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.
Olivier nominated Rachel Tucker is famed for her powerhouse performance that “leaves no roof intact!” Her Irish charm will immediately put you at ease as she…
2022 and 2023 Fringe sell-out show.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with these in-depth interviews featuring audience questions.
Whether it’s relationship problems, how to word a sensitive work email or the best way to cook a brisket, this Jewish mother has all the answers you need! A joyous, hilarious, inte…
Tiger Daughter is a new show by actor/musician Charlene Kaye (Succession, Starkid, SNL) about what happens when you defy your tiger mom’s dreams of you playing Carnegie Hall and be…
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…
One woman’s odyssey to escape Syria’s brutal war with her son, who should be having his first birthday party.
A hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking tale of one woman’s descent into motherhood and mayhem.
The Ultimate Collection of Reels is a solo stand-up show performed by Andrei Palchyk, where he shares the best jokes he has posted online.
From Rifco Theatre, comes an immersive DJ bromance.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Astute observational humour with an irreverent flair from two of Birmingham’s silliest sausages.
British comedian Rachel takes you on a stroll down Amsterdam’s cobbled streets, where bicycles rule, and everyone embraces the unconventional.
Rachel Fairburn is back with seven deadly characters.
Rachel Kaly got her first period the same day Saddam Hussein was hanged.
Rachel, ‘very much the rock’n’roll star of British comedy’ (Rolling Stone), is back with her critically acclaimed hour Showgirl.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Presented in pseudo-fairytale style, this one-woman dramatic comedy dares to expose what lies beneath the mask of the perfect mother.
Rachel Parris is back with her biggest tour yet, presenting a dazzling new hour of her signature blend of stand-up and songs.
'During my lunch break, I stay at my desk.
A young woman buys a bar in Brooklyn, New York.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
An Olivier Nominated and multi-award-winning performer, Rachel Tucker will present a concert celebrating her most iconic roles, some of her favourite tunes in musical theatre and s…
First- look rehearsed readings This is an exciting opportunity to catch early draft development scripts from exciting new contemporary voices.
The Rachel Baptiste Programme is a paid and mentored script development programme for Black Irish theatre makers and writers of colour, named after the 18th Century sing…
Keeping stand-up weird since 2013, Harriet Dyer is everything I love about the Fringe.
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
Join Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn for a very special Edinburgh Fringe edition of You Dress Funny, the event where comedy meets fashion.
Join Rachel (“Very much the rock’n’roll star of British comedy”- Rolling Stone) (“Mouth Almighty” – Her Friends) as she tries out new material for her upcoming tour! …
Mother Earth’s been selling her body to support her kids for too long.
Join Rachel (“Very much the rock’n’roll star of British comedy”- Rolling Stone) (“Mouth Almighty” – Her Friends) as she tries out new material for her upcoming tour! …
A heartfelt, humorous investigation into the things mothers pass onto their daughters – for better or worse.
“To you, Mom was always Mom.
“To you, Mom was always Mom.
It is 1948 in the slums of Baghdad.
Two queer Jews.
It is 1948 in the slums of Bagdad.
2022 Fringe sell-out show.
The BAFTA-nominated comedian, The Mash Report (BBC2) star, Live at the Apollo (BBC1) star and viral sensation, presents a work-in-progress hour of her signature blend of stand-up a…
“Yes.
“Yes.
Whether it’s a relationship problem, how to word a sensitive work email or the best way to cook a brisket, this Jewish mother has all the answers you need.
A powerful new adaptation of Bertold Brecht’s classic anti-war play, interpreted by one of China’s leading directors of physical theatre and Edinburgh Fringe veteran Zhao Miao …
10th great year! Edinburgh’s funniest, and most successful ever kosher comedy show.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Brad’s 12-year-old daughter came home from the Halloween dance and said, ‘They only played three total Halloween songs!’ Three? Brad was incensed, so he and Steve wrote nine origin…
Raising kids is tough; add to the mix puberty, cultural differences and a complicated language, topped with questionable organisational skills and the comedy show writes itself! Aw…
***** (Stage; Three Weeks; Theatre Weekly; Advertiser, Adelaide).
An absurd sketch show where it’s always 2am, set in the liminal space between screen-lit insomnia and bad dreams.
More stories in song from this multi award-winning Edinburgh favourite.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Calling the courageous, faithless, devoted and broken Inner Children to a Ceremony of the Dark Mother hosted by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess Lucy Hopkins.
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
How To Be Jewish Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
THE BRIDGE HOUSE'S AWARD NOMINATED PANTO IS BACK FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!Fancy something a bit different this Easter Holiday? Join us for a brilliant rendition of the much-loved pan…
Letters To My Dead Mother is a one-woman, “autofictional” show about grief.
What’s wrong with saying it how you see it? Why is Rachel’s “truth” not respected? Why are you all so annoying? Probably because nobody tells you…
What’s wrong with saying it how you see it? Why is Rachel’s “truth” not respected? Why are you all so annoying? Probably because nobody tells you…
Co-created by award-winning Scottish composer Finn Anderson (Islander) and award-winning director Tania Azevedo (&Juliet, But I’m A Cheerleader), A Mother’s Song: A New Fo…
A highly physical piece combining theatre, aerial silk and spoken word about the eco-system created behind closed doors and what the forest can teach us about ourselves.
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.
The Mother of all pantomimes is back in Hackney this festive season, starring Clive Rowe as Mother Goose.
Created using verbatim interviews with four women who became friends through the shared experience of raising families in 1960s, 70s and 80s Toxteth; the play looks at the previous…
Dirty Harry captures the rapture of Blondie and has not only the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of the band but a look-a-like of Debbie to deliver the good …
Explore environmental icon Rachel Carson’s nature in this wildly inventive solo show from fellow Pittsburgher Elise Robertson, who uses puppets, found objects, and stage wizardry…
Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald return to the Fringe this year in an act that delivers a whisky-soaked night of tremolo and bass that walks through the annals of blues classic…
A solo show about motherhood, the forest and the universe.
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Join award-winning Jewish comedian Rachel Creeger for a wander down a rocky road paved with the best of intentions.
Everything is awesome in Dill’s life.
We all have a mother, and an opinion about how she should be.
From the brilliant minds behind SiriusXM – Kids, Harry’s Wand (Steve Goodie) and best-selling author of Don’t Feed the Bully (Brad Tassell), comes the Halloween show that every…
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
‘Oy Gay! is hilarious, clever and filthy! These talented comedians charm and entertain whilst exploring faith, community and life, with some classic material that still makes me la…
2019 Pick of the Fringe award sell-out sensation.
Rachel Jackson is an award-winning, Scottish comedian with TV credits such as The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV) and Edinburgh Unlocked (BBC).
Camp cult favourites Mother are back with an unapologetic hour – sorry, closer to 55 minutes really – of deranged characters and unhinged sketches in a live mockumentary so clo…
Calling the courageous, the devoted, the faithless and the broken to a brand new, unquantifiable, ceremonial experience by everybody’s favourite shadow-shaman-clown-priestess.
A new play from acclaimed writer Philip Stokes (Heroin(e) for Breakfast).
Denied ownership of her land through endless bureaucratic delays.
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
Brassy, abrasive, rude, belligerent.
In her Fringe debut, one of the hottest names on America’s comedy circuit shares her journey from daughter, to best friend, to caregiver in a poignant but laughter-filled hour.
Gillian Fischer wants to be Jewish.
Asking radical and intimate questions about motherhood, the award-winning RashDash return with their latest show Oh Mother to tour England this summer.
Storyteller Elise Robertson embarks on a journey of discovery about Rachel Carson, iconic environmentalist, born twelve miles from her in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 60 years earlier…
Storyteller Elise Robertson embarks on a journey of discovery about Rachel Carson, iconic environmentalist, born twelve miles from her in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 60 years earlier…
Rachel Fairburn is a Maniac.
BirminghamFriday 19th November, The Nightingale Club Were finishing this year with a bang and pleased to announced the return of MAX to the U.
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Vroom vroom Join us on Friday 1st October for our next Mothers Meeting with a superstar cast of Alexis Meshida, Miss Terri Boxx and Rupauls Drag Race U.
Part of our BIG UP THE ARTS FESTIVAL Two festivals that have SORELY been missed in the London calendar were Pride and Carnival this year SO we will be combining the two in our…
Mother’s Comedy Ball is a new monthly comedy night bringing you the funniest and most diverse of London’s up and coming comedians.
Dirty Harry not only has the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of the band, but a look-a-like of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
This is a brand new show from Rachel.
This is a brand new show from Rachel.
Colleague: Pronunciation: /’koli:g/.
Pick of the Fringe award winner (2019).
Henry (Churney) Churniavsky is a Jewish, Scouse, Stand-Up Comedian based in Liverpool, already this is unique.
Henry (Churney) Churniavsky is a Jewish, Scouse, Stand-Up Comedian based in Liverpool, already this is unique.
This is a brand-new show from Rachel.
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.
Saving Mr Ultimate by John McEwan-Whyte at theSpace Triplex is the debut show of Extra Arca, a young theatre group within New Celts Productions, a consortium of young theatre compa…
Pick of the Fringe award winner (2019).
Some inherit from their mothers material possessions.
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.
In a space cluttered with discarded costumes and glasses of milk, Sally dresses, undresses, drinks and dances in an attempt to embody the women that brought her into being.
Storyteller Elise Robertson embarks on a journey of discovery about Rachel Carson, the iconic environmentalist, who was born 12 miles from her in Pittsburgh, PA, 60 years earlier.
In a space cluttered with discarded costumes and glasses of milk, Sally dresses, undresses, drinks and dances in an attempt to embody the women that brought her into being.
COLLEAGUE: Pronunciation: /ˈkɒliːɡ/ NOUN A person with whom one works in a profession or business.
COLLEAGUE: Pronunciation: /ˈkɒliːɡ/ NOUN A person with whom one works in a profession or business.
One woman reflects upon turbulent events in the country’s political life and traumatic events in her own personal life.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
One woman reflects upon turbulent events in the country’s political life and traumatic events in her own personal life.
From the brilliant mind behind SiriusXM-Kids’ ‘Harry’s Wand’ (Steve Goodie), and best-selling author of ‘Don’t Feed the Bully’ (Brad Tassell), comes the Halloween show that every…
Zany, spooky, fun! That is the way to describe Vampire's Ball Ultimate Halloween Party Live! Although it was on Zoom, and they were up against time lags on the extremely odd oc…
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.
Come, join us on a journey through our Otherhood.
‘Un(mother)’ is a creative exploration of childlessness in the 21st century created by a chorus of 25 poets and writers from across the UK (and beyond!).
Ron, Rosetta, Ivy, Charlie, Gloria, Sarah, Sioned and George.
The Ultimate 70s Show is a totally live seven-piece tribute to the seventies, featuring Martin Metcalf ex Geordie, alongside the powerhouse vocals of Chris Peters.
A digital installation inspired by BS Johnson’s celebrated novel, directed by Tim Crouch.
Ron, Rosetta, Ivy, Charlie, Sioned and George.
Dirty Harry has not only the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of Blondie, but a lookalike of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
Renowned UK singer/pianist Jeremy Sassoon presents and performs his history of Jewish songwriters from the piano, supported by his trio.
2019 Not So New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist (London) Henry brings his third Fringe show and first as a solo! Due to popular demand.
Brad Tassell and Steve Goodie describe themselves as a pair who have been ‘all-around nutty goofballs for more than 30 years’; and it shows.
Dirty Harry has not only the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of the band, but a lookalike of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
Join The Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
Come into the scariest house in town! Where ghosts and monsters are ready to make it all about you.
Bafta-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
BAFTA-nominated comedian, Rachel Parris, is back with a brand-new show about big life changes.
Jesse is paranoid and he's frightened and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his daughter and his life… In a bittersweet comedy fuelled by anti-Semitis…
It’s Halloween, and mother’s birthday, and sisters Jocasta and Jupiter are making their annual visit.
An updated performance of the work of Franca Rame and nobel prize winner Dario Fo, that has transferred from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the Dugdale Centre in North London
Wrestling has been around for decades and in dire need of a serious makeover.
Straight from Edinburgh 2019 where it was selected in Editors’ Top Ten Pick of The Fringe’ by Three Weeks.
Is a mother’s love unconditional, or can it be stretched beyond breaking-point? This is the consuming theme in Evan Placey’s Mother of Him at the Park Theatre, which was inspir…
Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago.
What is it like to be the mother of a terrorist? A Mother coaxes us into her experience of anguish, guilt and anger, as she grapples with the monster she has created.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
The Mother Music Daughter Dance is a lively, funny, bittersweet theatrical duet between a real-life mother and daughter.
What does it mean to be bisexual? No, actually, what does it mean? Are we doing it right? How can you tell? Join us for an hour of comedy as confusing as coming out.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Dear Mother Moon is one of four works presented by CalArts this year in what has become the Institute’s Edinburgh home, Venue 13.
Some women aspire to wearing their mother’s shoes.
Henry Churniavsky (2019 Not So New Comedian of the Year semi-finalist) is a grumpy Jewish sexagenarian who’s just got through a mid-life crisis and now old age approaches.
Seventh consecutive year for the UK’s longest-running and most successful ever Jewish comedy show.
Motherhood: the most celebrated and exploited condition of human existence.
Mother is Tiff Stevenson’s observation of the many and varied forms that motherhood can take, her material existing in the venn diagram where motherhood and feminism interconnect…
Rachel’s been described by some losers as obnoxious, rude and contrary.
It’s 2001, the world has changed irreparably and somewhere in the middle of Ireland, a girl fights for the meaty role of Mary of Nazareth in the school nativity.
Seeing herself in someone else’s reflection highlights honest thoughts Rachel only admits to herself in the middle of the night.
Low-brow, high-camp sketch comedy duo MOTHER make their Fringe debut with an unapologetically hilarious hour of trashy treasure.
An unapologetic hour of low-brow, high-camp sketch comedy from Laura Curnick & Jack Mosedale.
Dena Blizzard, the viral video sensation and creator of the Back to School Rant (125 million views), Chardonnay Go (24 million views) and Chardonnay Go, The Board Game f…
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Billed as a ‘dark, uncompromising play about the myths of modern love’, this starts promisingly enough but soon veers off.
Jack Mosedale and Laura Curnick are MOTHER.
MAJESTY rose from the ashes of a professional touring Queen tribute band that came off the road in May 2011.
Watermans welcomes back the ever popular Comedy Club 4 Kids, featuring the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the comedy circuit.
Tickets: £15Duration: approx.
Viral sensation Rachel Parris, star of BBC’s The Mash Report, presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch, and inevitably a sideways swipe at society.
Viral sensation Rachel Parris, star of BBC’s The Mash Report, presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch, and inevitably a sideways swipe at society…
Live Nation,TROIKA, & Soho Theatre Present Lazy Susan Plus Special Guests Two stunners, one hour.
Live Nation,TROIKA, & Soho Theatre Present Lazy Susan Plus Special Guests Two stunners, one hour.
Listen to the “Queen of the New Wave of Storytellers” (BBC Radio 3), as she reclaims and reconfigures a lost Arthurian epic following a non-binary knight on a quest for equalit…
by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper songs by Jon Bradfield directed by Andrew Beckett designed by David Shields Celebrating 10 years of Above The Stag Theatre&ap…
With a face that shouts "Xmas" but a soul that screams "Hanukkah", Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Book now for next year's fabulously filthy adult panto at Above The Stag Theatre.
“Mother Goose Presents….
Jean Genie are the ultimate tribute to David Bowie, fronted by John Manwaring and his band, expect a 2 hour show packed with all the hits from the Ziggy and White Duke e…
Sinéad arrives at her sister Ciara’s door in London, all set for a weekend of respite from caring for their mother, Eileen.
Viral sensation Rachel Parris, star of BBC’s The Mash Report, presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch, and inevitably a sideways swipe at society…
For three nights only, award-winning musical comedian and star of BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Rachel Parris, presents a late-night jamboree of tunes intended to tickle, including so…
Rachel Sambrooks is trying to love life even when it’s rubbish.
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…
This high-energy performance features real-life mother Lucy and her 15-year-old son Raedie.
Laura Curnick and Jack Mosedale are Mother and this is their show.
Trump, Putin and Kim Jong-un live on tour! King of the modern protest song Beldon Haigh and Mother Of All Bands bring a weird and wonderful live band performance.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel’s always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Romina Puma comes back and is darker than ever! It’s a show about love, or the lack of it, a show about a child longing to be cared for by her mother while having to care for her…
Legacy: A Mother’s Song, one of two devised musicals under the ‘Legacy’ banner at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is the distinctly less crowd-pleasing of the pair.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
As seen on Live at the Apollo, The Mash Report, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Roast Battle, QI and Have I Got News For You?, comedian Desiree Burch presents her nearly eponymous third stand-up…
Sixth year of the UK’s most successful ever Jewish comedy.
Freya Parker and Celeste Dring are back at the Fringe with a refreshingly light-hearted slice of sketch show comedy.
Small mistakes, big mistakes, life-changing mistakes.
“They’re all over the world; women that move molehills rather than mountains”Much like David Attenborough shows his viewers the lovingly guarded moment…
Viral sensation Rachel Parris, star of BBC’s The Mash Report, presents a comedy show packed with stand-up, song, sketch, and inevitably a sideways swipe at society…
A family pantomime that looks at the world today and encourages the audience to consider how we can all help improve it.
An inspired slice of sketch comedy served up by Laura Curnick and Jack Mosedale, MOTHER is brimming with great ideas and executed by two fantastic comedic talents that should be on…
Romina Puma comes back and is darker than ever! It’s a show about love, or the lack of it, a show about a child longing to be cared for by her mother while having to care for her…
Pianist Rachel Fryer plays the Aria and 30 Variations that make up J.
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.
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…
Morocco’s past colonisation by its European invaders meant stories and tales of the old Morocco were unwritten.
A variety improv comedy show featuring some of the best acts in the world… and the most currently available.
Equal parts historical and hysterical explore the history of gin through story and song, as we stumble and soar through tales of love and women, gin and secrets travelling through …
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is given a safe and very competent revival at The Southwark Playhouse.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This playful, innovative and interactive play follows a young engineer trying to follow her heart and fall in love for the first time, against the ever-present pressure from her st…
Ivor Dembina is very funny and manages to entertain the audience for an hour by conforming to as many stereotypes of a Jew as he can.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
West End and Broadway sensation Rachel Tucker makes her debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
With a face that shouts ‘Xmas’ but a soul that screams ‘Hanukkah’, Rachel Creeger has always felt like she has a foot in two worlds.
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
Each day the London-based New York comic will read an unopened letter from his mother, sent before she died alone in New York.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The comedic equivalent of a no-holds-barred cage fight.
Extra performance on the 21st at Laughing Horse @ Counting House with full run from 3rd to 27th (excluding Tuesdays) at Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake.
Rachel Parris has been invited back to her old school to speak at prize giving, but what is she going to say? Is she even a role model at all? Rather than prepare for this speech a…
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Families need strong female role models, problem is there’s too many in Rachel’s clan.
Bunny Boiler is the debut hour from rising star and ever so slightly unhinged comedian Rachel Jackson (BBC Three, Tupperware Party, Scot Squad).
***** (Time Out, Sydney).
A dynamic audio/visual re-scoring and re-visualising of the profoundly influential Mother India (1957), the first Bollywood film to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Foreign …
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
We are pleased and delighted to be welcoming the return of Pianist Rachel Fryer performing the Goldberg Variations.
In her mind Diana is a glamorous singer-raconteuse at a Petrograd nightclub, and Leon her accompanist.
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 …
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Two million people call the Khayelitsha (the Xhosa word for 'new home') in South Africa home.
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…
One of Scottish folk music’s most recognised, much loved bands, the Rachel Hair Trio are renowned for their strong melodies, rootsy songs and majestic instrumental flair.
We’re told never to make assumptions, but people have been making them about Rachel all her life.
In her mind Diana is a glamorous singer-raconteuse, and Leon her pianist.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
When adult life isn’t going to plan sometimes you have to take charge and do something about it.
Raised in the rural Midwest and seasoned with a decade of big apple living, Rachel Zylstra is a classically trained performing songwriter and sometimes worship leader.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
One of Britain’s most promising folk artists, Highland-born Rachel Sermanni comes to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.
Dirty Harry not only has the original sound, feel, attitude and full back catalogue of Blondie, but also a lookalike Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
In a desperate attempt to get some Edinburgh nookie, Jiggle & Hyde present a sketch show to woo, amaze and amuse.
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…
This show doesn’t disappoint.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Rhombus Ensemble’s Your Mother’s Vagina is a whirlwind of subject matter wrapped up in the lives of its two protagonists: Layla and Sue Anne.
Parris has a seemingly natural knack for creating comedy imbued with emotional depth that doesn’t feel forced or insecure.
Rachel Parris (‘Austentatious’, ‘The IT Crowd’) presents her new musical comedy about not having it all.
Heritage bus tour of places of historical Jewish interest in the Brighton & Hove area in connection with the 250th Anniversary, ending with a tour of Middle Street Synagogue.
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…
Tonya Pinkins, an actress of confidence and originality, will hitch herself to Bertolt Brecht’s familiar wagon in this tale of a mother’s shifty struggles and sacrifice…
Why did a 23-year-old woman leave her comfortable American life to stand between a bulldozer and a Palestinian home? From the words she left behind, My Name is Rachel Corrie tells …
New kids on the block in Edinburgh’s bustling folk scene, Dowally make unclassifiable, thrillingly energetic music, fusing their love of traditional Scottish music with jazz harmon…
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Dirty Harry has not only the original sound, feel, attitude, and full back catalogue of Blondie but a lookalike of Debbie to deliver the good stuff.
Join James (writer for 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You) as he worries about worrying too much, about worrying too much.
Come and sit in a cinema and watch two dogs show you their tricks.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Runway model turned stand-up comic, De Swarte gives her unique, honest stories from a childhood spent on London council estates, to jet-setting as a New York City fashion model, an…
Ross & Rachel is an exploration of beyond ‘happily ever after’, using the two Friends characters we all know so well as a medium through which to explore the artifice of relati…
New show.
Return of last year’s brilliant hit kosher comedy show.
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…
This admired baroque violinist offers a program featuring selections from “Guardian Angel,” her recent album of virtuosic solo repertory.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
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…
The conservation area of 76 acres has no less than 352 listed buildings, many of which the tour will pass.
A one-man-show about a man growing up with a mother suffering from anorexia.
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…
Brad Zimmerman’s solo show about almost three decades of working in restaurants while not becoming a famous actor and his Jewish mother’s shame is low-key, half-familia…
There’s certainly more than a touch of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl to 22-year-old Rachel Sermanni: the floaty blue dress, the bare feet, the frequent tipping of toes.
Dirty Harry captures the rapture of Blondie with the stunning looks and sound of Sarah as the sensual Debbie Harry, backed by some of Scotland’s finest musicians.
Mary Macmaster and Donald Hay are brilliant innovators who mix electroharp, atmospheric percussion, organic samples and emotive vocals creating magical, new Scottish music.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
A tender and gripping piece of contemporary drama looking at the fragility of our economy and the strength of our relationships.
The tragic story of a priest yielding to the temptations of the flesh, his mother trying to persuade him to redeem himself and his young passionate lover in a small timeless villag…
Returning to Edinburgh after running a successful compilation show in 2013 with packed audiences, Iranian-British comedian Sahar Mirhadi and award-winning sarcasticist Dan O’Gorman…
Ivor Dembina cut his teeth on the alternative comedy circuit with original material, so I was surprised to discover him performing a show called Old Jewish Jokes for the third y…
Rachel Stubbings gave me a Maoam.
Five years of IVF and love going down the tubes and a sex life reduced to cold rooms with plastic cups.
Featuring feuding tailors, a Jewess who joins a 1950s Christian cult, a cocaine-addicted rabbi and many more, this award-winning and ever-evolving Fringe favourite is a joyous and …
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
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.
Award-winning musical comedian Rachel Parris (IT Crowd, Thronecast, BBC Radio 4, Austentatious) presents a work-in-progress version of her forthcoming show, Live In Vegas, a shrewd…
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.
A detailed and intriguing tour of what English Heritage describes as “the outstanding conservation area of the city”, covering 76 acres with 351 listed buildings.
We consider Brighton as a place where it is possible to break free from the constraints of a restrictive society, gain a healthy constitution, a good education and stage your own d…
“Everyone is Welcome – No Exceptions” is the motto of Rachel’s Café in Bloomington, Indiana, a university town with a liberal and artistic ambience and pretensions.
In Jonatha Brooke’s haunted and haunting solo play with music, she is bearing witness, recounting the descent into dementia of her mother, Darren Stone Nelson, and her experi…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Rachel Sermanni comes onto the stage and blithely announces that she has made a new instrument – out of spoons that she bought in a charity shop.
Much lauded by Mumford & Sons, and having supported KT Tunstall and Newton Faulkner and still only 19, Rachel’s much anticipated debut pencilled for release on their Communion la…
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Rachel Maclean’s I Heart Scotland transforms Edinburgh Printmakers into a nationalist jewellery box.
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.
At 5pm, four young men take on a daily mission of fitting a record number of sketches into one hour of comedy.
Rachel Parris writes the jingles for the ads that try to sell you unnecessary chattels and the pop shows that make you cringe.
Jokes that everyone’s heard before are always the hardest to make funny, so spare a thought for that most venerable of comedian: the ‘Jewish comic’ who has decades of comedic folkl…
From shy Welsh Minister’s daughter to Oscar-nominated, booze soaked, headline grabbing, fading Hollywood star.
On paper, Articulate Elbow’s Mother F should sit comfortably within the ethos of the festival, the premise being a celebratory exploration of the many techniques of motherhood.
With a name like Showgirl, you’d expect a bit more oomph, but in fact Rachel Fairburn’s show is perhaps the exact opposite, and the low-energy slog begins and ends with little …
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
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…
This powerful play performed by Josephine Taylor and directed by Alan Rickman tells the moving true story of peace activist Rachel Corrie.
Just months before the election that saw Nelson Mandela become president of South Africa, an angry mob attacked and killed American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
Swimming With My Mother features a real mother and son, Madge and David Bolger, exploring their relationship and mutual love for swimming and dancing through a 40-minute show accom…
Ellis James is a natural stand-up comedian.
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.
Daniel Cainer plays keyboard and guitar, sings and tells stories about the beginning of Judaism, Jewish migration and his childhood experiences.
Original and intelligent, Rachel Stubbings presents her live agony-aunt show.
Tonight is what the Camden Fringe is all about; two half hour segments from two different comedy artistes offering a peek at what the full hour could be like.
Meryl O’Rouke is worried about being a bad mother.
In a musical style reminiscent of Claude-Michel Schönberg ballads, Daniel Cainer sings his big, broad Jewish heart out to entertain, engage, enlighten his audience.
Pericles Snowdon’s title refers to an old English saying: Once upon a time it was improper to refer to one’s elder with just the third person singular.
Jeffrey Solomons play is a tour-de-force of skilful writing and performance.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
This show, says its author and performer Daniel Cainer, has been catalogued under theatre because its neither particularly funny or particularly musical.
Taking a break from their work in popular folk band Shee, Laura-Beth Salter and Rachel Newton present an hour-long set comprised of found songs, previous material and their new sol…
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…
Celebrating its fifth anniversary tour, Cirque Mother Africa is a wonderful show to entertain all the family; a fusion of modern circus and African traditions it overflows with ent…
The struggle of one woman to become a mother is the painful, but ultimately uplifting subject of this touchingly honest autobiographical study from Californian performance artist, …
Rachel Rose Reid is a young storyteller who places herself firmly within a long tradition of oral storytelling.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
We've scoured the Brighton Fringe listings to bring you our picks for Brighton Fringe 2023 in categories including comedy, improv, interactive shows, and more.
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.
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West End and Broadway sensation Rachel Tucker makes her debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in two intimate concerts at the Pleasance.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Rachel McCrum, inaugural BBC Scotland Poet In Residence in 2015, has just wrapped up the last shows of Rally & Broad, a spoken word, music and live lit events series she ran with J...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Ariella Eshad is the artistic director of Tik-Sho-Ret, an anglo-israeli theatre company that looks to share Jewish and Israeli culture between the two countries.
Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more.
Scottish poet Rachel Amey is set to perform Peacock Blue as part of the SHIFT/ collective at Summerhall this August.