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

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

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

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

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

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

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

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

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

Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Sheraton Grand Hotel
• 22nd Aug 2024

Pick of the Fringe returns for a 12th year, presenting a unique and unforgettable way to entertain clients, colleagues and friends at the festival. 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band's Viol Rackett Show

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Cecilia’s Hall
• 18th Aug 2024

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band return for 2024 with a live performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music and dance from the Middle Ages to … 

Murder at the Fringe

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hill Street Theatre
• 16th - 25th Aug 2024

Mr John Winner has been found dead in his house in Morningside on the first anniversary of his huge lottery win. 

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 15th Aug 2024

BEANBAG CONCERT SERIES Find a beanbag and lose yourself in the hypnotic sound of Alexander Grechaninov’s Passion Week. 

Leith Comedy Festival Presents... The Edinburgh Fringe Edition

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Biscuit Factory
• 15th - 17th Aug 2024

Leith Comedy Festival showcases the funniest comedians on the Fringe at the iconic Biscuit Factory in Leith. 

20 Years of the Free Fringe Festival – Charity Gala Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 14th Aug 2024

A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic Legends
• 13th - 25th Aug 2024

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

The Edinburgh Seven

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Riddles Court
• 12th - 24th Aug 2024

The Edinburgh Seven is a riveting exploration of the first seven women to go to medical school in Edinburgh and the United Kingdom. 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band Goes Further Afield

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• artSpace@StMarks
• 12th - 14th Aug 2024

Going further afield, we have added some real treasures from Eastern Europe and Central America. 

Fringe – The Musical

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
• 12th - 17th Aug 2024

A hilarious musical comedy about a cherished family-run hairdressing salon in Essex. 

Eurovision Binge at the Fringe

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• artSpace@StMarks
• 7th - 7th Aug 2024

Fresh from performing across Malmo and Copenhagen during this year’s Eurovision, Liverpool’s Over the Water Show Choir bring their set of chorally innovative Eurovision classics fr… 

Tales of Haunted Edinburgh – Echoes From Beyond the Grave

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
• 6th - 15th Aug 2024

Edinburgh is known as one of the most haunted cities in the world. 

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
• 5th - 18th Aug 2024

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

160th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography 2024

• Listing
Exhibitions
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Photographic Society
• 3rd - 25th Aug 2024

Edinburgh Photographic Society’s first international photography exhibition was shown in 1861. 

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

• Listing
Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ Doghouse Hotel
• 3rd - 25th Aug 2024

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… 

Edinburgh Book Lovers' Tour

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Book Lovers’ Tour Departure
• 3rd - 25th Aug 2024

A guided walking tour visiting the sites and haunts of Edinburgh’s literary legends – Walter Scott, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and others – with Allan Foster, author … 

A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery – The Fringe Fatality

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
• 3rd - 24th Aug 2024

Agatha Mystery’s The Rat-Trap makes its Fringe debut! But will it be curtains for the show when an actor is gruesomely murdered? Award-winning mystery maestros Highly Suspect ret… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 3rd - 24th Aug 2024

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Edinburgh's Pandas Were Just Weegies in Disguise!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Columba’s by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church
• 3rd - 24th Aug 2024

When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy. 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at the Fringe for 20 years, an annual selection of the best in stand-up comedy in Edinburgh. 

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

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

Scotland’s Best Comedy Venue, Chortle Awards 2023 and 2024, welcomes back its Fringe showcase for 2024! A new line-up every night presenting the very best acts from the Monkey Barr… 

After Shakespeare – Richard III

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpaceTriplex
• 2nd - 24th Aug 2024

The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Eastside
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2024

Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships Winner 2022. 

Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

The Mountebank Comedy Walk is Edinburgh’s hysterical, historical and completely original comedy walking tour. 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Meeting Point at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre (Next to the Festival Theatre Café side door)
• 2nd - 24th Aug 2024

Walk on the wild side and go off the beaten track with a witty guided tour packed full of stories from Edinburgh’s past and present music scenes. 

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, George Square
• 2nd - 24th Aug 2024

The biggest, brightest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe all in one huge show, staged in the famous Udderbelly. 

Edinburgh – A Tale of Two Towns

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Outside Greyfriars Bobby Bar
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both the Old and New towns, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh; revealing some of the secret… 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone is welcome. 

Dragon Shows for Babies

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• LifeCare Centre
• 1st - 20th Aug 2024

The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons. 

Richard Cobb: Running Joke

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Raging Bull
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Following a host of sell-out shows and hot on the heels of last year’s debut, Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand-new hour… 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Kick Ass Cowgate
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

The perfect way to start and end your Fringe day with late and afternoon shows consisting of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming stand-up comedians from a… 

Dragonory: Magic and Music at Edinburgh Fringe!

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hootenannies @ The Apex
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Dive into Dragonory, the captivating family show at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosted by the charismatic George. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 1st - 14th Aug 2024

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe, for all the family to enjoy together. 

Family-Fun Edinburgh Cycle Tour

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Meeting Point at Bridgend Farmhouse
• 1st - 24th Aug 2024

Exclusive to Fringe 2024! See Edinburgh on two wheels. 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show 2024

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

Edinburgh's Old Town – History and Tales

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hot Toddy
• 1st - 26th Aug 2024

Covering everything from history to religion and folklore, this walking tour is an original tour of Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town. 

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Following on from it’s success in previous years, this delightful, funny show returns with a revolving line-up of the best and up-and-coming female comedians from around Edinburgh … 

Fringe! The Musical

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon Patter House
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

Chantelle Duprée always dreamed of becoming a star! From her “humble” upbringing in an American mid-western town, she decides to travel across the pond to perform a one-woman show… 

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

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

Fast Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Dome
• 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2024

So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase, hoste… 

Fast Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 8th Jul 2024

Binge on the Edinburgh Fringe without leaving London! The UK’s leading comedy website, Chortle, presents a jam-packed bill of 28 comedy and variety acts headi… 

Boys Gone Wild: Live Podcast

• Listing
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 11th Jun 2024

They’re finally coming out! Of their bedrooms! After an excruciating wait, the Boys Gone Wild Podcast (Horatio Gould and Andrew Kirwan) is going live again. 

The James Sinclair Podcast Live

• Listing
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 10th Jun 2024

If entrepreneurship tickles your taste buds, then this is the event for you. 

Richard Pulsford: Get Rich Quick

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 31st May - 2nd Jun 2024

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021. 

Fringe Academy: An Introduction to Forum Theatre

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• The Ledward Centre
• 27th - 27th May 2024

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

Across the Stew-niverse: A Podcast About Stewart Lee

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Bar Broadway (Off Broadway)
• 25th - 26th May 2024

Stand-up comedian and semi-harmless fanatic Daniel Powell (plus special guest) take a deep dive into the work of the comedian Stewart Lee. 

KOMEDIA Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Komedia Studio
• 2nd Jun 2023 - 24th May 2024

A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe. 

Fringe Academy: The Future of Brighton Fringe

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc / The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
• 22nd May 2023 - 24th May 2024

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Llama On The Fringe!

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Komedia Studio
• 20th May 2024

JoeJas is bringing his brain child Fat Llama to Brighton fringe for a fun night of genre bending! JoeJas started Fat Llama 2014 and the events portion in 2016 because he felt there… 

Fringe Flicks

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Lewes Depot
• 18th - 18th May 2024

Join Brighton Fringe for our first ever shorts programme, Fringe Flicks. 

Richard III (a one person show)

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton
• The Yellow Book
• 15th - 19th May 2024

Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show. 

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with Chichester Festival Theatre

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• The Ledward Centre
• 15th May 2024

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

Fringe Academy: Engaging with UK Fringe Festivals, featuring Edinburgh Fringe

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• The Ledward Centre
• 13th May 2024

Meet the Edinburgh Fringe team for coffee, biscuits and chat! Get an insight into how open-access arts festivals work in the UK and how to get involved. 

Richard Cobb: Running Joke (Work in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
• 11th - 19th May 2024

Hot on the heels of last year’s debut Couple’s Massage, Scottish comedian and writer Richard Cobb returns to the track with a brand new hour filled with more guilt-tripped anecdote… 

Fringe Academy: Life After Fringe with World Fringe and NRTF

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• The Ledward Centre
• 10th May 2024

Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe. 

Richard III | Globe

• Listing
• West End
• Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre
• 9th May - 3rd Aug 2024

Meet Richard: the man, the myth, the monster. 

Richard III

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Bridewell Theatre
• 9th - 18th May 2024

A fresh retelling of this Shakespeare classic which will connect to new audiences and delight old fans 

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 8th May 2024

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. 

Fringe Academy: Networking at The Ledward Centre

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• The Ledward Centre
• 8th - 29th May 2024

Come to The Ledward Centre for an hour of networking with the Brighton Fringe team, artists and participants. 

Richard Herring: Can I Have My Ball Back?

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 8th May 2024

In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. 

Fringe Academy: Networking at North Laine Brewhouse

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• North Laine Brewhouse
• 7th - 28th May 2024

Come to the North Laine pub (Wiff Waff area) for an hour of networking with the Brighton Fringe team, artists and participants. 

Beach Box returns to the Fringe: Where Brighton's love of sauna all began

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Beach Box Spa
• 6th May - 2nd Jun 2024

Beach Box presents an exciting line up of Sauna Rituals & events, featuring special guests to expertly guide you in a thermal journey. 

Mic Records Fringe 2024 Edition

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• The Lewes Road Inn
• 4th May - 1st Jun 2024

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

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
• 6th May 2023 - 27th May 2024

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at Brighton Fringe for 16 years, an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 4th May - 2nd Jun 2024

A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from the Fringe and around Brighton in a late afternoon show full of fun and laughter. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
• 4th May - 2nd Jun 2024

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Fringe Academy: The Mark Carr & Co Sessions

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Century House
• 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2024

Time for you, coffee, cake and chat. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Multiple Venues
• 5th May 2023 - 2nd Jun 2024

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Brighton Fringe! This show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastical… 

Falmer Fringe Concerts

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• St Laurence Church by the Pond
• 3rd May - 1st Jun 2024

A selection of recitals: Friday 3rd May, 7. 

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• The Brunswick
• 5th May 2023 - 3rd May 2024

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

So That You May Go Beyond The Sea

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Camden People’s Theatre
• 3rd May, 2024

As we sit in the Camden People’s Theatre, a performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is taking place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, at least for the purposes this pl… 

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• All Saints Church
• 2nd May 2024

This festival concert is a highlight of the year. 

Peckham Fringe Festival

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Theatre Peckham
• 1st May - 8th Jun 2024

Returning for a third year, Peckham Fringe are back for 2024! This inclusive and dynamic performing arts festival will take place at Theatre Peckham, showcasing a lineup of over 20… 

Frozen

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Greenwich Theatre
• 3rd May, 2024

Bryony Lavery’s Frozen embraces difficult issues and circumstances. 

Fringe Academy: How to Flyer in 2024

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Pier Werks
• 25th Apr 2024

Flyering regulations have changed in Brighton and Hove for 2024, join the Brighton Fringe team to learn about flyering this Fringe. 

Fringe Academy: Meeting Other Brighton Fringe First-Timers

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Fringe Academy
• 24th Apr 2024

A networking opportunity to meet other Brighton Fringe artists and venues who are also taking part for the first time in 2024. 

What The Butler Saw

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Devonshire Park Theatre
• 1st May, 2024

Artistic Director and Founder of London Classic Theatre, Michael Cabot opened the company’s touring production of Joe Orton’s What The Butler Saw at the Devonshire Park Theatr… 

Fringe Academy: Press Panel

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Fringe Academy
• 17th Apr 2024

Wondering how to attract press to your Brighton Fringe event? Join this panel session to learn about press releases, reviews, and more! This Fringe Academy will operate in a Q&A s… 

Community Service

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Multiple Venues
• 16th Apr, 2024

Stan’s Cafe Theatre, Birmingham, is rooted in the community, so it’s no surprise that they have taken the local story of Trevor Prince, a gospel guitarist and one of the first bl… 

Besa

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Drayton Arms Theatre
• 13th Apr, 2024

What an extraordinary and charming play this is, courtesy of De Insomniis Theatre. 

Horne's Descent

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Old Red Lion Pub
• 5th Apr, 2024

It all starts off so nicely, but it’s not long before Nina Atesh’s drawing-room drama turns into a battleground of conflicts that resurrect the past, fight for the present and … 

My Beautifull Laundrette

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Liverpool Playhouse
• 8th Apr, 2024

Hanif Kureishi’s adaptation of his screenplay for My Beautiful Laundrette was at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its UK tour, courtesy of the Theatre Nation Partnerships conve… 

Les Misérables (School Edition)

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Westcliff High School For Boys
• 27th Mar, 2024

To stage Les Misérables is a massive undertaking for any theatre company, but Director Ben Jeffreys has consummately risen to the challenge with a production of the School’s Edi… 

Foam

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Finborough Theatre
• 27th Mar, 2024

Harry McDonald’s Foam, at the Finborough Theatre, is a chronological series of snapshots that capture events in the life of Nicky Crane (1958-1993). 

Hide and Seek

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 18th Mar, 2024

It’s refreshing to see a much-visited subject of bullying and homophobia in a world dominated by social media, given a fresh treatment that is both innovative and extraordinary, … 

Rika’s Rooms

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Playground Theatre
• 8th Mar, 2024

Rika’s Rooms is the second in the series of four works that form the Playground Theatre’s season of plays by Gail Louw and features Emma Wilkinson Wright in the eponymous solo … 

Guys & Dolls

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Bridge Theatre
• 18th Mar, 2024

Celebrating the show’s first anniversary, Nicholas Hytner’s sensational, immersive production of Guys & Dolls continues at the Bridge Theatre with a new lineup of stars, th… 

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football

• Listing
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 3rd Mar 2024

A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today. 

Matt Le Tissier, Richard Vobes and Clive de Carle: Solutions for Health, Life and Football

• Listing
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 3rd Mar 2024

A lively, entertaining afternoon of conversation with three of our most maverick thinkers in the UK today. 

Uncle Vanya

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Orange Tree Theatre
• 15th Mar, 2024

The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, has scored a major triumph in securing the services of Sir Trevor Nunn to direct his faithful adaptation of Uncle Vanya in a production that has … 

Blonde Poison

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Playground Theatre
• 7th Mar, 2024

Gail Louw's best-known work, Blonde Poison, forms part of a four-play season devoted to her work at the Playground Theatre. 

The Duchess of Malfi

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
• 15th Mar, 2024

Director Rachel Bagshaw has created a vibrant and vivid production of John Webster’s tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, at the Sam Wanamaker Theatre that revels in the candlelight se… 

Richard Blackwood Live

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 10th Feb 2024

Richard Blackwood brings his jam packed hour of pure heavyweight punchlines and anecdotes. 

Richard III

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Barons Court Theatre
• 5th - 10th Feb 2024

Richard, Duke of Gloucester fresh from the conclusion of The Wars of The Roses remains dissatisfied and still ruthlessly ambitious, nothing and no one will stand in his way. 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 22nd Jan - 11th Mar 2024

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 … 

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 7th Jan 2024

Music is something that we are all touched by. 

Music and the Mind: Podcast Launch

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 7th Jan 2024

Music is something that we are all touched by. 

Robin Hood (that sick f**k)

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Bread and Roses
• 1st May, 2024

Baby Lamb Productions have scored another success with their latest production, Robin Hood (that sick f**k) at the Bread and Roses Theatre. 

Double Trouble: Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 28th Dec 2023

Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe… 

Double Trouble : Richard Blackwood & Tommy Sandhu

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 28th Dec 2023

Coming to destroy the stage! A guaranteed night of uplifting vibes and full on belly laughter! Were bringing the laughs, all you gotta do is bring your friends! Pe… 

She Stoops to Conquer

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Orange Tree Theatre
• 30th Nov, 2023

Artistic Director Tom Littler, with Francesca Ellis, scores another inspired triumph with his production of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer. 

Ghosts

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
• 2nd Dec, 2023

The traditional blacked-out auditorium that marks the start of a play at the Sam Wanamaker theatre is illuminated one candle at a time, until the six candelabra and four sconces br… 

Treason - the Musical

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Alexandra Palace
• 13th Nov, 2023

The brief descriptor of Treason the Musical as “a historic tale of division, religious persecution, and brutality” reads like a modern-day newspaper headline. 

Now Entering Ely, Nevada

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Space
• 1st Nov, 2023

Memory is a strange thing. 

To Have And To Hold

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Hampstead Theatre
• 9th Nov, 2023

The final days of a sixty-year marriage are turned into a domestic comedy in the latest offering from playwright Richard Bean, of One Man, Two Guvnors fame, in To Have and To Hold,… 

1984

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Hackney Town Hall
• 30th Oct, 2023

Playwright Adam Taub says, “In the era of Google, Amazon and Meta, when our every move is monitored and recorded, there is no more relevant story than 1984”. 

Casting the Runes

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Pleasance Theatre Trust
• 23rd Oct, 2023

Following their hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year Box Tale Soup are now performing Casting the Runes, based on stories by M R James, at the Pleasance… 

Manic Street Creature

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Southwark Playhouse
• 27th Oct, 2023

Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world… 

The Loaf

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Bridge House Theatre
• 19th Oct, 2023

Head to the Bridge House Theatre, Penge for an evening of delightful storytelling and charming performances in Alan Booty's two-hander, The Loaf. 

Trueman and the Arsonists

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Roundhouse
• 1st Nov, 2023

Writer Simon Stephens has taken Max Frisch’s 1953 Biedermann und die Brandstifter, variously translated as The Fireraisers or The Arsonists and given it a heightened absurdist in… 

The Kaspar Hauser Experiment

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Space
• 23rd Oct, 2023

Winston Churchill’s famous expression, “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma…” could accurately be applied to the subject of The Kaspar Hauser Experiment a… 

The Nag's Head

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 20th Oct, 2023

If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th… 

Owners

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Jermyn Street Theatre
• 19th Oct, 2023

Carly Churchill looks upon Owners, now revived at Jermyn Street Theatre, as a watershed in her life. 

Iolanthe

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 16th Oct, 2023

There is nothing subtle about Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical attack on the House of Lords in Iolanthe, which premiered in both London and New York on 25th November 1882; the fi… 

Gentlemen

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Arcola Theatre
• 11th Oct, 2023

From time to time a play comes along that ticks every box and gives a surprise treatment to a contemporary topic. 

fell

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Barons Court Theatre
• 7th Oct, 2023

The current transformation of the postage stamp stage of Barons Court Theatre, located in the cellar vaults of The Curtains Up pub, has been wrought by Designer Jane Linz Roberts, … 

The Island

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Cervantes Theatre
• 30th Sep, 2023

There is an intriguing opening to The Island at the Cervantes Theatre. 

Am I Irish Yet

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• White Bear Theater Pub
• 30th Sep, 2023

Described as a ‘one-woman show chronicling the life of Kate Kerrigan’ Am I Irish Yet? lays bare her problem as soon as she opens her mouth. 

The Red Lion

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Queens Theatre - Hornchurch
• 27th Sep, 2023

Religious fervour and football fanaticism have much in common, so it seems entirely appropriate that Patrick Marber’s changing-room drama, The Red Lion should open to the sound o… 

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Arcola Theatre
• 17th Oct, 2023

The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy. 

Lessons on Revolution

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Hope Theatre
• 5th Oct, 2023

Billed as ‘documentary theatre’ Lessons on Revolution at the Hope Theatre is a fascinating excursion into performance and the creative process that challenges the traditional i… 

The Threepenny Opera

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Cockpit
• 13th Oct, 2023

Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge. 

The Old Queen's Head

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Lion And Unicorn
• 22nd Sep, 2023

A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes… 

I, Daniel Blake

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Everyman Theatre
• 5th Oct, 2023

Two lives come together in an unlikely match. 

Mess Maker

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Bridge House Theatre
• 20th Sep, 2023

We’re all familiar with mess in one form or another, but for most of us dealing with it is probably not an all-consuming activity in the way that it is for writer and performer Jen… 

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Gielgud Theatre
• 24th Oct, 2023

The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021. 

Boys From The Blackstuff

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Royal Court Liverpool
• 3rd Oct, 2023

The extent to which you appreciate James Graham’s adaptation of Boys from the Blackstuff might depend partly on how well you know Alan Bleasdale’s original television series. 

Artefact & Something Unspoken

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Playground Theatre
• 27th Sep, 2023

The ever-flexible performance space at the Playground Theatre is once more transformed with great imagination, this time to accommodate the double bill of Rena Brannan’s Artefact… 

The White Factory

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Marylebone Theatre
• 13th Oct, 2023

With horrific events occurring around the world, The White Factory at The Marylebone Theatre, written by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s and directed by Maxim Didenko comes as a poignant rem… 

The Lady With a Dog

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Gatehouse
• 18th Sep, 2023

Publicity for Lady With a Dog, written and directed by Mark Giesser, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse, promises a version in which ‘Chekhov’s famous short story of romance and infi… 

Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 19th Sep, 2023

The traditional direction of migrants seeking a better life is turned on its head in Emanuele Aldrovandi’s Sorry We Didn’t Die At Sea (translated by Marco Young) at the Park Th… 

One Under Par

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Bridge House Theatre
• 14th Sep, 2023

Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th… 

Rebecca

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Charing Cross Theatre
• 25th Sep, 2023

After all the hype from it’s reception elsewhere in Europe combined with the legacy of the original film version, the intriguing yet simple plot and the clear characterisation in… 

Dead Dad Dog and Sunny Boy

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Finborough Theatre
• 9th Oct, 2023

It was a low turnout at the intimate Finborough Theatre for John McKay’s Dead Dad Dog, but we were all clearly in the mood for a fun night out. 

God of Carnage

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Lyric Hammersmith
• 13th Sep, 2023

Who has not experienced a situation in which a surmountable incident escalates out of all proportion? Then, on the way to resolving it, further baggage accumulates around the subje… 

3300 Miles: New Jersey to Edinburgh – A Transatlantic Songwriters' Circle

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
• 27th Aug 2023

Songwriting performers Dan Sheehan (USA), Seán McLaughlin and Fifidiny (Scotland) perform and tell the stories behind their songs in a song-circle setup, taking turns while onstag… 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2023

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greyfriars Kirk
• 26th Aug 2023

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

Sir Cliff Richard in Conversation With Gloria Hunniford

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stables at Prestonfield
• 26th - 27th Aug 2023

Sir Cliff Richard in conversation with Gloria Hunniford discussing his career. 

Memories of Summer in Edinburgh

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
• 25th Aug 2023

Jennifer Witton, soprano, Bethan Langford, mezzo-soprano, and Dylan Perez, piano, present Souvenirs D’été Édimbourgeois, a recital of music by French composers – Berlioz, Bize… 

Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Sheraton Grand Hotel
• 24th Aug 2023

An exclusive evening that presents the best of the year’s Fringe acts together in one evening of comedy and fine dining. 

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C ARTS | C venues | C aurora
• 25th Aug, 2023

This show’s title summons up many associations except, perhaps, the one that forms the foundation of the play. 

The Alpha Podcast

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 21st - 26th Aug 2023

It’s a woke, woke world – political correctness has gone mad! If only a group of strong, forthright, red-blooded males in tight t-shirts would break free from the oppressive an… 

The TUNEabomber

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
• 22nd Aug, 2023

Another in the seemingly endless flow of musicals about unlikely subjects that prove successful. 

Las Vegas in Edinburgh

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 21st - 26th Aug 2023

Siegfried and Joy are the new masters of magic. 

The Bite, Late-Night (A Mouthful of Fringe Mayhem)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 21st - 27th Aug 2023

Raucous, wild and an incy bit different – this one-hour compilation show with a changing nightly lineup, gives you a fabulous cross section of Fringe mayhem in one wild bite-size… 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s Viol Rackett Show

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Cecilia’s Hall
• 20th Aug 2023

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band is back for 2023 with a fresh programme of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, the much-loved programme of instrumental music, from the Middle Ages… 

Django at the Fringe: A Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Argyle Cellar Bar
• 20th - 23rd Aug 2023

Scottish/English violinist Matt Holborn and a group of London-based musicians formed for this year’s Fringe, known internationally for their distinctive hard-swinging approach to… 

Edinburgh Telephone Choir: Around the World in 80 Minutes

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
• 20th Aug 2023

Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi… 

Rave Forever – Fringe Special feat Yogi Haughton

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Liquid Room
• 19th Aug 2023

Rave Forever is back at Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms this August for a 5am-finish Fringe special with the man responsible for bringing Acid House to Scotland back in the late 80s, the … 

Richard Duffy is Asleep: A Retrospective

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ CC Blooms
• 19th - 27th Aug 2023

We spend one third of our lives asleep. 

Aspects of Edinburgh (The Dene)

• Listing
Exhibitions
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Dundas Street Gallery
• 19th - 28th Aug 2023

In a new series of abstract, conceptual and fine art oil paintings, contemporary Edinburgh artist Davy Macdonald showcases a stunning new collection of work inspired by the Dene. 

Trick Edinburgh

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Royal Highland Centre
• 18th Aug 2023

Trick Edinburgh is happening this summer, as Patrick Topping and this huge line-up come to The Royal Highland Centre this Friday August 18th for a very special summer night show. 

Edinburgh Dungeon – There's Been a Murder!

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Dungeon
• 18th - 19th Aug 2023

The cast of the Edinburgh Dungeon bring back their sell-out thrilling Fringe show but who is the culprit this time! Come and join the Secret Society of Scottish Scoundrels and inve… 

The Fringe at Prestonfield: Hosted by Christopher Biggins

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stables at Prestonfield
• 18th - 25th Aug 2023

Christopher Biggins requests your pleasure for our inaugural season of cabaret and chat at this illustrious venue. 

The White Heather Club's Fringe Ceilidh

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
• 17th Aug 2023

Book your spot at the The White Heather Club for a night of traditional Scottish dancing at Bonnie & Wild’s legendary Food Hall in the St James Quarter. 

I'm Doing the Edinburgh Fringe With My Grandad

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle
• 17th - 22nd Aug 2023

Offbeat intergenerational stand-up from two of Bristol’s most inventive new comedians, Greg Curzon (‘hilarious. 

Tim Kraft Live at the Edinburgh Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hootenannies @ The Apex
• 17th - 20th Aug 2023

All the way from Canada, Tim Kraft joins Hootenannies (Hoot 4) at The Apex for an hour of stand-up comedy live at the Edinburgh Fringe, from 17th to 20th August at 18:20. 

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 16th - 27th Aug 2023

Constantly rotating line-up of the best comics at this year’s festival. 

Gig Pigs Live in Edinburgh

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 16th Aug 2023

Gig Pigs, Ivo Graham and Alex Kealy’s podcast comes to the Pleasance for one night only! Seated or standing? Support band or drinks? Sing along as loudly as possible or watch in re… 

Richard Brown and Jin Hao Li Split an Hour

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Tron)
• 14th Aug 2023

Stand-up comedian and writer Richard Brown (‘A ruthless and angst-fuelled set with clever, impactful writing’ (TheWeeReview. 

The Grand Return of the Edinburgh Revue

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in Augustines
• 14th - 27th Aug 2023

Edinburgh’s best homegrown student comedy show is back! Featuring talent from the city’s finest up and coming student comics, witness the Edinburgh Revue’s triumphant return … 

Everything That Annoys Me, and You

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Infirmary Street
• 17th Aug, 2023

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 … 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• artSpace@StMarks
• 14th - 16th Aug 2023

Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers. 

Tales of Edinburgh Horror

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
• 14th - 24th Aug 2023

Every city has a history, but when it comes to grisly secrets, it’s hard to rival the gruesome history of Edinburgh. 

The All-Terrain Podcast Live

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
• 13th - 17th Aug 2023

Join guests from the worlds of comedy, literature, music and faith for a series of live recordings of the popular All Terrain Podcast. 

Edinburgh Fringe Fling

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Old Dr Bells Baths
• 13th Aug 2023

The Edinburgh Fringe Fling will debut at the Old Dr Bells Baths at this year’s Festival Fringe. 

The Edinburgh Fridge Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle
• 12th - 27th Aug 2023

Come and hear from SMEG, the most poetic fridge on the fringe! 45 minutes of character comedy, silly poems and the best props you’ll ever see in your life! What’s in the fridge? Ev… 

Healthy Harmonies at the Fringe

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Salvation Army Edinburgh City Corps
• 12th Aug 2023

Healthy Harmonies, NHS Fife staff choir, is once again delighted to be returning to the Edinburgh Fringe – very much a highlight in the choir’s diary. 

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 12th Aug 2023

The biggest, brightest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe all in one huge show, staged in the famous Udderbelly. 

Museum Late: Fringe Fridays

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• National Museum of Scotland
• 11th - 18th Aug 2023

Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours. 

Edinburgh Youth Orchestra Summer Season 2023

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greyfriars Kirk
• 11th - 12th Aug 2023

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

Richard Michael Plays The Great American Songbook

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• artSpace@StMarks
• 11th - 13th Aug 2023

Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song… 

Roast Battle Scotland: Fringe 2023

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Live Stream
• 10th - 24th Aug 2023

The show that turns smack talk into an art form. 

Edinburgh Gin: Seaside Gin and Oyster Pairing

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Gin Shop
• 10th - 24th Aug 2023

Join us for an evening of wonder, told through taste, as we bring the shoreline of our beautiful namesake city to you and showcase our award-winning Seaside Gin. 

Ibrahem Al Hajjaj: From Riyadh to Edinburgh

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 8th - 12th Aug 2023

Saudi stand-up Ibrahem Al Hajjaj brings his act to the UK for the first time. 

Edinburgh's Quickest Pub Quiz

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Cocktail Mafia
• 7th - 28th Aug 2023

Fan of a pub quiz? Test your knowledge under time pressure with this exciting, entertaining and at times farcical format, that’s already a hit at the prestigious Gleneagles Townhou… 

14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Niddry St
• 9th Aug, 2023

Students from Westcliff High School for Boys, Essex, have arrived in Edinburgh with 14-18 Cyrano de Bergerac, an exciting re-imagining of Edmund Rostand’s 1897 classic tale writt… 

Tipples, Tales and Traditions with Edinburgh Gin

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Gin Distillery
• 7th - 28th Aug 2023

Immerse yourself in the enchanting wonder of Edinburgh at our exclusive tasting experience. 

The Spirit of Edinburgh

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Yotel Edinburgh
• 6th - 20th Aug 2023

Join us on a multi-sensorial experience as you discover the stories that link Scotland’s capital with the G&T. 

Richard Spalding: Look Who Loves Me (WIP)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hootenannies @ The Apex
• 6th - 19th Aug 2023

If someone tells you they love you, it’s rude to ask why. 

Drunk Fringe

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Alchemist | George Street
• 5th - 26th Aug 2023

In Drunk Fringe, you will see some of the best comedy and variety acts after they’ve had one too many. 

Best of Camden Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• Camden Comedy Club
• 5th - 23rd Aug 2023

Four mixed-bill nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe! Come down to Camden Comedy Club to see your fellow festival funny people get on stage and entertain us for 10-12 min… 

Sofa SoFunny So Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
• 5th - 27th Aug 2023

Fringe version of the five-star hit comedy show by Leslie Gold (American) and Nick Kirk (not), with a different guest comedian each show. 

Best of Camden Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• Camden Comedy Club
• 5th - 23rd Aug 2023

Four mixed-bill late nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe comedy! A set of different comic performers from across Camden Fringe will be on each night at Camden Comedy Clu… 

Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 5th - 26th Aug 2023

It’s like the Royal Variety Show of the Fringe. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 5th - 28th Aug 2023

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

159th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography

• Listing
Exhibitions
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Photographic Society
• 5th - 27th Aug 2023

Edinburgh Photographic Society held its first international exhibition in 1861. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe: Early Edition

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for an 11th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across… 

Fringe Act of the Year

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hootenannies @ The Apex
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The only Fringe award entirely decided by the audience. 

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

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy / Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
• 4th - 26th Aug 2023

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

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Multiple Venues
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy: Late Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 4th - 28th Aug 2023

A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from around the Fringe in a late show full of fun and laughter. 

Edinburgh – A Tale of Two Towns

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Outside Greyfriars Bobby Bar
• 4th - 28th Aug 2023

Our unique tour sets out to inform and entertain as we take you into both Old and New Town, giving you a real sense of the two sides of Edinburgh and revealing some of the secrets … 

Loud Poets: Best of Fringe

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• 4th - 18th Aug 2023

Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c… 

JM Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Hall
• 7th Aug, 2023

Puppetry arguably reached a new level of realism and sophistication with War Horse. 

Darwin in Edinburgh

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Meeting Point @ Potterrow Underpass (Lothian Street Side)
• 4th - 13th Aug 2023

In 1825 Darwin arrived to study Medicine. 

Silent Disco Walking Tours Edinburgh: Boogie Shoes

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Niddry St
• 4th - 26th Aug 2023

With over 1,000 five-star sell-out Fringe shows in Edinburgh and around the globe under our kilts, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as she returns for … 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

Laughing Horse Clean Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The Pick of the Fringe has been a hit show at the Fringe for 19 years, an annual selection of the best in stand-up comedy in Edinburgh. 

Blue Note Nights – JazzMain on the Fringe

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Jazz Bar
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

JazzMain presents Blue Note Nights. 

Richard Pulsford: Short Joke Teller

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

Quality one-liners, puns and light-hearted jokes! UK Pun Championships winner 2022. 

The Typewriter

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Riddles Court
• 8th Aug, 2023

The 20 seater upstairs theatre at Riddles Court provides a suitably tight space for The Typewriter, a play based in a cramped office. 

Square Peg

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in Augustines
• 11th Aug, 2023

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

The Stand's Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stand’s New Town Theatre
• 4th - 26th Aug 2023

The Stand’s Pick of the Fringe – The Stand’s hand-picked selection of great comedy from across the Fringe at The Stand’s New Town Theatre every Friday and Saturday night. 

The Standard Short Long Drop

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpaceTriplex
• 16th Aug, 2023

Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p… 

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, George Square
• 4th - 26th Aug 2023

The biggest, brightest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe all in one huge show, staged in the famous Udderbelly. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

See the best comedians selected from across the Fringe alongside hot new talent and fresh Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up daily at each show in this selection box… 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Scotland's Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

Scottish Comedy Festival’s official Pick of the Fringe showcase returns for an 11th hilarious year with another phenomenal hand-picked selection of our favourite acts from across… 

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

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

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

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with a different top-notch comedy line-up at every show. 

Flamenco Fringe

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Yotel Edinburgh
• 4th - 28th Aug 2023

Award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company returns with the stunning flamenco music and dance they are known for. 

Groovicle

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo Southside
• 20th Aug, 2023

Dancer and performer Elliot Minogue-Stone presents pop art, contemporary dance and cabaret in his brand-new mish-mash show, Groovicle at Zoo Southside. 

Edinburgh's Greatest Hits Music Walking Tour

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Meeting Point at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre (Next to the Festival Theatre Café side door)
• 4th - 26th Aug 2023

Get off the tourist trail and explore Edinburgh’s music scene with irreverent stories of the performers who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city. 

Be Home Soon

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Infirmary Street
• 6th Aug, 2023

A chance meeting in an art gallery and a new flatmate moving in provide the simple framework for Be Home Soon, a beautifully crafted and sensitively performed debut play from By Th… 

The Grandfathers

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hill Street Theatre
• 22nd Aug, 2023

What would it be like for young people if national conscription were still part of growing up; to receive the letter giving you time and place to report for 547 days of duty and ha… 

Islam Festival Edinburgh

• Listing
Exhibitions
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Central Mosque
• 4th - 20th Aug 2023

Have you ever wanted to visit a mosque? Do you have any burning questions about Islam? Would you like to discover more about a faith which is often misunderstood? Every year at Fri… 

Mountebank Comedy Walk of Edinburgh

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel Comedy
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

The Mountebank Comedy Walk is the hysterical, historical and completely original walking tour of Edinburgh led by professional local award-winning comedian Daniel Downie. 

Forth on the Fringe

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Playhouse
• 4th - 5th Aug 2023

Forth on the Fringe is the largest showcase event of Fringe entertainment available at this year’s festival. 

Best Comedy Show Edinburgh Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
• 3rd - 15th Aug 2023

Woah. 

Edinbra Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

A revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming female comedians from around the Fringe in a hilarious early evening showcase guaranteed to raise more than just a few… 

Scotland's Best Comedians at the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

A selection of Scotland’s best comedians hosted by five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist, Ross Leslie. 

An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even … 

Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics. 

Richard Stott: Dear Lord… What A Sad Little Life

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going. 

The Gong of Edinburgh: Comedy Gong Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Gong Shows have launched the careers of several famous comedians. 

Richard Cobb: Couple's Massage

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

In October 2022, Richard Cobb was on honeymoon in Cuba. 

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

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

Jamie Primrose: Visions of Edinburgh – 20th Anniversary Showcase

• Listing
Exhibitions
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Dundas Street Gallery
• 3rd - 10th Aug 2023

The best-selling contemporary Scottish artist’s eagerly anticipated retrospective of over 50 stunning oil paintings, inks and prints. 

The Bite (A Mouthful of Fringe Madness)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Raucous, wild and a little bit different, this one-hour compilation show with a changing daily line-up, gives you a fabulous cross-section of Fringe madness in one crazy bite-sized… 

Live Podcast Hour

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

25 podcasts in 25 days! Come along for a live recording of a different podcast every day of the Fringe! Visit our site to see who is on, or just show up and be surprised. 

2nd Picture of Dorian Gray

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
• 6th Aug, 2023

Nine bubbly teenagers all dressed in white, a reverberating baritone saxophone and an accordion fill the stage around an empty white picture frame mounted on a white easel. 

CeilidhKids at the Fringe

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome. 

Best of Edinburgh Fringe for Kids

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 3rd - 13th Aug 2023

A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe. 

The Queer Comedy Club Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

The UK’s first permanent LGBTQ+ comedy club comes to Edinburgh Fringe and we’ve got a bunch of queer comedians who we know you’re going to love! Every night join us for an hour sho… 

Sing, River

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 24th Aug, 2023

The magic and mystery of midsummer combine with things past and present in Sing, River, written and performed by Nathaniel Jones of Love Song Productions at the Pleasance Courtyard… 

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• 2Northdown
• 2nd - 14th Aug 2023

Kym Nash hosts 70 Minutes of some of Reckless Comedy’s favourite up and coming acts on the circuit. 

SHOWCASE FROM THE FRINGE

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• 2Northdown
• 2nd - 14th Aug 2023

Kym Nash hosts 70 Minutes of some of Reckless Comedy’s favourite up and coming acts on the circuit. 

Mrs President

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
• 5th Aug, 2023

A haunting celeste chime creates a sombre mood that permeates John Ransom Phillips’s Mrs President at C Aquila as Mary Lincoln (LeeAnne Hutchison) poses for photographer Mathew B… 

A Manchester Anthem

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 25th Aug, 2023

Making its Fringe debut after winning VAULT Festival ‘Show Of The Week Award’ and Pleasance ‘Pick of the VAULT Award’, Manchester Anthem has been restaged from the linear L… 

Fast Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Dome
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2023

So many comedians, so little time! In this unmissable Fringe institution, 12 top comedy and variety acts perform ridiculously short sets in one furiously fast-paced showcase, hoste… 

Collar

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Bread and Roses
• 1st Aug, 2023

If you think coming out as gay or announcing any change from the heteronormative might be difficult, then try telling your parents and friends that you've just been accepted on… 

Lynn T. Walsh: Before The Drugs Kick In (Edinburgh Fringe Preview)

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Barons Court Theatre
• 28th - 29th Jul 2023

One of America’s top comedians, Lynn T. 

Fast Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 9th Jul 2023

Binge on the Edinburgh Fringe without leaving London! Leading comedy website Chortle presents a jam-packed bill of 28 comedy and variety acts heading to the festival in … 

Bones

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 13th Jul, 2023

In 70 action-packed minutes, Bones highlights mental health issues in sport, looking at one man’s struggle to reconcile his inner mental turmoil with the physical demands expecte… 

Best of Brighton Fringe: Theatre

• Listing
Theatre
• FUSE International
• Rose Theatre
• 1st Jul 2023

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… 

Dr Semmelweis

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Harold Pinter Theatre
• 25th Jul, 2023

Having emerged from a period in which we were exhorted to wash our hands at every opportunity and instructed on how to carry out the ritual, it is strange to go back in time to an … 

Song From Far Away

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Hampstead Theatre
• 4th Jul, 2023

Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits. 

Lady Inger

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Space
• 3rd Jul, 2023

Ottisdotter theatre company’s production of Lady Inger provides a rare opportunity to see one of Henrik Ibsen’s earliest, least performed and less well-known works. 

Edinburgh Preview: Coffee Kid

• Listing
Comedy
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 27th Jun 2023

Meet Beanie: the love child of George Clooney and a Nespresso machine. 

Vincent River

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Greenwich Theatre
• 29th Jun, 2023

Playwright Philip Ridley seems to be enjoying a resurgence at the moment; not that he has ever been out of fashion. 

Behold! The Monkey Jesus - a (kind of) restoration comedy

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Brockley Jack
• 27th Jun, 2023

From the extraordinary story of Cecilia Giménez (Mary Tillett), writer Joe Wiltshire Smith has created a beautifully crafted play that embraces her innocence and resilience, while… 

Self Tape

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• King’s Head Theatre Pub
• 25th Jun, 2023

Jonas (Michael Batten) would ideally like to be in full-time employment as an actor on stage. 

Wandsworth Arts Fringe

• Listing
All Genres
• London Fringe
• Wandsworth
• 9th - 25th Jun 2023

SW London’s bold and boundary-pushing festival of arts and culture returns for 17 brilliant days, taking over Wandsworth from 9-25 June with a jam-packed, belly-laughing, awe-ins… 

Extravaganza 3: Fringe Benefits

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Ironworks Studios
• 4th Jun 2023

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

Brighton Fringe Comedy Showcase

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Komedia Studio
• 2nd Jun 2023

A showcase of the best new comedians performing at the 2023 Brighton Fringe. 

Eric Rushton: Not That Deep (Edinburgh Preview)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
• 31st May 2023

Best New Show Nominee 2023 (Leicester Comedy Festival). 

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 27th - 28th May 2023

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the UK Pun Championships Winner 2022 and Scottish Comedian of the Year Runner-up 2021. 

Richard Pulsford: Short joke teller

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble / The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
• 2nd Jun 2022 - 28th May 2023

One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay. 

Family Friendly Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 27th May 2023

Celebrate the start of the May half term with a family friendly pick of the fringe! Enjoy 10 minute performances of Brighton Fringe shows that will be performing over half term we… 

Rose

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Ambassadors Theatre. / The Ambassadors Theatre
• 31st May, 2023

Martin Sherman’s Rose is already an award-winning production that received widespread critical acclaim during its sell-out runs at the Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester, and the Park T… 

Suspiciously Elvis LIVE at the Brighton Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 23rd May 2023

As a last minute addition Brighton’s own Suspiciously Elvis performs at the fringe festival bringing his own unique take on the king of Rock and Roll in his glorious Las Vegas ye… 

The Future of Brighton Fringe

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 22nd May 2023

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

The Future of Brighton Fringe

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent / Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 30th May 2022 - 22nd May 2023

Brighton Fringe is at a crossroads and the future is in our hands to shape it into what we both want and need it to be. 

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Cambridge Theatre
• 25th May, 2023

Making the move from its seven-year residency at the Lyric Theatre, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical has opened at the Cambridge Theatre, its new home, where the team will be do… 

IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
• 21st May 2022 - 21st May 2023

IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast is an improvised comedy interview podcast. 

IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar
• 20th - 21st May 2023

IMDp: Improvised Movie Director Podcast is an improvised comedy interview podcast. 

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 19th - 21st May 2023

Split show from Leslie Gold (So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist) and Nick Kirk (West End New Act semi-finalist), usually seen collaborating on the hit London comedy show Sof… 

Sofa SoFunny! So Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 19th - 21st May 2023

Split show from Leslie Gold (So You Think You’re Funny semi-finalist) and Nick Kirk (West End New Act semi-finalist), usually seen collaborating on the hit London comedy show Sof… 

Future Jazz At The Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 16th May 2023

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
• 15th May 2023

Join Paul Levy from FringeReview as he talks through the ins and outs of selling your show, writing press releases and how to attract an audience. 

Fringe Academy: How to Attract an Audience with FringeReview

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Junk Poets
• 15th May 2023

Join Paul Levy from FringeReview as he talks through the ins and outs of selling your show, writing press releases and how to attract an audience. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• St Laurence Church by the Pond
• 13th - 27th May 2023

MAY 13th (Saturday, 5. 

Fringe at Falmer 2023

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• St Laurence Church by the Pond
• 13th - 27th May 2023

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

The Dumb Waiter & A Slight Ache

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Greenwich Theatre
• 20th May, 2023

Artistic Director James Haddrell has made a brave and perhaps rather surprising choice for the Greenwich Theatre’s first in-house production of 2023. 

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 10th May 2022 - 11th May 2023

Special charity showcase for Clowns Without Borders, your support spreads laughter and joy to children and families living in crisis throughout the world. 

Spiegel: Heart of the Fringe

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 11th May 2023

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Leaves of Glass

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre / Park Theatre London
• 18th May, 2023

Philip Ridley’s multi-layered, complex and highly acclaimed story Leaves of Glass is breathtakingly revived by director Max Harrison in collaboration with Lidless Theatre in a mi… 

Under Milk Wood

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Wilton’s Music Hall
• 13th May, 2023

For 30 years now, Guy Masterson has been successfully taking on the monumental challenge of presenting Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood as a solo show; revelations from the fictional … 

Fringe Networking Drinks

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Under The Archway
• 9th - 30th May 2023

Join fellow participants, venue managers and industry professionals every Tuesday evening 7pm-9pm at Caravanserai to network, talk about your show, and find out more about other Br… 

Fringe Networking Drinks

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Under The Archway
• 9th - 30th May 2023

Join fellow participants, venue managers and industry professionals every Tuesday evening 7pm-9pm at Caravanserai to network, talk about your show, and find out more about other Br… 

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 8th May 2023

Not sure what to see this Fringe? Our Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe is the perfect place to start your Brighton Fringe journey. 

Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 8th May 2023

Not sure what to see this Fringe? Our Bursary Winner Pick of the Fringe is the perfect place to start your Brighton Fringe journey. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 6th May - 4th Jun 2023

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity. 

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Caxton Arms
• 6th May 2023

Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
• 6th May - 4th Jun 2023

It’s an early evening comedy bonanza! Back for a 4th year in Brighton, this stand-up comedy selection is an exciting mixed-pack of comics, with top headliners and the best up-and-… 

It's me, Richard Wright, I'm the problem it's me

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Caxton Arms
• 6th May 2023

Richard Wright is about to turn 40 and he’s worried that he has stopped caring. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• The Lewes Road Inn
• 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023

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

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
• 6th May - 4th Jun 2023

A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Fringe City

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai: Fringe City Stage
• 6th May - 4th Jun 2023

Join us every weekend 11. 

Mic Records Fringe 2023 Edition

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• The Lewes Road Inn
• 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023

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

Fringe City

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai: Fringe City Stage / New Road
• 7th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

Join us every weekend 11. 

Aaaaaaaargh! It's a Bonanza of Comedy from Around the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
• 7th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

It’s an early evening comedy bonanza! Back for a 3rd year in Brighton, this stand-up comedy selection is an exciting mixed-pack of comics, with top headliners and the best up-and-… 

Laughing Horse CLEAN Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
• 7th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ has been a hit show at Brighton Fringe for 15 years, an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at Brighton Fringe. 

Best of Brighton Fringe Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Temple Bar / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 7th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity. 

Best of Brighton Fringe for Kids

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
• 7th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe. 

Biscuits for Breakfast

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Hampstead Theatre
• 15th May, 2023

It’s not only the title of the play; Biscuits For Breakfast is all that some people have to start the day, and that’s if they are lucky. 

South Coast Soul Revue Live at the Fringe 2023

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• The Brunswick
• 5th May 2023

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

Roedean Festival Fringe Concert

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Roedean Chapel
• 5th May 2023

This festival concert is a highlight of the year and truly encapsulates Roedean’s community spirit and love of music. 

Laughing Horse Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 6th May 2022 - 4th Jun 2023

‘The Pick of the Fringe’ returns to Brighton - an annual selection of the very best in stand-up comedy at the Brighton Fringe! This show is a succulent smorgasbord of fantastical… 

The Circle

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Orange Tree Theatre
• 11th May, 2023

The Artistic Director might have changed but the Orange Tree Theatre continues to resurrect plays from eras that many houses might shun. 

Teechers Leavers ‘22

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Greenwich Theatre
• 1st May, 2023

John Godber reinforces his campaign for the arts in education with Teechers Leavers ’22, an updated version of his original play now on its fourth UK tour courtesy of the outstan… 

Richard Parker

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• The Bridge House Theatre
• 24th Apr - 6th May 2023

In an 1838 book Edgar Allan Poe told the story of four men lost at sea. 

Richard III - Rose Theatre

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Rose Theatre Kingston
• 26th Apr - 13th May 2023

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

Getaway / Runaway

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• King’s Head Theatre
• 3rd May, 2023

Noah McCreadie has scored a triumph with his debut play Getaway/Runaway and the intimacy of the King’s Head Theatre provides the perfect setting for this intense drama from Shot … 

The Good Person of Szechwan

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Lyric Hammersmith / Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
• 28th Apr, 2023

It was just another day in Szechwan with people going about their daily business until three wandering gods in disguise turned up in the city in need of a place to stay while they … 

F★★king Men

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Waterloo East Theatre
• 28th Apr, 2023

The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th… 

Jules and Jim.

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Jermyn Street Theatre
• 8th May, 2023

In a rather surprising debut choice, Stella Powell-Jones has commenced her incumbency as Artistic Director of Jermyn Street Theatre with Timberlake Wertenbaker’s uninspired adapt… 

Breeding

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• King’s Head Theatre Pub
• 4th May, 2023

A fast pace and some hilarious banter about their names, how to pronounce and spell them, gets Barry McStay’s Breeding off to an immediately engaging and rip-roaring start that s… 

Trumpets and Raspberries

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Barons Court Theatre
• 1st May, 2023

Given the vast repertoire of plays available to theatre companies one often wonders how they decide on what to perform next and why: in this case, the somewhat lesser-known work by… 

The Sun, the Mountain, and Me

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Brockley Jack Theatre
• 1st May, 2023

In an unlikely melding of three disparate stories, Jack Fairey finds common ground in his moving play The Sun, The Mountain, and Me for Bedivere Arts at the Jack Studio Theatre, in… 

TWO

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• 2 Bath Road
• 17th Apr, 2023

One night, in a pub, in the North of England is the setting for Jim Cartwright’s carefully crafted dark comedy TWO. 

Why Would You Tell Me That?! - Live Podcast

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 4th Apr 2023

OUR TWO CURIOUS PODCAST HOSTS TELL EACH OTHER THE MOST INTRIGUING FACTS THEY CAN FIND, AND IN PART 2 OF EACH SHOW MEET A GENUINE EXPERT WHO CAN TELL US MORE. 

The Only White

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Chelsea Theatre
• 10th Apr, 2023

There is an inherent difficulty with plays that seek to tell a well-known story and thus lack a sense of mystery and element of surprise. 

Richard II

• Listing
Theatre
• UK Regional & Tours
• Westcliff High School For Boys
• 22nd - 24th Mar 2023

In this Coronation year, what could be more topical than Shakespeare’s verse-told-tale of coronation, usurpation, coronation and murder? Join Westcliff Boys to experience beautiful… 

Dance of Death

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Coronet
• 22nd Mar, 2023

The Coronet Theatre is once again hosting The National Theatre of Norway, who have arrived with their take on August Strindberg’s dark matrimonial drama Dance of Death. 

Ten Days

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Space
• 19th Mar, 2023

Matthew Jameson embarked on a major project ten years ago. 

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
• 20th Mar, 2023

Hilarious, satirical, superbly staged and brilliantly performed, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has hit the Lyric, Hammersmith in an explosion of theatricality following its sens… 

Family Tree

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Belgrade Theatre
• 16th Mar, 2023

Our lives are indebted to many people. 

The Emperor's New Clothes

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Bread and Roses
• 15th Mar, 2023

What a joy to see a very simple and equally silly story adapted for the stage and turned into an hour of light-hearted frivolity, full of humour and ingenuity. 

Under the Black Rock

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Arcola Theatre
• 10th Mar, 2023

Promoted as ‘a twisting and darkly comic thriller’, Under the Black Rock, at the Arcola Theatre, has each of those elements in different measures, but probably doesn’t achiev… 

Brighton Fringe 2023 Launch

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Ironworks Studios
• 1st Mar 2023

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

The Long Run

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Vault Festival
• Pit
• 4th Mar, 2023

There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze. 

Burn

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Vault Festival
• Leake Street Arches
• 1st Mar, 2023

The setting for Lucy Beresford-Knox’s Burn, could hardly be better. 

This Bitter Earth

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• White Bear Theater Pub
• 3rd Mar, 2023

Two main strands are interwoven in Harrison David Rivers’ This Bitter Earth, currently making its UK premiere at the White Bear Theatre, Kennington. 

Happy Meal

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Brixton House
• 1st Mar, 2023

I was invited to see Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal at Brixton House and made it quite clear that it wasn’t my sort of thing, that I would go in order to be supportive, that I almost … 

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 19th Feb 2023

Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013. 

Robert Ross Presents: A Celebration Of Richard Briers

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 19th Feb 2023

Richard Briers CBE, one of our best loved and respected actors, died on 17th February 2013. 

The Walworth Farce

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• 80 Newington Butts
• 28th Feb, 2023

What could be more appropriate to mark the opening of the Southwark Playhouse Elephant than Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce. 

Macbeth

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Wilton’s Music Hall
• 20th Feb, 2023

A Macbeth that features only the eponymous hero and his wife is an opportunity to define the characters and chart the shifting balance of power between them as the tragedy unfolds. 

Passion

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Lion And Unicorn
• 11th Feb, 2023

A heteronormative upbringing fights homosexual desire on a battleground that moves from a playful and sometimes argumentative bedroom to the secluded cell of a conversion therapy u… 

Rebus: A Game Called Malice

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Queens Theatre - Hornchurch
• 6th Feb, 2023

The Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch has opened its Spring 2023 season with the world premiere of Ian Rankin and Simon Reade’s Rebus: A Game Called Malice. 

SMOKE

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Southwark Playhouse
• 10th Feb, 2023

Too many cooks, so the saying goes, can spoil the broth. 

I Found My Horn

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• White Bear Theater Pub
• 4th Feb, 2023

A man is going through almost a lifetime’s accumulation of important junk in his attic. 

A Manchester Anthem

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• Vault Festival
• Cage
• 1st Feb, 2023

A breath of theatrical fresh is often much needed at big fringe-style events and it can currently be found at the Vault Festival in A Manchester Anthem. 

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 30th Jan - 27th Mar 2023

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

Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 30th Jan - 27th Mar 2023

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

Escaped Alone & What If If Only

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Questors Theatre
• 1st Feb, 2023

The ladies with their mugs of tea sitting outside a cottage with a fenced-off lawn would have grown up with the song In An English Country Garden, whose tune introduces George Savo… 

How Not To Drown

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Stratford East
• 4th Feb, 2023

The debate surrounding refugees, migrants and asylum seekers has dominated the political scene both internationally and domestically for decades. 

The Lehman Trilogy

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• National Theatre
• 14th Feb, 2023

The National Theatre’s production of the The Lehman Trilogy has now opened at the spacious Gillian Lynne Theatre where it looks set for another sell-out season. 

Have I None

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Golden Goose Theatre
• 29th Jan, 2023

Described by its author as a ‘tragi-farce’, Edward Bond’s Have I None at the Golden Goose Theatre is a blunt dystopian nightmare packed into an energetically angry fifty-five… 

The Elephant Song

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 26th Jan, 2023

Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o… 

The Unfriend

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Criterion Theatre / Wyndham’s Theatre
• 26th Jan, 2023

The need to willingly suspend disbelief in order to fully enter into the spirit of a play is sometimes an essential requirement if the potential for enjoyment is not to be lost alt… 

little scratch

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• New Diorama Theatre
• 19th Apr, 2023

If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit… 

Hamlet

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Southwark Playhouse
• 1st Feb, 2023

There are time when you wonder, “Why?” Lazarus Theatre Company’s Hamlet at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, is one of those. 

On The Ropes

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Park Theatre
• 29th Jan, 2023

Scheduled over twelve rounds, On the Ropes at the Park Theatre goes from 7. 

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• Westcliff High School For Boys
• 8th Dec, 2022

Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20… 

Handel’s Messiah: The Live Experience

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Theatre Royal Drury Lane
• 14th Dec, 2022

Being dead, the great maestro of late baroque composition has the hope of being raised incorruptible. 

Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre London
• 8th Dec, 2022

The creative team behind Wickies: The Vanishing Men of Eilean Mor at the Park Theatre have done an outstanding job on this production. 

Keeper Of The Flame

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Bridge House Theatre
• 1st Dec, 2022

Two main strands run through Keeper of the Flame, written and performed by Rob Adams, a play that fits neatly into the confines of the delightful Bridge House Theatre. 

Wasted

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Jack Studio Theatre
• 28th Nov, 2022

Kae Tempest’s credentials as a poet and lyricist shine through in Wasted at the Jack Studio. 

Arms and the Man

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Orange Tree Theatre
• 26th Nov, 2022

There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man. 

Top Hat

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• UK Regional & Tours
• The Mill at Sonning Theatre
• 28th Nov, 2022

The fabulous Mill at Sonning has revived last year’s Christmas success for another run over the festive season, It’s hard to believe that a full-scale musical like Top Hat, wit… 

Here

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Southwark Playhouse
• 18th Nov, 2022

Clive Judd’s fascinating debut play HERE won the 2022 Papatango New Writing Prize from a record 1,553 submissions. 

MSND

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Chelsea Theatre
• 19th Nov, 2022

We’ll never know what, if anything, Shakespeare was on when he wrote AMidsummer Night’s Dream, but the team at Intermission Youth Theatre have based their ‘Shakespeare Remix�… 

Cheer Up Slug

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Bread and Roses
• 9th Nov, 2022

Jamie Patterson (Will) and Charis Murray (Bean) give delightful performances in Cheer Up Slug by Tamsin Rees, the debut production for their company, Shot in the Dark Theatre, at t… 

The Yeomen of the Guard

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• English National Opera
• 18th Nov, 2022

There was a more than usual buzz in the air at the Coliseum in anticipation of ENO’s latest foray into the world of Gilbert & Sullivan with The Yeoman of the Guard. 

Paddy goes to Petra

• Review
• ★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Brockley Jack Theatre
• 4th Nov, 2022

Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) leads a traditional life in rural Ireland. 

A Butcher of Distinction

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Barons Court Theatre
• 5th Nov, 2022

When the setting for your play is the basement of a London pub, where better to perform than at Barons Court Theatre which is located in the basement of the west London pub aptly n… 

Dr Richard Shepherd

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Duchess Theatre
• 31st Oct 2022

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. 

Mary

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Hampstead Theatre
• 2nd Nov, 2022

Douglas Henshall has wasted no time in returning to the stage after his years in Shetland. 

Something in the Air

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• West End
• Jermyn Street Theatre
• 21st Oct, 2022

A note on the back cover of Peter Gill’s latest play, Something in the Air, at Jermyn Street Theatre, claims that the stories of the two old protagonists “flow like mist down t… 

The Poltergeist

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Arcola Theatre
• 22nd Oct, 2022

The frantic moto perpetuo of Philip Glass’s Rubric fills the auditorium as an overture to Philip Ridley’s breathtaking work, The Poltergeist, at the Arcola Theatre. 

Dmitry

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• Marylebone Theatre
• 12th Oct, 2022

In marked contrast to the UK’s recent smooth transition from one monarch to another, the story of Dmitry (Tom Byrne), at the new Marylebone Theatre, tells a woeful tale of power-… 

Thank You, Edinburgh: Princes Street Gardens

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Princes Street Gardens
• 27th Aug 2022

Enjoy a livestreamed concert from The Philadelphia Orchestra in the picturesque Princes Street Gardens, as we celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us… 

Thank You, Edinburgh

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Playhouse
• 27th Aug 2022

Join The Philadelphia Orchestra for a special free concert to celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us and our community. 

Cadenza at the Fringe 2022

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greyfriars Kirk
• 27th Aug 2022

Cadenza performs Handel’s joyous coronation anthem Zadok the Priest and his Foundling Hospital Anthem with its famous last chorus, Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae, admired by Handel (who … 

Edinburgh TV Festival Presents: Brian Cox In Conversation

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance at EICC
• 26th Aug 2022

Emmy and two-time Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox arrives in Edinburgh to discuss his life and work, from Dundee Rep and Hannibal Lecktor, via cheeseburger tycoon Bob Servant… 

Back to the Fringe

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Cuthbert’s Church
• 26th - 27th Aug 2022

Celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, The Rolling Hills Chorus under the direction of Rosalind Johnson return again to the Edinburgh Fringe as Scotland’s Premier Barbersh… 

Trashfuture: Live at the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Venue45
• 26th Aug 2022

The Trashfuture crew of Riley, Milo, Hussein, Nate and Alice are back at the Fringe and ready to dissect all of the absolute worst aspects of the age we live in, from nonsense star… 

Pick of the Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Sheraton Grand Hotel
• 25th Aug 2022

An exclusive event that presents the best of the world famous Edinburgh Fringe in an evening of comedy, fine dining, networking and entertaining. 

Laughing Horse Fringe Comedy Selection

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters
• 24th - 28th Aug 2022