Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, a contemporary of Robert Burns, wrote some of the best-loved songs of Scotland, such as The Hundred Pipers, Charlie Is My Darling, Caller Herrin and…
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
Songwriter and author Jez Lowe grew up singing the coal-mining songs of his native County Durham.
Joseph is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe to launch a new EP! This time with a special extended music extravaganza! Along with the new Songs from the Wolf Cabin EP, recorded at t…
We present the 10th anniversary of this acclaimed original musical with sold-out Fringe runs in 2013 and 2014.
Singer-songwriters Nina Blaszczyk and Phil Baggaley bring you a collection of beautiful original songs inspired by the poems of Donna Ashworth.
Eric Davidson’s Amazin’ Prime Parodies (26 Songs to Make the Whole World Cringe).
It’s World War III (pop girl-group feud in the 00s) and the battle to end all battles (an a cappella riff-off)… Can you keep up? The Rolling Tones are back – ready to serve i…
Discover Juniper Lai, a Chinese folk singer and poet.
Join Delhi maestro Manmohan Dogra for a journey through soulful Hindustani classical music, featuring vocal ragas and a tabla solo in Banares style.
Lenka Lichtenberg loves to sing in sacred spaces.
In the Wuji Kingdom, Tang Sanzang dreams of the old king’s soul complaining to him, accusing his sworn brother of murdering him in the royal garden, taking his form and usurping th…
Close a pit, kill a community.
Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724.
Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years.
Hundreds entered, now one rising stand-up star will be crowned Britain’s funniest student.
Join Kim Edgar, an experienced choir leader and acclaimed songwriter, to form a scratch choir to learn and perform uplifting, inspiring songs in Kim’s Songs Of Hope concert (7-9p…
Acclaimed Edinburgh-based songwriter Kim Edgar performs an uplifting evening of songs inspiring hope.
Joined by two musicians and two dancers, Brazilian singer/songwriter Giulia Drummond takes us through a ritualistic performance exploring the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot.
WORLD PREMIERE The world premiere of Aakash Odedra’s latest work creates a mediative exchange between the Indian classical dance Sufi Kathak and Islamic poetry.
Two of Scotland’s foremost acoustic guitarists, Simon Kempston (‘a master of fingerstyle guitar’ (Scotsman)) and Paul Tasker (‘one of the leading guitarists of his generation’ (Mav…
Piano wizard Brian and clarinet ace Dick combine to pay tribute to the King of Swing. ‘Fine playing, with some deliciously liquorice-toned clarinet’ (Scotsman).
What songs may do.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Fringe legends Jollyboat bring their best comedy songs from 14 years of touring and sold-out Fringe shows.
Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz.
‘Chock-full of humor and satire, accompanied by a constant vein of honesty and self-analysis, Rachel Pollock’s solo performance is a hidden gem amongst the Fringe scene’ **** (DC…
Journey to the West is a new musical play, originating from the Chinese literary masterpiece by the same name.
Aczel does his best, but it isn’t going to offer a solution to the unbearable lightness of being – as planned.
What happens when a songwriter invites innocent bystanders on the streets of Edinburgh to share their most embarrassing memories and comedic confessions? They end up in his show th…
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
Influenced by the songwriting of Lennon and McCartney, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists from their Beatles and s…
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
Craig Wilson is a smart, nice and really cool guy, but none of that matters because he is the most forgettable man in the world.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Enter Edward Tripp’s bottomless mind as he straddles comedy and spoken-word, like a genre-defying slut.
‘Dion Owen is undoubtedly a comedian on the cusp of greatness’ (National Post).
The first-ever solo exhibition in Scotland of the work of Ibrahim Mahama: a Ghanaian artist acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that address the cu…
The Comedy Rooms New Act of the Year 2022 and without doubt one of best musical acts currently on the northern comedy circuit is bringing his solo show to Edinburgh for the first t…
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
Multi award-winning live music sensation direct from Australia makes its Edinburgh debut with a celebration of Aussie hit-makers and songs that spurred change throughout history.
Five-star reviews and Critic’s Choice from the Guardian, Time Out, and Times.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
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 …
Songs for Slutty Girls explores the ecstasy, pain, and hilarity of sex through a year in the life of one woman, represented by four aspects of her personality: Heart, Gut, Head and…
Featuring works by three distinguished Black composers Chevalier de Saint George, Richard Thompson and Des Oliver, the show will honour the legacy of the Windrush generation with a…
Inspired by the real-life experiences of Kyle Falconer (from Scottish indie-rock sensation The View) and Laura Wilde, this powerful story follows two new parents grappling with the…
A long time ago in a swimming pool far, far away, the mesmerising sport of synchronised (now artistic) swimming was created.
Leicester Comedy Festival 2024 Awards Finalist and “without doubt one of best musical acts currently on the northern comedy circuit” Alex Camp is bringing his new solo show to …
A sure fire winner, a tear-jerker with comedic appeal, Mathew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Edward Scissorhands, is based on Tim Burton’s 1990 film but reimagined for dance.
Take a trip to the old West and join rootin’ tootin’ improv cowboys Tea & Toast for some songs by the campfire.
The European premiere of A Song of Songs at the Park Theatre sees a work as mysterious in theatrical categorisation as the book on which it is based is in terms of religious litera…
Join us for Meetup #5 of the AWS Brighton User Group! Mark Hemsley, Head of Architecture at Rail Delivery Group will be speaking about infrastructure modernisation with AWS Cloud …
Local comedian Riggs (Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Finalist/BBC New Comedy Award Nominated) has found his acoustic guitar and learnt all his favourite sad songs.
Two London street performers take you on a rockin’ comedy drama through the crossroads of grief and letting go.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its eighth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its eighth year.
Instituto Cervantes Dublin presents a concert with Spanish artist Martirio, accompanied by the talented guitarist Raúl Rodríguez.
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Olivier award-winning actor Brian Cox, makes his return to the London stage in Spring 2024 starring in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Matthew Bourne’s magical dance production of Edward Scissorhands has carved a place in the hearts of audiences world-wide since its premiere in 2005.
Now in its 14th year.
‘Do You Remember That This Is The Play I Was Telling You About’ returning to The Hen & Chickens Theatre, playing from Thursday 30th November until Saturday 2nd December at 19:30.
Finalists battle it out to take the crown in the climactic stage of the UK’s most prestigious comedy newcomer competition! Following months of regional showcases around the UK and …
Songs and tunes from North-East England, from award-winning songwriter and author Jez Lowe and his long-time musical collaborator and leading Northumbrian piper and pianist Andy Ma…
Once upon a time, she walked the length of Aotearoa New Zealand.
A father approaching his 60th birthday learns to sing and dance for the first time, in a desperate attempt to create a hit single that will make enough money for his son to finally…
His father died at 45.
The Diary of Anne Frank: Her Journey in Music by British Composer Girish Paul is a dramatic concert by the multi-instrumentalist and his virtual orchestra.
Featuring West End performers, this family-friendly musical concert will take you on a journey through some of the most iconic songs from films like Mary Poppins, Aladdin, Toy Stor…
Hear ye! Yonder comes yon Perrier winner from ages ago with another questionable career swerve! Tonight only, hear the entire musical oeuvre (10 songs , three nearly finished)! Gat…
Scottish Voices and friends perform settings of poetry in Gaelic and English by contemporary Scottish composers and poets.
A stunning song cycle by Jason Robert Brown centring human relationships in all their messy beauty.
A new UV opera-musical told from the roots of trees about the impact of intensive agriculture on forest systems.
A performance from acclaimed composer/songwriter Gareth Williams, lyrically transforming iconic final pages from Scottish fiction into brand-new ‘literary chamber pop’ songs.
Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro.
Nine dancers move hypnotically in a work exploring the highs and lows of love and relationships.
Hilary Jean Watts embodies the musical legacy of Laura Nyro in her London debut performance, Stoney End: The Songs of Laura Nyro.
A journey from Greece to Spain through art song.
Trad fiddle player Jennifer Wrigley is highly respected globally as a cultural ambassador for the music of her Scottish homeland, the Orkney Islands.
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
Philip Contini (voice) and Anne Evans (piano) perform favourite Italian and Neapolitan 19th- and 20th-century songs of love, laughter, longing and romance by, among others, Frances…
This year, celebrating his 50th birthday, Alastair presents a unique series of concerts highlighting the various strands of the Scots fiddle tradition and his own diverse musical c…
Philip Contini sings your favourite, unforgettable, classic songs of Cole Porter, one of the greatest composer-lyricists of the 20th century, accompanied by the sensational 6-piece…
MTO Zendeh Delan’s Journey of Love, inspired by the Sufi allegory of Leyla and Majnun, is an enchanting blend of modern Sufi music and the graceful motions of Sama.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Fringe legends Jollyboat bring you a collection of comedy songs for people who like puns, polyhedral dice, and spreadsheets – these are the droids you’re looking for.
Critically acclaimed US artists, violist Christine Rutledge and Guggenheim Award-winning composer and pianist David Gompper, return to the Festival Fringe to present a programme of…
Physical theatre combines with original music as 7th century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar Xuanzang embarks on a spiritual quest to India, seeking the answer to the question, �…
Fringe legends Jollyboat return for the 13th year, with a show of self-assured comedy songs polished by years of rewrites, improvisations, and tweaks.
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
Come and hear Andrei Kymach, the world-famous Ukrainian baritone and winner of the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World opera prize, accompanied as in Cardiff by Llyr Williams, as …
After his sell-out Edinburgh 2022 run with his show 100 Songs in an Hour, David Hoare (Musical Comedy Awards, Audience Favourite Prize 2021) returns with another bumper show bursti…
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
Think guineafowl.
What happens when a songwriter invites innocent bystanders on the streets of Edinburgh to share their darkest, most embarrassing thoughts? They end up as part of his show that same…
Everybody Sing are delighted to present a musical journey through the decades.
Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children’s show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual …
Join renowned vocalist Jacqui Dankworth for an unforgettable evening of music, with classic songs by Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, …
Two of Scotland’s foremost acoustic guitarists, Simon Kempston (‘a master of fingerstyle guitar’ (Scotsman)) and Paul Tasker (‘one of the leading guitarists of his generation’ (Mav…
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
Craig Wilson is a nice boy.
The incredible Oliver Harris sings the great songs from Les Misérables, Chess, Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King, We Will Rock You and many more.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
A new gig-theatre show featuring songs by Kyle Falconer of The View.
Watson is alone.
Songs of Sanctuary is a performance of songs co-written by singer-songwriter Sam Slatcher with different communities in the North East who are seeking sanctuary.
Songs of Sanctuary is a performance of songs co-written by singer-songwriter Sam Slatcher with different communities in the North East who are seeking sanctuary.
1894.
1894.
About the show What if I say this is my journey of healing, this is from my cultural hometown… But that’s just a ‘what if’.
A one woman show which celebrates the life of a remarkable Irish woman, Nora Joyce.
This exhibition explores the student journey through art, photography, music and creative writing and celebrates the varied experiences of our diverse student community.
This exhibition explores the student journey through art, photography, music and creative writing and celebrates the varied experiences of our diverse student community.
Presented in a blues / folk style with tight sibling harmonies, this Irish duo performs songs around a story of the influence, envy and respect that each artist had for the other.
Some things are best left unsaid.
Brothers Broke bring their popular and well-reviewed 2021 Edinburgh Fringe “in-person” show to debut at this years Brighton Fringe.
Some things are best left unsaid.
Presented in a blues / folk style with tight sibling harmonies, this Irish duo performs songs around a story of the influence, competition and respect that each artist had for the …
Presented in a blues / folk style with tight sibling harmonies, this Irish duo performs songs around a story of the influence, competition and respect that each artist had for the …
His father died at 45.
His father died at 45.
Do you like scary movies? Well, if you like them so much, would you survive to the end of one? Join the award-winning Heather-Rose Andrews on an exploration of horror films, the wo…
Actor and pianist Michael Lunts presents a one-man show with live music in which he portrays the composer Edward Elgar towards the end of his life, coming to terms with the death o…
Edward Elgar's influence on the classical music world is one that is to be admired.
Obsessed with detective stories and film noir, Sam Marlowe can’t help but start digging when his long-term crush drops a case into his lap.
Idle Women - scenes and songs exploring the lives of women on the waterways in WWII.
Obsessed with detective stories and film noir, Sam Marlowe can’t help but start digging when his long-term crush drops a case into his lap.
Idle Women - scenes and songs exploring the lives of women on the waterways in WWII.
Taiwanese dance company B.
A meaningful meditation on motherhood, love and loss, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs adapts texts in Polish taken from sources spanning the centuries, giving perspectives from both a …
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
A one-woman comedy musical about Post-Natal Depression.
An everyday random chance of love The Lumiere Theatre Company Karim Nehran Messeri died in Charles de gaulle airport.
The Final Episode of The Magic Tower Crime, lies and googly eyes Heaven shakes a little Drenched in honey, covered in sunlight.
Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame.
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate the one you love at Love Songs by Candlelight in the heart of Covent Garden.
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
“Have you ever felt like a hollow sim in a glitchy video game, Taking time to self narrate your moves in marvellous dismay?” Deep, right? Songs become sketches and sketches…
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
Is comórtas píolótach Comórtas Labhartha Filíochta d’Iarbhunscoileanna é Guth na hÉigse, atá bunaithe ar an…
Kirkos presents The Song Ring’d Sky a new piece by Irish composer Ian Wilson and bayou-borne, for Pauline by New Zealand-born American composer Annea Lockwood.
The sea is blue, so blue.
25 years on from the release of The Seahorses’ seminal album Do It Yourself, vocalist Chris Helme will revisit the iconic record with a series of one-off acoustic performances ac…
A Journey to the Past; A celebration of Ahrens & Flaherty.
How about travelling to France for one hour without a jetlag? Stefanie Rummel, the multi-award winning musical cabaret artist, who travelled the world with her show returns to Edin…
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Touring 25 countries in 10 years, Joseph is returning to the Edinburgh 2022 Fringe.
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
In her most intimate work, cellist Justyna Jablonska explores how identities are made, unmade and remade in music.
Traditional and contemporary songs that take you on a musical journey through Scotland and beyond from ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
A show that will take you on an emotional, inspiring, global journey.
Frank Foucault is a serious musician now.
Live music, choreography and storytelling combine to create a compelling exploration of migration experiences.
Hundreds entered, 11 survive; now one rising stand-up star will be crowned Britain’s funniest student.
Immrama: Columba’s Journey, Your Story.
Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame.
Join Philip Contini and daughter Olivia for an enchanting journey through the best-loved songs of the Italian and Neapolitan repertoire accompanied by The Be Happy Band Trio: Dick …
Join Edinburgh’s prestigious Poosie Nansie Burns Club in this their centenary year for a lively celebration of the life and works of Scotland’s National Bard, Robert Burns.
Two nights only! Award-winning Ali, Scotland’s ‘Queen of vintage jazz’ (OC Weekly) presents a special programme – a carefully crafted selection of Lady Day’s best-loved son…
Influenced by the meeting of Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists.
Influenced by the songwriting of Lennon and McCartney, Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a unique interpretation of songs by both artists from their Beatles and s…
After last year’s comeback concert extravaganza came to a screeching halt, pop diva Yasmine Day has returned to launch her fifth debut album.
Cult hit Jollyboat present their best comedy songs from 10 years as one of the biggest shows on the Free Fringe.
‘Superb and fun’ ***** (TheWeeReview.
The Saga of the Norse Gods.
Gecko’s playful story-songs will take you on a journey via ignored characters in Italian renaissance paintings, pig outlaws and tooth fairy admin.
Fringe legends Jollyboat present a high-energy show of comedy songs. Arrive early – Jollyboat sell out more than Metallica. ***** (BroadwayBaby.com). ***** (GeekChocolate.co.uk).
I think I’ve fallen in love.
Let the ensemble take you on a journey of sound and motion through a modern artistic portrayal of this 1,400 year-old spiritual practice.
A simple concept: Peter reading on his usual park bench is approached by Jerry, a bizarre young man full of questions and stories.
Bienvenue to Chansons, the musical intercultural cabaret.
Comedian Fab La Roche-Francoeur loves the feeling of being surrounded by an audience laughing at his jokes.
Two of Scotland’s foremost acoustic guitarists, Simon Kempston, ‘a master of fingerstyle guitar’ (Scotsman), and Paul Tasker, ‘one of the leading guitarists of his generation’ (Mav…
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Bienvenue to Chansons, the musical intercultural cabaret.
Whilst other comedians fret and fuss about finding a theme for their shows, award-winning international comedian Rich Wilson puts all of his focus on one thing and that’s being r…
2019 Grammy Award winners for Best World Music Album, the world’s critically acclaimed choir performs Freedom, songs which celebrate and commemorate South Africa’s democratic strug…
One of the twentieth century’s most impressive but overlooked figures is revived in this powerful, compelling tour-de-force.
The Final Approach is a one man show by Thom Jordan, exploring the daring investigation of outsider Sam into his high school’s darkest secrets.
From the girl who brought you The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish (Edinburgh, 2011), comes Funny Girl, Sad Songs.
This is really special.
Watson is alone.
Sold-out run: Off-Broadway, Asylum NYC (2022).
A world premiere of a one woman show which celebrates the life of a remarkable Irish woman, Nora Joyce.
Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree…
Legendary magician, the Great Baldini, returns to Brighton Fringe to tell his life story through a series of stage illusions, from his first trick on his 12th birthday to his caree…
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
Join us on an enlightened journey of live performance, music, dance, poetry, and guided meditation.
Brothers Broke bring their popular and well-reviewed 2021 Edinburgh Fringe “in-person” show to debut at this years Brighton Fringe.
A comical and current gut-punch of a play about friendship, racism, and learning to take a new perspective.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
The year is 1894.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie horror and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Phunky physics, catchy chemistry and bangin’ biology.
Phunky physics, catchy chemistry and bangin’ biology.
After last year’s comeback concert extravaganza came to a blinding halt, power ballad diva Yasmine Day is back with her fifth debut album.
After last year’s comeback concert extravaganza came to a blinding halt, power ballad diva Yasmine Day is back with her fifth debut album.
Bienvenue to Chansons, the original musical intercultural cabaret.
Bienvenue to Chansons, the original musical intercultural cabaret.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a Weimar performance for Bono and Chris Martin, the “cabaret kings” (The Londonist) return with more Songs of Resistanc…
Now in it’s 12th year.
Call Mr.
Ladies, Gaydies, Theydies, straight people who can take a joke Fashionista, and musical comedian, Simon David is back at The Glory trying out some horrible new songs LIVE! Fro…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
The Glory presents 2021’s Grand Final for LIPSYNC1000 Europes FIERCEST drag battle! TWENTY QUEENS will join Jonny Woo, John Sizzle plus celebrity guest judges for London’s WI…
Get ready for an evening of midnight-movie gore and bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from drag monstrosity Baby Lame.
Doll and Ted are storytellers.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
How do you successfully relate the biography of a theatrical legend, tell the history of a remarkable period in the development of the arts, create portraits of the famous names of…
DOORS 7PM SHOW 7:30PMWEEK 6 - FINAL The show begins! Now we have our 4/56 artist left in the cast.
DOORS 7PM SHOW 7:30PMWEEK 6 - Semi Final The show begins! Now we have our 5/56 artist left in the cast.
Singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, library music producer, Siobhan Wilson was born in Elgin, Scotland, UK.
Rich Wilson is fast becoming one of the most in-demand comedians in the land with his award-winning shows, podcasts and radio shows.
The renowned singer and harp player sings some of her favourite Gaelic songs, most of which she learned from her mother, the world-renowned tradition bearer, Flora MacNeil.
MAN UP! - The Grand Final is finally here! After 8 weeks of heats featuring over 120 of London & the UKs finest DRAG KINGS, The Glory brings the final of its ground-breaki…
The Quiggs is the Scottish/Danish folk duo comprising Stephen and Pernille Quigg.
Watson is alone.
A society underground, forced to evacuate under the unrelenting acid rain.
A society underground, forced to evacuate under the unrelenting acid rain.
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Some of the world’s most powerful Gaelic voices come together for Shared Songs – the second concert in the Aidan O’Rourke-curated series A Great Disordered Heart – in a nig…
Friday night is cocktails and party night at flock - and with a fantastic pop singer who will cover the musicals, pop and disco classics and she can.
Following a sold-out run at the Barbican Art Gallery and a performance featuring songs from the Weimar Cabarets for Bono and Chris Martin, the “cabaret kings” return.
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.
Join Taylor Trash, The UK’s ONLY Southern Belle-End As She Begins The Dig For The Next Nugget Of Drag Performance Talent Gold - NOW ON SUNDAYS!Miss Rona thought she had us beat but…
A quirky, short show with songs. One woman reflects on her day, by talking and singing to her dog.
In this world premiere, the shimmering beauty of South Indian melodies blends with electronic sound effects and virtuosic improvisation.
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.
Perth’s Jambouree Cabaret Singers, directed by Edna Auld, have missed coming together for performances, but this has emboldened their solo voices.
An hour-long selection of short films, many from the experimental days of film in the early 1900s, set to original scores by the Apollo Saxophone Quartet.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
Thomas de Quincey once wrote of murder as ‘one of the fine arts’, and with regards to The Establishment [versus] Sidney Harry Fox, the statement is true.
Having performed a series of cabarets at the Barbican Art Gallery and a charity concert for Bono and Chris Martin, “cabaret kings” William Ludwig and Dean Austin return with �…
Exert from the show ‘Certain Songs for Uncertain Times’, recorded in June 2020 at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg for the National Arts Festival Makhanda.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Watson is alone.
Following on from his success at the Brighton Fringe with Waiting for Hamlet, a two-hander with Nicholas Collett, Tim Marriott returns to the Rialto Theatre with a solo show that i…
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.
Host of Leicester Comedy award finalist podcast ‘The Comedy Arcade’, Welsh stand up comedian Vix Leyton lives a life of French farce and chaos that she justifies as research for he…
Amy cannot socialise with the other mums after the school run because she is needed in the office.
Mixing old songs with new and funded by the RVW Trust, soprano Jessica Summers and pianist Jelena Makarova bring their Living Songs project to Brighton Fringe! Songs and music by …
Mixing old songs with new and funded by the RVW Trust, soprano Jessica Summers and pianist Jelena Makarova bring their Living Songs project to Brighton Fringe! Songs and music by …
Sam Marlowe is the campus outsider who takes on a case to expose a cheating partner but finds himself in a web of deceit, corruption and the incorrect disposal of kitchen waste.
A gig theatre show based on poetry from the Spanish Golden Age period, translated and adapted to English by Paula Rodriguez.
Sam Marlowe is the campus outsider who takes on a case to expose a cheating partner but finds himself in a web of deceit, corruption and the incorrect disposal of kitchen waste.
A gig theatre show based on poetry from the Spanish Golden Age period, translated and adapted to English by Paula Rodriguez.
The beloved children’s author joins us for an online event to talk about past work and her latest novel, The Runaway GirlsJoin the much-loved author Dame Jacqueline Wilson online…
It’s about one moment.
Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Now in it’s 12th year.
Traditional and contemporary songs that take you on a musical journey through Scotland and beyond from ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Come and enjoy our music.
Romantic and captivating Italian and Neapolitan songs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, composed by Francesco Paolo Tosti and Ernesto De Curtis.
Through song and improvisation, Bookends follows two people’s relationship as it changes over time, delving into life and the intricacies of human connection.
Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform a bluesy fusion of songs by Bob Dylan and The Beatles.
Irish duo Brothers Broke compare, adapt and perform an acoustic interpretation of songs composed by Lennon and McCartney throughout their Beatle and solo years.
Enthusiastically vote alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2020’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and shiny moose trophies.
Román Baca talks about his healing journey from ballet to the Iraq War and back again.
A unique and insightful look at the journey into film hosted by former Royal Marine Phil Spencer.
Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music.
This exhibition of paintings by Susie Reade refers to a young woman’s diary describing her unusual journey from Scotland to work in WWII Russia.
Emerging talent Ana Morales blends the traditional with the avant-garde in the innovative and emotive, Without Permission, Songs for Silence.
So you still think you’re funny?Forget youthful optimism & skinny jeans.
A 10-piece collective of outstanding musicians interpreting the music of one of the greatest songwriters of our time, Bird on the Wire has already received rave reviews and will be…
Viv (Katherine Parkinson) has lost her shoe on her London commute.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Since forming in 1994, Richard Alston Dance Company has been extolled for their musicality and lyricism.
Part of the Six Plays One Day event at Tristan Bates, Songs of Innocence really stands out from the crowd.
A thought-provoking play about how family and social structures mold us into misshapen beings, and how trauma can become one’s own salvation.
Now in it’s 11th year.
Welcome to The Republic of Biafra, 1967.
One party gone wrong and a constellation of friends, family, and sacrosanct values falls apart.
In Midnight Movie, Eve Leigh presents a universe of bedrooms where disabled people are unable to sleep due to the pain of having a body which is, right now, ‘glitching’.
Connor is on a night out and ready to be open about his sexuality.
A long table stretches across the expansive floor of the Coronet.
Suspended from the ceiling of the Coronet Theatre are five crystalline orbs that almost look like faces.
A host of West End performers and recording artists join forces to bring you this night of musical theatre.
At the Edinburgh Fringe this year, the Scotsman made this show pick of the musical comedies, declaring it a “must-see” - “beautifully crafted, cleverly…
In 1919 the Weimar Republic is born from chaos and resistance and built on the edge of a volcano.
12 Finalists will compete for a cash prize of £500. Each act is 5 - 7 minutes long. Interval after 6th act
Insightful compositions from ‘One of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
The semi-final of the 2019 Funny Women Awards.
You’ll feel That Old Black Magic with Pam and her band, (Campbell Normand on piano, Ed Kelly on bass, Dave Swanson on drums), as they perform the songs of Johnny Mercer.
Celebrating 32 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
In the far-flung future, a graduate student uncovers the classified records of a vanished scientist/poet known as Captain Redacted, who was sent to explore alternate Earths and doc…
Sold out in 2018, Philip Contini, one of the UK’s finest exponents of Neapolitan songs, and top Italian guitarist Luca Villani present a romantic programme of beautiful love songs.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter Dean Owens is a man of many songs, and many hats.
Join the MG ALBA Scots Singer of the Year 2018 for an intimate performance of Scots Songs of the North East.
Join us for the live final of the BBC’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr.
Estonian epic tale Kalevipoeg is written in songs, and NUKU choir is performing these old runic songs mixed with contemporary jazz, adding an ancient storytelling touch to the perf…
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
Following five-star reviews at the Fringe 2018, Gone Rogue Productions returns with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.
Award-winning jazz vocalist Ali, with a heavy hitting band of internationally acclaimed musicians, resurrects the original outspoken blues and torch song divas.
Come and enjoy our music.
"I kind of want to die – but I’d really like to get into publishing, too," says Billie (performed by Grainne Dromgoole), as she explains the story of her first real l…
Hundreds entered, only a handful survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s Funniest Student 2019.
Forty singers including Barbara Dickson, Karine Polwart, Archie Fisher, Adam McNaughtan, Dick Gaughan, Arthur Johnstone, Ian McCalman and Canadian Iain Rankin, singing the great so…
Guan Yu’s patriotism to his country, benevolence to people, wisdom in life, loyalty to friends and bravery in war represent the perfect traditional Chinese virtues of mankind.
Beautiful jazz and Latin songs like Moon River, Besame Mucho, Ne Me Quitte Pas, Lo Dudo and Piensa En Mi from Pedro Almodóvar’s film soundtracks and other songs which inspired his…
A collection of song settings from some of Scotland’s best-loved writers including George MacKay Brown, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, William Soutar and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as a one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop icon status for chart-topping hits…
25 countries in 10 years, Joseph brings songs from his journey to Edinburgh.
‘What’s going on…??’ Rosana Cade cries, with their head in the seat of a swivel chair, spinning slowly in front of a fixated and silent audience.
Launching rockets is the last missing piece in the growing Scottish space industry.
Icelandic folk songs and bits of Icelandic culture.
Within a basement room of the Hanover Suite (Venue 119) is perhaps the best musical sketch comedy you will find this Fringe.
From ‘mercurially witty’ (Spectator) creator of YouTube smash 17 Million F*ck Offs – A Song About Brexit come comic songs, stories and stand-up for people who think the governmen…
When he was seven years old, Edward Hilsum attended a party at which a magician was performing.
Martin Dixon and Gareth Edward are hot and bothered! Join these grumpy gays for some late-night queer comedy as they wax lyrical about the body beautiful, getting older and the dil…
What happens when you’re at a private fetish party, and you bump into the daughter of your boss? Such is the premise of Kim Davies’ Smoke.
Known for dusky vocals and biting wit, Edinburgh Fringe regular and award-winning performer Cat Loud sets her sights on the historically female-led sub genre of jazz.
It’s probably worth clarifying in the first sentence of this review that I was not expecting to be drawn into the bureaucratic complexities of being the Easter Bunny whilst at th…
A brand-new adaptation of this rarely performed musical song cycle with fully fledged characters and setting.
Joey’s trapped in a maze! Topsy and Turvy have been given the super dooper important task of bringing him back to the Aussie Zoo.
Eleanor Conway's vagina has a name (Jenny), and this is important to know.
A whimsically curated theatrical deep-dive into the multiverse of Hendrick’s Gin, guided by three tini tipples… In a world where the beloved martini has been called, one of the h…
James Stuart – or Stuart James – is passed out at his desk as the audience file into the space.
One broken world and ten funny songs to fix it.
I stole the hit songs that our favourite artists play in parallel universes.
Ed promises to come up with a big idea to hang the whole thing on – but probably it’ll be based on a loose set of unconnected themes with no real purpose.
This tour de farce of bizarre exploits and odd misadventures chronicles an American’s nearly seven-decade search to find his place in the world.
Sir Trevor Brierly – writer, director, occasional cat-sitter – was many things to many people.
For the first time James performs his multi award-winning trilogy of storytelling shows, Team Viking, A Hundred Different Words for Love and Revelations back-to-back in one evening…
Richard Gadd pours a free cup of tea to a stranger at a bar – she comes back.
He was exhausted by life.
Born in a snow bank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border to a family of nomadic caribou hunters, Cree playwright, pianist and musician Tomson Highway has been called one of the most impo…
YesYesNoNo are searching for the truth.
Two parts fever dream and one part personality quiz, Final Form examines the desperate lengths we go to in our eternal quest to be liked.
‘Woke, feminist, geezer’ (List).
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
The Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year is back for a fifth year.
One broken world and ten funny songs to fix it.
Above The Stag Theatre is very excited to present multi-award winning international cabaret sensation Reuben Kaye.
"The Wave is THE WAY", boom the Almeida Young Company (14 – 18) before thudding their fists into their chests.
‘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…
Playwright Ben Weatherill is right to call Jellyfish a love story.
The Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final is the showcase of the domestic season.
Jean-Pierre Brzechwa (countertenor) and Joe Ward (piano) are delighted to present an entertaining evening featuring extremely beautiful songs and pieces by Chopin.
Join Neil Sands for his biggest ever matinee show with more singers, more stunning costumes, more memories and even more fun.
Award-winning musical comedian and West End song-writer, Gareth Cooper, rocks up to Brighton Fringe with an hour of his annoyingly catchy songs.
Mayor Goodman has been assassinated.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Strode’s College Performing Arts students will be performing Extremism by Anders Lustgarten.
So you still think you’re funny? Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans this is a competition for comics who've been around long enough to know better…
Critically-acclaimed pianist and composer, Helen Anahita Wilson, returns to the Fringe to perform her debut solo album, BHOOMA.
Join Marcia for a show of original comedy parodies of popular songs, performed live at her furry, pink stage piano.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Performed by The Liberties, the songs and tunes of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Burke and John Sheehan is brought to life using the exact same instrum…
From her auspicious beginnings with John Houseman's The Acting Company to the overnight sensation of her Evita on Broadway, from the birth of Les Miserables to her unforgettabl…
Grand Final on Monday 25th February, 7.
Back for it’s fourth year.
Back for it’s fourth year.
‘I haven’t had a Trump free 24-hours for… I don’t know how long’ complains a house-guest, ushered in from the cold before a snowstorm strikes a recently purchased farmste…
Paved with Gold and Ashes is the story of five women who survive a hideous factory.
Dog and Actor are two short, explosive and vulnerable plays written by Steven Berkoff.
Bethany Fox’s script explores the relationship between two jobbing actors, Jess (Bethany Fox) and Jack(Oliver Burkill), who, after a chemistry-charged first meeting outside an au…
‘Enemies of the People’ is a welcome and observant theme for a theatre programme as we enter another year of post-truth politics, domestic division, and the third year in the r…
Now in it’s 10th year.
John Wilson’s 70 piece superstar orchestra returns with their brand new show ‘At The Movies’.
A sell-out event every December for a decade, Adam Kay presents a night of festive filth – his antidote to the pantomime horrors in every other theatre this time o…
‘Tell them…! Tell them…! Tell them…!’ Shouts Alun Armstrong, disgraced deputy headmaster Edward, as he brandishes the eponymous cane in one hand whilst walls close in aro…
Hole is a piece of theatre that has been in incubation for a long time.
Walk Swiftly And With Purpose is a coming-of-age narrative, which calmly sets ablaze the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, History Boys, and Dead Poets’ Society and, with a short sharp …
Creation Theatre’s The Pit and the Pendulum is an immersive adaption of Edgar Allan Poe’s work of the same title.
A host of West End performers present the greatest songs from shows that bombed, by Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lionel Bart, Stephen Schwartz, Stiles & Dr…
Award-winning singer songwriter David Gibb returns with a brand new musical show for families and children, after sold out performances in 2017.
The Wider Earth is a chimera.
As summer nights draw to a close and the black velvet skies wash over the capital, Pedley Street Station begins a journey beyond anything you can imagine, a journey into the underw…
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful German lieder including the Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss and Fraue…
Nick Keir, the Edinburgh folksinger and songwriter, left us too early in 2013.
BBC Scottish Symphony OrchestraThomas Dausgaard Conductor Experience the classical music stars of tomorrow – the most exciting young performers from right across Europe.
Celebrating 31 years of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomer competition.
Original and collected songs and stories from father-daughter duo: with Margaret drawing from her album Brigid’s Birds and Russell sharing some of his very favourite stories.
The Great Baldini is a magical legend.
Come and enjoy our music.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Hear your favourite songs performed live from some of the most popular family films of all time – including hits made famous by Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews and many others.
One performance only with Philip Contini, one of the UK’s finest exponents of Neapolitan songs, and top Italian guitarist Luca Villani, as they present their long-awaited programme…
Grab the hottest Fringe tickets to discover tomorrow’s comedy stars, showcasing their Fringe comedy shows in this prestigious final.
Brian Wilson returns with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin! Wilson will deliver his greatest hits live including selected songs from Pet Sounds, his top hits and fan favourites spann…
Join St Andrew’s and St George’s West Choir as they perform a programme of contemporary choral music.
Join MG Alba Scots Singer of the Year nominee, Iona Fyfe, for an intimate performance of Scots Songs of the North East.
Featuring musicians from the internationally acclaimed Complete Songs of Robert Burns (Linn Records). ‘Great voices, great songs… Who could ask for more?’ (fRoots).
Europe’s most prestigious Burlesque competition has reached it 9th year and YOU can help decide who will tassel-twirl their way to take the title Miss Burlesque Idol 2018! Ov…
With his-larger-than life stage presence, Alex brings another absolute treat.
It is very hard to describe the almost endless amalgam of different influences in Claude’s playing, all melting into each other as he moves from classical openings, across a whole …
UK folk singer, cult hero and festival legend Beans on Toast makes his debut Fringe appearance.
Hundreds entered, only a handful survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2018.
Vote excitedly alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2018’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and the shiny moose trophy.
Hailed as one of Scotland’s finest troubadours, Dean Owens is a man of many songs, many hats.
Brahms and Liszt – two great masters of German song in a luscious recital by internationally renowned bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott, rising star soprano Catherine Hooper and legenda…
Acclaimed London-based jazz/blues/soul vocalist Kerry Jo Hodgkin pays tribute to the legendary, sultry-toned jazz and popular music singer/actress Julie London.
A programme telling the adventurous life story of Marjory Kennedy Fraser and illustrated with the lovely Hebridean songs she collected, arranged and published.
The beautiful songs of Edward Elgar and Maude Valérie White.
Join Cassie (second place, Musical Comedy Awards 2018) for a few ditties, a little bit of death and a whole lot of fun.
New Zealand’s foremost comedy singer-songwriter, when ranked alphabetically, presents original comedy songs.
Rich Wilson is still very much relevant, even though he’s over 40.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Singing her own parodies of popular songs at her furry pink piano, drag performer Marcia D’Arc brings you crude comedy and witty rhymes enshrined in a shroud of sequins, glitter …
In his new one-man play Owen O’Neill takes the audience on a trip to the soundtrack of his life.
A desk, a pile of papers, a stack of records and a funny, thought-provoking and really quite moving tale exploring love, love songs, and how we all live lives with our own personal…
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Tony Award winner Ben Harney (Broadway's Dreamgirls), and writer Mehr Mansuri, lead this musical about an 1850s Virginia slave who ships himself to freedom in a box.
Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world.
A history in story and in song, of the terraces at Anfield Football Ground known as the Kop.
The spectacular two-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Edinburgh with a special concert, Songs of the Free, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of …
‘Anesti Danelis delivers the funny with a hefty side of heart.
Mixing get-on-the-dance-floor music, rap and spoken word, Love Songs explores the personal and political puzzles of our love lives through the autobiographical poems of a hopeless …
‘Brilliant’ ***** (Sydney Morning Herald).
Just These, Please is a sketch troupe with promise and imagination.
Propeller is a play which relates a small town’s struggle to reinstate a railway line, in order to make a much wider statement on the merits and masquerade of social action.
Never Vera Blue is a brave and commendable production, which interrogates the effects of gaslighting in an emotionally abusive relationship.
The Fetch Wilson is the type of play that might work very well as a film, or so you might think upon leaving the theatre.
It’s hard to review Nina’s Got News without revealing what Nina’s news actually is.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
He’s been Annie Lennox, Madonna and Cole Porter to great acclaim.
Yummy is what it says on the tin – a gooey, delicious, and extremely well-crafted sequence of performances from an ensemble of drag queens who are masters of their respective cra…
If you have a ticket to Pants On Fire’s Ovid’s Metamorphoses, you have in your possession a way of securing the ferryman’s passage to one of the most mischievous and charming…
You’ve just been dumped, but you’re stuck on a spaceship, alone with that person.
A Generous Lover is La JohnJoseph’s heartfelt account of caring for a bipolar partner.
No One is Coming to Save You is an abstract piece of theatre which eschews character development and plot narrative, in favour of exploring recurring images.
Here is something special and unusual: the life and death of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke and heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, remixed into a cabaret history lecture b…
For almost thirty years, Gandini Juggling has been setting the bar for juggling performances across the world.
Back for a fourth year, the GYF New Comedian of the Year is again on the lookout for the best up and coming comedians from Yorkshire and beyond.
Come with us on a musical journey around Japan and across the globe.
Jay Foreman is an award winning musical comedian whose songs have been heard on BBC Radio 4, Radio 4 Extra, The One Show, London Live TV and Dave Gorman's UK/Ireland tour.
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
A wild and darkly comic journey down the streets and back alleys of modern Dublin, from award-winning writer, Stewart Roche and ground-breaking young Irish theatre collective.
The XLP Arts South London Showcase Final is the culmination of a series of youth arts showcases held this year within Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth, hosted …
Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans.
One of the UK’s most exciting and versatile emerging musical theatre talents, Scottish writer-composer Finn Anderson is currently developing a string of new shows set to hit stages…
Alan Felton presents the last in the series ‘Lions Led by Asses’ in which, by means of song, poetry and facts, he covers the final months of World War 1, culminating in an uneasy a…
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.
Loves Songs is a little one-woman-show that explores the personal and political puzzles of our love lives through the autobiographical poems of a hopeless romantic - with some rap,…
Performed in front of a live audience, with live foley (sound effects), this new radio play by Chris Buxey is a dark comedy about principles, money and the importance of family.
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…
★★★★ ‘Brilliant - the closest thing the fringe has to rock gods’ Fest Magazine ★★★★ ‘Wickedly amusing’ The Times ★★★★ ‘Spirited comedy.
Back for its third year.
Five iconic singers; Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Maria Callas encounter five ordinary women in the UK premiere of this critically acclaimed one-woman …
First employer Cat Stevens.
Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the …
Come along and experience Janet’s “Cultural Journey” at The Red Rhino Room! There will be a variety of Aboriginal artworks on show, including Janet’s “Emu Dreaming”painting which…
Sylvia Brécko presents “MYTH – the lives and songs of Dietrich, Piaf, Monroe and other female legends!” An Encore! After last year’s great success Sylvia, German TV host & …
Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths explores the songs, stories and locomotion of our very own impossible princess, Kylie Minogue.
First employer Cat Stevens True story.
The Willy Wonka of Weird! The Peter Pan of Putrid! Mr Snot bottom is a hilariously deeeesgusting kids comedian brimming with all the oeeey, gooey, gross out topics kids love: booge…
Dave & Kate ran The Singing Gallery in McLaren Vale for 25 years hosting concerts and doing their own shows.
Come on a journey of inner discovery with this free video event from the Peace Education Program.
Multi Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir brings together South Africa’s greatest singers performing songs in 8 of Sth Africa’s official languages in a repertoire that inc…
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
Fresh off a successful sold out season at the 2017 Adelaide Fringe, Harry Baulderstone and Marcus Ryan return with: Feelin’ Groovy - The Songs of Simon & Garfunkel.
The search is on for South Australia’s funniest teens!!! Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national secondary school comedy competition is open to people aged 14-18.
Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks deliver a blistering set of hits from the 5 decades spanning Ross’ spectacular career as singer, songwriter and producer.
Adelaide The Songs is a special presentation of new songs inspired by our city.
Helpmann award winner Michael Griffiths and acclaimed cabaret darling Amelia Ryan celebrate the songbooks of Aussie icons Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen for one night only.
Cal’s made some awful decisions - relationships, jobs, the 90s.
The Flaming Sambucas (extended band), with Terry Nicholas at the White Grand Piano, bring to life the timeless songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
The bawdy, the dirty, and the downright horny - The Towers of Song are going to rock’n’roll their way through the lustful side of Leonard’s music.
The Dingbats are flag favourites, unbeaten and today is Grand Final Day.
In an alternate universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is introduced to the characters of Twilight and chaos ensues.
Growing up with the music of Nick Cave resonating in their bones, it seemed only fitting to put together a tribute to the Bad Seed himself.
On a spring day in 1939, The Prince of Soul, Marvin Gaye, was born to loving parents in Washington DC and became one of the elite few who shaped the sound of Motown in the 1960’s…
A hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age story that interweaves killer tunes, dance and rap with the autobiographical poems of a hopeless romantic.
A devilishly cheeky hour of songs, poems and comedy from award-winning musical comedian, Jay Foreman.
Following its sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season, Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed produ…
Lazarus Theatre kick off their year-long residency at Greenwich Theatre on a visceral note with Christopher Marlowe’s homoerotic epic Edward II.
The evening features numerous Broadway stars and company members of the EPIC Players Inclusion Company and will showcase a neuro-inclusive cast of performers living with and withou…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
It’s not over ‘till it’s over – we’re having a final fling to send Fringe 70 out in style! Live music courtesy of our super swing band, a special guest DJ with a record c…
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Gilded Balloon’s annual comedy competition, So You Think You’re Funny.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Acclaimed London-based jazz/blues/soul vocalist Kerry-Jo Hodgkin launches her new album and pays tribute to the legendary, sultry-toned jazz and popular music singer/actress Julie …
Sam Hird (baritone) and Sam Johnson (piano) perform songs by British composer George Butterworth, whose death on the Somme 100 years ago robbed us of one of our most promising musi…
‘It’s about one moment.
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Yi Dong makes her 16th annual return to Edinburgh to ‘indulge us with a rich spa of the spirits and mind’ (China Xinhua News Agency) and to take us on a journey through the spirit …
Grab your hottest tickets to be entertained by tomorrow’s comedy stars, showcasing their Fringe shows in this prestigious final.
‘In the 1970s there was a wee bit of a stooshie here in Scotland.
It’s Wonderful: the Songs of Paolo Conte is Espresso Manifesto’s tribute to and transformation of the legendary Italian artist.
Hundreds entered, eight survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2017.
Vote alongside international talent scouts, relishing the excitement of seeing 2017’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making.
Join us for the live final of the BBC’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr.
A collection of swinging, bluesy and soulful songs from the American deep south set off by Westwater’s ‘smooth…sultry and at times, smouldering voice’ (FringeReview.
Susan McNaught (soprano), Taylor Wilson (mezzo) and Robert Melling (pianist) present a recital of beautiful 19th and 20th-century songs, chanson and lied, inspired by the sights an…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
‘Filled almost to excess with cheesy-rom-com-buckets-of-feel-good, this act put a smile on every face’ (TheTab.
Alastair McIntosh is a writer, broadcaster and activist on land reform, spirituality and ecology.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Dean Friedman is currently playing his fourth year running in the Apex Hotel in Grassmarket, although he has been performing at the Edinburgh Fringe for years before that.
Award-winning vocalist Ali presents a showcase of the most powerful songs ever written on love and loss, within blues and jazz.
Cell Block Soweto: An A Cappella Gang Show by After Freedom is a new a cappella show telling stories of five prisoners confined in one of Johannesburg’s prisons.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Join the former King’s singer and renowned choral director Simon Carrington and the Reformation Festival Chorus as they present an hour-long programme of inspirational choral music…
The body we inhabit began its journey not when we were born in this life but centuries ago.
What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy teams up with incredibly talented musician John Sampson to bring a unique blend of reading with live music.
In any amateur production, the most significant moments are those where one forgets that the performers are not professional.
What happens in the mind of a bilingual person? Lose yourself in a joyful and intimate journey celebrating languages, cliches and pop culture.
Hopeless goes back to Leyla Josephine’s roots as one of the most interesting young spoken word artists in Scotland.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Is Edward Aczel Infinite? Have you ever thought: who am I? Is it all just a dream? Is time constant or variable? Is it only possible to imagine the infinite? No, me neither.
The Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in 2002 and embraces the diverse music of South Africa, a country with eleven official languages and subsequent communities.
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…
It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton.
From a hit season at Adelaide Fringe, Danny Condon finds a grey area between art and science and lifts the lid on some hilarious family dynamics.
It is ten years since Simon Stephens captured the chaos of London in 2005: within a few days London went from celebrating Live8 and the announcement that they would be hosting the …
Fringe 2011’s Best Newcomer nominee Paul Valenti is back, this time on a semi-silent casual quest for universal truth.
From a hit season at Adelaide Fringe, Danny Condon finds a grey area between art and science and lifts the lid on some hilarious family dynamics.
It’s 1979 and Scottish darts star Jocky Wilson is in America to play an exhibition match.
The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts.
After an epic season, the 12 best teams in England are reduced to just two finalists who will battle it out for the right to be called Aviva Premiership Rugby Champions 2017 on 27 …
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
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 …
Frank Sanazi brings his comedy war machine to Brighton for an attack on the South Coast, with his Iraq Pack buddy Saddami Davis Jnr.
Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? With those classic lines memories of the sixties, songs and sexual liberation come flooding back.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
This legendary singer/songwriter/Pop-icon performs his chart hits ‘Ariel’, ‘Lucky Stars’, ‘Lydia’ and more.
Damian Lewis returns to the West End to star in the darkly comic masterpiece, Edward Albee’s The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? Martin is at the pinnacle of life: he has a loving w…
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…
On top of his myriad accomplishments and accolades, Alan Cumming has been hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most fun people in show business! This October UK audiences will hav…
R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis…
Come and wave me off. Künt and the Gang’s last ever Fringe show, though I’ll probably just be back cap in hand in a couple of years when I’m skint and whatever I do next fails.
Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk for our eighth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Welcome to the final of the UK’s biggest and most prestigious comedy newcomers’ competition.
One of Scotland’s best-loved troubadours with his hit show, singing some of his favourite songs by the Hillbilly Shakespeare.
Two of Scotland’s finest musicians come together for a magical recital, featuring Vaughan Williams’ song cycle Songs of Travel, based on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and other s…
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
Glasgow-based singer/songwriter Euan performs songs from his recently released Songs from the Boarwood album, a collection of heartfelt and uplifting songs that draw inspiration fr…
Grab your hottest Fringe tickets, to be entertained by tomorrow’s comedy stars who showcase in this prestigious final.
Join us for a celebration of some of the most beautiful French and English songs of the early 20th Century.
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Two of the UK’s acoustic/folk scene’s finest songwriters join forces for a concert filled with songs and music, chat and banter and intimate insights into their approach to their c…
Hundreds entered, eight survive – now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student 2016.
A three-man band from Adelaide, Australia, tell an odd and very random story of one man’s travels through spoken word and song.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
The hilarious tribute to the fictitious husband and wife lounge act duo, Dick and Deloris DelRubio.
Poetry, storytelling and song weave together to tell but a few stories from our infinite Scotland’s rich folk tradition.
The Funny Women Awards have left a massive impression on the UK comedy map, with previous winners and finalists including Bridget Christie, Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan, Kerry Godli…
Join us for the live final of BBC Radio’s prestigious stand-up comedy competition. Previous winners of this coveted award include Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Beaumont and Alan Carr.
Acclaimed London-based jazz/blues/soul vocalist Kerry-Jo Hodgkin pays tribute to the legendary, sultry-toned jazz and popular music singer/actress Julie London.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Highly respected songwriter Larry from today’s American folk tradition returns to AMC and the Fringe with original ballads and powerful contemporary messages, told with the care of…
Luca Villani – Guitar. Isabel Panè – Soprano. Music by Giordani, Monteverdi, Murray, Pergolesi, Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Tansman, Troup and Villani.
Scottish virtuoso guitarist/composer Simon Thacker returns to create a new Romani musical journey in this dazzling world premiere featuring reimagined Gypsy songs and original work…
Doris has been making music from the big-band era of the 1940s to her latest album in 2011.
The most celebrated international soloist of any Chinese national musical instrument of her generation, playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history, makes her ret…
This legendary singer/songwriter and pop-icon performs his chart hits Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia and more.
A mix of ancient music, legends and history as this troupe of 80 young performers recreate the excitement of an ancient imperial parade during the reign of Emperor Qin, almost 1,30…
Every loch in Scotland, however beautiful, has its cold, dark depths.
A mix of ancient music, legends and history as this troupe of 80 young performers recreates the excitement of an ancient imperial parade during the reign of Emperor Qin, almost 1,3…
Mystery, poetry and the unknown contents of a white bag spark a young woman’s quest into the life, death and writing of the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Nineteenth and last year for the show that started the Free Fringe.
Musical Comedy Award winning, cult Fringe hit Jollyboat are back with another nerdy show of comedy songs.
Words from the heart by award-winning poet, David Lee Morgan (London, UK, and BBC slam poetry champion).
Cinema screening of live performance.
This informal hour long recital, starring singer Elspeth McVeigh and fiddle player Gabi Maas, features a variety of folk songs, or ‘Broadside Ballads’, from 17th to 19th centur…
Ubuntu, meaning compassion and humanity, is a show that speaks about unity amongst the African continent and the world.
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…
Smart, funny, original songs from Michael Roulston and Sarah-Louise Young, creators of Cabaret Whore, Julie Madly Deeply and Songs for Cynics.
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
In a little circus salon tent named ‘The Omnitorium’ tucked away behind George Square Theatre, Anya Anastasia proves that she is a force to be reckoned with.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
To start with – a confession.
Gideon Irving is a travelling musician looking for new friends all over the world.
‘These singers know how to dazzle and excite their audience.
Enjoy a dazzling performance of everyone’s favourite musical theatre songs with twists, themes and special guests ensuring every show is unique.
This is a pretty great show.
Sell-out hit returns! Singer, pianist and entertainer Joe Stilgoe pays tribute to much-loved movies.
A story of a little snail with a big dream, who tries to make it past doubting friends, to go on the adventure of a lifetime.
Sarah-Louise Young and Michael Roulston remain on top form with their new laugh-out-loud spin-off Cabaret Whore, in which Young’s comic character La Poule Plombée is finally g…
“Cracking good songs in the style of Brecht, Bowie and Brel” (Irish Times) - Jody Trehy plays Brighton with a sublime international band as part of his 2016 tour.
Performances on the Rue Pigalle were presumably at times rather challenging, even for the great Edith Piaf; and Nadja Filtzer certainly shared some artistic barricades while taking…
Short stories set to music.
Launching Edana Minghella’s new album, ‘All or Nothing’, a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary celebration & final performance in its entirety.
This exhibition is brought to you by a collection of local artists working in a variety of mediums.
A choir meets to rehearse a song to make things better.
Having lived at the top end of Brighton’s London Road for the last six years, I’ve witnessed first-hand the rapid and accelerating gentrification taking place in the area, di…
(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 27) The Roundabout revives Eugene O’Neill’s “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood.
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…
On Martin Luther King Day, Astronomy Club, an Upright Citizens Brigade house team, will present this sketch show about the “real black history,” described as “the…
The comedy duo Nancy, made up of Colin O’Brien and Michael Wolf, presents this very funny twist on musical sketch with a concert about the highs and lows of love, sex, and ti…
Linten Adie is an Edinburgh-based community singing group.
Join the National Youth Choir of Scotland as it presents a patriotic programme of Scottish songs, including John Gardner’s A Burns Sequence, a dynamic setting of eight poems by Sco…
A powerful and evocative mixed media performance performed by Ribbon Road with songs by songwriter Brenda Heslop, and a film by Keith Pattison.
Welcome to the final of the 28th year of the UK’s biggest and best comedy newcomers competition.
Back by popular demand, Songs on Film – The Sequel sees pianist, singer, songwriter and film nerd Joe Stilgoe pay tribute to 100 years of music that aided and abetted the legenda…
Join Gareth Richards, Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer nominee 2010, for a selection of the best songs from his five solo shows, EP, and album.
The popular Scottish composer presents highlights from his chamber music, musicals and operas.
Hundreds entered, eight survive, now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student.
‘Cracking good songs in the style of Brecht, Bowie, Bernelle and Brel’ (Tony Clayton-Lea, Irish Times), describes the music of Dubliner Jody Trehy, (writer of Eejit of Love) wh…
Grab your tickets to vote for tomorrow’s stars at this prestigious Final alongside comedy cognoscenti.
Sell-out 2010-2014.
The upstairs room in the historic Arthur Conan Doyle building offers the perfect setting for a relaxed evening of fiddle melodies by one of the country’s leading exponents.
Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, S…
A Requiem for Edward Snowden is a new audio-visual piece on the very current themes of privacy, security and loss in the 21st century.
Welcome to the Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition to find the very best new sketch performers.
A new musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao.
The first and only stand-up comedy competition for high school students at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Pioneered by Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Class Clowns lands o…
Playing an instrument of over 2,500 years of recorded history and some 36,000,000 active participants, classical Zheng performer, Yi Dong, makes her 14th annual return to Edinburgh…
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Songs of Love and War will touch on poetry and stories from wars in Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, Sri Lanka and the Boer War as well as WWI and WWII, interspersed with love songs from the …
Celtabilly meets country, with a doff of the cap to the Man in Black.
This legendary singer/songwriter performs his classic hits Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia and more.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comic talent for over a decade, and witnessed some fantastic acts who are now major names on the comedy circuit.
As part of the Made in Scotland showcase, off-world electronica and stunning live vocals merge seamlessly with surreal 3D animation to evolve into a multimedia artwork in Alien Lul…
Acclaimed London-based jazz/blues/soul vocalist Kerry Jo Hodgkin pays tribute to legendary, sultry-toned jazz/popular music singer/actress Julie London, with two of Scotland’s lead…
Creator/director: Claire Henderson Davis.
Join the internationally acclaimed Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, director Tommy Smith, and special guest Eddi Reader as together, they richly reimagine Scotland through uplifti…
An intimate stage work that synthesises poetry, music, and dance, with P K Page’s brilliant verse at its core.
Mixed media paintings exploring cityscape, countryside and coastline: colours, textures and changing light of the seasons.
Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti for 2015’s hottest, breakout stars-of-tomorrow: Colin Chadwick, Daniel Audritt, George Lewis, James Loveridge, Jay Hampson, Luke Cou…
‘Ten-legged, ten-armed, five-headed creative beast’ (FringeReview.
We all love a good story! Multi award-winning singer-songwriter Mike Willis and his rovin’ band transport you to the smoky mountains of America.
A family magic show accessible for even the youngest of children, Edward Hilsum: Genie is a charming magical experience.
Perrier/Chortle award-winning musical comedian with ‘sex, politics and rock’n’roll’ (Scotsman) in the key of grrr.
Acclaimed cabaret singer Bremner Duthie and a swinging band led by pianist David Patrick celebrate the dark, decadent and always lovely music of Kurt Weill.
There’s plenty for girls to worry about these days – from tattoos to eating disorders to abusive relationships – and Tanya Holt, a mother herself, deals with the difficulties…
Given one last chance to save their theatre society, an eccentric creative team must stage a spectacular sell-out show.
Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers.
Told through the story of a young male character, Sphiwe, this musical takes the audience through the ups and downs of youth life in Soweto.
Imagine if the hosts of your third favourite TV quiz show were propelled into a thrilling adventure involving: murders, robots, quiche, thumb wrestling and evil water coolers.
Total sell out Fringe 2014! Book early! As heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and seen on Dave Gorman’s UK/Ireland tour.
‘Ten-legged, ten-armed, five-headed creative beast’ (FringeReview.
Is this a music concert? Is it a piece of theatre? Can it be both? Might it be neither? These are the questions that may well fly around your mind after experiencing The Great Down…
Winner of Best Cabaret at the 2014 Adelaide Fringe, Sweet Dreams: Songs by Annie Lennox now makes its Edinburgh debut.
The Very Grey Matter of Edward Blank is directed by Conrad Sharp and performed by Familia de la Noche, taking place in the home and imagination of Edward Blank.
The Soweto Spiritual Singers are at the Fringe with two shows, this later one at the Assembly Rooms called The Return, is an uplifting and enjoyable hour of African spirituality.
Black Magic: Songs Unchained is an important piece of theatre, unfortunately hampered by an uneven acting performance.
Come join Brimson and Wilson, purveyors of the finest comedy for men and women since the year 2000, as they present to you a veritable cornucopia of fun-filled frolics, sketches an…
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…
These singers know how to dazzle and excite their audience.
A harmony quartet offering as wide-ranging a repertoire as their name suggests, coming across like a South African Il Divo and a sleepy Ave Maria.
After six successful years of the Leicester Square Theatre New Comedian of the Year in London the competition comes to York, with a brand new contest to find the best up and coming…
In October, Wendy Whelan retired from the New York City Ballet after 30 years.
(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…
An exquisite collection of original songs with a deeply textured, lush, acoustic sound from acclaimed singer-songwriter and guitarist Rosie Brown and her imaginative, virtuoso band…
On the 24th, sublime soprano Marianne Wright sings Haydn, Rimsky-Korsako, Poulenc, Satie, Debussy, and Milhaud songs with music by local composer Andy Murray and pianist Gabriel Jo…
You’ll be left shaken, stirred and thoroughly entertained by award-winning Australian cabaret crooner Tomás Ford’s noir-as-hell spy thriller.
Unstoppable rhythm, invincible singing, daring dance.
Six women are on a journey. A comedy journey to make you laugh. Witness our responses to you and your suggestions. Be scared - we will take you anywhere. It may even involve song.
Inspirational show from the world famous 27-strong choir with earthy rhythms and rich harmonies to uplift the soul.
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…
Music composed by Terence Deadman.
When people come together to share their voices in harmony something magical happens! In the magnificent setting of All Saints Church, sing spirit-raising gospels, meditative Taize…
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…
(previews start on March 11; opens on March 29) Yes, these theaters are smaller than average and there may be quite a line for the single bathroom, but don’t let that deter y…
With the death of the last surviving veterans a few years back, the so-called Great War of 1914-18 slipped from living memory, but some records remain preserved none-the-less, n…
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…
Following a triumphant UK and European arena tour in 2012, Live Nation and SJM Concerts, are delighted to announce that one of the most ground-breaking tours of all ti…
Blackpool Opera House: 30th Oct 7pm.
This new high-energy concert production is this season’s must-see show.
‘What are kings when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?’ Venture Wolf presents England’s most mesmerising monarchs, infamous Queen and greatest traitor in…
When Edward inherits the throne from his stern and all conquering father, he is determined to rule his way.
Jonathan Wood’s songs have accumulated over four decades.
Juxtaposing the poetry of political repression against traditional religious texts, holy minimalist James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados protests against the disappearances of the pol…
Morran, Weatherby, Brechin, Duff and Freeman perform Tannahill’s captivating lyrics and haunting Irish melodies written in defence of 19th-century immigrants to Scotland.
Alastair Savage has performed traditional and classical music throughout his life and is one of the country’s leading fiddle exponents.
Welcome to the 27th Final of the UK’s best stand-up comedy newcomers competition! After the Gilded Balloon has scoured the nation in search of the best new comic talent, we are dow…
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh’s Convener for Culture, and international mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker look at how Scotland has inspired other nations.
The Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition for sketch and character performers.
Grab your hot tickets to vote at this prestigious Fringe final alongside international comedy cognoscenti for tomorrow’s stars.
A powerful and evocative mixed-media performance performed by Ribbon Road with songs by Brenda Heslop, and a film by Keith Pattison.
Hundreds entered, eight survive and now one will be crowned Britain’s funniest student.
Join us for the Grand Final of this year’s slam, presented by 2012-13 Scottish National Poetry Slam Champion, Kevin Cadwallender.
Soaring melodies of bird song brought to life with an aviary of composers from Chausson and Cunningham to Rubinstein and Rossini.
The Funny Women Awards have been promoting female comics for over a decade, and we’ve seen some fantastic acts pass through our doors who are now major names on the comedy circui…
Singer-songwriter Fiona Crow will bring her mellow acoustic melodies to a late-night session in the comfort of the Hub Cafe.
Barbara Allen, along with her husband Steve and friends take the audience on a musical tour that showcases Barbara’s experience as a Christian vocalist.
We all have a job.
Gladstone’s Bag presents a light-hearted programme of radio and TV themes, novelty instrumentals, characteristic pieces and music hall songs with special guest artiste Judith Bower…
Songs from the trenches and music from the home front illustrating the impact of the Great War on the people of one Old Town church and their local community.
Four Stories Four Songs is a hilarious show based on the music EP of the same name by Emmet O’Malley, which was released in 2014.
Tulegur Gangzi, a modern nomad and a versatile musician from Inner-Mongolia who has combined traditional Mongolian throat singing Khoomei with contemporary music, rock and folk, wh…
Hailing from the beautiful lands of Yunnan, Tribal Trip consists of: the La-Hu Wang NieJing, DingNan on drums and the mystical dancing of Shi XueYan combines folk music from Russia…
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
Songs by three teachers of the Royal College of Music (Ireland, Howells and Horowitz) and piano solos by Lambert, a student of the Royal College of Music, are contrasted with the g…
Following 2013’s successful performances, Nathan Priestley (Andy Leslie and Steve Roberts) return to the Fringe with more original songs and instrumentals and interpretations of cl…
Acclaimed jazz/blues/soul vocalist Kerry Jo Hodgkin pays tribute to the legendary, sultry-toned singer and actress Julie London, with two of Scotland’s leading jazz musicians: Coli…
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Two of the UK’s firm 40s favourites, The Three Belles and That Swing Sensation Big Band take you on a Sentimental Journey through the songs and music that defined an age.
Supported by the University of Edinburgh, offering a life affirming, joyous celebration of traditional and contemporary African music and dance.
It’s 1924 and Alfred Brownlow’s music hall troupe is in trouble.
A fascinating documentary charting the remarkable journey of five a cappella singers from one of South Africa’s most notorious townships to the famous Edinburgh Fringe.
Vote alongside international comedy cognoscenti, to raise aloft the hottest, breakthrough stars of tomorrow who battle brilliantly for fame, fortune, shiny moose trophies, plus £1…
New York, New York: A Toe-Tapping Journey through the Great American Song Book is just that; a fun night of swing and brass band favourites from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Gle…
Creative and joyous sound sensation from South Africa.
The Journey is an interactive installation for everyone.
Kurt Weill, a musical genius.
This original musical by Kingdom Theatre is a tribute to the songs of Frank Sinatra.
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
Live and let die blares from the speakers as Marc Burrows circles the room, high-fiving everyone in sight.
‘Charming, accomplished and thoroughly loveable’ **** (Time Out).
Joe Stilgoe and his excellent band create a wonderful atmosphere with their musical stylings, charming personalities, and atmospheric lighting.
If you struggle to believe that a grown man with a deep baritone can convince you that he is in fact Madonna, be prepared to suspend your disbelief.
Humour and Heart: Songs for My Beloved! New York musical theatre entertainer/comedian Jonathan Prager brings his golden voice, heartfelt interpretation and comedic sensibility to a…
Over 80,000 people worldwide have enjoyed this critically-acclaimed production which included sell-out seasons at London’s Lyric Hammersmith, Off-Broadway and Sydney Opera House.
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).
Despite the geographical specificity of their title, the performers of the Soweto Afro-Pop Opera draw their influences as widely as the so-called ‘Rainbow Nation’ from which th…
Comedian Jay Foreman provides a devilishly cheeky hour of songs, poems and comedy for children of all ages in this excellent mid afternoon show in the Green.
The Soweto Spiritual Singers greet their audience with the Lord’s Prayer, sung in perfect harmony.
Alhambra Theatre: 26th Jun 7pm.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
A fun musical evening of songs old and new from musicals from the past and present together with songs from the Beatles.
The Iron Boot Scrapers, with their 3rd year at Brighton Fringe, bring you songs of tuberculosis, vamparism, prostitution and miasma from their debut album.
Now in its third year, Jessica Delfino’s annual comedy musical festival — with 15 events and dozens of comedians — travels to a different borough each nigh…
Fresh, unpredictable, vibrant music and dance fusion of soul, jazz, doo-wop and R’n’B both in African and popular styles presented by a five-piece a cappella group, formerly kn…
Assert showcases and celebrates life from an autistic spectrum perspective with this fascinating photographic exhibition.
Dominion Theatre: 22nd May 11pm.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Kurt Weill was a musical genius, born near Berlin 1900, died in New York, 1950.
To boldly go where no other swimmers have been! Brighton’s synchro swimmers swim in outer space (well, a watery space actually) for their 6th annual synchronised swimming show pe…
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
A voyage of discovery combining shadow puppetry, a gameshow, and ritual sacrifice.
A time signature emerges.
With soaring mellifluous vocals and a vibrant and emotional depth of feeling, Scottish singer/songwriter Jennifer Andrew invites you to enjoy a gentle hour of original compositions…
A musical journey from haunting Spanish moods, ethereal eastern influences and strains of western folk.
One of the aspects of folk music that makes it so different from any other variety is the connection it has to history and tradition.
Baroque Camerata from Taiwan. Splendour - when Western Baroque meets Taiwanese folk songs.
A reliable vein of new talent since its inception in 1988, the So You Think You’re Funny? comedy awards have provided a steady stream of ingenious new acts.
Abortion and X-Factor may seem unlikely bedfellows, but they’re forced into an unholy union in the poptastic Journey to X.
Grab your hot tickets for this prestigious final, to vote alongside international talent scouts for breakthrough stars of tomorrow amongst 2013’s Top Ten Fringe comedy shows, battl…
Sydney Carter’s finest songs from The Crow on the Cradle to The Lord of the Dance performed by singers aged between eight and eighty interlaced with poetry read by Scottish poet Bo…
‘Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
A collection of songs all connected by a central theme. It’s about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back.
Playing the zheng (zither), Yi Dong makes her annual return to Edinburgh to take us on a journey through the spirit of China in a revised show.
At a time when making a name in the world of stand-up comedy is at its most difficult, 8 young hopefuls, whittled down from hundreds, came together to compete for the distinguished…
Songs For A New World was Jason Robert Brown’s first produced show.
This brave attempt at the musical by Jason Robert Brown renowned for being tricky by Straight Line Theatre company was not an inspiring first encounter with the show.
The Chortle Student Comedy Awards is a one night only Fringe show, in which eight contestants compete for the grand prize of £2000 and the title of Best New Chortle Comedian.
Returning for their fourth consecutive Fringe season are the seasoned voices from Oxford University, who are celebrating twenty years of the ‘Alts’ with this new show.
Vote for hot, breakthrough stars-of-tomorrow battling brilliantly for fame, fortune and shiny Moose trophies.
Linten Adie is an Edinburgh-based community singing group.
The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final, as one might expect, was a one-off chance to see some of the comedians of tomorrow battle it out for the prestigious prize of £1500 and a moose s…
Educate, agitate, organise! Some of Scotland’s finest singers and musicians pay tribute to the links between folk music and the struggles of ordinary people, with Arthur Johnston…
Sold out Fringe 2012! This lovely show returns with the critically acclaimed From a Garden of Songs, RLS’s own songs, poems from a Child’s Garden of Verses and a performance of Ste…
ongs of Struggle sees a fine collection of Scottish folk singers gather together to celebrate Woody Guthrie’s centenary in an evening of inspiring and compelling music.
A rare chance to hear original songs and instrumentals written over 40 plus years, including some never played in public before.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Songs from Evenin’s Fa’ with Sangsters, Amy Geddes, Sarah McFadyen.
A legend looks back on a lifetime of entertainment in stories and classic song in this original musical drama.
Michael Griffiths is on a one-man mission to re-enact parts of Madonna’s life through the medium of musical theatre.
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
New York musical theatre entertainer/comedian Jonathan Prager brings his golden voice, heartfelt interpretation and comedic sensibility to a glorious and hilarious mix of little kn…
In this very special and understated recital, we meet Dong Yi, internationally renowned zheng soloist, and experience the exquisite sound of the world’s most popular Chinese instru…
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
The zheng, whilst perhaps an unfamiliar sight to a British audience, has a history that dates back over 2,500 years and yet remains the most popular instrument in China.
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
French, Australian, Jewish, Arctic comedian Eric Hutton’s 2012 show was selected as one of the ‘best free shows at the Fringe’ by TheScotsman.
Original comic songs from the creators of smash hit Cabaret Whore.
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.
First of all, it’s important that you ignore the title of this show because it has absolutely nothing to do with what you’ll be watching.
Jake, one of Britain’s best loved singer/songwriters, performed weekly to millions on Esther Rantzen’s That’s Life.
Edward Aczel is the master of anti-comedy.
Simply the most bizarre show you will ever have the unfortunate and detrimental privilege to watch.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Valvona & Crolla is a bit of a household name in Edinburgh, and that’s putting it mildly.
From the first few seconds of the opening song ‘Drowning’, the Tiger Lillies show just why they’ve achieved worldwide cult following.
Amused Moose has the unusual ability of being able to boast a harbouring ground not only for breaking talent, but also well established acts.
As an avid fan of old noir movies, crooked cops, and general hard-boiled quick witted cynicism, needless to say I was looking forward to this show.
Love in The Key of Britpop is spoken word artist Emily Andersen’s performance of her self-professed ‘ode to Britpop, nightclub romance, visa marriages and anglophilic love’.
Jazz is a study of madness, perhaps.
An evening dedicated to songs and music inspired by Stevenson and his writings, this one-off performance of the critically acclaimed CD ‘From a Garden of Songs’ was a rare trea…
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
Not all of life’s surprises can be nice, but Adam Kay transpires to be a very pleasant one indeed.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Zimbabwean theatre company, Grassroots, presents a show combining succulent, sun-drenched vocal harmonies with wonderfully choreographed dances that has been put together around th…
Gregory Charles’ show Music Man centres around his truly encyclopedic knowledge of music.
The premise of Mace and Burton’s show draws quite a crowd into the Medina.
Just so you’re perfectly clear, You Will Be Rare is hugely engaging and memorable; but it’s not a piece of theatre.
On first reading, the show’s title may sound almost childlike, reading like the name of a children’s music book.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
This talented Belgian duo have wowed audiences in Australia and New York and are set to sparkle on this years Edinburgh Fringe.
Under original direction by Anthony Hopkins, Bob Kingdom portrays Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as he recites poetry and prose from his last tour.
Jason Robert Browns American song-cycle is a Fringe favourite with student companies.
This isnt, Helen Arney tells us at the outset, a high-energy show.
Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking.
Fresh from the American High School Theatre Festival, this talented group of students give a simple, classy performance of the Jason Robert Brown song cycle.
It seems a shame that effort should so hurt a production, but the illusion of ease is critical to cabaret especially when the lead is supposed to be a beguiling and sexually emanci…
The morning recital at the Royal Over-Seas Legion was exquisite and perhaps proves once and for all that there is a great deal of truth in the old housewives saying that ‘the ear…
This is the world premier of Nafeesa Monroes one woman show, Journey to Becoming a Super Woman.
French singer, Eve Loiseau, presents the life and music of Edith Piaf in this show.
The London based ex-York University graduates that make up the Blossom Street choir form a refreshingly different type of a cappella group that takes the genre back to its roots an…
Dennis Alexander is a patriotic and wise Scot with great musical talent and a knack for telling stories.
The Axis of Awesome, Australias most tolerated comedy rock trio are back to they present their new show Songs in the Key of Awesome in the Wine Bar at the Gilded Balloon.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Euna Park produced an excellent performance in St.
Unneeded Baggage is a devised piece in which Elea Ineson, Tilda O’Grady, Eleanor Rushton try to find out ‘what it is to be a goddess in our time’.
The Circus In Hand experience is almost undoubtedly one unlike anything you’ve seen before.
This perma-tanned, white-toothed Glaswegian folk powerhouse produced an evening of (very few) songs, details of his exploits with various celebrities and other anecdotes from his l…
Dim, dingy lighting barely illuminates this musty Edinburgh bar, its vague seafaring theme embodied by scale wooden models of old sailing boats, naval pencil sketches suspended fro…
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.
It is a great honour for any composer to have their work cherry-picked by fans and turned into a revue.
Disembodied voices are not what you need to hear in a venue that’s already as spooky as the Old Town’s Underbelly, but that what you get at the start of Ed Aczel’s comedy set as he…
The Agitated Acupuncturist Returns To Find It is utterly bizarre.
It’s sentimental, it’s a journey, it’s the story of Doris Day’s life.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
When your hairs are standing on end only five minutes into a play - and the singers are just getting into their swing - you know in your gut that you’re in for something special…
Work Songs is a dance exploration of office-place machismo power struggles by The Dangerologists.
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…
Before the acts even take to the stage the atmosphere anticipating Battle Acts! Present is electric.
This year’s Camden Fringe Festival is a first for me.
Moments of surreal humour and philosophical insight make this an enjoyable performance, but its slap-dash production and lack of cohesion give it only superficial charm.
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…
The artistic mode known as the musical usually rests on the foundation of a dramatic plot, with passionate music marking the profound and emotive elements of the production’s story…
This four-piece from the streets of Soweto in Johannesburg have taken the Fringe by storm in previous years and nothing seems to have diluted their energy and passion.
This award-winning troupe of multi-talented dancers and musicians from South Korea present a colourful fusion of both modern and traditional drumming and dance.
Nick Cope is the children’s singer-songwriter who brings acoustic, folky indie rock to the under-fives.
Hervé is a professional dancer and singer who grew up in Mali and France with his adopted Belgian parents and brother.
In this show, Stephen Swanson and David Gompper present a classical recital of 25 songs from a fine selection of composers and lyricists, including Gompper himself.
The world-class Ragamala Dance Company returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with a soul-moving performance of South Indian Classical Bharatanatyam dance.
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ENCORE! - THE SONGS OF STAGE & SCREEN showcases some of the most popular songs from great musicals and screen shows including Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Sup…
In need of a rollicking good time, honest moments and, belly laughs? If the answer is yes, then Susan Lily has the medicine you require.
Richard Beck met up with Edward Oulton to find out about the grants he's received and his thoughts on the future of writing and regional theatre.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
There’s been disco-dancing to Madonna in an old church, vegan based stand up in a room above a pub, incredible acrobatics, hilarious cabaret songs about near-death experiences an...
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.
Just like that, we approach the final weekend of Brighton Fringe.
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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.
Fresh from a sell-out 2016 UK Tour, Edward Fox is to return to the West End in the celebrated one-man play exploring the life and work of John Betjeman, Sand in the Sandwiches, f...
A capella is something of a phenomenon at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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...
Catherine Wilson is an organiser for the Loud Poets collective, an award-winning collaboration of poets and the band Ekobirds.
Shortlisted for the Brighton Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Jody Trehy talks about singing, 12 foot tall alien lizards and never leaving your wallet off-stage
Final casting is announced today for the return of the multi award-winning production of the Broadway musical Titanic, first seen at Southwark Playhouse, which is coming back to Lo...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
As rehearsal begin, Monday 15 February 2016, for NotMoses, Gary Sinyor’s first play which he also directs, the final casting and full creative team are announced.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Tanya Holt, producer, performer and writer is to grace the stage this year with Cautionary Tales For Daughters. Broadway Baby finds out more.
The Final Act tells the musical tale of one last chance, promising catchy songs and laughs aplenty. Broadway Baby has a chat.