Brighton Academy Musical Theatre Showcase

Brighton Academy Musical Theatre Showcase

The Brighton Academy (TBA) Musical Theatre Degree Showcase.  

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Final 2024

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Final 2024

Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

UK Comics’ Comic 2022 - Best Act “One of the UK’s pre-eminent pun merchants…the quickest quipster in showbusiness. 

Handbrake Off

Handbrake Off

Handbrake Off - the Arsenal podcast from The Athletic - returns to Leicester Square Theatre after a remarkable year for Mikel Arteta’s team. 

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission II

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission II

Celeste Ntuli Is a full-time stand-up comedian and actress, she has come a long way since she was discovered performing in a marquee in Durban more than nine years ago. 

So You Think You're Funny? Competition – Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Competition – Grand Final

Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and … 

Tam Cowan: Off the Wall

Tam Cowan: Off the Wall

Tam loses his Fringe stand-up virginity with a riotous, no-holds-barred show with sensational stories, shameless name-dropping, at least three new jokes, and colourful recollection… 

The Musical Theatre Story: The Magic of the Modern Age

The Musical Theatre Story: The Magic of the Modern Age

A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows. 

Sinatra: The Final Curtain

Sinatra: The Final Curtain

We present the 10th anniversary of this acclaimed original musical with sold-out Fringe runs in 2013 and 2014. 

The Musical Theatre Story: The Golden Age of Musical Theatre

The Musical Theatre Story: The Golden Age of Musical Theatre

A journey through the golden age of musical theatre. 

Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime

Bake Off: The Great British Pantomime

The contestants on this year’s Bake Off have been doing much much worse than usual. 

Popstars: The Final Riff Off

Popstars: The Final Riff Off

It’s World War III (pop girl-group feud in the 00s) and the battle to end all battles (an a cappella riff-off)… Can you keep up? The Rolling Tones are back – ready to serve i… 

Commedia and Half Mask Talk by Action Theatre (Italy)

Commedia and Half Mask Talk by Action Theatre (Italy)

Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the… 

Grubby Little Mitts Presents: Sketch Book

Grubby Little Mitts Presents: Sketch Book

Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes… 

Raag Rang: A Journey Through Indian Musical Traditions

Raag Rang: A Journey Through Indian Musical Traditions

Join Delhi maestro Manmohan Dogra for a journey through soulful Hindustani classical music, featuring vocal ragas and a tabla solo in Banares style. 

Musical Theatre Workshop

Musical Theatre Workshop

Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life. 

Hamlet's Journey to the West

Hamlet's Journey to the West

In the Wuji Kingdom, Tang Sanzang dreams of the old king’s soul complaining to him, accusing his sworn brother of murdering him in the royal garden, taking his form and usurping th… 

Victory Boogie Woogie / the pleasure of stepping off a horse when it's moving at full speed

Victory Boogie Woogie / the pleasure of stepping off a horse when it's moving at full speed

In these two explosive, intimate physical poems by Charles Pas and Courtney May Robertson, desires and fears collide in an attempt to embrace the contradictions that make up a mult… 

Off the Bench

Off the Bench

A lighthearted yet empowering play which revolves around the lives of three female football players, playing for their local team, the Walcott Wrens. 

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Mary: A Gig Theatre Show

Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story. 

Edward's Talk – What's Driving You?

Edward's Talk – What's Driving You?

Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, now one rising stand-up star will be crowned Britain’s funniest student. 

22 Mirrors – A Musical Journey Through the Tarot

22 Mirrors – A Musical Journey Through the Tarot

Joined by two musicians and two dancers, Brazilian singer/songwriter Giulia Drummond takes us through a ritualistic performance exploring the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot. 

Swingtime with Brian Kellock and Dick Lee: The Music of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson

Swingtime with Brian Kellock and Dick Lee: The Music of Benny Goodman and Teddy Wilson

Piano wizard Brian and clarinet ace Dick combine to pay tribute to the King of Swing. ‘Fine playing, with some deliciously liquorice-toned clarinet’ (Scotsman). 

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

‘The brains and talent behind Half-Cocked Theatre have undoubtedly carved a niche in the world of sketch comedy with their latest offering’ **** (LiveLondonPost. 

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

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… 

After the Rainbow: A Mystical Music-full Midlife Journey Through Oz

After the Rainbow: A Mystical Music-full Midlife Journey Through Oz

Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz. 

Journey to Long Nose

Journey to Long Nose

‘Chock-full of humor and satire, accompanied by a constant vein of honesty and self-analysis, Rachel Pollock’s solo performance is a hidden gem amongst the Fringe scene’ **** (DC… 

Journey to the West

Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a new musical play, originating from the Chinese literary masterpiece by the same name. 

Edward Aczel – Running on Empty

Edward Aczel – Running on Empty

Aczel does his best, but it isn’t going to offer a solution to the unbearable lightness of being – as planned. 

Pete Carson: Merry Christmas, Mr Carson

Pete Carson: Merry Christmas, Mr Carson

One of Scotland’s rising comedy stars, Pete Carson brings his debut show to the festival to find out what it means to be an alcoholic, embittered Poundland Santa Claus every year… 

I Cut My Nipples Off Today

I Cut My Nipples Off Today

How do you look non-binary? Everyday your brain is bombarded by images and opinions about your body. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a… 

Disco Horses: A Sketch Revue

Disco Horses: A Sketch Revue

‘Absurdist sketch at its peak! …the smartest dumb comedy you’ll ever see!’ (Audience Review). 

Vittorio Angelone and Friends: Off the Cuff

Vittorio Angelone and Friends: Off the Cuff

What’s your name? Where are you from? What do you do for a living? Who’s drinking? Are you two a couple? Etc etc. 

Pete Carson and Cobin Millage: Touching Tips (with Friends)

Pete Carson and Cobin Millage: Touching Tips (with Friends)

Pete Carson and Cobin Millage: Two of the brightest young comics in Scotland, and allegedly the best friends the world has ever seen. 

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Antics Joke Show: Sketch and Improv Comedy

Up the Antics (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra) bring a showcase of some of their best sketches. 

Oxford Alternotives: A Cappella Off the Rails!

Oxford Alternotives: A Cappella Off the Rails!

All aboard for a musical adventure with Oxford University’s finest mixed a cappella group! A Fringe favourite for over 15 years that promises laughter and stunning vocal harmonies. 

Jack Holmes: Round Man, Square Hole

Jack Holmes: Round Man, Square Hole

A laugh-filled journey about finding every group you belong to insufferable. 

Miss English's Holiday by Action Theatre (Italy)

Miss English's Holiday by Action Theatre (Italy)

A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus. 

Craig Wilson: Who?

Craig Wilson: Who?

Craig Wilson is a smart, nice and really cool guy, but none of that matters because he is the most forgettable man in the world. 

Dragon Shows for Babies

Dragon Shows for Babies

The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons. 

Edward Tripp: No Man is an Ireland

Edward Tripp: No Man is an Ireland

Enter Edward Tripp’s bottomless mind as he straddles comedy and spoken-word, like a genre-defying slut. 

Off With Your Head!

Off With Your Head!

Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, part improv, part video ga… 

Off the Cuff: Stand-Up Comedy Magic

Off the Cuff: Stand-Up Comedy Magic

Chris Dinwoodie is a five-time Scottish magic champion. 

A Chip Off the Gold Block

A Chip Off the Gold Block

A transatlantic middle-aged Jewish atheist divorcee walks into a bar. 

Bella Humphries: Square Peg

Bella Humphries: Square Peg

Bella Humphries: Square Peg – Hotly anticipated stand-up debut about family, farmers and finding out that being yourself is really hard work! Rising star Bella Humphries ‘oozes c… 

UK Pun Off

UK Pun Off

The hit online show UK Pun Off has made the transition to a live show and is coming to Edinburgh! Four top comics will have three jokes on different topics and it is up to the audi… 

Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons with Dragons

Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons with Dragons

From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves. 

Ketch Sketch

Ketch Sketch

Japan’s best silent comedian is back! And you’re invited to his pet Max’s birthday party. 

Graham Kay: Pete and Me

Graham Kay: Pete and Me

Kay’s Pete and Me uses cheerful humour to talk about growing up with his profoundly autistic brother, exploring their relationship from childhood through today. 

Juliet Cowan: F*ck Off and Leave Me Alone

Juliet Cowan: F*ck Off and Leave Me Alone

In her debut stand-up hour actor, writer and comedian Juliet Cowan delivers a hilarious gut punch which is part teenage confessional, part middle-aged rallying cry. 

Pete Heat: Bogus

Pete Heat: Bogus

Join magician, comedian and charlatan Pete Heat on a surreal journey into your own brain. 

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey – Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey – Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Five-star reviews and Critic’s Choice from the Guardian, Time Out, and Times. 

Serious Theatre from Serious People

Serious Theatre from Serious People

At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success. 

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian. 

Ginger Johnson Blows Off!

Ginger Johnson Blows Off!

Join comedian, crash mat and winner of Drag Race UK Ginger Johnson as she swaps her stilettos for safety goggles and takes a death-defying leap from the runway to the real world. 

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: Not Another 69-Sketch Show

‘Most reliable sketch group in the game’ **** (EdFringeReview. 

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York … 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Fringe Academy: An Introduction to Forum Theatre

Fringe Academy: An Introduction to Forum Theatre

Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th. 

The Seagull and the Cat: Pericles Theatre Company

The Seagull and the Cat: Pericles Theatre Company

A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and tea… 

O’Donnell Moonshine Square

O’Donnell Moonshine Square

Step into the O’Donnell Moonshine Square at this year’s Brighton Fringe! O’Donnell Moonshine is taking over Jubilee Square between 25th - 27th May, showcasing the world of M… 

Extravaganza 5: Off Duty!

Extravaganza 5: Off Duty!

All That Bex is back with a third instalment of the most fantabulous cabaret event of recent times, Extravaganza – this time, with Fringe Benefits! Hosted by the sensational St… 

Lewis Black: Off The Rails

Lewis Black: Off The Rails

Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life. 

Theatre: Making It and Doing It Workshop

Theatre: Making It and Doing It Workshop

After sell out sessions in March and April,  Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr… 

Synchro: The Final Frontier

Synchro: The Final Frontier

A long time ago in a swimming pool far, far away, the mesmerising sport of synchronised (now artistic) swimming was created. 

Tides (Theatre)

Tides (Theatre)

Tides. 

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 3

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 3

Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’… 

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 2

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 2

This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease. 

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with Chichester Festival Theatre

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with Chichester Festival Theatre

Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe. 

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 1

Missing Link Touring Theatre Showcase 1

An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality. 

Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands

A sure fire winner, a tear-jerker with comedic appeal, Mathew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Edward Scissorhands, is based on Tim Burton’s 1990 film but reimagined for dance. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Leslie Gold: A Chip Off the Gold Block

Leslie Gold: A Chip Off the Gold Block

A transatlantic middle-aged Jewish atheist divorcee walks into a bar. 

Glass of Sketch - Work in Progress

Glass of Sketch - Work in Progress

Join Daniel for a Glass Of Sketch, where he will be delivering an informative talk on the ‘serious’ art form that is sketch comedy. 

Bog Off! - The Tracy Beaker Drag Cabaret

Bog Off! - The Tracy Beaker Drag Cabaret

Get Ready For BOG OFF - The Tracy Beaker Drag Cabaret! Elaine, Jenny and Duke have popped out for some garden supplies - this can only mean the Dumping Ground is now free for a one… 

Hill & Jones Sketch Comedy Show

Hill & Jones Sketch Comedy Show

Serious comic Ryan Hill and loveable idiot Ben Jones present their Sketch Show Goes Wrong play combining original material, tributes to comedy greats and much more silliness! Hill… 

Silicon Brighton: AWS in an Enterprise – the Journey from Lift & Shift to Cloud Native

Silicon Brighton: AWS in an Enterprise – the Journey from Lift & Shift to Cloud Native

Join us for Meetup #5 of the AWS Brighton User Group! Mark Hemsley, Head of Architecture at Rail Delivery Group will be speaking about infrastructure modernisation with AWS Cloud … 

Off The Chest presents Brighton Bards

Off The Chest presents Brighton Bards

The sell-out poetry night, Off The Chest, makes its Brighton premiere at Komedia on 7th May. 

Pavilion Gardens Cafe History Tours 2023

Pavilion Gardens Cafe History Tours 2023

Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s. 

Pete Strong: Change Is Good, But It's Not the Only Thing (Work In Progress)

Pete Strong: Change Is Good, But It's Not the Only Thing (Work In Progress)

Just turned 40, sober as a judge, with a new baby. 

Chaos: Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre

Chaos: Kaleidoscope Youth Theatre

‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers. 

Black Brighton Market - Actors Theatre

Black Brighton Market - Actors Theatre

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. 

Theatre: Making It and Doing It Workshop

Theatre: Making It and Doing It Workshop

After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an… 

The Bridge House Theatre: Three Years and Counting

The Bridge House Theatre: Three Years and Counting

The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April. 

The British Theatre Challenge

The British Theatre Challenge

The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening. 

Sketch Off! 2024 Final

Sketch Off! 2024 Final

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its eighth year. 

Sketch Off! 2024 Final

Sketch Off! 2024 Final

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its eighth year. 

Travesía | Journey

Travesía | Journey

Instituto Cervantes Dublin presents a concert with Spanish artist Martirio, accompanied by the talented guitarist Raúl Rodríguez. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons) 2024

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Theatre: Making It and Doing It workshop

Theatre: Making It and Doing It workshop

Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the … 

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

The Emmy, Golden Globe and Olivier award-winning actor Brian Cox, makes his return to the London stage in Spring 2024 starring in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Marry Me a Little

Marry Me a Little

London’s newest Pub Theatre has opened with a sublime production of Stephen Sondheim’s rarely-staged Marry Me A Little. 

Love's A Beach - Soho Theatre

Love's A Beach - Soho Theatre

Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show. 

A Heart Full of Song - a musical theatre concert

A Heart Full of Song - a musical theatre concert

A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories. 

A Heart Full of Song - a musical theatre concert

A Heart Full of Song - a musical theatre concert

A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories. 

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night!Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes … 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an … 

West End Wilma Awards 2023

West End Wilma Awards 2023

Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre. 

West End Wilma Awards 2023

West End Wilma Awards 2023

Join us for the eighth West End Wilma Awards, celebrating the best of UK Theatre. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Get Loud! - creating gig-theatre, with Sam Butters

Get Loud! - creating gig-theatre, with Sam Butters

Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n… 

MAKING GIG-THEATRE WORKSHOP, WITH SAM BUTTERS

MAKING GIG-THEATRE WORKSHOP, WITH SAM BUTTERS

Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals. 

WRITING FOR THEATRE AND SCREEN WORKSHOP, WITH RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR MBE

WRITING FOR THEATRE AND SCREEN WORKSHOP, WITH RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR MBE

Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals. 

GANGSTA BABY - HOPE THEATRE TAKEOVER

GANGSTA BABY - HOPE THEATRE TAKEOVER

Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals. 

Edward Scissorhands

Edward Scissorhands

Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences world-wide since its premiere in 2005. 

Peter Pan - Rose Theatre

Peter Pan - Rose Theatre

A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits. 

'Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About'. The final chapter

'Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About'. The final chapter

‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ returning to The Hen & Chickens Theatre, playing from Thursday 30th November until Saturday 2nd December at 19:30. 

Geimhreadh Galore! The Irish Theatre Tour

Geimhreadh Galore! The Irish Theatre Tour

Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G… 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Handbrake Off

Handbrake Off

The Athletic's Arsenal podcast Handbrake Off is coming to the West End for its first ever live show this November. 

Heaven Can Wait  by Be Wilder Theatre

Heaven Can Wait by Be Wilder Theatre

Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit. 

New Wave Theatre: How To Run Away

New Wave Theatre: How To Run Away

New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love. 

New Wave Theatre: Intransigent Lines

New Wave Theatre: Intransigent Lines

In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus. 

New Wave Theatre: Goodgirl

New Wave Theatre: Goodgirl

It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy. 

New Wave Theatre: The Morphea

New Wave Theatre: The Morphea

“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey. 

Tony Cantwell's Sketch Show

Tony Cantwell's Sketch Show

Step into the whimsical world of Tony Cantwell. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard

Thirty years ago I stood on The Strand in a queue for eight hours intent on getting my hands on early tickets for the first production of Sunset Boulevard. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show 2023: The Search Continues

This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents. 

Calendar Girls the Musical 2023 Tour

Calendar Girls the Musical 2023 Tour

Bill Kenwright Ltd presents a brand-new production of the award-winning Calendar Girls the Musical, written by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth, featuring a re-imagined book and new music… 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2023

Cadenza at the Fringe 2023

Under new director Timothy Coleman Cadenza performs music of three women composers: a new commission for choir by Janet Wheeler dedicated to our former Director Jenny Sumerling, Th… 

Music in Charlotte Square

Music in Charlotte Square

A free, open-air celebration to close out the final weekend of the 2023 International Festival. 

Sax Appeal 2023

Sax Appeal 2023

Enjoy a relaxing hour away from Fringe frenzy with Scotland’s popular Hume Saxophone Quartet. 

Sketch Off: The Last Laugh

Sketch Off: The Last Laugh

Come and see student sketch comedy groups battle it out for the ultimate prize, power. 

Something To Take Off The Edge

Something To Take Off The Edge

In Something To Take Off The Edge, Errol McGlashan delivers a gripping one-man show taking audiences on a visceral journey into the world of a high-security prison. 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show. 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show. 

So You Think You're Funny – Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny – Grand Final

Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and … 

Josh Glanc: Collections 2023

Josh Glanc: Collections 2023

Winner: Critics Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023. 

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show. 

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show. 

Leicester Foxes (Melina Fiol and Nayonica Ghosh W.I.P)

Leicester Foxes (Melina Fiol and Nayonica Ghosh W.I.P)

Join comedian pals and cheerful Leicester gals,Melina Fiol (Circuit Breakers 2023) and Nayonica Ghosh (BBC Upload Festival 2021) as they craft their debut shows. 

Leicester Foxes (Melina Fiol and Nayonica Ghosh W.I.P)

Leicester Foxes (Melina Fiol and Nayonica Ghosh W.I.P)

Join comedian pals and cheerful Leicester gals,Melina Fiol (Circuit Breakers 2023) and Nayonica Ghosh (BBC Upload Festival 2021) as they craft their debut shows. 

Is This the End of Edward J Payne?

Is This the End of Edward J Payne?

His father died at 45. 

The Easy Rollers: Drop Me Off in Harlem

The Easy Rollers: Drop Me Off in Harlem

Taking you back to the golden age of jazz, The Easy Rollers are a roaring seven-piece jazz outfit performing hits from the speakeasy bars of the Prohibition era and beyond. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito… 

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music

The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music by British Composer Girish Paul is a dramatic concert by the multi-instrumentalist and his virtual orchestra. 

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

The Half-Cocked Sketch Show

Skip to the end for the top line info* Half-Cocked are back! Following a tumultuous hiatus, full of banana bread, Call of Duty Warzone and an alarming over-use of the incognito… 

Expecting by c21 Theatre Company

Expecting by c21 Theatre Company

Shauna and Robbie are expecting. 

Piano Masterworks 2023

Piano Masterworks 2023

New Zealand classical and jazz pianist Charles Whitehead returns to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Piano Masterworks Recital: La Valse, featuring works by Mozart, Bartok, … 

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 3

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 3

Michael Harris, Organist of St Giles’ Cathedral, puts the world-renowned Rieger organ in St Giles’ through its paces, with a programme including Kenneth Leighton’s Introduction, … 

JARUJARU: Arigato 2023

JARUJARU: Arigato 2023

World premiere of JaruJaru’s original sketch format, Two-Person Ensemble Piece Seamlessly playing Different Characters, which they have been experimenting since 2018. 

Rhiannon Shaw: Wedding Night

Rhiannon Shaw: Wedding Night

Character comedian and stand-up Rhiannon Shaw (‘a cunning comic mind’ (Chortle. 

Femme Natale Theatre

Femme Natale Theatre

Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro… 

Made for This! A Musical Theatre Showcase

Made for This! A Musical Theatre Showcase

Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers. 

Lipote: An Interconnected Journey

Lipote: An Interconnected Journey

A new UV opera-musical told from the roots of trees about the impact of intensive agriculture on forest systems. 

Goldsmiths University of London: Musical Theatre Summer Camp Cabaret

Goldsmiths University of London: Musical Theatre Summer Camp Cabaret

This evening’s performance will include an eclectic mix of solo and ensemble song and dance pieces from some of the West End’s best-loved musicals. 

Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart

Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart

Nine dancers move hypnotically in a work exploring the highs and lows of love and relationships. 

Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Summer Season 2023

Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Summer Season 2023

Edinburgh Youth Orchestra performs an exciting programme of orchestral music to celebrate its summer season. 

Roast Battle Scotland: Fringe 2023

Roast Battle Scotland: Fringe 2023

The show that turns smack talk into an art form. 

Orca Comedy Sketch Spectacular

Orca Comedy Sketch Spectacular

Featuring material written and refined in London’s famed Free Association comedy school and theatre, the ORCA Comedy Sketch Spectacular promises an eclectic variety hour of sketch … 

Jennifer Wrigley and Laurence Wilson

Jennifer Wrigley and Laurence Wilson

Trad fiddle player Jennifer Wrigley is highly respected globally as a cultural ambassador for the music of her Scottish homeland, the Orkney Islands. 

Orca Comedy Sketch Spectacular

Orca Comedy Sketch Spectacular

Featuring material written and refined in London’s famed Free Association comedy school and theatre, the ORCA Comedy Sketch Spectacular promises an eclectic variety hour of sketch … 

Pete Searles: The Path to True Love (via Swindon)

Pete Searles: The Path to True Love (via Swindon)

After his much younger girlfriend leaves him for a better-looking, richer, more successful friend, Searles dissolves into a gibbering, chain-smoking, suicidal insomniac! In despera… 

Josh Glanc: Collections 2023

Josh Glanc: Collections 2023

Winner: Critics Choice Award, Perth Fringe 2023. 

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 2

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 2

Jordan English, Assistant Organist of St Giles’, puts the magnificent world-renowned Rieger organ through its paces in Vierne’s 2nd Symphony, Alcock’s Introduction and Passac… 

Alastair Savage and Laurence Wilson: From Ayrshire to Orkney

Alastair Savage and Laurence Wilson: From Ayrshire to Orkney

This year, celebrating his 50th birthday, Alastair presents a unique series of concerts highlighting the various strands of the Scots fiddle tradition and his own diverse musical c… 

Journey of Love

Journey of Love

MTO Zendeh Delan’s Journey of Love, inspired by the Sufi allegory of Leyla and Majnun, is an enchanting blend of modern Sufi music and the graceful motions of Sama. 

Off With Your Head

Off With Your Head

Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, improv, video game and cho… 

Immrama: Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama: Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life. 

Alex Kealy: 2023 Work-in-progress

Alex Kealy: 2023 Work-in-progress

The ‘almost sexily cerebral’ (**** (Daily Telegraph)) stand-up presents a work-in-progress comedy show about fear (probably), after 2022’s ‘breakneck pace. 

Dickie Richards: Sexual Tyrannosaur 2023

Dickie Richards: Sexual Tyrannosaur 2023

A stupid stand-up comedy show from Dickie Richards, the Polish-Cockney comedian, arguably the most handsome man in showbiz (you decide). 

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. 

2023 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

2023 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

Award-winner George Zacharopoulos is back with a brand-new show about trying to be less of a garbage human being. 

The Further Misadventures of Martin Hathaway: Shipwrecked Off Heramathea's Cove

The Further Misadventures of Martin Hathaway: Shipwrecked Off Heramathea's Cove

In this steampunk fantasy adventure, the hapless history teacher who fell from our universe into Arnica has survived banshees, elves, and a giant ruhk to join the eccentric crew of… 

World Press Photo Exhibition 2023

World Press Photo Exhibition 2023

The World Press Photo Exhibition showcases the best photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year. 

Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023

Anarchy Cabaret Presents: West End New Act of the Year Showcase 2023

Featuring winners of London’s premier new-act comedy competition. 

Journey to the West

Journey to the West

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 Lady Boys of Bangkok – Party Queens Tour 2023

The Lady Boys of Bangkok – Party Queens Tour 2023

Let’s take the party into 2023 and come join our Party Queens tour with 16 of the world’s most glamorous and beautiful showgirls. 

Clay 2023

Clay 2023

A vibrant show of contemporary ceramics by our resident and guest artists celebrating the versatility of clay. 

Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club

Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club

The Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club is not a tribute act. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

Riot Reveals 2023

Riot Reveals 2023

Straight from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Rosie May Riot has lured a cast of burlesque and cabaret performers away from the land of haggis and shortbread, grabbed a few more fri… 

Riot Reveals 2023

Riot Reveals 2023

Riot Reveals is back! After a successful run at the Camden Fringe in 2022 and a sell out show at the Edinburgh Voodoo Rooms, Riot Reveals returns to Camden for two nights only! … 

Square Peg

Square Peg

This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in… 

A Musical Journey: Through the Decades

A Musical Journey: Through the Decades

Everybody Sing are delighted to present a musical journey through the decades. 

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

The Big Show: Monkey Barrel Comedy's Fringe Showcase 2023!

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue (Chortle Awards 2023) welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2023! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barrel Comedy… 

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye… 

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

Hi Ho Hi Ho, It's Off To Work I Go

In this biographical burlesque, a confessional cabaret, Phillipe will sing and dance you through his boyhood on the Broadway stage, teenage nights in the discos of Hollywood, 20 ye… 

Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Touching Tips (with Friends)

Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Touching Tips (with Friends)

Cobin Millage and Pete Carson: Two of the brightest young comics in Scotland, and allegedly the best friends the world has ever seen. 

Journey to the West: In Search of the Way

Journey to the West: In Search of the Way

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 … 

Andronicus Synecdoche presented by Song of the Goat Theatre

Andronicus Synecdoche presented by Song of the Goat Theatre

Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation. 

Piano Recital by Marc Corbett-Weaver 2023

Piano Recital by Marc Corbett-Weaver 2023

The internationally renowned classical pianist Marc Corbett-Weaver makes a welcome return to Edinburgh for a dazzling piano recital of great pianistic masterpieces, including the g… 

Ed: The New, Totally Unofficial, Ginger-Inclusive Parody Sketch Show

Ed: The New, Totally Unofficial, Ginger-Inclusive Parody Sketch Show

Accompanied by a glittering live band and fresh from two sold-out London and Cambridge runs, don’t miss the Fringe premiere of Ed, charting the story of a ginger pop sensation. 

Dirty Laundry: Spin Off

Dirty Laundry: Spin Off

Following their sell-out show in 2022, former Cambridge Footlights Emily, Robbie and Maddie are now also former housemates. 

Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons With Dragons

Adventures! Journey Through Dungeons With Dragons

From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves. 

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

Glass Crumpet's Sketch Show

From Glass Crumpet, comes an all-new Sketch Show. 

Craig Wilson: Comedy Ninja (WIP)

Craig Wilson: Comedy Ninja (WIP)

Craig Wilson is a nice boy. 

Ticked-Off Einstein Telling Jokes

Ticked-Off Einstein Telling Jokes

Everybody is getting more stupid. 

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings. 

Sketch Up!

Sketch Up!

A smorgasbord of radio sketches, performed live. 

UK Pun Off

UK Pun Off

The hit online show has made the transition to a live show and is coming to Edinburgh! Four top comics will have three jokes on different topics and it is up to the audience to dec… 

2023 Asian Daddy, Dead: Pitch-Black Humour Guaranteed!

2023 Asian Daddy, Dead: Pitch-Black Humour Guaranteed!

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. 

2023: The End Of The Beginning Of The End – Vladimir McTavish

2023: The End Of The Beginning Of The End – Vladimir McTavish

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… 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson is alone. 

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

According to Google, Eva’s boobs weigh the same as: two and a half bottles of tequila; two bricks; or the average newborn baby. 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

‘An excellent comedy show’ **** (BroadwayBaby. 

Pete Heat: Huge

Pete Heat: Huge

Sharp, charmingly surreal and joyously unhinged, this hilarious modern magic show will break your brain into cute little pieces. 

Bronwyn Sweeney: Off-Brand

Bronwyn Sweeney: Off-Brand

Bronwyn Sweeney’s show Off Brand talks about how important branding is, not only for products, but for comedians too. 

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 1

Celebrity Recitals 2023 – 1

Following the Scottish premiere of Howard Skempton’s 50 Preludes and Fugues for Organ, Book One, during the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe at St Giles’ Cathedral, Matthew Owens… 

SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE

SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE

  • Listing
  • Theatre
  • Camden Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 1st - 27th Aug 2023

Experience the raw reality of prison life in “Something To Take Off The Edge,” a powerful one-man show Tragi-comedy written and performed by Spoken Word Artist & Actor, Errol McGla… 

SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE

SOMETHING TO TAKE OFF THE EDGE

  • Listing
  • Theatre
  • Camden Fringe
  • Multiple Venues
  • 1st - 27th Aug 2023

Experience the raw reality of prison life in “Something To Take Off The Edge,” a powerful one-man show Tragi-comedy written and performed by Spoken Word Artist & Actor, Errol McGla… 

NCD: Class of 2023

NCD: Class of 2023

A collection of excerpts from the Performing Arts class of 2023. An evening of song, dance and scenes from an array of musicals and plays. 

NCD: Class of 2023

NCD: Class of 2023

A collection of excerpts from the Performing Arts class of 2023. An evening of song, dance and scenes from an array of musicals and plays. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

1894. 

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

KEITH. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

1894. 

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

WatchList: a KEITH sketch comedy show

KEITH. 

Masquerade… A Musical Theatre Concert Celebration

Masquerade… A Musical Theatre Concert Celebration

Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy… 

A Theatre Show

A Theatre Show

After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Debut 2023

Debut 2023

Debut 2023: A showcase presented by the graduating students from the BA (Hons) Musical Theatre Performance programme at University of Chichester Conservatoire. 

The Therapist at Barons Court Theatre

The Therapist at Barons Court Theatre

“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures. 

Journey of Whispering Dreams

Journey of Whispering Dreams

About the show What if I say this is my journey of healing, this is from my cultural hometown… But that’s just a ‘what if’. 

Live at Wembley Park Theatre with Phil Wang

Live at Wembley Park Theatre with Phil Wang

London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang. 

Best of Brighton Fringe: Theatre

Best of Brighton Fringe: Theatre

About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers… 

FUSE International Opening Night 2023

FUSE International Opening Night 2023

About the show Celebrate the opening of the 15th festival with an exhilarating night of music and dance including two special guest performances from companies AXIOM and… 

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

As Seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, ‘Master of one-liners’ MARK SIMMONS brings his brand-new show on the road. 

A Rare Journey - Nora Joyce's Odyssey

A Rare Journey - Nora Joyce's Odyssey

A one woman show which celebrates the life of a remarkable Irish woman, Nora Joyce. 

Brighton Buddhist Centre: Open Day 2023

Brighton Buddhist Centre: Open Day 2023

An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts. 

Brighton Buddhist Centre: Open Day 2023

Brighton Buddhist Centre: Open Day 2023

An opportunity to explore Buddhism, meditation and also Buddhism’s relationship to the arts. 

Creating Voice: Exploring the Student Journey at the University of Sussex

Creating Voice: Exploring the Student Journey at the University of Sussex

This exhibition explores the student journey through art, photography, music and creative writing and celebrates the varied experiences of our diverse student community. 

Creating Voice: Exploring the Student Journey at the University of Sussex

Creating Voice: Exploring the Student Journey at the University of Sussex

This exhibition explores the student journey through art, photography, music and creative writing and celebrates the varied experiences of our diverse student community. 

Lewis Black: Off The Rails

Lewis Black: Off The Rails

Known as the King of Rant, Lewis Black uses his trademark style of comedic yelling and finger pointing to expose the absurdities of life. 

Buzzbox Collective Touring Theatre Showcase (University of Worcester)

Buzzbox Collective Touring Theatre Showcase (University of Worcester)

Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills. 

Buzzbox Collective Touring Theatre Showcase (University of Worcester)

Buzzbox Collective Touring Theatre Showcase (University of Worcester)

Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills. 

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show

a 75-minute chaotic journey through the minds of two dudes; Jack & Jordan, who are actors - nay, artists! And professional ones at that. 

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show. 

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Glass of Sketch (On The Rocks) Work-in-Progress

Daniel is desperate to prove sketch comedy should be taken ‘seriously’, in contrast to the frivolity and silliness of his last Fringe show. 

The Seagull and the Cat: Pericles Theatre Company

The Seagull and the Cat: Pericles Theatre Company

A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te… 

PACE Masterclass: 'Viewpoints' Physical Theatre (3 Days)

PACE Masterclass: 'Viewpoints' Physical Theatre (3 Days)

VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas. 

PACE Masterclass: 'Viewpoints' Physical Theatre (3 Days)

PACE Masterclass: 'Viewpoints' Physical Theatre (3 Days)

VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas. 

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw. 

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw. 

Chichester Pride 2023

Chichester Pride 2023

We’re immensely proud to announce Pride is returning to Chichester on the 27th of May 2023 - get your tickets below. 

2023 The End Of The Beginning Of The End

2023 The End Of The Beginning Of The End

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… 

Artificial Intelligence Improvisation (2018-2023)

Artificial Intelligence Improvisation (2018-2023)

Award-winning theatre troupe Improbotics presents Artificial Intelligence Improvisation, a tech-infused improv and science comedy show. 

2023 The End Of The Beginning Of The End

2023 The End Of The Beginning Of The End

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… 

Wuthering Heights - Rose Theatre

Wuthering Heights - Rose Theatre

'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take … 

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Graduating Actors Showcase 2023

Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) Graduating Actors Showcase 2023

Showcase Start Time - 13:00 To attend this Industry Showcase please email actingshowcase@lipa. 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

69 sketches in the space of an hour? The fastest sketch show at the Fringe returns, but this time with a thief running through the production and stealing bits of the skits. 

Is this the end of Edward J. Payne?

Is this the end of Edward J. Payne?

His father died at 45. 

Is this the end of Edward J. Payne?

Is this the end of Edward J. Payne?

His father died at 45. 

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Open Studios 2023

Open Studios 2023

Join us once again for our annual Open Studios and explore the workspaces of the artists who work inside Phoenix Art Space. 

Open Studios 2023

Open Studios 2023

Join us once again for our annual Open Studios and explore the workspaces of the artists who work inside Phoenix Art Space. 

The Final Girl (Work in Progress)

The Final Girl (Work in Progress)

Do you like scary movies? Well, if you like them so much, would you survive to the end of one? Join the award-winning Heather-Rose Andrews on an exploration of horror films, the wo… 

The Enigma of Edward Elgar

The Enigma of Edward Elgar

Actor and pianist Michael Lunts presents a one-man show with live music in which he portrays the composer Edward Elgar towards the end of his life, coming to terms with the death o… 

The Enigma of Edward Elgar

The Enigma of Edward Elgar

Edward Elgar's influence on the classical music world is one that is to be admired. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

The Final Approach

The Final Approach

Obsessed with detective stories and film noir, Sam Marlowe can’t help but start digging when his long-term crush drops a case into his lap. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

Fringe at Falmer 2023

MAY 13th (Saturday, 5. 

The Final Approach

The Final Approach

Obsessed with detective stories and film noir, Sam Marlowe can’t help but start digging when his long-term crush drops a case into his lap. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

Fringe at Falmer 2023

May 13th - THE COPPER FAMILY May 20th - THE AMITY SINGERS May 27th - BELLADONNA, Sue Mileham, Soprano, Jane Plessner, Clarinet and Nicola Grunberg, Piano 

Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023

Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023

Kings, Queens, and everything in between Inclusive, radical and hella creative, it’s Brighton’s Big Drag Pageant! The hottest ticket of last year’s Fringe returns for the 2023 ed… 

Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023

Brighton Big Drag Pageant 2023

Kings, Queens, and everything in between Talent, diversity, creativity, and nerve. 

The Infinite Life Journey

The Infinite Life Journey

Taiwanese dance company B. 

Pavilion Gardens Cafe History Tours 2023

Pavilion Gardens Cafe History Tours 2023

Geoffrey Mead will conduct a Café Through the Ages tour from its current location back through time to the 1920s. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

Original Lineups full of the best up-and-coming Brighton’s solo, duos and full bands acts. 

Brazen Hodgepodge - A Sketch Comedy Show

Brazen Hodgepodge - A Sketch Comedy Show

Brazen Hodgepodge: A Sketch Comedy Show The Lion & Unicorn Theatre Brazen Hodgepodge is a brand spanking new sketch comedy show! A fast-paced hour of original sketch comedy scene… 

Immersive Theatre Workshop

Immersive Theatre Workshop

If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai. 

Immersive Theatre Workshop

Immersive Theatre Workshop

If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai. 

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe 2023

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe 2023

Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and… 

The Lady Boys of Bangkok Party Queens Tour 2023

The Lady Boys of Bangkok Party Queens Tour 2023

The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back on VICTORIA GARDENS in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19. 

Live at Wembley Park Theatre with Sindhu Vee

Live at Wembley Park Theatre with Sindhu Vee

London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee. 

The Lady Boys of Bangkok Party Queens Tour 2023

The Lady Boys of Bangkok Party Queens Tour 2023

The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back in 2023 with a glittering stunner of a show “PARTY QUEENS” Mondays 241 / Wednesday tickets £19. 

Richard III - Rose Theatre

Richard III - Rose Theatre

Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa… 

Lord of the Flies - Rose Theatre

Lord of the Flies - Rose Theatre

By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c… 

Tom Papa 2023 Comedy Tour

Tom Papa 2023 Comedy Tour

With more than 20 years as a stand-up comedian, Tom Papa is one of the top comedic voices in the country. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off!: Final 2023

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off!: Final 2023

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off!: Final 2023

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off!: Final 2023

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase - Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.  

Kumarsutra: Greatest Hits Tour 2023

Kumarsutra: Greatest Hits Tour 2023

Kumar is hailed as one of South East Asia’s most iconic and respected performing artists and a brilliant stand-up comedian. 

Comedy Bloomers - A Night of LGBTQ+ Comedy March 2023

Comedy Bloomers - A Night of LGBTQ+ Comedy March 2023

Comedy Bloomers returns in 2023 with a lovely lineup of comedy talents. 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Super Chefs at Theatre Peckham

Super Chefs at Theatre Peckham

6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner. 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

In his next life, Pete wants to be a greenfinch. 

Live At Leicester Sq Theatre

Live At Leicester Sq Theatre

Ready to get your laugh on?  This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi… 

Brighton Fringe 2023 Launch

Brighton Fringe 2023 Launch

Don’t miss a night of comedy, cabaret and music to celebrate the launch of Brighton Fringe 2023. 

Naked Chats: Drawing and Conversation with Body Love Sketch Club & Friends

Naked Chats: Drawing and Conversation with Body Love Sketch Club & Friends

Nudity, bodies, and how to feel more comfortable in our own skin in a society which conditions us to be very critical of ourselves? A panel discussion and life drawing class with b… 

Theatre of Gulags

Theatre of Gulags

Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them. 

The Great British Bake Off Musical

The Great British Bake Off Musical

On 25th February 2023, a remarkable event will begin in London’s West End. 

In Stitches Theatre Company Presents Comedy Improv

In Stitches Theatre Company Presents Comedy Improv

“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun. 

Saving Grace 2023 Tour

Saving Grace 2023 Tour

Join Tik Tok’s GK Barry for some absolutely outrageous conversations with some very special guests!   

Erika Ehler Goes Off

Erika Ehler Goes Off

Join Erika Ehler Fresh from appearances on Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC2) and Comedians Giving Lectures (Dave) as she presents an hour of new material in this work in progr… 

Hablando Huevadas 2023

Hablando Huevadas 2023

Jorge and Ricardo's comedy show, two Peruvian comedians who will take their humour to Europe.  

Fuck Off and Leave me Alone

Fuck Off and Leave me Alone

Come, try on the oestrogen goggles, wander through the museum of me, batter the physical manifestation of patriarchy himself, (although not for long he is very hungry and a woman h… 

Ballet Icons Gala 2023

Ballet Icons Gala 2023

The annual Ballet Icons Gala is one of the world’s ballet highlights. 

Airport Journey

Airport Journey

An everyday random chance of love The Lumiere Theatre Company Karim Nehran Messeri died in Charles de gaulle airport. 

The Final Episode of The Magic Tower | Heaven shakes a little

The Final Episode of The Magic Tower | Heaven shakes a little

The Final Episode of The Magic Tower Crime, lies and googly eyes Heaven shakes a little Drenched in honey, covered in sunlight. 

Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect and other ideas

Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect and other ideas

Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame. 

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night!Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes … 

Much Ado About Nothing - National Youth Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing - National Youth Theatre

Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and… 

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

Rhiannon Shaw (Work in Progress)

A work-in-progress stand-up show from comedian and writer Rhiannon Shaw. 

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

I've Got Some Things To Get Off My Chest

According to google Eva’s boobs weigh the same as an average newborn baby and that’s quite a weight to have on your back, metaphorically, and physically. 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP!  Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and … 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP!  Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer … 

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

The Alzheimer's Diaries: Meet The Author

What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, … 

Edward Bourne: Sketchbook

Edward Bourne: Sketchbook

“Have you ever felt like a hollow sim in a glitchy video game, Taking time to self narrate your moves in marvellous dismay?” Deep, right? Songs become sketches and sketches… 

Preppers: A Sketch Show

Preppers: A Sketch Show

Do you think the end of the world is nigh? Then safeguard your future by listening to two very smart people: Stuart & Matt are doomsday preppers and are delighted to give the audie… 

2:22 A Ghost Story - Lyric Theatre

2:22 A Ghost Story - Lyric Theatre

The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Theatre Royal Bath Productions present Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman in the fortieth anniversary production of one of the greatest British come… 

Off The Page

Off The Page

Off The Page is a relaxed night of play readings designed to bring you diverse new writing read by local, professional actors. 

Mother Goose - Duke of York's Theatre

Mother Goose - Duke of York's Theatre

Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise. 

Hey Duggee - The Live Theatre Show

Hey Duggee - The Live Theatre Show

Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they … 

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Final 2022

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year Final 2022

Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com… 

A Musical Theatre Christmas

A Musical Theatre Christmas

“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty. 

A Christmas Carol - Rose Theatre

A Christmas Carol - Rose Theatre

From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic. 

Gary Barlow A Different Stage - Savoy Theatre

Gary Barlow A Different Stage - Savoy Theatre

Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl… 

GUTH NA hÉIGSE National Final of Poetry Speaking Competition

GUTH NA hÉIGSE National Final of Poetry Speaking Competition

Is comórtas píolótach Comórtas Labhartha Filíochta d’Iarbhunscoileanna é Guth na hÉigse, atá bunaithe ar an… 

Off Broadway Comedy Club Night

Off Broadway Comedy Club Night

 Off Broadway Comedy Club by Giggle GaggleThe Off Broadway Comedy Club is Brightons newest comedy night. 

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

Mark Simmons: Quip Off The Mark

As Seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, ‘Master of one-liners’ MARK SIMMONS bringshis brand-new show on the road. 

Kirkos perform Ian Wilson and Annea Lockwood

Kirkos perform Ian Wilson and Annea Lockwood

Kirkos presents The Song Ring’d Sky a new piece by Irish composer Ian Wilson and bayou-borne, for Pauline by New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Sardines, Telephones, Tax Avoiders, Axes, Whiskey, Flowers and more Sardines. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Theatre Royal Bath Productions present Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman in the fortieth anniversary production of one of the greatest British come… 

TALK by Kill The Cat Theatre

TALK by Kill The Cat Theatre

Have you ever sat opposite someone on a bus quietly, both on your phones, and not say a word? Perhaps you glance up for a second and smile at each other. 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Mirror, semen, manoeuvre… HAM THEATRE bring their award winning play to The Bridge House Theatre - a fast paced comedy with bits of physical theatre, music and singing, set … 

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School MFA Graduate Acting Showcase 2022

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School MFA Graduate Acting Showcase 2022

The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase. 

A Journey to the Past

A Journey to the Past

A Journey to the Past; A celebration of Ahrens & Flaherty. 

My Kind of Musical : Too Fat for Theatre

My Kind of Musical : Too Fat for Theatre

Following on from the success of the first event, My Kind of Musical is back with more fat, more songs, more revenge, and more spiralling over whether or not you should feed the bi… 

Skinner & T'witch: Folk, Flamenco and Theatre-Style Songs

Skinner & T'witch: Folk, Flamenco and Theatre-Style Songs

Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs. 

Get Off Comedy Fundraiser

Get Off Comedy Fundraiser

Get Off Live Comedy Gala! Get Off Live Comedy is an industry born and funded independent HR that aims to eradicate sexual harassment in the industry we love. 

Death of an Author

Death of an Author

What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br… 

Lost and Found: A Cellist's Journey

Lost and Found: A Cellist's Journey

In her most intimate work, cellist Justyna Jablonska explores how identities are made, unmade and remade in music. 

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Sketch comedy that encompasses the horrid, the dark, the bizarre and the stupid. 

Around the World in 80 Events: The Journey

Around the World in 80 Events: The Journey

A show that will take you on an emotional, inspiring, global journey. 

A Wee Journey

A Wee Journey

Live music, choreography and storytelling combine to create a compelling exploration of migration experiences. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, 11 survive; now one rising stand-up star will be crowned Britain’s funniest student. 

Stop the World, We're Getting Off

Stop the World, We're Getting Off

Welcome to Clapham South tube station – home to the last five survivors of the climate crisis. 

Immrama – Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama – Columba's Journey, Your Story

Immrama: Columba’s Journey, Your Story. 

Exe-a-Sketch

Exe-a-Sketch

We’ve only gone and managed to turn Exeter into a sketch comedy show! Bad news: it’s no longer a place. 

For Example Theatre present: Boat!

For Example Theatre present: Boat!

A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality. 

Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect and Other Ideas

Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect and Other Ideas

Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame. 

Anthems – 40 Years of Edinburgh Music Theatre

Anthems – 40 Years of Edinburgh Music Theatre

Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue. 

The Easy Rollers: Drop Me Off in Harlem

The Easy Rollers: Drop Me Off in Harlem

Taking you back to the golden age of jazz, The Easy Rollers are a roaring seven-piece jazz outfit performing hits from the speakeasy bars of the Prohibition era and beyond. 

Mark Simmons: Quip Off the Mark

Mark Simmons: Quip Off the Mark

The Mock The Week panelist and master of one-liners returns with another show jam-packed with cleverly crafted jokes and improvised gags. 

Wolf Song: Journey to Valhalla

Wolf Song: Journey to Valhalla

The Saga of the Norse Gods. 

Leicester Square Theatre All-Star Show

Leicester Square Theatre All-Star Show

A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre. 

Ben Hur: The Theatre Show

Ben Hur: The Theatre Show

The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot… 

A Journey Within: An Artistic Blend of Sufi Music and the Motions of Sama

A Journey Within: An Artistic Blend of Sufi Music and the Motions of Sama

Let the ensemble take you on a journey of sound and motion through a modern artistic portrayal of this 1,400 year-old spiritual practice. 

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

A simple concept: Peter reading on his usual park bench is approached by Jerry, a bizarre young man full of questions and stories. 

Stop the World I Want to Get Off

Stop the World I Want to Get Off

Jacky shares her top 10 reasons why she wants to leave the planet, all through performance poetry. 

Sketch Up!

Sketch Up!

A smorgasbord of radio sketches, performed live. 

This is a Sketch Show

This is a Sketch Show

Roll up, roll up! Following last year’s sold-out show, the Manchester Revue is returning to the Fringe with a brand-new show! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manches… 

Little West End Theatre Cabaret

Little West End Theatre Cabaret

It’s time for us to play. 

Linger, Presented by Everything Must Go Theatre Company

Linger, Presented by Everything Must Go Theatre Company

‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory. 

In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv

In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv

Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab… 

Final Baby Girl!

Final Baby Girl!

Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame. 

In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv

In Stitches Theatre Company presents Comedy Improv

Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab… 

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

The Halls of Ridiculous: Improvised Sketch Show

Join Yorkshire double act The Halls of Ridiculous as they push the boundaries of improv, sketch and character creativity to the max with their quick thinking scenes, zany special g… 

Pete Wells: Success

Pete Wells: Success

Do you feel successful? Then this is your show. 

Diane Spencer Slid Off the Turkey

Diane Spencer Slid Off the Turkey

Saucy stand-up comedian Diane’s ninth stand-up show exploring themes of deficiency, such as the inappropriate board game her mother made, having anaemia when you’re ginger and marr… 

The Smile Off Your Face

The Smile Off Your Face

You are blindfolded. 

Gash Theatre Needs Some Space

Gash Theatre Needs Some Space

Boy, you’re an alien. 

Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Split-bill WIP from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows. 

Rich Wilson: You Could Have It So Much Better

Rich Wilson: You Could Have It So Much Better

Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r… 

Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky's F*ck Off Olympics

Seymour Mace Presents Captain Winky's F*ck Off Olympics

Hey everyblobby! Come along and see what hastily cobbled together pile of shite I’ve managed to pull out my arse this year! There’ll be a start, some stuff in the middle and anothe… 

The Final Approach

The Final Approach

The Final Approach is a one man show by Thom Jordan, exploring the daring investigation of outsider Sam into his high school’s darkest secrets. 

Block'd Off

Block'd Off

Working-class means many things now. 

Pete Heat: Blimey

Pete Heat: Blimey

A joyously unhinged hour of stand-up and magic. 

In the Weeds by Joseph Wilde, Produced by An Tobar and Mull Theatre

In the Weeds by Joseph Wilde, Produced by An Tobar and Mull Theatre

Kazumi is hunting a sea monster. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson is alone. 

Pete Firman: Bag Of Tricks

Pete Firman: Bag Of Tricks

‘The UK’s leading comedy magician’ (Time Out) returns to the Fringe with an astonishing new show. 

Emily Wilson: Fixed

Emily Wilson: Fixed

Sold-out run: Off-Broadway, Asylum NYC (2022). 

Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-Off World

Alan Davie: Beginning of a Far-off World celebrates the life and work of Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014). 

Scenic Outdoor Theatre - 'Nana Rabbits Cake-Off'

Scenic Outdoor Theatre - 'Nana Rabbits Cake-Off'

Nana Rabbit’s Cake-off! Join Nana Rabbit and her friends as they re-enact her most famous adventure yet; The Quest for the Whisk of Destiny! Nana, who was once named ‘The Greatest… 

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show

A Sketch Show - a 70-minute chaotic journey through the minds of two dudes; Jack & Jordan, who are actors - nay, artists! And professional ones at that. 

A Rare Journey - Nora Joyce's Odyssey

A Rare Journey - Nora Joyce's Odyssey

A world premiere of a one woman show which celebrates the life of a remarkable Irish woman, Nora Joyce. 

Elly Shaw & Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Elly Shaw & Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Split bill work in progress from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows. 

Elly Shaw & Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Elly Shaw & Elaine Fellows: This Girl Can't

Split bill work in progress from Elly Shaw and Elaine Fellows. 

ASTRA: A Multimedia Theatre Production

ASTRA: A Multimedia Theatre Production

Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse. 

ASTRA: A Multimedia Theatre Production

ASTRA: A Multimedia Theatre Production

Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse. 

The Great Baldini: A Magician's Journey

The Great Baldini: A Magician's Journey

Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree… 

The Great Baldini: A Magician's Journey

The Great Baldini: A Magician's Journey

Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree… 

Physical Theatre Workshop

Physical Theatre Workshop

Everything begins with movement. 

A Journey through the Chakras

A Journey through the Chakras

Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation. 

Physical Theatre Workshop

Physical Theatre Workshop

Everything begins with movement. 

A Journey through the Chakras

A Journey through the Chakras

Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation. 

Miracle Theatre's Fleapit - Everyman

Miracle Theatre's Fleapit - Everyman

Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m… 

Miracle Theatre's Fleapit - Everyman

Miracle Theatre's Fleapit - Everyman

When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder. 

A Final Act of Friendship

A Final Act of Friendship

A comical and current gut-punch of a play about friendship, racism, and learning to take a new perspective. 

Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)

Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)

What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a… 

Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)

Pete Wells: Success (Work in Progress)

What is success? Can you define success successfully? Is it twice fired single parent billionaire Elon Musk, or model citizen Pete Wells who currently lives in the dining room of a… 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott. 

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg… 

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

Fringe Academy 1-2-1: Good art thrives on good management, advice for you from the Independent Theatre Council

What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg… 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

In his next life, Pete wants to be a greenfinch. 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

In his next life, Pete wants to be a greenfinch. 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre. 

Why Other People P!ss You Off

Why Other People P!ss You Off

* * * * * SUPPORTED BY THE 2022 ENCORE INSURE BRIGHTON FRINGE BURSARY! * * * * * Mirror, semen, manoeuvre. 

WATSON: The Final Problem

WATSON: The Final Problem

The year is 1894. 

FINAL BABY GIRL!

FINAL BABY GIRL!

Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame. 

FINAL BABY GIRL!

FINAL BABY GIRL!

Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame. 

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase  

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Brighton Academy Graduation Showcase – Musical Theatre (BA Hons)

Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase  

Elegies: Two Monologues from Ricochet Theatre

Elegies: Two Monologues from Ricochet Theatre

This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year. 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and… 

The Off Chest

The Off Chest

Off The Chest is an inclusive, explosive spoken word and poetry night, celebrating original voices and poetry that makes a statement. 

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night!Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes … 

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night!Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes … 

twenty-eight presented by Deus Ex Machina Productions and Theatre 503

twenty-eight presented by Deus Ex Machina Productions and Theatre 503

The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce. 

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission

For the first time ever and for one night only South African comedy aces Celeste Ntuli and Thenjiwe Moseley bring their rib cracking stand up comedy to London. 

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission

Celeste Ntuli Live In Leicester Square: London Mission

For the first time ever and for one night only South African comedy aces Celeste Ntuli and Thenjiwe Moseley bring their rib cracking stand up comedy to London. 

We Never Got Off at Sloane Square

We Never Got Off at Sloane Square

We never get off at Sloane Square is an adaptation of Helen DeWitt’s novel, The Last Samurai – the story of a mother, Sibylla, who singlehandedly homeschools her son, Ludo, whi… 

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Semi Finals

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Semi Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

The Queen of Hearts

The Queen of Hearts

When Mark Twain said the only two certainties in life were death and taxes, he clearly hadn’t accounted for Andrew Pollard and the Greenwich team knocking out a cracking panto. 

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Quarter Finals

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Quarter Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Final Baby Girl

Final Baby Girl

Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame. 

LIPSYNC1000 - Grand Final 2021 @ The Grand, Clapham

LIPSYNC1000 - Grand Final 2021 @ The Grand, Clapham

The Glory presents 2021’s Grand Final for LIPSYNC1000 Europes FIERCEST drag battle! TWENTY QUEENS will join Jonny Woo, John Sizzle plus celebrity guest judges for London’s WI… 

Baby Lame: Final Baby Girl! (WIP)

Baby Lame: Final Baby Girl! (WIP)

Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame. 

Pete Price Is Dead

Pete Price Is Dead

Radio City is under threat. 

Pete Price Is Dead

Pete Price Is Dead

Radio City is under threat. 

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London… 

Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act

Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act

How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of… 

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Acting Showcase

Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Acting Showcase

Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our … 

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Heats

Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year 2021 Heats

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group venture to Manchester with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and… 

The Next Drag Superstar! FINAL

The Next Drag Superstar! FINAL

DOORS 7PM SHOW 7:30PMWEEK 6 - FINAL The show begins! Now we have our 4/56 artist left in the cast. 

The Next Drag Superstar! Semi Final

The Next Drag Superstar! Semi Final

DOORS 7PM SHOW 7:30PMWEEK 6 - Semi Final The show begins! Now we have our 5/56 artist left in the cast. 

NEHH Presents... Siobhan Wilson

NEHH Presents... Siobhan Wilson

Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, library music producer, Siobhan Wilson was born in Elgin, Scotland, UK. 

Rich Wilson (WIP)

Rich Wilson (WIP)

Rich Wilson is fast becoming one of the most in-demand comedians in the land with his award-winning shows, podcasts and radio shows. 

Pete Wells: Hate Hypocrites, Love Myself - WIP

Pete Wells: Hate Hypocrites, Love Myself - WIP

Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself. 

Pete Wells: Hate Hypocrites, Love Myself - WIP

Pete Wells: Hate Hypocrites, Love Myself - WIP

Pete loves to criticise - though perhaps it’s time he looked at himself. 

MAN UP! - GRAND FINAL 2021

MAN UP! - GRAND FINAL 2021

MAN UP! - The Grand Final is finally here! After 8 weeks of heats featuring over 120 of London & the UKs finest DRAG KINGS, The Glory brings the final of its ground-breaki… 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson is alone. 

Dirty Protest Theatre / Kill Me Now by Rhiannon Boyle

Dirty Protest Theatre / Kill Me Now by Rhiannon Boyle

Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar. 

Rhiannon Shaw: Emptier Nest

Rhiannon Shaw: Emptier Nest

Character comedian Rhiannon Shaw presents a Work in Progress show about losing a parent, gaining a sense of self and trying to find humour in the strange and wayward people you mee… 

Rhiannon Shaw: Empty Nest

Rhiannon Shaw: Empty Nest

Character comedian Rhiannon Shaw presents a Work in Progress show about losing a parent, gaining a sense of self and trying to find humour in the strange and wayward people you mee… 

Rhiannon Shaw: Emptier Nest

Rhiannon Shaw: Emptier Nest

Character comedian Rhiannon Shaw presents a Work in Progress show about losing a parent, gaining a sense of self and trying to find humour in the strange and wayward people you mee… 

Taiwan Season Symposium: International Digital Theatre Roundtable 

Taiwan Season Symposium: International Digital Theatre Roundtable 

This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

The Gold Rush Season 4 - THE FINAL HEAT

The Gold Rush Season 4 - THE FINAL HEAT

Join Taylor Trash, The UK’s ONLY Southern Belle-End As She Begins The Dig For The Next Nugget Of Drag Performance Talent Gold - NOW ON SUNDAYS!Miss Rona thought she had us beat but… 

The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign

The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign

An aspiring actress, Evie Edwards, clutches the sides of the Hollywood sign. 

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan. 

Theatre-19 Presents: John

Theatre-19 Presents: John

Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol… 

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

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. 

Gash Theatre Gets Ghosted

Gash Theatre Gets Ghosted

A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities. 

Square 2.1

Square 2.1

A circus performance delivered as an interactive home experience. 

Bytesize Theatre

Bytesize Theatre

A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group. 

Prelude #2 – The Square

Prelude #2 – The Square

Sylvain Émard’s Rhapsodie is a performance event for 20 dancers inspired by the ritual of dance. 

Journey Across the Impossible

Journey Across the Impossible

An hour-long selection of short films, many from the experimental days of film in the early 1900s, set to original scores by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. 

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

We used to give out free samples of cheese at Fortnum and Masons but weren’t allowed to have any ourselves. 

Immrama: Columba's Journey – Your Story

Immrama: Columba's Journey – Your Story

Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life. 

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

Horrigan & Howell: A Sketch Too Far

We used to give out free samples of cheese at Fortnum and Masons but weren’t allowed to have any ourselves. 

The Establishment Versus Sidney Harry Fox

The Establishment Versus Sidney Harry Fox

Thomas de Quincey once wrote of murder as ‘one of the fine arts’, and with regards to The Establishment [versus] Sidney Harry Fox, the statement is true. 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group are back in Brighton with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire … 

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

Biscuit Barrel: The Hyperactive Sketch Show

The award-winning sketch group are back in Brighton with over 60 sketches in 60 minutes! “Dropped something? Don’t even think about picking it up as you’ll probably miss an entire … 

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson is alone. 

Watson: The Final Problem

Watson: The Final Problem

Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i… 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Royal Court Theatre Heritage Talk

Royal Court Theatre Heritage Talk

This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre. 

Vix Leyton / Rich Wilson: An hour of work in progress

Vix Leyton / Rich Wilson: An hour of work in progress

Host of Leicester Comedy award finalist podcast ‘The Comedy Arcade’, Welsh stand up comedian Vix Leyton lives a life of French farce and chaos that she justifies as research for he… 

Pete Wells: Does Not Exist

Pete Wells: Does Not Exist

Digital assistants predict Pete’s every move - is he a deepfake, does he exist? An AI buddy comedy exploring how human experience is being transformed by technology. 

Pete Wells: Does Not Exist

Pete Wells: Does Not Exist

Digital assistants predict Pete’s every move - is he a deepfake, does he exist? An AI buddy comedy exploring how human experience is being transformed by technology. 

Where The Lost Socks Go - By Under The Bed Theatre

Where The Lost Socks Go - By Under The Bed Theatre

Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w… 

Where The Lost Socks Go - By Under The Bed Theatre

Where The Lost Socks Go - By Under The Bed Theatre

Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w… 

The Cloak of Visibility

The Cloak of Visibility

Amy cannot socialise with the other mums after the school run because she is needed in the office. 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

In his next life, Pete wants to be a greenfinch. 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

Pete Strong: Greenfinch

In his next life, Pete wants to be a greenfinch. 

The Final Approach

The Final Approach

Sam Marlowe is the campus outsider who takes on a case to expose a cheating partner but finds himself in a web of deceit, corruption and the incorrect disposal of kitchen waste. 

Jazz in the Theatre Featuring Muneeb Hermans

Jazz in the Theatre Featuring Muneeb Hermans

Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain. 

The Final Approach

The Final Approach

Sam Marlowe is the campus outsider who takes on a case to expose a cheating partner but finds himself in a web of deceit, corruption and the incorrect disposal of kitchen waste. 

Jazz in the Theatre Featuring Muneeb Hermans

Jazz in the Theatre Featuring Muneeb Hermans

Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain. 

A Red Square

A Red Square

Everything about A Red Square is different. 

A Red Square

A Red Square

After a sold-out season around Australia, experimental theatre company Pony Cam are bringing their award-winning new work to the UK. 

Jacqueline Wilson at Brighton Festival

Jacqueline Wilson at Brighton Festival

The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online… 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Lucian begat Goethe begat Dukas begat Disney begat Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost; for this new musical by the latter writing duo has history. 

Emergine Theatre Translators Scratch Night

Emergine Theatre Translators Scratch Night

We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators. 

Good Grief

Good Grief

Kicking off at the end of a particularly boozy and pizza-fuelled wake, then time-skipping over the months of post-funeral aftermath, Good Grief charts the stuttering relationship o… 

Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival

Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival

Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival. 

The Secret Theatre

The Secret Theatre

Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c… 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Semi Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Semi Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Quarter Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Quarter Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Heats

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2020 Heats

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Poetry & The Theatre With Tim Marriott, Shell Shock Media

Poetry & The Theatre With Tim Marriott, Shell Shock Media

A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre. 

F**k Off.

F**k Off.

F**k Off is a gritty drama of ‘broken Britain’ as experienced by underprivileged young people. 

The Easy Rollers – Drop Me Off In Harlem

The Easy Rollers – Drop Me Off In Harlem

Taking you back to the roaring 20s, The Easy Rollers is a seven-piece jazz band specialising in music from the speakeasy bars of the Prohibition era. 

From One Theatre To Another: Soldiers And The Stage

From One Theatre To Another: Soldiers And The Stage

This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale. 

Bookends: A Musical Journey

Bookends: A Musical Journey

Through song and improvisation, Bookends follows two people’s relationship as it changes over time, delving into life and the intricacies of human connection. 

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

Enthusiastically vote alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2020’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and shiny moose trophies. 

Digital Caravan Theatre

Digital Caravan Theatre

Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai… 

In Conversation With: Román Baca - Journey Through Dance and War

In Conversation With: Román Baca - Journey Through Dance and War

Román Baca talks about his healing journey from ballet to the Iraq War and back again. 

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Live Every Moment - Creating dance for film, tv and theatre with Rosie Kay

Army @ The Virtual Fringe: Live Every Moment - Creating dance for film, tv and theatre with Rosie Kay

Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith. 

A Short Journey

A Short Journey

A unique and insightful look at the journey into film hosted by former Royal Marine Phil Spencer. 

The Songcatcher: Folk, Flamenco and Theatre-Style Songs

The Songcatcher: Folk, Flamenco and Theatre-Style Songs

Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music. 

The Illicit Thrill: The History of Pants Off!

The Illicit Thrill: The History of Pants Off!

Head down to the Fringe’s shadiest nightspot as The Illicit Thrill is back in the strip-teasing business. 

Arctic Convoy: a Young Woman's Wartime Journey

Arctic Convoy: a Young Woman's Wartime Journey

This exhibition of paintings by Susie Reade refers to a young woman’s diary describing her unusual journey from Scotland to work in WWII Russia. 

The Not So New Comedian of the Year Final 2020

The Not So New Comedian of the Year Final 2020

So you still think you’re funny?Forget youthful optimism & skinny jeans. 

Russell Howard: Respite (Leicester)

Russell Howard: Respite (Leicester)

Following the record-breaking success of his 2017 tour Round The World, Russell Howard returns with his biggest globe-spanning stand-up tour to date. 

Phoenix Dance Theatre - Black Waters

Phoenix Dance Theatre - Black Waters

In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard. 

Live From The Phoenix Flat

Live From The Phoenix Flat

Tonight I figured out how to beam a Facebook video to my TV so I could watch – amongst other things – a burlesque performer do a striptease on a unicycle. 

Shoe Lady

Shoe Lady

Viv (Katherine Parkinson) has lost her shoe on her London commute. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! Final

Back for it’s fifth year. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! Final

Back for it’s fifth year. 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

Richard Alston Dance Company - Final Edition

Richard Alston Dance Company - Final Edition

Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism. 

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - 13 Tongues & Dust

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - 13 Tongues & Dust

As Lin Hwai-Min, founder of the world-renowned Taiwanese company, steps down in 2020, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre brings works from the current and new artistic directors. 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

Sketch Off! Semi Finals

Sketch Off! Semi Finals

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

Sketch Off! Semi Finals

Sketch Off! Semi Finals

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

Sketch Off! Quarter Finals

Sketch Off! Quarter Finals

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

Sketch Off! Quarter Finals

Sketch Off! Quarter Finals

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

The Journey of a Warlike Mind

The Journey of a Warlike Mind

A thought-provoking play about how family and social structures mold us into misshapen beings, and how trauma can become one’s own salvation. 

Over My Dad's Body

Over My Dad's Body

Since I last saw Simon David on stage in his 2018 Edinburgh Fringe debut, Virgin, much has happened in his personal life. 

Sketch Off! Heats

Sketch Off! Heats

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

Sketch Off! Heats

Sketch Off! Heats

Now in its 5th year, Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's most … 

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Welcome to The Republic of Biafra, 1967. 

A Kind of People

A Kind of People

One party gone wrong and a constellation of friends, family, and sacrosanct values falls apart. 

Midnight Movie

Midnight Movie

In Midnight Movie, Eve Leigh presents a universe of bedrooms where disabled people are unable to sleep due to the pain of having a body which is, right now, ‘glitching’. 

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

Connor is on a night out and ready to be open about his sexuality. 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Semi Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Semi Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty

The predictably brilliant writer/director/dame Andrew Pollard returns to Greenwich Theatre again for another triumphant Panto season, marking the 50th anniversary of the theatre’… 

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

A Letter to a Friend in Gaza

A long table stretches across the expansive floor of the Coronet. 

Shadows by Jon Fosse

Shadows by Jon Fosse

Suspended from the ceiling of the Coronet Theatre are five crystalline orbs that almost look like faces. 

La Clique

La Clique

Almost inevitably, doing a show at Christmas draws comparisons to Panto – that staple of British theatre that keeps the house funded for the rest of the year; but stood next to L… 

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off

The Edinburgh University Theatre Company Presents Liz Lochhead’s 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'. 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Quarter Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Quarter Finals

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Kast Off Kinks 2019

Kast Off Kinks 2019

Duration: Approx 2hrs 25mins FEELING KINKY?  The Kast off Kinks features three former members of the legendary band ‘The Kinks’, back together playing g… 

Jon Culshaw: The Great British Take Off

Jon Culshaw: The Great British Take Off

Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare (Dead Ringers) come to TOM for the first time following their sell-out tour last year. 

Sky Blue Theatre presents: The British Theatre Challenge

Sky Blue Theatre presents: The British Theatre Challenge

The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

“The funniest farce ever written. 

Square Go

Square Go

The unmissable, Fringe First award-winning show from Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair, featuring an original soundtrack by members of Frightened Rabbit. 

Brooklyn The Musical

Brooklyn The Musical

Set in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge on a shabby corner, Brooklyn The Musical is a play-within-a-play staged by a rag-tag bunch of street performers who call themselves the Ci… 

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre - Programme B: EN / The Call / Juba / Revelations

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre - Programme B: EN / The Call / Juba / Revelations

Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program… 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Heats

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2019 Heats

Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country. 

Stand Up Nights Competition Final

Stand Up Nights Competition Final

12 Finalists will compete for a cash prize of £500. Each act is 5 - 7 minutes long. Interval after 6th act  

George Machray (Singer/Songwriter): Singing Off Quay

George Machray (Singer/Songwriter): Singing Off Quay

George is a fine and recognised singer/songwriter from the old fishing and mining village of Port Seton in East Lothian. 

Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final

Funny Women Awards 2019 – Semi-Final

The semi-final of the 2019 Funny Women Awards. 

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

Celebrating 32 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition. 

Disabled Led Theatre Making

Disabled Led Theatre Making

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants. 

Jumping Off the Bandwagon

Jumping Off the Bandwagon

There’s no such thing as a free lunch but there is a free, quality comedy show at lunchtime! After an immensely successful podcast and competition season, Sheppard and Olsina could… 

Advice and Discussion Forum with the Independent Theatre Council

Advice and Discussion Forum with the Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

2001: A Sketch Odyssey

Join five intrepid kids as they stumble across the universe to find the answers to life, the universe and everything. 

How to Become a Theatre Industry Leader

How to Become a Theatre Industry Leader

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Questions for Quiz Shows

Questions for Quiz Shows

Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform. 

Largest Square Without Corners

Largest Square Without Corners

This dancing poetry is inspired by Tao Te Ching, which says that the largest square has no corners. 

Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off

Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off

Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare return to Edinburgh following their sell-out run last year. 

BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award Final

BBC Introducing Radio 4 Comedy Award Final

Join us for the live final of the BBC’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Evaluation

If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ… 

Winter Wilson: Folk With Its Roots in Blues

Winter Wilson: Folk With Its Roots in Blues

Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, … 

Giant Wolf Theatre – Playback

Giant Wolf Theatre – Playback

Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre. 

Youth Theatre on an International Stage

Youth Theatre on an International Stage

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Baby, What Blessings

Baby, What Blessings

"I kind of want to die – but I’d really like to get into publishing, too," says Billie (performed by Grainne Dromgoole), as she explains the story of her first real l… 

TalkFest – Ways and Means: Theatre in 2019 and Beyond

TalkFest – Ways and Means: Theatre in 2019 and Beyond

What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch… 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, only a handful survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s Funniest Student 2019. 

Forgotten Regions: Developing Theatre Through Rural Creative Hubs

Forgotten Regions: Developing Theatre Through Rural Creative Hubs

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

How to Engage Working-Class Audiences When Touring Theatre

How to Engage Working-Class Audiences When Touring Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Solitary Journey of Guan Yu

Solitary Journey of Guan Yu

Guan Yu’s patriotism to his country, benevolence to people, wisdom in life, loyalty to friends and bravery in war represent the perfect traditional Chinese virtues of mankind. 

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Mrs Shaw Herself

Mrs Shaw Herself

Mrs Shaw Herself is a one-woman show exploring the life of Charlotte Payne-Townshend AKA Mrs George Bernard Shaw. 

MOOT MOOT

MOOT MOOT

‘What’s going on…??’ Rosana Cade cries, with their head in the seat of a swivel chair, spinning slowly in front of a fixated and silent audience. 

Scotland: The Final Frontier?

Scotland: The Final Frontier?

Launching rockets is the last missing piece in the growing Scottish space industry. 

Pete Nash: Where's My Money?

Pete Nash: Where's My Money?

Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures. 

Multilingual Theatre: Towards a More Diverse Representation of Multilingual Works and Artists in the UK

Multilingual Theatre: Towards a More Diverse Representation of Multilingual Works and Artists in the UK

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Emma Shaw: Help

Emma Shaw: Help

Emma Shaw needs help. 

The Dots

The Dots

Within a basement room of the Hanover Suite (Venue 119) is perhaps the best musical sketch comedy you will find this Fringe. 

Edward Hilsum: Silver

Edward Hilsum: Silver

When he was seven years old, Edward Hilsum attended a party at which a magician was performing. 

Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward

Hot Gays: Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward

Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward are hot and bothered! Join these grumpy gays for some late-night queer comedy as they wax lyrical about the body beautiful, getting older and the dil… 

Smoke

Smoke

What happens when you’re at a private fetish party, and you bump into the daughter of your boss? Such is the premise of Kim Davies’ Smoke. 

F. Off

F. Off

The National Youth Theatre have put Mark Zuckerberg on trial. 

Seasoned Professionals

Seasoned Professionals

It’s probably worth clarifying in the first sentence of this review that I was not expecting to be drawn into the bureaucratic complexities of being the Easter Bunny whilst at th… 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Voices We Hear

Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Daphne, or Hellfire

If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn… 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: The Earth Untold

Five storytellers open a treasure chest. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: From the Wind

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: From the Wind

From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy. 

Topsy and Turvy's Twisty Turny Journey

Topsy and Turvy's Twisty Turny Journey

Joey’s trapped in a maze! Topsy and Turvy have been given the super dooper important task of bringing him back to the Aussie Zoo. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Shellshock!

When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time. 

Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand

Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand

Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play. 

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder

Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder

Eleanor Conway's vagina has a name (Jenny), and this is important to know. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Symbiosis

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Symbiosis

This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends … 

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment

The Journey of (Tini) Martini Enlightenment

A whimsically curated theatrical deep-dive into the multiverse of Hendrick’s Gin, guided by three tini tipples… In a world where the beloved martini has been called, one of the h… 

Apollo: Take 111

Apollo: Take 111

James Stuart – or Stuart James – is passed out at his desk as the audience file into the space. 

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

Swallow the Sea Caravan Theatre

From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing. 

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows

BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Swallows

Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message. 

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up! bills itself as “Catherine Tate meets Little Britain”, and mostly manages to replicate the character-driven performances that made Tate, Walliams and Lucas house… 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The hit cult show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

Everyone Dropped Out of My Sketch Troupe

An accidental one-woman show! Standing in the wreckage of a five-piece sketch troupe, one comedian is determined to keep going. 

Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect

Edward Aczel - Artificial Intellect

Ed promises to come up with a big idea to hang the whole thing on – but probably it’ll be based on a loose set of unconnected themes with no real purpose. 

Melinda Hughes: Off the Scale

Melinda Hughes: Off the Scale

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. 

I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues

I Fahrt Berlin: The Journey Continues

This tour de farce of bizarre exploits and odd misadventures chronicles an American’s nearly seven-decade search to find his place in the world. 

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Dizney Needs a Day Off!

Fiona Ridgewell is the epitome of positivity. 

The Two Moronnies – Brexed Off!

The Two Moronnies – Brexed Off!

Sophisticated wit and wordplay as The Two Moronnies lampoon the lampoonable in their unique, energetic musical style. 

Final Cut

Final Cut

Sir Trevor Brierly – writer, director, occasional cat-sitter – was many things to many people. 

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre

Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they… 

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd

Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back. 

Square Go

Square Go

Max has done something stupid. 

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats

Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta. 

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding)

Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding)

Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 

The Accident Did Not Take Place

The Accident Did Not Take Place

YesYesNoNo are searching for the truth. 

Kevin McGahern: Taking Off

Kevin McGahern: Taking Off

Known in his native Ireland from popular comedy shows Republic of Telly and Hardy Bucks, Kevin McGahern brings his particular brand of nonsense to the Edinburgh Fringe for the firs… 

Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form

Ange Lavoipierre: Final Form

Two parts fever dream and one part personality quiz, Final Form examines the desperate lengths we go to in our eternal quest to be liked. 

Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order

Lorna Shaw: Shaw and Order

Critically acclaimed comedian Lorna Shaw (Plebs, Newsjack) lays down the law in this brand-new hour of stand-up and storytelling. 

Pete Heat: Massive Wizard

Pete Heat: Massive Wizard

When Pete isn’t teaching Jude Law magic for Fantastic Beasts or starring in his own show on Sky, he likes kicking back with a biscuit, forcing a beard out of his chin follicles, tu… 

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC

Pete Firman & The Amazing TBC

Come and witness the first and possibly final performance of The World’s Greatest Magical Double Act! Award-winning magician/comedian Pete Firman returns to the Fringe with a mag… 

Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him

Rich Wilson: Death Becomes Him

‘Woke, feminist, geezer’ (List). 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy

Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy

New Yorker Zach Zimmerman packs a breath-taking number of laughs into his 50-minute slot; delivering a narrative about the relationship with his mother at a speed that leaves no ti… 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up!

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Roll Up!

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… 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Final

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year 2019: Final

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year. 

Reuben Kaye - Journey to the Centre of Attention

Reuben Kaye - Journey to the Centre of Attention

Above The Stag Theatre is very excited to present multi-award winning international cabaret sensation Reuben Kaye. 

Melinda Hughes, Off the Scale

Melinda Hughes, Off the Scale

Backed by a live jazz trio, Melinda’s show is a sophisticated romp through social and political satire, packed with provocative original songs on internet trolling, cougars, hips… 

The Wave

The Wave

"The Wave is THE WAY", boom the Almeida Young Company (14 – 18) before thudding their fists into their chests. 

(This Isn't) a True Story

(This Isn't) a True Story

‘When on Earth did everyone become a detective?’ The voice rings out across the Almeida Young Company ensemble as they huddle beneath Sasha Venmore Rowland’s grief-stricken g… 

Kōtuku and Moon Child: Family Puppet Theatre

Kōtuku and Moon Child: Family Puppet Theatre

Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth. 

Jellyfish

Jellyfish

Playwright Ben Weatherill is right to call Jellyfish a love story. 

Blue Heart Theatre - Exile

Blue Heart Theatre - Exile

It’s 2016. 

The Kast Off Kinks

The Kast Off Kinks

Not a tribute, but actual former original members of legendary band The Kinks. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Michael Frayn’s award-winning Noises Off premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1982 and instantly became an iconic British comedy. 

Theatre On Tap

Theatre On Tap

‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day. 

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Witness the transformation of Elisa Doolittle from flower girl to duchess in this timeless comedy about social divide, women's rights and the "education" of the working class. 

Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final 2019

Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final 2019

The Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final is the showcase of the domestic season. 

MET Musical Theatre Showcase 2019

MET Musical Theatre Showcase 2019

An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET. 

The Bakewell Bake Off: A New Musical

The Bakewell Bake Off: A New Musical

The small English village of Bakewell, Derbyshire is holding its annual baking competition. 

Science Fiction Theatre Festival

Science Fiction Theatre Festival

It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition. 

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Disney Needs a Day Off!

Fiona Ridgewell: Even Disney Needs a Day Off!

Fiona Ridgewell is the epitome of positivity. 

Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

Join Neil Sands for his biggest ever matinee show with more singers, more stunning costumes, more memories and even more fun. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts at GBMet. 

Strode's College Final Performance

Strode's College Final Performance

Strode’s College Performing Arts students will be performing Extremism by Anders Lustgarten. 

Theatre of Hate

Theatre of Hate

In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack. 

Salomé

Salomé

The leitmotifs of the Lazarus canon shine brightly in their interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s scandalous 19th century play Salomé. 

The Not So New Comedian of the Year Final 2019

The Not So New Comedian of the Year Final 2019

So you still think you’re funny? Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans this is a competition for comics who've been around long enough to know better… 

Kotuku and Moon Child: Family Puppet Theatre

Kotuku and Moon Child: Family Puppet Theatre

Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and … 

All My Sons (12A cert tbc) - National Theatre Live

All My Sons (12A cert tbc) - National Theatre Live

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta… 

BHOOMA: Helen Anahita Wilson

BHOOMA: Helen Anahita Wilson

Critically-acclaimed pianist and composer, Helen Anahita Wilson, returns to the Fringe to perform her debut solo album, BHOOMA. 

Pete Nash: Where's My Money?

Pete Nash: Where's My Money?

Five years ago, Pete Nash was about to board a plane to Silicon Valley to sell his business for seven figures. 

Off the Cuff's Chaotic Biopic

Off the Cuff's Chaotic Biopic

Following three sell-out Fringe runs with hit show ‘Crime and Funishment’ and more than a decade of acclaimed and raucously funny performances, Brighton’s improvised comedy revolut… 

Pete Strong: Greenfinch (Work in Progress)

Pete Strong: Greenfinch (Work in Progress)

Pete Strong just wants to be happy. 

Sunday Encounters: Dame Patricia Routledge: Facing the Music - A Life in Musical Theatre

Sunday Encounters: Dame Patricia Routledge: Facing the Music - A Life in Musical Theatre

It is still one of the best kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in… 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. 

We Need to Talk About Bobby (off Eastenders)

We Need to Talk About Bobby (off Eastenders)

12-year-old Annie has hit the big time – but she’s no idea how hard it is going to be. 

SHAW GOES WILDE

SHAW GOES WILDE

Pegasus Opera Company presents the UK Premier of two one-act operas by Philip Hagemann based on Bernard Shaw’s ‘The Music Cure’ & Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’. 

StarStruck - Best Theatre Arts

StarStruck - Best Theatre Arts

Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su… 

SINGEASY does Musical Theatre

SINGEASY does Musical Theatre

MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre. 

Sunday Encounters: Patti Lupone in Conversation with Edward Seckerson

Sunday Encounters: Patti Lupone in Conversation with Edward Seckerson

From her auspicious beginnings with John Houseman's The Acting Company to the overnight sensation of her Evita on Broadway, from the birth of Les Miserables to her unforgettabl… 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

The Wrongs & Rites of Grosvenor Square | FITS

The Wrongs & Rites of Grosvenor Square | FITS

The Wrongs & Rites of Grosvenor SquareIn old Dublin a storm is brewing FITS Seizures, heavy medication and failed relationships. 

WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW FINAL 2019

WRITE HERE, WRITE NOW FINAL 2019

Grand Final on Monday 25th February, 7. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Final

Back for it’s fourth year. 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Final

Back for it’s fourth year. 

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Encore

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Encore

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. 

Shipwreck

Shipwreck

‘I haven’t had a Trump free 24-hours for… I don’t know how long’ complains a house-guest, ushered in from the cold before a snowstorm strikes a recently purchased farmste… 

Paved With Gold and Ashes

Paved With Gold and Ashes

Paved with Gold and Ashes is the story of five women who survive a hideous factory. 

Dog / Actor

Dog / Actor

Dog and Actor are two short, explosive and vulnerable plays written by Steven Berkoff. 

Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion

Bethany Fox’s script explores the relationship between two jobbing actors, Jess (Bethany Fox) and Jack(Oliver Burkill), who, after a chemistry-charged first meeting outside an au… 

Antony & Cleopatra (12A) - National Theatre Encore

Antony & Cleopatra (12A) - National Theatre Encore

Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Jenna Russell with Seth Rudetsky

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Jenna Russell with Seth Rudetsky

Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &… 

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Judy Kuhn with Seth Rudetsky

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Judy Kuhn with Seth Rudetsky

Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K… 

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Jenna Russell with Seth Rudetsky

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Jenna Russell with Seth Rudetsky

Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &… 

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Judy Kuhn with Seth Rudetsky

Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre: Judy Kuhn with Seth Rudetsky

Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K… 

Pete Price Holds Court 2019

Pete Price Holds Court 2019

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night! Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes… 

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Live

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Live

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Dumfries Fringe 2019

Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence. 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Semi-Finals

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Semi-Finals

Now in its 4th  year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's … 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Semi-Finals

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Semi-Finals

Now in its 4th  year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's … 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Heats

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Heats

Now in its 4th  year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's … 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Heats

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off! 2019: Heats

Now in its 4th  year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's … 

An Enemy Of The People

An Enemy Of The People

‘Enemies of the People’ is a welcome and observant theme for a theatre programme as we enter another year of post-truth politics, domestic division, and the third year in the r… 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Final

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Final

Now in it’s 10th year. 

John Wilson And The John Wilson Orchestra

John Wilson And The John Wilson Orchestra

John Wilson’s 70 piece superstar orchestra returns with their brand new show ‘At The Movies’. 

The Cane

The Cane

‘Tell them…! Tell them…! Tell them…!’ Shouts Alun Armstrong, disgraced deputy headmaster Edward, as he brandishes the eponymous cane in one hand whilst walls close in aro… 

Hole

Hole

Hole is a piece of theatre that has been in incubation for a long time. 

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe

He’s back in Greenwich and he’s right back on form. 

Walk Swiftly and With Purpose

Walk Swiftly and With Purpose

Walk Swiftly And With Purpose is a coming-of-age narrative, which calmly sets ablaze the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, History Boys, and Dead Poets’ Society and, with a short sharp … 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Semi Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Semi Finals

New Comedian of the Year is the new act competition produced by Leicester Square Theatre with places for  over 300 acts. 

Off the Grid

Off the Grid

Connor and Kelly are brother and sister. 

The Pit & The Pendulum

The Pit & The Pendulum

Creation Theatre’s The Pit and the Pendulum is an immersive adaption of Edgar Allan Poe’s work of the same title. 

Bing Live! Bing Goes To The Theatre

Bing Live! Bing Goes To The Theatre

Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are coming to Greenwich in the first ever Bing stage show!Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by preten… 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Quarter Finals

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Quarter Finals

New Comedian of the Year is the new act competition produced by Leicester Square Theatre with places for  over 300 acts. 

Here

Here

A young couple are viewing a flat and bicker about whether it’s right for them or not. 

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete Price Holds Court

Pete goes back to his roots as compere extraordinaire of a classic variety night! Join us in the swish Studio space for an evening of songs and laughter as Pete welcomes… 

The Wider Earth

The Wider Earth

The Wider Earth is a chimera. 

Journey To The Underworld

Journey To The Underworld

As summer nights draw to a close and the black velvet skies wash over the capital, Pedley Street Station begins a journey beyond anything you can imagine, a journey into the underw… 

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Heats

Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year 2018: Heats

New Comedian of the Year is the new act competition produced by Leicester Square Theatre with places for  over 300 acts. 

The Network Ensemble: Finding Your Voice in Theatre

The Network Ensemble: Finding Your Voice in Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off

Jon Culshaw and Bill Dare: The Great British Take Off

Join comedian/impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy writer/producer Bill Dare from BBC Radio 4’s Dead Ringers for unscripted, spontaneous comedy and conversation as politi… 

Eurovision Young Musicians 2018: Competition Final

Eurovision Young Musicians 2018: Competition Final

BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraThomas Dausgaard Conductor Experience the classical music stars of tomorrow – the most exciting young performers from right across Europe. 

Being a Female Leader in Theatre

Being a Female Leader in Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

Celebrating 31 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition. 

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Opportunities for New Musical Theatre After the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

The Infamous Five Sketch Show

In a controversial move to promote classic children’s novels, publishers have released all the stories far too filthy for the page! The Infamous Five is an hour-long sketch show … 

National Touring With Black Theatre Live

National Touring With Black Theatre Live

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

The Great Baldini – A Magician's Journey

The Great Baldini – A Magician's Journey

The Great Baldini is a magical legend. 

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

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… 

F*ck Off.

F*ck Off.

A journey of a kid from foster care to superstardom. 

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

Join us for the second year of the new comedy competition celebrating all things sketch! The organiser’s behind the UK’s biggest comedy newcomer competition are on the hunt for the… 

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Grab the hottest Fringe tickets to discover tomorrow’s comedy stars, showcasing their Fringe comedy shows in this prestigious final. 

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson returns with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin! Wilson will deliver his greatest hits live including selected songs from Pet Sounds, his top hits and fan favourites spann… 

Burlesque Idol Grand Final 2018

Burlesque Idol Grand Final 2018

Europe’s most prestigious Burlesque competition has reached it 9th year and YOU can help decide who will tassel-twirl their way to take the title Miss Burlesque Idol 2018! Ov… 

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

Anyone unfamiliar with Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book could have been conceivably raised by the same wolves that adopt man-cub Mowgli at the heart of this century-old collecti… 

Shining a Light on the Gender Gap in Technical Theatre

Shining a Light on the Gender Gap in Technical Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Pie Equals Square

Pie Equals Square

A mad inventor applies logic to the absurd and abstract. 

Visual Theatre Meet-up

Visual Theatre Meet-up

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Site Specific Theatre Practice

Site Specific Theatre Practice

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, only a handful survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2018. 

Bilingualism(s) in Theatre: Creating Artistic Languages

Bilingualism(s) in Theatre: Creating Artistic Languages

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final

Vote excitedly alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2018’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and the shiny moose trophy. 

The Future Voice of Theatre Critics

The Future Voice of Theatre Critics

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Edward and Maude

Edward and Maude

The beautiful songs of Edward Elgar and Maude Valérie White. 

Immersive Theatre: History and Inspiration

Immersive Theatre: History and Inspiration

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Theatre Uncut: Women on Power

Theatre Uncut: Women on Power

The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate. 

Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre

Swallow The Sea Caravan Theatre

A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music. 

Devising Theatre for Social Change with Caitlin Skinner

Devising Theatre for Social Change with Caitlin Skinner

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Alex Love: Stop the Press, I Want to Get Off

Alex Love: Stop the Press, I Want to Get Off

Find out what life is really like as a local newspaper reporter in a rural town, covering hard-hitting stories such as parish council meetings, charity bike rides and dogs winning … 

Rich Wilson's Still Relevant

Rich Wilson's Still Relevant

Rich Wilson is still very much relevant, even though he’s over 40. 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Grace Notes

Grace Notes

Becky Williams delivers an emotionally charged monologue about murderess Grace Miller somewhat reluctantly seeking a second chance at series of rehab sessions entitled Notes. 

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel. 

Get Off the Couch

Get Off the Couch

A story of love, self-discovery, mental illness and ultimately taking responsibility for your own life. 

Off-Kilter

Off-Kilter

Internationally renowned visual theatre artist returns with a dark, comedic, highly physical production incorporating illusions and masterful non-verbal storytelling. 

The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign

The Girl Who Jumped Off the Hollywood Sign

Joanne Hartstone’s one-woman show is a brilliant send up to classic Golden Age Hollywood that keeps the glitz and glamour of the period whilst showing the grimy and exploitative … 

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

The Cabinet of Madame Fanny Du Thé

Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

The Great Irish (Finnegans) Wake Off

The Great Irish (Finnegans) Wake Off

A free Irish comedy show. 

The House

The House

A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House. 

Henry Box Brown – A Musical Journey

Henry Box Brown – A Musical Journey

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. 

Zoo

Zoo

Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world. 

Seymour Mace Gets Sucked Off by God

Seymour Mace Gets Sucked Off by God

Mister Tuesday, potatoes versus knives, 80s, music, future wizard, noise, monkeys, lords, frauds, the saddest pictures in the world, animal band, ways to live, ways to die. 

Casting Off

Casting Off

Intergenerational circus with lots to say: the personal is political, fury is fun and the acrobatics downright dangerous – especially when life gets in the way. 

Just These, Please

Just These, Please

Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination. 

Propeller

Propeller

Propeller is a play which relates a small town’s struggle to reinstate a railway line, in order to make a much wider statement on the merits and masquerade of social action. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: Superheroes

Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence. 

Never Vera Blue

Never Vera Blue

Never Vera Blue is a brave and commendable production, which interrogates the effects of gaslighting in an emotionally abusive relationship. 

The Fetch Wilson

The Fetch Wilson

The Fetch Wilson is the type of play that might work very well as a film, or so you might think upon leaving the theatre. 

Pete Firman: Marvels

Pete Firman: Marvels

Pete Firman enters the stage in his trademark three-piece suit, warming the audience up with a cascade of comedy nuggets which sets the scene for what is to come. 

Nina's Got News by Frank Skinner

Nina's Got News by Frank Skinner

It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is. 

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-Sort

Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey. 

Yummy

Yummy

Yummy is what it says on the tin – a gooey, delicious, and extremely well-crafted sequence of performances from an ensemble of drag queens who are masters of their respective cra… 

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Ovid's Metamorphoses

If you have a ticket to Pants On Fire’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you have in your possession a way of securing the ferryman’s passage to one of the most mischievous and charming… 

Briony Redman: Sketch Artist

Briony Redman: Sketch Artist

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. 

The Journey

The Journey

You’ve just been dumped, but you’re stuck on a spaceship, alone with that person. 

A Generous Lover

A Generous Lover

A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner. 

No One Is Coming to Save You

No One Is Coming to Save You

No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images. 

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Earnest & Wilde: Let's Face the Music (and Franz)

Here is something special and unusual: the life and death of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke and heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, remixed into a cabaret history lecture b… 

Square Go

Square Go

What’s a ‘square go’? Noun: A rammy. 

Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Scratch

Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Scratch

Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor… 

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Final

Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year: Final

Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond. 

Kaminari UK Taiko Drummers: Journey

Kaminari UK Taiko Drummers: Journey

Come with us on a musical journey around Japan and across the globe. 

Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Blink by Phil Porter

Squabbling House Theatre Presents: Blink by Phil Porter

Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met. 

The Final Journey of Edward Wilson

The Final Journey of Edward Wilson

Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre. 

The Fetch Wilson

The Fetch Wilson

A wild and darkly comic journey down the streets and back alleys of modern Dublin, from award-winning writer, Stewart Roche and ground-breaking young Irish theatre collective. 

The Nursery Theatre presents... Saturday Night Improv

The Nursery Theatre presents... Saturday Night Improv

Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha… 

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final

The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final is the culmination of a series of youth arts showcases held this year within Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth, hosted … 

The Nursery Theatre presents... Friday Night Improv

The Nursery Theatre presents... Friday Night Improv

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 … 

Daisy Pulls It Off

Daisy Pulls It Off

Fresh from a sell-out run at the Bellairs Theatre, the first graduating year of GSA’s BA Actor-Musician programme brings this unique production full of quirky characters, spl… 

The Great British Take Off With Jon Culshaw & Bill Dare

The Great British Take Off With Jon Culshaw & Bill Dare

Comedian and impressionist Jon Culshaw and legendary comedy producer Bill Dare come to Leicester Square Theatre for the first time following their sell-out tour last yea… 

Old Comedian of the Year 2018 - Final

Old Comedian of the Year 2018 - Final

Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans. 

PÖJJ: Our Sketch Show

PÖJJ: Our Sketch Show

Sketch comedy hat-trick PÖJJ bring you their debut show. 

Abstractionpark 7090: Preparing for Take-Off

Abstractionpark 7090: Preparing for Take-Off

7090 are the hosts of a playground full of music, films and installations. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: The New Show

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre: The New Show

Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show. 

Square Peg

Square Peg

'Is anyone here for Square Peg?', a person dressed in a white protective boiler suit and hard hat asked. 

The Final Offensives 1918

The Final Offensives 1918

Alan Felton presents the last in the series ‘Lions Led by Asses’ in which, by means of song, poetry and facts, he covers the final months of World War 1, culminating in an uneasy a… 

Clueless Theatre Presents: Two by Jim Cartwright

Clueless Theatre Presents: Two by Jim Cartwright

What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch… 

Take Your Shoes Off and Behave

Take Your Shoes Off and Behave

We’ve all had childhoods. 

Live Music in Theatre: Creating and Playing Music for a Theatre Piece

Live Music in Theatre: Creating and Playing Music for a Theatre Piece

How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise. 

Hammond Graduate BA Musical Theatre Showcase

Hammond Graduate BA Musical Theatre Showcase

An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry… 

The MET Musical Theatre Showcase 2018

The MET Musical Theatre Showcase 2018

An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET. 

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

The Players’ Theatre: Old Time Music Hall

Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear. 

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other 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. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles. 

The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell

The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell

Performed in front of a live audience, with live foley (sound effects), this new radio play by Chris Buxey is a dark comedy about principles, money and the importance of family. 

Off The Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Off The Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Back by popular demand following 2016 and 2017’s sell-out shows! Brighton’s improvised comedy favourites present a hilarious impromptu detective drama, packed with colourful cha… 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

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… 

Proteus Theatre Company: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know

Proteus Theatre Company: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know

Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink. 

Robot vs Hurricane: An hour of alternative stand-up from Nicholas Everritt and Pete Nash

Robot vs Hurricane: An hour of alternative stand-up from Nicholas Everritt and Pete Nash

Strap in for a strikingly alternative show from two of the most original acts rising through the UK stand-up scene: ‘The Robot’ Nicholas Everritt and Pete ‘The Hurricane’ Nash. 

Phoenix Dance Theatre Triple Bill

Phoenix Dance Theatre Triple Bill

70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly co… 

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c… 

A Spoonful Of Sherman

A Spoonful Of Sherman

There’s a light bulb moment in A Spoonful Of Sherman when you realise its magic lies not within its high production values, exquisite lighting, fantastic set, immaculate choreogr… 

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off: Final

Back for its third year. 

Assassins

Assassins

Could you kill a President? That’s what a fairground proprietor asks in this 1990s genre-busting Sondheim musical that explores both the real-life and imagined motives why nine p… 

Mousetrap Theatre Projects 21st Anniversary Gala

Mousetrap Theatre Projects 21st Anniversary Gala

Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday 18th March 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to give inspiring theatre experiences to ch… 

Through My Eyes 'A Cultural Journey'

Through My Eyes 'A Cultural Journey'

Come along and experience Janet’s “Cultural Journey” at The Red Rhino Room! There will be a variety of Aboriginal artworks on show, including Janet’s “Emu Dreaming”painting which… 

Lord Of The Flies

Lord Of The Flies

William Golding’s seminal tale of children going feral when left to their own devices on a Pacific island gets a trademark Lazarus Theatre treatment on this their second producti… 

INNER JOURNEY

INNER JOURNEY

Come on a journey of inner discovery with this free video event from the Peace Education Program. 

Round Pegs Square Holes

Round Pegs Square Holes

Round Pegs Square Holes is a festival of new experiences set to activate Ramsay Place and Colonnades Shopping Centre by invigorating the public realm through innovative and vibrant… 

PAROXYSM TOPS IT OFF!

PAROXYSM TOPS IT OFF!

This time we’re paying spoken word tribute to the things that matter to you. 

Class Clowns Adelaide Heat/SA State Final

Class Clowns Adelaide Heat/SA State Final

The search is on for South Australia’s funniest teens!!! Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national secondary school comedy competition is open to people aged 14-18. 

Salisbury Secret Garden - Sounds in the Square

Salisbury Secret Garden - Sounds in the Square

Join us in the square for an evening of fun, entertainment, markets and great food. 

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks play Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks play Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock

Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks deliver a blistering set of hits from the 5 decades spanning Ross’ spectacular career as singer, songwriter and producer. 

Livvy & Pete: The Songs Of Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen

Livvy & Pete: The Songs Of Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen

Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths and acclaimed cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen for one night only. 

Cal Wilson - Hindsight

Cal Wilson - Hindsight

Cal’s made some awful decisions - relationships, jobs, the 90s. 

Grand Final Day

Grand Final Day

The Dingbats are flag favourites, unbeaten and today is Grand Final Day. 

Buffy Kills Edward

Buffy Kills Edward

In an alternate universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is introduced to the characters of Twilight and chaos ensues. 

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Following its sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season, Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed produ… 

Edward II

Edward II

Lazarus Theatre kick off their year-long residency at Greenwich Theatre on a visceral note with Christopher Marlowe’s homoerotic epic Edward II. 

Parliament Square

Parliament Square

Bruntwood Prize Judge’s Award winning play of 2015 Parliament Square by James Fritz transfers to the Bush Theatre after its world premier at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Mancheste… 

London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol

London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol

London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol. 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

If you’re looking for a reason why Panto is the one time of year theatres can guarantee bums-on-seats, then Bromley’s Snow White is surely a perfect example. 

Cinderella

Cinderella

Seasonal jokesmith Andrew Pollard marks his twelve years of Christmas at Greenwich Theatre with a presentation of family favourite, Cinderella. 

Side Shows

Side Shows

Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows. 

Graeme Swann's Great British Spin Off

Graeme Swann's Great British Spin Off

Following on from their hit 2016 tour, Graeme Swann, England’s greatest ever spin bowler and cricket’s best loved commentator, Henry Blofeld, are back by popular demand… 

Kathy Griffin: Laugh Your Head Off

Kathy Griffin: Laugh Your Head Off

She speaks! After two Emmys, a Grammy, decades of starring in television shows and touring, Kathy Griffin is launching her FIRST world tour after suddenly never being more in-deman… 

The Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger – The Musical doesn’t take itself seriously. 

Jekyll & Hyde - National Youth Theatre

Jekyll & Hyde - National Youth Theatre

Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f… 

Othello - National Youth Theatre

Othello - National Youth Theatre

This is a mating ground. 

Auditions and Interviews – MA Acting and MA Theatre Directing

Auditions and Interviews – MA Acting and MA Theatre Directing

East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title. 

The Final Fling: Roaring 20s

The Final Fling: Roaring 20s

It’s not over ‘till it’s over – we’re having a final fling to send Fringe 70 out in style! Live music courtesy of our super swing band, a special guest DJ with a record c… 

Bilingualism in Theatre - Discussion

Bilingualism in Theatre - Discussion

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Bilingualism in Theatre - Workshop

Bilingualism in Theatre - Workshop

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants. 

Tara Theatre and Touring to London

Tara Theatre and Touring to London

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Gilded Balloon’s annual comedy competition, So You Think You’re Funny. 

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Outcast in Theatre

The Outcast in Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Future of Inclusive Theatre

The Future of Inclusive Theatre

A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University). 

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Amateur Theatre Meet Up

Amateur Theatre Meet Up

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Training for Technical Theatre and Acting

Training for Technical Theatre and Acting

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Follies

Follies

British audiences have had to wait a long time to finally figure out what Sondheim’s backstage musical Follies is. 

Black Theatre Live: Making the Most of Touring Opportunities

Black Theatre Live: Making the Most of Touring Opportunities

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Contracts: The What, Why and How Independent Theatre Council

Contracts: The What, Why and How Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

My Journey Throughout China

My Journey Throughout China

Yi Dong makes her 16th annual return to Edinburgh to ‘indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind’ (China Xinhua News Agency) and to take us on a journey through the spirit … 

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Grab your hottest tickets to be entertained by tomorrow’s comedy stars, showcasing their Fringe shows in this prestigious final. 

Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends

Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends

Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall, Rob Beckett and Shappi Khorsandi on sold-out tours, Tom brings his hotly anticipated debut show to the fringe. 

The Future Voice of Theatre Critics

The Future Voice of Theatre Critics

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Come join the stand-up legend and punk poet for a daily dose of iPad-driven art fun. 

Opportunities for new Musical Theatre after the Fringe

Opportunities for new Musical Theatre after the Fringe

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Feminism in Theatre

Feminism in Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

Black Monday – The Sketch and Music Show

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. 

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

So You Think You're Funny? Sketch

A brand-new string to the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! To celebrate 30 years of nurturing and developing new comic talent – we’re on… 

Careers in Theatre Production

Careers in Theatre Production

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

We Need to Talk About Bobby (Off EastEnders)

EastEnders fans will remember experiencing shock and upheaval at the revelation that the culprit of a long-running murder whodunnit was 10 year old Bobby Beale. 

2017 Chortle Student Comedy Awards Final

2017 Chortle Student Comedy Awards Final

Hundreds entered, eight survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2017. 

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Grand Final

Vote alongside international talent scouts, relishing the excitement of seeing 2017’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making. 

BBC: BBC New Comedy Award Final

BBC: BBC New Comedy Award Final

Join us for the live final of the BBC’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Come join the stand-up legend and punk poet for a daily dose of iPad-driven art fun. 

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Poacher's Pilgrimage – An Island Journey

Poacher's Pilgrimage – An Island Journey

Alastair McIntosh is a writer, broadcaster and activist on land reform, spirituality and ecology. 

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Why do we need Amateur Theatre?

Why do we need Amateur Theatre?

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Off the Top!

Off the Top!

A man. 

Slash Theatre: The Room in the Elephant

Slash Theatre: The Room in the Elephant

We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’. 

Theatre Production: Pathways and Possibilities

Theatre Production: Pathways and Possibilities

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Bakewell Bake Off

The Bakewell Bake Off

Take eight eager contestants, three feuding judges and one bewildered host and mix together in a small village. 

The Show Between Shows Show

The Show Between Shows Show

New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Off the Top: Neuroscience With Attitude

Off the Top: Neuroscience With Attitude

Science rapper Baba Brinkman (Rap Guide to Evolution) teams up with neuroscientist Dr Heather Berlin (host of Science Goes to the Movies on PBS) to explore the brain basis of impro… 

The journey of a body

The journey of a body

The body we inhabit began its journey not when we were born in this life but centuries ago. 

Jazz Theatre - After Midnight

Jazz Theatre - After Midnight

Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music. 

Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey

Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey

What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture. 

The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show

The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show

All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show. 

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson

Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy teams up with incredibly talented musician John Sampson to bring a unique blend of reading with live music. 

Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey

Lost in Translation: A Bilingual Journey

What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture. 

Hopeless

Hopeless

Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland. 

Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall

Mirror, Mirror, Off the Wall

‘Mirror, mirror, on the wall – does this selfie make my nose look big?’ Your favourite fairy tales in disguise, this once upon a time is happening now. 

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

This is a very silly comedy about some very serious books (and poems and plays). 

Daniel Piper's Day Off

Daniel Piper's Day Off

Daniel Piper’s Day Off is a one man comedy show that goes through the different anxieties one feels when calling in sick to work. 

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot. 

Is Edward Aczel Infinite?

Is Edward Aczel Infinite?

Is Edward Aczel Infinite? Have you ever thought: who am I? Is it all just a dream? Is time constant or variable? Is it only possible to imagine the infinite? No, me neither. 

Michael Brandon – Off-Ramps

Michael Brandon – Off-Ramps

The star of ‘Dempsey and Makepeace’, ‘Episodes’ and ‘Jerry Springer: The Opera’, Michael Brandon gave himself two years to star in a Hollywood movie. 

Pete Johansson: Pete Jo-Handsome Comes Alive!

Pete Johansson: Pete Jo-Handsome Comes Alive!

For this brief hour, the very attractive Pete Johansson emerges to give all his love and skill and joy and thought to the one true god worth possibly dying for: live comedy. 

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show by Fish Pie!

Offbeat sketchlings Fish Pie! permit you to disregard political satire, a cappella groups and men noticing things then pausing for laughter in favour of compulsory mirth. 

The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign

The Girl Who Jumped Off The Hollywood Sign

Hollywood: home to the fools who dream. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Rob Auton: The Hair Show

Rob Auton: The Hair Show

It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton. 

Pornography by Simon Stephens

Pornography by Simon Stephens

It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the … 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches, then each others’. 

The Long, Miserable Journey to Happiness

The Long, Miserable Journey to Happiness

Fringe 2011’s Best Newcomer nominee Paul Valenti is back, this time on a semi-silent casual quest for universal truth. 

Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends

Tom Lucy: Needs to Stop Showing Off in Front of His Friends

When you’re genetically blessed with an unthreatening physique and the voice of Frank Spencer, comedy cannot go much more in your favour. 

Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood

Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood

This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab. 

Jocky Wilson Said

Jocky Wilson Said

It’s 1979 and Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson is in America to play an exhibition match. 

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

Burns and Quartermaine are the yin and yang of righteous anger. 

Deadpan Theatre: Third Wheel

Deadpan Theatre: Third Wheel

Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year Final 2017

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year Final 2017

The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts. 

Lunchbox Theatre: Everyday People

Lunchbox Theatre: Everyday People

Squeeze some culture into your lunchbreak! Grab a sandwich and join Lightbox Theatre this July for a lunchtime serving of darkly comic gems by some of theatre’s most prominent p… 

Beyond the Senses –  Atmospheric Music Theatre  by Law Wing-fai

Beyond the Senses – Atmospheric Music Theatre by Law Wing-fai

Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses 

STAC @ Northbrook Musical Theatre Showcase 2017

STAC @ Northbrook Musical Theatre Showcase 2017

The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance. 

Sonder Theatre Company Presents: NeverFolk

Sonder Theatre Company Presents: NeverFolk

The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder. 

Premiership Rugby Final 2017

Premiership Rugby Final 2017

After an epic season, the 12 best teams in England are reduced to just two finalists who will battle it out for the right to be called Aviva Premiership Rugby Champions 2017 on 27 … 

Storyland Author Readings

Storyland Author Readings

Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum. 

A Ship Of Fools Theatre Company: Welcome to Paradise

A Ship Of Fools Theatre Company: Welcome to Paradise

Have you been more naughty or more nice this year? Are you sure?A company of gentlemanly vagabonds introduce themselves with a reminder to relax before the “Art” starts. 

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

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 … 

Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy

Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy

The award-winning true story of the lives of the best-loved comedy duo of all-time. 

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

If you thought a night with the Rainbow Chorus couldn’t get any better, then get ready for a departure from our usual concerts as we roll out an evening of songs from the familiar,… 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself. 

Dignity Off

Dignity Off

Get ready to laugh at the regular comedic odd couple. 

A Touch of Mrs Robinson

A Touch of Mrs Robinson

Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? With those classic lines memories of the sixties, songs and sexual liberation come flooding back. 

Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Back by popular demand following last year’s sell-out shows at Brighton Fringe and Camden Fringe! Brighton’s improvised comedy favourites return to present another series o… 

Folk Off Sessions

Folk Off Sessions

Following on from the success of the last three years, the Folk Off Sessions return to the Fiddler’s Elbow located on Boyces street for another Brighton Fringe. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

“The true mystery of the world is the visible . 

Off the Top

Off the Top

Science rapper Baba Brinkman (Rap Guide to Evolution) teams up with neuroscientist Dr. 

Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

Damian Lewis returns to the West End to star in the darkly comic masterpiece, Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Martin is at the pinnacle of life: he has a loving w… 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

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… 

A Christmas Carol with London Musical Theatre Orchestra

A Christmas Carol with London Musical Theatre Orchestra

Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment buy the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike… 

5th Annual British Theatre Challenge - The Masters

5th Annual British Theatre Challenge - The Masters

Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si… 

Great Expectations presented by Attic Theatre Company

Great Expectations presented by Attic Theatre Company

Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec. 

Peter Pan - A New Adventure

Peter Pan - A New Adventure

More than a century after Wendy was having an awfully big adventure with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, her Great-Great-Granddaughter – also called Wendy (Louise Young) – is … 

New English Ballet Theatre

New English Ballet Theatre

New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents. 

Journey's End

Journey's End

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… 

Creating Autobiographical Theatre in The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble

Creating Autobiographical Theatre in The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Künt and the Gang – The Final Küntdown

Künt and the Gang – The Final Küntdown

Come and wave me off. Künt and the Gang’s last ever Fringe show, though I’ll probably just be back cap in hand in a couple of years when I’m skint and whatever I do next fails. 

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

Welcome to the final of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers’ competition. 

Musical Theatre Workshop With the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Musical Theatre Workshop With the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Off The Kerb Showcase

Off The Kerb Showcase

From award winners to stadium fillers, OTK are proud to represent the very best in comedy. 

MA/MFA in Theatre Directing

MA/MFA in Theatre Directing

This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra… 

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

1-2-1 with the Independent Theatre Council

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Handmaidens of Death – WWI Theatre of Its Time

The Handmaidens of Death – WWI Theatre of Its Time

Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I. 

Creating Autobiographical Theatre in The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble

Creating Autobiographical Theatre in The Deaf & Hearing Ensemble

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Blow Off

Blow Off

Blow Off is part concert, part theatre and deals with one woman’s journey to committing an act of terrorism. 

National Theatre Live: From Stage to Screen

National Theatre Live: From Stage to Screen

NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio… 

My Journey Through China: Dong Yi in Zheng Recitals

My Journey Through China: Dong Yi in Zheng Recitals

The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret… 

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Grab your hottest Fringe tickets, to be entertained by tomorrow’s comedy stars who showcase in this prestigious final. 

Black Theatre Live Information Session

Black Theatre Live Information Session

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants. 

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing … 

Physical Theatre: In Conversation With...

Physical Theatre: In Conversation With...

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Art of Reduction and Distillation of Humanity: Whisky Theatre

Art of Reduction and Distillation of Humanity: Whisky Theatre

The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way. 

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Leicester Comedy Festival Presents Best of That Other Fest With Sarah Millican & Special Guests

Leicester Comedy Festival Presents Best of That Other Fest With Sarah Millican & Special Guests

Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, eight survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2016. 

The Deer Johns: A Journey

The Deer Johns: A Journey

A three-man band from Adelaide, Australia, tell an odd and very random story of one man’s travels through spoken word and song. 

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body. 

Critics v Creatives – Writing About Theatre Design

Critics v Creatives – Writing About Theatre Design

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The Final, Final Farewell Tour of Dick and Delores DelRubio

The Final, Final Farewell Tour of Dick and Delores DelRubio

The hilarious tribute to the fictitious husband and wife lounge act duo, Dick and Deloris DelRubio. 

Funny Women Awards 2016: Regional Final

Funny Women Awards 2016: Regional Final

The Funny Women Awards have left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan, Kerry Godli… 

BBC: BBC Radio New Comedy Award Final

BBC: BBC Radio New Comedy Award Final

Join us for the live final of BBC Radio’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr. 

Your Life in Theatre

Your Life in Theatre

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Ups & Downs Theatre Group

Ups & Downs Theatre Group

The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have. 

National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge

National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor. 

Hands Off My Clubcard… Just Take My DNA!

Hands Off My Clubcard… Just Take My DNA!

Your Clubcard may say more about you than your DNA, so should it be considered more private? When it comes to understanding patterns in health and illness, examining our data may b… 

A Musical Journey: Black Barocco Tango

A Musical Journey: Black Barocco Tango

Luca Villani – Guitar. Isabel Panè – Soprano. Music by Giordani, Monteverdi, Murray, Pergolesi, Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Tansman, Troup and Villani. 

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey

Doris has been making music from the big-band era of the 1940s to her latest album in 2011. 

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

Cinema screening of live performance. 

My Journey Through China: Dong Yi in Zheng Recitals

My Journey Through China: Dong Yi in Zheng Recitals

The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret… 

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Technical Theatre and Actor Training

Technical Theatre and Actor Training

A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training. 

The Secret of the Kelpie: A Journey Round Scotland

The Secret of the Kelpie: A Journey Round Scotland

Every loch in Scotland, however beautiful, has its cold, dark depths. 

Into the Woods Jr

Into the Woods Jr

Though the second act is cut completely, half the first act also cut and music transposed into keys more accessible to younger voices, Into The Woods is still a sophisticated show … 

Who Killed Pablo Neruda? (A Poet's Journey)

Who Killed Pablo Neruda? (A Poet's Journey)

Mystery, poetry and the unknown contents of a white bag spark a young woman’s quest into the life, death and writing of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.  

National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem

National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem

Cinema screening of live performance. 

The Producers

The Producers

The Producers charts the tale of Broadway producer Max Bialystock and meek accountant Leo Bloom as they try to defraud the wealthy widows of New York out of two million dollars by … 

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians: The Final Aardvark

Peter Buckley Hill and Some Comedians: The Final Aardvark

Nineteenth and last year for the show that started the Free Fringe. 

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Merrily We Roll Along

Merrily We Roll Along

Sondheim’s most famous flop, Merrily We Roll Along, was his last notable collaboration with Hal Prince. 

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Fish Finger Fridays: A Sketch Show

Big and tall sketch friends Fish Finger Fridays bring their anticipated debut to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Revolution in the Magic Square

Revolution in the Magic Square

Ian Saville has just become the President of the Magic Square; his election is a surprise, and proves divisive to every faction of the magic society. 

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

Cinema screening of live performance. 

It's Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes)

It's Thea-Skot in Here (So Take Off All Your Clothes)

Following last year’s five-star smash-hit Some Like It Thea-Skot, ‘comic monster’ (Chortle. 

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (Of Sorts)

Mavericks: A Sketch Show (of Sorts) is the product of talented comedy duo and Cambridge Footlights members Ruby Keane and Luisa Callander. 

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

There are plenty of musicals that have versions suitable for younger companies, but Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone is possibly unique in that it’s a piece that only really works if… 

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Dreamform: Improvised Theatre

Dreamform: Improvised Theatre

Welcome to Dreamform. 

An Evening of Original Theatre

An Evening of Original Theatre

Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life. 

Matchbox Theatre

Matchbox Theatre

Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph… 

National Theatre Live: The Audience

National Theatre Live: The Audience

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Tyrannosaurus Sketch

Tyrannosaurus Sketch

The country’s only student-run theatre presents an hour of sketch comedy in the form of Tyrannosaurus Sketch! Featuring six actors fueled mostly by coffee and the desperate need … 

Pete Inskip's Return to the UK

Pete Inskip's Return to the UK

After being raised abroad, Pete Inskip has returned from the New World to his birthplace, London, in search of his true identity and ready to ask some important questions: Why is e… 

The Great Scottish Make Off

The Great Scottish Make Off

A week of arts and crafts events: an interactive art event unlike any other. 

All Square

All Square

All Square is a collection of original photographs taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard of Téte-a-Téte Foto. 

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky: A Sketch Show

Minky [mijnki] 1. 

Camille O'Sullivan: The Carny Dream

Camille O'Sullivan: The Carny Dream

I imagine Camille O’Sullivan has been called an Irish Chanteuse in reviews more times that you’ve had a flyer thrust at you on the Mile. 

Pete Johansson: Good People

Pete Johansson: Good People

Good People is a light-hearted exploration of what should be a natural journey towards being a better person. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

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… 

Pete Otway: Six Years from Then

Pete Otway: Six Years from Then

Pete Otway takes the opportunity in his first Edinburgh solo show to get audiences up to speed with what’s been happening in his life up to now. 

Five Go Off on One!

Five Go Off on One!

Who is that strange Frenchman signalling from the island? What’s in Aunt Fanny’s famous fish pie? Has anyone actually seen Timmy? The Famous Five are back! Shedload presents Robert… 

Poetry Can F*ck Off

Poetry Can F*ck Off

‘A picker pucker panoramic poetry parade’ (John Hegley). 

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures. 

James Wilson-Taylor: Ginger is the New Black

James Wilson-Taylor: Ginger is the New Black

James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

Comedy sketch swapping live! The cult hit show where sketch groups perform their own sketches and then each other’s. 

Babushka: A Sketch Show

Babushka: A Sketch Show

‘All hits, no misses: the litany of wit that was Babushka’ ***** (TheTab. 

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

23, Please: The Sketch Show That Never Was

With a Cambridge Footlights endorsement on their flyer, this is a group already promising great things to an expectant audience. 

Myra DuBois: Self AdMyra

Myra DuBois: Self AdMyra

As the Willie Loman quote goes “Attention must be paid”. 

Company

Company

Company is a musical so of its time that a string of directors over the past decade have struggled with the problem of whether to present it as an unchanged period piece or contemp… 

Pete Firman – TriX

Pete Firman – TriX

Pete Firman’s tenth Edinburgh Fringe show has a short prelude: a montage of the posters of his previous nine shows. 

Snail and I Take a Journey

Snail and I Take a Journey

A story of a little snail with a big dream, who tries to make it past doubting friends, to go on the adventure of a lifetime. 

Switch: A Sketch Show

Switch: A Sketch Show

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives

There’s surely no better sign that mental health issues – and depression in particular – are becoming more openly discussed than for the likes of Colin Hoult to come along an… 

Women Redressed: Theatre Festival

Women Redressed: Theatre Festival

Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre. 

Triple Threat Sketch Comedy

Triple Threat Sketch Comedy

Three giants of sketch comedy come together to preview their EdFringe shows. 

The Sketch Men : Attempted Jokes

The Sketch Men : Attempted Jokes

The Sketch Men are returning to Manchester with their own particular brand of dry and self-deprecating humour. 

The Dingleberry Theatre Foundation Presents: Mandatory Seminar

The Dingleberry Theatre Foundation Presents: Mandatory Seminar

A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves. 

Poetry Can F*ck Off

Poetry Can F*ck Off

By Heathcote Williams (Archangel award-winner). 

Cabaret Whore Presents: La Poule Plombée

Cabaret Whore Presents: La Poule Plombée

Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston remain on top form with their new laugh-out-loud spin-off Cabaret Whore, in which Young’s comic character La Poule Plombée is finally g… 

Acting Funny: UoB's Short Course on Comic Theatre Practice

Acting Funny: UoB's Short Course on Comic Theatre Practice

Taught by established professional performers and University of Brighton staff, this five day course provides intensive training in physical skills and creative approaches for devi… 

Vive Piaf: Nadja Filtzer & Musicians

Vive Piaf: Nadja Filtzer & Musicians

Performances on the Rue Pigalle were presumably at times rather challenging, even for the great Edith Piaf; and Nadja Filtzer certainly shared some artistic barricades while taking… 

Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Off the Cuff, the Brighton based improvisation troupe, bring their show Crime and Funishment to the Fringe. 

Bootworks Theatre presents: Now Listen To Me Very Carefully

Bootworks Theatre presents: Now Listen To Me Very Carefully

Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Do Shakespeare

Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself. 

Pete Strong: Self-Sabotage, a Work in Progress

Pete Strong: Self-Sabotage, a Work in Progress

2015 Brighton Squawker award finalist Pete Strong - “walking a fine emotional line. 

Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds

Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds

Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary celebration & final performance in its entirety. 

Down And Out In Paris And London

Down And Out In Paris And London

Bridging a gap of 80 years between author George Orwell’s early life in Paris and a social experiment by Guardian journalist Polly Tonybee in London, Down & Out In Paris And L… 

Dance Theatre Masterclasses

Dance Theatre Masterclasses

Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre. 

Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy

Hats Off to Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy are the best-loved comedy duo of all time. 

The Journey: Confessions of an Artist

The Journey: Confessions of an Artist

This exhibition is brought to you by a collection of local artists working in a variety of mediums. 

How to: Be a Theatre Producer

How to: Be a Theatre Producer

Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out. 

Off The Rails

Off The Rails

A unique 1:1 scale replica of a Jubilee Line tube carriage, with the interior and exterior covered in a printed vinyl wrap, featuring the graphic artwork of Andy Seize, who experim… 

Geoffrey Mead's London Road Tour

Geoffrey Mead's London Road Tour

Having lived at the top end of Brighton’s London Road for the last six years, I’ve witnessed first-hand the rapid and accelerating gentrification taking place in the area, di… 

Folk Off Sessions

Folk Off Sessions

The Fiddler’s Elbow plays host to a showcase of alternative folk, blues and roots acts for the third year running, featuring Black Fields, Paul Murray, Edd Mann, Warsaw Radio, Rota… 

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da… 

Long Days Journey Into Night

Long Days Journey Into Night

(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 27) The Roundabout revives Eugene O’Neill’s “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood. 

Tinned Goods

Tinned Goods

It’s 1984 and the effects of the six-month-old Miner’s Strike is really starting to bite. 

The Theatre Workshop Presents...Monologue Jam!

The Theatre Workshop Presents...Monologue Jam!

Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop. 

Rocky Horror Show

Rocky Horror Show

Behind me a slightly overweight man in basque, suspenders and very little else is shuffling up the row to his seat to cheers from the back stalls. 

Night at the Theatre

Night at the Theatre

  • Listing
  • Children’s Shows
  • Vault Festival
  • Multiple Venues
  • 27th Feb - 24th Apr 2016

Combining a mixture of dance theatre, audio-description and imaginative storytelling with Casson & Friends’ trademark interactivity; Night at the Theatre is a fun, family adventu… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1

The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea… 

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2

The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i… 

Valentines Shows

Valentines Shows

Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si… 

A Journey Thru Black History

A Journey Thru Black History

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… 

Wicked

Wicked

Nearly two decades after its West End debut, Wicked continues to provide a spectacular night out at the Apollo Victoria. 

Clementine the Living Fashion Doll's Seasonal Spectacular

Clementine the Living Fashion Doll's Seasonal Spectacular

Although only 15 inches tall, Clementine is still a mighty big talent. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

The Roundabout revives Michael Frayn’s evergreen farce of backstage antics and onstage fiascoes under the direction of Jeremy Herrin (“Wolf Hall”). 

Oh, Hello!: Live on (Off) Broadway

Oh, Hello!: Live on (Off) Broadway

Gil Faizon and George St. 

Women Redressed : Theatre Festival

Women Redressed : Theatre Festival

Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte… 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Michael Frayn’s much-loved riotous farce following the backstage antics of a touring theatre company. 

Pete Davidson

Pete Davidson

Before joining the cast of “Saturday Night Live” in 2014, the 21-year-old Staten Island-native distinguished himself as a stand-up with brutally honest personal materia… 

Becky Shaw

Becky Shaw

The Community NYC which was founded in 2014, is producing their inaugural theatrical production, Gina Gionfriddo’s award winning play Becky Shaw. 

The Great British Brain Off

The Great British Brain Off

Do you feel like your brain is half-baked? Or that your mental faculties are going off the boil? Join ‘head’ chef Dr Alan Gow in the Great British Brain Off to consider the recipe … 

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

So You Think You're Funny? Grand Final

Welcome to the final of the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition. 

Musical Theatre: In Conversation With…

Musical Theatre: In Conversation With…

The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business. 

The Great Scottish Make Off - Free

The Great Scottish Make Off - Free

Live art every day. 

The Great Scottish Make Off - Free

The Great Scottish Make Off - Free

Live art every day. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, eight survive, now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student. 

Theatre Engine: FlashMob

Theatre Engine: FlashMob

A mash-up of dance, music, mobile phones and you! FlashMob begins as a game of words and ends as a dance party for all participants – with audience members interacting with movem… 

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them. 

Tension Square

Tension Square

Life and death, unlike knitting, doesn’t come with instructions! Hospital patient Marigold is intrigued by her new roomie. 

Amused Moose Comedy Award Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award Grand Final

Grab your tickets to vote for tomorrow’s stars at this prestigious Final alongside comedy cognoscenti. 

The Amazing Sketch Show

The Amazing Sketch Show

The description of The Amazing Sketch Show states that their sketches are ‘some of the funniest, silliest and zaniest sketches’ to be found at this year’s Fringe. 

Pistol Pete Wearn - Footstomping Acoustic Blues

Pistol Pete Wearn - Footstomping Acoustic Blues

Tearing it up with his own raucous interpretation of traditional blues, Pistol Pete Wearn is a renowned vocalist, slide guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter. 

Feeling a Little Sketchy: The Sketch Comedy Comeback

Feeling a Little Sketchy: The Sketch Comedy Comeback

Sketch comedy is making a comeback! If you’re not brave enough to try stand-up yet, then sketch is the perfect introduction to writing and performing comedy. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Back to the National Galleries, iPad in hand, and ready to sketch, legendary stand-up, punk poet and sketchsmith Phill Jupitus invites you to join him each morning as he sketches a… 

Alastair Savage, Scottish Fiddle Journey

Alastair Savage, Scottish Fiddle Journey

The upstairs room in the historic Arthur Conan Doyle building offers the perfect setting for a relaxed evening of fiddle melodies by one of the country’s leading exponents. 

A Requiem for Edward Snowden

A Requiem for Edward Snowden

A Requiem for Edward Snowden is a new audio-visual piece on the very current themes of privacy, security and loss in the 21st century. 

Bad Boys: Whisky Theatre

Bad Boys: Whisky Theatre

A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan. 

Large Scale Theatre Marketing Workshop

Large Scale Theatre Marketing Workshop

A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group. 

Sketch Club: The Final

Sketch Club: The Final

Welcome to the Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition to find the very best new sketch performers. 

Around the World, My Journey Continued After You Left

Around the World, My Journey Continued After You Left

A new musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao. 

Class Clowns 2015: The Final

Class Clowns 2015: The Final

The first and only stand-up comedy competition for high school students at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Pioneered by Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Class Clowns lands o… 

What is the Point of Children’s Theatre?

What is the Point of Children’s Theatre?

Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences. 

My Journey Throughout China

My Journey Throughout China

Playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history and some 36,000,000 active participants, classical Zheng performer, Yi Dong, makes her 14th annual return to Edinburgh… 

Village Pub Theatre

Village Pub Theatre

For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f… 

Dogfight

Dogfight

Based on an obscure 1991 feature film, Dogfight is a recent musical from the talented composing duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, that showtune aficionados may know from Edges, a sho… 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Back to the National Galleries, iPad in hand, and ready to sketch, legendary stand-up, punk poet and sketchsmith Phill Jupitus invites you to join him each morning as he sketches a… 

Poetry Can F*ck Off

Poetry Can F*ck Off

By Heathcote Williams (Herald Lifetime Achievement Award winner). 

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. 

Funny Women Awards 2015 Semi-Final

Funny Women Awards 2015 Semi-Final

The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comic talent for over a decade, and witnessed some fantastic acts who are now major names on the comedy circuit. 

Theatre: In All Its Forms!

Theatre: In All Its Forms!

A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre. 

Pete Morton

Pete Morton

Pete Morton is a folk singer/songwriter with a wealth of powerful songs and stage presence. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Back to the National Galleries, iPad in hand, and ready to sketch, legendary stand-up, punk poet and sketchsmith Phill Jupitus invites you to join him each morning as he sketches a… 

Theatre Censorship Now

Theatre Censorship Now

What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in… 

Passion: A Contemporary Journey to the Cross

Passion: A Contemporary Journey to the Cross

Creator/director: Claire Henderson Davis. 

The Art of Reduction and the Distillation of Humanity: Whisky Theatre

The Art of Reduction and the Distillation of Humanity: Whisky Theatre

The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre. 

Backstage Pass to the UK’s Biggest Theatre!

Backstage Pass to the UK’s Biggest Theatre!

Explore the labyrinth of secrets lurking behind the Edinburgh Playhouse foyer doors as the custodians (past and present) of this stunning theatre lead you through the history of a … 

Five-a-Side Theatre

Five-a-Side Theatre

“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer. 

Pelican: A Sketch Show

Pelican: A Sketch Show

‘The epitome of bizarre hilarity and joyous absurdity’ ***** (Tab. 

Noises Off

Noises Off

Having ventured far away from the Fringe into a tucked away little village hall in a particularly small auditorium, the first thing that you clasp your eyes on is the absolutely re… 

Sea 'n' the City – A Journey with Paint

Sea 'n' the City – A Journey with Paint

Mixed media paintings exploring cityscape, countryside and coastline: colours, textures and changing light of the seasons. 

Amused Moose Comedy's Laugh Off Final

Amused Moose Comedy's Laugh Off Final

Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti for 2015’s hottest, breakout stars-of-tomorrow: Colin Chadwick, Daniel Audritt, George Lewis, James Loveridge, Jay Hampson, Luke Cou… 

Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie. 

Letting Off Steam

Letting Off Steam

Entertaining rhythms, rhyming and ranting from three of the North’s top female wordsmiths. 

The Warwick Revue Present: Sketch Education

The Warwick Revue Present: Sketch Education

A probably funny show featuring more than one sketch. 

Edward Hilsum: Genie

Edward Hilsum: Genie

A family magic show accessible for even the youngest of children, Edward Hilsum: Genie is a charming magical experience. 

Hacked Off

Hacked Off

Marie is left broken-hearted after breaking up with her boyfriend Steve. 

Off the Top

Off the Top

Baba Brinkman (science rapper, Fringe First winner, and half the cast of Off The Top) really loves his wife. 

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

Comedy Sketch Show with Trestle Masks

A series of comedy sketches performed by a talented all-female cast from St Mary’s Calne Senior School. 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

John Cameron and Stephen Trask’s big, ballsy, gender-bending musical detonates upon Greenside’s Royal Terrace stage with a blast that can be heard clear across Edinburgh. 

The Final Act

The Final Act

Given one last chance to save their theatre society, an eccentric creative team must stage a spectacular sell-out show. 

Journey to the Centre of Dead

Journey to the Centre of Dead

Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers. 

Journey to the Centre of Dead

Journey to the Centre of Dead

Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Back to the National Galleries, iPad in hand, and ready to sketch, legendary stand-up, punk poet and sketchsmith Phill Jupitus invites you to join him each morning as he sketches a… 

The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy

The Great Downhill Journey of Little Tommy

Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down… 

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank

The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank is directed by Conrad Sharp and performed by Familia de la Noche, taking place in the home and imagination of Edward Blank. 

Fred MacAulay: Him Off the Radio

Fred MacAulay: Him Off the Radio

How is life for Fred since leaving BBC Radio Scotland after all these years? And why did he leave? Did someone forget to get him a hot latte? Were any punches thrown? If you miss h… 

Pete Johansson: Just Google Me

Pete Johansson: Just Google Me

Fringe favourite returns with limited run presenting reworked classics alongside newly crafted tales that always challenge, enlighten and leave you laughing. 

UCL Graters - 2015: A Sketch Odyssey

UCL Graters - 2015: A Sketch Odyssey

Following sell-out performances in 2014, UCL Graters, University College London’s award-winning comedy group, returns to the Fringe with a fresh hour of sketches. 

Sketch Thieves

Sketch Thieves

It’s comedy set swapping live! The show where comedians perform their own jokes, then each other’s. 

Clandestine Sketch Show

Clandestine Sketch Show

**** (Nouse. 

New Town Theatre Cabaret

New Town Theatre Cabaret

The nightly cabaret features a selection of the best festival entertainment with a changing line-up of international and local singers, musicians and entertainment, all in the oak-… 

Messrs Brimson and Wilson in Lofty Expectations

Messrs Brimson and Wilson in Lofty Expectations

Come join Brimson and Wilson, purveyors of the finest comedy for men and women since the year 2000, as they present to you a veritable cornucopia of fun-filled frolics, sketches an… 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre – Minging Detectives

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre – Minging Detectives

There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime. 

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

I Would: A Hypothetical Sketch Show

This sketch show offers an hour of clean-cut and well-rehearsed comedy. 

The Underbelly Radio Shows

The Underbelly Radio Shows

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… 

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Revan and Fennell: Fan Club

Brimming with originality and presenting a confidently executed show, Revan and Fennell are a double act that have the potential to succeed the comedy throne of French & Saunders. 

The Bakewell Bake Off: A New Musical

The Bakewell Bake Off: A New Musical

The Great British Bake Off – what’s not to love? Cake, puns galore and HRH Mary Berry showing her soft spot for gin. 

Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

Morgan and West’s Utterly Spiffing Spectacular Magic Show – For Kids (and Childish Grown-ups!)

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. 

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian: Final

The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian: Final

After six successful years of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year in London the competition comes to York, with a brand new contest to find the best up and coming… 

West End Magic

West End Magic

West End Magic, a monthly fixture at the Leicester Square Theatre, heads north for a limited engagement at The Great Yorkshire Fringe. 

The Supreme Fabulettes

The Supreme Fabulettes

Opening their show with the anthem I’m Every Woman, all-male girl group The Supreme Fabulettes are here to make a statement. 

Paul Chowdhry: PC’s World

Paul Chowdhry: PC’s World

I was reading about a Gay Pride event in Glasgow last week that had banned drag acts from performing for fear they may offend transgendered members of their community who were conf… 

The Amazing Bubble Man

The Amazing Bubble Man

You’ve got to hand it to him, Louis Pearl aka The Amazing Bubbleman is a crowd pleaser. 

James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids

James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids

Holding the attention of a room full of six to eleven year olds armed with nothing more than a microphone is quite some feat, but for James Campbell – widely acknowledged as t… 

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show

With the blessing of the Cooper Estate, John Hewer takes to the stage in the guise of one of Britain’s most loved comedians. 

Washington Square Music Festival

Washington Square Music Festival

This lively summer festival offers free concerts on Tuesdays on the main stage of Washington Square Park. 

Works and Process: Wendy Whelan & Edward Watson

Works and Process: Wendy Whelan & Edward Watson

In October, Wendy Whelan retired from the New York City Ballet after 30 years. 

Shows for Days

Shows for Days

(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… 

Hats Off To Laurel & Hardy

Hats Off To Laurel & Hardy

Frequently lauded as the most accurate, moving and entertaining show ever written about Stan and Ollie, ‘Hats Off’ has played to packed houses and standing ovations nationwide … 

Musical Theatre Showcase

Musical Theatre Showcase

An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band. 

ACT Kids Theatre Festival

ACT Kids Theatre Festival

A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights. 

Tomás Ford: The Final Chase

Tomás Ford: The Final Chase

You’ll be left shaken, stirred and thoroughly entertained by award-winning Australian cabaret crooner Tomás Ford’s noir-as-hell spy thriller. 

A Journey to Here... An Improv Show

A Journey to Here... An Improv Show

Six women are on a journey. A comedy journey to make you laugh. Witness our responses to you and your suggestions. Be scared - we will take you anywhere. It may even involve song. 

Nettle Knickers: Puppet Theatre

Nettle Knickers: Puppet Theatre

Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures. 

The Improverts - Exam Shows

The Improverts - Exam Shows

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… 

Clare's Journey

Clare's Journey

Music composed by Terence Deadman. 

Off The Cuff TV

Off The Cuff TV

Join Brighton improv stalwarts Off The Cuff as they create an evening of spontaneous TV entertainment based on your suggestions! Featuring a unique sketch show, breaking news bulle… 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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… 

Pete Seeger: America's Tuning Fork

Pete Seeger: America's Tuning Fork

An insight into the life and loves of Pete Seeger, ‘The Godfather of Folk’. 

Mr and Mrs Strange: Baby Boris, His Head Fell Off

Mr and Mrs Strange: Baby Boris, His Head Fell Off

Get digging for neon-jellycakes, fight mad mosquito armies, put a clothes peg on your nose visiting Café Burp [the smelliest cafe in the world] and help row our boat across shark … 

Blackshaw Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland

Blackshaw Theatre presents Alice in Wonderland

Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine. 

The Off Beat Show Off Show

The Off Beat Show Off Show

Comedians, sketch-writers and affable bellends Chris Gates and Joe Kenny have created a show that will amuse, arouse, and occasionally disturb you to the very core of your soul (bu… 

Punch & Judy's Grand Theatre of Varieties

Punch & Judy's Grand Theatre of Varieties

Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail. 

Regency Square - The Pleasure of Leisure

Regency Square - The Pleasure of Leisure

Regency Square and its surroundings was developed for people who wanted to have fun! In this walk we shall look at how changing ideas of leisure created the square that we know tod… 

Folk Off Sessions

Folk Off Sessions

A showcase of alternative folk and roots acts feat: Jacko Hooper, Warsaw Radio, Rotait, Nick Williams, Justin Saltmeris, Paul Murray and many more. 

Dusty

Dusty "O"s Musical Menagerie

Thirty years ago there was a late-night drinking spot in Soho called The Piano Bar. 

Buttery Brown Monk at the Leicester Square Theatre

Buttery Brown Monk at the Leicester Square Theatre

Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance. 

Journey's End

Journey's End

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… 

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night

American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”. 

The Improverts - London Shows

The Improverts - London Shows

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… 

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Final Arena Tour

Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Final Arena Tour

Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti… 

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut

In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays… 

Blackshaw Theatre presents Halloween Tales

Blackshaw Theatre presents Halloween Tales

Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway. 

Edward II

Edward II

‘What are kings when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?’ Venture Wolf presents England’s most mesmerising monarchs, infamous Queen and greatest traitor in… 

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

When Edward inherits the throne from his stern and all conquering father, he is determined to rule his way. 

Hurricane Hill by Chris Leicester

Hurricane Hill by Chris Leicester

 At the isolated house of a famous recluse a stranger arrives and a past will finally be faced. 

Alastair Savage, Scots Fiddle Journey

Alastair Savage, Scots Fiddle Journey

Alastair Savage has performed traditional and classical music throughout his life and is one of the country’s leading fiddle exponents. 

So You Think You're Funny? Final

So You Think You're Funny? Final

Welcome to the 27th Final of the UK’s best stand-up comedy newcomers competition! After the Gilded Balloon has scoured the nation in search of the best new comic talent, we are dow… 

Scotland - A Journey in Music and Song

Scotland - A Journey in Music and Song

Richard Lewis, Edinburgh’s Convener for Culture, and international mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker look at how Scotland has inspired other nations. 

Musical Theatre: In Conversation With…

Musical Theatre: In Conversation With…

The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business. 

Best New Sketch Act 2014: The Final

Best New Sketch Act 2014: The Final

The Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition for sketch and character performers. 

Sketch Transfer Deadline Day

Sketch Transfer Deadline Day

What happens when you make the Fringe’s best sketch groups of the last decade trade a member for one show? This. 

Wireless Theatre Presents: Couples Who Changed the World

Wireless Theatre Presents: Couples Who Changed the World

Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

The National Galleries of Scotland will be letting legendary stand-up, punk poet and roving sketchsmith Phill Jupitus loose in its rooms for three weeks. 

Amused Moose Comedy's Laughter Awards Final

Amused Moose Comedy's Laughter Awards Final

Grab your hot tickets to vote at this prestigious Fringe final alongside international comedy cognoscenti for tomorrow’s stars. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Hundreds entered, eight survive and now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student. 

BBC: Poetry Slam 2014 - Grand Final

BBC: Poetry Slam 2014 - Grand Final

Join us for the Grand Final of this year’s slam, presented by 2012-13 Scottish National Poetry Slam Champion, Kevin Cadwallender. 

Funny Women Awards Semi-Final 2014

Funny Women Awards Semi-Final 2014

The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comics for over a decade, and we’ve seen some fantastic acts pass through our doors who are now major names on the comedy circui… 

From Blackpool to California: A Musical Journey with Barbara Allen and Friends

From Blackpool to California: A Musical Journey with Barbara Allen and Friends

Barbara Allen, along with her husband Steve and friends take the audience on a musical tour that showcases Barbara’s experience as a Christian vocalist. 

Ward and Watts in... Journey to the Centre of the Office

Ward and Watts in... Journey to the Centre of the Office

We all have a job. 

Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Theatre

Moonshine, Medicine and The Mob: Whisky Theatre

Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

The National Galleries of Scotland will be letting legendary stand-up, punk poet and roving sketchsmith Phill Jupitus loose in its rooms for three weeks. 

Sketch Appeal

Sketch Appeal

Have you seen our sketches? They’re missing, armed and presumed hilarious. 

Meet the National Theatre Literary Department and Studio

Meet the National Theatre Literary Department and Studio

This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work. 

Acting and Technical Theatre Careers Talk

Acting and Technical Theatre Careers Talk

World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses. 

The Theatre of Dissection

The Theatre of Dissection

The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art. 

My Luxurious 50 Square Feet Life

My Luxurious 50 Square Feet Life

In Hong Kong, thousands of people – poor families, students, white-collar workers – live in dystopian-sounding “sub-divided units” that sometimes only amount to 50 square f… 

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

The National Galleries of Scotland will be letting legendary stand-up, punk poet and roving sketchsmith Phill Jupitus loose in its rooms for three weeks. 

Sentimental Journey

Sentimental Journey

Two of the UK’s firm 40s favourites, The Three Belles and That Swing Sensation Big Band take you on a Sentimental Journey through the songs and music that defined an age. 

Dance Off the Grid

Dance Off the Grid

Valerie Gladstone, known for her series Dance Under the Influence at the Museum of Arts and Design, is good at scouting talent and assembling smartly eclectic programs. 

Bad Boys: Whisky Theatre

Bad Boys: Whisky Theatre

A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan. 

Theatre Uncut 2014

Theatre Uncut 2014

The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action. 

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

Phill Jupitus: Sketch Comic

The National Galleries of Scotland will be letting legendary stand-up, punk poet and roving sketchsmith Phill Jupitus loose in its rooms for three weeks. 

The Horror! The Horror! - The Final Curtain

The Horror! The Horror! - The Final Curtain

It’s 1924 and Alfred Brownlow’s music hall troupe is in trouble. 

Songs from Soweto: An a capella Journey

Songs from Soweto: An a capella Journey

A fascinating documentary charting the remarkable journey of five a cappella singers from one of South Africa’s most notorious townships to the famous Edinburgh Fringe. 

Amused Moose Comedy's Laugh Off Final

Amused Moose Comedy's Laugh Off Final

Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti, to raise aloft the hottest, breakthrough stars of tomorrow who battle brilliantly for fame, fortune, shiny moose trophies, plus £1… 

Ctrl-Alt-Sketch

Ctrl-Alt-Sketch

The Idle Playthings present Ctrl-Alt-Sketch, a musical sketch show. 

Pete Dobbing: Dobbing

Pete Dobbing: Dobbing

Breakfast, bitcoins and other areas of contention. 

New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey Through the Great American Songbook

New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey Through the Great American Songbook

New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle… 

Off the Top

Off the Top

Fringe First winner and science rapper Baba Brinkman (Rap Guide to Evolution) teams up with neuroscientist Dr. 

The Sketch Show That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons

The Sketch Show That Cannot Be Named for Legal Reasons

From the tropical rainforests of Cornwall come 10(ish) virile and sexually exhilarating students from Falmouth and Exeter University and their pet giant. 

The Journey

The Journey

The Journey is an interactive installation for everyone. 

Theatre on a Long Thin Wire

Theatre on a Long Thin Wire

There are no actors in this show. 

Off the Curtain

Off the Curtain

Off The Curtain is described as an ‘East-meets-West’ one-woman show, using a mixture of storytelling, acting and poetic narrative. 

Sinatra: Final Curtain

Sinatra: Final Curtain

This original musical by Kingdom Theatre is a tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra. 

A Journey Round My Skull

A Journey Round My Skull

Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment. 

Bobby Mair: Off Meds

Bobby Mair: Off Meds

A self-declared homeless lookalike, Bobby Mair performs to a packed out Laughing Horse, deftly interacting with the audience, whom he suspends somewhere between hilarity and awkwar… 

Gambit Theatre Presents: Contrast

Gambit Theatre Presents: Contrast

Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters. 

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

The Canon: A Literary Sketch Show

Anyone might be forgiven for apprehension about a literary sketch show. 

Once Upon a Time in a Sketch Group

Once Upon a Time in a Sketch Group

Self-proclaimed adversity avoidance advocate Paul Swoops links together a show that manages to trap members of The Tourists in a surreal sketch landscape of their own devising.  

Sketch Bingo

Sketch Bingo

Sketch Bingo is an energetic, interactive, competitive sketch show and it’s a wild, wacky game show. 

GIRAFFE: Let's Talk About Sketch Baby

GIRAFFE: Let's Talk About Sketch Baby

Ali James, George Kemp and John Oakes comprise Giraffe, a hysterical sketch comedy trio bent on filling an hour of your lives with their own brand of hilarious original comedy. 

Cheesed Off

Cheesed Off

Desiree lives in a hut in the middle of nowhere with a goat. 

Dylan Thomas Return Journey - Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Dylan Thomas Return Journey - Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Over 80,000 people worldwide have enjoyed this critically-acclaimed production which included sell-out seasons at London’s Lyric Hammersmith, Off-Broadway and Sydney Opera House. 

Show Off

Show Off

If a cabaret act is consciously, deliberately devoid of talent, does that excuse it from criticism? It seems reductive to point out that the mono-browed, pink-wigged Figs in Wigs… 

Cal Wilson: It Could Have Been Me

Cal Wilson: It Could Have Been Me

Kiwi comedian Cal Wilson invites us to imagine what her life would have been like if she’d made different choices (or if she’d been born a man). 

Pete Johansson: Several Jokes

Pete Johansson: Several Jokes

Amidst the gimmicky sketch shows and hard-hitting monologues that populate the Fringe every August, sometimes you need to go back to basics. 

Cutting Off Kate Bush

Cutting Off Kate Bush

Lucy Benson-Brown’s one woman show explores mid-to-late twenties inertia, family values and how we pin hopes and philosophies on the tunes of our favourite musical artists. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - And So Am I

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - And So Am I

Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK. 

Pete Firman: Trickster

Pete Firman: Trickster

Trickster sees Pete Firman perform his signature blend of jokes and magic tricks with the usual swag and flair which regulars will have come to expect from his shows. 

Lee Griffiths: Post Traumatic Sketch Disorder

Lee Griffiths: Post Traumatic Sketch Disorder

Lee Griffiths: Post-Traumatic Sketch Disorder lays out the comic’s psyche by following Freud (just about) through funny family hang-ups by way of kid’s books, cock lengths and cr… 

City Academy Musical Theatre Company Present Cabaret

City Academy Musical Theatre Company Present Cabaret

Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin. 

About Miss Julie

About Miss Julie

Strindberg’s classic 19th Century upstairs-downstairs play Miss Julie dealing with social mores is transported to a post-World War I England in which the class system was unde… 

Backstage Pass: A Musical Journey

Backstage Pass: A Musical Journey

Alhambra Theatre: 26th Jun 7pm. 

Show Off

Show Off

“Impressively made and performed” **** (FringeReview). 

Children's Shows and Workshops

Children's Shows and Workshops

A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement. 

Show Off

Show Off

Impressively made and performed’. 

Pete Firman

Pete Firman

A Golden Rose nominee at the Rose d’Or Festival in Montreux, Pete Firman is the UK’s leading Comedian/Magician. 

Odyssey, an Atypical Journey

Odyssey, an Atypical Journey

Assert showcases and celebrates life from an autistic spectrum perspective with this fascinating photographic exhibition. 

West End Eurovision - The Final Battle!

West End Eurovision - The Final Battle!

Dominion Theatre: 22nd May 11pm. 

The Greatest Shows on Earth

The Greatest Shows on Earth

A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals. 

Kasper's Puppet Theatre

Kasper's Puppet Theatre

Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children. 

Hats Off to Laurel & Hardy

Hats Off to Laurel & Hardy

Following six 5-star reviews at Brighton Fringe in 2013, the much-loved Lucky Dog return with their highly-acclaimed new play about the lives of the world’s best-loved comedy duo… 

Synchro: The Final Frontier

Synchro: The Final Frontier

To boldly go where no other swimmers have been! Brighton’s synchro swimmers swim in outer space (well, a watery space actually) for their 6th annual synchronised swimming show pe… 

Foil, Arms & Hog: Irish Sketch Comedy

Foil, Arms & Hog: Irish Sketch Comedy

So, Foil, Arms and Hog are my new favourite people. 

Andy Seize: Off the Rails

Andy Seize: Off the Rails

Andy Seize is an artist who has always had an awareness of the ‘bigger picture’. 

The Colin Hoult Shows

The Colin Hoult Shows

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. 

Bernard Shaw Invites You!

Bernard Shaw Invites You!

If all great truths begin as blasphemies then George Bernard Shaw was undoubtedly the most blasphemous man of his age. 

Off the Cuff do the Proverbial

Off the Cuff do the Proverbial

Improv stalwarts Off the Cuff present a brand-new show spinning scenes and sketches from proverbs invented using your suggestions. 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a cult following. 

Luke & Harry’s Journey to Sex Colony 01

Luke & Harry’s Journey to Sex Colony 01

A voyage of discovery combining shadow puppetry, a gameshow, and ritual sacrifice. 

The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game

Written as a contemporary piece in 1954, The Pajama Game is a musical about a rag trade union dispute and the romance that develops between the leaders of the opposing sides of t… 

The Final Solution

The Final Solution

A time signature emerges. 

Folk Off Sessions

Folk Off Sessions

A showcase of alternative folk, blues and roots acts feat: Warsaw Radio, Stark, Rotait, Nick Williams, Tom Staniford, Paul Murray and many more. 

Avenue Q

Avenue Q

Freshly-graduated and bright-eyed Princeton arrives in Avenue Q looking for his purpose but lacking the funds to afford anywhere better to stay. 

2 Square

2 Square

Peter Grosz and John Lutz, writers at “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” begin their show with several two-person scenes, and improvise the rest. 

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

The Best of Village Pub Theatre

Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices … 

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

Last year, Minnetonka High School brought the school edition of Les Misérables to Edinburgh as part of the American High School Theatre Festival, and to say the least I was blown … 

Theatre Uncut: Dalgety & Fragile by David Greig

Theatre Uncut: Dalgety & Fragile by David Greig

Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t… 

Broken Holmes

Broken Holmes

Since Broken Holmes’ last visit to the Fringe with a farcical tale of the eponymous detective in 2009, a certain Benedict Cumberbatch has helped propel Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s… 

Best New Sketch Act 2013: The Final

Best New Sketch Act 2013: The Final

A reliable vein of new talent since its inception in 1988, the So You Think You’re Funny? comedy awards have provided a steady stream of ingenious new acts. 

Cheesed Off

Cheesed Off

Desiree hasn’t had much in the way of company for the last five years, when Melinda arrives on the scene she’s ready to chat! Melinda isn’t so keen. 

Journey to X

Journey to X

Abortion and X-Factor may seem unlikely bedfellows, but they’re forced into an unholy union in the poptastic Journey to X. 

Tango Theatre: Woman of Shadow, Woman of Light

Tango Theatre: Woman of Shadow, Woman of Light

This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song. 

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final

Grab your hot tickets for this prestigious final, to vote alongside international talent scouts for breakthrough stars of tomorrow amongst 2013’s Top Ten Fringe comedy shows, battl… 

The Little Wheel Sketch Show

The Little Wheel Sketch Show

Allow this exciting sketch troupe to take you for a spin through a random roulette of manic sketches, including celeb comedians, a singing prime minister and an outrageous chat sho… 

My Journey Throughout China

My Journey Throughout China

Playing the zheng (zither), Yi Dong makes her annual return to Edinburgh to take us on a journey through the spirit of China in a revised show. 

Laugh Your Farce Off

Laugh Your Farce Off

Laugh your Farce Off is a collation of three new pieces of farcical writing, performed and produced by multiple artists involved in other shows at the Fringe. 

A Career in Theatre Management

A Career in Theatre Management

To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien… 

Black Rubix Theatre Presents: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

Black Rubix Theatre Presents: Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster

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… 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

At a time when making a name in the world of stand-up comedy is at its most difficult, 8 young hopefuls, whittled down from hundreds, came together to compete for the distinguished… 

The True Story of Ah Q (Physical Theatre)

The True Story of Ah Q (Physical Theatre)

Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings. 

An Afternoon of Playback Theatre

An Afternoon of Playback Theatre

Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers. 

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

Chortle Student Comedy Award Final

The Chortle Student Comedy Awards is a one night only Fringe show, in which eight contestants compete for the grand prize of £2000 and the title of Best New Chortle Comedian. 

Large Scale Theatre Marketing Workshop

Large Scale Theatre Marketing Workshop

A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group. 

Merrily We Roll Along

Merrily We Roll Along

Merrily We Roll Along is a curious musical. 

Meet the National Theatre Studio and Literary Department

Meet the National Theatre Studio and Literary Department

Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work. 

Repertory Theatre

Repertory Theatre

WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre… 

Amused Moose Laugh-Off Final

Amused Moose Laugh-Off Final

Vote for hot, breakthrough stars-of-tomorrow battling brilliantly for fame, fortune and shiny Moose trophies. 

Amused Moose Laugh Off Final

Amused Moose Laugh Off Final

The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final, as one might expect, was a one-off chance to see some of the comedians of tomorrow battle it out for the prestigious prize of £1500 and a moose s… 

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox. 

Joy of Sketch

Joy of Sketch

The créme de la créme of sketch comedy acts are coming together for a one-off sketch comedy extravaganza. 

Sinatra: The Final Curtain

Sinatra: The Final Curtain

A legend looks back on a lifetime of entertainment in stories and classic song in this original musical drama. 

Introduction to Solo Theatre Performance

Introduction to Solo Theatre Performance

A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl… 

My Journey Throughout China

My Journey Throughout China

In this very special and understated recital, we meet Dong Yi, internationally renowned zheng soloist, and experience the exquisite sound of the world’s most popular Chinese instru… 

Rough Theatre

Rough Theatre

Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style. 

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises. 

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations. 

My Journey Throughout China

My Journey Throughout China

The zheng, whilst perhaps an unfamiliar sight to a British audience, has a history that dates back over 2,500 years and yet remains the most popular instrument in China. 

Theatre Uncut

Theatre Uncut

Fringe First, Herald Angel, Spirit of the Fringe award winners Theatre Uncut return with a brand new collection of short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action on … 

Traverse Through Time: 50 Years of the Traverse Theatre

Traverse Through Time: 50 Years of the Traverse Theatre

Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�… 

The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue are an energetic bunch, never more so than during this show’s opening sketch, a whirlwind rendition of the history of Edinburgh from dinosaurs through William W… 

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketch Show

The Edinburgh Revue: Sketch Show

It was with boundless energy that the five-strong Revue troupe leaped onstage and it seemed that this was an energy which would not dwindle - even as the quality of the proceeding … 

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem. 

Times Square Tourist

Times Square Tourist

In a spoken word account – I would assume non-fictional, though this is never made clear – Laurel Lockhart tells us of her time in New York as she tries to hit it big in the gr… 

Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013

Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013

Sign on to Sh!t Theatre’s JSA: ‘a curious though immensely likeable duo who merge stand-up with physical theatre and biting socio-political satire . 

Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean

Pete Otway and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean

Join two of the most promising up-and-coming comedians, Pete Otway, ‘devastatingly funny’ (Chortle. 

Pete Cain: Everybody Out!

Pete Cain: Everybody Out!

Pete Cain, London’s wicked working class hero brings his manifesto for the future of the United Kingdom to the Assembly Rooms, in an attempt to solve each of his audience member�… 

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

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. 

Aberdeen vs Glasgow vs The World - Final Round - Free

Aberdeen vs Glasgow vs The World - Final Round - Free

First of all, it’s important that you ignore the title of this show because it has absolutely nothing to do with what you’ll be watching. 

Foil, Arms and Hog - Late Night Irish Sketch Comedy

Foil, Arms and Hog - Late Night Irish Sketch Comedy

Foil, Arms and Hog are an Irish sketch comedy trio who combine innovative ideas with silliness and boyish charm. 

Edward Aczel - Lives in a Meaningless Shed

Edward Aczel - Lives in a Meaningless Shed

Edward Aczel is the master of anti-comedy. 

Luke and Harry's Journey to Sex Colony 01

Luke and Harry's Journey to Sex Colony 01

Simply the most bizarre show you will ever have the unfortunate and detrimental privilege to watch. 

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author

In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely. 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is not really a musical, but rather a song cycle, or collection of songs and poetic verse. 

Pete Firman - Scoundrel

Pete Firman - Scoundrel

Pete Firman is a natural born entertainer and he knows it. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - In Space

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - In Space

If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you. 

Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

Through American Eyes: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

Previous visitors to the Scottish National Gallery will be familiar with Frederic Church’s Niagara Falls from the American Side, the only major work by this American artist featu… 

Precious Little Talent

Precious Little Talent

Ella Hickson was the darling of the Fringe last year with her debut play, Eight. 

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final

Amused Moose Comedy Awards Final

Amused Moose has the unusual ability of being able to boast a harbouring ground not only for breaking talent, but also well established acts. 

Have A Nice Life

Have A Nice Life

I’m beginning to think that Musical Theatre @ George Square are like some dodgy wartime butcher, who’s keeping all the good stuff ‘round the back’. 

Five Guys Named Moe

Five Guys Named Moe

With a budget that suggests they spent more in the lighting rig than most in Edinburgh spend on their whole show, the production values on Five Guys Named Moe are ridiculously high… 

Scottish Dance Theatre

Scottish Dance Theatre

I’ll be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotland’s… 

That Old Noir Magic - A Film Noir Jazz Journey Into Night, in Story and Song

That Old Noir Magic - A Film Noir Jazz Journey Into Night, in Story and Song

As an avid fan of old noir movies, crooked cops, and general hard-boiled quick witted cynicism, needless to say I was looking forward to this show. 

Love in the Key of Britpop

Love in the Key of Britpop

Love in The Key of Britpop is spoken word artist Emily Andersen’s performance of her self-professed ‘ode to Britpop, nightclub romance, visa marriages and anglophilic love’. 

Her Right Mind

Her Right Mind

The audience is introduced to the story behind Her Right Mind via a dynamically-staged sequence showing us the mundanity of protagonist Jack’s life. 

Plane Food Cafe

Plane Food Cafe

There is something uniquely wonderful about Plane Food Café that makes it a perfect fit for the Fringe. 

The Wolves Descend

The Wolves Descend

In a picturesque Croatian village where the main industry is werewolf tourism, the owners of The House of the Night Bed & Breakfast are facing a decline in their business due to th… 

Drop Me Off in Harlem - James Lambeth Sings Duke Ellington!

Drop Me Off in Harlem - James Lambeth Sings Duke Ellington!

James Lambeth has a gorgeous voice and has selected a good list of Duke Ellington standards for his tribute ‘Drop Me Off in Harlem. 

Theatre of Sex

Theatre of Sex

Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title. 

Foil Arms and Hog - Late Night Sketch Comedy

Foil Arms and Hog - Late Night Sketch Comedy

Irish trio Foil, Arms and Hog, or Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan to their parents, barely leave the stage for the duration of this dizzying hour of sketch comedy. 

Africa, Heart and Soul

Africa, Heart and Soul

Zimbabwean theatre company, Grassroots, presents a show combining succulent, sun-drenched vocal harmonies with wonderfully choreographed dances that has been put together around th… 

Gregory Charles: Musicman

Gregory Charles: Musicman

Gregory Charles’ show Music Man centres around his truly encyclopedic knowledge of music. 

Journey's End

Journey's End

This play by R. 

The Joy of Sketch

The Joy of Sketch

Multiple acts collide in a variety show that combines some of the top names in sketch comedy. 

Rom Com Con - Free

Rom Com Con - Free

The premise of Mace and Burton’s show draws quite a crowd into the Medina. 

Pete Johansson: Naked Pictures Of My Life

Pete Johansson: Naked Pictures Of My Life

Naked Pictures of my life is a no holds barred look at Pete’s life as he approaches middle age and starts to experience and think about aging. 

Rent

Rent

RENT charts the story of a group of friends living in New York’s Alphabet City in the early nineties, a ghetto of Manhattan synonymous with starving artists. 

You Will Be Rare

You Will Be Rare

Just so you’re perfectly clear, You Will Be Rare is hugely engaging and memorable; but it’s not a piece of theatre. 

Repertory Theatre

Repertory Theatre

This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder. 

Musical Gems for Violin and Piano

Musical Gems for Violin and Piano

On first reading, the show’s title may sound almost childlike, reading like the name of a children’s music book. 

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

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… 

Dr Bunhead's Blast Off!

Dr Bunhead's Blast Off!

If you’ve seen the cover photo of Dr Bunhead setting fire to his own head in the Fringe Guide you won’t be disappointed by the show. 

Don Quixote - Theatre of the Blind

Don Quixote - Theatre of the Blind

Unlike ‘His Ghostly Heart’, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors’ forms, in ‘Don Qui… 

A Life In The Theatre

A Life In The Theatre

Out with the old and in with the new. 

Lights! Camera! Improvise!

Lights! Camera! Improvise!

The term ‘improv comedy’ is usually enough to have me, and any number of reviewers I know in Edinburgh, making excuses and running for the exit. 

Doris Day Can F**k Off

Doris Day Can F**k Off

The question on my lips for the first few minutes: what on God’s earth is he doing? In very few words, Greg is telling Doris Day to take a running jump. 

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey - Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Dylan Thomas: Return Journey - Bob Kingdom, Original Direction by Anthony Hopkins

Under original direction by Anthony Hopkins, Bob Kingdom portrays Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he recites poetry and prose from his last tour. 

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up!

Sketch You Up! is a brand new sketch show written by Dan Robinson. 

Putting It Together by Sondheim

Putting It Together by Sondheim

Putting It Together was the product of collaboration between Stephen Sondheim and Julia McKenzie (yes, the same one from Cranford off the telly). 

Scott Mills The Musical

Scott Mills The Musical

With only three months from concept to stage (not even enough time to make the official printed Fringe programme), and just ten days in rehearsals to put it together, Scott Mills T… 

Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free

Him and Me: Sketch Circus - Free

Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure. 

Lady Bug Warrior

Lady Bug Warrior

It’’s easy to hold preconceptions and pigeon-hole an unproven act in Edinburgh based on the superlatives and hyperbole of a press release, and I admit that I had expected Vicki Fe… 

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Des Clarke: Final Destination

Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking. 

3 Days off Jesus

3 Days off Jesus

A comedy reviewer’s nightmare is an atypical gig. 

Bach for Breakfast

Bach for Breakfast

The morning recital at the Royal Over-Seas Legion was exquisite and perhaps proves once and for all that there is a great deal of truth in the old housewives saying that ‘the ear… 

The Journey to Becoming a Super Woman

The Journey to Becoming a Super Woman

This is the world premier of Nafeesa Monroe’s one woman show, Journey to Becoming a Super Woman. 

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Chunky Woollen Nits

The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - Chunky Woollen Nits

The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show. 

National Theatre of Scotland Presents Love Letters to the Public Transport System By Molly Taylor

National Theatre of Scotland Presents Love Letters to the Public Transport System By Molly Taylor

Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan. 

Author

Author

An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouch’s last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly… 

The Beta Males' Midnight Movie Theatre

The Beta Males' Midnight Movie Theatre

Not quite a film night and not quite a variety show, sketch comedy troupe The Beta Males play host to a feast of entertainment from some of the Fringe’s finest comedy acts while … 

Simon Munnery: Hats Off for the 101ers, and Other Material

Simon Munnery: Hats Off for the 101ers, and Other Material

My assumption is that it was The Stand’s decision to blast Method Man out of the speakers as the audience took their seats rather than Simon Munnery’s, but it is a credit to a … 

Slacker's Guide to Western Theatre

Slacker's Guide to Western Theatre

This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre. 

Assassins

Assassins

Assassins delves into the possible motives of nine individuals who have both failed and succeeded in killing an American President. 

Sweeney Todd ... The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd ... The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton gave hostage to fortune in his rather splendid big-screen version of Sweeney Todd, which opened in the UK earlier this year. 

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

It has been ten years since American university student Matthew Shepard was murdered by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, bringing the issue of gay hate crime to an internation… 

A Musical Journey with Euna Park: Springtime in Korea

A Musical Journey with Euna Park: Springtime in Korea

Euna Park produced an excellent performance in St. 

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a comedy musical from the pen of Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts. 

War Of The Worlds

War Of The Worlds

I, like a generation around me, grew up with Jeff Wayne’s hauntingly powerful War Of The Worlds concept album. 

Jet Set Go!

Jet Set Go!

I’m hardly giving much away by saying Jet Set Go! – the Cabin Crew Musical – is rather camp. 

Unneeded Baggage

Unneeded Baggage

Unneeded Baggage is a devised piece in which Elea Ineson, Tilda O’Grady, Eleanor Rushton try to find out ‘what it is to be a goddess in our time’. 

Company

Company

I am, it is no secret to my friends, a big fan of Sondheim’s musical about relationships, Company. 

The  Magical Adventures of Pete Heat

The Magical Adventures of Pete Heat

You may want to ask Pete Heat down to the pub after the show to bask in his warm, childlike grin and offhand, surreal humour. 

Scottish Dance Theatre – Matters of the Heart

Scottish Dance Theatre – Matters of the Heart

Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography… 

Will and Greg - A Sketch Show

Will and Greg - A Sketch Show

A sterling selection of inspired nonsense. 

Circus In Hand

Circus In Hand

The Circus In Hand experience is almost undoubtedly one unlike anything you’ve seen before. 

Assassins

Assassins

Assassins is an uncommon musical, seeking the motivations of nine individuals who have both failed and succeeded in bumping off US Presidents. 

Interrupt

Interrupt

Set to a mixture of haunting strings and pumping electro rhythms, Collisions Dance bring their premiere performance to the intimate Studio space at Zoo Southside. 

Catie Wilkins: A Chip Off the Odd Block

Catie Wilkins: A Chip Off the Odd Block

Catie Wilkins works in a call centre, has a gay brother and parents who are both completely normal and yet very unusual - all great topics for a comedy set. 

Famished

Famished

Claiming to raise the bar for the Victorian Zombie Comedy Musical genre, Famished is a show clearly inspired by Monty Python, but also tipping its top hat to Five Go Mad In Dorset … 

Belt Up Theatre's Outland

Belt Up Theatre's Outland

Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion. 

Harlem Renaissance - The Life of Florence Mills

Harlem Renaissance - The Life of Florence Mills

Watching Jonelle Allen in Harlem Renaissance, you can’t help thinking you’re in the presence of Broadway Royalty. 

Square Eye Pair

Square Eye Pair

Richard and Max have been best friends since high school, where they bonded over their respective social flaws. 

7 Spies At The Casino

7 Spies At The Casino

David Niven tells the bizarre tale of Charles Feldman’s 1967 film, Casino Royale. 

A Beginner's Guide to German Humour!

A Beginner's Guide to German Humour!

Who knew the Germans could be funny? Yes, the butt of most lack-of-humour gags for several decades have actually been laughing at the English all this time. 

CappellaJuice: Beyond the Wardrobe

CappellaJuice: Beyond the Wardrobe

CapellaJuice describe their show as a ‘clothes-based musical revue’. 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Shakepeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of his most popular works, so it’s not surprising that the majority of hands are up when The Pantaloons ask their au… 

Company

Company

If you ever needed proof that Edinburgh isn’t a level playing field, then Kenmac’s production of Company is surely it. 

Joanna Neary's Little Moments

Joanna Neary's Little Moments

I’ve just spent the most uncomfortable hour of my Festival thus far. 

Liam and Owen - A Cracking One Off Show!

Liam and Owen - A Cracking One Off Show!

Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix. 

Tony! The Blair Musical

Tony! The Blair Musical

It’s impossible to review a musical about Tony Blair without acknowledging that there are two competing productions about his leadership tenure in town. 

Belarus Free Theatre

Belarus Free Theatre

The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela… 

Little Shop Of Horrors

Little Shop Of Horrors

Little Shop of Horrors was first produced as a musical in 1982, based on a low-budget movie of the same name, which was shot in just two days in 1960. 

Marry Me A Little

Marry Me A Little

Marry Me A Little started life in 1980 as collection of songs either cut from other Sondheim musicals, or from shows that were never produced. 

Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision

Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision

There’s something of an impressive atmosphere even as you queue for Eurobeat. 

Just So

Just So

The Just So Stories, written in 1902, are Kipling’s accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. 

The Gently Progressive Behemoth

The Gently Progressive Behemoth

I have the distinct feeling that Fringe audiences are going to approach The Gently Progressive Behemoth a bit like Marmite. 

How To Pimp Your Kids and Shop For Free at Waitrose

How To Pimp Your Kids and Shop For Free at Waitrose

Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order. 

A British Guide to World Peace

A British Guide to World Peace

A British Guide to World Peace is Toby Mitchell’s third in a trilogy of ‘British Guide’ shows that started with ‘French Pop’ in 2005 and then ‘World Religion’ last year. 

Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana

Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana

Fringe theatre is often about taking risks, so you have to applaud Croft Vaughn for the bravery of his one-man show in which he plays a nine-year-old boy up in his attic with an ov… 

Les Miserables

Les Miserables

I will freely admit that I had a certain amount of anxiety when approaching Minnetonka’s production of Les Misérables. 

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue

There’s a predictable brilliance about Out Of The Blue which explains why this troupe from Oxford are selling out only two days into their month-long run at C Venues this year. 

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeny Todd is arguably one of the finest works in musical theatre. 

Belt Up Theatre's The Boy James

Belt Up Theatre's The Boy James

Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is … 

Falsettoland

Falsettoland

The history of Falsettoland goes back to 1979, when the show ‘In Trousers’ opened at the off-Broadway hub of Fringe theatre, Playwrights Horizons. 

Jihad: The Musical

Jihad: The Musical

There’s something of a dichotomy going on in Jihad The Musical, and I’m not sure whether I should be deeply offended, or laughing my socks off. 

Shakespeare for Breakfast

Shakespeare for Breakfast

If ever there was a perfectly matched pair, like a pie and a pint, a horse and cart or Edinburgh and rent-scalping, then surely Shakespeare is now inexorably linked with Breakfast. 

Pam Ann - One World Alliance

Pam Ann - One World Alliance

Please ensure your seat is in the upright position and that your tray tables are securely stowed. 

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

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. 

Richard O'Brien's Mephistopheles Smith

Richard O'Brien's Mephistopheles Smith

Having seen the Janus Theatre Company productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens, perhaps my expectations were simply too high for Mephistopheles … 

Be a Star in a Juggling Show!

Be a Star in a Juggling Show!

If you’re attending the Festival with some young ‘uns in tow, then I can enthusiastically recommend you drop in on Be a Star in a Juggling Show at Zoo Venues. 

State of Matter

State of Matter

The boys of 2FaCeD last attended the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005 with an explosive breakdancing show, appropriately called Acetylene. 

Faith Brown and Her Boys in the Buff

Faith Brown and Her Boys in the Buff

In a story that’s somewhere between Mrs Henderson Presents and The Full Monty, Boys In The Buff tells the story of Diane Diamante (Faith Brown), the owner of a failing seaside thea… 

Debbie Does Dallas – the Musical

Debbie Does Dallas – the Musical

Based on the famous 1970’s porn flick of the same name (but with less sex and more satire), small-town girl Debbie Benton dreams of making it as a cheerleader (and marine biologist… 

Myriad

Myriad

Making its second visit to the Fringe, Collisions Dance and its founder, Laban-trained David Beer, is back complimenting the impressive Dance & Physical Theatre line up at Zoo, thi… 

Prodigal Daughter

Prodigal Daughter

Writer and director Asa Gim Palomera creates fascinating theatre in her play, The Prodigal Daughter, which runs at C until the end of the Festival on Monday. 

Xenu is Loose! Cower puny Humans as the Dark Prince of the Galactic Federation rains Atomic Death once more upon your Pitiful Planet - The Musical!

Xenu is Loose! Cower puny Humans as the Dark Prince of the Galactic Federation rains Atomic Death once more upon your Pitiful Planet - The Musical!

I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute… 

My Queer Valentine

My Queer Valentine

An understudy of a remote touring version of Miss Saigon, Ric Lau is taking an enormous gamble with debut one-man show in Edinburgh. 

Failed States

Failed States

The opening few bars of Failed States brilliantly foreshadows the musical to follow. 

Scottish Dance Theatre - Luxuria

Scottish Dance Theatre - Luxuria

Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance. 

The Terrible Infants

The Terrible Infants

The Terrible Infants is billed as a children’s show, and I’m a gnarly old hack, just the wrong side of 40. 

Scottish Dance Theatre - A Visitation

Scottish Dance Theatre - A Visitation

A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light. 

Tony Blair the Musical

Tony Blair the Musical

Io Theatre’s take on the Tony Blair years is a satirical view of his leadership, set to a bitingly funny score. 

Chris Cox - Everything Happens for a Reason

Chris Cox - Everything Happens for a Reason

Paying a second visit to the Fringe, Chris Cox is a contemporary mind reader who strips away all of the sinister nonsense that is often associated with the Derren Brown school of … 

Hey Diddle Diddle

Hey Diddle Diddle

The National Student Theatre Company (NSTC) are regular visitors to the Fringe, bringing productions that draw on talent from drama schools across the country and combining with ov… 

Pete Johansson - Pete's On Earth

Pete Johansson - Pete's On Earth

Pete Johansson warns us that his show will be uncomfortable for anyone who is religious, or has a baby. 

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

I can hardly think of any occasion where I have laughed so hard while watching Shakespeare. 

Tina C - Sometimes I Frighten Myself

Tina C - Sometimes I Frighten Myself

Tina C, who shot to notoriety as host of Sky One’s Yanky Panky show (basically the US-facing equivalent of Euro Trash), returns to Edinburgh once again to give us all a glimpse int… 

Victims of Freedom

Victims of Freedom

Set in an imagined European city of the future, a nuclear family’s idyllic existence is shattered when Dad’s past returns to haunt him. 

Think Pink

Think Pink

There was a moment during In The Pink’s performance of Think Pink tonight when everyone in the audience collectively knew they were watching a new pop idol. 

The IT Boy

The IT Boy

Sprinkling a little Cinderella magic into the plot, Castoffs Youth Theatre have chosen a worthy subject for their musical The “IT” Boy, which tells the tale of Chris, a sixteen y… 

Etch A Sketch

Etch A Sketch

The Oxford Revue is a sketch comedy show which has existed almost as long as the Fringe itself. 

Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Let’s make this clear from the start, that this is not the sugary-coated vision of Alice popularised by Disney’s 1951 classic, but the darker, more nightmarish view closer to Lewis… 

Ida Barr - Get Old Or Die Tryin'

Ida Barr - Get Old Or Die Tryin'

As she shuffles onto the stage assisted by a Las Vegas showgirl, Ida Barr hardly looks like Grandma-rapper billed in the programme; but Ida is the lesser-known creation of Christop… 

The Little British Empire

The Little British Empire

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen - for you delectation, curiosity and amusement, please welcome to the stage The Repertorie Room. 

Murder Mystery Musical

Murder Mystery Musical

Set on the private island of recently deceased music mogul Morgan Tremain, where all the people he had a grudge with in his life have been assembled for the reading of his will, Mu… 

Ernest And The Pale Moon

Ernest And The Pale Moon

Author Oliver Lansley garnered considerable and well deserved praise for his Fringe hit, The Terrible Infants, which popped up at the Pleasance in 2007 and enjoyed a runaway succes… 

Have A Nice Life

Have A Nice Life

Take six social misfits with relationship worries, throw them into group therapy, and then you have the basis for Conor Mitchell’s brilliant musical Have A Nice Life. 

Slap!

Slap!

Slap, in gay palare, is make-up; and that’s the central theme to this comedy romp set in the make-up trailer of an 80s music video shoot. 

Livewire Theatre's Salem

Livewire Theatre's Salem

Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play. 

Oliver Maltman's Little Black Book

Oliver Maltman's Little Black Book

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… 

Sammy J In The Forest Of Dreams

Sammy J In The Forest Of Dreams

It’s what would happen if the cast of Avenue Q had decided to have a knife-fight in the Disney world of Enchanted. 

The Oxford Gargoyles - Jazz A Cappella

The Oxford Gargoyles - Jazz A Cappella

The Oxford Gargoyles are making their debut appearance at the Fringe this year, in their show which, as the title suggests, brings Jazz and a-cappella together. 

Putting It Together

Putting It Together

Few composers have received the critical acclaim of Stephen Sondheim. 

Assassins

Assassins

Assassins is arguably one of Sondheim’s finest musicals. 

Confessions of a Paralysed Porn Star

Confessions of a Paralysed Porn Star

Sarah-Louise Young’s show, Confessions of a Paralysed Porn Star, was conceived the day she Googled herself and discovered she shared her name with an “adult” actress. 

4 Poofs and a Piano - Strictly Neurotic

4 Poofs and a Piano - Strictly Neurotic

Their regular slot on the Johnathan Ross show goes a long way to explaining the largely heterosexual audience in tonight. 

Greedy

Greedy

There’s some material in Greedy which really is on the furthest reaches of comedy. 

Edward Aczel: Do I Really Have To Communicate With You?

Edward Aczel: Do I Really Have To Communicate With You?

Disembodied voices are not what you need to hear in a venue that’s already as spooky as the Old Town’s Underbelly, but that what you get at the start of Ed Aczel’s comedy set as he… 

Newsrevue 2006

Newsrevue 2006

Anyone who’s been even close to Edinburgh in August will have heard of Newsrevue. 

The Unexpected Items Are On It, In the Zone, Off the Hook and Down With the Kids

The Unexpected Items Are On It, In the Zone, Off the Hook and Down With the Kids

The Unexpected Items come with great credentials: they are the team responsible for the famous ‘Gap Yah’ videos on YouTube and have a poster covered in recent reviews decrying … 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is a collection of songs and poetic verse reflecting the lives of people remembered on the AIDS memorial quilt. 

6.0: How Heap And Pebble Took On The World And Won

6.0: How Heap And Pebble Took On The World And Won

Dancing Brick are a company that have done well at the Fringe over the years. 

Know It All

Know It All

Coming under a banner of ‘edutainment’ (please remember to shoot whoever came up with that), John and Dan are a pair of real, genuine scientists from London’s Science Museum, who a… 

Caviar & Chips

Caviar & Chips

Reading the press release for Caviar & Chips, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was some deep polemic drama. 

Topping & Butch: Filth!

Topping & Butch: Filth!

Every year this pair just get better, and their material gets ruder. 

Sheeps: A Sketch Show

Sheeps: A Sketch Show

Any sketch show that opens with the entire plot of Oliver Twist, in song, in three minutes is going to be good. 

Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf

Moths Ate My Dr Who Scarf

According to Toby Hadoke, hetrosexual Dr Who fans are about as common as a shop selling ginger hair dye. 

Absolutely Agitated Acupuncturist Returns to Find It - Free

Absolutely Agitated Acupuncturist Returns to Find It - Free

The Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It is utterly bizarre. 

Pete Firman: Jiggery Pokery

Pete Firman: Jiggery Pokery

In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out. 

Lunch with The Hamiltons

Lunch with The Hamiltons

Call it morbid curiosity, but I was keen to see quite what Neil & Christine Hamilton were going to do at the Fringe. 

A British Guide To World Religions

A British Guide To World Religions

Religious belief is a funny thing - so much so that duo Toby Mitchell and Sarah Thomas Lane have devised an hour long comedy show to describe it. 

A Sentimental Journey - The Story of Doris Day

A Sentimental Journey - The Story of Doris Day

It’s sentimental, it’s a journey, it’s the story of Doris Day’s life. 

Out Of The Blue

Out Of The Blue

For this reviewer, Out Of The Blue is one of the shows in my schedule that I look forward to with some confidence that it’s going to be good. 

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows. 

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor wood cutter and his wife, and times are so hard that mother decides it’s time to significantly reduce the number of mouths to feed in t… 

Tommy

Tommy

Tommy was the first musical to be specifically billed as a ‘Rock Opera’, and to this day remains one of the most defining examples of the genre. 

Jack Whitehall - Nearly Rebellious

Jack Whitehall - Nearly Rebellious

Last week, after a particularly late night out getting my major organs in training for the month that is simply referred to as ‘Edinburgh’, I had my first Festival encounter of J… 

Breakfast Bedlam, Live!

Breakfast Bedlam, Live!

The premise for Breakfast Bedlam, Live! is a rich comedy vein. 

Charlie Pickering: Auto

Charlie Pickering: Auto

Above all else, Charlie Pickering is an engaging storyteller - even if that contradicts the premise of his Edinburgh show, in which he struggles to write his autobiography. 

Brick Walls

Brick Walls

Despite the University-production origins of Thomas Eccelshare & Dan Mansell’s new play, Brick Walls, there is absolutely nothing amateur about their show currently playing at the … 

Bloodbath - The Musical

Bloodbath - The Musical

I had high expectations of Bloodbath The Musical - everything from their high-profile casting to glossy programme gives the impression they’ve spent some money on this show, and th… 

The Future

The Future

Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas are breaking new comedy turf over at The Underbelly, with their satirical view of the future, called simply The Future. 

Pete Firman - Hoodwinker

Pete Firman - Hoodwinker

Pete Firman returns from a stint on BBC 1’s The Magicians with a performance that has everything you need and expect from a magic show. 

The End of the Golden Weather

The End of the Golden Weather

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. 

The Trap’s Bad Play: Second Coming

The Trap’s Bad Play: Second Coming

If there’s one theatre company that can claim to have built an episodic comedy-of-errors at the Fringe, then it’s The Trap. 

On The Twentieth Century

On The Twentieth Century

Though on the wrong side of forty, even I was a little young to catch the original London production of On The Twentieth Century back in 1980 - it’s one of those shows I know wel… 

Grandmotherf***er

Grandmotherf***er

From the moment Pat Candaras takes to the stage in her show at The Underbelly, you just know you’re going to like her. 

Iolanthe

Iolanthe

Iolanthe marks the halfway point, and quite a highlight, of Gilbert and Sullivan’s enormously successful 25-year collaboration. 

Potted Potter – The Unofficial Harry Experience

Potted Potter – The Unofficial Harry Experience

Dan & Jeff, the comic storytelling duo from Blue Peter, attempt to summarise all six Harry Potter novels in just sixty minutes. 

Mr Millennium: Issue No.1

Mr Millennium: Issue No.1

Featuring what could potentially be the most well-produced programme in the history of the Fringe, David Kingsmill’s one-man show uses song and comic (in both senses) anecdotes t… 

Be A Star In A Juggling Show

Be A Star In A Juggling Show

If there were a prize for shows that do exactly what they say on the tin, this one clearly would be walk off with a rosette. 

Chris Cox - He Can't Read Minds?

Chris Cox - He Can't Read Minds?

It’s obviously easy to draw comparisons between Derren Brown when talking about Chris Cox. 

Katzenjammer

Katzenjammer

Although their act is only around three years old, Katzenjammer have literally been around the world - and it’s easy to see why they are in such demand. 

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - On The Telly

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre - On The Telly

How can a full house of adults be entertained for an hour by a couple of grey socks in a tartan Punch & Judy tent? Ask Kev Sutherland, the writer and performer, who returns for fo… 

Mikey the Pikey

Mikey the Pikey

Chavs are a fashionable target at this year’s Fringe. 

School Ties

School Ties

Jonathan and Julian Kaufmann both have a great deal of direct experience in teaching. 

Starting Here, Starting Now

Starting Here, Starting Now

David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr are one of the most respected lyricist/composer teams on Broadway. 

The Cider House Rules

The Cider House Rules

John Irving is a unique modern storyteller who creates rich plots inhabited with vivid characters, much in the same style as Dickens. 

Thrillseeking

Thrillseeking

Tom Powell explores some interesting ideas in his new play, Thrillseeking, which is currently at C Central until the end of the month. 

Apocalypse - The Musical

Apocalypse - The Musical

Ok, let’s get this out of the way at the start. 

Bouncers

Bouncers

A night out with the lads - or the lasses - is something that most of us have experienced in our teenage years, and that’s the subject matter for John Godber’s sharply observed com… 

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project

The Laramie Project is a play documenting the tragic death of Matthew Sheppard, who was kidnapped and savagely beaten before being left to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of a… 

The Jay Aston Party

The Jay Aston Party

Last night’s Jay Aston Party over at C Bar at Adam House attracted an eclectic collection of drag queens and club kids. 

Astrakhan Winter

Astrakhan Winter

Astrakhan Winter falls firmly into the category of challenging theatre. 

Bruised Blueberries

Bruised Blueberries

Rosalind Adler’s monologue, Bruised Blueberries, tackles subjects as gritty as adultery, suicide and paedophilia, from the point of view of five diverse women in a local village co… 

Berlin Cabaret

Berlin Cabaret

Hitler. 

Scott Mills: The Bjorn Identity

Scott Mills: The Bjorn Identity

Emerging from the ‘fear cupboard’ for the climax of Radio 1’s one-man shows, Scott Mills chose to re-tell the Bourne Identity with an Abba twist in front of a packed-house last … 

Night of a Thousand Jay Astons

Night of a Thousand Jay Astons

Editors note: Realising that I did this production a great injustice by only awarding 3 stars the first time around, (Maybe the show I saw before was just too dire), I’ve re-visite… 

The Altruists

The Altruists

Once described as the bad-boy playwright of Off-Broadway, Nicky Silver is known for his black comedies. 

Beccy Huxtable: Live and Loose

Beccy Huxtable: Live and Loose

Scott Mills’ assistant producer Beccy Huxtable took to the stage last night in the penultimate performance in a series of four one-man shows Radio 1 have brought to Edinburgh this… 

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens

Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens is a glam-rock musical that returns to its spiritual home in Edinburgh. 

We're Not In Brixton Anymore

We're Not In Brixton Anymore

Three guys sit in God’s waiting room, coming to terms with the fact they’ve slipped off this mortal coil and try to figure out who they need to apologise too in order the gain acce… 

Nick Grimshaw: Team Hate

Nick Grimshaw: Team Hate

For a man who claims never to have done this before, DJ Nick Grimshaw appears very comfortable in the skin of a stand-up comedian. 

Acetylene

Acetylene

A breakdancing act may seem out of place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but to describe Acetylene as such belittles their talent. 

The One That Doesn’t Speak: Silent But Deadly

The One That Doesn’t Speak: Silent But Deadly

Kicking off BBC Radio 1’s series of four one-off, one-man shows by Scott Mills, Nick Grimshaw and the team at this year’s festival, The One Who Doesn’t Speak presented an eclect… 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The name Hedwig originates from old German, hadu = battle; wig = fight. 

DugOut Theatre's Inheritance Blues

DugOut Theatre's Inheritance Blues

DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award. 

Side by Side by Sondheim

Side by Side by Sondheim

Side By Side By Sondheim was originally conceived back in 1976 as a fund-raiser for a regional theatre owned by Cleo Lane and Johnny Dankworth. 

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

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… 

Hitting Town

Hitting Town

Three talented actors present a passionate performance of Stephen Poliakoff’s seminal play Hitting Town; the show that formed the basis for the film Close My Eyes. 

Goblin Market

Goblin Market

Youth Music Theatre UK are setting new standards in musical theatre at the Fringe with their gloriously rich production of Goblin Market at George Square. 

Sploshy: A Sketch Show

Sploshy: A Sketch Show

The humour of sketch troupe Sploshy can most realistically be described as lazy. 

Cracks In The Garden

Cracks In The Garden

Jo Randerson and Gentiane Lupi are two very brave comedians who find material in places most would be afraid to look. 

Angry Young Man

Angry Young Man

I firmly believe Ben Woolf is one of the most originally talented writers in the world. 

Firenado! The Sketch Show

Firenado! The Sketch Show

It’s what a performer does in adversity which really shows their true colours. 

BattleActs! Presents...

BattleActs! Presents...

Before the acts even take to the stage the atmosphere anticipating Battle Acts! Present is electric. 

Beautiful Thing

Beautiful Thing

Jonathan Harvey is more widely known for scripting the BBC comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme, but before Tom and Linda were a glint in his eye he wrote the play Beautiful Thing. 

Macbeth - The Hour

Macbeth - The Hour

Director Sam Yates has changed my expectations of a Fringe show. 

Seb Lime

Seb Lime

Chris Chapman’s take on the classic Faust tale is surrealistically comic. 

The Bite-Size'd 'Breakfast In Bedlam'

The Bite-Size'd 'Breakfast In Bedlam'

Making their third visit to the Fringe, the Bite-Sized team are starting to create something of a niche for themselves at both the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals. 

Out Of The Blue

Out Of The Blue

Making a second visit to the Fringe, Out Of The Blue are the Oxford-based all male a cappella group somewhere between Eminem and Gregorian Chant. 

Snoopy

Snoopy

Cartoonist Charles Shulz created an icon that lasted over 50 years, when he first drew the irrepressible Snoopy for United Feature Syndicate in 1950. 

Pete Firman - Jiggery Pokery

Pete Firman - Jiggery Pokery

Pete Firman employs a mix of top-class magic fused with comedy gags. 

Final Score by Lisa Fulthorpe

Final Score by Lisa Fulthorpe

This year’s Camden Fringe Festival is a first for me. 

Sh!t Theatre Present: Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous)

Sh!t Theatre Present: Sh!t Theatre's JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous)

While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary. 

Rent: School Edition

Rent: School Edition

Oh lordy. 

The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera

Much has been written about Brechts Threepenny Opera - after all, it was written in 1928 and plenty of critics have had a chance to dissect what has been become one of the earliest… 

Journey to Karawane

Journey to Karawane

Moments of surreal humour and philosophical insight make this an enjoyable performance, but its slap-dash production and lack of cohesion give it only superficial charm. 

Edward Reid: Living the Dream One Song at a Time

Edward Reid: Living the Dream One Song at a Time

Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble… 

Rent

Rent

Rent is most notable for the death of its author, Jonathan Larson, the night before the off-Broadway premiere, but owes its longevity to its mould-breaking style; described once as… 

Newsrevue

Newsrevue

If ever there was a comedy institution, Newsrevue is it. 

Putting It Together

Putting It Together

Sondheim at the Fringe is a double edged sword. 

Belt Up Theatre's A Little Princess

Belt Up Theatre's A Little Princess

‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like. 

Korean Drum - Journey of a Soul

Korean Drum - Journey of a Soul

This award-winning troupe of multi-talented dancers and musicians from South Korea present a colourful fusion of both modern and traditional drumming and dance. 

Theatre Tasters - Free

Theatre Tasters - Free

The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length. 

Hou Hou Shahou's Chorus Of Descent

Hou Hou Shahou's Chorus Of Descent

There is an infectious energy about Hou Hou that you just can’t ignore. 

Love Story

Love Story

Up there with The Deer Hunter and The Champ, Love Story came from a decade of schmaltzy tearjerkers that kept tissue manufacturers in healthy profits. 

A Little Light Theatre

A Little Light Theatre

Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li… 

Instant Theatre

Instant Theatre

Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task. 

Camille O'Sullivan: Feel

Camille O'Sullivan: Feel

Irish chanteuse Camille O’Sullivan returns to her spiritual roots, singing in a traditional circus Spiegeltent. 

Pete Johansson - Utopian Crack Pipe

Pete Johansson - Utopian Crack Pipe

Johansson is master of the classic ‘making the audience think I’m just going off on a spontaneous tangent before the show proper starts but actually this is just my show’ man… 

The Joy of Sketch

The Joy of Sketch

The Joy of Sketch is a mixed evening of comedy ranging from average to hilarious. 

Ragamala Dance Presents Yathra (Journey)

Ragamala Dance Presents Yathra (Journey)

The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance. 

Baby

Baby

Baby is Malty & Shire’s 1983 musical set on a college campus following nine months of three different couples attempting to have a child. 

Off the Cuff Presents: The Village

Off the Cuff Presents: The Village

In a tiny venue, with an even smaller audience Off the Cuff was faced with a difficult challenge for their late night improvised comedy act. 

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

Vote excitedly alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2018’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and the shiny moose trophy. 

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Amused Moose Comedy Award: Grand Final

Grab the hottest Fringe tickets to discover tomorrow’s comedy stars, showcasing their Fringe comedy shows in this prestigious final. 

Jonny Pelham: Off Limits

Jonny Pelham: Off Limits

Jonny has something to say that’s usually off-limits for dating, family gatherings, hanging out with mates and most social situations really… So what better place to talk about… 

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)

Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak… 

Butterfly: The Journey Continues

Butterfly: The Journey Continues

In need of a rollicking good time, honest moments and, belly laughs? If the answer is yes, then Susan Lily has the medicine you require. 

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Queerdog Theatre Talk About JUMP

Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about... 

Edward​ Oulton: Young, Northern and Hopeful with £45,000

Edward​ Oulton: Young, Northern and Hopeful with £45,000

Richard Beck met up with Edward​ Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre. 

The British Theatre Challenge 2024

The British Theatre Challenge 2024

Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers. 

Win the rights to present the full-length version of Disney’s FROZEN the Musical

Win the rights to present the full-length version of Disney’s FROZEN the Musical

Music Theatre International (MTI) has announced a fantastic competition for secondary schools and sixth form colleges throughout the UK. 

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 

Cast and Director on Vincent River at Greenwich Theatre

Cast and Director on Vincent River at Greenwich Theatre

James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo... 

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

theSpaceUK Unveils Spectacular 2023 Programme: Over 360 Exciting Shows Await Theatre Enthusiasts at the Edinburgh Fringe 

Celebrating its 50th year, the Durham Revue are headliners at the 2023 Durham Fringe Festival

Celebrating its 50th year, the Durham Revue are headliners at the 2023 Durham Fringe Festival

With alumni including Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Jeremy Vine, the Durham Revue are celebrating their 50th year with sketch show comedy Death on the Mile at this year’s Durham Frin... 

Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2023

Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year 2023

In its 15th anniversary, the Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year (SSSSPOTY) returns to the Sondheim Theatre where 12 finalists and 2 reserves from drama schools ... 

Technology in the Theatre: How #TOMtech is bringing it to light

Technology in the Theatre: How #TOMtech is bringing it to light

Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology. 

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe 2019 Final Weekend

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe 2019 Final Weekend

There’s been disco-dancing to Madonna in an old church, vegan based stand up in a room above a pub, incredible acrobatics, hilarious cabaret songs about near-death experiences an... 

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

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. 

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

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. 

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

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.  

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Final Weekend

Something For The Weekend: Brighton Fringe Final Weekend

Just like that, we approach the final weekend of Brighton Fringe. 

GDPR Statement

GDPR Statement

You have probably seen an awful lot about GDPR coming from all angles recently and although I’ve no desire to add more white noise to the conversation, in the spirit of compl... 

How To Write A Press Release

How To Write A Press Release

Writing a press release that a journalist will use is a skill even experienced PRs can get wrong. 

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

How To Sell Your Show At The Edinburgh Fringe

Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at a fringe festival such as Edinburgh with tips on budgets, creating a press release, socia... 

How To Get Broadway Baby To Review Your Show

How To Get Broadway Baby To Review Your Show

Some years ago I wrote an article about the best strategies for getting Broadway Baby to review your show. 

An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre

An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home. 

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers. 

Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret at The Barbican Theatre

Barry Humphries' Weimar Cabaret at The Barbican Theatre

Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei... 

‘Edinburgh is kind of like tapas’ – New Diorama Theatre’s David Byrne

‘Edinburgh is kind of like tapas’ – New Diorama Theatre’s David Byrne

Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name... 

100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace on Sensitive Issues in Theatre

100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace on Sensitive Issues in Theatre

Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace. 

Pete Shaw: Is PR Worth the Money?

Pete Shaw: Is PR Worth the Money?

Earlier this month I saw an amusing post on Twitter from Garrett Millerick who decided not to drop £2K on an EdFringe PR and instead buy a top-of-the-range flatscreen TV instead. 

Leyla Josephine’s Collision of Theatre and Spoken-word Poetry

Leyla Josephine’s Collision of Theatre and Spoken-word Poetry

Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow. 

#EdFringe17 Theatre Q&A: Corinne Maier from Like A Prayer

#EdFringe17 Theatre Q&A: Corinne Maier from Like A Prayer

Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A. 

Ten ways to screw up your show in Edinburgh

Ten ways to screw up your show in Edinburgh

Over 3,000 separate productions will squeeze themselves into Edinburgh this August and the slightly depressing reality is that most will not achieve their objectives for the fest... 

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

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... 

Gilded Balloon launches New Town festival hub at Rose Theatre

Gilded Balloon launches New Town festival hub at Rose Theatre

Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros... 

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

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. 

Edward Fox returns to the West End in Sand In The Sandwiches

Edward Fox returns to the West End in Sand In The Sandwiches

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... 

The Ferryman to transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in June

The Ferryman to transfer to the Gielgud Theatre in June

After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End. 

Winter Theatre Seat Sale - Amazing deals & offers this Christmas

Winter Theatre Seat Sale - Amazing deals & offers this Christmas

Our Winter Sale promotion is now live and we have a number of amazing deals & offers. 

Last chance to see The Dresser from just a tenner at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Last chance to see The Dresser from just a tenner at the Duke of York’s Theatre

Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr... 

A New Play, A New Studio Theatre, And A Bright Future For Greenwich

A New Play, A New Studio Theatre, And A Bright Future For Greenwich

This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre. 

Fossils’ Nel Crouch: “Theatre is alive and well at the Fringe!”

Fossils’ Nel Crouch: “Theatre is alive and well at the Fringe!”

Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do... 

Andrew Roberts & Josh Mathieson are Dealing with Death in Children's Theatre

Andrew Roberts & Josh Mathieson are Dealing with Death in Children's Theatre

The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief. 

The Nuclear Family Team on Creating Interactive Theatre Formats

The Nuclear Family Team on Creating Interactive Theatre Formats

Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl... 

Poet Pete De-Graft Johnson on Balancing Art and Business

Poet Pete De-Graft Johnson on Balancing Art and Business

Pete De-Graft Johnson, also known as The Repeat Beat Poet, is a poet and organiser of The PAD, a studio and events space in London. 

​Paines Plough’s James Grieve & Remy Beasley on the Magic of Theatre for Teens

​Paines Plough’s James Grieve & Remy Beasley on the Magic of Theatre for Teens

I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips. 

Paines Plough’s George Perrin on Directing Interactive Theatre

Paines Plough’s George Perrin on Directing Interactive Theatre

If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta... 

James Wilson-Taylor's First Show About Himself: Ginger is the New Black

James Wilson-Taylor's First Show About Himself: Ginger is the New Black

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... 

Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Nir Paldi on The Bucket List

Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Nir Paldi on The Bucket List

Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe. 

Breach Theatre on Teaching Dolphins how to Speak - Tank at Pleasance

Breach Theatre on Teaching Dolphins how to Speak - Tank at Pleasance


In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak. 

Georgian Director Keti Dolidze calls for more International Theatre at the Fringe

Georgian Director Keti Dolidze calls for more International Theatre at the Fringe

The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre... 

'Be less afraid to completely take over a stage' - Catherine Wilson

'Be less afraid to completely take over a stage' - Catherine Wilson

Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds. 

Interview: Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Interview: Off the Cuff: Crime and Funishment

Brighton’s improvised comedy favourites present an impromptu detective drama, replete with colourful characters and lurid plots. 

​Brighton Insider - Dance and Physical Theatre

​Brighton Insider - Dance and Physical Theatre

Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category. 

Road to the Fringe - The Marlborough Theatre

Road to the Fringe - The Marlborough Theatre

A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city. 

Brighton Insider: The Rialto Theatre

Brighton Insider: The Rialto Theatre

It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent. 

Final casting announced as Titanic sails back into London

Final casting announced as Titanic sails back into London

Final casting is announced today for the return of the multi award-winning production of the Broadway musical Titanic, first seen at Southwark Playhouse, which is coming back to Lo... 

Brighton Fringe To Start Off With A Bang

Brighton Fringe To Start Off With A Bang

To celebrate the opening of its biggest ever festival, Brighton Fringe has joined forces with The Warren to kick things off with a bang by laying on its first ever fireworks displa... 

Lach named Associate Producer with UA and New Town Theatre for EdFringe 2016

Lach named Associate Producer with UA and New Town Theatre for EdFringe 2016

Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th... 

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Unmissable shows at Brighton Fringe this year

Brighton Fringe has officially launched. 

Thom Southerland appointed Artistic Director of Charing Cross Theatre

Thom Southerland appointed Artistic Director of Charing Cross Theatre

Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre. 

No joke. The Counting House goes Gilded Balloon [Updated]

No joke. The Counting House goes Gilded Balloon [Updated]

One of the Free Festival’s flagship Edinburgh venues, The Counting House, will be operated by The Gilded Balloon at this year’s Fringe it was revealed today. 

Final Casting Announced for NotMoses

Final Casting Announced for NotMoses

As rehearsal begin, Monday 15 February 2016, for NotMoses, Gary Sinyor’s first play which he also directs, the final casting and full creative team are announced. 

London Theatre Workshop relocates to Central London site

London Theatre Workshop relocates to Central London site

London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo... 

Greenwich's New Season To Celebrate Female Theatre Makers

Greenwich's New Season To Celebrate Female Theatre Makers

Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e... 

Brighton Fringe Crowdfund Opening Night Parade

Brighton Fringe Crowdfund Opening Night Parade

Brighton Fringe is asking people in Sussex to give the gift of joy this Christmas by helping the Fringe put on its first ever opening night parade.  

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Five Christmas Shows You Shouldn’t Miss In London This Year

Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre. 

The Fringe through the lens of my iPhone camera

The Fringe through the lens of my iPhone camera

Broadway Baby publisher Pete Shaw wraps up his Edinburgh experience via his iPhone photo stream. 

Clout Theatre, Superbolt Theatre and Tooth+Nail: The Lecoq Theatre Panel

Clout Theatre, Superbolt Theatre and Tooth+Nail: The Lecoq Theatre Panel

L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools. 

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

How to Market a Fringe Show - Broadway Baby Breakfast with Pete Shaw

Special guest Pete Shaw, Publisher of Broadway Baby, joins James T Harding and Grace Knight for ice cream and the second episode of Broadway Baby Breakfast. 

​Mad Scientist Academy: Interactive Children’s Theatre at Boxsmall Festival

​Mad Scientist Academy: Interactive Children’s Theatre at Boxsmall Festival

Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ... 

The Fringe Incubator: Why Greenwich Theatre Supports EdFest.

The Fringe Incubator: Why Greenwich Theatre Supports EdFest.

Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from... 

Going To Space: The Final Act

Going To Space: The Final Act

The Final Act tells the musical tale of one last chance, promising catchy songs and laughs aplenty. Broadway Baby has a chat. 

Going To Space: Tension Square

Going To Space: Tension Square

Broadway Baby talks to Tension Square. 

Into The Woods makes the big screen

Into The Woods makes the big screen

Broadway Baby doesn't often discuss movies, but when the film in question is one of the most hotly anticipated stage musical adaptations of all time (and when the good folk at Disn... 

Casting Announced for prèmiere of Gods and Monsters

Casting Announced for prèmiere of Gods and Monsters

Ian Gelder - Kevan Lannister in the epic TV drama series Game of Thrones - is to play Frankenstein director James Whale and Will Austin is gardener Clayton Boone, who becomes the o... 

Broadway Baby adopts the principles of the Theatre Charter

Broadway Baby adopts the principles of the Theatre Charter

The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres. 

Thrill Me at C venues receives first Bobby Award of 2014

Thrill Me at C venues receives first Bobby Award of 2014

The musical based on the 1924 'thrill killers' Leopold and Loeb, Thrill Me, has been named as the first Broadway Baby 'Bobby Award' winner for 2014. 

The 17 Zaniest Names for Theatre Production Companies at #EdFringe 2014

The 17 Zaniest Names for Theatre Production Companies at #EdFringe 2014

Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one. 

The Martin Walker Three Minute Interview

The Martin Walker Three Minute Interview

Martin Walker became Broadway Baby’s Stand-Up Comedy editor in March 2014. 

The Heather Bagnall Three Minute Interview

The Heather Bagnall Three Minute Interview

Co-founder of Tasty Monster Productions, Heather Bagnall, made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year with SINGLEMARRIEDGIRL. 

The Story Pocket Theatre Three Minute Interview

The Story Pocket Theatre Three Minute Interview

Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions. 

The Divallusion Three Minute Interview

The Divallusion Three Minute Interview

Broadway headliner Christina Bianco and West End showgirl Velma Celli (alter ego Ian Stroughair) are planning to cram in a lot of diva into their Edinburgh collaboration at Assembl... 

The Apphia Campbell Three Minute Interview

The Apphia Campbell Three Minute Interview

Following sold out performances in Shanghai and New York, Apphia Campbell brings her Nina Simone inspired show to the Gilded Balloon. 

The Mzz Kimberley Three Minute Interview

The Mzz Kimberley Three Minute Interview

Last year, Mzz Kimberley received five-star reviews for her show A Tranny Is Born. 

The Hartshorn - Hook Three Minute Interview

The Hartshorn - Hook Three Minute Interview

Serial producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook have been a regular fixture at the Edinburgh Fringe for nearly a decade, but is this the last time we’ll see them at the Festiv... 

The Mike Belgrave Three Minute Interview

The Mike Belgrave Three Minute Interview

Never work with children, they say, but comedian Mike Belgrave is back in Edinburgh with a show packed with the sort of mayhem kids adore. 

The Cameryn Moore Three Minute Interview

The Cameryn Moore Three Minute Interview

Cameryn Moore's award-winning solo play Phone Whore comes back to the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

The Miss Hope Springs Three Minute Interview

The Miss Hope Springs Three Minute Interview

Towering blonde ex-Vegas showgirl Miss Hope Springs is set to make her Edinburgh debut at the Playhouse this year. 

The EdFringe 'Live' Top Ten Lists

The EdFringe 'Live' Top Ten Lists

It's time once again for the EdFringe Top Ten Lists - but not just any list. 

The Alex Motswiri Three Minute Interview

The Alex Motswiri Three Minute Interview

Alex Motswiri Director of African Tree Productions – producers of last year’s hit show The System, talks to Pete Shaw about their new Musical – Magadi – The Bride’s Pric... 

The Jessica Sherr Three Minute Interview

The Jessica Sherr Three Minute Interview

Jessica Sherr is returning to Edinburgh with her show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies. 

The Ian Garrett Three Minute Interview

The Ian Garrett Three Minute Interview

A regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe from North America, Ian Garrett not only has brought many shows across the pond but also created the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practi... 

The Irene Ros Three Minute Interview

The Irene Ros Three Minute Interview

Irene Ros is writer and director of Marcel Vol 1, a surrealist show that attempts to turn the Berlusconi sex scandal into art. 

The Jeanette Bonner Three Minute Interview

The Jeanette Bonner Three Minute Interview

Jeanette Bonner is an American heading to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with her show Love. 

The FringeDog Three Biscuit Interview

The FringeDog Three Biscuit Interview

The latest reviewer to hit Edinburgh is FringeDog. 

The Green Stag Theatre Company Three Minute Interview

The Green Stag Theatre Company Three Minute Interview

The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a... 

The Elaine Liner Three Minute Interview

The Elaine Liner Three Minute Interview

Texan writer-actor-knitter Elaine Liner had a surprise five-star hit with her show Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe. 

The Valerie Hager Three Minute Interview

The Valerie Hager Three Minute Interview

Valerie Hager is an American ex-crystal meth addict and one-time pole dancer taking a show called Naked In Alaska to the Edinburgh Festival. 

The Charles Pamment Three Minute Interview

The Charles Pamment Three Minute Interview

Although they may not grab the attention lavished upon the 'big four' at the Edinburgh Festival, theSpaceUK is nonetheless now the largest venue at the Fringe and this year celebra... 

Broadway Baby Piano Bar

Broadway Baby Piano Bar

Broadway Baby are thrilled to introduce a new regular date for West End Wendys and Dagenham Divas. 

Broadway Baby claims new Twitter home

Broadway Baby claims new Twitter home

Broadway Baby's Twitter account has moved to the shorter, more appropriate home of @broadwaybaby - if you were already following us, you don't need to re-follow as you'll auto... 

Win a £150 ad package in our Brighton Fringe Twitter Compo

Win a £150 ad package in our Brighton Fringe Twitter Compo

If you're taking a show to Brighton Fringe this year you want some free advertising, don't you? Sure you do. 

London's first Museum of Comedy

London's first Museum of Comedy

There's something funny going on under St George's Church in Bloomsbury. 

Brighton Rocks! The 2014 Fringe Programme is Launched.

Brighton Rocks! The 2014 Fringe Programme is Launched.

England's largest mixed-arts festival, the Brighton Fringe, has launched its online programme. 

How To Attract Reviewers To Your Show

How To Attract Reviewers To Your Show

Broadway Baby publisher, Pete Shaw, reveals how reviewers pick the shows they're going to see, including the specific way Broadway Baby handles its selection. 

The Brighton Fringe Marketing Guide

The Brighton Fringe Marketing Guide

Broadway Baby Publisher, Pete Shaw, offers a comprehensive guide to marketing your show at the Brighton Fringe with tips on budgets, creating a press release, social media and bran... 

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Advertising

Want to promote your show through banner ads but don't know where to start? Read our advertising overview for more information. 

Advertising FAQ

Advertising FAQ

If you've never advertised online before, the jargon alone can be a minefield. Publisher Pete Shaw explains how online ads work and why they work better than traditional print. 

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Brand Guildlines

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Write For Broadway Baby

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