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.
Daliso did his first show Feed This Black Man 20 years ago.
Wayward Jane’s music is a modern, transatlantic interpretation of American folk and Old Time traditions, blending roots music with fresh arrangements and original compositions.
Are you ready to ask yourself the hard questions we face within society, family, love and culture? If so, come and witness the journey of four troubled souls who unwittingly explor…
The University of Leeds’ award-winning a cappella group, The Songsmiths, are back for their fifth year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Looking for a fun, interactive activity for all the family? Come and join the UK’s No.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Winner of the Out Of Hand Media Award for Best Show in the Spirit of the Fringe 2022.
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…
The smash-hit West End comedy, as heard on BBC Radio 4, celebrates its 11th glorious year at the Fringe! The all-star cast (featuring Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Graham Dickson an…
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death, immerse yourselves in two of Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classics.
Enjoy an evening of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
Three heroes.
Following sell-out runs worldwide, this award-winning show returns to take you on a moving journey through the career of a modern legend.
This show will change your afterlife! How will the end of the world affect you? Is it nigh? Are pets allowed in heaven? Which religion guarantees unlimited free booze in the afterl…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
From one of the creators of Big Zeus Energy (nominated for Best Debut Show Leicester Comedy Festival 2023, sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2023) and Nightwatchman (sell-out Edinburgh Fri…
After thrilling the world, with more than 600,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance, Monte Carlo Festival and Moulin Rouge, the ‘best circus s…
Half-Brit comedian Jane Mumford was born and raised in Switzerland.
‘Superbly written and acted play.
A comedy about the adventures of a 50-year-old woman chasing the perfect lighting, powerful personalities and satisfying sausage condiment.
Anything goes at this late-night variety show hosted by Australia’s cult-favourite improv group Snake Pit featuring Edinburgh’s biggest acts of today and tomorrow.
Gracie is looking for love, and it’s been tough.
Daliso performed his first show Feed This Black Man in the 2000s.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
In 2015, at the age of 20, Mhairi Black became the youngest person ever elected to the House of Commons.
Best Show Nominee, Edinburgh Comedy Awards and Melbourne Comedy Festival.
The second Culture ConneX collaboration with Black Brighton Market brings you a vibrant artisanal marketplace featuring arts & craft stalls, books, pop up performances and a cultur…
The second Culture ConneX collaboration with Black Brighton Market brings you a vibrant artisanal marketplace featuring arts & craft stalls, books, pop up performances and a cultur…
There is 54 minutes until the end When you sit down the show will begin.
*PART OF LAMB COMEDY’S BIG QUEER WEEKENDER* Terrible people is a new stand up comedy show from comedy award finalist Jane Postlethwaite (Cumbrian / LGBTQI+ Stand Up Comedian) Ter…
Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life.
To What End? is a fun exploration of endings of all sorts: relationships, identities, jobs, even life.
Taking A Love Pill at the End of the World is a play about existing at the end.
There’s no future for Igg and Tom.
The Black Diamonds UK present ‘Stealing the Show’.
On its sixth birthday, West End Does: bring you a brand new show that is all things COUNTRY! The cast features Olivier Award-winner and a past assistant of Doctor Who, Arthur Dar…
“Wild, inventive comedy for fans of Emo Philips and Nick Lutsko.
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 Independent Socialist Republic Of The Upper End Of The Lower Breck Road“Change will only come through the barrel of a gun.
Black Swans explores the emotional and ethical complexities of introducing AI into human caregiving through the story of two sisters and their mother.
When Llew arrives at the graveyard with flowers for his Mum, the last thing he expects to find is a feisty, possibly feral girl, hijacking his night.
Join Brighton Fringe as we celebrate the outstanding local artists who make up our inaugural Made in Sussex programme.
Roll for Melanin.
Roll for Melanin.
“If you want something done, ask a busy woman…” Inspired by a true story and based on the hit film, MADE IN DAGENHAM is a powerhouse musical comedy about friendship, love an…
London’s original cabaret trouble-makers THE BLACK CAT CABARET present a limited season of moonlit mischief and mayhem in the beating heart of Soho! Join the BCC gang for a nigh…
Ryan Calais Cameron’s For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy, is now in its fourth run and second West End transfer with a brand new cast, and it …
London’s longest-running theatre magic show West End Magic presents some of the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
West End Sessions a captivating new live music show in an intimate, cabaret style setting located in the heart of Mayfair.
The Black is back! The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase in partnership with Boisterous Theatre Co.
Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre.
Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre.
The West End’s number one concert series is back with another feel good, all singing, all dancing Christmas extravaganza! Brought to you by an incredible cast of West End stars, …
Fisherman Jon invites you to embark on an epic voyage of self discovery, to find out what truly is on the end of his rod.
Get ready to have your socks knocked off and your heart racing with The Barricade Boys! These four dazzling performers are taking the world by storm with their electrifying show th…
A soiree of delights.
From the imagination of Neil Gaiman, best-selling author of Good Omens, Coraline and The Sandman, the National Theatre’s smash-hit production The Ocean at the End of the Lane…
Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improv comedy to the West End! Fresh from the Fringe, their show features chaotic games, epic scenes, an…
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Shoot From The Hip bring their award-winning, TikTok-viral improvised comedy to the West End! Featuring chaotic g…
An in-depth dissection of the 2016 episode of British reality TV show Come Dine With Me in which a contestant, incensed at having lost, berated his fellow diners in a virulently im…
A show where Kinne shares too much information about all of the things wrong with him.
Fresh from his hilarious performances at the New York Comedy Festival, Halifax Comedy Festival, and CBC Canada, Ali Mehedi is ready to dazzle you with his otherworldly wit.
Direct from London’s West End, The Barricade Boys are the UK’s most exciting theatrical vocal group.
A new original jazz musical, set in 1970s Las Vegas.
His father died at 45.
Steve Jackson – ‘guts and sincerity’ **** (Scotsman) – is returning to Surgeon’s Hall with a new show.
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Amy spins a sparkling web of comedy magic between the two states she finds herself caught between – stability and restlessness.
Our fifth year! Back with top Black international comedy acts, prize games, cabaret and giving a token straight white male comic a chance they rarely get.
Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou…
“Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit (so far this trademark has failed to hold water in court).
Principal musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra perform this 20th-century masterpiece.
Fringe First and Spirit of the Fringe award winner Apphia Campbell’s stunning solo show, inspired by the life of Nina Simone.
‘What would it take for you to eat a real-life human being?’ It’s dinner time in the Abbey stately home.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
Ever wondered what would happen when Girl meets Ghoul? Aubury has the worst job in the underworld – training ghosts.
Two very different Daniel’s.
Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro.
Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in her London debut performance, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro.
Australian comedian Troy Kinne is on tour and returns to London and the Leicester Square Theatre with his new show, MADE WRONG.
Social media star Paul Black returns to the Fringe this year with his new stand-up show, Nostalgia, a look back into his childhood as a gay wee boy growing up in Glasgow as the son…
HOLD ON TO YOUR HORSES!!!! TRUE WEST is in town! SAM SHEPARD is a unique voice in contemporary theatre.
HOLD ON TO YOUR HORSES!!!! TRUE WEST is in town! SAM SHEPARD is a unique voice in contemporary theatre.
MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South.
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air.
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air.
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.
Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition.
Physical theatre combines with original music as 7th century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar Xuanzang embarks on a spiritual quest to India, seeking the answer to the question, �…
The smash-hit West End comedy, as heard on BBC Radio 4, celebrates its 10th glorious year at the Fringe! The all-star cast (featuring Rachel Parris, Graham Dickson, Cariad Lloyd an…
Roe vs Wade is synonymous with the debate around abortion rights.
The smash-hit, gig-theatre show returns, charting the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey from 90s indie-kid to wised-up woman.
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
Following consecutive sold-out performances and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back To Black returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe to take you on a moving and energizing…
As comedian Stephen Catling ambles onto stage, clad in a novelty dog head, it's apparent that we're sitting in an absurdist comedy show.
A buddy comedy for an existential generation.
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…
Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children’s show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual …
When a Jane Austen heroine, unlucky in love, finds herself thrown into the modern world of dating, she must set aside her customs and expectations to brave this new world of courts…
In 5 Mistakes That Changed History, host Paul Coulter establishes the self-evident premise, that this will be something of a comical TED Talk about some fascinating moments that sh…
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.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Sexy Circus Sideshow succeeds in being sexy, and includes both circus and sideshow.
Emerging from the ashes of her father’s death, Moni Zhang brings you a dark and hilarious comedy show that will leave you gasping for air.
Following the sell-out success of his 2022 show The Beginning Of The End, McTavish, described as ‘one of the finest acts on the Scottish comedy circuit’ (Guardian), presents anothe…
An acrobatic spoof of the movie The Blues Brothers, with plenty of flips and stunts weaved in alongside some clowning.
The night is dark and full of laughs with Black Widows, where the boldest female comedians come to push boundaries and tackle taboo topics.
As Mark Black visits the doctors for looking for a diagnosis, he takes us through the chaos with a set written by ADHD itself.
In Married at First Sleight, married magicians Kat and Alan Hudson introduce their show with boundless enthusiasm, demonstraing the obvious chemistry you'd hope to witness from…
Juliette Burton opens her new show, No Brainer, clad in a t-shirt emblazoned with the typically Burtonesque "Brains are the new tits".
As 90s TV star Gail Porter walks onstage, she confidently addresses the fact that her mic isn't working, and, in doing so, somehow wins the audience over more than she may have…
For anyone who knows the first thing about the history of Edinburgh Fringe, and indeed, comedy itself, you should already be familiar with Cambridge Footlights and its roster of al…
***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide).
In Absolute Monopoly, host Benjamin Alborough proves himself a Milburn Pennybags (aka Mr Monopoly) for the 21st Century.
Amy Matthews’ I Feel Like I’m Made of Spiders is a stand-up comedy with an edge.
Dominique Solerno’s The Box Show is a well-conceived theatrical piece which sees this talented and versatile performer performing a plethora of different characters, all from wit…
How to Flirt: The TED XXX Talk is a fun and interactive comedy lecture with a lot going for it.
As Adam Kay closes in on becoming a household name, he is evidently an Edinburghhold name, packing out the prestigious Pleasance Grand to brimming point.
After over 30 years in the business, impressionist legend Jon Culshaw finally debuts his one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Indonesia’s leading English language stand-up comedians visit Edinburgh for the first time! The Indonesian stand-up comedy scene exploded 15 years ago and since then many performer…
The Umbilical Brothers (Shane and David Umbilical) are two multi-award-winning Australian actor-comics who have created a genuinely fresh and modern style of comedy show, combining…
Stark Bollock Naked does exactly what it says on the tin - minus the bollocks.
An Alternative Helpline for the End of the World is a 15-minute consultation delivered through a 1 on 1 phone call, in which the solo audience members’ responses through a yes or n…
As hypnotist Matt Hale enters the stage to '80s music, in '80s clothing, it is apparent this is going to be a very '80s hypnosis show.
From design classics to cutting-edge catwalk creations, Beyond the Little Black Dress deconstructs this iconic garment and examines the radical power of the colour black in fashion…
This year’s fair runs from 31st July to 27th August in the grounds of St John’s Church.
This dark comedy, set on the 15-year anniversary of the Apocalypse tackles themes of isolation, late-stage capitalism and purpose.
15 years after the apocalypse, a lone radio host struggles to keep his show on the air. He ponders the warning signs that spelled our doom. Is anyone listening? Have they ever…?
A psychedelic, forest-core journey of discovery about the stubborn resilience of lesbian love in the face of adversity.
Jane Eyre is the most read work of fiction in English of all time, and second only to the Bible.
Pioneers: Ballet Black is an inspired pairing of dance pieces, both in terms of subject matter and in their exploratory choreography.
Made From Skratch offers you the best from young performers from Brighton & beyond.
Jamie and her Nanna have seen their home disappear under rising sea levels, and find themselves on a terrifying and exhilarating adventure to rebuild their lives and stop climate c…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Made From Skratch offers you the best from young performers from Brighton & beyond.
Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe festival for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in th…
The other history of photography, encapsulated in the work of Vanley Burke, Neil Kenlock and Charlie Phillips, shares overlapping stories of absence, resistance and emergence that …
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
Charlie Phillip’s life in photography is mirrored in his stories.
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
Experience the European Premiere of Black Panther in Concert as part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Films in Concert series.
2023 - THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END - VLADIMIR McTAVISH (Work In Progress) Following the critical and box office success at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe of his show The Beginni…
2023 - THE END OF THE BEGINNING OF THE END - VLADIMIR McTAVISH (Work In Progress) Following the critical and box office success at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe of his show The Beginni…
Love the circus? Movies? Burlesque? Join us for a smashing burlesque extravaganza from The Black Market- expect Moulin Rouge magic, Greatest Showman sing-a-long faves, and audaciou…
The Black Market is bringing the fabulous 1940’s back to Brighton! Who is ‘The Black Market’? The black markets of WW2 were unique to each location, they popped up unexpectedl…
His father died at 45.
CORAL BEVAN IS “FISHERMAN JON: WHAT’S ON THE END OF MY ROD?” “Fisherman Jon is an icon!” - Rikki Beadle Blair.
His father died at 45.
CORAL BEVAN IS “FISHERMAN JON: WHAT’S ON THE END OF MY ROD?” “Fisherman Jon is an icon!” - Rikki Beadle Blair.
Three comedians performing dark, vulgar and irreverent stand-up comedy from the very depths of their damned souls.
Three stand-ups performing twenty minutes of comedy from the very depths of their damned souls.
★★★★★ “Jenny Wynter is pure joy.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Amy Winehouse captured the world with her unique vocal stylings and unapologetic lyrics combined with a sassy, yet dark brooding personality.
As one of the most iconic members of the 27 club, Amy Winehouse left an indelible impression, not just on popular music, but on popular culture as a whole.
Jumping off a killer UK tour supporting Adam Ant, Laurie Black is here to synthrock the Bosco down in style.
Is virtual reality now the new reality? Can we keep it under control? Two little girls, both called Petra, use all their super-powers on a quest to answer this, the most complica…
Is virtual reality now the new reality? Can we keep it under control? Two little girls, both called Petra, use all their super-powers on a quest to answer this, the most complica…
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, and services and perform to the general public, creating equal oppo…
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, and services and perform to the general public, creating equal oppo…
Originally from Australia, Amelia now lives and loves in the land of sausage, socks and sandals and smouldering eye contact; Berlin.
Originally from Australia, Amelia now lives and loves in the land of sausage, socks and sandals and smouldering eye contact; Berlin.
“What are you doing here” asks the interviewer at Nuri’s asylum assessment.
West End Does is back for Hollywood: The Sequel! Join them for another fantastic mix of songs from the world of Hollywood including music from animated classics, musical movies, an…
Opera della Luna's latest production of Sweeney Todd will show you the barber as you have never seen or heard him before.
Paul Black's brand new show 'Nostalgia' follows on from the Glasgow-born comedian's debut Edinburgh Fringe run, which sold out in minutes.
It’s not every day that you see your imagination augmented by the stage adaptation of a book.
Filthy, fun and downright delicious.
'I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me' Father figures and fashion tips.
Edgar Allan Poe’s famous horror story is brought to life in a thrilling, physical staging accompanied by live music.
'How long has the earth been around for? Millions, billions who knows, I don’t know, I don’t care to find out.
When hard times come, when hope is lost, when it seems like this really might be it, we tell stories.
Hutchinson is back with a brand new show for 2023.
London's longest-running theatre magic show celebrating 10 years at the Leicester Square theatre.
Hutchinson is back with a brand new show for 2023.
“Yes, they haunt me, but not for one moment did I agoniseover what I did or ordered.
Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev…
'Ridiculously silly… wickedly funny’ ★★★★★ The Times 'A joy to behold’ ★★★★ The Guardian The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as heard …
The Black is back! The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase in partnership with Boisterous Theatre Co.
Fresh from a UK tour supporting Adam Ant, Laurie Black invites you for a knees-up around the pianna (ahem, Microkorg).
Expect creative fun from one of our oldest surviving alternative comics.
Bringing you the best in new & established talent every Friday at the queer venue everyone is talking about ZODIAC!Starring vocal sensation:Miss JoelleAidan OrangeHappy Hour fr…
Join storyteller Laura Sampson, accompanying sound artist Sam Enthoven and special guests for a selection of grown-up folk and fairytales on the theme of mortality.
London's longest running theatre magic show.
Maestro Qian Junping leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra at this Image China Concert with featured prize-winning soloists Ning Feng and Yang Xuefei.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
Want to try your hand at some creative accounting? Ready to get paid $$$ for your creative talents? Or get your Fringe tickets as an NFT? Welcome to the Wild West of the crypto-eco…
Exploring the complexities and intersections of family, poverty, politics and sexuality, this adaptation brings all the urgency and relevance of Édouard Louis’s novel to the stage…
Often named one of Europe’s rising comedy stars, the most international comic to come from Portugal, André brings a work in progress where he tackles the world’s perception of Por…
Absurdist comedy character clown Coral Bevan presents Fisherman Jon: Whats on the end of my Rod? (Work in Progress).
Absurdist comedy character clown Coral Bevan presents Fisherman Jon: Whats on the end of my Rod? (Work in Progress).
Absurdist comedy character clown Coral Bevan presents Fisherman Jon: Whats on the end of my Rod? (Work in Progress).
Award-winning experimental composer Michael Begg’s groundbreaking Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music from the borderlands of classical and experimental music.
A group of Scotland’s leading young musicians perform a selection of albums from Start to End.
Serving you up a big warm slice of comedy pie every month, the Dinner Daddies delight with their trademark wit and banter (so far, these trademarks have failed to hold water in cou…
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For The Many.
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
Crazy Coqs’ iconic Saturday night residency show, The Black Cat Cabaret presents an evening of old school Hollywood glamour meets underground London nightlife, performed…
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
Fresh from a UK tour supporting Adam Ant, Laurie Black invites you for a knees-up around the pianna (ahem, Microkorg).
The West End Fair returns to the stunning grounds of St John’s Church.
The West End New Act of the Year was a comedy competition held between November and March to find the funniest emerging comedy talent.
The only place to see top Black comedians and cabaret acts from around the globe (who are still able to get in the country or afford travel).
Under Heaven’s Eyes is a solo play that asks: did George Floyd’s killing mark a turning point for real change or yet another false dawn? While also exploring how systemic and s…
A pianist with superhuman coordination, Los Angeles-based Milen Kirov is an award-winning Bulgarian-American pianist and composer with an inimitable artistic voice and celebrated c…
London’s longest-running theatre magic show, direct from the Leicester Square Theatre.
Before the Thinking Drinkers even begins, the audience experiences a feeling which is very rare at Edinburgh Fringe: ‘This show is value for money!’Provided with a bag containi…
For regular Fringegoers who aim to tick all the most talked-about and cultest shows off your list, I’m going to make a prediction: you’ve seen Spank! before.
After sell-out performances and five-star reviews from 2016-2019, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh for their fifth year with a new line-up of songs! Featuring worl…
After its sensational debut in 2019 and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back to Black returns, taking you on a moving and energising journey through a modern legend’s ca…
Cool with underlying passion and deceptively simple choreography by New Yorker/San Franciscan Stephen Pelton, End Without Days gets under your skin.
It’s time for us to play.
Join The Glittering Prince of Magic for a world-class magical premiere extravaganza.
Edinburgh Fringe is a hub of unique and wild shows, contrasting genres and varieties of themes crunched into a tight hour.
Ireland’s comedy darlings Mark O’Keeffe (Winner Show Me the Funny 2019) & Richy Sheehy (viral sensation as seen on Sky, RTE, BBC) are back with their new best hour! ‘These guys are…
Writer and performer Paul Black brings his theatre show Self-Care Era to the Fringe for the first time.
The Just Us League of Javier Jarquin and Gary Tro return with an update of their whistlestop tour of the first 3 Marvel Cinematic Universe phases (somewhat contradicting their titl…
If you want to discover – or further explore – cabaret, you couldn’t do better than to start with Reuben Kaye.
The power and poise of a 20th century cultural icon is brought to brilliant life by Apphia Campbell in Black is the Color of My Voice, a deeply moving mix of music and theatre.
After moving to London to live within a more diverse community, Livia learns that the self-hate feelings she experienced all her life are internalised racism and survival technique…
Are we nearing the end of the pandemic? Or are we on the brink of yet more global catastrophes? Are governments fiddling while the world burns? Following his total sell-out success…
Hi-de-hi darlings – welcome back.
Climate change.
Since leaving home in Birmingham, Rinkoo Barpaga has been determined to find somewhere to settle.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
Black Blues Brothers have quickly gained the reputation as one of the go-to circus-based acts on the Fringe, and, after witnessing this spectacle, it’s not hard to see why.
America’s Got Talent semi-finalist Dom Chambers makes his Fringe debut with the magically titled Fake Wizard.
If you want to see a show with a highly intelligent, quick-witted comedy improv rapper in which all his people from the front to the back nod, look no further than Chris Turner: Ra…
Of the 39 shows I saw in three and a half days this Fringe, the biggest gamble and least familiarity was Randy Feltface.
A study on what it means to be Black in Brazil.
Comedian grannies, mud-floor comedy clubs, white-face audiences, broke aristocrat orgies with angry Afrikaans, soldiers in search of stiffies, African matriarchs objectifying thems…
Britain’s Got Talent finalist Magical Bones is one of the more recognisable magicians on the Fringe thanks mostly to his BGT appearance.
Join us for the seventh West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre.
Expect chips in gravy and on shoulders Fantastic stand up comedy from Jimmy Shirley, Percy Savage and Ant Grogan, 3 of the best comedians on the North West comedy scene.
Expect chips in gravy and on shoulders Fantastic stand up comedy from Jimmy Shirley, Percy Savage and Ant Grogan, 3 of the best comedians on the North West comedy scene.
From the critically acclaimed creators of Crooks 1926, ‘The Peak of Immersive,’ comes a whole new age of Bandits and Criminals.
Despite what you may have been told at school, almost nothing is made of atoms.
Despite what you may have been told at school, almost nothing is made of atoms.
The Disappearance Of Walter Black has been inspired by the true story of Larry Griffin, an Irish postman who disappeared from the village of Stradbally, County Wate…
We’re already halfway through 2022.
We’re already halfway through 2022.
Jumping off a killer UK tour supporting Adam Ant, Laurie Black is here to synthrock the Bosco down in style.
Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a …
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in the decaden…
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…
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain's most loved comedians for half a century.
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain's most loved comedians for half a century.
London’s premier magic show featuring the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
The Black is back! The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase in partnership with Boisterous Theatre Co.
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain’s most loved comedians.
Following a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Britain’s Got Talent Finalist and star of international stage hit Impossible takes to the ro…
Your one-way ticket to MarsLeaving planet Earth forever to colonise the Red Planet: Becca is thrilled by the idea.
Join us!Join us for an evening of Talent at West Five Bar - You can just turn up on the night as this event is free entry! Want to be a contestant?If you wish to be a contesta…
Love.
A fantastic mix of traditional and contemporary Christmas carols and songs sung by the best in the West End.
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain's most loved comedians for half a century.
Celebrating the musical numbers of the finest villains, evil doers, baddies and the downright despicable.
The Black is back! The Alternative Black Cabaret Showcase in partnership with Boisterous Theatre Co.
When you’re 15 years old, the only things that matter are Man United, Oasis and fish & chips for tea - not career paths or A-Levels.
Flirt outrageously!Dance like everyone is watching!Love like you want to be hurt!Thirst Friday is a big Friday Night Out for alternative Londoners, welcoming all flavours of k…
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Filmed during the martial law period and banned by the Kuomintang regime due to its homosexual undercurrents and likely for its political overtones, The End of the Track is a landm…
How do you find your tribe, locate your logical family, detect your ride or die BFF, when your meets with other Black queer men all seem to start with,Pic?You firstBut you’re the o…
Ella Gant - amazing new drag artiste - so new and talented flock are proud and very honoured to have her come and entertain on a Friday.
Flock is East London’s newst LGBTQI friendly venue in South Woodford near the station, Central Line.
Set to be a night to remember, BLKOUT will be taking over Brixton Villages iconic avenues in Market Row for a larger than life Queer Ball in partnership with Drelle West - the Inte…
Sharpen your swords, lace up your boots, and stick a great big feather in your hat! Morgan & West present a fun for all the family retelling of Alexadre Dumas’ The Three …
A musical adaptation of the masterfully satirical novel Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov: When Sergei Leontievich’s bid to take his own life fails, they dramatises their novel whose …
A musical adaptation of the masterfully satirical novel Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov: When Sergei Leontievich’s bid to take his own life fails, they dramatises their novel whose …
‘Britain’s best new band’ offer a fiercely energetic sonic time capsule merging the past, the present and the future.
Edinburgh Fringe is usually teeming with high-end improv shows to choose from, but pickings this year are, unsurprisingly, slim.
Expect freewheeling improvisations and post-punk, jazz and prog rock influences in one exciting, blistering performance from Mercury nominees black midi.
Paul Black's Fringe debut had a lot to live up to.
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.
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Highly Suspect is a highly novel theatrical experience in which four actors take on the roles of supporting players from the Sherlock Holmes stories - Watson, Le Strade, Mycroft an…
For regular fringegoers this year, there are markedly few of the regular staple performers returning to contribute to the semblance of normality the festival is offering up.
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.
A new Friday weekly LGBT+ friendly event brought to you in the function room huddled between that glamourous venue O’Neills in Leytonstone and the cruising areas of Hollow Ponds.
The Great Baldini sets the stage excellently for his show, greeting each audience member at the door, and asking their name, which he will repeat when he invites them to volunteer …
‘Better than Sex’ is a one-woman tantalising and timeless cabaret reflecting on the infamous 1930’s sex-symbol, Mae West.
‘Better than Sex’ is a one-woman tantalising and timeless cabaret reflecting on the infamous 1930’s sex-symbol, Mae West.
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.
This iconic fair is based on the grounds of the church, in clusters of marquees and open-air stalls, all linked together by an ingenious system of walkways.
ChasingRainbows presents Looks Like We Made It.
At the end of the line; a story of waiting for life to begin and the delays we experience to get there.
A tale of the songs that lead us into the future and the ones that call us home; this show is a masterpiece in storytelling and soul.
Edinburgh’s favourite topical comedy show.
There are a handful of stories which truly stand the test of time.
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.
Tash is a simple girl.
A magical evening of songs from London’s greatest musicals sung by a host of West End performers, starring an incredible cast drawn from the most iconic West End and Broadway sho…
“In my opinion, the purpose of studying history is for us to learn from our predecessors, not judge them for things they may or may not have done in a time very different to ours…
An outdoor theatrical escape room as a fringe show is pretty much a dream tagline for me, and for many others across the country too, I'm quite sure.
“In my opinion, the purpose of studying history is for us to learn from our predecessors, not judge them for things they may or may not have done in a time very different to ours…
YES! We are back and we can DANCE! DJ’s from 10pmSpecial Guests 20/8/21 Sandra London 11pm Stage Time 1/10/21 Sandra London 11pm Stage Time22/10 Vicki Vivacious 11pm…
A new Friday weekly LGBT+ friendly event brought to you in the function room adjacent to the glamourous venue O’Neills in Leytonstone.
TUCK SHOP WEST END is the first ever Drag season LIVE on the West End, brought to you by the producers of Death Drop, TuckShop.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain’s most loved comedians.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
What would Alan Sugar do if he were the last man alive? What if people stopped reproducing as a form of mass protest? And when are those killer African wasps that the tabloids keep…
What would Alan Sugar do if he were the last man alive? What if people stopped reproducing as a form of mass protest? And when are those killer African wasps that the tabloids keep…
The West End comes to Brighton in this spectacular celebration of cabaret and theatre at The Warren performed by an ensemble of seasoned West End Stars and hosted by Brighton’s sta…
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Deptford Cinema is proud to present a free outdoor screening of Black Panther in partnership with the Albany to kick-off our Summer season.
It’s a summer night in Old Steine, the fairy lights twinkle, the drinks flow.
It’s a summer night in Old Steine, the fairy lights twinkle, the drinks flow.
Henry Churniavsky is a Jewish, scouse, stand-up comedian.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
Let’s admit it – Zoom calls are not ideal for stand-up comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
Following a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the star of international stage hit Impossible takes to the road with his much-anticipated debut solo …
London’s premier and longest running theatre magic show featuring the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
It’s time to celebrate the rich history of the Winter Gardens Blackpool! Join stars of the West End as we delve into stories from the past and deliver simply stunning theatric…
Broken Robot Productions presents Magical Bones: Black MagicThe Britain’s Got Talent finalist is hitting the road as his much-anticipated debut…
Tickets must be booked no later than 1 hour before the start.
The notion of a man becoming particularly attached to a handsome black cat may initially feel a familiar experience, especially as around 3.
Morgan & West present captivating chemistry, phenomenal physics, and bonkers biology in this fun for all the family science extravaganza! Expect explosive thr…
Part of Out of the Wings Winter Warmer, a week long digital celebration of theatre in translation.
Part of Out of the Wings Winter Warmer, a week long digital celebration of theatre in translation.
Monthly counselling space with LGBT+ psychotherapist Jemma Wilkinson.
Deck the halls with holly because Christmas has come early as the biggest stars from London’s West End celebrate the festive season in WEST END MUSICAL CHRISTMAS – LIVE…
A lot of love has gone into this imagined duet between Frankie Howerd and his lover Dennis Heymer.
“There’s nothing quite like the magic of theatre…” A commonly heard, if somewhat meaningless assertion.
Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, the show premieres at Brighton to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
Enjoy an afternoon of musical theatre delivered by fantastic voices.
ChasingRainbows presents Looks Like We Made It.
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews the past four years, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh for their fifth year with a new line-up of songs! Featuring…
Following a sell-out run at Fringe 2019, Back To Black returns to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
Double Fringe First winners bring Bronte evangelists who fight and bite at West Norwood’s first-ever Jane Eyre convention (Jeremy Kyle meets Comic Con).
Charlotte Brontë’s tale of a young woman’s courageous fight through injustice and hardship was a revolution in literary fiction.
Jamie Kenna hosts a delightful evening of cabaret on Brighton seafront performed by an ensemble of seasoned West End Stars.
Morgan and West present captivating chemistry, phenomenal physics, and bonkers biology in this fun-for-all-the-family science extravaganza! Expect explosive thrills, chemical spill…
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
A night to remember our daughter, sister and friend Janine Benecke and all the other victims of drunk drivers.
Following a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the star of international stage hit Impossible takes to the road with his much-anticipated debut solo …
Following a totally sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the star of international stage hit Impossible takes to the road with his much-anticipated debut solo …
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
London’s premier & longest running theatre magic show features the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
See a regency tale like no other featuring wilful heroines, haughty gentlemen, wayward vicars and hilarious consequences – no two shows are ever the same and swooning is gu…
West End Sessions brings together the most exciting stars across from various mediums for intimate performances.
West End Sessions brings together the most exciting stars across from various mediums for intimate performances.
Gurnwah Productions - one of the most creative, prolific and downright hilarious production companies from Wales, embark on their first World Tour with their new hysteri…
Gurnwah Productions - one of the most creative, prolific and downright hilarious production companies from Wales, embark on their first World Tour with their new hysteri…
To have or not to have children – but when?! That is the question and the choice is yours.
A host of West End performers and recording artists join forces to bring you this night of musical theatre.
Black Star Riders are a recognised power force in the modern day rock world and they’ll bring plenty of the high-energy, full-throttle sound to cities on their autumn tour.
Daz Black heads to the Fringe for the first time ever, off the back of his UK tour.
Will Gompertz feels like an old friend, not because I have ever met him, but because I have grown up with his inciteful and interesting contributions as the BBC’s arts editor.
Join today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of performed readings and interviews with presenter Shereen Nanjiani.
An Afrofuturist history of the universe from the Big Bang to dreamshout death.
Friz Frizzle, the self-proclaimed ‘Song-Ruiner’ has a dream: to ruin your childhoods by bastardising well known songs that you grew up with.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Mark Knight had the honour of performing to a packed-out room, clearly up for a fun Friday night of Mind Reading and Hypnosis – any Edinburgh performer’s dream scenario.
In this new piece, Bert and Nasi dance the end of their relationship, imagining what a future without each other might look like.
I’m 55.
Remarkably, if you wander into The Traverse at 9am, you will find an audience willing to watch a rehearsed reading of a brand-new play and not a spare seat in the house.
Lilian, Catherine, Mary and Tam all have one thing in common, they risk their lives to serve their country and save the lives of others.
Will Naameh is one of Edinburgh’s most talented and unique improvisers, although you’d be forgiven if you’ve not heard of him before.
BBC radio music aficionado Russell Clarke is making his Edinburgh Fringe debut in a show jam-packed with fascinating rock ‘n’ roll trivia and random connections between the sta…
Join West End Producer as he auditions special guests for his Free Willy musical.
Frances has decided to fly to Dublin to spit on Sister Ina Marsh’s grave.
Apphia Campbell’s solo show inspired by the life of Nina Simone.
The word ‘legend’ is bandied about a bit too much these days.
Exuberant, vibrant, energetic, youthful! Black Never Die is a 10-piece rap outfit from Conakry, Guinea in West Africa creating seductive, colourful solid, groovy urban music.
Fresh off becoming a household name through finishing third in this year's Britain's Got Talent, Ben Hart capitalises on his momentum by returning to the festival where he …
Captivating and evocative guitar music.
A requiem for our digital age from Toronto/Macau composer Njo Kong Kie (winner, 2018 Toronto Theatre Critics Award, Best New Musical).
An evening of musical theatre anthems from the shows you know and love, with songs from We Will Rock You, Matilda, Hairspray, Singing in the Rain and other classics.
They are a family.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a beacon of individuality for our time: it presents a platform for anybody with the desire to express themselves and whatever makes them individuals.
Robert Temple is performing the only traditional hour-long hypnosis show in Edinburgh Fringe this year, so if you’re looking for a show where any number of people can volunteer t…
A taste of the Fringe comes to Bruntsfield in true Black Ivy style.
If you were to ask every magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe who their favourite magician performing at Edinburgh Fringe is, you could expect the majority of them to respond in…
Laurie Black is back and she’s green, keen and featuring a plethora of originally written electro synth space cabaret songs.
Birmingham Breaking Talent nominee Alex Black puts his teenage heroes to the test as he navigates heartbreak, existential crises and the tribulations of Aldi checkouts by squeezing…
Sarah-Louise Young is one of Edinburgh Fringe's most respected and sought after musical variety performers, and it's no stretch of the imagination to see why, as she delive…
Sam Wyatt is an ambitious stand-up comedian who has taken a novel approach to this year’s festival, in designing a live gameshow with uniquely imaginative rounds.
Chris Read is a talented singer-songwriter performing his debut solo hour at the Fringe this year.
The term ‘cabaret’ is harder to pin down than the other show categories for Edinburgh Fringe.
In Moment of Truth, James Freedman opens with an air of mystery.
After sell-out shows last year with The Second Annual Black Comedy Showcase, we’re back once again and the third times a charm.
Tatwood Puppets make their Edinburgh Fringe debut with the perfectly titled Cabaret of Curiosities.
Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project celebrates and pays homage to the tiny school in the mountains of North Carolina that in 24 years became one of the most inf…
Dave Bibby is a multi-talented comedian who crosses into many genres, and his award nominated show (for its poster design) Crazy Cat Lad-y is something of a one-man variety perform…
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.
A rock guitar-playing punsmith may sound like it has a niche appeal to a certain type of Fringegoer, but Robin Boot’s early afternoon show in Whistlebinkies managed to pull in a …
Edinburgh Fringe's premier magical twins, Kane and Abel, return for their sixth run here in their regular home as the flagship magicians of PBH's Free Fringe venue the Liqu…
Sexy(ish), musical(ish), bipolar(ish) – no, she’s definitely bipolar (with jazz hands) – Australian sex-pot singing comedian is ‘f*cking nuts – non-stop brilliance – a must…
125 makers, artists and designers exhibiting their latest creations in a spectacular outdoor setting.
Dave Alnwick, a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe magic circuit, is one of the more visually striking performers you're likely to see here.
Dave Alnwick is a true magician’s magician, with many strings to his bow.
Amber Topaz, the inaugural Miss Burlesque UK, brings Edinburgh Fringe a burlesqueless theatrical cabaret experience that is personal, informative, and inclusive.
If you’re a parent looking for a show that you can enjoy as much as your children, you may be looking quite hard.
When I walked in to a packed out Finger’s Piano Bar I was greeted with the site of Mister Meredith affably talking to his punters, handing out paper and pens personally, and esta…
The Edinburgh Fringe is the world’s greatest hub for creativity, and many of the world’s top performers congregate here year after year.
Paul Zenon is one of the UK’s most beloved and sought-after magicians – a veteran of TV shows, corporate events, and high end cabaret, as well as becoming a regular guest on th…
The National Youth Theatre have put Mark Zuckerberg on trial.
Sonia Aste is a Spaniard living in the UK who insists, ‘It’s not all fiesta and siesta! We get miserable too!’ Nobody’s listening.
In the wake of a terrible decision, Tommy is burnt out.
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square.
With a blast of Darth Vader’s Imperial March, the tone is set before Pete Cunningham’s highly celebrated alter ego, the cult smash and ‘King of Dark Cabaret’, Frank Sanazi …
Back To Black premiers at the Fringe to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who shattered records and moved millions.
Shabbat shalom misfits, Reuben Kaye is back in town.
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews at Fringe 2016, 2017 and 2018, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh with a new line-up of songs! Featuring world-clas…
This World War II farce is a good choice for a 25-strong company to showcase their talents, with a wide range of roles on show.
More of a personal theatrical experience than what one might expect from a show described as ‘cabaret’, Allie Jessing’s Hetaira: A Mythic Cabaret sees the talented actress de…
Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show about heart break and madness is crammed with life, wit and tragedy.
Fresh from a sell-out tour, star of BBC’s The Blame Game, Fighting Talk and The News Quiz, Neil Delamere returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show.
Highlighting the best examples of Scottish furniture from our collection, this exhibition will show timeless designs from Scotland’s iconic cabinet-makers, from William Trotter t…
Were you to design a concept for a show that ticks all the boxes from your wildest fantasies, if any festival in the world could fulfil your wishes, it’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Scruffy indie kids have inherited the world and Cora Bissett rules supreme.
With First Impressions, Christina Bianco further cements her reputation as the First Lady of Impersonation.
Very few of Edinburgh Fringe’s 4,000+ shows this year are able to boast being incomparable to all others.
All the Pigs presents an endearing dark comedy about Alquist, who is suspended in an adolescent mindset trying to start life over, leading him to challenge his beliefs about what i…
Melinda Hughes is a prodigious cabaret vocalist and political satirist who brings her new show Off The Scale to this year’s Fringe, backed by a wonderful three-piece band.
It’s a sell-out audience in the huge space at Assembly Rooms.
An hour of comedy and truth from English Comedian of the Year winner Josh Pugh.
The Faulty Towers Dining Experience boasts that they have recently served their one millionth customer worldwide, and with an experience this hilarious, engaging and insulting, it�…
Ireland’s comedy darlings Mark O’Keeffe (Show Me the Funny 2019 winner) and Richy Sheehy (viral sensation, as seen on Sky, RTE and BBC) bring their best hour of classic club stand-…
Iconic is not a strong enough word for novelist Irvine Welsh’s generation-defining masterpiece, Trainspotting.
The world-renowned Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
You’ll be forgiven if you’ve not heard of Luke Jermay before, but within the Magic and Mind Reading communities he is a well respected and accomplished performer, a prolific wr…
Life and death, love and loss, birth and miscarriage are all explored in this visual cycle of life.
The Female Role Model Project is just that, a project.
If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim.
Les Quizérables is a fun and intimate quiz taking place in a dungeon-like cellar that entirely enhances the atmosphere.
We are living through a renaissance of plays in verse, and if you need proof I can furnish few better than Fires Our Shoes Have Made by Fringe newcomers Pound of Flesh Theatre.
If a show combining maths, poetry, comedy and rap sounds like it may be up your street, then boy, oh boy, do I have a show for you?! The youngest ever World Slam Poetry champion, H…
You normal? Acting strange? Mags, in her 50s, Eddie in his 20s, are both black sheep.
Jane used to be fun.
April 2015, Michel Graindorge passed away.
This one person play, written and performed by Sarah-Jane Scott, introduces us to Sorcha who is fresh from fleeing her wedding.
As seen on Live at the Apollo and Comedy Central’s Comedy Store Live, Marlon Davis returns to Edinburgh with a hilarious brand-new show! ‘Bursts on to the stage like a breath of fr…
Jena Friedman is scared shitless and wants to feel less alone.
Louisa Fitzhardinge’s magnum opus, Comma Sutra, promises to twang on the heartstrings of all us self-appointed vigilante protectors of the fundamental principles of the English L…
A critically acclaimed puppet musical, inspired by a neuroscientist.
Colin Cloud is the undisputed rockstar of the Edinburgh Fringe magic world and one of the festival’s greatest success stories of recent years.
Fresh from a one-star review in 2015, ‘there is a good comic entombed in this smug mess’ (Scotsman), LA’s ‘American-Indian-Iranian comic Omid Singh’ (Guardian) is back for anothe…
United by love, broken by reality.
Sarah Jane Morris with her unique and powerful voice celebrates John Martyn illuminating his life and art in her new show Sweet Little Mystery.
Unbelievable Science is an interactive science show for the whole family, where experiments take place right before your eyes! Captivating chemistry! Phenomenal physics! Bonkers bi…
In the queue for Flanders and Swann, I was struck (but not entirely surprised) that the audience were of a higher age demographic than any of the other 250 or so Edinburgh Fringe s…
Music is a journey: across countries, cultures, and time.
Critically acclaimed playwright, Henry Naylor, is back at Gilded Balloon with another timely piece of theatre that packs a punch.
Rejoining Jane is a delightful dance theatre performance set within a cafe, brought to Ventnor by Brighton based dance co Tick Tock Bridget.
“An improvised cinematic musical using a cast of actors performing alongside untested hypnotised volunteers expected to act, dance and even rap under the same impromptu condition…
Fresh from consistently packing out the biggest room on PBH’s Free Fringe in 2018, Tomas McCabe walks out to a half-full room that is already half the size of his smash hit debut…
This 50-minute adaptation of Hamlet is one for Shakespeare lovers with short attention spans.
The star of international stage hit Impossible makes his much-anticipated Edinburgh Fringe debut.
If you’ve not experienced Bec Hill live yet, then I have some bad news for you, my friend – your life has yet to reach its maximum for potential happiness.
Finally, after years of toil, Gary Tro has perfected quite possibly the greatest superhero movie screenplay ever written.
A body is washed up on the shores of the Faroe Islands, rain softly splatters on a coat, a video projection comes into view and live music fills our ears.
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
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…
(And I feel fine (but not all the time)).
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Rejoining Jane is a delightful dance theatre performance set within a cafe, brought to Ventnor by Brighton based dance co Tick Tock Bridget.
London’s longest running theatre magic show returns to York for the 5th year running delivering the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with their jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that anyone in possession of wit and good taste must be in want of great entertainment… Austentatious is an entirely impro…
After sell out shows at the Electric Ballroom, 229 and The British Library, the Innervisions Festival is Saluting the Black President himself, Fela Kuti, tonight with the Dele Sosi…
Friday Night Sinner! is a one-woman, horror-comedy musical about a Jewish, sexually repressed, newly married maniac (stick to what you know).
Some of the world’s most talented musical theatre stars from Broadway and the West End will unite this summer in West End Proms – an evening of beautiful live music, co…
“No talent at all when it comes to cooking – as you will discover – but when it comes to pissing off my children – immense talent – Olympian talent.
Due to increasing demand from her fans, Irish singer Mary Black is performing a one-off headline show in London.
After successfully bribing the Edinburgh Festival 2018 for a four star review, the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’ cruises into Brighton Fringe for three nights.
Not long ago, I lost my best friend.
Duration: Approx 1hr 50mins A highly energetic tribute show that follows in the footsteps of the award-winning girl band, Little Mix.
Back for our 4th year, providing the best African music of the Festival.
Star of BBC’s the Blame Game, Fighting Talk and The News Quiz, Neil Delamere presents this work-in-progress show.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Cat Loud is an award-winning cabaret performer and jazz singer from a remote Scottish island.
Limited run! A Head First inside-out, up-and-down-under, mish-mash variety of circus stars, Spiegel legends and the hottest Fringe acts.
Join alien babe cabaret queen Laurie Black and her spaceship-synth for the journey of a lifetime to be the first woman to set foot (stiletto heel) on the moon! Adelaide Fringe’s Em…
‘Black Velvet Moon’ rising for one night only.
Infamous cabaret misfit and drag miscreant Joe Black invites you to indulge in a gloriously raucous gin soaked musical cabaret extravaganza.
Kate is discovering what it really means to be a wife in her close-knit Christian community.
Monsteers Artistry Presents: Surviving A Millenial Jukebox (With West End Stars Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling) Patrick Sullivan and Georgia Carling perform …
Spanish comedian Sonia Aste is a woman of many talents.
JB Carter, American, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2017 finalist, shortlisted for BBC New Comedy Award 2018, as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and Northern Irishman, Phili…
How unusual and odd are we in Europe? For this we can blame the legacy of the British Empire, but we can’t blame anyone else for the Empire.
“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 …
Escape room meets theatre in this apocalyptic adventure.
The 2018 critically-acclaimed Brighton Fringe sell-outs return! Join ‘Do the Thing’ for an unmissable high-risk, high-lunacy, highly (well, entirely) improvised musical.
Where do monsters come from? Do they exist only in stories, or do they live amongst us, watching, waiting? ‘Black Peter’ is a retelling of the Bavarian tale of the Krampus.
Through her own brilliant interpretive vocal talents, Sarah Jane will be illuminating the work of John Martyn in her new show Sweet Little Mystery, accompanied by her regular colla…
London’s premier magic show featuring the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
Thursday 7th March, 8pmFriday 8th March, 8pmTickets: £10Duration: 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: ages 11+Other: This show takes place …
MadeMusic takes him out of dullness BIG GIRLS BLOUSEWhen you assume.
Black Eyed Dog A Dog Is For Life, Not Just For Christmas BrewSomething divilish this way comes Black Eyed Dog - Desmond EastwoodOngoing attempts to evade the Blac…
The No.
This Valentine’s weekend, join us for an intimate evening of five star variety from London’s cabaret trailblazers and winners of Best Production at the London Cabaret Awards.
I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself…
Following sell-out seasons in Shanghai, New York, Edinburgh and in London at Wilton’s Music Hall, the Fringe First award winner Apphia Campbell brings her acclaimed play with…
Claire lost her hair in front of the nation & miraculously grew it back again.
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.
Join us for a fun evening of sketches, drama, song and comedy.
‘Shepard's masterwork.
Jane used to be fun.
How much does real life influence fiction? Is the truth sometimes stranger? Four crime writers with close ties to the law and law makers, discuss how real life has influ…
Forensic anthropologists and crime writers share a common preoccupation with violent death, except that one is concerned with the how and the when while the other is con…
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is The Color Of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death…
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Something pungent was bubbling away on the cauldron, centre stage, when I took my seat on the grassy knoll last night.
A screening of multi award-winning film Black Snow, about the legacy of Britain’s biggest ever mining disaster (Barnsley, 1866), and how a community absorbed that heritage into t…
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…
Worlds of cabaret and circus collide, as The Black Cat Cabaret transforms London’s Southbank into a new Bohemia! London’s cabaret trailblazers return to the Southbank with …
Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the self-help group ‘Jane McDonald Anonymous’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The End of Eddy is a heartfelt, autobiographical play based on the book En Finir avec Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis, in which the author shares experiences of his difficult yo…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
Could there be a more relevant show for our society? A shocking 50 years after the workers’ strike at the Ford Dagenham plant, women are still fighting for equal pay and conditio…
Meursault presents Crow Hill, a series of urban horror story vignettes, set in the titular, fictional, Scottish town.
Los Angeles, January 15th 1947.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours.
Start to End return with a live band interpretation of John Martyn’s classic fourth solo studio album Solid Air, following a sold-out appearance at Celtic Connections 2018.
Sam is a young Kiwi who discovers the thrill and adrenaline of following professional rugby.
The talented performers of Edinburgh Music Theatre return with an unmissable evening of musical theatre classics you will know and love.
A weekly celebration that will have your toes tapping as you enjoy live jazz music at Black Ivy every Sunday afternoon. See www.weareblackivy.com for more information.
125 makers, artists and designers will be exhibiting their latest creations.
After the success of the First Annual Black Comedy Showcase, we’re back – bigger, better and blacker.
Forget flowers, chocolates or even a home-baked cake.
Stu’s back with some thoughts on how it all works out in the end and whether anyone cares.
Elected to parliament in 2015, aged 20, for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, the Baby of the House has a first class honours degree in Politics and Public Policy from the University…
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo…
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews at Fringe 2016 and 2017, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh with a new line-up of songs! Featuring world-class voic…
A tale of three colours.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Highlighting the best examples of Scottish furniture from our collection, this exhibition will show timeless designs from Scotland’s iconic cabinetmakers.
Daft Jamie invites you to his genteel house of assignation to witness deplorable acts of prostitution and destitution in Victorian Edinburgh.
Sonia Aste is a Spaniard living in the UK who insists it’s not all fiesta and siesta! We get miserable too! But nobody’s listening.
Lovable Brit Ollie Horn (‘always a crowd pleaser’ (Edd Daggers, ROR Comedy)) tells fast-paced tales of life as an unlikely Japanese TV star and life on the road as he tours around …
‘Is it a good idea to link together a group of comedians for a Fringe show based purely on the common thread of dietary choice?’ I asked my husband as we took a stroll along George…
When I heard the Radio 5 live interview with Laurence Clark at the end of July, I was immediately struck by the sense that this was a really nice guy: level-headed, easy-going, art…
Theatre Hooam makes a welcome return to the Fringe with the award-winning Black and White Tea Room.
Bethany Black is back.
Jane used to be fun.
Jacob Lovick and Tyler Harding (Edinburgh Fringe LST Sketch-Off Finalists, 2017) are at it again! Last night at the Fringe Espionage venue this double act – otherwise known as Lo…
A humble deck of cards, a ninja (well, a likeable Kiwi), a lofty-heighted venue and audience participation, all added up to an hour well spent at the Gilded Balloon today.
Coat? Check.
If you haven’t already heard of this band of bawdy, Bardy performers, it prompts the question, “Is this your first time to the Fringe?” If the answer is yes - what have you b…
German comedians are like English cooks, sober Scotsmen or Texan democrats.
Join time-travelling magic duo Morgan & West for an evening chock-full of jaw-dropping, brain-bursting, gasp-eliciting feats of magic.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, brain-busting, opinion-adjusting, death-defying, mind-frying, spirit-lifting, paradigm-shiftin…
In June 1968, the women of Ford Dagenham went on strike for their right to equal pay.
When SISATA was formed in 2012 they originally focused on the re-telling of Shakespearean plays, but they've always followed the central aim of bringing 'classic stories to…
London’s premier magic show returns to York delivering the most exciting names in magic & variety in the UK.
Time travelling magicians Morgan & West present a jaw dropping, heart stopping, brain busting, opinion adjusting, death defying, mind frying, spirit lifting, paradigm shifting,…
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 …
Richard Curtis meets Tim Burton.
Join us for a chance to hear some of the West End’s premier Singers, supported by our masterful ‘Big Band’, perform all your favourite classic theme so…
Led by Drama Prefect, Beatrice Swordy, and her team, Black Box devising is an improvisation work created by Year 7 - 9 students over the last two terms, drawing inspirat…
West End Magic presents: A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
The End of History is billed as “a moving and funny site-responsive play with music which uses a chance encounter to explore the impact of gentrification on two radically differe…
It’s Friday at the office, with a unique circus twist! Explore with us the inverted perspective of a unique group of co-workers coping with workload tensions in an effort to resist…
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
Our last Friday night dancing at the legendary Spiegeltent this season.
If you’re looking for a thought-provoking Fringe Show, White Girls, by Madeleine Accalia, could fit the bill.
A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
The scene is set.
“Well, that was much better than the Hamlet one,” an audience member noted to her friend as we filed out at the end of Shit-Faced Showtime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
It’s the eve of the apocalypse and Cat is making her way home.
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 revolution will not be televised, it will be live.
After bringing Sadler’s Wells a succession of sumptuous story-ballets, including the South Bank Sky Arts Dance Award-winning 1984 and the critically acclaimed Casanova, Nor…
"Make a fist with your hand and place it roughly where you think your heart should be," Cole Moreton instructs us at the start of his set, The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away…
Let’s get the review part over and done with; this was going to be a five star review from the moment I saw the title Joe Black - Touch of Evil: A Celebration of Villainy in Song…
Driving home from Victorious last night (Hannah Brackenbury’s one-woman Victoria Wood tribute show) I wondered: if Wood could have chosen someone to celebrate and showcase her wo…
Sofie Hagen brings her successful podcast ‘Made of Human’ to Brighton to record live episodes in front of an audience.
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…
'I’m frightened', my proudly-feminist husband says while reading a Google-searched summary of Just Don’t Do It as we sit waiting for the start of the show.
From the minds behind Brighton improv titans Off the Cuff and Blanket Fort comes a full-throttle fully-improvised musical performed in full by only two men (plus one on guitar).
Jane Hissey is the author and illustrator of over 25 ‘Old Bear’ books and the creator of the BAFTA-award-winning TV series of ‘Old Bear Stories’.
With the release of ‘Compared to What’, Sarah Jane Morris teams up with the guitar artistry of world-renowned Antonio Forcione, producing a compelling, unique and haunting album.
Sonia Aste is a Spaniard living in the UK with a quirky point of view: ‘Cultural differences are like sangria – a happy mix that leaves us wanting more’.
Did you know that you share 50% DNA with the humble banana? Unicorns do exist (well, kind of) in the shape of the narwhal and that the Portuguese man o’ war is not one creature but…
Joseph J Clark is a poet on a mission.
Who remembers Kerplunk - that childhood board game of precariously balancing marbles on multi-coloured sticks? Kerplunk!, the 2018 Brighton Fringe show that shares this title, is a…
I have the greatest admiration for stand-up comedians.
A tale of three colours.
Featuring a Game of Thrones themed homoerotic adagio, a gyrating hula hooper and even a flash of full-frontal nudity, Circus’sission is the definition of a circus stripped.
West End Magic presents:A series of one man monthly magic shows for all the family, featuring some of the best magicians including top members of the Magic Circle.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West’s marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable,…
A difficult look at a physically and mentally abusive relationship, Is This Thing On? uses a mixture of physical theatre and words to take us on an uncomfortable journey through th…
London's premier magic show kicks off 2018 with a packed show of top UK magic & variety acts including JAMIE RAVEN! The exciting family friend…
Your Friday night is in top hands at The Junction, especially if you fancy kicking things off with a few hard-earned drinks.
The apocalypse is here! No-one is sure how it started or what’s going to happen but luckily, Laurie Black has gathered us in the safe environs of La Boheme to wait out the worst …
Have you ever watched a comedy show and thought to yourself, “Cathy, I hate how these theatre types are just so written and rehearsed! And when do I get to talk?!” Well then, Cathy…
Amy Winehouse wowed the world with her hit ‘Back To Black’ album, setting the blueprint for modern soul & reviving retro cool from the smoky, sultry ‘60s.
A journey that follows a little caterpillar named Charlie through a magical garden.
Chloe Black is one of the most sought-after comedians in Tasmania.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
London’s favourite purrrveyors of dark and daring cabaret entertainment return with a spectacular show inspired by vintage, after-hours Montmartre.
Whose bodies were used to create the monster of Frankenstein? No Exit meets Saw in this squirm-inducing twist on a horror classic.
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…
Jane Johnson for the Stay at Home Shopper takes place over the span of one hour during which Jane and her partner Pam Weldon sell their accessories on the Stay at Home Shopper netw…
We’re constantly threatened by outbreaks of diseases like SARS and Ebola.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join some of today’s most innovative playwrights for an afternoon of insightful interviews and performed readings.
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione are promoting their collaborative album Compared to What.
Taking a leaf from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, The Black that I Am is a compilation of stories that delve into the minds of various women and their experiences of being black…
This is the year 1929, Tom is a happy, wealthy and young broker who lives in London and whose life is about to radically change.
Adam Kay used to be a doctor and he wants to tell us all about it.
This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptio…
A renegade retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s twisted tale.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Our play Black and White Tea Room was first performed in 2014.
Being human is so boring.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
1960s America.
Though common in film and literature, it is rare to see a play which fits the bill of psychological thriller.
The amount a show takes liberties with narrative should be directly compensated by how much it has to say.
In this assured and uplifting debut, Col Howarth plots a single journey from one end of a busy high street to the other, joining the dots of a story that arcs between a cast of str…
Colour coordinated galpals Emma Moran and Sarah King, explore the meaning of friendship through the mediums of poorly made hats and sketch comedy.
Award-winning comedian off telly and radio dabbles in the occult.
theSpace at Symposium Hall is an ideal setting for music appreciation.
Miss Candy AppleBottom, the infamous cross-dressing bearded guitar loop-playing extraordinaire, will dazzle you with an eye-watering array of burlesque, music, comedy and twisted t…
If you’ve ever wondered what having a mental-health issue feels like then head down to Help!.
Spencer Jones is a genius but I’m not sure why.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
A small group of survivors huddle in a bunker, eating beans and reminiscing on their favourite foods.
When a double murder reunites the classmates of St Elizabeth’s Primary School, scores are settled, debts repaid and alliances forged.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
In Ripe, Jacobs takes us through the stages of a banana corresponding to the stages of life; through stand-up and rap.
What is life like in a hostile post-Brexit Britain for a British/African woman? She is either completely ignored or too often portrayed as the victim in need of saving.
We lie to our friends, family, lovers and bosses because it’s easier than telling the truth – we have no idea what we’re doing, and we might have genital warts.
The Traverse Theatre is onto a winner with its programming this year.
In The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classic is made ironically self-aware.
There are comedians that are laugh out loud funny, every couple of minutes a big laugh; but the stuff in between is dead air and tumbleweed.
Grandma is a drug dealer.
Despite the title, it’s quite clear from this hour of absurdist comedy that nobody is making Australian cult comic star Demi Lardner do anything.
Nobody wants to be lectured.
Rob Broderick is a one of a kind performer.
Three aliens from Mars, fascinated by all things Earthly.
Rachel Parris has been invited back to her old school to speak at prize giving, but what is she going to say? Is she even a role model at all? Rather than prepare for this speech a…
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…
I have never played Dungeons and Dragons.
The worse the world gets the funnier Stuart Black gets.
From a hit season at Adelaide Fringe, Danny Condon finds a grey area between art and science and lifts the lid on some hilarious family dynamics.
From a hit season at Adelaide Fringe, Danny Condon finds a grey area between art and science and lifts the lid on some hilarious family dynamics.
Luke Kempner takes a Luke in the mirror in this gently funny show, poking fun at himself and the impressions he uses to express himself.
Matt Richardson is a firecracker.
Superbolt Theatre’s The Jurassic Parks is ridiculous; in the best way possible.
Magnificent Bastard Productions have become a hit at the Fringe throughout the last few years with their productions of Shit-Faced Shakespeare.
A murder has been committed.
An intimate one-woman show about race and gender.
Improvisation and a cappella groups are two a penny at the Fringe, and it can be difficult to find a unique format with which to entertain the crowds.
I’m guilty of being a magic sceptic.
George Egg is a hybrid chef and comedian.
To be surprised by a show at the Fringe is a rare and wonderful thing.
Boy meets girl.
Imagine William Shakespeare wrote Attack the Block and you get Flesh and Bone, a tale of an East London tower block and it’s residents.
A joyful and touching view of the world through other people’s eyes, Lists… is a show composed entirely of crowdsourced lists.
Theatre Ad Infinitum have been a Fringe favourite for years; creating thought provoking and beautiful shows to touch both your heart and your mind.
A cult hit comedy game show set in Hell, hosted by the Devil.
2 Become 1 is a standard Jukebox Musical.
Manual Cinema is a very special kind of company.
Bigger, bolder and more brilliant than before! Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand-new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young…
Great Scott! Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! Not content with their lot as the nineteenth century’s greatest magic …
The latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel, Jane Eyre, was devised by the company at the Bristol Old Vic, led by Sally Cookson.
A 90s-themed night to close Brighton Fringe 2017 in style.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected…
The current situation of low and no pay in many parts of our industry is very damaging, and a hot topic for everybody whether the work is live or recorded.
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 …
Jane Postlethwaite (Funny Women and Squawker Award finalist 2015) brings her multi-character, one-woman show, ‘The House’, to Brighton.
Shakespeare said the world is a stage and we are all players.
In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…
Immerse yourself in a playful and joyful dance experience as three dancers take you on a journey in and out of reality, swapping between the factual and the fictitious.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Terriane Falcome offers a tour de force of writing and comedy, playing at the Theatre Box this Brighton Fringe.
Jane’s a bit of a cow.
Special first night of Brighton Fringe event - Ligeti Quartet plays ‘Black Angels’ for amplified strings and percussion, which David Bowie named as being among his favourite ‘Top-2…
Nominated for best music at Brighton Fringe 2016.
A variety mash-up of circus superstars, Spiegeltent legends and the hottest acts of this year's Brighton Fringe.
A darkly comic interweaving of relationships, past and present with a hint of the surreal.
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…
It’s a brave show which starts with the words: “I don’t like it.
Part of the London Horror Festival 2016 Ruminating on the local myth of ghostly dog ‘Black Shuck’, two (inept) would-be smugglers await a shipment on the Norfolk Coast.
R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis…
Last year Tez Ilyas experienced something that turned his world upside down.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione come together in a worldwide tour to promote the launch of their collaborative album Compared to What.
Scenes From the End is a new show about grief and a tour de force showcase for soprano Héloïse Werner.
Join us for this special event, presented by the University of Edinburgh in association with Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and the Traverse Theatre.
Beautiful, funny and completely moving, Really Good Stories’ production of The Silence at the Song’s End is one of the best pieces of theatre you’ll see this Fringe.
West End Has Faith gathers professionals working within London’s West End and on tour who have a desire to share their journey and life experiences.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
A fantastic opportunity to hear Chinese classical music, played by professional musicians on Chinese and Western instruments, accompanied by a short performance by the talented Rai…
South West Camerata, an outstanding youth string ensemble from the south west, return to the Fringe for their fourth visit.
“Sleep deprivation is the new LSD” says Lady Rizo, after explaining how she’s gone from “smoky eye” make up to “sleepy eye” in a short 18 months.
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
Acclaimed Korean/New Orleans saxophonist Jeeseok’s funky, melodic, energetic quartet brings Miles Davies, Coltrane and Ella up to date, with a sprinkle of Korean folk music too! …
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
A sculptor is awaiting the arrival of an art dealer when the power fails.
Billed as a “psychological drama conflating classical Greek mystery with jazzical profanity”, Medea: Greece Meets West contains very little Medea and not much more jazz.
Cinema screening of film.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Luca Villani – Guitar. Isabel Panè – Soprano. Music by Giordani, Monteverdi, Murray, Pergolesi, Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Tansman, Troup and Villani.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our spe…
Sainte Jane: Born from Lauren St.
Following its woefully short-lived run at the Adelphi Theatre in 2015, the only opportunity to catch this upbeat musical is now in the hands of amateur theatre companies.
From street musician to concert artist and back again, the man who was Marvin Hanglider is celebrating his 60th birthday by becoming a fundraiser for Children in Need.
Our play Black and White Tea Room was first performed in 2014.
Not everybody hates The Lounge Kittens.
After comedy, horror is the next most difficult art form to tackle; although comedy reigns king at the fringe there is still an eager audience waiting to be scared.
Jane Postlethwaite brings her debut solo show, Made in Cumbria, to the Edinburgh Fringe, where she will introduce you to a selection of dark female characters who will welcome you …
Don’t miss this new musical review! Featuring world class voices and breathtaking harmonies, these professional performers showcase the very best songs from the West End.
Celebrated Scottish choreographer Jack Webb has brought his latest, typically idiosyncratic work, The End, for performance at this year’s Festival Fringe as part of the extensive…
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.
Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Fiona Crow presents her collection of self-penned songs accompanied by a full band, visual art and dance for a one-off Fringe production.
In the latest theatrical offering of a Jane Austen themed adaptation, this piece, which is billed as a new musical by Penny Ashton, interweaves thirty-three direct passages from Au…
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…
In a little circus salon tent named ‘The Omnitorium’ tucked away behind George Square Theatre, Anya Anastasia proves that she is a force to be reckoned with.
Bethany Black is a forthright, funny, and unapologetic comedian, cheerfully rousing the audience as she lets fire her jokes.
The Assembly Gardens Palais Du Variété is a big Spiegeltent to fill, and the high heeled silver spangly boots of David Bowie are big boots to fill.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Using poetry, physical theatre, music and a limited amount of props, The Fast Food Collective’s new show is a thrilling romp through a night on the town.
Jane Eyre – An Autobiography has to be one of the most moving pieces of theatrical storytelling ever created; quite simply, it’s astounding.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
British-Arab Ella has spent the last few years passing as white: National Geographic Explorer, ‘Achingly funny’ (LooseLips.
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West return to unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
On his misguided quest to follow his dreams, Garrett Millerick got locked in a shipping container by Eminem, directed hip-hop videos for deluded city traders and once made a featur…
To Edinburghians “welcome to The Hive” could mean a questionable night out in a seedy, sticky floored club.
When a remote lighthouse is attacked by a dangerous band of wreckers and vagabonds only one of the keepers escapes alive Joining forces with the sole survivor of a shipwreck, the p…
Tez Ilyas’ new show Made in Britain is not subtle.
An exhibition about some remarkable female pioneers who lived in Edinburgh’s West End.
Comedy improvisation troupe Austentatious have been reducing erstwhile sensible audiences to fits of hysteria all over the UK since 2012.
Crouch End Festival is now the UK’s biggest community arts festival, with over 200 performers, over 160 events, over 10 days in over 70 venues, from cafes to pubs, open spaces to…
A Steampunk fandazzle eruption.
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
The Black Cat Cabaret brings together exceptional acrobats, comics, dancers and singers to create a spectacular variety show inspired by Montmartre’s dark and daring heyday.
The current situation of low and no pay in many parts of our industry is very damaging, and a hot topic for everybody whether the work is live or recorded.
Ali Bangoura, from Guinea, with his troupe of Brighton-based drummers, are bringing the excitement and dynamic energy of Africa to Brighton.
Sarah Jane Morris and Antonio Forcione come together in a worldwide tour to promote the launch of their collaborative album, ‘Compared to What’, which includes some wry comedy, lov…
The Black Fields’ Circus of Lujuria is back! The Black Fields will be tearing the place down with new music from their upcoming EP.
Jane Postlethwaite’s Made In Cumbria is absolutely hilarious.
Ruminating on the local myth of ghostly dog ‘Black Shuck’, two (inept) would-be smugglers await a shipment on the Norfolk Coast.
Adam’s never had a job.
Stories from the Grand Canyon that sit between our dreams and our achievements.
Postlethwaite is a likeable stage presence whose manifestation of five deliciously dark women creates some very funny moments.
After watching End Of The Rainbow, what I learnt most about Garland was the effect that she had on her audience.
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…
(previews start on Thursday; opens on March 16) Mona Mansour, whose “Urge for Going” was seen at the Public Lab in 2011, returns with a new play about financial mismana…
The End of Longing starring Matthew Perry Internationally acclaimed actor Matthew Perry (Friends, The Odd Couple) leads the cast in the world premiere of his playwriting deb…
Black Grape, feature former members of Happy Mondays and Ruthless Rap Assassins.
On Martin Luther King Day, Astronomy Club, an Upright Citizens Brigade house team, will present this sketch show about the “real black history,” described as “the…
Mr.
The tear-jerker story of these trailblazing African-American pilots (2:30).
Join over 7 million theatregoers who have experienced “The most brilliantly effective spine-chiller you will ever encounter” - Daily TelegraphSusan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story i…
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
“There’s Been a Murtagh!” takes a blunt look into recent events in Rick Murtaghs life that have encouraged him to be more honest - no matter what cost.
Arguably the most significant work of new theatre from “north of the border” in recent years is the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an excellent example of inve…
She brought Tom Jones to tears on BBC’s The Voice.
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.
Traveling Showcase from California bring their musical cabaret to the Fringe for the first time as Lydia Trueblood The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast takes centre stage at the t…
Teen sex, lies and gossip.
Dead End” is a two act stage play that takes place in post-apocalyptic America.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore our galleries after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our …
The British soul, jazz and r’n’b singer who topped the UK pop charts with The Communards in 1986 with ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’.
Old-time blues rockers The Black Sorrows have been playing since the early 80s – plenty of time for them to tighten up on chords, learn the rhythm and throw in some obligatory cl…
Forget karaoke! Join the Massaoke revolution.
Phantom Owls present the Skylight Theatre production of New York Times best-selling author, acclaimed American humorist, Annabelle Gurwitch’s I See You Made an Effort.
One hundred makers, artists and designers exhibiting their latest creations in a spectacular outdoor setting.
Pride and Prejudice through the looking glass! In this offbeat interpretation, Jane Austen meets a Lizzy Bennet who flits between the character and the actress playing her.
Annie walks, talks, sings and dazzles! A Highland lass returning home with Aussie bassist John Wilson, The Inimitable Victor Brox on keys, a grab bag of West Coast Oz experiences a…
Bear witness to the debauchery and murder of some of the most decrepit puppets to crawl out of a back alley.
‘Awesome’ is a terrible word, but there’s no shame using it – in the truest sense – to describe Leapin’ Louie and his lethal range of doohickeys.
These comedic and heartfelt monologues were written by a group of playwrights from Austin, Texas in 1985.
Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair, two of Scotland’s more mature comedians, return for a fourth year with their Old Men show, for a longer run after last year’s full houses.
Johnny has accidentally told his niece that he can single-handedly stop climate change and so he embarks on a musical adventure with his bandmate Paddy to save the world.
Fasten your knickerbockers and hold onto your bonnets: Austentatious is back for a fourth year of frilly-meets-filthy improvisation, based exceptionally loosely on the collected wo…
Not the End of the World is based on the novel by Geraldine McCaughrean which reimagines the story of Noah’s Ark from the point of view of Noah’s daughter, Timna, as she grappl…
Though Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most prominent literary names, Persuasion is perhaps her least widely read work.
Morgan & West invite you to join them at the card table for an intimate evening of shams, scams and good old fashioned cheating.
Like or hate Facebook, you’re guaranteed to love this all-female social media inspired comedy improv show.
‘Timmy Failure is a winner!’ (Jeff Kinney, author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid).
Le Gateau Chocolat is an experienced and highly talented performer, with several successful cabaret shows under his belt.
Described as a comic-philosopher (LondonIsFunny.
One woman, one show, one hour ten minutes and the entire works of Jane Austen to affectionately satirise: New Zealand comedian Penny Ashton’s Promise and Promiscuity is no mean f…
Billed as both musical theatre and performance art, the audience for Brigitte Aphrodite’s My Beautiful Black Dog, her autobiographical account of depression, is likely to bring v…
Black Magic: Songs Unchained is an important piece of theatre, unfortunately hampered by an uneven acting performance.
Return of acclaimed and libellously funny storytelling show on how to find outrageous nightly adventure on a budget of £5.
Ruth Rodgers-Wright plays an excellent Nina Simone in this 70-minute performance that combines many of the musician’s most enduring and striking melodies with the story of her rela…
Time travelling Victorian magic duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
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…
After a rave reception for his controversially-named Fringe debut last year, Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked, Rob Hayes has penned another one-man show.
In Max and Ivan: The End, the eponymous duo take you on a guided tour of the small town of Sudley-on-Sea, introducing you to all of the residents.
As roommates, young London singletons Zoe and Ruth are as mismatched as Peep Show’s Mark and Jeremy.
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, the show follows a jazz musician and civil rights activist called Mena Bordeaux as she undergoes a spiritual cleansing following the untimely d…
Kevin MacLeod’s Call To Adventure is entirely appropriate as the walk-in soundtrack to Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids.
Teaching children aged 7-13 the basics of magic.
West End Magic, a monthly fixture at the Leicester Square Theatre, heads north for a limited engagement at The Great Yorkshire Fringe.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
(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…
Welcome to Sudley-on-Sea.
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Apphia Campbell’s hit one-woman show follows jazz musician and civil rights activist Mena Bordeaux as she undergoes a three day period of spiri…
The current situation of low and no pay in many parts of our industry is very damaging, and a hot topic for everybody whether the work is live or recorded.
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…
Delve into the world of a depressed bulimic, it might surprise you.
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…
If you like loud musical comedy, this is the place to be Wednesday night, as James McDonnell stomps through an hour of high energy, surreal music and hilarity.
Famed for her association with the ‘Communards’ in the mid-80s (the fabulous hit ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’ is still requested at every party!) and infamous for a banned rendi…
Jane Postlethwaite (Latest Award Nominee for Best Female Performer 2014 and Funny Women semi-finalist 2014) takes you on a journey to remember with her debut Fringe comedy show.
Time-travelling Victorian duo Morgan & West unload another boxful of bafflement and impossibility.
A new year, a new start.
Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time…
Amanda Seales celebrates the first anniversary of her regular show with a top-notch lineup of comedians from Tru TV’s “Friends of the People”: Jermaine Fowler, Li…
This troupe has a national profile partly because of its participation in the reality TV show “Breaking Pointe,” which chronicled the personalities and backstage antics…
With the death of the last surviving veterans a few years back, the so-called Great War of 1914-18 slipped from living memory, but some records remain preserved none-the-less, n…
Mr.
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…
Known for his long-running “Back in Black” segments on “The Daily Show,” Mr.
In Robert Callely’s overstuffed new drama, set in the 1980s, a family’s tranquility is blown to smithereens when Tony (Timothy John Smith) discovers that his longtime g…
The comedians Jena Friedman and Greg Barris host a top-notch lineup of entertainers to raise money for Doctors Without Borders.
Inspired by a true story and based on the hit movie, Made in Dagenham is the uplifting new West End musical comedy about friendship, love and the importance of fightin…
York Barbican Centre: 3rd Oct 7pm.
New play about the Caribbean slave trade to be performed in William Wilberforce’s church as part of Black History Month ‘It takes sixteen months for the sugarcane to ripen…Aft…
The East End Literary Salon presents a night of new theatrical writing from the finest emerging playwrights.
Mary Beard is an unlikely rockstar.
It seems arbitrary, if not foolish, to award a star rating to something like the Malcolm Hardee Awards Show.
The show uses a mixture of devised and traditional songs, short sketches, narration, and pantomime versions of figures from recent history to recount some of the most important e…
The Real MacGuffins are clearly skilled and practised performers, exuding a confident, polished stage presence from the start - playing the gracious hosts at this, a party celebrat…
The band return to the Made in Scotland Showcase to conduct fyrebrand sonic sermons of devilish proportions.
The Poozies singer-songwriter, fresh from her flawless performances on prime time TV’s The Voice, (including a duet with her mentor Sir Tom Jones).
Dr Bryan Glass investigates how the Scots reacted to the end of the British Empire: specifically why decolonization coincided with the rise of Scottish nationalism and calls for Sc…
Youth Music Theatre Scotland return for another successful year at the Fringe, this time with a remarkably professional and well-executed production of West Side Story, perhaps t…
On the day that the Edinburgh weather turned from sunshine and showers to rough, autumnal wind, an ambitious project arrived at Summerhall.
The Comedian’s Comedian Podcast is a chat show that revels in the niche.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Local company Edinburgh Music Theatre present their second production in a double bill and achieve a true West End sound.
It’s a school for monsters! Ms Bagatha, Mr Splunk and all the monster kids join in this time tunnel adventure as they celebrate differences while learning about America’s Wild West…
Mixing warm tales from their African origins with stories of everyday life in Britain, join these two circuit favourites for an unmissable two-hander show! Funmbi (Amused Moose Lau…
To say that Alternative Comedy Memorial Society is a cult phenomenon is an understatement… and to call it a showcase night would be wildly simplifying the interactive, experiment…
The poptacular London band started thirty minutes late for their three and half hour set, most likely due to technical difficulties or the arrangement of the room.
Patrick Turpin cuts a vulnerable figure on stage, baring his soul (and, without giving too much away, his nipples) to the world in his debut hour that delves into childhood memorie…
Pippa Evans has something of the music hall about her - and thankfully, by that I don’t mean dubious mother-in-law jokes and a touch of old fashioned racism.
It’s time to bring improv comedy bang up to date.
One hundred makers, artists and designers exhibiting their latest creations in a spectacular outdoor setting.
Rob Auton’s show has a mercurial quality, slipping somewhere between spoken word show, stand up comedy and theatrical piece.
Theatrically interesting in the most accessible of ways, Paul F Taylor opens the show in the guise of an infomercial, claiming to be taking pills that cure him of his comedy lifest…
Cariad Lloyd prefaced the show with an announcement - her double act partner, Louise Ford, had left Edinburgh in the last few days due to unforeseen circumstances.
Returning to Edinburgh after running a successful compilation show in 2013 with packed audiences, Iranian-British comedian Sahar Mirhadi and award-winning sarcasticist Dan O’Gorman…
Eric Lampaert makes no claims to be tackling the big issues - in Testiculating (Waving Your Arms Talking B*ll*cks), he talks about everything and anything that catches his eye from…
Penge native and star of ITV2’s Viral Tap presents her follow up show to 2013’s smash hit debut.
We are promised an “epic tale of love, loyalty and logistics” and, with varying degrees of each, that is what we get.
In Set List, spontaneity is the name of the game; a selection of comics perform completely improvised sets in front of your eyes, with nothing to guide them but key phrases which a…
The path of life is full of crossroads.
Richard Gadd is a deeply disturbed young man.
In a fusion of intense physicality, vocalisation and performance, we open to a backlit monk-like figure chanting in Italian.
Hate ‘n’ Live is a night that revels in a non-PC, outrageous and often obscene approach to comedy.
Hilarity Bites, as comedy showcases at the Fringe go, is a solid choice - a mix of an experienced compere and a good range of acts promising a solid hour of entertainment.
Imagine local talk radio teamed up with Inside the Actors Studio.
The award-winning comic’s libellously funny story-telling show on how to find outrageous adventure on a nightly budget of £5.
The examination of race and sexuality in theatre, though not uncommon today, could be seen as controversial and ‘not for everybody’.
Freak should be on the curriculum.
At first glance, Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall appears a mild mannered, softly spoken young man, cutting an endearing figure as he gently chatted with the audience throughout the show…
Four men and a duck make up AsaNisiMasa’s Going Out West.
Peter Straker’s arrived in Edinburgh ladies and gentlemen.
Take four comics and ask them to perform their own stand up routines.
A visceral performance, The Time of Our Lies benefits greatly from the impassioned commitment of its five-strong cast.
An interactive, improvised courtroom drama, This is Your Trial puts the audience under scrutiny, pulling people onto the stage as the accused, charged with ridiculous crimes.
The Comedy Zone is a showcase night that comes with more than it’s fair share of prestige, and no little amount of pressure.
Black Grace is touted as New Zealand’s leading contemporary dance group and they certainly live up to this title.
I must immediately declare that I have always liked Robin and Partridge.
Born in America, Irish-bred and currently residing in China, it’s a safe bet that Des Bishop has a diverse collection of experiences and stories to share.
Jane Fonda is one of the most controversial anti-war activists in American history.
Cosmopolitan Frenchman Yacine Belhousse is at the forefront of a new generation of comedy currently burgeoning in Paris.
Performed with delightful Victorian flair and charm, magic has never looked quite so dashing and debonair.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that starting a review of Austentatious with ‘it is a truth universally acknowledged’ is so cliché that the author should be beaten.
Fuzzbuzz can hardly be described as a sketch show.
Apphia Campbell brings an all-encompassing presence to the stage during this solo performance.
Never have the dual interpretations of MC melded together so fluidly as in Rob Broderick, the leading light of Abandoman.
Ray Shell is a delight, as ever.
Great Scott! Victorian magic duo Morgan & West travel 100 years into the future presenting baffling magic, unparalleled precognitive powers and a totally genuine ability to travel …
Set in the seedy backstreets of 18th Century London Punching Jane follows the fate of a group of prostitutes who settle their disagreements by after-hours bare knuckle boxing.
A former member of the ’90s sketch troupe the State, Mr.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Literary Cocktail salon at the Sussex County Cricket Ground exploring a classic Brighton crime novel and the life and times of its author.
Yiri Baa – West African Roots Manding AfroBeat Band brings you a performance of the wildest music from The Gambia, Senegal and Mali, West Africa.
Dominion Theatre: 22nd May 11pm.
Inspired by the five-star production of ‘Killing Roger’, Sparkle and Dark invite you to join a dynamic panel to talk about how art can tackle challenging ethical issues.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
“Once upon a time, but like, not that long ago really.
The Great Escape and Brighton Spiegeltent present Made in Brighton’s welcome party.
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.
Sibling rivalry, alcoholism, a priest and death all link together in this darkly humorous piece by renowned Irish playwright Martin McDonough.
After multiple sell-out smash hit shows in 2010/2011, the twisted showcase of dark and delicious variety returns to the cow.
(previews start on April 11; opens on April 16) As the city amends its policing policies and settles lawsuits contesting the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tacti…
A festival institution which always sells out fast! Get yer walkin’ boots on and join the mob as we navigate you through four bars.
Fringe is not over yet! Your last chance to see the pick of the Fringe with the most outrageous fringe stories.
This Third Angel and mala voadora production at the Northern Stage at St.
A fast-paced, brutally poignant coming of age story that explores the pain and adventure of growing up, the moment when innocence suddenly turns into experience and the fear of loo…
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.
A global story about brotherhood from Nigerian boutiques to Egyptian street markets, British nightclubs to Chinese sweatshops, from Fringe First winner Inua Ellams (The 14th Tale) …
If you thought that ‘Neighbours’ was about as mundane as Australian stereotypes got, then you were wrong.
Mid-festival a chance to look post-festival, how to capitalise on success, how to heal critical wounds, what to do next if you are a new creative artist/emerging company.
Scotland’s favourite children’s entertainers, The Singing Kettle, bring you this special singalong show that is guaranteed to have the whole family dancing, laughing and singin…
Even on paper, this ‘reconnaissance mission into the no-man’s land where death borders storytelling’ has the potential to be either really good or a recipe for self-indulgence; a…
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…
The End is an apocalyptic comedy.
With sketches ranging from speed dating to a prostitute on Dragons Den and women talking at the toilet mirrors, At Wit’s End is a sketch comedy that covers lots of bases but fails …
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Hendrick’s Carnival of Knowledge presents itself as a place of knowledge and relaxation, of playfulness and learning.
Cultures clash in this powerfully discordant retelling of the Medea story at the Jazz Bar.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
With a rich yet delicate voice Susanna performs original songs, ballads and Ragas.
One hundred makers, artists and designers exhibiting their latest work in a spectacular outdoor setting.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
This award-winning Scottish band return after last year’s sell-out show! An epic journey from prohibition era Chicago to modern Celtic shores, with railroad energy and jaw-droppi…
Our dashing hosts present a naughty nightcap of raucous comedy, cabaret and late night frivolity.
With a cast featuring London-based professionals, this show-stopping production is brilliant for lovers of classic and contemporary musicals.
The award-winning comedian and groundbreaking TV host makes his return to Edinburgh with a new show that will spark interest, ignite curiosity and provoke debate.
Fred Astaire singing ‘Night and Day’ is a good way to start anything.
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.
Larry and Christian are straight and gay, can you tell which one is which?! One attracts guys, the other the girls, but it’s the wrong way round! Join them as they try to cure metr…
The six players that make up the Milk Monitors attempt to bring to life those Jane Austen novels which history has forgotten.
Commercially, Austentatious is perhaps one of the easiest sells on the Free Fringe: a popular and intensely loved literary brand – Austen – combined with the most crowd-pleasin…
‘You can tell the bits, but can never complete the picture.
Morgan and West’s ‘time-travelling magician’ show is a wonderful premise with the occasional funny moment and well-executed magic trick.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Born Australian, with Ghanaian heritage, Matt Okine does a great job at poking fun of racial stereotypes and racial epithets within society, drawing upon a wide range of topics for…
The Austrian artist Franz West, who died last year, was eager to form partnerships with his contemporaries.
After selling out their 2018 and 2019 Brighton Fringe shows and lighting up The Warren’s Summer Season, Do the Thing are here for you in 2021.
With a massively deceptive poster, I didn’t know what to expect from Wild West End.
The Black Country Cider Lions’ compere Rob Kemp reminds us near the start of the gig that the room we are in is bespoke.
Since West Side Story was my first ever pocket-money album purchase, I am unbelievably, unreasonably touchy about its treatment onstage and off.
Mark Kavanagh’s new laugh-a-minute play, Mad North-North-West, has hit the Camden Fringe with a bang! Set in a rehearsal room for an up-coming production of Hamlet, ‘William H.
When you’re promised with a show that “aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world”, it’s easy to be optimistic.
‘There’s something for everyone,’ insists Homespun Theatre of their children’s yarn, East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
Last year, Phil Nichol was awarded a Best Actor award for his performance in Edward Albees Zoo Story.
End to End tells the story of three girls’ journey from Land’s End to John O’Groats using as many forms of transport along the way as possible.
Following a series of recent bombings by the terrorist group EOC, hysteria has reached boiling point in the world of Intelligence Officers Frank and Harry, and their boss Mr …
Noel Tovey is a legend.
Superbolt’s marvelous little offering, despite being loosely plotted and having a somewhat frivolous narrative, makes up for its faults with buckets of heart.
The Sears Basset Glee Club is looking for a soloist for its London debut, and we - the audience - get to vote on who it will be.
Set on a building site, Next On Theatres show is an acrobatic, exciting and occasionally funny trip into the world of three northern painters and decorators.
From the program: Analogue is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to producing challenging, visceral and exciting contemporary work, fusing mixed media on stage.
A can of Iron Bru, a sugary gas-filled concoction known across the land as fizzy pop, is presented to theatre goers as they take their seats for Roar Productions Edinburgh offeri…
This 1980 play by Sam Shepard begins naturalistically enough.
This does largely what it says on the tin, though tinned goods would be beyond the pale for these two sisters as they long for the simple pleasures of the 1950s: baking and pr…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
From the moment you arrive at the top floor of C SoCo, be prepared to be whisked into the whirlwind of energy created by this tightly drilled ensemble.
It’s pretty hard to describe this one-man show without either sounding obtuse, ignorant or both.
This theatre/dance offering from the University of South Florida lacks subtlety and feels overly affronting in its clumsy and somewhat confused form.
James Balwin’s “Peter Panic” is billed as a response piece to last year’s London riots, placing the known and loved Peter and Wendy of JM Barrie’s “Peter Pan” into a …
Anthony Lo-Guidice’s semi-autobiographical “Roma” maps the making of an individual through experience and revelation, stylishly leaping through the hoops of birth, adolescent…
Two self-confessed dirty rotten scoundrels did much more than waxen twist their moustaches when they lured the unsuspecting audience into their card den of delectable deception; li…
A Brighton debut of Spiegeltent regulars Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen.
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…
Black Comedy is a farce by Peter Shaffer.
The Black sea gentlemen return to the Fringe with a cabaret noir of mournful music, strange characters and stunning visual theatre.
Matthew Highton will deceive you.
Derevo, multi-award winning company from St.
Cecilia Nilsson (‘Wallander’) stars in this phenomenal insight into the simplicity and painstaking cleanliness of solitary life, leading us gently through what should be an ord…
In a showcase of fifties jazz music, Sarah Henderson, Loes van der Laan and Emma Turnbull, or the Fabulous D.
In the Black Jew Dialogues actors and writers Ron Jones and Larry Jay Tish explore stereotypes and similarities of the black and Jewish experiences in America, using a sketch show …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Peter Pan as your friend? Have you ever questioned what made the witch in Hansel and Gretel so inconsiderate? If you have, this…
This show really intrigued me.
Dreamwalk productions are a young talented group of sixth form and gap year students who have brought Peter Shaffers ingenious piece to the Fringe.
The last year has not been a good time to live in Ireland.
The Black Sheep are Andrew Jones and Ciaran Murtagh, and this is their self-titled sketch show.
DDMcG Productions have hit on a winner with this piece: a combination of performance poetry, live-looping and music from two very talented strings players.
Fancy seeing a French version of Hamlet? How about a badly translated French version of Hamlet with worse translations back into English flickering intermittently on the back wall?…
The award-winning Swamp Juice - from Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre - dazzles and entertains audiences of all ages.
This gentle comedy is set in Buncrana, County Donegal, just across the border from Northern Ireland, between 1943 and 1945, the last two years of what the Irish called The Emerge…
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
Three actors take to the unconventional stage space at the Assembly St.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the personal letters of a notable literary figure can be an illuminating insight into their thoughts and give us a vivid image of their …
Clout Theatre have hit on something good with this dusty, grotesque and wonderfully pointless piece of physical theatre.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
Magicians, time travellers, and all-round spiffing chaps, Morgan and West are two fellows of the Victorian era who have somehow landed up in the Komedia Studio for the next few nig…
Now, my knowledge of philosophy is not great.
An honest, telling, but ultimately flawed piece of one-man theatre, Walk Like a Black Man is an autobiographical work by writer and performer Rafiq Richard, exploring the challenge…
What kind of child do you own/have you had dumped on you for the Edinburgh Festival? A boy? A girl? Not sure because it’s hard to tell under that fringe it’s got? Perhaps you’ve go…
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.
In Black Stuff Shams Theatre Company have created a piece of work about the global oil and financial crisis that is human, hilarious and above all touching.
The infectious enthusiasm of this comedy duo is apparent from the off, their chaotic get-in generating a fair few belly-laughs.
This adaptation of the short stories of Jonathan Safran Foer, whilst having moments of brilliance, ultimately comes short.
Inspired by the novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago, “The Blind” is a story in pictures, exploring both what it is to be blinded but also diving into the darke…
A modern interpretation of Macbeth, with atmospheric effects, bright lights and the songs of Frank Sinatra.
I can’t help thinking that somebody, somewhere must have watched Oliver Maltman’s show, Little Black Book, before he brought it up to Edinburgh; but clearly didn’t have the balls t…
It certainly is a paradox: is the ball of tissue paper in the magician’s pocket, or is it under the cup? Or is it in both places? Neither? With nods to quantum theories developed…
A surreal hour of comic drama, The Pride is a bizarre attempt to place the more developed aspects of animalistic behaviour – guarding your territory, hospitality laws, and posses…
A large, colourful advert is projected across the stone wallin front of us, ‘these women are doing their bit - learn to make munitions’.
Pornography, we are educationally informed in this piece, means the writing of harlots.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Thick, black curtains mark the entrance to pre-war Poland, set out in the ACT studio.
The End of the World Show is an entertaining whirl through the world’s major religions and their approaches to the eponymous End-Times, written and performed by comedian Mark Spe…
Maybe it was the accidental bang on the forehead he gave himself before coming on stage, maybe it was the sparse Sunday night crowd, or maybe it was the higher than usual quota of …
Bruce Mason’s coming-of-age tale is of a bygone day of innocence, where through a child’s eyes even the village idiot’s tall stories are to be believed.
Pair Dance’s piece aims to combine movement with other technology, and to create a work that embodies “multimedia” by showing that dance and projection (specifically in 3D) c…
Dysart Productions return to the Fringe with an updated version of their 2011 show and really wows the crowds with their peerless vocal performances of some of the great songs from…
Very occasionally we might have an original idea, and when we do we like to tell others about it; however nothing can be compared to the smugness of Michael Pinchbeck and Ollie Smi…
Set in a 1950’s Catholic School, you just know this is going to be a cheeky little number.
Ray Shell’s cabaret debut is a rollicking, gossipy, exuberant affair, zooming through musicals and pop hits from his glittery career.
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…
Pieces of metal scaffolding partially decorated the walls while the old, grand chandelier cast a soft yellow light over the surrounding stone pillars.
One of the shows performed in the laid back facilities of the Ram Jam Club was the Black Hoods project.
Home is where Daniel Kitsons heart is.
This surprisingly inspiring and uplifting true story is told by the people who lived it.
As in all productions, Black Comedy starts with a blackout.
This dance project from Taiwan is entirely improvised by its two performers in a style similar to Western contemporary dance.
This multi-award winning show returns to the Fringe retelling a stream of real life stories from a handful of survivors of the 2009 Australian bush fires that claimed 173 lives.
A timeless love story; an electrifying spectacle.
Formed in Edinburgh in 1990, Shooglenifty has always embraced a wide church of influences.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
This Edinburgh Fringe sees the debut solo hour for impressionist legend Jon Culshaw.
James Macfarlane chats with Dominique Salerno about her debut Fringe show The Box Show, the relationship between creativity and constraint and just what she gets up to in that box.
If you've ever wondered what are the best musicals in London's West End , we might finally have the answer for you.
The East London Shakespeare Festival (16 June - 13 Aug) promises a ‘summer of partying and love’ and a production of Romeo and Juliet that is ‘riotous and atmospheric’.
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 world’s longest running American musical, the multi award-winning Chicago, returns to London’s West End after a 5½ year absence.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
There’s Murder in the West End this Halloween as an ancient curse turns cast members of London’s leading shows into method-acting murderers! The curtain has fallen on unsuspect...
Writer and actor Milly Thomas is best known in the theatre world for her 2016 play Clickbait and for writing an episode of Clique on BBC Three.
Broadway Baby’s Gordon Douglas is joined by Scotland-based theatre-maker Clare Marcie to talk about her new show What Would Kanye Do?, part of the programme at theSpace @ Jury’...
West End and Broadway sensation Rachel Tucker makes her debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in two intimate concerts at the Pleasance.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
The world’s favourite family musical Annie makes its long-awaited return to London this May, starring comedy superstar Miranda Hart – and it's on sale now.
Fresh from a sell-out 2016 UK Tour, Edward Fox is to return to the West End in the celebrated one-man play exploring the life and work of John Betjeman, Sand in the Sandwiches, f...
Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne.
At the end of a remarkable year for the Northampton venue, Royal & Derngate’s Artistic Director James Dacre today announced details of Made in Northampton 2017.
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This week we have a number of fantastic deals and offers across a huge range of theatre and attractions, with new offers being added every day.
The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng...
The cast of Thriller Live celebrated in style last night as the show marked its 3,000th performance in the West End with a spectacular cake and an American-themed party at Planet H...
Producer Mark Goucher has confirmed that following the phenomenal success of the current UK tour, the new production of Hairspray will return at the end of summer 2017 to once agai...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Daniel Evans’ five star production of Show Boat will transfer from Sheffield to the West End in the spring of 2016.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Deputy Features Editor Grace Knight interviews two artists from opposite ends of the Jane Austen-adaptation spectrum.
BB talks to the talent behind Jane and Lizzy, a reinterpretation of Pride and Prejudice with a comical twist.
Broadway Baby talks to Rebecca O'Brien, joint artistic director of Knuckle and Joint about their upcoming show The Black Hoods Cabaret, which promises adult humour, puppet murder a...