The Brighton Academy (TBA) Performing Arts Degree Showcase.
The Brighton Academy (TBA) Musical Theatre Degree Showcase.
Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it.
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.
Described as ‘the funniest dad on Instagram’, stand-up comedian George Lewis has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches ab…
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one” Abraham Lincoln1865.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Debut, Stu returns with the raw beginnings of his sophomore presentation.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
In this new comedy, five law students attempt to figure out which one of them “dunnit” when their eccentric tutor Richard Branston-Blackwell drops dead at the annual second-year di…
Unite with us in music and dance at the Scottish Parliament.
A poignant journey, through chequered showbiz career of Eddie Garrity, interspersed with songs from the new album Wild ‘n’ Free and anecdotes from early glam rock, punk to cabaret.
The funniest dad on Instagram has racked up hundreds of millions of views online.
Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the…
Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes…
Festival closing service: Vespers.
Nil penna sed usus – not the pen itself, but the skill in using it.
Little Companion Art Troupe of China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace was established in 1955 by Madame Soong Ching Ling, the late Honorary President of People’s Republic of Chi…
Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise.
La Vie et la Passion de Jésus Christ.
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
June Tuesday and Maria Pollard are the best unstable, hot, bi stand-up comedians to come out of Wales and possibly the world.
The Lord is my Shepherd: Sacred song of the English musical renaissance.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, snowballs and stinky …
Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation.
Faure’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms – The Howe Street Singers, directed by Les Shankland, perform Faure’s much loved Requiem and equally beautiful Cantique de Jea…
A huge gala show with all proceeds going to the Sepsis Trust, celebrating 20 years of the Laughing Horse’s Free Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BEANBAG CONCERT SERIES The São Paulo-based artist collective takes on an eclectic array of compositions, spanning French baroque to Afro-samba.
Refuge and the road home.
Canada’s Allyson June Smith is Little Smith Sunshine.
Little Pickle is a Pol-ish drag clown who simply won’t shut up about astrology, generational trauma, AI and he/r coparented witch cat.
A three-panel painting depicting 122 texts from the last book in the Bible.
Living stones.
TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth.
Join us for a hilarious stand-up comedy showcase all the way from Barcelona.
Swing with the Spirit! In this innovative performance of sacred Jazz Schola Cantorum, the Catholic Cathedral’s celebrated choir directed by Michael Ferguson, is joined by Scottish …
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
While walking through the park one day, Chicken Little is hit on the head! She decides to tell the Prime Minister the sky is falling, and so begins a perilous journey: travelling t…
The Ruthwell Cross is Scotland’s oldest Anglo-Saxon Christian monument.
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and you’ll never see it the same way again! As a viewer, you have the power to choose how the show will unfold each evening.
Cast ranging in age that give you the very best journey through the landscape of London’s West End hits and Broadway’s masterpieces.
Guided Tours.
A man attempts to map the aspects of his mental health through perhaps the worst medium possible: poetry.
Hong Kong veteran community theatre company, Art Home, masquerade in handcrafted masks to confuse the definitions of what is a human and what is a dog.
Live performance of selections chosen by the editors from the new edition of Scottish Religious Poetry.
Edinburgh Festival of the Sacred Arts 2024 opening service, Sunday worship.
‘Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden’ (Voltaire).
Chaos Theory specialises in sketch, character and general off-the-wall comedy.
Are our memories important in our day-to-day present lives? How can sociologists uncover people’s memories and why should they bother to do so? Delve deeper with Dr Sophie Athert…
Join Edinburgh Music Theatre as they bring Broadway to the Edinburgh stage! Performing your favourite musical hits, the talented cast make this a must-see show for all fans of musi…
Unstoppable 82-year-old Miriam Margolyes returns to the Fringe with her new show.
Written and performed by comedian Grace Aki, the award-winning solo show makes its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe! She weaves a blend of storytelling and stand-up for …
‘I think if you’re going to write a ghost story worth its salt you must experience ghosts for yourself’.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
‘No woman should touch pen and ink: they had too much passion and too little sense.
Come and join us for the original free walking tour of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town and enjoy the stories of the many colourful characters who lived here.
Produced by NYC comedian Sean Conrad, this mixed-bill stand-up comedy show features Edinburgh’s best stand-up comedians every night.
Comedy by EU’s best comedians.
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…
Not for the easily offended, this hilarious brand-new dating show sees the audience play naughty games, five guys compete for a date, and overall chaos.
Critically acclaimed Quebec City-based circus company, Machine de Cirque, present the award-winning Maxim Laurin (Guinness World Record holder) performing a spectacular duet with G…
His crowdwork videos have consistently gone viral all over social media (@PhilipsComedy) so join this award-winning MC and comedian for a hilarious mix of brand-new jokes and witty…
A solo show exploring life and light.
‘A properly talented comic.
This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family.
1572.
The biggest laughs from the biggest little-person-friendly comedy stars! We drove our clown car around town and picked up the funniest in family-friendly comedy to make one enormou…
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all for you to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on Georg…
Award-winning Irish comedian Rory O’Hanlon is a firm favourite at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Every day at 7pm, Greg Hurst has a little treat.
Ben Kassoy brings poems from his spectacularly original book to life in this wildly entertaining solo show.
A one-woman show – part comedy, part edutainment, part love letter to the world at large and Europe in particular.
Emily Markoe wrote a totally normal comedy show.
Dominic Frisby presents a lecture (with funny bits) about the extraordinary history of mining.
On an endless summer night, love’s joys and complications play out in triple-time.
Scotland’s best comedians in the club that started it all.
Considered the best open mic in the UK.
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his first Fringe full run after a series of sell-out shows last year.
Big Bad Beck is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down in this WIP show.
The Best Man Show is an interactive and darkly hilarious wedding reception where comedian Mark Vigeant plays the Groom’s brother Paul, who has been asked to give the toast at an un…
Things have gotten a little bit harder lately.
A hilarious history tour through the seriously skanky past lurking behind the “posh” New Town facade.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
Four top-quality, fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival.
Celebrating 25 years at the Fringe! Excellent value Irish showcase returns for 2024.
A twisted exploration of the fragile underpinnings of love, friendship, and ambition.
Winner: Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize 2022.
‘Filthy Funny Females deserves an award.
‘This is just the start.
A showcase of up-and-coming and established Northern Irish talent, hosted by William Thompson (BBC New Comedy Award finalist 2021) and Micky Bartlett, ‘a natural stand-up with more…
Little Smash Comedy brings its multi award-winning show to the Fringe after a sell-out run in 2023.
The craic is back after a sell-out run in 2023 with 60 minutes of non-stop laughs from two hilarious comics seen on RTE, BBC, and ITV – Wes Dalton (creator of sell-out show 4 Fun…
Fresh from the hugely popular TV show The Craic Den Comedy Club, two of Ireland’s top comedy MCs, Eddie Mullarkey and Brian Gallagher, present the best line-ups of Irish stand-up c…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Light plays the key element in the work of both artists.
Best of Cabaret from the Fringe returns with an all-star diverse rotating cast of international and regional seasoned artists in the genre.
The longest-running burlesque show at Fringe returns for a tenth dazzling edition.
In Funny Bones, a clown contemplates life, death, and other laughing matters.
The perfect way to start and end your Fringe day with late and afternoon shows consisting of a revolving line-up of the best established and up-and-coming stand-up comedians from a…
Scotland’s Best Comedians Live in a fancy ballroom for free!* We have award winners, TV acts, radio stars, Instagram legends, every night! All shows hosted by Ross Leslie, introduc…
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe, for all the family to enjoy together.
Dating’s tough enough, but try dating when it’s also hard to walk.
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics.
Return of the craic! 4 Funny Feckers, a sell-out Fringe favourite, is hosted by cheeky Irish comic Wes Dalton, an Irish charmer who has cheekiness and likeability down to a tee.
The best place in town to catch rising comedy stars and your Fringe favourites.
‘Funny.
A family show like no other from a company that specialises in creating original, innovative theatrical stories.
Join Australian musical comedian Darby James for his multi-award-winning cabaret about the process of sperm donation.
You’re born, you’re in it, you’re dead.
After an encounter with a wildlife enthusiast, the Funny Women Award finalist explores what it means to be a human animal (nightmare, tbh).
After a seven-year hiatus from the Fringe, Trygve Wakenshaw returns with his new hilarious mime-clown-comedy show.
Winner: Best of Fringe Toronto 2023! What does a 31-year-old theatre kid do when a DNA test reveals that his biological parents aren’t quite who he thought they were? Write a music…
The award-winning TMB transports Gogol’s Inspector General to 1970s small-town America.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the grand final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
I am Claire Parry (very funny stand-up).
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Join sketch comics Grubby Little Mitts (Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown) in their third magnum opus! Award-winning sketch duo Grubby Little Mitts amplifies the normal to chaotic …
A line-up show starring the top three acts from the 2023 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Samira Banks, Christopher Donovan and L…
You know when you feel like no one gets you and you’re the odd one out, but then you realise everyone’s felt like that at some point, so you just crack on? Will’s debut hour is abo…
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 …
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
The Institute for Contemporary Theatre, Brighton is proud to introduce the BA (Hons) Performing Arts graduating class of 2024.
Best in Class is a crowd-funded profit-sharing show that champions the rich talent of working-class comedians.
BUILDING INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS & THE ARTIST AS CULTURAL DIPLOMAT Join this Masterclass led by Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, the co-Executive directors of the Pan-Afric…
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…
Join sketch comics Grubby Little Mitts (Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown) in their third magnum opus - expect high drama, falling over and a giant pair of *redacted*! Award winni…
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…
The Brighton Buddhist centre has been offering Meditation, Buddhism and Yoga classes for the last 50 years.
Tides.
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
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.
Funny Business is a queer celebration of clowny nonsense, a love letter to the absurd and only the most silly of sausages.
A dark comedy play written by Paul Richards.
Come join Bobby Prezinsky and Louis George as they debut their split bill comedy show, Best of Greatest Hits GOLD [Platinum Edition].
‘A born comic.
London stabbings 2017.
Figment Arts will be sharing the folklore, heritage and history of Sussex this May in association with Artist Open Houses.
In this show we will share the history of AI, explain AI and debunk AI.
Will Robbins Presents his Comedy Show Hour.
Have a laugh! Gerry Carroll - Light brings you a delightful, true and entertaining personal story about being a 71 year old human.
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
Johnny Wardlow is trying to live his best life in a world that’s falling apart.
Hosted by Hannah Brackenbury and Anna Free, this event showcases funny women doing their thing at the wonderful Cliffe Hall in Lewes.
The story of a young girl, Little Lotte, who’s adventure takes her through wild jungle and over misty mountains to find the dragon who stole her powers.
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.
A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from the Fringe and around Brighton in a late afternoon show full of fun and laughter.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 classic and moving ‘coming of age’ story is accepted as ‘revolutionary’ and for many years has been one of the most widely read novels.
On The Edge comedy is one of Brighton’s longest-running and best-loved regular comedy nights, and has featured many of the nation’s favourite comics.
Welcome to The Secret Comedy Club’s “Best of the Fest” shows throughout Brighton Fringe Festival 2023! Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt as we bring you a hilarious lineup o…
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Growing up in the East End to Irish immigrants, Joann Condon never thought she could become an actor because of her social background, weight and an inability to sing; based on her…
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre Impro group Sprout are the headline act on this evening of improvised fun.
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 …
You might have thought that Arabs couldn’t get any funnier.
London’s newest Pub Theatre has opened with a sublime production of Stephen Sondheim’s rarely-staged Marry Me A Little.
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Charles Bukowski is a true literary legend, the king of the underground and a “laureate of American lowlife”.
Panto returns to Hoxton Hall in 2023 with a fabulous version of The Little Mermaid.
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.
Join stand-up comedian and internet life style guru Red Richardson as he delivers the best jokes he has ever written.
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…
A one-act theatrical monologue with music telling the tales of the remarkable life of Marie Curie; the woman, the mother, the widow, the scientist, the Nobel prize winner, who shat…
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
For sale: feet pics, freshly painted.
From his Cats Does Countdown clips that quickly went viral to Hollywood TV hits like Ted Lasso and Intelligence, Nick Mohammed is known for his silly-yet-scientific comedy, broad a…
In October 2022, theatre impresario Nica Burns opened @sohoplace, the first new theatre to be built in London's West End for 50 years.
An in-depth dissection of the 2016 episode of British reality TV show Come Dine With Me in which a contestant, incensed at having lost, berated his fellow diners in a virulently im…
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.
“The story begins with a planet.
The Dark Arts used by politicians and their advisors, speechwriters, and spin doctors are mired in mystery and their own mythology.
“The story begins with a planet.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Join Darren Harriott and Rachel Fairburn for a very special Edinburgh Fringe edition of You Dress Funny, the event where comedy meets fashion.
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Impeccably written theatre with a biting comedic edge; SLT is an intimate hour of storytelling from your most charming, albeit dysfunctional, friend.
Figs in Wigs are back and this time they’ve got their period (dresses).
An NHS staff room.
The Brighton Fringe sell-out show is coming to Edinburgh Fringe.
The Robin Chapel, built in 1950 at the centre of a unique Edinburgh housing complex, The Thistle Foundation, is a memorial to Robin Tudsbury and well known for its excellent choir.
The Art of Ecclesiastical Heraldry.
How do you fill a minute? How do you fill an hour? How do you fill a slot when you’re Two Little Dickheads? Slot Fillers is the dickheads getting loose, getting groovy and gettin…
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
Strafed by Splendour: Under Paolozzi’s Window.
Basia Mindewicz, Director of the Edinburgh School of Icon Painting, explains the artistic techniques and spiritual inspiration behind one of the most venerated forms of sacred art.
God’s Craftsmen.
The Art of the Icon.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
The Desert in the Heart of the World is a filmic study of the impact of the Carthusian monastic movement on the French landscape.
Last year’s critically acclaimed show is back for a limited run.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, snowballs and stinky …
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
Constantly rotating line-up of the best comics at this year’s festival.
Sanctified Royalty: Jacobite Relics and the Divine Right of Kings.
Making their Edinburgh debut, Leeds based stand-up weirdos Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck: a 60-minute expl…
Spirituality, Faith and Belief: Voyages of Discovery.
For one night only, double Emmy Award nominee and star of Ted Lasso Nick Mohammed brings Mr Swallow back to the Edinburgh Fringe.
In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape.
Flower arranging becomes a life and death hobby in Little Shop of Horrors, a popular-on-the-circuit science fiction cult musical classic.
Shing-a-ling what a creepy thing to be happening! The much-loved musical comedy returns in a fast-paced, physical production.
10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show.
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…
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
After searching far and wide, Barcelona’s hottest new comedians have Found their Funny, packed it in a bag and brought it all the way to the Fringe for your amusement! Barcelona is…
Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor.
In Robes of White.
The Art of Vestment.
Enjoy some adult comedy entertainment with The Seriously Funny Comedy Show as they complete their 2023 summer touring schedule at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
Genre-bending voyage for every inquisitive soul and smart alec; for the adventurous, the yarn spinners.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
Bare Productions return following a string of five-star, sell-out Fringe runs with the rousing and heartfelt musical, Little Women.
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.
Harvey Nichols hosts a fantastic line-up of comedy and cabaret taking place Sunday evenings in August, featuring a line-up of the best acts performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fri…
A wonderful and varied selection of concert band music from 40 musicians featuring music from stage and screen! A free concert with donations to support Edinburgh Direct Aid.
Gilbert Scott’s dramatic architectural landmark, with its three spires prominent in Edinburgh’s distinctive skyline, provides a magnificent setting for the Opening Service of t…
The Mysteries – Reimagined.
Songs of Displacement.
‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you.
Of all the “edgy” topics comedians are afraid to talk about, the most taboo of all is failure.
Phil Kay’s Funny Walks – the droll stroll.
Rock Festival Choir, Alnwick’s highly regarded chamber choir directed by Peter Brown, returns to the Fringe with a spine-tingling programme of 20th and 21st-century choral classics…
Come and enjoy a night in celebration of one of the world’s most beloved entertainers, the one Ms Judy Garland.
World’s Best Fringe Theatre Winner 2022/3 (International Fringe Encore Series, New York) returns for eight performances only.
Rock Festival Choir, Alnwick’s highly regarded chamber choir directed by Peter Brown, returns to the Fringe with a spine-tingling programme of 20th and 21st-century choral classics…
Stephen Sondheim’s hilarious musical romp tells the bawdy story of a slave and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.
‘The real deal.
Brewhemia’s regular live showcase of all the best Fringe acts; bite-size tasters of the wacky, weird and wonderful delicacies of Edinburgh Fringe! With a fresh line-up each week we…
Little Ward of Horrors, unfortunately, seems to somewhat fall into the category of sketch shows that sell tickets due to their name, The Malignant Humours.
Explore making rubbings, printing, collage and fun with circles and squares, and mixed-media collage.
Come and join us for the original free walking tour, packed with the rich historical sites and tales of the many colourful characters around the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Four mixed-bill nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe! Come down to Camden Comedy Club to see your fellow festival funny people get on stage and entertain us for 10-12 min…
Four top-quality, fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival.
‘The real deal.
Accidental enemy of Mother Teresa.
When these two stud muffins met for the first time, they realised they had one mission: how do we get one audience member to say this was ‘good’ comedy.
Los Angeles Theatre Initiative returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind!! Comedy, drama, romance, horror and more all collide in this au…
At the age of 36 Si had a baby.
Comedians of Europe is a co-operative set up in 2020 by the best european comedians working right now.
June 2021, I had a stroke.
Four mixed-bill late nights celebrating the Best of Camden Fringe comedy! A set of different comic performers from across Camden Fringe will be on each night at Camden Comedy Clu…
At the age of 36 Si had a baby.
Fringe legends Jollyboat return for the 13th year, with a show of self-assured comedy songs polished by years of rewrites, improvisations, and tweaks.
His crowd-work videos have consistently gone viral all over social media, so join one of the UK’s leading circuit MCs and award-winning comedians for a hilarious mix of brand-new j…
The search for comedy’s next big star continues as contestants battle for a place in the Grand Final of the UK’s biggest newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcase…
The best place in town to catch rising comedy stars and your Fringe favourites.
Get to know Anita Wigl’it, star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under in this kooky, hilarious and tell-all, one-woman show, Funny Gurl! Over a fabulous hour, travel back in time to 198…
A revolving line-up of some of the best established and up-and-coming comedians from around the Fringe in a late show full of fun and laughter.
Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c…
A showcase performance featuring the students from Pineapple Performing Arts School’s Dance Intensive Summer School 2023.
A showcase performance featuring the students from Pineapple Performing Arts School’s Dance Intensive Summer School 2023.
Whilst Colleen Lavin’s Do The Robots Think I'm Funny? is an interesting experiment and indicative of our fascination with AI, it’s not a particularly well-structured or fun…
A Fringe institution since 1999.
The little iceberg holds a secret.
A hilarious history tour through the seriously skanky past lurking behind the “posh” New Town façade.
Another year older but still none the wiser, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with stories and jokes that have earned him his reputation as one of Scotland’s top comed…
World premiere from award-winning Korean/Irish playwright Rena Brannan.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go: simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
Stuck in Free Fall is a show about Nothing.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
It’s time.
Woah.
McClaine Beirne in his first 45-minute Edinburgh show.
A selection of Scotland’s best comedians hosted by five-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist, Ross Leslie.
‘Funny.
Lee Kyle has been a comedian for 14 years and very good for the last few.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
It’s the year 1991; the Soviet Union has collapsed and everyone is ready for a new start.
Fresh from their hugely popular Irish TV show, The Craic Den Comedy Club joins forces with two of Ireland’s top comedy MC’s, Eddie Mullarkey and Brian Gallagher, presenting the bes…
Club-comic Frank Lavender springs forward from the smoky concert halls of yesteryear offering modern audiences one promise; a laugh a minute or their money back.
Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics.
Return of the craic! 4 Funny Feckers, a Fringe favourite, is hosted by cheeky Irish comic Wes Dalton, an Irish charmer who has cheekiness and likeability down to a tee.
If you got that reference you can be our friend… Dave’s Jokes Of The Fringe 2019 runner-up is totally fine with how things are going.
2 Funny Feckers brings you 60 minutes of non-stop craic from two hilarious comics seen on RTE, BBC, and ITV – Wes Dalton and Sergi Polo (the lads behind sellout show 4 Funny Feck…
Returning for another year, Free Footlights brings the group for an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and more.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Best of Cabaret from the Fringe returns with an all-star diverse rotating cast of international and regional seasoned artists in the genre.
A showcase of up-and-coming and established Northern Irish talent, hosted by William Thompson (BBC New Comedy Award 2021) and Micky Bartlett ‘A natural stand-up with more than a to…
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival earlier this year, Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her show to Camden Fringe.
A debut show from an established act on the UK circuit.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize winners 2022.
Filthy.
Rising stand-up star Freya Mallard is back with a hilarious work-in-progress stand-up show A Little More Conversation a Little Less Action Please, after her sold-out Edinburgh run …
In a world where comedy is everything to everyone, and punching down is taboo, it’s time to punch back! The Corrupt Comedy Establishment killed Bob Hecklestein’s girlfriend, murder…
Meeting at the semi-finals of the BBC New Comedy Awards, they impressed the judges and now they’re heading to Edinburgh with a hilarious hour of stand-up.
A fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
A line-up show featuring the top three acts from the 2022 edition of So You Think You’re Funny? The UK’s biggest new comedy competition, with Joshua Bethania, Pravanya Pillay and J…
Step into the world of Abandoman and help craft a futuristic three-day music festival in just 60 minutes.
The sequel to their award-winning debut! Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear-splitting music; try not to be sick if you see too much flesh.
Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding.
From design classics to cutting-edge catwalk creations, Beyond the Little Black Dress deconstructs this iconic garment and examines the radical power of the colour black in fashion…
“Best of Three” by Nurit Chinn is a dark and funny world premiere about our compulsion to relive a past that haunts us.
“Best of Three” by Nurit Chinn is a dark and funny world premiere about our compulsion to relive a past that haunts us.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Durham.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
BEST COMEDY OF ‘Four New Plays’ curated by Rachel Stockdale & Ben Storey Four New Plays showcases local creatives and the diverse voices in the North East.
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.
The flame gutters but doesn’t go out…Ghost Light is a new musical that tells the story of a washed-up child star named Kat trapped in a cycle of emotional and financial…
Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond! Arabs Are Not Funny sees comedians with roots in the Arab world attempt to prove…
James Norton (Happy Valley) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (A View from the Bridge) stages the English language premiere of A LITTLE LIFE.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
The Three Little Pigs tells the traditional tale of Piggy Straw, Piggy Sticks and Piggy Bricks in their battles against the big bad wolf.
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…
After 21 years and 224 days Hal's back being single.
SW London’s bold and boundary-pushing festival of arts and culture returns for 17 brilliant days, taking over Wandsworth from 9-25 June with a jam-packed, belly-laughing, awe-ins…
The Moran Sisters captured the hearts of a generation when they were children.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
In partnership with Black Brighton Market, the Pan-African Creative Exchange (PACE) brings you a vibrant market place featuring arts & craft stalls, pop up performances, a cultural…
BAM - B.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
After a sold-out run at London’s VAULT Festival, Jess is bringing her show to Brighton Fringe.
BAM - B.
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts presents the sequel to their award winning debut with a brand new hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed.
'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 …
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts presents the sequel to their award winning debut with a brand new hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed.
Showcase Start Time - 13:00 To attend this Industry Showcase please email actingshowcase@lipa.
What’s better than a night out of the house? An afternoon out of the house laughing your pelvic floor off! Don’t miss this amazing afternoon of some of the festival’s funniest com…
What’s better than a night out of the house? An afternoon out of the house laughing your pelvic floor off! Don’t miss this amazing afternoon of some of the festival’s funniest com…
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts, is an hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed, rooted in the recognisable yet traversing into strange reali…
From the mind of Jon Griffin (21 Crows, Sairie) comes three tales of terror.
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts, is an hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed, rooted in the recognisable yet traversing into strange reali…
From the mind of Jon Griffin (21 Crows, Sairie) comes three tales of terror.
This programme is for you if you are: o Wanting to earn an income from your creativity by delivering creative projects.
This programme is for you if you are: o Wanting to earn an income from your creativity by delivering creative projects.
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
Making their Brighton Fringe debut, Leeds based stand up comedians Kyle Bedder (tall, thin, unhinged) and Dan Powell (short, fat, depressed) present Big Cuck, Little Cuck, a sixty-…
“Mummy, I love your boobies.
“Mummy, I love your boobies.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
Putting the FUN back into FUNNY.
Putting the FUN back into FUNNY.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Adele brings all her very best new jokes, ideas and wisdom to Brighton.
Join us for The Horsies - the awards show filled with character comedians where everyone’s a winner and nobody knows what’s going on.
Join us for The Horsies - the awards show filled with character comedians where everyone’s a winner and nobody knows what’s going on.
Meet Eddie, a successful failed actor, now a rap star in the making - except maybe he’s not as talented as he thinks he is.
Meet Eddie, a successful failed actor, now a rap star in the making - except maybe he’s not as talented as he thinks he is.
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
Pertha is a Giant Sphere of Light and has been created by Artist Synergy, a Brighton artist, and is from the novel The Secrets of the Seven Wardrobes.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
Pertha is a Giant Sphere of Light and has been created by Artist Synergy, a Brighton artist, and is from the novel The Secrets of the Seven Wardrobes.
In A Little Killing Hurts No One, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of an Arab, longing so badly to be part of it, yet confronted with some…
Do you suffer from allergies, anaemia, asthma, bronchitis, cough, fatigue, hypo-/hyper-glycemia, emphysema, COPD, digestive disorders, headaches, high/low blood pressure, insomnia …
Brighton’s revolutionary youth artists are joining us in their second year at the Brighton Fringe.
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.
Do you suffer from allergies, anaemia, asthma, bronchitis, cough, fatigue, hypo-/hyper-glycemia, emphysema, COPD, digestive disorders, headaches, high/low blood pressure, insomnia …
Brighton’s revolutionary youth artists are joining us in their second year at the Brighton Fringe.
In “A little killing hurts no one”, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of a Libyan Arab, longing so bad to be part of it, yet confronted wit…
Best in Class is a crowd-funded profit-sharing show that champions the rich talent of working-class comedians.
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…
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre Join Improv group Sprout for games, scenes, and a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all …
Highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, A&E, karate teachers, …
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts is an hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed, rooted in the recognisable yet traversing into strange realit…
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.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
James Norton (Happy Valley, Grantchester) stars in the theatrical event of 2023 as visionary director Ivo van Hove (Network, Hedda Gabler) stages the English language premiere of A…
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Best In Class is a crowd funded profit sharing show that champions the rich talent of working class comedians.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
FEET PICS AREN'T FREE! For sale: feet pics, freshly painted.
The Final Episode of The Magic Tower Crime, lies and googly eyes Heaven shakes a little Drenched in honey, covered in sunlight.
Valentines? Palentines? Galentines? Whatever you’re celebrating on the 14th of February, join us for a feel-good evening packed with live music, songs and a whole lot of love! C…
Grandpa Gerson was only living his best life.
Grandpa Gerson was only living his best life.
Come on in, the water’s fine.
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts, is an hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed, rooted in the recognisable yet traversing into strange reali…
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…
Millie is not like other girls.
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 …
Join the ONCOMM nominated Women’s Writes for three bold short plays written by female playwrights.
Continuing their monthly residency, Join Improv group Sprout for games, scenes, and a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all based on audience sugge…
Continuing their monthly residency at The Courtyard Theatre.
What’s the best pint you ever had?In a pub in Northern Ireland, this is the question Gerry poses to his two best friends (Steve and David) during their regular Friday night drinkin…
‘What’s the best pint you ever had?’And not just the best as in the ‘nicest’, but the one that “made a moment.
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
If you are looking for a remarkable piece of unusual drama then the Hampstead Theatre’s production of little scratch is now being presented by New Diorama in their perfectly-suit…
At once slapstick, sitcom and surreal, Grubby Little Mitts is an hour of wildly different sketches at breakneck speed, rooted in the recognisable yet traversing into strange realit…
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl…
“A man should never turn down two things.
Join Sprout for games, scenes, and even a full length play created by the skilled improvisers of Sprout – all based on audience suggestions.
Cathal is 35, renting, eternally single, and has just spent the last three years watching all of his friends settle down, get married and have kids.
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.
Join us at the Museum of Comedy for the funniest Quiz night in London.Starts 7pm - Just turn up and take a seat!
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
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…
Based on the Sunday Times’ bestseller, which inspired one of this century’s most treasured films, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel takes us on a journey to India with an …
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Best of Scandinavia features the biggest names in Scandinavian stand-up.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
Jimmy is 34 and has never felt like he belonged.
Acclaimed director Ivo van Hove adapts Hanya Yanagihara’s novel for the theatre, crafting a deeply moving performance of epic proportions.
Les Shankland directs the Chapter House Singers in Choral Evensong.
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
The Art of Illumination.
Love of Creation: Poetry’s power for the present.
It’s the year 2030 – you now have high bandwidth secure laser communications straight to your VR headset without an Ethernet cable.
Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular.
Exhibition: The Art of Illumination.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19…
Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises.
Birds of Passage in the Half Light is a dark comedic excavation exposing the complicated relationship between Her faith and the generational impact that it has had on Her female li…
George cooks food while making you laugh.
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
Life is filled with the queerest things, none more so than the machinations of a mind like KC Finn’s.
After searching far and wide, Barcelona’s finest comedic talents have Found their Funny, packed it in a bag and brought it all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe for your amusement! B…
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
Painting Heaven on Earth.
Mr Swallow returns with a mix of new, old, very old and previously unusable material before hitting the road.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Schola Cantorum sings MacMillan.
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Come join a panel of experts and gain valuable insights into the strategic thinking and collaborative developments linking digital and live art forms in Taiwan and the world.
Come join a panel of experts and gain valuable insights into the strategic thinking and collaborative developments linking digital and live art forms in Taiwan and the world.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Bring Me to Light is a contemporary dance piece dedicated to finding beauty in your inner demons.
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.
Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist…
Painting the Way of the Cross.
Join the Trickster and Sunny the Bunny for a riot of silly stunts and crazy magic in The Funny Punny Magic Show! Four-time winner of the Scottish Children’s Entertainer of the Ye…
Frankie wants to conform.
Comedians Nigel Lovell (twice UK Pun Championship finalist) and Pete Merre (talkSport, SoccerAM) love Wordle and Leyton Orient and so are used to comedy, tragedy and heartbreak.
Imagine having a passion, a calling, being so good and in love with something you wanted to do it forever – that was me as a child when it came to drumming but sadly it wasn’t th…
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
The America’s Got Talent winner brings his latest smash-hit show to Edinburgh for the first time.
Life is filled with the queerest things, none more so than the machinations of a mind like KC Finn’s.
Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others…
Two nights only! Award-winning Ali, Scotland’s ‘Queen of vintage jazz’ (OC Weekly) presents a special programme – a carefully crafted selection of Lady Day’s best-loved son…
A fast, unexpectedly heart-warming play written by Paul Richards.
Join talented duo Leila Marshall and Ailsa Aitkenhead for an evening recital of lyrical and rousing works for flute and piano.
This powerful, funny and unflinching drama is about two real-life Florida women whose lives are profoundly changed by their immersion in the world of the other-abled.
Come join us for the original free walking tour around the heart of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Ali Brice is embracing life after almost losing it.
See the UK’s longest running and best comedy newcomer competition back for its 35th year.
Join us for an afternoon of free jazz every Saturday and Sunday during the Fringe at The Grand Cafe.
Real reviews for Tom Little: ‘He’s the real deal.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, music, family entertainment and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
Cult hit Jollyboat present their best comedy songs from 10 years as one of the biggest shows on the Free Fringe.
Join us for free music every Saturday night during the Fringe at Southpour with great acoustic artists playing great pop covers.
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival, and this year he’s been thinking about the future.
Before audiences step foot into the SpaceUK’s Annexe, a tune from a nearby keyboard drifts out of the theatre and floats down the hall to greet the audience.
Comedians Nigel Lovell (twice UK Pun Championship finalist) and Pete Merre (talkSport, SoccerAM) love Wordle and Leyton Orient and so are used to comedy, tragedy and heartbreak.
Join us for a huge selection of free music every Friday and Saturday night during the Fringe at The Golf Tavern with different rock/pop cover bands with a great selection of music …
Drop in daily to enjoy emerging and established artists playing for free at our specially curated lunchtime concerts.
Broadway, here we come! The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s production of Little Women is astonishingly professional, from the high quality costumes and stage setting to the ph…
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot…
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
We’re a troupe of four women of colour from around the world bringing to you our experiences.
How do clowns get pregnant? There is no obvious punch line for Little Parts, a clown who has always been pregnant, yet who is not sure if she’ll ever give birth.
Comedian Fab La Roche-Francoeur loves the feeling of being surrounded by an audience laughing at his jokes.
Best of Cabaret from the Fringe returns with an all-star diverse rotating cast of international and regional seasoned artists in the genre.
We’re a troupe of four women of colour from around the world bringing to you our experiences.
Life, relationships, the world! Everything seems to be coming to an end.
Rhythms of India by Dr Radha Krishnan, Arabhi Krishnan and students. Storytelling using complex footwork set to rhythmic music along with facial expressions.
This timeless and enduring classic is about the March sisters’ journey from childhood to maturity during the American Civil War.
Join us for free music every Friday night during the Fringe at The Granary with our house musician playing great acoustic pop covers.
After sell-out performances and five-star reviews from 2016-2019, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh for their fifth year with a new line-up of songs! Featuring worl…
Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, top academics explore dangerous ideas.
Fast-paced, bold and hilarious.
After touring all over Europe, Mike Rice brings his electric hour show to Edinburgh.
There are very few taboo subjects left these days, but the one that will eventually come to us all still leaves many people uncomfortable.
Emerging performance ensemble, Los Angeles Theatre Initiative presents a high-energy, interactive show that’s different every night.
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
It’s time for us to play.
France 1789.
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
Exciting young Australian songstress Bonnie Thorn has generated great interest from music fans and producers impressed by her soulful interpretations of classic jazz and contempora…
To write that Dear Little Loz is an exploration of one woman’s search for love is to risk diminishing its scope, power and understanding of the human condition.
True stories, sharp gags and a big beard – Gallagher returns to Fringe following his sold-out run last time out! From growing up in Ireland, to travelling the world and everythin…
A Fringe institution since 1999.
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.
This cast of professional performers is excited to return for their fifth year with the Best of Broadway! After sell-out performances and rave reviews, this show is sure to be a ho…
Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c…
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…
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…
Pushing the boundaries of the artform to the max for a late night Encore like no other.
Variety artiste Ada Campe decided to do some research into her family history during lockdown – and was delighted and intrigued by what she found! Join her for a show about wonde…
Direct from their UK tour, Martin Mor and Logy Logan bring their unique brand of comedy and circus back to the Edinburgh Fringe.
The morning after.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon show with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around the Fringe.
The morning after.
With not a zombie in sight, we are taken into a sanctuary of “normality” while the outside world rots.
Fox-Light is Barnaby Tobias’s (Netflix, Theatre Royal Windsor, The Kings Head) debut play directed by Simon Usher (RSC, National, Royal Court), which follows two young painters as …
‘Funny.
Stand-up philosophy is like stand-up comedy – except it’s philosophical.
Fox-Light is Barnaby Tobias’s (Netflix, Theatre Royal Windsor, The Kings Head) debut play directed by Simon Usher (RSC, National, Royal Court), which follows two young painters as …
Critical darlings and audience favourites Objectively Funny take time out from producing top-tier shows and providing mental health support at the Fringe to present some of the hot…
In its 6th year; We’re Sorry! A rotating showcase of Canadian comedians in town for the Fringe.
A crowd-funded, profit-sharing show that champions working-class comedians.
Boy, you’re an alien.
Return of the craic! 4 Funny Feckers, a Fringe favourite, is hosted by cheeky Irish comic Wes Dalton, an Irish charmer who has cheekiness and likeability down to a tee.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Join us for a huge selection of free music every night of the Fringe at Biddy’s with different rock/folk cover bands and a big selection of music right through the festival.
Gabe Mollica brings New York-style comedy line-ups every night to Bar 50.
We find Lila alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Dublin’s favourite comedy club is on tour.
Great value lunchtime comedy showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics.
What sort of a prick is living their best life? Richard Branson? Elon Musk? The Dalai Lama? Yes, the Dalai Lama is a prick – all will be explained in the show.
Europe’s largest burlesque extravaganza returns, brought to you by the legendary producers of the London Burlesque Festival, World Burlesque Games and more! Fringe sell-out show si…
Constantly rotating line-up of the best comedians at this year’s festival.
Sid Singh: comedian, human rights lawyer and idiot.
Join ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) for an hour of stand-up, sketch, song and much more.
An outrageous hour of comedy served to you by a selection of female comedians from across the globe.
Peter Davis works from the almost deserted location of Silwick in West Mainland of Shetland, where he is surrounded by unobstructed seaviews and dramatic cliffs.
A magical, charming show of dance and acrobatics which will delight children and adults alike.
Join us for free live music every Wednesday to Sunday during the Fringe at Ghillie Dhu with different indie and rock/pop artists with a great selection of music.
Alex Dawson (Róisin Bevan) is a successful social media guru.
A new show for 2022 bringing you the best of the winners and finalists from 2021’s So You Think You’re Funny? comedy newcomer competition.
Come and celebrate the start of this year’s Free Festival! See samples of all the top shows from this years Free Fest, the night before it begins – and party with the performers,…
Veteran stand-up comic Ben Clover returns with his seventh show: Best Newcomer.
From the girl who brought you The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish (Edinburgh, 2011), comes Funny Girl, Sad Songs.
Join Mary Beth for her eagerly anticipated debut hour, as she shares her checkered journey as an aspiring young starlet through to the present day, covering a range of topics like …
In 2002, whilst researching a comedy, triple-Fringe First winner Henry Naylor and two-time Scottish Press Photographer of the Year Sam Maynard, went to the Afghan war zone.
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Highly anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, sex parties, karate teachers, and men…
After 21 years and 224 days Hal’s back being single.
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.
An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
A one-woman performance about knitting through grief, heartache and depression. All in a pandemic. Knitting or crocheting is encouraged.
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull them out of the closet and drape them on his slender shoulders.
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull them out of the closet and drape them on his slender shoulders.
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull it out of the wardrobe.
Following the recent deposit of the landmark archive of acclaimed street photographer Robert Blomfield (1938–2020) at the Centre for Research Collections, this exhibition celebra…
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…
Highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, sex parties, karate teachers, and men…
Tilly has intrusive thoughts about harming her family.
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.
A Night of Screen Dance featuring the premier of Lila Dance’s new film ‘Gaps in the Light’, stunning duet ‘a part’ featuring leading wheelchair dancers Susie Birchwood (Candoco) an…
A Night of Screen Dance featuring the premier of Lila Dance’s new film ‘Gaps in the Light’, stunning duet ‘a part’ featuring leading wheelchair dancers Susie Birchwood (Candoco) an…
Come with us on a magical journey as the Little Prince tells us of his love for a rose, his friendship with a fox, and learns that what is most important in life can only be seen w…
The Little Prince by Antione De Saint Exupery is a timeless classic that enables children to safely and creatively explore the idea of things coming to an end and that there is lif…
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Brighton Spiegeltent is hosting another of our occasional vital conversations about the state of the arts in in Brighton and Hove.
Everything begins with movement.
Funny Women return to Brighton Komedia with a fabulous line-up.
Now in its 20th year, Funny Women return to Brighton Komedia with a fabulous line-up.
Everything begins with movement.
Acing Out, Dublin’s leading LGBTQ+ theatre group, present a tense and darkly comic story of love and revenge.
Acting Out, Dublin’s leading LGBTQ+ theatre group, present a tense and darkly comic story of love and revenge.
Dublin’s Acting Out present a tense and darkly comic story of love and revenge.
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.
Brighton Fringe 2021 Award Winner Miss Hope Springs recently celebrated a decade of decadence as resident songstress at London’s premier cabaret room Le Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly.
Brighton Fringe 2021 Award Winner Miss Hope Springs recently celebrated a decade of decadence as resident songstress at London’s premier cabaret room Le Crazy Coqs in Piccadilly.
After helping beat Donald Trump (ever heard of him?) in court one more time, award-winning comedian Sid Singh (BBC, NBC, Comic Relief, Comedy Central UK) is back with his brand new…
After helping beat Donald Trump (ever heard of him?) in court one more time, award-winning comedian Sid Singh (BBC, NBC, Comic Relief, Comedy Central UK) is back with his brand new…
The University of Brighton’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing hosts a showcase event, celebrating the centre’s innovative work on how the arts can support and inform well-being fo…
Waterloo - The Best of ABBA looks back at the sensational rise to stardom of the Swedish pop group ABBA and recreates it so impeccably that fans, old and new can still e…
The University of Brighton’s Centre for Arts and Wellbeing hosts a showcase event, celebrating the centre’s innovative work on how the arts can support and inform well-being fo…
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…
Gill Sims is the author of the Best Selling ‘Why Mummy’ series of books and the woman behind the hugely popular ‘Peter and Jane’ Facebook page.
Grubby Little Mitts is an uncomfortable stare, a shriek heard in the background of a dream, the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
Grubby Little Mitts is an uncomfortable stare, a shriek heard in the background of a dream, the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer.
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a stand-up and writer.
Mimicry, magic, and mirth aplenty - with impressionist Stephen Owen, and comedy magician Stu Turner.
Mimicry, magic, and mirth aplenty - with impressionist Stephen Owen, and comedy magician Stu Turner.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Anti-fascist, Boris*-baiting, Brighton Fringe legend LJ DA FUNK brings back the best bits and catchiest catchphrases from Fringes past, interspersed with new and improved silliness…
Anti-fascist, Boris*-baiting, Brighton Fringe legend LJ DA FUNK brings back the best bits and catchiest catchphrases from Fringes past, interspersed with new and improved silliness…
A revolving line-up of the best comedians from around Brighton and the Fringe in a late afternoon show filled with hilarity.
A friendly fun-filled afternoon performance with a revolving line-up of the best children’s and family-friendly performers from around Brighton and the Fringe.
This moron wearing all of his t-shirts at once has got layers, watch him peel himself like a very funny sentient onion that won’t make you cry.
This moron wearing all of his t-shirts at once has got layers, watch him peel himself like a very funny sentient onion that won’t make you cry.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull them out of the closet and drape them on his slender shoulders.
A precious and unique sari awaits the presence of a boy to pull them out of the closet and drape them on his slender shoulders.
On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round.
On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round.
A wolf in granny’s clothing knows all about what fun dressing-up can be and in Little Red Riding Hood a magical wardrobe opens its doors to a fantastic display of gorgeous garments…
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
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Performing Arts (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Widely regarded as one of the hottest comedy nights among the Arab community and beyond, Arabs are not funny! sees comedians with roots in the Arab world showcasing their talents a…
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…
All his friends are getting married, and he’s really happy for them.
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
Laughter on the front lines!Live performance and video footage from the first professional clown to use laughter as a mental health programme in countries at war.
Hal is going back on the road with a brand-new show, doing what he does best - reminding us of how much we love stand-up comedy, and God do we need it! Not as much…
Thinking of setting up your own performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal and Industrial Relations Manager at ITC, for a workshop about the legal and administrative basic…
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.
‘It’s only a matter of time before you jump off the balcony for a front page spread’.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Talon - The Best of Eagles The Legacy Tour 2020/21 Talon have risen from humble beginnings to become one of the most successful theatre touring shows in th…
Glitz and glamour, fun and frolics, Scottish Ballet’s Starstruck is a delight, just what we need after 18 months of closed theatres.
The Olivier and Tony Award-winning Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were hailed as landmark and must-see theatrical events.
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 …
Something Funny’ comedy show with Scott McPherson.
Something Funny’ comedy show with Scott McPherson.
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.
Something Funny’ comedy show with Scott McPherson.
Something Funny’ comedy show with Scott McPherson.
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…
Hop, bounce, jump, wave and sing! Percussion, music, laughter and balloons with Verona’s Musical Balloon Band.
After a sell-out Scottish tour, Leah MacRae (River City and Gary: Tank Commander) brings her hilarious, rip-roaring, uplifting show for it’s Fringe debut.
Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and stand-up, Paul Dennis brings his music and comedy together for the first time.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
Two dangerous Irishmen doing dangerous things for a laugh.
The seaweed is always greener down at The Clapham Grand such wonderful things surround you, at one of our Movie Nights! Leave the human world and transport yourselves Under T…
Experience all the drama and wonder of grand opera on a miniature scale, with open-air performances brought to life by a storyteller, two singers and instrumentalists.
The 2021 Festival of the Sacred Arts concludes with a service of Choral Evensong.
A brand-new hour of stand-up comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and downright adorable Sasha Ellen.
Immerse yourself in a pint-sized version of HMS Pinafore, with an unforgettable journey through the opera’s musical and dramatic highlights – in just 30 minutes.
Lunchtime lecture: Scottish Religious Art in Paint and Glass: Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility.
Lunchtime lecture: Theology in Stone – Faith and Art in Edinburgh’s Church Architecture.
One-day exhibition: Faith in Fabrics Church Vestments and Ecclesiastical.
Lunchtime talk: Ms Zoe van Zwanenberg, embroiderer, discusses the art of embroidery. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from the Fringe Box Office.
So far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
The awkwardness of a blind date.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening.
Lunchtime lecture: The Art of Hymns.
The awkwardness of a blind date.
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
Mass setting: Lassus’ Missa Bell ‘Amfitrit’ altera.
IRL Queer Meditation Sunday 15th August 1pm Finsbury Park.
Three badass funny femmes present you with a hilariously diverse triple bill of comedy.
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…
Three badass funny femmes present you with a hilariously diverse triple bill of comedy.
Workshop : Being of InfluenceDate : Saturday 14th AugustTime : 15:00 - 18:00 UKT / 10am - 1pm ESTLocation : VirtualAudience : LGBTQ+Cost : FREE (Donations accepted) ‘Bei…
JONJO JURYJACQUI POTATOJANET DISTRICT COUNCILGINROSY ROSSTED ROGERSANT CJOYLESSBONKSPECIAL GUESTS ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Heather Duster presents Funny Girl: A one woman retelling of the iconic musical with a little more drag! Join Heather as she takes you on a musical journey with her one woman …
Hal’s back doing what he does best – performing live comedy, for five nights only! ‘Reminded me how much I love stand up’ (Times).
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
Downtown New York is the setting for our tale of good versus evil, where Seymour – a nerdy florist’s assistant – fights for the survival of mankind against a giant plant with a…
Myra is dead; long live Myra! Realising she stands to miss out on the most attention she’ll ever receive, the ‘acid-tongued and funny to the bone’ (Time Out) Myra brings forw…
Moderated by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, curator of Green Island Human Rights Art Festival in Taiwan, this webinar will look into how the Festival enabled the artistic expression of …
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist and his 2018 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Amused Moose Comedy Award.
The #1 Best All-American Comedy Show is the best (and only) comedy show of its kind (in London)! These Americans were smart enough to leave the United States and are in the UK to d…
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.
This is a series of Wudang Kungfu shows and seminars along with Daoist culture and music.
It’s been a long time since we could go see live comedy, but it’s back! Award-winning comic Ben Clover presents a different bill of top stand-ups each evening.
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
The Manchester Revue are proud to present their new sketch show, Free Shot On Entry! Bringing you the best comedy The University of Manchester has to offer, prepare to question eve…
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…
Ronald Forbes RSA RGI festival exhibition, The Dreamweaver’s Puzzles at the Scottish Arts Club (28th July to 29th August).
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
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.
To celebrate the opening of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021, Dovecot is excited to present Little Sparta in a live in-person instrumental performance of their latest album, Lost…
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
After sitting in the house for the past 15 months, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with stories and jokes that have earned him his reputation as one of Scotland’s top comedian…
Cambridge-based theatre company, The Two Jays, present five short Zoom plays; some funny and some tragic, in which truths are spilled.
Comedian Ryan Wingfield takes a funny look into the science of what makes us happy.
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Fringe favourite Best of Burlesque returns with a new all-star extravaganza! An international round-up of the finest in strip tease, cabaret and variety at the Fringe, from the leg…
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 …
It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other…
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August.
It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other…
It’s A Little Bit Funny tells the incredible story of Elton John’s rise and fall (and rise again) as one of the most successful singer/songwriters ever.
Russel Brand takes some life lessons from William Shakespeare.
“Let’s finish this bottle and then I’ll do it” ‘The Little Weasel’ is a short film directed by award winning Marco Augelli and written by Shaun Amos.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/funk and gospel influences, playing songs from their forthcoming album.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/R&B playing songs from their forthcoming album - guest artist Mark Edwards on piano…
Funny Women return to Brighton Komedia with a fabulous line-up.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
In his debut Brighton Fringe show, Scott will interrogate everyday experiences with a comedy twist, including relationships, family and the current state of the UK.
In his debut Brighton Fringe show, Scott will interrogate everyday experiences with a comedy twist, including relationships, family and the current state of the UK.
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.
Thursday 3 June: Funny That Comedy presents MC THOMAS GREEN fresh from a sell-out Australian festival season with NEIL DELAMERE (‘Fighting Talk’, ‘The Blame Game’, ‘The Michael Mc…
An online event, in association with the free digital platform The Ironclad Hub ( https://ironclad-hub.
Thursday 3 June: Funny That Comedy presents MC STEPHEN GRANT (Brighton’s own award winning compere) with CALLY BEATON (‘QI’, ‘The Apprentice You’re Fired’) NEIL DELAMERE (‘Fighti…
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…
These award-winning films from Iris 2020 tell LGBT+ stories from around the world with humour, heart and honesty.
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Ellie is a schoolgirl with a very bright future ahead of her.
On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
On The Edge Comedy is a Brighton institution, bringing fresh faces from the UK circuit to audiences all year round.
Quiet Little Things OddHouse are an emerging feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Quiet Little Things Will You Be A Quiet Little Thing? OddHouse are an emerging radical feminist theatre company who will be debuting at Brighton Fringe this year.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Millie is not like other girls.
Meet Millie.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
This show has been rescheduled from Sat 18 April 2020.
Are you aged 16- 25? Fancy getting involved in Brighton Fringe and becoming a young reviewer for Voice? Join Alice online on Monday 26th April, 2pm for this free workshop where we …
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
A deliciously twisted and tender comedy about inner gremlins and awkward romance.
This Showcase is the culmination of the first International 10-Minute Play Competition organised by the Soldiers’ Arts Academy which attracted submissions from across the UK, Eur…
We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
M6 Theatre Company have put together a heartwarming show filled with the Christmas spirit, with some truly charming use of puppetry, storytelling and stage magic It is exactly the …
Now in it’s 12th year.
Jimmy’s brand new show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things.
!On Sunday 31 October we’re having a special Halloween-themed class.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
What if the wishes were granted? What if the magic were real? A stunning new adaptation of Grimm’s most magical tales! Head into the woods with Hansel & Grethel, help the little …
Ever wondered why comedians feel the need to get up and reveal their soft underbelly to audiences that might reject them? Ever wondered why a singer seems to want to soak up all th…
Join Daisy Rogers, Founder of Liberally, as she discusses the place of storytelling in the fight for greater diversity and inclusion across the liberal arts, through expressive mix…
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai…
A cornucopia of music and the extraordinary life story of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, heir to the vast Singer sewing machine fortune.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
A screening of short films curated by Soldiers’ Arts Academy, hosted by Román Baca.
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.
France 1789.
Celebrating Assembly’s 40th year, we bring you bite-size tasters of the very best comedy, cabaret, music and circus from around the Fringe.
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews the past four years, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh for their fifth year with a new line-up of songs! Featuring…
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
American Performing Arts International is excited to return for the fifth year with the Best of Broadway! After sold-out performances and rave reviews, this show is sure to be a ho…
We find Lila, a young British woman, alone in a hospital for the criminally insane in 1928.
Come see 30 plays in 60 minutes! Created by Greg Allen of the Neo-Futurists Theatre and performed by students from The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, California.
Great value lunchtime comedy compilation showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics.
A puppet show adaptation of Chris Haughton’s picture book ‘Don’t Worry Little Crab’, created in lockdown.
Focusing on the work and lives of older women - both in front and behind the camera - this year’s line-up includes Japanese animation Mix, eco-comedy The Last Mermaid starring Jane…
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
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…
“A Little Comedy”by A.
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.
Actor Joann Condon from BBC'S Little Britain fame is fed up with being put into a box.
Martin Scorsese and The Rolling Stones come together in this concert film created in the same vein and awe of Scorsese’s previous music documentaries The Last Waltz and No Direct…
Jimmy’s brand new show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things.
Now in it’s 11th year.
The Three Little Pigs is a lively show that breathes new life into these well-known characters - each of the pigs has an air of mischief and naivety, while the wicked wolf has just…
Welcome to Camden Shorinji Kempo! We’re proud to be an openly LGBTQ+ Shorinji Kempo martial arts club where everyone is welcome.
Following our award-winning success crafting beautiful Winter shows comes The Little Prince, a blend of enchanting storytelling, music and a dash of festive magic.
Watching A Little Space made me think of Marmite.
Peppa Pig is excited to be going on a special day out with George, Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig - it’s going to be her best day ever! Get ready for a road-trip full of fun adventu…
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teen-agers, a young girl, and an immortal cat …
Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
The Tower Theatre Company seek to outrage and (somewhat) inspire with their recreation of Dead Funny.
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…
Join us for a riotous celebration of the Fringe’s best musical comedians! Since 2009, the MCAs have helped to launch the likes of Abandoman, Rachel Parris, Mae Martin, Jay Foreman …
The semi-final of the 2019 Funny Women Awards.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The cruelties of social media could have broken a girl’s spirit.
Celebrating 32 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
A comedy special featuring a feast of worldwide laughter from some of the brightest, newest and best comics around the globe, recorded in the BBC’s big Blue Tent at the Edinburgh…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Charlotte was a legendary Hollywood props mistress who disappeared from public view decades ago.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
This award-winning writer’s powerful one-man show tears through the curtain of manners to reveal the wildlife of neo-liberal Britain.
Chic Murray was the comedian’s comedian.
Florist’s assistant Seymour becomes a sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a macabre craving.
Join Funny Women for a sparkling mix of comedy featuring the brightest new, emerging and established talent at the Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
‘I ate the divorce papers, Charles.
This show follows the journey of a team of podcasters setting out to investigate the disappearance of an iconic infomercial grifter.
It’s Andie’s last night in her childhood home before going to uni and she’s throwing the party to end all parties.
Come in from the rain, put your feet up and chill the f*ck out.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
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…
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
Bonhams in Edinburgh are exhibiting selected artworks that will be offered for sale in London and elsewhere during the autumn season.
Watson presents a show that’s no more than 50% ready for public consumption and hopes for the festival’s legendary supportive vibe to carry him through.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
Complete sell-out 2017 and 2018.
For as long as she can remember Isabella has had butterflies living inside her tummy.
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.
Join West End Producer as he auditions special guests for his Free Willy musical.
Joanne and Lisa were like sisters.
Best of magic, dance, comedy, singing and more.
Trapped in a house, flood waters rising, Susan plays out all the influences on her life.
Westward the Light is a remarkable new band – a collaboration between piano/fiddle duo Charlie Grey and Joseph Peach (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award finalists 2017), fiddle/viola p…
Join us for a magical, marvellous hour of songs from your favourite movie musicals including Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and some Disney classics.
Behold, beware, behave! A brand-new sketch show from some comedians you don’t know! Join the Sheffield Revue in an adventure in time and sketch comedy.
Hey, you! Don’t watch that! Watch this! Another stand-up show from some comedians you don’t know! Featuring an amalgam of stand-ups from diverse backgrounds and influences and an M…
A new feminist comedy cabaret, debuting at the 2019 Camden Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Showcase includes: In Mist and Rain by Arts of China, Letter from An Unknown Woman by The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Hear of The Lights by Ningbo Municipal Culture &…
A fundraiser for your new favourite production company’s mental health partnership with CALM, providing and raising awareness for services to support performers at the Fringe.
One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure.
One person’s rubbish is another person’s treasure.
An exciting and engaging art workshop that children really enjoy.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Rory returns to York with a brand spanking new title for a show that could, in many respects, be quite similar to the one he did last year i.
A hearty meal with a helping of folk.
The 2010s.
The 2010s.
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
To the uninitiated, a first glance at a cryptic crossword can be daunting, but here Rory promises to unveil its mysteries in a 90 minute workshop that is intended to be …
"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Raphael to The Arts Barge - He has been extremely generous in donating proceeds of this performance to progressing the conv…
"A Float Tank is a lightless, soundproof tank filled with water at skin temperature, in which individuals float in isolation, used to test the effects of sensory de…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Craig and Darren are some nice boys who hit the jackpot when their venue agreed to let them give away free nachos at every performance they do.
Pianist John Bryden, joined for one of the performances by St Mary’s Cathedral Assistant Master of the Music Joseph Beech, plays music by Liszt, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart…
Join Mia, Jacus, Twinkle and their nursery rhyme friends at the world premiere of a brand new live show.
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5.
North East comedians on one exclusive line-up! Hot on the heels of our popular compilation showcases, it felt only right to bring you some of finest comics who regularly stand-up a…
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 32nd year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
Interactive story telling, plus Riddling Competition! Tom Wayfinder’s Arctic Adventure.
Tom signs up as a driver for Eduardo Dorado, gold-hunter, on a trek that takes him up a ziggurat and a volcano, where he encounters an Aztec god of fire called Xiuhtecuh…
Tom signs on as a ships cook on the good ship Sinkfast, bound from Japan to Mexico, falls foul of the Genie of Chilli Sauce, El Roja The Sweat-head, meets a mermaid call…
This piece of devised physical theatre addresses the human element in our species’ historic desire to make war.
Cinema Arts presents a rare screening of the last silent film ever made by Charlie Chaplin.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Organists Duncan Ferguson, Joseph Beech and John Kitchen perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father’ Willis organ.
A hand-picked selection of the best performers at the Fringe.
“Don’t stack me away in little boxes to collect dust!”.
Ever been to a really well-run comedy club? Watch an hour of pro comedy for free instead of the £10 charge outside of the Fringe.
Join us for a huge selection of free acoustic music, duos, bands, singers and more through the day and night on this launch day of Fringe Music on the Grassmarket.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
Chris Read is a talented singer-songwriter performing his debut solo hour at the Fringe this year.
Cult hit Jollyboat (the ‘geeky flight of the conchords’) present their best comedy songs from 10 years on the Fringe.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
The Welsh optimist returns to the festival – and this year, he’s been trying to escape.
The team behind the Bongo Club Cabaret, the Not So Secret Society and the Glasgow Cabaret Festival return to present the very best of Fringe cabaret.
A creative guided walk along the Ouse & Foss in York led by poet Robert Powell - combined with a chance to write, discuss, and share ideas and impressions about York…
What’s better than one stand-up comedian for free? That’s right, two stand-up comedians for free.
A collaboration of Chinese and Western instruments performed by young musicians from Shenzhen Bao’an Children’s Palace Orchestra.
You loved the original so much, we’re doing it twice! The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh heads back to its birthplace, so now there’s two late-night chances to catch you…
Gabby Best’s Edinburgh show 10,432 Sheep is about her struggle with insomnia, and her approach to coping with life in general.
Stella’s caught between two angry mothers, which is the greater force? One explodes into a violent eruption at a moment’s notice (her mother) and then, there’s Mother Nature who ju…
The air of the Speigeltent circus hub is thick with dark debauchery, smoke and gin soaked Weimer punk jazz, setting the atmosphere for a celebration of the extraordinary.
Free Fringe Music.
Michael Rice takes you on a hilariously raw and honest journey from a farm in rural Ireland to the big city lights of Chicago and back again.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015 and never stopped going on about it.
Dave Alnwick, a veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe magic circuit, is one of the more visually striking performers you're likely to see here.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
This is a show for the fans.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Free Love is the latest manifestation of the Scottish experimental pop duo formerly known as Happy Meals, known for their extraordinary sensual live ceremonies.
Ireland’s finest under one roof.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go: simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
Comedy actress Tami Stone presents her debut one-woman Edinburgh show.
From Edinburgh to Glasgow to Newcastle – our long-running weekly beginner’s showcase is regarded as the best open mic night in the UK.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
We’ve selected the funniest women we could find at the Fringe and brought them together for an evening of comedy you’ll never forget! ‘An amazing evening of the most hilariou…
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.
The best mixed-bill comedy night in Edinburgh, featuring your favourite comedians from around the Fringe.
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
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.
Following the show’s sell-out nationwide tour, Jagged Little Pill makes its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe paying tribute to Alanis Morissette and her iconic album with uplifting …
Is the Fringe guide too wide and confusing? We understand.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
Funny Stories About Pain is a one-hour journey through some decidedly not-funny events in the life of comedian Troy Alan, which would amount to a depressing Ted Talk if Troy couldn…
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2016, 2017, and 2018 we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this new revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the Best …
Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, music and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews at Fringe 2016, 2017 and 2018, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh with a new line-up of songs! Featuring world-clas…
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 32nd year! A great night of the funniest from the Fringe,…
This chat show is the perfect guide to what comedy you should see at the Fringe as host Vladimir McTavish, one of Scotland’s finest stand-ups, introduces this intimate and hilariou…
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 …
In 2016, in a quiet stable complex in the Australian Perth hills, a project now known as Darkness to Light did its principal photography.
Lola’s funny, confident, and always striving for perfection.
The night is young and some of the best stand-up comedians at the Fringe are ready to make you laugh, stay up late and definitely have one more drink.
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Four top-quality, fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival.
See the very best comedians selected from around the Fringe, with different line-ups every day in this brand-new family friendly lunchtime stand-up showcase, from the people behind…
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
A year ago, the world ended.
Great value, great venue and great fun! Lunchtime compilation showcasing comedians you must not miss with new line-ups every day hand-picked from across the Fringe.
Join your favourite Mr.
The Two Little Dickheads are back with a fresh explosion of idiocy.
Comedy Boxing triumphantly returns to Edinburgh now with the best of the best competitors, each show! Comedians will compete over four hilarious rounds of stand-up, improvisation, …
See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe, with a different line-up of top comedians at every show.
The Ghillie Dhu’s very own local artists performing every night of the week with a mixture of traditional and popular classics. Come and join us for drams, jigs and reels!
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with stories and jokes that have earned him the reputation as one of…
Brighton company JW Productions approach this inventive and fresh re-imagining of the old Little Red Riding Hood saga with gusto.
Phoebe Traquair’s vivid arts and crafts murals (painted 1888-1892) include allegorical and religious images, portraits of leading figures, choir and clergy of the day and images of…
Expect a fun night of sharp, well-crafted and mischievous stand-up that will tickle your fancy and your heart if you have one.
Comedy.
A stand-up comedian sees his world fall apart when his wife decides he can no longer mention her onstage.
Welcome to Little Top, a magical first circus experience for babies aged 0-18 months.
The perfect end to a day at the Fringe: deep in the bowels of the best pub in Edinburgh, a raucously competitive late-night feast of trivia, festival in-jokes, physical challenges,…
12 sell-out years at the Fringe, Glasgow and Australian Comedy Festivals.
OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Jasmine is a saxophone-led from Leeds, performing music composed by saxophonist Jasmine Whalley.
‘One of the best roasters in Los Angeles’ (Jeff Ross).
The Girl Guide Promise, an oath taken by all Guides and Brownies, highlights how a girl guide member must always do their best, be true to themselves and develop their beliefs.
One of London’s most popular comedy nights Funny Feckers is coming to the Fringe to showcase the best acts from Ireland and beyond.
The world is going to sh*t! Or so it seems.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Fringe late-night favourite Best of Burlesque returns with a new all-star extravaganza! An international round-up of the absolute finest in sultry striptease, curvaceous cabaret an…
Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices.
What would you do if you could go back in time and hand-pick who you would become? One day a man encounters a strange spirit and is offered the opportunity to become someone else, …
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s best comedy newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
Croydon’s sixth leading conspiracy theorist attempts to debunk the big myths: JFK, Twin Towers, why British Bake Off went to Channel 4.
An hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more, from the Cambridge Footlights – alumni include Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Mitchell, Emma Thompson, Richard Ayoade, the ca…
After attending the festival in 1994 as a young boy to watch his mother Angie Le Mar perform, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year nominee Travis Jay is bringing his own show to …
London Bermondsey’s beloved local comedy show comes to Edinburgh! Hosted by a podgy gay comic from the remote island of Taiwan, this comedy show has, for month after month, enterta…
For the first time in Fringe history, the absolute Best of Cabaret amalgamate for a late-night extravaganza of sultry songs, dance varieties, comedic displays and vivacious variety…
Join Those Big Bois for the award-submitted, The Human Show – a journey inside the mind of one confused specimen and the two voices in his head as they navigate a day in this wei…
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
Showcasing the top spoken word talent the festival has to offer – from the laugh-out-loud funny, through the wonderfully surreal, to the thoughtful and emotional – Loud Poets c…
We are the top-rated walking tour company for English tours in Edinburgh on TripAdvisor and we have put together a special festival friendly walking tour of the Old Town for you to…
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
Free concerts every lunchtime, Monday to Saturday throughout August. Wide range of music from classical to contemporary, traditional Scots and jazz. Full details at cathedral.net
Thus far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers, but everyone welcome, regardless of age or ability.
Lewis Schaffer is a New York Jewish comic.
‘Funny.
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…
The black box space in Summerhall is perfectly suited to Zanetti Productions’ new one-woman show My Best Dead Friend, at once intimate and epic in its proportions.
Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y…
Sleeping Trees are silly, funny boys.
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Who’s rocking the boat and why? Join York’s creatives on-board the Arts Barge for a fascinating, eclectic insight into the current projects and passions of Y…
Sarah Jane Morris with her unique and powerful voice celebrates John Martyn illuminating his life and art in her new show Sweet Little Mystery.
Helen Bauer hits the Fringe hard with this compelling comedy debut which is slick, sassy and super satisfying.
See a selection of performers from the very best of this year’s Free Fringe Festival shows, in the big gala launch night, party and general great start to this year’s Edinburgh Fri…
Daily diet of live highlights from across the festivals.
A girl from Oxford meets a boy from Asteroid B-612.
Showcase opportunity for artists and creatives using film and projection to express their ideas and engage socially with others in this sphere of artistic activity.
During this two hour sketching workshop, you will have the opportunity to be supported to explore your surroundings and views from the arts barge with artist Pennie Lord…
Best Girl is a story told by the nervous, but likable Annie.
Another chance to see the films by Italian artist Marinella Senatore for her York Symphony piece, created through a series of workshops and conversations, collecting ind…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
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…
Family Yoga on the Arts Barge! This is an informal yoga session that brings together elements of traditional yoga practice, play and discovery.
Yorkshire’s finest Myra DuBois has tragically ‘died’ but on the upside, she’s invited you to the greatest funeral you will ever attend.
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK.
Written and performed by David JarmanDirected by Ruby Clarke After scraping together his last few pounds, Jarman packs a borrowed tent into an old, torn rucksack and hit…
Say Owt is York's loveable and raucous poetry organisation, hosting some of the noisiest spoken word events in the UK.
Matt Green returns to the Camden Fringe after sell out shows in 2017 and 2018 with a brand new hour of jokes and stories.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Theatre @DraperHall and Founding Fall Theatre kindly invite you to the Summer edition of their fantastic and unique scratch Theatre evening: Free FallLive music, improvisation arou…
This is not a musical nor is it instructions on how to beat up your dad.
A magical multi-media tale of a life saved by music.
Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear.
Fenist the Falcon is an old much loved Russian Fairytale in which seven female characters appear.
Four cups of Apple Sauce.
Step into the magical and colourful world of LITTLE BABY BUM.
Four cups of Apple Sauce.
Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos…
Tim Eriksen: Hardcore Americana Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shapenote gos…
Come and learn shape note singing with Tim Eriksen! We are delighted to welcome Tim to York to lead a workshop and a singing on the Arts Barge in advance of his evening …
Two days of Jazz and Manouche as part of The Arts Barge Riverside Festival.
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.
Paul returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with a preview of his upcoming Edinburgh Festival show.
OUROBOROS PRESENTS THE LATEST IN CUTTING EDGE JAZZ… Award-winning saxophonist Alex Hitchcock returns to York, with his powerhouse quintet that combines a compelli…
A two day Jazz and Manouche Festival of performances, workshops and open sessions.
A mixture of best bits and new material for Paul's next touring show about the life-changing effect a couple of drinks can have.
Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel…
Rust Immersive spoken word show performed on-board the barge Selby Tony Join us for a mesmerising tale of love, loss and live music on-board the former working barge Sel…
We are very excited and privileged to welcome Alistair to play for the opening of York’s Arts Barge.
It’s 2016.
This magnetic bond still holds after more than 40 years of attempted escapes and still loved for their total in-yer-face originality, the contrast between the dea…
The subversive, satirical, darkly comic story of the Victorian Music Hall with a twist of Weimar Cabaret! A wickedly fun singalong show, ‘Now Here’s A Funny Story’ reveals Music…
Humble Crumble and Loitering With Intent present Alice Birch’s Little Light performed in a disused swimming pool in the bowels of the Tower Theatre.
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
In 2005, at The Lincoln Center Theater, The Light in the Piazza premiered on Broadway.
Don’t miss the London premiere of the six-time Tony-winning musical THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA as it lights up the Royal Festival Hall for four weeks only next summer.
The nominees and winners of the British Podcast Awards are always a who's who of UK podcast talent.
Have you ever thought “Wow, I could push that person in front of that train”.
Whilst training at drama school all performers undertake something called ‘Animal Studies’ where they learn to mimic those who have different motivations to humans.
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Duration: Approx 1hr 50mins A highly energetic tribute show that follows in the footsteps of the award-winning girl band, Little Mix.
Presenting the best in visual arts, sculpture and creative workshops, ‘Cultureground’ is the interactive gallery that showcases young people’s work from across the city.
Dena Blizzard, the viral video sensation and creator of the Back to School Rant (125 million views), Chardonnay Go (24 million views) and Chardonnay Go, The Board Game f…
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
“A little comedy”by A.
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Dr Jones Funny Bones is coming to Brighton with a show for the whole family.
Little Steven, otherwise known as Steven Van Zandt, is one of the most extraordinarily multifaceted men in music.
We’ve curated a showcase featuring some of the best new female comedy talent in the UK today.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Bodhisattva Kadampa Meditation Centre is offering a free meditation on the beach with Buddhist monk, Gen Thekchen.
Join us for the day at the Theatre Royal Haymarket for ‘London Curious’ on Sunday 19th May, where a series of curious adventures with the legendary Iain Sinclair&n…
A raucous, two-woman comedy of idiots! Following sold-out shows in New York, this Gaulier-trained clown duo will guide you through their version of a sacred ritual for spiritual en…
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
What’s to be done with the Arts in Brighton? Or Where Are We Now where Are We Now? A discussion at the Spiegeltent on the state of the arts and culture in Brighton and Hove - and w…
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…
Duration: Approx 1hr 20mins From the makers of Peppa Pig comes this BAFTA award-winning television animation live on stage! Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom …
Bright City is a community of musicians, dancers, producers, visual artists and actors from St Peter’s Church.
On Sunday 12 May 2019 at London’s Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, there will be two concerts of The Best of… Rock Musicals for the benefit of The Charlie Waller Memorial …
“Conscious Light” is an award-winning documentary film on the extraordinary life of Adi Da Samraj, one of the great spiritual realizers of our time.
Stella’s caught in a tug of war between two angry ladies, Mother Nature and her real mother.
Adam is loving being Employment Minister.
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…
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Over 21 Years Jay has built up a powerhouse of sharp political and observational material.
This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe evening, as you spend an hour in the company of one of Scotland’s finest comedians, Vladimir McTavish, and his guests in this…
Through her own brilliant interpretive vocal talents, Sarah Jane will be illuminating the work of John Martyn in her new show Sweet Little Mystery, accompanied by her regular colla…
Welcome to Little Top, a magical first circus experience for babies aged 0-18 months and their adults.
ON SALE AT 10AM FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMEBER Join Limmy for a night of anecdotes and chit-chat as he introduces his autobiography - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny - …
Join Limmy for a night of anecdotes and chit-chat as he introduces his autobiography - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny - featuring the true stories of how thi…
Welcome to the darkest, funniest and most debauched kabarett club this side of Berlin! A gin soaked, Weimar-punk jazz band soundtracks a hazy night of dangerously fu…
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
A World Premiere from Curious Seed and Lung Ha Theatre Company, in association with Lyra.
Original 70s punks from Belfast still fronted by the iconic Jake Burns - and fave band of former England defender Stuart Pearce.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
Saturday 2nd March, 7pm Tickets: £13.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Deep in the heart of a medieval palace dungeon, two strangers dwell.
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 little heart goes a long way A Musical adventure about Anna, a young, housebound girl with a hole in her heart, who one night follows the sound of a strangely familiar…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Waterford CrystalThe horse - not the crystal manufacturer Little WeirdoCome and play it's weirdo day Waterford Crystal - OXBOIn 2004 show-jumper Cian O&rsquo…
Big Fish Little Fish ‘We Can Be Heroes’ themed family rave with DJs Baker & Beale Come make merry again with the award winning, world famous Big Fish Lit…
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
A new comedy by David Hampshire.
A new comedy by David Hampshire.
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Join Zoo Keeper Sue and mischievous Little Monkey on Christmas Eve, and discover numbers are all around us.
Desiree Burch, BBC comedy star of QI, The Mash Report, Live at The Apollo and upcoming Netflix show Flinch, performs in Best Of The Dirty Thirty thisDecember; an ever-changing atte…
From the people behind the sell-out Pride Improv Festival comes another Loud And Queer: Free Improv Comedy Night showcasing the most exciting improvised comedy from the city's top…
At the exact same time that Theresa May’s cabinet is in turmoil over the UK’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, Golden Age Theatre Company has set up camp in the Museum of Come…
Michael Schenker Fest will be touring the UK this coming November in celebration of their latest studio album release, Resurrection, whilst also performing an extended setlist of c…
Irish songwriter John Doherty AKA Little Hours plays 2 intimate solo shows, playing new material as well as firm live favourites.
A night of sparkling wit and humour featuring James Cary, Paul Kerensa and Simon Jenkins that lovingly looks at the flaws, foibles and funniest parts of faith and religi…
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…
Based on the experiences of young carers, Need a Little Help explores what it means to look after someone else when you are young.
The off-Broadway musical, with music by Brad Ross and lyrics by Ellen Greenfield and Half Hackady is about mates, dates and love triangles.
The autumn/winter season at the Space on the Isle of Dogs got off to a punchy start this week with Little Fools.
At London's Lyceum, something malign and vengeful is stirring.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
North East comedians on one exclusive line-up! Hot on the heels of our popular compilation showcases, we felt it only right to bring you some of finest who regularly reside at The …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Celebrating 31 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
16m subscribers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Special additional show featuring former Zappa Plays Zappa vocalist/instrumentalist Ben Thomas, who will be opening the show with his own material and then joining the band for.
Last Leg host Adam Hills prepares for an upcoming book tour by reading some selected chapters of his best-selling autobiography Best Foot Forward.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Membership of the local amateur drama society has dwindled to four.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Join Funny Women for a sparkling mix of comedy including performances by special guests and the brightest new talent at the Fringe.
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…
‘I’ve given you sunlight, I’ve given you rain.
Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene.
Join us for the second year of the new comedy competition celebrating all things sketch! The organiser’s behind the UK’s biggest comedy newcomer competition are on the hunt for the…
The American comedian and creator of The Jeselnik Offensive comes to London two nights only with his brand new hour, Funny Games.
Deep in the heart of a medieval dungeon, two strangers dwell.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Fresh new band from London bring their summer 2018 tour to Edinburgh, with members having performed at Love Supreme Festival, Secret Garden Party, and Cambridge Folk Festival.
Do you not fit into a box? Olivia (Big O) knows all too well about not fitting in: when kimchi, AKA fire-breathing garlic dragon breath, is your culture’s most famous export, how…
Best of BEASTS is a wild and brilliant explosion of a show packed with slightly smaller explosions throughout – and I’m not talking about pyrotechnics.
Prepare for the gay and straight worlds to come together, as unlikely friends James Barr and Dan Hudson bring their hugely successful podcast to Edinburgh – live! James will expl…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One man’s intimate story of escape from religion, to love, loss and triumph.
Off-the-wall stand-up with sausage.
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.
Mis(s)treated – a dark and twisted comedy about human trafficking and prostitution.
A smorgasbord of Frank Zappa classics hand-delivered by those finest purveyors of conceptual continuity, Pygmy Twylyte! Expect pickles, poodles, dental floss, muffins, snowballs an…
Malones Irish Bars Edinburgh hosts a large variety of live musical acts all day every day throughout the fringe. This begins at 12pm and continues until late at night!
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Complete sell-out 2017.
Simon Hall is a comedy writer, TV icon and national treasure, who finds himself arrested under suspicion of never having told a joke.
People often get awkward, white, Northern Tom Short, and awkward, white, Northern Tom Little mixed up.
Ollie has chronic insomnia, a mental and physical illness that affects 10% of people in the UK.
Colin’s life has been a series of well-meaning mishaps and misunderstandings.
Performers, producers, activists and cultural workers come together to investigate where power really lies and what needs to be done to ensure genuine diversity and equality of exp…
This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Parker has only ever dreamt of being a stand-up comedian.
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2017, we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the best of Broadway to the …
American Performing Arts International is thrilled to bring their newest musical revue to Edinburgh.
Pianist John Bryden plays music by Ravel, Scriabin, Bach and Schubert on the Cathedral Steinway.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A hand-picked selection of the best performers at the Fringe.
Acclaimed Scottish jazz singer Mary May and her top-drawer musicians are back with their Billie Holiday show after selling out their last three years at the Fringe.
The UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition is back for its 31st year at the Fringe! After months of regional heats, come see the funniest of the hundreds of applicants a…
Organists Daniel Cook (Durham Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘Father…
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award 2014 finalist, and appeared in both Pleasance Comedy Reserve and Big Value showcase…
The hilarious Welsh optimist returns to the Fringe, working through his latest identity crisis the only way he knows how – with 40 minutes of excellent free comedy.
The perfect end to your evening of entertainment with the biggest and best comedy line-ups in all of Edinburgh! Previous guests include Jason Byrne, David O’Doherty, Shappi Khorsan…
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best young contemporary music talents perform an exciting blend of Scottish pop, traditional Scottish songs and instrumental s…
This worldwide hit show for geeks and non-geeks everywhere returns with a changing line-up of hilarious comedians with a mixture of stand-up comedy and interactive debate to find o…
You can’t choose your family, but you can create 30 minutes of comedy about them.
Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs.
Hi! I’m American comedian Chris Laker.
In association with PBH’s Free Fringe, veteran chanteuse Woodstock Taylor and her band of aging gits, Dai Lowe, Bev Wright and Max Scratchmann, bring their mixed bag of songs, poem…
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Improviser Mara Joy (TBC Improv, The Spontaneous Players) is joined by a different special guest every day to create an entirely unique two-person show based off one word from the …
Look, it’s David McIver, the nicest little man in town giving it a good go with his debut hour of riffs, bits and skits.
It’s not the Fringe without Jollyboat! The cult hit, back for their ninth year.
Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe.
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
An atmosphere of fun and weimar cabaret beats envelop us as we enter Beauty at the Circus Hub.
Two of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes fantastically performed by the 15 to 20-year-old children from two of China’s schools, Shanghai International Studies University and For…
Tommy is four-and-a-quarter years old, and a hard-boiled private investigator on the mean streets of Little Monkey’s Daycare.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
After sold-out performances and rave reviews at Fringe 2017, we’re excited to return to Edinburgh with this revue of Broadway hits! Join us as we bring the best of Broadway to the …
One mean green monster musical!! A botanical bloodfest!! Like Faust on fertiliser!! For the misfits of Skid Row, life is full of broken dreams and dead ends.
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
After sold-out performances and five-star reviews at Fringe 2016 and 2017, our performers are excited to return to Edinburgh with a new line-up of songs! Featuring world-class voic…
Ireland’s finest under one roof.
Cam Cahoon is a brilliant and accomplished tenor with a gift for enchanting his audience and creating fast fans with every show! Your favorite Broadway hits, including popular song…
Four top-quality fowl-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
A town hall meeting in Anytown, USA provides the dramatic context for a panoply of songs in a wide range of musical styles and genres, whose cleverly constructed lyrics explore an …
Is the Fringe guide too wide and confusing? We understand.
‘Kitty my hands have disappeared.
Manchester United fans old enough to remember 1971 may recall the strange weekend George Best went missing.
Matchmaking mums at the Shanghai marriage market hatch a plan to get their little emperors hitched.
Touch and feel Chinese arts and culture by attending CACF 2018.
A raucous late night show offering a fabulous selection of the most outrageous queer performers from across the Fringe.
From Edinburgh to Glasgow to Newcastle – our long-running weekly beginner’s showcase is regarded as the best open mic night in the UK.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, music and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
American Performing Arts International is thrilled to bring their newest musical revue to Edinburgh.
A frantic, romantic comedy by Paul Richards which follows the lives of three intelligent but bored office workers, who also happen to be fire wardens.
‘Funny.
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a different selection each day of four of the best comics at the Fringe.
In the resplendent surroundings of the Assembly Speigeltent, a pumping rendition of Cherry Bomb blasts out the promise of an hour of alternative grandeur.
This chat show is the perfect way to start your Fringe day, as you spend an hour in the company of one of the finest stand-ups on the Scottish comedy circuit.
Funnybones is Steve McCann’s Edinburgh solo debut.
Bored of mindless comedy shows? Then come to Stand-Up Philosophy.
According to WikiHow, you can Live Your Best Life in just 14 steps (with pictures) but can it really be that easy? Emmy Fyles (Comedy Central, BBC Three) sets off on a journey to f…
“Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
After touring the world with internationally-received show, Getting Away Scott Free.
Ten sell-out years at the Edinburgh Fringe, Glasgow Comedy Fest and around the world.
Lovable Brit Ollie Horn (‘always a crowd pleaser’ (Edd Daggers, ROR Comedy)) tells fast-paced tales of life as an unlikely Japanese TV star and life on the road as he tours around …
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
The Worst Little Warehouse In London is crammed into The Box, which appears to be an actual shipping crate housed in Assembly Gardens.
When famous author/pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived many different lives, meets The Little Prince, two adventurous explorers discover the world and what is important in l…
As discovered at Murrayfield, Wimbledon and Russia, the English aren’t used to winning.
This is what happens when a cabaret clown and an improv master with a shared passion for cats spend way too much time together.
An American-Scottish duo performs wild long-form improv developed at the renowned iO Theater in Chicago! Jack and Claire is Chicago-based improv comedy duo Claire McFadden and Jack…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
See the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe with different line-ups at every show and four performances daily.
‘Is it too much to ask for everything?!’ she shouted drunkenly at a bin.
Totally sold-out shows across the globe.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers from around the UK, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day.
Showcasing underrepresented working-class comedy voices.
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
‘I will return sunshine to the dark cold world!’ In a world full of darkness, the warmth and light of the sun has gone missing.
Who runs the world? Not this bitch.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
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Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Following more sell-out shows at festivals and theatres worldwide, this hit show returns with a changing line-up of various comedians with hilarious material based on sex and relat…
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
Three new up-and-coming stand-up comedians perform their diverse sets.
The Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and much more.
The star of Mark Steel’s in Town (BBC Radio 4) brings back his 2017 sell-out show, guaranteed to make the world seem even more mental than it still is.
Great value lunchtime compilation showcase featuring the best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics.
For the 4th year, American atheist Bronston Jones reacts to the chaos of his country with a prayer: God Bless ‘Merica, because it’ll take a miracle to fix it.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
They say ‘don’t cry over spilt milk’.
A massive whale escapes from prison with the help of a small child.
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
The Free Association – London’s leading improv comedy theatre and school – returns with their smash-hit show Jacuzii.
See a huge selection of this year’s big names, stand-out performers and many of the best free acts in Edinburgh at this one-off launch show and party for the 2018 Free Edinburgh Fr…
Wasabeats Crew present the European premiere of Break Free featuring champion break dancers, each with world titles, who are ready to carve up the floor to reach dizzying new heigh…
For the first time Little Fish Tours is running our Festival Friendly Tour.
The secret life of man’s best friend is pondered in BARK: The Musical.
Traquair’s vivid murals (painted 1888-1892) include religious and allegorical images, portraits of leading figures, the choir and clergy of the day, and images of the natural world…
Nominated Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe.
Daily diet of live highlights from across the festivals.
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
Dave Joke of the Fringe Winner, Cambridge mathematics dropout and professional poker player Ken Cheng returns this year with his second stand-up hour.
Award-winning comedian Rob Carter’s cult-hit creation, Christopher Bliss, is back.
Jake lives alone, cuts his own hair, has an ability to remember the exact date he first tasted each specific food for the first time and has a one-eyed cat.
‘What is best in life?’ If you know the answer, come to this show.
During the Shoreline project, locals have been exploring the heritage of Edinburgh’s coast.
Following more successful shows at festivals worldwide, the popular show returns with a revolving line-up of acts selected from the best comedians, cabaret acts, children’s ente…
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.
Spectacular circus and spellbinding songs combine in this extraordinary new adaptation from the award-winning Metta Theatre.
Celebrating collaboration, a sensational vintage night of swing music and dance - Rinkadon Jukeboy and his Blind Tiger Dance Band, the hottest sounds this side of the Pe…
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final is the culmination of a series of youth arts showcases held this year within Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth, hosted …
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 …
A spectacular musical celebration of the West End to close the Arts Festival, featuring the very best of musicianship from across the College and concluding with a masse…
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…
Good morning, Baltimore! It’s 1962 and change is in the air.
The Junior School pupils of St Dunstan’s College invite you to attend their annual Summer concert.
Led by Drama Prefect, Beatrice Swordy, and her team, Black Box devising is an improvisation work created by Year 7 - 9 students over the last two terms, drawing inspirat…
This time-limited devising project welcomes the return of Briony O’Callaghan, a professional director, who, working with a select number of Year 10 - 13 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.
We can’t help living in the future – booking flights for holidays, organising birthday parties, writing applications.
An anonymous hack – an act of sabotage or revenge – kicks off a chain of events that changes the whole of society.
Parkinson.
Bachelor of Arts is one comedian’s attempt to find a use for the most useless of tertiary degrees and perhaps, in the process, prove that a BA is not as worthless as you might thin…
Presenting the best in visual arts, photography, sculpture, debate and creative workshops, Cultureground is the interactive gallery that showcases young people’s work from across…
The UK’s leading female comedy community ‘Funny Women’ host a night of fabulous female comedy talent in Brighton’s best comedy venue, Komedia Brighton, featuring a mix of establi…
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
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Coming off the back of an international tour of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Come stretch, unwind, strengthen and get to know your body more during a day of yoga, meditation and celebration at Brighton’s newest and most attractive studio.
When a tribe of flying people flock to their annual midsummer fair, one of their young is left behind in the forest.
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.
Egyptian-American comedian Maria Shehata follows up her debut show ‘Wisdomless’ with stand up and storytelling about her life in London and what happened after she whimsically move…
Are you hoping to grow and develop your performing arts company? Join Jackie Elliman, Legal & Industrial Relations Manager of the Independent Theatre Council, for an overview of th…
The battle for happiness has been won but there were casualties.
Experience the sights, sounds, smells and characters of the Edwardian seaside in this musical multi-sensory interactive show from award-winning company, Collar & Cuffs Co.
Comedy Rocket brings you a fantastic show with a selection of the most exciting and diverse comedy performers and some big names thrown in! Resident host, Ali ‘Out There’ Macf…
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…
Wow, it’s time for the debut hour of comedy from hot ticket and nice friend David McIver! That’s right girls and boys, your special little man is all grown up and raring to do some…
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
“A snake will always find a way in.
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.
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
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.
In ‘Little White Box’, Sara employs her vulnerable, whip-smart comedy style to confront her complicated relationship with Jesus, America, and death.
What are we to believe? This show covers Fake News —it looks at efforts to deceive.
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…
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you award winning family friendly comedy acts from Edinburgh.
Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you multi award winning comedy & cabaret acts from Edinburgh.
The Original and still the BEST “Best of Fringe”.
After three highly successful years in Adelaide The very best in late-night Fringe Comedy is back! Four top-notch comedians are picked from venues across the Fringe especially f…
Red Light Confidential is a safe space for artists and audiences alike where newbies rub shoulders with seasoned pros.
The Premier British Stand-Up showcase returns to the Adelaide Fringe.
Girls just want to have fun! And that’s why The Adeladies are back for another year at the Fringe! Enjoy the Fringe’s premier selection of the very best in female comedy, with…
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
Who, What, Where, When? There’s so much to choose from at the Adelaide Fringe! And if you can’t decide which international comedians to see at the Fringe, then this is the show…
Fresh from his successful 2017 debut solo performance at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Be entertained! Be amazed! Your chance to see some of Adelaide’s best young talent before they take the world by storm.
Handpicked from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Best of the Edinburgh Fest is the original and BEST line up show at the Adelaide Fringe.
Two time Scottish Comedy Award winner.
Kick off your night at the Fringe in the heart & soul of Adelaide Comedy.
Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew (aka Double Denim) combine forces with DJ Juan Vesuvius to bring you a big party for little humans! Through games, sketches, and music your favourit…
With comedy, cabaret & fun for all the family to enjoy Huggers returns to Adelaide with enough variety to entertain all ages.
Have you ever imagined your own theme music when STRUTTING down the street? Do you cry when someone eats the last of YOUR chocolate? Do you use UNNECESSARY CAPITALS (and emoji’s) i…
Ha Ha Comedy, Scotland’s largest comedy producer brings you their pick of the best multi award winning acts from Edinburgh.
From a creator of “Best of Fringe Variety”.
The Elder hall facade will be filled with animated light and music, through ingenious interactivity as a playful, bold and curious take their turn to control the building and becom…
After 7 sell-out years, The Laughing Horse is back with more of the finest UK comedians to hit the Fringe.
Mark is the creator of the hit Radio 4 series Mark Steel’s In Town, a BAFTA-nominee for BBC2’s Mark Steel Lectures and a regular on BBC1’s Have I Got News For You and Radio 4…
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a show about trying to be the perfect partner and failing.
Something extraordinary is happening in Adelaide’s skies.
No themes, no gimmicks, just an hour of Scotland’s largest comedy promoter’s favourite comedians.
Mike’s life is routine.
Adelaide born globe trotting vagrant Bill Egan returns home with his uplifting, light hearted look at the darker corners of modern life.
How would a balloon dog survive in the real world? What kind of job would he be successful at? This is the light-hearted story of a balloon dog who tries different occupations, all…
Tangkuinyendi Yabarra brings to life Yellaka; old wisdom through new ways.
“Who’s Your Daddy? returns to Adelaide with an amazing line-up of both local and International comedians, both Mums & Dads, all talking Parenthood.
Three concerts of the songs of jazz from the 1920s to 1980s.
The members of the Alinytjara Wilurara Natural Resource Management Board, Tjutjuna Arts and the people of the Western deserts and Far West Coast of South Australia, invite you to t…
‘Life of Stars’ is based on the incredible works of renowned Biennial artist Lindy Lee and the processes and themes behind her work.
Based on fabulous circus posters and photographs from the National Fairground Archive, The Electric Canvas transforms the Mitchell Building into an amazing moving billboard.
Three Scotsmen walk into a bar.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS follows the story of Seymour, a down-and out skid row floral assistant who becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious…
Back for a 7th year! Catch the very best the Fringe has to offer with a huge range of exceptional acts every night in this slick, fun spectacle.
“Hello everyone my name is Doctor Billy and I’m eight-and-three-quarters and this is my story.
As seen on The Project.
Local band Little Captain are paying tribute to one of the most influential bands in the world. Playing two nights of selected songs from the career of the Velvet Underground.
Lavish and loud, brazen and bold, Trevor Ashley presents an evening of his greatest hits! Known for his knockout performances (most recently in Diamonds Are For Trevor with the ASO…
An honest tale of one man’s modern escape from the prison of belief.
An eclectic collection and exhibition of Port Community Arts Centre Members artworks - fabrics, mosaics, printmaking, drawing, woodwork, watercolour, ceramics, oils - explore our m…
Tania Savelli, Kat Jade and Melanie Smith take you on a historical journey celebrating the most famous female vocal trio of all time.
What is Best in Life? Well… After 10 years in the UK, and performing at the last 3 Adelaide Fringe’s with non-stop compering and guest spots, a superhero kids show, and the h…
Guilt Free Comedy Roadshow! Featuring Clare Morgan, Richo, Shad Wicka, Caleb Day, Lachlan Gordon and Peter James! A riot of comedic talent from Far North Queensland rolls into Adel…
Two opposing presidential party candidates are neck and neck in an unscrupulous battle for the nomination.
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL ROSS Michael Ross’s biting satire delivers a piece very much for our times, reflecting on the dignity and many indignities of labour.
BILLY ‘T’ (William Snell) & his 5 piece band present the Johnny Cash Tribute Show.
Featuring the leading voices in Spain today, revered singer Carmen Linares and brilliant rising stars Arcangel and Marina Heredia perform with Miguel A.
Emma Rice’s “exquisite” (Telegraph) production comes to Oxford Playhouse following its critically acclaimed premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe.
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
A free event featuring local artists, children’s book illustrators, a range of handmade crafts and a series of events in the theatre with some of our Pictures at Play artists.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Free Stand-Up comedy show with all donations given to Lady Parts Justice! Come join at Local 138 on Thursday, 11/2 at 8pm.
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.
9 days & 42 shows of the finest live comedians in Britain.
Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu…
Playing an instrument with over 2,500 years of recorded history, after some 100 public recitals in the UK, international classical Zheng performer Yi Dong, a soloist with five albu…
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Stephen Lawrie (University of Edinburgh) reckons psychiatry, his profession, is underrated.
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.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Gilded Balloon’s annual comedy competition, So You Think You’re Funny.
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.
Jim Everett, AKA Jimmy Francis, is relatively new to comedy.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
‘Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
If you like profanity, women and very catchy tunes then Meat Market is for you.
Daphne are Phil Wang, Jason Forbes and George Fouracres – the UK’s most racially diverse sketch trio.
Your Best Guess is a collaboration between the Portuguese theatre company mala voadora and Chris Thorpe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
Deep in the medieval dungeons of the Royal Palace, two strangers dwell.
Ethereal Theatre Company’s Little Shop of Horrors is a powerhouse of zany energy.
Irish mind reader Tomas McCabe is back with a new show for 2017! Following a hugely successful tour of Ireland, Tomas is bringing his abilities across the sea to the Edinburgh Frin…
It was the race they said Clinton couldn’t lose.
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.
As artists from across the globe descend on this historic city, this special show, hosted by Nikki Bedi, features top actors, filmmakers, comedians and musicians who live in Edinbu…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A brand-new string to the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! To celebrate 30 years of nurturing and developing new comic talent – we’re on…
John Bryden plays music by Haydn and Schubert in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead collaborates with Dundee indie-pop band The Hazey Janes centering on the poem The Optimistic Sound that Lochhead composed in memory of her…
Peek through the comedy retro-spectoscope at medicine and dentistry in the 1970s and 80s.
Have you ever been shat on by the blue bird? The great rebirth of public shaming continues to evolve.
A wordless blend of mime, clowning, dance and acrobatics, Two Little Boxes is a brand-new piece by Reallynice, exploring the construction of masculinities in young men.
Join other parents/carers and their children at an informal coffee morning.
A spectacular night of comedy to celebrate the middle of the festival from award-winning production company Berk’s Nest, featuring festival favourites, the best new acts and specia…
Henry’s Show Aaaah The Growing Pains of a Neurotic Jew and Joe’s The Confused Sikh Who Loves Curried Mustard.
In a modern cabaret format, Now Here’s A Funny Story is a jaunty romp through the golden age of music hall, often delving into its dark underbelly.
This original one-man show entitled Prévert: Piano and Poetry, was created and interpreted by the 20-year-old French concert pianist Alexandre Prévert.
Celebrate five years of silly songs and satirical anthems from the multi award-nominated musical comedy stars.
A changing line-up featuring the best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomer competition in its 30th anniversary year! A great night of the funniest from…
SCCC will carry on the splendid programme during the second day of the event.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Mark’s sell-out show Who Do I Think I Am, revealed his natural father was world backgammon champion.
Join Aaron Ayjay as he takes a comedic and sometimes musical journey through dating, marriage, divorce, death and other life experience stuff from his point of view…
SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences.
In her debut show Schaefer employs her vulnerable, whip-smart comedy style to confront her complicated relationship with Jesus, America, and death.
A free lunchtime showcase of established and up and coming acts offering tasters of their shows. Six acts plus MC Alastair Sadler.
Ireland’s newest balladeers come from a city steeped in music, history and folk culture.
It’s the Alanis Morrissette tribute show you never knew you needed.
Spare an hour for quality comedy that educates and entertains! Comedians are joined on stage by Edinburgh’s researchers to explore local and global issues of healthcare, gender ide…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Two of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes fantastically performed by the nine to 16-year-old children from two of China’s schools, Chongqing Foreign Language School and Chongqing…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
What narratives must begin when a war has ended and how does society protect itself from slipping back into conflict? This discussion explores the role of artists in post-war conte…
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.
Nominated for best play by the Anti-Trafficking Foundation in 2016.
Shakespeare’s life, in Shakespeare’s words.
Beautiful Little Fools is a all female, unique piece exploring how media can manipulate the human mind.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Doig, a disgraced businessmen, has fallen into despair.
With a complimentary cocktail on arrival, catch the very best of the Fringe with a hand-picked selection of this year’s top performers.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Nicholas Wearne (Birmingham Conservatoire) and Joseph Beech (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mi…
Been over a decade since this multi-award winning comedian played the fringe.
The perfect end to your evening of entertainment with the biggest and best comedy line-ups in all of Edinburgh! Previous guests include Jason Byrne, David O’Doherty, Shappi Khors…
Kranti (Revolution) empowers girls from Mumbai’s red-light areas to become agents of social change.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best contemporary talents take inspiration from our Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition to perform traditional …
Twelve full-house Edinburgh Fringe runs.
The man who fooled Penn & Teller hits the Edinburgh Festival to assert himself as the pimp among magicians – or so he thinks! With over 20 years of experience as a professional m…
Award-winning, funny and unpredictable wordless puppet show featuring a stunning variety of innovative electro-luminous objects.
With the overwhelming amount of options at the Fringe, Bite-Size allows one to see several short and sweet plays in the space of an hour.
Best Newcomer: it’s a show that combines monologues, film, theater and music, having stand-up comedy as its core.
Speed, brevity, honesty and the denial of preconception, TML brings you on a rollicking, multi-genre journey of 30 plays in 60 minutes.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist Marc Jennings talks about the struggles of life and the world from his perspective as a working class Glaswegian with an intellectual bent.
Come watch and be part of this interactive, fun mixture of stand-up and interactive comedy debate as a compere and a number of the best comedians from around the Fringe converge in…
The underground hit of the Fringe returns to Edinburgh after sell-out shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Tim Minchin.
Award-winning comedian off telly and radio dabbles in the occult.
Tom Little won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2015, was a BBC Radio New Comedy Award finalist, and performed in both the Pleasance Comedy Reserve and Just the Tonic’s B…
We are Edinburgh Skeptics.
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
Sondheim’s fast-paced lyrics are hard to perform well, even for an experienced Broadway star, and it is rare that I have seen an amateur production that manages to do him justice…
Ireland’s finest under one roof.
theSpace at Symposium Hall is an ideal setting for music appreciation.
Everybody has a dirty little secret.
We all want to meet people from history.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe.
Ian was as attractive to women as a drunk rhino so Channel 4 television handed him over to seduction “gurus” who taught him techniques to find love.
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.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
Spare an hour for quality comedy that educates and entertains! Comedians are joined on stage by Edinburgh’s researchers to explore local and global issues of healthcare, gender ide…
One night can change your life.
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
Tragic diva Glenda Campari (Nina Baldini) has travelled the world, searching for her favourite fierce females for this world premiere cabaret.
Bite-size tasters of the best comedy, music and circus, all prepared for you in our glorious Spiegeltent.
Back in the 1960s there were seven of these mobile cinemas made for the Ministry of Technology.
Join an expert local guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s hottest new talent and Edinburgh Fringe newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s hottest new talent and Edinburgh Fringe newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
Each evening we welcome a top comedian to perform their full Edinburgh show on board Audrey, the most unique venue at the festival.
Fringe favourite Best of Burlesque returns for a fifth year with a new all-star cast and extravaganza nightly! An international round-up of the finest in striptease, cabaret and va…
The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year.
Mark Steel begins with a witty satire about the calamitous circus show that was the recent Tory election campaign, setting the tone for this solid left-wing stand-up show.
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 clean jokes in just half an hour.
Dino Wiand plays the Yorkshire Ripper, who has been allowed out of prison on a rehab program to perform a stand-up comedy routine, which he uses to discuss his plans for orchestrat…
Have a bite to eat and take a seat – you’re in for a treat.
For the third year, American atheist Bronston Jones sees the state of his nation and mutters ‘God Bless ‘Merica.
What happens when we struggle to do anything? A series of in-development clown and theatre pieces. Themes will include difficulty, struggle, Ludwig Wittgenstein and snakes.
The UK-based comedian returns with new and hilarious anecdotes and jokes from his many comedy journeys around the world.
‘This great big, funny, friendly, hairy bear of an Irishman wrapped us in his irresistible mix of spontaneous humour, hilarious storytelling and total irreverence, and it was a s…
A near-immersive theatre show encompassing and delving into the lives of six recovering addicts.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Join the funniest acts in Edinburgh as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
A selection of five of the hottest up-and-coming comedians at the festival in this stand-up comedy showcase extravaganza, with a different line up daily featuring your headliner Ro…
To mark its 10th Anniversary, the worldwide hit show puts on an extra afternoon special.
‘Tipped for great things’ (GQ), Glenn Moore, from critically-acclaimed sketch comedy duo Thunderbards, returns to Edinburgh with a second ‘relentlessly silly and gag-laden show’ (L…
Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming…
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians.
Turpy – star of Climaxed (BBC Three) and Pop Sludge (4Music) – returns with a stand-up show/hour of performance art/arse flapping gently in the wind, which rodgers the system q…
How board games can change your life and save the world.
A group of actors, desperate for their big break, attend an acting workshop hosted by Andrew – an enigmatic but ever so slightly unhinged former C-lister.
My life is a constant search for emotional and electrical outlets.
One of the least thought out shows on the Fringe, possibly featuring: alternative facts corner, fake news correspondents, pest of the fest and live guests.
A “professional” seminar on how to rise to fame in the comedy world! Join our hosts as they stumble their way through a corporate lecture with anecdotes, lies and incorrect facts.
Martin “Bigpig” Mor.
Critically acclaimed one-man show from award-nominated comedian & award-winning storyteller Marcus Ryan! Sold out Perth, Scarborough and Adelaide 2015, Melbourne 2014/15 and toured…
Peter E Davidson is a wine drinking man adrift in a sea of beer drinkers.
One man.
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…
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
It’s where scores of top comedians started their brilliant careers, from familiar household names to circuit and cult favourites.
‘Funny.
Forget the Little Mermaid you thought you knew.
Award-winning gag merchant and UK Pun Champion 2016, Masai Graham, delivers over 100 naughty jokes in just half an hour.
Tom and Daniel are doing an hour of stand-up.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham (UK Pun Champion 2016).
Join Dana Alexander in her fifth Edinburgh Show, as she navigates through the matrix of the modern world of dating.
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
Vicki is done with degrading retail jobs, fed up of waiting around for Mr Wrong and ultimately ready to get out of bed.
Three fabulous comediennes on an amazing bill for an afternoon of comedy you’ll never forget, all hosted by the fantastic Mary Bourke.
Despite failing to romantically woo Matthew in the front row, who resolutely resisted her bookish clumsiness and snazzy jacket, Rose Matafeo delivers a tour-de-force performance in…
A once in a lifetime opportunity to see the greatest living comic of every generation.
Patti Plinko returns with her dark and erotic songs inspired from Virginia Woolf, Joan of Arc to the whore houses of Paris.
Being a millennial in the modern world is hard.
Matt Forde is a consummate professional, with sharp observations and confident crowd work, it’s just a shame this show lacks the biting satire expected from political comedy at t…
‘Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Be there at the launch of the massive 2017 Free Fringe Festival! See an almighty selection of performers! Mingle with the acts and VIP guests! Meet our mad Chicken mascot in person…
Jacuzzi may have been a random title for the Free Association to use for their improvised comedy show, but this hour is indeed relaxed, warm, and bubbly.
Funny Women takes over your lunch hour with a feast of comedy, interviews and highlights from the very best of the Fringe.
‘I can make.
Before even starting the show, Sara Schaefer has the advantage of a unique perspective.
When famous author/pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who lived many different lives, meets The Little Prince, two adventurous explorers discover the world and what is important in l…
Becky Lucas is a little bitch, but she’s also a writer, performer, rat and prolific tweeter.
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.
A former Times critic’s choice.
On this guided walking tour of Edinburgh, an expert guide will show you all the city has to offer.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
The hugely popular show at comedy festivals and theatres worldwide returns for its 10th anniversary year.
Having been on the circuit for 6 years and with an impressive CV of competition finals, I went into Simon Caine’s second solo hour show with high expectations.
With comedy, cabaret and fun for all the family to enjoy, the Huggers show returns to Edinburgh.
A one woman play about the trials and tribulations of a teenage schizophrenic in the 21st century.
Two strangers on a bridge in the dead of night, a game of dominoes & a value ready meal – this is a story of humanity, desperation & hope.
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
Naughty compare LUKE MEREDITH hops into the jacuzzi at The Free Association as their guest monologist! Prepare for a fast-paced and witty evening of titillating banter and scenes! …
“Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Stand up comedy at the Trafalgar tavern, a place that has seen William Gladstone and Charles Dickens dining side-by-side.
A Gala stand-up comedy show for the comedian Jim Tavare featuring twelve top comedians Harry Hill, Stewart Lee, Milton Jones, Paul Zerdin, Alan Davies, Paul Chowdhry, Dave Johns, A…
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
This beautiful dance theatre show takes an irreverent and contemporary twist on an old favourite. Part of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival. Level: 7 - 12 years.
The Little Creepers by Charlotte Bell is a debut show that explores the trials and tribulations of a teenage girl with schizophrenia in the 21st century.
Go on an award-winning, magical, musical, multi-sensory adventure in the Kalahari desert with Little Meekat and her friends Elephant and Wise Monkey to find out all about Calm and …
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
Presenting the best in art, sculpture, debate and creative workshops, Cultureground is the interactive gallery that showcases young people’s work from across the city.
A magical journey through the dark and beautiful night until the black bird sings again to welcome a new day.
A stand-up show for children over 6, their parents and anyone who likes comedy without the rude words.
“A second once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the greatest living comic of every generation.
Brighton Fringe free mindful Ki and Aikido taster sessions, everyone welcome! Brighton Ki Society.
‘The Funny Women Awards’ are back at Brighton Fringe! ‘The Funny Women Awards’ has left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including …
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Join Classical Folk for a lunchtime concert of beautiful and fun music - Classical, Folk (English and around the world) and gypsy - with a seasoning of parlour songs.
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.
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 …
Little Wing finds herself alone in the forest with a trio of warring dragons.
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
My life is a constant search for emotional and electrical outlets.
In a delightfully funny series of two person plays, ‘Nature Knows Best’ by Devonshire playwright Nick Discombe, takes a look at love and life through the eyes of a Seagull duo,…
Patti Plinko glances around the stage in search of the next musical instrument.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Come to the Brighton Bandstand for some inner peace.
Are you an artist or performer looking to make connections beyond Brighton Fringe? Join us for informal networking with a diverse range of arts industry professionals from around t…
The Comedy Store presents the Best of the Comedy Store, bringing you the brightest comedy talent from the UK and international circuit.
The utterly hilarious and utterly heartwarming debut hour of stand-up from Robin Morgan (Writer of ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Newzoids’, ‘The News Quiz’ and the ‘Now Show’).
Revivals always run the risk of not resonating with a contemporary audience, or relying wholly on nostalgia, but Michael Mayer’s touring production of the Fanny Brice story, m…
‘You’re never too old for hopes and dreams… there’s always time for plans and schemes.
As part of its Around Town series, The Orchestra Now will be performing a free concert of works by Glinka, Messiaen, and Tchaikovsky.
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…
The Orchestra Now performs a free concert in the Bronx led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
The Orchestra Now kicks off the 2nd season of its Around Town series with a free concert in Harlem, led by conductor JoAnn Falletta.
Celebrated director and choreographer Arthur Pita returns to the Lilian Baylis Studio this Christmas with his magical dance theatre show, The Little Match Girl.
You are cordially invited to the parlour of Mr Ebeneezer Scrooge for a rousing rendition of this timeless classic served over a two-course Christmas feast.
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.
Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic that brought us endlessly popular tunes such as “Suddenly Seymour” and “Somewhere that’s Green” tells the story of Seymour and…
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
Eleanor wants a child.
It’s not just the eponymous seldom heard, often bullied, fragile young girl LV who struggles to be heard in Jim Cartwright’s classic tragicomedy The Rise and Fall – finding he…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Peter Rabbit knows very well that he is not to go into Mr McGregor’s garden, especially as it was there that his father met his untimely end! But he cannot resist, and after severa…
Funny Bones and Wisdom Teeth is a one-man comedy show written and performed by ex-doctor and dentist, and retired comedy writer and performer, Ray Lowry.
It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
The gloriously grotesque cult-musical opens at New Wimbledon Theatre, complete with the necessarily capitalised X-Factor contestant RHYDIAN starring as The Dentist.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Welcome to the final of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers’ competition.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
From the puppetry director of War Horse China, Liu Xiaoyi, comes an uplifting tale of one boy’s solidarity and spirit in the face of conflict.
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The competition to find the best new situation comedy writers and performers the country has to offer.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Do people change? What if they lose something important to them? A new translation and adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Lille Eyolf, a hard-hitting play about many kinds of loss – fe…
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…
Digital can bring the world together.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Two ladies who like tea, cake, gin and playing ukulele.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
The dolphin – a remarkably intelligent animal with uncommon sensitivity, full of wonder and curiosity.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Join Sarah Millican and special guests as they celebrate the longest-running comedy festival in England.
spiked, the radical magazine that fights for your right to offend, returns to the Stand for a night of no-holds-barred comedy.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
On the day that his new book is published, come and hear this controversial and outspoken figure in the church discussing it in conversation with the minister of St Andrew’s and St…
A ‘garden variety’ *** (Easingwold Advertiser) show with plenty of variety, and not much garden.
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.
Steele Edge: Martial Arts Illusion Show bills itself as “a dynamic fusion of physical excitement and visual wonder” but it’s more of a bizarre fusion of vague ‘oriental’ …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Funny Women Awards have left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan, Kerry Godli…
Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival.
Scotland and China Chamber of Commerce is proud to present to you the second Edinburgh Chinese Arts and Culture Festival.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Best of the Bohemians have everything you’d expect from a concert of musical theatre.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Tempest, retold by children whose first language isn’t even English.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Escape into the Renaissance for an hour with music from Octavoce in the beautiful surroundings of the Robin Chapel, Edinburgh.
Best Girl Athlete, AKA 17-year-old Aberdonian Katie Buchan, released her debut album Carve Every Word in March 2015 via Fitlike Records in the UK and through Minty Fresh Records in…
Cinema screening of live performance.
HUB is back in Edinburgh with a weekly line-up of brilliant acts! Catch the sell-out, smash-hit comedy night, with some of the most exciting names at this year’s festival, hand-pic…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Will the guys be out of bed in time for their lunchtime show? You bet they will.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Considering the length of most Charles Dickens novels, it’s remarkable that we’ve found ways to abridge them into three hour plays and films.
The number of children’s shows has been increasing every year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, but so much choice can make it difficult to know which show your kids are going to…
Imagine you’re fifteen.
In this session Dr.
It is a lovely spring day in an urban conurbation.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Collaboration has the capacity to break down boundaries of a medium and expand its limits.
One of the primary aims of The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten, an opera for children, is to demystify the genre to a younger generation.
Let acoustic duo Lunabaï weave you into a world of spirited sound.
John Bryden plays music by Bach and his followers, Robert and Clara Schumann and Beethoven, in a series of recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wisdom-packed novella is brought to Edinburgh by the Waldorf Wayfarers – 18 multi-faceted performers, both students and teachers, from Waldorf or Stei…
Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company’s Best Intentions focuses on the perspectives of two regularly overlooked characters in Shakespearean fiction: Angelica the nurse from Romeo and …
Award-winning Badger High School Theater presents Tales from the American Midwest, a series of American folk tales centred around the Midwestern states.
LITTLE BOYS are award-winning improviser Alexander Fox and Oxford Revue president Jack Chisnall in a new surreal double act.
Welcome to the 29th year of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers competition! After months of regional showcases, these guys are the funniest of the hundreds of…
With a complimentary cocktail on arrival, catch the very best of the Fringe with a hand-picked selection of this year’s top performers.
The American High School Theatre Festival presents Little Shop of Horrors, a wacky musical journey downtown to Skid Row, a poor run-down neighbourhood where all its residents want …
Real DJs, in real clubs playing real music, free glow sticks and transfer tattoos.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Organists Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Peter Backhouse (St Giles’ Cathedral) perform popular organ works on the Cathedral’s mighty ‘…
Hi, I’m Yianni Agisilaou.
Lady Shona and Natalie Sweeney tend to criminally overshare.
UCLU Comedy Club’s sketch troupe, The Gower Line, return to Edinburgh with their brand of ‘fast paced madness’ (Pi Media), presenting their favourite new sketches from the past yea…
Big Bite is celebrating it’s 10-year Fringe anniversary with a ‘best of’ showcase: although an enjoyable selection of short pieces - effectively boiling down to long sketches…
Official programme commemorating the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Tang Xianzu and William Shakespeare.
This show tells the story of famous American jazz musician Chet Baker’s life and death, featuring storytelling by Mike Maran, and live music by Colin Steele and Fraser Urquhart.
Shropshire’s independent comedy club finally comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe featuring six great comedians with a different line-up every night but always headlined by Telfo…
Experience the joy of live music at the museum with the best contemporary talents from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
American cop Frank Law lost his partner two days before retirement.
Cinema screening of live performance.
This is a kids show for adults featuring puppets, awkward art attacks and one too many cats.
Live music throughout the day and night at Stramash, featuring the best Edinburgh-based and visiting musicians.
In addition to their main show, the Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs, sketches and more in association with PBH’s Free Fringe.
Russell Howard, Tim Minchin, Miranda Hart.
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
Have you ever wondered why the Romans never won MasterChef? What if a Viking moved in next door? Would you lose your heart or head to horrible Henry? Will Parliament escape gunp…
The film chronicles the rich and tragic history of the Crimean Tatar people from ancient times to the aftermath of the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea.
Welcome to Dreamform.
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, with a different top-notch comedy line-up each day.
Part of the PBH Free Fringe, Malones will play host to a variety of musicians from across the globe.
Three contemporary dance pieces by the creators of Budge3: **** (BroadwayBaby.
Ireland’s finest under one roof.
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
The latest craze is literally nothing.
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…
Four top quality foul-mouthed acts, hand-plucked from around the festival. For the poultry sum of a bucket contribution on eggsit. Guaranteed to be clucking funny.
The 80s was time of many things; Rubic’s Cubes, cheesy pop.
Start your Fringe day with a laugh-and-learn walk through some of Edinburgh’s weirder backstory.
Join a trained festival guide for a historical walking tour around Edinburgh’s world-famous Old Town.
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
The biggest and best comedy line-ups in Edinburgh! This festival favourite returns and maintains its status as the place to be at midnight.
Don’t miss this new musical review! Featuring world class voices and breathtaking harmonies, these professional performers showcase the very best songs from the West End.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Join us for some afternoon delight in the Gardens.
There is no doubt that Nick Revell is an amusing and witty comic whose capabilities are evident from both long line of positive past reviews and his catalogue on YouTube.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
A ‘garden variety’ *** (Easingwold Advertiser) show with plenty of variety, and not much garden.
Think you know charades? Think again! Comedy meets game show meets improv, as two teams of Fringe comics hilariously pit their skills and wit against each other, in this hysterical…
Double act Best Boy present an hour of sketch comedy.
Although still in his early 20s, newcomer Adam is already one of the most sought after acts in the country and is fast becoming a favourite at the UK’s biggest comedy clubs and f…
A very well-structured and well-performed show, delivered from a fantastic up-and-coming comedian.
Evan Desmarais explores the concepts of good and bad, and right and wrong.
‘Funny.
Award-winning, fast-moving comedy show from London, featuring Geoff Cotton and special guest Fiona Barclay.
Ian appeared on a televised seduction course to find love.
**** (Scotsman).
After a successful 2015 Fringe, Gary is back with a brand new show.
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…
If you find it in your heart to forgive the failings of Masai Graham’s previous show, Aaaaah! It’s 101 Clean Jokes in 30 Minutes, and stuck around for the follow-up, you�…
Unique comedy double act Brian and Krysstal return to the Fringe.
Devastatingly original character comedy duo Róisín and Chiara are ‘a pair of improvising geniuses’ and Ones to Watch 2016 (Funny Women).
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
Masai Graham has assembled an act so far from risky that it is bubble wrapped in woefully predictable innuendos, presumably to retain its innocence.
Witty, fresh and clever, Funny for a Grrrl serves a refreshing line-up of stand-up in this year’s Fringe.
It’s a stand-up comedy show from a stand-up gal about confidence and self-sabotage.
She’s been described as the best African-Czechoslovakian comic on earth.
Two years ago Matt spent six hours in a car with Hollywood star Harvey Keitel.
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
Classic late show Festival comedy fare.
The best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics in a great value lunchtime compilation showcase, hand-picked from across the Fringe.
Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Hosted by award-winning comedian and UK board game champion James Cook, the funniest Fringe performers play classic and new board games.
Truth is relative, sure, but as far as I’m concerned I’ve got this shit figured out.
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians together with headline acts from the comedy circuit.
Ian appeared on a televised seduction course to find love.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase including your award-winning host, Masai Graham.
‘Funny.
How board games can change your life and save the world. Award-winning comedian James Cook has read the back of the box and is ready to play. Won’t you join him?
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A comedy show with pictures, and probably not what Fox Talbot had in mind.
Enter a world with its veil drawn back, where good and evil battle in darkly hilarious style.
Fringe favourite Best of Burlesque returns with a new all-star cast and extravaganza nightly! An international round-up of the finest in strip tease, cabaret and variety from the l…
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value cabaret money can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best, brightest and most beautiful acts participating at …
Daily TV Chat Show bringing you the best news, reviews, interviews, performances and much more from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Three of Ireland’s best up-and-coming alternative comics.
If you want to see comedy that is a little different, this is for you.
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
Get your afternoon off to the perfect start with Revill’s Selection.
The queen who ruled a kingdom (and an empire) as you’ve never dared think of her before.
Beth Vyse’s show opens in a truly Fringe fashion: handing out ping pong balls to the audience, dressed in a voluminous blonde wig and a huge pair of joke-shop boobs, singing alon…
At the end of this show, our two performers, Bella and Eva, tell us that they are available for hugs if any are needed.
Twisted Edge Comedy presents the participants of their newly founded stand-up workshops.
Spread your wings of courage and join Big O as she explores the aspects of fear.
Featuring the very best winners and contestants from the biggest and best comedy newcomers’ competition.
Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the …
Three brilliant, original and hilarious improv acts: DVD Box Set – your new favourite TV show, entirely improvised by a cast of FA players, inspired by an audience suggestion.
Zoe Lyons, recent winner of the Chortle Comedy Award and with appearances at Live at the Apollo, The John Bishop Show, Mock the Week and The News Quiz under her belt, is in Edinbur…
This decidedly chaotic event includes some of Edinburgh’s best performance artists, with all entertainment at fifteen minutes or less.
At the end of his show, Mike Ward took a moment to emphasise the importance of free speech, the vital importance that comedians are free to offend; he even handed out badges to hel…
Parris has a seemingly natural knack for creating comedy imbued with emotional depth that doesn’t feel forced or insecure.
Houdini came to Newport twice in the early twentieth century - not a piece of information you’d find at the top of Houdini’s Wikipedia page, but of utmost significance to young Ala…
The Free Association is London’s leading improv powerhouse, and we’re thrilled to bring you our headline show: JACUZZI.
A former Times critic’s choice.
The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
Following sell-out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin, Singapore, Germany and all over the UK, the hugely popular and hilarious show returns for its ninth successive year at the …
Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and getting in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff for Happy People, where the adults can have just as good…
The hugely enjoyable and popular show returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its sixth successive year.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
New solo show written & performed by Elaine Fellows.
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
A tenacious young boy from the docks idolises Houdini and commits himself to a life of magic.
Presenting the best in art, sculpture, debate and creative workshops, Cultureground is the interactive gallery that showcases young people’s work from across the city.
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.
The physical core of the The Little Gentleman is a large wooden crate, addressed to the show’s venue, which is slowly revealed to include numerous small doors and openings from…
Arrive 14:15 wearing loose, comfortable clothing for the start of the Shin Shin Toitsu Do (Japanese yoga) session at 14:30, where you’ll learn unification of mind and body and natu…
The Funny Women Awards have been scouring the UK and Ireland for the best new female comic talent! Come along and spot the next big thing, help raise funds for domestic violence…
It’s 1966.
A twisted, tender comedy about dealing with your dark side.
If like me you find an Irish accent a wondrous tool capable, in a single crank, of spinning the very stars in the gutter, and if, like me also, you enjoy nothing better than a bi…
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.
Funny Women’s share and gig night is perfect for comedy lovers and beginners.
Brighton’s very own Joe Foster (Winner of Foster’s South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015) presents his debut full length stand-up show.
An aeroplane crashes in the Sahara Desert.
Set when the UK garage scene was at the height of its glory, With a Little Bit of Luck introduces us to 19 year-old Nadia, about to experience her ‘summer of love’ in 2001 and …
For Little Alan comes to London’s Lyric Theatre, with Al Murray, Stewart Lee, Tim Vine, Gayle Tuesday, Harry Hill and Stouffer The Cat.
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
Following the success of their TV show ‘Little Howard’s Big Question’ (CBBC), real human Big Howard and animated six-year-old Little Howard are bringing their unique family comed…
Double act Best Boy return to Brighton Fringe with an hour of side-splitting sketches.
Rachel Parris (‘Austentatious’, ‘The IT Crowd’) presents her new musical comedy about not having it all.
The SMASH HIT family musical returns to Brighton.
Hilarious new surreal sketch show about how humans are.
Work-in-progress from multi-award-winner celebrating the kick-ass women in our families who stood the test of time despite obstacles via faith, family, culture or the time they liv…
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.
A work-in-progress of the debut hour from Robin Morgan, star of ‘The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of’ (BBC Radio), writer for ‘The News Quiz’ and Laughing Horse New Act of …
Share the excitement of ensemble performance of brand new works by young composers, with the Orchestra of Sound and Light.
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Truscott undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.
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…
This year, Ink_d have invited every artist they have ever shown to submit one amazing artwork to make the best Ink_d show ever! Be prepared to be amazed and delighted by all your f…
Fanny Brice’s prowess and fame were arguably due to her impeccable comic timing and clown-like performances, combined with a powerful singing voice that could both move you with …
Most of us come to fairy tales – folk tales in general – courtesy of their so-called “traditional” retellings by Disney or the local panto.
Get excited! Little Mix are coming! March 2016 might sound like an age away, but it can’t come soon enough for the return of Little Mix to The O2.
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
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…
Smoking Hot Comedy is returning to Reading in its new home of RYND. FREE Entry with Lineup: - Thanyia Moore (MC) - Bob Munro - Sam Mitchell - Ed Day - Joel Henderson
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
This program, named for John Luther Adams, is the kind of multidisciplinary evening one hopes for from National Sawdust, blending the visual arts with new music.
Mr. Zweibel and Mr. Short, both prolific comedians and writers, will discuss their new books and reflect on their decadeslong careers.
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…
Theatrum Vertitatus is very excited to be taking their dark and haunting production of Lanford Wilson’s “Home Free!” to The London Horror Festival this year after 2 successful runs…
This festival — now in it’s second year — gathers some of the city’s finest free stand-up shows under one banner for a week of top-notch comedy at venues in…
All This Jazz present a wonderful set of sumptuous songs and dazzling duets by vocalists Alison Bishop and Shelagh Westwater, featuring fabulous virtuoso playing from Robbie Hether…
Anarchic annual two-hour charity show celebrating the late Godfather of Alternative Comedy.
Welcome to the final of the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
Ever had therapy? Feel like a failure? Then this one’s for you! Join performance poet Little Red as she reveals why the therapy didn’t work, through laughter, tears and sexual innu…
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
When you look up at the sky, how do you feel? When you walk down the street, does it mean anything to you? When you look into someone’s eyes, what do you see? Let us take a journ…
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
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.
Receiving mildly ecstatic acclaim at home, this musical comedy duo are proud to present their debut Edinburgh Fringe show.
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…
A composer a day: John Bryden will play music by Elgar, Mozart and Dvorák in three recitals on the Cathedral Steinway.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
An hour of hilarious true stories from an exciting young stand-up comedian/loveable idiot, James Loveridge brings his 2014 show back to the Fringe for a limited run.
Older women have the comedy edge because they are less inhibited and have more stories to tell.
One man (Ben).
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Humour is essential in our everyday lives and defines our humanity.
Sketch comedy is making a comeback! If you’re not brave enough to try stand-up yet, then sketch is the perfect introduction to writing and performing comedy.
Joe Mylonas hosts this standup show to benefit the Forest Hills Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
EurekaDance is the culmination of a week of movement exploration with artistic director of Collision, Lisi Perry and Simonson Modern Jazz facilitator Teresa Perez Ceccon – all th…
Performers, join a discussion set up specifically for Street and Outdoor Artists.
ThreeWeeks’ co-editor Chris Cooke always saw free speech as a fundamental right, but then started arguing that Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines should be banned.
After a sold out run at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival, affable everyman Jason Neale brings a highly enjoyable hour of Proper Funny real life stories, cheeky observations and u…
A culinary conundrum.
Come along and enjoy some sublime craziness, all in the name of fun.
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.
Following sell-out Fringe production Avenue Q, EUSOG return with the deliciously dark cult comedy Little Shop of Horrors.
The UK’s number one jive and swing band return for four nights with an electrifying new show.
Here we go again.
Would you quit your high flying sales job to run a radio station from a Portakabin in a high crime area? Will the station get burnt down by the local kids? Will anybody listen to a…
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
FeatherStone Puppets began in 1960 as John Peel Puppets and played fifteen sell-out years on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Free For All is a very clever verse play with a strong political slant, exploring the ideas of choice and social responsibility.
Think you know charades? Think again! Comedy meets game show meets improv, as two teams of Fringe comics hilariously pit their skills and wit against each other, in this hysterical…
There’s a lot to live up to as a 21st century woman – having it all isn’t quite working out.
It’s 2015.
From the campaign to oust lad comedian Dapper Laughs from his ITV2 show to the banning of feminist stand-up Kate Smurthwaite at Goldsmiths University, the comic’s right to probe, t…
Babolin – ‘breathtaking’ (TotalTheatre.
Unzip your tent, slip on your wellies and be prepared to be transported to a music explosion.
You are cordially invited to a show that celebrates two of the best things in life: weddings and bingo.
Comedians Daniel Kitson, Mark Steel, Mark Thomas and Ivor Dembina join forces to raise money for IMET2000, a charity bringing front-line medical relief to victims of last year’s bo…
Supporting the progression of youth arts in Fife, FYAH are delighted to offer this varied programme of four individual performances from groups who are working in Fife creating wor…
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…
Free Fringe Music all day at the famous Inn on the Mile, at the crossroads at the heart of the Fringe.
Free morning films for the whole family.
Would you quit your high flying sales job to run a radio station from a Portakabin in a high crime area? Will the station get burnt down by the local kids? Will anybody listen to a…
Six superb showcases featuring the very best comedy from across the Fringe.
How can light bulbs be smart? Could LED light bulbs really be used for wireless data communication? Here at the Li-Fi Centre at the University of Edinburgh, we are developing the e…
Live from Edinburgh, The Radio 2 Arts Show captures all the excitement from the Edinburgh Festivals, with guests from the world of comedy, theatre, dance, literature and music.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comic talent for over a decade, and witnessed some fantastic acts who are now major names on the comedy circuit.
Last show ever – will sell out.
ThreeWeeks’ co-editor Chris Cooke always saw free speech as a fundamental right, but then started arguing that Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines should be banned.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
Seated and ready for some late night entertainment in the Pleasance Dome, Best of HUB brings the best of the best from the Fringe arena, providing a mixture of stand-up comedians a…
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…
‘Al has one of the best jokes I’ve ever heard’ (Jerry Seinfeld).
The Free Association is proud to present an hour of the finest and funniest improvised comedy on the Fringe.
A place of peace, a sacred space.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
A comedy that ironically centres around two failing comedians should find humour in the ineptness of these characters.
Bella and Esh (her hapless assistant) present an absurd, darkly comic guide to bereavement.
Surreal clown, singer and Phil Kay collaborator Cammy Sinclair (38yrs) accidentally took his son Robin (3yrs) to a gig.
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 …
A new one-man show from performance maker Josh Gardner.
“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.
We have all heard the saying laughter is the best medicine, and there is a valid reason behind that statement – laughing is good for you! Laughter not only makes the journey thro…
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
Organists Steven Grahl (Peterborough Cathedral), Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ‘Fath…
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
Welcome to the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
Harvey Nichols Forth Floor is excited to see the return of Fest on Forth, the very best of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Proud to support the Free Festival, The 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe.
A joyfully improvised comedy following the adventures of the world’s most beloved partners in crime.
I wouldn’t normally mention a show’s venue in a comedy review, but David Mills is performing in a gorgeous space in the Voodoo Rooms.
Join West Country comedian Cerys Nelmes as she entertains you and your children for 45 minutes of onesie fun! Wear your onesie, and have some funsie! There will be music, dancing, …
An hour of lunchtime comedy could be worse spent than with this quirky collection of occasionally promising comedians.
This comedy showcase features a rotating lineup that changes daily, and is available both during the day and at midnight.
‘Al has one of the best jokes I’ve ever heard’ (Jerry Seinfeld).
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum.
Alex Furrow, the compere for Oxford Revue Presents, has a lot to contend with, La Belle is a big venue and it must be difficult to pack it out with an eager crowd.
All spit no polish, all show no pony, Goldsmith goes back to the source.
Jay Handley’s first show contained ‘.
A daily challenge to realise the best marketing scheme on the Fringe.
An hour of stand-up from award winners and best friends, Thom Barrett, Rob Saunders and Liam Sullivan.
Joy Carter’s stand-up centres around a cute theme that works well for its midday slot.
West Country comedian and MC extraordinaire, Cerys Nelmes, returns to this year’s Fringe with a full run of her popular show, Pick’n’Mix! Cerys MCs an hour of comedy featuring th…
Stand-Up Philosophy is a low-key, quirky little Free Fringe show featuring professional philosophers sharing thoughts, answering questions, and trying their hands at comedy.
The hotly anticipated solo debut of a multi award-winning sketch comedian is probably happening elsewhere.
Music all day at the smallest pub in Scotland or probably anywhere. Visit and enjoy.
Bristol Improv return with their hit format Bristol Improv Steals the Show! Everything on stage is completely improvised based on you, the audience! Expect to have your programmes …
This musically infused telling of Five Feet in Front (the Ballad of Little Johnnie Wylo) is a highly energised, yarn spinning hoedown of a play.
After a poor showing at last year’s Fringe, the Free Footlights return this year on top form.
A Little Man’s Holiday tells the tale of an office worker with a big imagination.
A new human colony, but full of idiots.
Kooky, french horn-playing, little Miss K from Massachusetts never imagined she’d become a 1950s-style blonde bombshell with shows in New York and Milan, and a residency at Ronni…
Ireland’s finest under one roof.
This piece of new writing from Ben Maier is the latest addition to the succession of plays at this year’s Fringe which in some way seek to deal with issues of mental health.
After a quick introduction to the performers, a few improvisational examples, such as a Lonely Hearts Ad from a toilet and a first date at the Battle of Waterloo, we were introduce…
Glucose and Dextrose are state-approved killers, unstable and violent.
Jack started comedy in 2010 after he moved from rural Cambridgeshire to Leicester to study Creative Writing at De Montfort University.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
Talk about doing what it says on the tin! Here you go, simply the best comics on the contemporary Scottish circuit.
A compilation of comedic talent from across the Fringe, two shows a day, and all for free – the Laughing Horse Free Pick of the Fringe showcases some of the best comedic talent t…
See the very best of previous contestants and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
Luc Valvona returns to the Fringe with his third full show, featuring multiple instruments and musical technology, and this time his stand-up and funny songs will be based on all t…
From now until August 31st, visitors can soak in the buzzing atmosphere at Edinburgh’s premiere music venue.
This is Glasgow-based comedian Harry Garrison’s debut festival show, but with his confident, flawless delivery and natural charm, one would never know.
Total sell out Fringe 2014! Book early! As heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and seen on Dave Gorman’s UK/Ireland tour.
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
Best Boy thought fame beckoned when the BBC broadcast their sketch – unfortunately, they’d sent in the wrong one.
This exhibition in the stunning 17th century Parliament Hall offers insight into the life, history and traditions of Scotland’s Supreme Courts.
Join us for some afternoon delight in the Gardens.
A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest.
See the very best comedians from across the Fringe, alongside hot new talent and Fringe newcomers, with a different comedy line-up at each show, every day, as Laughing Horse’s Come…
A bare stage, obscured by low lighting and backed by an eerie sinister soundtrack set the tone for this gripping retelling of the classic children’s fairy-tale, but this telling …
“The Facebook,” Little moans, is a hub of narcissism and platform for vapid boasts.
Stand-up comedy: poetry’s idiot relation, right? Performance poetry: comedy’s boring cousin, yes? Let’s find out.
A fantastically funny show for all the family.
Take part in the Festival’s longest running show at no charge at all.
From the creative team behind the hugely popular Hairy Maclary Show, Little Red Riding Hood is a fun, original musical for children, with live music and loveable characters.
Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down…
Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and going in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff for Happy People, where the adults can have just as good a…
Dave Callan, Irish born Australian based comedian brings the sequel to last years must see comedy dance spectacular to Edinburgh.
Fringe favourite Best of Burlesque returns to Assembly for a third triumphant year with a special World Burlesque Games Euro semi-finals edition.
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
Vanessa Smythe has a bit of a ‘downer hobby’: she worries about disappearing.
Vyse is back and this time it’s personal! A bodacious and ballsy look at her battle with breast cancer.
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value cabaret money can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best, brightest, and most beautiful acts participating at…
Lewis Schaffer states that although he normally occupies rooms on one of the free fringes during August, for his 2015 run he’s charging folk a fiver.
The games are back in 2015! Different international acts compete for comedy gold.
Four fantastic comediennes on one amazing show! We’ve selected the funniest women we could find at the Fringe, and brought them together for an afternoon of comedy you’ll never…
The freshest bad boys of the East London comedy scene present to you an array of superlative comedy talent and show snippets for your pleasure.
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
With the accompanying subtitle, this show becomes God Bless ‘Merica, Because It’ll Take A Miracle To Fix It; whilst that’s quite a mouthful, it certainly encompasses the sent…
Cynical Sunshine.
Epic storytelling, synchronised swimming and subversively simple songs from this Fringe First nominated maker of mischief.
Taking improv to the next level – we improvise the cast! Now in its third year, the Fringe’s free daily improv jam returns for more comedy scenes and games based entirely on audi…
Multi-award winning performer Gabriel Bisset-Smith will take you on a journey of intergalactic travel, strange sexual positions, bizarre dance routines, Kanye West and unhinged mur…
Young Curators from Fife College worked with Kirkcaldy Galleries in Fife during the Artist Rooms: Diane Arbus exhibition.
Forget typewriters, what would happen if you gave an infinite number of monkeys a camera each? **** (BroadwayBaby.co.uk). **** (Comedy.com).
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
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-…
Award-winning gag merchant Masai Graham delivers over one hundred jokes in just half an hour.
Stand-up from award-winning comedians Alasdair Beckett-King (NATYs 2013) and Nick Elleray (Max Turner 2013).
A fast-moving, award-winning comedy show featuring original songs, sketches, satire, stand-up and a caption competition to win an excellent bottle of wine.
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…
Feast on five of the tastiest up and coming comedians on the circuit in this stand-up comedy showcase, including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
There is just something about storyteller Callum Lykan.
Where Do Little Birds Go? follows the story of Lucy Fuller in the heat of London’s swinging sixties, where she has hopes of landing her dream job as a West End star (or a barmaid…
‘Demitris Deech is a great story-teller’ (BroadwayBaby.
The best and brightest of this year’s Fringe comics in a great value lunchtime compilation showcase.
Abnormally Funny People showcases some of the best and brightest comedians living with disabilities on the circuit, oh and a token “normal”.
A high-octane hilarity blast right in your daft face, featuring two of the funniest new comedians on the circuit.
I am not entirely sure why comedians Ben Shannon and Mike Reed decided their set should be forty-eight minutes long, rather than a full hour, but it actually doesn’t really matte…
**** (Scotsman).
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
Shift is a collective of poets that includes Rachel Amey, Bram Gieben, Harry Giles, Jenny Lindsay, Ali Maloney, Rachel McCrum and Sam Small.
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…
Why do adults lose the power to imagine? A tender tale of imagination, friendship and loss, as a little prince who has travelled the universe just wants to return to his asteroid, …
A baby chick is born and thinks the sky is falling down.
Embracing all the great theatrical traditions of silent comedy and vaudeville, Funny Bones Trash is the best kind of children’s show.
Painted 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
A former Times Critics’ Choice.
Come and visit Edinburgh’s Sistine Chapel, and see the beautiful, scintillating mural scheme by celebrated arts and crafts artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.
Family workshop suitable for children aged three to seven years with parents or carers.
The world-renowned Sandemans Free Tour shows you the best of Edinburgh, with enthusiastic local guides providing tours in English and Spanish every day of the week! Starting on the…
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
This all-female stand-up show benefits ChickTech NYC, a nonprofit organization that works to increase the number of women in technology-based fields.
In this 50th anniversary production of David Halliwell’s comedy Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs at The Southwark Playhouse, Soggy Arts invite us to visit t…
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comic talent for over a decade and have witnessed some fantastic acts who are now major names on the comedy circuit.
The University of Brighton is hosting a one-day event on place-based arts and how location can provide diverse and rich triggers for writing and other arts based practices.
Ignacio Lopez provides a wonderfully witty look into life in Britain through the eyes of an exotic outsider.
Huff, puff and puppets! Start-Blooming are firm ‘family-show favourites’ in and around Brighton.
We will discover how our individual clown works, how to accept and play with the audience, making them laugh and in turn, love us! Whether you are a performer or not, being free an…
An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
Join Little Man as he leaves his boring office job behind him and begins a swash-buckling adventure on the high seas.
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
Saturday May 23rd All Saints Church, Hove, 7:30pm.
B.fest takes to The Level, creating space for young people and anyone who wants to join us for a weekend of performance, creativity and fun. Check our website for full details.
Best Boy are on a mission: their greatest sketch made the BBC’s airwaves, but wasn’t done justice.
Join us for the launch of B.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
Please arrive by 9:45am wearing loose, comfortable clothing such as a tracksuit or gi for the start of the Shin Shin Toitsu Do (Japanese Yoga) session at 10am where you will learn …
Back in Brighton for their fourth year.
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…
Internationally renowned entertainment solutions provider White Light Ltd are running this workshop for Brighton Fringe participants.
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…
Irreverent and dark, ‘A little Respect’ is a sexy little thriller filled with intrigue, waspish one-liners and homoeroticism.
This performance takes a critical look at contemporary trends in Western spirituality.
Discover some of Brighton’s secular heroes and heroines with Valerie Mainstone, local historian and Chair of Brighton Secular Humanists.
A stand-up tragedy show about great expectations, ambition, resilience and, ultimately, the horror of failure.
Brighton Fringe’s number one free family event will entertain both you and your little ones.
One day, a curious little girl stumbles across a lonely little leaf hiding in her attic.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Dark, sexy gothic comic characters for a modern age, The Funny Papers deliver a surreal fast paced comedy sketch show to keep you giggling, thinking and laughing out loud for an ho…
Funny Women, the UK’s leading female comedy community, curates a weekend to give women a helping hand to find their funny.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
Annual exhibition on display at 7 North Road of the arts and craft work of Sanctuary’s residents. Now in its eleventh year.
William Christie leads his vibrant Baroque ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, and soloists from Le Jardin des Voix, his academy for aspiring singers, in a semi-staged performance call…
Amanda Seales celebrates the first anniversary of her regular show with a top-notch lineup of comedians from Tru TV’s “Friends of the People”: Jermaine Fowler, Li…
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
Little Man is leaving his dull office life behind and going on an adventure on the high seas.
Best Boy are on a mission: their best sketch made the BBC’s airwaves but wasn’t done justice.
The Broadway and film actor Benjamin Walker continues his long-running monthly variety show, which features a mix of comedians and musicians.
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
(previews start on Jan.
This lavish survey of Chinese culture returns to Lincoln Center with an array of musicians, acrobats and dancers consolidating and interpreting 5,000 years worth of tradition and h…
The composer David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning choral work, based on the Hans Christian Andersen story of a poor young girl’s struggle with neglect and poverty on a h…
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
Alex Borstein (“Family Guy,” HBO’s “Getting On”) hosts this variety show in support of the National Hemophilia Foundation.
This innovative festival, which explores themes of spirituality, continues on Friday with a performance by the Radio Choir Berlin of Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers” at t…
Benjamin Walker, the Broadway heartthrob (“Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”), hosts local stand-ups and musicians at this variety show…
“Queer” has gained mainstream momentum as an umbrella to capture the ever-shifting terrain of gender identity and sexuality.
Wake up to Bach and a little Shostakovich in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
The Free Fringe invites all Fringe performers, wherever they’ve been performing, to its end of Fringe event. Mingle, wind down, dance, drink and reflect. Second annual event.
It seems arbitrary, if not foolish, to award a star rating to something like the Malcolm Hardee Awards Show.
Welcome to the 27th Final of the UK’s best stand-up comedy newcomers competition! After the Gilded Balloon has scoured the nation in search of the best new comic talent, we are dow…
A young woman sits on the floor in a bright upper room in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, a large rucksack with a sleeping roll dumped by her side.
China Box Arts Project (CBAP) is a China themed multimedia arts project based on Konghou, a traditional Chinese instrument similar to the harp.
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of the fundamental information that you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Being a teenager is not easy.
The Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition for sketch and character performers.
The UK’s no.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
Based on the Roger Corman film, this is a laugh-a-minute spoof about young nerd Seymour and his mysterious plant, Audrey II, who possesses an unusual appetite.
Come see The Best of Singapore, the winner of the Magners New Act Competition, from the Magners Singapore International Comedy Festival in April 2014.
After last year’s sell-out shows as a duo with Steve Rutherford, and playing guitar on Sydney Carter’s songs and poems with Gordon Funky Socks choir, Mark returns to the Fringe wit…
Free Thinking, BBC Radio 3’s Arts and Ideas programme, in Edinburgh for cutting-edge debate, conversation and interviews about the ideas shaping our lives today.
The Real MacGuffins are clearly skilled and practised performers, exuding a confident, polished stage presence from the start - playing the gracious hosts at this, a party celebrat…
Presenting work specifically for early years audiences isn’t that common place in the Fringe.
Who would you rather be: a tap-dancing alien or a singing tomato? Biff! Bash! Bosh! Join comic trio Topsy Turvy for 40 minutes of silliness, slapstick and mayhem - sketch comedy fo…
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comics for over a decade, and we’ve seen some fantastic acts pass through our doors who are now major names on the comedy circui…
Jimmy Carr’s Funny Business will be: a) packed with jokes, b) rude and offensive*, c) a great night out, d) £18.
One day, a curious little girl stumbles across a lonely little leaf, hiding in her attic.
A place of peace, an open sacred space.
“I wasn’t cut out to be cursed,” Jill tells us at the start of The Box.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
Whether this comedy compilation is a success or not depends entirely on which comedians are available to perform.
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…
Funny Girl is based on incidents in the life of Fanny Brice before and after World War One.
Thinking of going into performing arts management? Have you wondered if you should get an arts administration degree? Meet and talk with others who are also asking these questions …
Scotland 1040, a nation in turmoil, striving for independence.
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.
Based on the true story of Lisa Prescott, who was kidnapped by the Kray Twins and essentially donated as a sex-slave to an escaped murderer, Camilla Whitehill’s Where Do Li…
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
The brilliant IndigoCo return to the Fringe, with the enigmatic and bloodthirsty Audrey 2 in the starring role.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Robert Sharpe (York Minster), and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ‘Father…
This is a very weird play.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Word Power Books hosts free daily events with writers and activists from around the world in Edinburgh’s only independent and radical bookshop.
Join Edinburgh’s own little jazz bird, Victoria Bennett, for an hour of classic, jazz standards.
Professor Richard Weston’s enchanting images of gemstones from around the world, surrounded by award winning gemmologist Stephen Turner’s examples of mother nature’s most preciou…
Much lauded as resident dunderhead on QI or the charming but reticent crime solver Jonathan Creek, Davies virtuosic story-telling and whip-smart funny bones combine to make this a …
Eight shows only! Winner Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013.
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.
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
Spitfire! is a spiffing new show from the team behind the award-winning multi-five-star BattleActs! Independent on Sunday Top 10 Comedy.
Julia looks like she’s got it together: well groomed, with powerful eyebrows.
If you have 10 minutes to spare and your busy festival schedule has taken you near the Royal Mile, have a look at this exhibition.
Following the disappearance of Dick Whittington and several other fairy tale creatures, the five little piggies suspect the Big Bad Wolf has returned.
Gary Little isn’t.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
Sticking close to the original story by Hans Christian Anderson, a cast of five use dialogue and contemporary style dance to tell this dark story of the sea and love.
The premise for this clever improvised show is to poach from the best of the Fringe.
Come along and join The Ruffitybuffs, Tara Twinkle, Cara Crinkle and all of their friends in their fantastic free show of music song and dance.
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…
The Kipple and the Lomax present, in honour of the independence debate, the anarchic, independent spirit of Merseyside and its populace, in word and music.
This comedy workshop will get your kids writing their own jokes and performing them onstage - all within an hour! Course leader Paul B Edwards is a hugely experienced professional …
The future.
From bold brass to fabulous fiddlers, soprano soloists to singer/songwriters, enjoy daily live music performances at the museum, showcasing the best contemporary talents from Scotl…
Ben Champion is turning into his dad.
Cracker: noun, a thin dry biscuit that is often salty and usually eaten with cheese.
Musical comedy meets character comedy in the debut solo show from stand up and improviser, Jacky Wood.
Immediate, sense engaging theatre.
Monkey Poet: Shit Flinging is a show much more savoury than its name suggests.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart and Tim Minchin .
A thousand years of roman history in under an hour.
Are you confused by life? Do you miss Y-fronts? Did you even realise they were gone? Ever wonder what a live sex show is like, or how accountants chat girls up? Are you worried abo…
With so much improvised comedy around, every group needs a USP.
A character and storytelling show about life’s little losers.
‘By equating the conditions of Depression-era America with those of today, writer/performer Randy Noojin invests his one-man show about Woody Guthrie with topicality and urgency, r…
The Hot! Festival, which has been exploring LGBT themes, identity and sexuality for the past month, concludes with two ensembles that use traditional circus arts to grapple with so…
This young and energetic company have tried to create a sketch show with a storyline.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
The brilliant London comedy club comes to Edinburgh.
Katie Davison and Jay Bennett, weary and elated respectively, open their show with an awkward blend of high-fives and handshakes and an argument over why they’re called The Nex…
The most common mistake of a university comedy troupe, I have found, is the attempt to be too clever.
The word of God over the ages: from Hernan Cortés to Barack Obama. And skipping three centuries in between.
Last year I bought myself a ukulele but I have to confess that most of the time it looks really cute hanging on my wall.
For a free sketch show you can’t go wrong with Oxford Revue’s free accompaniment to its main show.
As seen on Russell Howard’s Good News, the award-winning, Perrier-nominated, Amused Moose Top 10 Comedy Show 2013, ‘gifted comic’ (Sunday Times) returns with a new show about l…
Itison presents seven superb showcases featuring the very best comedy from across the Fringe.
The Cambridge Footlights bring you a daily hour of free stand-up comedy.
If Jay Handley had spent as much time running his business as he did writing this show he wouldn’t be unemployed now and you would have one less thing to see at this year’s Fringe.
The bold claim made for itself by The Best of Irish Comedy immediately sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Having a look through the show’s previous guests, perhaps not: Da…
James Loveridge’s Funny Because It’s True is indeed funny and is presumably also true.
Join two of the UK’s finest emerging talents, Fern Brady (8 out of 10 Cats – ‘Wicked, close to the bone gags’ Stage, ‘Obnoxious, rude, and utterly brilliant’ ThreeWeeks…
Kids! Do you need somewhere to take your adults without them getting bored and going in a huff? Bring them to Funny Stuff For Happy People, an hour of comedy, circus, storytelling,…
“The Nobel prize, by canonising individuals, disguises the truth that they are all, in Newton’s famous phrase, standing ‘on giants’ shoulders’ and on each other’s as well.
This tour is a brilliant way to explore the history of Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.
The world-renowned Sandemans Free Tour shows you the best of Edinburgh, with enthusiastic local guides providing tours in English and Spanish every day of the week! Starting on the…
Award-winning comedian James Cook tells the often hilarious, surprising and surreal true story of being the voice between pop records.
Celebrating 20 years.
‘Let’s see what comes out of my mouth’ is something Bronston Jones says before almost every show.
Four fantastic comediennes on one amazing show! We’ve selected the funniest women we could find at the festival and brought them together for an afternoon of comedy you’ll neve…
With an enviable variety of excellent voices and a real commitment to his physicality, Simon Jay skilfully portrays the various characters crammed into the tragic life story of his…
Free Fall is Luca Cupani’s first stand up show and an hour of comedy similar in its rambled, improvised form to Ross Noble’s earlier work.
Seeking to explore the idea that you are your experiences, this positive and inspiring show details how these two up-and-coming comics are not Over It.
An undemanding hour spent with a showcase variety of acts.
Family workshop suitable for children aged 3-7 years with parents or carers.
On a patch of green that is nowhere to be found here, two women provide a little comfort for one another.
Escape the thunderous thrill of the High Street! Unwind and enjoy inspiring music and stunning architecture in the medieval heart of Edinburgh.
Every night see our pick of the filthiest acts at the Fringe.
Naomi Paul does not so much make light of topics as make them dull.
This is the show you’ll be telling people about in five years time.
There are no actors in this show.
Join us for some afternoon delight in the Gardens.
Urban Aphrodite International is a company based in Shanghai.
Scotland, a land steeped in myth and legend.
Painted in 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
Sometimes the proof of a great show comes from hints that your body gives you: your face hurts because you’ve been grinning so much, a consistent silent laughter that you are d…
Straight from the Middle East: an energetic, fast paced, improvised play.
Stand-up comedian Clara Electra brings her first ever solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
See the very best of the previous contestants, runners up and winners from the UK’s biggest and best comedy competition.
A host of top comedians from across the Fringe battle it out for the audience’s approval and such.
Luke Benson hosts 99 Club’s pick of the Fringe with a free hour of comedy that shows off the talents (and faults) at this year’s festival.
Launching a season of outdoor performances in the courtyard at the Pear Tree with buskers, musicians, cabaret, comedy and much, much more. And it’s all free! www.freefestival.co.uk
Live and let die blares from the speakers as Marc Burrows circles the room, high-fiving everyone in sight.
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
The Gilded Balloon’s So You Think You’re Funny is a comedy omnibus and competition, offering little showcase slots for Fringe veterans and newcomers.
Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Awkward Hawk, Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) looks at the power of schadenfreude, embarrassment, and how being hi…
In his Edinburgh debut, operatic maverick Oberon White presents a one-man show like no other.
How board games can change your life and save the world.
‘I see life as basically tragic and futile and the only thing that matters in life is making little jokes,’ wrote Edward Lear, a Victorian best known for his nonsense poetry an…
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comics in this stand-up showcase.
The award-winning sketch group, as heard on their own BBC Radio 4 series, present brand new sketches and old favourites packed into a fun-filled free-for-all show.
A pilot stranded in the desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures travelling the universe.
A confessional comedy performance by literary translator and writer Petra Kindler, on the joys and perils of cross-cultural creative work, surviving homemade hurricanes and the cha…
Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind has been running in various iterations since 1988, with an ever-changing roster of extremely short “plays.
‘A bearded fantasist’ **** (Time Out).
This year will be the biggest year ever for Ginger Ale Comedy as we relaunch the show in partnership with some of Scotland’s best emerging promoters, who run both established stand…
The Best of Edinburgh Showcase Show at the Cabaret Bar in the Pleasance Courtyard claims to be the longest running and most successful lunchtime show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Offensive and outrageous comedy.
Everything seemed against this performance from the start.
Laughing Horse Comedy presents a stand-up show featuring the very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
The title of Masai Graham’s show gives the impression that it is a grand test of comedic athleticism, hinting at a Tim Vine like mania.
Burlesque requires a careful blend of elements.
Intelligent comedy with a puerile twist, Scott Jeffery and Matt T Woodward take turns to do 25 minutes stand-up each, daily tossing a coin to decide who goes first.
David Crawford is dressed in HP Lovecraft’s favourite outfit for this one-man storytelling.
Taking improv to the next level, we improvise the cast! A daily impro jam that absolutely anyone can take part in, whether experienced veteran or enthusiastic newcomer.
Carol Robson is a wonderwoman.
**** (Scotsman) ***** (BroadwayBaby.
Ian Fox: The Unsearchables is an interactive quiz show that asks the questions you can’t Google.
Capturing the singular Richard Pryor in a staged bio-play is a challenge and this limp, rote production is nowhere near up to it (1:30).
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside some of the UK’s best newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
‘Funny.
Is Amusia a fantasia of amusement, or does it really mean something quite different? Musical comedian Luc Valvona plays a selection of his songs and then tries to sell you his CDs.
Little tent.
Back for a fourth year at the Fringe - an hour of sharp gags, intelligent observations and blisteringly quick improvised raps from three of the circuit’s best comedians.
Each day different international acts compete for comedy gold.
In need of some Light Relief? Let Geoff Cotton and Roberta Mair give you a helping hand and relieve your stress with a riotous, award-winning romp through stand-up, sketches, satir…
An original multi-media performance, this could be one of the oddest hours of your life. Come with an open mind, leave with a broken one. @electricdada
Tom’s an award-winning comedian, thirty-something accountant and big, friendly nerd.
The Hollywood Film Festival is an improvised comedy/drama show taking the standard improvised format onto the silver screen.
If you fit into the overlappy bit of a Venn diagram of people who like dance, people who like comedy and people who like men who look a bit like Vikings, this show is for you.
Comedian Jay Foreman provides a devilishly cheeky hour of songs, poems and comedy for children of all ages in this excellent mid afternoon show in the Green.
It is a rare and precious thing to find a show which is not only brilliant, but which is brilliant in such a wide range of ways.
After a hilarious pre-show announcement which tells the audience to prepare themselves for an “extravaganza”, Dan Nightingale has set the bar for himself considerably high.
The year is 1999 and Ernie Wise is in hospital, 15 years after the death of Eric Morecambe.
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
In a technological netherworld, government agents struggle against rebels for control of the ‘mindspace.
The big launch night for this years’ Free Festival! See a show with the best of this years’ free Fringe performers, mingle with the acts and VIPs and dance the night away.
Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”.
To celebrate the completion of a five year redevelopment project, this exhibition, within the splendid Parliament Hall, gives an insight into the life, history and traditions of th…
The double helix structure of DNA is knowledge that today we take for granted.
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.
Listen to the Changing Tunes Band and MJ’s Liberty Choir.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comics for over a decade, and we’ve seen some fantastic acts pass through our doors who are now major names on the comedy circui…
Now in its third year, Jessica Delfino’s annual comedy musical festival — with 15 events and dozens of comedians — travels to a different borough each nigh…
Amidst the wonders of the circus, an impossible dream appears.
Brand new female comedy double act.
Written by Rob Johnston.
One boy.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous novella, the story of a pilot who crash-lands his plane in the Saharan desert and befriends a boy, ‘the little prince’, with whom he embarks …
A taste of all that’s brilliant and beautiful in B.
Prof Buteyko discovered in the ‘50s that people who develop chronic symptoms breathe more than the physiological optimal norm of 3-4 litres per minute.
Ki Workshop: 10.
Ki Workshop: 10.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
The Good, the Stag, and the Ugly.
The tour, led by two hapless guides, focuses on the more eccentric characters who have lived and worked in Brighton and explores the nature of eccentricity itself.
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.
Have your flags at the ready as the Roedean Community musicians sweep you away with ‘Pomp and Circumstance’, ‘Zadok the Priest’, ‘Rule Britannia’, Elgar’s ‘Sea Pictures’, ‘Nimrod’ …
Need a producer? A venue? A mentor? A residency? Want to improve your work and make new contacts, but don’t know where to start? Hear from venue managers, producers and companies…
The outback can be a dangerous place, but Compagnia T.
Paul Grifiths is an artist, not because he spent a lifetime studying the grand masters or painting portraits and landscapes from a young age, but because of something primal that d…
After a sell-out tour of London, Edinburgh & Manchester to rave reviews, these two award-winning friends return to the Brighton Paddock where it all began.
The Gimps bring the very best of their depraved award-winning minds to Brighton.
In 2005, the Chinese choreographer and painter Shen Wei created “Map,” a mesmerizing visualization of Steve Reich’s “The Desert Music.
Best of Friends’ writer and producer Nick Fogarty has proved his dedication and great stamina to this musical project.
Less Than Rent’s current production Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re The Very Man! is billed as ‘an adventure-capitalist rodeo.
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 …
Des Clarke is one of the most popular comedians working in Scotland today.
Close of Fringe event for all performers no matter what venue or organisation. Come to famous Jam House: mingle, drink, celebrate, wind down, live music. First annual event.
Two hour charity variety show includes presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
ITC’s legendary short course provides an overview of fundamentals you should be aware of when setting up a performing arts company.
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
It’s impossible not to have a good time at Little Shop of Horrors - the music is so uplifting, the characters so fun and the story so oddly compelling.
Opportunities for arts, culture and heritage sectors.
The Fringe has always been a place of no limits and of being accessible to all, including the numerous school groups and companies who bring their efforts with them to Edinburgh.
A reliable vein of new talent since its inception in 1988, the So You Think You’re Funny? comedy awards have provided a steady stream of ingenious new acts.
Someone once wrote of the novel Vernon God Little that it ‘was a work of unutterably tedious nastiness and vulgarity’, and its author DBC (Dirty But Clean) Pierre ‘a man with…
Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value for money cabaret can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best and brightest cabaret, comedy, circus and burle…
I was warned that Vampire Hospital Waiting Room was wonderful and weird but that you had to embrace it - I would encourage any potential audience member to apply this mantra to the…
In 2011 a feminist punk rock group, calling themselves Pussy Riot, donned their bold balaclavas and took siege of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior and gave a performance tha…
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
Manchester’s top improv troupe is back for its fifth Edinburgh outing.
The mischievous musical medic showcases some of the most popular parody songs from the former duo’s fourteen years together (made suitable for a lunchtime audience).
Allow this exciting sketch troupe to take you for a spin through a random roulette of manic sketches, including celeb comedians, a singing prime minister and an outrageous chat sho…
Cash prizes! Top Acts! Bingo! Musical Comedy Awards hosts Horse & Louis present the best of the Fringe and the chance to win a bucket of money in a game of visual bingo!
This show returns after a sell-out 2012 Fringe.
Middlesbrough’s second-tallest sketch group are back with their spookiest show yet.
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, formed of around 100 of the UK’s best young singers, performs unaccompanied music including works by Byrd, Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Brit…
Unfortunately, it still seems remarkable enough for a comedy show’s bill to be entirely populated by women that the Funny Women Pop-Up Fringe marketed their lineup as such.
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…
Star of Fringe favourite The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly, Siôn James, ‘utterly charming .
Big Mix Theatre combines clever animation with live action to bring to life a charming alternative take on the traditional children’s story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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…
It’s a shame “A Little Piece of Heaven” isn’t billed as a thriller, because it is most certainly horrifying.
An ordinary woman sits on a park bench reading a newspaper.
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.
A Japanese love story set between earth-world and sea-world in ancient and modern times.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
A break-up sped up by a mythbeast.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Tim Byram-Wigfield (St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle) and Donald Hunt (St Mary’s Cathedral) perform on consecutive Sundays on…
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…
Organists Duncan Ferguson (St Mary’s Cathedral), Simon Johnson (St Paul’s Cathedral) and Nicholas Wearne (St Mary’s Cathedral), perform on consecutive Sundays on the Cathedral’s ma…
Explore the folklore and magical properties linked with common cocktail ingredients, with recipes from the most influential occultist of all time, Aleister Crowley.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Enliven your literary knowledge with tales young novelists are spinning.
Wearing a kilt, a red stripy top and a pair of gold earrings, the bearded Martin ‘Bigpig’ Mor somehow made me think of a Scottish pirate in a children’s storybook.
What with the recent Les Miserables fever, everyone has been fussing over Victor Hugo and ignoring that other cheerful scribe of poverty and dying children - our very own Charles J…
Generally speaking, stand-up showcases are the sorts of show that offer the worst of both worlds, since audiences have to either sit through some desperately unfunny jokes from sta…
Best of Fest presents five acts (and one emcee) crowned with four-or five-star reviews by the Scotsman newspaper.
The only best of the fest show to consist entirely of performers given four or five star reviews in Scotland’s national newspaper.
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.
American jazz with a Scottish accent? Well, why not? Go sample this strange but still palatable cultural fusion in the basement of the Valvona and Crolla café.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Experience the powerful portrayal of relationships through the eyes of a group of teenagers who travel deep inside the so-called Cradle of Humankind.
The story of Chet Baker, cool jazz pin up, laid back genius and heroin addict, told by Mike Maran with Colin Steele (trumpet) and Dave Milligan (piano).
Setting up within the whitewashed walls of Greyfriars Church, Nitekirk is a gentle affair.
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 …
This a fantastic and innovative way to introduce children into the exciting world of Charles Dickens and Victorian England.
Twenty-five years of the best stand-up comedy competition in the UK, we have whittled it down to the best from hundreds of entries.
Hundreds of aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory’s comprehensive and demanding training programmes.
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�…
Aspiring actors audition for an exclusive place in the Conservatory’s comprehensive and demanding training programmes.
Welcome to the 26th year of the best stand-up comedy newcomers competition in the UK! Previous winners include Dylan Moran, Lee Mack, Peter Kay and David O’Doherty! Who will be cro…
Three ethnic minorities also referred to as illegal immigrants by the home office, rejected by their own mothers will try to create laughter before their deported back to Southall,…
Ethics and morality aren’t typically seen as trendy when it comes to comedy, poetry and performance; they are often seen as unfun and old-hat.
Jazz vocalist Victoria Bennett has a talent for interpretation and a whimsical approach to melody.
Matt set up a new school, and like all good schools this one has a bar.
Four superb showcases featuring the very best comedy from across the Fringe.
Find Jamie MacDonald’s first solo Fringe show and hear about his ill-judged city break to London.
Two pm - neighbours changed Wi-Fi password.
In addition to their main shows, the Cambridge Footlights present an hour of stand-up, songs and monologues in association with the Free Fringe.
Multi five-star, Time Out Critic’s Choice, Smirnoff Hot Picks.
Head to the magnificent Grand Gallery to celebrate the Museum’s collections through daily live music performances, from Renaissance to the best young contemporary Scottish tal…
Luke Toulson is very ambivalent about his children.
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
From the esteemed roster of clubnights at Edinburgh’s Bongo Club, a choice selection of the best nights in town during August, with Confusion Is Sex, Four Corners, Messenger Soun…
Reluctant hedonist and professional snowboarder has it all.
There is nothing wrong with the message of this show from the Italian company, Scarlattineteatro, but then neither is it particularly original.
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Time Out Critics’ Choice.
Watching actors improvise can be the most fun thing ever.
Gorge yourself silly on the Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Award winner and finalist.
How did two Africans, one Asian and a Mancunian end up at The Espionage Lizard lounge? .
Of all the ukulele workshops I’ve ever been to, this was by far the best, and let me tell you, I’ve uked a fair bit in my time.
To seekers of silliness, salutations! Set aside those pesky cognitive processes awhile and join four fully certified adults on a stand-up comedy adventure.
A to Z Improv Comedy, like most shows of its type, includes many of the classic improv games and therefore runs the risk of being too similar to a host of other shows available.
If there’s a theme to Free Footlights, a somewhat eclectic collection of stand up bits, monologues and comedy songs from members of the Cambridge Footlights, it’s a streak of self-…
Split between two comedians, Over It aims to lift the curtain on the taboo subjects of death and anorexia through the medium of laughter - and it kind of works.
“In Da Club came out in 2003, not 2005!” I found myself shouting across the dance floor at around half past two this morning.
Despite claiming to encapsulate the very finest entertainment at the Fringe, this show is only average at best.
Unfortunately, this three piece act had dwindled to two by the time I saw their performance, however Jack Campbell and Robbie Ormrod were 100% funny enough to carry the show by the…
Hook up to the intensive comedy unit for revitalising laughter and life saving fun on the Free Fringe’s biggest stage.
In Static, a man in his early twenties describes growing up.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Russell Howard, Miranda Hart, Julian Clary.
Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist.
Comedy’s most reasonable man tells entertaining lies about the novelty teacup industry and other issues (time permitting).
Prepare to fill a bucket with mighty treasures as four strapping yet amusing Midlands men crack open a case of vintage silliness in a greatest hits show that’s been refined just fo…
This show is something of a smorgasbord of family entertainment.
The biggest and best line-ups in Edinburgh! This Festival favourite returns and maintains its status as the place to be ‘round midnight.
The title of the show, Flyerman 2: This Time it’s Funny is perhaps a little misleading.
Brothers and sisters of the Fringe, discard your differences and heed the Brethren’s call.
Come and see the stars who’ve appeared at Waterloo Comedy Club including radio and TV guests, award winners and Fringe favourites.
Get set for some irreverent fun as Paul Revill returns with his comic selection.
Revill’s Selection is an hour of very friendly comedy, with Paul Revill hosting and three unannounced acts every day.
The Best of the Fest, which on this occasion was compèred by Lee Nelson, is a chance for Edinburgh-goers to get a taste of the top-rated acts in the festival.
The perfect way to kick start your day sampling the very Best of the Fest! Join us for the best comedy, music and cabaret on offer.
Jen Carnovale will be talking about stuff into a microphone with you watching and she can’t wait! ‘.
Proudly supporting the Free Festival, the 99 Club brings a selection of four different comics every day.
After the hit Control-Alt-Delete, Willis returns with a brand new computer comedy show.
Cheeky late night songs! Luc Valvona sings you a selection of his funny, witty and sometimes downright filthy songs on the ukulele, guitar and mandolin, and then tries to sell you …
French, Australian, Jewish, Arctic comedian Eric Hutton’s 2012 show was selected as one of the ‘best free shows at the Fringe’ by TheScotsman.
Four comedians.
The hit show returns after more sell-out shows around the world.
Are you a big spoon or more of a little spoon type of person? Come see this stand-up show from two spoon enthusiasts.
We Will Be Free is an historical tale beginning in 1834 and is based on the true story of George and Betsy Loveless, prominent members of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
The perfect way to kick-start your day sampling the very Best of the Fest! Join us in the gardens for the best comedy, cabaret and music on offer.
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 .
An hour long comedy show featuring five different acts talking about sex? After a few pints this starts to seem like a great idea and I would recommend the show to any finding them…
Rhys will tell some brilliant jokes, do some incredible poems and then leave.
You don’t have to be Irish to enjoy this show, but it certainly may help to jump on board and have a few drinks before and throughout.
Australian comedians Eric Hutton and Jen Carnovale present a selection of their favourite Fringe acts.
Maureen Younger presents a solo stand-up show, as part of the Scottish Comedy Festival, which is based around her view of herself as an outsider, both on the comedy circuit and gen…
Doctor Ray Lowry is a retired doctor and dentist, and former TV and radio comedy scriptwriter. He lets the audience see the funny side of being a doctor, a dentist and a patient.
Since 1999 this show has been a feature of the Fringe’s comedy programme and this year they are back with some of the biggest names in Irish comedy.
I was so ready to tear this show down.
An in-depth and correct analysis of man and his obsessions with sex, violence, money, sex, war, breasts and sex.
Tricity Vogue’s voice has a peculiar tone that suggests everything she says is really an innuendo.
Much like Arthur’s Seat is the bedrock of Edinburgh, comedy is the bedrock of the Edinburgh Fringe.
Scottish dancing for all the family.
As humble a turnout as it was, Paul Revill was very grateful and welcomed us warmly.
A selection of the best in new comedy at the Fringe, alongside some top headliners picked from Fringe shows, national competitions and around the world.
From the moment he gets up on stage, Rod Woodward is at ease with the crowd.
The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
See the very best comedians at the Fringe, alongside the UK’s best newcomers, at this top-rated comedy selection show.
Alan Anderson is one of Scotland’s most charming comperes and a very talented man.
Cabaret legend and TO&ST finalist Dusty Limits celebrates the crazed pursuit of joy and truth.
Feast on five of the tastiest up-and-coming comedians on the circuit including your award-winning headliner Masai Graham.
Each night see four exciting new acts performing ten-minute sets.
Powered by the enigmatic personalities of compère Chris Turner, David Elms and Adam Hess, AAA Batteries is a show brimming full of energy, improvised humour and finely tuned routi…
Ian Fox has come up with a fairly novel twist on observational comedy: his show centres on a series of photographs shown on television screens around the room so that the audience …
Step into the world of Frank Von Nippleman.
Best of Burslesque is a constantly changing variety night showcasing the wealth of risque acts at the Fringe.
Tomie James has travelled from Ireland to make a good point: we’re putting an awful lot of rubbish into our bodies.
In just under an hour Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) is made to feel awkward by castles, the French Metro and Ugandan rebels.
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.
Jody Kamali is a comedian, a clown and based on his YouTube repertoire, an impressive character actor.
The funniest show (with a saucepan).
Three young talented comics take over with a show full of improvisation, riffing and household observations.
First of all, it’s important that you ignore the title of this show because it has absolutely nothing to do with what you’ll be watching.
The value of art, human redemption, dead labradoodles.
Cult favourite raconteur and retro pop culture obsessed geek looks back at the fears and phobias of an awkward 80s childhood.
As refreshing and witty as ever, Spring Day returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a new show which takes some of the best bits of her 2011 Fringe appearance whilst offering…
‘Wicked punch lines have the audience falling over themselves with laughter, thinking: “I can’t believe she said that!” They absolutely loved her, no doubt you will too.
Every twenty years or so, comedy re-vamps itself.
No wires - no script! A completely improvised 50s radio-play adventure, unique every day.
A blue football rests in the middle of a chalk circle; traumatised Edward, played by Alex Austin, moves nervously around the edges of the stage; a television set flicks on and off…
Ever wondered what radio DJs chat about when they’re off-air? No, me neither - but it turns out the topic provides a wealth of material for James Cook’s one-man show about the tria…
Geoff Cotton presents and stars in a two-person sketch show involving comedy songs and impressions.
Stand-up comedy that fulfils the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s diversity requirements all in one fantastic show.
The very best comedians selected from across the Fringe.
At the beginning of his show Ant Dewson delivers a short warning to those who don’t appreciate overtly crude humour: leave now.
The Games are back in 2013! Different international acts compete daily for comedy gold.
Alan is surrounded by idiots; fortunately, he’s one of them.
New solo show from cheeky diva Tricity Vogue with ukulele tunes and salacious anecdotes - a song for every calamitous liaison.
In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours.
Character comedy is slowly but surely leeching into stand-up.
A mad mish-mash of absurdism and warped nostalgia, encountering the Bob Blackman Appreciation Society felt more akin to my psyche bleeding out into the back room of an old boozer t…
Addressing race related issues for an hour can potentially be very uncomfortable.
We learn from the outset of the play that two of the three pigs are dead.
Wild, raucous and full of Fringe spirit.
Satisfying energetic children can be a task for even the most patient of adults, but CeilidhKids seem to have found a simple but effective solution to combine family bonding with c…
Award-winning comics seek comedy geeks, hungry for the new stuff.
The Big Man’s back.
Ian Saville, a self-professed ‘socialist magician’, takes you through the history of money and communism by the medium of magic in a free show that pulls off some rather exquis…
Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything.
Inveterate gagster Ivor Dembina **** (Guardian) chaperones you through an hour of comedy, music, guest and surprises, news and reviews all in collusion with the Orchestra of An…
Tricity Vogue gets her kicks from having somebody strum her ukulele that sits on top of her head.
As the name would suggest, this is great Scottish comedy at its best.
To give a show this title, considering the easy barbs that could be made at its expense, is perhaps brave.
One of The Scotsman’s Top Ten free shows of 2012.
Geoff Cotton’s show is a mix of sketches, comedy songs, stand-up and satire.
If you are over 35 or simply want to hear how middle-aged life is a going to be a blood-stained nightmare, then this is the show for you; for anyone else, sit tight for an uncomfor…
‘I invented anger’ bellows Michael Legge, as soon as he comes on stage.
Katie Mulgrew’s debut solo Edinburgh show is a charmingly chatty walk through the comedian’s life, from the large-headed daughter of Jimmy Cricket who struggled as a child in s…
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
Little Howard is a computer generated six year old interactive stand up comedian.
It’s a brave pair indeed who decide to recreate arguably the nation’s favourite double act, Morecambe and Wise, in a new show, but that’s what Ian Ashpitel (Wise) and Jonty Stephen…
It’s fair to say that, to a lot of people, mime consists of a man in makeup, wearing white gloves and a stripy top, making big-fish-little-fish-cardboard-box style hand gestures.
With thousands of shows out there, Rhys Mathewson’s show title is a clever one.
Experienced local guides show you historic places of the Royal Mile, its buildings, narrow closes and secret gardens, describing how its people lived and died, its famous character…
Churches are great: not only is a marvellous acoustic found within those imposing stone walls, but visitors also feel an inherently peaceful atmosphere upon entry.
Escape the thunderous thrill of the High Street! Unwind and enjoy tranquillity, inspiring music and stunning architecture in the medieval heart of Edinburgh.
Situated on the historic Royal Mile, open from 9am – 3am every day.
Whistlebinkies really wants you to know they have free live music.
If you find yourself staggering down the Royal Mile at 2am desperately looking for a drink, there is a string of late-night live music bars ready to keep your liver happy and suppl…
Like so many shows at the moment, Om Nom Nominous lures in punters with a ridiculous name.
This gig is a total surprise – just what the Fringe should be.
The volume of shows presented at the Edinburgh Fringe can sometimes be overwhelming, so the Waterloo Comedy Club has put on a free show to give the audience a taster of some of the…
The Black Country Cider Lions’ compere Rob Kemp reminds us near the start of the gig that the room we are in is bespoke.
The Edinburgh Festival has some unusual venues – that is a well-known fact amongst regular Fringe-goers, as avid audience members hop from university building to converted wareho…
A soggy Sunday afternoon spent in a cosy tent with the rain pitter-pattering on the roof felt much better than the battle of brollies it took to get there.
This Fringe classic pops up most years, with songs such as ‘Somewhere That’s Green’ and ‘Don’t Feed The Plants’ bringing the house down.
The Plastic Seat Company’s debut show is a promising mix of comedy sketches, which take great delight in referencing pop culture of today.
Advertised in the Fringe guidebook as ‘David Kelly is Shameless’, the show turned out to be rebranded as ‘David Kelly and Laura Carr Have No Shame’.
Sarah Archer’s adorable daughter invites us into the venue and welcomes her mother onto the stage, a fitting introduction for an adorable show.
Shakespeare can be hard to do at the Fringe, and even harder to do in an hour.
Ella Hickson was the darling of the Fringe last year with her debut play, Eight.
Less a play, and more a very well curated group installation exhibition, Power Plant should mesmerize even the most callous of cynics.
Its a hard job to get a small, mostly drunken, late night audience on your side.
Bobby Carroll has perhaps been doing stand up so long that he’s become a bit bitter.
Openly admitting his show was a ‘work in progress’ and should not be judged on the quality of all of the material, there seemed no need for excuses as Damian Kingsley ushered u…
‘Success’ is an inventive, endearing and beautifully observed pastiche of self-help seminars.
Located in the small but cosy performance space underneath the main café area of Captain Taylor’s Coffee House, Life or Something Like it sees Mancunian singer-songwriter Claire…
Amrik Virk looks like a laugh to be with.
Staged by Word Alive and hosted by the congregation at Charlotte Chapel, this exhibition tells you everything you need to know about the Good Book and its influence on Christianity…
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…
The 1960s hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a fast-paced, rollicking farce.
Rope is a play of the Victorian thriller genre written by Patrick Hamilton in 1929.
Welcome to Skid Row, a New York slum where only those who dont have any choice would go.
‘Funny’s funny, except when it’s not’ seems to be the general message of this compilation show.
Doug Segal delivers a perplexing array of mind-blowing, mind-reading tricks modulating gradually to a standing ovation climax.
Noel Tovey is a legend.
After introducing himself four times Arnie Pie gave a bit about his stage name before launching into the set that can define the rest of his show in two words: racial comedy.
In an interview for the seminal concert movie Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, acting as the interviewer in his own interview asks himself, ‘I don’t think…
One cannot help but feel , when offered lesser-known tales from the Brothers Grimm, that there is probably a reason that they are not so popular.
A typical Edinburgh stand-up by Richard Coughlan in the back room of an easily hidden pub, this is truly a gem hidden amongst the Fringe.
It should be no surprise that I am not the only unaccompanied adult at Little Howard’s Big Show.
The Northern Stage at St Stephen’s is a rather wonderful room, and the Unfolding Theatre Company’s Best in the World – directed by Annie Rigby, written by Carina Rodney and p…
Straight from The Royal Court, Anupama Chandrasekhars poignant drama about the impact of one girls sex life on the rest of India cant help but provoke.
Three women, a triptych of three generations, sit apart, facing you on the stage.
The Free Paint and Play Ukulele Workshop with Tricity Vogue is exactly as described.
What do you get if you cross Jack Dee with Paul Daniels? - Piff the Magic Dragon!Piff-Tacular is a magic show and stand-up gig all in one, which despite featuring a cute puppy, is …
The Yurt Locker is naturally intriguing as a venue and thus when the three performers of Cracking Yolks took to the stage they were playing to an almost full house of casual punter…
Lewis Schaffer’s schtick is that he is an ex New York Jew making his way in this strange foreign land and hating every minute of it.
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.
With a razor-sharp tongue and ever sharper wit – think 1940s American reporter meets cocktail bar swagger – David Mills delivers an hour of comedy that you may mistake for an h…
The problems started right from the word go.
If you’re looking for a cheeky musical stop to begin your night at the Fringe, then head to the Gothic room in the Three Sisters for the most bizarre Ukulele banter in town.
Unlike anything else in Edinburgh this year, The River People bring an old gypsy wagon placed just off Chambers Street to tell an ancient tale of the beginning of the universe.
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men”.
Little Shop of Horrors is a cult hit about the unlikely pairing of two flower shop assistants, Seymour and Audrey, following the formers discovery of a rare and unusual plant.
‘Well Done You’ calls itself a character sketch show, but Lucy Trodd and Ruth Bratt are in character even when not doing sketches.
The premise of Mace and Burton’s show draws quite a crowd into the Medina.
One woman laughed out of all control tonight, and Stephen K.
Angus and Cameron have clearly worked hard putting this sketch show together but the results are far from entertaining.
In this free one-woman show, Clara Lilly shares a string of stories collected from ten years of hitchhiking.
Funny Women is a very respectable and enjoyable competition, highlighting the best up-and-coming female comedy acts from around the UK.
For all the atrocities of the Second World War, it was a fertile period for great songs.
With so much free fringe it’s can be a daunting prospect wading through the guide to find what’s worthwhile.
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
Say what you will about ventriloquists, theres no denying their talent.
The GirlBand Improv was an entirely enjoyable experience but not quite what I expected.
If you are a first time visitor to this piece you may be forgiven expecting something different.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
Hearty laughs and broad grins are the order of the day from this Chaplinesque performer.
I am about as right-brained and artsy as they come, but my favourite Free Fringe show of last year was Robin Ince’s Carl Sagan is my God, a show about science.
The big songs of stage and screen are being presented at the Laughing Horse Free Festival by the Cabaret Freaks.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
Devvo, the internet sensation, brings his unique brand of stand-up to the Fringe after a successful string of MC gigs across the UK.
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
You’d be hard pressed to find a free hour of comedy at the Fringe as well-structured and thoughtful as ‘Stitches’.
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.
It’s a tough crowd to play to but Lucy Cox wins them around easily with her charming repertoire of comedy songs and savage black humour during her show Attractive Audience Requir…
When one of the acts announced that this shouldn’t be called The Best of So You Think You’re Funny, but instead, Which Comedian is Free on a Week Night at 11.
The man behind the YouTube ‘smash’ Masturbation Gary Stark is having a funny look at sex, drugs and getting old at his gig in the Laughing Horse Free Festival.
Hildegard of Bingen is a twelfth-century German abbess now famed for her extraordinary writings and music.
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
Part of a four day festival of unique and inspiring work from young artists based in London.
Thomas Annand and David Day have come all the way from Ireland to prove that there’s far more to African drumming than monotonous banging.
The Footlights are one of the most famous comedy groups of all time, and there certainly was a buzz of celebrity in the packed out venue.
Him and Me’s circus of estranged acts consists mainly of them with the occasional homemade video thrown in for good measure.
This year’s Fringe has witnessed the rise of a new genre of children’s theatre: butterplot.
Comedian Neil Dagley is Flange Krammer; German Olympic skiing sensation and interminable ladies’ man.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have Peter Pan as your friend? Have you ever questioned what made the witch in Hansel and Gretel so inconsiderate? If you have, this…
Having been ushered onto the top deck of a bus, itself a surreal beginning to a show experience, I was unsure what to expect from ‘Stand Up, Woman.
Dating George Orwell is a one woman play that looks at the unhealthy relationship between a teenage girl and the books that she has become engrossed in.
There is such an abundance of improvised shows around the fringe this year it’s a near impossible task to sift through them all to find the gems.
In the press blurb for his show Middle-Aged, Useless and Talented Nick Hayman compares himself to Tommy Cooper and Norman Wisdom.
What’s wrong with just singing the melody? This is the curse of the club-singer, exemplified by Barb Jungr.
Adam Larter splatters onto his stage like paint from Jackson Pollock’s paintbrush, ungainly and definitely not graceful as he crashes all over the place.
Wet Paint is made up of two magicians, Ben Hart and Neil Kelso, with ‘ideas so fresh they’re still wet’.
Those looking for a dose of the unexpected, who enjoy wandering off the beaten track, will be delighted by Lach’s Antihoot.
Seymour Krelborn, a florists assistant, has his life turned around when he comes across an unusual plant after an eclipse of the sun.
This free show at the fringe consists very simply of two fairly promising comedians, Mark Diamond and Darren Walsh, alternatively delivering stand up performances.
Remember ‘Whose Line is it Anyway’ and ‘Give Us a Clue’? Well this improvisational theatre workshop adopts that fun and spontaneous attitude to try and create different pie…
What makes a lot of cash in the Musical Theatre? Juke Box musicals: Mamma Mia, We Will Rock You, Jersey Boys.
Part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival, comedian and photographer Ian Fox delivers an hour of very amusing entertainment through a selection of photos.
Dirty Filthy Rich wants to make you stinking, filthy rich.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
Maurice Cock and Belvedere Bagg model their show as a lesson in how to act.
Sitting in the dark, cave-like venue of the Hive where the smell of alcohol and sweat still pervades from late-night clubbing and the floors are still just a little bit sticky, it …
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
You’ve got to bless the Edinburgh audience, they are a godsend for bad comedians.
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 …
The gimmick for this showcase show is that it’s meant to be ‘Yorkshire’ comedy, whatever that may be.
With so much improvised comedy at the Fringe nowadays it’s difficult to know what to see.
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
Its all too easy and all too dangerous to dismiss the Free Fringe.
Sometimes a gig feels like visiting an old friend - the audience have never seen the comedian before, but we have seen comics like him and he’s had audiences like us.
What is the opposite of subtle? A thesaurus will give you antonyms like ‘obvious’, ‘loud’, ‘lucid’, ‘crass’.
Pam Ford presents a friendly and funny stand-up show focussing on her past career as a hairdresser.
The title of this particular show may lead you to expect certain things that the final product fails to deliver in every way.
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…
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after their Australian sojourn is EastEnd Cabaret.
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
A show entitled 5 Steps To Being German screams of being packed with old stereotypes and heard-it-all-before jokes of Nazis and efficient trains.
A strong old Broadyway warhorse,A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum originally opened with Zero Mostel in the lead followed by Frankie Howerd in the UK.
It promised to be a fun show.
This one’s a toughie.
Socks playing guitar.
I really wanted to like this show.
Stella Graham’s routine is fun and original: she recounts amusing anecdotes of good and bad things she has done and the audience have to decide if she should go to heaven or hell.
The transition from Chambers St into the depths of The Jazz Bar feels almost like crossing between continents.
I’ve just spent the most uncomfortable hour of my Festival thus far.
This show is comedy flying by the seat of its pants: not exactly improvised, but certainly thrown together.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
Little Shop of Horrors was first produced as a musical in 1982, based on a low-budget movie of the same name, which was shot in just two days in 1960.
Marry Me A Little started life in 1980 as collection of songs either cut from other Sondheim musicals, or from shows that were never produced.
Mark Cooper-Jones is a Geography teacher.
Dr Ettrick-Hogg is the very macho compere for this evening of male stand-ups talking about manly things and being generally masculine.
Matthew Collins is a travel journalist and single parent, although not necessarily in that order.
Lynn Ruth Miller is approaching eighty-years old and she’s on a mission to prove to us all that aging is amazing through a series of real-life stories and a mix of classic pop so…
Downstairs in a night club that makes an awkward bedfellow for performance, youll find seasoned actress & comedienne, Sarah Louise-Young conjuring up three very distinct characte…
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 …
Bringing his YouTube sensation to the Fringe, Australian comic John Robertson’s show The Dark Room is basically a ‘choose your own adventure’ computer game in which selected …
Men of Character describes itself as two one-man sketch shows that overlap with one another with an overarching plot line.
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.
Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play has a script that dazzles, full of wordplay and witty one-liners.
During this free children’s show in Maggies Chambers at the Three Sisters Pub, Phil the Shepherd introduces himself throughout as he tries to put his sheep, or children, to sleep.
James and Craig - the comedy duo behind Best Days of Our Lives - earn their stars as much through likeability as humour.
It isn’t often as a reviewer that you come across a show with absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
Jonathan Prager’s performance is a mixture of spoken anecdotes and original songs with both lyrics and score written by himself and performed with accompaniment from Ben, his ver…
Given the perpetual debate concerning the over-commercialisation of the Fringe that has been prominent this year, it is with a great sigh of relief that events such as the Malcolm …
Follow Donna Wannabe and Katherine Withakay (yes, really) through the trials, tribulations and transfers of flying to Las Vegas all performed in astonishing tongue-in-cheek oper…
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
The infectious enthusiasm of this comedy duo is apparent from the off, their chaotic get-in generating a fair few belly-laughs.
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.
Comedy always works best when you have a full, captive, and hopefully laughing crowd in front of you.
With 101 Comedy Club seeing different up and coming comedians performing every night in four ten minute sets, it is perhaps unfair to form a complete judgement based on one night a…
Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.
‘I thought it was a magic show.
Mark Little’s career has spanned many successful years in television and theatre and he has also brought several shows to the Fringe before.
Kunt’s on Daytime TV warns that it’s not for the easily offended.
Panning for Gold is a performance about love: finding love, losing love, and moving on.
From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman.
Would Like to Meet highlights in its description its daily change of acts which apparently brings ‘fresh appeal’ to the show every day.
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen - for you delectation, curiosity and amusement, please welcome to the stage The Repertorie Room.
It ought to be mentioned from the beginning that Tim’s Turnbull’s Tales of Terror aren’t particularly terrifying, but it soon becomes apparent that actual thrills and chills aren’t…
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.
Graham Whistler’s show from last year’s Fringe returns, again mainly focusing on his cerebral palsy.
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.
I can’t help thinking that somebody, somewhere must have watched Oliver Maltman’s show, Little Black Book, before he brought it up to Edinburgh; but clearly didn’t have the balls t…
Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo…
What a joy and a rarity it is to see a cross-generational cast of performers, ranging in age from 28-78, share the stage in dance theatre of this calibre.
The improv group Racing Minds want to tell you a story.
Cape Academy of Performing Arts presents a showcase of their students that more than holds its own against many of the professional companies at the Festival.
Gordon Ramsey Sex Dwarf eaten by badgers.
Paul Zerdin is clearly an accomplished ventriloquist.
The Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It is utterly bizarre.
This show, now an annual event at The Old Market, purports to bring together the best of Brighton’s puppetry scene.
Is it possible to describe Katherine Ryan without using the word ‘sassy?’ No.
One problem that I find with comedy is making sure that everyone’s tastes are catered to.
I imagine as a children’s performer you’re probably prepared for a great deal.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
A Bogan is an Antipodean term for a somewhat uneducated, mullet-wearing, hard-rock loving man.
In an attempt to dispel ignorance, Imaan Hadchiti explores public reactions to his restricted growth.
In the Gilded Balloon’s Dining Room the twinned stand up sets of Australian comics Michael Workman and Tommy Little provided some wonderfully imaginative laughs, a pleasing contr…
From what I can gather, this show is set at a wedding reception.
Farting at a funeral could be quite funny.
Knot Theory presents a new piece of writing about the decline of a suburban family in a piece of new writing by Niki Orfanou.
Sarah-Louise Young channels four very different, equally hilarious and rather odd women in this cabaret spectacular.
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…
In their free hour, Steve N Allen and Ria Lina read extracts from Agony Aunt pages and attempt to provide better advice using songs along with suggestions from the audience.
The perplexingly named One-Eyed Men are the very genial trio of Alex, Sam and Ben.
Yianni, an Australian Greek, describes his show as ‘hyperlogical’.
Prince Philip supposedly coined the word ‘dontopedology’ in describing his talent for ‘opening one’s mouth and putting one’s foot in it’, and in this free show at Espio…
The Little Mermaid was never going to be the easiest text to adapt to the stage, especially in light of the Broadway production’s recent failure to delight audiences under the se…
Bandwagon Theatre Company bring this short story to the fringe as they tell a murky tale of the secret sale of the then-Indian-Ocean island of Diego Garcia by the US and Britain.
In Eva O’Connor’s new play, four friends recount, and dispute, their reactions to the accidental death of one of their number in a drunken accident.
As the Phantom of the Opera music played a cloaked figure appeared, sang along for a few bars before ripping off the cloak to reveal he had a Henry Hoover for a head.
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…
Three soldiers are hit by a mighty explosion.
As you enter the bar you are encouraged to take a drink; do, you’ll need it.
Is that a bird? A plane? No, it’s Rosalie Craig, and what a soaring, magical flight hers is.
Professor Kaos exclaims truimphantly that he has the ‘most popular show in the Fringe!’ and with good cause.
For Free and Easy it pays to be very early at the Stand, or that wont just be the venue name.
I’m not sure if I agree with Eric Gudmunsen’s sentiment that ‘Cheap laughs are better than no laughs’ after his alternative evening of late night comedy at Captain Taylor�…
A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
Sameena Zehra, the writer and performer of Tea With Terrorists, has led an extraordinary life and has been raised by an extraordinary family but her collection of stories, no matte…
There’s a familiar traditional-northern-comic style about Kevin Dewsbury as he welcomes the audience to the room above the Meadows Bar, mixed with a bit of laddish banter.
A bizarre hybrid of Avid Merrion and Bob Fossil, Mark Davison’s Mr Susan is immature, crude and downright silly.
In the wonderful location of the top deck of a stationary Edinburgh bus, two comedians try to find their feet on the comedy circuit.
This one-woman comedy show takes you to the frustrated post apocalypse world where woman has inherited the Earth.
Mike ‘Dr Blue’ McKeon is a real Blues caricature.
[Editors note: Our guest reviewer, Glenn Chandler is the creator of Taggart, the longest running crime drama on television]It was a strange night to be asked to go along and review…
Across the time span of two hour-long performances, Lance Pierson performs a selection of Betjemans poetry.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
The old adage ‘a problem shared is a problem halved’ is not one that Hannah Ringham subscribes to.
The title’s unnecessary exclamation mark is testament to the relentless glee on show in London Gay Men’s Chorus latest musical jaunt.
The classic tale of Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which this production is based on, is a wonderful children’s adventure that has stood the test of time and had m…
Lewis Schaffer’s show is called Free Until Famous.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Attending free shows at the Fringe is something of a lottery.
You may recognise these two from TV.
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.
At the start of this show Billy Watson talks about cocks and pubes and soon moves on to describe a tedious pursuit of pussy, which would presumably not be half as tedious if he eve…
Fans of Garrison Keillor will know the territory covered by this show, the semi-folksy world of Lutheran Minnesota.
A Little Night Music promised a delightful evening of choice piano pieces associated with the night-time.
In Ancient China the Emperor places his hand upon death’s door.
‘Little Me’ is the musicalisation of a cod autobiography by Patrick Dennis.
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
The key ingredients to any successful comedy show have to be a friendly audience, a boisterous atmosphere and a packed venue, all of which the Showcase Show had.
Three for Free is a fun and friendly showcase of new acts, featuring Alex Kealy and Patrick Morris, plus a special guest every day.
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
‘I was going to have a cucumber down my pants’ says compere Marc Smethurst, removing a cucumber from his pants, ‘but there’s a reviewer in tonight.
The premise is simple: a group of people meet in a park.
It’s the annual two-hour charity variety show filled with bizarre acts and very alternative comedy which includes the presentation of three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards.
Old and new beats meet performance poetry paying tribute to South Africa’s legends.
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…
“sit down and roar with laughter for 60 minutes.
Comedy, circus, storytelling, poetry and stupid science.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play about...
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.
If you thought Cinderella was just for panto season, as the team behind Greenwich Theatre’s new production tells Simon Ximenez, “Oh no it’s not.”
If you've ever wondered what are the best musicals in London's West End , we might finally have the answer for you.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
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.
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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...
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...
The Army has set up camp for the first time at the Fringe and is stationed with Summerhall in its own premises.
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
For the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe free shows will return to The Counting House venue on West Nicolson Street, following a one year hiatus with the venue being programmed under a paid s...
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Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Hit musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors is back, and bringing everyone’s favourite carnivorous plant to theatres across the UK in a brand new tour for 2016, opening at Bournemo...
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.
Richard O'Brien is the author of several plays and four books of poetry.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
With over 70 craft brewing companies across Scotland, craft beer now contributes close to £63 million to the British economy.
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 ...
Broadway Baby talks to Fourth Monkey, the biggest company at the fringe with a huge team of 80 actors and 10 crew! This year they are bringing a plethora of Grimm tales.
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...
Broadway Baby talks to Hungry Wolf Visionary Youth Theatre about their upcoming show, A Little Respect.
Have a thing for iambic pentameter and ghosts of politician's past? Then this might be the show for you! Broadway Baby finds out more.
Broadway Baby talks to Sweetness and Light.
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...