What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Songwriter and author Jez Lowe grew up singing the coal-mining songs of his native County Durham.
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
A woman embarks on an epic quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
‘At that time, I told myself not to cry, and so I didn’t.
Kate Hammer: Double Virgin on the Rocks (With a Twist) is a rambunctious dissection of the different names we call ourselves throughout life.
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…
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
An hour of mind-bending semi-improvised physically inflected comedy from dancer/comedian Lewys Holt.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Led by guitarist Dave Series, three of Scotland’s most creative musicians join forces.
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…
Gimme the thrills, gimme the spills, gimme a man with a microphone in his hand and careless abandon in his heart, gimme the winner of the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show, gimm…
It’s not a late show, it’s a cult.
Hannah Richards returns to Edinburgh with the award-winning Night Owl Band to tell the story of one of music’s most iconic artists.
Alex Kitson is an award-winning comedian with a secret.
1572.
Elsa Jean McTaggart returns with the Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show Hebridean Fire.
How do you look non-binary? Everyday your brain is bombarded by images and opinions about your body.
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…
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Howl with the hounds and dance on the moors! She’s not there – but you are.
You may have seen him on TikTok or as the Taskmaster’s Assistant on Taskmaster Australia, but now’s your chance to catch him live.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
Fresh from the runway of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, comedy crossdresser Kate Butch has written a jukebox musical based on the songs of Kate Bush (kind of like if Mamma Mia! had a nervo…
Kate-Lois Elliott’s family lived in a secretive cult until her mum escaped.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Winner: Emerging Artist Adelaide Fringe 2024.
Ridiculous things always happen to Harriet, but this year it’s out of control.
The incredible true story of missing WWII soldier Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew David William Bryan.
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 …
In August 2024 Pierre Novellie will take the train to Edinburgh to perform a stand-up show about life, fairness and expectations.
Cole Porter’s hit musical starring the multi-award-winning Adrian Dunbar (Ridley, Line of Duty) and Broadway musical superstar and Tony Award-winner Stephanie J.
Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th.
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…
Congratulations on your new role! We look forward to welcoming you and your fellow drones to our friendly corporate megafamily at this induction.
Zoologia is a choreographic research project intended for the creation of different imaginary beings of zoolatrous nature starting from the human body.
An exhibition to celebrate Brighton’s bond with Bhopal, illuminating the appalling, inspiring story of the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 Union Carbide gas tragedy…
After sell out sessions in March and April, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr…
Tides.
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
The magic of Kate Bush is brought to life in this musical journey through the extensive back catalogue of Britain’s most well-loved songstress.
This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality.
Love is a powerful emotion.
After multiple sell-out shows across the UK, Brighton Bred, award-winning comedian Kate-Lois Elliott brings you a WIP of her debut hour.
London stabbings 2017.
Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop.
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
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.
Funny Women award-winner of 2023 Kate Cheka brings her first hour work in progress to Brighton Fringe.
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the …
Kate-Lois Elliott’s family were brought up in a secretive cult until her mum escaped as a teenager any questions? One generation later in a completely unrelated set of events a …
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
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, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Now in its 14th year.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
Disgraced actor Garry Starr defies his critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable, thus saving the performing arts from extinction.
Garry Starr defies critics by performing every style of theatre imaginable.
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…
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh draws upon the words of writers, poets, activists, and his experience as a child refugee from the Vietnam war to create a choreographic work about overc…
A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry …
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
Join the crew in hoisting the true-colours of our past high and blowing the ‘golden age of piracy’ myth out of the water!
Live, feature-length version of the cult interactive game born at the festival two years ago.
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
Julius Caesar Must Die is a little misleading, as initially it appears to be an absurdist original dramatisation of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Nothing is stronger than female friendship, except maybe the pressures of adulting.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
Must Be This Gay To Ride is a one-woman comedy play centring around queerness, relationships, and choosing how we define ourselves.
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominee Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the Fringe) unexpectedly profound.
Through stand-up, stories, bits, jokes, japes and gags (with a minimum of three goofs), Kate will talk about being a weird lady with the heart of a lad and the wide-set V of a maje…
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…
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
Thomas is excited about tonight; so excited that he has called his parents and his brother with the time to look out for biggest meteor storm in 33 years that will fill the night …
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.
Emma Crossland and Sam Wilkinson are calling an AGM to discuss their comedy careers with you, their beloved shareholders.
Emma Crossland and Sam Wilkinson are calling an AGM to discuss their comedy careers with you, their beloved shareholders.
Join LBC legend Iain Dale and his partner in crime, former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one of five unique live versions of their smash-hit political podcast For the Many.
‘I catch a paper boy, but things don’t really change’ (David Bowie).
4 idiot clowns attempt to put on a memorial for their dead friend, Nameless the Clown.
4 idiot clowns attempt to put on a memorial for their dead friend, Nameless the Clown.
It’s not a late show, it’s a cult.
Kate Smurthwaite invites us to contemplate whether being foot soldiers in the death march of disaster capitalism is really as much fun as we hoped.
A song cycle inspired by the photographs of Matthew Murphy, 35MM: A Musical Exhibition is a unique concept and the perfect choice for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The students of Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s MA Musical Theatre programme are a staple at the Fringe, and they never let us down!Edges, a song cycle written by Benj Pasek an…
This is the brand-new album from award-winning comedy songstress Kate Lucas, inspired by #PositiveVibesOnly.
Elsa Jean McTaggart returns with the Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show Hebridean Fire.
Hannah Richards returns to Edinburgh with the award-winning Night Owl band to tell the story of one of music’s most iconic artists.
Dickie Must Die is a dark comedy with heart, set on Halloween night.
Comedian David Callaghan brings a groundbreaking multimedia comedy play packed with heartfelt, bittersweet, and hilarious stories of love and loss.
Somewhere far inland, lakes that once stretched across the desert are now shallow pools of dust.
This is a glorious experience from the opening theme tune, through commercial breaks, down to the 'traditional' preview of the next episode.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
It’s summer.
If you still chuckle at those Twilight memes making fun of Kristen Stewart’s awkward portrayal of Bella Stark, or harbour some nostalgia for the immortal (and problematic) YA ser…
It’s time.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominated comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the fringe) unexpectedly profound.
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominated comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the fringe) unexpectedly profound.
‘I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew.
After surviving six years in Berlin with those crazy Germans, getting through menopause without spontaneously combusting and raising a teenage boy in lockdown with her husband of 2…
There are very few downsides to attending a steampunk musical based on Oscar Wilde’s life, unless you’re a reviewer trying to take discreet notes in the back of the room.
There is wonder here in Edinburgh, and it is being ignored.
Hello Kitty Must Die is a musical adaptation of the Angela S.
Returning after sell-out runs in 2018 and 2019, In Loyal Company is the incredible true story of missing WWII soldier Arthur Robinson, written and performed by his great-nephew Dav…
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
Ever been in that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you fought back? Well, here’s how I did.
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…
Loud eaters.
After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers…
“I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew.
“I shall drag myself through the flames of hell; and from the ashes I shall be born anew.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
In this workshop director/actor, Iman Isaacs, and actor/writer/ researcher/theater-maker, Eva Bartels, will take you on a ride through curiosity and vulnerability and help you to f…
British Writers’ Guild Award-nominee and Brighton-bred comedian Kate-Lois Elliott tells stories that are self-deprecating and (according to a drunk man at the fringe) unexpectedly …
Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop.
'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 …
Bisexual comedian Kate Dale fingers her way through middle life as she navigates the challenges and finds the joy in being a beginner once more, while discovering, after a lifetime…
Bisexual comedian Kate Dale fingers her way through middle life as she navigates the challenges and finds the joy in being a beginner once more, while discovering, after a lifetime…
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Witness all your favourite divas on stage together, in the singular form of internationally acclaimed performer, Christina Bianco.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee.
It’s 1931 and variety is the spice of life.
It’s 1931 and variety is the spice of life.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c…
A magical dance-theatre retelling of Kipling’s classic set against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
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.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
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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…
Play with Chekhov at your peril, children.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
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, …
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
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” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
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…
Níl éinne inchurtha le Kate Bush mar ealaíontóir.
S is dying.
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.
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
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…
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Fern Brady is here to speak for autistic women who happen to be hot – selflessly giving a voice to the voiceless (or just a very specific group that might not have thought to ide…
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…
Five comedians join forces on The Laughter Must Go On for a night of laughter, fun and raising funds.
A woman embarks on a quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
A woman embarks on a quest through time, travelling for hundreds of years through distant lands to discover how she came to be.
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
From the makers of Legs and Logs.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Malachy has just turned 25, and he has a few things to say about that.
Have you ever considered how much easier it would be to stop trying to be a nice person and just be a dick to everyone? You will after watching this show.
Start the day with a riot of cray kid-friendly laughter for the whole family. Zany sketches, acrobatics, cirque skills and mayhem.
Two of the funniest women coming up on the circuit bring you a show tackling all the juicy issues that face fun-time women in their thirties from street harassment to the morning-a…
World premiere of a solo work by ‘the country’s pre-eminent experimental playwright’ (Stage).
Award-winning comedian and activist Kate Smurthwaite takes one last long shot at saving us all from global fascist-led environmental Armageddon.
Broadway, here we come! The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s production of Little Women is astonishingly professional, from the high quality costumes and stage setting to the ph…
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
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 unique opportunity to return to the experimental roots of the Fringe joining emerging actors from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in a real time, live rehearsal of plays and …
It is difficult to work out exactly who this play is for.
High energy, observational stand-up with ‘fast-fire expert jokiness’ (BathEcho.
Using a mixture of animation, visualisation technology, a live camera and a toy train, comedian David Callaghan brings a groundbreaking comedy play packed with heartfelt, bitterswe…
It’s time for us to play.
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
Picture this: a musical based on the women of the Manson Family set to the music of Fleetwood Mac.
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…
Spike has left Sunnydale for Edinburgh to fulfil an ancient prophecy and the ‘stakes’ have never been higher!When you’re part of a fandom like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there…
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…
Improvised Harry Potter parody from Chortle Award-winning Jericho Comedy.
Boy, you’re an alien.
One of the (many) great things about Fringe is that new comics, who don’t yet have an hour’s worth of material, can buddy up to put on a show — Chris Hall and Mark Bittleston…
In her Fringe debut, one of the rising stars of the UK stand-up scene shares a raw, honest and hilarious hour of tales… with just the right amount of filth.
Kate Butch, the Comic Sans of Drag, is back in Edinburgh.
Sometimes you’ve just got to listen to your balls.
A joyful, kaleidoscopic new show for 5 to 12 year-olds about change, why change happens and how to deal with it.
This is not a nice Fringe for comedy.
Are you a love warrior? Turns out, I am!Hallmark movies might be cheesy and predictable, but they’re the kind of films that help people escape their lives, and during the pandemi…
Today I Killed My Very First Bird, a piece of new writing by poet, playwright and performer Jason Brownlee and directed by Lee Hart, is a strange beast.
Two’s Company is Gillian Duffy’s take on rekindled romance and finding new direction in later life, following 55-year-old Maureen as she navigates life after her second divorce…
Filled with the charm of a children’s cartoon, The Song of Fergus and Kate is a quaint story about friendship and embracing differences that any child would find fascinating.
As we all know, COVID was invented to stop people from enjoying live music, but now Two Hearts are here to help us recover from two years of silence.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
On the eve of his birthday, Bobby struggles to find a wish to blow out his candles.
BriTANick is an American sketch comedy duo made up of Brian McElhaney and Nick Koche, and they quickly assure us that their name (a combination of ‘Brian’, ‘Nick’ and ‘Ti…
Don't you forget about Dreamgun! The comedy script re-writers are back for another year at the Fringe with updated material and even a few new movies thrown in.
Howl with the hounds and dance on the moors! Kate’s not there, but you are.
We bring the work of pioneering design studio, Universal Everything, to Inspace to stimulate discussion about how the body is shaped through AI and the city.
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…
In her Fringe debut, one of the rising stars of the UK stand-up scene shares a raw, honest and hilarious hour of tales… with just the right amount of filth.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Everything begins with movement.
Everything begins with movement.
Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m…
When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
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.
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
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…
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…
Two award-winning comedians, Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx, bring their hilarious new work-in-progress shows ‘The Butch is Back’ and ‘Villain’ to the Brighton Fringe.
Two award-winning comedians, Kate Martin and Daniel Foxx, bring their hilarious new work-in-progress shows ‘The Butch is Back’ and ‘Villain’ to the Brighton Fringe.
Who dictates where you should be and what you should be doing by your mid-thirties? Thirty-five has crept up on Kate and what has she got to show for it? A hilarious trip down memo…
Who dictates where you should be and what you should be doing by your mid-thirties? Thirty-five has crept up on Kate and what has she got to show for it? A hilarious trip down memo…
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
Malachy has just turned 25, and he has a few things to say about that.
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…
Two Strangers, One Interview, and You.
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
Unrivalled in their ability to present exciting and new international choreography as well as some of the most memorable masterpieces from the past 100 years, Rambert Dance Compa…
Thinking of setting up your own performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal and Industrial Relations Manager at ITC, for a workshop about the legal and administrative basic…
Now in it’s 12th year.
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.
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 Burlesque Company are back at Cherry reds with a fabulous show to start your Halloween weekend off with a bang With burlesque, cabaret, drag, comedy there will be li…
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…
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 …
Rob is a comedic performance poet and performs anywhere where people will not throw things.
Rob is a comedic performance poet and performs anywhere where people will not throw things.
Rob is a comedic performance poet and performs anywhere where people will not throw things.
Rob is a comedic performance poet and performs anywhere where people will not throw things.
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.
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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…
Martin Creed Turner Prize-winning artist-performer-composer and ‘punk poet’ (Guardian).
It is absolutely not Fraser Brown who needs to be afraid.
Star of Live at the Apollo, Roast Battle and Celebrity Coach Trip returns for two nights only.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
A conversation about the past, present and future of women’s playwriting in Scotland.
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
Gangsters, attempted murder and actual sharks? Award-winning comedian and TV writer Kate Smurthwaite tells the most mind-blowing lockdown story you’ll ever hear.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
The word that most immediately springs to mind is 'joy'.
One of the great things that the Edinburgh Fringe has always done is to give a platform to local schools of various performing arts within an actual arts festival.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
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Roll up, roll up! Come and see this bright explosion of love & isolation, joy & celebration and a lot of buffering – you’ll want a ticket for this ride.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Ben and Chris have discovered the internet and now they can’t stop.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre.
The Theatre Support Fund+, the team behind ‘The Show Must Go On!’ campaign and MZG Theatre Productions present, THE SHOW MUST GO ON! LIVE AT THE PALACE THEATRE from 2 t…
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
The Final Show of Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
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.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
Now in it’s 12th year.
The works of WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are jewels in the English theatrical treasury and I, generally, have scant patience (no pun intended) with 'reimaginings'.
Scrooge & Company is the latest slice of madcap tomfoolery from Micawber Theatre Company in co-production with NoriTheatre; a fast-paced, slapstick romp through the Victorian festi…
A lot of love has gone into this imagined duet between Frankie Howerd and his lover Dennis Heymer.
With the support of Darbar Festival, Akram Khan Company present: We are but Shadows.
Akram Khan brings his theatrical Until the Lions, a piece originally created for The Roundhouse in 2016, to Sadler’s Wells for the first time.
Stirring classical and contemporary, Akram Khan’s latest production, Outwitting the Devil, is an epic dance piece about ritual and remembering in the midst of our ever-changi…
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
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…
Online premiere of Rosie Kay’s 10 SOLDIERS exploring the training, friendships, loves and the incredible teamwork behind an army unit.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
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.
Improvised Harry Potter from Chortle Award-winning Jericho Comedy.
After total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs in 2018 and 2019, In Loyal Company returns in a bigger venue for 2020.
Award-winning show from critically acclaimed Irish stand-up Andrew Ryan.
In 2017 New Wave Associate Artist Alexander Whitley combined film and dance for 8 Minutes, a breath-taking journey to the sun.
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
The Final Show of Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
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…
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
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.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
It’s Halloween, and mother’s birthday, and sisters Jocasta and Jupiter are making their annual visit.
Message In A Bottle is the spectacular new dance-theatre show from triple Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince to the iconic hits of music superstar, Sting including Roxanne, Every B…
Now in it’s 11th year.
ZooNation’s smash-hit sensation Some Like It Hip Hop thrilled audiences and critics when it opened in 2011, prompting five-star reviews and standing ovations with its infecti…
Sex, Relationships and Everything in Between’ is a night of new writing exploring the ever present grey zone between casual sex, true love and stale settling.
A play comparing racist undertones in modern society to those in 1950s America runs the risk of stating the obvious — there is still a major inequality problem in the 21st Centur…
Liz Pichon is a legend in our house: she is the author adored by kids who wouldn’t otherwise pick up a book.
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
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…
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Football and feminism are both huge parts of our culture and everyday lives, but rarely have they been brought together and forced to get along.
We will be picking the very best charts from our vast library to celebrate the golden age of the big bands.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One actor, in 45 minutes, performs the first story ever written down: an epic Babylonian poem based on the mythical adventures of the King of Uruk who lived and ruled around 2750 B…
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The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
Shakespeare: Reloaded have reworked this classic Oscar Wilde play into something almost unrecognisable.
There are quite a few variations on the Romeo & Juliet theme at this year’s Fringe, but few have as many puns as AcadePitch Presents - Romeo and Juliet: An A Capella Tragedy.
Not Today’s Yesterday.
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Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
It needs to be said, you must go into this show with an open mind.
In a world where we see some form of video footage every day – on small and big screens, down on our phones, around us on animated billboards – and where we can tumble headfirs…
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
The Pushkinettes (Julia Masli, Tatiana Collet-Apraxine and Julie Nesher) are delighted to invite you to the traditional and very unusual memorial ceremony of Anna Karenina, the tra…
Improvengers: Pretendgame is an ambitious concept without the follow-through.
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What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Satirical four-star solo show with original songs, topical stories and Jewish humour.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Any piece of art that tackles a complicated subject like mental health is worthwhile.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
In the midst of the comedy maelstrom, into which Edinburgh in August descends, I was privileged to enjoy an extraordinary artistic experience.
Broadcasting legend Dame Esther Rantzen and her daughter, journalist Rebecca Wilcox, discuss careers and family ties.
Sarah-Louise Young is one of Edinburgh Fringe's most respected and sought after musical variety performers, and it's no stretch of the imagination to see why, as she delive…
A cancer diagnosis reveals a suicidal boob.
What do you do when after 15 years of making people laugh and campaigning for human rights, you’re still best known as ‘that feminazi bitch off the telly’? The Have I Got News For …
The new live show from bestselling author and critically acclaimed hip-hop artist Darren McGarvey AKA Loki the Scottish rapper.
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
Miss Irenie Rose sings the well-loved songs written and sung by Joan Baez.
It’s very tempting to conclude your musical with a clearcut happy ending, where every loose end is neatly tied and all of your favourite characters ride off into the sunset.
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
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 …
Dreamgun: Film Reads are back at the Fringe and ready to ruin your childhood! At a time when podcasts are very on trend and live recordings are foisted upon an unsuspecting public …
One man, a guitar, and the most venerated love story of all time.
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
The Almanac has been destroyed.
There are worse ways to start a show than with free sweets, and no better way to end it than with a singalong.
Nicola and Rosie Dempsey (aka: Flo & Joan) walk out to polite applause before stumbling through the intro bars of their opening number.
Rarely is a title so apt.
With millennial nostalgia at its peak, there can be no better time to head to the Edinburgh Fringe and experience Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical.
A struggling artist working at a movie theater, Chris goes on a surreal adventure into his subconscious while popping popcorn.
What an honour to have New Zealand’s self-proclaimed ‘only popstars’ at our humble festival.
Irish Comedian of the Year winner Steve Bennett is the happiest man on the planet.
How did the first person to watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge perform Fleabag feel; confused, enlightened, so profoundly altered they could barely put words to it? Jodie Irvine’s origin…
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch is an hour-long, one-man, hyper-immersive, character comedy extravaganza.
After her hit show Happy in 2018 (‘Wilkinson’s relatable, down-to-earth humour leaves us in stitches’ **** (ThisIsRadelaide.
This is not a 'show' in the generally accepted meaning of the word.
If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim.
Kate Lucas has been told she needs to sell herself more.
Where better to perform a Harry Potter parody show than Edinburgh?Lukas Kirkby and Tom Lawrinson are back at the Fringe for their fourth year in a row with Pottervision.
It’s August, and we know what has lured all of you to Edinburgh—the neoclassical architecture!Whether you’re a regular tourist, Fringe-goer or resident, Cobble Tales' Arc…
Have you ever been to a supermarket and thought, “Hey, I really wish the staff would sing more?" Well, Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society are here to make that wis…
“Why do you think you’re a bitch?” Warning—the first question you’ll be asked upon arriving at Rock Rising’s Girl Bully might invoke a mini existential crisis.
Once upon a time, two princesses decided to leave LA and cross the ocean to visit a fairy tale land where dreams come true — Scotland.
Bi-Cycle is the low-cardio, sweat-drenched sexual awakening you never knew you needed.
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…
If you’re here at the Fringe for a good time, don’t let the word ‘science’ cancel out the word ‘sesh’.
If you saw a live news report of an alien invasion on a network you trusted, would you believe it? Rhum & Clay’s production of The War of the Worlds poses that exact question…
“Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man who sings like a boy.
Something special is about to happen - we know this deeply and cerebrally as we enter stage to the mesmerising image of Maisy Taylor intricately entwined in shibari ropes, barely v…
There ain’t no party like a Max & Ivan party, ‘cause a Max & Ivan party uses equations to guarantee participant enjoyment!The comedy duo are back at the Fringe and read…
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
As the last notes of La Vie en Rose hang in the air, we jump to our feet to give our enthralling leading lady the standing ovation she so richly deserves.
The boys are back in town and they still believe in the stag! Irish sketch comedy trio, Sean Finegan, Conor McKenna and Sean Flanagan, return for another Edinburgh Fringe run with …
Before even taking the stage, Lucy Porter announces that we’ve won the ‘Sexiest Audience at the Fringe’ award, so you know we’re onside by the time she grabs the mic.
There’s only one person who could compel people from their homes on a day when the rain is coming down in sheets and thunder crashes less than three Mississippi’s away.
When critiquing a musical about the difficulties of being a performer, there’s nothing to do but write a review about the difficulties of being a critic.
When three people in white nightgowns run frantically into an attic pouring a circle of salt, you know the devil can’t be far behind.
Bombs are falling on Liverpool.
Have you ever been on a Tinder date? Picture that in front of a live audience, where only one of the participants knows what’s going on.
Everything I Do premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival in a sell-out run at Project Arts Centre.
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…
When will Joanne Harouni get to do the Ted Talk she deserves?In an unusual standup routine, Harouni devotes her hour-long performance to stories about her multifaceted father and l…
Goodbear put on a pretty spectacular routine considering they never actually show up.
When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy.
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.
The chaotic cabaret cult, AN EVENING WITHOUT KATE BUSH is here!Enter Strange Phenomena, howl with the The Hounds Of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heigh…
It’s 2016.
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
Jim Brown's Sea Changes is a play that delightfully and unashamedly embraces the info-dump, to the extent of having most of its characters directly introduce themselves to the …
In 2008, choreographer Rosie Kay joined the 4th Battalion The Rifles, to participate in full battle exercises, and visited the National Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre.
We lucked out! On the day we saw The Jungle Book, the sun was high in the sky.
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Special half term afternoon of street dance and hip hop classes, showcase and battles with multi award-winning school Streetfunk and its crews hosted by Brighton dance legend JP Om…
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
“Wait, what was that whole last part about copyright? I don’t feel like I got that.
Bill Grundy’s fall from grace due to that interview with the Sex Pistols on Thames TV’s ‘Today’ programme and what he did next.
‘I’m not expecting anything.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
A raucous, two-woman comedy of idiots! Following sold-out shows in New York, this Gaulier-trained clown duo will guide you through their version of a sacred ritual for spiritual en…
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
The award-winning feminist, atheist, polyamorous comedian and writer for Have I Got News For You, puts away all those years of coquettishness and gets off the fence.
“When I was three I declared to my Mum that I was going to marry David Bowie or become an actress.
Naomi Paul returns to Brighton Fringe with her satirical 4-star solo show.
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
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…
Is technology shaping us or are we shaping it? Let’s plug in to the global nervous system and harness the co-evolution of humans and technology.
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
Celestial Motion transports you to an alternate universe where you are joined by a virtual cast of world-class dancers on a thrilling journey towards the sun.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Back for it’s fourth year.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
The Final Show of Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course.
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
The Long Nose Puppets are back! Their eclectic mix of original songs, beautiful hand-made puppets and gentle stories for the very young does not disappoint.
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…
Marianne Elliott directs Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical about life, love and marriage.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
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Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Meet Leah and Chris: raised on Harry Potter, New Labour and a belief that one day they would be as special as their parents promised.
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Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Before Chris’s wife died, she made him promise to be himself.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From Off-Broadway to Curry Mallet Village Hall, Kate takes her one-woman shows all over the world.
Satirical and hilarious.
Welcome to the big band era and beyond! The Sound of Seventeen is a jazz orchestra line-up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones and a four-piece rhythm section bringing you swing, ja…
Enjoy a feast of songs performed by (classically-trained) singer Heidi Innes and (Thomas Beecham Scholarship) pianist Nick Launert from Sondheim’s most beloved shows including A Li…
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Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
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New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Kate Smurthwaite finally tells us what she really thinks.
Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm has long been an adult, but still feels like a problem child.
As a kid you’re told you know nothing.
Sometimes we feel sad.
In this mixture of drama and black comedy, we meet TV presenter Bill Grundy some three years after his profanity-littered, car-crash interview with the Sex Pistols live on teatime …
Three wise men followed a star to Edinburgh to bring you frankincense, myrrh and comedy gold.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
In real life, Loose Brie (Martin and Phil) live together in a tiny flat.
Master storyteller and perennial Fringe sell-out, Wil Greenway returns with live musicians and (hopefully) a live audience to help your human heart.
Enthralling one-woman musical narrative.
Recognising that land is a busted flush, comedian John Whale and musician Kieran Rafferty have decided to ditch the dry stuff in favour of a life slightly under the sea, producing …
Starr is a bag of nervous insecurity, wrapped up in a paper thin façade of theatrical overconfidence.
UK rising comedy star Nicky Wilkinson returns to Edinburgh with her hotly anticipated new show, Happy: a fun-packed hour of stand-up, pies and party games.
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
What can you remember from five years ago? Or five days ago? Five minutes ago, even? What can you be absolutely sure, beyond all doubt that you remember? MALAPROP Theatre’s new s…
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.
Everything’s Going to be KO begins with an educational psychologist.
A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.
If you were anywhere near the Pleasance Courtyard this year, you’ll of heard of Lab Rats Theatre’s In Loyal Company as it shook the Fringe with its sell out run and critical ac…
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…
Multi-award winning comedian and TV and radio regular Kate Smurthwaite has been polyamorous* for many years but she’s never talked about it on stage before.
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.
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…
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 …
The Final Show of Logan Murray’s Stand Up Course.
Award-winning director, Trevor Nunn returns to The Old Vic to direct the dazzling, Tony award-winning, Broadway classic, Kiss Me, Kate.
Marking his final performances as a dancer in a full-length piece, Akram Khan takes to the stage alongside five world-class musicians.
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
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…
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
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.
Nothing is sacred this Fringe as ‘Garry Starr’ tears through artistic genres with little regard for personal safety and even less regard for art.
Martin and Phil have always felt like they were supposed to do something very important with their lives.
Are you hoping to grow and develop your performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal & Industrial Relations Manager of the Independent Theatre Council, for an overview of th…
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…
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
Ecotricity is not your usual energy company.
There’s something particularly British about wanting to curl up and die a little upon hearing the dreaded words ‘audience participation’.
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…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Back for its third year.
Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat…
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…
THE DEER JOHNS get the party going as they take you on a trip through your favourite eras, playing a song-per-year chronological musical history.
Using a combination of Bharatanatyam (an Indian classical dance style) and contemporary, interpretive dance, this show is a feast for the eyes, ears, heart and soul.
in Good Company has found a brilliant way to combine singing, quirky historical stories and walking.
Who said parenting was a piece of cake? Cos I want to give them a piece of my mind! Life’s busy & you have to be everything for a whole bunch of people: partner, kids, boss, c…
‘AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER’ - I remember listening to it & then again & again .
The renowned contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers returns to Sadler’s Wells with a double bill commissioned and performed by Candoco.
With about 50,000 hours of his life spent on checking stoves & completing tasks 3 times, while spinning in circles and involuntarily going ‘arghhh’ and ‘eeeehhh’, Damon Smi…
UK rising comedy star, Nicky Wilkinson makes an Adelaide debut with her highly anticipated new show, ‘HAPPY’; A fun-packed hour of stand-up, pies & party games.
Dave & Kate love to sing for children.
Disgraced actor Garry Starr is going it alone.
Local band Little Captain are paying tribute to one of the most influential bands in the world. Playing two nights of selected songs from the career of the Velvet Underground.
From the Red Right Hand and the Long Black Veil, to Delilah and Miss Otis Regrets, we have told tales of love and murder through song for centuries.
After 20 years in the scientific wilderness, renegade physicist Dr Chris* is ready to reveal the secrets of the universe.
It’s Bobby’s 35th birthday party & his married friends are all asking the same question – will he ever give up his bachelor lifestyle & settle down? Oliver Savile, Anit…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
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…
This is a mating ground.
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Before Chris’s wife died, after over 30 years of marriage, she made him promise to be himself.
Ever had to walk into that room where your boss, with fake concern in his eyes, tells you that he’s having to let you go? Ever wish you had the balls to say ‘f**k you’? Well, I did…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
You’ve heard them on the radio and seen them on the television, now join William Hanson and Diana Mather, leading etiquette experts, live on stage in this tongue-in-teacup foray in…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
Those of a certain age will remember the heart bruising joy of creating a mix tape for a loved one.
Join the Comic Sans of Drag, Kate Butch, for an hour of comedy, songs and games.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
We all have problems in life.
Company, Sondheim’s second Tony Award winner, is a difficult show to get right: it’s disjointed, complex, and built on subject matter that can be uncomfortable to look at.
As the friend with whom I went to see the show so emphatically said, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything is ‘everything’.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Strange physical theatre with soul-lined theatrics and odd feats.
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
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…
Being a millennial in the modern world is hard.
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.
One Christmas my tipsy aunt got it into her head that a race in the snow was the perfect thing to wake us up after dinner.
An hour long sketch show full of ‘Art’, egotism and arses, WMD Makes Everything Better demonstrates puerile humour at its best.
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…
When people enter relationships, they believe that they will endure - last forever.
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
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
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.
Sometimes you stumble on a stand-up so freshly funny that you remember why you started liking unknown comedy shows in the first place.
Conceived and directed by Jakop Ahlbom A deserted mansion.
The Duncan brothers came from the same erection, but have since gone in a different direction.
Delightful show about the songs we all keep inside ourselves that define who we are.
Do you lack basic skills? Do you want to be good at everything? Then you should watch ‘How to be Good at Everything’.
What better recipe for bleary-eyed parents early on a Sunday morning, than a timeless tale of a happy couple saving their food from pesky seagulls?Young children were especially en…
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 …
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
WMD Comedy is a three man sketch troupe with an online following for making strange and wonderful content.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
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…
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…
Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si…
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Rab’s Videogame Empty is coming to Edinburgh! Come and join Rab Florence for a night of videogame weirdness, music, and entertainment.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Enjoy an afternoon with Liza in an expertly pruned show about flowers, gardens and all things green! From Tip Toe Through The Tulips to Neil Diamond’s You Don’t Bring Me Flower…
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…
Driving traditional and original songs, plus breakneck speed tune sets from the highly successful ten-year partnership of accordion ambassador Sandy Brechin and Borders singer and …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Ever been called into that room where they make you redundant? Ever wished that you’d fought back and told them exactly what you thought of the whole bollock-brained process? Well,…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
“Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?”Such is the musical refrain setting the playful, yet pervasively sinister, tone which permeates this piece from the outset.
Cinema screening of live performance.
ThreeWeeks’ Editor’s Choice Award winner Kate Smurthwaite hosts the Free Fringe’s relaxed and intimate late-night comedy showcase.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Hi, I’m Yianni Agisilaou.
Cinema screening of live performance.
It’s pretty clear what kind of show we’re about to see when – as it becomes obvious that there isn’t actually a sufficient number of seats for all of the audience that’s …
Welcome to Dreamform.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
Breandán de Gallaí, the celebrated ex-Riverdance principal, has devised a biographical series of dances to create Lïnger, which is performed in the generously spacious main thea…
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…
Cinema screening of live performance.
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…
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
American comedian Patrick Melton (Comedy Central, VH1, Spike) debuts at the Fringe, feverishly deconstructing his ongoing frustrations with life, love and losing out.
Wickedly naughty and deliciously dark, Kate’s dual talents as a comedian and singer/songwriter are ripe for consumption.
Gideon Irving is a travelling musician looking for new friends all over the world.
With an energetic physicality and endearing vulnerability, Katie Sherrard’s hungover mess of a character walks the audience through the familiar state of trying simultaneously to…
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…
From the comedic mind of Barry Fyfield (who used to work in Further Education) comes “At the heart of everything” A new satirical comedy, that lifts the lid on dark possibilities o…
Dystopian Owls present a play that combines comedy, farce and satire in a contemporary, austerity setting.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
New solo show written & performed by Elaine Fellows.
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.
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…
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
Left-wing, highbrow, feminist, atheist comedy from ‘Have I Got News For You?’ writer Kate Smurthwaite.
Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.
Everything you ever wanted to know about everything .
Broadway musical composer, jazz saxophonist and electronic music pioneer, Milton Babbitt is regarded as one of America’s foremost musical geniuses.
Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out.
Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da…
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
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…
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
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…
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…
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
A musical about the individual struggles of a drug mule, and ex child soldier.
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…
‘This is the gospel of the modern age’ announces Elena, the exultant girl goddess.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
It’s James Sherwood’s first gig of the run, and it tells.
EurekaDance is the culmination of a week of movement exploration with artistic director of Collision, Lisi Perry and Simonson Modern Jazz facilitator Teresa Perez Ceccon – all th…
Driving traditional and original songs, plus breakneck speed tune sets from the highly successful ten-year partnership of accordion ambassador Sandy Brechin and Borders singer and …
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Mark Dean Quinn returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fifth year running attempting to win the best newcomer award.
In our fast-paced and demanding consumer culture, a production that takes time to examine and appreciate the joys and sorrows found in everyday life can be a real gem.
Monochrome make-up, over-sized cigars and manic choral singing are only a few features you’ll find in the stylised theatre of the Dead Iconics.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
It’s 2015.
Corner Talk theatre really manage to capture the chaos of life with their devised piece of compiled short scenes all centred round the single piece of set: a bench.
Alas, Poor Darwin…? may be officially listed as a ‘spoken word’ event, but don’t let that make you think it’s a poetry show.
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…
The best skaters in Scotland will pit their wits and hits against each other as Edinburgh showcases full-contact, all-female roller derby.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in…
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
Canadian baritone David John Pike and pianist Stephen De Pledge present a moving programme centred around Robert Louis Stevenson’s Songs of Travel set by Vaughan Williams, and Bu…
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 …
More and more people don’t want children.
“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.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
A programme of creative dance that is physically challenging with a fresh dynamic edge from this brand new company.
Watching Kate Smurthwaite doing stand up is like watching a recording of a Tory Peer’s night terrors: not only is she funny, but when it comes to tearing apart injustice, she’s…
An hour of lunchtime comedy could be worse spent than with this quirky collection of occasionally promising comedians.
Freddie should never leave the house, if he’s not caught eating chicken naked, he’s accidentally involved in gangland gunfights.
Joy Carter’s stand-up centres around a cute theme that works well for its midday slot.
A Little Man’s Holiday tells the tale of an office worker with a big imagination.
UK rising comedy star Nicky Wilkinson hosts an hour of rip-roaring stand-up, with special guest performers.
Don’t wear make up to this show.
Daphna Baram plays the outsider in England, reflecting on what makes people British from her own standpoint as an Israeli woman.
Join Nicky Wilkinson for an hour of stand-up, stories, prizes and party rings.
‘A good way to be happy’, Alice Keedwell tells us, is ‘you’ve got to silence the critic inside your head for a moment or two’.
Vanessa Smythe has a bit of a ‘downer hobby’: she worries about disappearing.
Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences.
From the sweaty depths of their library on Cowgate, Matt Stevens and Glenn Moore give an entertaining hour of sketch comedy.
Libby Northedge begins Twisted Loaf: Stale Mate on her hands and knees, crawling onto the darkened stage, starkers but for her underwear, smudged make-up, and a pair of glittery hi…
‘Yes, 30 may be the new 20 but no one’s told that to my south-facing tits.
Sketch duo That Pair offer warped children’s entertainment that all adults can enjoy.
Join Nicky Wilkinson for an hour of stand-up, stories, prizes and party rings.
Aaron Twitchen’s bright smile lights up the pub throughout Deadlines and Diets.
UK rising comedy star Nicky Wilkinson hosts an hour of rip-roaring stand-up, with special guest performers.
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-…
Some people know exactly what to say, exactly what to think and exactly how to behave.
Alex Edelman, New York-based upstart and winner of 2014’s Foster’s Comedy Award for Best Newcomer, returns with another gosh-darned show comprised of jokes and stories about hi…
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
As the bombastic theme tune starts playing, waves of nostalgia roll across the audience.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
The Oxford Revue’s 2015 Fringe offering is a confident display of strong student comedy.
Using only the bare essentials of a guitar, some toy instruments, and a few lighting changes, Jonny Awsum delivers an hour of musical comedy with plenty of laughs and the sort of t…
Massive Dad (Liz Kingsman, Tessa Coates, and Stevie Martin) have a sense of humour like Japanese fusion cooking, with their combination of social detail and zaniness.
Deceptively sweet, Lazy Susan bring a cheeky malevolence to their character-driven sketch comedy.
This is a big year for Nish Kumar.
Everything That’s Wrong With the Universe is a one-woman sketch show performed by Gemma Arrowsmith.
A strange but beautiful evening rainbow shone over Edinburgh just before I went to see Tom Toal’s gentle stand-up.
(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…
Internationally acclaimed singer Kate Dimbleby & Naadia Sheriff on piano, explore the songbook & life story of cult 70’s songwriter Dory Previn.
An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
Highbrow, left-wing, feminist, atheist comedy from Three Weeks Award winner Kate Smurthwaite.
It’s risky for a comedian to structure her set around things she doesn’t like.
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…
The works of this crafty composer and singer — alternately witty and poignant — appear alongside those of Machaut, Hildegard of Bingen and Bach in this cleverly devised…
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Alex Eberhard presents a sublime 10-piece electric orchestra.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
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…
(previews start on Jan.
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 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.
James Naughtie presents the programme from Edinburgh, featuring figures from the world of literature, politics and the arts.
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
This fun and fast production attempts to abridge the complete works of Shakespeare into the space of an hour.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
Robert, 35, believes his life is perfect.
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.
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Traditional and contemporary folk from the Edinburgh-based partnership of accordion ambassador Sandy Brechin and the emotive voice and delicate guitar of Ewan Wilkinson.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
Kate is back hosting the Free Fringe’s late night comedy showcase and you’re invited! Join her, and three or four of her favourite comedians from around the Fringe, for the biggest…
Amidst the moustachioed revolutionaries that don the walls of Viva Mexico restaurant, Kate Smurthwaite takes the mic for a thought-provoking hour of comedy.
There are no actors in this show.
Join little Mat Wills and friends at this positive review show which includes the audience sharing their favourite experiences at this year’s Fringe.
UK rising comedy star Nicky Wilkinson brings you an hour of rip-roaring stand-up, comic characters and special guest performers.
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
If you go to see a show called Alasdair Lists Everything for an hour, you can probably expect to spend an hour watching and listening to a guy called Alasdair listing things.
Wilkinson Ford is the collective machination of Nicola Wilkinson and Claire Ford, combining their twin talents as actresses and comedians in an enchanting sketch comedy, Kagoolio.
‘Delightfully crude, gleefully nasty’ (Chortle.
The title of Reduced Shakespeare’s show is accurate to the point of pedantry.
The show opens with Dolan asking whether anybody in the audience is married.
At the final moments of this stand-up, it becomes apparent that this could very well be the transitional period that a reliable Fringe stalwart gives the performance that should fi…
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.
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
In 1940, the British strategically invaded neutral Iceland in a preemptive move to prevent a German invasion.
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.
As part of the Comedy Central Corporate Retreat series, Ms. Berlant and Mr. Early revive their variety show.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
An honest, witty, sophisticated look at relationships.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
Kate Smurthwaite is a really likable, erudite comedian - a breath of fresh air to a comedy world saturated with ironic self-absorption and jokes about men and women’s supposedly …
Visit our little house on the edge of the woods and escape the bustle of city life.
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.
Phil and Julie have some very niche concerns they want to tell you about.
The ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ writer and Radio 4-featured stand-up finds out whether the world is basically fine or whether everything’s going to shit.
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 …
The Today Programme: The BBC’s flagship national news and current affairs show comes to the Edinburgh Fringe.
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of fundamentals you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
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…
There’s a tight partnership between Scottish folk musicians Sandy Brechin and Ewan Wilkinson that is immediately apparent in this gig.
Reflective songs, driving tune sets and caustic wit.
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
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…
Daniel Bye takes us on an elaborate journey of ‘high cultural value’ in The Price of Everything.
A smart whistle-stop tour of bizarre facts and impassioned arguments about value.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl…
Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style.
Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan…
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 …
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�…
Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves is a dark tale about sexual desire, based on the story of Red Riding Hood.
Earlier this year Kate appeared on ITV’s This Morning. This is the opposite of that show. Real issues, satire and amazing guests from comedy and politics. www.katesmurthwaite.co.uk
Arguing with idiots is how Kate Smurthwaite describes her profession as a left-wing political activist.
As a huge Angela Carter fan, I had high hopes for Big Shoes Theatre Company’s production of The Company of Wolves.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Popular comedy duo, Wilkinson Ford, bring you an hour of high energy, mirthful live sketches, film interludes, and all round side-splitting silliness in their new show, Webmasters.
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 .
Douglas Adams said the answer to the big question of Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. I am 42 this year. Find out what I have learned and questions I have.
Do you ever find yourself wishing that you were more attractive, better at sex, funnier, richer? Basically, do you ever wish that you were more awesome? If so, then this might be t…
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.
There are tons and tons of sketch shows on at the Fringe this year, meaning that it is easy for them to get lost amongst the crowd.
Sam and Bel, played by Josie Dale-Jones and Isabel Della-Porta, are best friends and move into their first flat together.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Company Man is a joy to watch, with professional clowning and circus skills woven into the stories of office workers.
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
Other stand-ups stand up.
There is a saying in Hollywood that the gun you see in the first scene will go off in the third.
Ill be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotlands…
Joe Wilkinson comments wryly that the convention is for a stand-up’s debut show to focus on what’s happened in their life so far, but unfortunately nothing interesting has ever hap…
Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Headless Doctor presents us with the absurdist tale of Luma and Taph, two workers who spend everyday collecting four gallons of water and bringing it back.
An array of instruments welcomes audience members as they take their seats in this tiny, intimate venue just off Princes Street, from strings through percussion to a homemade There…
There could be an incredible musical story in the tragic rise and fall of Mary, Queen of Scots, leading from her ascension to the throne to her eventual abdication, imprisonment fo…
Revival! by Mairi Campbell and David Francis, the duo also known as ‘The Cast’, is a new companion piece to their previous Fringe outing The Red Earth.
While chaos and violence unravel outside, within the safety and comfort of a hospital ward two strangers meet for a blind date.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
The big songs of stage and screen are being presented at the Laughing Horse Free Festival by the Cabaret Freaks.
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…
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
Out with the old and in with the new.
There’s a definite buzz on George Street.
Any budding sketch group could do far worse than give Daphne’s show a visit.
This new and contemporary chamber opera from Royal Opera House composer Martin Ward and librettist Phil Porter of the RSC tells the story of Farquar Quimpugh, a world-renowned expe…
As Piers Fawcett lies ill in hospital suffering from AIDS, he receives a visit from his best friend Tom.
They say that two heads are better than one, and two bodies certainly are in this poignant two-part interpretation of Deborah Hay’s score I Think Not performed by two different sol…
Under The Ladder is a piece of theatre that works on many levels, yet is seemingly based on a simple concept.
A cast of eight reinterpret The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 19th century short story, which is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician…
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
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 …
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
Omigod, I so can’t believe I just saw that! Mod is a brash American import exploring teenage angst amid Beatle-mania as the infamous group set out on their tour of the States.
In the shadow of Edinburgh Castle lies a very beautiful St Cuthbert’s Parish Church.
The classic tale that is Hamlet has been reborn into a contemporary musical and it tries to be a lively fun-filled show.
You know when you come out of a show that its going to sell out fast.
I am, it is no secret to my friends, a big fan of Sondheims musical about relationships, Company.
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…
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
The lights go up on a run-down flat with a couple, Pat and Susan, that look like they’re in the middle of one hell of a row.
Socks playing guitar.
If you ever needed proof that Edinburgh isn’t a level playing field, then Kenmac’s production of Company is surely it.
The wacky trio from The Thistle Creek Thespian Society roll into the old saloon at Cactus Gulch, New Mexico, in 1889 to entertain Mayor Maynot and the apparently simple folk of the…
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…
This egg-cellent production of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s Olivier award-winning family musical extravaganza is certainly something to quack about.
Firstly - Kate Fox is very talented at what she does well.
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Children say the funniest things, but the words they say sound even funnier when adults speak them; that is what Monkey Bars sets out to prove.
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
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 …
This adaptation of the short stories of Jonathan Safran Foer, whilst having moments of brilliance, ultimately comes short.
Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.
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.
A solitary woman is waiting for her husband to return from home.
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
Andy Zaltzman will be best know to most audiences for his political comedy, podcast and radio appearances.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
The memories of two people, Merridy and her father, are explored in a new devised piece, but the American company lagom’s work left me feeling confused about its narrative aims a…
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…
The stunning, young, American-born mezzo-soprano opera singer Andrea Baker was joined for the first time on stage recently by her uncle Newman Taylor Baker, the percussionist and c…
A left-wing, atheist, ultra-feminist comedienne performing a politically fuelled stand-up show sounds daunting to say the least.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
A funeral sees the coming together of three siblings for their estranged father’s send-off, but this new musical is not really about death - it is about life and the suppressed t…
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
As I left Ben Moors new show, Not Everything is Significant, I was accosted by a fellow audience member who noticed my I thought carefully concealed press pass.
Ovation has a distinguished track record for musicals at the Gatehouse.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Following last year’s success with Sunday in the Park With George, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s OneAcademy Productions have returned to the work of Stephen Sondheim in…
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of Robert Browning’s birth, and Julian Lopez-Morillas solo performance honours the occasion with a presentation depicting one of the greatest roman…
Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li…
Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task.
Joseph Moncure Marchs poem, The Wild Party, has been the inspiration for everything from films to plays.
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
New time and venue due to demand! Comedian, actor and host of Adult Swim’s top-rated and most anarchic programme The Eric Andre Show comes to the (true) final night of Fringe to te…
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…
Born and bred in south east London, poet, rapper, novelist and playwright Kate Tempest is one of the UK’s most innovative and celebrated artists.
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 abou...
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Kate Copstick meets Natalie Perlin, the 36GGG woman, while trying hard not to stare at her breasts; Natalie's that is.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
Copstick is back at Surgeons' Hall chatting to Martha McBrier, Darcie Silver, Pope Lonergan and Lisa Frischemeier.
Slaughtered, from the Underbelly Abattoir. Hosted by Copstick, with guests including Alun Cochrane, Luca Cupani, Langston Kerman, Taigé Lauren, and Darius Davies.
Kate Copstick chats to Paul Wady of Stealth Aspies about questioning labels on the topic of autism.
Hosted by Kate Copstick and featuring the equally fierce female voices of Kirsten Vangsness (yes, Penelope Garcia!), Elaine Miller, and Martha McBrier.
Kate meets the folks behind the Army@TheFringe and finds out more about this unique venue.
Kate Copstick presents episode 1 of Slaughtered at The Surgeon's Hall with President Obonjo and Zach Zucker.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei...
Tickets go on sale at 12pm today for the world premiere of TINA - The Tina Turner Musical, which opens at London's Aldwych next Spring.
Sondheim’s musical comes to the West End starring Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone at the Gielgud Theatre for a strictly limited season next year, and you can get your hand on ti...
Ever since their debut in 2015 with Weekend Rockstars Middle Child Theatre have been rewriting what musical theatre can be with their distinctive gig-theatre genre.
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant has today announced the programme for maliphantworks, featuring world-renowned collaborators and works spanning his hugely...
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Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
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.
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
Round two from our stand-up columnist Steffan Alun.
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from...
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...