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.
It’s the post-apocalyptic world.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, and a sell-out nationwide tour, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of bruta…
A dark comedy about a young woman getting sucked into the world of a self-help guru scam. The more he rejects her, the more she is convinced.
The true story of Isabella MacDuff and Mary Bruce, condemned to hang in cages for all to see and abuse, a warning to any who would defy Longshanks.
Paul makes fun of the French and they love it.
At Come to Mommy nothing is off the table! Having a problem at work? A tiff with your spouse? Did you commit arson? No matter the problem, you can always Come to Mommy, hosted by G…
Following a sold-out run in 2021, The Manchester Revue is back with ‘brilliantly funny’ ***** (The Derek Awards) and ‘hysterical’ **** (BingeFringe.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi…
Edinburgh Youth Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s most performed play is a unique take on a story you know well.
From the grandeur of the New Town to the photogenic allure of the Royal Mile to the delights of Leith, what makes Edinburgh so special? Join Roger Emmerson, author of Land of Stone…
Acclaimed guitarist/singer/songwriter and double Herald Angel Award winner returns to Edinburgh’s Jazz Bar and plays from his extensive back catalogue over five nights.
The Dream of Being a Madame weaves a tale of two young women, disparate in their origins and desires, yet bound by their shared quest for self-definition in an unforgiving world.
Dan and Shubba, two of Scotland’s best up-and-coming comedians, gather their friends to ride the wave in an hour of wild, high-octane comedy.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
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…
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
‘Absurdist sketch at its peak! …the smartest dumb comedy you’ll ever see!’ (Audience Review).
Herstory, ancestry and f*ckupery - it’s all in the making of show.
‘Who is this who is coming?’ When the rational and skeptical scholar Professor Parkins takes a trip from home, he stumbles upon a mysterious whistle.
The night is young and 3’s Comedy: Late Nights is going to bring you an electrifying mix of crowd work and stand-up comedy.
Wild and unapologetically hilarious comedy show about dreams, quirks of our diverse society, and the absurdity of life.
Ventriloquist Queen: a true African Queen.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
The sun has gone down and the lights have come up so that means it’s time for comedy.
A stand-up split bill with a difference: It’s set in the teen-magazine sleepover dream world.
Durham University’s premier sketch comedy troupe is turning 50 – cue the mid-laugh crisis! With the big birthday bash looming, will the troupe conquer their 50th fears, or will t…
Attention, Swifties! Join Blaze, Rujazzle and Rozie Cheeks as we take you on a journey through the eras of Taylor Swift.
Catherine Cohen is back.
After 18 years as a teacher, Mark Row has had enough of the endless carousel of uninspiring lessons, inane questions and kids with attitudes that stink worse than their PE kits.
After a sell-out run, Nobody’s Talking About Jamie returns with “Taylor’s Version”.
Jenny Marx, wife (and brains!) of Karl, was curiously airbrushed from history.
It’s not late.
Alexandra believes if society thinks of her as a lemon, she’s going to squeeze as much out of those misconceptions for her own gain and make herself some sweet lemonade.
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
The 2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Nominee and winner of the Malcom Hardee Award for Comic Originality returns with a brand new show! After the huge success of his 2023 Phil…
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Why live in the present when you could live in the past? Join viral sensation Lou Taylor as she dives back in time to her happy place: the 90s.
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
Nominee: Most Outstanding Show, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023. I grew up in Indonesia and have made it my whole personality. This is a show about that.
Take a bunch of tuneful strangers.
Character comedian Emma Sidi is back at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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 …
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard- shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Backstage in a faded Liverpool social club, seasoned cabaret diva and aspiring actress, Bev, prepares for her final ever gig.
Join AFLO.
It’s the ‘Errors Tour!’, ‘Singing Andy’ is back with his cult Karaoke History show! The ‘pop star of the Proletariat’ Crooner Des (winner ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’,�…
Australian born, global songstress Lauren Easton has some stories to tell.
Ten years after a horrible crime tore them apart, two lovers reunite at the worst time.
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…
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Ever wanted to tell your story but don’t know where to start? Explore how to tell the tales of your own life in a fun, relaxed environment with award-winning storyteller and th…
PLOT: Nigel finds a bag that is a baby in a bin.
The Teeny-Tiny Library from Beyond the Binary is a doll’s house-sized library of queer mini-zines.
We meet George Coleridge-Taylor terrified and hiding while bullets are heard loudly around him.
Making Marilyn - Startling new play by Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven If you had a chance to spend 24 hours in a hotel room with the person you fancied most in the whole history …
A queer retelling of A Midsummers Night’s Dream set in the 1970’s is set to hit the Debating Chamber on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May.
Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and…
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…
Award-winning Flabbergast Theatre bring a rambunctious approach to Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, an exhilarating and hilarious show in which Goblins run amok, the King and Que…
Making your dreams come true.
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 …
An Irish raconteur shares the most ridiculous, embarrassing, hilarious and tragic episodes of her life, showing there's a story in every stumble - and a …
A man about to kill himself falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful, future earth, where people live in harmony with each other and nature.
An one-man adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky short story of the same name, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man comes to the Marylebone Theatre stage with all the pertinent of its day: …
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Join us for an unforgettable evening of the music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney in this stunning concert performance.
Inspired by a ten-year series of prolific, poetic, and philosophic notes by Vauxhall resident and writer Alan Alphie Pritchard, News From Vauxhall is the newly-devised work from …
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Meet the real Carrie Bradshaw in Candace Bushnell’s acclaimed one woman show True Tales of Sex, Success and SEX AND THE CITY.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Before digital TV made it a thing, “watching on catch-up” used to mean spending your Sunday afternoon in front of the EastEnders omnibus.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Fin Taylor previews his upcoming UK tour in a room above a pub in Penge.
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Step into the dazzling world of dance as the Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour sashays its way across the UK in January and February! Get ready for an electrifying spectacle full of …
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
With a modern twist on the tradition of Irish storytelling, Mary Kate takes a journey through the most ridiculous, excruciating, heart- breaking, uplifting episodes of h…
The show is a candid look into what life is like as a young woman in the world today consisting of silly stories and anecdotes covering topics such as growing up with a priest for …
This one woman play explores memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and culture, drawn from experiences growing up fighting eye cancer and eventually blindness as a …
Join the HandleBards at the Actors Church for a hilarious, high-octane production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Sandman is missing and children aren’t going to sleep.
A darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
A new play by Neil Weatherall Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
The creatives behind this year’s production of Life is a Dream discuss working across different languages and cultures.
Prepare for an extraordinary show as Haus of Gallus combines impeccable journalism with cutting-edge production techniques.
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
“I didn’t expect Love to show up at my dreary new job.
If you like it you really shouldn’t put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce.
Join The HandleBards for their cycle-powered, four-hander, high-octane version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy.
For 50 years Allan has travelled worldwide to festivals, concert halls and clubs, establishing a reputation as a foremost singer-songwriter with over 150 recordings of his songs by…
Star of Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, and the man behind viral sensation Fin Vs The Internet with over 50 million views online - Fin Taylor is working up material fo…
It’s Come Dine With Me with a twist, and that twist is murder because apparently that’s what it takes to spice up a dinner party these days.
The Genesis Studio Edinburgh will showcase local musical talent with up to three musical performances on 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th August.
Black comedy/drama. Jodi and Danny are True Spirits and are destined to be together forever. The only problem is that Danny doesn’t know it yet…
Edinburgh’s best homegrown student comedy show is back! Featuring talent from the city’s finest up and coming student comics, witness the Edinburgh Revue’s triumphant return …
After her critically acclaimed Netflix special The Twist.
Creating an effective vehicle for performers, be it musical, play, comedy set or improv format, is arguably the most challenging task a creative artist can undertake.
The double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee returns with a brand new show about moving to a new area, people he has met and losing his mind.
Two clowns, Anna and Felix, set out on a quest for home.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
After his much younger girlfriend leaves him for a better-looking, richer, more successful friend, Searles dissolves into a gibbering, chain-smoking, suicidal insomniac! In despera…
‘Betjemen with a guitar’ (Guitarist Magazine).
HOLD ON TO YOUR HORSES!!!! TRUE WEST is in town! SAM SHEPARD is a unique voice in contemporary theatre.
HOLD ON TO YOUR HORSES!!!! TRUE WEST is in town! SAM SHEPARD is a unique voice in contemporary theatre.
How did a Jewish immigrant to London’s East End end up as a General in the Chinese army and become “Two Gun” Cohen? This incredible true story is recounted by Cohen from his cell i…
Returning to Edinburgh following his successful tribute show, Frank & Dean, at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Pete Sinclair returns with a full-hour show celebrating the hi…
The first-ever stage adaptation of the 1996 novel by Stephen Fry.
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
Out of 117 billion people who have ever lived on this earth, only 38 have been bestowed the title of ‘the Great’ in history.
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
The Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club is not a tribute act.
JazzMain presents Blue Note Nights.
‘Living The Dream’ – Every Brits answer to the question ‘how you doing?’ regardless of how completely tragic their life is.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Glasgow’s collective of clowns, comedians and creatures of calamity come together to take you on their sell-out tour of pure imagination around the moon and back.
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
Celebrating its 70th anniversary, the Oxford Revue brings you a tightly crafted, punchy and hilarious murder mystery with a difference – the audience decide whodunnit! Did the bu…
The Oxford Revue is turning 70 years old! From Monty Python to Mr Bean to Love Actually, the alumni of Oxford’s premier comedy troupe have been polluting the UK cultural landscape …
After 17 years teaching, Mark Row longs to escape the barrage of inane questions, the endless carousel of uninspiring lessons and the attitudes of kids that stinks worse than their…
The Durham Revue presents: Death on the Mile.
The night is young and 3’s Comedy: Late Nights is here to make you laugh with an electrifying mix of crowd work and stand-up comedy.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
The St Andrews Revue presents Whatever the Hell We Want, an original sketch comedy show confronting such hot topics as seagulls, chickens and even a few non-avians.
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
Since we were formed in 1983, we’ve believed in doing things differently.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
The group that brought you Liz Kingsman, Ed Gamble, Stevie Martin, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod and more are back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
The group that brought you Liz Kingsman, Ed Gamble, Stevie Martin, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod and more are back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The Revolver Revue is a dazzling extravaganza featuring top UK and international circus, cabaret and burlesque acts.
The debut Fringe event for Queer the Mic, a sparkly spoken word and poetry stage for queer poets, proudly hosted by The Brunswick.
The debut Fringe event for Queer the Mic, a sparkly spoken word and poetry stage for queer poets, proudly hosted by The Brunswick.
Breaking the conventions of what it means to create art, Bad Taste Collective is a safe space where nobody’s final product is the definition of their artistic worth.
For one day only, we are inviting you to join us at the official Shaun the Sheep model-making workshop, where we can create your very own version of everyone’s favourite mischiev…
For one day only, we are inviting you to join us at the official Shaun the Sheep model-making workshop, where we can create your very own version of everyone’s favourite mischiev…
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
60 years in the making - A celebration of the art of local artist Carol Havard.
Fierce, funny, and wonderfully frank, Poppy and Rubina have sex and they aren’t ashamed to talk about it.
When is a story ready to tell? Inspired by the ongoing real events of a college cult, DREAM SCHOOL is a thriller about who wins and who loses when we cash in on trauma.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
The boys from Der Wunderlich are back at the Bosco! Join us for a riot of pole-dancing, stripping, music, mime, unicycling and men cheerleading.
Jamie’s girlfriend has just broken up with him for a man that goes to the gym – obviously.
Jamie’s girlfriend has just broken up with him for a man that goes to the gym – obviously.
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
Mark Row has had enough! After 17 years of teaching, he longs to escape the barrage of inane questions, the endless carousel of uninspiring classes, and the attitude of kids that s…
Totally True.
Mark Row has had enough! After 17 years of teaching, he longs to escape the barrage of inane questions, the endless carousel of uninspiring classes, and the attitude of kids that s…
Totally True.
Playing a dynamic mix of classic and contemporary soul ‘n’ funk, South Coast Soul Revue is a hi-energy eight-piece with two dynamic lead singers, a pulsating rhythm section and…
Join the revellers as mother nature envelops the Globe Theatre for Shakespeare’s deliciously disruptive and intoxicating comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
SESSION TIMES: 19.
Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage with her first-ever, hour-long special, Quarter-Life Crisis, named “Best of 2020” …
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Masters Of Comedy Come Mek We Larf promises a night of funtastic entertainment, featuring the Best in Stand-Up Comedy.
“Full of infectious energy.
The Rendez-Vous Revue is a theatrical cabaret show that transports audiences through a spectacular world where Le Moulin Rouge meets Ze Kit Kat Club.
A COMEDY SHOW ABOUT THE NEWSCan a small writers' room with limited resources put out a quality product in less than 24 hours? Of course they can.
In her solo show Adventure of an Old CxNT or Living my Dream Helen Prior tells a hilarious story of life with the help of her own curated gallery of art masterpieces.
You're accepted.
Fin Taylor is back on the road with a brand new trunk of painfully funny stand-up for 2023.
Fin Taylor is back on the road with a brand new trunk of painfully funny stand-up for 2023.
MANIC PIXIE DREAM REN A Film School Dissertation-Induced Meltdown Sentimental: A New Gig Musical Speaking of break-ups, the world’s ending.
With a mixture of standup & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Featuring South African artist and theatre maker Jemma Kahn and directed by Lindiwe Matshikiza, We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants is a unique solo performance of seven st…
The Dream Machine is a long-form improv show, based around audience suggestions.
The Male Revue comes to West Five Bar for all your Naughty Girls and Boys! Join us for a night of naughtiness hosted by Marsha Mallow with DJ Steve James Marsha wil…
Fin Taylor is not afraid to speak his mind, and his recent set Daddy Self-Care is proof of that.
A queer re-telling.
Take a trip into one of Shakespeare’s classic comedies, in this version 12 actors will play over 20 roles. Set in a modern Britain, tackling love in many sources.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
The last fairy lurks in a dying forest.
When a struggling actor can’t pay rent, she signs herself and her roommate (she won’t mind) up for a fun robot friend in order to receive a big paycheck.
Smoking hot split bill of stand-up from two fully developed women.
‘Everything starts with a dream’.
You are formally and informally invited to this is not a party.
A party.
Edinburgh’s favourite Guardian-approved naughty boy is back! And he’s bringing with him a brand-new hour of painfully funny stand-up for 2022.
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
Is your family dysfunctional? Well, you haven’t met these fine folk.
The last fairy lurks in a dying forest.
Desperate to fulfil her mother’s wish of finding a husband, Rebecca Anderson explores love and a whole bunch of other stuff in her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals …
Top academics, dangerous ideas and your host comedian Susan Morrison.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
Billy Parva is the greatest man who ever lived.
Billy Parva is the greatest man who ever lived.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Local jazz quartet JazzMain has built its reputation around the 50s and 60s Blue Note Jazz era, closely studying exceptional jazz artists like Dexter Gordon and his contemporaries …
Crazy Coqs’ iconic Saturday night residency show, The Black Cat Cabaret presents an evening of old school Hollywood glamour meets underground London nightlife, performed…
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
The Prince of Dark Comedy Cabaret returns to Edinburgh with his all new Vegas-style show at the Fringe, accompanied by his singing dictators Dean Stalin and Saddami Davis Junior (T…
How to remember the hermit of Hull? Almost Instinct, Almost True may refuse us anabsolute answer, but with moments of lyricism, connection and surprising political relevance, it as…
What happens in the forest, stays in the forest.
We solve our greatest problems through dreaming while our deepest fears are revealed in them as well.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Watch the German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Come See.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
Come Sit on the Couch With Me: is this a therapy couch or a casting couch, and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical – but true – look at communication in …
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Discover new artists from around the world! Come and enjoy the warmth of the world through a hand-picked selection of of bands, singers and instrumentalists, and soak up their soun…
After three years away, the group that brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod, Jeremy Vine and many more, are finally back with a new troupe and 100% new material.
Making A Murderer: The Musical is created by Phil Meaney, and tells the heart-wrenching story of the Avery family and the injustice they suffered at the hands of the American legal…
After almost two years of silence, Oxford’s critically acclaimed student sketch troupe are making a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe with The People vs.
The Oxford Revue are back again at the Edinburgh Fringe with an hour of sketches, stand-up and all sorts of assorted silliness! Known for kick-starting the careers of the likes of …
After 3 years away from Fringe festivals, the group which brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod, Jeremy Vine and many more, are finally back with a new troupe and 100% new …
After 3 years away from Fringe festivals, the group which brought you Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar, Ambika Mod, Jeremy Vine and many more, are finally back with a new troupe and 100% new …
Shakespeare’s Globe and Splendid Productions cordially invite you to Midsummer Mechanicals, the hilarious new follow-up to the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night&rsquo…
Experience Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy in the heart of Covent Garden with the award-winning Iris Theatre.
“THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
Maverick comedian Fool F Taylor returns .
Maverick comedian Fool F Taylor returns .
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Monday, May 30th 7:30pm Making Sweet Tea + Q&A Trailer: https://www.
Strap yourself in for a raucous comic cruise with the irreverent BiBi Crew! Join us for a highly charged evening full of fun and frolics, with labrish, sketches, tunes and more.
Strap yourself in for a raucous comic cruise with the irreverent BiBi Crew! Join us for a highly charged evening full of fun and frolics, with labrish, sketches, tunes and more.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
The Revolver Revue is a dazzling extravaganza featuring top UK and international circus, cabaret and burlesque acts.
The annual Fringe performance by one of the most exciting live bands in the South - this eight-piece soul and funk band, now in its fourteenth year, just keeps getting better.
The annual Fringe performance by one of the most exciting live bands in the South - this eight-piece soul and funk band, now in its fourteenth year, just keeps getting better.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Is this a therapy couch or a casting couch and is there a difference? The show is a cocktail of a comical but true look at communication in the western world today, with a good do…
Brighton Fringe 2019 People’s Choice Nominee George Sawyer returns with a bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to him or to anyone, ever.
Brighton Fringe 2019 People’s Choice Nominee George Sawyer returns with a bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to him or to anyone, ever.
Sometimes all the elements of a production combine to form something that is stunning and deeply moving.
Backstage in a faded Liverpool social club, seasoned cabaret diva and aspiring actress, Bev, prepares for her final ever gig.
PLEASE COME TALK TO ME Let us not remain strangers Aidan Greene: Stutter Bug (Work In Progress)A Stuttering Comedy Show in Development PLEASE COME TALK TO ME -&nbs…
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
It feels like a lifetime since I was seated front of stage; looking up at the house lights, almost as nervous as the performers waiting behind the curtain.
1888 London - 5 innocent women brutally murdered, then vilified by the press.
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
It is the True Crime Convention at the Museum of Comedy and fans have gathered to see their favourite True-Crime stars, get autographs and watch live podcast recordings …
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
Three top academics, three dangerous ideas and your host, comedian Susan Morrison.
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
Fairies.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
This energised group of youngsters bounce about the stage with glee, making a capella look far easier than it truly is and throwing themselves into the Fringe vibe with abandon.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
A virtual mini-festival celebrating classic literature online.
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.
Purchase this ticket for entry to the club on Saturday Night! DJ’s From 10pm This Ticket Does not include the Aidan Orange & Friends Show”.
A virtual mini-festival celebrating classic literature online.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
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.
Local jazz quartet JazzMain has built its reputation around the 1950s and 60s Blue Note jazz era by closely studying exceptional jazz artists like Dexter Gordon and his contemporar…
The Oxford Revue plunges you into a journey of madness, from Louis Theroux’s frustrating upbringing to the mind of a therapy dog.
A collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada.
The Dream Train weaves together a quartet of characters with JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a play that has the clarity and strangeness of a particularly convincing dream.
Hilarious and heartfelt story about a Russian immigrant named Natasha who moves with her son to NYC in the hopes of becoming a Real Housewife and cabaret star.
Watch German Comedy Ambassador give everything a good rinse and witness him wring sense out of the nonsensical.
YES! We are back and we can DANCE! DJ’s from 10pmSpecial Guests 20/8/21 Sandra London 11pm Stage Time 1/10/21 Sandra London 11pm Stage Time22/10 Vicki Vivacious 11pm…
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Enter a dreamlike world where the ordinary appears extraordinary.
Good evening and welcome to The Nearly News Show, live from The Brighton Fringe.
Good evening and welcome to The Nearly News Show, live from The Brighton Fringe.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
“The child screamed on the inside knowing the universe must have made a mistake.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
Get ready for a fiesta like no other as our ★★★★ (The Times, The Stage)raucous 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns with piñ…
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
The Greenwich Theatre reopened last week with the inspired programming of four short plays by Caryl Churchill.
With funding from the RVW Trust on the Summer solstice, violinist Sian Philipps will perform “The Lark Ascending” as well as a solo violin work by Sally Beamish, a premiere of “Noc…
With funding from the RVW Trust on the Summer solstice, violinist Sian Philipps will perform “The Lark Ascending” as well as a solo violin work by Sally Beamish, a premiere of “Noc…
Sarah Iles “a deeply astute comedy storyteller.
Sarah Iles “a deeply astute comedy storyteller.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
The Revolver Revue is a dazzling extravaganza featuring top UK and international circus, cabaret and burlesque acts.
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.
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
Here Come The Boys features four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’ in a dazzling new production that includes special guest star, Strictly’s stunning Nadiya Bychkova.
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.
Bringing to life the poetry of Robert Lax, Circus Days and Nights is a new genre-defying circus opera by legendary contemporary composer Philip Glass - a collaboration between Swed…
Je m’appelle Paul, je suis Anglais et j’habite en France.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Hamlet Isn’t Dead, in association with the US Karagöz Theatre, presents a modern shadow puppetry play in a classical style.
Following a sold-out UK national tour, Here Come The Boys, featuring the four superstar ‘Kings of Dance’, is set to transfer to the West End in a dazzling new productio…
The Dream Machine: ‘Making your dreams come true’.
Christian Adore and Eaton Messe are a gloriously musical drag king and queen doubleact who will improvise a tuneful medley right in front of your eyes! Using your su…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
An exciting video story about the development of Unicorns, Almost(Army @ The Fringe 2019 Show).
Phil Spencer will discuss the financial challenges of making a short film and how to overcome them.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
The legendary dark prince of comedy-cabaret has brought his new show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
The genius combination of a one hour long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
They say comedy’s about speaking truth to power.
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
“Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.
Je m’appelle Paul, je suis Anglais et j’habite en France.
Jonathan Pie returns to the road to warm-up ahead of his Fake News tour 2020. He’ll be berating the people in power - and the journalists apparently holding them to account.
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.
Clear the floor and whip out your score cards, because the Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is back for 2020 and will waltz its way around the country from January next year for…
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
Fresh from recording her debut Netflix stand-up special, the star of The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo and QI is back with a brand-new show.
Fresh from recording her debut Netflix stand-up special, the star of The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo and QI is back with a brand-new show.
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Friday 27th September, 8pm Tickets: £16Duration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
12 Finalists will compete for a cash prize of £500. Each act is 5 - 7 minutes long. Interval after 6th act
Before going mainstream in 2016, fake news was principally used to attack climate science.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
Reality TV lurches onto the stage, with four familiar Shakespearean characters competing to win a thousand gold crowns.
The Other Guys: Making Waves.
Ketchikan, Alaska and New York City: island towns at opposite ends of the American continent.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
If only beheading an enemy was the way to solve problems in the modern world.
Allan Taylor is the consummate professional who has taken songwriting to a high level.
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
In a circus after the lights have been turned off, four characters emerge in the darkness slowly revealing their desires, hunger and inner conflicts.
Six actors, neon tutus and the unmistakable lyrics of Agadoo.
This year’s hottest product has just hit the city.
Set in a TV studio, News@1066 puts history straight! Roving reporters get to the bottom of history’s biggest stories.
UK’s No 1 swing band, The Jive Aces, present their biggest theatre show to date The Big Beat Revue! Also featuring Kara Lane, Lottie B and Grazia Bevilacqua, this show features t…
Newcastle Comedy Society have decided the one thing the Fringe is lacking is student comedy.
A stripped back, thrilling and edgy contemporary dance work.
Award-winning musician Seonaid Aitken presents a special live edition of BBC Radio Scotland’s Jazz Nights, featuring Edinburgh Festival Fringe regular Richard Michael on piano, p…
Join Brendan Dassey’s lawyers Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin discussing coerced and false confessions, interrogation tactics, and Brendan’s wrongful conviction whose case has ca…
Kimjang is a Korean foodie tradition, where families and friends come together to make kimchi.
An exceptional opportunity to be immersed in classical and Tai Chi contemporary dances performed by talented young dancers.
Morning: coffee concert of informal music-making.
They laughed.
Journey across three southern states of the US and revel in the sweet sounds of Southern Soul.
Everybody knows Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, our beaches and landscapes, but the Balearics are not only sand and sun.
Returning by popular demand for its fourth year. As technical adviser on the film, Tom gives a rare insight into the making of the 1981 Oscar-winning picture.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Emma Shaw needs help.
Brought to you by the folk orchestra of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School of Zhejiang.
Magic.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Boy meets girl, they fall in love, and everyone lives happily ever after. If only it were that simple. Hold on to your heart. Cupid is armed and dangerous!
Actors from around the world rehearsed via Skype for four months and then met here in Scotland to put on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Come join us for …
Hilarious Scottish comedian Grant Gallacher returns to Scotland from touring and living in Europe and my, how things have changed.
From early Celtic tradition, through Shakespearean superstition to modern high fantasy, everyone has heard of fairies.
Following two consecutive years of sell-outs and critical acclaim, the James Taylor and Joni Mitchell stories combine into one exciting show to take you on a journey through the in…
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Jazzy / funk supper club at the Grange Club in trendy Stockbridge, 20 minutes from Princes Street.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Written/performed by John McCann and directed by Erasmus Mackenna, who brought you last year’s Scotsman Fringe First Award-winning play DUPed.
The classic version of the show is driven by a 132-piece orchestral recording of the original Holst suite with awe-inspiring solar system visuals featuring the latest images that h…
Sonic Vision combines pop and rock tracks with mind-warping visual art. Sit back and take in the surround sound with vivid graphics projected in 360 degrees.
The Edinburgh Revue returns for its 10th Fringe, bringing you 50 minutes of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby.
Three comedians bring along the news story they “think” is the most important and persuade the audience why it’s the most important of week.
New year.
With an all-new line-up and fresh material, the St Andrews Revue are back at the Fringe.
Disappear down the rabbit hole of a fool’s mind.
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
Join the world-famous Oxford Revue as it returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for its 55th year.
‘Indubitably good news.
Runaways.
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…
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…
In 2015, Nicki Minaj was paid approximately $400,000 to appear at a New York City bar mitzvah.
Award-winning Fringe favourites The Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and ridiculous reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally a…
Critically acclaimed playwright, Henry Naylor, is back at Gilded Balloon with another timely piece of theatre that packs a punch.
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran’s tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show packed full of jokes…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
by Ronnie Larsen directed by Andrew Beckett A hilarious look at the gay porn industry.
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran's tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show pack…
‘When on Earth did everyone become a detective?’ The voice rings out across the Almeida Young Company ensemble as they huddle beneath Sasha Venmore Rowland’s grief-stricken g…
just JOSH & WonderPhil are proud to present their debut double act.
SOMNIUM: A Dancer’s Dream, is the explosive dance show starring World Latin Showdance Champions and Strictly professionals Neil and Katya Jones.
Brighton favourites The Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand! Join the jet set when you book with Electric Cabaret Airlines.
The Revolver Revue is a dazzling extravaganza featuring top UK and international circus, cabaret and burlesque acts.
Christian Adore and Eaton Messe are the drag double act of Francesca Forristal and Ed Scrivens.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
4 April 1968.
Rape, beheadings, burnings, and religious persecution run rife.
Which way do you swing? Are you for pulling out or re-entering? Join the mass debate with Brighton’s legendary all-male cabaret burlesquers, Der Wunderlich Revue: Johnny MacAul…
The Joni Mitchell & James Taylor Story played to a packed out audience at the Komedia.
An immersive evening of art, music and encounter in one of Brighton’s most iconic buildings.
The latest offering in Above The Stag’s main auditorium takes us back in time to a Victorian Working Men’s Club in Bermondsey.
A collection of new musical theatre writing telling stories of love, life, adventure and, most importantly, what ‘home’ means to every one of us.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
A bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to me or to anyone.
The annual Fringe performance by one of the most exciting live acts in the south, this eight-piece soul and funk band, now in their eleventh year just keeps getting better.
£5010am - 4pmAge 16+ A highly experimental workshop in which you will play with mark making, pattern, colour and repetition across a variety of surfaces and with a…
Following its sold out smash hit debut tour, Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners returns to theatres in 2019 with an even bigger production.
Hip-hop dance-based production with some added variety to celebrate our twenty-year anniversary and showcase our talented students, which range from the age of 4 upwards…
Following its sold out smash hit debut tour, Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners returns to theatres in 2019 with an even bigger production.
A fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of ILLEGAL the award-winning graphic novel by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, and artist Giovanni Rigano.
A brand new show from 'The Outright King of Live Comedy’ - The Times.
Featuring an all-star cast, All Is True is a theatrical drama that sees Branagh portray the famous playwright, William Shakespeare in his retirement years.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Three characters flee the shores of Libya; each on their own personal journey, whilst a tabloid reporter awaits them on the beaches of Greece, seeking stories to fit a cynical narr…
Discover the remarkable true story of a small town that welcomed the world.
Come and join us for an evening of script in hand readings from our new writing programme – Stage Write.
The Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour is waltzing back on the road from January 2019 for 29 supersized sequin-filled shows across the country.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Dystopian Dream is the brand new production created from a concept originated by Nitin Sawhney and co-devised with Honji Wang and Sebastien Ramirez.
‘Shepard's masterwork.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
The ‘Outright King of Live Comedy’ (The Times) Jason Byrne is back at the Leicester Square Theatre for more comedy chaos.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Get a 'glimpse’ into what REALLY goes on in Donald Trump’s meetings with Putin; the inside scoop into New Royal Power Couple Meghan and Kate; and what i…
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Stand-up comedian and star of Arrested Development and Mr.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
From Sinbad to Ali Baba, join us on a voyage of discovery through the greatest stories ever told, as the historic Hoxton Hall is transformed into an opulent palace this autumn! A y…
The Three Inch Fools bring their innovative productions of two of Shakespeare’s most infamous and iconic plays to The George Inn on the South Bank, London’s Shakespearean heart.
This is a showcase of several African, Scottish, international and United Kingdom entertainment talents from various industries.
The link between imaginary and existing worlds is explored by 23 visionaries in a range of media.
Set in a TV studio, News@1066 puts history straight! Roving reporters get to the bottom of history’s biggest stories.
Good Things Come to Those Who explores our generation’s relationship with work, debt, big data, surveillance and public/private space: when everything you have can be an asset, wha…
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…
Body Shop is a multiplayer, multi-layered human body action game, a future-forward competition where women are assembled according to the stories of their bodies.
Liverpool’s acclaimed sketch comedy show hurtles back to the Fringe for its fifth year of unmistakable whimsy and Merseyside wit.
Join us for a postmodern take on popular songs from the past decade as well as standards by the likes of Gershwin, Berlin, and Ellington.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Allan Taylor is the consummate professional who has taken songwriting to a high level.
Plucked is a barnyard fable declaring the high ground on animal cruelty, a sermon on cycles of violence from bird to child to wife.
Hello! I’m Charlie Miller, and I was in Budgie the Little Helicopter.
We’re all brainwashed, biased and influenced by personal experience, even scientists.
Award-winning Fringe favourites the Owle Schreame return with a wild, rough, raucous and drunken reimagining; a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream from the 1640s, originally adap…
Elspeth McVeigh, soprano, ‘voice.
This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Do you always approach life logically, making careful decisions based on sound evidence and facts? Health warning! You may be suffering from abnormally high levels of rationality.
‘I simply cannot wait to see more of their magic’ ***** (Tribe).
After many sold-out shows over five years, Edinburgh band Flagstaff are back for two nights with our take on classic and contemporary country, roots and Southern rock songs.
The show they couldn’t stop.
Tom McNab, technical adviser on the Oscar award-winning Chariots of Fire, gives an account of how the film was made.
A captivating show suitable for all encompassing a variety of dance styles, colourful costumes and entertaining narrative.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Julia Krone Oliver, a local Edinburgh artist originally from Cape Town, paints life-affirming dreamlike landscapes.
Former PM and cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back.
Three of the Oxford Revue’s best and brightest present a free hour of stand-up and musical comedy.
The Edinburgh Revue – the Titanic of comedy.
‘If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Posturous Productions and the writer of the critically acclaimed Glass Slippers and Silver Bullets and the sell out shows The Haunted Hunt and Build-Up And Climax pr…
The Oxford Revue returns with its celebrated Free Fringe variety bill.
Caustic Comedy Nights is a jocular experience featuring the world’s top stand-up comedians, perfect for a lively Edinburgh crowd! This stand-up comedy cultivation-project and the…
The Edinburgh Revue returns to the Fringe with a collection of its best and brightest local talents from throughout the year in this stand-up showcase.
The James Taylor Story returns with the addition of Carly Simon to take you through Taylor’s career as he embarks on a journey into superstardom and his turbulent relationship wi…
Direct from the USA, the infamous Gravel Road Show presents The Cult of True Womanhood in a world-premiere cabaret that dismantles the four cardinal virtues of “true” womanhood…
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall. Travel back in time to 1979 with this progressive rock album enhanced with spectacular wrap-around immersive dome visuals.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
‘The children grabbed him (the father) and put him on the table.
Haggis, Neeps and Burns is about as Scottish as tartan and the trinity.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
The Revue return to the Fringe following an international tour with an hour of high-octane sketch and musical comedy – with an absurdist and political bent – from the best and …
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s…
Fun and frenetic cabaret revue combining songs, sketches and observations in a hilarious celebration of the world’s biggest arts festival.
Fringe legend and ‘outright king of live comedy’ (Times), Jason Byrne, is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
What a difference a decade can make.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Hosted by Gráinne Maguire (as seen on Dave’s UnSpun with Matt Forde), every day three different comics bring along the story from the news they think is the most important and arg…
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
Dream Logos is the divine logic of dreams in the backdrop of the known universe in projected image, dance, aerial, and theatre.
What if you didn’t know you were dead? A dark new comedy.
Newcastle Comedy Society’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe after gaining popularity in Newcastle for hosting hilarious, chaotic shows for the student population and the pub…
Christian Adore and Eaton Messe are a drag double act who tell the story of their fiery relationship through dazzling songs, sketch and raps based on audience suggestions.
The back room at Dragonfly is unassuming.
The creator of Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries (sell-out shows 2016 and 2017), returns with 40 minutes of jokes and silliness.
The St Andrews Revue are back for their eighth Edinburgh Fringe! This year they’re on the run from the law, and their ‘extremely funny’ (BroadwayBaby.
The magic of New York is effectively captured in 89 Nights, a new musical from Troubadour Stageworks.
What does the transcript of a 17th century Italian rape trial reveal about the state of the world nowadays? That, despite 400 years of supposed social progress, the impulse to blam…
Paul Foxcroft (Cariad and Paul, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show) is a professional improviser who, for some reason, has decided to script an hour’s show in defiance of his many years o…
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
Returning after their award-winning, sell-out 2015 show, Beard (‘one of the best kept secrets in comedy-town’ (List)) are back with their genre-defying comedy.
The legendary terpsichorean twosome make their Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Emma Sidi’s one-woman show Faces of Grace is absolutely bonkers.
Kyron and Menschy will deliver a fresh batch of comedic biscuits nightly accompanied by a preemptive doggy bag of accessible uploads so you can relive the madness whenever and wher…
‘The most relevant comedian in Edinburgh’ (EdFestMag.
Join us for our summer showcase fundraising gala at Brighton Open Air Theatre on July 3rd for an extravagant evening of everything Fringe! See all your Fringe favourites from our 2…
Taylor Swift’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, reputation, topped iTunes album charts in 111 countries and debuted at number one on the both the Official UK Albums C…
With Ripley also featuring: Elle and Alexis StClair Can Trump take down the mainstream media? How will Theresa get herself out of the next inevitable PR disaster? And how can Nico…
Fringe legend and 'Outright King of Live Comedy' (The Times) Jason Byrne is opening the doors again for more comedy chaos.
Taylor Swift’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, reputation, topped iTunes album charts in 111 countries and debuted at number one on the both the Official UK Albums C…
Join multi award-winner and Britain's Got Talent 2017 semi-finalist Jess Robinson for an evening of spot-on celebrity impressions, musical comedy and stunning vocal gymnastics.
Scottish singer-songwriter Emma Morton’s ascendancy through the European music scene has seen her work gain high-profile recognition.
‘The Revolver Revue’ is a glamorous, dazzling extravaganza featuring top UK and international circus, cabaret and burlesque acts.
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…
Time travel to 1970s Brighton’s top ‘nite spot’ and enjoy a Tequilla Sunrise or two at the bar in the secret Bedford Ballroom (complete with original 70s chandeliers), as we take a…
The doctor (to be) will see you now.
A firm rite of the Queens, the boys from Der Wunderlich Revue have been peddling their own unique brand of chaos, smut, nudity and stupidity for ten years.
Following on from the phenomenal success of Transfigured Night, Danish choreographer and two time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup creates a new work for Rambert.
Equity represents over 43,000 members across the industry.
Enjoy a night of rhyming, rice and peas with Dean Atta and Deanna Rodger alongside a menu of performers chosen for their wit, wisdom and ability to move you.
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.
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays comes to Oxford after its critically-acclaimed London and international festival runs.
The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe.
Pop the champagne.
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Join Robyn Perkins, English Comedian of the Year finalist, and Sarah Iles, “Left the room quaking with laughter” as they divulge stories from their crazy, surreal and bizarre lives…
Wired Theatre follow on from their show last year, And Love Walked In, with this new sequel, Always, With a Love That's True.
‘The She Monsters’ are a cabaret act featuring Evil, Deadly and Beautiful.
Born from the desire to bring visionary art into greater awareness, the ‘Psychedelic Dream Temple’ is not just a showcase of some of the worlds most talented artists but also a pla…
The name itself ‘Caustic Comedy’ is based on a particular form of humour: comedy that is acerbic, cutting-edge, even cruel or insulting but always amusing, indeed, corrosive an…
South Coast Soul Revue is a high-energy band playing a mix of dance-friendly classic and contemporary soul music, with a twist of funk.
The internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated vocalist, Stacey Kent, returns to the UK for a very limited number of 2017/18 dates, featuring music from her latest albu…
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Lyric for two performances only…
Loc Tran adds his own comical twist to random news stories with topics including: * The de-crimilisation of same-sex marriages In Vietnam.
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 …
Recently, Simon was told he was going to be a dad.
Best Comedy Award - Brighton Fringe 2016 Best Comedy Weekly Award - Adelaide Fringe 2017 Internationally-renowned, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo returns to Adela…
Access Denied are a group of 18 talented performers ranging in ages from 12-18 years.
Who’s up for a game? Throughout Fringe we’ll be playing games like Zombicide, Secret Hitler, Mysterium and more! The games will be different each night so check out brainhac.
The Emma Hack Art Prize is a $5000 acquisitive art prize with a People’s Choice Prize of $2000.
It’s been a big year for Amelia Ryan (Storm In A D Cup, Lady Liberty, Livvy & Pete).
Canada’s reigning “Queen troubadour of intelligent black-comic sex balladry” (Edmonton Journal) returns to Adelaide for four nights only with a collection of songs and covers from …
Raise your inhalers as glittered geeks invade Gluttony for FIVE nights of NERDLESQUE nonsense.
Based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy, Britten’s opera follows the consequences of a falling-out between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen, Tytania.
A show for the warriors of love, the ragtag-hearted heroes, the beautiful, the brave, the healed and the crushed.
Frankie and Sal are two best friends with very different outlooks on life.
Awarded Broadway composer & pianist, John Bucchino, will be performing for the S.
The show that’s Rocking Aus comes to Adelaide Fringe.
WORKSHOP: Would you like to know how to structure a dramatic monologue, or make work inspired by lived experience? Acclaimed UK writer & theatre-maker Molly Taylor specialises in …
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in January …
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you in Janua…
The Strictly Come Dancing Live Tour is back to keep you dancing into 2018! Pure dancing pleasure awaits as this supersized Strictly Live show comes to an arena near you…
Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company of South Australia present, Things I Know To Be True, a new play by Andrew Bovell.
Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
‘Making a Scene’ is a grounding in the core principles and techniques of improvisation.
‘Making a Scene’ is a grounding in the core principles and techniques of improvisation.
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Originally, our brains were designed to be multilingual, managing two or more languages easily.
The award winning & brilliantly imaginative Paul F Taylor is BACK.
The HandleBards are the world’s first cycling theatre company.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Former Prime Minister and global cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back – and this time she’s hosting a club night! There’ll be non-stop 80s hits from a non-st…
Musical gems from the Great American and British Songbooks.
A comedy show about drinking, and what happens when you stop.
The girls are back in town.
The History of Jazz Piano is now expanded into a journey over three nights taking in the greatest jazz pianists from Fats Waller to Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.
Snow is the newest prisoner at HMP Young Offenders Institution, Hull.
A unique take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from a Russian company dedicated to the Bard.
A reinterpretation of some of William Shakespeare’s best scenes woven together to create a new story about two young lovers.
Do you love singing? Would you like the chance to sing some of classical music’s most iconic choral pieces, led by a wonderfully expressive conductor? If so, come along and sing …
An American, a Scot and a woman walk into a bar – they’re three of the Oxford Revue’s finest returning to Edinburgh with an hour of character comedy.
Come one, come all – come join us, the University of Sheffield’s comedy society, in this wonderful Basement Bar at 48 Below, as we dazzle you with our sketch comedians and stan…
A Shakespeare comedy done right, this play manages to put a modern twist on the well known classic by filling it with quirky characters that look like they’ve picked right out of…
Wendy’s spellbinding show offers stunning interpretations of contemporary and traditional Scots, French, American and Canadian songs: Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Robert Burns, …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Returning this year by popular demand! As technical adviser on the film, Tom gives a rare insight into the making of the 1981 Oscar-winning picture.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Quilarious: A new exciting comedy format.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn.
The Edinburgh Revue is back in black, bringing you sketch comedy straight from the horse’s mouth.
Sit back and relax for a cinematic treat! Double Dome Nights is showing a combination of two films from Dynamic Earth’s spectacular bank of out of this world 360-degree immersive…
Jordan Fenlon and Andy Carmichael (Heriot-Watt University) take a light-hearted look at the British Sign Language (BSL) Signbank – the online repository based on the BSL Corpus.
The James Taylor Story is one of a series of shows at the Fringe under the Night Owl Shows, the company created by Dan Clews.
Making Waves was written in 2014 by Daniel Cartwright & Tom Brassington at the University of Central Lancashire.
The Edinburgh Revue returns for its eighth Fringe, bringing you an hour of ‘brave, intelligent, and inventive’ (BroadwayBaby.
The incredible, true story of the Wild West’s greatest Lakota warrior, this original one-man drama depicts the quiet, brilliant figure who defied the mighty US military, attempting…
Following a sell-out 2016 Fringe and nationwide tour, the star of BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and The John Bishop Show, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC Radio 4’s …
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
Join the critically acclaimed Oxford Revue as it returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for its 53rd year.
Every day, Gráinne is joined by three top comics who try to persuade the audience why their favourite news story is the most import of the week’s news.
2016 saw JoJo Smith dip her toe into the Fringe waters with a brief run of her first solo show I was Mick Jones’ Bank Clerk.
From two former students of Philippe Gaulier.
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians.
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
Hurt and Anderson are on the edge.
Back with a new troupe and 100% new material, come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy! Known for their irreverent s…
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…
You want stories? JoJo has a lifetime’s worth.
The most talked about comedian from last year’s Fringe is back.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
Bringing together more than 80 paintings by an almost forgotten generation of artists, this exhibition explores the figurative tradition in British art between the two World Wars.
Tom Taylor returns with his one person particularly posh whodunnit featuring Charles Montague, a posh dandy womanizer who is one of those people who you can’t work out quite why …
At the opening of a new art exhibition, rakish aristocrat and gentleman detective, Charlie Montague, is presented with a double-threat: murder and modern art.
A programme of three great works by Frederick Ashton closes The Royal Ballet’s Season.
Amidst all the current political debates surrounding nationalism, I was curious as to the sort of person that would put on a show called Jacob Hatton: True Brit.
A stunning acrobat suspended beneath a free standing arch performs to an original live score performed by DJ Tigerstyle, Matt Constantine (strings/keyboards) and David Shaw (percus…
We’re back! The Medic Revue returns for its 11th year! Written, cast and crewed solely by students at BSMS, the show will take you through an exploration of medicine and the NHS in…
Join Brighton’s favourite (almost) all-male cabaret and burlesquers for a dirtier weekend of stripping, pole-dancing, cheerleading (of course), nudity, stupidity, magic, music and …
Been in the pub a lot, preparing for when the robots take over: lot of weird stuff happening, just below the surface.
Winner: Best Comedy Award, Brighton Fringe, 2016.
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 …
Star of ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Mock the Week’ and Radio 4’s ‘The Now Show’, tries out some new jokes for an hour or so.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Following the overwhelming success of their UK tour this year with numerous sold-out venues, include the London Palladium, Dean Strang and Jerry Buting, defence attorneys for Steve…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Celebrating 10 FAB-U-LOUS years, the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour extravaganza is back on the road in January 2017 for 30 spectacular super-sized shows across the c…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Nick Lowe’s Quality Holiday Revue arrives in time to sprinkle some much needed Holiday Cheer.
Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s…
Fiona Hunter, Mike Vass, and Innes Watson ride high in the pantheon of young musical talent with which Scotland is blessed.
In six years of bible storytelling, Yorick has built a reputation for delivering John’s Gospel with a gripping performance storytelling style that is authentic and accessible.
Allan will sing his songs of the road, written from a lifetime of travelling throughout the world.
Dan Offen (Amused Moose semi-finalist) and Jonny Gillam bring you this slice of alternative comedy.
Could you be the next big Youtuber like Stampie Cat? Do you love to vlog? Build your dream world in Minecraft and walk us through it giving us hints and tips on improving Minecraft…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre presents The Life to Come by Timothy Mason.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
The European premiere of the official documentary film on Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers (Sandman, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, Neverwhere, Dr Wh…
Join Des Clarke for the topical comedy panel news quiz, taking a satirical swipe at the week’s news in Scotland and across the UK.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Hold in your hands the original working script of an Oscar-winning film, and be taken through the processes by which it was translated to the screen by the technical director, Olym…
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Coatsink discuss their VR development journey over the past three years.
Love is complicated.
Strictly Come Trancing, the only hypnosis cabaret show at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 returns bigger and better than ever.
South African sensations return.
Three people’s dreams merge in post-apocalyptic Britain.
Globetrotting comedian Wool is back for a limited time with the first glimpse of his new show.
Offbeat one-liners, flights of fancy and a totally absurd storyline from surrealist fool and NATY 2013 winner, Paul F Taylor.
Ben Dali’s Strictly Come Trancing has a flashy presentation as he enters to Eye Of The Tiger in a glittering jacket and pop-star headset.
What if you could see into the future for a thousand years? Would that be long enough? A battle for the future, a battle for a child, a battle for a dream.
Walk the historic and dramatic Royal Mile with poet Ken Cockburn, weaving through narrow closes, open squares and secret gardens to discover how this city has been inspiring writer…
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is one of the most well known stories in the English canon.
This educational, charming piece on an American folk-rock visionary is fittingly presented by an up-and-coming sensation of the same genre, Dan Clews.
Celebrating 400 years of William Shakespeare, the award-winning ST@UIBE company from Beijing presents Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and misunderstanding in a refreshing new …
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
The Edinburgh Revue are back at the Fringe celebrating ten years of making the ‘comic talent of the future’ (Skinny).
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
Who has time to care about all the day’s news? Not when most of us have so many good box sets on the go.
Relax after a busy day at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with live acoustic music from local artists, a complimentary cuppa and a free taster of one of our massage treatments in the…
From the pen of former Royal Court Young Writer, Nick Cassenbaum, comes a brand new absurd comedy for young people about living a dream.
Literature narrows the gap between diverse nations.
The Edinburgh Revue are 10 years old this year! Now we’re officially in double digits, come join us for an hour of high energy sketches and possibly some birthday cake.
Step into an interstellar kosmische zone the likes the capital has never seen to launch Summerhall’s amazing musical programme this August.
An actual baby, just.
I imagine Camille O’Sullivan has been called an Irish Chanteuse in reviews more times that you’ve had a flyer thrust at you on the Mile.
South African sensations return.
Hi, Lee here.
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…
One man.
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
Sobriety’s a joke.
The Oxford Revue present a rotating cast of the country’s brightest young comedians together with headline acts from the comedy circuit.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A magical showcase of the funniest, fiercest female comics at the Fringe, curated by Funny Women 2015 finalist Sophie Duker and hotshot Texan improviser Erin Bimmons.
Honest, unflinching and delightfully dark: the award-winning American comedian tackles everything from prenatal pandas to postnatal depression in a tale about surviving the never-e…
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
Chef: Come Dine With Us! should not in a way be confused with the TV series Come Dine With Me.
The St Andrews Revue are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their brand new sketch comedy spectacular Loop: 50 minutes of mind-blowing comedy that will make you laugh so ha…
People will recognise Ellie Taylor from the popular BBC3 show, Snog, Marry, Avoid, where she conducted make-unders on OTT members of the British public.
Matty Finlayson, noun – A hard-hitting action-packed gigolo, not dissimilar to a high-class call girl.
Come and see the renowned Durham Revue perform their own brand of ‘sublime’, ‘masterful’ (ThreeWeeks) sketch comedy, showcasing 60 minutes of student comedy at its finest.
Emma Sidi manages to squeeze in all of our favourite soap opera tropes, from relationship problems to paternity tests, drug addiction to hot-headed murder (don’t worry no spoiler…
Jamali Maddix creates a buzz when he enters the stage, and why not? He’s a cool guy.
Helen Duff has gone from strength to strength, after her hilarious yet heart-breaking Vanity Bites Back show last year.
Joining the ranks of slightly nerdy comedians who primarily joke about their non-existent sex lives, So You Think You’re Funny finalist Alex Kealy is a safe bet for some well-tho…
Taylor the ‘filth maestro’ (Time Out) takes on the ickiest thing there is! Being white.
Come Get Some! is a rather energetic title, as titles go, but its excitement about Nick Cody is absolutely justified.
Graínne Maguire is a pretty cool woman, and once trended worldwide for tweeting the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) updates on her menstrual cycle.
This is a disappointing show, mainly because the Oxford Revue don’t have that many funny sketches to perform.
A one-man drama about Indian chief, Crazy Horse that captures the high adventure of the Sioux Wars of the Wild West.
The course of true love doesn’t run smooth for long in this Shakespearian comedy.
After nine sell-out years, the BSMS Medic Revue returns with its biggest show yet! Written, cast and crewed by medical students who explore life in medicine through comedy sketches…
Join Ellie Taylor (‘Mock the Week’, ‘Snog Marry Avoid’, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’) as she prepares a brand new show.
Playful pink lighting, red velvet drapes, glittery fixtures and wooden circus seats - entering the Brighton Spiegeltent screams ‘Showtime!’ Come Fly With Me is a charming, c…
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe attracts media and arts professionals from all over the globe.
This eight-piece soul and funk band just keeps getting better.
Your quick wits and sharp tongue are all that stand between Earth and total destruction.
Surreal one-liners, flights of fancy and a totally absurd storyline from the NATY 2013 winner.
Local thespians in Brighton may be familiar with the Academy of Creative Training (ACT), which strives to offer instruction to the ordinary individual who dreams of a life on the…
Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour! 2015 is finally here Actress Georgia May Foote, Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and TV presenter Anita Rani are the next celebrity contestan…
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…
Like the first, the final play in Rona Munro’s James Plays is part family saga, part love story.
(previews start on Jan.
It’s 1988 and Brandon is embarking on his Senior year at St.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
This pure-voiced soprano, much admired for her contributions to the early music scene, joins the lutenist Jakob Lindberg for a program of English songs.
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…
‘If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended… That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear…’ With a quarrel raging between Oberon, Kin…
A night of big music in The Gardens, spanning the freewheeling rock’n’roll and southern soul of their magnificent new album, Modern Blues, to classics and other gems from their rem…
Concerts by Oklahoma City’s experimental fearless freaks The Flaming Lips are legendary, stunningly immersive psychedelic experiences, and this special open-air show beneath Edinbu…
Best known for the indie classics Sit Down and Come Home, James’ latest studio album La Petite Mort bristles with upbeat defiance and illustrates just why they remain one of Britai…
Stand By Your Man: True Crime Cabaret presents chilling, thrilling true stories of regular women with one thing in common: they all fell in love with serial killers.
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.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
Allan will sing his songs of the road, written from a lifetime of travelling throughout the world.
Sheeps’ Daran Johnson, Alastair Roberts and Liam Williams take a wry look at the news and do not like what they see when they take a wry look at the news.
From the Royal Botanic Gardens you can see (when it isn’t raining) almost all of central Edinburgh, the Athens of the north.
In this exciting collaboration, award-winning vocalist and performer, Jungr, and Grammy and Emmy Award winner McDaniel investigate The Beatles; celebrating Paul, John, George and R…
To dream or not to dream? For the residents of Lhaytar, the only remaining city on an otherwise flooded Earth, the answer is definitively the latter.
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
Flagstaff returns to the Fringe this year with a rusty, broken bottle blues feel that takes you down south and out west.
Relax after a busy day at the Fringe with live acoustic music from local artists, a complimentary cuppa and free hand and arm or head massage treatment in the tranquil environment …
Drawing on their huge catalogue of classic bits, always introducing new material and lacing it all together with bizarre improvised tangents, the Pajama Men create an anarchic nigh…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
This is a superb student production from St Edward’s School, under the direction of Jamie Johnstone and co-director Rebecca Clark.
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson will be giving essential advice on how best to market yourself in the industry, covering everything from CVs, photos and showreels, to how to approach agents…
We open with a group of young Southern belles, beautifully attired in vintage-style dresses, learning how to apply make-up to please their husbands, so setting up the conservative …
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
Listening to Charlotte Green talk for an hour on any subject is an enjoyable way to spend any afternoon, but hearing her talk about her long and distinguished career as a newsreade…
Be transported by this enormously spirited and fast-moving production to the mischievous world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Sometimes a production doesn’t come together and it’s not for a lack of trying.
This is a play for fans of Greek tragedy and theatre nerds.
Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults.
The answer we get from Jack Heal to the question of his show’s title is that, not only do scientists dream of genetically engineered sheep, but they are actively pursuing how to …
Every day we see the news, images bombard us.
A probably funny show featuring more than one sketch.
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.
Every Brilliant Thing is quite simply brilliant.
Four students, a full house and a series of clever sketches make for a very enjoyable hour in The Exeter Revue: Sketchup.
Welcome to a dark, sexy sketch show assembled and reanimated in The Basement.
Taking place in the greatest of British institutions — a chip shop — on election night, Open is a devised work by the student-run Nottingham New Theatre.
In an attempt to prove that Aesop was history’s greatest fabulist, a group of storytellers crack the spine of a massive edition of Aesop’s Fables, releasing the old man’s most memo…
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
This evocative dance performance is as notable for the process by which it was made as it is for the quality of the final product.
The Dream Sequentialists is a show about dream goblins.
A space at Summerhall has been transformed into a forest.
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, as you’ve never seen it before.
Picture this.
As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very common choice for the Fringe.
When High Court Justice Sir Horace Fewbanks is found dead, Detective Inspector Chippenfield and Detective Sergeant Rolfe are on the case to find the killer.
A solid and entertaining piece of Shakespeare that’s well handled by its young cast.
This year is the 30th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, a violent police intervention in which more than 500 travellers were arrested in a field on their way to a new-age…
It’s August 1999 and a group of Bristol teenagers have returned from a trip to Cornwall where they went to see an eclipse.
Fans of Charles Dickens will love this charming one-man show performed by Ian Pearce, which he adapted from a short story.
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Best described as cabaret with some clowning thrown in, Scarlet Shambles: It Used To Be Me is a delightful surprise.
A superb one-woman show from Kate Cook, Invisible Women tells of the thrilling adventures of a repressed housewife and sometime poet turned WWII operative.
Jean is sitting in a cafe enjoying a lobster bisque when a phone nearby starts to rings.
Conceived and performed by stage magician Janne Raudaskoski, The Outsider is a spectacular piece of theatre illusion.
An adaptation of the classic gothic horror by Henry James, this show promises chills and thrills but didn’t send too many shivers up my spine.
The Durham Revue has a lot going for it this year – the group are all on top form.
Born out of 500 talks to students about what they want from life, Moj Taylor is seriously in the pursuit of crappiness.
Set in an attic sewing room, Saoirse’s life is presented to us as a form of patchwork quilt.
Welcome to the house party.
Winner of the 2014 Primary Times Children’s Choice Award.
In a small, bare room in Pleasance Courtyard, armed with a projector screen and a pack of makeup wipes, Angela Barnes is ready to change your view on beauty standards - and make yo…
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…
Barnie Duncan’s alter-ego Juan Vesuvius has returned to Edinburgh with a DJing set unlike any other.
The Oxford Revue’s 2015 Fringe offering is a confident display of strong student comedy.
When you see a comedian get a laugh from taking a sip of water you know they’ve got good timing.
One-man sketch show Will Franken serves up another smorgasbord of multi-voiced madness.
This adaptation of Josh Kilmer-Purcell’s autobiography by writer/performer Tom Stuart is in turns sympathetic and shocking.
A charming storytelling piece that fuses spoken word and music, Fable from the Flanagan Collective charts the story of ‘J’.
These singers know how to dazzle and excite their audience.
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
I wasn’t supposed to be reviewing this show, but on a friend’s recommendation (“three Korean ladies doing Chekhov.
This is a story of Sarah, a lover of maps and trigonometry.
**** (Skinny).
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
In the first Robert Ross Requests the Pleasure.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
Five men are trapped in a West Virginia mine in this visceral play, whose lighting comes only from the actors’ headlamps.
(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 Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
One of the most exciting acts in the South, this 8-piece soul/funk band goes from strength to strength with their thrilling mix of classic and modern songs.
The dance which is like a knife in the shadows, the dance of gamblers and the farewell of lovers - tango! A dreamlike collision of tragedy and unexpected humour.
A festival favourite founded by its current producer in 1989 in Queens Park.
The BSMS Medic Revue is back again after 8 sell-out years with a brand new show! This comedy performance encompasses medical humour in the form of sketches, live music and videos, …
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
The Cold Heart Revue is a UK solo music act making his Brighton Fringe debut with ‘Where Are The Villains Now’.
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…
An exhibition of work that depicts what visitors enjoy in Brighton - the eccentric, comic, delightful or strange.
They met at Greenham.
Deep in the forest, faeries wait .
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
Meet Helena & Hermia, two teenagers addicted and dependent on social media.
Stories have always been at the heart of cultural inheritance – the myths we pass on about self, family and nation – and today is no different.
The rising trend in ‘poverty porn’ suggests that there’s money in laughing at, scorning at and ultimately punishing the socially and economically deprived.
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.
Bach wrote his “Goldberg Variations” for an instrument with two manuals; the excellent pianist Christopher Taylor has been resuscitating the tradition with performances…
Tom Papa records an episode of his old-timey radio show, which features sketches, stand-up and music.
In the surrounds of St Cecilia’s Hall, my view of pianist Peter Bream is through a glass case displaying a set of tartan-clad bagpipes.
Gershwin fans will enjoy this programme of carefully selected tunes as well as biographical readings, including letters between Gershwin and his brother and collaborator Ira.
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
Scottish Album of the Year award winner RM Hubbert is joined by former Delgado and Chemikal Underground labelmate Emma Pollock for this unmissable solo/duo double-bill.
Come and play.
This is a play about a writer, the girl he loves and the characters in his head.
This piece from Japan seeks to present a slice of life.
Relive the angst of young unrequited love, the nerves of amateur actors who have to perform for the Duke or risk being hanged, and the mischief and mayhem caused by the fairies.
Being a teenager is not easy.
This fun new adaptation of JM Barrie’s classic story begins in Priceland.
Flat Pack is a coming-of-age story.
This play, about a group of high school students attempting to adapt the Greek classic with disastrous consequences, thankfully doesn’t end in a case of life imitating art, altho…
The welcome recording over the PA tells us that this event is part of the Assembly Rooms’ ‘Enchanting ideas’ series for a ‘more discerning audience’, getting a chuckle …
In this solo show about an ambitious crooner, we see Frank Corelli in an interrogation room, prompted to reveal the story that got him there.
Who doesn’t love a good murder? Most of Britain does apparently and this preoccupation is not a recent event.
xYMTS are back walking the path of life and picking up pace.
Prepare to be offended and amazed.
Eilidh has a problem.
Sell-out 2010-2013! Spellbinding new show.
For over 40 years Taylor has been considered to be the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsu…
It should be a speakeasy with small round tables and lowballs of stiff drinks on the rocks – but it ain’t.
He claims he’s now been knighted as Sir Robert Downe (you can call him Count Downe, geddit?) but that isn’t the only outlandish claim made at this fabulous frolic of a cabar…
In this abridged version of Into the Woods I wasn’t sure if the ‘junior’ part would refer to the length or the audience appropriateness of the play.
This lovely piece of devised work opens with the young cast, paint-splattered and white-faced, arranged on a row of chairs, from which they begin a choreographed series of movement…
This romp through the bygone days of grand movie theatres and classic films is brought to us by Jean (Karen Levick) and Pearl (Helen Wood).
This play explores the enduring Celtic mythology of Selkies – mythical seal-like creatures who, once ashore, can shed their skin, appear as beautiful women and have their hearts …
If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture…
If this show had simply featured the songs of the Three Belles – an Andrews Sisters-inspired act with delightful voices and glorious harmonies – and some references to the 1…
The worst thing about this show is that there’s a life-size cardboard cut-out of Robert Pattinson onstage the entire time.
Writing fiction in Jane Austen’s time was deemed a frivolous thing and, with this considered, the frivolity of a musical is certainly an appropriate way to present her life.
Movin’ Melvin Brown is in town doing two different high-energy shows on alternating nights.
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking opera, folk, choir and dancing presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
Tanya Byron shares powerful stories from her years of training as a clinical psychologist and highlights the struggles of patients and staff alike on the journey from chaos to clar…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
From the gospel parlors of black Florida to the racist salons of white NYC, Sevan learns that it takes more than an NKOTB t-shirt to become a white American.
A show about youth, friendship, growing up and our relationship with our teenage selves. Contains loud guitars, the sea and cringing.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
Spotlight’s Emma Dyson and casting director Annelie Powell will be giving essential career advice on everything from CV’s, photos and showreels, to how to approach agents and c…
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The title for this play comes from the chromosomes that arbitrarily define gender.
Like a Virgin has an intriguing concept, promising bubble-gum pop and teen rites of passage.
Riding with Night opens with an ensemble of black-cloaked figures, their faces masked, and a voiceover providing an epilogue to the play we are about to see.
Midsummer / Jersey is a hilarious, high-octane re-telling of Shakepeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set on the Jersey Shore.
I had high expectations for this adaptation of one of my childhood favourites.
This original work sets out to present the history of the US state of Nevada, contending that there’s more to it than Vegas.
The St Andrews Revue’s offering to this year’s Fringeis everything student comedy should be.
This adaptation by Stephen Williams follows the stories of Clever Gretel (no relation to Hansel) and Silly Kate Elizabeth.
Tracing the life of Korean dancer Choi Seung-hee, this solo show is surprising and delightful.
Jack lives on an island where the community calls itself idyllic.
The premise for this clever improvised show is to poach from the best of the Fringe.
“Would you rather die by drowning or die of cancer?”Scott would rather drown.
Paper Play is the story of a boy who climbed to a great height to see what he could see.
It’s four minutes in and I find myself clapping harder than ever while singing “Auld Reeke you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind.
Neil Simon’s comedy is made up of three self-contained acts in three different explorations of relationships, all of which take place in the same room at the Plaza Hotel in Manha…
A slick piece of cyberpunk with noir flourishes, The Orpheus Project is an atmospheric re-imagining of Kafka’s The Trial combined with the myth of Orpheus and his quest to bring …
Welcome to a new topical show, where three top comedians try to persuade Gráinne and the audience why the news story that has most impacted their life that week is the story they …
Amidst the moustachioed revolutionaries that don the walls of Viva Mexico restaurant, Kate Smurthwaite takes the mic for a thought-provoking hour of comedy.
The most common mistake of a university comedy troupe, I have found, is the attempt to be too clever.
Hosted by the effulgent (according to her title card) Fay Roberts, this event did as promised, presenting diverse voices from a number of different spoken word artists.
For a free sketch show you can’t go wrong with Oxford Revue’s free accompaniment to its main show.
In this energetic play presented as a game-show the audience is divided into two teams and sat facing one another across the playing space.
Prelude to a Number is a show about maths: more specifically, it’s about the ‘golden number’ phi, which is related to the Fibonacci sequence and is all around us, although we…
From the off the Edinburgh Revue never really got kicking.
Theatrically interesting in the most accessible of ways, Paul F Taylor opens the show in the guise of an infomercial, claiming to be taking pills that cure him of his comedy lifest…
Ellie’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is certainly a treat.
James Loveridge’s Funny Because It’s True is indeed funny and is presumably also true.
Performed in the stately Edinburgh Elim church, Mary the Last Farewell is a historical drama about the life of the Queen of Scots.
From the corridors of a modern hotel we enter Victorian London in this immersive musical theatre piece.
Forget Justin Bieber and his legions of ‘beliebers’.
Infinity Repertory Theatre update Shakespeare’s comedy to the 21st century as a musical with a rollicking rock’n’roll aim in mind.
Those familiar with Shakespeare and fans of musicals will enjoy Emanuel Theatre Company’s fun romp that mashes the two genres together.
It’s not often you’re treated to performance poetry in a setting with as much production value as this.
With hilarious outfits, original music and a few custard pies thrown in, this two-hander follows the further adventures of Cinderella’s naughty Ugly Sisters as they travel in sea…
In this retelling of Euripides’ tragedy, the Trojan War has ended but the women of Troy are still to discover their fates and more tragedies.
Tripped Theatre’s stylised adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream fits one of the Bard’s most famous and fun plays into the space of one hour, with only four…
Naomi Paul does not so much make light of topics as make them dull.
‘I have had a most rare vision.
“It’s the game show of all game shows!” our host tells us as we begin.
Much as if I’d been with real-life evangelists, I imagine, I left this show wondering what on earth had just happened.
Combining contemporary and African dance, four dancers put on an impressive physical display in Kaneish Dance Theatre’s Tabula Rasa.
Christian Cagigal’s Obscura is an utterly charming magic show, but it’s more than that: it’s a theatrical experience incorporating card tricks, music boxes and storytelling.
(performances start on Aug.
New works by ceramic artist Carol Sinclair look at the importance of memory.
The Seussification of a Midsummer Night’s Dream sees an all female cast embark on a speedy but delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
This original musical by Kingdom Theatre is a tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra.
In the back room of the White Horse pub, Danny Mullins is taking us through what his promo material describes as interactive music magic.
First produced in 1989, Bill Gallagher’s script, which won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, still feels relevant to the issues in contemporary culture.
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
Short Stories - True Song Tales from the American Edge is an acoustic solo show from Kiya Heartwood, an award-winning American singer-songwriter.
Set at the fictional Celebrity Café, this cabaret features sketches, song, and the baking of mini-cupcakes.
In Scandimania: Gods of Ice and Fire, the stage is crammed with seven young actors, all dressed in white, who leap into action and unfold a fast-paced enactment of Norse mythology.
This production of Shakespeare’s classic and well loved comedy is set in the pretty garden of a church.
A festival goers guide to this show: Have a few drinks; prepare some funny questions - keep it light and fluffy; attend the show; ask Jesus a question.
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
On the day that I saw it, The Durham Revue was a victim of its own small audience.
Melvin Brown has got the moves, and this suave dude who appears in a suit and gold satin shirt also has a killer voice.
Sweep Up The Stars charts the bittersweet journey of Bill/William, who is determined to become a writer when, at the age of eight, his older self appears to him through the power…
“We live in a time of magic.
The critically-acclaimed Oxford Revue returns to the Fringe for its 50th year, bringing an hour of hilarious sketch comedy written and performed by this year’s finest student comed…
True Brits is an unusually subtle and warm one man show.
Mhari and Thomas can’t conceive.
Of 566 scientists to win the Nobel Prize, only 15 have been women.
Children will love this fun spectacle of bubble-blowing and even grown-ups will be impressed by the Amazing Bubble Man’s feats; not ten minutes into the show, I heard a Dad in fr…
We can all remember the name of our first crush, can’t we? That’s the question Love.
Billed as a poignant one-woman comedy drama, actress Davina Leonard delivers exactly that, with more accent on the drama.
Fin Taylor only has one joke, he explains, and he gets it out of the way early on.
Fleeting Clouds, the Splendid Library is an original Chinese opera inspired by the Guoyunlou books, an encyclopaedic set covering 1000 years of knowledge.
The Greenville Ghost, a new script by Tom Bonnington, is a laugh-a-minute farce about two struggling hoteliers who decide to invent a fictional ghost to draw in clientele.
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.
Kiwi comedian Cal Wilson invites us to imagine what her life would have been like if she’d made different choices (or if she’d been born a man).
Meet Sheherazade, the greatest storyteller of them all.
Every art needs its new generation of practitioners.
Following a sell-out 2013 Annuale, Deirdre Robertson’s debut Fringe show is a playful collaboration with Inflatablemonster (sculptor Andrew MacVicar).
Produced by C theatre, The Snow Queen is a charming adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Karina Wilson.
The Jungle Referendum, by Three Mugs of Tea Theatre, invokes the classic tale of the Jungle Book to explain what’s going on with the Scottish referendum.
This exuberant, toe-tapping spectacular is a sure-fire crowd pleaser.
Dream Girls is a masterful collection of comedy mixed with surprisingly (even for McCullough) emotional moments that had the audience in awe.
With the help of two turntables and a microphone, a flamboyant flamenco outfit, and maracas, DJ Juan Vesuvius (Barnie Duncan) will take you on a hilarious calypso-fuelled joy ride …
It’s fair to say I’m acquainted with the Harry Potter series.
I’ve heard horror stories of people who went on ghostly tours in Edinburgh and were scared by actors hiding in dark places, or who felt nauseous or panicky in the fetid air, so i…
For 30 years, the Urban Bush Women have blazed a trail, combining spirited dance, probing text and a special sense of community that makes audience members feel like one of the tri…
(previews start on July 24; opens on Aug.
This amiable “America’s Got Talent” runner-up headlines the weekend at Gotham Comedy Club.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
Come and watch The Origin of Apples, a documentary which explores the extraordinary political, personal and scientific challenges which lay in the path of visionary biologists in K…
Lorna is settling into her new life in London while Brian is enjoying a reclusive lifestyle as a night chef; between Lorna’s brave forays into various evening classes and Brian�…
Join Ellie Taylor (host of ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’ BBC3, team captain ‘Fake Reaction’ ITV2, ‘8 out of 10 Cats’ Channel 4) as she cobbles together an hour of stuff into an actual stand…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Paul F Taylor and Nick Hodder test out material.
Come Rhyme With Me provided a warm atmosphere, shared food and most importantly, some truly talented poets.
The BSMS Medic Revue is back again after 7 sell-out years with a brand new show! This comedy performance encompasses medical humour in the form of sketches, live music and videos, …
Following their highly acclaimed sell-out Fringe shows in 2013, Brighton’s very own funk and soul powerhouses return to Brighton Fringe for another knock ‘em dead performance.
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.
I love a bit of late night showbiz.
(performances start on May 9) Who could fall asleep in the midst of Times Square? You are invited to try when Jim Findlay and Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners …
April’s edition of this monthly storytelling show, hosted by Dave Martin, focuses on the theme “most cowardly,” with stories from the Moth champion Adam Wade, Dav…
Most dance companies named after their founders use a concert to showcase the work of their namesakes.
It was 1958 that saw Sharagh Delaney’s first play hit the stage, and it isn’t hard to imagine how totally stupefied the contemporary audience must have been.
Desky, Dedman and Gramo met in a closet and were so taken with each other that they decided to form a club.
This Third Angel and mala voadora production at the Northern Stage at St.
If you are easily swayed into buying a ticket based on a show’s title, though you may be enticed into seeing the All-Nude College Girl Revue, you may be rather disappointed.
This revision of Marlowe’s classic Doctor Faustus draws on the timeless story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
The NHS: you just don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
American song and dance man Movin’ Melvin Brown is not content to have just one show at the Fringe (The Ray Charles Experience), or two (an interactive workshop Tap into Health -…
Wendy Carle Taylor’s voice, presence and musicality are so special that it is a real challenge to adequately sum up her one woman show at Brunstfield Evangelical Church.
Seamless blend of MTV reality show Jersey Shore and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Will’s parents are getting divorced, but Will thinks he can save their marriage.
Get ready to dream in bright colours and go to strange places like Solla Sollew! Propelled into the bizarre world of Dr.
Hudson Taylor take their inspiration from both folk and pop, with a vivacity all their own.
‘Wow’ doesn’t even begin to describe the talents of these two comedians.
Booking Dance Festival’s annual Fringe show always promises a high-octane hybrid of dance styles, with seven companies participating in one enticing show.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
A small village on the Ryukyu Islands of Japan fights to recover after a disastrous typhoon hits, destroying everything in its path.
Tom Stade calls his show The Essential as it contains topics and themes that he believes are international and integral to many different cultures and lifestyles, thus maximising i…
The critically acclaimed Doctor Brown took to the stage to perform eight back-to-back shows with each performance building upon the highlights of the previous, with the final show …
As one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, As You Like It is a typical example of a pastoral story, concerning three parties of exile who individually flee to the sanctuary o…
Power Games pays homage to the classic notion of the Fatal Flaw in its depiction of a banker’s fall from grace.
One of Broadway and the West End’s longest running shows, Les Miserables has been hard to avoid, with productions performed in over 40 countries worldwide.
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.
With two top 10 singles and a top 15 album under her belt after winning Sky TV’s Must Be The Music, Emma is now back with a new set of songs to be released on her own label.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking Opera, folk choir, national dancing, presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
In an attempt to find the ultimate remedy for anxiety, Making Faces comedy sketch group move at fast pace, exploring themes relative to their subject through song, poetry, awkwardn…
Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking reworking of Puccini’s opera La Boheme, Rent portrays a group of impoverished artists and addicts precariouslymaintain their existence in Lower…
Topical comedy show, in which host Sandi Toksvig and regular panellist Jeremy Hardy are joined by three comedians to interrogate the week’s news.
Paul Merton and his impro chums return to Edinburgh for their tenth festival run, delivering many more hours of top quality improv.
Buddy Baker, an obedient and hardworking son, moves in with his playboy bachelor brother Alan, in 1960s New York City, turning both their lives upside down in this classic Neil Sim…
This morning I woke up feeling slightly queasy and it wasn’t because of the daily fringe festival hangover.
Experience some of the brightest, rising talents in Scottish music.
With proceeds going to the Royal Scots Benevolent Fund, Anthony Mulligan and Paul Finegan’s poetry recital is an emotive account of war experience.
3rdThought, the renowned over-65’s theatre company, have bestowed upon the public an utterly charming new idea that revolves around personalised one-to-one performances.
Despite promising an hour’s worth of entertainment, displaying different styles of dance, and highlighting work from various international choreographers, this showcase lacked va…
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
What happened to rock n’ roll? What happened to ruddy passion? Theo Gibson is a perfect example of a new age of Sheeran-sheeps who sing – and rap, we can’t miss that out – …
This a fantastic and innovative way to introduce children into the exciting world of Charles Dickens and Victorian England.
Undertaking the staging of David Copperfield is a tricky, if not impossible, task for any theatre company.
Advertised as A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the music of Gilbert and Sullivan, A Midsummer Night’s Savoy is actually a bizarre tale of love and trickery, with only tenuous lin…
The collision of unrelated, unconnected happenings frequently occurs in everyday life, for no other reason than chance.
What would you do to avoid eternity in hell? David Mamet’s wonderful one-act comedy explores one man’s struggle to do just that.
With very naughty characters and even more mischievous plotlines, there is a reason Roald Dahl is one of the best-loved children’s writers.
Earlier this year Kate appeared on ITV’s This Morning. This is the opposite of that show. Real issues, satire and amazing guests from comedy and politics. www.katesmurthwaite.co.uk
It’s human nature that we tend to take more interest in people’s failures than their successes.
From Oxford University come the Butless Chaps, a sketch group brimming with talent and clever ideas.
Delving into the fractures of modern day life, Jane Bodie deliberately imbues her work with a banal plotline enlivened by a quick, satirical wit.
Worried you’ve over indulged a little during the Edinburgh Fringe? Or simply want to learn a new skill? Then this is the show for you.
The Edinburgh Revue are an energetic bunch, never more so than during this show’s opening sketch, a whirlwind rendition of the history of Edinburgh from dinosaurs through William W…
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
Crunch the News is a panel show in the vein of shows such as Radio 4’s News Quiz and Have I Got News For You.
Arguing with idiots is how Kate Smurthwaite describes her profession as a left-wing political activist.
Warm-up for BBC2’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Glenn Wool tour support hits Edinburgh with a 40 minute free show.
It was with boundless energy that the five-strong Revue troupe leaped onstage and it seemed that this was an energy which would not dwindle - even as the quality of the proceeding …
Geared towards raising awareness of human rights violations, Am I is most effective in its ability to turn its question back on the audience: who are we, and what part do we have t…
Comedy duo Dan & Dan, famous such YouTube hits as Requiem for a Wardrobe and the brilliant Daily Mail Song, have graduated to the real world of live comedy.
Jane Austen’s stories speak to every generation, everyone can identify with at least one of her enthralling characters.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
As Toksvig scurries excitedly on stage, she triumphantly proclaims that she is returning to Edinburgh after over thirty years since her first Fringe Festival.
Radio Forth on the Fringe opened its sixth annual showcase with a bang last night at Edinburgh’s Playhouse.
Gothic fairies .
Showstoppers’ spontaneous musical sensation has been a fringe success for many years and the family hour show is no different.
With a cast featuring London-based professionals, this show-stopping production is brilliant for lovers of classic and contemporary musicals.
Breaking News presents how people relate to the media and how news is reported, consumed, heard, read, watched and digested.
This refreshing re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s Othello sees the handkerchief drama played out from a female perspective, a comedic take on the tragedy that we’re used to.
Tupperware: it’s robust, it’s light, it seals, it’s stylish and it’s modern.
The premise behind the Decent Chat Show is a good one, but unfortunately what I experienced didn’t even come close.
Chris Harcum is loud, brash, theatrical and oh so American.
A commanding, busty Titania sits with her changeling child as drab fairies dance woozily around her to crackly swing music.
Dot Howard’s entrance doesn’t come until right at the end of the show, which is exactly what you’d expect to happen in a show entitled How to Avoid Making an Entrance of Your…
Held in one of Edinburgh’s most vibrant and dynamic nightclubs, Electric Circus, Baby Loves Disco is no ordinary disco and describing it as such would be a huge disservice.
Here she be: Nat Luurtsema, one third of the critically acclaimed sketch trio ‘Jigsaw’, back in Edinburgh with her first solo stand-up show in three years.
Held at Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, Dance Base, I was expecting a thoroughly engaging performance that would push the boundaries of conventional dance styles.
Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, Les Miserables transports the audience to the bloody French revolution between rebellious Parisian students and the state.
Ryan McDonnell has never quite fitted in.
For years, the Durham Revue have been one of the strongest university sketch troupes around and this year is no exception.
The only game show in the world with one contestant. That might not be true, I mean it’s pretty stupid. But anyway…
Shaggy haired and stunningly bearded, Noah Torn launches the Edinburgh Revue Stand-Up Show with a bang.
Once a week during the Fringe, Blackwell’s is hosting evenings dedicated to celebrating Scotland’s rich literary scene.
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.
The Real MacGuffins are a hilariously funny sketch group that had the audience roaring with laughter.
The Oxford Revue is an institution in its own right, and so any year’s Fringe show has rather a lot to live up to.
Every twenty years or so, comedy re-vamps itself.
The University may be out for the summer, but The Edinburgh Revue isn’t and is proud to bring you six of Edinburgh’s best up-and-coming comedians!
Well-travelled tomboy Stella Graham returns to the free fringe with an hours worth of stand-up about her fear mongering mother and jet setter lifestyle.
The St Andrews Revue is a sparky and clever collection of original great British comedy that restores your faith in the wonderful talent this country has to offer in both writing a…
Alfie Brown is one of the most thought provoking and captivating stand-up comedians of our generation.
‘Somewhere between Flight of the Conchords’ parody and Tim Minchin’s witty word-play lies home-grown talent Robert Taylor’ (Theatre Press).
Cymbeline is not one of Shakespeare’s most eminent plays and is seldom performed.
If you want to know how it came to be that Marcus Brigstocke became a part-time podium dancer while also working on an oil rig in Scotland, this show is definitely for you.
Facebook culture is without a doubt the comedic subject du jour and, admittedly, I have begun to grow tired of seeing mimes of the ‘like’ function three times a day during this…
When people say that period dramas aren’t their thing, I just don’t believe them.
Keith Farnan’s appeal is that he is both a loveable Irish rogue and an acerbic politico.
Chaos and Order - A True Story.
Established as a regular sketch show at the Fringe, there is a certain fear when these six bright young things take to the stage that you might be subject to watching the sort of s…
Tom Rosenthal’s talent as a stand-up comedian is undeniable.
Debatably ginger Geordie comedian Kai Humphries is shameless.
Year after year, a plethora of improv acts arrive in Edinburgh for the fringe.
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
With quite a weighty reputation you would expect great things from the Oxford Imps, so naturally I was excited as they leaped on stage to deliver a decent and energetic introductio…
Meet the birthday girls Rose Johnson, Camille Ucan and Beattie Edmondson.
It’s Me Dayne is thoroughly awkward, cringe-worthy and even gob-smacking, but boy, is it funny.
In his new Fringe show, Stephen Carlin sheds light on a unique problem that comes out of gambling addiction; while most addicts can feasibly avoid their choice drug for evermore, g…
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Tim Vine returns to the Fringe this year with an hour’s worth of puns, silly songs and audience participation.
It was surprising to see that Romesh Ranganathan’s debut fringe show, Rom Com, was not listed as one of Time Out’s top ten newcomers.
There is a buzz amongst comedy lovers at the Fringe this year and it is all because of newcomer Aisling Bea.
If you ever forget why it is that everyone has heard of the Cambridge Footlights, Dressing Down will remind you.
Can the rational mind comprehend the motive behind a mass shooting? What if there is no adequate explanation for such an atrocity? David Greig asks these questions in his play The …
The Play That Goes Wrong is an impeccably glorious spoof of such amateur disasters, that centres upon Cornley Polytechnic’s production of ‘Murder at Haversham Manor’ as it de…
‘He has my fullest support’ is the death knell that echoes around BBC Broadcasting House in the wake of the departure of the Acting Head of News.
Dream On is a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is performed here with great energy and humour by Side by Side Theatre.
When you’re promised with a show that “aims to cure your everyday ailments and add a little colour to a bleak looking world”, it’s easy to be optimistic.
The best thing that can probably be said of the Durham Revue is that it’s uninspired.
Last year, Phil Nichol was awarded a Best Actor award for his performance in Edward Albees Zoo Story.
Roald Dahl’s classic children’s tale about a boy finding friendship and adventure with a bunch of idiosyncratic insects astride a giant peach is translated faithfully to the stage …
In the gardens of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly known as the Dean Gallery), a combined cast of Scottish performers and the Norwegian company Stella Polaris put o…
Three hapless 20 something men hang out in a bedroom, no longer at college but not yet ready for the world of grown-up relationships in ‘Boys’ Life’, Howard Korder’s Pulitz…
Superbolt’s marvelous little offering, despite being loosely plotted and having a somewhat frivolous narrative, makes up for its faults with buckets of heart.
This 1980 play by Sam Shepard begins naturalistically enough.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Lynley Dodd’s tales of Hairy Maclary, the scampish terrier who gets up to all manner of mischief with his animal pals, never really did much for me as a little’un.
‘Making Dickie Happy’ is set in March 1922.
A topical look at news and politics, Crunch the News sees a different set of panelists each day tackling current events with an eye for humour and a knack for pithy put-downs.
It’s pretty hard to describe this one-man show without either sounding obtuse, ignorant or both.
Described by its creator Mark Brailsford as the Fringe like it used to be, News Brunch is the latest show in the News Revue tradition.
This theatre/dance offering from the University of South Florida lacks subtlety and feels overly affronting in its clumsy and somewhat confused form.
A political satire on the Clegg-Cameron pact, this well-performed and entertaining play follows the power struggles of fictional Lib-Dem leader Matt Cooper (Thom Tuck), whose party…
James Balwin’s “Peter Panic” is billed as a response piece to last year’s London riots, placing the known and loved Peter and Wendy of JM Barrie’s “Peter Pan” into a …
Anthony Lo-Guidice’s semi-autobiographical “Roma” maps the making of an individual through experience and revelation, stylishly leaping through the hoops of birth, adolescent…
Fool’s Gold is a production that smacks heavily of the dreaded GCSE devised drama piece.
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…
It is never a good sign when, after two readings of the plot summary, I’m still not sure what the whole thing is about.
Most school kids don’t want to read Shakespeare.
Derevo, multi-award winning company from St.
Imagine if David Starkey did a Fringe show.
This is easily the most unusual thing I have ever seen at the Fringe.
An exploration of modern society and our responses to it, Life Is Too Good To Be True is a one-man show presented by the Netherlands’ Het Geluid (The Noise).
Cecilia Nilsson (‘Wallander’) stars in this phenomenal insight into the simplicity and painstaking cleanliness of solitary life, leading us gently through what should be an ord…
A closed wardrobe and a lit keyboard was the opening state for The Making of a Woman, a piece which aimed to tell the story of a man discovering his feminine identity through the c…
Daphne Pena returns to Edinburgh with a new show for 2007, adding more tales and dances from Cairo, following up her 2006 Bellydance Diaries.
The Six O’Clock News was a varied and eclectic mix of political satire, stand-up, and some serious, thought-provoking talks.
Taylor Mac, drag queen, performance artist and ukulele player, presents what he calls The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac.
To have a tagline from Emma Thompson, undoubtedly a belle of British cinema, is to wield a hefty endorsement.
Courage Performers, a youth performing arts club from Wiltshire, presents a very strong rendition of the Shakespeare classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with a Second World W…
Dream Pill is a tale of modern slavery.
An early evening slot at the Voodoo Rooms seemingly attracts the lairiest of Scottish audiences.
DDMcG Productions have hit on a winner with this piece: a combination of performance poetry, live-looping and music from two very talented strings players.
The award-winning Swamp Juice - from Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre - dazzles and entertains audiences of all ages.
Alun Cochrane is about halfway through his set when he spots my notepad poking out from under the pedestal table in front of me.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Croft and Pearce exhibit matching outfits, and to a degree, matching faces, accents and physicality.
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
The Chyngton Youth Academy made up of 11 to 15 year olds performs this seasonal Shakespeare favourite with enthusiasm and fervour.
Three actors take to the unconventional stage space at the Assembly St.
Clout Theatre have hit on something good with this dusty, grotesque and wonderfully pointless piece of physical theatre.
Now, my knowledge of philosophy is not great.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
Death by jazz and neurotic nurses: two of several comedic gems featuring in this years offering from Durhams funny bunch.
Shakepeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of his most popular works, so it’s not surprising that the majority of hands are up when The Pantaloons ask their au…
Arabian Nights can certainly be called an “interesting” production.
If everyone has a story to tell, one that’s worth listening to, then why is it that the only stories that shift copies off shelves and set Twitter alight are the births, marriage…
You have to go to extreme lengths to make a version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream stand out.
Firstly - Kate Fox is very talented at what she does well.
Gathering a bunch of your mates to do some low brow slots on a late night comedy show doesn’t really count as a ‘rotating line-up of the world’s best comedians dissecting cur…
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
Don Quixote has forgotten his role and nature.
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.
Starting with a video of him in distress in the worst hotel room ever, Tom Wrigglesworth spends an entertaining hour spinning us a complex yarn about how his wedding day came to en…
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
This adaptation of the short stories of Jonathan Safran Foer, whilst having moments of brilliance, ultimately comes short.
Now I’m all for messing with Shakespeare.
Inspired by the novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize Winner Jose Saramago, “The Blind” is a story in pictures, exploring both what it is to be blinded but also diving into the darke…
Obsession is the unifying theme in this charming but odd show, which considers the unexplored corners of everyday life.
A comedy night in aid of Friends of the Earth, this fast-moving show was jam-packed with talent.
If you’re scared of clowns look away now.
Oh the Arabian Nights, it is almost impossible to do anything this clichéd without filling it with belly dancers, turbans and fezzes.
In this musical about a female impersonator (based on the Julie Andrews film), it’s one small step for a woman to dress up in drag, and one slightly bigger step for man and woman…
Luke Wright’s unique brand of performance poetry is like nothing I have ever seen before.
A surreal hour of comic drama, The Pride is a bizarre attempt to place the more developed aspects of animalistic behaviour – guarding your territory, hospitality laws, and posses…
One problem that I find with comedy is making sure that everyone’s tastes are catered to.
Holed up on a muddy ‘beach’, three boys look out across the Thames, on the run from the police, a vengeful gang and each other.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
This ensemble sketch show promises in its promotional material to be as funny as the ‘first Neolithic wedgie’: a good indication of the level of comic maturity this young troupe ha…
A rather sad turn out for Taylor Glenn with immensely depleted audience numbers, it was certainly a lonely affair.
‘NOT for the Easily Offended!!’ yelled the fliers.
Pair Dance’s piece aims to combine movement with other technology, and to create a work that embodies “multimedia” by showing that dance and projection (specifically in 3D) c…
‘I’ll keep you alive.
Having long been in the shadow of its slightly more famous Cambridge equivalent, this Oxford Revue defiantly leaps out of it, delivering a blistering, original and subversive hour …
This sketch writing achieves everything that has come to be expected of the genre, mixing observational with impulsive twists.
It could have been me, but in a hot Spiegeltent on the Southbank with chairs rammed closely together with a mixture of expectant adults and children, I wasn’t feeling it as the l…
The Oxford Revue’s initial introduction takes advantage of its location’s atmospheric setting.
You should brace yourself before seeing Nights At The Circus, and not just because of its circus setting.
A left-wing, atheist, ultra-feminist comedienne performing a politically fuelled stand-up show sounds daunting to say the least.
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…
Is that a bird? A plane? No, it’s Rosalie Craig, and what a soaring, magical flight hers is.
Much of the Shakespeare at the Fringe this year has been performed with a twist: musicals, dance, physical theatre, spin-offs, the playwright’s words given new meanings or even tak…
An impossibly beautiful young man balances on a tightrope, his feet perfect, his arms waving madly as if trying to keep his balance.
Like a Glaswegian Louie Spence, Edward Reid bounds through an hour of anecdotes and musical numbers with enough campness and glitter to make you think you’ve accidentally stumble…
I had an inkling that The Dick and The Rose was going to be something special when I was handed a silver poker chip in lieu of a ticket at the box office.
From the offices of The Janus Media Corporation at the Northern Stage, newly born political parties, us the audience, scamper off into the streets, armed with smart phones and a pl…
Lochhead’s poetry has an immediacy and humour that makes it ideal to be read out loud.
Blurred Lines is a cutting reference to Robin Thicke’s chart-topping hit that had us all grimly singing along to ‘you know you want it’.
The Durham Revue don’t know when to end a sketch.
Mike ‘Dr Blue’ McKeon is a real Blues caricature.
A new play written by Lou May Miller, a modern take on Pedo Calderon’s ‘Life Is A Dream’ ,finds an early grave in this debut performance by Kudos.
A million miles away from turbulence, Flawless have a smooth take off, a pleasant flight and a well-rehearsed landing that can’t help but bring a smile to my face.
This dance project from Taiwan is entirely improvised by its two performers in a style similar to Western contemporary dance.
You may recognise these two from TV.
It’s not just the Trojans and Greeks who go head to head in this high concept Shakespeare production.
Fans of Would I Lie To You? will need no prompting to visit this ingenious variation on the theme of Spot the Porker, in which four storytellers by turns deliver 10-15 minute solo …
This imaginative play opens on quirky teen, Sparky (Brian Vernel).
This dark and daring musical comes bursting out of a tunnel at Southwark Playhouse auditioning for its West-End transfer.
Taking Flight theatre’s interpretation of the raucous and farcical Shakespearian classic captured perfectly the sense of carnival at the play’s heart, in their open-access adap…
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
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Aardman Animations are giving you the chance to learn how to make your very own classic character, at these hands-on clay modelling workshops with Aardman’s Lead Senior Model Mak…
Achtung! Achtung! Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland are bringing their highly acclaimed World War II podcast to the Edinburgh Festival.
"Hear Word!" is how Nigerians start a story, a sort of town crier’s call and Hear Word! Naija Woman Talk True co-written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa is definitely at…
EMMA HACK is an Australian artist working in the unique medium of body paint installation and photography.
Award winning vocalist Emma Pask has firmly established herself as one of Australia’s favourite voices in jazz.
Brendan Shelly talks about Ageless Arts' inaugural production, Porridge Boy at the Greenwich Theatre .
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
The producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club have announced that from Monday 25 September 2023, the roles of The Emcee and Sally Bowles will be played by music icons Jake Shears an...
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
With alumni including Ed Gamble, Nish Kumar and Jeremy Vine, the Durham Revue are celebrating their 50th year with sketch show comedy Death on the Mile at this year’s Durham Frin...
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.
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Behind every tyrannical leader is a complicit partner rolling their eyes, and in this new show from comedian Catriona Knox they get a voice.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
Romola Garai will star as Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough alongside Emma Cunniffe as the eponymous monarch in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Queen Anne.
Former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, sports presenter Ore Oduba and actress Lesley Joseph are the latest celebrities announced to appear on the Strictly Come Dancing Live UK Tour, wh...
How to Win Against History is a new musical about Henry Cyril Paget, an eccentric, cross-dressing marquis who was written out of history by his family.
The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng...
Hot Brown Honey is loud, proud, in your face, and at the Fringe for the first time.
After months of waiting, Brighton Fringe opened its doors last night with the launches of three major venues.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
LOST & Found: A Musical Revue at LOST Theatre promises to be a one-night-only mash up of gender stereotypes in musical theatre.