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.
Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw star in one of the greatest plays of the 20th century – Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, directed b…
‘All Hell shall stir…’ An intimate and unique staging of Shakespeare’s classic history play.
It is September 1997.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
We heard your pleas.
Online comedy sensation Henry Rowley (1.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
A girl called Lemon is looking for her lover, Cactus.
Beware Sinners, Judgement Day is upon us! Yes, Father Frenchy is back for another ridiculous comedy show & nothing is off limits.
Beware Sinners, Judgement Day is upon us! Yes, Father Frenchy is back for another ridiculous comedy show & nothing is off limits.
A debut solo show by Rowan Walker comprised of physical sculpture and digital works that explore the fragility of the human body, through an investigation of our relationship to th…
Welcome to “Waiting for Poirot”, the improvised comedy detective show where the crimes never get solved.
Welcome to “Waiting for Poirot”, the improvised comedy detective show where the crimes never get solved.
Waiting for Champagne follows former friends and roommates, Annie and Frances, who haven’t spoken to each other in more than a year.
World’s Best Fringe Theatre Winner 2022/3 (International Fringe Encore Series, New York) returns for eight performances only.
Thank you very much for your recent application.
Thank you very much for your recent application.
Stand-up comedian and culinary wizard Henry Ginsberg presents a guide to all things gastronomical.
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
Henry Ginsberg presents a brand-new hour of stand-up, musing on toxic masculinity, loneliness and whether it’s possible for individual body parts to be racist? ‘Hinting at emotio…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
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What connects two seemingly unrelated killings, 27 years apart? In 1993, Steve’s mother dies suddenly; can he trust GP Harold Shipman’s ‘Natural Causes’ diagnosis? And in 2020, whe…
The Actors' Church welcomes RABBLE Theatre with their new production of Henry I, a dramatic piece of new writing which form part of the Theatre in the Garden Summer Season.
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
Ria Jones and Ceri Dupree.
Henry Ginsberg presents a brand new hour of stand up in which he discusses the hot button topics of sexual politics, social alienation and cooking.
Henry Ginsberg presents a brand new hour of stand up in which he discusses the hot button topics of sexual politics, social alienation and cooking.
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
A 1990’s teen lesbian explores history and reckons with the power of femininity in this solo dance/theatre performance.
Nominated for Best Comedy at the 2019 Brighton Fringe, queer Australian comedian Henry Moss brings HENRY: QUEEN OF SQUATS to VAULT.
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Civil unrest, trouble with Europe, a monarchy in peril… it’s not 2022 but the late fifteenth century, and young, newly crowned Henry is eager to assert power at home a…
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
Work, love and life are just one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda.
The story Shakespeare never told.
At the heart of Molière’s extreme, comic farce, is the story of Henriette and Clitandre, who are in love.
Shakespeare’s Henry IV and V - two great plays and one that’s a bit of a stinker.
Henry Ginsberg didn’t lose his virginity, or have any romantic experiences to speak of at all until his late 20s.
Two rising stars of the UK stand-up circuit banging out jokes and stories on topics as diverse as relationships, religion, politics, health and the human condition.
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre.
In 2002, whilst researching a comedy, triple-Fringe First winner Henry Naylor and two-time Scottish Press Photographer of the Year Sam Maynard, went to the Afghan war zone.
See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective as Shakespeare’s exploration of love, lineage and power, co-written with John Fletcher, unfolds in the Globe Theatre t…
Join us for an evening with Professor Luke O’Neill and Tourism Ireland Marketing Director Mark Henry in conversation with Aoife Barry.
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Ladies Night at Monks Park Working Mens ClubAdvance tickets are 10 - On the night they will be 15FRIDAY 01st OCTOBER 2021 doors open at 19:00 show starts at 20:30A fun packed eveni…
The Network is hosting a social & business networking event at the Civil Service Club that will be transmitted on line.
Nominated for Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe, renaissance man, “Mr Henry Moss takes you into his world of deluded celebrity and he does it with charm and talent” (The Latest �…
Nominated for Best Comedy at Brighton Fringe, renaissance man, “Mr Henry Moss takes you into his world of deluded celebrity and he does it with charm and talent” The Latest ★…
King Henry, recently come to the British throne, sets forth to claim the throne of France.
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.
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.
Join us for a full menu of delicious improv comedy! Order what you like because the whole show will be made up from your suggestions.
Join us for a full menu of delicious improv comedy! Order what you like because the whole show will be made up from your suggestions.
By Karrim Jalali.
Two men, two different approaches to creating a good play.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
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.
Waiting for Hamlet has itself been waiting for some time.
A fool who knows he’s a fool, and a fool who doesn’t.
Emerging from the global pandemic, the UK faces a deep recession that could rival the Great Depression, with unemployment expected to triple, and, like in 1935, we’re struggling …
Henry Churniavsky is a Jewish, Scouse Stand-Up Comedian.
Ever thought about what you’d do if the world was going to end? Six friends living on the outskirts of London are caught up in the shenanigans that ensue when a solar flare is anno…
Winner of the 2018 Kenneth Branagh New Drama Writing award, this comedy about a tragedy locks King Hamlet and Yorick in a battle of wits between two old fools, where only one of th…
Nominated for Best Comedy at the 2019 Brighton Fringe, Australian comedian Henry Moss brings QUADRUPLE THRE4T to London’s VAULT Festival February 22 and 23.
LIP Service brings their critically acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy Waiting for Godot to Edinburgh from Texas.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Harry and Ella walk into a bar.
Gemma Bedeau is a writer, costume designer and graphic novelist.
In our twenties, an independent lifestyle seems liberating.
A lone human stands on a dark stage.
Four work colleagues reunite after 30 years, in this delightful intergenerational analysis of motherhood.
Henry Ginsberg didn’t lose his virginity, or have any romantic experiences to speak of at all until his late 20s.
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch is an hour-long, one-man, hyper-immersive, character comedy extravaganza.
2018 Best Musical nominee (MusicalTheatreReview.
B-movies typically have negative connotations.
Critically acclaimed playwright, Henry Naylor, is back at Gilded Balloon with another timely piece of theatre that packs a punch.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
From the award wining creators of fringe comedy sensations Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair and Ghost Cop, comes the original blood curdling B-Musical for the stage.
The Ladies Antebellum: A Mighty Fine Adventure follows two Southern Belles-turned-outlaws as they are hunted down by the finest sheriff the Wild West has ever known.
Monsteers Artistry Presents: All The Ladies Mic Night! All the Ladies Mic Night Includes Live Performances from Sarah Dorsett, Pippa Lea, Lauren Garnder, Christine Maia …
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Dömur og herra, Ladies and a Gentleman, is a burlesque group with its base in Kramhúsið Dance Studio in Reykjavik where they studied Burlesque with the mother of the Icelandic C…
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
DURATION: Approx 2hrs 20 mins Masque Productions follow up their hugely successful production of ‘Dirty Dusting’ with another slice of comedy from Ed …
LOL (Ladies Of Laughter) with Noreen Khan comes to Watermans Arts Centre Brentford! Join Noreen Khan (BBC Asian Network) as she hosts a night of comedy with some of the …
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…
Sick, sex and secrets.
Oh how easily this ambitious project could have fallen flat on its face and oh how wonderfully it sustains itself.
‘You go into a hospital with a father and you come out with a bin bag, and no father’.
It’s her singing and their playing that helps to bring it alive for audiences.
Britain’s foremost football correspondent, having written about the game for three decades covering numerous World Cups, European Championships and Champions League campaigns.
In this mystical Latin-American adventure, in a computer-dominated future, a machine creates two scientists in order to find ‘it’, plunging them into mythical lands to face fantast…
Henry Café, quiz host and death investigator, investigates death and hosts a quiz.
Kirsten Brown and Guy Woodhouse present the show Henry.
Kirsten Brown and Guy Woodhouse present the show Henry.
Henry found himself in a Travelodge, lunching on a can of John West Mediterranean Style Tuna Salad.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot is famously a play about nothing.
In the 18th century the Royal Mile had 117 brothels! This tour is led by a lady of the night (a guide, not a lady of negotiable virtues).
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
You can’t just take a break from your life.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Henry Ginsberg is not your standard Everyman.
Tony Award winner Ben Harney (Broadway's Dreamgirls), and writer Mehr Mansuri, lead this musical about an 1850s Virginia slave who ships himself to freedom in a box.
Leaving the theatre with no idea what you have just seen but having enjoyed it immensely is perhaps an appropriate response to a production of Antonin Artaud’s To Have Done With …
Wild young Hal becomes King and lays claim to the French crown.
Fresh from a year of touring around Australia and the East, Henry is back and has something to say.
Multi-award winning playwright Henry Naylor returns to the fringe with a stunning two-hander set in Nazi Germany that is both incredibly poignant and unnervingly timely.
Following on from her successful ‘Ella’ tour, Annette will captivate you with The Ladies Of Jazz.
The Leicester Mercury award-winning comedian is building a brand new hour of stand up.
Josh Widdicombe and Henry Paker try out new material for their upcoming stand up shows.
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 opening premise of Twilight Theatre’s Waiting for Curry, written and directed by Susanne Crosby, runs thus: Rob and his wife Chris have invited their friends Phil and Sue ove…
This isn’t the gentle comedy romp through the Lord of the Rings that many may believe from the title.
Ladies Marmalade is a reminder that comedy is more than what you see on TV.
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…
Henry Churniavsky in his solo show, ‘Aaaah The Growing pains of a Neurotic Jew’ unloads to the audience all about his Jewish roots from growing up to getting old, with lots more in…
The game show where celebrities compete to become UN Goodwill Ambassadors.
The Mediterranean, 2017, rough seas.
Join highly acclaimed cabaret artist Kim Spargo and the Collected Musicians in the beautiful National Wine Centre to raise a glass to the Ladies of Jazz as we celebrate divas like …
Henry Cockington, an 18 year old artist from Port Vincent South Australia and Adelaide.
The bawdy, the dirty, and the downright horny - The Towers of Song are going to rock’n’roll their way through the lustful side of Leonard’s music.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Two tramps, Didi and Gogo wait on a country road by a tree for a man named Godot.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jack and Annie had the perfect relationship, right up until the day they didn’t anymore.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Miranda Kane’s show, 07800 834030: Thank You For Waiting returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for more secrets, confessions and answers – the dirtier the better.
The gameshow where celebrities compete to end world poverty.
Sam is in a coma.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Luke Wright has been performing spoken word on the Fringe circuit for years, winning a dedicated following for his catalogue of smart, catchy polemics.
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…
Award-nominated Scottish comedian Chris Henry brings his raw and hilarious show about travelling our ludicrous world to the festival.
Henry Ginsberg spent most of his adult life envious of his male friends scoring on the weekend.
When a Fringe show sells out on opening night, you know it’s doing something right.
“I’m aware there isn’t much art made about love, so I thought I’d nip in and nail the definitive article before anyone else could.
Henry Naylor’s new play Borders reminds us not to close ourselves off from the plight of Syrian refugees, though it has fizzled out of our daily news.
An end of life comedy, exploring themes of status, dynamics, and changing relationships in the light of parental loss.
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 …
Join Falstaff, Hal and the regulars at the Boar’s Head Tavern to raise a glass to the dear departed.
Following sold out seasons at the National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and UK Tour, the smash hit, award-winning new musical from the National Theatre of Scotland and Live T…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Ladies Marmalade is a show with 3 unusual and hilarious women who will make you taste different flavours of comedy .
Only a few weeks ago, the Bush Theatre emerged from its year-long renovation, boasting a revamped auditorium and studio space, alongside open-air decking for those all-important …
Four friends, two couples, an elaborate secret history between them, and a lot of wine - what could possibly go wrong? With a strong script by Susanne Crosby (who also directs), an…
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…
In Waiting For It scientists work mysteriously in their laboratory until they are confronted by the voice of their creator.
Henry IV forms a part of The Shakespeare Trilogy, as it breaks free from the Donmar Warehouse to perform in a new 420-seat in-the-round temporary theatre at King’s Cross, imm…
An end of life comedy.
The latest hilarious comedy directed by Mark Bell, the critically acclaimed director behind the Olivier-award winning The Play That Goes Wrong and recent hit The Comedy About a Ban…
Luisa Omielan, Queen B of comedy is back for one weekend only.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
“Revolutionise the world”.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Waiting is frustrating – more frustrating when you don’t know what you’re waiting for.
The force of nature that is named Henry Rollins graces the Edinburgh Fringe once again, bringing with him another hour of profound advice and big laughs.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Combining the bawdy naughtiness of St Trinian’s, the desire to escape sobriety, language and depiction of true Scottishness of Trainspotting, with beautiful choral harmonies and …
The world’s largest landfill, an island of floating plastic the size of Texas and Greta Garbo! This theatrical vortex of recycled plays, Garbo’s Divine Woman and words from env…
Chris Henry is a frantic comic.
Ladies in Waiting, written by and starring James Cougar Canfield as the lascivious and misogynistic King Henry VIII, is a steamy, feminist critique of the most notorious of England…
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…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Taking to the confined stage of Assembly’s ‘Box’, and looking for all the world like a key-note speaker at the world’s tiniest tech conference, Henry Paker sets the tone of…
The scene is Notre Dame.
Taking multimedia representations of young women as its inspiration, If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming picks apart a medley of references to Titanic, Disney …
Sirquis Alfon, an international trio of street entertainers, take to the stage at Gilded Balloon this year, offering a variety show of crowd-pleasing fun and impressive technical m…
A bare stage.
YouTube sensation Neil Henry is back following his five-star sell-out show Mindsquirm, the hilarious and brain-scratchingly mystifying show that What’sOnStage.
Gin is on the up.
Jumping from ravaged warzones to recording studios and London’s VIP clubs, Exposure: The Musical sheds a light on the limelight, dissecting the nature of fame and cost of succes…
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour is a highly entertaining, song-packed show with plenty of heart.
Being bustled and barged out of the way on entering the theatre was a novel experience as a bucket hat, backpack and zip up hoody darted past the queue to desperately claim his …
Modern-day deadbeat Simon (Eli Kent) would rather natter to his mum, objectify his girlfriend, and play video-games with a pothead gorilla than think about the recent death of hi…
Keith Huff’s best-known work is found in the hallowed spaces of US television, as a writer for potent office dramas such as AMC’s Mad Men and Netflix’s House of Cards.
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…
Mel Brimfield and Gwyneth Herbert present a fictitious lost musical reconstructed in fragments, centred around the lives of British sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
Billed as “a world-first experiment in merging the live and digital worlds”, Beta Public’s fifth iteration brings together a medley of daring talks, performances, and video-…
(previews start on Friday; opens on Nov.
The York Shakespeare Project return to Upstage Theatre, marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt with an all-female production of Henry V.
‘The Waiting Room’ is a brand new comedy about three strangers who find themselves stuck in a room.
There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti…
Commemorating 600 years since the battle of Agincourt and the centenary of WW1 comes a new production Henry V from Antic Disposition whose speciality is productions in historic spa…
Swearing more than a band of sailors, the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour present an entirely candid portrait of female teenage sexuality and lives.
#comicreliefwesternphilanthropiccolonialismandpoliticalantipathyinrésistanceanupdatedanalysisofthecomediesofidentityinpopularculture.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Fresh, hilarious and brilliant! Another signature party with jokes from Luisa Omielan, following her unprecedentedly successful debut stand-up show, What Would Beyoncé Do?! An emp…
Much what it says on the tin, Edinburgh’s Gin Night of Literature and Liquor waltzes you through the history of gin distilling and the drink’s use and abuse by the literary world’s…
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
The troubled comedian returns to the festival for the third year running (Cheese and Crack Whores, 2013; Breaking Gadd, 2014) having received rave reviews, sell-out crowds, critica…
The good times are here! The Canadian Rasta is back in Edinburgh once again. Settle in for some serious laughs.
Renowned philanthropist, author, historian, orator, humanitarian, amateur vet, world record holder for the longest time a man has carried a toaster, pimp Henry von Stifle is ready …
Renowned philanthropist, author, historian, orator, humanitarian, amateur vet, world record holder for the longest time a man has carried a toaster, pimp Henry von Stifle is ready …
The critically acclaimed ‘stealth hit’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Igor and Moreno move.
The Man Who Planted Trees was originally a tale from French author Jean Giono in the 1950s, now pieced together onstage with cloth hangings, felt animals, and wafting lavender (yes…
A regular performer in Edinburgh and confident stage actress, Dillie Keane returns with her ‘first solo show for 557 years’.
“In hip hop, we create our own mythology”.
Henry Ginsberg is a true outsider; never popular enough to be accepted into the mainstream, but never quite anti-establishment enough to be accepted into any ‘alternative’ tribes.
A troupe of hopeful Fringe performers get lost in the woods, forced to deliver their starry-eyed show to the “nonexistent” audience.
Two women on a stage: one in a black gown, one in a white gown; a modern day schoolgirl jihadi and a Victorian intellectual.
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…
What do you do when your computer knows you better than you know yourself? In a self-penned monologue about the dangers of data-mining and artificial intelligence, actor/writer Jen…
You probably expect misdirection from magic, but it’s a rare thing for it to move you.
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.
Fiction is unlike anything else you’ll see at the Fringe.
Jethro Compton, formerly the driving force behind Belt Up Theatre, has certainly earned his household name at the Fringe, bringing shows of consistent quality for years - notably w…
Meet Ada Lovelace, the ‘poetical scientist’, and daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron.
An unassuming teenager, Donny Stixx, tries to keep his calm as he meets fans for a televised Q&A, just like he’s always dreamed.
The team behind the Fringe First winning Grounded (2013) are back with a powerfully human tragedy – one that grapples with issues of belief clearly and concisely, without recours…
An all-new, all-female production of Shakespeare’s war play, King Henry V follows Henry and her band of brothers as they face the challenges of life on the front line, exploring …
(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…
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…
His Majesty does not have syphilis.
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…
Juilliard’s William Petschek Piano Recital Award, a prestigious honor, fosters the careers of rising artists, and the 2015 winner is Henry Kramer, making his Alice Tully Hall…
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
This November, UCLU Drama Society presents an exciting new student production of Shakespeare’s first instalment of King Henry IV, chronicling the rise of Prince Hal from licentious…
This summer Chloe Arnold and her girl group of fierce tappers, Syncopated Ladies, made a splash on the reality TV dance competition “So You Think You Can Dance,” with a…
You think Samuel Beckett’s 1948 existential masterpiece is depressing? Wait till you hear it in Yiddish.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
Meet Leila and Lee.
A modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, with the conflict re-worked to England vs Scotland.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Award-winning Ladies Live Longer return with a brand new cult.
One night in the life of Edgar Allen Poe, renowned American poet and global ancestor of the horror genre as we know it: we follow an original tale of Poe’s brief stay in Moyamens…
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
There probably aren’t many free venues that are packed to the seams, having to turn people away and fit others into the corners with Tetris-like ingenuity.
Thirty seconds into a show that hasn’t started yet, one performer is rapping an improvised piece about how the show hasn’t started yet.
In one of the more light-hearted representations of the First World War at the Fringe this year, Dear Mister Kaiser charts the result of one idealistic English soldier’s reques…
Using a fiendishly elaborate (and highly unnecessary) system of generating audience suggestion, Waiting for the Call invent an improvised musical based on ideas from the peculiar m…
This story concerns two workers at a coffee factory, their profit-focused/self-regarding employer, and the struggle for beauty or joy or play in an everyday life that has lost its …
Young Pleasance has built up a reputation as a company surprisingly close in quality to many more adult and professional theatre troupes at the Fringe.
Silly and idiotic character comedy. Philanthropist Henry von Stifle and his valet, Spencer, reverse the dumbing down of Britain.
After the success of her previous show, What Would Beyoncé Do?! Luisa Omielan has returned to Edinburgh with a brand new stand-up act, Am I Right Ladies? It’s a loud and crude t…
This distinct and ever-so-slightly whimsical tale follows the breakdown of a high-flying advertising executive as he becomes disillusioned with the superficial world around him a…
We got your late night funny covered! Come and witness a fresh batch of Festival Fringe comedians every night.
Anyone expecting anything like Hamlet will be sorely disappointed.
Henry is a verbal magician, creating an atmosphere of bold sincerity on stage that will force you out of your comfort zone and into his hilarious domain.
Ever wondered what a conversation with a real-life ghost would be like? In this interesting take on the supernatural genre, writer/performer Lydia Nicholson shows her afterlife i…
Bonenkai is a Japanese term meaning “forget the year gathering.
As the title may suggest, Cars and Girls concerns Dubus’ geographical and emotional journeys through life, from nude bike rides to broken down cars, in England, Madagascar and th…
A rather offbeat hour is presented by Finnish magician, Robert Jagerhorn.
This chuckling two-man verse-play charts part of the life of a TFL office worker trying to navigate life’s rocky road after the death of his mother and reappearance of his fath…
The Art of Falling Apart follows the path of midlife-critical salesman Callum, gleefully poking fun at modern life and the absurdities of trite conversation, chance meetings, hol…
The sea has inspired fear, dread, awe or hope in many a work of literature.
The creators of last year’s hit political parody Coalition have returned to answer that very current question: what if Boris Johnson runs for the job of Prime Minister? The resul…
Jez Butterworth’s debut play exploded onto the Royal Court stage two decades ago, with its colourful array of hapless 1950s gangsters getting high on slimming pills and getting s…
A new, seemingly naive charity worker walks out of her gap year and into her corporate office.
There’s a hint of showbiz in the air as Neil emerges in a matching two piece checked suit, white leather shoes and a giant magician’s smile.
Many of us have some form of a box in which we keep childhood keepsakes and store treasured memories.
Hosted by some occasionally fallible blues band members and housed in “deepest, darkest Dorset”, Inheritance Blues is a tale of three sons as they meet to mourn their father (o…
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
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.
How much can you expect from a free comedy show at the Brighton Fringe? A lot, as it turns out, as comedienne Luisa Omielan, fresh from her critically applauded touring show What W…
I was warned that Vampire Hospital Waiting Room was wonderful and weird but that you had to embrace it - I would encourage any potential audience member to apply this mantra to the…
Let our flamboyant troupe take you on a holiday where the sun is warm, the nights passionate and the pasta always al dente.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Waiting For The Call is an exercise in improvised musical theatre, performed by some of the younger students at Wellington College.
Claiming to have made millions with an 80s boomtime business in the corrugated iron industry (before subsequently nose-diving into bankruptcy), Uncle Henry is certainly rather rich…
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
‘Enjoyably candid … honest … even daring show’ (Chortle.
After 20 years of trying to sing and dance, Chris finally realised how ridiculous he’d been.
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.
Four people silently enter a room.
Winner of the 2008 Leicester Comedian of the Year, Henry Paker brings his show Classic Paker to the Fringe to put some surrealist comedy into your life.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII promises us ‘silly songs and historical hysteria’ and that’s exactly what Howard Coggins and Stu McLoughlin set out to do.
Tonight was an evening of two plays, one short, one less short, but the action started before the audience were seated with characters roaming into the foyer.
The Sugar Dandies are made up of loveable gay couple Soren and Bradley Stauffer Kruse.
As Lewis Carrol broods on his missing protagonist, and the White Rabbit is sent in search of an eight-year-old girl to fill the role, the Hatter, the Dormouse, the Hare and the Moc…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Kicking off his show by saying ‘I’m not funny all the time, I wish I could be’, Henry Rollins set the audience up to watch a very alternative comedy show.
One of the most fascinating aspects of Greek drama is the ability for modern theatre artists to freely interpret it.
Waiting for Lefty begins in medias res.
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…
Ladies Day charts the lives of four women working in a fish-filleting factory.
Rhymes with Purple are a small young company from Glasgow who develop their own scripts and operate on a shoe-string budget without public funding.
Not another comedy about nuns! I cried, being one of those people who dont find nuns intrinsically amusing, but I must confess I found it difficult to suppress a giggle when the …
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Andi Osho, the rising female comedian famous for her appearances on Mock the Week and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, is taking to pieces what it means to be a single lady in…
If theres one period of history, or one English monarch everyone thinks they know a bit about, its the reign of Henry VIII.
Ladylike gets off to a rather standard start with an introduction to the double act’s caricatured personalities, which aren’t anything novel: Victoria Temple-Morris is arrogant…
Set in what could be an authentic Guide hut in the Pleasance, this show is built around a 25th reunion of an 80’s Brownie troop as Brown Owl looks back at her girls and we get to s…
A solitary woman is waiting for her husband to return from home.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Chris Henry would be the first person to admit that the words “we need to talk” do not inspire confidence.
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…
Terry Pratchetts Lords And Ladies is part of his hugely successful Discworld series.
Feel the Spirit at Centennial Park Cemetery as you travel along your own ‘journey’ at the awakening of the ladies of Jazz and Gospel.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Jack Rooke's career was launched by his 2015 Fringe meditation on loss and mourning, Good Grief, which took him on a national tour, sold out at the Soho Theatre in London, and saw ...
Could virtual reality and interactive media become a staple of the Fringe programme? Housed in Assembly Rooms on George Street, FuturePlay is an artist-led technology festival that...
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.
The Sex Workers' Opera rehearses on the third floor of Theatre Delicatessen, a multi-level studio space and gutted workplace that used to serve as an office-complex for The Guardia...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Broadway Baby, the largest reviewing publication at the Edinburgh Fringe, has named Henry St Leger as the Editor for this year’s festival.
Artist Mel Brimfield is teaming up with composer Gwyneth Herbert to present a fictitious lost musical reconstructed in fragments, centered around the lives of critically acclaimed ...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Part nursery rhyme, part domestic drama, Tumbling After charts the story of two young couples as they 'stumble in and tumble out of love'.