs.
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Ground-breaking dance-maker Shobana Jeyasingh brings her radical imagination to Petipa’s legendary ballet La Bayadère.
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Bread & Geller are back! Join the world’s first comedy trio with only two members as they return with their sell-out exploration of all* things time.
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
As “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” (Associated Press), RAIN performs the full range of The Beatles’ discography live onstage, including the most comp…
Celebrate the most memorable Disney tales with all your favourite characters in Disney On Ice presents Passport to Adventure.
Following last year’s popular success with The Magic of MGM, Fife’s leading operatic concert group, Ensemble (ensembleinfife.
Master of Cretan lute George Xylouris and Jim White (Dirty Three), a most innovative and charismatic drummer, are creating a musical duo.
Planet Earth III is a low-budget, one-man nature documentary, set in a future where our worst predictions came true – following ecological collapse, thousands of endangered speci…
Polly Toynbee and David Walker join Professor Chris Carter to discuss their dream government, constructing an imaginary cabinet from politicians of the past half century.
Up the dark, dark stairs, upon the bloody gallows of soft rock, through the oubliette of cheese, into the torture chamber of disco, you are welcomed to the Late Night Pop Dungeon.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
Svelt, intelligent, adorable balladeer trapped inside the body of an oversized, oft-bearded folk ogre.
Celebrate 60 years of EGO with highlights from much-loved operas by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Bizet.
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jim Naughtie is one of Britain’s most distinguished radio broadcasters and journalists.
American wanderer Julie Byrne’s second album, Not Even Happiness, vividly archives what would have otherwise been lost to the road – bustling roadside diners, the stars over the …
Russell Arathoon brings his previous sold out debut stand up show to London.
The Paper Cinema’s Macbeth is a dazzling feat of storytelling.
America’s Got Talent winner, ventriloquist Paul Zerdin, heads to Fringe for three nights only, fresh from headline shows in Las Vegas, with a sparkling new show featuring his all-s…
A postmodern post-mortem of how hate won.
The Other Guys from the University of St Andrews return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the third time, with more energy and excitement than ever before.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
HG Wells’s sci-fi masterpiece is reborn as a brand new musical adventure.
What’s the deal with children anyway? Why do parents get such crappy birthday presents? Isn’t it enough to be married – does one have to be happy as well? These and many other qu…
Reactivists bring you a new show each week, based on the news of the week before.
A unique journey into the private life of a gadget you thought was on your side.
The Other Guys return to the Fringe with their show All Night Long with more charm, energy and dulcet tones than you can shake a stanky leg at.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
After five Fringe successes, celebrated vocalist James Lambeth returns with pianist Steve Hamilton.
A man collects stories of lost keys and dreams gone astray, wayward wallets and absent loved ones, abandoned playthings and misplaced memories.
Farce has a proud place in British theatre history.
David Earl’s alter ego, Brian Gittins is an utter prat and according to the Sussex Argus, ‘The World’s Worst Comedian’.
Two years a Leither and it feels so good! But a Penguin is not a Tim Tam, and a Penguin is not a straw.
Musical gems from the Great American and British Songbooks.
It’s two years after the referendum, and Bob Cunningham has stuff on his mind: whether or not to take early retirement, politics and what to do about the no vote, Brexit, Corbyn,…
It was the race they said Clinton couldn’t lose.
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate for the ninth successive year, presenting another varied and eclectic programme of music, this year with an emphasis on Scandinavian compo…
A selection of favourite variations, nocturnes, fantasias, waltzes, mazurkas and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
One of Scotland’s great contemporary artists discusses his career.
2017 marks 50 years since the partial legalization of abortion in the UK.
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A mind reading show based on the true story of America’s psychic spies.
Comedians regularly perpetuate the idea that they sacrifice part of themselves for their art.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Since bursting onto the Madrid DIY scene, Hinds – Ana Perrote, Carlotta Cosials, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – have mastered a raw and playful sound all their own.
By day, this city’s streets are bright and orderly, but by night, it is the playground of shysters and crooks, smugglers and thieves.
Prescribed (A Life Written For Me) by performance artist Viv Gordon opens a window for us to peer into the claustrophobically grim life of a GP working at an NHS practice today.
As Britain emerges from the Second World War, change is afoot in the far-flung Empire.
The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar,…
An escaped POW’s battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and son wait for news in England.
An hour of creative stand-up from this multiple award finalist (“Very strong payoffs” Chortle).
Cabaret diva Cat Loud is venturing down the rabbit hole on a spicy musical adventure, stumbling upon songstresses and local legends in a unique bluesy variety show.
This is My Life is a witty, engaging and entertaining theatre show commissioned by RCET, which has been a huge hit in schools throughout Scotland.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
A few ideas structure Josie Long’s new show, the central one being simply that “not everything is for everyone.
Alyona Ageeva’s PosleSlov Physical Theatre Company presents the UK premier of this contemporary physical theatre performance.
Alyona Ageeva’s PosleSlov Physical Theatre Company brings the UK premiere of On This Side of Time from Russia to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Reactivists bring you a new show each week, based on the news of the week before.
We’ve all had the question.
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
Join us as we spend an hour celebrating the brave, drunken, high, and sex-crazed pioneers that built our civilization one bad choice at a time and watch us as we stumble in their f…
Do you love singing? Would you like the chance to sing some of classical music’s most iconic choral pieces, led by a wonderfully expressive conductor? If so, come along and sing …
(*A real-life quote from a real-life reviewer.
The best stand-ups and storytellers on the Fringe come together as The Rat Pack celebrates five sell-out years with a different line-up every day, plus occasional live music and ca…
2017 is their last year! Edinburgh’s favourite purveyors of sousaphone-fuelled brassy honkstep will be hanging up their horns at the end of this year.
‘Four dangerously good singers, with a hilarious MC and pianist’ (ThreeWeeks) – All That Malarkey return to the Fringe with an all-new, outrageous music show, flaunting their…
Come one, come all – come join us, the University of Sheffield’s comedy society, in this wonderful Basement Bar at 48 Below, as we dazzle you with our sketch comedians and stan…
The Nick Ross Orchestra presents Sounds of the Glenn Miller Era.
Dramatised reading of letters exchanged between the British, Palestinian and Zionist parties 100 years ago sheds more light on the events that led to the present geopolitical relat…
Hot Dub Time Machine is the world’s first time travelling dance party, taking festivals, theatres, rooftops and venues all over the world on a transcendent dance through pop musi…
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Sam Simmons is a dad now.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Smitten are a minimalist smoky pop trio.
Tom McNab, using a rich range of film, provides a vivid account of Leni’s life as dancer, actress, director and stills photographer.
London’s Critical Hit comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh for one night only, five times! Join your host, Paul Foxcroft (Cariad & Paul, Marcus Brigstocke’s Una…
For one night only Proud Camden is hosting a night of music and comedy with an all killer no filler line up: Australian comedy rock artist Huw Joseph, the incredible talent of quir…
Meticulously crafted and uplifting, ‘stellar stand-up’ (Age).
If you don’t know your Grandmaster Flash from Public Enemy, then Hip Hop Time Machine is going to seem less like a nostalgic reminder of your childhood and more like you’ve act…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
UK’s No 1 Jive/Swing band are renowned for their high-energy swinging sounds and spectacular stage show.
Planet Earth III is a low-budget, one-man nature documentary, set in a future where our worst predictions came true – following ecological collapse, thousands of endangered speci…
‘From tango to polka, Bulgarian Horo to hot New Orleans jazz – great skill.
Award-winning vocalist Ali presents a showcase of the most powerful songs ever written on love and loss, within blues and jazz.
Quilarious: A new exciting comedy format.
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra is Canada’s only balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-punk super-band.
Bala Baile is an Edinburgh-based Latin quartet.
“What did you expect? This is immersive theatre.
For a theatre piece to be perfect for some people, it has to be horrible for others.
Over two recitals, Stefan Warzycki performs all Chopin’s Op 10 études as recast for the left hand by Leopold Godowsky.
The Blueswater is the band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high-energy late night gigs at one of Scotland’s best small music venues, The Jazz Bar.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Judy began performing on stage before other children had started kindergarten.
These are the droids you’re looking for.
Choosing a title from the loose flyers offered up by audience members, Hivemind’s quintet compose two improvised half-an-hour jaunts.
A hypnotic, tongue-in-cheek antidote to the glittering circus world.
David McIver is a refreshing breath of air in every sense.
Hot, new(ish) comedy trio are back in Edinburgh with a playful new sketch show.
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…
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn.
The amount a show takes liberties with narrative should be directly compensated by how much it has to say.
The future is brought to you from the past in this musical adaptation of H.
Dan is English, Mick is Australian, and their comedy stats are impressive.
A special stripped-down lineup of The Blueswater play an upbeat swampy set of blues songs decided in advance by fans on social media.
Award-winning, high-energy storyteller Dommy B returns for his fourth consecutive Fringe with magical tales of monsters and mayhem! ‘Really very inspiring.
The Warwick Revue are back with a brand new show that’s nothing like you’ve ever seen before.
Audible presents four weekends of completely free live comedy shows, showcasing the finest acts the festival has to offer, all being recorded for a new Audible stand-up series.
What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture.
Gary Dunn is back! Monkey Magic, is his second show at the Edinburgh Fringe and it’s bigger, badder, and even more bananas than the first! With his trusty sidekick Chico the Monk…
I remember when Doctor Who was a practically forgotten, long cancelled show that was only the domain of nerds (like me).
From Memphis to Folsom Prison to… Glasgow? This unusual story unfolds with the familiar calm bass baritone, crooning Walk the Line.
The key to a happy life is avoiding all forms of useless and unproductive time – Leere Zeit – as propagated by the Institute of Positive Lifestyles.
The North is as hostile, unforgiving and beautiful as the land to which it dedicates its hour-long runtime.
Weird Sisters presents Paper Doll, a cautionary tale of married bliss that becomes unglued.
Six award-winning clowns, characters, and comedians all show off, separately.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We all have our idols and for one girl growing up that was a singer and actress from a bygone age.
The gameshow where celebrities compete to end world poverty.
For lovers of Tennessee Williams and anyone who appreciates good theatre the double bill of Ivan’s Widow and Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen makes for a very rewardin…
As her lead character, Helen Fox explains that one out of every two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
Stuck in a lift, Ruth waits to escape in order to visit her husband who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
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…
Becky Rimmer, along with her father and mother, Mervyn and Gaye Rimmer, invite you to join them in the celebration of Becky’s Bat Mitzvah! Gaye asks that any young boys coming to t…
In any amateur production, the most significant moments are those where one forgets that the performers are not professional.
A blend of incredibly accurate live performance and multimedia, returning to the Festival after sell-out runs in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Join an expert local guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
We are all Going to Die is a devised piece by Dead Person Productions.
Chamberlain has been relegated to history as one of life’s wishful thinkers.
What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture.
If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.
What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…
Ever wanted to drink whisky, eat cheese, chocolate and scotch eggs while cruising along a canal? Well now you can! Scotch Egg Club brings you a Whisky tasting with a difference, wh…
There is beautiful music at the heart of Atlantic: America & The Great War.
The Edinburgh International Festival was established in 1947 in the aftermath of the Second World War to ‘provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit’.
Take an easy walking tour to discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town: behind the historic buildings find the surprising number of gardens and green nooks and crannies,…
Each evening we welcome a top comedian to perform their full Edinburgh show on board Audrey, the most unique venue at the festival.
From four time Canadian Comedy Award nominee and creator of Fringe Hit ONEymoon (***** Victoria Times Colonist ).
Light your cigarette, put on your evening clothes and grab a cocktail to enjoy Cat Loud, a sexy cabaret performance that will thrill.
Led by superb vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unr…
As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’.
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired eac…
One hundred years of blues, one hour to play it.
Viggo Venn’s act is a hard one to categorise.
At 36, David is still unable to function in society.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
What do you get when you put a Scotsman and three Irishmen in an upstairs bar? A bunch of jokes that are a bit out of the mainstream but comfortably reside above the others: Semi-P…
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
Everyone has a crazy family.
All the movies in the Marvel cinematic universe in one hour.
Take a deep breath and join me on a multimedia rampage.
Jon Long performs stand-up comedy with songs – songs about unusual recycling, his hatred of jogging, alcoholism, and falcons.
While the world grips onto its safe space with progressively whitened knuckles, We Are Still All C*nts will be a haven where the left, the right, the old, the young, the rise of fa…
‘This great big, funny, friendly, hairy bear of an Irishman wrapped us in his irresistible mix of spontaneous humour, hilarious storytelling and total irreverence, and it was a s…
Somewhere between a social commentary and philosophical essay, but written by a comedian with the purpose of being somewhat funny. A not to be missed hour of comedy.
Just twelve short months ago, Mark Row had never stepped on stage to perform stand-up comedy.
Edinburgh virgins Tori Millard and Josh Jones (Chortle Student Comedy Awards finalist) are finally bringing their first show to the fringe and this brassy, sassy pair are ready to …
If the illustrious names that have performed as part of The Rat Pack Presents is a guide, then it is worth heading along to the Cabaret Voltaire during this year’s festival.
Steen Raskopoulos makes no effort to be cool on stage.
Prolific children’s author, conservationist, believer in fairies – Angela Brazil was a complicated and determined woman with a tendency to write her personal life into her book…
This idiot’s back.
‘Chaotic and electric’ **** (Skinny).
The Fringe is a bloody hectic business.
Hurt and Anderson are on the edge.
Returning to Edinburgh after a sell-out run at the Fringe 2016, prepare yourself for the ultimate showdown.
Puns.
A brand new improvised radio show from the team behind Shaken Not Stirred: The Improvised James Bond Film.
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.
Meet Helga, cabaret diva extraordinaire! At least, she used to be… Through mime, clowning and circus, this poignant physical comedy reflects on how it feels when our bodies don�…
Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.
In the world premiere of Pulitzer/Tony Award nominee Craig Lucas’s (Prelude to a Kiss, An American in Paris, Amelie) zany and touching new play, three stories collide in a world of…
Winner: Piece of Wood (Comedian’s Choice) 2012, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
If you are looking for an unpretentious, heart-warming comedy show at the festival, Quarter Life Crisis is where you will find it.
Fairytales don’t really make much sense.
Nobody wants to be lectured.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Skyfall and Love Actually: three films President Trump will encourage the Prime Minister to stream during his state visit to the UK (probab…
Many will be familiar with the big budget movies inspired by the works of HG Wells (The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man) for example, but fewer might have actually read the…
Changes in representation of the sacred feminine over centuries affect our relationships, body image and environment today.
Anything Can Be a Podcast! Podcast! John Hastings improvises an hour of comedy based on suggestions from the Fringe’s top comedians, his teenage blog, and his friend Paul Stanley H…
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
Back with another hour of surreal stupidity.
David Huntsberger’s stand-up show is problematic as a comedy show as it has very little resembling a joke.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
The cult-favourite alternative comic humbly invites you to his brand-new, absolutely brilliant hour of extraordinary-absurdist-character-comedy-nonsense-sort-of-stand-up and hubris…
‘Hysterical… Terrifyingly brilliant commitment to everything’ (TheEdgeSUSU.
A show about being the only remaining singleton in a world full of weddings, mortgages, children, security and a lack thereof.
What’s more important when telling a compelling story of human emotion, feeling or narrative? The answer to this is largely dependent on the viewer’s personal preferences as to…
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
A daily selection of Ireland’s top comics plus guests from other countries. One of the best comedy shows at the festival, all for the low, low price of free!
Ever wanted to know how to break into the world of erotic fiction? Self-published erotic authoress, Pamela DeMenthe, is throbbing her way to Edinburgh to present her hotly anticipa…
Noel has multiple sclerosis.
Fringe 2011’s Best Newcomer nominee Paul Valenti is back, this time on a semi-silent casual quest for universal truth.
Juliet (writer on The Sarah Millican Television Programme and 8 out of 10 Cats) and her dog have issues.
Putting on a Fringe show is, for any performer, a risky endeavour.
Inspirational internet memes are everywhere these days and Lost Voice Guy is sick of being an unintentional porn star.
Incognito Theatre’s adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front is a solid, if predictable, production which ticks all of the necessary First World War boxes.
Luke Kempner takes a Luke in the mirror in this gently funny show, poking fun at himself and the impressions he uses to express himself.
Pip Utton is a veteran of the stage, and of the Edinburgh Festival.
Join David Edwards as he gives advice concerning how to navigate the messy world of modern-day dating.
The Lulu Show: Life on the Never-Never is exactly what you want from a cabaret.
Satire can often be found at the root of absurdism.
Nestled in what seems, somewhat appropriately, to be a shipping container in the Pleasance Courtyard, two creatures on a journey with no origin point or destination try to figure e…
First Prize winner (Gilded Balloon Sitcom Trials 2016) Kate Bowes Renna brings her new satirical comedy to the fringe.
Double Denim haven’t made their fringe debut easy for themselves, starting their show at nearly midnight and performing in perhaps the ugliest room in any of the major venues.
This show is a mixed bag.
Single father Mark Forward has decided the time has come for him to be appreciated as a comedian.
Gloria and Padraic are best friends whose relationship changes forever.
Amazing tales elegantly told.
The dance world can sometimes take itself a little too seriously, it often seems to be too caught up in technical comparisons to just enjoy itself, however, Chicos Mambo is the opp…
Conspiracy theorist and slacker Elliot Steel has grown up a lot in the last year.
I’m guilty of being a magic sceptic.
All Genius All Idiot is a quirky and outrageous piece that explores the animalistic side of human nature using contemporary circus, performance art and live music.
An eclectic and beautiful production – Secret Life of Humans combines a baffling diversity of genres into a single theatrical masterpiece.
Perhaps you’ve heard of The Midnight Beast? Their blend of comic indie-pop-rap began on a humble Youtube channel and moved to Channel Four just a few years later.
Life has three guarantees: you’re born, you die and if your name is Rio, you dance on the sand.
When a show’s success or failure supposedly rests almost entirely on the skills and willingness of its audience, the trust and confidence placed between performer and viewer is t…
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is about a woman’s struggle with depression, told through a simple, storytelling format and soundtracked by original music from Fris…
The monster gods of comedy and 2016’s winners of Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe award return to Edinburgh.
Entertainment combined harvester Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Teatime Sky 1, O2 Comedy Gala Channel 4, EastEnders) sings his nostalgic love letter to pop music of the 80s, 90s and …
Sketch comedy is the medium in which an original voice is most important in order to be successful.
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
Following his sell-out shows in theatres in the UK, comedian and award-winning broadcaster Bernie Keith makes his hilarious Edinburgh debut.
From the moment you enter – greeted by several songs in multiple genres, all with the lyrics ‘chops not ham’ – you have already begun to tumble down the rabbit hole into th…
From the team behind Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs comes a brand new adaptation of David Walliam’s children’s book The First Hippo on the Moon.
The initial experience one is met with when the lights dim for Seanmhair (pronounced shen-a-var) is breathtaking.
Chris Turner has moved to the good old US of A and he’s back in Edinburgh to tell the festival audiences about it.
That’s Life on Lisgar is a story of family fissures and the intimate workings of life as a daughter of a Portuguese family in Canada.
To a comedian, the structure of their Fringe hour is often held too preciously.
This major exhibition tells the real story of the rise and fall of the Jacobites.
Bringing together more than 80 paintings by an almost forgotten generation of artists, this exhibition explores the figurative tradition in British art between the two World Wars.
Duck Duck Goose flies in to the Nursery Theatre for a varied night of improv comedy from ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ to adorable duos & an all-female group.
For the School Colours is an interestingly educational piece of theatre about a forgotten pioneer of school-based children’s literature made popular by Enid Blyton and J.
The most fantastic improvised parody in all of space & time is back! Brand new episodes of Doctor Who created with your suggestions and a live radiophonic workshop.
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald once famously stated, “The only thing better than singing is more singing”.
Great Scott! Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! Not content with their lot as the nineteenth century’s greatest magic …
Michelle Dorrance brings tap into the age of electronic music with collaborator Nicholas Van Young.
Blue Masque Theatre’s staged playreading of new comic drama by Rhonwen McCormack.
Signing their first record deal in 1967, the group (with the late Michael Jackson) made history in 1970 as the first recording act whose first four singles reached No.
Alexander O'Neal, who came to prominence in the late 80s thanks to a string of chart-topping singles including Criticize, If You Were Here Tonight and Never Knew Love Like This…
Stevenage.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
Following the story of ‘The Liar’, a broken down, two-bit mentalist act who has reached the end of his tether and threatens to finish it all.
Star of ITV and BBC, Carly Smallman makes her Brighton Fringe debut with a work-in-progress hour of comedy.
Spilling, dripping and leaking comedy from every angle, come and join Spilt Milk, a brand-new sketch group, for their exciting show, packed with original new comedy writing.
Lambert is an impossibly small man with an enormous love of writing, who one day decides to set his stories’ characters free in the hope they’ll find a home.
Skyfall, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Ghost, The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Beauty and the Beast, Notting Hill, 50 Shades Darker and Beetleju…
Award-winning stand-up comedian David Mills struggles to stay modern in a world quickly reverting to more medieval tendencies.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Geekeasy is a themed comedy night for nerds with stand-up, musical comedy, improv, storytelling and more.
The Petting Zoo (“Improv supergroup” Time Out) presents ‘ZooTube’, where the good, the bad and the downright bizarre of the world of online videos is merrily ransacked to provi…
Two English gentlemen (or are they?) pull surprises out of the hat and out of the audience.
Taking a much loved pop culture reference point is always a sure fire way to fill seats.
Funny. Political. Ends with a hanging.
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South team up to present a programme of poetry, spoken word and live literature.
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South team up to present a programme of poetry, spoken word and live literature.
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…
‘Time Please’ is a darkly-comic play, set in a run-down pub in a deprived neighbourhood.
The latest production by Embolon Theatre, All In is such a hybrid of genres that I am unsure on whether to refer to it as a play, a stand-up comedy show, or a mind-bendin…
“Ingenious and hilarious” (The Guardian).
In this two-hander from the American creative team behind last year’s ‘Crazy Horse: A Dream of Thunder’, Lucy Turner, an ambitious young woman, begins displaying bizarre symptoms o…
46 years in showbiz.
Your chance this season to keep the faith and polish up our dance floor with Northern Soul dancing, returning for the third time at Brighton Spiegeltent.
Poetry reading, exhibition, workshop and photography.
Italian Photographer Andrea Pucci is based in London and his photographs combine long exposures with accelerating rhythms of bright reflections.
“Anyone else a massive fan of the divine Miss Vogue and her ukulele? Thought so.
“Remember this”, quoth Movin’ Melvin Brown, winding up his 80-minute set with just a couple more trademark 33 1/3 rpm chuckles, ‘it’s nice to be important.
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 …
An escaped POW’s battle for survival whilst on the run in war-torn Italy, as his wife and young son wait for news in England.
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 …
It’s the Swinging Sixties.
Life is a hilarious high-energy rant from multi-award-winning South African cult comedic phenomenon Rob van Vuuren.
A light-hearted mind-reading show with amazing and impossible mind stunts! No dead relatives will be contacted throughout the evening, however they may be interrupted with the laug…
Back for 2017! Another fantastic day out for art lovers everywhere.
Come and sing your heart out in this special viewing of the west-end hit turn film. Greek style mezze included in the ticket price. Prizes for fancy dress. Rating PG.
Lets do the Time Warp again! Join in with this cult classic in our big screen auditorium and don’t forget the rice and newspapers. Fishnets at the ready…
What happens when your life seems to mirror that of your musical hero? Greg Moncur is convinced his obsession with Johnny Cash is influencing what happens in his life.
Two nights at The Verdict for Edana Minghella’s quartet.
Winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2016; this show tells the story of the three weeks that changed Scott’s life forever.
Winner, Rising Star: The Media Eye, 2016.
Coming Clean: Life As A Naked House Cleaner is an immersive theatre show about sexual fantasy- it’s also funny and true and asks us to look at our own vulnerabilities.
At thirty-six, David is still unable to function in society.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for an unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song…
“Stories can conquer fear, you know.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Local author and poet Thomas Wolfe presents a night of spoken word, poetry and storytelling from some of Brighton’s best poets.
Come and sing along to this Disney blockbuster at our big screen, child-friendly auditorium in the heart of Brighton.
David McIver is one of the most fun guys around these days.
“This parable of limiting life down to human usefulness is as beautiful as it is bleak” (Exeunt).
Exclusive after hours tours, just on offer as part of the Brighton Fringe in May.
Guided tours of this magnificent Grade I* listed church - one of the finest Victorian churches in the country.
A 70 minute tour in the company of either Silas, Jasper or Ebenezer, visiting eight sites, around Brighton’s most haunted quarter.
An hour of entertainment from musicians, clowns and wordmongers of all flavours, local and international, showcasing the best Brighton Fringe has to offer.
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Following a sell-out performance of Katherine Chandler’s ‘Hood’ at the National’s Dorfman Theatre, Found in the Forest return with a new world premiere.
Everyone has a crazy family.
‘Love a Positive Life’ is a multimedia exhibition telling the positive stories of young people living with HIV in Africa and Asia.
There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always …
"I used to be scared of them.
You’re not in Kansas anymore… A thrilling exposé of the darker side of 1980’s New York, The Life is a defiant and heartfelt musical lament for the old Tim…
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Improvised shows are always an exciting watch, no-one knows exactly what to expect.
Whilst it never quite delivers the climax you expect from a show with such a title, The Guide To Good Orgasms offers a certain charm that makes it impossible not to smile throughou…
All Cried Out is an intimate, interactive immersive encounter.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
Back by popular demand following a critically-acclaimed West End run and sold out residency at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not the Sitcom is a massively disrespectful …
Live gameshow and comedy night.
Damian Lewis and Sophie Okonedo return to the West End to star in the darkly comic masterpiece, Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Martin is at the pinnacl…
Damian Lewis returns to the West End to star in the darkly comic masterpiece, Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Martin is at the pinnacle of life: he has a loving w…
Start with a few cold-reading tricks, dash in some sleight of hand, add in a heavy dose of comedy on top and you’ve got the recipe to make any mind-reading show come out well.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
“Please don’t be charmed, he’s not a lovable rogue.
Grab your Mickey ears and get ready for the ultimate Disney experience when Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of Magic skates into a city near you.
'If we don't get lost, how can we find a new route?' Pioneering improvisers and theatre makers Improbable bring you their latest show, Lost Without Words - a theatrical…
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…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Urinetown is set in a town that is desperately suffering a water shortage following a 20 year drought.
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
This is the unlikely story of an unlucky man, Leonard Langley.
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Enter a fantastical winter wonderland beyond imagination when Disney On Ice presents Frozen.
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Enter a fantastical winter wonderland beyond imagination when Disney On Ice presents Frozen.
'We lose ourselves to keep our oaths.
Love's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays.
Eifman Ballet returns to the London Coliseum this December with the UK premiere of Artistic Director Boris Eifman’s awe-inspiring balletUp & Down featuring the invigorati…
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.
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…
Join us for the legendary gameshow and comedy night. Take part in hilarious challenges to win prizes and enjoy comedy from some of the funniest alternative comedians in the UK.
Following a critically acclaimed, complete sell-out run at the Menier Chocolate Factory, My Family: Not The Sitcom comes to the Vaudeville Theatre for a strictly limited 5 we…
Saturday 10 & Saturday 17 September, 12pm, 1.
Improv Comedy in a unique setting with a BBQ and stunning views
A new writing night for alternative comedies.
Not jazz, nor a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and G…
A lack of antibiotics to treat infection could soon bring us to a post-apocalyptic era where people die from minor injuries, or following routine operations.
Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk for our eighth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Withered Hand is the musical output of Edinburgh-based Dan Willson, a feature of the city’s DIY music scene for many years.
We encounter the Workcenter’s deepening of an exploration of the human being in action, as Mr Richards guides us through the phases of the Workcenter’s performing arts research…
Peter Rabbit knows very well that he is not to go into Mr McGregor’s garden, especially as it was there that his father met his untimely end! But he cannot resist, and after severa…
We encounter the Workcenter’s deepening of an exploration of the human being in action, as Mr Richards guides us through the phases of the Workcenter’s performing arts research…
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert.
Eska, one of music’s best-kept secrets, has built an inimitable reputation as a writer and performer through collaborations with such legends of the game as Grace Jones, Cinematic …
Come along and journey through the rabbit hole on this exciting adventure! Our special closing party presents the final Edinburgh fringe performance of the one-hour spectacular Ali…
Stone me! Luis Albornoz and Paul Everett of the British Geological Survey deliver a rewarding walking talk on Edinburgh’s geology, providing information on the bedrock of our bui…
British Comedy Award-winning sketch heroes Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns – fresh from their sell out monthly show in Hackney where anything goes – bring their show to Ple…
Cinema screening of film.
Award-winning comedian Lost Voice Guy started off in a disabled Steps tribute band.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Take a play with no plot, an unspecified number of players, no defined characters, pages of intense prose and lines that can be spoken by any performer and what do you have? Unmis…
Looking for peace and tranquillity? You are welcome to join us for an hour’s quiet time and enjoy some stillness, scripture, music, poetry and prayer appropriate for the Year of Me…
Exeter University’s a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with Sing Theory! Using their trademark combination of vivacious humour, vocal mastery and velvety charm,…
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
You’ll Never Get This Time Back is a zany, absurd and irreverent hour of fun that casts a comic eye over the darker regions of the human soul.
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Two friends get together to write a comedy musical.
They’re back! For seven nights only, with a selection of hot favourites from over 648 years of song, satire and hilarity.
For those of you not yet converted, Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music is a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen technicolor, with subtitles – s…
Conman, faith healer and US Army reservist.
We’re All Mad in Here follows the story of Alasdair Carroll, a young gay man living in Edinburgh who comes across an elusive drag club called Curious Appetites.
Drawing from the likes of renowned theatre company DV8, All Might Seem Good mixes verbatim accounts of fate with physical theatre: mixing the highly natural with the highly stylise…
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…
Life in the office, it is dull.
Broken Records bring their expansive, soaring mix of elation and melancholy to Summerhall’s Dissection Room, with the raw energy of Springsteen and the drama of Arcade Fire.
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
LondonTheatre1 says ★★★★★ “Appropriately camp and stagey, but warm and good-humoured, I would happily sit through all of it again.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Life-changing daily walking tours with Stompy (Half Naked Chef).
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
Their third show at the Dissection Rooms, the TSF crew returns with an explosive live set of motown classics along with new renditions of northern soul dance floor escapisms.
After a sell-out concert last year SONIC return with saxophonist Paul Towndrow and trumpeter Ryan Quigley to perform Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown’s stunning albums from the …
We all leave a trace.
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…
Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
One of post-dubstep’s bright lights, Mount Kimbie come to Summerhall’s Dissection Room for a genre-evading late-night DJ set, drawing from a thick soup of influences that leave…
DON GNU are decked out in hand-knit socks and worn-out sandals and on the hunt for that dang thing called self.
Set in small, Irish living room - somewhere between cosy and claustrophobic - Three Days’ Time is a thoughtful domestic comedy about weird parents, leaving home and mysteriously …
Prospero Theatre have decided it’s their turn to roll out a dark retelling of a well-known fairy tale, showcasing a unique-ish take on Little Red Riding Hood, with their producti…
The Life of St Margaret provides a unique insight into late 11th-century Scotland and her profound influence on her husband and his kingdom.
A tribute to Half Man Half Biscuit’s 30+ years in music.
As hilarious as it is poignant, Lost in Blue is an individual and gripping story from one of the UK’s top storytellers.
Loyalty.
Between the 1830s and 1920s over 1.
Ian Bruce and Ian Walker combined have been producing songs for 80 years! Their creative partnership is unique in current Scottish folk music, both for the quality and worldwide re…
Legendary radical performance poet Attila brings his acclaimed autobiography Arguments Yard (Cherry Red Books) to life on stage.
Comedian and social change pioneer Josie Long is joined by investigative journalist and regular Guardian contributor Martin Williams for a topical mix of reportage and gags.
Join award-winning comedian Des Clarke at the recording of a brand new stand-up TV show featuring the comedy stars of today and tomorrow.
Lost in Complete is a poetic, witty show brimming with the collective energy of Sweden’s top all-male, six-strong street dance squad, Complete Dance Crew.
Twentieth anniversary performance of David Benson’s Fringe First Award-winning tour de force, showing Kenneth Williams at his funniest and his most badly behaved.
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
The triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, BBC Radio 4 star and cult optimist Josie Long returns to The Stand with an hour of new material and knockabout fun, as she works towards …
Here’s what happens in order: A parody of bourgeois conversation by actors in black morphsuits; a light show to the gaiety of the Ode To Joy; unembellished description of said pi…
Based on the Frank Wedekind play of the same name, the musical Spring Awakening tells the controversial story of a group of young adolescents trying to deal with the tumultuous pro…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
As an Edinburgh based act performing in the Edinburgh Fringe there’s always going to be a certain level of expectation from the local crowd.
It’s all in the mind you know.
Early archaeological enthusiasts at Carthage were drawn in search of the city of Dido and Hannibal.
The Doctor’s back and combating rogue aliens at the Fringe! Directed by one of the makers of Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes, we take you on a transcendental journey…
‘When it’s working, you won’t even pay attention to the time; there is no time, there is just that win.
The Accidentals can’t wait to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for their fifth year.
What happens when admiration becomes obsession? When Greg Moncur discovers the music of Johnny Cash, he vows to become his biggest fan.
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
This is no ordinary birthday party.
Exeter University’s a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to the Fringe with Sing Theory! Using their trademark combination of vivacious humour, vocal mastery and velvety charm,…
Cinema screening of film.
Travel across time from mod to rave to disco with Calling All Parties in a vivacious interactive theatrical and film experience.
With a style that’s been described as ‘creative… engaging… conversational’ (Jazz Journal), Vocalist Cindy has captured audiences’ imaginations and won admirers among jazz afi…
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together for the fourth year in a row to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the Americ…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
The children’s show on an actual bus: with a bonkers bus driver, a clueless conductor, a double-decker bus and you.
Cinema screening of film.
WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire.
A selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, scherzos, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Orkestra del Sol, a joyous reinvention of global brassy street music, has left a trail of pummelled dancefloors across Europe and countries including India, Australia and China.
Fringe’s best party ever is back! Hot Dub Time Machine returns for its fifth year.
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…
Back, back, back and bouncier than ever, the exclusive vinyl club night for the more fully fledged music fan returns for a one-off, late night festival special.
Named after New Orleans’ historic red-light district, The Blueswater is proud to present the dirtiest, raunchiest, and most violent blues songs ever written.
Simon David is the next big music sensation but what makes him unique? He’s a virgin! Co-written by Fringe First Winner Chris Larner, Simon & his live band tell the story of his di…
Lord David Steel joins Professor Chris Carter to reflect on an illustrious career in public life.
Cinema screening of live performance.
David Kay, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 as one of the hidden gems of the Scottish comedy circuit.
Willis Earl Beal has yet to be born.
You couldn’t make it up if you tried! The hilarious, heartwarming true story of how The Fabulous TT came to write Robert Burns: The Musical.
The bagpipe is about as intrinsically Scottish as you can get.
One of Britain’s most promising folk artists, Highland-born Rachel Sermanni comes to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar, one of the UK’s best small music …
For one night only, the Chortle Award-winning ladies and gentlemen of Austentatious swap their bonnets and breeches to raise money for Waverley Care.
Dying is a universal human activity, and it shows no sign of abating.
Every day he writes to her from his cell.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform an eclectic mix of music with infectious enjoyment – French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan, tango etc.
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.
Ever wondered how celebrities became the people we know and love? Well-known faces chat about their lives in the world of show business – an exclusive insight into the worlds of …
One of the primary aims of The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten, an opera for children, is to demystify the genre to a younger generation.
Strictly Come Trancing, the only hypnosis cabaret show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 returns bigger and better than ever.
It didn’t take me long into this show to realise two things: that this as clearly a piece of community theatre and should be recognised as such and that there is clearly somethin…
Join Gaulier graduates Georgia Murphy and Evie Fehilly for an hour of surreal comic madness.
Harbouring secret feelings for Geoffrey Boycott? Fantasising about Edwina Currie? Join David as he deconstructs the cult of celebrity with a collection of love songs, poems and let…
Let the kids be the stars of Fringe 2016! Following 2014-2015 sell-outs, Pop Lock-in returns to take over Edinburgh’s coolest nightclub.
As the Melbourne Ska Orchestra marched their way down the middle aisle of the theatre, carrying and playing their instruments and shouting through a megaphone, I knew I was in for …
A comedy, sketch and game show for football fans that hate the word ‘banter’ and find Alan Shearer boring.
It’s a party… and you’re invited! Join human jukebox, musical comedy maestro and birthday girl Kirsty for a feel-good celebration of growing older disgracefully.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
Hailing from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas, The Shadow Box is a reflection of the stages of grief, represented through a series of linked vignettes and monologues.
Cinema screening of film.
Oh boy, this looks good! David McIver is a silly little man and he’s got a bit of fun for you.
Ben Dali’s Strictly Come Trancing has a flashy presentation as he enters to Eye Of The Tiger in a glittering jacket and pop-star headset.
A haunting and utterly compelling SAY award-winning album Bones You Have Thrown Me and Blood I’ve Spilled comes to Summerhall’s dissection room.
The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not the only force of nature that ripped families apart.
King’s College London’s improv team is looking for new friends.
The show begins with a strikingly visual movement piece, then a discovery of the characters in the story, revealed through various musical instruments.
Wonderful magic from the winner of Sweden’s Got Talent.
The show begins with a strikingly visual movement piece, then a discovery of the characters in the story, revealed through various musical instruments.
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.
Raising a laugh and a lump in the throat all at once is a good trick – possibly the best.
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…
In the setting of voice, bass and guitar, Sophie Bancroft and Tom Lyne create a dynamic, entertaining and intimate interpretation of beautiful songs.
Let’s just appreciate that title for a moment.
Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle.
A semi-improvised stand-up show about mental illness and pest control.
How We Lost It is a piece about who we are now, where we’ve come from and asks what we’ve lost (and gained) in between.
100 years of blues, one hour to play it.
In spite of the morbid title, Dr Phil Hammond’s stand-up show makes mischief of the macabre.
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn, weaving through narrow closes, open squares and secret gardens to discover how this city has been inspiring writer…
Responding to phenomenal demand, Russian Standard are bringing PingTron, a unique and exceptional take on ping pong, to Edinburgh for the very first time.
Multi award-winning entertainer with sold out performances, presents a sensational UK premiere.
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.
Breathe deeply and appreciate the moment.
Simon and Garfunkel: Through the Years is a blend of incredibly accurate live performance and multimedia, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after sell-out runs in both 2014 and 201…
Seemingly wholesome island lass Cat Loud is still on the prowl for her next big adventure.
Inspired by the power of dreams, mythology and the collective unconscious, Alice uses textures, vivid colours, shapes and symbols to stimulate the senses, both consciously and subc…
Cinema screening of live performance.
An “Original Lord of the Rings Parody” One Musical to Rule them All is full of puns, mocks the bits of Lord of the Rings that we all thought were a bit ridiculous and illogical…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Vocal Force is making their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut! These young, enthusiastic performers from the USA harmonize their way through the past 60 years of chart-topping hits!
Bursting with musical variety and talent, razor-sharp lyrics and incredible chemistry, Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston return to this year’s Fringe with Cabaret Whore Pre…
Can one person bombarded by the pressures of modern life shake an entire society? Resident Island Dance Theatre use dynamic movement, multimedia projection and an experimental rock…
A darker look at what happens when we refuse to grow up.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
The world of social media is beguiling, engrossing, enriching and deeply disturbing, as was Alice’s famous adventure.
It’s a little bizarre to go and see something which calls itself ‘a touch of genius’ in its description.
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
We very rarely think about our own deaths.
A three-piece version of award-winning band The Blueswater plays a mix of original songs and arranged covers, with a raucous sound reminiscent of Mississippi Hill Country blues.
Join a trained festival guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
Plain as Paper is an energetic physical theatre show centred around where our imaginations can take us using only paper—though what is going on there and why is not always plain.
After another successful European tour, Frank Sanazi’s comedy-cabaret war machine rolls into Edinburgh, accompanied by his psychopathic daughter Nancy Sanazi, Saddami Davis Jnr, De…
Lying seems to be getting more and more fashionable.
Showcasing the best the Fringe has to offer.
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents his personal history of early blues and roots music in an intimate solo show.
Audible presents a series of completely free live performances and special guest appearances, celebrating the best of spoken word comedy.
Often, first-time Festival goers arriving in Edinburgh can be paralysed by choice as a result of the sheer volume of shows on offer.
Greenyonder’s most popular tour.
All Square is a collection of original photographs taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard of Téte-a-Téte Foto.
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
An actual baby, just.
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
Life By The Throat tells the life story of James Joseph Patrick Keogh.
You know you’re in for a good time when a variety show opens with one half of cabaret legends Frisky & Mannish belting out a pop medley, whilst self-proclaimed “sex clown” Be…
Beth Vyse’s sassy, leopard print clad alter ego: Olive Hands (Britain’s number 2 in the morning!), daytime TV wannabe resurrects her career on a cruise ship.
Ubuntu, meaning compassion and humanity, is a show that speaks about unity amongst the African continent and the world.
Witness the inner workings of the idiot as Omar & Lee invite you on an anarchic voyage through their minds, pushing their sanity and friendship to the limits.
Juliet (writer on Sarah Millican Television Programme and 8 out of 10 Cats) and her dog have issues.
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at this year’s Fringe, Kansas Smitty’s will throw the kind of party they’ve become famous for: the jazz rave.
An episode of Doctor Who improvised before your eyes! From a fantastic team, including five-star directors, producers, actors and comedians, (Nouse, 2015).
We join Eric Meat on what is a sad occasion: the day is due to move out of his childhood home.
Hi, Lee here.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Part stand-up show, part planetarium experience.
Uplifting, illuminating and meticulously crafted comedy, from a ‘stellar stand-up’ (Age).
Pete Otway takes the opportunity in his first Edinburgh solo show to get audiences up to speed with what’s been happening in his life up to now.
Wahoo! And also hooray! It’s David Stanier’s Silly Party – the party based comedy show.
What you see is what you get with Ashley Haden’s notoriously dark humour in this aptly-named free show.
David Ephgrave enters the room in an endearing manner, commanding the audience’s attention with music and his upbeat persona.
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
Over the past few years, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland haven’t failed to impress me with their performances at the Fringe and this year is no exception.
A new stand-up and sketch show by Sarah Bennetto.
“If you don’t laugh at the disabled guy, you are going to hell!” Lee Ridley begins, and immediately inspires unanimous laughter.
I attribute quite a lot of my adult personality to my love affair with girl power and how swept away I got in all things noughties.
Gag Reflex Presents.
Eleanor Conway’s basic style involves storytelling based on her own life events.
A half-hearted attempt to write the most controversial show of all time, which you can experience in dazzling 3D using your own equipment, i.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
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.
Publish the blurb verbatim.
Written by John and Gerry Kielty, Confessions of a Justified Songwriter takes us on a journey through the creative processes and struggles of writing music when chasing that elusiv…
Spencer Jones is once more going full tilt in the surrealism stakes, and the result is a fantastically strange success.
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you.
I say, I say, I say.
Susie McCabe’s worst fears are coming true: she’s slowly turning into her parents.
A selling exhibition of kitchenalia old and new, exploring the culinary traditions of India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Work in progress towards something in October. It will probably feel a lot like being directly addressed by Jesus. If Jesus was working up some new material and charging a fiver.
In the future, mimes are no longer physical theatre practitioners and have become the sole operators of the world’s time machines.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
Approaching Perfection is the new film¹ by award-winning director² David Quirk.
He suuuuure can’t.
The St Andrews Revue are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their brand new sketch comedy spectacular Loop: 50 minutes of mind-blowing comedy that will make you laugh so ha…
Through a series of devised monologues, pieces of physical theatre and slam poetry, Lies.
Elliot Wengler and Farhan Mitha’s Fringe debut show is surprisingly educational.
Strange Face is Michael Burdett’s story; Drake himself is something of a side character.
It’s always exciting to witness the world premiere of new writing, especially when it’s a British born production.
In a festival saturated with comedy shows about Shakespeare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company continue to reign supreme as the undisputed masters at reimagining the Bard into hilari…
Three brilliant, original and hilarious improv acts: DVD Box Set – your new favourite TV show, entirely improvised by a cast of FA players, inspired by an audience suggestion.
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.
The sharp-suited David Mills is already seated on stage when his audience comes in, chatting with us, riffing along to a Barry Manilow hit; while he later insists that the role in …
A totally unique and mind-blowing musical comedy experience, if you’ve never seen or heard of Abandoman before then here is your chance to rectify that.
Triple Entendre is directed, created and designed by Emily Cairns and is a comic musical cabaret about “Love, Life and Other Stuff”, consisting of a collection of original song…
Helen Duff has gone from strength to strength, after her hilarious yet heart-breaking Vanity Bites Back show last year.
Joining the ranks of slightly nerdy comedians who primarily joke about their non-existent sex lives, So You Think You’re Funny finalist Alex Kealy is a safe bet for some well-tho…
Few would disagree that our world is in dire need of fixing.
The woman wants to marry, the man does not.
If you’ve been living a safe, healthy lifestyle under a rock, then you might not know that the NHS has been doing less than fantastic as of late.
This is Scott Gibson’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, and he is fantastic.
Are you crippled by student debt? Working an unpaid internship? Trying to find prince charming on Tinder? Welcome to the life of a modern day twenty-something! Join Katie for a new…
Come Get Some! is a rather energetic title, as titles go, but its excitement about Nick Cody is absolutely justified.
Whether you’ve never heard of Saki before or consider yourself a die hard fan, this production is sure to please.
I’m a lover of musical theatre but I’m prepared to be really honest here: the genre is crammed with suitable material for a hilarious and even brutal send-up.
The only show where it’s all about you! Whether you’re looking for a serious pick-me-up or just a light-hearted put-me-down, pop by Edinburgh’s one-stop shop for the worst advice…
Lucky pup Elms is back chasing his tail again; he’s learning about sacrifice, guilt, and, as always, love.
In the centenary year of the Battle of the Somme, Incognito theatre revives Erich Maria Remarque’s classic tale that exposes the mental and physical strain of trench warfare, All Q…
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…
Attacking her material with a mixture of nervous energy and enthusiasm Juliette Burton launches into her act by describing her difficulties in making decisions, then tracing the bi…
Battle the Sith Pirates with real lightsabers! Blast the Dark Side’s droids! Master the Force with Jedi Knight Crusoe! Professional interactive theatre for kids who don’t just want…
During thirty years of exhibitions programming Inverleith House has originated and presented some of the most memorable exhibitions ever staged in the UK, and achieved an internati…
A Moment in Time, new works by Tom White and associates from Clifton Fine Art, Bristol and Chroma, paintings by Jackie Higgs and Alan Chapman and jewellery by Eleanor Symms.
The Detectorists’ Paul Casar is Max in this one-man black comedy about the lows of ageing.
New solo show written & performed by Elaine Fellows.
The Andrews Sisters meets ‘Smack the Pony’ in this new musical comedy cabaret.
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
Ken Harrison is a talented sculptor and teacher whose career is cut short after a horrific car accident.
One of Hollywood’s most successful stars, Charlie Sheen, will share his passion for acting, producing and writing up close and personal in an on-stage interview with British …
Streetfunk’s fantastic annual youth dance showcase is back for the 9th year running!!! If you love dance, love Hip Hop and love all things Urban then this show will be your party…
Meet many cutting-edge local and national artists and buy incredible art direct at the artrepublic Art Yard Sale! Head to Jubilee Square for this spectacular Brighton Fringe climax…
Join the world’s only hip hop pensioner and star of ‘Artificial Hip Hop’ for a unique game of bingo that is a multi-award-winning Fringe favourite.
We establish the core of the character, build the physicality, find the voice and explore interaction with the other characters.
Blues harmonica and booze harmonica legend Blind Charlie Harwood makes his Brighton debut after 35 years of licking the blues.
Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston remain on top form with their new laugh-out-loud spin-off Cabaret Whore, in which Young’s comic character La Poule Plombée is finally g…
Can you really not talk? Are you just in it for the parking? These are just a few of the questions that BBC New Comedy Award Winner Lost Voice Guy gets asked on a regular basis.
‘Best Music Show’ nominee in Adelaide, the acclaimed Movin’ Melvin presents a sensational premiere, featuring songs Otis Redding did, plus more! Extravaganza of song, tap-dan…
“Strange face, with your eyes So pale and sincere.
There’s a simple idea at the heart of Australian company cre8ion’s show Fluff; rescuing and giving a new home to lost and abandoned toys.
Aidan Killian’s World Tour - ‘Around the World in 80 Jokes’ is here.
It’s back! Once again we’re ready to lead you in a sing-along of hits from shows such as Wicked, Mamma Mia, Grease and Oliver and so much more! With a live band backing you and fun…
Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity.
Our Flower Festival, entitled “LOVE IS .
Incorporating as many different styles, centuries and saxophones as a sixty minute recital will allow, we’ll take you through the timeline of the saxophone quartet, demonstrating t…
Two English gentlemen (or are they?) pull surprises out of the hat (and the audience).
Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play.
Beautifully-crafted comedy from one of the country’s masters of anecdote and timing.
Enchanting songbird and hostess Lilian Lake welcomes you to the Moulin Rouge.
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.
Award-winning docu-comedian Juliette Burton must make a BIG decision.
This character-driven play from Moving On Theatre had something for everyone.
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Your chance this season to keep the faith and polish up our dance floor with Northern Soul dancing, returning for the second time at Brighton Spiegeltent.
Playful pink lighting, red velvet drapes, glittery fixtures and wooden circus seats - entering the Brighton Spiegeltent screams ‘Showtime!’ Come Fly With Me is a charming, c…
Funny Women’s share and gig night is perfect for comedy lovers and beginners.
The Sex Shells present ‘Going Down’: a glittering, twisted, all-singing, all-prancing look at gay existence in the twenty-first century.
The acclaimed theatrical phenomenon is Broadway’s Tony®-winning best play.
Launching Edana Minghella’s new album, ‘All or Nothing’, a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary celebration & final performance in its entirety.
Watch a fuzzy gentlemen do his best to convince you that he’s not a brain floating in a jar, whilst working out precisely how humanity has managed to get this far without totally d…
A wonderfully witty look into Britain through the eyes of an Iberian Welshman.
Stranded by severe snowstorms, three identically dressed strangers disturb the rural calm of a young woman in a remote Sussex cottage.
Post-drag, post-gender, impossible to beat, performance avalanche and avant-garde legend David Hoyle returns for unmissable evening of high comedy, sound, vision, paint and song.
Bridging a gap of 80 years between author George Orwell’s early life in Paris and a social experiment by Guardian journalist Polly Tonybee in London, Down & Out In Paris And L…
Pulling up a stool in front of the intimate, softly lit stage down in the basement of Komedia, reminiscent of so many NYC music venues, the audience and I settled in to enjoy the…
The back end of the comic duo Doggett and Ephgrave turns the spotlight on himself for an hour of solo stand-up.
Brighton & Hove is a city of contrasts.
‘Gods Are Fallen.
The half life of love is forever - it remains toxic, poisoning life long after love is over.
Gavin Henderson regales first hand hilarious stories of the many conductors he has worked with: Stokowski, Otto Klemperer, Giulini, Svetlanov, Barbirolli, Sargent and Rattle among…
Dance until the late hours.
Mr.
Work-in-progress show about life with an overly-sensitive clingy rescue dog and an evil imaginary child, acceptability and the joy of loving ‘imperfection’.
Your quick wits and sharp tongue are all that stand between Earth and total destruction.
An adventure set on the high seas that is story-telling at its very finest.
Captain Morgan and First Mate Hammond quest for the secrets of time-travel in a rip-roaring comedy adventure.
Rob’s life fell apart five years ago.
Martha Tilston has carved her unique niche in the modern English folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world.
A unique opportunity to go off the public route and learn about the remarkable history of the world’s oldest operating aquarium.
Follow our characters on an everyday journey through Battersea hearing their inner thoughts via an app previously downloaded to your smartphone.
Collaborative outcomes from the BA Theatre Arts at Northbrook. Performers, make-up, costume and props designers come together to tell, retell and immerse you in their stories…
Fascinating, touching and truly enlightening, this lesbian musical romance tells the story of forgotten Variety stars Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney.
A choir meets to rehearse a song to make things better.
Free alternative comedy from Matt Hutson (Runner-up in Preston Comedian of the Year) and David McIver (Selected for the BBC New Comedy award 2015).
Please ensure you use the right quote: “an imaginative wit that earmarks him as one to watch” with “cracking gags that turn on a smart use of language” (Chortle).
Join us on a journey through the magical forest where three fairy tales are imaginatively brought to life.
Broadcaster and comedian Dolan is one of the most in-demand MCs.
Animation, mime and speech come together in this neat one-man show about love at first-sight going wrong.
“a smorgasbord of different voices finding the funny in new places.
A selection of spoken word, poetry and short fiction, shining a light on brilliant new writing.
Using their trademark blend of audience interaction and razor-sharp improvisation, Abandoman (Ireland’s top comedy hip-hop improv team) present their biggest and best show to dat…
Inspired by a phrase from Virginia Woolf to describe dusk, Owl Time is a gentle production that provides political punch.
During the 2008 Spring Season of “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” at Glasgow’s Òran Mór, writer and director Selma Dimitrijevic presented audiences with a delicate, poignant e…
Brighton’s rich cinema history rediscovered on this acclaimed 90 minute tour.
An interactive, musical, play experience by Exploring Senses and One Brighton FM.
BalletBoyz are back with a brand new show, performed by its all-male company of ten incredible dancers.
Take an extraordinary journey in the dark.
A play set around a poker game may not sound like the most interesting watch but Patrick Marber’s script contributes character, excitement and intensity towards an engaging…
On 10 January 1992, the container ship Ever Laurel, several days out from Hong Kong en route to Tacoma, Washington, hit a storm in the North Pacific Ocean.
(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 27) The Roundabout revives Eugene O’Neill’s “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood.
Mr.
After watching End Of The Rainbow, what I learnt most about Garland was the effect that she had on her audience.
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
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…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour! 2015 is finally here Actress Georgia May Foote, Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and TV presenter Anita Rani are the next celebrity contestan…
All Time Low and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Pop punk darlings All Time Low are thrilled to announce their return to the…
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…
A brand new stage version of Mrs Henderson Presents is coming to the West End in Winter 2016.
The Marx Brothers greatest failing is at the circus.
For many dancers, the term “lyrical” may call up memories of high-school dance competitions and recitals, where dancing to pop songs with lyrics in a jazzy-acrobatic st…
With a performance and choreography career spanning more than half a century, David Gordon has accumulated a lot of mementos.
Jana Schmieding and Lauren Olson host the final New York edition of this monthly character showcase, in which comedians perform brand-new, original characters.
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog.
HARLEQUINADE By Terence Rattigan 24 October 2015 - 13 January 2016 In this rarely seen comic gem, a classical theatre company attempts to produce The Winter's Tale and Rom…
To ring in the new year, Jenn Welch and Jay Malsky host this “evening of comedy, song and unsolicited advice,” featuring live performances, a dance party, prizes and an…
The special New Year’s Eve edition of Peggy O’Leary and Lucas Connolly’s regular show, which mixes drinking games and stand-up, includes performances by Nick Turn…
One the eve of New Year’s Eve, the comedian Jo Firestone and a crew of amateur dancers will paint their faces in the colors of the rainbow and improvise synchronized dances t…
The actor, choreographer and esteemed hoofer Maurice Hines has had an illustrious career spanning Broadway and Hollywood, with cameos from luminaries like Gypsy Rose Lee and Frank …
The People’s Improv Theater presents ‘Puffs, or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic’, the story of a boy’s coming of age as a member of the Puff…
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
Will it be much ado about something when the playwright Rolin Jones (“The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow”) resets Shakespeare’s comedy in the Cool Britannia of …
This program of seven short plays by David Ives is presented by New York Deaf Theater and employs both spoken English and American Sign Language to tell its comedic tales (2:00).
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…
Mr.
A gem of the British comedy scene, Ms.
This elegant young French pianist has attracted attention in recent years for his insightful performances and recordings of Schubert.
The Nursery presents its autumn season of improvised comedy at the Edric Theatre, Borough Every weekend from 2 October to 5 December, 8-10pm Highlights include improv masters Th…
The Thirty Years Tour is a brand new stage show in which Michael Palin, aided and abetted by a rich and often rare archive of film, video, photos and recordings, looks back over th…
This fund-raiser show benefits “Tuesday’s Children,” a charity that continues to help victims and families affected by the Sept.
Mark McGann brings his acclaimed show based on the life of John Lennon, IN MY LIFE, to the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
A recital by Karen West, Elizabeth Woollven and George Ross, accompanied by Helen Maddox and Alan Graham, to include Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben and John Maxwell Geddes’ …
Returning to The Brunton (Musselburgh) with original and traditional Scottish folk music, stories and songs delivered with a charismatic stage presence and unique sense of humour.
A night celebrating the biggest breakthrough acts of 2015. Line-up TBC.
Following a sell-out debut UK tour with critically acclaimed show The Racist, South African megastar and newly announced Daily Show host Trevor Noah returns to Edinburgh with a bra…
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.
Polly Toynbee and David Walker are two of Britain’s leading social democratic commentators and policy analysts.
A sage said ‘nothing can be certain but death and taxes’.
Locally sourced natural materials – a strategy for sustainable construction? Emily Tracey of the British Geological Survey provides a rewarding walking talk on the geology that p…
Taking festivals, theatres and rooftops all over the world by storm, Hot Dub Time Machine returns for five nights only, bigger and better than ever! Join DJ Tom Loud on a transcend…
Live recording of the hit podcast from the writers of the BBC show QI.
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…
One of the songs included in Captain of the Lost Waves: Unsolved Mysteries is titled A Song No One Wants to Hear.
By the Bi is a show that offers to tackle the heady subject matter - of the difficulties of being bisexual - head on.
Beardman production Time At The Bar was written and directed by Kieran Mellish and follows the story of The Duck’s Beak pub, whose future is uncertain.
Waste of Time takes the audience both back and forwards in time from the grounds of an abandoned scrap heap.
Through a series of surreal, nostalgic and captivating scenarios, the piece draws on personal experiences of the artist Sarah Vaughan-Jones in order to investigate how we measure a…
A Traffic Jam On Sycamore Street is a Kafka-esque tale of persecution of the every-man figure by illogically logical authorities.
Mediating Conversations about Conflict: The Church, the Constitution and the Climate.
Heartfelt jazz, blues and Americana, Lorna and her musicians perform beautiful standards from the great American songbook.
Gilded Balloon veterans Arthur Smith and Steve Frost take you on a tour of their old haunts (or what is left of them).
This is the first year of the ‘iF Platform’ – a new showcase featuring the UK’s top disabled artists and integrated arts companies.
Take a walk on the wild side and experience the embodiment of animal behaviours into human characters.
Straight from USA’s Rocky Mountains and season one of NBC’s The Sing-Off, Face creates a high-octane vocal rock phenomenon punctuated by an endearing love of performance.
One man (Ben).
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalist, Mo Gilligan and BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Kae Kurd join forces for their highly anticipated Edinburgh debut.
Is there one kind of life that is the true and right life for all human beings, or are many kinds of good lives possible? If the latter, does this mean that there are no absolutes …
Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalist, Mo Gilligan and BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Kae Kurd join forces for their highly anticipated Edinburgh debut.
Critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, Celebrity Juice regular and the man who once got pizza delivered to a moving train returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show.
Mrs Tobit Tells All – Blazing Grannies return with a classic quest to claim the treasure, defeat the monster, marry the girl, and achieve health and happiness for all, aided by a…
In this exciting collaboration, award-winning vocalist and performer, Jungr, and Grammy and Emmy Award winner McDaniel investigate The Beatles; celebrating Paul, John, George and R…
Touch is the new one-woman play from Asylon Theatre exploring the difficulties of genuine human connection.
Chap-hop, the hottest trend since hipster beard balm that makes your beard smell like woodsmoke and whisky, hits the Fringe this year in the form of Mr B’s Guide to Modern Life.
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…
Steve Richards Presents Rock N Roll Politics 4.
This show brings the arts of dancing and paper folding together in an exploration of how the two mediums can unite.
Corium, the new show from Accidentally On Purpose Productions, tries to be exciting and contemporary by stylistically borrowing from Frantic Assembly but sadly doesn’t find its o…
‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
Setting the evening’s tone from the outset, the audience take their seats while the actors prep onstage, cycling through an exaggerated array of warmup exercises that any perform…
‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
A sweet, beguiling Shakespearean romance is skilfully reimagined against the backdrop of the Second World War in Youth Action Theatre (YAT)’s appealing production of All’s Well…
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
This play within a musical aims to show us what life as part of a touring company is really like.
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Award-winning Fringe favourite musical improvisers present an evening of spontaneous music, monologues, mayhem and hilariously insane fun.
The title of [Title of Show] tells you quite a lot about what you need to know! This musical, within a musical, within a musical writes itself as it plays out.
Oxford University’s finest all female a Cappella group takes on University Challenge.
Four people are onstage at the start of this play: Sean Campion and Scott Turnbull, the actors playing a mother/daughter pair, and a real-life mother/daughter pair.
Eighteen-year-old Michael and his fourteen-year-old brother Brucie – who has been considered mentally slow since birth – venture out on a camping trip together.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling.
A young Filipina-American confronts the mystery of her origin and her experience of molestation in an attempt to crush the damaging shadows of her past and find a love of self.
A selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, scherzos, waltzes, mazurkas, etudes and polonaises played by William Alexander (piano).
Ross Wilson of Blue Rose Code has gone through quite a transformative journey in the past 18 months.
Two staves (and all the leger lines!) become one under Stefan Warzycki’s dextrous left hand, in two virtuoso piano recitals including works by Bach, Chopin (arrangement by Godowsky…
Thread Theatre’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests is a boisterous and entertaining farce.
Perfect way for under sixes to burn off energy at this fun, musical and sea animal filled session.
‘The play, Scarfed for Life, is a loud, lively piece about sectarianism in Glasgow .
The David Latto Band bring their brand of celtic-tinged Americana to AMC@St Bride’s and the Fringe for the first time.
Globally inspired, but distilled in Scotland.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
Site specific theatre is a great way to immerse an audience into the world that the piece creates.
This was a talk for the footballing purist – a no-frills, brief chat with two of the footballing world’s most renowned authors.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
Beardyman has been a regular Fringe success for several years and it’s easy to see why.
There’s niche and then there’s the niche of the niche.
Fun for all the family – a hugely popular, inspirational hour.
This two-person dance and physical piece is performed and choreographed by Tereza Ondrová and Peter Šavel, a male-female duo who have worked successfully both separately and toge…
Lost in Transition looks at Romania’s decretei: children born as a result of Ceausescu’s 770 Decree that forbade contraception and abortions.
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
This is the seventh year that producer and curator of dance Jodi Kaplan has brought the variety of American dance to the Fringe with this “festival within a festival”.
A moving multilingual anthology of the First World War, recreated by contemporary poet and playwright, Andy Cargill.
Jimmy Shand to Johnny Dodds, a virtuoso mix of music unfolds before you: French, jazz, Jewish, traditional, Balkan.
Replicate on stage the chance and excitement of daily life.
Set against the dramatic and hauntingly beautiful backdrop of the South African landscape, these 15 works by Meyer offer a personal and compelling look into how war affects individ…
Two-time Edinburgh Comedy award nominees and stars of BBC Three’s Badults, Pappy’s, bring their comedy club to the Edinburgh Fringe for four very special shows.
Brashly comic and acutely emotional, bravely exploring a woman’s intrinsic role in life’s creation.
Sketch Club 7 has six members.
Come to Gayfield Creative Spaces on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays for a series of walks as we explore our own locality and the wonderful green spaces and creative ini…
This dark comedy uses physical theatre to modernise the themes and settings of this famous Shakespearean play.
Kursk is a play attempting to offer real insight into the life of a submariner and the pressures and realities of life below the sea.
As you walked by that parked car, have you ever wondered just what were the two people inside talking about? What do you imagine they might be telling each other? Random Acts bring…
St Patrick’s parishioners invite you to spend some time reflecting on the mysteries of Christian faith, and so be renewed in body and soul for our day to day activities in this wor…
Come with us on a journey through the ups, downs and sideways of life.
‘He had fallen into the hands of death.
Time is the only thing we can’t control, but this is my time so it can be whatever I desire. The 229 is never on time … and there’s nothing worse than being late right?
Sell-out 2014.
Familiar BBC faces present their pick of the Edinburgh Festivals. Join us for music, theatre, spoken word, puppetry, cabaret and – of course – plenty of comedy.
GM Bacteria? Noooo! But what if I told you that GM Salmonella might save your life one day? Most people remember Salmonella because of the controversy with eggs, and many know that…
Closer Than Ever is a revue musical wherein each song takes us to a different scenario within the complex theme of love and relationships.
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
I wouldn’t normally mention a show’s venue in a comedy review, but David Mills is performing in a gorgeous space in the Voodoo Rooms.
Join award-winning character comedian Joe Rowntree for the rare and wonderful specimen Morgan Berry: Pet Bereavement Counsellor.
Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults.
Join West Country comedian Cerys Nelmes as she entertains you and your children for 45 minutes of onesie fun! Wear your onesie, and have some funsie! There will be music, dancing, …
One of the biggest names in crime writing, McDermid’s novels have been translated into 30 languages and sold over 10 million copies worldwide.
Dutch worship collective, The Psalm Project, famed for their powerful contemporary reworking of the Genevan Psalter, are joined by Scottish band, Satellite, for this worship gig ro…
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
Like the cat in the picture on the lamp post, Richard and Robin are lost.
From the star of Audible.
Forget karaoke! Join the Massaoke revolution.
Join comedians Rachel Fairburn (NATYS finalist 2015) and Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Leicester Mercury finalist 2015) as they explore a shared passion, serial killers.
Great live music followed by some blasts from the past and current gems.
Aidan Goatley strikes me as an organised, practical and variably fearless fellow.
Join UCLU Comedy Club’s Blank Slates for an hour of thrilling improvised comedy, as they follow the story of a young superhero on their rise to glory.
West Country comedian and MC extraordinaire, Cerys Nelmes, returns to this year’s Fringe with a full run of her popular show, Pick’n’Mix! Cerys MCs an hour of comedy featuring th…
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
Harry Baker is a young middle-class blonde rapper-turned-poet.
Five teenagers wake up in a void, neither knowing each other, or how they got there.
Alternative comedy-themed stand-up from the melancholic David McIver (Tickled Pig finalist 2014), mischievous storyteller Sophie Henderson (Max Turner Prize finalist 2015), absurdi…
Happy-go-lucky nihilism from a man in a powder blue suit. ‘Many moments of absolute brilliance’ (Scotsman). As heard on Josie Long’s Lost Treasures podcast.
Fans of big hits and speedy whips can get their fill of roller derby at Auld Reekie Roller Girls’ first festival game.
In an attempt to prove that Aesop was history’s greatest fabulist, a group of storytellers crack the spine of a massive edition of Aesop’s Fables, releasing the old man’s most memo…
Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) is being presented by The Kinkaid School of Houston, Texas, as part of The American High School Theatre Festival.
Limbo is a pretty hot ticket this fringe.
‘Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.
This ‘pitch black comedy’ revolves around three unlikely friends sat in a room for what we believe is a friendly get together.
This charming double bill from Puppets Being Theatre uses poise and precision to bring to life ingenious paper creations.
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
Stand-up comic Ben Clover was a local newspaper reporter for six years.
This comedy show started with a question: why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
In a world dominated by stock phrases, have words completely lost their sense of meaning? Moving through an unsteady political world, individuals look for an escape from a crumblin…
Take an easy walking tour to discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Like the cat in the picture on the lamp post, Richard and Robin are lost.
Dan Haynes and Pete Richards of Bookends have returned to the Fringe to once again give us their mesmerising renditions of some of Simon and Garfunkel’s most beloved songs.
201 Dance Company’s Smother sets out to do something very exciting.
For actors, writers, directors, performers and creatives of every kind (all of us), this entertaining and interactive talk reveals a fresh way to spark imagination and surprise in …
An adventure through creativity from representational to abstract.
Discoteque Machine, brought to us by Gianmarco Pozzoli and Alice Magione is a morphsuits show.
This one-woman musical show sets out with a pleasant and watchable enough idea.
Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
Wet Behind the Ears brings you the finest new comedy talent from across the country.
Deciding to paint Ukip leader Nigel Farage as a troubled “anti hero” in a cleverly sarcastic musical romp was always going to be a bit of a treat.
Following a bad break-up (although is there ever a good break-up?), David somehow gained custody of the cat, Mittens.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a show centered around just that; children taking part in their local spelling competition.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
Our pick of the best new shows opening at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015. Line-up TBC.
Take part in the Festival’s longest running show at no charge at all.
Join comedians Rachel Fairburn (NATYS finalist 2015) and Kiri Pritchard-McLean (Leicester Mercury finalist 2015) as they explore a shared passion, serial killers.
Stand-up comic Ben Clover was a local newspaper reporter for six years.
Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.
Billed as a rom-com, Bear Hug looked to be a pretty safe bet for some laughs – described as a story about how coming out is easy but how getting back in is harder.
Lost Horizons returns with the finest folk/acoustic music from across the UK.
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
Sometimes love comes to you and sometimes you have to make it happen.
Recommended by LondonIsFunny.
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
For some of us among ‘the olds,’ the Beatles provided the lush soundtrack of our lives.
Uncle Sam Wants You For U.
For those of a squeamish nature, this may not be the best review to read over your breakfast.
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…
Matthew Crosby (one of Pappy’s, co-star/co-writer of BBC Three’s Badults) returns to Edinburgh with another lovely little show.
Music has a way of providing the most honest portrait of a person, be it someone listening to an opera in the Royal Albert Hall or someone moshing in the belly of Bannerman’s, mu…
Gag Reflex presents Tom Lucy, Sean Nolan, Chris Washington and Benji Waterstones, hosted by Freddy Quinne and Kate McCabe.
Amid a cluttered set that looks like a dirty old flat sits Edvard Munch’s The Scream.
If someone had told me months ago that, not only was I going to see a man perform rap battles, beat poetry and strange silent skits based on philosophy, but that I was actually goi…
Like or hate Facebook, you’re guaranteed to love this all-female social media inspired comedy improv show.
Going to a percussion based show at the Fringe could go one of two ways: it’ll either be a case of just watching people hit things for an hour, or it’ll be a veritable fiesta f…
Glasgow based Royal Conservatoire are now in their 11th year of performing in the Fringe with their masters level students and Urinetown is one of this year’s offerings from them.
In 1920s London, Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney have an on and off stage partnership, singing popular love songs of the day to each other in West End revues and living together openl…
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…
A starry evening with the most famous child star you’ve never heard of.
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
An all female cast takes some of the classic soliloquies and scenes from Shakespeare’s work and deliver them in an almost cabaret, review format, with the addition of new contempor…
According to Baudelaire, the greatest trick that the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.
Dissent: noun, def.
This show has the kind of title that gets you feeling excited right away.
A new stand-up and character solo show by the London-based Melbourne comedian and host of Storytellers’ Club.
One of several pieces of modern American writing brought to the Fringe by Phantom Owl Productions, Neil Labute’s 1989 play Filthy Talk for Troubled Times takes a frank look at ge…
Join Ryan Cull (2013 BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Award winner) as he describes his personal life in progress, from his boyhood adventures in leg braces to becoming a man combating h…
Following a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run in 2013, and a successful first UK tour, Tony Jameson gives his critically acclaimed show Football Manager Ruined My Life a bit of an end …
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 …
Sid Singh isn’t the first guy you think of when you think ‘America’, but so what? What’re you, an expert? No? Then chill out dude.
You’d imagine that it’s quite difficult to write an hour of stand up about owning a cat, and apparently it is, because about half way through David Tsonos’ Walking the Cat he p…
Despite the fact that it’s 2015, there’s still much debate and handwringing about cross-gender casting in Shakespeare.
The Double Life of Malcolm Drinkwater is a play about secrets, recycling, and the industry of murder.
An adventure through a moral maze.
Henry Ginsberg is a true outsider; never popular enough to be accepted into the mainstream, but never quite anti-establishment enough to be accepted into any ‘alternative’ tribes.
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…
Brice is back with a host of silly characters.
Attempts on Her Life has a notoriety surrounding it that most shows would kill for.
Is this a damn early time to start a show? Yes! Is it the only way to start your Fringe? Yes! With an interactive musical improv ending, this show you want to set your alarm for.
Do we choose the journeys we make or do the journeys choose us? A one-woman bittersweet comedy told through 80s tunes, old tapes, childhood memories and cake and tea.
In short, we’ll let others speak! ‘Doing it his way, the ghost of Sinatra lives on’ (Times).
On any given night during the Edinburgh Fringe there are dozens of funny comics standing on stage talking about the life and loves of a performer.
Let Michael Hill entertain you with his misadventures living in Japan’s capital – battling cultural differences and language barriers, braving earthquakes, teaching English poo…
As featured on Live at the Apollo (BBC One), The Royal Variety Show (ITV), Wild Things (Sky), Snaptastic (TV3), the Sony Radio Gold Award-winning The Jason Byrne Show (BBC Radio 2)…
The first solo show from David Callaghan (BBC New Comedy Awards 2012 and 2013).
The Addams Family is an updated take on the iconic family of twisted misfits that brings the story forward from where it left off.
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…
“Shout! The Mod Musical” has an exclamation mark in the title, which inevitably garners a certain level of expectation: you want explosive energy and a load of volume.
Live at the Stand is an opportunity to attend the recording of the podcast of the same name, featuring a rotating lineup of comics performing sets and taking part in games and inte…
David Elms brings his muted comedic style in the form of musical vignettes.
I think I’ve found my new favourite musical, thanks to Tangram Theatre and their amazing piece on one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.
Can you really not talk? Have you considered an exorcism? Are you just in it for the parking? Have you ever tried talking just to see what happens? How do you have sex? Seriously, …
‘I could tell you anything I want and you would have to believe it!’ yells Mark Forward about twenty minutes into his show, as an invisible falcon perches on his arm.
In a small, bare room in Pleasance Courtyard, armed with a projector screen and a pack of makeup wipes, Angela Barnes is ready to change your view on beauty standards - and make yo…
Balletronic has a name that intrigued me from the get-go.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
We are welcomed into the Stand 2 by a red-headed young woman in the guise of an older man.
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
One-man sketch show Will Franken serves up another smorgasbord of multi-voiced madness.
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have subverted the original performance conditions of Shakespeare’s plays, which were all-male productions, and have tackled his bloodiest tragedy, Titus A…
Strikingly staged, deftly acted and simultaneously hard-hitting and bitingly funny.
We’ve all got ‘em: struggles, self-orchestrated pitfalls, flat tyres, ball cancer… Un/fortunately we can’t all make a living droning on about them to room full (dreamer) of peopl…
I have never before been moved from laughing to tears pouring down my face – in the space of one sentence – until I saw this piece.
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
La Clique has been a feature on the Fringe for over ten years and has a well deserved reputation for slick circus cabaret and variety.
When I consider Charles Dickens, a man whose life was seemingly a stumble from one tragedy to the next, I tend not to think ‘comedy stage show material’.
Fifty minutes of the classic Rat Pack numbers with a full swing orchestra, bringing a little bit of that onstage banter that the trio are known for, and adding in the two Burelli s…
The show you’ve been waiting for! One man fights his involuntary mechanism for telling jokes at the worst times possible and tells them during this show which is the best time poss…
This time next year, the Assembly George Square Theatre will not be big enough to contain David O’Doherty.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
There is a room in C Nova that you have never seen before: up endless winding staircases and through many closed doors, a small attic store has been meticulously transformed into t…
Patrick Monahan likes to boogie.
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
This is a big year for Nish Kumar.
Prestwick, Scotland – 3 March 1960.
If you think that swashbuckling adventures are only for children, think again.
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
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…
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s musical director and his ‘All Stars’, take to the stage to celebrate ‘The Ronnie Scott’s Story’.
Teaching children aged 7-13 the basics of magic.
Anthony DeVito, one of the funniest up-and-comers in New York, hosts this showcase at the iconic comedy club.
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
Wearing a great, white, sparkly dress, Kiki de Ville struts onto the stage and you immediately know you are in for a good night.
The arts organization Inception to Exhibition, founded in 2009 to support new creative ventures, presents four Friday nights of free dance in the Midtown outdoors.
Five men are trapped in a West Virginia mine in this visceral play, whose lighting comes only from the actors’ headlamps.
Love’s Labour’s Lost follows the fortunes of King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three friends, who have made a vow that they will eschew women (among other things) for three years…
(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…
One last chance this season to polish up our dance floor, Northern Soul dancing for the first time at Brighton Spiegeltent.
Buy art direct from the artist at the inaugural artrepublic Art Yard Sale! Head to Jubilee Square to meet with and buy from some of the world’s leading artists at this spectacula…
Verity Valentine, the sassy and enchanting songbird and hostess welcomes you to the Moulin Rouge.
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…
Grammy winner Tom Paxton’s ‘50 Years On UK Tour’ with special guest Robin Bullock.
An emotionally charged coming-of-age story, blending wry comedy and the music of a beloved cult band, sung live.
Stand-up comedian from the Netherlands, Arna Spek is trying to blend in with the English! Will she succeed? Join Arna for an epic story, full of dangerously awkward moments.
The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
Be part of a national project and keep a diary of your day on May 12, then bring your family along to our event on 23 May at The Keep and add your diaries to the Mass Observation A…
Columbia’s second biggest export, Carlos Cojones, comes to Brighton to tell the world about his life. With a little help from his friends.
A head-stretching hip hop voyage through the history of thought.
When Lost Voice Guy was rushed to hospital during last year’s Fringe, he nearly died.
Soak up the swing.
Visceral solo show on Sussex-born writer Patrick Hamilton, author of classic plays ‘Rope’ & ‘Gaslight’ and iconic novels including ‘Hangover Square’ and ‘The West Pier’.
A brave and fiercely honest memoir of one person’s loss, her grief at her husband’s suicide and the long road to healing and recovery through a unique spiritual and artistic quest.
Join us in the magical forest where three fairy tales are imaginatively brought to life.
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.
The Cold Heart Revue is a UK solo music act making his Brighton Fringe debut with ‘Where Are The Villains Now’.
For those who haven’t seen David Hoyle perform before, throw out your preconceptions and definitely expect the unexpected; for David is not your typical drag queen, and I’m s…
‘Bookends’ perform the most authentic sounding tribute to the unforgettable music of Simon and Garfunkel.
Delve into the world of a depressed bulimic, it might surprise you.
Dress Me Up Dress Me Down - a debut one woman show by XaXa Mason - uncovering shared vulnerability and exploring the territory of intimacy.
West End On Sea bring London’s theatre stars to Brighton.
Free stand-up comedy: Focus people! David Mills is back with brand new razor sharp rants, cocktail swagger and a biting, acerbic wit.
All Change is a short, minimalistic play about old age, dementia and father-daughter relationships.
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…
Alex Eberhard presents a sublime 10-piece electric orchestra.
This award winning show returns with a wild new twist! “Sensational piece of cabaret theatre that had the sold-out crowd roaring with laughter one minute and silent in awe at ele…
My grandfather used to be old.
Set in the gay community of liberal 1920s Spain, José is the central character in this all-male reworking of Bizet’s Carmen.
Musical theatre that packs a punch.
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…
A tribute to pioneering performers in Music Hall, Variety and Revue.
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…
An exhibition of work that depicts what visitors enjoy in Brighton - the eccentric, comic, delightful or strange.
They met at Greenham.
An eclectic mix of comedians.
David James, senior comedian and master story-teller, brings his baby-boomer show to Brighton Fringe for one night only.
The music programming at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s new building downtown begins, in a collaboration with Issue Project Room, with four concerts over three days.
Do you ever gaze at the stars and wonder what it all means? Well, help is at hand because ‘the Bard of Lewisham’ is back and he’ll be tackling everything about everything and…
Weifan (Ophelia) Chen - founder of Namasia Tea House from Taiwan, would like to introduce the art and culture of Taiwanese tea to the UK.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
A show about competition, innovation and possibilities of the mundane, strung together by a subject that has been overlooked by society.
‘Every Way Up Has its Way Down’ looks back to a time when Brick Lane meant beigels and traces the footsteps of Jewish immigrants who made their mark here long before we arrived.
An absolutely wonderful exhibition presented by Ink_d Gallery, on North Road, of Graham Carter’s “Alphamals” is family friendly and a highlight of this Fringe’s visual ar…
An eighty minute walk around Brighton’s most haunted quarter in the company of Silas, Jasper or Ebenezer, all suited and booted in full Victorian attire.
An internationally renowned Irish comedian, Mr.
Join improv comedy group Do Not Adjust Your Stage as they create stories, scenes and characters inspired by the Ted-style talks from Museum scientists in The Wunderkammer.
Jo Firestone kicks off her new monthly series of unpredictably strange shows.
David Carl and Katie Harman star in their new play about a couple who have decided to remarry after their “violent and expensive divorce.
Mr.
The American pianist David Witten, currently the coordinator of keyboard studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, has long been curious about overlooked piano repertory…
The title of Schumann’s piano piece “Davidsbündlertänze” takes some explanation.
This monthly variety show features an eclectic mix of stand-ups, improvisers and other acts. Performers include Todd Barry, Myq Kaplan, Micah Sherman and the improv team the Enemy.
The Guggenheim’s behind-the-scenes series usually features new works and creative collaborations in their incubator stage.
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.
(in previews; opens on Feb.
As an ongoing celebration of –and opportunity for –new playwriting talent, A Play, a Pie and a Pint – originated at the Òran Mór in Glasgow’s West End – has decided to m…
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 colorful production, by the directors Todd Twala and Thembi Nyandeni, celebrates the culture and history of South Africa through dance, song and storytelling performed by a ca…
This brand-new improv show, made up largely of former members of the sprawling, influential troupe Death by Roo Roo, promises an “improvised apocalypse.”
(previews start on Jan.
Emmy Blotnick invites two headlining comics to perform 30-minute sets. This month’s guests are Adam Newman and Gary Gulman.
Dave Hill, a suave local favorite, hosts this top-notch night of comedy and music with a Christmas-themed show.
(previews start on Sept.
The superb organist Paul Jacobs won acclaim early on when in 2000, at 23, he played the complete organ works of Bach in a marathon to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the compose…
Five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: the real story behind his infamous origins.
Robin Montague hosts these stand-up shows featuring some of the top female talents in the business, including Sasheer Zamata, Michelle Wolf, Sara Schaefer, Emmy Blotnick, Aparna Na…
The Happiest Day of Brendan Smillie’s Life opens on sweet, strange Brendan (Ross Allan) who, with the aid of labelled paper plates, is attempting to design the optimal buffet ar…
Ahead of her next premiere — coming in February to Works & Process at the Guggenheim — Ms.
A position paper and a cri de coeur, Han Ong’s play for Ma-Yi Theater mingles rage, rational argument and bleak comedy as four Asian-American actors and a white P.
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
Ennio’s wildly entertaining show features a whirlwind of superb paper costumes and split second transformations, a sizzling soundtrack, and wicked celebrity send-ups.
Sound and image mingle in illuminating ways in this production by the composer Philip Miller and the artist William Kentridge, two South Africans and longtime collaborators.
Mo Fathelbab and Tim Ellis go all out to celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly comedy show.
The British comedian Josie Long performs her critically-acclaimed show, “Cara Josephine,” an hour of stand-up about relationships, love and family.
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
How much Charlie Chaplin really wrote the score for “Modern Times” is debatable, but the genius of his 1936 reflection on industry and the Depression is not.
Tom Papa records an episode of his old-timey radio show, which features sketches, stand-up and music.
(previews start on Sept.
The Free Fringe invites all Fringe performers, wherever they’ve been performing, to its end of Fringe event. Mingle, wind down, dance, drink and reflect. Second annual event.
A night celebrating the festivals with some of the biggest breakthrough acts of 2014.
Mary Beard is an unlikely rockstar.
Greyfriars Kirk was the perfect setting for this Edinburgh based choir’s return to the Fringe after sellout shows in previous years.
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.
In the lavish surroundings of the Assembly Rooms, Guardian journalists Polly Toynbee and David Walker dive straight in at the deep end.
Legendary LA rapper from Scotland who conned the music industry as half of Silibil N’ Brains.
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
Green Snake, brought to the Fringe by the National Theatre of China, promises to be a modern take on a old Chinese myth.
Join Scotland’s Biggest drag queen for a spectacular hour of her own brand of risqué comedy.
‘Forensically, mordantly, occasionally lovingly, Meades deconstructs the 1950s.
The Fringe attracts artists, companies and audiences from all over the world, but how do you engage with an audience who don’t share the same first language as you? This discussi…
The concept of YOLO or You Only Live Once for those of you who aren’t in the know about these kinds of things, has been a trendy phrase for the past couple of years.
Come and play.
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…
A quartet of fifty-something women hit the gym to tone up - but when they look in the mirror they each see what they want to see - their twenty-year-old selves.
The Shoogles return with a brand new album.
After three previous Edinburgh shows and supporting Alun Cochrane on two UK Tours, Mike Newall performs an hour of stand up.
I gave up studying all forms of science at the age of 15, so on the surface, I would not be the natural choice for Jim Al-Khalili’s Quantum – Still Crazy After All These Yea…
Successful stand-ups usually have a memorable on-stage persona; it may be manic, taciturn or just ‘nice’, but it’s what they’re remembered for.
A ‘pratfall’ refers to the slapstick action, common in clowning, of falling and landing on the buttocks.
I Am The Wind not only plays with these idea of meaningful space but relies upon it.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a Broadway musical based on the Peanuts comic strip, featuring familiar characters like Lucy, Snoopy and Schroeder.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
Alain Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes is the inspiration for this in-house created musical which sees the return of Shrewsbury and Severn Opera group to the Edinburgh Fringe.
A discussion on approaches to working collaboratively with people who face barriers in participating in the arts.
Angie Belcher is an accomplished stand-up poet who doesn’t live in London.
Japanese pianist Waka Hasegawa performs widely in concert and on radio, both as a soloist and in a duo partnership, in Europe, USA and Japan.
Moving On Theatre Piaf: Love Conquers All by Roger Peace is an inspiring roller coaster of a show around Piaf’s life, music, breakdowns and addictions.
Two improvisers take you on a hilarious, musical and sometimes unnervingly familiar journey through a myriad of characters, places and worlds.
Anni Dafydd emerges onto the stage wearing layers of mismatched technicolour clothes.
Life on the One Wheel experiments with everyday experience and elements of popular culture to explore the fragile simplicity of human emotion.
In connection with the exhibition “James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography” at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance series presents a rarely performed w…
“She wasn’t abnormal.
Paper Rain by Youth Theatre Georgia is one of those Fringe gems that one can only be glad to discover.
Does the Fringe work for women? What images and messages do we see and hear? Are women fairly represented? Join us for a conversation about where women stand in the world’s large…
Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe.
Come and enjoy a relaxing lunchtime recital of a selection of favourite ballades, nocturnes, polonaises, waltzes, scherzos and other works by Poland’s most famous romantic compos…
Mr.
Middlesbrough sketch-pros Heavy Petting put on a wacky and fast-paced comedy sketch show complete with a weird fetish for Batman, hitting people with hammers and totally authentic …
Practical workshop about making experimental multi-artform performance.
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
This unique piece of Korean theatre centres on the story of young Gretchen.
The band return to the Made in Scotland Showcase to conduct fyrebrand sonic sermons of devilish proportions.
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival celebrates Edinburgh’s traditional buildings and offers everyone an opportunity to learn about the skills and materials used to build an…
The BBC Asian Network return to the Edinburgh Festival for a second year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the Edinburgh Festivals.
One of the best things about dance is that it can transcend the boundaries of language or culture.
It takes a hell of a lot of stage presence to pull of a one-man cabaret musical inspired by Euripides’ The Bacchae, but Hawksley Workman is certainly up to the task.
Perfect way for under sixes to burn off energy at this fun musical and animal filled session. Bang the drums, sing the retro songs and dance the dances inside the musical zoo.
Star of Live At The Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Kerry recently appeared as Hannah in Ricky Gervais’ sitcom Derek and played Lacey Turner’s mum in Our Girl.
Three women, three generations, tied together not only by blood but also by the magic of the river that runs through their remote Finnish town.
Shakespeare in Song attempts to bring the works of Shakespeare to life using songs from through the centuries and chosen complimentary verses.
Seated Reservations’ description as a “one act comedy play about life, death and coffee” doesn’t raise expectations sky-high, but I was very quickly converted by the fast-pac…
A misfit with a dangerous grudge.
Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits does pretty much what it says on the tin: runs through some of the Bard’s best-known monologues and soliloquies, from Jaques’ “All the world’s…
With The Three Peaks, the Dunnington Players explore not only the three peaks of Yorkshire but also what can happen to us over the course of a year.
If this show had simply featured the songs of the Three Belles – an Andrews Sisters-inspired act with delightful voices and glorious harmonies – and some references to the 1…
In the Pink are a young all female 10-piece a capella group who perform variations of hit pop and hip hop.
A variety show with comedians and actors talking .
39 years is the average age of death for someone on the streets.
It is an exceptionally brave thing for an amateur company to take a recent professional London production and attempt to pull it off as a Fringe performance, but this is exactly wh…
Gilbert and Sullivan musicals aren’t to everyone’s taste, and could most definitely do with an injection of a more modern approach.
In Hong Kong, thousands of people – poor families, students, white-collar workers – live in dystopian-sounding “sub-divided units” that sometimes only amount to 50 square f…
A Historical Family Walk starting from Edinburgh Castle, finishing at the Sottish Parliament by travelling down the Royal Mile with a guide.
In John O’Farrell’s 25 Years of Writing Stupid Jokes, he tells the story of his comedy career: first as a writer on the likes of Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You a…
Travel back in time and explore long obsolete emotions from history, with the help of an amazing machine.
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk in the Royal Mile for their sixth appearance at the Fringe, and present a varied choral programme of items from both sides of the Twe…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Michelangelo Drawing Blood explores the artist’s fascination with the male form, partly inspired by his sketches for the unfinished fresco The Battle of Cascina.
As the date of Scotland’s Referendum fast approaches, National Collective presents a series of entertaining and informative performances, speakers and discussions to inspire deba…
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George Galloway is best known as the fiercely pro-Palestinian Respect Party MP for West Bradford.
Darling Ghost is a collaboration between singer and pianist Sheena Bernett, four woodwind musicians and two spoken word performers, bringing what they describe as “theatrical a…
Biding Time (Remix) holds some interesting ideas and memorable visuals, but it’s often hard to decipher what the aim of the company’s design and concept really is.
A Moment in Time is an immersive piece of theatre, which explores our relationship with the word investment, both from an audience and performer perspective whilst remaining at its…
Tom Thumb, a character who is small in stature and status, yet is granted the hand of a princess in marriage.
Shirley Lauro’s drama All Through the Night opens badly, but it gets better.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform a highly enjoyable eclectic mix.
This silent walking meditation will be led by members of the Community of Interbeing, who follow the practice of Zen Buddhism Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Most of us have only ever been exposed to ice skating through the Winter Olympics, which is kind of like living in a world where the only readily-available form of dance is balle…
Familiar BBC faces present their pick of the Edinburgh Festivals.
The premise of this devised piece, championed by Director Alex Hargreaves, is to break down the usual comforts of viewing horror in a cinema and instead bring the story to a place …
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
Jason Patterson in All About The Pattersons! Jason entertains us with affable tales of growing up in a house and moving to a rough council estate, having a popular older brother, h…
Paper Play is the story of a boy who climbed to a great height to see what he could see.
The future.
We present our pick of the newest, biggest and best cabaret acts.
Late and Loud presents BBC Radio’s Edith Bowman and Chris Stark along with TV funny man Russell Kane for a series of Jukebox takeovers.
What do you say about a show where the second guest comedian blatantly ignores the host and then walks out of the show after his set?.
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
Amid the gloriously eccentric trappings of the Treasure Island themed Italian restaurant Hispaniola (a former haunt of Robert Louis Stevenson’s), Greenlight Theatre have achiev…
Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe…
Katia Kvinge is straight out of The Second City, Groundlings and UCB Theatre.
Join comedian and activist Chris Coltrane for an hour of uplifting, Tory-smashing political comedy! The world is corrupt, politicians are garbage, but we are awesome! Let Coltrane …
Sorry I’m a Lady traces how Holestar, ‘London’s favourite Tranny with a Fanny’ (Time Out), left school without qualifications, joined the army and went on to become a brothel recep…
Top-notch stand-up from Irish comedian and Bafta nominee Caimh McDonnell.
A celebration of human flaws.
It’s time to bring improv comedy bang up to date.
Harry Price: ghost hunter, psychic investigator, conjurer and debunker, a man of mystery and contradictions.
Are you confused by life? Do you miss Y-fronts? Did you even realise they were gone? Ever wonder what a live sex show is like, or how accountants chat girls up? Are you worried abo…
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.
Following huge success at last years Fringe, LCP Dance Theatre return this year with an extended version of this multimedia dance performance.
Suitably advertised as a punk-style voyage, this is a raucous hour of cabaret, humour and profound insights into the connotations of the word ‘queer’.
Having written for BBC Radio 4, NewsRevue and the award-winning TinCanPodcast, Mike takes on the baffling history of the Westminster parliament with wit, rage and twisted logic, ju…
A unique blend of nonsense, magic, mayhem, physical comedy and wit.
The world’s first time travelling dance party is back, bigger than ever, and still powered by your dancing.
Wellington College make their return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with the wacky jukebox musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.
Ghostbusters turns 30 this year.
How to review a Fringe show whose cast kidnaps and threatens a theatre critic at gunpoint? Will any positive comments be interpreted as surrendering to the demands of terrorists? W…
Soldier Box is a new play brought to this year’s Fringe by New Celt Productions, a company that amalgamates the talents of both Queen Margaret and Napier university’s recent grad…
Multimedia theatrical comedy that spans millennia.
The writers and performers of Bonded by Blood could have possibly struck gold with having me there to review the show.
For a free sketch show you can’t go wrong with Oxford Revue’s free accompaniment to its main show.
Perrier/Chortle award-winning musical comedian makes sense of your universe.
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
Three fine comedians who are all just so hot right now are upstairs in a pub somewhere telling jokes.
It is a rare thing to leave a theatre having been utterly blown away by a performance.
There’s no way to review this show without first admitting that the title does half the job.
How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use.
Mercedes Benson takes a break from shopping in Lidl to introduce some of her closest friends.
“A girl.
Tickled Pig (Time Out’s Critic’s Choice) presents Edd Hedges (So You Think You’re Funny winner 2013), Robbie Ormrod, ‘top-notch performer’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
No Lost Generation is a strategy to mobilise champions across the globe for the children of Syria, and to mobilise the necessary resources to provide millions of young people with …
If you’re in the mood for some bawdy, laddish comedy then this is the show for you.
This tour is a brilliant way to explore the history of Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.
By turns harrowing, tender and witty, Guy Masterson’s one-man commemoration of the soldiers of the First World War is a poetry reading of first-class calibre.
This comedy show started with a question: Why is it that conspiracy theorists will chew your ear off explaining that 9/11 was an inside job, global warming is a hoax, and chemtrail…
Lenka Vagnerová and Company have two shows on at this year’s Fringe, Riders and La Loba.
10 minute tasters from four and five star shows, with exciting emerging talent.
Its the worst thing you can do at work, but we all do it, clock watch.
Paolo Scheriani, Italian theatre author, winner of several prizes, performs I am Sarah Kane - An Almost Perfect Life.
With hilarious outfits, original music and a few custard pies thrown in, this two-hander follows the further adventures of Cinderella’s naughty Ugly Sisters as they travel in sea…
Discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town in this very popular walking tour.
This is the show you’ll be telling people about in five years time.
There are no actors in this show.
Laugh Train Home brings together its favourite acts, with a different line-up each day, MC’d by Robyn Perkins.
With over 3000 shows descending on Edinburgh this month, the city is attempting to squeeze a Fringe venue out of every possible space available.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
Montreal-based Paul van Dyck brings imagination and passion to this polished one-man telling of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
‘A wonderful meditation on journeys, lives and spaces’ (Audience member, A Walk.
Off The Curtain is described as an ‘East-meets-West’ one-woman show, using a mixture of storytelling, acting and poetic narrative.
‘The mindless monotony of routine in the workplace’ is how Blue Moon Theatre describe the show that they have brought to this year’s Fringe.
Marcel Vol I explores the topic of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s sex scandals, portrayed in the form of an absurdist nightmare.
The Next Big Thing is a show that deals with precisely that – and the young, ambitious writer who’s striving to attain it.
The ubermeister of dark comedy cabaret’s war machine rolls into Edinburgh.
Playwright and screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher has a long career writing historical dramas, including Stage Beauty and The Duchess.
David Bowie said ‘Scotland, stay with us’.
Tamar Broadbent’s All by my Selfie seamlessly combines quick wit with a beautiful voice.
You know that scene in every crime show ever, when the police finally show up at the serial killer’s lair to find a treasure trove of strange, coded messages pinned to the wall…
Our pick of the best new shows and breakthrough performances from the Edinburgh Festivals 2014.
What happens to the thousands of people who go missing every year? And what happens to the people left behind? How can anyone accept they might never know what happened to their lo…
Japanese dance company LaN-T003 have been to the Fringe several times before, bringing with them an eccentric blend of video art, physical theatre and quirky slapstick.
Mark Farrelly’s The Silence of Snow is a charming and funny, if not particularly deep, depiction of the life of Soho author Patrick Hamilton, best known for penning Rope and Hang…
Live and let die blares from the speakers as Marc Burrows circles the room, high-fiving everyone in sight.
What happens when a geezer only starts doing all those wild and crazy things he should have done in his youth when he is approaching his 50s? When a guy gets himself married young,…
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
Folk duo Bookends, made up of David Haynes and Pete Richards, pay homage to one of the greatest pairings in modern folk music with this heartfelt, competent and surprisingly mult…
Irish comedian and computer nerd Matthew Collins, Puzzled 2013, **** (ThreeWeeks) and BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions, returns with a handpicked selection of comedy pals.
Based on Our Māoris, the memoirs of Lady Mary Ann Martin, On the Upside Down of the World is a riveting period drama set during the colonization of the last place on earth.
Natasia Demetriou is new to solo shows.
Rachel Fairburn is melancholy, she can’t help it.
Some Fringe clichés exist for a reason.
Much like a comedian, only more hilarious, Charlie O’Connor promises laughter, confusion, merriment, and pungent hair envy in his sparkledragon of a show.
Emily Winter, Janet Manley and John Payne host this variety show in support of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue, with performances from Dave Hill, Michelle Wolf, Colin Nissan, Mark No…
A festival goers guide to this show: Have a few drinks; prepare some funny questions - keep it light and fluffy; attend the show; ask Jesus a question.
Set in a surreal criminal underworld where gangsters play Cluedo, Hide and Seek and drink home-grown English garden tea, The Babysitters is an ambitious piece of new writing that…
The award-winning sketch group, as heard on their own BBC Radio 4 series, present brand new sketches and old favourites packed into a fun-filled free-for-all show.
Journey into Dublin’s final port at the end of the night as wildlife reporter David Edenborough examines the mating rituals of the Irish.
Self-proclaimed adversity avoidance advocate Paul Swoops links together a show that manages to trap members of The Tourists in a surreal sketch landscape of their own devising.
A powerful portrait of the artist Francis Bacon.
The Bilborough College Players make their Edinburgh debut with a double-bill production featuring absurdist and epic theatre, Life with Crayons.
Sunshine is a very experienced performer in the traditional Japanese art form of comic storytelling, Rakugo.
Race first opened on Broadway in 2009 and ran for almost 300 performances, directed by its Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, David Mamet.
Jenny moved from the Welsh mountains to the Big Smoke in 2010 and has since embarked upon a career in stand-up 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.
It’s probably not acceptable for a review to simply take the form of OMG! This show is amazing.
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has been running in various iterations since 1988, with an ever-changing roster of extremely short “plays.
Mike Burdett’s one man show has all the signs and potential for being a Fringe hit but, sadly, due to some underdeveloped writing and wayward lessons, it doesn’t quite hit the mark…
Braz Dos Santos has quite the tale to tell.
‘The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children’ (Jim Henson).
Live action sketch comedy video game.
Thomas Pocket presents: Me (Oscar Jenkyn-Jones) is the debut solo show from exciting young absurdist Oscar Jenkyn-Jones.
In 1914 George joined the war.
Dylan Thomas’ life often seems made for drama, partly because the man himself was such an actor, both in onstage performances of his poetry and in his daily life, and partly becaus…
Everything seemed against this performance from the start.
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.
Inviting us into an office adorned with a giant map of Australia and piles of unfinished scripts and screenplays, Clare Pickering embarks on the energetic and meandering story of h…
Absurd theatre troupe Intuitive Creatures, ‘deity of comedic genius’ ***** (PerformanceReviewed.
Lady Carol sits on her stool with her ukulele and mandolin, wearing a black velvet robe that gives her the appearance of a fairy tale enchantress.
The star of Weirdo’s cult hit The Colonel, Ali Brice brings his long-overdue, hotly anticipated and ridiculously silly debut show to Edinburgh.
Comedians can be a cynical bunch.
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google.
You’ve heard the one about the Irishman and the Scotsman walk into a bar before… Duncan and Sean will be a Scots and Irishman in a bar but this time it’s war.
Returning to Edinburgh after a three-year hiatus which has seen him performing around the world, on radio and on television.
Gregory Akerman explores the history of war to find out once and for all if it’s good for absolutely nothing or good for very little, however there are a couple of exceptions.
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…
The intimate feel of the basement studio at the Caves adds to the atmosphere of the performance of Planet Earth and All Who Sailed in Her.
Get down to The Stand for a brand-new psychological, philosophical and largely nonsensical comedy panel show.
Total sell-out 2012 and 2013.
Eden Gate is very much like stepping into a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
Two men in their forties meet for a coffee to catch up after four years of not meeting up in person.
A video highlighting Tommy Rowson’s previous misdemeanours introduced the audience to this apologetic reprobate, and what follows is a self-examination into how he can refine his…
As one of many circus shows visiting Edinburgh this month, Sonics in Duum has some pretty stiff competition.
A visceral performance, The Time of Our Lies benefits greatly from the impassioned commitment of its five-strong cast.
Not be confused with the Milton epic, Leodo: Paradise Lost follows the story of a young girl lost at sea and transported to a magical island beyond the horizon, Leodo.
David Morgan has two obsessions in his life: TV and the Internet.
A Mary Poppins bag of hilarious characters from a misunderstood Rumplestiltskin, to a yoga instructor who can’t stand the sound of breathing.
This is a show about poo.
I admit to having felt a tad disappointed when I heard that Josie Long wasn’t doing her political stuff this year.
Seriously.
One of the perils of confessional theatre is that you may end up paying to witness someone airing their dirty laundry.
Ennio revolutionises the art of origami into hilarious theatrical magic.
Following a sell-out 2013 Annuale, Deirdre Robertson’s debut Fringe show is a playful collaboration with Inflatablemonster (sculptor Andrew MacVicar).
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
Cirque Tsuki: Feast plays with the old tales of 1001 Arabian Nights, exploring multiple interlocking stories-within-stories.
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.
Andrew Ryan’s show this year sees him look at where he is in his life, how he got here and how he’s enjoying it - or not enjoying it, as the case may be.
David Trent enters to thunderous music and revs up the crowd with a flurry of fist pumps and screaming; only to cut it all off with a delightfully anticlimactic start to the show.
Staple/face are a young sketch group, something they don’t shy away from.
During this peculiar hour, David Elms takes a different approach to the usual bravado of musical comedy in a consciously quiet, ungainly performance.
Familia de la Noche take the story of Pinocchio and turn it on its head, with the former puppet boy as the titular “greatest liar in the world.
Following the success of Track 3, a highly original adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Theatre Movement Bazaar return to the Fringe with their steaming-new adaptation of Ten…
Saucy hostesses Hope and Gloria are back with Titty Bar Ha Ha: Hard Time, following on from their show at last year’s Fringe.
Many consider Stuart Goldsmith’s career as a comic to be “living the dream.
Apphia Campbell brings an all-encompassing presence to the stage during this solo performance.
The atmosphere of this exhibition is a mixture of solemnity and heroism beautifully accompanied by the melancholic sound of bagpipes.
This nationwide programme, developed in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life, and supported by Creative Scotland, will be one of the most ambitious cele…
This nationwide programme, developed in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland and Glasgow Life, and supported by Creative Scotland, will be one of the most ambitious cele…
GENERATION is perhaps the most ambitious exhibition in this year’s Fringe and one that extends beyond the confines of this festival.
A Moment in Time is an immersive piece of theatre, which explores our relationship with the word investment, both from an audience and performer perspective whilst remaining at its…
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…
Royal Festival Hall: 8th Jul 7pm.
Leicester Square Theatre: 30th Jun 7pm.
(previews start on July 7; opens on July 13) Few heartthrobs boast résumés as daunting as James Franco’s.
Dave Hill and his band Valley Lodge host this impressive lineup of comedy and music, with performances from David Cross, Juliana Hatfield, Michael Che, Jean Grae, Kate Berlant, Mar…
Ben has been told he committed high treason.
Great Scott! Victorian magic duo Morgan & West travel 100 years into the future presenting baffling magic, unparalleled precognitive powers and a totally genuine ability to travel …
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Come and watch The Origin of Apples, a documentary which explores the extraordinary political, personal and scientific challenges which lay in the path of visionary biologists in K…
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 12 certificate film in the UK and so you can only attend if you are 12 or older.
Following sold-out shows of ‘The Honey Hunters’ in Brighton Fringe 2012, we return with new puppets, live music and dance.
Established in 1959, Dutch dance company Nederlands Dans Theatre strove to break away from the expectations and traditions of ballet.
The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher…
The brilliant pianist David Greilsammer, who is also a conductor, has a gift for devising programs and recordings that juxtapose old and new music.
A touching one woman show about Piaf’s life, loves & loss.
Metro Chamber Orchestra presents the American premiere of Nancy Van de Vate’s 1 “All Quiet on the Western Front,” based on Erich Maria Remarque’s novel.
Sitting in the pews of Brighton’s Unitarian Church and readying myself for an evening of devotional music largely centred on Hindu and Sufi traditions, I felt slightly dubious.
A startling and original portrayal of the fallibility of relationships in a technological age, Brewers Fayre demonstrates how theatre can be used to critique contemporary societal …
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
Yiri Baa – West African Roots Manding AfroBeat Band brings you a performance of the wildest music from The Gambia, Senegal and Mali, West Africa.
How does a hazelnut end up in a walnut tree? Who wins the duel between a Mexican bandit and an American cowboy? And most importantly: does it hurt more to be hit by an imaginary st…
Ever get the feeling you were born in the wrong time? Justin Panks does, a lot.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Join John McDonnell MP, Mark Serwotka (PCS), Maria Exall (CWU) & Janine Booth (RMT) to discuss if we should stop outsourcing public services, bring council services back inhouse, a…
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Inspired by the five-star production of ‘Killing Roger’, Sparkle and Dark invite you to join a dynamic panel to talk about how art can tackle challenging ethical issues.
A Beautiful Day in November on The Banks of The Greatest of The Great Lakes (written by Kate Benson, directed by Lee Sunday Evans) is one of three world premieres in rep at The N…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Disgraced teacher James Bennison takes to the stage in his debut stand up show, tackling that untapped comedy gold mine, mathematics! Join him as he takes you on a journey of hila…
All day event with distinguished novelist Philip Hensher, poet Jo Skelt and other compelling speakers.
Awaking in a mental hospital with no idea who she is, Jude begins a comic odyssey into the obscure, where reason is treason, sanity is a sickness and the only truth is that everyth…
Come Rhyme With Me provided a warm atmosphere, shared food and most importantly, some truly talented poets.
A dark, atmospheric production by A Band Called Quinn & Ben Harrison.
Irishman Andrew Ryan is 31 years old and he could not be happier, or could he? When his Dad was his age, he was very happily married, with a house and three kids.
As I left the Warren after viewing The Girl and the Goat, all that was running through my head was ‘who on Earth thought that was a good idea?’ The awkward hitting together of …
Cabaret with a story to touch your heart and stir your senses.
‘Space and Time’ is an exhibition of unexpected landscape photographs.
Following a successful run at festivals such as Edinburgh Fringe 2013 and various venues around the UK and Ireland, join Ireland’s tallest comedian at Brighton Fringe 2014.
Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp host this night of music and comedy with performances from Sasheer Zamata, Eliot Glazer, Justin Sayre and Jason Michael Snow.
We can’t promise you won’t get wet! Super silliness, ridiculously funny, interaction and hot chocolate included! 2013 Latest Award Winners ‘Best Theatre Performance’, return wi…
Visit our little house on the edge of the woods and escape the bustle of city life.
Howard Hanson was the longtime director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and this excellent ensemble honors him with a rare performance of this vivid, grand opera, base…
Spoken Word Poet, Tommy Sissons presents a one-man poetry performance exploring the themes of urban lifestyles, working class values and the impact of politics in a coarse and inte…
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
“Music at the Heart of the City”.
Brighton’s Montpelier & Clifton Hill area is a Victorian suburb of distinction with splendid architecture and charming vistas.
This is not your typical childish ghost walk filled with tales of ghouls, beasties and ghostly little girls in their pyjamas.
The Lanes is Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter, with hardly a street or lane that does not have a spectral connection.
May 1914.
Elder Place, a neglected Brighton back street reinvented through art.
‘Time = Money’ is a 1-2-1 participative poetry performance art event which explores the notion of the relative exchange values of time, money and poetry.
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/…
Showcasing the best Brighton Fringe has to offer with different comedians every night.
A 70 minute walk around Brighton’s oldest and most haunted quarter visiting seven of the most haunted sites with Silas,Jasper and Ebenezer dressed in full Victorian attire.
This monthlong series kicks off with an evening focused on the spirit and talent of the Bronx, featuring Sage Rivera, Ranardo-Domeico Grays’s Visions Contemporary Balle…
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…
The producers of last year’s inaugural Brooklyn Comedy Festival continue their cultivation of the city’s best comedy.
(previews start on May 24; opens on June 2) The Japanese playwright Toshiki Okada manages to make the ordinary seem fresh, the inarticulate expressive.
It was a dark and stormy night in Brighton.
Come and curl up with a living book.
London-based American comic David Mills combines a sharp-suited cocktail swagger with tremendous fire-and-brimstone rants.
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…
We don’t hear about it often, but George Balanchine had a life before New York City Ballet and this hybrid performance and reading focuses on his early career in Russia.
Roald Dahl’s deliciously dark tale of young Charlie Bucket and the mysterious confectioner Willy Wonka comes to life in “a lavish feast of a musical” (The Guardian) di…
This drama by Beau Willimon, the man behind the Netflix series “House of Cards,” begins with two guys in an office, exchanging unremarkable banter until it becomes evid…
With an apology for being faithful to Steinbeck’s racist language both written in the programme and announced at the start, the team behind Of Mice and Men are clearly concerned …
Bryan Cranston makes a commanding Broadway debut as Lyndon B.
Tony Law presents a deeply hidden, powerfully meaningful show for night-time freaks.
Close of Fringe event for all performers no matter what venue or organisation. Come to famous Jam House: mingle, drink, celebrate, wind down, live music. First annual event.
This concert from Cadenza (an amateur choir founded in 1992) at Greyfriars Kirk proved to be a beautiful evening of accomplished music from both the choir and orchestra.
Find out from a panel of industry experts what it takes to be a successful producer, receive invaluable advice and tips on funding, marketing and project development.
There was barely an empty seat in Canongate Kirk for this concert and the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh rose to the occasion with a programme to match the unsettled Edinburgh weather.
At the start of this show former Labour minister Chris Mullin claims that his memoirs chart ‘the entire rise and fall of New Labour from John Smith’s death in 1994 to Gordon Brown …
I never expected not to ‘get’ a children’s show.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
Charlie is back with a wild cabaret of musical, magical drum-smashing mayhem, accompanied by Judd (Booze for Baby) Jones, Edie Wakefield and wild frontman for an 80s rock band car…
If you are easily swayed into buying a ticket based on a show’s title, though you may be enticed into seeing the All-Nude College Girl Revue, you may be rather disappointed.
St Andrews student Matt Gibson talks about life with Asian parents, being unable to seduce girls and those annoying things in life.
WGGB is the union negotiating writers’ terms with broadcasters, theatres, etc; lobbying in Westminster, Edinburgh and Brussels; advising members over work issues.
Join the banter with some of the most outspoken writers in independent Scottish publishing.
The fireball of Scottish comedy, ‘uniquely dry, understated performer’ (Chortle.
Drama - dra-ma. noun: a play for theatre, radio, or television. Such works as a genre or style of literature.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
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.
Given that, at one point, Jon Ronson describes himself as ‘essentially [just] a humorous journalist out of his depth,’ you might be surprised that the Cardiff-born writer and docum…
As hour-long, mountain-top, star-studded, musical comedy extravaganzas go, this was a rather low-key affair.
Author Robert Fulghum lists lessons learned in kindergarten and explains how the world would be improved if adults adhered to the same rules as children.
Each time a mountain rescue is reported in the media, it is difficult not to think ‘Why would they climb that alone/in that weather/at that time of year?’ But the truth for som…
The sound of the sea lapping at the sides of Odysseus’ boat is our first step into the world of Homer’s Odyssey, as imagined by delicate weavers of visual tales The Paper Cinema.
David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humour writers.
Gentle, charming, heart-warming stories about what it means to be truly human.
Bert and Horace own a scrapyard filled with all the rubbish nobody wants.
Come and enjoy a selection of popular preludes, waltzes, nocturnes, ballades, scherzos and larger scale pieces performed to delight you in this lunchtime concert.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Amy Duncan performs songs from her new Linn Records release, Cycles of Life. www.amyduncan.co.uk / www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com
A new black comedy musical set within the confines of the nuclear family home of the seemingly perfect Biktrakarawitz’s, which quickly descends into a gruesome world of murder, inc…
Aimed at those considering Conservatoire Drama School training.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
Stage One, the charity dedicated to developing the next generation of commercial theatre producers will be putting together an industry panel to discuss the producing profession an…
Rising stars of the London scene Dan Moss (multiple award winner), Calen Harlley (Alistair McGowan & Friends) and MC Joe McCarthy perform late night stand-up.
Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.
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Sondheim’s Assassins sounds like a show that should not work; a musical exploration of some of the United States’ most famous attempts (and successes) to kill the President.
In 1926 a silent adaptation of The Great Gatsby was produced by Paramount Pictures, and even to this day, all evidence of the production .
Fold fitted sheets, design perfect desserts and create consummate canapés! A rich but practical diet of the responsibilities, realities and rituals of domesticity to entertain, ed…
Almond Roca is one of the strangest and funniest things you are likely to see at the Fringe.
One can’t help but like Joshua Seigal.
Armed with a bottle of vodka, this retired football manager wins the applause of both his seasoned fans and those newer to the game.
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Werner’s atmospheric installation takes you on an illusion-fuelled journey to darkly poetic places.
Organs.
A Matter of Life and Death by Tom Morris and Emma Rice, as well as being a loving ode to the classic film by Powell and Pressburger, is also an original work in its own right.
With 47+ million YouTube views, DOABM is Arshad’s hysterical take on what life is like for a young British Pakistani Muslim.
The Jazz Bar is not what first comes to mind as a Fringe hotspot but this small, classy venue continues to offer the eclectic, high quality gigs it programmes throughout the year.
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.
Have you ever wondered what lurks behind the gates of a scrap yard? Some old tyres, a wheelie bin and maybe the odd rat or two, yet what about the people who work there? Bert and H…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites: ‘Jenny and the Cold Caller .
If you are yet to travel down to the Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge, I encourage you to.
One of the Guardian’s top sketch writers at Westminster, will give a hilarious talk about the politicians, prime ministers, poseurs, poltroons and pratfalls he has seen.
Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites.
Danish comedian Valdemar Pustelnik creates a picture of general discontent in his first English stand-up show, delivering laughs as big as the man himself.
Buddy Baker, an obedient and hardworking son, moves in with his playboy bachelor brother Alan, in 1960s New York City, turning both their lives upside down in this classic Neil Sim…
The Water Reflection Dance Ensemble delivers a very strong performance that’s extremely visually pleasing.
From the moment they step on stage, there’s no denying that Katie Norris and Sinead Parker have talent.
How much do you know about the history of the Traverse Theatre? If the answer is ‘very little’, don’t expect to leave enlightened.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Campaigning MP Tom Watson talks about taking on the Murdochs and the all-powerful, corrupt media.
This brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform their eclectic worldwide musical mix and also pay tribute to the giants of British Trad jazz: Ball, Barber and Bilk.
This accordion and clarinet duo based in Edinburgh gave a showcase of different music styles from around the world.
The idea of using rap as a linguistic art form to present a ‘playful reimagining’ of many of Shakespeare’s finest work is something young Charlie Dupré successfully pulls of…
Spoken word and rap artist Charlie Dupre comes on stage to the strains of cello and violin, an accompaniment that is perhaps a little at odds with his casual hip-hop style and deli…
‘All-conquering clash of ego and touching vulnerability’ ***** (FringeGuru.
This Life Chose Me: A Ninja Musical written/performed by Katie Wilbert.
Undertaking the staging of David Copperfield is a tricky, if not impossible, task for any theatre company.
Tells the life, dreams and disenchantments of a concert pianist at the end of her career, accompanied by live piano.
The Pleasance in association with The Scotsman celebrates the Fringe First Awards with four readings, one from each decade.
[Life] - An Everyman’s Tale.
Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�…
International Breakin’ Showcase featuring some of the best dance crews, boys and DJs worldwide as they battle it out for the top spot at this year’s Edinburgh festival.
Jamie Hamilton is an energetic and inventive sketch writer, with an unusual ability to take conventions from other genres and spin them until they become surreal.
Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb.
Dazzlingly versatile, All That Malarkey’s repertoire spans operatic classics to R&B, musical theatre to cheesy pop, jazz standards to their own original material and much more! A…
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
It’s the worst kept secret at this year’s Fringe that the UK debut of little-known alternative 80s comedian Baconface is in fact enormously well-known alternative comedian Stew…
Ellie and Oscar want to show you themselves this year.
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, chapter 14.
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
This is Cinderella, but not as you know it.
Dr Professor Neal Portenza has more titles than I would give stars.
“In Da Club came out in 2003, not 2005!” I found myself shouting across the dance floor at around half past two this morning.
Stories of a girl who lived life by the seat of her pants, even when she wasn’t wearing any.
Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the…
Rowena Haley’s show has a simple, yet entertaining foundation: what is it like to grow up with a 93-year-old as your best friend? Through wittily penned songs, anecdotes and lar…
Life-long coward, Sarah Hendrickx, travels back in time to her past in a bid to become brave and fearless.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Popular culture often gets derided by critics because, unlike many of the so-called ‘great’ works of art (you know, the ones that allegedly make you look good when ‘appreciat…
At only thirty minutes long, La Poeme may seem short in length, but the performance manages to fit as many engaging images into this short time span as is humanly possible.
The title of the show, Flyerman 2: This Time it’s Funny is perhaps a little misleading.
Although listed as a children show and only 25 minutes long, this beautiful but simple production certainly made an impact on the audience members, no matter what their age was.
Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience.
Discover unexpected gardens and green nooks and crannies behind the historic buildings of Edinburgh’s Old Town, all with a story to tell.
Discover a little-known side of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Life Sentence follows the story of Theo, who has just been diagnosed with immortality.
From 11am to 6pm, Robbie Thomson’s Ecstatic Arc is just a regular art installation in the Library Gallery in the Summerhall venue.
Idle Motion is a theatre group that specialises in physical theatre.
The real star of this show sits outside throughout the performance.
We live in a world where technology is changing the way we see ourselves and other people.
Fantasy No.
Life in 3 Words is a solo piano and song show written and performed by Irish singer/songwriter Emer O’Flaherty.
Waiting in the Summerhall lobby, three other people and I are greeted by a smiling American in chunky glasses who takes us downstairs.
If you’re dealing in absolutes, you’d better make sure your show delivers.
Styling themselves as variety performers, The Drama boys - an all male company hailing from Cornwall - say on their flyers that they cover everything ‘From Shakespeare to slapsti…
Alistair Greaves ‘moments of comedy genius’ (Skinny) and Si Beckwith don’t need no heavy trips.
Stories of hilarious, heart-warming and often bizarre moments in a unique career. Even if it’s not your first time with a prostitute, it’ll be the funniest!
Ruby Heart Entertainment presents an all-star diva tribute show each night of the week, including world famous divas Adele, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Lady Gaga and Jessie J.
Will Sidgwick is very new to stand up, having been on the scene for under a year and he clearly has a lot to learn about material and originality.
Watch free previews of hundreds of Fringe shows.
An hour long comedy show featuring five different acts talking about sex? After a few pints this starts to seem like a great idea and I would recommend the show to any finding them…
Comedy debut of a small town little Welsh lady … who isn’t everything she seems.
This powerful and intense one man show tells the story of Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald just days after Oswald himself as…
Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience.
Madame Chabane will give you an insight into the daily life of an Arab woman and hopes to make you laugh!
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have put together a production of Titus Andronicus that rather beautifully captures the double-edged nature of George Peele and William Shakespeare’s play …
I’m afraid I don’t particularly trust shows with exceptionally long titles that are self-claimed ‘spectacular’.
Rob Deb, ‘the Lenny Bruce of sci-fi’ (Skinny), returns retooled and rebooted.
An irreverent history from Henry VIII to Bonnie Prince Charlie. ‘You will be hard-pressed to find a more engaging performer on the Fringe. Do go and see this show’ (Chortle.co.uk).
Flying drum kits, levitating ironing boards and swinging divas.
Comedian Paul Harry Allen revises his four-star 2010 show, all about some 1960s letters found in a junk shop.
Join Ireland’s tallest comedian as he unravels the world through his unique point of view. Join Charlie on his surreal journey of devilment and hilarious stand-up.
The Greatest Liar in All the World is an extension/parallel exploration of children’s favourite Pinocchio.
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.
Having lived in Edinburgh all my life, I wondered how much Saints and Sinners Walking Tours could really tell me about my city.
Douglas Adams said the answer to the big question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. I am 42 this year. Find out what I have learned and questions I have.
Tony, 33, wonders: could he have achieved more in life by not spending 20 years playing video games? Join one of the north-east’s hottest talents in his debut hour to find out.
Award-winning stand-up from two of the country’s best newcomers Adam Hess and David Elms (as seen on BBC3).
The memories of an unknown 50-year-old, who happened to meet many characters along his path in life from the rich, powerful and famous to those who make life interesting…
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
The Real MacGuffins are a hilariously funny sketch group that had the audience roaring with laughter.
The value of art, human redemption, dead labradoodles.
Unavailable for Comment, hosted by Marcus Brigstocke, is a news-based quiz and sketch show.
Stand-up comedy that fulfils the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s diversity requirements all in one fantastic show.
Free frivolous fun and spontaneous silliness, improv and stand-up from comedy circuit regular, TV sitcom actor and professional improviser.
If you like Tommy Tiernan, Dylan Moran, Dara O’Briain, Jason Byrne, but can’t afford to see them; then come see this show. Worth every penny of the free entry.
Droll, stylish stand-up! Inspirational rants! Mills dissects celebrity, relationships, politics with cutting accuracy.
Showcasing the very best in Irish comedy, this daily show will not disappoint, with the best headline acts on the Irish circuit and support from new up-and-coming comedians.
The Big Man’s back.
The Boy Who Lost Christmas, by The Young Actors Company/Engineerium, is an absolutely lovely piece of children’s theatre.
This Was Your Life is a rethink of the classic game show, in which its audience can decide whether its contestant, Michael, will go to heaven or hell.
The ‘office comedy’: mastered in ‘The Office’ and storming the Fringe this year in Blam!; here that well-loved genre takes on a new guise in the first theatre adaptation of Danish …
Been to a load of shows already? Tired of sitting back as the passive audience member? Want to have your say? Then Britain’s Got F*ck All Talent is for you.
They may have the charm of a boy band but The Magnets are certainly all men.
Danny’s a winner, by which we mean he isn’t but he thinks he is. Come and spend an hour with someone who isn’t a winner but most definitely an above average comedian.
The lunchtime concerts at St Mary’s take place every day of the festival and the programme changes day by day.
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
The Wee Room is a rather hot and sweaty venue, perfect for Bath Time; Ruaraidh Murray’s one man show is intense, febrile and gritty.
Often the sexiest stories are ones you don’t quite finish. Join the sometimes sweet girls of Sugar & Vice for songs, stories and laughs. From the writer/cast of Princess Cabaret.
Award-winning comedian and ‘Devon’s answer to Sinatra’ (Guardian), sings the 13 biggest selling UK singles from the last 13 years.
Marking the 25th anniversary of Lockerbie, Lockerbie: Lost Voices tells the story of the infamous Pan Am flight 103 and seeks to provide a voice the those who now can’t speak.
Gary Delaney gets straight to the point of this one-man performance, declaring ‘I’ve just written some new jokes - this isn’t a ‘my dad’s dead’ kind of show.
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…
Jack of All Trades is full of energy and will sometimes entertain its audience, but it doesn’t really have enough wit to qualify as comedy.
This delightfully daft and silly send-up of ‘50s film noir is gleefully performed in one of the oddest venue spaces I’ve come across.
‘Bastardi Sumus Absolutam’ (‘We Are Absolute Bastards’) reads the school motto beneath the crest that welcomes the audience on arrival to WitTank’s The School.
Carl Hutchinson has a problem: his on-stage persona has been let loose and is taking over his everyday life.
This is a wonderfully charming adaptation of Elisa Kleven’s book The Paper Princess, brought to life with live music, puppetry and audience participation.
Other stand-ups stand up.
Jack Thorne’s stage adaptation of Alexander Masters’ biography of Stuart Shorter is simultaneously sweet and violently hard-hitting.
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
Mat Ewins is a passionate fan of history and of stand-up comedy, so quite naturally he brings his ardour and insider knowledge of both to create a show that is clever, silly and br…
From the moment this quirky Cornish duo burst onto set with an eclectic combination of 80s-style electronic music and energetic moves, you know you’re in for something a little d…
As the audience enters the theatre, we are greeted by the enthusiastic performers who tell us that they want to make friends.
If you ever forget why it is that everyone has heard of the Cambridge Footlights, Dressing Down will remind you.
My favourite part of the Fringe is getting the chance to find that one unexpected show which really blows you away.
David Quirk, an unapologetic child of the ‘80s, paints the scene immediately with his passion for Guns N’ Roses, leather trousers and idolatry of Slash.
Poor Cause.
David Trent has labelled each of his possessions: ‘This is a screen’, ‘This is a laptop’, ‘This is a projector’, etc.
David Morgan is someone you want to be friends with.
Lost Voice Guy is the funniest comedian I’ve seen on the Fringe so far.
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
Experienced local guides show you historic places of the Royal Mile, its buildings, narrow closes and secret gardens, describing how its people lived and died, its famous character…
Directed by Fringe First Award winner, Andrew Dawson, The Idiot Colony is a stylish, symbolic and sorrowful account of three womens lives inside a mental asylum.
The scene a producer’s office in that place where men sit waiting to throw money at the moon.
Tonight was an evening of two plays, one short, one less short, but the action started before the audience were seated with characters roaming into the foyer.
Given that the original award-winning novel by Mark Haddon is told from the very singular, focused perspective of a 15-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, it’s surprising that…
Andy Day, of Cbeebies fame, and Mike James deserve a standing ovation for their efforts to save parents from having to entertain their children on a rainy Sunday morning in Edinbur…
Five experienced improvisers each request an audience suggestion, ranging from an item found in an attic to anyones favourite chocolate bar, and on the spot create characters and…
To suggest that this Dickens classic suffered a stage death is a slight exaggeration of the Space’s production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, but I must confess…
American Gothic: The Poetry of Edgar Lee Masters has an interesting premise.
David Trent calls live comedy ‘the only true spontaneous art form’.
Heather Newton and Ernest Merrys critically acclaimed 2005 Fringe hit returns to bring you more holy milk, Hellish whores and stitch-inducing laughs.
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…
Based on a true story, Sophie Pelhams one-woman show about coping with bipolar disorder is sensitively disturbing and, surprisingly, also fantastically funny.
There is something rotten in the state of Hampstead.
In the packed venue an announcement hushes the audience and a video projection introduces the trio: the Ginge, the Geordie and the Geek.
From the moment you walk into this performance, you are greeted by anxious luxury.
I didnt know what to expect from a show with the title Naked Boys Singing.
Bach before breakfast is a rather lovely, if bleary way to start the day.
This one-woman show about travelling the world to find a moment of peace tries hard but suffers from too much content and too few moments of empathy.
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
On the strength of All My Friends, Danny O’Brien’s first solo show at the fringe, the Irish born comedian is not one for those who like their comedy witty or sophisticated.
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…
Based on the Raymond Carver short story What Do You Do In San Francisco? this is a fragmentary tale of a postman, some beatniks and a whale.
Attempting to combine physical theatre with traditional Slavic song, acclaimed Czech directors Martin Kukučka and Luká Trpiovský have created an enchanting performance a…
Doubtless the lure of this event is the promise of hot chocolate to round off the day and it doesn’t disappoint.
Advertised in the Fringe guidebook as ‘David Kelly is Shameless’, the show turned out to be rebranded as ‘David Kelly and Laura Carr Have No Shame’.
I was thrilled to experience a piece of theatre performed in its traditional style but with a fair number of contemporary tweaks to keep the audience on its toes.
Wolfgang Weinberger introduces his show as a lecture and perhaps that should have been the hint that this would be about as informative and as funny as secondary school sex-educati…
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
The seventeenth-century garb and easily believed den of Restoration iniquity that awaits a wet and windswept audience inside the Baby Belly promises an onstage Black Adder, but sad…
The format for this show is very simple.
Im beginning to think that Musical Theatre @ George Square are like some dodgy wartime butcher, whos keeping all the good stuff round the back.
Ged Manns apocalyptic comedy has some nice ideas and a few smile-worthy gags, but the plot is obvious and its actualisation painful.
It is easy to lose St Giles’ Cathedral in the haze of the Mile, where every square inch is covered with thespians still needing to sell the last few tickets.
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
During the Great Depression thousands of American World War I veterans gathered in Washington DC to demand payment of promised bonuses.
New Yorks acclaimed Company XIV present a gorgeous display of hedonistic excess and divine manipulation.
Located in the small but cosy performance space underneath the main café area of Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, Life or Something Like it sees Mancunian singer-songwriter Claire…
Here in a school’s performance hall is one of the best shows of the festival, in this humble reviewer’s opinion.
Lake Simons and John Dyers musical re-imagining of Lewis Carrolls much-loved tale is stylish and charming, but not quite captivating.
Future Perfect is a writers’ collective that in several formations organise readings of their own work.
The award-winning Christopher John Domig stars in an unsettling and highly topical play about immigration.
Office Space meets Miranda July: Little Bulb Theatres delightful take on the mundane nine-to-five existence combines Indy humour with quirky performance art.
Pop band related shows seem to be something of a trend nowadays.
The posse return to the Fringe for yet another healthy dose of good old fashioned entertainment.
Critically acclaimed at last years Fringe and fresh from a successful run at the Avignon Festival, Koreas Cho-In Theatre return with their heartbreaking movement piece.
Everyone loves a good scandal and this is probably why Sheridans most famous play has stood the test of the time for the last two hundred and thirty years.
This group of students from Oxford’s Trinity College presumably came to the conclusion that you can’t go far wrong with Noel Coward.
A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods…
There is a moment a third a way into Fergus Fords play when the lights dim, the comedy darkens and the plot takes a sharp and unsettling swerve into territory already occupied by…
Phill Jupitus in association with Free Fringe is a coup.
At first glance, Tissue is an exploration of a fascinating topic: breast cancer.
The sights, smells and sounds of eighteenth century London live on in the Gilded Balloons Debating Hall.
Fancy a stroll on a Scottish summer evening? Follow four lost city-dwellers into the park beneath Arthurs Seat for an intimate and enchanting play about fantasy.
Tom is a modern boy living an openly gay life but unable to get it together.
Sanderson Jones lost his mother at the age of 10 and has been thinking about death ever since.
Be warned, nobody is safe in the audience of Tom Crawshaws new play, Auditorium .
Three hapless 20 something men hang out in a bedroom, no longer at college but not yet ready for the world of grown-up relationships in ‘Boys’ Life’, Howard Korder’s Pulitz…
Dave Baucett is a puppyish like-me-pleeease comedian in his early twenties.
The Putney Players, a US ensemble comprised of High School students who only met three weeks ago, bring an original interview-based docu-play to the Fringe for the fifth year.
The star of Jonathan Creek and QI returns to the stage in his first foray into the world of stand-up since 2001.
Jay Parinis adaptation of Kiplings harrowing First World War story Mary Postgate is stiff but visually stunning.
A night of cabaret at St Marys Church which brought together the quirky poetry of Sue Pearson, with the ethereal music of Astra and the opera-meets-musical-theatre style singing …
For the seventeenth year, C theatre gives festival-goers the chance to start the day with a croissant, coffee and a boisterous but brilliant slice of the Bard.
Jazz is a study of madness, perhaps.
Zipping through all of Greek mythology in an hour and a half is quite a lot of fun when it is presented by a company of student actors who tackle the task with enthusiasm; it is ra…
Irvine Welshs foul-mouthed portrayal of the drug-induced party scene makes a lewd, loud and laughter-filled transition to the stage.
An am-dram production in a church hall, this show comes from another world entirely to even the worst of fringe shows: a world where a serviceable witch’s hat can be made from a …
Observing a possibly cannibalistic civil insurgency ashore, two isolated sailors experience the grotesque impact of the last centurys contribution to warfare.
At the age of 18, Allegra Levy is already a considerably more compelling performer than handfuls of Parky regulars.
Straight from The Royal Court, Anupama Chandrasekhars poignant drama about the impact of one girls sex life on the rest of India cant help but provoke.
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
Though the name suggests this is another gimmicky Fringe production concentrating more on standing out in the bulging programme than putting something worthy onstage, Philip Stokes…
I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
At the risk of sounding completely unprofessional, I would like to summate that Charlie Baker’s new stand up show Freshly Baked is ‘alright.
When DeAnne Smith entered the stage dressed in an adorable ensemble, picks up her ukulele and started singing a tune that sounded like it had been lifted from the soundtrack of 500…
This venue has just one entry in the Fringe Festival programme and this covers 11 different events.
Chortle has long been a staple for any keen comedy fan.
Miranda Julys feature length film Me and You and Everyone We Know is a beautiful and captivating meditation on the themes of love, isolation and art.
The duo of Ian Millar on tenor and soprano saxes and Dominic Spencer on (electric) piano play a standards-based set at the Radisson Hotel every lunchtime (though, 12:30 is breakfas…
Who doesnt want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is …
Based on Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, transplanting its protagonist to modern-day Soho, attaching the story to a real alleged bomb plot on the London Eye, incorporating so…
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
Stuart Spencers century shifting, bed-hopping romp through American history leaves a smile but not a laugh.
I caught this troop of budding young comedians last year and was mightily impressed by their ingenuity, their sense of comic timing, and the wonderfully risqué formula of getting …
No matter how annoying you find flyerers on the Royal Mile, even the most exasperated Fringe-goer would probably agree that rounding them up to be slaughtered in death camps is qui…
Jamie and Matt are two young men indulging in the exchange of sexual fantasies over the internet.
I stumbled into FxP2 in Trouble out of an Edinburgh drizzle and initially thought to myself, oh well, another shower of rain, another comedy sketch show.
I have been to Walberswick and I never caught crabs, but Im glad I caught this new play by Fringe First Winner Joel Horwood.
This is one of Shakespeares toughest plays to pull off.
From the program: Analogue is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to producing challenging, visceral and exciting contemporary work, fusing mixed media on stage.
It is easy to forget that in the tempest of the Edinburgh Festival, between the international plays and the famous comedians, there is still a strong Scottish backbone to many of t…
If ever there was a lesson in the value of being patient, this show is it.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
This concert proved to be a bit of a gem.
With a razor-sharp tongue and ever sharper wit – think 1940s American reporter meets cocktail bar swagger – David Mills delivers an hour of comedy that you may mistake for an h…
The Sitcom double bill has a pleasingly simple premise: the hour long show is divided into two and a sitcom is performed in each half.
Caroline Hardie is one half of the double act Thomas Hardie, presenting a mixture of stand-up comedy and sketches.
Arthur Conan Doyles story of The Lost World is brought to life using live animation and music by the members of The Paper Cinema.
This is a sketch show occupying a very special niche in the imagination of the Fringe.
In 1928, at the young age of 18, Django Reinhardt lost the use of two fingers in a fire.
Naked Pictures of my life is a no holds barred look at Petes life as he approaches middle age and starts to experience and think about aging.
This is a one-man show with a difference: the actor is also a magician.
Covering a range of singer/songwriter greats, Juliet Nisbet and Bruce Birrell, collectively known as Spirit of Love, take us on a musical journey across Scotland, Ireland, France a…
The Royal Overseas League on Princes Street is well-known for showcasing up-and-coming musical talent.
The premise of Battle of Britain is very simple and one that has been done to death: which is the better half of Britain, the North or the South? For the purpose of this exercise w…
It is not often at the Fringe when you are welcomed into the auditorium by the performer himself with the house lights fully up.
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
Planet Lem is a captivating and sometimes baffling exploration of the sci-fi works of the author Stanislav Lem.
The story of toys coming to life and conducting their own lives in the absence of children may sound familiar but The Hand-Me-Down People takes a far bleaker look at these discarde…
Looking for emotional charge? If so, this new musical blows everything else out of the water.
For most people, their wedding is the happiest day of their life.
In an unspecified location, a group of society’s elite mix and mingle discussing everything and nothing.
Old St Paul’s Church Hall is the understated setting for this musical’s week-long run and there is no venue more appropriate for a show with no pretentions of grandeur.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Struggling to Evolve ‘promises a guide to sex, drink and violence’ – which sounds like prime material for an edgy comedian seeking to unsettle his audience.
Diane Spencer or ‘Lady Di’ as she is sometimes known, bounces onto stage.
When a show advertises itself as involving ‘heavy music, headbanging and a smidgen of angst-ridden poetry’, it does not sell itself well to a punter like myself, especially as …
In this hour long lunchtime concert, the Wordsworth Singers verified the health and vigour of the contemporary choir scene in England.
Visiting Time opens dramatically in a hospital room.
Harry Baker: World Slam Champion 2012, immaculate wordsmith and genuinely nice guy.
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
Markus Birdman’s comedy dwells on serious themes, a fact that is perhaps unsurprising considering the 40-something stand-up suffered a stroke a few years ago which caused him to …
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
It feels important to say before we discuss a show about such a sensitive issue that its engagement with the topic of women being raped is sensitively handled and that the dancer i…
The sweetness and innovation of this young children’s puppet show was overshadowed by some of the flaws in its production.
From the bewildering title to the closing dance number, this show is an hour of surprises, both comic and moving.
‘You’ve come on a weird night.
The premise of the show is that This Is your Life is doing a special on Kenny Moon, comedian.
The Two Worlds of Charlie F is a rare example of a play in which fiction and reality collide to create something very special indeed.
Steve Hall, part of the sketch comedy show We are Klang, is an appealing comic.
Out with the old and in with the new.
In the second floor of a pub off Grassmarket, a sweaty singer belts out peculiar variations on show tunes from Oliver! This is Oliver Pissed, as presented by The Sensational Alex S…
The show starts with a projection poorly shone onto the back wall; ‘Lie Back And Think Of Sodom’.
Richard is the butt of school jibes and his home life is not much better in spite of his having two loyal brothers.
Dee Mardi gives us a cabaret of life, with the twist that everything is related in some way to laundry pegged on the line.
Where in Edinburgh can you get a three-tier stand of scones and cakes and sandwiches that would do justice to Jenners, a glass of bubbly, and a Victorian thriller all for the price…
To hear that a company is performing a classic poem like The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner with dance, acrobatics and music is the sort of combination of ideas and media that can lea…
Lashmela might sound like any ordinary girl.
Marga Gomez is one quirky lady.
An exploration of modern society and our responses to it, Life Is Too Good To Be True is a one-man show presented by the Netherlands’ Het Geluid (The Noise).
Stand up comedian Stephen Grant hilariously analyses the problems of modern society.
The magnificent Merchants’ Hall on Hanover Street provides a setting too grandiose in the extreme for Best Rest Theatre Company’s production of their new play, ‘Frank and Fer…
As I followed the sound of salsa music into the grand ballroom at The Assembly Rooms, I have to admit I felt a little underdressed in jeans and trainers.
When I was a small boy, they filmed some of the outdoor scenes of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in my grandmothers street in Edinburgh.
All In The Timing is a collection of one act plays by David Ives, each lasting around ten minutes.
This is Lucy Porter’s 5th visit to the Fringe and at last she’s managing to fake sincerity.
Stand-up works best in a small space.
Maff Brown’s Parade of This present the audience with a tight, irreverent and thoroughly silly sketch show.
It is often easy to think that a top quality set and good technical support can make a performance great in and of itself; shows like Turandot exist to demonstrate that this is not…
The Vocal Associates bring distinguished composer Tony Makarome’s musical adaptation of Aesop’s fables to this year’s Fringe.
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.
This is frighteningly honest stuff.
I love Ontoerend Goed; whether it’s their audience-dividing masterpiece that was Audience last year or something life changing and unique like A Game Of You, I have been a massiv…
As Piers Fawcett lies ill in hospital suffering from AIDS, he receives a visit from his best friend Tom.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Billed as a ‘drama’, Heaven’s Gate, which explores the Titanic disaster (this year is the centenary of the sinking), proved to be a seemingly unintended comedy.
Should he go to heaven or face eternal damnation? The audience decide in this fresh and raucously funny musical.
Talented Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford has the infectious ability to find hilarity and absurdity in the banality of his everyday routine.
A comedy sketch show, promising 32 new and hilarious sketches in under an hour.
‘How do you come out as straight?’ Dan Student asks the early evening audience at Fingers Piano Bar.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
A gently tumbling visual buffet whose menu is resplendent with clowning, puppetry and magical storms.
Scooped is a re-working of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel, Scoop; the adaptation was directed by Katie Lambert and written in collaboration with her cast.
The Creative Martyrs are an absurdist cabaret duo who dress in white face make-up, bowler hats and black suits.
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…
In this highly energetic performance, dancer-actor John Macaulay welcomes the audience and ushers them in, attempting to build up a friendly rapport.
It seems ironic that a show about heroin lacks so much speed.
David ‘Perrier Award winning’ O’Doherty has grown a beard especially for his role as the intrepid – read: inept - explorer Rory Sheridan.
To have a tagline from Emma Thompson, undoubtedly a belle of British cinema, is to wield a hefty endorsement.
Mario Morris presents his comedy magic show, the All Human One Magic Show at Zoo Southside.
Davie and Geordie are two teenage boys, the best of friends, just getting to the point in their lives where they begin to establish relationships with girls.
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
The excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.
If there’s a book you’re guaranteed to come across in a literature degree, it’s Beowulf.
It’s impossible not to like Sam Fletcher.
Sometimes a title of a show can be so specific in its subject matter that it can pull the audience in and deliver exactly what they expect to see.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
The lights slowly fade up on a young woman in a flowing white lacy dress, red bow at the waist, and shiny grey hi-top sneakers.
I’ve often wondered what was going on behind the life models eyes.
Maybe it was lack of sleep.
Stan Skinny admits that this show is a work in progress, having only started writing it a matter of weeks ago.
‘Improv Comedy’, for a genre whose very definition implies limitless scope, seems to be becoming an increasingly tired medium.
Six Ways is one of those small musicals that sends you out into the Edinburgh rain with a big heart.
Nobody said that a one man show bringing Chekhov and Alison Carr together was going to be easy.
Comic and self-confessed ‘try-too-hard’ Gráinne Maguire visits Edinburgh this year with her latest show Where Are All the Fun Places and Are Lots of People There Having Better…
In a festival filled with shows about wonderland and Lewis Carroll, Ontroerend Goed’s new production, the latest in a long line of probing pieces, stands tall as the true master …
The man looks like a comedian.
The story of a World War Two child survivor is delightfully told in a simple production which exudes energy and passion.
‘Life as we know it’ turns out to be about a very specific time in life: the teenage years.
In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd.
Make sure you are on time for this show: youll get enough exercise during this hour-long musical romp without sprinting down Nicholson Street beforehand.
The first thing you notice is that David Reed really has created a Shamblehouse in the Pleasance.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
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…
Terezin Concentration Camp is an utterly fascinating story; built in the Czech Republic, it was inspected by the Red Cross, and during the visit the Nazis turned the camp into a ho…
Theres always a plethora of musicals on the most unlikely subjects at the Fringe.
Having watched Oyster Eyes Presents: Some Rice, you find yourself trying to work out what it is exactly you have just seen.
St Giles’ cathedral, built in honour of Giles the Hermit, is certainly grand and the atmosphere is an appropriate one for an organ concert.
Britpop band Cast’s live performances have been compared to a ‘religious experience’ by the Gallaghers.
It always helps a performance when the audience is packed, in tune with the performers and ready for a good laugh.
Sugar & Vice are Courtney Powell and Brydie Lee-Kennedy, who get up on stage and bare all.
Henry Adam’s Petrol Jesus Nightmare is set in a military hideout against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The GRV would be well-advised to put out some more signs advertising where this five-pound Fringe venue actually is, because when you eventually find it, there’s some real classics…
Show Down is a contemporary dance show based upon Irving Berlins Annie Get Your Gun.
You know when you come out of a show that its going to sell out fast.
I liked Eyes Down For A Full Murray but the setting could have been more fortunate for Susan.
In three short years, All the King’s Men have gone from a little-known university a cappella group to the third best collegiate group in the world, and from the simply phenomenal…
David Hasselhoff has a large and committed international following: Pleasance Grand was sold out on his opening night and at almost £20 a ticket, this is one of the more expensive…
Catie Wilkins works in a call centre, has a gay brother and parents who are both completely normal and yet very unusual - all great topics for a comedy set.
Young writer Tim Foley is an exceptional talent.
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.
Watching Jonelle Allen in Harlem Renaissance, you can’t help thinking you’re in the presence of Broadway Royalty.
Fringe mainstay Sean Hughes is performing two shows at this year’s festival and has perhaps bravely decided to make his earlier show, Life Becomes Noises, an extended discourse o…
Giddy by name and giddy by nature.
An amnesiac is being interrogated.
If everyone has a story to tell, one that’s worth listening to, then why is it that the only stories that shift copies off shelves and set Twitter alight are the births, marriage…
The Oxford Belles are a small set of seven, performing upon a dauntingly massive black stage but as soon as they burst into song they fill the entire space with life.
Heath Franklin’s Chopper claims to be the ‘International Ambassador of Hard’.
The Gillis Centre, situated in the leafy Grange, is far away from the hustle and bustle of the Fringe and its blizzard of proffered leaflets.
Anybody who thinks that you can perform Love’s Labour’s Lost without doing something serious to the script probably hasn’t read the play.
Rash Dash are a theatre company to watch.
Doubling as a launch for her new book about her Norfolk-dwelling protagonist and his ferret friends and as a one-woman performance for young children, Eve Stebbing’s show is doin…
Dead Posh’s production immediately struck on a winning note before the play had even begun, endearing themselves to hungry reviewers by providing Tunnocks teacakes and plastic cu…
An honest, telling, but ultimately flawed piece of one-man theatre, Walk Like a Black Man is an autobiographical work by writer and performer Rafiq Richard, exploring the challenge…
A Real Humane Person Who Cares And All That by Adam Brace is the best piece of new writing that I have seen on the Fringe.
Steve Shanyaski provides an hour of solid laughs; this loveable Mancunian has a twinkle in his eye and a high energy routine that will leave you giggling.
It is difficult for a fan of Ontoerend Goed to try and compare their output this year with their previous work, and that is mainly because they have little in common.
Wes Zaharuk is a man with experience.
Dim, dingy lighting barely illuminates this musty Edinburgh bar, its vague seafaring theme embodied by scale wooden models of old sailing boats, naval pencil sketches suspended fro…
The brilliance of the Edinburgh Fringe is that you can see things which blow you away in the most unexpected of places, and things which are awful in the most anticipated.
Nathan Caton is possibly the most amiable comedian you will ever witness on a stage.
Two railings of clothes, colour co-ordinated like a second hand rainbow, stand either side of Kate Craddock as she hands out raffle tickets to the audience as they enter.
This performance is by a group of students from Stanford University in California.
Music Bugs is a company which provides music classes for ‘babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers’, an age group whose three primary occupations seem to be screaming, laughing and f…
We are in a strange building in an unidentified city, and not even the country is clear.
Double Edge provides excellent entertainment here in the damp, sweaty attic of Underbelly, the ideal venue for their immersive piece set in a 1930’s Princeton speakeasy.
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.
Andi Osho, the rising female comedian famous for her appearances on Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, is taking to pieces what it means to be a single lady in…
Nick Sun’s latest show, Potty Time!, is truly bizarre.
It all started well enough.
We All Love Llamas is a great free poetry event to take your kids to while in Edinburgh.
I wanted to give this a one-word review, but Broadway Baby reviews can’t contain profanity and I have to do everything I can to make sure nobody wastes their money on this.
The Pathhead Halls on the corner of Commercial Street and Broad Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife were built in 1882, originally as a theatre and music hall although one room was later used fo…
From its inception this play has a lot to live up to, as there are many shows where a writer has taken an established fantasy and added a twist of reality.
This show is narrated by a cat.
Recursion is a play that explores a plethora of different and fascinating themes, tapping into some intriguing sections of psychology in the process; a man who has lost his memory …
The infectious enthusiasm of this comedy duo is apparent from the off, their chaotic get-in generating a fair few belly-laughs.
In the beautiful St Mark’s ArtSpace, Arash Bazrafshan improvises pieces of piano music inspired by a set of four pieces of art provided by his sister, Roza, which sit next to the…
Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.
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…
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
A boy finds a balloon on the streets of Paris.
A recreation, by David Benson, of scenes from Kenneth Williams life, together with episodes from his own childhood.
If one ignores the grating scene-change muzak, this was a rather good production – four short comic plays from David Ives’ All In The Timing, plus another from Mere Mortals.
‘Shelf Life’ is an interactive, site-specific piece which makes use of the labyrinths of the old BBC Radio London studios in Marylebone.
The Ugly Sisters should not work.
At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain.
Take six social misfits with relationship worries, throw them into group therapy, and then you have the basis for Conor Mitchell’s brilliant musical Have A Nice Life.
Do you ever wonder what lies beneath the red nose and big shoes? All an Act gives the audience a peek behind the scenes of the circus to see the people behind the make-up, because …
Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title.
At the beginning of this tour we’re on Lothian Street and Cuth when our guide boldly informs us that we are on Lothian Road.
Graham Whistler’s show from last year’s Fringe returns, again mainly focusing on his cerebral palsy.
Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play.
I got pulled into this pure wee gem of a show at almost the last minute.
What seemed to be an amateur dance troupe clad in black soon became a moving sculpture of body art, with hands morphing into waves, words, trains, cars and faces - all timed precis…
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
‘Do you like bubbles?’ asks Louis Pearl of the audience, which was mainly comprised of families with small children.
Heres a trade secret for you, readers at home: reviewing comedy is the hardest part of this job.
It can be difficult, in a festival crammed with a cappella acts, to tell the talented from the dross.
Edoardo Okamoto has played this piece for seven years now and it has become part of his identity.
The Unexpected Items come with great credentials: they are the team responsible for the famous ‘Gap Yah’ videos on YouTube and have a poster covered in recent reviews decrying …
It is incredible how the Internet can expose and produce brand new superstars.
Dancing Brick are a company that have done well at the Fringe over the years.
Coming under a banner of ‘edutainment’ (please remember to shoot whoever came up with that), John and Dan are a pair of real, genuine scientists from London’s Science Museum, who a…
If you saw Stephen Frears movie My Beautiful Launderette, made way back in the mercifully distant days of Thatcherite Britain, or even if youre too young to remember it (like m…
There is something vaguely terrifying about Charlie Chuck, real name David Kear.
Stephen Schwartz, long before he became famous for Wicked, collaborated with fellow student John-Michael Tebelak to create a highly experimental show that combined the parables of …
The show begins in a Greek restaurant.
Audience’s experienced what an acid trip in the middle of the afternoon must feel like with Croydon’s number one electro-comedy duo Eccentronic.
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…
George’s Marvellous Medicine had the children in the audience bemused at some points and enthralled at others.
In this UK premiere of Streetlife, French choreographer Lorca Renoux works with an eclectic ensemble of dancers representing the various hip hop dance styles in Germany today.
Sarah Hamilton relates a story drawn from the annals of her family history.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
In these increasingly cash-strapped times putting on any musical on the Fringe is worthy of praise, even if — with a cast of six accompanied by electric piano and drums — the d…
Its a perennial problem in plays where the actors are continually taking their clothes off: how do they get them back on, or off the stage cleanly between scenes? Theres a lot …
The Big Project’s children’s choir returns for its third year at the Fringe, and if you’ve got children who love nothing more than to sing-a-long to chart toppers this is the…
Above all else, Charlie Pickering is an engaging storyteller - even if that contradicts the premise of his Edinburgh show, in which he struggles to write his autobiography.
A sizeable crowd took the brave decision to bring their 6-year-olds to the Gilded Balloon for an hour of bum jokes on Sunday morning.
Theyre sold out until the end of time (well, the end of the run anyway) so its pretty academic if I say that this is the funniest, silliest, campest, rudest, coarsest, most pre…
It is rare that, as a reviewer, to see a show that struggles even to reach the praise of a single star.
I was just about getting weary of anything with The Musical after it when I went in to see this show by StoppedClock.
This is not a prospect faced with every day: a musical journey through the history of the Papacy.
Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.
Paper Monkeys are a group of four young actors performing a hilarious tea-time sketch show.
Take a liberal helping of Ayckbourn, add a sprinkling of Sondheimesque songs, stir well with a cupful of Joe Orton, and what do you get? A unique show which pulls the rug from unde…
It is either brave or it is foolish to attempt to put on such a well-worn classic as Dracula in pursuit of success at the Fringe.
This is a new, all-male company making its first visit to the Fringe.
I’m a newcomer to the Frisky and Mannish experience a fresher, as they address me at one point I came into this show lacking any point of comparison with last year’s smash hi…
If reindeer could really speak, what awful tales would we hear? My hackles rose in the lobby when I was confronted with early November shiny baubles and other such Christmas frippe…
Reprising their 2007 Fringe First show, Hangman, influential dance-theatre company Do-Theatre, part of Assembly’s Russian Season, must be confident of similar success five years …
Oleanna is David Mamets unflinching and controversial portrayal of power relations as viewed through the prism of a potentially fraudulent allegation of sexual harassment.
W.
This production began with a cute song that went on for a little too long with an inartistic, uninteresting cartoon world displayed on a huge screen at the back of the stage.
In these financially straitened times, Pappys are no longer a Fun Club this year they are All Business, and the show takes the form of a corporate pitch to us, the shareholder…
The Portobello Youth Theatre is made up of schoolchildren aged 8-13 and it’s great that a youth theatre is allowed the chance to get Fringe theatre experience.
Josie Long, arguably the highest profile comic on this year’s Free Fringe, and newcomer Sam Schäfer are an odd pairing.
Hurt, the theatrical offering from Aztikeria Teatro feels a little all over the place.
‘Sorry I dropped the knives a couple of times,’ Perico Circus Express winces.
I used to know a guy with a small penis.
At the start of this amateurish pub stand-up set, we are told the reasoning behind its name.
Sticking with the name that they have made famous over the last 20 years but going for what they described as ‘more casual’ jeans and shirt attire, The Pajama Men’s Improv Sh…
Even by the standards of the Fringe, the Zoo has long since been established for pushing the boundaries of modern theatre and displaying provocative, no-holds-barred action in thei…
In a squat in Edinburgh in the midst of the riots, Miles and Kristy have set up their own little home of pillaged potpourri and Wetherspoons sauce sachets.
Mervyn looks back on two decades of performing at the Fringe in this one-man-and-his-guitar show, playing some of his favourite comic songs from previous years, mulling over change…
A two man show by charismatic performers Aideen Wylde and Tadhg Hickey promises fast paced farce within the context of an 1870’s period setting, interestingly established at the …
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
Lee Ridley, aka Lost Voice Guy, has cerebral palsy, and as such has been asked questions ranging from the ridiculous to the downright offensive.
Tickets to see Scottish-grown chamber orchestra Ludus Baroque at Canongate Kirk are now bought by many as a matter of ritual, so strong is the group’s popularity and reputation f…
It takes a lot of courage to put on a tribute composed entirely of musical numbers from shows which flopped.
Mod Girl tells the story of a young prostitute’s evening with an older and, as it turns out, psychopathic man.
From the start Richard Purnell (the short one) and Gary From Leeds (the horribly tall one) insist that their teaming up as ‘360 degree poetry consultants’ is not a gimmick.
Three sisters sit in a shop dressing room trying to find the perfect dress.
You can almost smell the testosterone coming off the stage in this raunchy and sexy play, an all-male take on Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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…
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
Ill admit that a cappella isnt usually a genre that fills me with ebullience.
With its poetic language and truthful performances, Night Time is one of the most professionally done Fringe shows I’ve seen in some time.
It takes some pluck to produce, write, direct and star in your own play.
One of the top stand-ups at the Fringe, Stephen K Amos crafts a fine hour of comedy based on some deep self-contemplation.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
I don’t think that political soapboxing should ordinarily have a place in comedy.
After about ten minutes where I was convinced I was in the wrong place and the wrong time, I stumbled onto the top deck of the Comedy Bus in The Free Sisters’ courtyard for some …
As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.
The first thing that was instantly noticeable about this ensemble was its intelligent manipulation of the acoustics of the St Mary’s Cathedral to create appropriate sounds for th…
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
Updating Shakespeare into modern dress may be de rigeur, but it takes a lot of nerve to do the same with restoration comedy, much of the appeal of which for modern audiences - and …
Cancer Time is a special piece of theatre.
With stand up variety shows the aim is always to showcase a variation of comedic talent in order to provide ‘something for everyone’.
Before the acts even take to the stage the atmosphere anticipating Battle Acts! Present is electric.
There once was a skinny redhead who wanted to sing in Les Miserables.
Elephant Man was born in Benoit Hattet’s mind some 25 years ago and his devotion to the project - he is the writer, director, designer and actor - is clear in every aspect of thi…
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.
Belfast company At Large Theatre’s new production is good fun at times but it’s unclear - I think even to the actors - who it’s for and why they are performing it.
Piazzolla Late proved to be a charming evening of classical music performed by two rising stars of the classical music scene.
Colin Mars put on a brave face for a disappointing turnout.
What did Lloyd Langford want for his birthday? Who knows.
Longley quickly explains the plan for his show, that he calls A Joke is Just A Joke.
Jacob Banigan is a Canadian who works with Theater Im Bahnhof and English Lovers in Austria, but on the Park Theatre stage Banigan performed his one man show Game of Death.
A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism.
The story of Helena and her faithless husband, Bertram, has puzzled theatregoers for centuries.
Narrator Avis Sherman (Michael Legge) introduces the plan twelve twisted tales.
This is Glasgow-based pianist Sebastian Thirlway’s third Fringe appearance and he clearly enjoys being here.
Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble…
The shows title gives little away, so when an electronic voice counts up the percentage complete, this looks likely to go geeky.
The Factory Theatre presented The Odyssey as part of the London Jam at the Park Theatre.
Fandom turns dark in this comic tale of a pop idol, his fervent fans, and the quest for survival.
This week Park Theatre in Finsbury is hosting The London Jam, a festival celebrating improvisation talent.
Hamlet is such a murky, obstinate text that so refuses definitive interpretation that a point is sometimes made that Shakespeare probably created a play greater than himself.
The name alone conjures up nostalgia, decadence, style and class and this show delivers.
When history looks back at the greatness of famous Tims, it will not be particularly favourable.
Josie Longs effervescent cheeriness and excitement at all this world has to offer turns geeky, untouched topics in comedy goldmines.
Many comics wouldnt risk starting a show chatting about their hernia, but Tonkinson quickly gets up close and personal with his audience and their experiences.
What would happen if the beloved characters of Neverland - Wendy, Tinkerbell, the Lost Boys and Peter Pan - had grown-up and confronted the horrors of World War I? This is the ques…
Starting with a song, Felix Dexter quickly moved onto gags, explaining the slightly racially dramatic title, and covering issues of black stereotypes.
A concert in a modest and handsome Unitarian church situated underneath the castle sounds like a perfect way to spend lunchtime.
David ODoherty has been going from strength to strength since winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2008, and this show is a total delight.
Time/Dropper, choreographed and performed by Jose Agudo, is a raw, visceral and masculine performance evoking a sense of distorted tension.
The history of Edinburgh opens up so many opportunities for brilliant site specific work, which is rarely properly realised.
A new play written by Lou May Miller, a modern take on Pedo Calderon’s ‘Life Is A Dream’ ,finds an early grave in this debut performance by Kudos.
Imagine you have a five-year-old child.
We were repeatedly warned, by the man himself, that Sarfraz Manzoor is not, nor will he ever be, a comedian.
There are some shows where you have to wonder ‘what is this person doing here, and more importantly why?’ Simon Lilley and Asli Akby have entered this show in the Fringe, payin…
Mark Thomas’ new show is certainly a departure from his usual lambasting of politicians and furious campaigning.
Josie Long’s latest solo show at this year’s Fringe is optimistically titled Romance and Adventure.
I hated history lessons at school - all those dates and names of Kings and Queens, so long ago that they seemed totally irrelevant.
Grit tells the tale of Amy, a girl whose father has recently died in the Middle-East whilst photographing the conflicts.
Veterans of the French theatre scene, Vincent Courtois and Pierre Baux, are two rather extraordinary performers and I would thoroughly recommend that everybody watch this show.
The Life Doctor’s vital signs are all there: lights, music, movement and a very talented cast.
Hinge Theatre’s Dorian is a stage adaptation of Will Self’s novel Dorian, itself an adaptation of the Oscar Wilde original, The Picture Of Dorian Gray.
Fans of Would I Lie To You? will need no prompting to visit this ingenious variation on the theme of Spot the Porker, in which four storytellers by turns deliver 10-15 minute solo …
Stand & Stare Theatre Company create immersive theatre, which is like gold dust for me at the Fringe.
As I took my seat to watch The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, I wondered if the performance could be quite as amusing as its title, and I was not disappointed.
This debut show from Danny Buckler is a resounding success.
If you revel in the musicality of the 1930s, take pleasure in performance poetry or wish to be swept away with some old world charm, then push the boat out and go see this show.
This is improvisation at it’s best.
The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance.
Performed in the Pleasance Undergrand, 30 Birds multimedia production is undeniably aesthetically pleasing.
This was the last of the Dance Base medley of choreographers that I caught and, by far, the most exhilarating.
Having premiered in Edinburgh in 1988, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howards humorously disturbing portrayal of small town America returns for its 20th anniversary.
Show 1 of Dance Bases 2006 Fringe performances consists of four separate pieces by Iskandar Dance Company, Karl Jay-Lewin Company, Michael Popper and the Curve Foundation respect…
Jane Bom-Bane’s house/cafe/art gallery is a legendary Brighton hangout for anyone with an interest in the different.
Chris Dugdale is an instantly likeable magician.
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
While undoubtedly a good show by anyone’s standards - apart from someone who doesn’t like American men with high, nasal voices reading comic but ultimately touching stories, presum…
Atmospheric is the word for this production.
Dance Base presents three different pieces by three very different companies.
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
Turnpike, three-sixty, tailwhip and wall ride: these are just a few of the words that entered my vocabulary in the hour I spent watching ten talented Edinburgh yout…
Joseph Moncure Marchs poem, The Wild Party, has been the inspiration for everything from films to plays.
At theatre festivals there are often two types of show; dark and serious theatre that achieves acclaim, and theatre that acts as the tonic.
When a group bills themselves as the self-proclaimed greatest improv comedy team in America, you have to question why they can find nobody to quote but themselves.
If the world was ending in an hour’s time, what would you do? This is the central premise of this new play as two teenage boys sit and talk about everything and nothing while the l…
After a successful run at the National Student Drama Festival 2008 and working in conjunction with the Donmar Warehouse, Nottingham New Theatre present a new play by Anthony Lau th…
Andrew Dallmeyers Fringe First Award-winning exploration into the mind of the Surrealist genius, Salvador Dali, shocks, seduces and, most of all, utterly amuses.
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
Phill Jupitus asked us here to ask him questions.
This charming play, devised by New Yorks Messenger Theatre Company, is a classic tale of courage, masculinity and valour, but theres one difference: the hero is late.
In a tiny venue, with an even smaller audience Off the Cuff was faced with a difficult challenge for their late night improvised comedy act.
Marking the closing weekend of the Edinburgh Fringe, the legendary Kölsch is bringing his fresh new international party, IPSO, to the capital for one night only.
BBC New Comedy Award winner and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s brand-new comedy series, Ability, has unwittingly become an unintentional porn star because of the inspirational me…
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The world-famous Hip Hop Time Machine lands in Edinburgh for a special one-off Fringe show! Prepare to be transported in a complete audio/visual, interactive journey through the gr…
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Edinburgh’s Old Town breathes history, sometimes with a roar, and sometimes with a whisper.
JARV is an experiment JARV is a night to remember JARV is a live experience with no barriers JARV is .
Celia Pacquola returns to the Adelaide Fringe Festival with a brand new show.
Rave reviews and SOUL OUT performances of “The Motown Story” Motown Connection are back to present BOOGIE ON DOWN TO SOUL TRAIN 70s/80s Dance Floor Anthems with their 12 Powerhou…
Before bringing a show about gifts called 'My Gift To You' to the Edinburgh Fringe, award winner, host of Comedy Bandits and a Guardian recommended podcast, Alfie Packham talks to...
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Part animation, part-visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, Everything That’s Me is Falling Apart promises to be a unique comedy show at Edinburgh this year.
James Macfarlane chats with the one and only Paul Merton about 20 years of Impro Chums, how to succeed in improvisational comedy and some of his favourite on-stage moments.
Four women.
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
We take a look at the intriguing and slightly macabre story of Wendy Weiner's Mystery House at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Our Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, talks to Dennis Elkins about his life and Trilogy at the Edinburgh Fringe.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
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.
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
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.
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.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Ever since their debut in 2015 with Weekend Rockstars Middle Child Theatre have been rewriting what musical theatre can be with their distinctive gig-theatre genre.
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
The second Bobby of EdFringe 2017 has been scooped by Middle Child for All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.
Betrayal, money, power, politics and love.
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.
Modern Life Is Rubbish is romantic comedy about a couple whose love of music brings them together as well as revealing their differences.
When it was first staged in 2012, Phyllida Lloyd’s prison-set Julius Caesar was called “gimmicky, humourless and slow” by the Telegraph and “witty, liberating and inventive...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
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...
Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, sports presenter Ore Oduba and actress Lesley Joseph are the latest celebrities announced to appear on the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour, wh...
At the largest arts festival in the world, it's easy to forget that theatre wasn't always welcome in Britain.
A capella is something of a phenomenon at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Attila the Stockbroker began performing poetry in the 1980s, and since then has toured the world.
One Day Moko is a devised solo show following the life of a homeless busker and the characters he meets in his daily life.
In 2012, Harry Baker became the youngest ever World Poetry Slam Champion.
What do you do if you have to have a circumcision at age 27? Well if you’re Dave Chawner, you write an Edinburgh show about it.
Duncan Paveling makes his feature screenwriting debut with My Feral Heart, a portrait of Luke (Steven Brandon), a man with Down’s syndrome who has been the sole carer for his eld...
The Sex Workers' Opera rehearses on the third floor of Theatre Delicatessen, a multi-level studio space and gutted workplace that used to serve as an office-complex for The Guardia...
Our panel of judges were unanimous in voting Captain Morgan as the winner of the 2015 Broadway Baby Bobby award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
If the new i360 on Brighton seafront has inspired you to raise your gaze or you’re suddenly feeling the need to quit your job and run away with the circus, then it's time to ch...
Dan Haynes & Pete Richards boast consecutive EdFringe sellouts with Simon & Garfunkel: Through The Years! We get to know Pete a little better...
Broadway Baby has a little chat with sultry songstress Cat Loud, who is bringing Cat Loud's Wayward Girls to Edinburgh '16 alongside The Bluewater.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Rona Munro is an award-winning Scottish writer for theatre, television and radio.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry.
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Deputy Features Editor Grace Knight interviews two artists from opposite ends of the Jane Austen-adaptation spectrum.
In their companion piece to 2013’s Fringe First Award-winning Dark Vanilla Jungle, writer Philip Ridley and director David Mercatali tell the story of Donny, a boy who has commit...
Brigitte Aphrodite describes herself as a punk pop poet showgirl who was on the 2009 shortlist for the Musical Comedy awards - but she’s almost impossible to categorise.
Sophia Walker posted a message to Facebook as encouragement to her fellow Fringe performers. We liked it, and with her permission are re-publishing it here.
Based on the the poem by Milton of the same name, Paradise: Lost is a sinister thriller exploring the fall of Man and the origin of original sin. Broadway Baby investigates.
All's Well That Ends Well shows strong women winning the battle of the sexes set against the backdrop of World War II.
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...
Six months after his first poetry collection is published, world slam champion Harry Baker is heading to the Fringe with Harry Baker - The Sunshine Kid.
BBC Slam champion David Lee Morgan is Building God at the Banshee Labyrinth this Fringe with a show about the great revolutions of history.
Focus people! David Mills returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with brand new, razor sharp rants delivered with his signature cocktail swagger and his biting, acerbic wit.
Real Life Becomes a Rumour asks what three people have really done in their lives. We investigate.
LOST & Found: A Musical Revue at LOST Theatre promises to be a one-night-only mash up of gender stereotypes in musical theatre.
Have a thing for iambic pentameter and ghosts of politician's past? Then this might be the show for you! Broadway Baby finds out more.
Meet The Captain! A vaudevillian space detective! Broadway Baby asks why.
Rob Grace and BB are having a little chinwag about Life Jim (But not as we know it), a comedy sketch show incorporating pre-filmed tidbits.
Comedian David O'Doherty will host a one-off gig tomorrow to pay the temporary theatre license fee for his friend’s site-specific comedy horror show in a six-seater caravan.
Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio...
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