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.
Kenneth starts his first day and manager Chris has big plans for the McGonagle Tavern: clean the place up, serve gourmet dishes, but above all else make the place a stylish and tra…
When it comes to relationships, Shinanne is all about the D.
The hits of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons performed by UK tribute act The False Seasons.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
For one week only, this unique and exciting exhibition is not to be missed.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even …
When there is no one left but a handful of the human race, what keeps them going? Are we hardwired to self-destruct or can we find something that unites us all to survive and thriv…
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Somewhere, on an island, Gael, a gecko-like creature lives alone, in harmony with the surroundings.
A queer adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years presents an emotionally charged musical following Jamie and Cathy as they fall in and out of love over their turbul…
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
An Alice in Wonderland parody magic show! Come be part of the magic! Las Vegas magician Jordan Rooks combines magic, comedy and storytelling into an unforgettable time! Jordan’s un…
Revealing the man behind the myth.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
The award-winning, 7th highest rated comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 returns! When disaster strikes in Gary’s brain, it’s up to his brain cells to try and fix everything.
In Leni’s Last Lament, which swept top awards at the United Solo Festival, Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, attempts to sanitize her past.
Shiny Things is a comedy variety show hosted by a delightful and mischievous duo, presenting guest acts performing improv, character and stand-up, as well as audience prizes, and a…
The Last Laugh sees three legendary comedians – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse – sitting in a dressing room, discussing the secret of life, death, comedy and wh…
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
While everyone’s settling down – marriages, mortgages, motherhood – Jo’s busy doing all the naughty stuff she’s yet to try! From clubbing with Gen Zs (she’s the hype-girl keepi…
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
EEEEEEeeek! Experimental Performance Cabaret ‘Things That Go Eeek in The Night’ is coming from London to Brighton Fringe !!!!!!! A night of risky silly stupid sexy performance by…
After decades of procrastination, comedy writer Steve Parry (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Live At The Apollo, Gladiators, I’m A Celebrity, Love Island) has finally turned his back on the gl…
Set in the head office of TPL inc.
Duncan Macmillan’s (*Lungs, 1984*) intoxicating hit play __PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS__, directed by Jeremy Herrin (*Best of Enemies, This House*) and designed by Tony Award®-winne…
A woman has entered the chat.
The only “American” tribute to the four tops touring the UK! Direct from the USA, and back by popular demand, Soul Satisfaction appear live in concert p…
The Hole.
Amy Johnson had her ambitions and she flew at them.
Combining striking visuals and physical storytelling with dynamic projection and a resonant soundtrack, Ad Infinitum’s new non-verbal solo show explores a powerful journey of lov…
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
For one day only on 12 December 2023, Theatre Royal Drury Lane plays host to My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert, featuring a 40-piece orchestra …
BEFORE THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN… Hawkins, 1959: a regular town with regular worries.
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
One of the magpie people is here. Though there’s no point in searching for him. He’s going to tell you stories. But he won’t tell you if they’re true.
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
Come and see student sketch comedy groups battle it out for the ultimate prize, power.
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds.
The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring.
Impeccably written theatre with a biting comedic edge; SLT is an intimate hour of storytelling from your most charming, albeit dysfunctional, friend.
This group of friends wanted a normal night out, but life is never straightforward.
Every show starts by asking the audience: Why can’t we have nice things? What are the little everyday niggles that irritate you? Does your flatmate squeeze the toothpaste from th…
Following double Fringe First winners (The Believers Are But Brothers; Rich Kids – A History of Shopping Malls In Tehran), the final piece of Javaad Alipoor’s trilogy is an inves…
‘When light and dark converge, it is an act of creation…’.
Conservation and comedy collide in this hour-long improvised play about endangered species.
A performance from acclaimed composer/songwriter Gareth Williams, lyrically transforming iconic final pages from Scottish fiction into brand-new ‘literary chamber pop’ songs.
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
New York-based comedians and writers, Liz Goldblatt and Matthew DuBois, deliver fresh and personal takes on sexuality, language, and religion.
Fin, a jaded musician, has been invited to his old high school to talk to the students about pursuing their dreams.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
All the hits from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons performed by the UK tribute act The False Seasons.
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
Two Russian artists in exile reveal the cruelty of Soviet life with a good dose of dark humour.
The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is famous for glitz, glitter and glamour, but it started with megaphones and violence.
Janusz is embarking on a trip to Mull, where he hopes to leave behind all his distractions.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
There’s been a mix-up in the weekly appointment with her Sanatorium psychiatrist.
Four Letter Word – a solo autobiographical account, presented by the performer’s vocals and self-written music, detailing her real life, raw to the bone, experience with domestic…
The only stand up comedy show at the Fringe with jokes, stories and a definitive list of my favourite smells from last year.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Did Cerys cause their parents’ divorce? Did they just make that interaction really awkward? Is a new year’s resolution ever going to be enough to fix their personality? In this sur…
An uproarious and uplifting improv party, with prizes, songs, a clown and plenty of chaotic hilarity, not to mention the UK’s top improv talent making it up as they go along.
Following the success of last year’s show, comic songwriter Liz Cotton is back.
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
50% Bristolian.
Whatever you may think Four Felons and a Funeral is going to be when booking the ticket, I can guarantee that it is wildly different than what happens onstage.
According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby.
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by …
Multi award-winning Ad Infinitum (Odyssey, Translunar Paradise, Ballad of the Burning Star) returns with a breathtaking retelling of the Trojan War.
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean skipping-church-because-you’re-too-hungover bad.
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
The Last Living Libertine is the debut hour from John Tothill as he tries to dissect our attitude to life and prove that techno music is the true expression of human spirit and the…
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
In a world with only one gun, one man stands in the way of world peace.
In this poignant and compelling new work, an ambitious manager introduces a new first violinist to a longstanding string quartet with an uncertain future.
There are things that are visible and invisible in this world.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his breakdown a decade ago.
1916.
1916.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
7 Years after it's first tour, Luke Adamson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama about Alzheimer's is being published.
The universal love story. Where you fall in love with someone for the first time but also for the last. Four Actors, cast live, whose story will you see?
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The very last splash of magic and sparkle this season with some of the amazing acts of our Spiegel family, including spots from Sassy, Head First Acrobats, Cabaret Continentale and…
Nominated for Best Show in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2022, Phil Green now brings us his latest work-in-progress show.
After attending four weddings from four different generations last year, Phil finally figures out the reasons behind his own breakdown a decade ago.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
An Accumulation of Thoughts, Things and Circumstance (Work In Progress) For the first time, internationally acclaimed clown Ella The Great (‘lights up the stage’ -The Scotsman) br…
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
How far would you go for love? What would you be willing to change?A fast-moving and thrilling piece of theatre set on a college campus in small-town America.
Joe Orton’s Last Laugh is a fresh take on the fraught relationship between the celebrated writer Joe Orton and his aggrieved partner Kenneth Halliwell.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
Jody Kamali: Things we do for love 50% Bristolian.
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
50% Bristolian.
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
Cerys is not mean enough to be funny, apparently.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Join Ben Carter and Joe Bunn two of the UK’s limpest forces that have been proper melted together for one hour of entertainment.
For one night only, the iconic London Palladium welcomes a star-studded cast in the gala concert performance of an extraordinary new musical ‘AT LAST, IT’S SUMMER&rsquo…
Tension and comedy come together in this historical drama centred on David Lloyd George, where family dynamics provide much of the intrigue, and no one is who they seem.
The 4 friends is based on a story, usually named “The Musicians of Bremen” told to the Grimms Brothers by the Haxthausen family and Dorothy Viehmann.
The dilemma of settling for Mr Average in order to fulfill the dream of being a mother is something that so many women face.
Been crying into ya SAD lamp and on the bakerloo line just to feel ya toes? Well worry no more lads, lasses, ENBY’s and beyond, cos LoUis, and his talented pals will give you the f…
Myths, mystical music and a magpie.
Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all …
Direct from the USA, Soul Satisfaction are live in concert performing and celebrating the sounds of the Four Tops in their American Four Tops Motown Show delivering all …
The Last Incel A woman has entered the chat Imagine If You Will.
Gary is in an accident and his condition is worsening by the minute.
According to google Eva’s boobs weigh the same as an average newborn baby and that’s quite a weight to have on your back, metaphorically, and physically.
Writing a positive review is quite difficult without using hyperbole, and in the spirit of Pierre Novellie’s Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things, it is prudent to at least attempt to…
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
It’s our last shout of 2022 at Dalston Superstore this 10th of December.
DIRECT FROM THE USA, William Hicks’ AMERICAN FOUR TOPS SHOW It’s the show jam packed with sweet soul music and Motown magic that continues to leave audiences…
Mixing survivalism with psychoanalysis, Dave Bain’s Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse is a fractured and confused trip that leaves us with more questions than answers.
Stories! One magical night with the best solo theatre makers and storytellers in the Fringe, nay, Britain! Nay, the world! The Last Thursday Club is a London institution so Fringe …
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
Spend a relaxed hour with Australian living legend John Bell, as he rummages through his swag of favourite things, fishing out poems, stories, backstage gossip: things he finds ins…
David and Emma arrive at work on Christmas Eve – the only two people in the office the morning after the Christmas party.
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…
Wing It Musical Theatre, by arrangement with Nick Hern Books, presents the following amateur performances: Georgia Christou’s Bright.
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
The work is created by Chinese dancer/choreographer Zhibo Zhao, a Chinese National First-Rank Dance Artist now based in London for her PhD research.
Returning to Edinburgh Southside’s historic East Crosscauseway, Irene, Kate, Tricia and John once again bring colour with a dash of monochrome to the Whitespace Gallery.
Award-winning comedian and activist Kate Smurthwaite takes one last long shot at saving us all from global fascist-led environmental Armageddon.
Let’s talk about sex, maybe? Or, maybe not? After having radically different experiences with Sex Ed, Lindsay and Lea try to figure out exactly what they were supposed to learn, …
Greetings, weary traveller.
The award-winning Irish comic has stayed busier than ever over the last two years! From making one of the highest-viewed stand-up specials in Irish television history to somehow sp…
Last year, while clearing out my grandfather’s house, I stumbled across hundreds of hidden envelopes.
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
When Leanne buys herself a magic wand massager, the sensations are so nice, she stops leaving the house.
Al Lubel talks about his name for fifty-six minutes and about something else for four minutes.
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
Susan Morrison is at an age and stage to get some funny stuff off her chest.
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden in our data that made Google $1.
A one-man performance spoken directly to the audience.
Amit Patel discovered a secret hidden our data that made Google $1.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
Freud’s Last Session returns to the King’s Head Theatre after a sell-out run in January and February 2022.
The very last splash of magic and sparkle from this years Spiegel Fringe season, with some of the most amazing acts of our Spiegel family, plus special guests - Laurie Black, Alfie…
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
A work-in-progress story from “smart character comic” (The Scotsman), Funny Women Awards Finalist, and star of BBC’s ‘Socially Awkward Situations.
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
We are four friendly comedians and we’ve still got it! Plenty of laughs, stories and craziness. Come and enjoy an hour hanging out with us!
We are four friendly comedians and we’ve still got it! Plenty of laughs, stories and craziness. Come and enjoy an hour hanging out with us!
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
Leanne likes nice things like instant noodles, personal massagers and Adam Rickitt from Coronation Street.
The convulsive pain of grief, a languorous classical quartet and an exuberant party piece undercut with darkness; these three pieces superbly contrast each other in mood and style,…
Things Fell Apart Strange Tales from the Culture Wars Jon Ronson LIVE Things Fell Apart is the live version of Jon’s hit BBC Radio 4 podcast.
An absurdity of love and laughterEmbracing the natural comedic elements of our friendship, we have curated an evening of music and magic.
Throughout his life, on his birthday, Krapp records a review of his year using an old fashioned tape recorder.
The first of September, 1939.
36 PERFORMANCES ONLY Ralph Fiennes stars in the world premiere stage adaptation of FOUR QUARTETS By T S Eliot ‘Ralph Fiennes triumphs…a magnificent theatrical ex…
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how…
Welcome to the Museum of Marvellous Things, where the impossible can happen! Make stars in jars, catch moons like balloons, dance with Doo-Dahs in cages, sing with Noo-Nahs on sta…
As director Dominic Hill welcomes us to the Tron theatre for this triumphant double bill, the audience cheers midway through his announcement at his mention of the return of live t…
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
“Princes, start your engines! And may the best Princess WIN!” Love Disney? Love Drag Race? Then you’d be mad to miss out on the RETURN of London HOTTEST Drag Parody event: Dis…
Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical, The Last Five Years, returns to London’s West End for the first time in over ten years, after two sensational sell-out seaso…
Set against the backdrop of a Woodstock-vibe music festival in the height of the Summer of Love, Tomorrow May Be My Last marks a key moment in Janis Joplin’s all too brief existe…
This modern adaptation of Little Women, set in London 2019, follows the four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy over a weekend, as Jo and Meg go to visit Beth and Amy in their London b…
This modern adaptation of Little Women, set in London 2019, follows the four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy over a weekend, as Jo and Meg go to visit Beth and Amy in their London b…
Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet…
Award-winning comedian.
Gangsters, attempted murder and actual sharks? Award-winning comedian and TV writer Kate Smurthwaite tells the most mind-blowing lockdown story you’ll ever hear.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Trapped in a manor house, two hapless Glaswegian detectives must investigate the deaths of each family member, but try not to become victims themselves… A time-warp murder myster…
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
A blasphemous dark comedy about the end of the world.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
By Karrim Jalali.
Two men, two different approaches to creating a good play.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
We are four friendly comedians and we’ve still got it! Plenty of laughs, stories and craziness. Come and enjoy an hour hanging out with us!
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.
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
Quiet Little Things OddHouse are an emerging feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Quiet Little Things Will You Be A Quiet Little Thing? OddHouse are an emerging radical feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
BE THE STAR OF THE SHOW! Celebrate with us in our reserved VIP area in the bar.
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and 2019, The Last Five Years returns! Written by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, this two-character musical tracks the emot…
Brand-new show from star of Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 cats, Celebrity Mastermind and regular on The News Quiz and Fighting Talk.
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
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.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Award-winning journalist and radio presenter Ira Glass, storyteller extraordinaire, has announced two UK dates for 2020.
In his new show 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, standup, mischief and really, really well researched material to examine how …
Mark uses his trademark style of storytelling, stand-up, subversion and really, really well-researched material to try and find out how the hell we ended up in the middle of this s…
Mr Bear can’t sleep because Mrs Bear is snoring, so he goes to sleep in Baby Bear’s room.
by Jake Brunger A comic play about sex and commitment in the 21st century.
Edinburgh Comedy Award and double BAFTA-nominated professional idiot Spencer Jones is back with his brand-new show.
Tang and Four Dreams are presented by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.
Rhys Nicholson is a nice man who is doing his best.
This musical theatre applies a double-structured storyline to interpret contemporary understandings of Tang Xianzu, known as Shakespeare of the East.
The artists have collaborated intensely on tango projects nationally and internationally, especially with the opera/tango/dance-fusion show Violetta’s Last Tango.
One man sits alone in a room. Why? Beckett’s master work brought to life for the modern day.
Helen Reid, Iyaah Warren, Lucy Pringle, Morag Dempsey (the four Linties) and Scott Murray (the Craw) were in the singing groups Linties and Sangsters, well known throughout Scotlan…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
In 1815, seventeen European states declared war on one man and committed over a million soldiers to his capture.
The Songsmiths are pitching you the honest truth of what it’s really like to be in an a cappella group.
Coming from their success at the 2017 All-England Theatre Festival semi-finals, Our Star Theatre Company proudly presents their award-winning comedy, The Last Bread Pudding – a h…
Follows one woman and her soul’s journey through cancer, two children and a chihuahua.
Verbatim stories of “love” in all its magnificence and monstrousness.
The Last Supper invites you to confess your deepest, darkest and funniest sins.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
Young socialite Catherine Holly has been left traumatised and confined to a mental hospital after witnessing the horrific murder of her cousin Sebastian during a trip to Europe.
Let’s journey to Thailand.
A 50-minute long devised comedy, heading to the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2019.
Amused Moose Award nominee: Best Show, Edinburgh Fringe 2015.
People who walk too slow.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Number eight will have you totally whelmed! 10 things I Hate About Taming of the Shrew will take you back the good old days, when we worried about Y2K, wore butterfly clips in our …
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble.
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
In the house on the corner of our street lived an old man.
Formed in 1965 in Edinburgh, Fayne and the Cruisers are still going strong, capturing the essence of those 60s dances in church halls and clubs and performing everything from The B…
Flora and Nic have been friends for years, for pretty much the whole of history.
Multi award-winning US playwright Jonathan Caren’s razor-sharp dark comedy follows four friends on a river-rafting stag party that’s turned upside down when a mysterious woman kaya…
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
Spencer Jones took last year’s Edinburgh Fringe off, but did he waste his time idling? Not a chance.
Kaminari UK taiko drummers present their new show Shiki – four seasons.
Gillian English (creator of SHEWOLF) returns to Edinburgh.
Not monologues, as someone else is being addressed.
There’s a shrine outside Anna’s door.
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.
Duration: Approx 2hrs Recommended for ages 11yrs+ Crammed full of adventure, romance, comedy and of course one or two rather brilliant deductions, The Sign of Four is Si…
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Irish comedian Keith Farnan (Michael Mcintyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Showtime’s Live from Amsterdam) brings us a stand-up show that celebrates failure and loss and incompetence and…
In 2014, Eastern Ukraine sits on a knife edge.
Gillian English hates The Taming Of The Shrew.
Styling itself as a 'heartfelt and hilarious musical tribute' to the city of Brighton, All Things Brighton Beautiful utterly triumphs as a celebration of everything we love…
Ridiculous Honeybee Sci-fi.
London based violinist Benedict Cruft once again surveys all of Bach’s solo violin music and over two evenings.
“At Last, the Muppet Men”, a show many said would never happen and a few feared would.
One of the most radically inventive of the original New Wave bands, Gang Of Four were formed in 1977 by four Leeds University students.
Join us as we celebrate the impending end of the world with an evening of show tunes from the West End and Broadway, at the Crazy Coqs Live at Zédel on the 8th of April at 9:15pm.
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
Corduroy arrived on the Acid Jazz scene in early 1992.
Join Mark Thomas for one night only in the Museum of Stolen Things, the first ever pop museum of the nicked.
Bold GirlDying Is No Excuse, Ma.
Performed in a unique dome structure, The Lost Things is about losing things and finding things you didn’t even know you were looking for.
A boy falls and finds himself in a dark and terrifying new world.
All Clara (Mackenzie Foy) wants is a key – a one-of-a-kind key that will unlock a box that holds a priceless gift.
BE THE STAR OF THE SHOW! Celebrate with us in our reserved VIP area in the bar.
A true music icon; Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons is bringing ‘The Farewell Tour’, to The O2 on 2 December 2018.
Motown legends The Four Tops and The Temptations announce a UK arena tour this year, stopping at The O2 on Tuesday 27 November 2018.
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
In ten years’ time, we discover a way to record, store and replay memories at will.
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful German lieder including the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Fraue…
Harriet Stand (Hatty to her friends) is auditioning for a part in the critically acclaimed play Life.
The Edinburgh Piano Duo of Margaret Wakeford and Simon Coverdale present an afternoon concert for young and old on the superb piano found in the welcoming atmosphere and acoustic o…
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Beira – Alison Bell and Heather Yule – weave songs and harp music into a rich fabric combined with traditional stories of the land, the sea and the people of Scotland.
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
Membership of the local amateur drama society has dwindled to four.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Join a couple of Aussies on this off-beat excursion of naughty and ridiculous tales and oddly familiar tunes.
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
The Last Burrah Sahibs is a one-hour, one-man, spoken-word show about the mansion house dwelling life led by ordinary Scottish mill workers in the old jute colonies along the Hoogh…
Things Live! A variety cabaret of Dragtime’s most unusual and magical drag performances yet.
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
For one day only! Live Art Bistro take on ZOO Southside, doing what they do best: presenting 12 hours of transgressive and experimental performance by world-renowned artists.
A man and a woman wait in a flat in Camden for a phone call from a colleague.
Fringe Herald Angel Award winner for music returns with a cherry-picked selection from his extensive repertoire of over 100 songs.
The Edinburgh Quartet, founded in 1960, is one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles.
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…
Explore how the Wars of the Roses still has relevance today.
A sad and lonely cockroach climbs out from a cardboard box; she doesn’t know where she is and there in front of her is a group of furry blurry fluffy things.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Visual theatre company Tortoise in a Nutshell aim to inspire the imagination of their audiences with their creations.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The nation has never been healthier.
After a hugely successful run in 2017 – ‘I didn’t expect for it to be that damn excellent’ (LexicalLunacy.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
Four Go Wild in Wellies is a playful look at how friendships are built, broken and mended – a whimsical adventure featuring tents that have a life of their own, bobble hats and o…
The Matrix, but with bees.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
The Last One is the end of all things, and still needing more.
Anything goes at the Scottish Comedy Festival’s new official late-night Pick of the Fringe showcase with a phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from across the F…
Some people plan their murders meticulously.
If you like pina coladas, and deep emotional pain.
Steve Bennett is the happiest man on the planet.
The show that the greater media cannot entirely accept as real.
Christy Coysh (as seen on BBC Three) and Kat Sadler (selected for BBC New Comedy Award 2017) debut their first work-in-progress show.
People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some…
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
‘My neighbours leave their flat one morning but don’t return.
Relive the magic of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in this remarkable tribute to the most successful band in music history.
Grace is living to a different rhythm.
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique an…
Apples and Snakes and New Writing South presents.
After a successful run of ‘Sweet Things’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Helen Bauer (BBC3 and Comedy Central) and Micky Overman (Funny Women and Leicester Square Finalist 2016) are …
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.
An anonymous man and woman, confined in a space, are trying to pin down the facts.
Micronian Theatre make their return to the stage with their first original two-act play and debut at Brighton Fringe, fundraising for our charities, The Clock Tower Sanctuary and t…
Kevin and Babs Chisholm run The Dog and Dumplings pub along with a mute parrot and a lesbian cat.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
It was a balmy Sunday evening at the end of another warm and sunny weekend and many in the audience seem to have to enjoyed the weekend (and perhaps the wine) a bit too much by the…
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
Mullets, single Mums, Holdens, home done tatts.
Seen regularly around South Australia, The 60 Four is a four-piece Adelaide based group, who are presenting the hottest, freshest 60s tribute act.
Tutti Arts in collaboration with the WCH Foundation presents Wild Things.
Alice is becoming more and more forgetful.
As seen on The Project.
A tiny ‘pop-up’ institute which invites you into a playful and poetic reflection on reality.
Pretending Things are a Cock is the product of Bennett’s three years of global wandering, and combines the artistic, phallic-filled photographic display with hilarious and surpr…
Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final …
Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia present, Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Wicked musical comedy from the political parody specialists, singing truth to power for their ninth (and final) Fringe year and raising their game with a one-off, full-length extra…
The final anarchic annual two-hour charity variety show celebrating the life and random irresponsibility of the godfather of British alternative comedy, filled with bizarre acts, e…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A man collects stories of lost keys and dreams gone astray, wayward wallets and absent loved ones, abandoned playthings and misplaced memories.
An Eric Liddell inspired fundraising event encompassing a legends vs celebrities football match with family-friendly athletics activities for all age groups.
Trumpet, electronics and text.
‘Punch the air to character comedy.
Relive the magic of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons in this remarkable tribute to the most successful band in music history.
Acclaimed storyteller Max Scratchmann celebrates seventy years of Indian independence from British rule and brings the lost world of the infamous Hooghly River Scottish colonies vi…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The future of classical piano is here! With cutting-edge virtuosity and sleek elegance, this four piano, eight hands ensemble from South Korea blends Beethoven and Chopin seamlessl…
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
‘Boogie-woogie.
Actors from the US, UK and Germany present this theatrical tour de force by Pulitzer winner Stephen Adly Guirgis that makes a case for the redemption of history’s most famous betra…
When a man and a woman… or a woman and a woman… or a man and a man… or any combination really, love each other very much, they come together – well, not always together.
You’ll die laughing at this outrageous show about the thing we all have in common.
‘The more I try to remember her, the more I’ve forgotten her.
A historical comedy exploring the life of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico.
Sam is scared of the dark.
Samuel Beckett’s moving meditation on time, memory and ageing is performed by renowned Irish actor Barry McGovern, one of the world’s most revered interpreters of the great pla…
“Death Part 7: The Last Word” is the barely anticipated final installment in Jack Trinco’s fabled, quasi-epic, multi-part exploration of the theme of death.
An hour of comedy from two up-and-comers, Micky Overman – ‘a keen comic mind’ (Chortle.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Abrasive satire for Guardian readers, disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
After Muslims Do It Five Times A Day and Aatificial Intelligence, Aatif Nawaz returns to the Fringe to have The Last Laugh.
Derevo are a legend.
The beginning of Last Resort definitely hooks you in.
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
Brought to you by Parallax Theatre, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a riotous look at life beyond.
If you love Donald Trump, you’ll hate this show! Get ready for a hilarious, thought-provoking, heartbreaking yet inspiring experience – in glorious four-part harmony and over-the…
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Double-Oh Heaven, Showtime, Elixir and more! Filled with Circus, …
‘Eve’s Dawning’ combines storytelling, live music and animation to tell the dystopian fairy tale of Eve, the last girl in the world, as she navigates a post-apocalyptic waste…
Part Classical, part Folk - part Hymnal.
A newly-devised piece exploring issues of mental health.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Brighton comics Vicky Gould and Joe McCarthy join forces to bring you an hour of quirky off-beat humour.
A name as loaded with dark, romantic foreboding as Poe’s Last Night incurs comparison with the titles of Poe’s own works; it suggests mystery, a locked room of buried secrets.
The bizarre tale of the boy Eli Hum, born with a baffling condition: his tummy can only digest honey.
Boogaloo Stu’s dark comedy ‘Last Orders At The Dog & Dumplings’ is an uproarious and merciless exposé of the cold-blooded takeover striking our communities in the name of regene…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.
Abrasive satire for Guardian-readers disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun-readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, Foreign Goods returns with ‘Visions of England’ in April 2017 featuring fully-formed short plays by Chinese, South East…
Set in 1665 as the great plague sweeps through London, Four Thieves’ Vinegar explores the behaviour of ordinary people in times of disaster and examines which elements of the hum…
The 42nd Theatre Company presents Four Thieves’ Vinegar by Christine Foster.
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic.
Fresh from their sell-out hit shows Midnight Tango and Dance ’Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing superstars Vincent Simone & Flavia Cacace have created their most movi…
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, starring Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey.
Kenny Rogers will perform at London's Palladium in November! The country music legend, known for tracks such as Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town, The Gambler and UK c…
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…
Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” …
Peter Rabbit knows very well that he is not to go into Mr McGregor’s garden, especially as it was there that his father met his untimely end! But he cannot resist, and after severa…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
Philomusica of Edinburgh give a performance of Vivaldi’s popular Four Seasons.
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.
What do you do when your set crumbles, your actors forget their lines and lighting fails? Cry? Laugh? Or just carry on? Rolling In The Aisle presents a comedy where everything that…
Making its European premiere, this Canadian comedy gem packs more ideas and laughs into 40 minutes than most plays triple its length.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Japanese piano duo returns to the Fringe with a programme of works ranging from classical pieces of Mozart, Schubert and Rachmaninov to Alexander Rosenblatt’s visually vibrant …
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
Margaret Wakeford and Simon Coverdale present their Fringe fantasy – Schubert’s great late work in F minor, the sylvan and rustic world of Dvorak legends and the Suite Op 52 by Y…
Join Gaulier graduates Georgia Murphy and Evie Fehilly for an hour of surreal comic madness.
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and respect, but does that include UKIP voters? Follow up to the critically acclaimed **** (Chortle.
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Have you been mistaken for a pervert? Are you awkward in a sex shop? Do you try to disguise your farts with a cough? Have you ever wondered how scissoring works? Do you enjoy havin…
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
In the final days of mankind, the last nine human beings left in existence are holed up together in a sanctuary base dubbed ‘Plan Z’.
After another successful European tour, Frank Sanazi’s comedy-cabaret war machine rolls into Edinburgh, accompanied by his psychopathic daughter Nancy Sanazi, Saddami Davis Jnr, De…
Lying seems to be getting more and more fashionable.
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
Daniel Piper is in four gangs, and he’s going to tell you about them.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
Enter the fascinating mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
What are a couple of self-deprecating, twenty-something stand-up comediennes to do at the Fringe, if not perform a stand-up act in two halves, in a rather shockingly intimate karao…
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
25-30 minutes of funny things, said in a Hungarian accent, (because that’s the accent I have and I’m not good at changing it).
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
Gillian Cosgriff is an absolute sweetheart with the pipes of a jazz singer and a wicked sense of humour to match.
Winner, Director’s Choice 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Njambi McGrath’s 1 Last Dance With My Father sells itself as a dark comedy telling the story of her Kenyan upbringing and her violent relationship with her father.
Last Orders is a post coming of age tale, exploring the loyalty of childhood friendships and how one of life’s greatest challenges is choosing between who you are and who you wan…
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique and…
Delighting London audiences since 2013, The Science of Living Things bring their trademark show to Brighton.
Joe Wells believes that you should treat everyone with kindness, but that’s not easy when some of them vote UKIP.
Imagine the sounds of the seasons transformed into music.
Fast-paced, hilarious sketch comedy from Making Faces.
“God is beauty with feeling” insists Nijinsky, gazing searchingly at his audience.
Storytelling feast of foolish kings, tree-climbing princesses, and one revolting woman, woven together by chief mischief-maker Damian BB Wood.
Addiction and theatre may seem good bedfellows as they have often made for a spectacular combination.
(performances start on Thursday) The acclaimed experimental director Robert Wilson steps onstage (and into white makeup and ample hair gel) as the sole performer in Samuel Beckett&…
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…
Glistening with sweat, Megan Hill’s comedy is essentially a real-time Jazzercise class with a wacky plot fused to it, as a willfully chipper exercise instructor (Ms.
FreddyG hosts this free late-night stand-up show at an up-and-coming Astoria space. Headliners include Aparna Nancherla and Mike Recine.
Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four…
Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas are the subject of this White Light Festival event, featuring this British pianist of uncommon eloquence and depth.
Some lives are touched by war.
Two Japanese-born pianists based in Tokyo and Berlin perform a wide variety of brilliant duets covering Grieg’s much-loved Peer Gynt, the classic duets of Dvorak and Debussy as wel…
This is the first year of the ‘iF Platform’ – a new showcase featuring the UK’s top disabled artists and integrated arts companies.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, with soloists Robert Dick, Simon Graham, Sheena Jardine and Kate Miguda, return for a fourth time to perform Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons…
Sandy Nelson’s comic play examines the intriguing events of the 2010 Reykjavik Municipal elections, in which comedian and actor, Jon Gnarr, became the Mayor of Iceland’s capital, d…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
‘Boogie-woogie.
I remember hearing Tony Benn speak many years ago, when I was still in school.
Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
The rhythm of obsession, a journey into mental illness.
Stand-up comedy and theatre rarely interact in meaningful ways.
Act One’s Things Can Only Get Bitter takes its name (with a slight twist) from the now infamous campaign song used by New Labour in the 1997 election campaign.
‘The damn sea rolls on as it always has.
Nicola Wren’s one-woman show describes the hundreds of modern-day anxieties we all face in the dating world due to social media and technology.
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
Scott Redmond had a fun 2014; kidnapped, arrested, threatened at gun and knife point, disowned, broken up and dealing with bereavement.
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.
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…
LET Award Finalist.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
Millerick returns with his most acerbic and painfully funny hour yet.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Aug.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Special turns from Showtime, Lost In Transit, Elixir and other friends from the Spiegeltent and around town.
Joe Wells believes that you should treat all people with love and compassion, but that’s not easy when a quarter of them voted for UKIP.
An observational, tragi-comic and absurd stand-up comedy show.
The Last Five Years, by the darling of the Contemporary musical theatre world Jason Robert Brown, is about struggling actress Cathy and successful novelist Jamie’s five year rela…
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Alex Eberhard presents a sublime 10-piece electric orchestra.
Though the music is catchy, the band is terrific, and the cast is strong, this jazz musical by Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz hasn’t reconciled its improbable source materia…
FOUR PLAY is an exhibition of limited edition prints produced in collaboration between Unlimited design studio and a collective of 40 fantastic contemporary illustrators, artists a…
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on May 17) In the second play in A.
Hooray for all Kind of Things tells the true story of Icelandic stand-up comedian Jòn Gnarr’s decision to run for office in the Reykjavík mayoral elections of 2010.
(performances on Jan.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This writer for “Saturday Night Live” performs a show of stand-up, sketch, short stories and silly experimentation.
Jo Firestone hosts this wonderfully ridiculous twist on a comedy show by challenging the audience to sit through five hours of “miserable, purposely boring and unbearable com…
Bathe in the risqué for an evening of all girl comedy, cabaret & burlesque hosted by Unruly Scrumptious with resident cabaret wrong’uns - plus special guests.
(previews start on Sept.
The Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, with soloists Robert Dick, Simon Graham, Sheena Jardine and Kate Miguda, return for a third time to perform Vivaldi’s ever-popular The Four Seasons.
Entering into a world of 1950s dating, Last Chance Romance is a fun hour for any adult.
The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator.
Replaceable Things features John De Simone’s Panic Diary and Thomas Butler’s Replaceable Parts for the Irreplaceable You, performed by Scottish contemporary music company Ensem…
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
Four Stories Four Songs is a hilarious show based on the music EP of the same name by Emmet O’Malley, which was released in 2014.
An ageing singer in a Buenos Aires cabaret, Violetta refuses to let illness overcome her as she sings her impassioned tango songs each night for her clients.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
Very often at the Fringe one can feel short changed by titles; titles that promise this or that and yet deliver so pitifully little.
This comedy workshop will get your kids writing their own jokes and performing them onstage - all within an hour! Course leader Paul B Edwards is a hugely experienced professional …
Jon Pearson’s tale of a marriage erupting over chewy calamari and rum based cocktails, but who gets the Breaking Bad box-set and how do you split a cat? ‘Brilliant’ (Shropshire Sta…
‘Boogie-woogie.
It’s four minutes in and I find myself clapping harder than ever while singing “Auld Reeke you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind.
“Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?” Maurice Maeterlinck published his play in this intriguing perspe…
The actress-playwright Laoisa Sexton — who wrote and starred in the bleak, funny and winning “For Love” at the Irish Rep last year — returns with this darkl…
Paul Foxcroft (everyone’s imaginary friend) and Briony Redman (sitting-room dancer) are doing their hit 2013 sketch show with a couple of new bits to keep each other surprised.
Performed in the stately Edinburgh Elim church, Mary the Last Farewell is a historical drama about the life of the Queen of Scots.
Seeking to explore the idea that you are your experiences, this positive and inspiring show details how these two up-and-coming comics are not Over It.
Mr Susie, the innocent yet hopelessly confused alien, has one hour to save cabaret.
A high energy romp through Amanda’s psyche will produce songs such as Childhood: What a Load of Shit, Too Tall Blues and the VPL Blues.
All quirky and endearing romcoms would do well to learn a thing or two from A History of Falling Things.
Four on Demand is a free lunchtime showcase for the standup skills of host Alex Hoyle, ‘the Bad Boy of Niceness’, actor and comedian Becky Brunning (Six Steps to Joy), and co…
William Luce’s 1984 play comes to life in this rendition by the Thespis Studio that is made vivid by the solo acting of Loana Pavelescu.
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…
When seeing a piece of new writing it can be best to have no expectations, to let the play lead you where it will.
Al Donegan is a terrible human being who should be alone forever.
Welcome to the World Championships of Boozing 2014! Doesn’t matter if you’re a pitiful alcoholic or a hypocrite teetotaller, this invitation is for you! Come and see what happens …
The idea of a comedy play that’s centred around something we are all really familiar with at the moment - ‘listicles’ - is quite intriguing.
The Last Motel by Sheepish Productions is a dark two-hander with a neo-noir style akin to the works of cult film directors Tarantino and Lynch.
Two Soviet cosmonauts orbiting the earth they left behind twelve years earlier.
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
After critically acclaimed performances to sell-out audiences in festivals around the world, and a legion of Facebook fans, Australian Jon Bennett brings his cult-hit show of 2012 …
The Comedy Store King Gong winner and Comedy Cafe New Act winner explains why his dad says things like: ‘Now that we own Afghanistan why can’t we get them in the Commonwealth Games…
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
Alex Williamson is energetic.
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.
From an initial four to a now fuller six, Bridget Fraser has written a stunning set of monologues that appear at first hand to have little connection to each other but actually r…
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…
Legendary DJs, live music, special guests from ‘Lost in Transit’ and other shows around town and who knows what else… see website for details.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
This was by far one of the most outstandingly bizarre pieces of theatre I have ever seen; I am still not entirely sure what I actually witnessed, but I know that I liked it.
Taking place in the dark and historic Old Police Cells Museum, These Precious Hidden Things is a cleverly written and produced piece by The Barefoot Players.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
Simon Feilder is a comedian.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
It’s Sunday lunch,and where the roast should be,there’s a tofu casserole! Butcher Albert’s table’s set for a monumental clash of values,knives and hearts.
You must experience the joy in your trousers, projectile vomit, rectal prolapse, bloody urinatin’, baby terminatin’, meth overdosin’, aubergine starin’, racist a-tweetin’, Sharia c…
Something Underground Theatre: Winner, Best New Play Brighton Fringe 2012.
Playwright Werner Schwab was just 35 when he died from what must have been quite a drinking spree after a New Year’s Eve party in 1994.
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.
Paul Grifiths is an artist, not because he spent a lifetime studying the grand masters or painting portraits and landscapes from a young age, but because of something primal that d…
This trio’s cutesy introduction, complete with Velcro and cardboard cut-out numbers, was charming.
Do you have any regrets about your life? Celebrating ten years as a company, The Maydays pose questions to the audience about the last ten years of their own life: whether you have…
Things Unsaid is an evening of three one-act plays revolving around the theme of words that have been left unspoken.
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…
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s sensitive, static drama set on an Irish farm comprises three intertwined monologues.
After a very successful debut last year, the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh, with soloists Robert Dick, Simon Graham, Sheena Jardine and Kate Miguda, perform Vivaldi’s ever-popular The…
There was barely an empty seat in Canongate Kirk for this concert and the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh rose to the occasion with a programme to match the unsettled Edinburgh weather.
Women were created so that men would take showers.
Neil LaBute’s 2001 play has big themes: the morality of art; the morality of love.
Last Embrace, a folk musical based on Romeo and Juliet set in Northern Ireland in 1970 at the height of The Troubles, is a true masterpiece of theatre.
Youth string ensemble South West Camerata, a JUTP Music ensemble perform Vivaldi Four Seasons with poetry recitations at St Giles’ Cathedral on Friday 9th August at 12.15pm.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A haunting glimpse into one family’s past, Last One Out is a bittersweet tale of loss, memory and grief.
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
Tackling real contemporary issues, this poignant, hilarious play says a lot about finding love the second (or third or fourth) time.
Split between two comedians, Over It aims to lift the curtain on the taboo subjects of death and anorexia through the medium of laughter - and it kind of works.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
Four Walls playfully follows the story of Sara, a girl who wakes up to her slippers farting, her mirror talking back to her and her kettle boiling at the brim.
A musical black comedy staged as an interaction between actor, screen projection and local choir.
In Last Land and Il gioco, DanceBase presents an engaging double bill of contemporary dance which is certain to be loved by dance connoisseurs.
Comedy debut of a small town little Welsh lady … who isn’t everything she seems.
Free stand-up show from 21-year-old rising star, Patrick Morris.
Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him …
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
Fringe favourites Four Screws Loose return with an explosion of comedy not to be missed! ‘Had me crying with laughter’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
As one of the earliest Holmes stories and not one of the best known, the Sign of Four is perhaps not the best of choices for a theatrical adaptation.
Take Two Every Four Hours is a heart wrenching tale of friendship in the face of illness.
James will never leave his hospital bed.
Fresh from the Namat Theatre in Cairo, Human and Other Things offers a select glimpse of Egypt, albeit in a rather frustrating manner.
What do you do when you realise that the life you have lived up until now isn’t the life you wanted to live? Who are you now and where are you going? How far will you go in searc…
The Hill Street venue has a great find in their ‘Master’s Room’ space and Hinge Theatre has installed itself there to present Ordinary Things: a two-actor, four character pla…
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
The challenge with this musical has always been that, with only one actor on stage for most of the play, he or she must always be acting and can never take refuge in reacting or in…
The title of this show is a rather misleading one.
Probably our best knowledge of Victorian farce comes from WS Gilbert’s topsy-turvy world of the Savoy operas, where an absurd premise leads with impeccable logic to an even more …
Can watching someone else’s psychedelic trip be interesting? This show proves that with the right cast, it can certainly have dazzling moments of fun.
Tom Owen does well to capture the raw physicality of Beckett’s anti-hero in this new production of Krapp’s Last Tape.
The ‘last days’ of the title is used in a Milennarian sense – we are at Judas’s Judgement Day, at a trial which ostensibly will determine whether Judas should be released f…
There’s a point in the torpid Last Train From Holyhead when the actor, Mick Lally, is left alone on stage waiting, it appears, for a light cue.
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Luke Milford is a likeable chap who seems to like people, so much so they form a major part of his show.
Starting with a school-girl strip routine that ends in crucifixion, The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper continues at a strapping pace, moving from Southern Country Singers to Hippy-c…
A co-production with Vertical Line and Greenwich theatre, Take Two Every Four Hours is a work in progress by Henry Regan and Ross Stanley.
There is no such thing as a show that is too silly.
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s Four Last Things is an evocative, but turbid, journey through the Irish country landscape and all unspoken things.
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…
An actor Jack Treadwell known to his friends as Tread is giving his very last lecture/performance on dramatic method and the art of acting.
When the only woman of the four brought out a loaf of sliced bread, I have to say I did predict the oncoming joke.
James Acaster claims to be very excitable, but this claim is not borne out by his laid back delivery and mundane choice of topics.
Mr McFall’s Chamber highlight an integral part of Scottish culture, proving there’s far more to folk music than twee tunes and the Braveheart soundtrack.
A marvellously vulgar performance of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape was performed upstairs at The Lectern last night, by the absolutely faultless Aidan Stephenson.
Cubicle Four is comprised of a trio of duologues set in the eponymous hospital cubicle.
It’s hard to know how to judge Rare Notions Theatre Company’s first contribution to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Backed by ethereal, moody themes produced by the aptly titled Ragged Ragtime Band, Rex Ingram’s silent film version of The Magician was brought up from the vault to revel in the …
Oh dear.
This is a play about love and art, and the lengths someone will go to reach out and take hold of something real and tangible from each, or both, of these two abstract concepts.
Michael Redmond seems like a perfectly happy chap.
The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims…
Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go…
Traverse has presented the most elegant of double bills for the Fringe by showcasing two of Scotland’s prized playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
A man singing Liza Minnelli in drag.
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
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…
Imagine a story with two puppets struggling for consciousness, a sinister East-End Orator, and an arty pinch of German Expressionism and what do you have? A modern fairytale that a…
Four separate, distinct pieces captivate and hold the audience for the full hour, exploring different relationships through some of the most jaw-dropping performance I have ever se…
There’s much to commend in Red Ladder Theatre’s ‘Forgotten Things’, written by Emma Adams.
This fast paced, quick-fire sketch show has the audience rolling in the aisles.
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.
It will come as no surprise that this is a controversial play.
Bouncing on stage with a declaration that he’s always wanted to play the smallest gig at the Festival, Luke Toulson is quick to establish a rapport with his small but perfectly for…
Ivor Novello and Noel Coward have both been celebrated countless times in musical biopics, but this could be the first time that their respective careers and lives have been combin…
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.
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.
So sexy that 70% of the room would leave pregnant with very hairy babies (and that’s not just the women) was the warning we received, as we sat ourselves down and prepared for th…
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
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…
Four by Four is in fact, two by two: four plays have been paired up and alternated on the four days they are scheduled.
This one-woman comedy show takes you to the frustrated post apocalypse world where woman has inherited the Earth.
Four Screws Loose blow preconceptions of the Free Fringe wide apart with their dazzling debut show, Latecomers Will Be Shot.
From a rolling mass of protruding limbs, encased in a stomach-like skin which at first appears to be a boulder, five performers are regurgitated.
It occurred to me watching Neil LaBute’s 90-minute four-hander, that he is the nearest thing America has to George Bernard Shaw.
Looking at people’s holiday pictures can be a downright dull experience.
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
We talked to Phil Green about his background and his show, Four Weddings & A Breakdown at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
James Macfarlane chats with comedian Robin Tran about her Fringe debut, how she deals with praise from big comedy names and her favourite way to control her audiences.
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.
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Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
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...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Wojtek: The Happy Warrior is a physical theatre ensemble retelling of the real-life story of a Syrian bear who joined the Polish army to fight in World War II.
Broadway Baby talks to Fourth Monkey, the biggest company at the fringe with a huge team of 80 actors and 10 crew! This year they are bringing a plethora of Grimm tales.