Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
South African-New Zealander Comedian, Urzila Carlson returns to tour the UK with her new show 'Just Jokes'.
London prepares to host the highly awaited premiere of "Lazgi," a ballet performance like no other, on September 14.
Experience the works of two late-Romantic musical titans in celebration of conductor Sir Donald Runnicles’s 70th birthday.
Did football originate in Scotland? Does Argentina owe it all to the Gorbals? Was the first floodlight a searchlight? Did Scotland really ban women? Follow the Spiders, count the H…
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
The Mandé jazz sensations blend West African folkloric music with the sounds of London’s music scene.
Kenneth starts his first day and manager Chris has big plans for the McGonagle Tavern: clean the place up, serve gourmet dishes, but above all else make the place a stylish and tra…
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
When sisters Mhairi and Caoimhe run away from home, Mhairi is determined to stay isolated from the world.
Three pioneering musical languages drastically contrast in this marathon of the concerto form.
Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the…
A regular sell out at Edinburgh Fringe (including 2022 and 2023), Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots folk songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe reg…
The show is a celebration of the students of the PPAS Street Dance Summer School and the choreography they have learned during the course.
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
After last year’s successful Fringe debut, legendary accordionist and funnyman Sandy Brechin returns with another hilarious hour of music and comedy in his one-man show, featuring …
TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth.
Scottish bagpipe music played by solo musicians and groups.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Just Aretha is the story of a black disabled woman navigating an able-bodied world, striving to hold onto her African and disabled identity.
We have thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the US, but we’re particularly at home on the Fringe.
The show is a celebration of the students of the PPAS Dance Intensive Summer School and the choreography they have learned during the course.
From its earliest known existence pre-1700s through to the golden age of 18th-century masters Niel Gow and William Marshall, onto the 19th century and beyond, the fiddle in Scotlan…
Dance-Forms Productions proudly celebrates 20 years of brilliant performances at the Fringe, presenting the cream of the crop of ritual and contemporary dance-theatre from five-sta…
Unravel the curious case of Agnes Finnie, a mid-17th century shopkeeper in Edinburgh’s Potterrow accused of witchcraft.
With caller Ken Gourlay and ceilidh band.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this award-winning, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
The entirely fictional absolutely true story of what happens when F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway’s wives have had enough of their husbands’ philandering ways and get even …
The Grumpy Magicians present: Now You See It, Now You Don’t.
When there is no one left but a handful of the human race, what keeps them going? Are we hardwired to self-destruct or can we find something that unites us all to survive and thriv…
Somewhere, on an island, Gael, a gecko-like creature lives alone, in harmony with the surroundings.
When Edinburgh’s pandas go missing on their journey back to China, suspicion falls on the ferocious Glasgow gangster Big Urqy.
A queer adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years presents an emotionally charged musical following Jamie and Cathy as they fall in and out of love over their turbul…
Best of the Festival and Fringe.
Dolly’s forlorn.
1572.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe, 2019, 2021, 2023) hosts this show for history fans, its fourth year at the Fringe.
After five sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, come join Roo and her Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return for an immersive dance-walk adventure through the hi…
Mr Heo’s cart is his eternal companion, becoming a stage and musical instrument at his disposal anytime, anywhere.
After a group of Zumba-lovers discover that it’s easier to book a Fringe venue than it is to hire out a rehearsal space in their local parish rooms, drastic measures must be taken.
Scotland’s best comedians in the club that started it all.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
Edinburgh show number five for the five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist.
Revealing the man behind the myth.
In December 2023, Sam See left his home country of Singapore and moved to London because clearly, now’s the best time.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
An actor makes a deal with the devil.
Teachers know the feeling all too well.
Mosinee, Wisconsin, 1950.
World champions of hip-hop, Wanted Posse take us into the depths of a New York speakeasy in the 1920s, to a world filled with charleston footsteps, jitterbug beats and freestyle hi…
A comedy drama… or “dramedy” about Ade, a successful writer, or so it seems.
Learn about the fashion for antiquarianism in Scotland and the lure of Rosslyn Chapel, from the founding of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, to the mass publication of souve…
The award-winning, 7th highest rated comedy of the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 returns! When disaster strikes in Gary’s brain, it’s up to his brain cells to try and fix everything.
Join us for a foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during August.
In Leni’s Last Lament, which swept top awards at the United Solo Festival, Hitler’s controversial filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, attempts to sanitize her past.
Following the last few years of sell-out, five-star shows, the Silent Adventures team are back with even more madness and brand-new adventures to boot.
The Last Laugh sees three legendary comedians – Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse – sitting in a dressing room, discussing the secret of life, death, comedy and wh…
Online comedy sensation Henry Rowley (1.
After two smash-hit, sell-out runs, Chloe Petts returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show… and this time she’s getting personal.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Step into the enchanting world of Cameron Young: The Scottish Magician! Immerse yourself in a modern magic show featuring mind-bending illusions, captivating mind reading, and upro…
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
Star of New Zealand Today and last-place finisher on Taskmaster NZ, Guy Williams makes his Edinburgh debut! Nominated for Best Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2023.
While everyone’s settling down – marriages, mortgages, motherhood – Jo’s busy doing all the naughty stuff she’s yet to try! From clubbing with Gen Zs (she’s the hype-girl keepi…
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
The Irish Youth Dance Festival (IYDF), produced by Dublin Youth Dance Company, offers a national platform to showcase young emerging dancers performing works of leading …
What if you could see music? Award-winning concert pianist and inventor Larkhall takes us on a virtuoso multi-sensory journey.
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
Ceyda Tanc Dance is thrilled to be showcasing brand new work as part of Helm’s exhibition, Unity.
Meet the intern.
Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and tea…
The year is 1916.
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
After sell out sessions in March and April, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr…
Tides.
In December 2023, Sam See left his home country of Singapore and moved to London because clearly, now’s the best time.
A Festival of Korean Dance will return to The Place for its seventh year, and for the first time will tour to Scotland followed by its UK tour in Newcastle, London and Bournemouth …
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality.
See You In Hell poses the question, “What happens to the manic pixie dream teen when they grow up?”.
For over a decade, KLH Dance has been nurturing the talents of youth dancers in Brighton, and now, our Elite and Junior squad dancers, along with some of our KLH alumni, are taking…
The three of us met whilst plying our trade on the comedy circuit.
London stabbings 2017.
After decades of procrastination, comedy writer Steve Parry (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Live At The Apollo, Gladiators, I’m A Celebrity, Love Island) has finally turned his back on the gl…
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public.
Set in the head office of TPL inc.
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
A woman has entered the chat.
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the …
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is a one-act Hungarian opera saturated in symbolism.
A celebration of what it means to be female, KIZLAR is an aesthetically driven exploration of femininity and masculinity, strength and vulnerability, creating a visually stunning d…
Set to an eclectic, upbeat score, Kipling’s famous tales are woven with wit and imagination into a song-filled journey through the jungle
The Hole.
A Dance of Two Halves A dance between bodies and souls.
Happen/Chance Honestly.
Just a Song at Twilight A contemporary James Joyce flashback mashup Jester’s Privilege Jester VS Eating Disorder.
HUMAN // ROBOTlaugh_if_you_are_humanJust One Law .
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Amy Johnson had her ambitions and she flew at them.
‘We can be us, just for one day’ Relive the day music brought the world together.
Combining striking visuals and physical storytelling with dynamic projection and a resonant soundtrack, Ad Infinitum’s new non-verbal solo show explores a powerful journey of lov…
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Now in its 14th year.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G…
Is Eurydice dead? Or did she just exit stage left? Rambert and Ben Duke are masters of dance theatre where the dance is exceptional and the theatre delivers irresistible stories.
We Dance is a theatrical exploration of black womanhood and femininity.
A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry …
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
A new play, based on true narratives, exploring the prevalence of hidden slavery and human trafficking in contemporary Britain which will be opening in London on 18th October to co…
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
Roy’s Joys by Twyla Tharp This silky, sultry work embodies the spontaneity of the 1940s and 50s jazz soundtrack by Roy Eldridge.
A Festival of Elgar! Overture In the South (Alassio) opus 50.
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
Direct from Broadway, a special one-off benefit performance of Alex Edelman’s award-winning show in honour of the show’s late director, Adam Brace.
WINNER: OFFCOMM COMMENDATION (Off West End Awards, 2023) WINNER: TOP OFF WEST END PRODUCTION (Centre Stage Stars, 2018) ‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and pu…
Come and see student sketch comedy groups battle it out for the ultimate prize, power.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs an evening of beloved classics choreographed by their game-changing founder.
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
The legendary American dance company dazzles with technical brilliance and passionate energy, bringing audiences to their feet at every performance.
Sold out at AMC 2022! Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC.
Not For Anyone returns! Please note that I might just do card tricks and say nothing for a whole hour or I might just do the usual ‘screaming fascist’ schtick. Or both. No refunds.
Legendary Scottish folk accordionist and wisecracker, Sandy Brechin, accompanied by his loyal stuffed dog on wheels, Roveroller, brings his successful weekly Facebook music and com…
The Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum presents the 11th annual Scottish Traditional Building Festival by bringing you 12 information-packed shows for those who love, care for, o…
The Last Vagabonds explores the life of Western society’s hallowed offspring.
Chance by Yolan Noszkay follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been exclud…
The SCO’s brilliant classical cellist Su-a Lee is continually reaching beyond the classical genre.
Discover and enjoy traditional dance from around the world with our experienced teachers.
The Project, I Am Not Just Me in Me is the first theoretical-practical application procedure of the new research object of Grupo Cena 11 for 2023/2024.
A programme with Gypsy roots, including music by, among others, Haydn, Bartók, Sarasate, Doppler, Falla, Liszt, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
This is a story about love.
Come and enjoy our blend of Scottish traditional instruments! In decades of developing our sound we’ve brought together fiddles, concertina, clarsach, wire-strung harp, flute, smal…
This is a story about love.
Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat…
Maximiliano Martin is well known to Scottish audiences, both as principal clarinet of the SCO and as a brilliant soloist.
Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro…
Do Rhinos Feel Their Horns or Can They Not See Them Like How We Can't See Our Noses may be in the running for the Fringe’s wackiest title and the show itself is an equally pl…
I See Three is a split-bill, stand-up comedy show from exciting new black comedy trio IC3.
Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht celebrates love at its most tender.
A darkly comedic play-with-music about 16th century Italian diplomat and self-described “comedian, tragedian, historian” Niccolò Machiavelli’s relationship and creative part…
Scottish tunes played on bagpipes, performed by groups of players and solo: marches, strathspeys, reels, hornpipes, jigs, piobaireachd, and songs.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
A darkly comedic Goth-Rock musical about the life, misadventures and failures of Niccolò Machiavelli.
A performance from acclaimed composer/songwriter Gareth Williams, lyrically transforming iconic final pages from Scottish fiction into brand-new ‘literary chamber pop’ songs.
This evening’s performance will include an eclectic mix of solo and ensemble song and dance pieces from some of the West End’s best-loved musicals.
Francesca is a 20-year-old woman who is able to time travel to speak to her younger self. A multi-genre devised piece about the different stages of growing up and its consequences.
The Sleep Project: presented by Arcana Company.
The Sleep Project: presented by Arcana Company.
The neo-trad trio brings its innovative blend of Scottish traditional music and pop influences to The Hub.
New York-based comedians and writers, Liz Goldblatt and Matthew DuBois, deliver fresh and personal takes on sexuality, language, and religion.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
Scotland’s mercurial and psychedelic Safehouse return for a tenth year playing homage to the Allman Brothers Band in Edinburgh’s finest live venue – Stramash.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
Queer, multicultural theatre makers Moi Ko explore isolation and the saviour of a companionship in their new play Did the Sun want me (or did I just misunderstand?).
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
‘The real deal.
John Harper and Joseph Ismay.
Two Russian artists in exile reveal the cruelty of Soviet life with a good dose of dark humour.
Festival Director Nicola Benedetti and acclaimed broadcaster Tom Service present a special concert exploring the future of classical music.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
Just Festival is Edinburgh’s human rights and social justice festival.
Join us in a collective trance state as we explore the connection between music, meditation and mental health with live orchestra, piano, tea ceremonies, bells and guided meditatio…
‘The real deal.
Critically acclaimed US artists, violist Christine Rutledge and Guggenheim Award-winning composer and pianist David Gompper, return to the Festival Fringe to present a programme of…
The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe.
A traditional dance class running from 9pm to 11pm daily, the Ceilidh is a sweaty fun-filled session in the extravagant grand hall of the Royal College of Physicians, featuring a l…
The most Scottish comedian in history, John ‘Obie’ O’Brien, performing twice daily at the Fringe.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this multi award-nominated, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
Oracle is a jaw-dropping, thought-reading experience that has audiences grinning ear to ear, scratching heads in bafflement, and wondering if they’ve just seen a glimpse of their p…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Jokes of the Fringe 2019, 2021 and 2022, Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up 2021, UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show …
With a plethora of Sherlock Holmes shows to catch at this year’s Fringe; our fascination with the super-sleuth showing no signs of abating.
There’s been a mix-up in the weekly appointment with her Sanatorium psychiatrist.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go: simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
It’s time.
The only stand up comedy show at the Fringe with jokes, stories and a definitive list of my favourite smells from last year.
In his debut hour, David Ian attempts a huge feat: to answer the question that many gay men think about their entire lives.
If you had told me that halfway through Wildcat’s Last Waltz, I’d be witnessing a Northern grandmother and three audience members performing wild dance moves combined with yoga…
Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history.
The Oxford Revue is turning 70 years old! From Monty Python to Mr Bean to Love Actually, the alumni of Oxford’s premier comedy troupe have been polluting the UK cultural landscape …
***** (On The Mic, podcast) **** (FestMag.
Following the last few years of sell-out, five-star shows, the Silent Adventures team are back with even more madness and brand-new adventures to boot.
Irish female sketch-comedy duo MEELAGOOLA bring you a fast-paced, high-energy, satirical spectacle! Have we actually progressed backwards? Is wellness really that well at all? We�…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Discover Scottish Women Artists and new perspectives on Scottish art with recent graduates from Scotland’s major art schools.
Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
With the brash vocals of an Australian zookeeper addressing an unruly tour group, Davis commands the room, immediately taking charge with her distinct brand of offbeat comedy.
Following the success of last year’s show, comic songwriter Liz Cotton is back.
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
Returning with a work in progress after a sell-out Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated run in 2022.
I have collected, for your enjoyment, an anthology of all the weird things I have done in my life to try and make friends.
Ell and Mary have been dead for three years, but now they’ve come back to life (and the stage) with one question on their minds: how do you know when it’s the end? Inspired by …
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
Monster vs Hero, TV Camera vs Reporter, Husband vs Husband: their battles and rituals.
The Last Living Libertine is the debut hour from John Tothill as he tries to dissect our attitude to life and prove that techno music is the true expression of human spirit and the…
“Chopin’s Last Tour” is set in Scotland, 1848, the year before his death.
In a world with only one gun, one man stands in the way of world peace.
Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto and Astrid, spent years arguing about which songs should appear on their much-anticipated fifth Die Roten Punkte album.
PLEASURE CHAPTERS: I can’t just live on a salad! Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelm…
Are you tired of seeing constant Instagram posts that are telling you what to EAT or NOT TO EAT? All this information is overwhelming and triggering our food and even life choices!…
Offering a fresh history of Scottish art since 1750, this exhibition spotlights key artists, all of whom are women.
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August.
Uair den t-saoghal is beag fios a bha aig mòran dhaoine air beul-aithris na Gàidhlig taobh a-muigh na Gàidhealtachd fhèin.
An evening of bold new dance theatre work: Eve Walker - ‘Fine Farewell’ The closing chapter of Eve’s time in the North East, this work is used as a celebratory moment.
An evening of bold new dance theatre work: Eve Walker - ‘Fine Farewell’ The closing chapter of Eve’s time in the North East, this work is used as a celebratory moment.
1916.
Celebrate the mining heritage of County Durham, the history, the passion and camaradarie through story, poem and song performed by members of The Cheesy Waffles Project showing the…
1916.
Celebrate the mining heritage of County Durham, the history, the passion and camaradarie through story, poem and song performed by members of The Cheesy Waffles Project showing the…
Chance follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been excluded for disrup…
Chance follows Aaron, who’s just been excluded from mainstream school and is being sent back to Sunnyside Pupil Referral Unit, a school for kids who’ve been excluded for disrup…
Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy…
After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show.
Relationships, and break-ups in particular, are a common focus for stand-up.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
About the show Recipients of last years FUSE International's 'Best Dance Show' award, Dillon Dance Youth returns for successive year.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
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…
About the showAn unforgettable evening of dance, combining several different styles with extraordinary young talent for all audiences to enjoy.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
7 Years after it's first tour, Luke Adamson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama about Alzheimer's is being published.
The universal love story. Where you fall in love with someone for the first time but also for the last. Four Actors, cast live, whose story will you see?
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The very last splash of magic and sparkle this season with some of the amazing acts of our Spiegel family, including spots from Sassy, Head First Acrobats, Cabaret Continentale and…
Inkinzo club culture is a group of Burundian dance, founded in 1986.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
The award-wining MANA DANCE X MR BONGO returns to the Spiegeltent for an explosive evening of live music and dance.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
It’s been a year since Sophie disappeared from David’s life.
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
Award-winning stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe jokes 2019, 2021 & 2022, UK Pun Champion 2022 and current Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up) hosts t…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
DJ Russ Dewbury brings his iconic Brighton Jazz Rooms Club night to the Spiegeltent for a rip roaring debut! The Jazz Rooms opened in 1987 and ran every weekend for an incredible 2…
'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take …
Joe Orton’s Last Laugh is a fresh take on the fraught relationship between the celebrated writer Joe Orton and his aggrieved partner Kenneth Halliwell.
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
Yehaaa! Its gold rush time at the Lost Chance Saloon.
Set in mid-1930s New Orleans, Suddenly Last Summer has all the power and richness of Williams’ more famous works, but with a tighter, more deadly focus.
Yehaaa! Its gold rush time at the Lost Chance Saloon.
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
“Move over Dame-Jude; there’s a new national treasure in town!” In this “raucously funny hour” the Wildcat welcomes the audience into her Sheffield home, makes everyone …
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Seasoned mavericks, Matt Rudkin and Rikki Tarascas team up to perform their most iconic works in a deft double bill of pitch-perfect satire.
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
Project COMEDY: Gag’s Army.
Project COMEDY: Gag’s Army.
In a world with only 1 gun, 1 man stands in the way of world peace.
Join Ben Carter and Joe Bunn two of the UK’s limpest forces that have been proper melted together for one hour of entertainment.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
++Please book 24 hours in advance** For last minute bookings, please check availability and call us on 07783152151 If you want to do something that might be a little bit out of y…
London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee.
Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
This stunning production is an ideal example of how to use the unique ability of dance to emphasise and refocus on different aspects of a classic drama.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c…
For one night only, the iconic London Palladium welcomes a star-studded cast in the gala concert performance of an extraordinary new musical ‘AT LAST, IT’S SUMMER&rsquo…
Scottish Ballet’s hugely popular, award-winning production of A Streetcar Named Desire returns to Scotland for the first time since 2015, touring to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen …
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Tension and comedy come together in this historical drama centred on David Lloyd George, where family dynamics provide much of the intrigue, and no one is who they seem.
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.
After a smash-hit, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Soho Theatre, and on tour across the UK, Olga Koch is bringing one of the best reviewed shows of …
JUST BE NORMAL is the moving true story of two sisters, Sophie and Emma, as they navigate Autism in a world that refuses to understand them.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Been crying into ya SAD lamp and on the bakerloo line just to feel ya toes? Well worry no more lads, lasses, ENBY’s and beyond, cos LoUis, and his talented pals will give you the f…
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
Is It Just Us?! It’s all a bit serious lads! HYPER Voice.
Get ready for some sparkly dance floor joy with Chrissy Bray’s brand new show, Just Act Normal.
The Last Incel A woman has entered the chat Imagine If You Will.
Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and…
Dance Me is an exclusive creation inspired by the rich and profound work of Montreal-based poet, artist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen.
Gary is in an accident and his condition is worsening by the minute.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
Writing a positive review is quite difficult without using hyperbole, and in the spirit of Pierre Novellie’s Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things, it is prudent to at least attempt to…
Throw off your winter coat as you head in to the depths of the iconic VAULTS for The Secret Dance Floor: one night filled to the brim with flooring filing and top spinning Internat…
Yuanzi/原子 is a doomer in her 20s and a Chinese living in London.
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
Just For Us takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian brother AJ, an unconventional holiday season, and a gorilla that can …
‘Oliver Twist’, Charles Dickens’ dark tale of crime and punishment, is stunningly re-imagined in this award-winning stage adaptation, recognised by The Queen for its part in Dicken…
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
It’s our last shout of 2022 at Dalston Superstore this 10th of December.
“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl…
Magic, glitter, snowflake fairies, Jack Frosts, snow wolves and innocent love winning out, what more could you want? Circus acts, Romani travellers? A revival of its 2019 productio…
One of the excitements for an audience is to spot future stars.
Have you ever sat opposite someone on a bus quietly, both on your phones, and not say a word? Perhaps you glance up for a second and smile at each other.
Mixing survivalism with psychoanalysis, Dave Bain’s Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse is a fractured and confused trip that leaves us with more questions than answers.
Saoirse na mBan Ghaliah Conroy & Saoirse Lambkin O’Kane Celebrating Irish women and their feats over history, cracking the shell and seeing what lies…
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
Following on from the success of the first event, My Kind of Musical is back with more fat, more songs, more revenge, and more spiralling over whether or not you should feed the bi…
Learn dances from around the world with our fantastic presenters.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Stories! One magical night with the best solo theatre makers and storytellers in the Fringe, nay, Britain! Nay, the world! The Last Thursday Club is a London institution so Fringe …
Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC.
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
Rebecca has been labelled the miracle girl after waking from her own murder.
The quiz with just one question! Ollie Horn challenges a different comedian friend each show to a deceptively difficult game of putting things in order.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti returns to Edinburgh for Bruch’s sumptuous Concerto alongside the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev.
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
From the experience of the Europe Funded Deaf-led project Beyond Signs, we invite professionals and artists from Scotland and abroad to support and participate in the International…
Scotland’s mercurial and psychedelic Safehouse return paying homage to the Allman Brothers Band in arguably Edinburgh’s finest live-music venue, Stramash.
Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, top academics explore dangerous ideas.
David and Emma arrive at work on Christmas Eve – the only two people in the office the morning after the Christmas party.
Scotland’s home-grown ensemble of musicians will perform their spectacular critically-acclaimed show that gives you a concert experience of pure Beatles nostalgia.
We live in a crazy world of fear and anxiety! But don’t worry, Dr Theatre is here to solve your problems in a show packed full of fabulous musical theatre songs with all the answ…
A special school assembly harking back to the grand old days of the bawdy British boarding school, hosted by drag king and self-proclaimed “Head” Master Mr Brake Down.
Performances of Highland bagpipes and small pipes by the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and guests. Featuring light music and piobaireachd.
Children’s Classic Ballet for Dance Teachers offer a workshop on how to teach children’s classical ballet, split between a theoretical lecture and a practical demonstration.
Divine Dance presents John the Baptist and the Bees.
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Angelos is here standing in front of people for about seven days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
From wild dance tunes to solemn laments, frenzied improvisations to lush Baroque compositions, Highland strathspeys to Lowland ballads, join US National Champion fiddler Tim Macdon…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Elim Chan join forces with Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček to take on works by Dukas, Liszt and Bartók.
Dance-Forms Productions celebrates 19 years of brilliant performances at the Fringe, presenting the cream of the crop of ritual and modern dance.
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
Ballet careers are competitive, subjective, physically demanding and risky – with an expectation of maintaining peak condition six days a week for their entire careers.
Alongside sell-out tribute shows to Gil Scott-Heron and Jimi Hendrix, Remally returns to the Fringe with a whole set of new original funk and soul music! Expect massive grooves, he…
Live from one of the Barbican’s largest cupboards*, roll up for a romantic evening stroll through the Norfolk countryside in the charming company of Dave Hazelnut, singer and multi…
The Loving Earth Project, started by a few Quakers in 2019, now comprises over 400 textile panels exploring responses to climate change and environmental breakdown.
A perfect show to start your day! Card tricks, mind-reading, all the magic show stuff! Magician, on stage, doing magic in a magic show; what more do you want? Oh and it’s literally…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for an epic session of bonkers, bopping, beautiful fun.
‘Superb and fun’ ***** (TheWeeReview.
Few things are guaranteed: death, taxes and Joseph getting ID’d! After amassing over 3 million views on TikTok, taking the runner-up spot at the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the…
They should have been ridiculous.
An exciting kids’ show from an Aboriginal comedy star.
Award-winning comedian and activist Kate Smurthwaite takes one last long shot at saving us all from global fascist-led environmental Armageddon.
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot…
The world’s changed, Michaels confused and snowflake is a cold dessert? Is it just me? Let’s find out together.
PPAS (Pineapple Performing Arts School) is thrilled to present a spectacular showcase of dance featuring the students from our 2022 Dance Intensive Summer School.
Life, relationships, the world! Everything seems to be coming to an end.
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes, 2019 and 2021; Scottish Comedian of the Year runner-up, 2021; UK Pun Championships winner 2022) hosts this show f…
Greetings, weary traveller.
A jaw-dropping mind-reading show that will have you grinning from ear to ear, scratching your head in bafflement, and wondering if you might just have seen a glimpse of the future.
Edinburgh-based award-winning Siamsoir Irish dancers return with their fifth original show – an Irish dance play.
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
Three original short films made in Edinburgh, by new Edinburgh film company See It On Screen.
See You is must see.
An intimate two-hander about the messy complexities of the contemporary gay dating experience.
It’s time for us to play.
Join the longest-running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News for his new show! Endorsed by Hollywood superstar Will Ferrell.
Shrimp Dance is a Butoh dance performance with live music and video art, based on research showing anti-depressants entering the sea through human waste are affecting the behaviour…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Party as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
Discover the best of Scottish artisanal produce: fantastic Scottish cheeses, single malt whisky, smoked salmon, an Edinburgh gin liqueur cocktail, meat or veggie haggis and a surpr…
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go: simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Showcase of Scotland’s best comics.
A play about love transcending separation.
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Mr Brightside hasn’t left the UK charts in 18 years.
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Last year, while clearing out my grandfather’s house, I stumbled across hundreds of hidden envelopes.
‘There’s real steel in his comedic bones’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Come See.
Boy, you’re an alien.
As the British Empire struggles to keep its colonial possessions, Nigerian lawyer Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge.
A twisted stand-up comedy quest to understand fatherhood.
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
From exes to golf coaches, Just a Normal Girl Who Enjoys Revenge is an eloquent, biting and well-structured analysis of situations when Hannah Fairweather was right and when she wa…
Susan Morrison is at an age and stage to get some funny stuff off her chest.
Rachel and Colin muse over their different realities of parenthood: the highs, lows, irritations and chaos.
From interviewing guests such as Lorraine Kelly and Karen Dunbar, drag queen Vanity von Glow swaps the studio for the stage as she interviews the stars of the Fringe in this hour-l…
LAST WEDNESDAY’S WORK SHIRT: This is the story of one man’s pointless job.
A sample show of different acts from within Just the Tonic venues, and maybe some guests.
Written and performed by Rachel Stockdale.
Oh wow, the last two years have been awful haven’t they? So what do we do now? Laugh and pretend it’s definitely fine? Or deal with the trauma of multiple lockdowns, emotional shut…
Who says poetry is box office poison? Fresh from wowing crowds opening for The Libertines and John Cooper Clarke, Luke Wright serves up banger after banger at the hottest late nigh…
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Dance is meant to be about self-expression.
Facing an existential crisis Anna powered off her phone and dived head first into an Ayahuasca retreat in the Irish wilderness.
Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their latest comedy hour.
This new folk musical seeks to explore our heritage and legacy, weaving two parallel stories; one of a crofter and a wandering soldier in the 18th Century, and one of an old pensio…
Rhum and Clay's Project Dictator is a commentary on democracy and dictatorships, utilising different theatre genres to do so.
What do you do when the end of the world finally comes and you realise it’s going to happen slowly and boringly? No sudden meteor strike.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
With three five star sell-out Edinburgh Fringe runs, over 60 million views online and a tendency to list things in threes, Just These Please are back with 25 brand new sketches and…
Thanyia Moore was going to make her Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2020 with a heartfelt, emotional show, that was about to rock your socks off… but then 2020 happened.
Olga Koch is winning at life and she wants us to know it.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s complications.
Before the plague and WW3 I was a chortling, apple-cheeked blacksmith and now I am a scowling wretch in a tattered cloak.
There’s a world just like our own, but there isn’t a word for sand.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
“It’s hard to tell where the grief ends and the nervous breakdown over the dropped profiteroles starts.
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during Aug…
An evening shared by Pelican Theatre and Beth Veitch Dance, created and performed by emerging female dance artists.
An evening shared by Pelican Theatre and Beth Veitch Dance, created and performed by emerging female dance artists.
Nana Rabbit’s Cake-off! Join Nana Rabbit and her friends as they re-enact her most famous adventure yet; The Quest for the Whisk of Destiny! Nana, who was once named ‘The Greatest…
Freud’s Last Session returns to the King’s Head Theatre after a sell-out run in January and February 2022.
The Laramie Project is about the 1998 murder of gay university student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
The Song Project returns in 2022 with nine performances in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, followed by performances at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) lat…
The very last splash of magic and sparkle from this years Spiegel Fringe season, with some of the most amazing acts of our Spiegel family, plus special guests - Laurie Black, Alfie…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Stand-up comedian Richard Pulsford (Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe Jokes 2019 & 2021, Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021) hosts this show for history fans, back in Brighton for t…
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Cat has just arrived in Barcelona and she’s finally ready to meet the perfect guy but when she begins volunteering with the local homeless community she starts to question if may…
Everything begins with movement.
Everything begins with movement.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
The award winning* MANA DANCE X MR BONGO show returns to the Spiegeltent for a new explosive journey of powerful dance and live music.
Set in a 21st-century world troubled by a deadly plague, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s 1826 novel ‘The Last Man’ is poignant and hugely relevant today.
The award winning* MANA DANCE X MR BONGO show returns to the Spiegeltent for a new explosive journey of powerful dance and live music.
Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m…
When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder.
Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their latest comedy hour.
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
Hannah Fairweather was the 2019 Rising Star New Act of the Year, a semi-finalist in the BBC New Comedian Award, So You Think You’re Funny, Leicester Square and Komedia Brighton N…
Combining humour, performance poetry and visual moving imagery made up of my personal archive as an artist of nearly 25 years, SEE ME is a multi-media, immersive, (almost) autobiog…
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
The world’s angriest optimist returns for another bash at sorting out life’s inexplicable complications.
Join artists Martha and Chess for a fun, insightful and creative dance workshop! The workshop will lead dancers on a creative journey that draws from the creative process in the ma…
The legendary Ragroof Tea Dance returns to the beautiful Brighton Spiegeltent, featuring a DJ playing vintage tunes, glamorous costumes, glorious dance displays, and our trademark …
The legendary Ragroof Tea Dance returns to the beautiful Brighton Spiegeltent, featuring a DJ playing vintage tunes, glamorous costumes, glorious dance displays, and our trademark …
With a growing reputation for providing excellent dance education, Ceyda Tanc Dance presents a mixed bill featuring their talented youth dancers and, for the first time, guest perf…
With a reputation for providing excellent dance education, Ceyda Tanc Dance presents a mixed bill featuring their talented youth dancers.
Just Relax is a new play that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health challenges.
Are you ready to party? Are you ready to get out of your comfort zone, wear the best fancy dress and have the time of your life? Then join us for our Brighton Dance Extravaganza, w…
This is not your ordinary tour: dress up (preferably) and join us for an hour of fun, laughter, and craziness.
Kathleen loved to write.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
Unrivalled in their ability to present exciting and new international choreography as well as some of the most memorable masterpieces from the past 100 years, Rambert Dance Compa…
Throughout his life, on his birthday, Krapp records a review of his year using an old fashioned tape recorder.
The first of September, 1939.
Theatre Relationship Managers, Anna Jefferson and Claire Soper, from Arts Council England will be holding an online advice session on Zoom to talk you through the National Lottery …
Now in it’s 12th year.
Snow falling, Christmas baubles, glitz and magic - Scottish Ballet’s The Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky performed by the company’s live orchestra is like a box of chocolate treats.
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER A play, with songs.
Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying filmed concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta.
We are BACK and more fabulous than ever! Looking for something exciting to do on a Thursday? Introducing Thats Drag bingo - a hilarious and unique experience right in the heart of …
We are BACK and more fabulous than ever! Looking for something exciting to do on a Thursday? Introducing Thats Drag bingo - a hilarious and unique experience right in the heart of …
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser evokes memories of a bygone age in British theatre and no setting more befits it than that glorious monument to thespian achievement, the Richmond Th…
Classical music, tango and cabaret - from Kurt Weill to Schoenberg, from Carlos Gardel to Britten, these musical genres have always found ways to meet.
Glitz and glamour, fun and frolics, Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck is a delight, just what we need after 18 months of closed theatres.
‘Just Relax’ is a new play inspired by the writer's own journey with anxiety, that delves into the minds and lives of people experiencing anxiety and mental health …
An amazing evening of dinner and live music.
As director Dominic Hill welcomes us to the Tron theatre for this triumphant double bill, the audience cheers midway through his announcement at his mention of the return of live t…
The Gay Happiness Project is an 8-week mindfulness-based group training programme designed for gay men who want to increase happiness and life satisfaction.
Just May & Mark T Cox Do the NoughtiesLondon’s newest and least-known cabaret show is coming BACK, for more LIVE frolics in the simmering East End this summer.
South East London’s favourite alternative drag show and queer cabaret revue returns after its sellout relaunch with a truly phenomenal smorgasbord of LGBTQ+ talent.
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
After reaching the final of Britain’s Got Talent 2020 (3000 Ofcom complaints), Nabil Abdulrashid brings his brand-new stand-up show on tour.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Colin Connor stars in this powerful production of Samuel Beckett’s classic one-man show, Krapp’s Last Tape.
Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our …
NOBODYS BUSINESS? Is our discretion killing us?What is the cost to us of privacy about our sexuality?Have sex, sexual identity, and politics become so intertwined that i…
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
As the country unlocks and live performance returns to London, Korean dancers will once again make the journey to the UK and take to the stage at The Place.
“Princes, start your engines! And may the best Princess WIN!” Love Disney? Love Drag Race? Then you’d be mad to miss out on the RETURN of London HOTTEST Drag Parody event: Dis…
Jason Robert Brown’s award-winning musical, The Last Five Years, returns to London’s West End for the first time in over ten years, after two sensational sell-out seaso…
We are BACK and more fabulous than ever! Looking for something exciting to do on a Thursday? Introducing Thats Drag bingo a hilarious and unique experience right in the hear…
Classical music, tango and cabaret.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
Classical dance genres performed by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students of Dr Radha Krishnan showcasing their talent.
An online global sacred dance community.
SCOTTISH SINFONIA, Leader Michael Rigg, Conductor Neil Mantle.
The final orchestral concert of the Festival is a magical performance of works from Japan, France and Russia, conducted by Kazushi Ono.
Monkey Barrel Comedy’s alternative comedy night, Project X presents, all the way from Tennessee (US of America), The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky! Join Dusty and his ban…
Classical music, tango and cabaret.
Set against the backdrop of a Woodstock-vibe music festival in the height of the Summer of Love, Tomorrow May Be My Last marks a key moment in Janis Joplin’s all too brief existe…
After six years together, one of which was particularly crazy, an American says goodbye to Scotland with the help of a song and a puppet and tries to figure out why she’s leaving.
Earth’s funniest footwear are back with a new hour of songs, sketches, and Gags Sans Frontieres (with a Eurovision twist) featuring live and interactive voting.
Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility.
Meet Shakespeare, but not the Shakespeare you know.
Conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Daniil Trifonov return to the International Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a radiant concert.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
A live gig! Wow! I have great memories of audiences singing along.
Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta.
Evening concert: one of Scotland’s most renowned string ensembles, The Edinburgh Quartet, plays Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, with the movements interspersed by poet…
Festival favourite Marin Alsop conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a joyful concert including Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts two dynamic pieces for piano and winds by Mozart and Thuille – one much-loved, one rarely heard.
The Emoji Project is an intergenerational, participatory anthology of new writing responding to emojis as an ever-evolving, nuanced language.
Tucked in between the bustling pubs of the grassmarket is the capital's home of dance and its latest exhibition, Dance Base Unwrapped.
The Emoji Project is an intergenerational, participatory anthology of new writing responding to emojis as an ever-evolving, nuanced language.
Mendelssohn’s bewitching A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, narrated by Dame Harriet Walter.
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
Gangsters, attempted murder and actual sharks? Award-winning comedian and TV writer Kate Smurthwaite tells the most mind-blowing lockdown story you’ll ever hear.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
The Scottish Gallery presents their Festival Exhibition Programme featuring a major exhibition of Joan Eardley to mark the centenary of her birth alongside further exhibitions; The…
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco Walking Disco as they return to their Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the historic streets of Edinburgh.
Dinner with strangers is always awkward, especially when you’re the guest of honour.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
Earth’s funniest footwear revive their classic 2015 crime show for one night only! From Scandi Noir to Dixon of Dock Green, from The Sweeney to Line Of Duty, all cops and robbers g…
This evocative play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a young couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
What is humanity; what is life? In this world, nothing is certain.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
PPAS presents a showcase of dance featuring the students of our Dance Intensive Summer School.
Ronald Forbes RSA RGI festival exhibition, The Dreamweaver’s Puzzles at the Scottish Arts Club (28th July to 29th August).
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities.
Join local tour guide Hannah Mackay Tait for a 3-hour walk through Scottish LGBTQ+ history.
A couple whose relationship just isn’t working.
Amina Khayyam’s Catch the Bird Who Won’t Fly, a Kathak dance piece using animation and green screen is beautiful, subtle and moving despite its grim subject matter: domestic vi…
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
A collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada.
L.
Just These Please are back with 25 sketches and songs in 55 minutes.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! The Stand’s flagship contemporary Scottish comedy show returns! A Fringe institution but this time with four acts, seating, table service …
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
Pierre Novellie: Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? Award-winning comedian Pierre Novellie looks into why he can’t just enjoy things.
This evocative new play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
This evocative new play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
As if so-called ‘Freedom Day’ had not generated enough excitement on Monday 19th July, the Arcola Theatre had its planned reopening that evening and showcased its fabulous new …
Kemi’s being bullied and it’s getting out of control.
With a growing reputation for providing excellent dance education, Ceyda Tanc Dance presents a mixed bill featuring their talented youth dancers.
By Karrim Jalali.
Two men, two different approaches to creating a good play.
The legendary Ragroof Tea Dance returns to the Spiegeltent – a marvellous medley of dancing delights, featuring a DJ playing authentic vintage dance music, glamorous costumes, gl…
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
The legendary Ragroof Tea Dance returns to the Spiegeltent – a marvellous medley of dancing delights, featuring a DJ playing authentic vintage dance music, glamorous costumes, gl…
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
Global warming, fake news, Brexit, climate change, terrorism.
‘MANA DANCE X MR BONGO’ celebrates the reemergence of live dance and music (DJ) at the famous Spiegeltent.
Richard is 38 years old.
Richard is 38 years old.
Don’t miss The Tango Collective for a celebration of the life and work of composer Astor Piazzolla in the year that would have seen his 100th birthday.
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
A double-bill of two widely-acclaimed pieces: ‘WATCHING, Ceci n’est pas de Deux’ by Ester Natzijl Projects “Redefines theatre and dance” ★★★★★ (Reviews Hub), “simply sp…
A double-bill of two widely-acclaimed pieces: ‘WATCHING, Ceci n’est pas de Deux’ by Ester Natzijl Projects “Redefines theatre and dance” ★★★★★ (Reviews Hub), “simply sp…
The dandy kings of cabaret Joe Morose, Dusty Limits & Des O’Connor invite you to Theatreland’s former lavatory & Oscar Wilde’s forgotten cottage for a royal flush of vaudev…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
A Dance of Awareness experience where you decide which role to take, mover or witness.
A Dance of Awareness experience where you decide which role to take, mover or witness.
This evocative new play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
This evocative new play by Australian playwright Melissa-Kelly Franklin tells the story of a couple living in a world ravaged by climate change.
The mandarin character ‘woman (女)’ has three strokes; it’s expected to be written in a set order.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
The mandarin character ‘woman’ has three strokes, it’s expected to be written in a set order.
An ode to resilience, a celebration of shadow and light, an ancient ritual for our times ’If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and t…
Lloyd Griffith: Not just a pretty faceLloyd is back on the road with his latest stand up tour.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Presenting the Edinburgh University Theatre Company’s latest project: The Scottish Online Student Drama Festival, in aid of Acting For Others.
We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
The Scottish Play is a solo performance written by Victoria Gartner, founder and artistic director of Will & Co which produces plays about Shakespear, under the umbrella title …
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
Now in it’s 12th year.
The programme features Vocalise, Piano Concerto No 4 in G (soloist Adam Davies) and Symphony No 2 in E minor.
Join Robin Perko for an hour workshop and learn how to re-programme your mind to see the world like an artist.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
Come and enjoy our music.
A discussion on the relationship between artists and critics in fringe and wider contexts, with insight and advice from Richard Beck and Matthew Shelley.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
Bringing the knowledge, education and entertainment of African cultural heritage to the people of the world. Every dance has a meaning and an origin.
Just Two Guys have arrived to bring you an experience you won’t forget! Their unique blend of acoustic rock music, comedy, and food creates the most fulfilling musical performanc…
After a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and 2019, The Last Five Years returns! Written by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, this two-character musical tracks the emot…
This jaunty little potter through the more gruesome elements of Shakespeare’s works really ‘gets’ the tone needed for this strange 2020 hybrid of live theatre / film / desper…
Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai…
Román Baca talks about his healing journey from ballet to the Iraq War and back again.
Online premiere of Rosie Kay’s 10 SOLDIERS exploring the training, friendships, loves and the incredible teamwork behind an army unit.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music.
A modern musical by the Tony Award-winning Jason Robert Brown that follows the comedy highs and heartfelt lows of Jamie and Cathy’s five-year relationship.
Things are getting way too tense out there, aren’t they? The powers that be are peddling anger to the masses and we’re all becoming rage junkies.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene has stammered since he was four years old.
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
Lloyd is back on the road for his third UK stand up tour.
In 2017 New Wave Associate Artist Alexander Whitley combined film and dance for 8 Minutes, a breath-taking journey to the sun.
Mr Bear can’t sleep because Mrs Bear is snoring, so he goes to sleep in Baby Bear’s room.
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
As Lin Hwai-Min, founder of the world-renowned Taiwanese company, steps down in 2020, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre brings works from the current and new artistic directors.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Now in it’s 11th year.
A wintry tale of fire and ice where selfless love wins, The Snow Queen, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, is a dangerous journey encountering bandits and snow creatures.
Game-changer in the world of tap, Michelle Dorrance had dedicated herself to exploring the capabilities of America’s original dance form.
Born in Israel and now based in France, the double Bessie Award-winning choreographer Emanuel Gat initially trained as a conductor before shifting his attention to dance.
Started in 2010 by French choreographer Boris Charmatz, theatre director Emmanuel Demarcy Mota and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Danse Élargie takes place over a gruelling two…
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Using both traditional and contemporary dance genres, members of HIV charity Red Ribbon perform a piece about positive opportunities in life that are possible for people living wit…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, lowland pipes, Scottish small-pipes, double bass and percussion has captivated audiences a…
The Scottish guitarist/composer Gordon Ferries returns to St Cecilia’s with tenor Stuart Mitchell, performing Ferries’ new songs from A Shropshire Lad and from poems by Byron and S…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
Just Beatles have firmly established themselves on the tribute band scene in their native Scotland and have received invitations to play at Beatles festivals all over the UK and Eu…
The artists have collaborated intensely on tango projects nationally and internationally, especially with the opera/tango/dance-fusion show Violetta’s Last Tango.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One man sits alone in a room. Why? Beckett’s master work brought to life for the modern day.
Innovations isn’t just a show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
David Harmer and Ray Globe recently turned 60.
Packed with real stories, borrowed utensils, and secret ingredients, The Cardboard Kitchen Project explores cultural inheritance and what gets passed down through recipes and cultu…
The Scottish Gantry Rum Sessions will welcome you to enjoy some of the best rums in the world.
Bell Dance – Ring, ring, ring… the Tibetan boys and girls happily dance and ring their bells.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
The Scottish Gantry Gin Sessions welcomes you to enjoy some of the best gins in the world.
Fergus McCreadie is Scotland’s next global jazz superstar.
The Scottish Gantry Whisky Sessions will welcome you to enjoy some of the best whiskies in the world.
In 1815, seventeen European states declared war on one man and committed over a million soldiers to his capture.
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
A vibrant mixture of jazz, Scottish folk and Indian classical music featuring Sharat Chandra Srivastava (violin), Gyan Singh (tabla), Sophie Bancroft and Gina Rae (vocals) plus Gra…
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
Scotland’s jazz guitar genius creates magical worlds with his loops and harmonies.
This mystical dance performance is about the connection between what we see and what we believe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Three of Scotland’s leading contemporary jazz groups each play a 40-minute set in one stunning concert with world-class musical guests from India and Shetland.
In this alternative history show four panellists each deliver an original stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some point in his…
Come and enjoy our music.
Coming from their success at the 2017 All-England Theatre Festival semi-finals, Our Star Theatre Company proudly presents their award-winning comedy, The Last Bread Pudding – a h…
What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Pupil voice is one of the hottest topics in education right now, but what do young people want from their education? Just how democratic should schools and universities be when it …
That’s How I See It is a devised show exploring how young people feel about their future and the impact of the decisions older generations are making now, which we are not allowe…
Strangely, apart from the Military Tattoo, there is not a lot of piping in Edinburgh during August.
The Last Supper invites you to confess your deepest, darkest and funniest sins.
Flamenco guitarist Raul Mannola and dancer Aylin Eleonora bring their vision and tradition to a spectacle of passion and rhythm! Enjoy the sublime beauty of real flamenco, coloured…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Soundtracks: Dance to the Movies! Soundtracks DJs will get you partying to the best movies ever.
When Edinburgh’s pandas disappear suspicion falls on gangsters from Glasgow.
This dance and music extravaganza contains a wealth of Irish talent, an exciting two-hour trip through hundreds of years of Irish dance and music, 22 award-winning world and Irish …
Doron Perk is a dancer and choreographer based in New York City and Danielle Friedman is a pianist and composer based in Berlin.
Come along to Just a Minute’s special recordings in Edinburgh.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
It’s a new millennium.
Young socialite Catherine Holly has been left traumatised and confined to a mental hospital after witnessing the horrific murder of her cousin Sebastian during a trip to Europe.
Exploring an unlimited range of creative ideas, Dance-Forms’ 76th International Choreographers’ Showcase delivers a solid line-up of superb choreography.
Performing Arts Studio Scotland: Dance at Edinburgh College present an eclectic mix of original choreographic work created by the staff, students and recent graduates of PASS Dance…
Join Project X in welcoming the weird, wacky and the downright hilarious to the stage.
Satchmo and Duke, two of the greatest jazz legends of the 20th century, only made one recording together, The Summit (1961).
A unique gala of traditional Chinese folk dances, classical dance genres as well as a taste of Chinese opera.
The Mother Music Daughter Dance is a lively, funny, bittersweet theatrical duet between a real-life mother and daughter.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight.
Richard Wright is just happy to be involved.
Award-winning spoken word artist Melanie Branton performs poetry and songs about her roots and plays the recorder (the ultimate punk instrument) badly.
A 50-minute long devised comedy, heading to the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2019.
Amused Moose Award nominee: Best Show, Edinburgh Fringe 2015.
A past hit at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival! #213 is a silent, sad clown who has learned how to find laughter through the tears.
As part of celebrations all around the world in honour of International Scottish Gin Day, we’ll be having our own celebrations in the heart of Edinburgh.
Lloyd is the cameraman at Channel 7 News in Northern Michigan.
Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project celebrates and pays homage to the tiny school in the mountains of North Carolina that in 24 years became one of the most inf…
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world; come find out why.
If you walk into a production of The Last Five Years without any previous knowledge of the show things can get a little confusing.
Madame Komondor Will See You Now is a wildly interactive solo comedy show that probes everything from excessive male masturbation to enhancing a woman’s pleasure.
Law impacts on people’s daily lives in numerous ways, but we can often feel remote from it.
Ellie, Liz and Tig have worked in the factory for a very long time.
Black Light Theatre Company features a boisterous and lively cast in their production The Last Bubble.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go: simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
Daily guest performances from one of these folk musicians: Kevin Gore (‘crafts lyrics straight from the heart and puts over his message with skill and passion’ (Black Diamond FM)),…
Last Life feels like a social experiment.
‘At first you feel a winding pain.
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose finally meet.
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco as we return to our Scottish roots for an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
Formed in 1965 in Edinburgh, Fayne and the Cruisers are still going strong, capturing the essence of those 60s dances in church halls and clubs and performing everything from The B…
This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends …
A whimsically curated theatrical deep-dive into the multiverse of Hendrick’s Gin, guided by three tini tipples… In a world where the beloved martini has been called, one of the h…
Meet characters including a publican, an investor and a spy who’ll share details with you from Edinburgh’s colourful past as you journey through Gladstone’s Land.
If this was billed as Music and took place in a concert hall, the MP4 Quartet’s perfomance of three pieces by Steve Reich, Pendulum Music, Different Trains and WC 9/11 would earn…
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
The Edinburgh Fringe is awash with shows designed to shock and push our buttons.
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
12 sell-out years at the Fringe, Glasgow and Australian Comedy Festivals.
It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it.
Delve into the archives of Dunfermline College of Physical Education, Scottish gymnastics and influential dance pioneer Margaret Morris (1891-1980) and discover Scotland’s signif…
Henry Wilkinson: See Me at Lunch is an hour-long, one-man, hyper-immersive, character comedy extravaganza.
Amanda donated her kidney for her sister.
Join the longest running panellist on BBC Scotland’s Breaking the News as he runs through new material for his next tour.
The Female Role Model Project is just that, a project.
Angelos is up in Edinburgh to do his stuff and to stand in front of people for about 13 days, maybe more if he can get time off at the stables.
Enjoy a glorious summer exhibition of paintings by Scottish Artists.
Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Carl Donnelly (‘Observational genius’ (Guardian)) returns with a new show about how difficult it is to be a good person in the modern age.
A cabaret with desserts could have been light, fluffy fare but Michelle Pearson isn’t afraid to get into the more bitter ingredients in life.
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
After suffering another excruciating, yet hilarious, revelation about his weird little behaviours and ticks, Gareth has decided to come clean and share his innermost embarrassing s…
Something special is about to happen - we know this deeply and cerebrally as we enter stage to the mesmerising image of Maisy Taylor intricately entwined in shibari ropes, barely v…
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Winner: Best Newcomer 2017, Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
The Wardrobe Ensemble is back at the Fringe with a powerfully emotional story of family.
Just These Please are back with their brand new show Suitable.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Good comedy doesn’t come out of a comedian being happy, right? Wrong! Suzi Ruffell proves her own point wrong when she begins her show, Dance Like Everyone’s Watching, by sayin…
Celebrity impression shows have a Marmite-esque quality: whether they are a hit or a failure depends largely on their consumer and there is rarely an 'in between'.
Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet…
Alpha Art is an independent contemporary gallery established in 2006.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short stand-up comedy set based around an event which happened on the same date as the show at some poin…
Welcome to a preview of the brand new show from 4x Competition Semi Finalist Richard Wright.
just JOSH & WonderPhil are proud to present their debut double act.
Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth.
It’s 2016.
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
Just These, Please are back with their brand new show ‘Suitable’.
Clare Sales School of Dance is for all age and abilities.
Winners of the The Bath Comedy Fest Best Joke Award 2018, Socks return with a new comedy hour in a circus-esque style.
Have you ever thought “Wow, I could push that person in front of that train”.
Following an inaugural year enjoyed by audiences and critics alike, A Festival of Korean Dance will return in 2019.
In 2008, choreographer Rosie Kay joined the 4th Battalion The Rifles, to participate in full battle exercises, and visited the National Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre.
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
Can a young astronaut and a fallen star save a former dancer who is fighting a bizarre illness and her bohemian roommate? Or will they be captured and tortured with no end in sight…
Come have the the time of your life, with the cult-dance musical of the 80’s. Our very own Steph will get you in the mood before the screening.
Charming sketch group seek friendly audience for their Brighton debut.
Master of minimalist movement Tao Ye founded TAO in 2008.
A new piece of work by a new BAME theatre ensemble The Last Company Theatre, Last Rehearsal is written and directed by Chilean Maria Jose Andrade.
For Jacques, the journey from cradle to grave is fraught with the negative voices of our culture; but, in our show, Jacques finally gets to see the possibility of hope and life-for…
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
Back for its fifth year, the Sussex Dance Network ‘Dance Trail’ presents new short works by local choreographers and dancers exploring the theme outside/inside.
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
A dancer dances, while another explains.
Ensemble Dance Co, topped off by Sarah Blanc.
The ‘Hera Project’ will present an exhibition and programme of readings, talks and performances exploring the links between creativity and health.
Three hours of dancing delights featuring music from the 1920s to 1950s, vintage costumes, glorious displays, and Dorothy’s Shoes’ trademark instant dance classes.
On 14 August 2018, Robyn Perkins ★★★★ (Voice Magazine) participated in a dating show in front of a live audience.
Ridiculous Honeybee Sci-fi.
It is still one of the best kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in…
Bobby works on Woolies’ record counter.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
In this alternative history show, four panellists each deliver a short set based around an event that happened on the same date as the show at some point in history.
“At Last, the Muppet Men”, a show many said would never happen and a few feared would.
Last year, 34% of young people voted YouTuber as their number one career of choice.
Tickets: £13.
Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down.
Join us as we celebrate the impending end of the world with an evening of show tunes from the West End and Broadway, at the Crazy Coqs Live at Zédel on the 8th of April at 9:15pm.
Debbie Allen Dance School present a varied programme of Dance.
Possibly less famous than Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Andy Barrett’s Tony’s Last Tape has much in common with it; not least the obsession each of the eponymous heroes had …
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
After diving into the world of romance and heartbreak in critically acclaimed multi-award winning May-We-Go-Round?, Cristina and Chess explore what it means to be a young woman in …
Tickets: £5Suitable for: Older adults (guide age 55+ years old)Duration: 1hr, 30minsOther: This takes place in our Studio, with a maximum capac…
Using their powerful blend of comedy, energetic dance and theatre, they imagine a world where women can be, and do, whatever they want, breaking free of the boxes and letting go of…
A World Premiere from Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company, in association with Lyra.
Celestial Motion transports you to an alternate universe where you are joined by a virtual cast of world-class dancers on a thrilling journey towards the sun.
The celebrated American choreographer Mark Morris, swings into town with Pepperland, his unique tribute to one of the best-selling albums of all time: The Beatles’ Sgt.
In a rare public appearance, Charles Dance discusses his remarkable 50-year career in theatre, film and television.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
He is Britain’s first Black judge, a fine singer and keen cricket lover.
Imagine if women weren’t just stuck playing Juliet and Desdemona and Lady Macbeth over and over again.
Second ChanceAn experiment on a different sort of love story Our Wee Gerry Gerry and Arlene, cross-communitied lovers Second Chance - Idir Mná / LakedaemonThey sa…
Bold GirlDying Is No Excuse, Ma.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Back for it’s fourth year.
A two-day (Tue 19 and Wed 20 Feb) creative animation project using old techniques and new technologies.
An electro rock duo from Orange County formed by Justin Pointer and Tony Kim.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Our incredibly popular, long-running evening of easy listening music and comedy entertainment in the friendly atmosphere of the Cellar Bar.
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Dance2Connect is a 3 day Street Dance Festival, comprising of an evening of Dance Theatre (Friday), dance ‘Battles’ (Saturday) and Workshops with Internation…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Tickets: £13.
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Matthew Bourne's New Adventures are pleased to offer this series of inclusive workshops for over-55s this year.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Stylish, elegant and magical, Scottish Ballet's Cinderella, choreographed by Christopher Hampson, at times takes one's breath away.
What We Did Next presents ‘The Last 10 Years’, an evening of celebration for the company’s 10th anniversary.
Layla and Majnun is a classic love story which has been presented in many Middle Eastern and sub-continental cultures.
Actor/scriptwriter Charlie Ryall leads an entertaining troupe of actors from Mercurius Theatre Company in her play Indebted to Chance at the Old Red Lion Theatre.
Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are coming to Greenwich in the first ever Bing stage show!Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by preten…
Michele Osten and the Not Just Jazz Band are delighted to be debuting at this year’s Fringe! The band, renowned for its vast repertoire covering everything from jazz standards to c…
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, clarsach, lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, doublebass and percussion has captivated aud…
Mahler Symphony No 4 in G major.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
British jazz diva Jacqui Dankworth and American vocalist/pianist Charlie Wood get together for a husband and wife duet concert celebrating some of the great musical partnerships of…
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful German lieder including the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Fraue…
Harriet Stand (Hatty to her friends) is auditioning for a part in the critically acclaimed play Life.
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
16m subscribers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Based on the painting Akita no Gyoji by Tsuguharu Foujita (1937), Yoshitaka fuses the Japanese folk elements of Namahage, Hanekawa Kenbayashi and Akita Nikatabushi to create a new …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Membership of the local amateur drama society has dwindled to four.
21 August 2018, 10:00-13:00, The Space @ Jury’s Inn.
Composer James Glasgow (Secondhand Dance Company, Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Choice winner) performs new music composed for the award-winning poems of Mario Moroni as Moroni recit…
Tectonic Theatre’s The Laramie Project is a masterpiece in verbatim, a chronicle of the 1998 real-life kidnap and murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student from Wyoming.
Innovations isn’t just a show.
Come and enjoy our music.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
When things are coming to an end, the best thing to do is to go back to the beginning.
The Last Burrah Sahibs is a one-hour, one-man, spoken-word show about the mansion house dwelling life led by ordinary Scottish mill workers in the old jute colonies along the Hoogh…
Scottish Chamber OrchestraRobin Ticciati Conductor Brahms Symphony No 2Brahms Symphony No 4 Mercurial, magical, constantly surprising.
Whoever you are, you’ll only know first love once.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
Scottish Chamber OrchestraRobin Ticciati Conductor Brahms Symphony No 1Brahms Symphony No 3 Revelatory performances, teeming with telling detail, inviting you to experience well-lo…
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
Take a trip through time to discover the origin of classic fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables to the Brothers Grimm to Disney.
Scottish folk singer-songwriter Karine Polwart has a knack of delivering sucker punches in the gentlest, subtlest of ways.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
In 2014, The Telegraph released an article headlined: “Five Geckos Freeze to Death on Space Sex Mission.
All you need is a camera, an internet connection and something to say.
A man and a woman wait in a flat in Camden for a phone call from a colleague.
Strangely, apart from the Military Tattoo, there is not a lot of piping in Edinburgh during the Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The UK’s number one Tommy Cooper tribute returns to the Fringe! Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
The Edinburgh Quartet, founded in 1960, is one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles.
With snappy strathspeys to heartfelt airs, and rip-roaring reels to chripy jigs, Rachel Hair and Ron Jappy are two of Scotland’s most respected traditional musicians.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
This stunning Irish spectacular Rhythm of the Dance is a fully live show that celebrates Irish culture through music and dance, featuring world champion dancers, a traditional Iris…
An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure…
Scotland! Famous for hills and of course mountains.
Explore how the Wars of the Roses still has relevance today.
A captivating show suitable for all encompassing a variety of dance styles, colourful costumes and entertaining narrative.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Your supermarket knows when you’re pregnant; Google knows what medical conditions you have; Facebook could help your doctor diagnose you.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
Tibetan Monks Sacred Dance is a special experience, not quite a religious rite and not quite a performance show as five Tibetan monks from the Tashi Lunpo Monastery in South India …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Dance-Forms Productions is celebrating the International Choreographers’ Showcase’s 24th Anniversary and 17 years of brilliant performances at the Fringe.
Following a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, mind control artist Mason King returns for another journey into the inner depths of the human mind.
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight.
This is a show for the losers, the underdogs and the also-rans.
‘Best show of 2017’ ***** (WorldMagicReview.
The debut solo show from ex-President of the Oxford Revue, Georgia Bruce.
A wanderer believes his destiny is written along the North Carolina Interstate.
Could you be a psychic spy? In 1972, the Cold War took an unusual turn.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
After a hugely successful run in 2017 – ‘I didn’t expect for it to be that damn excellent’ (LexicalLunacy.
Follow the elvish dancer into the enchanted forest and get lost in the moment, admiring his strange and subtle art.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Stand-up comedian Daniel Lobell has been fat his whole life. Now 35 and morbidly obese, he is determined to conquer his food addiction and get healthy.
Want to experience doing your bit? Meet and hear from characters involved in the WWI war effort such as a field nurse, a coastguard, a canary girl and the mother of a soldier.
Tommy Fitchet’s exhibition of unique Scottish landscape paintings from his travels around Scotland.
The Matrix, but with bees.
Like stereotypes, labels generally become meaningless upon scrutiny.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Why toddle when you can dance!? Sell-out shows around the world, come find out why DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with under fives and their parents/carers.
What do the widow and mistress of Scotland’s famous bard discuss over tea? After the death of Robert Burns, his wife Jean Armour and mistress Nancy Maclehose, finally meet.
‘My favourite DJ on the planet.
It’s a day like no other, in a health service like no other.
A special performance of historic and contemporary Scottish folk songs in the atmospheric Captain’s Bar.
Come join the brilliant Boogie Shoes Silent Disco on an immersive dance-walk through the crazy throngs of the Fringe.
The Last One is the end of all things, and still needing more.
A legendary musician, Hoppy Kamiyama and an awesome traditional dancer, Kashichiro; the artists representing Japan from the Hachijojima Island appear at Greenside in the Edinburgh …
Anything goes at the Scottish Comedy Festival’s new official late-night Pick of the Fringe showcase with a phenomenal handpicked selection of our favourite acts from across the F…
Dana Alexander offers her unique and irreverent perspective in an industry that is dominated by the privileged and homogeneous – a purple sheep in a group of black sheep.
Ten sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Glasgow Comedy Fest and around the world.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
This is a show about identity, authenticity and the murky area between the two.
Steve Bennett is the happiest man on the planet.
Multi award-winning creators of Anton’s Uncles, Track 3, Big Shot and Hot Cat, Theatre Movement Bazaar assembles its ultra-modern troubadours for the company’s latest adventure, …
The invincible William Brown considers he is ‘jolly well equal’ to solving most of life’s trickier problems, although devising a plan to get the elder brothers of the Outlaws marri…
Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination.
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
A dancer dances, while another explains.
Discover the story of Scottish pop from the 1950s to the present day at this major exhibition.
People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some…
Friendly Cornish giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
Alex Edelman’s full name is David Yosef Shimon Ben Illouz Haleivi Alexander Edelman.
Two rising stars split an hour of scorching hot stand-up.
Last year, Pierre gave you observational comedy for people who think they don’t like observational comedy (***** (Metro)), this year it’s satire for people without a team.
In 2015 I sit at my desk waiting for an email to tell me what the final changes are that I need to make to the film script I’ve been working on for 10 years.
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August.
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Alex Edelman returns to Edinburgh with his third solo show.
Dublin Youth Dance Company are thrilled to present an evening of dance at the Smock Alley Theatre as part of the 18th Irish Youth Dance Festival.
Standup and improv comedy unite in one explosively funny night! Join us as a group of experienced improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) story in three acts based on the …
This is a new collaboration with a local drama company that will see an external director working collaboratively with members of the local community and our own student…
Vibe Arts are delighted to be working with the St Dunstan's College Dance Company for their first appearance in this year’s Arts Festival.
Two rising stars split an hour of scorching hot stand-up.
Critically acclaimed and award winning Stand Up comedian, host of his own TV entertainment show and Stand Up show on Comedy Central, Celebrity Juice regular and the only…
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique an…
When no one else can help, there’s only one thing to do.
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
What really goes on in our head? Is it true? What we believe to think? Is it beautiful? Is it confronting? And is it honest? What can you learn from your thoughts? They have more t…
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Adam Astra, a young rocketeer witnesses a star-girl fall to earth one night and vows to rocket her back among the stars.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
This is a millennial anthem, a confused love song to a ‘lost generation’ that does everything and nothing all at once.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Inspired by collecting stories for a eulogy, Angus looks at our evolving public selves, how our friends police who they think we should be, and thwart our attempts to try on new fa…
Roll up for vintage tunes, dazzling dance displays, and whirlwind Instant Dance Classes to ease you onto the floor.
Street Dance workshops in a small group. Admission by ticket only.
An anonymous man and woman, confined in a space, are trying to pin down the facts.
Back for its fourth year Brighton dance Network’s promenade performance leads audiences through a new series of dance occurrences crafted for a chosen part of the city.
Ceyda Tanc Dance, with three different programmes of cutting edge and dynamic contemporary dance, works with influences of Ceyda’s traditional Turkish folk dance heritage.
Micronian Theatre make their return to the stage with their first original two-act play and debut at Brighton Fringe, fundraising for our charities, The Clock Tower Sanctuary and t…
Kevin and Babs Chisholm run The Dog and Dumplings pub along with a mute parrot and a lesbian cat.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
It was a balmy Sunday evening at the end of another warm and sunny weekend and many in the audience seem to have to enjoyed the weekend (and perhaps the wine) a bit too much by the…
'I’m frightened', my proudly-feminist husband says while reading a Google-searched summary of Just Don’t Do It as we sit waiting for the start of the show.
The Erebus Project has an interesting premise.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join our resident dj-mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for an hour of bopping family fun.
Passionate and unconventional, Isadora Duncan revolutionised the dance world and is known as “the mother of modern dance”.
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in the friendliest of discos.
70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly co…
Performed dramatic reading by Fenella Fielding & Stephen Greif.
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Back for its third year.
Richard Alston choreographed his very first dance in 1968 – 50 years later Mid Century Modern celebrates this landmark with new and old work from Alston, a fitting celebrat…
Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday 18th March 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to give inspiring theatre experiences to ch…
“Funny, engaging, informative and empowering… You will leave feeling inspired, fulfilled and ready to change the world.
The Fame Train gang star in this awesome show that sees the kids travel through the ages from the prehistoric times, to the swinging 60’s, all the way to the modern day! Cool chara…
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
Two time Scottish Comedy Award winner.
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world, come find out why Adelaide’s own, DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with the under fives and their parents/carers.
Join us for some hip-grinding, hair-flipping and leg-splitting Britney action in our workshop featuring the moves of the pop princess who has provided us with fly dance steps for n…
Do you want to see a show but can’t get a babysitter? Worry no more.
Dance Amor is a dynamic fast-paced dance studio where Dance and Passion set Soul on Fire! Here at Dance Amor we believe that anyone can dance.
Award Winning Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys bring the dance Party! Bring your dancing shoes! 6 piece band with full horn section featuring the music of Prince, Bruno Mars, Marvin…
Every year the Scottish comedian of the year winner comes to Adelaide to entertain you.
Alice is becoming more and more forgetful.
The renowned contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers returns to Sadler’s Wells with a double bill commissioned and performed by Candoco.
Three Scotsmen walk into a bar.
Tongkek, a musical instrument made of bamboo is played by beating & knocking to make sound in a pentatonic basic tone.
As seen on The Project.
Learn moves from the decade that brought us icons like the running man, the moonwalk, the robot and the mc hammer dance! This fun filled workshop is open to beginners, advanced …
If you like wine, food, and dancing then this is the event for you! Day Dance is an annual winery party in the beautiful McLaren Vale - only 30 minutes from the CBD.
Clubbing without the hangover.
This unmissable acoustic experience debuts it’s all-star collaboration of Lindsay Field, Sam See and Glyn Mason for one night only at the 2018 Adelaide Fringe.
Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final …
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
The Ukrainian ballet star, Sergei Polunin has created a programme that will feature an international cast and creative team, including Polunin himself.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
In a Brighton basement eight young women sit on stools, waiting, the audience in a semi-circle around them.
Platinum selling music icon Ronan Keating leads a star-studded line-up - for one sensational night only - of songs, laughter and variety, at the Phoenix Theatre on 19 November at 7…
A trio of improv: The Owls Are Not What They Seem revisits Twin Peaks.
A rare chance to see two internationally acclaimed dance artists.
A triple bill of dynamic new talents with international star of bharatanatyam, Mythili Prakash and noted kathak performer Dheerandra Tiwari, plus a music concert by a remarkable …
The Society is part-show and part self-help group.
Ground-breaking dance-maker Shobana Jeyasingh brings her radical imagination to Petipa’s legendary ballet La Bayadère.
Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f…
This is a mating ground.
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Russian Spectacular! Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Nutcracker Suite, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor (Soloist Jill Morton) and Borodin Symphony No 3.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Set in the heart of Scotland, The Man Who Couldn’t Dance is a story of first love, broken promises and surviving suburbia in the aftermath of a broken heart.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Wicked musical comedy from the political parody specialists, singing truth to power for their ninth (and final) Fringe year and raising their game with a one-off, full-length extra…
The final anarchic annual two-hour charity variety show celebrating the life and random irresponsibility of the godfather of British alternative comedy, filled with bizarre acts, e…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Winner of Asia and India’s Best Stand-up Comedian Awards, Papa CJ has performed over 2000 shows in over 20 countries.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Bathtub Heroine presents an incredibly biting piece of new writing telling the life story of tormented poet, Sylvia Plath.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This workshop is suitable for anyone looking for a fun afternoon of unfamiliar dances, while still providing challenges for experienced dancers.
Travel back to the 1920s to examine the beautiful art of failing.
Hip-hop dance superstars Boy Blue Entertainment bring emotional energy, fierce movement and blistering music in a bold dance show presented in the heart of the community of Craigmi…
An Eric Liddell inspired fundraising event encompassing a legends vs celebrities football match with family-friendly athletics activities for all age groups.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The story of the clarinet told from a truly global perspective by Scotland’s premier clarinet ensemble, in virtuosic performances on clarinets of all sizes.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award-winning show that ‘defined comedy in 2016’ (**** Guardian) and earned a Total Theatre Award nomination for Innovation returns for 10 days only.
New Contemporary Arab Dance Performances is part of Arab Art Focus, a showcase of new theatre and performance from the Arab region and diaspora.
Canadian Marc-André Hamelin is a true piano virtuoso in the mould of historical greats Liszt or Rachmaninov, combining astonishing power with a miraculous, impeccable technique �…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A mind reading show based on the true story of America’s psychic spies.
Trumpet, electronics and text.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Kirsty Wark is one of television’s most experienced presenters and author of The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle.
Composer and pianist Julian Layn returns to the Fringe to perform his unique 21st century classical music, including his Thunderstorm Trilogy, the Queen and the Ecocalypse works.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This is a show about belonging.
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
Music of the Great Highland bagpipe in a variety of forms played by members of the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and friends, displaying the quality and enduring appeal of the ins…
Sangstream is an Edinburgh-based Scots folk choir led by Corrina Hewat, the well-known composer, harper and singer.
‘Punch the air to character comedy.
Acclaimed storyteller Max Scratchmann celebrates seventy years of Indian independence from British rule and brings the lost world of the infamous Hooghly River Scottish colonies vi…
Nick Elleray - ex-pat Aussie and Old Comedian of 2017 (seriously, google it) - performs a stand-up show about ageing, family and this grim carnival we call life.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Come along and celebrate the 50th year of Just a Minute with special recordings in Edinburgh.
They open with the surging emotions and poignant melodies of Schubert’s much-loved ‘Unfinished’ Symphony.
Dance-Forms Productions is celebrating 16 years of brilliant performances at the Fringe, presenting the cream of the crop of postmodern creations.
Two halves of a long-dead acting duo meet again for a sarcastic and witty reunion.
Fourteen cast members.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
As Americans, who have we been and who are we now? Through a collage of song, scene and verbatim text, we explore our identity as a nation and attempt to answer where do we go from…
2016 Fringe award-winner Frances M Lynch returns, celebrating breakthroughs by Scottish women scientists in genetics, geology, computing, engineering, astronomy, marine biology, mo…
Since 2011, George Wilson and his twin sons have presented Bach at the Canongate.
Greeting you with a handshake as you enter, Schôn Dale-Jones and his piece, The Duke, warmly invite you to participate in a really special experience.
Actors from the US, UK and Germany present this theatrical tour de force by Pulitzer winner Stephen Adly Guirgis that makes a case for the redemption of history’s most famous betra…
Unhinged physical comedy from Rob Cawsey on dating, sex and trying to find love.
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
Just Like the Movies is a cheery musical exploring the world of show business as the characters battle to make a statement in a world where success is often decided by major realit…
Why toddle when you can dance?! It’s time to get heads, shoulders, knees and toes bopping along to lashings of swing, pop, rock, latin and more! Selling out shows around the world,…
Over 20 years as a wishful thinking stand-up comedian left me fat, broke and on me own in a two bed flat above a beauty salon.
You’ll die laughing at this outrageous show about the thing we all have in common.
‘The more I try to remember her, the more I’ve forgotten her.
A historical comedy exploring the life of Maximilian I, the last emperor of Mexico.
Due to some of the artists being refused visas to enter the UK, we have had to make some changes to the Arab Arts Focus Dance Double Bill.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
As her lead character, Helen Fox explains that one out of every two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime.
With one of the longest titles you’ll come across it feels as though this show will have a lot to unpack.
The Amish Project (Ensemble Version), a story of grace and healing, is a fictionalized account of the shooting at an Amish school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 2006.
Samuel Beckett’s moving meditation on time, memory and ageing is performed by renowned Irish actor Barry McGovern, one of the world’s most revered interpreters of the great pla…
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows.
“Death Part 7: The Last Word” is the barely anticipated final installment in Jack Trinco’s fabled, quasi-epic, multi-part exploration of the theme of death.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
The uptight, irritable, shy yet monstrously arrogant Kingsley has developed dangerously high blood pressure and a phobia of dancing.
The Last Queen of Scotland is a bold and original new piece of writing by Jaimini Jethwa, commissioned by the National Theatre of Scotland and Dundee Rep, and produced by Stellar Q…
Spend an hour in the company of leading Scottish comedian Vladimir McTavish.
Adapting well-loved source material can be a tricky art, but Shedload Theatre have managed to maintain the essence of Richmal Crompton’s Just William stories in this riotous hour…
Is it a curse to stay? What if we couldn’t travel, could never leave home and see the world? Can we still be happy? A girl looks across the ocean and longs to discover.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Abrasive satire for Guardian readers, disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
Stand-up comedian Sam Gore has been taking down celebrities and politicians with his cutting, satirical, absurdist diatribes on Facebook since 2014 and garnered over fifty thousand…
After Muslims Do It Five Times A Day and Aatificial Intelligence, Aatif Nawaz returns to the Fringe to have The Last Laugh.
Movement and grace: a Dowland galliard, rousing Bach gavottes, a rippling Russian polka, the compelling rhythms of Cuba and South America.
Korean performance company GGIRIPROJECT aims to create the perfect collaboration between music and martial arts, a pursuit that has resulted in the catchily-titled Monkey Dance: Th…
Derevo are a legend.
The beginning of Last Resort definitely hooks you in.
As seen on Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central and Live from the BBC.
The dance world can sometimes take itself a little too seriously, it often seems to be too caught up in technical comparisons to just enjoy itself, however, Chicos Mambo is the opp…
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
Brought to you by Parallax Theatre, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a riotous look at life beyond.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
Join us Whiski Bar for a vibrant, foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands during August.
Squeeze some culture into your lunchbreak! Grab a sandwich and join Lightbox Theatre this July for a lunchtime serving of darkly comic gems by some of theatre’s most prominent p…
Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses
Michelle Dorrance brings tap into the age of electronic music with collaborator Nicholas Van Young.
Scotland’s national ballet company returns with a double bill of two radically different, but equally powerful works.
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Double-Oh Heaven, Showtime, Elixir and more! Filled with Circus, …
‘Eve’s Dawning’ combines storytelling, live music and animation to tell the dystopian fairy tale of Eve, the last girl in the world, as she navigates a post-apocalyptic waste…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978.
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
If you are only half of who you are, would there still be enough of you to be the same as you were? Mary suffers with demons in her life, day in, day out.
Part Classical, part Folk - part Hymnal.
An inventive and brilliant celebration of Access to Music Brighton as it faces closure.
Have you been more naughty or more nice this year? Are you sure?A company of gentlemanly vagabonds introduce themselves with a reminder to relax before the “Art” starts.
Nick Elleray is happy to be back at Brighton Fringe.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
This spectacular cluster of dance pieces not only astounded through the sheer physicality of their presentation, but to produce piece after piece of originally choreographed narrat…
THE MAIN THING IS ABOUT BUYING CAKE! Ragroof take you to LaLaLand (14 May) in our very own City of Stars for an afternoon of Hollywood musical delights: American Smooth, Foxtro…
Slim Chance is a tight band of good friends, which has evolved around three original members of Ronnie’s Lane’s band - Steve Bingham, Charlie Hart and Steve Simpson.
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
A name as loaded with dark, romantic foreboding as Poe’s Last Night incurs comparison with the titles of Poe’s own works; it suggests mystery, a locked room of buried secrets.
The bizarre tale of the boy Eli Hum, born with a baffling condition: his tummy can only digest honey.
Boogaloo Stu’s dark comedy ‘Last Orders At The Dog & Dumplings’ is an uproarious and merciless exposé of the cold-blooded takeover striking our communities in the name of regene…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
A brand-new show in preview from Jessica Fostekew.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Crazy, voyeuristic, unexpected and fast paced, SOHO is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre in a diverse trip around the streets where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders.
Abrasive satire for Guardian-readers disguised as sensationalist whimsy for Sun-readers so as not to alienate the proletariat.
Brighton Dance Network is excited to present its third site-specific promenade piece.
Tap is visual jazz.
A tribute to the classic big-band music of Duke Ellington.
After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, Foreign Goods returns with ‘Visions of England’ in April 2017 featuring fully-formed short plays by Chinese, South East…
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment buy the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike…
“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic.
you thought Gleb was sizzling in the Master Chef kitchen and Kristina was stunning on Strictly then imagine how spicy it will be when you see the…
Forget what you know about the traditional Brothers Grimm fairy tale; Christopher Hampson has taken this classic tale and injected it with magic and modern charm, his choreograp…
Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si…
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
Fresh from their sell-out hit shows Midnight Tango and Dance ’Til Dawn, Strictly Come Dancing superstars Vincent Simone & Flavia Cacace have created their most movi…
Tony Award-winning Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown will helm a new London production of his acclaimed musical The Last Five Years, starring Samantha Barks and Jonathan Bailey.
Step back in time to the golden age of the Hollywood movies as a cast of West End dancers and singers recreate some of the most memorable dance sequences from this golden age, live…
Kenny Rogers will perform at London's Palladium in November! The country music legend, known for tracks such as Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town, The Gambler and UK c…
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
Yang Liping is one of the most famous dancers in mainland China.
After numerous Off-Broadway and international productions as well as a film adaptation starring Pitch Perfect’s Anna Kendrick, The Last Five Years finally arrives on the West…
We wonder why so many women wear an ill-fitting bra? Why do some women not wear a bra at all? Do women have to wear a bra? PERKY is a bra revolution, to ‘undo’ bewilderment ar…
More than 10 years ago, Alexander Gog embarked on a radical experiment in the extremes of artistic expression, social protest, &theatrical activism; caged & delivering nightly perf…
A Dance Umbrella Orbital London Tour in partnership with the Albany, artsdepot, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, and Watermans, with The Broadway and the Unicorn Theatre.
Ken Stott and Reece Shearsmith come together as lead actor “Sir” and Norman “The Dresser” in this eagerly awaited revival of “a wonderfully affec…
Formed in 2008 by Beijing-based choreographer Tao Ye, TAO Dance Theater is known for its mixture of art forms, including film and visual art, creating work that has a mesmeric, tra…
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
The world-famous and world-class dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returns to Sadler's Wells for the first time since 2010 with an exhilarating showcase of dan…
Scottish Voices, directed by Graham Hair, presents a recital for four women’s voices and piano.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Experience the thrill of hearing Saint-Saens’ exciting Organ Symphony live.
This famous traditional music ensemble has thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the USA, with their unique blend of fiddles, smallpipes, harp, flute, concertina, doub…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Get a glimpse of something new happening.
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jen Stone and Megan Thompson Dance Project is known for its dynamic physicality, powerful imagery and emotive choreography.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A contemporary song cycle musical that ingeniously chronicles the five-year life of a marriage, from meeting to break-up.
Krapp stands frozen staring into the distance, barely living in the present, heading to an unknown future and transfixed on the past.
NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio…
The Scottish Saxophone Ensemble present haunting psalms and whirling reels by contemporary Irish and Scottish composers Ian Wilson, Ross Ainslie and Eddie McGuire, and welcomes spe…
Mr Boom – the children’s one-man band from the moon – is no stranger to The Famous Spiegeltent.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
You have been cordially invited to a time travel to where the poetry of the Tang dynasty, an artistic pinnacle on par with Shakespeare and Dante, is brought to life by this troupe …
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
You have been cordially invited to time travel, to where the poetry of the Tang dynasty – an artistic pinnacle on par with Shakespeare and Dante – is brought to life by this tr…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cinema screening of live performance.
15.
On October third, 1849, Edgar Allen Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Corelli Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre presents Just, by Ali Smith and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Strangely, apart from the Military Tattoo there is not much piping at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
Celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the International Choreographers’ Showcase and 15 years with powerful performances at the Fringe.
Join us for a gala night of comedy featuring a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Fencible Productions invite you to an entertaining and enlightening encounter with the Adam Family – father William and brothers Robert, John and James – pillars of Scotland an…
Brubeck: an incredible jazz legacy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Your Clubcard may say more about you than your DNA, so should it be considered more private? When it comes to understanding patterns in health and illness, examining our data may b…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The film invites the audience on a journey to the cold, bare Hungarian woods where you could meet a young girl searching the unknown and the non-existent, and fighting the invisibl…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
Imagine you’re fifteen.
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Did the world come about just so? Have forces of science and evolution been the only things at work? How did the world come to be filled with so many strange wonders? A new reworki…
Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows.
Kids love to be involved when watching a show and we provide you with such a chance! Dance and sing together and even try on traditional ethnic costumes with this group of young da…
Find the perfect whisky for your personality.
The underground comedian returns, following in the footsteps of the ‘undisputed buzz comedy of last year’ **** (Guardian), Waiting for Gaddot, which received rave reviews, sell…
In their sixth appearance at the Fringe, George, Adam and Tom Wilson have borrowed the title of Wilfred Meller’s book for a programme which will include music for organ, solo violi…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Elsie Diamond international burlesque bombshell and singer presents this one-woman show, inspired by her day job: dresser to the stars in the unpredictable world of costume.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
Following the huge success of The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant sell-out Winter Festival ceilidh, we are delighted to be hosting our summer ceilidh, featuring traditional Scottish cei…
Daisy is the hottest thing in Scottish comedy.
Welcome to Dreamform.
This informal hour long recital, starring singer Elspeth McVeigh and fiddle player Gabi Maas, features a variety of folk songs, or ‘Broadside Ballads’, from 17th to 19th centur…
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
‘Consistently boasting some of the most interesting line ups in the country’ (Times).
Lock up your children, goldfish and everything in between as The Scotney Rascals are in town! A pair of wannabe Rock stars with absolutely no following are forced to do comedy.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph…
In the final days of mankind, the last nine human beings left in existence are holed up together in a sanctuary base dubbed ‘Plan Z’.
Why toddle when you can dance? Get glam and get dancing at this international hit, retro-fabulous vintage disco for under-5s (babies under 6 months can go free).
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Cinema screening of live performance.
A week of arts and crafts events: an interactive art event unlike any other.
Desperate and looking for love, Anna (AFI award-winner Bojana Novakovic, star of Rake and Shameless) is a woman at a karaoke bar waiting for a date.
A daily showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe.
See a signature work by one of Europe's leading dance companies.
Moving and funny, Maria Ferguson’s one-woman show, Fat Girls Don’t Dance, deals with issues relevant to today’s young women.
Experience the shocking, beautiful true story of Tahirih, a Persian poetess and the first female suffrage martyr.
Returning to the city of my momma’s birth, my life’s story about everything that led me back to Edinburgh.
**** (Scotsman).
If By Chance is a glimpse of life’s opportunities and outcomes.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first black judge in 1978.
Enter the fascinating mind of Edgar Allan Poe.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
The Gait Bar, 232 Canongate Royal Mile hosts a special Fringe Craft Beer and Food Matching event: four to six courses paired with beers from different Scottish craft breweries ever…
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s…
Winner, Director’s Choice 2016 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Possibly the most ridiculous show at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets are in their ninth year and were greeted with a sell-out audience.
Dark humour isn’t in short supply this Fringe - in case you hadn’t noticed, celebrity and political news of late has had a tangible effect on performers.
Ushered into our venue we’re greeted by our protagonist, Sean (Hugh Hughes), who gives us a warm handshake and a smile.
Inspired by collecting stories for a eulogy, Angus examines the evolution of our public selves and how our circle of friends can choose to thwart or support our attempts to try on …
Step back in time for a relaxed afternoon with our Scottish folk musician.
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
Njambi McGrath’s 1 Last Dance With My Father sells itself as a dark comedy telling the story of her Kenyan upbringing and her violent relationship with her father.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
Bringing a host of exceptional exclusive artists from around the globe along with their authentic comedy carnival atmosphere! Russell Square will be transformed into the home of …
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
Last Orders is a post coming of age tale, exploring the loyalty of childhood friendships and how one of life’s greatest challenges is choosing between who you are and who you wan…
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
LA Dance Project is a Los Angeles-based artistic collective founded in 2012 by renowned choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, now Director at the Paris Opera Ballet.
The last splash of magic and sparkle with some amazing acts and friends of our Spiegel family including spots from Elixir, Showtime, Les Femmes and more! Join us on this unique and…
Back for its second year, ‘The Dance Trail’ invites audience members on a journey of contemporary dance performances in unusual spaces around Brighton.
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
Genre-defining classical composer and pianist Julian Layn tours Europe with ‘The Julian Layn Project’ that brings rock-alt classical, Julian’s unique form of 21st century classic…
Taught by established professional performers and University of Brighton staff, this five day course provides intensive training in physical skills and creative approaches for devi…
A unique fusion of live traditional and classical music from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the UK alongside video performances from Kabul.
A UFO has crashed over Brighton and your help is needed to save them from the Agents In Black.
A man with a stammer has an hour to tell his love how he feels.
A man with a severe stammer teams up with a massive pile of cards that detail his thoughts, to tell his love how he feels.
Tommy Cooper, with his impeccable timing, love of slapstick and one-liners was a true comic genius.
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
Josh is good at dancing, but not at people.
Are the Chinese solely to blame for the housing crisis? “I’m Just Here to Buy Soy Sauce” follows a pair of cut-throat real estate agents as they attempt to sell their latest mi…
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
The Players mark a milestone at the Brighton Spiegeltent, with two specially themed events: ‘Shall We Dance? A 10-Year Celebration’, a whizz-bang dance through the decades, and ‘Tu…
Elsie Diamond, international burlesque performer, compere and singer, presents her one woman show inspired by her day job- a dresser in the unpredictable world of costume.
Set in the year 2039, this is a world that man has destroyed.
“God is beauty with feeling” insists Nijinsky, gazing searchingly at his audience.
Ceyda Tanc Dance, with three different programmes of cutting edge and dynamic contemporary dance, works with influences of Ceyda’s traditional Turkish folk dance heritage.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out.
Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da…
The annual “Rhythm in Motion” festival is a one-stop shop for today’s top tap.
When was the last time you had Neapolitan ice cream? In her new work “Extra Shapes,” the renowned choreographer DD Dorvillier, along with her collaborators Thomas Dunn,…
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
(performances start on Thursday) The acclaimed experimental director Robert Wilson steps onstage (and into white makeup and ample hair gel) as the sole performer in Samuel Beckett&…
Fifteen years ago, Shen Wei burst onto the dance scene with a mesmerizing blend of starkly beautiful visual art and propulsive yet meditative movement.
Combining a mixture of dance theatre, audio-description and imaginative storytelling with Casson & Friends’ trademark interactivity; Night at the Theatre is a fun, family adventu…
What happens to your sense of identity when the world in which that self was created dramatically changes? If you lived to fight, what if the outcome of that fight wasn’t what yo…
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
In recent years, Pam Tanowitz has emerged as one of the most buzzed-about New York choreographers for her ability to embrace and then smartly reconfigure a physical vocabulary pull…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
The 44th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Dance Films Association, comprises 36 short films, 20 feature films and four r…
Glistening with sweat, Megan Hill’s comedy is essentially a real-time Jazzercise class with a wacky plot fused to it, as a willfully chipper exercise instructor (Ms.
As a member of American Ballet Theater’s corps de ballet, Gemma Bond is regularly immersed in fairy tales, surrounded by opulent sets and donning fussy costumes.
This company from China makes its American debut with “Dragon Boat Racing,” a glossy production that recounts the origins of a popular Cantonese musical composition.
FreddyG hosts this free late-night stand-up show at an up-and-coming Astoria space. Headliners include Aparna Nancherla and Mike Recine.
Following a sell-out West End run in 2014 and a triumphant stay at the Dominion Theatre earlier this year, Michael Flatley’s Lord Of The Dance: Dangerous Games returns t…
In “Finding Center,” the choreographer David Parsons and the visual artist Rita Blitt demonstrate their shared mastery of swirling, spiraling shapes.
In “Newsteps,” a semi-annual showcase of emerging choreographers selected by a panel of veterans, Takeshi Ohashi looks at dynamics in relationships; Gina Montalto wonde…
American companies hailing from sea to shining sea are presented here by the Joyce Theater and White Bird, an influential Portland, Ore.
In the past 20 years, Danspace Project has commissioned nearly 500 works, and it’s kicking off 2016 by remounting four recent ones.
This Brooklyn-based festival alternates between mixed-bill programs featuring the three participating companies, and programs where each gets the stage all to itself.
Allison Frasca and Tovah Silbermann will showcase their love for the singer Sia and her hit song “Chandelier” with a melodramatic 45-minute dance routine to the song, w…
After hanging with the Founding Fathers in “Hamilton” on Broadway, revisit Revolutionary War-era Yorktown with Dance Theater of Westchester’s “Colonial Nutc…
This annual festival celebrates dance of the past, promotes dance of today and honors those making significant contributions to the field.
In the opening sequence of the Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella, a young girl plants a single pink rose at her mother’s graveside.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
Blaktino Dance Concert is the final offering of the month-long BlakTinX performance series, featuring artists – many hailing from the Bronx – who work in a variety of d…
Honoring the 25th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, these companies, both featuring disabled and non-disabled dancers, join forces for one night at the Skirball C…
Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas are the subject of this White Light Festival event, featuring this British pianist of uncommon eloquence and depth.
Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte…
Dancers in Mr.
Dance exports from Cuba tend to portray the island in cheerful, apolitical terms, and Ms.
In a new work, Mr.
In 2000, Robert Voisey started Vox Novus to promote contemporary music.
Grab some popcorn and settle in for “Revelations.
The modus operandi of General Mischief Dance Theater is dance as play: The company’s shows have been fondly compared to children’s birthday parties.
After 14 years as a dancer with the Mark Morris Dance Group, John Heginbotham founded his own company in 2011 and quickly collected fans for his wit, refreshing physical strangenes…
Some lives are touched by war.
For the fifth consecutive year, Ms.
This exhibition at Loretta Howard Gallery examines the interchange of ideas among choreographers and sculptors in the 1960s and ′70s.
Strauss Don Juan; Faure Pavane; Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (Danny Miller violin); Elgar Symphony No 1 in Ab major, Opus 55.
Glasgow-based Aurea Quartet comprises of four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Direct from the Scottish Borders, pupils from the renowned Fiona Henderson School of Dance and Performing Arts will delight with their selection of dances in Highland, tap, ballet,…
This annual concert has built up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi…
The Fringe premiere of Scotland’s leading singer/songwriter’s latest project following his performance at Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games closing ceremony and the release of Till Tomo…
‘I looked for it on Blackpool beach with my Mum.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Live art every day.
Live art every day.
Join us for a gala night of comedy with a myriad of the biggest names on the Fringe coming together to raise funds for the Stroke Association in Scotland.
Ghost Dance, or Dawns Ysbrydion as is the Welsh title, uses three female dancers to explore the parallels between the displacement of Native Americans and the Ghost Dance of 1890 �…
A mash-up of dance, music, mobile phones and you! FlashMob begins as a game of words and ends as a dance party for all participants – with audience members interacting with movem…
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
Killing most of an hour, and murder to sit through, The Ted Bundy Project does bait-and-switch on its audience.
Edinburgh’s award-winning band return to the AMC for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with songs and stories from their latest album, Fire in the Glen and from previous recordings.
Powerful music by Haydn in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
The upstairs room in the historic Arthur Conan Doyle building offers the perfect setting for a relaxed evening of fiddle melodies by one of the country’s leading exponents.
A culinary conundrum.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Piano Transcriptions of Irish and Scottish Music by Mary McCarthy.
Nothing to see here.
Scottish song, music and comedy at its finest.
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
It’s 2015.
Gask 1847.
Eight Tibetan monks present an exciting performance of sacred masked dance from their New Year festival, interspersed with the mesmerising chant and music of the Buddhist monastic …
Strangely, apart from the Military Tattoo, there is not much piping in Edinburgh during the Festival.
A theatrical proposal filled with poetry.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f…
Because dance is, in many ways, human sculpture in motion, it’s very much at home in Socrates Sculpture Park.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
Go ahead and sip the gunpowder green tea poured into dainty cups by Tom Barnes and Matt Wilks, the handsome, engaging young performers of The Litvinenko Project.
As we grow older and we become more aware of the world, the way we look at people, the way we attach emotions and feelings begins to change.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in…
This is the seventh year that producer and curator of dance Jodi Kaplan has brought the variety of American dance to the Fringe with this “festival within a festival”.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
Explore the labyrinth of secrets lurking behind the Edinburgh Playhouse foyer doors as the custodians (past and present) of this stunning theatre lead you through the history of a …
“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer.
Dance-Forms Productions will celebrate the 21st anniversary of the International Choreographers’ Showcase and 14 years presenting exciting performances at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
Hosted by Club members Professor David Purdie, retired medical doctor, renowned after dinner speaker and Honorary Professor at IASSH, David Ingram, antiquarian, historian, wit, bon…
A programme of creative dance that is physically challenging with a fresh dynamic edge from this brand new company.
See how radio is made.
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
Phantom Owls present the Skylight Theatre production of New York Times best-selling author, acclaimed American humorist, Annabelle Gurwitch’s I See You Made an Effort.
Elsie Diamond international burlesque bombshell and singer presents this one-woman show, inspired by her day job: dresser to the stars in the unpredictable world of costume.
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
The Paradise Project by Third Angel and mala voadora is set in a futuristic shelter-in-construction, inhabited by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick as they create a society within w…
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer.
This is a lewd, ridiculous and over the top show that will leave you stunned and cackling.
Tied to a fence, beaten, and left to die in the cold, October night in Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard lost his fight for life five days after being discovered mutilated in this …
I remember hearing Tony Benn speak many years ago, when I was still in school.
Phillip Aughey’s favourite composer is the great pianist Frédéric Chopin and, having been present at a number of recitals of his work last year, he has been motivated to create…
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
The Last Kill follows a Scottish soldier, Michael, falling apart as he tries to find the answers he needs to justify his actions in war.
‘At the end of a long day’s Fringe-going, this club is Just the Tonic’ (Scotsman).
The rhythm of obsession, a journey into mental illness.
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
In 1964, 12-year-old Marilyn declared she’d die if she didn’t see The Beatles play in Melbourne.
He likes Bad Manners and football and dislikes bad manners and liver.
Stand-up comedy and theatre rarely interact in meaningful ways.
‘The damn sea rolls on as it always has.
Fringe favourite returns with limited run presenting reworked classics alongside newly crafted tales that always challenge, enlighten and leave you laughing.
Mr Susie has one hour to save cabaret.
Multi award-winning Scottish Ghanaian stand-up tells stories old and new from life and wanderings.
The nightly cabaret features a selection of the best festival entertainment with a changing line-up of international and local singers, musicians and entertainment, all in the oak-…
Storytelling as you’ve never seen it! Join in with Meg Harper’s unique stories! Maybe you’ll be a princess, maybe you’ll be a frog, maybe you’ll even be a giant head louse! Fresh s…
Jen Carnovale has been living out of a suitcase for three years.
**** (Scotsman).
Just So Stories is a fun, interactive storytelling of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales.
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.
London’s boldest dance theatre brings hit shows to the Fringe.
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Slick, quick and packed with funny material, high energy comedy from 2013 Amused Moose Award winner and 2013 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee.
A rare opportunity to enjoy exclusive, after-hours access to the Scottish National Gallery’s world-class collection of masterpieces.
Jason Robert Brown’s musical The Last Five Years is not an easy undertaking.
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’.
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
Using the Library’s rich collections of manuscript and printed recipe books, we explore Scotland’s changing relationship with food and drink over the centuries.
Established in 1995, and set in the historical former All Saints Parsonage, Cloisters has been a stalwart of the Edinburgh real ale scene for 20 years.
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on Aug.
On the water’s edge at the southern tip of Manhattan, this free and popular annual event begins with the Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance to commemorate India’s…
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
With the blessing of the Cooper Estate, John Hewer takes to the stage in the guise of one of Britain’s most loved comedians.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
Stuyvesant Cove Park, which abuts the East River, is home to over 100 native plants and dozens of native birds.
There’s no scarcity of al-fresco dance in New York this summer; the latest arrival is this series of classes and performances in public spaces, organized by Gibney Dance.
The arts organization Inception to Exhibition, founded in 2009 to support new creative ventures, presents four Friday nights of free dance in the Midtown outdoors.
(in previews; opens on July 26) Is the director Jack Cummings III a miracle worker? He’s directing his new musical for the Transport Group, based on the life and words of Hel…
It’s been two months since a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, and the country is still struggling to recover.
Victory Dance Project was founded a year ago by Amy Jordan to celebrate her recovery from a near-fatal accident.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Special turns from Showtime, Lost In Transit, Elixir and other friends from the Spiegeltent and around town.
With over thirty participants, ‘The Dance Trail’ invites an audience to discover a route of contemporary dance performances in various locations in Brighton.
The Last Five Years, by the darling of the Contemporary musical theatre world Jason Robert Brown, is about struggling actress Cathy and successful novelist Jamie’s five year rela…
An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
A real-life story of an Icelandic 49 year old father of three who dared to realise his dream of dancing contemporary dance onstage.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
Ceyda Tanc Dance with three different programmes.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
The dance which is like a knife in the shadows, the dance of gamblers and the farewell of lovers - tango! A dreamlike collision of tragedy and unexpected humour.
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
The Ragroof Players return to the Spiegeltent with two specially themed Tea Dances.
It’s been a productive spring for Pepper Fajans, the founder of this new space at Cadman Congregational Church in Fort Greene.
This musical is billed as a work-in-progress showing as it will premiere at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Once a year the dead rise from their graves and dance with the living in an ecstatic frenzy and this year you get to watch.
It’s clear that Kandake Dance Theater has a preoccupation with queens: The company’s name refers to an ancient title for monarchs, and its latest work, which it calls a…
Though the music is catchy, the band is terrific, and the cast is strong, this jazz musical by Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz hasn’t reconciled its improbable source materia…
In the title of Teresa Fellion’s new work, “The Mantises Are Flipping W.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
If the Midwest has a hub for European choreographers, Hubbard Street is it.
The French-born choreographer Pascal Rioult understandably has a soft spot for that country’s most famous voice.
Four dancers and one bunraku puppet make up the cast of Mr.
Mr.
Cocoon Central Dance Team is a patently absurd comedy dance group that enlivens every show it’s on.
The folks at Jack NYC have tapped into a rich vein of quirky performance from Philadelphia.
This one-night-only affair offers a sampling of 10 dance companies representing a broad swath of contemporary dance in the city.
In time for May flowers, the Mark Morris Dance Group presents the New York premiere of “Spring, Spring, Spring,” a meditation on “The Rite of Spring,” with …
(previews start on Tuesday; opens on May 17) In the second play in A.
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
For those unfamiliar with New York neighborhood acronyms, SoHa stands for South Harlem, and it’s the home of Sarah Horne’s dance company.
In the project “Metropolis,” Jessica DiMauro (of New York) and Ana Miranda (of Miami) take inspiration from their respective cities and regions.
For her company’s 15th anniversary, Ms.
In 1981 the dance journalist Celia Ipiotis created this talk show, which aired on public television until 2006.
It’s never too late to reinvent yourself: After 60 years as the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the group returns this year as Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, a more in…
This ever-fresh ensemble presents two crowd-pleasers, Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony and Brahms’s Violin Concerto, with the fiery Viktoria Mullova as the sol…
What does dancing look like from the dancer’s perspective? In “Neon Brave,” the women of White Road Dance Media attempt to share that viewpoint with their audienc…
For more than three decades, Ms.
The 43rd annual festival of dance on film is a colorful collection of big personalities, small stories and inventive choreography created specifically for the screen.
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
To attend this festival, simply tune in on your device of choice.
(performances on Jan.
On its own, the Indian dance form Odissi is already spiritually enchanting, even more so when interpreted by Surupa Sen and Bijayini Satpathy, the two exquisite principal dancers o…
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
Deriving its clever name from the Baroque master Monteverdi, this centerpiece of the season for the early-music ensemble Tenet and its artistic director, Jolle Greenleaf, returns w…
(performances start on Jan.
This company’s spin on the holiday tradition, “The Colonial Nutcracker,” situates Clara’s tale in Revolutionary War-era Yorktown.
With its very varied performance festival, featuring 33 artists over four days, the American Dance Guild salutes key players in the modern dance field.
Valentina Kozlova, a former principal with the Bolshoi, defected from her homeland in 1979 and landed with the New York City Ballet.
Jo Firestone hosts this wonderfully ridiculous twist on a comedy show by challenging the audience to sit through five hours of “miserable, purposely boring and unbearable com…
How powerful is your imagination, could it save your life? ‘Nothing to see Here’ is a tender, sincere & moving exposition of the relation between self & unconscious.
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
An oxbow is a u-shaped body of water that is created when a meandering river loops back on itself (it derives from the similarly shaped metal contraption used to harness oxen).
On Broadway, dance is now more like a shot of espresso or a vintage Instagram filter and less of a storytelling tool, like it used to be.
Carolines again hosts this competition of young local comedians.
This two-hander by Kate Robin, who works on the Showtime series “The Affair,” is about a man and woman, married to others, who fall into an unexpected intimacy after me…
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
After a celebrated career as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Benjamin Millepied decamped to the West Coast in 2012 and started the L.
For 20 years, Dancers Responding to AIDS has been producing a popular potpourri of dance on Fire Island to raise money for its myriad services.
After her eight-year tenure with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Ellen Cornfield founded this troupe in 1989.
The first program of this frequently sold-out festival features, on Wednesday and Thursday, the San Francisco Ballet; the New Zealand company Black Grace; a premiere by the Mark Mo…
Bathe in the risqué for an evening of all girl comedy, cabaret & burlesque hosted by Unruly Scrumptious with resident cabaret wrong’uns - plus special guests.
For two decades this troupe has been entertaining audiences with its spirited interpretations of classical tap.
Jacqulyn Buglisi’s “Table of Silence Project 9/11,” first presented on the 10th anniversary of the Sept.
After 12 years with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Annmaria Mazzini struck out on her own, but she hasn’t lost touch with her Taylor roots.
In addition to free classes and workshops, this all-day event at the Mark Morris Dance Center features performances by members of Mr.
(previews start on Sept.
Jen Kirkman, a performer based in Los Angeles, brings a show of brand new stories and jokes to Brooklyn.
Wagner’s Flying Dutchman Overture.
Bringing together the many strands of the festival in words, music, and dance.
This annual concert has built-up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi…
Scottish Independence special.
China Box Arts Project (CBAP) is a China themed multimedia arts project based on Konghou, a traditional Chinese instrument similar to the harp.
Alastair celebrates 10 years of his trio with Euan Drysdale on guitar/piano and Iain Crawford on double bass with a concert of old and new Scots fiddle music in the wonderful Canon…
Come and play?The invitation to play is timeless, but could you, would you play with God? Godly Play does just that.
Majk (pronounced Mike, for reasons which are unlikely to become clear again at the moment) presents a witty collection of finely crafted comedy folk songs on topics ranging from sc…
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Entering into a world of 1950s dating, Last Chance Romance is a fun hour for any adult.
This play, about a group of high school students attempting to adapt the Greek classic with disastrous consequences, thankfully doesn’t end in a case of life imitating art, altho…
Scottish Independence special.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
This special tribute to Tommy Cooper is a compilation of rarely seen material from his cabaret days and the very best of Cooper’s classic gags and tricks.
The Last Piemen follows the story of two rival pie makers, one of whom favours the traditional approach, while the other is an innovator.
’.
A witty piece of throwback theatre, Games of Love and Chance is quite the delight.
Scottish Voices presents a recital of duets by Mendelssohn and Brahms, Greek Songs by Ravel, Seiber and Skalkottos and the premiere of a new work by Graham Hair, entitled Mediterra…
See two amazing dance companies captivate through rhythm! The Bang Group bangs it full force and (very) out loud with smiles in tow while Antara elegantly counterbalances the hypno…
Originally from the US, now based in Singapore, Vernon Lewis has quickly become one of the rising stars in the comedy scene and has opened and performed with comedians such as Tom …
Brandishing a Tesco clubcard, Dr Mhairi Aitken warns us that a loyalty card can say a lot about you.
One of the best things about dance is that it can transcend the boundaries of language or culture.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
It was a shock just sitting down in the Stroke Association Scotland’s venue - on every seat was a leaflet telling us that one in six people in Scotland will suffer a stroke in thei…
Showcasing the breathtaking natural beauty of Scotland, from the Borders to the Northern Highlands; spectacular, original and contemporary images by Scottish landscape photographer…
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Kafka meets Alice in Wonderland in award-winning Scottish writer Ali Smith’s absurd take on the English concept of justice.
Roddy swaps his designer suit and expensive shoes for waterproofs and walking boots and takes off on an unexpected and life-changing journey.
Strangely, apart from the Military Tattoo, there is not much piping in Edinburgh during the Festival.
Daniel’s Beard (named after the appearance of the designer of their main venue) perform a series of afternoon concerts in the stunning surroundings of Canongate Kirk.
The stunning Grand Auditorium of the Ghillie Dhu provides a spectacular setting for Violetta’s Last Tango and raises high hopes for a marvellous milonga and an evening of songs f…
This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
An ageing singer in a Buenos Aires cabaret, Violetta refuses to let illness overcome her as she sings her impassioned tango songs each night for her clients.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
Scotland is the ‘sick man of Europe’.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
SummerStage is generous with its dance offerings, presenting not just outdoor performances but also preshow master classes, all free.
Valerie Gladstone, known for her series Dance Under the Influence at the Museum of Arts and Design, is good at scouting talent and assembling smartly eclectic programs.
The Seattle troupe Spectrum Dance Theater, which has been around since 1982, got a second wind in 2002 after the estimable choreographer Donald Byrd, known for vivid, spirited move…
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry is a visual tribute to Scotland’s global legacy, crafted by volunteer embroiderers in 25 countries across the globe.
Described by TS Elliott as ‘the greatest Scots poet since Burns’, Joe Corrie was a Fife miner who influenced and inspired thousands through his plays and poems.
Fun for all ages.
In this poetry workshop, led by poet and Scottish Poetry Library Programme Manager Jennifer (JL) Williams, we will read, write and discuss poems on the theme of death.
Celebrating 13 years at the Fringe, Dance-Forms Productions will rock the house presenting Andrey Merkuriev, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation and leading soloist of the Bo…
This show began as an attempt to understand high school in Louisiana today and became a statement on how talent, hard-work and desire can be the ingredients to a great future no ma…
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
We are in a small room where one can breathe an air of intimacy.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
Join the conversation as we explore a different subject each day surrounding equality, religion and ethics.
A black and white snapshot of 21st century pre-referendum Scotland through the often satirical lens of singer/songwriter Bobby Nicholson.
In a near future where genetic screening is used to determine your place in society, the Anima Project uses controversial therapy to cure those with unfavourable genetic personalit…
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
Just Deserts is Durham’s favourite cult sketch comedy group.
Jon Pearson’s tale of a marriage erupting over chewy calamari and rum based cocktails, but who gets the Breaking Bad box-set and how do you split a cat? ‘Brilliant’ (Shropshire Sta…
Join us in celebrating the kicking off just 2014.
A slick piece of cyberpunk with noir flourishes, The Orpheus Project is an atmospheric re-imagining of Kafka’s The Trial combined with the myth of Orpheus and his quest to bring …
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
The actress-playwright Laoisa Sexton — who wrote and starred in the bleak, funny and winning “For Love” at the Irish Rep last year — returns with this darkl…
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
Paul Foxcroft (everyone’s imaginary friend) and Briony Redman (sitting-room dancer) are doing their hit 2013 sketch show with a couple of new bits to keep each other surprised.
Inspired by the traditional Paiwan (an aboriginal group of Taiwan) myth, Kurakuraw Dance Glass Bead brings an epic love story to the stage.
Performed in the stately Edinburgh Elim church, Mary the Last Farewell is a historical drama about the life of the Queen of Scots.
‘Our tales are similar but the endings are different.
Mr Susie, the innocent yet hopelessly confused alien, has one hour to save cabaret.
There are no actors in this show.
Join us at the multi-award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
SCOTY winner and Scottish Comedy Awards nominee.
Castle Fine Art, Edinburgh, situated on prestigious Multrees Walk, is proud to present an exhibition of contemporary art featuring local artists such as Alexander Millar and Stuart…
Join little Mat Wills and friends at this positive review show which includes the audience sharing their favourite experiences at this year’s Fringe.
The life of an exotic dancer is a private and challenging one.
Whenever I watch a Beyoncé music video and her incredible dance routines, all I can think is ‘No normal person can move their body like that.
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
William Luce’s 1984 play comes to life in this rendition by the Thespis Studio that is made vivid by the solo acting of Loana Pavelescu.
Rooted in the past of a dystopian pre-independence future - that means a minimalist set littered with industrial remnants and a broken toilet - Scotland’s greatest heroes, Wallac…
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! Parents and under fives are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
The fastest and funniest globe-trotting impressionist returns for more comedy action, laughable adventures and romance in this mix of stand-up and stories featuring over 50 movie s…
When seeing a piece of new writing it can be best to have no expectations, to let the play lead you where it will.
Rising stars Pete Otway and Brennan Reece present a nightly showcase of the finest stand-up at the Fringe, featuring award-winning comedians from the circuit, TV and the best of th…
Welcome to the World Championships of Boozing 2014! Doesn’t matter if you’re a pitiful alcoholic or a hypocrite teetotaller, this invitation is for you! Come and see what happens …
The Last Motel by Sheepish Productions is a dark two-hander with a neo-noir style akin to the works of cult film directors Tarantino and Lynch.
Two Soviet cosmonauts orbiting the earth they left behind twelve years earlier.
**** (Scotsman) ***** (BroadwayBaby.
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
“Ladies and gentlemen, I shall now bid you all good day.
Felicity Fitz Frisky and Hansel Amadeus Mannish are the quintessential Fringe success story.
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
Returning for the fourth year, the Check Us Out Dance Festival is a showcase for female choreographers, with over a dozen artists and companies from around the United States.
Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin.
In 1995, the Fire Island Dance Festival began as a way to raise funds for those suffering from H.
This series at the New Victory Theater is designed for kids ages 8 and up, but the enlivening lineup should appeal just as much to their chaperones.
Elvis lives! He has not left the building! Elvis’ Stardust is a short, melancholic rhapsody of small gestures, hidden glances and distant rhythms.
Of the 10 Brooklyn companies that participated in the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2013-2014 Professional Development Program, four were selected to stage full productions at …
When the acclaimed choreographer Sarah Michelson is involved, you can always expect a challenge — be it aesthetic or logistical.
In what is becoming a summer tradition, this beloved troupe returns to Lincoln Center with four programs of new and classic repertory.
Pascal Rioult and his artistic partner (and wife), Joyce Herring, danced for the Martha Graham Dance Company.
This Estonian composer has made a rare trip to the States to hear this concert, produced by the St.
Spiegel Dance is an exciting mixed bill of contemporary dance works.
Legendary DJs, live music, special guests from ‘Lost in Transit’ and other shows around town and who knows what else… see website for details.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
To celebrate his company’s 15th anniversary, Mr.
This was by far one of the most outstandingly bizarre pieces of theatre I have ever seen; I am still not entirely sure what I actually witnessed, but I know that I liked it.
This vibrant chamber ensemble wraps up its season with the premiere of Lowell Lieberman’s “Ten Minutes” as well as Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, Dv…
“Very, very funny.
Ever wonder how the elephant got his trunk? Or the leopard got his spots? Then don’t miss ‘Just So!’; a brand new play based on the famous stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Megan Gray, Magnet Theater’s artistic director, hosts this night of all-lady improv comedy.
An intimate musical about two New Yorkers who fall in and out of love over the course of five years.
Portraits from the end of life.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
A house reverberating with the sounds of different generations; different times – joined together by the walls around them.
After 6 sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe and international tours from Aberdeen to Adelaide (Pick Of The Fringe), Manchester to Malta, and all points inbetween, Earth’s funnie…
For its 33rd season, Elisa Monte Dance presents three premieres from three artists.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
Hear no evil – Do we choose what to hear and what to respond to? See no evil – Is it a blessing or a curse to not be able to see? Speak no evil – Do we acknowledge the con…
It’s Sunday lunch,and where the roast should be,there’s a tofu casserole! Butcher Albert’s table’s set for a monumental clash of values,knives and hearts.
You must experience the joy in your trousers, projectile vomit, rectal prolapse, bloody urinatin’, baby terminatin’, meth overdosin’, aubergine starin’, racist a-tweetin’, Sharia c…
Something Underground Theatre: Winner, Best New Play Brighton Fringe 2012.
Well-timed for Mother’s Day, the Irish choreographer David Bolger arrives at Peak Performances with “Swimming With My Mother,” a tender exploration of the mother-…
The comic duo push their oft-neglected third member (their projector) to the forefront, for an hour of slideshow-based stand-up.
Playwright Werner Schwab was just 35 when he died from what must have been quite a drinking spree after a New Year’s Eve party in 1994.
Nominated - 2013 Dave’s Comedy festival, Geoff debuts a hilarious new hour.
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
Can there ever be peace between East & West Sussex? Will Sharks ever go the extra mile and indeed, how far should dog improvement go? What exactly is Bob Dylan’s problem? Just a fe…
A benefit of fund-raising concerts is the mingling of great performers.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! DJ Monski Mouse and her team bring high energy smiling in a fabulous retro music and dance event for parents and children under 5.
(in previews; opens on June 3) The Tony Award-winning actor Jim Dale is such a song-and-dance man that when he wants to warn audiences to switch off their cellphones, he does it vi…
Directed by MJ Paranzino.
This monthlong series kicks off with an evening focused on the spirit and talent of the Bronx, featuring Sage Rivera, Ranardo-Domeico Grays’s Visions Contemporary Balle…
Do you have any regrets about your life? Celebrating ten years as a company, The Maydays pose questions to the audience about the last ten years of their own life: whether you have…
In 2005, the Chinese choreographer and painter Shen Wei created “Map,” a mesmerizing visualization of Steve Reich’s “The Desert Music.
Brimming with bold ideas, this festival continues with performances that range from fiercely political to poetically formal.
Most dance companies named after their founders use a concert to showcase the work of their namesakes.
Tommy Cooper was a true comic genius.
“Atalanta (Acts of God)” is the first part of an operatic trilogy by the composer Robert Ashley, who died last month.
From the team that brought you the huge success that is Dreamboats and Petticoats, Save the Last Dance for Me will take you back through the “music and magic” of the e…
Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices …
Last year, New Yorkers welcomed back Dance Theater of Harlem after nearly a decade away from the stage.
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s sensitive, static drama set on an Irish farm comprises three intertwined monologues.
Ted Shen’s anodyne musical about a widower and a divorcee (the fine Brian and Diane Sutherland) finding midlife love feels like a 90-minute singing commercial for eHarmony.
Elgar concert overture, In the South (Alassio), Mozart Piano Concerto No.
Ever wanted to be involved in a flash mob? Well here’s your chance.
Ever wanted to be involved in a flash mob? Well here’s your chance.
This annual concert has built a loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty and power of the blend of pipes, fiddle, harp, concertina, flute, bass and drum.
Alastair returns to the Canongate with a varied programme of Scots fiddle music old and new.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
The Laramie Project is a heart-wrenching play depicting the reaction to the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepherd, a gay University of Wyoming student in Laramie, Wyoming.
If you walk past the front of Dance Base in the Grassmarket you will see a small white dome that looks like it should be in a fun fair.
‘The Laramie Project’, Moisés Kaufman’s internationally successful play, captures the emotions, reflections and reactions of the people who were most closely related to the …
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
In the familiar surroundings of their hometown venue, Tommy Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra showed why they have become one of the most respected ensembles of their …
Exquisite, enticing, exhilarating dance from two top USA companies.
Exquisite, extraordinary, captivating dance from two top USA companies.
Martin Stepek, the host of this show, ended by saying ‘enjoyment might not be the word, but I hope you’ve taken something from this.
Originating from Glasgow’s Sloans bar, this promenade opera vividly captures the emotional life of a pub ‘.
Strict rules, extreme conditions and ferocious competition.
To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien…
Booking Dance Festival’s annual Fringe show always promises a high-octane hybrid of dance styles, with seven companies participating in one enticing show.
The Booking Dance Festival is a self-titled ‘dance festival within a festival,’ and their annual Fringe showcase certainly offers the opportunity to experience a smorgasbord of…
Rudyard Kipling’s Just So Stories are fanciful tales that will delight.
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
‘We’re very lucky,’ alto and soprano saxophonist Sue Mckenzie explained in her introduction to ‘Catching Sunlight’, a collection of pieces by jazz pianist/composer Dave S…
Chances are you know Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Just So Stories’ already but you’ve probably never been told those stories quite like this before.
Demons are forever.
In amongst the more controversial theatre on at the Fringe this year we have emerging playwright Sophie Foster’s new work, which dissects the media culture surrounding suspected …
Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Last Embrace, a folk musical based on Romeo and Juliet set in Northern Ireland in 1970 at the height of The Troubles, is a true masterpiece of theatre.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Mr Lyan and the Rebel Dining Society explore the future of food and drink.
I had an absolutely wonderful time at this event.
Get dancing the Fly Right way at their 7th annual legendary ‘Tea Dance’! After a brief Palm Court-inspired public masterclass, learning some Foxtrot or Charleston basics, enjoy coc…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A haunting glimpse into one family’s past, Last One Out is a bittersweet tale of loss, memory and grief.
An epic tale told on an intimate scale, inspired by maverick British adventurer Gertrude Bell.
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
Back for its fourth Fringe, don’t miss acclaimed Lawrence Academy Dance Theatre! ‘Fluent, accomplished, dynamic’ (Christian Science Monitor, 2003).
On the 26 June 1284, 130 children mysteriously vanished from the town of Hamelin, Germany, for which the Pied Piper has been blamed in legend.
A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl…
Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style.
Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
After losing six stone, Julia tells her poignant tale of life in two different bodies.
Fringe First, Herald Angel, Spirit of the Fringe award winners Theatre Uncut return with a brand new collection of short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action on …
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�…
Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets.
Although Italy’s economy and political system have of late appeared to be on the verge of total collapse, at least her sixty-odd million citizens can take solace in the fact that t…
With their bold colours, fresh prints, improvisational piecing and minimalism, modern quilters are updating classic quilt designs for contemporary interiors and utilising the inter…
Part protest, part poetry, part party.
Fringe debutant Patrick Turpin takes his audience on a trip down memory lane, as he bids for their approval.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two.
I really wanted to like this show.
A musical black comedy staged as an interaction between actor, screen projection and local choir.
I was not too surprised to read that The Project was specially created for the Edinburgh Fringe: it has that ‘experimental’ feel.
In Last Land and Il gioco, DanceBase presents an engaging double bill of contemporary dance which is certain to be loved by dance connoisseurs.
Sign on to Sh!t Theatre’s JSA: ‘a curious though immensely likeable duo who merge stand-up with physical theatre and biting socio-political satire .
Part of Just Festival, discussions are being held in St John’s Church throughout the course of the month, targeting important, interesting and sometimes controversial matters under…
For first-time ceilidh-goers, some tips: do not wear high heels.
Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him …
Alan Anderson is one of Scotland’s most charming comperes and a very talented man.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
As we took our seats, furnished with appropriately rose-patterned cushions, and gazed on at the living room set before us, it was as if we were in someone else’s house, listening…
It’s a stand-up comedy show. At half 11 in the morning. In a tent. Two comedians. We’re not seeing anything else at that time. It’s a yurt tent apparently. Let’s definitely go.
As the name would suggest, this is great Scottish comedy at its best.
With only four simply dressed actresses and a range of household objects, Red Table Theatre act out four of Kipling’s tales from The Just So Stories, sticking very closely to his…
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
The three-girl trio behind dance collective Spiltmilk are nothing if not perky.
After my initial panic at being stuck in a room where the mean age of the audience was about four, I began to relax to the dulcet tones of the performing quartet.
Pattie Brewster is a normal girl desperately in need of three things: friends, cat food and a crash course in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
Join us for a footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the WHISKI Bar during August.
By equity rules if there are more cast on stage than audience you don’t need to perform.
Firstly, don’t be fooled by the title like I naively was – this is not a lecture on the downfalls of Buddhism nor is it someone trying to sell their faith.
It might seem an absurd idea to run a musical in the West End for just a week.
The challenge with this musical has always been that, with only one actor on stage for most of the play, he or she must always be acting and can never take refuge in reacting or in…
The Caves on the Cowgate certainly can’t be accused of over-selling itself as a venue - you get exactly what it says on the ticket as you’re ushered into their dingy cellar, alread…
This lecture by Professor David Purdie and Alexander Stoddart discussed the legacy of David Hume, Adam Smith and Robert Burns.
In a rather curt start to the show, Sally Barker apologised to the audience for not being Joni Mitchell.
The highlight of the evening’s performance came as the inconspicuous Iain Mundy joined the orchestra to take the lead in Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat.
On entering the venue, Tom Wrigglesworth perches on a stool playing melodious chords on the guitar, whilst passing a running commentary on the audience members as they enter the sp…
Ill be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotlands…
Can watching someone else’s psychedelic trip be interesting? This show proves that with the right cast, it can certainly have dazzling moments of fun.
A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods…
Liss Fain Dance, the renowned San Francisco based company makes its European debut at Zoo Theatre.
Tom Owen does well to capture the raw physicality of Beckett’s anti-hero in this new production of Krapp’s Last Tape.
The ‘last days’ of the title is used in a Milennarian sense – we are at Judas’s Judgement Day, at a trial which ostensibly will determine whether Judas should be released f…
There’s a point in the torpid Last Train From Holyhead when the actor, Mick Lally, is left alone on stage waiting, it appears, for a light cue.
Sandy Grierson will also skip, strip and teach you how to make an origami boat.
James Lambeth has a gorgeous voice and has selected a good list of Duke Ellington standards for his tribute ‘Drop Me Off in Harlem.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
It is easy to forget that in the tempest of the Edinburgh Festival, between the international plays and the famous comedians, there is still a strong Scottish backbone to many of t…
Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Assisted suicide, euthanasia, murder.
I love this play, and love the film adaptation, which stars Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay.
I approached “Big Boys Don’t Dance” with trepidation.
Starting with a school-girl strip routine that ends in crucifixion, The Wau Wau Sisters Last Supper continues at a strapping pace, moving from Southern Country Singers to Hippy-c…
Just follows Victoria, a regular passerby in a not so regular English town.
There is no such thing as a show that is too silly.
Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s Four Last Things is an evocative, but turbid, journey through the Irish country landscape and all unspoken things.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
An actor Jack Treadwell known to his friends as Tread is giving his very last lecture/performance on dramatic method and the art of acting.
With high expectations for the Scottish Comedian of the Year: Jaime Dalgleish, I eagerly awaited my night filled with side-splitting jokes and rip-roaring laughs.
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
Out with the old and in with the new.
A marvellously vulgar performance of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape was performed upstairs at The Lectern last night, by the absolutely faultless Aidan Stephenson.
Depression and other mental illnesses are often unfairly ignored in our society.
Where better to hear about Scottish history and the current state of affairs than the SNP Club that becomes Stand II for the duration of the festival? Scottish comedy stalwart Vlad…
Backed by ethereal, moody themes produced by the aptly titled Ragged Ragtime Band, Rex Ingram’s silent film version of The Magician was brought up from the vault to revel in the …
Oh dear.
Sequels can be risky when they have the hype of a previous show to live up to.
The surreal, imaginative landscape of Chris Harrison’s Last Night Things Happened is a journey to the implausible, back-flipping through the nonsensical, spiraling into the whims…
Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go…
Traverse has presented the most elegant of double bills for the Fringe by showcasing two of Scotland’s prized playwrights, David Greig and David Harrower.
A man singing Liza Minnelli in drag.
Bryony Lavery’s Last Easter is a one-act comedy about cancer, euthanasia and the vestigial presence of religious imagery in our hopeless, secular lives.
The focus in this studio production is on the music and on the actors voices: Jason Robert Browns jazz pop score and our double-star combo can hardly fail to please! Every son…
Imagine a story with two puppets struggling for consciousness, a sinister East-End Orator, and an arty pinch of German Expressionism and what do you have? A modern fairytale that a…
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
The bagpipes might be the butt of more jokes at the Fringe than any other subject.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Not quite a film night and not quite a variety show, sketch comedy troupe The Beta Males play host to a feast of entertainment from some of the Fringe’s finest comedy acts while …
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
Andrew Lawrence is a young, talented stand-up comedian who has already had two successive if.
It has been ten years since American university student Matthew Shepard was murdered by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, bringing the issue of gay hate crime to an internation…
Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography…
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
It promised to be a fun show.
Socks playing guitar.
Let’s see, how can I describe this one? There are a couple of socks that like to sing (up high, mind).
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
The Just So Stories, written in 1902, are Kipling’s accounts of how various natural phenomena came about.
Andreas Grassl is the piano man who washed up in Kent.
Nottingham Youth Dance was created to provide young dancers from the East Midlands with additional training and performance opportunities and to develop the level and quality of da…
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Three of the most enlightened brains of the modern age, Tom Hodgkinson, John Mitchinson and Mark Vernon, are sitting on the small stage in the beautiful Hendricks Carnival of Knowl…
Project Adorno is a double act after the philosopher Theodor Adorno.
Bob Kingdom is an Edinburgh institution.
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
What a lovely, original and unpredictable show this is.
Dance Theater of Harlem is back with its annual block party.
Ideally Edgar Allan Poe’s works should be read in the dead of night, in an armchair by a crackling fire with the slow tap of wintry branches against the window.
Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play.
The students performing this play take us through the drama wardrobe into a Shakespearean Narnia.
Rambert is quite possible the most important dance company performing in Britain today; at the very least their influence is far-reaching.
Jason Robert Brown’s The Last 5 Years is one of those musicals whose fanbase has crept up despite seldom being treated to professional productions, but it deserves every fan it can…
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and tortured to death near Laramie.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects.
Making sure that I arrived exactly five minutes early, as instructed by the lady at the box office, I promptly passed my telephone details to a stranger and had left the venue in n…
The idea of searching for a lost parent is particularly fertile territory.
I am sat looking at a white plastic cup.
How can a full house of adults be entertained for an hour by a couple of grey socks in a tartan Punch & Judy tent? Ask Kev Sutherland, the writer and performer, who returns for fo…
Lick and Chew are a boy/girl duo taking you through a whirlwind series of sketches held together nicely by an underlying travel theme.
The Laramie Project is a play documenting the tragic death of Matthew Sheppard, who was kidnapped and savagely beaten before being left to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of a…
The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown is one of those shows talked about by Musical aficionados across the world.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Thanks to the vagaries of Lothian Buses I missed the first number in this multi-company showcase of short dance items.
Swishtheatre’s new play at Venue 45 is lovely.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
The songs of Belgian-born chanteur Jacques Brel are renowned for their colourful imagery and dramatic storytelling.
Starting with a song, Felix Dexter quickly moved onto gags, explaining the slightly racially dramatic title, and covering issues of black stereotypes.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
I have faint memories of being taken to a children’s dance and movement class when I was about two.
From a rolling mass of protruding limbs, encased in a stomach-like skin which at first appears to be a boulder, five performers are regurgitated.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li…
Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task.
The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance.
This was the last of the Dance Base medley of choreographers that I caught and, by far, the most exhilarating.
Show 1 of Dance Bases 2006 Fringe performances consists of four separate pieces by Iskandar Dance Company, Karl Jay-Lewin Company, Michael Popper and the Curve Foundation respect…
The score of this heartfelt musical is stunning.
Dance Base presents three different pieces by three very different companies.
Joseph Moncure Marchs poem, The Wild Party, has been the inspiration for everything from films to plays.
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Old and new beats meet performance poetry paying tribute to South Africa’s legends.
Schumann Adagio and Allegro Brahms Trio for clarinet, cello and piano Dohnányi Sextet Russian conductor Maxim Emelyanychev has quickly risen to international prominence with h…
Sir James MacMillan A Scotch BestiaryWoman of the Apocalypse Not only one of the world’s most revered and exceptional composers, Sir James MacMillan is also an immensely popular…
Sir James MacMillan Symphony No2Symphony No 5: ‘Le grand Inconnu’ (World Premiere) The International Festival’s major five-concert celebration of Sir James MacMillan’s 60th bi…
Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak…
James MacMillan Quickening Strauss Ein Heldenleben Birth, life, struggles and triumphs: two immensely powerful reflections on our existence, performed by a celebrated Internatio…
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play abou...
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Catherine DuBord provides some insights into the lives of Zelda and Scott F Fitzgerald, the subject of her show, The Last Flapper at the Edinburgh Fringe
Matt Hale talks about his career and his debut show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, TOP FUN! 80s Hypnosis Spectacular.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Sound Designer and Composer Julian Starr talks to Broadway Baby's Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei...
Get last minute tickets to see Ronan Keating in the Mane Chance West End Charity Gala Spectacular at up to 72% off.
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s literary thriller, His Bloody Project, explores a brutal triple murder in the Scottish Highlands in 1869 through a variety of different, at times conflicti...
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
When Matthew Shepard was brutally tied to a fence, beaten, and abandoned outside Laramie, Wyoming, members of Tectonic Theatre Group came to ask questions.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
Our Winter Sale promotion is now live and we have a number of amazing deals & offers.
Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
The internationally celebrated dance company BalletBoyz have announced that they will be taking part in ‘The Big Give Christmas Challenge’ from noon on Tuesday 29 November to n...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
Into the Water is a fantastical folk-dance adventure set in a magical wasteland.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
Iona Lee was born in Edinburgh and brought up in East Lothian.
Elsie Diamond, international burlesque performer, compere and singer, presents her one woman show, and talks to us about vintage looks, a bygone era and her famous erotic sewing sc...
Broadway Baby chews the fat with It Just Takes One - something that ought to appeal to any fans of The IT Crowd or The Office.
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
Nye Russell-Thompson invites you to take a look into the mind of a man who stammers in this dark comedy that was nominated for a Total Theatre award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Need something to keep the kids occupied this half-term? Looking for shows that suit parents and kids alike? We’ve trawled Brighton Fringe and discovered some perfect shows for 4...
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Part nursery rhyme, part domestic drama, Tumbling After charts the story of two young couples as they 'stumble in and tumble out of love'.
The Fringe can be a tough place for emerging talent, struggling to be heard over the crowd.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
Jenny Lindsay is a poet, performer and promoter of spoken word in Scotland.
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from...
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...