What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Completing the Trilogy that begun with Genius 2.
Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Direct from Broadway!Starring Mary Bridget Davies as Janis, this multi award-winning show is an extraordinary musical journey paying homage to Janis Joplin and her biggest musical …
One night in an old museum, an employee tragically committed suicide for reasons unknown, an event witnessed by three colleagues.
In 2018, Simon’s father performed a play about his imminent death to cancer and, to Simon’s horror, it was quite good.
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
Exeter University’s Spotlights show choir are returning to Edinburgh Fringe for another musical extravaganza filled with beautiful harmonies, captivating dance and a brilliant li…
In this summer, a story shall journey from China to the UK, from East to West.
Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the…
Recent drawings and paintings on show by Edinburgh artist Ginny Elston.
Join Delhi maestro Manmohan Dogra for a journey through soulful Hindustani classical music, featuring vocal ragas and a tabla solo in Banares style.
Simon Leach will perform the First Partita and English Suite, composed by J S Bach, for solo harpsichord. Simon will perform on a 1973 Michael Johnson harpsichord.
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
An hour of mind-bending semi-improvised physically inflected comedy from dancer/comedian Lewys Holt.
‘If music be the food of love, play on.
Tellus Theatre presents Night Train, an exciting physical-theatre production.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
It’s a one-night stand for the Fannies’ ‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
In their Fringe debut, the UK’s No.
Big beats and stand-up comedy join forces for Fringe afterparty antics.
Joined by two musicians and two dancers, Brazilian singer/songwriter Giulia Drummond takes us through a ritualistic performance exploring the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot.
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…
Join the greatest comedians from across the globe as they blur the line between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set, prompted by genuine artefacts housed in the Nat…
Edinburgh Youth Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s most performed play is a unique take on a story you know well.
Blowing Through the Ages is a triumphant, engaging ramble across 500 years of music from virtuoso musicians John Sampson, playing a range of period instruments including crumhorn, …
Soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn and pianist Simon Lepper delve into the colourful world and emotive landscapes of the late Romantic era.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Kick off your International Festival in style with Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and handpicked music icons.
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…
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…
Ancient coins are rare, historical, often beautiful and sometimes funny.
Politics? Satirical musical comedy; jubilant, miserable, deadpan existentialism, desperately trying to balance the pointless and immediate.
His crowdwork videos have consistently gone viral all over social media (@PhilipsComedy) so join this award-winning MC and comedian for a hilarious mix of brand-new jokes and witty…
Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz.
Sold-out run: Edinburgh Fringe (2017-2023).
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…
Terry Wogan is back from the dead as part of his ongoing attempts to return to light entertainment no matter the cost.
Join the guys for a visual feast and hilarious tales of touring Scotland to shoot this year’s topless calendar.
Returning to Edinburgh for the third year in a row! Liars and Clowns is a jam session for comedians, with a revolving door showcasing the best alternative comedy from around the fe…
Join team captains Aaron Wood and Hannah Campbell as they pit top comedians against each other through a variety of games chosen by you! Expect stand-up, absurd challenges and a wh…
1572.
Alfred North Whitehead characterised the European philosophical tradition as ‘a series of footnotes to Plato’.
On an endless summer night, love’s joys and complications play out in triple-time.
Adele’s mad journey into comedy started because her kids bought her a comedy course for her birthday.
PEOPLE OF EDINBURGH, prepare to cry so hard you accidentally laugh! Feast on a buffet of hardship and despair, where COMEDIANS lay down their jokes, don the fashion of 18th-century…
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
A stunning mixed-bill of new and established acts.
Simon shares his new stand-up hour.
A lifetime being a professional f*cking lunatic that enjoys swearing in front of people.
Prepare to have your minds blown in this late-night line-up of the best magic, comedy and variety the Fringe has to offer! Late Night Magic brings you a brand-new cast of magicians…
‘A fierce 70 minutes of music and protest’ (Scotsman).
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Paradise Palms’ infamous late-night cabaret returns for its 10th year at the Fringe! An intoxicating blend of crushed red velvet, cuddly toys, neon, strong cocktails and loveable r…
Comedian/actor Terry O’Neill returns to the Fringe following his wildly successful debut show last year, to explore a passion we all share – movies! Take a hilarious dive into ci…
The longest-running burlesque show at Fringe returns for a tenth dazzling edition.
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
The Late Night Party Boyz, have messed up.
As a teacher, if you don’t laugh you’ll cry, so come and cry with laughter! Award-winning comedian Daniel Delby, an ex-teacher turned full-time comedian as he shares hilarious stor…
Scottish Highland and Island musical traditions collide with brand-new compositions by folk band Breabach.
A comedy show that is perfect for date night with friends or partners.
One-of-a-kind interactive comedy show featuring Australia’s most eligible bachelor Daniel Delby who had his first girlfriend at 33.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
We all know the fairy tales and their immortal final line: happily ever after… But that isn’t real life.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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 …
The spectre returns to the feast for a fresh new hour of wailing and moaning.
Stamptown presents Stamptown Comedy Night Sold Out Run: Soho Theatre (2021-2024) Sold Out Run: Edinburgh Fringe (2017-2023) A raunchy, chaotic, full-on fe…
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In the lead up to Refugee Week, Refugee Action are bringing together some of the UK’s top comics for an evening of stand-up comedy, raising money to support the im…
In 1994, Vladimir McTavish won the Strathmore Water Comedy Award on his first appearance at the Edinburgh Edinburgh.
Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th.
PEOPLE OF BRIGHTON, prepare to cry so hard you accidentally laugh! Feast on a buffet of hardship and despair, where COMEDIANS lay down their jokes, don the fashion of 18th century …
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and tea…
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…
After sell out sessions in March and April, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr…
Tides.
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality.
Step into a world of enchantment and rhythm with "Night at the Harem" – an exquisite bellydance extravaganza show! Immerse yourself in the allure o…
Award-winning Irish comedians, Marty Gleeson and Roger O’ Sullivan (BBC New Comedy Awards nominees, Leicester Square New Comedian Finalist & Unexplained Legends Podcast) invite you…
London stabbings 2017.
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
Lukey Newms presents a New Talent Night, headlined by one of the hottest talents on the circuit, Onojie Idemudia.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public.
The Christmas story, Broadway-style.
You don’t get many second chances in life.
A queer retelling of A Midsummers Night’s Dream set in the 1970’s is set to hit the Debating Chamber on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May.
‘What country, friends, is this?’ At a moonlit cafe surrounded by the sea, Olivia sings a lament to her lost brother, watched on by faded crowd.
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Standing ovations, once reserved to acknowledge only the highest calibre of performance, are now part of the theatre routine.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
A fundraising night of theatre, music, comedy and celebration for our great pal Michael Patrick.
Award-winning Flabbergast Theatre bring a rambunctious approach to Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, an exhilarating and hilarious show in which Goblins run amok, the King and Que…
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In the same way that, for many, Destiny’s Child is Beyonce, the Brontë Sisters is (are?) Charlotte (Jane Eyre).
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the …
‘One of the all time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) performs a truly unique stand-up show.
‘One of the all time great British stand-ups’ (Stewart Lee) performs a truly unique stand-up show.
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.
The incomparable Sheridan Smith returns to musical theatre in the world premiere of Opening Night from the creative minds of Rufus Wainwright, one of the most acclaimed songwriters…
Simon Munnery performs a truly unique stand-up show.
Simon Munnery performs a truly unique stand-up show.
The Lost Bride A journey through heartbreak and grief.
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
As a title, there’s something intriguing about Dear Octopus, now playing the National Theatre’s Lyttelton stage.
Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …
It’s taken a hell of a time to get here, but finally, Hell has arrived in London’s West End.
It’s rare to see an original musical open in the West End.
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Has the National Theatre put the Lyttelton on Airbnb? In October, we had the city-break-length two-week run of Alexander Zeldin’s The Confessions (quite long enough, in my opinio…
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
For too long the supporting characters of Star Wars have been overshadowed by the popularity of the beloved heroes.
Looking out at you from the poster for the National Theatre’s latest version of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Harriet Walter cuts an imperious figure.
Now in its 14th year.
The human brain doesn’t allow us to remember pain.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
21st Century Cox brings you a Night of Cosmic Comedy! Once again, the land of Monstopia is under threat, and it’s up to Monster Enthusiast Osric Omand and his ex-Nazi caretaker Ha…
Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G…
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…
Sam Tallent (“the absurd voice of a surreal generation”- The Denver Post) is a comedian, novelist and host of the Chubby Behemoth Podcast.
A story of the people who work while the majority sleep.
A fatal car crash, generational genocide, and child mortality.
Redbridge Creates’ Shakespeare production this year is Twelfth Night, brought to you by the same team who produced Macbeth and last year’s Romeo and Juliet, using the same imagin…
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…
Written and directed by “l’auteur du naturalisme”, Alexander Zeldin, The Confessions feels like a too-small show on a too-big stage.
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
Natasha Rea fearlessly smashes down barriers and raises awareness of bipolar disorder in this captivating one-woman show, based on the critically acclaimed Amazon bestseller “Me,…
Direct from the West End, and the iconic London Palladium, Whitney – Queen of the Night is a celebration of the music and life of one of the greatest singers of all time: Whi…
Join the HandleBards at the Actors Church for a hilarious, high-octane production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
Charismatic Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel takes to the podium for an odyssey through his country’s folk roots, followed by Mahler’s spectacular First Symphony.
An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival.
Four of the West End’s leading names join the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in Battersea Park for an evening of showtunes like no other.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony brings together intense drama and captivating lyricism in its joyful musical celebration of friendship and solidarity.
Listen to iconic recorded pieces from the orchestra’s journey through Venezuela’s social action music programme, El Sistema.
Grab your dancing shoes ‘cos the 20s are here to stay! Swing classics and Prohibition-era hits from some of the finest talents in the country.
Salvation Army artists from across the UK explore what it is to be creative in expressing their Christian faith.
Is Exeter University emerging as the new powerhouse in student musical groups on the Edinburgh Fringe? Let’s not complicate this - the answer is simply but emphatically Yes.
Exceptional young musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela come together for a chamber concert in the relaxed setting of The Hub.
Where would school theatre be without A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night? The latter is certainly a popular Shakespeare play for drama educators, with its saga of shipwr…
A captivating one-woman show, based on the critically acclaimed Amazon bestseller Me, Myself and Bipolar Brenda.
Raucous, wild and an incy bit different – this one-hour compilation show with a changing nightly lineup, gives you a fabulous cross section of Fringe mayhem in one wild bite-size…
Join The HandleBards for their cycle-powered, four-hander, high-octane version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy.
Orange Claw Hammer take the music of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band and bend it into shape for the 21st century.
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…
‘Who do you think is a better drinker, the Chinese god or the foreign god?’ ‘Do gods talk about fatalism even when they drink too much?’ Combining installation art, theatre, photog…
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
Let’s get 100 people in a room for a quiz night like no other.
‘Who do you think is a better drinker, the Chinese god or the foreign god?’ ‘Do gods talk about fatalism even when they drink too much?’ Combining installation art, theatre, photog…
The music of Simon Bradley is infused by his Donegal roots, the vibrant music scene of 1990s Edinburgh and a career playing fiddle with Asturian stalwarts Llan De Cubel.
A Night of the Mind – Fraser Penman, the world’s most unique hypnotist, is an international stage hypnotist and mentalist.
A laugh-out-loud, immersive, comedic, heartfelt tribute to Hollywood’s most iconic blonde bombshell.
‘Drop by drop we take the poison of men til we become immune.
Character comedian and stand-up Rhiannon Shaw (‘a cunning comic mind’ (Chortle.
The Night of the Musicals is a dazzlingly fun, exceptionally energetic hour of musical entertainment.
An hour of sharp-tongued humour, risqué songs and jaw-dropping physical feats.
Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro…
It’s a one night stand for the Fannies (‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
Chris Difford is the founding member of Squeeze, formed 50 years ago in South London.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
This evening’s performance will include an eclectic mix of solo and ensemble song and dance pieces from some of the West End’s best-loved musicals.
From his years as the visionary in Simon and Garfunkel through to his many solo hits, journey through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
The N205 arrives.
The N205 arrives.
Poppyscotland are proud to introduce to the Fringe an inspirational group of Armed Forces veterans.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In a thrilling, last-minute addition, Simon Amstell will return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in six years to perform a late-night show of new stand-up material for a …
Imaginary celebrity Vaginus Hemmingway invites you to stave off the humdrum horror of the ongoing apocalypse with an evening of elegant debauchery at the fabled Cabaret Rathole –…
Imaginary celebrity Vaginus Hemmingway invites you to stave off the humdrum horror of the ongoing apocalypse with an evening of elegant debauchery at the fabled Cabaret Rathole –…
The country’s best (not most popular) musical comedians present their greatest hits, from a decade of being wildly under appreciated.
2 nights of hilarious stand up comedy in aid of the Scottish Huntingtons Association, with excellent Scottish up and coming comedians at the ready to make you laugh whilst raising …
Dead of Night by Hurly Burly is a traipse through gothic romantic literature in an exploration of the nature of humanity and monsters.
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
Emptiness is a pure space between nothingness and existence.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Join Nicola Benedetti and artists from across the 2023 opening weekend for an evening of music celebrating community.
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Ancient coins are an amazing window into history – rare, valuable and often beautiful.
From the moment Zach Zucker's comedy alter ego Jack Tucker walks out on stage to introduce Stamptown, the audience knows they're in for something truly special.
Dara is not a ghost.
I’m more of a casual Eva fan.
For too long the supporting characters of Star Wars have been overshadowed by the popularity of the beloved heroes.
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.
Join Colin “WhiskyForager” every night for an extra-special flight of three fantastic single malts from his private reserve collection.
Everybody Sing are delighted to present a musical journey through the decades.
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.
A WIP comedy-cabaret show, tracking one woman’s life from the same night every year of her life, from childhood sleepovers to first sexual experiences and her changing relationship…
Liars & Clowns returns to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative comedians from around the festival.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
Our long-running weekly beginners’ showcase is considered one of the best open mics in the UK.
It’s time.
Forget rabbits out of hats.
Returning for its fourth year, Henry Ginsberg presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of the best stand-up comedy fro…
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
My oh my, you’re in for a treat with Giddy Aunt Improv! These young whippersnappers are putting on a show full of silly games, sketches, songs and more, all made up on the spot and…
In Greek mythology, the Muses were the daughters of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, by her nephew, Zeus.
Looking for dark and dirty jokes but want to go to bed early? Then look no further! Join Adam Riley for an hour of flaps-to-the-wall stand-up from the man they couldn’t cancel beca…
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.
Philipp Kostelecky brings the festival’s best acts together for a late-night extravaganza! No rules, no regulations – it’s late night so anything goes.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Paradise Palms’ infamous late-night cabaret returns with the usual intoxicated blend of raucous stage antics, cocktails and beautifully behaved rowdiness.
Using William Blake’s poem (B-side to the English national anthem) and The Fall’s take on it as a springboard, I endeavour to serve up satire, comedy and poetry with one eye on the…
Join that gorgeous stand-up Simon Jay with a brand-new hour of comedy.
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.
A ridiculous variety show featuring the visually absurd, the whimsically witty and the wildly beautiful.
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
So! Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab! Our infamous Rocky Horror themed nights are back at the world-famous Frankenstein! Give yourself over to absolute pleasure by j…
Simon Brodkin’s Xavier follows the rule that you should never judge a book by its cover.
Simon David brings Dead Dad Show to the Fringe this year and it is insane, an absolute piss-take, but also very emotional.
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
Since we were formed in 1983, we’ve believed in doing things differently.
Get ready to embark on a decadent journey through Scotland’s rich whisky heritage! After a three-year absence, our top-rated, Forbes-featured whisky tasting experience returns to T…
When Rufus Norris recently announced he was stepping down as director of the National Theatre, some struggled to summarise his legacy.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
“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…
Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy…
Bored of the same-old Summer Saturday nights? Fed up with listening to your neighbour’s kids screaming in the garden? Want to get away from the topless chanting lads who invade B…
After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show.
Eine Nacht im Weimar!Music, Tanzen und Kabbarett!Come and join us for the heady days of Berlin in the 1920’s.
About the show The world is dying.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers…
Continuing their residency at The Courtyard Theatre. Come and enjoy an evening of live performances. Monologues, Duologues, Music, Spoken Word/Poetry, Stand Up Comedy + more.
About the show Celebrate the opening of the 15th festival with an exhilarating night of music and dance including two special guest performances from companies AXIOM and…
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.
Your classic, uncensored, alcohol-fuelled noughties sitcom.
From The Lego Movie to Love Island, entertainment isn’t entertainment unless it’s ‘meta’.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Ne…
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Ne…
Fresh from his sold-out, critically-acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run and becoming the most-viewed British comedian of all time on TikTok, world-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creato…
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
A comedy about the passing of time.
A comedy about the passing of time.
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.
In 2018, Simon’s late father performed a one man show about his imminent death to cancer.
”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).
'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take …
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…
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…
Direct from a sell out worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives at The London Palladium! Using huge projection photos and …
“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…
Let Lilly Buchanan whisk you away for an evening of decorum and debauchery. A night of dancing and singing, and one or two risqué strip teases…
Let Lilly Buchanan whisk you away for an evening of decorum and debauchery. A night of dancing and singing, and one or two risqué strip teases…
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
Dragons Den meets Whose Line is it Anyway! We ask three stand-ups to give presentations on companies that we’ve made up that make products that don’t exist.
If the encore of a show entails audience members chucking white tennis socks at you, would you consider it a success? You might, if the tennis socks were props for an avalanche so …
The world is dying.
The world is dying.
The latest stand-up fledglings from Jill Edwards Stand-Up Comedy Course at Brighton’s Komedia take to the stage for their very first time in our electric atmosphere ‘New Act Nigh…
Brace yourself.
The Online Bicycle Museum has arranged for vintage bicycles, tricycles and pedal cars to be displayed at various locations around Brighton and Hove.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
Brace yourself.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee.
Celebrate the start of Brighton Fringe 2023 by joining us at the Caravanserai launch.
Celebrate the start of Brighton Fringe 2023 by joining us at the Caravanserai launch.
In 1964, acting legends Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton both wanted to “give their Hamlet”.
Join the revellers as mother nature envelops the Globe Theatre for Shakespeare’s deliciously disruptive and intoxicating comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c…
The National Theatre continues its support of new writing at the Dorfman with Dixon and Daughters: an emotional play dealing with the far-reaching effects of historic child abuse.
Dancing at Lughnasa is easily Brian Friel’s most widely known play thanks to the 1998 film version that starred Meryl Streep.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Comedy Bloomers returns in 2023 with a lovely lineup of comedy talents.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
This is the story of the greatest Black Briton to have ever been forgotten.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
“I’ve been mugged three times and arrested once.
You may assume a play with the title Romeo and Julie, that is billed as a “modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet”, would include elements recognisabl…
Unless it has the sophistication of a Sondheim, or the renown and heritage of a Rodgers and Hammerstein, it’s rare to see a musical on a National Theatre stage.
Bonjour, bitch! Gorgeous girlie and monolingual comedian Simon David (“A hoot” - The Guardian) hosts a joyful 5 hour, cabaret spectacular featuring the best burlesque, drag, D…
Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and…
Nocturne: A late night cabaret featuring the very best in entertainment from across the UK.
You don’t need to know the story of Phaedra to recognise its origins as Greek mythology.
An evening of live performances. Monologues, Duologues, Music, Spoken Word/Poetry, Stand Up Comedy + more.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
Come spend one special winters evening in East Londons favourite hole, The Glory.
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
Many years ago, I employed Fay Ripley to do a voiceover for a TV ad.
“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
When you’re a child, Christmas is all about that one big day.
Do you need to know a play before you see a play?The question came to mind at the opening of what we’re told is a “landmark production” of Othello, now playing at the Nationa…
Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl…
Off Broadway Comedy Club by Giggle GaggleThe Off Broadway Comedy Club is Brightons newest comedy night.
A moving piece of verbatim theatre about survivors of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum’s sound archive.Five extraordinary stories, five extraordinary voices
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 OF QUEEN Performed by GARY MULLEN AND THE WORKS In 2000, Gary Mullen won ITV’s “Stars In Their Eyes” Live Grand Final, with the larges…
Ed Night - who you might have seen seen on BBC Three, ITV2 and Comedy Central - will be bringing an hour of brand-new jokes along with ‘one of the country’s top new comedy acts’, T…
Come and join us for a special evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
If you have a spare hour, thirty quid, and can travel to London’s West End, I urge you to get a ticket for My Son’s a Queer (but what can you do?).
Have you ever sat opposite someone on a bus quietly, both on your phones, and not say a word? Perhaps you glance up for a second and smile at each other.
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…
Coming to Sadler’s Wells in September as part of its world tour, A Night At The Kabuki is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet to original recordings of songs by Queen.
Are dreams supposed to be ambitions we strive to realise? Or simply ideals meant to be unattainable, existing to help us get through our mundane everyday lives?This seems to be the…
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
It’s rare for a play’s allegory to be as widely known as its actual story.
Take a trip into one of Shakespeare’s classic comedies, in this version 12 actors will play over 20 roles. Set in a modern Britain, tackling love in many sources.
One voice.
Following on from the success of the first event, My Kind of Musical is back with more fat, more songs, more revenge, and more spiralling over whether or not you should feed the bi…
Building on his award-winning London debut, the new extended show Music of the Night is a feast for the eyes, ears and soul.
Join classical trio Oscen Ensemble as they explore works by female composers in their Song for the Forgotten Rose.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
This show presents a collective of exciting musical theatre numbers relating to the theme of being unapologetically you and making a lasting impact on the world around you.
One night.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
John and James’ Tantric Night Out is a conventionally attractive new comedy show from the people behind Final Cut and BIG SHOP.
The HandleBards are a cycling theatre company who pedal Shakespeare plays to outdoor venues all across the UK.
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.
Perrier Award-winning comedy legend Simon Fanshawe is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in decades with the live show based on his book, The Power Of Difference.
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
Join the greatest comedians from across the globe as they blur the line between arte-fact and arte-fiction in a wholly improvised set, prompted by genuine artefacts housed in the N…
Old Fruit Jar Productions are back with a fresh take on one of Shakespeare's classics! After a storm destroys all hope for a relaxing cruise across the ocean, Vi…
Follow our adventurous, modern-day Alice through the looking glass to a wonderful, upside-down world of kings, queens, knights and other strange and comical characters who challeng…
Algorithms are art.
The Bugle is a project supporting people affected by homelessness and its surrounding issues to express themselves in art and writing.
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
David and Emma arrive at work on Christmas Eve – the only two people in the office the morning after the Christmas party.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Cinema’s greatest hits performed by an award-winning a cappella group! From international competitions to sell-out shows, singing powerhouses Sweet Nothings have done it all.
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…
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
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…
When 18-year-old Eliza doesn’t come home one night, her family and friends are forced to confront their own issues and insecurities in an attempt to find out what has happened to…
The gals are back for one night only! Join The Fannies laughing at life from PMT to HRT, fuelled on G’n’T and B&H.
Based on a true story, Silent Night is set in an Anderson shelter on Christmas Eve in 1940.
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals …
Michael and Tony are in the “Waste Management Business”.
Michael and Tony are in the “Waste Management Business”.
What is it like to shop when disabled? Celebrating the diversity of disability and prioritising ability over disability, this exhibition explores disabled experiences in shops, pub…
Top Comedy Pick, NY Times (2022).
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Top academics, dangerous ideas and your host comedian Susan Morrison.
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club: a night-and-action radio.
Paradise Palms’ infamous buffet of raucous cabaret and queer performance alongside comedy, spoken word and the darn-right ridiculous.
Fade In: Heidi sits at her desk writing the blurb for this show.
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…
The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot…
I think I’ve fallen in love.
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…
Starring CJ de Mooi (Eggheads), Banana Crabtree Simon is an intimate and emotionally honest journey of one man’s struggle with early onset dementia.
Henry Ginsberg (FHM Stand-Up Hero, Reading Festival New Act Of The Year) presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of t…
Top academics, dangerous ideas and your host comedian Susan Morrison.
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic folk/blues songs and…
It’s time for us to play.
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
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…
Has it really been 10 years since Sheeps first performed in Edinburgh? No.
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…
‘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…
Paul Simon is a name that has cemented itself into the ‘hearts and bones’ of audiences all over the world.
Henry Ginsberg (FHM Stand-Up Hero, Reading Festival New Act Of The Year) presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of t…
Boy, you’re an alien.
Unfiltered compilation show, where the hecklers are being heckled.
Fringe veteran Simon Munnery once more brings his eclectic mix of props, jokes, sketches, songs, poetry, and storytelling to the stage of The Stand with Trials and Tribulations.
The Christmas story, Broadway-style.
After selling out at the Adelaide Fringe, Liars and Clowns comes to Edinburgh to showcase the best alternative, underground and weird acts from around the festival.
Do you ever lay down to sleep only to be visited by the dread of embarrassing memories and intrusive thoughts? This show is for you! Award-winning Irish comedian and star of mega-p…
All of Us is an attack on welfare state reform.
Who says poetry is box office poison? Fresh from wowing crowds opening for The Libertines and John Cooper Clarke, Luke Wright serves up banger after banger at the hottest late nigh…
World-famous prankster and Lee Nelson creator Simon Brodkin returns with a blistering new stand-up show ripping into his ADHD diagnosis, I’m A Celebrity rejection, barmitzvah humil…
It’s the late night comedy gameshow that put’s the ‘dick’ in dictionary.
Camden Fringe presents SongTeller - A one off, immersive celebration of the finest emerging LGBTQ+ songwriters London has to offer.
Camden Fringe presents SongTeller - A one off, immersive celebration of the finest emerging LGBTQ+ songwriters London has to offer.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
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.
"What happens when you combine holy water and squash? Capers," Jonathan Sayer promises us during Mischief Comedy's Mischief Movie Night.
Nana Rabbit’s Cake-off! Join Nana Rabbit and her friends as they re-enact her most famous adventure yet; The Quest for the Whisk of Destiny! Nana, who was once named ‘The Greatest…
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
As Shirley and Dwight bury their mother, they remember their upbringing in 1980s Chapeltown, Leeds differently.
Experience Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy in the heart of Covent Garden with the award-winning Iris Theatre.
One of the stars of season 2 and 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, Veronica Green is coming to the Maddermarket Theatre in Norwich, presented by Something Fab Productions.
“THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
Night of 1000 proudly present: Night of 1000 Queens! A truly regal clubbing spectacular, hosting tribute to pop royalty.
Night of 1000 proudly present: Night of 1000 Queens! You are cordially invited to a truly regal clubbing spectacular as Night Of 1000 hosts tribute to pop royalty.
Liverpool Fringe’s Best Original Play 2021.
Liverpool Fringe’s Best Original Play 2021.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Simon Hall brings his manic energy and style to Brighton Fringe in his new show Simon Hall is Completely Fine.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Everything begins with movement.
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
Everything begins with movement.
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m…
When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto…
Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto…
Water has many practical and symbolic meanings, across cultures, geographies and identities.
Water has many practical and symbolic meanings, across cultures, geographies and identities.
Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase.
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase.
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
BARBARA BROWNSKIRT’S BIG NIGHT OUT.
The latest stand-up fledglings from Jill Edwards Stand-Up Comedy Course at Brighton’s Komedia take to the stage for their very first time in our electric atmosphere ‘New Act Nigh…
We’ve all had rough nights, but this one is one of the roughest.
Still recovering from the weekend? As usual, you get online and start flicking through social media to see what have your friends been up to.
Join The Lion and Lobster & Mic Records as we celebrate live music with our Open Mic Night event - Fringe Edition.
Join The Lion and Lobster & Mic Records as we celebrate live music with our Open Mic Night event - Fringe Edition.
In 2017, David Eldridge’s play Beginning dramatised an awkward conversation between two white, financially comfortable, urban-dwelling, adult Gen X-ers, caught in that time of em…
As a title, The Corn is Green proves the old adage about books, covers and the perils of judging thereof.
Dust-sheets cover what little furniture there is in the expansive room of Dr Felix Kersten (Michael Lumsden), trusted personal physiotherapist to Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler (Ri…
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…
Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring.
Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring.
You wait ages for one Hamlet to come along.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Meet Dolly: a 20-something Londoner with one hell of a temper.
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
World-famous prankster and creator of the hugely popular Lee Nelson, is back on stage with TROUBLEMAKER, his sensational new stand-up show.
A powerful new play about womanhood, blackness and healing by award-winner writer and performer Julene Robinson (The Witcher, Netflix; Get up, Stand Up!, London West End).
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 …
Friday March 4th from 8pmGARAGE, HAPPY HARDCORE, DRUM & BASSDRESS CODE - BUCKET HATS, SHELL SUITS & 90/00S CLUBWEARFREE ENTRY AND GLOWSTICKSBRING A JAM SANDWICHPurchase VIP…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
The Documentary No One Asked ForThis absurdly hilarious radio play follows the investigations of a disgraced RTE journalist who has travelled to a strange island off the…
The classic movie from the 1970’s involving John Travolta donning a white suit to wow audience members as he dances the funky chicken to the iconic Bee Gees soundtrack has now Broo…
Calling all Rebel Girls and VioletsOn Friday 4th February 2022, XS POP will be tearing up Aatma in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter, to celebrate all of the best women wh…
Wuthering Heights.
The critically acclaimed LIKE A STURGEON show is back at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern for a Burns Night like no other!Join RIPLEY as the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola S…
Winner of Best Actor and Bewley’s Little Gem awards at Dublin Fringe, and nominated Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Aonghus Óg McAnally ret…
Winner of Best Actor and Bewley’s Little Gem awards at Dublin Fringe, and nominated Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, Aonghus Óg McAnally ret…
Bringing top improv comedy to Shoreditch “Sprout”, veterans of two sell-out Edinburgh festivals shows, will be presenting “Whose Line Is It Anyway” type games, scenes and sto…
On January 6th 1982, a young Irish emigrant borrows an English language book from a library in Munich.
On January 6th 1982, a young Irish emigrant borrows an English language book from a library in Munich.
Now in it’s 12th year.
Music from a special guest performer Established in 1989 by poet Theo Dorgan, Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series offers exciting opportunities for talented, em…
Come and join us for a game night!—You will ideally need 2 devices with internet access to play along with us—Games Available;Jackbox Party Packs 1-7Gartic Phone—Ticket link
"Part gig, part festival, part immersive adventure" - Lauren Laverne "Secret Cinema for live music" - London Live "Best Covid Safe Live Music Event 2020&qu…
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years is the most authentic sounding concert to the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
There are few things worth travelling the length of the Jubilee Line for on a cold and wet rush-hour on a December night.
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…
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The official Homotopia Festival laid-back vibes closing party.
Tune in for an evening of conversation with RTÉ Radio 1’s cultural guru, Seán Rocks.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sep…
World-famous prankster and creator of the hugely popular Lee Nelson, is back on stage with TROUBLEMAKER, his sensational new stand-up show.
Come and join us for a game night!—You will ideally need 2 devices with internet access to play along with us—Games Available;Jackbox Party Packs 1-7Gartic Phone—Ticket link
Eddi Reader is perhaps Scotland’s greatest living female voice.
Known from Soho before Corona and on Zoom during Corona.
Ladies Night at Monks Park Working Mens ClubAdvance tickets are 10 - On the night they will be 15FRIDAY 01st OCTOBER 2021 doors open at 19:00 show starts at 20:30A fun packed eveni…
Another lovely comedy evening, this time with Russell Arathoon, In 2018 Russell made his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his critically acclaimed show The Curious Incidents Of The Gay …
Come and join us for an open mic night!Ticket link
PIE Entertainment Ltd Presents A SLIGHTLY NAUGHTY NIGHT OUT Prepare to have your ribs, and everything else, tickled, as comedian Paul Eastwood brings h…
A Country Night In Nashville recreates the scene of a buzzing Honky Tonk in downtown Nashville, perfectly capturing the energy and atmosphere of an evening in the home o…
Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our …
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Come and get FILTHY IN PEACH at The Bitten Peach’s CLUB NIGHT at Colours Hoxton! PARTY + POP UP PERFORMANCES from 10pm-2am featuring an Asian cabaret dreamhouse of FILTHY FA…
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…
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
Simon Says is brought to you from the incredible mind of Simon.
A new monthly LGBTQ+ quiz for North London comes to Islington on Wednesday 15th September at The Angelic.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
‘Singing sensation’ Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated, chart-topping young English tenor, whose powerful voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities…
‘Singing sensation’ Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated, chart-topping young English tenor, whose powerful voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities…
‘Singing sensation’ Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated, chart-topping young English tenor, whose powerful voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities…
‘Singing sensation’ Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated, chart-topping young English tenor, whose powerful voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities…
Come join us for some quizzing Time: 18:00 - 21:00Ticket link
Big Night OutCreated & hosted by Grace n Mads Big Night Out is a night of queer performances.
Simon David (A hoot - The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Join us for an evening of games, and to have some fun! This event will be hosted on Discord.
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…
We will not tolerate the hate speech & violence inflicted upon us and the murder of our lovers, friends & our LGBTQIA+ families /communities.
Find your place on the path to The Clapham Grand for our LION KING MOVIE NIGHT Weve already given you Mamma Mia, but were roaring back to full capacity Movie Nights here at T…
Fairies.
60-minutes, 12 characters, 7,500 words & One Actress! A fast-paced comedy with a love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and a pair of yellow stockings! During the first lock…
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…
60-minutes, 12 characters, 7,500 words & One Actress! A fast-paced comedy with a love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and a pair of yellow stockings! During the first lock…
The seaweed is always greener down at The Clapham Grand such wonderful things surround you, at one of our Movie Nights! Leave the human world and transport yourselves Under T…
A Night at the Opera: critically-acclaimed pianist Andrew Wright performs attractive arrangements by Liszt and others, taken from operas by Wagner, Mascagni, Bellini and Rossini.
Come join Sophia Stardust, Coco Couture and Tiana Biscuit for an evening of delightIf you are booking from your friends separately and wish to be seated together please E-mail us i…
Tues Night @ Social Club is one of those 'Marmite' shows that some people would consider their worst nightmare, while others could consider it tailor-made for them.
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…
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Friday night is cocktails and party night at flock - and with a fantastic pop singer who will cover the musicals, pop and disco classics and she can.
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK.
The improv comedy supergroup behind Monday Night Improv at The Stand Comedy Club, Glasgow, bring you an hour of improvised comedy madness every afternoon in what can only be descri…
Devine Tension Presents Swan Night Only at The Swan (Fuller’s Pub and Restaurant) Intimate drag extravaganza, featuring River Medway & Sophia Stardust.
Award-winning comedian.
Join Queer Britain’s LGBTQ+ creative storytelling workshop to explore and share your own narrative, by creating a piece of LIVING HISTORY!An opportunity to come together post-lockd…
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
InHouse Theatre and Assembly invite you back to your favourite haunt for a strong drink and a stranger-than-fiction ghost story.
Songs from much-loved Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are reimagined under music director Wayne Marshall in a new staging by Kim Criswell.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
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…
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Through Bush, Through Briar: An adaptation of a Midsummer Night’s Dream in which a Scrooge-like town councilman is planning to tear down a fairy forest to build a theatre.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Music is the food of love – and we needed to play on.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
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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…
Night on Boob Mountain is a surreal and raucous teen horror gig theatre show set on the island of Teendom.
Award-nominated Shakespeare’s Wanderers are delighted to present a new production of Twelfth Night, which will take audiences back to the roaring twenties for an evening of romance…
TFN: SATURDAYS BUSIEST NAKED NIGHT OUT IN THE UK TFNS NO ORDINARY PARTY!!!SATURDAY 14th August 2021, 9 pm - 2.
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
Is there an issue with capturing plays from the second half of the twentieth century that deal with gay issues of the period? The Southwark Playhouse recently managed a production …
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…
Washed up in Illyria after a ship wreck, Viola decides that the best course of action is to dress up as a eunuch and go work for the Count Orsino.
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.
Get ready for a fiesta like no other as our ★★★★ (The Times, The Stage)raucous 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns with piñ…
Shakespeare’s comedy of mistaken identity, music and the madness of love, Twelfth Night, finds new life this summer in the Globe Theatre.
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/funk and gospel influences, playing songs from their forthcoming album.
A question taken from the 2020 English Literature GCSE exam that never was.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/R&B playing songs from their forthcoming album - guest artist Mark Edwards on piano…
POLITICAL DRAG WORKSHOP - 24/06, 2.
William Shakespeare’s masterpiece and most popular comedy ‘Twelfth Night’, an amazing rounded play for actors and audience alike.
St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove was the perfect idyllic setting for Drama Impact's version of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin…
This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin…
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities of professional rural touring.
Time has a habit of taking its revenges.
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
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.
This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre.
An online event, in association with the free digital platform The Ironclad Hub ( https://ironclad-hub.
As dusk falls, the indigenous tribes of Brighton & Hove gather at their favourite watering holes.
As dusk falls, the indigenous tribes of Brighton & Hove gather at their favourite watering holes.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
The West End’s only sit down disco with London’s best drag diva DJs playing camp classics all nightTicket link
Join Dr Amanda Potter from the Open University for an online creative writing workshop, via Zoom.
Despite some technical issues with the Brighton Fringe website, this Greek Mythology Creative Writing Workshop run by Amanda Potter (from the Open University) was a good way to get…
Simon David (“A hoot”, The Guardian) belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive and, frankly, annoying demographic there is: the white gay.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s…
Dust off the glitter balls and dig out your best outfit, your 2021 Brighton Fringe experience starts here! What better way to celebrate the return of live performance than with a s…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Show And Tell present SIMON MUNNERY: ALAN PARKER URBAN WARRIOR FAREWELL TOUR Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the…
Friday 14th May 2021, 8pm (doors open at 7.
An intimate evening of conversation and song hosted by Greg Barnett, Monday Night at the Apollo will see some of the West End’s best-known performers sing an eclectic mix of …
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story (50th Anniversary Tour) Direct from a weeklong run in London’s West End at the Vaudeville Theatre, a SOLD OUT Worldwide tour and stan…
This show has been rescheduled from 17 April 2020.
We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators.
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.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
Now in it’s 12th year.
“There’s nothing quite like the magic of theatre…” A commonly heard, if somewhat meaningless assertion.
Join us for an evening of variety entertainment hosted by DJ, radio presenter and military husband Chris Keen.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
Join Daisy Rogers, Founder of Liberally, as she discusses the place of storytelling in the fight for greater diversity and inclusion across the liberal arts, through expressive mix…
An evening of poetry and spoken word curated and hosted by Tim Marriott and guests.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
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…
Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai…
Román Baca talks about his healing journey from ballet to the Iraq War and back again.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous’ (New York Times).
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
Captain Ben Mason (Director of Music Band of the Grenadier Guards) and Lance Sergeant Ian Shepherd (Band of the Grenadier Guards) lead a session on creating atmosphere through musi…
A screening of short films curated by Soldiers’ Arts Academy, hosted by Román Baca.
Closing the first day of army@thevirtualfinge on Monday 11th of August was an online short film screening and Q&A with Phil Spencer, available to watch online in full.
Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music.
Banana Crabtree Simon.
An emotional, touching and hilarious piece of original theatre.
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.
UK premiere: from his years as the visionary in one of the most successful duos through to his many solo hits, travel through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
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…
The genius combination of a one hour long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
The kid’s back with another hour of lo-fi stand-up comedy to chill or study to.
Last year’s show, Dressing for Dinner, earned Evans some of the most ecstatic reviews of his career including an unbeaten 4.
“Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
Simon Evans’ last show, Genius 2.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
Curimba Trio is the latest project of pianist and composer Sam Watts in collaboration with guitarist Jurandir Santana and percussionist Adriano Adewale.
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
A show by poet and theatre maker Cecilia Knapp supported by the Arts Council.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
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…
In 1996, Robert Lepage's initial production of The Seven Streams was far from critic-pleasing.
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
PAUL MERTON & SUKI WEBSTER’S IMPRO NIGHT Paul Merton and Suki Webster present a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laug…
As Lin Hwai-Min, founder of the world-renowned Taiwanese company, steps down in 2020, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre brings works from the current and new artistic directors.
Though we aren’t given the choice that may be implied by the inclusion of the subtitle in The Visit or The Old Lady Who Comes to Call, it is a play that uses juxtaposition as it …
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Join us at The Museum of Comedy as we showcase the best of emerging and established collaborative comedy talent.
Multi award-winning comedian Simon Munnery reprises his notorious alter ego, the bedsit anarchist Alan Parker Urban Warrior.
We’re kicking off this year’s Reigning Women with a huge night of live music.
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
In the country of Illyria, twins Viola and Sebastian find themselves shipwrecked and separated after a violent storm, leaving them both believing the other to be dead.
Be swept off your feet and experience real wonder at Christmas with the best from the world of magic & mind-reading and the most amazing up and coming local talent.
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.
Evening Standard Award winner Tyrone Huntley joins Paul Taylor-Mills in an intimate Night Cap.
Now in it’s 11th year.
The challenge in attempting to adapt Elena Ferrante's 10 million-selling quadrilogy, The Neapolitan Novels lies not in finding the time to read through the 1,600 pages of sourc…
Stage sensation Whitney - Queen of the Night will return to London’s Savoy Theatre for two festive special performances – following its sold out West End debut there this year.
PAUL MERTON & SUKI WEBSTER’S IMPRO NIGHT Paul Merton and Suki Webster present a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laug…
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.
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter,…
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.
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.
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.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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 British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Join us at The Museum of Comedy as we showcase the best of emerging and established collaborative comedy talent.
Written, created and performed by Isabella Bliss, international star of both screen and stage.
Join 60's hitmakers - The Dreamers, formerly Freddie & the Dreamers as they recreate their hits including, I'm Telling You Now, You Were Made For Me, If Yo…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
If, unlike me, you include politics, the public-school system or pub quizzing in your CV’s ‘Other Interests’ section, you’ll already know that Hansard is the name given to …
Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated tenor, whose vibrant voice has been described as having velvet-like qualities.
Dance the night away to your favourite songs from the musicals – featuring live music from Amusical house band Dave and The Quavers, plus guest DJ sets from the best comedians in…
After three hugely successful BBC series as Lee Nelson, multiple sell-out tours and various court appearances following world-famous stunts on Theresa May, Sepp Blatter, Donald Tru…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
If you were starting out as a producer, what would you like to be taught? If you are starting out as a producer, what do you need to know and how would you like to be taught? If En…
‘The best artist we’ve ever had in session’ (BBC Radio Scotland).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One of Shakespeare’s funniest comedies brought to you by CYD.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
‘Lively, thrilling and spectacular.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
The Golden Age of Television was blessed with some of the best-loved of comedians, but while Eric ‘n’ Ernie and Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd are still celebrated, some of the gr…
This is your chance to sing along with the fantastic and versatile Massaoke band, guided by giant video lyrics, as they raise the curtains on all your favourite show tunes includin…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
This mystical dance performance is about the connection between what we see and what we believe.
Three alternating concert programmes over multiple days featuring music by Scottish composers and settings of Scottish poetry.
How do you climb a tree without worrying about the fall? Why do you dream up the monsters in the shadows? Kirsty Law’s Young Night Thought binds Scots folklore, song, film, artwork…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Arising out of Berlin and Hollywood open stages, this group showcase raises a fist with one hand and holds a glass with the other against the fact that the world we live in is a co…
Two alternating programmes featuring music by Scottish composers and settings of Scottish poetry.
‘The reigning queen of character comedy’ (Evening Standard), Alison Thea-Skot, returns to the Fringe for two nights with her five-star smash-hit show.
Three of Scotland’s leading contemporary jazz groups each play a 40-minute set in one stunning concert with world-class musical guests from India and Shetland.
Six actors, neon tutus and the unmistakable lyrics of Agadoo.
After a hit Fringe show in 2017, RadioOctave are back in Edinburgh! There’s lots to look forward to as we take you on a journey of love – exploring the highs and lows of this pow…
What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
England, 1585.
Join Viva for a fabulously funny, nostalgic romp back to the swinging 60s! A Slice of Saturday Night is set in a nightclub where young love, teenage dreams, fashion and music are t…
Keane & Doyle have been spies, wizards, witches and cosmological assassins.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Our Walk Through The World is a collection of six short plays examining the absurdities, tragedies and small triumphs of modern life.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Sold-out run: Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2019).
A fundraiser for your new favourite production company’s mental health partnership with CALM, providing and raising awareness for services to support performers at the Fringe.
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A night of Romanian traditional music with songs from Maria Tanase, Ileana Sararoiu, Liviu Vasilica, Surorile Osoianu and many more.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
In this fully immersive tasting experience, you sample five different whiskies from the very young to the old and rare.
Queen are in Edinburgh and they’re here to rock in a brand-new show guaranteed to blow your mind.
Let’s journey to Thailand.
Award-winning jazz vocalist, washboarder and early jazz historian Ali resurrects the original outspoken blues and jazz divas who shaped today’s music via their passionate and dange…
This is part stand-up, part actual pub quiz.
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…
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 term ‘cabaret’ is harder to pin down than the other show categories for Edinburgh Fringe.
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…
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.
Boy meets girl, they fall in love, and everyone lives happily ever after. If only it were that simple. Hold on to your heart. Cupid is armed and dangerous!
Actors from around the world rehearsed via Skype for four months and then met here in Scotland to put on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Come join us for …
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
Are you an overthinker? Then this is the comedy show for you.
Award-winning comedian and radio presenter Philipp Kostelecky brings the best acts of the Fringe together for one of the latest shows of the festival.
Nicola Osborne (#CreativeInformatics, University of Edinburgh) reckons that data-driven technologies are inspiring new and unexpected opportunities for creative people and organisa…
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Join the greatest comedians from across the globe as they blur the line between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set prompted by genuine artefacts housed in the Nati…
‘Don’t let the bastards grind you down – I know whose faces I’ve got in my sights, the bastards that put the gun in my hands.
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
Global sensation Gingzilla – the award-winning, bearded belle of the Fringe’s most debaucherous ball – and the utterly iconic Late Night Lip Service are back! Featuring heart…
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 …
It’s been 50 years since the world’s most pivotal music festival.
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
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 …
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Returning for its second year, Henry Ginsberg (FHM Stand-Up Hero, Reading Festival New Act of the Year) presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainl…
A unique musical comedy where Noam Osband and Bianca Jaconetty sing original music about sex and love based on Wikipedia.
Bedlam Fringe’s in-house alternative comedy night, back for its fourth year at the Fringe.
What happens when two circus performers are sent to prison? They come up with a new Fringe show of course.
After three years of one-off genre-bending shows to sold-out crowds in Bristol, the cult smash Chubby White’s Variety Night make their Fringe debut.
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…
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it can often feel very hard to be alone.
‘His stand-up is some of the cleverest, funniest and most unassuming comedy I’ve encountered’ ***** (AYoungerTheatre.
Observing the little traditional conventions in life – one pink sock for Michaelmas day, keeping toenail clippings in a separate jar from fingernails, cream first, then jam, then…
Following an epiphany in the Van Gogh Museum, Fry takes a twisted wander through art history.
Runaways.
‘Who are you?’ asked the Cheshire cat.
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
Award-winning Fringe favourites The Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and ridiculous reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally a…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Winner of Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after performing as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve in …
Andy has performed at 40 Edinburgh Festivals.
In the past 20 to 30 years, our world has drastically changed, especially within the realm of politics and culture.
Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet…
Paul Simon is a name that has cemented itself into the Hearts and Bones of audiences all over the world.
The Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art play host to the first-ever survey exhibition of collage in the world.
Music, quotes and verse.
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who will leave you to sing, the blues in the night.
Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award nominated tenor, whose vibrant voice has been described as having ‘velvet-like qualities’.
Winner of Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of The Year, Amused Moose National New Comic and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year makes his Fringe debut after perfor…
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth.
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Alistair to play for the opening of York’s Arts Barge.
Once the most radical, now the only radical.
It’s 2016.
There was a time not long ago – when Facebook and Google weren’t even words – where we watched TV and learned from it, absorbing any new knowledge we discovered as fact.
Golden Globe-winner Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men) returns to the West End for the first time in 18 years to play Rev.
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
A brief language lesson: According to the “part-banter, part-racist” English idiom, the North, is somewhere it is said to be Grim Up.
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
Can words still pack a punch in the reign of Twitter? Have the carriers of thought, the deliverers of argument, the elements of poetry, the sounds that make us human – lost t…
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 …
You may know him as “comedy legend Lee Nelson” (The Sun) or “some unfunny pillock” (The Deputy Prime Minister) who gave Theresa May a P45, but yo…
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
Fresh from Edinburgh Festival as part of the prestigious Pleasance Comedy Reserve, this multi-award-winning comedian brings his debut show to Brighton Fringe.
A new piece of work by a new BAME theatre ensemble The Last Company Theatre, Last Rehearsal is written and directed by Chilean Maria Jose Andrade.
Fireball of the cabaret apocalypse, avantguardian, all singing, all raging wonder.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
The team behind FAUX, presented by Loose-Locked, is large and impressive.
It’s hard to resist chocolate in any shape or form, but it’s downright impossible when you’re talking about Le Gateau Chocolat.
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
This workshop is for anyone trying to start or finish a writing project.
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
I had no idea what to expect from John Hinton’s Ensonglopedia of British History.
Saturday 11th May, 7.
Party with us all evening at this one-off ‘Fringe City Night’ extravaganza! Join the night creatures, the weird and the wonderful in a celebration showcase of the very best of Brig…
The brilliant British pianist Simon Ballard returns to play works by Schubert, Ries, Dvorak, Smetana, Ireland, Moszkowski, de Severac and Sydney Smith.
Based on actual historical events, Mary Blandy’s Gallows Tree is a one-woman play that charts the last hour(s) of Mary Blandy as she awaits the gallows in Oxford Prison in 1752, …
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
Kate is discovering what it really means to be a wife in her close-knit Christian community.
What do you find in the crevices of your conversations? Where do your words end up after countless accumulation? A piece of experimental physical theatre exploring real words and t…
“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…
In this workshop we will use the basic technique of puppetry and combine that with acting and dancing.
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…
“So if Matt and I have officially had sex then why does it still hurt? I still don’t get what’s so amazing about it, how can women even come from it - when is that supposed to …
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
There is a long history of female performers and theatre-makers who mine their personal experience to create autobiographical monologues exploring their (female) identity.
How does rural touring work? How can you take part? Gain insights on the benefits and opportunities in professional rural touring.
Late Night Gimp Fight compile their best material from the last ten years to provide a crude and raucous evening of entertainment.
We’re in Sussex, somewhere on the Downs, in the 1800s.
Come celebrate the start of Brighton’s festival season with a bang, and get a taste of what’s coming up over the month of May to boot.
Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their number one career of choice.
THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, LONDON Based on George A.
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
The whole thing is a mess and only one person can sort it out.
A night of stand up comedy from two of the country’s best up and coming comedians.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
Plays, and other kinds of performance, may have many functions, but stand-up comedy has only one.
A Larger than life show from a Larger than life Band.
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…
Back for it’s fourth year.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Back for it’s fourth year.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
A creative programming session that is designed for those who are interested in the idea of artificial life.
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…
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…
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
It was only towards the very end of last year that it was announced – or rather whispered, hidden away as it was somewhere in the list of actors always included in the National T…
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…
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival Burns Night Comedy Gala 2019 From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebr…
From the city that gave you Billy Connolly, Kevin Bridges and Frankie Boyle, celebrate Burns Night with a line-up of the top names showcasing the Whyte & Mackay Glas…
From the man who pranked Theresa May, Donald Trump, Sepp Blatter, Kanye West and many more of the world’s biggest knobs; acclaimed character comedian Simon Brodkin…
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
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…
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…
Join us at The Museum of Comedy as we showcase the best of emerging and established collaborative comedy talent.
Mourning is an important part of any family death but this can differ a huge amount depending on where you or your family are from.
From the people behind the sell-out Pride Improv Festival comes another Loud And Queer: Free Improv Comedy Night showcasing the most exciting improvised comedy from the city's top…
Join us to celebrate the NHS turning 70 years of age all in aid of Young Minds charity.
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter.
Direct from a SELL OUT worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance.
The brutality of family life and the subjectivity of memory are explored in the emotionally raw and richly funny Moonlight, directed by Olivier Award winner Lyndsey Turner, in whic…
Sweet finish this year’s well-curated Brighton HorrorFest with the interesting Father of Lies, written and originally performed by Sasha Roberts and Tom Worsley.
It was with some trepidation that I entered the auditorium to see Unburied, presented by Hermetic Arts – not least because their website states, amongst other things, that 'H…
You know you’re guaranteed to learn something watching David Hare.
“Racist comments don’t belong in a play about mothers and shit.
Danse Macabre Productions consists of a trio of graduates of the University of York with a weakness for the horror genre.
Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are coming to Greenwich in the first ever Bing stage show!Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by preten…
Shakespeare will always be Theatre Marmite.
CSzUK in collaboration with Salford University present a night of Improv, Sketch and Stand Up.
An hour of sensational Improvised Comedy.
Final London shows added.
“If music be the food of love, play on…” In Shakespeare’s bittersweet comedy genders blur, boundaries are crossed and the world is turned upside down, all with music as the engin…
Alongside Pinter One – nine individual texts that together create something that is as exciting as it is dark – is the altogether different, though not surprisingly named Pinte…
The Three Inch Fools bring their innovative productions of two of Shakespeare’s most infamous and iconic plays to The George Inn on the South Bank, London’s Shakespearean heart.
Jamie Lloyd must be excreting pheromones of cool right now.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
You are invited to a real-life, late-night, end-of-Fringe prom! So dress up fancy, get your dad to drop you off at Assembly High – the only high school inhabited by all your favo…
Friday Night Live For Jamie’s SDR Join some of your Royal Court favourites for an evening of music and comedy to raise funds for Jamie Denson’s SDR fu…
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Welcome To Night Vale is one of the most downloaded podcasts in the world.
16m subscribers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The HandleBards have cycled 1,500 miles from London to Edinburgh, carrying on the back of their bikes all of the set, props and costumes necessary to perform Shakespeare’s most fam…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Colin Hoult’s ‘masterclass in character comedy’ (Time Out).
21 August 2018, 10:00-13:00, The Space @ Jury’s Inn.
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…
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
After last year’s sold-out, five-star run, Exeter University’s Spotlights Show Choir are back at the Fringe with another set of musical hits! With songs ranging from classics l…
Lewis is numbing himself in his video world, dropping into the rabbit hole of his imagination.
December, 1979.
The nation’s favourite pub philosopher turned pop-up publican, brings his unique comedy genius to the Edinburgh Fringe, serving up his satirical brew of no-nonsense banter for thre…
A sweet late-night mix of up-and-coming sketch, stand-up and character comedy hosted by Eleanor Colville. Join the revels. ‘Catch her while you have the chance’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Ever wanted a lock-in with the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit in a cool cabaret bar late at night at the Edinburgh Fringe? Hell yeah! Well your dreams have just come true.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The whole thing’s a mess and only one person can sort it out.
Catriona Morison Mezzo sopranoSimon Lepper Piano Songs by Brahms, Schumann and Mahler.
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era with her gorgeously characterful and distinctive voice and a stunning five-piece band of outrageous mus…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Award-winning Fringe favourites the Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and drunken reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally adap…
Take a journey with Imperial College London’s premiere mixed a cappella group through a spectrum of genres and themes in their debut Fringe show!
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Love, hysteria and deception reign in this Victorian reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Set in October of 1978, eight women end up together in an abandoned house where Lenora Stark supposedly murdered her parents 13 years ago.
Fiesta in sunshine.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
This art exhibition highlights one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: the inability of humankind to effectively cope with the disposal of the vast amounts of ho…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Ilker Arcayürek TenorSimon Lepper Piano Songs by Schubert and Wolf Winner of 2016’s International Lieder Competition in Stuttgart, Ilker Arcayürek has been compared to Ian Bo…
A raunchy, chaotic and full-on Fringe experience, Stamptown Comedy Night is a late-night variety show featuring the best comedy and cabaret on the international scene! Hosted by Za…
‘I simply cannot wait to see more of their magic’ ***** (Tribe).
The Night With.
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The end of the world is nigh.
Stamptown presents: Late Night Disco Fight! The anarchic creation of four critically acclaimed performers from four different corners of the globe (Scotland, South Korea, Norway an…
Going to bed so soon? But the night has just begun! Enjoy some Late-Night LOLs with some of the best comedians at the Fringe.
Ferocious queens and fierce divas of the world, rejoice! Gingzilla, the giant, ginger, award-winning Glamonster, returns to host Late Night Lip Service, featuring the Fringe’s wild…
A late-night open mic cabaret night which is open to all Fringe performers: so music, comedy and performance is all on the cards.
‘If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Following her five-star smash-hit It’s Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes), Alison Thea-Skot brings you a sizzling explosion of chaotic character comedy.
Every night, a rising star of the comedy scene will curate their own night of comedy.
A unique concert, which celebrates the unforgettable music of Simon & Garfunkel.
Junky Fam, Edinburgh’s summit of groove excellence, take the drums, bass and guitar to their limits in delivering the heaviest, hardest, fastest, weirdest funk you’ve ever heard.
Henry Ginsberg presents a possibly anarchic, probably slightly depraved and almost certainly alcohol-fuelled showcase of the best stand-up comedy at this year’s Fringe.
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.
On any given afternoon in the Fringe, you’re likely to find Simon Munnery gracing the stage of The Stand comedy club.
Reviewing Mr.
A boozy history of Scotland held on the most unique of venue – on board The Lochrin Belle canal boat.
Join the greatest comedians from across the globe as they blur the line between arte-fact and arte-fiction in a wholly improvised set, prompted by genuine artefacts housed in the N…
A variety show of absurdist comedy.
We all have some evil in us: there is a Mr Hyde to our Dr Jekyll, a yin to our yang, a fig roll to our jaffa cake.
An entirely un-erotic journey that begins in a public toilet, then takes strange diversions via a sexy tomato plant and a clap clinic.
Join Lily and Patrick at the premiere of their brand new, live dating show that connects singles and tests couples.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
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…
Olivier Award-winning Simon Callow performs Oscar Wilde’s searing meditation on his life, in the form of a devastating letter of reproach to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas – ‘…
20 years of Fringe shows, 20 years of touring and so many stories.
Following previous five-star reviews, this unique talent returns to perform thought-provoking, evocative, original songs in a wonderfully intimate setting.
The Rocky Horror Night at Frankenstein’s — now in its 17th year — is one of the staple nightlife experiences in Edinburgh.
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
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.
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.
Last year, Simon Evans earned rave reviews for Genius, his howl of despair at our declining national appetite for intelligent conversation, let alone public figures of exceptional …
An exquisitely detailed design of a picture box façade-free house.
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
Late Night features one-off takeovers from the best of the fest, cabarets stuffed to the gunnels with LOLs, and even a couple of token straight white comedy dudes! Weird, hilarious…
Come support some brave new writers while they investigate our fears!The list of our fears is rather long, and some of these accounts are actually based in true events b…
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.
“I went to a funeral the other day.
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
A night of queer improvised comedy with Zeal at the Chateau, South London’s brand new queer arts space opening in July! FREE ENTRY.
Award winning comedian and actor Omid Djalili, known for his legendary stand-up performances, has extended his UK tour for the fourth time, due to overwhelming demand and is at t…
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…
One of the early factors that contributed to the massive success of the Lehman Brothers – the power they had in the US, their huge business growth and its eventual demise – was…
Statistics show that last year the most common reason cited in UK divorce papers was "irreconcilable bathroom habits”.
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 …
Join us for our summer showcase fundraising gala at Brighton Open Air Theatre on July 3rd for an extravagant evening of everything Fringe! See all your Fringe favourites from our 2…
Energetic, playful stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian Russell Arathoon.
Judith leaves her ex-boyfriend a desperate message on his answerphone saying that she is not coping with their break-up, that she has brought razor blades & some henna in order to …
“I went to a funeral the other day.
The Nursery Presents a night of improvised theatre in conjunction with The City of London’s Women: Work And Power programme!We’re excited to present The Maydays Laydays (AKA th…
It can’t be easy creating a programme that justifies the term National given to the theatres on London’s South Bank, when you know that your most frequent visitors of critics a…
We see homeless people every day in Brighton, on the street and in our parks, trying to build a ‘home’ out of the small number of possessions with which they surround themselve…
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
There is a bit of a buzz around BOY.
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
Thick & Tight, a dance duo like no other, bring all the drama, musicality, farce and face you can cram into a show.
Probably William Shakespeare’s most famous play and possibly his greatest, Hamlet has long been a target for comedy.
The Ealing Inheritance is a comic tale of intrigue, gold-digging and dastardly dissimulation reminiscent of many an Ealing comedy - hence the double meaning of the play’s witty t…
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
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…
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…
History; Comedy; Songs.
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
The University of Brighton’s Drama Society served up laughs in their rendition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Professional development workshops for artists.
A stylish adventure into the film noir-ish world of Ingrid’s memories and imagination.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special.
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.
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays comes to Oxford after its critically-acclaimed London and international festival runs.
I’ve always been partial to a bit of prestidigitation.
The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles.
We all want to look good, don’t we? Everybody likes to feel attractive.
Rouge your knees, shine your shoes and prepare to enter a razzling dazzling world of Swing! From the decadent 20s Jazz age, the glamourous 30s, the spirit of the 40s, to the rebels…
The opening premise of Twilight Theatre’s Waiting for Curry, written and directed by Susanne Crosby, runs thus: Rob and his wife Chris have invited their friends Phil and Sue ove…
Eleanor Westbrook embodies what I love about the Fringe.
An extremely funny yet entirely unerotic journey that begins in a public toilet.
Brighton Fringe’s most reliably unusual auteur returns with a new adventure from the peculiar world of Mr Twonkey.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
The Lord of the Rings (known as LOTR to the mega-fans) is one of my favourite books.
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…
Come and cheer on our latest stand-up fledglings from Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops at Brighton’s Komedia.
It was a balmy Sunday evening at the end of another warm and sunny weekend and many in the audience seem to have to enjoyed the weekend (and perhaps the wine) a bit too much by the…
Last time I looked, drag was a minority sport in gay bars, performed by men in frocks belting out mediocre ballads, lip-synching to pop songs, and generally being misogynistic.
There’s little to evoke more anxiety and dread than the phrase ‘Traditional Family Christmas’.
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
Single, jobless and living at home, life isn’t treating Richard Stainbank well.
There comes an awkward point in some friendships when going to the pub is no longer quite enough entertainment.
The washed-up boy band of sketch comedy are returning to Brighton with their first new show in four years.
Cognitive dysfunction does not, perhaps, naturally strike us as a rich vein of humour.
One of a series of seven one-night-stands of experimental theatre, How Disabled Are You? is curated by theatre co-operative Spun Glass Theatre under the heading of The Spark Factor…
A sensational line-up of Fringe favourites assemble to launch Brighton Fringe 2018.
The launch of Brighton Fringe 2018 at The Warren.
70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly co…
About five minutes in to the therapy session cum comedy gig cum This Morning Celeb Interview that tonally is The Prudes, late 30s couple Jess and Jimmy inform the audience as their…
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Lyric for two performances only…
If The Royal Court’s reputation for producing work that’s a little ahem, “arty” has put you off making a visit recently for fear of Death by Pretension, then the enjoyable …
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Back for its third year.
You loved them in last year’s smash hit, sell out show at Mary’s Poppin.
Send off Adelaide Fringe 2018 with RCC at Big River Motel with headline act Booka Shade Check in. Unpack & forget about a good nights sleep #BigRiverMotel
Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday 18th March 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to give inspiring theatre experiences to ch…
No 2 Ways takes you on the ultimate BEE GEES bender.
Back for a third year join hosts Marcel and Lewis for an awesome range of comedy acts from across the festival, at the funnest Late Show in town.
Soak up the atmosphere at the Adelaide Night Market and be amazed by the spectacular Parade of Light.
Adelaide’s premier Rock/Metal band MATTERHORN presents a special one night only fringe show, A NIGHT OF ROCK/METAL WITH MATTERHORN.
Back for a ninth year in a row and still Adelaide’s favorite past time hits the stage and rolls the cage for another year of Bogan Bingo.
Your Friday night is in top hands at The Junction, especially if you fancy kicking things off with a few hard-earned drinks.
Come along and experience Janet’s “Cultural Journey” at The Red Rhino Room! There will be a variety of Aboriginal artworks on show, including Janet’s “Emu Dreaming”painting which…
Recently, Simon was told he was going to be a dad.
Australia’s biggest and most authentic Bon Jovi Tribute Show is here! This show captures the essence of what this great band is about, the passion & hunger of the early years and t…
The ★★★★½ (Weekend Notes) cult Fringe hit, [Late Night] GameShow is back with a rotating line up of Fringe Celebrity guests all competing to be the best at winning the gam…
A variety show of absurdist comedy.
Commemorating the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin, local soul cover band Master Blaster present a selection of her greatest hits such as ‘Respect’, ‘Chain of Fools’, and ‘…
From Gypsy to Grease, Annie to Lion King – no musical is safe! UK Drag icon Jonny Woo and Olivier winner Le Gateau Chocolat return with their sell-out fringe hit.
How do you condense ten years of music into just one show? Short answer: you don’t.
There’s a moral sense of the inevitable in Macbeth.
‘A NIGHT OF CREAM’ the tribute show dedicated to 1960s British rock power trio, Cream.
Stamptown Comedy Night is a raunchy, chaotic and full-on fringe experience featuring the best comedy, cabaret and circus.
The Hearth welcomes you to a night of readings on the theme of ‘Masquerade’.
Fresh off a successful sold out season at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe, Harry Baulderstone and Marcus Ryan return with: Feelin’ Groovy - The Songs of Simon & Garfunkel.
Local singer with a very authentic French touch, Louise Blackwell, and band The French Set, are some of Adelaide’s finest jazz musicians, including Mark Ferguson on keys, Julian Fe…
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.
2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe.
For one night only, Gordon Southern will deliver a hilarious preview performance before his main show A Man for Two Seasons with funny man Thomas Green as MC along with special gue…
Following on from last year’s smashing success, the 2018 show will be themed around the favourite rock decades.
IN GOOD COMPANY – a fabulous 40 voice acapella group will sing original arrangements of many of Paul Simon’s hits such as “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes”, “Cecilia�…
Based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy, Britten’s opera follows the consequences of a falling-out between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen, Tytania.
After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years.
Late Night Party Boyz present their 2018 debut.
The guys and girls from Sourced Up Talent present a night of murder and mystery.
Welcome to 1960.
Open for good time, not a long time, we’re kicking off the opening night of Adelaide Fringe 2018 with our biggest party yet.
Bitch Night is Edinburgh’s premier female and man-bitch friendly variety night, returning monthly with a spectacular lineup to Cabaret Voltaire!
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…
UK theatregoers may be playing catch-up when it comes to playwright Annie Baker.
“So we went for a walk.
Bitch Night is Edinburgh’s newest female friendly (man-bitches too) variety night!
Welcome to another theatrical dimension, beyond which there may be no clear sense of purpose.
Mischief Theatre, the award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery return to their comedy roots with Mischief Mov…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
At times I question The Royal Court for programming plays aimed solely are the pretentious and the seasoned theatre critic.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Ukrainian playwright, Natal’ya Vorozhbit may be one of the few global voices for a conflict many of us seem to have ‘forgotten’, as though the Russian intervention happened…
Here we have a play, based on a film, about television, with heavy use of video (live, recorded and even outside broadcasting), incorporating social media, onstage DJs and audie…
Launching their 2017-18 concert season, the Reid Consort performs Rachmaninov’s serene All Night Vigil (Vespers) on Saturday 11 November, 7.
For those who don’t know much about mid-20th century Russian literature – I’m sure there must be one or two – satirical playwright Evgeny Schwartz’s 1943 play, Drakon …
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…
Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f…
The year for the National Theatre so far has been beset by the dramas over the dramas on its programme – depending on your viewpoint, it either doesn’t contain enough classics o…
This is a mating ground.
The challenge with any dramatisation of an historic moment is in trying to appeal to the people for whom the event just ‘rings a bell’ right up to those whose lives were dire…
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Direct from a SELL OUT Worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives in London’s West End! Using huge projection photos a…
Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu…
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Following last year’s popular success with The Magic of MGM, Fife’s leading operatic concert group, Ensemble (ensembleinfife.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Follow Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.
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.
As part of Fringe Central’s Young Voices: Fresh Perspective programme, the Scottish Drama Training Network presented Creative Solutions for Creative Careers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Celebrate 60 years of EGO with highlights from much-loved operas by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Bizet.
One of Scotland’s most respected musicians and a versatile keyboard improviser in all styles, Richard Michael BEM brings his dazzling fingers and presentation skills to the fore in…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
Russell Arathoon brings his previous sold out debut stand up show to London.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The HandleBards are the world’s first cycling theatre company.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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.
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
yt2 return with Birdland by the Olivier and Tony award-winning Simon Stephens.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Data Night is a fun, frothy feminist fable mixing clever and silly in the same test tube.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Simon Currie’s 6plus1 is a band of seven musicians playing New Orleans jazz, mixing in funk, rock and ska styles with two saxes, two trumpets, trombone, tuba and drums.
We’ve all had the question.
A unique take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from a Russian company dedicated to the Bard.
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…
A Shakespeare comedy done right, this play manages to put a modern twist on the well known classic by filling it with quirky characters that look like they’ve picked right out of…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Much-loved Scottish mezzo soprano Karen Cargill is a powerful Wagnerian with a voice that can fill the Met or Covent Garden.
After sell-out shows at last year’s Fringe and Celtic Connections festivals, Bwani Junction return with their joyful rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland album.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Lucy and Jim are on their own.
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Where there is Fringe, there is Shakespeare, and Rolling In The Aisle Productions have returned to Edinburgh with a fresh faced, family friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelf…
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
A midnight cabaret featuring “the wildest acts from across the Fringe” is setting itself up for some pretty high standards.
Award-winning comedian Rahul Kohli picks up to five of the best upcoming acts on the circuit right now, for a late-night comedy extravaganza! Including some very secret special gue…
What artsy, liberal Fringe-goer cannot help but identify with the image of the sad clown – monochromatic, melancholic, unsure whether to laugh or cry – after the political few…
Award-winning comedian Rahul Kohli picks up to five of the best upcoming acts on the circuit right now, for a late-night comedy extravaganza! Including some very secret special gue…
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
The Warwick Revue are back with a brand new show that’s nothing like you’ve ever seen before.
20 years ago, Simon Morley had an idea.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
Almost 50 years after George Romero launched the zombie film genre on a shoestring budget, Night of the Living Dead holds a dear spot in the hearts of horror film fans.
A blend of incredibly accurate live performance and multimedia, returning to the Festival after sell-out runs in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Date night: the time when friends, family and lovers come together (though not all together) to spend time, catch up and share stories.
The washed-up boy band of sketch comedy are back with their first new show in four years.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Raucous, fraternal comedy from award-winning sketch trio.
‘One of the most tirelessly silly stalwarts of the Fringe’ (Time Out) provides tales of plumbing woes and his attempts at under-tent heating, and ridicules the insanity of capitali…
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…
Following 2016 five-star reviews, this unique talent returns to perform thought-provoking, evocative original songs in a wonderfully intimate setting.
It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …
Strap in tight to the most rad, bizarre, awe-inspiring comedy and alt-performance rollercoaster at the Fringe! We’re back for our third year with one-off takeovers from your favo…
For the 16th year, twice a week during the festival, Frankenstein’s pub is taken over by Frank N Furter and the gang for Rocky Horror Night! It’s a raucous fun-filled evening o…
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
I have never seen anyone manage to create humour from pessimism and snobbery as well as Simon Evans does and oh my, we were in for quite a helping of it in this hour long show.
This show is described as an ‘unrehearsed show-and-tell’ from ‘the best comedians from across the globe’.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is the hilarious new debut hour from Ed Night.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
The smash hit comedy musical comes to the Edinburgh Playhouse for the very first time! Join the girls on a hen night you wont forget, with fantastic songs from 1960s - today! Gua…
Let’s get something out of the way - Olivia Colman is darn good at this acting malarkey isn’t she? It might actually even be illegal to use her name without the prefix ‘Natio…
Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald once famously stated, “The only thing better than singing is more singing”.
Bad times make for good drama.
Squeeze some culture into your lunchbreak! Grab a sandwich and join Lightbox Theatre this July for a lunchtime serving of darkly comic gems by some of theatre’s most prominent p…
Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses
Giles Cooper by arrangement with Metropolitan Grand Lodge presents ‘Sunday Night at the London Palladium’ – a night of variety to celebrate 300 years since the fo…
Killology (by Gary Owen, writer of last year’s award-winning play, Iphigenia in Splott) follows in a similar ilk to the likes of recent pieces Upstairs at The Royal Court, Yen an…
Within the first five or so minutes of Common, a large chorus of people wearing shrubs, trees and animal heads over their faces chant menacingly, a woman in her fineries introduc…
First things first: if you’ve ever worried about how a history of depression or suicide in your family could affect you or your children, DO NOT go and watch Anatomy of a Suicid…
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special, celebrating the Brighton Fringe finale weekend.
Warning: this review contains numerous cheesy James Bond puns.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
In this workshop we will use the basic technique of puppetry and combine that with acting and dancing.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
A magical journey through the dark and beautiful night until the black bird sings again to welcome a new day.
Join us for a show-stopping night of music and dance, as we shimmy through the hits of ‘Chicago’, ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Sweet Charity’, before turning up the heat for our classic burlesqu…
“Incredibly Funny!” (SG Fringe), “Redefining Comedy Hypnotism” (British Comedy Guide).
Have you been more naughty or more nice this year? Are you sure?A company of gentlemanly vagabonds introduce themselves with a reminder to relax before the “Art” starts.
Sexy provocateur Veronica Blacklace is back with seasoned cabaret talent and fresh faces from her own burlesque school.
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…
Described as an esoteric St Trinian’s for the queer cabaret generation, Carnesky’s Finishing School has been helping people discover and hone their creative talent since 2010.
The critically acclaimed Edinburgh sell-out comes to Brighton Fringe.
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 …
Saturday night late dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent.
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
A name as loaded with dark, romantic foreboding as Poe’s Last Night incurs comparison with the titles of Poe’s own works; it suggests mystery, a locked room of buried secrets.
My life is a constant search for emotional and electrical outlets.
“There is no language for what happened that night,” states Salome in narration as her older self shortly after beginning this new, happily more feminist, retelling of the myth s…
Every Wednesday night is ‘Quiz Night’ at Brighton Fringe this year! An intimate, original musical portrait of two friends (with benefits) as they try to avoid discussing real life,…
The latest fledglings from Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops at Brighton’s Komedia take the stage in our electric ‘New Act Night’.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
“Blurring the lines between burlesque and performance art, their prodigious dumb shows are an unparalleled joy in British variety” (This Is Cabaret).
I wasn’t entirely sure what I’d witnessed after walking out of BLINDFOLD: The Night of the Hunt, a surreal play by Greek company THE.
We are a group of young people concerned about our future in the UK, with such dramatic changes happening all around us.
Pick of the Fringe Launch Night Special, kicked off Brighton Fringe at The Warren with fragments of 7 shows.
There’s no doubt that when Tony Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes” first came to the stage in the early nineties, it was like little that had been seen before – both i…
If populism breeds cynicism, then there’s a high quota of cheap shots that could be made towards the Royal Court’s latest offering.
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.
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.
Decouple any romantic notion of sex as being the physical demonstration of love and what is it other than just an act to satiate a desire for power, ownership, closeness, or to m…
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.
What’s real, what’s imagined and what’s the cause - or effect - of madness are the questions most of us know to be raised but rarely consistently answered in Shakespeare’s most (…
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.
It’s said that one first eats with one’s eyes.
It’s great to see new writing being performed at one of the National’s bigger spaces and there are big themes at play here in writer Lindsey Ferrentino’s National Theatre and UK …
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…
7pm-8pm Kicking-off the evening’s shenanigans will be… Comedy Shenanigans, who are Irish comedians Aislinn (Best Female Improviser – Improvaganza 2015) and Noel (Best Improv…
I have an inherent discomfort with theatre that requires a certain knowledge or level of intelligence in order to appreciate it (reference my ongoing debate with the current Royal …
Come and see the short pieces we’ve selected to shortlist for our Showcase competition at The Hen & Chickens, 30th January at 7pm.
God life can be a depressing old thing can’t it? When, through no fault of your own, you find yourself struggling to just exist from one long unfulfilling day to the next – kno…
Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment buy the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike…
Following sell-out seasons in 2011/12 and critical and audience acclaim, Simon Callow returns in this much-lauded production of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, playing at the Arts Theatre for a…
Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si…
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
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.
Taking place over the five years in the seventies that turned out to be the last Labour Government for nearly 20 years and that led to the Thatcher era, the politics being manage…
If the purpose of life is to continue its perpetuity, the implication is that those of us who spawn children are naturally superior to those who don’t.
There must be little more that can raise the spirits of young or old than the idea of flying free through the skies.
Combining theatre, technology and a cinematic soundtrack, Give Me Back My Broken Night takes you on a walk through the city streets, inviting you to imagine the future of your area…
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
Whilst this latest in a long line of Chichester transfers may be a new reworking of the classic Tommy Steele vehicle – with new songs, music and deeper characterisation added �…
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…
“Why is Opera important? Because it’s real-er than any play”.
The opening minute or so of School of Rock immediately sets the stall for what to expect and what to accept in order to enjoy the rollicking fun show ahead.
When the voice of Bryony Kimmings - writer and director of this piece and “performance artist by trade” - asks at the start “how could you make a show about illness and death wit…
Explore the future on the silver screen with a night of short films from Hothouse artists and guest filmmakers.
It’s not just the eponymous seldom heard, often bullied, fragile young girl LV who struggles to be heard in Jim Cartwright’s classic tragicomedy The Rise and Fall – finding he…
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.
Much can be understood by words that aren’t spoken.
There are a number of uses for the word ‘epic’ and this production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ highly stylised play clearly sets out to be defined by them all.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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…
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.
A guitar and organ driven blues trio, the band was formed in 2014 by Dundee-born guitarist Simon Kennedy.
Would you like to get hands on with some of the latest digital technologies? From Microbit to Minecraft, Mindstorms to Makey Makey, this hour-long session will give you the opportu…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
If you’ve ever cursed Human Resources for making you work with such unreasonable people, you should see what Thomas has to put up with! Mike Bartlett’s 2013 tale of Darwinian c…
There’s a very British way of how we process learning about atrocities going on in the world that many of us know little about - first humour, then guilt, a desire to somehow “fi…
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A scintillating 13-piece live band, featuring percussion and brass sections and fronted by Stu Goodall pay reverence to the songs of Paul Simon with an explosive show.
Omid Djalili’s not used to a four o’clock crowd.
Procrastination may confound human progress and productivity, but it also provides the inspiration for Brick by Brick’s fantastic, multimedia clown show.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Performed by a company of young actors, this is a credible adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely performed King John that revels in the high stakes of its historical narrative.
Simon Munnery marks his 30th year of Fringe shows with an unmissable, one-off gala.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio…
There aren’t many plays with a cast of teenagers that are this slick.
It’s hard to imagine a more emotionally-gruelling hour of theatre: three women held prisoner by an abusive patriarch finally free themselves from his clutches by shooting him in …
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
I’ve finally found it: the Fringiest show at the Fringe! Hyena is a free-wheeling, difficult, often uncomfortable and sometime revelatory experience.
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a fourth year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
As a piece of verbatim theatre, I Love You / It’s Over gives a much more clear headed, down-to-earth view of love than you’re likely to find in a more highly wrought play.
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
DON GNU are decked out in hand-knit socks and worn-out sandals and on the hunt for that dang thing called self.
Cinema screening of live performance.
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…
Gamers all over the world spend weeks, months and in some cases years creating in game content but is stays just that; in-game.
David Payne, having already portrayed C.
On October third, 1849, Edgar Allen Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Rarely performed and more or less unknown to all but the most hardcore of Shakespeare addicts, Troilus and Cressida explores star-crossed love and political machinations in the mid…
With hints of Black Swan and Inland Empire, Olly Lawson’s new play is a surprisingly arresting example of student writing.
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
If you’re expecting an uncomfortable exploration of mental health issues and the stigmas associated with them, the tone of Happy Yet? might catch you off-guard.
Hospitals can be surreal places at night.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Stories to Tell in the Middle of the Night is both exactly what it says it whilst also proving to something rather different altogether.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
Combining the bawdy naughtiness of St Trinian’s, the desire to escape sobriety, language and depiction of true Scottishness of Trainspotting, with beautiful choral harmonies and …
Weird cabaret. At the end of the day does it matter? Comedy pioneers Nina Conti and Simon Munnery bring their playful best, plus oddball guests from across the Fringe.
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…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
Cinema screening of live performance.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
In this session, NVA Director and co-founder Iain Simons is going to explore these ideas, give examples of what the NVA is doing to help and generally get excited.
Love is complicated.
Cinema screening of live performance.
In a sitcom-esque black comedy, three bohemian students lazily speculate about the end of the world, until they begin to suspect that one of them might have taken drastic action ag…
Renaissance tragedies are rarely as enjoyably silly as Wanton Theatre’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
A Free Fringe double bill of stand-up with no particular theme, Irish comedians Keith Fox and Ger Staunton underwhelm with their unassuming stage presence and only mildly amusing h…
Celebrate good times! Come on! The Geordie Giant brings an upbeat hour of observational and joke-filled stand-up about our drinking culture and nights out.
A sure contender for Best Title for a Comedy Show at this year’s Fringe, George Zacharopoulos’s riches-to-rags tale is just as entertaining as it sounds.
In the setting of voice, bass and guitar, Sophie Bancroft and Tom Lyne create a dynamic, entertaining and intimate interpretation of beautiful songs.
Cinema screening of live performance.
In an hour that mixes spoken word and storytelling, Zöe Murtagh explores the symptoms and stigmas faced by anxiety sufferers in a show co-written with Victoria Copeland.
Writer and performer Emma Jerrold could be described as something of a hot property at this year’s Fringe.
Following the story of an Irish emigrant’s relationship with her father, Remember to Breathe is quietly affecting rather than arresting; assured and well-rounded rather than boun…
Fiesta in sunshine.
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…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Welcome to Dreamform.
You are about to be transported to the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas where you have the opportunity to be the star of the show! This is the UK’s first and only full production int…
Released from the family basement after 300 years, alleged cannibal James Douglas (1697-1715) invites you to join him and his guests for a depraved late night horror show splattere…
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? This girl will tell you! Written and performed by Eme Essien, this hilarious new one-woman show invites viewers…
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
Celebrating 400 years of William Shakespeare, the award-winning ST@UIBE company from Beijing presents Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and misunderstanding in a refreshing new …
Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
Spiders by Night is one of the more intimate Fringe shows: two monologues about spiders and mental health difficulties.
One of the things I’ve noticed about this year’s Fringe is the number of stellar one-woman shows, and Prime Cut Productions’ Scorch is the best so far.
In a single dining room revisited over the course of the 20th Century, a series of family dramas show the decline of the American upper-middle class.
Cinema screening of live performance.
An improvised Jane Austen novel was always going to be a lot of fun, and Austentatious’s talented cast certainly delivered an amusing hour of comedy.
Steam lives up to its name, delivering a staggeringly intense hour of physical theatre.
Mine is perhaps one of the most intense hours at the Fringe.
Literature narrows the gap between diverse nations.
Rare chance to enjoy this unique talent performing thought-provoking, evocative original songs in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
There is always plenty of political comedy at the Fringe, but rarely as passionate and earnest as James Meehan’s Class Act.
Imagination and reality collide in the world of Simon Slack.
Manchild autocorrect nightmare Feilder returns after his ‘delightful debut hour’ **** (Metro), with another hot batch of jokes, films, sounds and stupidity.
Will poor Viola ever find her twin brother Sebastian? Expect adventure, suspense and lots of laughs.
What do you do when your singing partner vanishes? For twee Scottish children’s entertainer, Gerald Wee Gerry Hoots Galbraith, he grew a beard and went full art folk.
While acknowledging his immense talent, some reviewers have accused Steen Raskopoulos of going through the motions, trotting out the same tired routines he’s been spinning for…
There are plenty of plays at this year’s Fringe which criticise gender norms and take on patriarchal systems, but Mr Incredible truly gets to the heart of the kind of beliefs tha…
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…
Sam Kissajukian (really funny prick), Jen Carnovale (crackin’ lass), and Kyle Legacy (what) bring you the funniest acts from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in a hysterical lunchtime…
Peter White made a controversial decision to write a stand-up show about the problems faced by straight, white men, and it’s unclear whether this is quite brave or a terrible mis…
Simon Munnery performs for his 30th year at the Fringe.
Enter the fascinating mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
Perhaps one of the most entertaining shows I have seen on the Free Fringe, Lovehard consists of comedians Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (see what they did there?), who in what is …
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.
I’ve left theatres in all sorts of states from elation to depression, anger to jubilation, in tears and totally numb.
Join the best comedians from across the globe as they blur the line between arteFACT and arteFICTION in an improvised set prompted by genuine objects found in the National Museum o…
Wow! Happy Together is a ferociously intelligent new play by MA student Kate Newman, and perhaps the most meta thing at the Fringe.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Alternative comedy duo Siân and Zoë are taking a ship (theatre) full of lucky cosmonauts on a relaxing mindfulness retreat.
What is love? In an immersive clown show with an interesting lyrical vein, Sean Kempton (of Cirque du Soleil) attempts to find out.
Dressed like a hip hop stereotype and with an accent he describes as “Forrest Gump on crack”, LJ Da Funk is the brainchild of stand-up Zac Splijt.
Despite coming across as likeable and charming, Romina Puma’s stand-up set doesn’t provoke too many laughs.
If you’re looking for some genuinely funny political comedy, Rahul Kohli is your man.
An adaptation of Jan Guillou’s semi-autobiographical novel, which went on to become an Oscar-nominated film in 2003, Evil tells the story of systematic bullying and brutality at …
From award-winning character comedians Andrew McBurney (SYTYF finalist 2013) and Jack Kirwan, plus filmmaker Damien Hyde, comes a dark, original and very funny live show.
As soon as Stuart Mitchell entered the room, I knew I was in a safe pair of hands.
Part monologue, part stand-up show, Lana Schwarcz (writer, actor, puppeteer and comedian) shares her experience of breast cancer with honest emotion and cheesy one-liners.
Lords of Strut is hands-down the most fun I’ve had at Fringe this year.
I should declare an interest here.
The show that guarantees the biggest laughs of the festival and your money back! BBC Radio Four favourite, Evans, has been immersing himself in economics for a couple of years, lik…
Smart may seem innovative in putting Facebook and Tinder at the heart of a drama, but this cannot compensate for boring and one-dimensional characters and a tedious plot.
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…
There are a fair number of improvised comedies this year, but Degrees of Error’s Murder She Didn’t Write is causing a particular buzz.
The incoming audience is met by a tall man resplendent in shorts, M&S shirt buttoned to the collar and white joke shop beard.
Jamie MacDonald comes from a tradition of endearingly grumpy comics, ranting affably about all of life’s niggles, from racist taxi drivers to obnoxious ramblers.
Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle.
Like a family-friendly version of Sin City with hand puppets, The Toyland Murders follows the adventures of Inspector McGraw (Becca Jones) and her deputy as they attempt to track d…
A loophole in Irish law allows for the legal of consumption of Class-A drugs for 24 hours, and the youth of Dublin are not going to let Yokes Night slip by without taking full adva…
It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate venue than the Demonstration Room at Summerhall for Nick Cassenbaum’s coming of age tale.
Come for an immersive ‘clubbing’ atmosphere and free face paint; stay for perceptive political dilemmas and great naturalistic performances.
Get down to Frankenstein every Wednesday for a Rocky Horror Night you’ll never forget! Come up to the lab and see what’s on the slab as Brad, Janet and Dr Frank-N-Furter give i…
After Mafia? and Western? at previous Fringes, comedy trio Sleeping Trees now turn their gaze to the stars.
A celebration of sex through song! Using his unique brand of satirical striptease stand-up, let Australian musical comedian Grant Busé take you on a joyous taboo-tackling explorat…
Asthmatic newcomer and 2015 So You Think Your Funny finalist Ed Night is coming to ruin Edinburgh.
Anyone looking for important and assured new writing would be well-advised to give Ecce Theatre’s Crazed a look.
Every night of the Fringe there’s something different on at Bedlam.
This hilarious comedy sketch follows comic-actor duo Curly (Paul F Taylor) and Short (Rebecca Shorrocks) through a night of trying to prove they can act– Curly’s laminated CV i…
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…
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
Spending a full day (11 hours from first curtain up to last curtain call) watching three of Chekhov’s early plays (hence the ‘Young’ of the title) may not sound like the most fun…
Sean O’Casey may not himself have fought during the infamous Easter Rising of 1916 but, nonetheless, his play is still borne of personal knowledge and first-hand involvement.
Peter is a lonely socially awkward dysfunctional mess, looking for love, and tonight he has a date with Kate.
With its clipped accents, simmering tension, undulating music and themes of mental anguish and sexual tension, Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is quintessentially old-school…
Calling the run-down Greek shack that acts as the entire setting of this play a ‘Villa’ and then naming it after Thalia (representing comedy as the Greek Goddess of Festivity), A…
With Into The Woods – possibly one of Sondheim’s most accessible musicals – known fairy tales are twisted into an allegory for today’s times; stripping away Red Riding Hood, …
Whilst always a welcome promoter of new writing and new experiments in theatre, more recently The Royal Court’s choice of programme has been called divisive at best and pretentio…
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.
Twelfth Night, the opening show in this season’s Bard in the Botanics, takes place outdoors in Glasgow’s beautiful Botanic Gardens.
George Orwell’s 1984 still resonates today because for all the disturbingly dark ways that the events of the story unfold, his key themes of conspiracy, class and governmental an…
A night of debauchery at the hands of Kat Lil and a whole rabble of Skellies, there in numbers like never before! Immerse yourself in the land of the carnival.
As I’ve said before, whilst important times in history demand to be explored in theatre and film – and often bring raw emotion with them the more recent the history is – subj…
An exploration into award-winning playwright, Simon Stephen’s work.
Taught by established professional performers and University of Brighton staff, this five day course provides intensive training in physical skills and creative approaches for devi…
Join us for our one-off Fringe City night-time special, as part of the Fringe All-Nighter.
A tender and ridiculous show that clambers up your drainpipe with a rose between its teeth.
Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show.
The course of true love doesn’t run smooth for long in this Shakespearian comedy.
After a sell-out show last year, Double-Oh Heaven returns to the Spiegeltent! Expect Bond Girl burlesque, skilled circus acts and show-stopping live renditions of classic 007 theme…
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
The acclaimed theatrical phenomenon is Broadway’s Tony®-winning best play.
Welcome to an evening of fun and entertainment featuring the fantastic poet Alice Denny, cocktails, raffle prizes and more.
The village hall, church and school are focal points for rural life and afford a familiar, informal space in which local people can enjoy the arts.
A common preconception of Brecht’s work is that his political views, his ‘anti-theatre’ style and the didactic tag that precedes any conversation about it, creates theatre that s…
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…
Brighton & Hove is a city of contrasts.
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
Join Curly for an evening of his classic high brow solo sketches.
Eva is often drawn to paint the pathways through the chalky hills of Sussex and loves the challenge of capturing its contours and shifting colours and light.
Dance until the late hours.
“Actually” Gay Men’s Chorus are celebrating their 10th anniversary with performances dating back to the very beginning.
The star of BBC’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘The Impressions Show’, ITV’s ‘Newzoids’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Bad Girls’ takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impression…
It’s not that unusual to see something that sweeps you up, makes you believe in the characters and feel their emotional pain, throws energy at you with hard guitar riffs and make…
It’s time to spot future stars, as the latest fledglings from Jill Edwards’ comedy workshops at Komedia take the stage for their first time.
Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out.
Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da…
Another week, another example of storytelling to be seen at Greenwich Theatre, with The Flanagan Collective’s gently soporific tale of the strive for idealism in today’s frenetic…
The fantastical, magical stories created by Roald Dahl have proven themselves to have the potential to inspire family shows that enthral rather than patronise with the award-winn…
Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman’s original script for The Suicide was seen as such a strong satirical attack on the Communist Russian Government that it was branded ‘dangero…
Over three hours into Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comment on the everyday existence of the everyman, The Flick, one of the characters says that (his) “life may be depr…
You don’t need to have read any of the Arthur Conan Doyle novels in order to feel that you know a great deal about Sherlock Holmes.
Fanny Brice’s prowess and fame were arguably due to her impeccable comic timing and clown-like performances, combined with a powerful singing voice that could both move you with …
For some strange and unknown reason, the idea of witches and witchcraft tends not to carry the darkness or horror that other (possibly) mythical demons do – even though there w…
For all we may use the platitude that “life is too short”, the harsh reality is that for most of us, it is anything but – and we fill the many minutes, hours and days bemoa…
It’s difficult for many people today – and not just those whose lives weren’t directly impacted – to really understand the common sense background to what my Mum (and the BBC…
Local thespians in Brighton may be familiar with the Academy of Creative Training (ACT), which strives to offer instruction to the ordinary individual who dreams of a life on the…
The legendary pair of James Levine and Plácido Domingo have defined Verdi’s art for more than four decades.
(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 27) The Roundabout revives Eugene O’Neill’s “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood.
If someone was to lose their grip on the concept of time as being linear, then the accepted psychological structure of how things happen, when, where and with whom, may break dow…
Josh Gondelman, a comedian and writer for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” hosts a special show as part of the Jewish Museum’s after-hours series…
Mr.
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination.
Everybody lies; small lies, big lies, white lies and lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to start what some may say is an illegal war.
With the current societal hatred for bankers and their sky high bonuses, we may put aside any thought for the young individuals who throw away any chance for a personal life, wit…
Families eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t legally murder them for feeling that you have no more in common than a bloodline.
Combining a mixture of dance theatre, audio-description and imaginative storytelling with Casson & Friends’ trademark interactivity; Night at the Theatre is a fun, family adventu…
What happens to your sense of identity when the world in which that self was created dramatically changes? If you lived to fight, what if the outcome of that fight wasn’t what yo…
Steve N Allen (MC): “Apollo-quality live comedy” - ThreeWeeks Rhodders: Award winning radio presenter Rosie Holt: “disgustingly talented” - TheatreWales.
I’m lucky that I’ve had no first hand experience of the impact of the disease looked at in The Father so my knowledge is only general rather than personal.
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
Seemingly wanting to be judged as the output of an experiment rather than a ‘proper show’, Beyond The Fence is the result of Sky Arts TV documentary Computer Says Show, which…
Tim FitzHigham has spent many years investigating – and replaying – the bizarre pastime of making bets for the sake of making bets.
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 mixed troupe of lost souls find comfort in each other in the enjoyment of telling “silly little stories about silly little things” that are extensions and exaggerations of the…
Those of a certain age (likely to be over 40) who took Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds double LP record to their hearts - and those who found it on one of its many re-releases…
We find the notion of the waste of anything in life shameful, if not sinful – removing, as it does, any idea of success or achievement by focusing instead on what could or shou…
A story of how the roots of religion generally – and Deep South American Christianity specifically – may be preached, but is little more than a series of made-up stories and …
There have been a lot of Simon Munneries over the years.
For the next installment of this always excellent show hosted by Mr.
Marty Feldman’s style of comedy - and indeed his story - is of a very specific time in the annals of British entertainment.
When your life is borne of problems, pain and lies, the longer you don’t – or can’t – do anything to improve it, the more you may take an almost masochistic solace (from the …
Caryl Churchill rarely does interviews and never discusses the meanings behind her plays (even her stage directions are scant) - so I would be building myself up for a fall if I …
When faced with the knowledge that one has a high risk of a potentially terminal illness such as cancer, there are many different ways of dealing with the news.
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog.
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…
“Gallows humour” probably lives in the same area as sarcasm, self-deprecation and the “stiff upper lip” as stereotypically British ways of how to deal with difficult or challengi…
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
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…
Trinity Church’s annual festival gets under way after Christmas.
Through the Mill is a new play about the life of Judy Garland by Ray Rackman, currently playing at the London Theatre Workshop.
Rashad Jennings of the New York Giants hosts this celebrity-studded fundraiser, which benefits his literacy and community outreach charity.
Panto is the season for daytime TV stars and sportsmen past their fighting prime to don outrageous costumes and deliver hackneyed dialogue.
It’s impossible to dislike the persona we think of when we think of Dawn French - her clownlike, down-to-earth warmth and sense of approachable ‘ordinariness’ make us feel that w…
Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte…
Jon Glaser hosts this fundraiser for a local elementary school with a stacked line-up, including Janeane Garofalo, John Hodgman, Wyatt Cenac, Andy Blitz, Scott Adsit, Eugene Mirman…
In support of the comedian Erik Bergstrom, a master of dry one-liners who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 100 comedians will perform their favorite gags to ra…
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Nov.
With stage musicals being turned into movies, books into plays, and singers’ back catalogues into flimsy show storylines, it’s becoming rare these days to see a piece of theatre (o…
It’s a somewhat hackneyed saying - favoured by many a High School teacher of English Literature - that if Shakespeare were alive today then he would likely be writing for soap op…
Even if you don’t know the whole story of F.
Walking into the Donmar with the seating closed in, the stage set with a circle of wooden school chairs and the colour drained from a metallic coloured set and cold lighting, you…
Chris Rose hosts this free monthly show at Livestream Public, and as the venue’s name suggests, the event will also be livestreamed.
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…
Settle back and enjoy another big night in with the Silver Darlings.
‘If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended… That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear…’ With a quarrel raging between Oberon, Kin…
An opportunity to hear and ask questions about how rural touring works plus get up to date news involving companies, producers and touring schemes.
Looking at disability from a fresh perspective, Jo Verrent, Senior Producer at Unlimited illustrates just how disabled artists are using their lived experience (of disability) as a…
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Pressure.
A mash-up of dance, music, mobile phones and you! FlashMob begins as a game of words and ends as a dance party for all participants – with audience members interacting with movem…
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
Church Night takes place as a monthly variety show in Washington DC, where they attract large crowds every night.
The BBC Asian Network return to Edinburgh for a third year, hosting an evening of the best Asian talent from across the festivals.
Join Sue Perkins for BBC Two’s Festival highlights show, with live music, discussions, performance and comedy.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
Ever wondered what Jane Austen wrote before Mr Darcy? Ever wanted period drama without the dull bits? You’re in luck! This is Austen without the slow stuff.
Classical Music Concert @ connected - musical miscellany with the Rasaratnams. Enjoy a relaxing evening in an intimate venue with a selection of solo and chamber works.
From the Royal Botanic Gardens you can see (when it isn’t raining) almost all of central Edinburgh, the Athens of the north.
Hench-souled Pilsner socialist talks career, climate, breakup and the 1%.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
A creative play space for Spoken Word artists.
The moment Jack Lukeman enters the stage, it’s clear this is going to be a fantastic show.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
It’s 2015.
‘We live in one of the most diverse societies the world has ever seen, yet this is not reflected in the culture we produce, or in who is producing it’ (Sir Brian McMaster).
Simon Mayo broadcasts live from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue. Join us for a mix of live music, in-depth interviews, and a daily dose of the Radio 2 Book Club.
If there was a drop of water for every play ever staged about how money won’t bring you happiness during the Fringe, then Edinburgh would experience major flooding.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry.
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f…
Scotland’s visionary guitarist/composer returns with an astonishingly powerful new trio line-up of his award-winning Indo-Western ensemble, with Raju das Baul, mesmerising exponent…
A cheeky dollop of late night variety, hosted by the witty and playful ukulele strumming, close harmony singing trio – The Martini Encounter.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
Frank N Furter and the gang are back for the 14th year of Rocky Horror themed fishnet fun and frolics at the one and only world famous Frankenstein! So Dammit Janet! Dress to impre…
What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in…
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
Explore the labyrinth of secrets lurking behind the Edinburgh Playhouse foyer doors as the custodians (past and present) of this stunning theatre lead you through the history of a …
Sketch Club 7 has six members.
Much what it says on the tin, Edinburgh’s Gin Night of Literature and Liquor waltzes you through the history of gin distilling and the drink’s use and abuse by the literary world’s…
“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer.
In Poker Night Blues, Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire is undone – dismantled and distilled to its essential elements.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
Oliver Suddon, comedian and broadcaster, hosts a relaxing evening of comedy and music with a variety of selected performers from the Fringe and creates radio broadcast inserts for …
Fantastical absurd one-man sketch show.
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
Fancy watching a comedian perform their club set during the world’s largest arts festival? You’re in luck.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
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.
Rare chance to enjoy this unique, individual talent performing his thought-provoking, evocative original songs in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
Loud, crude and primarily drunk, Gloria Hole has been entertaining crowds of boisterous gays for 27 years.
Every night of Fringe there’s something different on at Bedlam.
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, as you’ve never seen it before.
Picture this.
If you got your idea of adulthood from F.
As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very common choice for the Fringe.
An a cappella concert with a unique sense of indigenous African rhythms, beats and sounds all of which are vocally generated. A musical journey into the spirit of Ghana.
Prosumer aka Achim Brandenburg has a fever for Chicago’s Jack flavour with a vision, passion and knowledge which makes Prosumer a guardian of house music history and one of the f…
A solid and entertaining piece of Shakespeare that’s well handled by its young cast.
Billy (Hector Dyer) and Joe (Joseph O’Toole) have gone on a ‘holiday’.
If you’re living right, this could happen to you.
Sheffy is a lad on a mission.
Simon Munnery believes that the camera should be used more in live performance, and the result is the fantastical world of his Fylm School.
Simon returns once again to what he does, being himself for an hour.
Juliet Meyers, comedian, comedy writer (Sarah Millican Television Programme, Mock the Week, News Quiz) and natural outsider doesn’t belong.
Late Night Laughs at Lunch brings you the funniest acts at the Fringe, we looked so you don’t have to.
Bobby Mair, Tim Renkow and Dylan Gott roll out some of the darkest jokes at the Fringe.
John R.
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.
The nightly cabaret features a selection of the best festival entertainment with a changing line-up of international and local singers, musicians and entertainment, all in the oak-…
There are many productions of reimagined Shakespeare plays that try to add a unique twist to the Bard’s work.
Back in the day, Saturday night TV was the thing to stay in for.
Hench-souled Pilsner socialist talks career, climate, breakup and the 1%.
In short, we’ll let others speak! ‘Doing it his way, the ghost of Sinatra lives on’ (Times).
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)…
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
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…
The nervous Barry Twyford (from Crackwhore and Mingpiece Market Research) takes to the stage and explains that he has accidentally booked himself to do a show at the Edinburgh Frin…
Improvisation in any context can be challenging, but throw in some Shakespeare and an incredibly complex collection of rhyming structures and it seems nigh on impossible.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
Patrick Monahan likes to boogie.
In this debut performance, Miss Bellini will play, sashay, season and sauté an evening of song and salacious sensations that will pique your senses and get your juices flowing wit…
Set in the Spanish war, The Night Watch is a gripping period drama.
The publicity for this new revival of Tommy at Greenwich Theatre talks a lot about it marking 40 years since the original film was released of The Who’s 1969 concept album - and …
Serial Innovator Simon Munnery returns with a preview of a brand new show.
The four founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade – Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh – began performing together 25 years ago.
Every month, a group of writers from the UCB select a comedian to host one episode of their own talk show, then build an entirely original program around that performer.
Iris Theatre’s promenade production of Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night is a sumptuous romp around and inside the magnificent St Paul’s Actors’ Church in Covent Garden…
Bucolic, picnic-friendly settings and a programming philosophy that balances hedonism and exploration have made this festival a must for music lovers.
(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…
As part of what Vulture calls its city-wide “pop culture extravaganza,” it presents this jam-packed night of comedy, with performances from Kevin Barnett, Wyatt Cenac, …
Bond girl burlesque, skilled circus acts and show-stopping live renditions of classic 007 themes, served with a dash of titillation and a double measure of glamour.
We will discover how our individual clown works, how to accept and play with the audience, making them laugh and in turn, love us! Whether you are a performer or not, being free an…
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 eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
The story of a young man’s quest to save an ever-failing bookshop and the friends he makes along the way.
BA(Hons) Creative Performance present five shows in four slots over three nights across two venues! Featuring a UKIP enforcer and non-racist, aliens on tour, a virginity auction, s…
Jon Fisch presents this look at writers and performers from New York-based late-night shows, with comedy from Jeff Maurer of “Last Week Tonight,” Travon Free of “…
A week of workshops for young creatives: Write and Draw Your Own Storybook 24th @ 10.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
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.
Jeremy Wein hosts this unpredictable variety show, with a mix of stand-up, storytelling and more from Ophira Eisenberg, Kevin Allison, James III, Carla Rhodes and Liam McEneaney.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
A festival favourite founded by its current producer in 1989 in Queens Park.
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…
Wyrd-O! Tales From The Absurdicon Go-Anywhere theatre that recklessly pulls at the threads of reality.
‘Bookends’ perform the most authentic sounding tribute to the unforgettable music of Simon and Garfunkel.
Jesse Thorn, host of NPR’s pop-culture interview program “Bullseye,” hosts this exemplary night of stand-up comedy, with stand-up from Aisha Tyler, Maria Bamford,…
An evening of polls, puns and psephology, spin, sleaze and swingometers, battling past the ballot box with a cabaret cabinet packed with a parliamentary portfolio of political ente…
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…
The latest fledglings from Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops at Brighton’s Komedia take the stage in our electric New Act Night.
Deep in the forest, faeries wait .
(performances start on Friday) In Nicholas Wright’s volatile two-character play, the South African psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (played by Noma Dumezweni), who wrote …
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
Kick off the Spiegeltent season in spectacular style.
As part of the visual artist Carolee Schneemann’s season at the Artist’s Institute, in which she focuses on the body, Miriam Katz hosts this all-female stand-up show de…
Meet Helena & Hermia, two teenagers addicted and dependent on social media.
If you like a night in but want to go out … Join sketch duos TiTs and Bosh & Babbs for an evening of contagious comedy.
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, hosts of the long-running variety show “Hot Tub,” return to New York to reclaim Littlefield’s Monday night comedy spot for an …
This night of stand-up raises funds for Bideawee, an animal welfare organization that rescues and adopts dogs and cats around New York.
(previews start on March 11; opens on March 22) Expect lots of cakes and ale, though very few actors, when Bedlam offers two versions of Shakespeare’s comedy in repertory, bo…
Jon Stewart hosts this annual star-studded fund-raiser for autism programs nationwide.
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney will be in character as Gil Faizon and George St.
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 Apollo tradition returns with performances by Abdel R.
(previews start on Sept.
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Expect high-octane energy at the New York debut of this Venezuelan quartet made up of principals of the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra.
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
In this two-man show, the Australian actor John R.
Hannibal Buress hosts this popular stand-up show in the Knitting Factory’s front room. Seats fill up hours ahead of showtime, with patrons hoping to catch a big-name star.
92nd Street Y is going back to the well to open its season with Bach’s spectacular, daunting six solo violin sonatas and partitas: Christian Tetzlaff played the same program …
The satirical women’s magazine Reductress presents this all-lady lineup, hosted by Anna Drezen.
Jen Kirkman, a performer based in Los Angeles, brings a show of brand new stories and jokes to Brooklyn.
Simon Singh has a very easy style and voice which belies the genius within.
This well-known, local band simply enjoy entertaining their audiences.
The EClub, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host Simon as part of our Fringe series.
An opportunity to hear and ask questions about how rural touring works involving companies, producers and touring schemes followed by an open session to network and meet touring sc…
Settle back and enjoy ‘a big night in with the Silver Darlings’.
An opportunity to hear and ask questions about how rural touring works involving companies, producers and touring schemes followed by an open session to network and meet touring sc…
Late Night Gimp Fight have spent the last five years violating the British comedy circuit, picking up awards and infections along the way.
Australian chanteuse and cabaret royalty Ali McGregor returns with her cult hit show.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Relive the angst of young unrequited love, the nerves of amateur actors who have to perform for the Duke or risk being hanged, and the mischief and mayhem caused by the fairies.
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…
Simon Mayo broadcasts live from the BBC’s Edinburgh venue.
Zig zag down to see five comedians give indispensable life advice that you will probably heckle and forget by the morning. Danny Dyer said, ‘5 stars. Proper inspiring’.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
One performance only! ‘Several of the best one-liners you will hear.
Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe.
Practical workshop about making experimental multi-artform performance.
Get Over It Productions present their all-female psychedelic shakedown of Shakespeare’s most captivating comedy.
Led by the visionary Scottish guitar virtuoso, Simon Thacker’s Ritmata play exhilaratingly direct new music combining sounds from every corner of the globe with the incredible musi…
The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood.
Night School is an odd ‘show’ that seems to hover somewhere between an entertaining lecture and a TED talk.
Dancing in the Streets continues bringing dance outdoors with this festival tailored to three green spaces in the Bronx.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
From the band behind award-winning show Blues! comes a selection of not quite family friendly blues songs that couldn’t be picked for the show.
Like most men of his age and delusion, Simon Evans dreams of striking out into The Wild and slipping the surly bonds of suburbia.
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.
Nick Helm’s Two Night Stand in the Grand is an epic comedy rock show worthy of its massive venue.
The E Club, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host Janine Matheson as part of our Fringe series.
This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
Leo finds hope in the eyes of a girl.
The must-see cult chat show where three comedians reveal their worst on-stage moments to BBC Radio 4’s Viv Groskop.
In the Pink are a young all female 10-piece a capella group who perform variations of hit pop and hip hop.
Passing Through is a show-case of Kingston University student playwrights and comes in 2 parts.
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
39 years is the average age of death for someone on the streets.
Chloë Moss’ 2008 play about two women reunited after getting out of prison is confidently revived by SUDS in Eliza Gearty and Tom Herbert’s searing production.
‘I like to have a martini, two at the very most.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
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…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Journey into the hearts of the people on the home front.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
Frankenstein celebrates its 13th year of The Rocky Horror Picture Show party.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
Riding with Night opens with an ensemble of black-cloaked figures, their faces masked, and a voiceover providing an epilogue to the play we are about to see.
‘Simon Amstell has a gift for taking a social norm and gently mocking it until it seems utterly ridiculous.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
Shirley Lauro’s drama All Through the Night opens badly, but it gets better.
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…
Last year the Creative Martyrs offered weary Fringe-goers refuge from the apocalypse in their musical show at the end of the world.
Late night adventures from some of Ireland’s brightest, rowdiest and most fearless comedians take on the challenge of a very late compilation show in the Fringe’s best venue.
In this hour of fine free comedy Joe Well combines his two greatest loves; political satire and zombies.
A unique blend of nonsense, magic, mayhem, physical comedy and wit.
Ghostbusters turns 30 this year.
Have you ever heard of the law of attraction? Have you ever heard of manifestation? Believe and you will receive! Motivational speaker Anthony Dobbins will show you how dreams real…
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle…
It’s the Late Night Dark Show - take that title as a hint.
Clean lines, natural materials and twisted forms are found in the works of the five Danish artists who have interpreted their feelings and reverence for the Scottish wilderness wit…
With an enviable variety of excellent voices and a real commitment to his physicality, Simon Jay skilfully portrays the various characters crammed into the tragic life story of his…
Infinity Repertory Theatre update Shakespeare’s comedy to the 21st century as a musical with a rollicking rock’n’roll aim in mind.
Tripped Theatre’s stylised adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream fits one of the Bard’s most famous and fun plays into the space of one hour, with only four…
There are no actors in this show.
A rare chance to see award-winning Scottish songwriter and leading fingerstyle guitarist in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
The Seussification of a Midsummer Night’s Dream sees an all female cast embark on a speedy but delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
The ubermeister of dark comedy cabaret’s war machine rolls into Edinburgh.
In a totalitarian state, a writer of controversial literature is about to be killed by an executioner, and he’s expecting him.
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…
Juvenal is most likely a familiar name to many people and yet very few would claim to know much about him.
This production of Shakespeare’s classic and well loved comedy is set in the pretty garden of a church.
Rachael Clerke is Scot-ish (a category whose ambivalence, being Jew-ish, I totally get), as she demonstrates by wearing kilt hose with knackered trainers.
The fastest and funniest globe-trotting impressionist returns for more comedy action, laughable adventures and romance in this mix of stand-up and stories featuring over 50 movie s…
To tell the truth, I’m a little bit scared of Dr.
The title and poster of this show - a photo of Rob Rouse’s face literally looking through the legs of a naked bottom - are somewhat misleading about the nature of this show.
“Heard of Simon Munnery?” asks the blurb in the Fringe programme.
Two men in their forties meet for a coffee to catch up after four years of not meeting up in person.
Like any sketch show there is often a sense that the evening may play out something like lucky dip.
Linda Marlowe and Sarah Louise Young present a surreal take on the blunt reality of the night bus service.
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
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.
Taken from the Imperial War Museum’s oral testimonies of the veterans of World War One, Forgotten Voices is a series of vivid and deeply moving accounts of battle and its terribl…
The big launch night for this years’ Free Festival! See a show with the best of this years’ free Fringe performers, mingle with the acts and VIPs and dance the night away.
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.
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…
Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The comedy stylings of Kat Bond & Lorna Shaw make up this fantastic double-act who received lovely press at Edinburgh 2012 with ‘Happy to Help’.
I’ll try not to crack ‘What the Dickens?’ jokes, but this show left me feeling like a slug on tranquilizers.
How many adults can honestly say that they create, play and amuse themselves with as strong imaginative forces as they did when they were children? Meet Annabel, a young girl with …
A discussion and networking session on UK, St Lucia and West African opportunities for artists in the creative industries.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
A fascinating and exciting collection of artwork created by Brighton YMCA residents.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Premiering in the UK, ‘The Night Witches’ is an intriguing, fictionalised account of the first all-female bomber squadron.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
Sew Fabulous hold vintage inspired creative workshops in beautiful locations.
The latest new comics from Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops at Komedia take to the stage.
I’ve never actually met Simon Jay.
The latest fledglings from Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops at Brighton’s Komedia take the stage in our electric New Act Night.
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.
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 Gimps bring the very best of their depraved award-winning minds to Brighton.
(previews start on May 16; opens on June 10) On Nov.
An Exhibition of First World War photographs of limbless soldiers from the Pavilion Hospital engaged in specialist vocational training; along with photographs and cartoons from the…
“Blues in the Night” is a compilation revue, a tribute to the black performers and music of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s.
After multiple sell-out smash hit shows in 2010/2011, the twisted showcase of dark and delicious variety returns to the cow.
Wyatt Cenac, a former “Daily Show” correspondent, hosts this reliably great weekly show.
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.
Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices …
Take a 2004 Swedish vampire novel that was made into a subtitled horror film as your starting point.
A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t…
For those not familiar with this Shakespearian classic, it opens with a shipwreck which leaves a brother and sister stranded on the coast of an island called Illyria.
Twelfth night is a time of chaos, mess and topsy-turvy.
Tony Law presents a deeply hidden, powerfully meaningful show for night-time freaks.
‘Spine tingling, carefully crafted arrangements, intriguing harmonies, voices that breathe together’ (Scott Murray).
An opportunity to hear about how rural touring works followed by an open session to network and meet touring scheme staff drawn from England, Scotland and Wales.
Nighttime.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
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…
Whatever Gets You Through The Night is a wide-spanning arts project: an album, a film, a stage show and a book have all come together under the umbrella heading of ‘somewhere in …
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.
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
Martinis and moonlight, roulette and romance, blackjack and burlesque, showgirls and sophistication, cabaret and cool at Scotland’s swingin’, award-winnin’ vintage club night.
Fresh from YouTube and Top 40 success, St Andrews’ The Other Guys bring their hilarious parodies, exquisite musicality and suspect dance moves for one night only in a show that won…
To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien…
Cards on the table: this is an incredibly impressive show.
Raph ‘n’ Simon: two gangsta-rap loving slackers can’t leave the coatroom of a hotel party until they prove they’re not killers. A one-act comedy play.
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…
Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Arriving at Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge early was a good decision, as there is plenty to observe even before the talk starts.
Chance to see award-winning songwriter and leading fingerstyle guitarist in one of Scotland’s most intimate music venues.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
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.
See the Portrait Gallery come alive with Scottish comedy greats after hours.
Concert combining visual images, story, and music to celebrate the traditions of piping in the Scottish Lowlands and Border regions from the 15th century to today.
Edinburgh’s up and coming New Orleans Dixieland jazz band means business.
A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl…
Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style.
Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises.
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.
Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan…
Featured as part of the American High School Theatre Festival, St.
Fringe First, Herald Angel, Spirit of the Fringe award winners Theatre Uncut return with a brand new collection of short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action on …
Advertised as A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, A Midsummer Night’s Savoy is actually a bizarre tale of love and trickery, with only tenuous lin…
School Night joins the ranks of late night, best of the fest numbers at Pleasance Courtyard, the setup being the audience are the pupils and the comedians the teachers, all there t…
The Pleasance in association with The Scotsman celebrates the Fringe First Awards with four readings, one from each decade.
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�…
With a nation wallowing in a wave of nostalgia, this affectionate look back to the war years is a chance to experience the greatest hits of the 30’s and 40’s in an intimate musical…
Musical theatre that takes us into the hearts of people on the home front, through original diary extracts and songs from the war years.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Gothic fairies .
I probably should have guessed from the name, but there was nothing that could have prepared me for what Frank Sanazi’s musical comedy had in store.
Sign on to Sh!t Theatre’s JSA: ‘a curious though immensely likeable duo who merge stand-up with physical theatre and biting socio-political satire .
A commanding, busty Titania sits with her changeling child as drab fairies dance woozily around her to crackly swing music.
Australian comedians Eric Hutton and Jen Carnovale present a selection of their favourite Fringe acts.
‘Very, very, very, very funny, literally rib shattering, deeply profound and seemingly inane - also overwhelmingly pink.
Let Ali McGregor (‘La Clique’ and ‘Opera Burlesque’) with Saxon McAllister guide you through the festival’s finest stand-up comedians, burlesque dancers, sideshow acts, and musicia…
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.
Anil Desai is a very personable and talented impressionist.
Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish sketch comedy trio who combine innovative ideas with silliness and boyish charm.
From the moment you walk into the room, the mood is set.
‘You can tell the bits, but can never complete the picture.
The name Ontroerend Goed packs a punch.
‘Revealing, thought provoking and at times hilarious’ reads the flyer.
Simon Donald is clearly a funny man.
Simon Evans is an agitated Englishman who has come to serve up some scorn and air his collection of grievances at this Edinburgh Fringe.
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
Now in their fifth year of performing at the Fringe, Late Night Gimp Fight is NewsRevue’s dirtier younger sister.
It begins in Kubrick fashion, with a giant gimp face in space accompanied by Strauss’ celebrated Also Sprach Zarathustra, implying the stratospheric status the gimps have achieve…
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
A miraculous story, beautifully told by a charmingly hairy idiot.
Previous visitors to the Scottish National Gallery will be familiar with Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls from the American Side, the only major work by this American artist featu…
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…
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
The challenge with this musical has always been that, with only one actor on stage for most of the play, he or she must always be acting and can never take refuge in reacting or in…
‘Simon Evans: Friendly Fire’ is a misnomer.
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
The Duke of Illyria, Orsino, is madly and unrequitedly in love with the Lady Olivia.
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
Ill be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotlands…
As an avid fan of old noir movies, crooked cops, and general hard-boiled quick witted cynicism, needless to say I was looking forward to this show.
Phill Jupitus in association with Free Fringe is a coup.
If you’ve ever been anywhere near the Fens you’ll probably have realised that they’re fucking mental, but if unlike me you haven’t visited Spalding’s Springfields Centre for a fun …
The beginning of this production of Shakespeares most bitter- sweet comedy is stunning.
Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog, or Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan to their parents, barely leave the stage for the duration of this dizzying hour of sketch comedy.
BBC: Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret returns to the Fringe with its hosts Scot Mills and Nick Grimshaw.
Late Night Laughs is a simple compilation of stand-ups, tonight held together by the bizarrely attired MC Paul Sweeney.
Neither hilarious nor haunting, the claim this play makes to such titles falls as flat as the claim that it is a comedy.
There was a rumour in the 16th century that it was not Shakespeare who wrote his plays, but rather a group of underground artistic intellectuals named The School of Night.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
This four day long exhibition put on by the Sussex Free Tibet society celebrates the fascinating culture of Tibet, but simultaneously exposes the harsh reality of what the Tibetans…
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…
Most school kids don’t want to read Shakespeare.
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
Out with the old and in with the new.
The Shack Comedy Club is a new venue just beginning to find its feet.
The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims…
Raise the Roof started IYAF 2013 with a bang.
The plot of One Night Stand is, unsurprisingly, the repercussions of a drunken work night out for two colleagues who wake up in the same bed.
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…
Courage Performers, a youth performing arts club from Wiltshire, presents a very strong rendition of the Shakespeare classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with a Second World W…
Light in the Dark Storytellers present a dark portrayal of the naivety and vulnerability of a young man with learning difficulties.
If there’s a book you’re guaranteed to come across in a literature degree, it’s Beowulf.
Viva Youth Theatre have an excellent record of success at the Fringe.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
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.
There’s much to commend in Red Ladder Theatre’s ‘Forgotten Things’, written by Emma Adams.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Not quite a film night and not quite a variety show, sketch comedy troupe The Beta Males play host to a feast of entertainment from some of the Fringe’s finest comedy acts while …
My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a …
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
The Chyngton Youth Academy made up of 11 to 15 year olds performs this seasonal Shakespeare favourite with enthusiasm and fervour.
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
This is one of Shakespeares most beautiful plays.
There have been countless different interpretations of Shakespeare over the years, many of these attempting new, humorous spins on the classic plays to invoke reactions from jaded …
Callow has a strong and long relationship with Dickens including a hugely successful performance as the author himself in The Mystery of Charles Dickens, and appearing as the m…
Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography…
There is definitely a reason why Simon Callow has his name at the beginning of the title of this beautifully performed monologue.
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
Shakepeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of his most popular works, so it’s not surprising that the majority of hands are up when The Pantaloons ask their au…
Socks playing guitar.
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.
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
You have to go to extreme lengths to make a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream stand out.
The Night of the Big Wind is an innovative puppetry performance inspired by the book of the same title, written by Peter Carr.
This is a very unusual and enjoyable production.
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Alzheimer’s The Musical is a peek into the lives of those who might be getting slightly older in body but who are most definitely young at heart.
The School of Night may take their name from an intellectually exclusive Elizabethan collective but what this improvisational group performs is high culture made accessible to the …
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
Now I’m all for messing with Shakespeare.
Let’s make this clear from the start, that this is not the sugary-coated vision of Alice popularised by Disney’s 1951 classic, but the darker, more nightmarish view closer to Lewis…
Ideally Edgar Allan Poe’s works should be read in the dead of night, in an armchair by a crackling fire with the slow tap of wintry branches against the window.
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.
Imagine being sat in a stand-up comedy show where the comedian in question makes one faintly amusing joke.
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years is one of those musicals whose fanbase has crept up despite seldom being treated to professional productions, but it deserves every fan it can…
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
A group of college friends and associated mates head to a festival, expecting a proper night of drink, drugs and dancing.
‘Makar’ is a medieval Scots word for poet.
What makes for a memorable show? What transforms an enjoyable night out into an unforgettable experience? It’s not always possible to assess the permanence of a performance upon …
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…
How can a full house of adults be entertained for an hour by a couple of grey socks in a tartan Punch & Judy tent? Ask Kev Sutherland, the writer and performer, who returns for fo…
To get through the third night of BBC Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret you needed a strong stomach or a repressed gag reflex as the show went truly dirty in pursuit of the utterly…
Everyone knows Alice in Wonderland from their childhood at some level - but not everyone agrees what the story is really about.
BBC Radio 1’s Fun and Filth Cabaret is the perfect late-night entertainment show: the cream of the Fringe’s weird and wonderful crop is given short slots to impress a sizeable …
I hope I get this good a eulogy at my own funeral.
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…
Editors note: Realising that I did this production a great injustice by only awarding 3 stars the first time around, (Maybe the show I saw before was just too dire), I’ve re-visite…
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
With its poetic language and truthful performances, Night Time is one of the most professionally done Fringe shows I’ve seen in some time.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
After an evening of song recitals from Soprano Rachael Wheatley and Pianist Ingrid Sawers, I left late, feeling very chilled out.
The claws may not be fully out for this night of name dropping and gossip mongering with the Queen of Dynasty, but there’s certainly still a lot of fun to be had, especially if t…
Much of the Shakespeare at the Fringe this year has been performed with a twist: musicals, dance, physical theatre, spin-offs, the playwright’s words given new meanings or even tak…
A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
The intense naturalism of this piece is realised in the staging.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li…
Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task.
A Little Night Music promised a delightful evening of choice piano pieces associated with the night-time.
Simon Munnery has prepared a cuisine that’s perfect for carnivores, herbivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike.
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
Taking Flight theatre’s interpretation of the raucous and farcical Shakespearian classic captured perfectly the sense of carnival at the play’s heart, in their open-access adap…
Dana Alexander is the best known black female Canadian comedian but has moved to Tottenham in London.
“This show is family friendly, apart from your grandma, so she can f*ck off!”Thus opens the foul-mouthed Simon Donald, donning typical private school headmaster robes and morta…
A combined talk and jazzy musical performance of all-time favourite songs from the 1920s to present day.
‘Ed Night stands at the dawn of the new age of stand-up’ (Fest).
One of the biggest comedy stars in Denmark, Simon Talbot comes to the Fringe with some work-in-progress shows.
Edinburgh’s Old Town breathes history, sometimes with a roar, and sometimes with a whisper.
Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak…
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about...
Simon Ximenez chatted to Luke Bayer, the Offie Award-winning star of DIVA: Live From Hell about the show’s return to London before heading up to Edinburgh this summer.
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
FemFestBrighton this March celebrates its fifth anniversary.
Maimuna Memon was one of the stars of the extraordinary new musical, Standing at the Sky’s Edge.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
If you thought Cinderella was just for panto season, as the team behind Greenwich Theatre’s new production tells Simon Ximenez, “Oh no it’s not.”
With multiple shows celebrating first and last nights every night, alcohol plays a big part in creating the fun, celebratory atmosphere of the Fringe.
Simon Ximenez "feelz the noise" as he talks with punk legend Ed Banger about bringing the glam to the Edinburgh Festival this year.
Simon Ximenez talked to the coordinator of this year’s Edinburgh Deaf Festival, Jamie Rea.
Simon Ximenez talks to comedian Ibrahem Al Hajjaj about his journey From Riyadh to Edinburgh.
Simon Ximenez speaks to Nalini Sharma about bringing lightness to dark in Until Death, ahead of its opening in Edinburgh this year.
Simon Ximenez is considering a life on the ocean wave after talking to Max Norman about his Edinburgh show, A Pirate’s Life for Me.
Simon Ximenez gets an unusual insight into parenting, with Kiwi comedy group Femme Natale.
Simon Ximenez looks into the sordid side of fandom as he talks to Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey about their new show, Slash.
Edinburgh woudn't be Edinburgh without a mention of bumholes. Simon Ximenez ticked that one off the list when he spoke with Benjamin Salmon about his show Blowhole.
Simon Ximenez talks with Alistair Hall, whose success with his gripping one-man play Declan, was one of the few positive outcomes of lockdown.
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.
Simon Ximenez talks with writer and director Emilie Biason about her new play, I Killed My Ex and is relieved to discover this dark comedy about love, friendship, and male dismembe...
Four women.
If you've ever wondered what are the best musicals in London's West End , we might finally have the answer for you.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
The Warren once again joined with Brighton Fringe to celebrate the opening of Brighton Fringe 2018 with a fantastic free firework display on Thursday 3rd May.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei...
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
Broadway Baby's Senior Critic Simon Smith looks back over 2016, a year in which we took what we've learned for more than a decade as the biggest reviewer on the Fringe and turned o...
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Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
If all drugs were legal for twenty four hours, what would you do? It really happened - in Ireland, 2015.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
It’s the 1600’s, and a blind boy from a village in Yorkshire wants an education.
Rachel McCrum, inaugural BBC Scotland Poet In Residence in 2015, has just wrapped up the last shows of Rally & Broad, a spoken word, music and live lit events series she ran with J...
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
Ever wondered who works behind the scenes at Brighton Fringe? We've been talking to sound designer and technician Daniel Stevens to find out what he's been up to this festival.
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
A well seasoned Brighton-Fringer, Rosie Blackwell-Sutton certianly has her hands full this year producing her own show as well as marketing three interestnig performances.
Brighton Fringe’s month long arts festival kicks off this Friday, 6 May, with several unmissable shows and a spectacular fireworks display at The Warren.
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Dan Haynes & Pete Richards boast consecutive EdFringe sellouts with Simon & Garfunkel: Through The Years! We get to know Pete a little better...
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
The night Freddie Mercury and Kenny Everett smuggled Princess Diana into an iconic gay venue is the stuff of legend.
London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Brighton Fringe is asking people in Sussex to give the gift of joy this Christmas by helping the Fringe put on its first ever opening night parade.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Broadway Baby publisher Pete Shaw wraps up his Edinburgh experience via his iPhone photo stream.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from...
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...