Garrett Millerick Needs More Space, sees comedy’s ‘angriest optimist’ return for a hilarious, honest, and mostly historically accurate, exploration of …
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.
Current star of the West End’s *Mamma Mia!* and the voice of so many iconic musical roles, Mazz Murray will put her powerhouse vocals behind the songs of Dusty Springfield this N…
THE ONLY UK TOURING SHOW DEDICATED TO THE MAESTRO AND LEGEND- BARRY WHITE! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Will…
The only UK touring show dedicated to the maestro and legend - Barry White! Direct from the USA, a critically- acclaimed revue featuring the incredible vocalist Wil…
Charismatic virtuoso musician, pianist and composer Kirill Richter returns to the UK to make his debut at The Coliseum for the premiere of this unique, dazzling and deeply immersiv…
On the first night of their two-part gig, beloved orchestral-pop group The Magnetic Fields perform from their landmark concept album 69 Love Songs.
Michael Hastie, Scotland’s number one Michael Bublé tribute, with the world-record breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
There are two sides to every story.
Alan Reid, one of the most influential Scottish folk artists of his generation, and founding member of Battlefield Band, joins Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Larry Kaplan fo…
Entrancing concert of Vivaldi and Handel’s sublime music exploring love and redemption.
A Prime Minister with troubles in Europe and within his own party.
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits A…
There’s a room in the Tate where the goths go/ And solitary men of the cloth know/ That there they can tune/ Into black on maroon/ And swoon in the gloom of a Rothko.
Camilla is obsessed with stories, great stories, the greatest stories ever told.
Award-winning Dyad Productions (Lady Susan, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Austen’s Women) return with a 21st century take on Virginia Woolf’s blisteringly brilliant pre-TED talk.
A regular sell out at Edinburgh Fringe (including 2022 and 2023), Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots folk songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe reg…
A programme exploring guitar music in Europe in the early 19th century, presented by Italian guitarist Luca Soattin.
Back for their second run! An international improv team, each member from a different country, presents the premiere (and last ever performance) of a “movie” inspired by your s…
The true story of my brother’s murder so of course, it’s comedy.
Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together.
Programme includes the Partita O Gott, du frommer Gott, Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 535), and a selection of Chorale Preludes, on the world-famous Frobenius organ in the fabulous a…
Immerse yourself in the timeless music of Glenn Miller and the music of the fabulous 40s with record-breaking big band Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation.
Little Companion Art Troupe of China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace was established in 1955 by Madame Soong Ching Ling, the late Honorary President of People’s Republic of Chi…
Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise.
Climate signals, ice quakes and earth history from leading polar scientists and recent exploration – innovative new music, animation and beautiful images telling the story of the…
Inspired by a Hungarian gangster dad, a Sunday school mother, teenage years with Hell’s Angels, Emma Taylor (NewsRevue producer) takes us on an unforgettable ride.
The Lord is my Shepherd: Sacred song of the English musical renaissance.
A lively, foot-tapping concert of Welsh, Irish and Scottish harp music from one of Europe’s finest exponents of the Celtic harp.
Composing Sacred Music: The Next Generation.
Faure’s Requiem and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms – The Howe Street Singers, directed by Les Shankland, perform Faure’s much loved Requiem and equally beautiful Cantique de Jea…
‘Beautifully crafted melodies… telling stories behind each tune… light-hearted and humorous… lively interactions with the audience’ (BroadwayBaby.com).
Tired of looking at bad screen? Come and look at good screen! Join regular host Fearghas Kelly as he presents some of the festival’s best acts in this unique and exciting new multi…
The latest chapter in the theatrical saga of ex-detective Richard P Cooper, who now finds himself sucked into a time-bending sci-fi caper! In an impromptu trip to the future, Richa…
Learning a second language can change the way you use your first.
Swing with the Spirit! In this innovative performance of sacred Jazz Schola Cantorum, the Catholic Cathedral’s celebrated choir directed by Michael Ferguson, is joined by Scottish …
Presented by Rockology Productions Australia, this is a rockumentary showcasing Janice Smithers fronting a world-class band performing the hits of superstar Janis Joplin whilst gui…
An evening of side-splitting stand-up comedy and impromptu silliness from Fringe veteran Chris Groves.
Comedians’ Choice Award-winner Joz Norris has completed his life’s work, and he’s finally ready to unveil it to the world.
Living.
It’s a one-night stand for the Fannies’ ‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
Edward (never Ted) has delivered his talk on speed awareness 2,191 times over the last 10 years.
Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul.
An hilarious one-hour alphabetical journey in the medium of quick fire One-Liner Jokes.
Not a one woman show.
In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument.
Prière.
Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia’s Hall for the third time.
Edinburgh Youth Theatre’s version of Shakespeare’s most performed play is a unique take on a story you know well.
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is both beautifully simple and yet complex to convey.
What belongs in a woman’s trousseau? Something old, something new… a plan of escape? This is a folktale about love, blame, sisters, brothers, rivers and rage; a story woven fro…
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).
Refined Argentinian guitarist and singer Amando Risueño brings with passion music from his country, paying homage to Atahualpa Yupanqui but also to others great musicians like Car…
The Dream of Being a Madame weaves a tale of two young women, disparate in their origins and desires, yet bound by their shared quest for self-definition in an unforgiving world.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Comedy and therapy for PTSD have a lot in common: both deal with the absurd and rely on authenticity to be good.
‘When I started this thesis, I had no idea I’d end up where I have.
In order to develop resilient, successful performers we expose children to a persistent culture of abuse in pre-professional ballet training.
Edinburgh Live’s number one pick of the Free Fringe is back for a third year! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and…
A marathon of the macabre.
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…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
A series of free concerts at 2.30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the festival from up-and-coming young musicians. See website for details.
Last year in Edinburgh rocked, so we’re back, baby! Awkward Question Time is the hit show that takes a different panel of comedians and performers from across the Fringe each day…
More jokes from the UK Comics’ Comic Best Act winner Mark Simmons (Mock The Week), whilst taking a break from his sold-out national tour.
Gimme the thrills, gimme the spills, gimme a man with a microphone in his hand and careless abandon in his heart, gimme the winner of the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show, gimm…
Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of traveling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian whi…
Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz.
Embark on a musical odyssey with One Acchord: That’s Life in Harmony.
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big band era.
Charles Edward Pipe and Co return to the Fringe following last year’s five-star (TheEdinburghReporter.
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death, immerse yourselves in two of Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classics.
A stand-up show from a Geordie powerhouse comic that’s been doing it for 32 years.
To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong.
The story of one of country music’s most iconic voices: June Carter Cash.
Virginia Woolf, Ophelia and ADHD.
Aczel does his best, but it isn’t going to offer a solution to the unbearable lightness of being – as planned.
The Pigeons are up against the clock! Running Out of Time! is The Milky Pigeons’ debut full-length sketch-comedy show.
Heartfelt homage to one of music’s most-awarded females.
In his brand new, thought-provoking show, magician and mind illusionist Sean Alexander reflects on the defining moments in time that shape each and every one of us.
A 2017 Capital Fringe Best of the Fringe pick, One in Four is a play about four roommates: each one is an alien, and each one believes the other three to be regular degular humans.
They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras, soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi platinum-selling records for the likes of Alfie Boe and Luke Evans, but now Juli…
On an endless summer night, love’s joys and complications play out in triple-time.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do.
Following in the footsteps of the great time travellers of the past, present and future, the woman with the purple hat, the painted boots and the little wheelie suitcase invites yo…
Walk on the wild side and go off the beaten track with a witty guided tour packed full of stories from Edinburgh’s past and present music scenes.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
A heart-warming, poignant and, at times funny play about palliative nurse and ex-singer/songwriter Bronwyn, who is commissioned by her patient (Henry) to write an album of music ba…
A comedy storytelling show about sobriety, impulse control, and growing up from acclaimed comedy veteran Matt Davis (USA).
Following sell-out runs worldwide, this award-winning show returns to take you on a moving journey through the career of a modern legend.
Wild and unapologetically hilarious comedy show about dreams, quirks of our diverse society, and the absurdity of life.
Can one man recreate live on stage, the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever? Laurence Tuck is that man.
America is the land of the free, home of the brave and homeland of two of the freest, bravest men to ever live: Mark Henely and Chris Warren.
Join Essex’s cheekiest chap for his debut hour of stand-up.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Dovecot Studios’ major tapestry with Chris Ofili will return to Scotland in summer 2024.
Piggy Time is a mixed-bill show featuring the funniest and weirdest comedy acts of the Fringe.
A groundbreaking one-woman immersive musical written and performed by Daisy Boulton.
A stand-up split bill with a difference: It’s set in the teen-magazine sleepover dream world.
Enter Edward Tripp’s bottomless mind as he straddles comedy and spoken-word, like a genre-defying slut.
Vinney, a Comedian/DJ, uses a sampler to travel through time, raising the hairs on your neck.
Dive into Dragonory, the captivating family show at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosted by the charismatic George.
Reigning Comedian’s Comedian and human rights advocate Sid Singh (BBC, NBC, Comedy Central, iUmor) returns with a new hit show that has sold-out all over Europe and Asia for two ye…
Astute observational humour with an irreverent flair from two of Birmingham’s silliest sausages.
‘This company truly are the best at storytelling’ ***** (ThreeWeeks).
An elastic-bodied reimagining of Hamlet, told entirely from the perspective of the Dane.
If you live to 80 years old, you will have lived for about 4,000 weeks.
The comedic prop-pun lunatic Roger Swift shoots out 200 puns in one hour! With his trademark crazy homemade props, audio cues and PowerPoint slides.
One barista, 10 seasons, 70 minutes! All 236 episodes of Friends retold through the eyes of Gunther, Central Perk’s “seventh Friend”.
Join us for a foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during August.
A fully packed hour of entertainment.
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
Two award-winning comics deal late-night craic in the mid-afternoon, a wild mix of dark, satirical stand-up and musical comedy.
When Terence Hartnett found out that his testicular cancer had spread to his lung, he got out his notebook and started writing jokes.
A fruity apocalyptic rom-com from the razor-sharp pen of Fringe First winner David Finnigan.
A storytelling odyssey through art, contemporary politics and twentieth-century history, told in Chris’s signature style: satirical stand-up meets art lecture-demonstration.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene is back with a whole new show and he wants you to forget everything you know about stammering.
Channel 4 Sean Lock Award winner Eric Rushton is a comedian with a chequered past.
Can you help me with this audition? It won’t take long.
Award-winning musical comedy duo Flo & Joan present their own original one-man musical about a very renowned gentleman.
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
The Stand 4 Arena.
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee) serves up his debut hour.
Begins with the history of dating from dance halls and slow sets to modern ‘apps’.
What does it mean to remember the Holocaust in 2024? How do you bear the legacy of trauma while forging ahead in the 21st century? Jane Elias grapples with these questions through …
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Maddy is worried that no one is having fun at her party.
Demi Adejuyigbe is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, and, inexplicably, a musician, known for his podcasts Punch Up The Jam and Gilmore Guys, his popular September 21st video series, …
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 …
Comedy’s angriest optimist returns for a hilarious, honest and mostly historically accurate, exploration of space travel, his totally insignificant place in the universe and how …
Late October, Moscow centre, the closing night of the legendary Vasili Sveitlovidoff's final performance but for one mysterious audience member, the actor is nowhere to be foun…
Set on a bed in the centre of the stage, an unnamed central character explores his dreams and aspirations of travelling the world, finding love, and becoming a stand-up comedian wh…
Lift your spirits, soothe your soul with fun, laughter, storytelling, comedy and music.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
What if you could see music? Award-winning concert pianist and inventor Larkhall takes us on a virtuoso multi-sensory journey.
Kate and Mitch are regular performers at the Charles Dickens Open Mic Night.
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth’s brand-new show explores all aspects of modern life.
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
Nick Helm – the man with the golden larynx and greatest living all-round entertainer – is BACK! After years and years of therapy, pills, personal growth…
This time you’ve really crossed the line.
The Cost of Living Circus offering free fun as a token of kindness during the cost of living crisis.
Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? One Way Mirror is a story about the art of people watching, built for extroverts, introverts and everyone in-between.
Returning to Brighton Fringe after a sold-out three-night run in 2022, award-winning performer Paul Diello and his 8-piece ensemble are back with an all-new version of ‘The Great 8…
An interactive solo performance about failure, feeling like an idiot and music, by Rachel Blackman and her creative team.
Join Geoff Robb, winner of the Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and virtuoso guitar that promises to transport you out into the woods.
Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Pushing the boundaries of Shakespearean performance, Richard III emerges a bold, engaging solo show.
Comedian Dave Fensome and Krister Greer, the team behind the chart topping podcast Pop, Collaborate & Listen, bring you a panel-based 90s music quiz where the audience can play alo…
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.
Time travel has always been in the public consciousness, with early influences such as HG Well's The Time Machine.
Kate Daniels has a beautiful voice perfectly suited to the elegance of Gershwin, as well as an enchanting way of dropping nuggets of biographical detail.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
Triple Threat is a split bill divided by 3 with Monica, Aisha and Anais making jokes about their experiences living in London as hot immigrant girlies.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
In 1810 a brave Scottish man named Sir George Steuart Mackenzie ventured all the way to Iceland with some pals.
When life feels like a test you didn’t study for, and you’re feeling as useful as an understocked mobile library, climb aboard Tanya’s dilapidated ‘fun’ bus as she navigate…
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…
Lunchtime concerts on the fine organ at St.
Beginners Beatboxing, Looping, and group song workshop.
Bank holiday 6/5 classical music with the Elegia Consort [Daria Robertson, soprano, Paul Houston, clarinet, Andrew Storey, piano] including music by Rimsky-Korsakov 12/5 Ellie Bl…
A feast of Music Bites at Depot, Lewes, under their Dalliance event.
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
A queer retelling of A Midsummers Night’s Dream set in the 1970’s is set to hit the Debating Chamber on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of May.
I AM MORE THAN supports women in the city who are experiencing homelessness, to use their creative voices to tell their communities who they are and that they are not defined by ho…
Wowza! Multi Award-Winning rapping teacher, and World Book Day Ambassador, MC GRAMMAR is LIVE and in the HOUSE! Grab your caps, shades and chains and get ready…
Wowza! Multi Award-Winning rapping teacher, and World Book Day Ambassador, MC GRAMMAR is LIVE and in the HOUSE! Grab your caps, shades and chains and get ready…
Award-winning Flabbergast Theatre bring a rambunctious approach to Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy, an exhilarating and hilarious show in which Goblins run amok, the King and Que…
Making your dreams come true.
A man about to kill himself falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful, future earth, where people live in harmony with each other and nature.
An one-man adaptation of the Fyodor Dostoevsky short story of the same name, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man comes to the Marylebone Theatre stage with all the pertinent of its day: …
‘The Greatest Play Of All Time’ tells the story of 1&2, characters in the mind of a Writer trying to create a career defining play.
Get ready for the premier of In the Time of Dragons, an action packed, funny and ultimately heartwarming new musical from the creators of Spinach.
Just a Song at Twilight A contemporary James Joyce flashback mashup Jester’s Privilege Jester VS Eating Disorder.
Do you ever get the feeling you’re being watched? One Way Mirror is a story about the art of people watching, built for extroverts, introverts and everyone in-between.
BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up.
HUMAN // ROBOTlaugh_if_you_are_humanJust One Law .
Eleanor Rhode’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the RSC is a child’s-eye Shakespeare; a tale told in either the boring black and white of adult discourse or a …
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
‘We can be us, just for one day’ Relive the day music brought the world together.
When 24 year old Bess Malone steals from the local ice cream van she doesn’t expect it to impact her life at all, and she certainly doesn’t expect to find a new friendship with…
Tania has her heart set on her dream job but has she unwittingly placed a curse on her dating life? Our heroine, ably assisted by her bestie Jayne, comes face to face with the t…
Music is something that we are all touched by.
Music is something that we are all touched by.
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.
The must-see comedy of 2023 hits London this Christmas.
Time travel as a sci-fi trope is fascinating and presents us with endless possibilities and frontiers.
‘Bestselling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023’ The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns to the West End, fresh from a record-breaking sell out run at the Edinbu…
A cabaret-style event mixing poetry, music and contemporary dance, with Sage Dance Company, a ballet-based dance company for ages 55+, and Rack Press Poetry, an independent poetry …
This one woman play explores memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and culture, drawn from experiences growing up fighting eye cancer and eventually blindness as a …
Based on Audrey Niffenegger’s internationally best-selling novel, this new British musical is thrillingly brought to life with original songs from Grammy Award winners Joss S…
After a hugely successful sell-out world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013, and a further two performances in December 2014, Danny Elfman’s Music from the…
When you think reggae, there is only one name that comes to mind.
Join the HandleBards at the Actors Church for a hilarious, high-octane production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
‘Sea Song Sessions’ is a collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties, performed by Jon Boden, Seth Lakeman, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman & Jack Rutter
One summer Birdie lost her virginity on the ninth hole of the golf course, to her boss.
Was she or was she not fully aware of what she was doing? He certainly was, and for that reason should he have stopped before taking Birdie’s virginity? There’s a suggestion th…
'Profoundly moving, bitingly brutal and laugh-out-loud funny!' - Sally CooksonThe Ugly One is a cautionary tale of identity and beauty vibrating with the energy of a pneuma…
Teenage boys Ste and Jamie are neighbours on a South London estate.
“Your bird talks to me like I’ve got “c***” written on my forehead.
My First Time was in a Car Park tells the story of Mira who lives by the sea with her mum and loses her virginity to her teacher.
'Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
The Sandman is missing and children aren’t going to sleep.
The nation’s twelfth-favourite doctor returns for his first month at the Fringe since 2016.
A free, open-air celebration to close out the final weekend of the 2023 International Festival.
Christine invites you to enjoy JS Bach’s expressive, contemplative Cello Suite No.
The Defectors present the next chapter in the theatrical saga of eccentric ex-detective Richard P.
An Americana-soul acoustic group from California, Linda Stonestreet – a honeyed voice full of grace and fire – lends beautiful melodies with intelligent heartfelt lyrics and is…
A darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
The Defectors present the next chapter in the theatrical saga of eccentric ex-detective Richard P.
A new play by Neil Weatherall Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Finn, a desperate and self-obsessed poet is ready to end it all.
The creatives behind this year’s production of Life is a Dream discuss working across different languages and cultures.
Finn, a desperate and self-obsessed poet is ready to end it all.
Sold out at AMC 2022! Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC.
There’s a great, restless energy in Director Declan Donnellan’s production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s seventeenth century Spanish classic Life is a Dream.
Scotland’s dramatic history is illuminated by her music and traditional folksong.
Man down! Celebrated Scottish comedy legend Raymond Mearns has only gone and had a stroke and had to cancel his Fringe run….
Ho ho ho ho! Come celebrate that special time of the year with Santa (Ray Badran) and his Elf (Josh Glanc).
Join author Dina Nayeri and cultural development specialist Fairouz Nishanova in a discussion on listening to different perspectives.
Maddie Carpenter, a pop Americana artist deeply inspired by the sun-soaked landscapes of California, brings her own enchanting songwriting to the forefront alongside a tribute to f…
His father died at 45.
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
ChorAlchemy combines two choirs, the small female vocal ensemble, Voices of Derby, and the larger friends singing group, Derby City Singers.
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
2023 finally sees the return of Danny Bhoy to the Edinburgh Fringe for the world premiere of his brand-new show.
“Actually.
“Actually.
The Brighton Fringe sell-out show is coming to Edinburgh Fringe.
Sir Andrew Davis conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus in this profound exploration of human nature and our collective search for light i…
Hot Dub Time Machine is the World’s First Time Travelling DJ, a global festival smash-hit and the best party ever! Hot Dub has broken dance floors at sold-out shows all over the …
Join The HandleBards for their cycle-powered, four-hander, high-octane version of Shakespeare’s classic comedy.
ChorAlchemy combines two choirs, the small female vocal ensemble, Voices of Derby, and the larger friends singing group, Derby City Singers.
Ageing violinist Alan Gottlieb has long been content to sit at the back desk of the seconds, coasting his way to retirement.
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
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.
The internationally renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings music from coronations and royal occasions past and present.
Christine and Nancy invite you to a lunchtime recital of beautiful music including the joyous Beethoven Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Cesar Franck’s passionate Sonata for pian…
Nicola Burnett Smith, together with her ensemble of actor-musicians, explores how the written word can ignite and inspire musical composition.
Nothing is stronger than female friendship, except maybe the pressures of adulting.
Arbroath-born Morris Pert (1947-2010) was best known for his session work with Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and many others.
God’s Craftsmen.
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
An unhinged variety show all the way from Los Angeles.
Principal musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra perform this 20th-century masterpiece.
World-class entertainer Brown returns from his five-star musical A Man, A Magic, A Music presenting a dazzling journey through Sam Cooke’s life: The King of Soul Music.
Composing Sacred Music: A New Generation.
Come and enjoy our blend of Scottish traditional instruments! In decades of developing our sound we’ve brought together fiddles, concertina, clarsach, wire-strung harp, flute, smal…
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
Adventurers! All aboard for this award-winning narrative odyssey navigating ancient myth, family history, and writer-performer Rajan Sharma’s own unique experience crewing on a D…
Imagine you had a time machine so you could travel back to the past to fix your mistakes.
After a fantastic debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, Terry Geo’s astounding show is back! Blink gives a raw and emotional insight into modern life for an interracial coupl…
A laugh-out-loud, immersive, comedic, heartfelt tribute to Hollywood’s most iconic blonde bombshell.
Sharp, silly and sublime solo character comedy from Luke Manning, formerly one half of veteran Fringe sketch duo, In Cahoots, and a writer-performer for BBC Radio 4’s Sketchtopia a…
Climate signals, ice quakes and earth history from leading polar scientists – inspiring innovative new music, animation and beautiful images, combined to tell the story of the li…
10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show.
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
It’s a one night stand for the Fannies (‘hilarious stream-of-consciousness double act’ (Entertainment-Focus.
Toxicity.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Where there is charity and love: Schola Cantorum sings the music of Paul Mealor.
In Robes of White.
Hey! You free tonight? Fancy a drink? Let’s talk films, festivals, and red flags.
Sex cults with fake feminism, pretend shamans, Burning Man, Lower East Side “nightclub photographers” and Tinder f*ck boys all make an appearance in this educational and hilari…
Ed Gaughan has written, directed and performed work for and with the UK’s most-loved acts – including Milton Jones, Josie Long, Barry Cryer and Pappy’s.
Toxicity.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
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 …
From his years as the visionary in Simon and Garfunkel through to his many solo hits, journey through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
Songs of Displacement.
After a completely sold-out Edinburgh 2022 run and her biggest tour to date, Grace returns with her hit show, A Show About Me(n), with some brand-new material never heard before! T…
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
Renowned punk poet and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker has loved early music ever since he grabbed a recorder aged about 8.
Thank you for the Music takes you on a comic and quizzical journey through tough times.
Piano Music of Erik Satie by Peter Bream.
Professor Jeremy Dibble (Durham University), authority on British music from the 19th century, reflects on the life of Sir John Stainer and his most famous work, The Crucifixion.
Living Proof is a recoveree-led non-profit working to promote a neuroplastic approach for full recovery from chronic pain and many other chronic symptoms.
Have you seen Hamlet? Of course you have, don’t worry this isn’t really that.
An improv show of infinite possibilities but probably the worst ones.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
‘I am Hamlet.
An improv show of infinite possibilities but probably the worst ones.
Charlie Dinkin is a WGGB Award-winning writer, comedian and star of cult hit sketch podcast SeanceCast.
Alasdair Hutton, the narrator of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo for 30 years, and Brian Taylor, former Political Editor of BBC Scotland, give readings from Scott’s works on th…
The Cathedral Song School is decorated with murals by Phoebe Traquair, painted between 1888 and 1892.
Asian Arts Award 2014 - Best Production (for Brush); ***** (ThreeWeeks for The Tiniest Frog Prince in the World, 2016.
In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument.
From the iconic themes of Super Mario and Legend of Zelda, to the funky beats of Sonic and Persona 5, this gig has something for everyone! With a fusion of different genres and sty…
We’re delighted to be back with a new show featuring some of the greatest music from the big-band era.
‘All hail Macbeth that shalt be King hereafter…’ With these portentous words, the three witches seal the fate of the Thane of Glamis – and also that of all the others whom Macb…
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Join us for this joyful celebration of Scotland’s homegrown music scene in Princes Street Gardens.
Edinburgh Live’s number-one pick of the Free Fringe 2022 returns! A devilishly handsome magician trapped in a straitjacket, mind-melting magic, show-stopping laughs and unexpected …
Leitheatre’s 39th year on the Fringe features a brand-new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set firmly in downtown Edinburgh with a cast of locals taking you through the…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
The hit streaming show and podcast are live for the first time in Edinburgh.
Moira’s back in this Fringe First-winning sequel.
A series of free afternoon concerts at 2:30pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays throughout the festival from up-and-coming young musicians.
When Edinburgh’s iconic One o’Clock Gun is stolen by shady Glaswegians only our hero Morningside Malcolm, quiet resident of the douce suburbs, can prevent strife and aggro between …
A fun cabaret, stories and songs intertwined about the romance, or not, of travel.
A one-woman show – with two women.
Scottish singer-songwriter and leading acoustic fingerstyle guitarist Simon Kempston has toured the world performing his highly original, contemporary acoustic songs and music.
An exciting new version of Miles Tredinnick’s original 1999 show.
Join the longest-running panellist from BBC Scotland’s Breaking The News as he runs through brand-new material following the incredible announcement that BBC Radio 4 have commissio…
Following consecutive sold-out performances and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back To Black returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe to take you on a moving and energizing…
Childhood tales of flying boats inspired Brian to travel the world.
The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity.
A young man visits his dying father in the ICU and uncovers a shocking revelation: his father’s secret second family.
Thank You for the Music, a new American musical revue, celebrates the greatest hits from radio, stage and screen.
‘Living The Dream’ – Every Brits answer to the question ‘how you doing?’ regardless of how completely tragic their life is.
There is secret connection among all of us.
ERA Productions returns to the Fringe this year with a familiar act that sees the lively quartet of Megan (Mia Taylor), Nicole (Catherine Hutchinson), Amy (Abi Price) and Olivia (M…
Get off the tourist trail and explore Edinburgh’s music scene with irreverent stories of the performers who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city.
‘This time next year at the Oscars, Cairine!’ But, what if next year never actually comes? From internationally acclaimed personal assistant and actress who has never actually acte…
Música Verde (Green Music) is a live looping concert where Mexican singer/songwriter Amanda Tovalin shares her views about nature in the cities with her sonic experimentation.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
Queer feminist and bloody lefty Kathleen has fallen into a settled life with a nice boy who can do maths.
A lot of laughs and refreshingly comfortable seating await you at Friend (The One with Gunther), playing at the Gilded Balloon at the Museum.
Winner of the 2023 Edinburgh Untapped Award, One Way Out is a powerful exploration of the injustices suffered by the Windrush generation, through the lens of four boys from South L…
Ed Byrne breaks the five-star rating system to the point where multiples of stars could be added to this review and it will still not be close enough to what he deserves for this s…
‘A love letter to my mother that I’ll never send.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Do you like musical comedy? Do you like non-musical comedy? Do you not care, as long as it’s good? Then come enjoy either the first half, the second half, or even all of this show,…
Award-winning lefty comedian and human rights advocate Sid Singh takes you on a hilarious journey as he figures out how to fight the good fight… as far from home as possible! The…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Jon Lawrence has entertained thousands of children all over the world over the last ten years with his collection of silly songs which encourage the children to sing, dance, laugh …
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
If we’re technically speaking, there is one (1) person invited to this show, but you (yes, you) are allowed (and inarguably encouraged) to come to the debut Fringe show from Canadi…
In a world where one man can be one character, Alexander Richmond dares to be twelve of them.
Back In Time for Tea is a concept imagined to challenge the notion of musical genre.
Join Brigitte Aphrodite on a wild literary road trip, celebrating Living Legends (And Dead Ones Too) through punk poetry, songs, and stories.
Rising stand-up star Freya Mallard is back with a hilarious work-in-progress stand-up show A Little More Conversation a Little Less Action Please, after her sold-out Edinburgh run …
Star of Spitting Image (Britbox), Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) impressionist Luke Kempner brings his one-man British Police Drama to Edinburgh.
The Doktor is back! With even more science! More laughs! More Kaboom! Spin the wheel and choose what happens next.
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment.
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
Dave is house band / receptionist at streaming service Stripefy, but he wants more: he dreams of going full-time on reception.
Multi award-winning Ad Infinitum (Odyssey, Translunar Paradise, Ballad of the Burning Star) returns with a breathtaking retelling of the Trojan War.
As Adam Kay closes in on becoming a household name, he is evidently an Edinburghhold name, packing out the prestigious Pleasance Grand to brimming point.
The Last Living Libertine is the debut hour from John Tothill as he tries to dissect our attitude to life and prove that techno music is the true expression of human spirit and the…
No one knows what happens after we die.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which is now 20% more stupider than ever before.
Where does beauty go when the beholder has no eye? Comedian Richard Wheatley returns to the Fringe with his new show, as he ridicules the perplexing paradoxes of a blind man in the…
Working-class comedian Tom Mayhew returns to the Camden Fringe with a show about dreams and endless hope.
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August.
A girl washes up aboard a ship in the middle of a vast void.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare Shakespeare’s best-lived comedy presented in a magical new production by award-winning Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company.
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
A unique celebration of song, inspired by the two bards - William Shakespeare and Robert Burns, and performed by Jessa Liversidge.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
About the show On an ordinary night, in a quiet country village, a series of gift bags appear at carefully selected households.
A meditation on motherhood, Hendon’s writing is first class in this surprising, shocking and heart wrenching monologue, brought to life theatrically by director Paula Chitty and …
Simon Stephens and Mark Eitzel wrote Song From Far Away in 2014 for director Ivan van Hove, who wanted ‘a monologue with song’ for the actor Eelco Smits.
Do iPhones Dream of Electric Sheeple? is a darkly comic look at the threats posed by anticipated advances in Artificial Intelligence.
Irish folk music act Hibsen pay homage to James Joyce with performances of their debut album ‘The Stern Task of Living’ under the aegis of the Bloomsday fest…
7 Years after it's first tour, Luke Adamson's critically acclaimed comedy-drama about Alzheimer's is being published.
THE PARTY DISGUISED AS A QUIZ.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Leonard and Violet, young, restless and in love, spend their first night together knowing it may also be their last.
As his career collapses to an early end, a musician finds solace in Bach – but does this lead to obsession or madness? Music was his career, Bach was his passion.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
Yosi will be playing an exciting programme of classical music to herald the start of summer including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata ,Partita no.
“Miss Googiepants is a lovely performer, dressed as a 1950s prom girl and surrounded by a variety of props and toys.
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Join John Tothill, the Last Living Libertine [citation needed], for an evening of exaggeration, emancipation and dense theoretical speculation in a show that straddles cabaret and …
“Miss Googiepants is a lovely performer, dressed as a 1950s prom girl and surrounded by a variety of props and toys.
Hello, I am Charles Quarterman.
Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes.
Kevin O’Brien in That One-Liner Bloke’s Comedy Show. A must see show for fans of one-liner jokes.
Eppie Brilliant, a ‘refreshingly talented’ (Notts Comedy Review) musical comedian brings their brand new show to Brighton Fringe.
3 comedians, 1 show! Hannah Lloyd-Davies: A one-liner comedian who is too honest for her own good! Connor Yeates: A slick, sharp narcissist, who really wants you to know that he’…
Burnham meets Boosh.
They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras on the world’s greatest stages, they’ve soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi-platinum-selling records, but now Julie…
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Eddy MacKenzie and his tiny guitar, have come to play songs so bold and bizarre! A short round man with a big loud voice who wants to make you boogie! Holidays, Dinosaurs, and MD2…
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
They’ve performed with the world’s finest orchestras on the world’s greatest stages, they’ve soundtracked Hollywood and produced multi-platinum-selling records, but now Julie…
Eddy MacKenzie and his tiny guitar, have come to play songs so bold and bizarre! A short round man with a big loud voice who wants to make you boogie! Holidays, Dinosaurs, and MD2…
Join us for a wonderful evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra starting with Shostakovich’s dynamic Festival Overture, followed by a world premier …
His father died at 45.
His father died at 45.
Join us for a wonderful evening of festive & triumphal music with the Sussex Symphony Orchestra starting with Shostakovich’s dynamic Festival Overture, followed by a world premier …
Join up-and-coming tall and skinny comedian Ed Mulvey as he performs his latest routines, packed with joke-dense intelligent filth.
When is a story ready to tell? Inspired by the ongoing real events of a college cult, DREAM SCHOOL is a thriller about who wins and who loses when we cash in on trauma.
One-hit wonders are like love affairs – intense, but alas, all-too-brief- so join award-winning performer Paul Diello and his eight-piece ensemble as they resurrect some of the g…
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
Who hasn’t sung along to “Hey, Big Spender?” Now, there’s a unique opportunity to hear the songs of Dorothy Fields - “I Can’t give you Anything but Love,” “A Fine Romance,” an…
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
Join ‘I Am Not Victoria Wood’ performer Julia Knight for an interactive comedy theatre performance with live songs Has your personal passion suddenly gone viral? Zeit-Heist is tha…
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
Featuring writers including Nick Payne, Elinor Cook and (Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer winner) John Patrick Shanley, SHORTS celebrates the beauty and frailty within human connection, an…
Amy Winehouse captured the world with her unique vocal stylings and unapologetic lyrics combined with a sassy, yet dark brooding personality.
As one of the most iconic members of the 27 club, Amy Winehouse left an indelible impression, not just on popular music, but on popular culture as a whole.
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.
Ah, Birthdays.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
The author of the bestselling poetry series The Art of a Damaged Soul brings you the hard-hitting , powerful one woman show.
Ah, Birthdays.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
A dark comedy set in a prison.
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the the fine organ at St.
Comedian Tom Mayhew (as heard on BBC Radio 4) brings a work in progress show to the Brighton Festival! There will be stuff about being working-class, being skint, how annoying the …
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the the fine organ at St.
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Classic whodunnit meets contemporary burlesque, in its original satirical style.
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Join Ben Carter and Joe Bunn two of the UK’s limpest forces that have been proper melted together for one hour of entertainment.
Glenda & Rita are two actresses from the Golden Era of cinema, immortalised in black & white and struggling to find work in this brutal, unforgiving technicolour world.
The silver starlets are back with a sequel to their ‘side-splitting’ show ‘Sing The Movie Greats’ with even more songs from the silver screen! From the award-winning musical comed…
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
In A Little Killing Hurts No One, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of an Arab, longing so badly to be part of it, yet confronted with some…
“Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
‘I AM MORE THAN’ is a project set up by Equinox women’s project supporting women in the city who are experiencing homelessness to use their creative voices to tell their comm…
In “A little killing hurts no one”, Mustafa Algiyadi manoeuvres through the European way of life from the lens of a Libyan Arab, longing so bad to be part of it, yet confronted wit…
Step right up, step right up! For one night only, the Cirque Bizarre comes to Brighton for opening night of The Fringe.
“Because the world revolves around me and all I see is what I see.
Once Upon a Time is a fairy tale like no other.
Join the revellers as mother nature envelops the Globe Theatre for Shakespeare’s deliciously disruptive and intoxicating comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
“The Passmore Edwards Legacy: The Man Who Built Libraries and Much More” - a talk by biographer Dean Evans on the bicentennial anniversary of his birth.
A fun and wholesome comedy from the "queen of the offbeat" and award winning comedian Áine Gallagher.
Come and discover UK comedy’s best kept secret! Over many years Ed has written, directed and performed work for and with many of the UK’s most loved acts- including Milton Jones…
TIME is the story of a middle-aged female cliché, who uses her post-menopausal superpower to visit her successful friends from her past and reinvent her life.
After Lloyd’s last tour was interrupted by ‘you know what’ and ended up lasting eight years or so, he’s BACK with a brand-new fresh stand-up tour…
After Lloyd’s last tour was interrupted by ‘you know what’ and ended up lasting eight years or so, he’s BACK with a brand-new fresh stand-up tour…
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
Back-stabbing, betrayal and improv comedy.
The Buzztones are back! Following smash-hit shows in 2019 and 2020, the pop-comedy maestros return to VAULT with a brand new, feel-good set of tracks and nonsense.
Co-created by award-winning Scottish composer Finn Anderson (Islander) and award-winning director Tania Azevedo (&Juliet, But I’m A Cheerleader), A Mother’s Song: A New Fo…
In her solo show Adventure of an Old CxNT or Living my Dream Helen Prior tells a hilarious story of life with the help of her own curated gallery of art masterpieces.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fi…
Flinch A play about everyday pain One Hundred Ghost Stories Based on supernatural samurai game Flinch - Rare AnticsThrough playful vignettes, three performers examine ho…
A theatrical comedy meta horror multimedia experience - this show has all the adjectives and more! A desperate actor seeks a friend to be the ‘reader’ for their self tape.
Part Time Freaks trawls the depths of the hosts’ lives for all their freakiest moments and experiences.
Wo/MiYou don’t even look sick.
Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame.
if all the times i cared had names.
One of You Has to DieA post-apocalyptic interactive comedy showHR_final.
MANIC PIXIE DREAM REN A Film School Dissertation-Induced Meltdown Sentimental: A New Gig Musical Speaking of break-ups, the world’s ending.
“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…
You know that we are celebrating because there is a countdown.
Literally what it says on the tin: ‘Six Plays One Day’ offers a wide variety in a short space of time.
Although written in 2004 this production of The Elephant Song at The Park Theatre is the UK premiere of Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon’s captivating psychological thriller, o…
Renowned as The Godfather of Gothic Horror, Edgar Allan Poe has left a timeless mark on the horror genre.
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Edgar Allan Poe has left a timeless mark on the horror genre.
The Dream Machine is a long-form improv show, based around audience suggestions.
Following sensational critical acclaim One Woman Show played sold out runs at Soho Theatre London and Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and was called “the single hottest ticket in …
A festival celebrating the connections we make throughout our life, an ode to family, friends, and lovers alike.
Using original texts from the 1840s, Stephen Smith faithfully brings Edgar Allan Poe’s words to life on stage, performing four of the most terrifying examples of gothic literature:…
Thank You for The Music - The ultimate tribute to ABBA This international smash-hit tribute show brings all of ABBA’s number one hits to the stage in a production …
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN Performed by GARY MULLEN AND THE WORKS In 2000, Gary Mullen won ITV’s “Stars In Their Eyes” Live Grand Final, with the larges…
One Night at The Disco Get ready to recreate the Magical 70’s and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco! Relive some of the greates…
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
A brand new show from the award-winning Belfast comedian.
A queer re-telling.
Take a trip into one of Shakespeare’s classic comedies, in this version 12 actors will play over 20 roles. Set in a modern Britain, tackling love in many sources.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
Newtongrange Silver Band is a traditional mining village brass band from the outskirts of Edinburgh, but their repertoire is far from traditional.
Building on his award-winning London debut, the new extended show Music of the Night is a feast for the eyes, ears and soul.
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
Bringing you the very best music from global stars to local heroes, from grassroots to international, we are building a festival for you to discover and enjoy.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
Join classical trio Oscen Ensemble as they explore works by female composers in their Song for the Forgotten Rose.
What would you do if you came home one day after a long day and found a dead body on your living room floor? Would you freak out and be scared, perfectly calm, or angry? Steph fin…
Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe regulars at the AMC.
Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, three of his compositions are performed at the Wells Kennedy organ by Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding: Music in Fifths…
Join Geoff Robb, winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and guitar mastery that promises to transport you into the forest.
A man walks into a train station to find two strangers waiting on the same platform.
The quiz with just one question! Ollie Horn challenges a different comedian friend each show to a deceptively difficult game of putting things in order.
Last year’s hit show is back with a new variant which will once again have you laughing, crying and talking about how lockdown was for you, for your neighbour and for your friends.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
Every family has its drama, and every wedding has its secrets.
The four-hour modular music creation workshop, designed and led by Raphael Mak based in Stockholm, Sweden, leads participants through a unique creative process by exploring and cre…
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
When a struggling actor can’t pay rent, she signs herself and her roommate (she won’t mind) up for a fun robot friend in order to receive a big paycheck.
In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument.
David Hayman returns as everyman Bob Cunninghame.
Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans se…
Basically Bond a musical celebration of 60 years of thrilling movie magic.
Extra 10:15pm show added due to demand! World-class stand-up from live comedy’s internationally acclaimed Irish master.
‘Everything starts with a dream’.
The Scottish Reformation: a time of conflict and transformation.
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 concert of original and traditional acoustic music from these indefatigable Fringe and AMC regulars.
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
Music from across the ages marking important royal events from deaths and funerals to weddings and coronations, sung by ‘one of Scotland’s (indeed the UK’s) musical jewels’…
Henry Purcell’s Sacred and Secular.
Captivate Theatre brings the smash-hit comedy to the Fringe! ‘You gotta concentrate ain’t ya, with two jobs.
Journey into the unknown with musical pioneer Jordi Savall, his Hespèrion XXI ensemble and guests, in a concert inspired by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta.
The word Latchepen is an exclamation of happiness in the Romani language.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time for clarinet, violin, cello and piano was written when Messiaen was a prisoner of war in German captivity and first performed in 19…
A selection of music by Ludovico Einaudi, performed by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead. Contemplative and beautiful classical piano in a gorgeous ambience.
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
The Guardian’s #1 Comedy Show of 2021 comes to the Fringe for a limited run.
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
All that glitters is not gold, a message that is incredibly clear in Em Oliver’s Beautiful Nothing.
When Amy, Megan, Nicole and Olivia decide to go on a week-long girls holiday to Magaluf, some of them are excited for sun, sex and sangria.
A Sri Lankan teenager’s quest to stage a live theatre show amidst post-AL angst, a pandemic and a country in crisis, told through a comedic, musical and dramatic multi-character …
The rapidly ageing minor national treasure from Taskmaster and so on, begins building on the success of current show, This Can’t Be It by taking the first steps towards a new one.
Schola Cantorum sings MacMillan.
‘Perspectives.
When her grandmother dies, Cece spirals into a quarter-life crisis.
Internationally renowned a cappella sensation Semi-Toned return to Edinburgh, following four consecutive sell-out runs at the Fringe! This time, the boys in burgundy want to attemp…
In this cabaret exploring body standards in the entertainment industry, Abby Rose Morris details her experiences as a plus-size performer while dismantling the ever-present cultura…
Anti-comedy legend of BBC New Comedy Awards and Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol fame.
Desperate to fulfil her mother’s wish of finding a husband, Rebecca Anderson explores love and a whole bunch of other stuff in her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Five couples – three human, one fairy, and one mythical – find their relationships sorely tested, intimately probed and indecently exposed when a troupe of amateur theatricals …
This show is about identity, where to buy it, and how to cook it properly to make you stand out with your friends.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
New York-raised, London based comedian Mike Capozzola’s live multimedia show about the unexpected consequences of irresponsible time-travel and ways to outsmart historical adversar…
New York-raised, London based comedian Mike Capozzola’s live multimedia show about the unexpected consequences of irresponsible time-travel and ways to outsmart historical adversar…
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church.
Programme marking the 85th anniversary of Philip Glass, Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding returns with a programme of compositions from six decades performed at the piano.
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
One Single Thread is a form-bending character and sketch “solo-ish” show written by NYC comedian Lauren Gamiel, featuring Slaney Rose Jordan.
Clara tells the story of 19th century piano star Clara Schumann.
Veteran singer/songwriter/keyboardist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the rich musical history of his hometown, performing songs by WC Handy, BB King, Otis …
Presented by the Barsanti Ensemble and the University of Edinburgh Musical Instrument Collection, this concert highlights a manuscript collection of music in Edinburgh University L…
Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Come and enjoy a free afternoon concert from quality performers for your delight lasting approximately an hour.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Join us for an afternoon of free jazz every Saturday and Sunday during the Fringe at The Grand Cafe.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
The sequel concert to 2018’s A Really Short Introduction to Scotland’s Piano Music exploring the work of 19th and 20th-century Scottish composers.
A beautiful, moving one-act play based on poetry created in a concentration camp by the Jewish children of Prague.
Join us for free music every Saturday night during the Fringe at Southpour with great acoustic artists playing great pop covers.
A rare chance to hear the music of two of jazz’s great innovators.
The Saga of the Norse Gods.
Stand up is a challenging format at the best of times - but the one-liner comedian often seems to be the ultimate masochist in a field where self-inflicted pain is surely part of t…
Join us for a huge selection of free music every Friday and Saturday night during the Fringe at The Golf Tavern with different rock/pop cover bands with a great selection of music …
Very occasionally, a performance transcends the boundaries of the form in ways previously unseen.
I think I’ve fallen in love.
In this powerful one-hour theater piece, Kimleigh Smith takes the audience through a journey that is totally uplifting, totally heartbreaking and totally powerful! Totally! is the …
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.
Living legend, world-class entertainer returns with Broadway version of a five-star journey through Black music and his incredible life, with songs, tap dance, stories, comedy.
‘You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
Mina (Comedy Central, STOMP) returns with her acclaimed multimedia show weaving together hilarious and heartfelt stories from her New York upbringing as the daughter of an Italian-…
Turning what we know about morality on its head, Gabrielle James and Joshua Newman’s Living With Sin is an interesting twist on the traditionally 'evil' seven deadly sins…
A mysterious broadcast from the future causes 85% of the world to abandon their friends and family forever.
100,000 characters.
A raw and real glimpse into the hearts of four Minneapolis youth, revealing strongholds imposed upon youth empowerment that impact the wonderings and hopes of generation Z – in a…
What happens in the forest, stays in the forest.
Join us for free music every Friday night during the Fringe at The Granary with our house musician playing great acoustic pop covers.
Join the award-winning star of Breaking The News, Heart FM and One Show for a joyful new comedy chat show.
After its sensational debut in 2019 and subsequent international critical acclaim, Back to Black returns, taking you on a moving and energising journey through a modern legend’s ca…
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
The One Between, formed from the leaders of both sides of the struggle, is the last hope of restoring balance to the world through a show of strength, spirit, essence and loyalty.
An epic dystopian drama about the threat of religious extremism and right-wing populism.
MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London.
Originally written for online festivals in 2021 and now recreated by an all-Scottish cast and crew for live performance, American writer/producer Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning…
We solve our greatest problems through dreaming while our deepest fears are revealed in them as well.
‘Absurdly talented’ (FringeBiscuit.
With not a zombie in sight, we are taken into a sanctuary of “normality” while the outside world rots.
‘Russell’s mum believes the whole pandemic is one huge elaborate excuse to get Bradley Walsh more airtime on British TV and Russell is just grateful for a chance to catch up on the…
Alternative comedy extravaganza from two bizarre characters! See The Daft Duo as their solo performance personas in this double-bill.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020, Eric Rushton brings his highly anticipated debut hour to the festival.
Paul Sinha is probably best known as one of Bradley Walsh’s TV team of ‘Chasers’: a characterful crew of six champion quizzers whose aim is to stop four plucky hopefuls getti…
Since Charles Ross first brought his hilarious show to Edinburgh in 2006, it has established itself as a Fringe favourite.
In 1810 a brave Scottish man named Sir George Steuart Mackenzie ventured all the way to Iceland with some pals.
Discover new artists from around the world! Come and enjoy the warmth of the world through a hand-picked selection of of bands, singers and instrumentalists, and soak up their soun…
Daniel Muggleton is an Australian stand-up comedian wearing a tracksuit.
A brand-new show from the grand master of Dada nonsense that will endeavour to kick both the stigma of mental health and the patriarchy right in the non-binaries! Hold onto your re…
As we enter the venue, Chelsea Birkby is waiting at the entrance with a tray of glasses of water for us because it can get pretty hot inside the room.
After his highly acclaimed debut show in 2019, star of The Comedy Underground (BBC Scotland) Robin Grainger is back with more hilarious observations as he tries to put an end to pu…
If it isn’t your old internet friend, Dr Giggles.
Join us for a huge selection of free music every night of the Fringe at Biddy’s with different rock/folk cover bands and a big selection of music right through the festival.
They’re back! After years away touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Fring…
What sort of a prick is living their best life? Richard Branson? Elon Musk? The Dalai Lama? Yes, the Dalai Lama is a prick – all will be explained in the show.
Do you ever lay down to sleep only to be visited by the dread of embarrassing memories and intrusive thoughts? This show is for you! Award-winning Irish comedian and star of mega-p…
Comedian Tom GK has decided to record the greatest album of all time and he has just 50 minutes to prove he’s up to the job.
Multi award-nominated comedian, Adam Greene takes his debut hour to Edinburgh talking quick fixes for self-improvement, clean living and long-term mental well-being.
This is not a nice Fringe for comedy.
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
The happiest show in Edinburgh! Those of you familiar with the noble Baron and his far-fetched tales of daring do (riding half a horse, flying to the moon on a cannon ball etc) wil…
Join us for free live music every Wednesday to Sunday during the Fringe at Ghillie Dhu with different indie and rock/pop artists with a great selection of music.
‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once’ (Albert Einstein).
Filled with the charm of a children’s cartoon, The Song of Fergus and Kate is a quaint story about friendship and embracing differences that any child would find fascinating.
Join this multi award-winning musical storyteller for another collection of story-songs.
Best Debut show Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 and Funny Women runner-up.
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
The unachievable expectations of African Jesus! The unholy shame of premarital cohabitation! The unwavering healthcare professionals who dare to oppose the will of God! Edinburgh C…
The most iconic film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, Interstellar and many more) played live in a unique, e…
The best film soundtracks (Pirates of the Caribbeans, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Game of Thrones and more) played live in a unique classical-electronic performance featuring violin, …
Camden Fringe presents SongTeller - A one off, immersive celebration of the finest emerging LGBTQ+ songwriters London has to offer.
Why does time often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show and part heart-rending personal quest, this theatrical, musica…
As we all know, COVID was invented to stop people from enjoying live music, but now Two Hearts are here to help us recover from two years of silence.
Camden Fringe presents SongTeller - A one off, immersive celebration of the finest emerging LGBTQ+ songwriters London has to offer.
Funny and touching tribute to this much-loved national treasure.
‘Few comics reduce their audience to the constant waves of laughter for the full hour like Britton does’ (Chortle.
Fresh from their universally adored BBC Three pilot, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson make their long-awaited return to the Fringe with a sketch show about love.
The Song School was built for chorister practice and is still used by the choristers at St Mary’s Cathedral for this purpose today.
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the Whiski bar during Aug…
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
How do you choose between two things you love? Particularly if one of those things is literally (fictionally) magical.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Are you ready to rock? Poppy & Charlie, young acoustic brother - sister duo from the Northeast.
- Scottish Comedian of the Year (SCOTY) runner-up, December 2021.
Join Liverpool’s Royal Court Youth Theatre for an evening of great music as they showcase their stunning musical talents.
Experience Shakespeare’s best-loved comedy in the heart of Covent Garden with the award-winning Iris Theatre.
“THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
The Song Project returns in 2022 with nine performances in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, followed by performances at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) lat…
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
One-liners and light-hearted jokes from the ‘master of wordplay.
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2020 Eric Rushton brings his highly-anticipated debut hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, “outstanding physical and comedic performer” (The Scotsman), brings you his weird and wonderful part theatre, part stand-up comedy show, ‘I…
Acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey, “outstanding physical and comedic performer” (The Scotsman), brings you his weird and wonderful part theatre, part stand-up comedy show, ‘I…
No One is a modern re-mix of HG Well’s The Invisible Man as a high-octane thriller.
Sometimes you see a piece of theatre that is so superb and shines so bright in every single way that it knocks you sideways.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Vix takes you through a whirlwind forty-five minutes examines the multiple roles you end up playing over the course of your life, and what happens when you break out of them.
Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto…
Join Geoff Robb, winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, for an evening of magical storytelling and virtuoso guitar that promises to transport you out into the forest.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Join us for a night of live music to uplift your soul! Featuring original music from Standing Phase (formerly The Woodville) bringing their unique blend of soul, with funky underto…
Winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award, Geoff Robb is back with new stories inspired by trees.
One-hit wonders are like love affairs – intense, but alas, all-too-brief- so join award-winning performer Paul Diello and his eight-piece ensemble as they resurrect some of the g…
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
The newly formed Amiche Quartet are breaking down the concept of the classical concert.
The newly formed Amiche Quartet are breaking down the concept of the classical concert.
Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase.
Out to cause absolute pandemonium, Marcus Megastar’s bringing the party to Brighton with “The Music Of The Night” ’22 Fringe Showcase.
Heather Alexander lit up the stage as she portrayed one of the most fearless female writers in history - Virginia Woolf.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
69 sketches in the space of an hour! Hyperactive comedy group Biscuit Barrel return to Brighton Fringe! A quickfire sketch show with a mechanical murderer on-the-loose - no charact…
Biscuit Barrel: No Time to Digestive is a whistlestop sketch show that ate and left no crumbs.
Recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St.
RECITALS ON TUESDAYS BY DISTINGUISHED LOCAL ORGANISTS ON THE FINE ORGAN AT ST.
Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers.
Join us for an accessible storytelling for all children at the Fringe Family Picnic in Pavilion Gardens.
A victorian inventor is flung into the distant future where he discovers a seemingly peaceful society; But when his precious Time Machine is stolen the fraught Traveller must place…
'Hello! What time do you call this?' A friendly voice called out to the audience as we entered the Rotunda performance space.
Living Paintings are a publisher and library like no other.
Eddy Hare (BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee 2021) presents a new work in progress show.
Alice is bored and loves to daydream.
Alice is bored and loves to daydream.
Tadhg Hickey introduces you to Feargal; a downtrodden but cheery man who fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming an alcoholic.
Based on the 18th century Beggar’s Opera and Brecht & Weill’s Threepenny Opera, the band present their own version of this wildly entertaining story as a song cycle swarming wi…
A group of university friends reunites over dinner with lots to catch up on.
A group of friends take on Corona O Virus in a battle during “The Strangest Time”Blue Diamond is a third-level drama training academy for people with intell…
Meet Dolly: a 20-something Londoner with one hell of a temper.
In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli…
In Ruby’s Pop-Up record and vintage clothes shop magical things are happening, people are falling in love, finding themselves, sorting their lives and restyli…
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
It's me again, your old internet friend Dr Giggles.
You pull the strings.
Chiron: A One Centaur Show Lanky horse-boy talks funny A Beautiful Mess To-do lists aren't actually helpful.
The Documentary No One Asked ForThis absurdly hilarious radio play follows the investigations of a disgraced RTE journalist who has travelled to a strange island off the…
No One Is Coming is a storytelling performance about a mother and a daughter inspired by real life events and infused with Irish mythology and comedy.
In modern parlance Gustav Holst might be regarded as something of a one-hit wonder, though aficionados could point to many other worthy works that have a more esoteric appeal and a…
If you feel the blue in January, join us for 3 nights of fun. Thursday 13th, 20th and the 27th of January at Bar Soho!Ticket link
Sir David Suchet makes his eagerly awaited return to the West End in POIROT AND MORE, A RETROSPECTIVE this New Year.
Swan Song is a bittersweet comedy written by Jonathan Harvey.
"Part gig, part festival, part immersive adventure" - Lauren Laverne "Secret Cinema for live music" - London Live "Best Covid Safe Live Music Event 2020&qu…
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 1998! It was the year pure pop really hit the big time with B*Witched …
There are few things worth travelling the length of the Jubilee Line for on a cold and wet rush-hour on a December night.
The official Homotopia Festival laid-back vibes closing party.
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
Sam Delaney and Andy Dawson have converted their nonsense podcast into a grand theatrical experience once again, with some of the most popular characters and features fr…
In this concert the seven composers and five soloists involved in this project reveal the results of their extended in-depth collaborations, and present seven new works …
Celebrating the musical numbers of the finest villains, evil doers, baddies and the downright despicable.
New covid-safe version of Brite Theater’s multi award-winning show! The fourth wall has been utterly obliterated, as the audience take on the roles of all the other characters at R…
One man.
‘Master of one-liners’ and DAVE’s Top Ten Jokes of The Edinburgh Fringe 2019 MARK SIMMONS, recently joined Dara O’Brian and Hugh Dennis on BBC2’s Mock The Week as…
Renowned as the ‘Godfather of Gothic Horror’, Poe was a pioneer in establishing the horror genre.
A marathon of gothic horror masterpieces. One actor performs Edgar Allan Poe’s most spine-chilling classics
There’s magic in every moment at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the most awarded play in history and “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade&rdqu…
Mira loses her virginity in the car park at her school.
Live music makes its first steps back to the Space Theatre! Three solo artists share their unique perspective and take on guitar-based rock music, from grungy existentialism to …
Dad`s Army Vicar Frank Williams invites you to join him for a hilarious afternoon of TV nostalgia to celebrate his 90th Birthday! With Frank's special star gue…
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons- but for how long?Playful, th…
What’s scarier than a slice of gothic horror? Four slices, that’s what.
The ultimate deep dive retro night! Re-live your youth and enjoy the hits, forgotten gems and flops from 2001! Its been 20 years since 2001, the year that Atomic Kitten swappe…
White Wine Question Time, the fun and conversational podcast based around three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine, has seen over 2 million listeners…
London Pride is NOT cancelled!Yes Sadiq said we can’t have our annual parade BUT no one can stop us having fun and celebrating our right to be proud.
Join Jim Parkyn – professional plasticine player, expert Aardman Animator and the mysterious man behind The Amazing Scene Machine.
Fairies.
These neat little monologues are a sort of fan fiction inspired by various works of Shakespeare (The Tempest, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelf…
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Step into Piscean comedy duo, Norris & Parker’s fever dream for a surreal hour of wild, watery madness.
Mark Simmons (Mock The Week, Dave’s Top Jokes of the Fringe 2017, 2019) has been busy with his podcast Jokes With Mark over the last 18 months, interviewing the likes of Milton Jon…
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Shetland fiddler Jenna Reid and pianist Harris Playfair join the genre-defying string ensemble Mr McFall’s Chamber.
Stefan Warzycki presents a programme of piano music for the left hand including Godowsky’s studies on Chopin’s Op 10 Études, Scenes of Iceland by Thordur Magnusson and Scriabin’s …
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field As seen/heard on BBC One, Radio …
A brand new collection of fun and silly ideas loosely arranged into the form of a show by award winning comedian Andy Field.
Lunchtime recital: Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
As times of heady redolence go, the 1990s lacks the brittle style of the 1920s, sepia-tinted upper-lips of haunted men in WWI uniforms, or groovy pereniorange of the 1960s… And y…
Come on a musical journey through time as we perform tracks across the years using only our voices! The University of Birmingham A Cappella Society is back for their fifth time at …
One of the Gals is completely packed.
Neu! Reekie! presents a one-off happening in their distinct avant-garde style.
Love, work and the passage of time.
Love, work and the passage of time.
Music, Poetry & Silence for Healing: We have planned a series of events that both reflect on the atmosphere of live music and of quietness and reflection – a time for sharing our…
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.
A small gathering of cross-generational artists exchange songs, stories and histories.
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
A range of song, music and dance inspired by material from the School of Scottish Studies Archive.
It’s a Fringe 1st.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming, one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Fiercely fabulous and fictitious Las Vegas lounge legend, Trudy Carmichael has lived (and nearly died), loved (and often lost) more than most mere mortals, but she gets through all…
Lockdown has been a universal experience for everyone in this country.
In association with Smock Alley Theatre, acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey brings you his weird and wonderful part-theatre, part-stand-up comedy show, In One Eye, Out the Other…
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.
Deena MP Ronayne’s award-winning debut as a writer takes audiences on an emotional journey ranging from fear and hate to delight and joy.
‘Laugh-out-loud funny, bold, fascinating, whip-smart’ **** (Everything-Theatre.
Pianodrome presents four stunning performances from exceptional musical acts who are passionate about bringing their deep understanding of classical chamber music to a contemporary…
Like Fresh Skin.
A collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada.
The Dream Train weaves together a quartet of characters with JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a play that has the clarity and strangeness of a particularly convincing dream.
A hypnotic dreamscape.
Doctor Who: Time Fracture, a ground-breaking Immersive Theatrical Adventure, plunges you into the incredible Universe of Doctor Who.
Join us in the fabulous atmosphere of Assembly George Square Gardens for some of the best in local, Scottish and festival music on our new, open-air stage! Featuring your favourite…
If you hate Laura McMahon, women in general or comedy, then don’t see this show.
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons, but for how long? Playful,…
If you hate Laura McMahon or women in general or comedy this isn’t the show for you.
If you hate Laura McMahon, women in general or comedy, then don’t see this show.
When Darren and Kathleen meet as grieving strangers on the tube, Darren finds that by giving her purpose to live, he manages to silence his own demons, but for how long? Playful,…
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Enter a dreamlike world where the ordinary appears extraordinary.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
Long Nose Puppets present ‘Arthur’s Dream Boat’, based on the book by Polly Dunbar It is the story about a little boy who has a dream.
A string of questionable relationships leaves one painfully optimistic girl grappling with the realisation that she doesn’t know how to be both happy and alone.
A string of questionable relationships leaves one painfully optimistic girl grappling with the realisation that she doesn’t know how to be both happy and alone.
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
Having enjoyed sell out runs at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringes, Back To Black returns to Brighton to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who s…
Get ready for a fiesta like no other as our ★★★★ (The Times, The Stage)raucous 2019 production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns with piñ…
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
New festival East London Shakespeare Festival launches this summer with an outdoor production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, July 1st - August 1st in Waltham Forest & Wanstead.
I had very little idea of what this show was about, except that it had a bit of a cult following after its run on (and off) Broadway.
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
Bumfluffery and other silliness.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/funk and gospel influences, playing songs from their forthcoming album.
Electric Cabaret Company are back by popular demand after two years of hilarious sell-out shows! As a V.
Join us for a night of celebration! Featuring music from The Woodville, with their blend of soul/R&B playing songs from their forthcoming album - guest artist Mark Edwards on piano…
Using a sampler to travel through time, DJ and funny man Vinney White takes us from bone flute to drum loop.
Throughout lockdown, many of us have enjoyed reconnecting with the natural world.
The History Bois: Adventures in Time & Gender residency, 23-26 June, @ ONCA Barge.
Come and enjoy live, classical music in a relaxed, lunchtime performance with City of London Sinfonia.
Four local ‘Sing Out’ community choirs are singing together to celebrate Make Music Day 2021. As part of the Albany’s Summer in the Garden.
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular novels.
This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin…
This 6-piece live music band play original material interwoven with all the classic disco & funk tracks, guaranteed to get your feet moving, your hands clapping and your spirit sin…
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
‘Love Is The Sweetest Thing’ - A celebration of the music and life of Ray Noble.
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.
History is brought to life, and the man behind one of the most famous speeches in British history is revealed in this delightful two-hander, Chamberlain: Peace in our Time, from Se…
Chamberlain in the run-up to his declaration of war includes popular songs of WW2.
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
This project artistically explores the assumptions we make when we encounter a woman experiencing homelessness.
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
Love never stops, not even during Lockdown, but it gets so much harder.
A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra…
RECITALS ON TUESDAYS BY DISTINGUISHED LOCAL ORGANISTS ON THE FINE ORGAN AT ST.
A brief journey into the careers, friendship and playful rivalry of Noel Coward and Cole Porter, two theatrical giants of the 20th Century, mainly focusing on their passion for tra…
Why does time so often feel so oppressive? And did it always have to be this way? Part history lesson, part cabaret show, and part heart-rending personal quest, ‘A Matter of Time’ …
Anjali Singh has created a show that is a fusion of a Ted Talk, comedy and musical theatre, to depict how much time changes in the blink of an eye.
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 …
Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers.
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 …
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
The story follows Delvin, a black British teenager as he discovers the wrath of police brutality at the same time as the rise of the Black Power Movement in London in the late 1960…
Join the People’s Music Collective for the launch of their debut EP - ‘UnLocked’! The PMC is a Soundcastle band based in Worthing, which celebrates the creativity, resilience and …
Join the People’s Music Collective for the launch of their debut EP - ‘UnLocked’! The PMC is a Soundcastle band based in Worthing, which celebrates the creativity, resilience and …
Following his recent appearances with Lionel Richie himself on ITV’s ‘Sunday Night At The Palladium’ and the ‘Graham Norton Show’ for the B…
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Tired of living for other people’s approval, Siân decides to impress an octopus instead.
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
Hamlet Isn’t Dead, in association with the US Karagöz Theatre, presents a modern shadow puppetry play in a classical style.
Hot in the heels of the debut Living Record Festival in January-February 2021, the Living Roots Festival launches this April.
A two hour introductory workshop for self-producing artists and others interested in producing.
The award-nominated sell out show will be available to stream online! Some people are inherently unlikeable.
The phrase "Every Time a Bell Rings" is well known and resonates especially at Christmas time: straight away we expect a link to the classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and …
Westcliff High School for Boys’s troupe of players from all year groups brings the late 19th century tradition of Music Hall back to life with some wonderful old songs, glorious …
The Dream Machine: ‘Making your dreams come true’.
Before “It’s a Wonderful Life” the angels were still at work.
Comedy ventriloquist Steve Hewlett brings his own style of comedy to the Ventriloquist world and his stuffed friends tag along for hilarious situations and improvisation…
OffWestEnd commended Conflicted Theatre are delighted to return to Omnibus Theatre following their success with Fiji, reuniting once more with Pedro Leandro.
Mama G is out of lockdown and on her way to Brighton with an array of fabulous frocks and stories about being who you are and loving who you want! There’ll be singing, laughter,…
Traditional and contemporary songs that take you on a musical journey through Scotland and beyond from ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Renowned UK singer/pianist Jeremy Sassoon presents and performs his history of Jewish songwriters from the piano, supported by his trio.
A showcase of musical performances from British Army Musicians presented by Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Connor Deacon and Lance Corporal (LCpl) Andee Birkett, two current serving members…
Following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe, the show premieres at Brighton to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
Embodied Theatre: explore theatre makers NMT Automatics and classicist Jon Heskers’ creation process questioning the role of ancient battle narratives in modern perceptions of wa…
Scotland’s dramatic history is illuminated by her music and traditional folksong.
Guitarist Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award and since then he has been writing music inspired by trees.
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
Every song a classic! Hailed by critics and fans alike as one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Friedman has achieved legendary, pop-icon status for chart-topping hits, …
Phil Spencer will discuss the financial challenges of making a short film and how to overcome them.
Captain Ben Mason (Director of Music Band of the Grenadier Guards) and Lance Sergeant Ian Shepherd (Band of the Grenadier Guards) lead a session on creating atmosphere through musi…
Brighton resident and local legend Al Start is heading to the beach this Summer with an array of stories and songs for kids and their grown-ups.
Discover the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city with these entertaining, guided walking tours.
Based on his book My Camino Walk – A Way to Healing, the author takes you on his life-changing journey through the mythic landscape on the ancient pilgrimage route of the Camino …
Mama G is out of lockdown and on her way to Brighton with an array of fabulous frocks and stories about being who you are and loving who you want! There’ll be singing, laughter,…
One traveler is catapulted on a journey through space-time, only to find himself on a desperate hunt to reconnect with those he left back home.
Sometimes we all feel different but not everyone has that confirmed by a professional.
Following a sell-out run at Fringe 2019, Back To Black returns to take you on a moving yet energising journey through the career of a modern legend.
Perhaps Pinter’s most political theatrical statement rings terrifyingly true as we enter our new decade.
The genius combination of a one hour long Shakespeare play with a single drunken cast member hurled into the mix for the audience’s delight and delectation.
Chris Dugdale, the only act ever to win the Edfest Bouquet four times! Total sell-out 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
They’re back! After years away, touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Frin…
The remarkably funny and true story of actor Nigel Miles-Thomas putting on the first-ever Pantomime in Los Angeles in 1991.
McFly are confirmed for a night of explosive pop on Sat 11 July.
Eight-time Grammy award winning Ms.
Searching for meaning in the art of flamenco, María Pagés beautifully blends art and life in her in-depth explorations of the genre itself.
Artist of the moment, Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi scored the biggest selling album and single of 2019.
Continuing the classic theme is Olivier and Tony Award-winner, Lea Salonga.
Sarah Brightman, international singing superstar and world’s best selling soprano, is confirmed to open Greenwich Music Time on Mon 6 July.
“Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
Enjoy the freshest fringe theatre, performance art, dance, music and art classes from the comfort of your own living room, as part of WAF In Your Living Room.
Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide…
Jesse is paranoid and he's frightened and it's messing up his relationship, his job, his daughter and his life… In a bittersweet comedy fuelled by anti-Semitis…
A comedy show by Andrea Hubert, in which she’ll mostly bitch about the people in her group therapy, while attempting to make a point about ageing and being Jewish …
Q The Music Show James Bond Concert Spectacular has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.
Paquito Forever, performed by Joan Vázquez, is an intimate, personal (and musical!) and fun account of the real-life adventures of Paquito (Paco) Alonso, a gay Catalonian growing …
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Threedumb Theatre returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre for another whole day of one-act plays, showcasing a wide variety of new writing.
Harry and Chris (Guardian Pick of the Fringe 2018) are at the top of their field, having invented the field of comedy-rap-jazz.
Vikki Stone returns to the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre for a special one-off performance of her hit 2019 show Song Bird.
Our production of Rules For Living is set in our own neighbourhood of Stoke Newington.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, a place where people of different generations class, ethnicity, faith and sexual orientation co-exist.
Christian Patterson returns as the clumsy schemer Francis Henshall! Written by Richard Bean| Directed by Peter Doran| Designed by Sean Crowley This Autumn, the Torch Theatr…
In fringe theatre, no one can hear you scream: one hour, one woman, one cult movie.
DRACULA: ONE BLOODY FANG AFTER ANOTHERWritten and Performed by John Hewer Whitby, England, 1897.
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
Sh*t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
After being fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall is skint and hungry.
Explore the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family life.
As Time Goes By is a fast paced, high energy musical marathon through the ages, featuring toe tapping tunes and the blissful close harmony of the UK's finest vintag…
Written, created and performed by Isabella Bliss, international star of both screen and stage.
Andy Dawson and Sam Delaney’s highly-acclaimed podcast is finally reimagined as a theatrical experience.
GWC Trad Band is a nine-piece band playing Scottish and traditional music with a vibrant, modern twist.
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, lowland pipes, Scottish small-pipes, double bass and percussion has captivated audiences a…
The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time.
Internationally acclaimed choir The Sixteen, led by Harry Christophers CBE, present an exclusive programme of Elizabethan and Jacobean choral works, spanning the life of Richard Bu…
Val McDermid, best known for her Wire in the Blood series which was adapted for television, published Broken Ground, 5th in the Karen Pirie series earlier this year.
One is the final part in Bert and Nasi’s trilogy on contemporary questions, following Eurohouse and the Total Theatre Award-winning Palmyra.
The neon sign above the stage at the new Turbine Theatre, Battersea, hints at the lights of New York City, but it also reminds us of the history behind director Drew McOnie’s pro…
Curated by satirical parody-pop pun merchants The Iain Duncan Smiths, the Eurosceptic Song Contest is a Eurovision for Brexit that features intimate live performances from Borrisse…
In equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique theatrical experience.
Geoff Palmer, born in Jamaica immigrated to London in 1955.
A remarkably vivid picture of one merciless family and three desperate lives.
Charming.
‘The best artist we’ve ever had in session’ (BBC Radio Scotland).
After sell-out shows in 2017 and 2018, Durham University’s award-winning Northern Lights return with their most ambitious and best show yet.
Louise Welsh appeared on the literary scene with her debut novel The Cutting Room.
Imagine you can travel through time.
The Bronte sisters’ tragically short-lived lives are reimagined for the Fringe by Eleventh Hour Theatre.
Hello, I am Charles Quarterman.
Scottish jazz/funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, infusing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas…
Innovative gig theatre based on interviews with women in the music industry, fusing poetry, live music and audio.
Ketchikan, Alaska and New York City: island towns at opposite ends of the American continent.
The multi-stylistic, unconventional cellist and singer Johanna Stein returns to the Fringe.
Discover the secrets of the universe.
Notes 3; Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel; Dances gothiques; Croquis et agaceries d’un gros bonhomme en bois; 6 Gnossiennes.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Funny Women One to Watch and Soho Radio presenter Kelly Ford AKA Book of Mum teams up with Max Turner finalist Naomi Wattis (BBC Two, BBC Radio 4 Extra) to talk about judgment, per…
Come and join Bessy and friends in their new lunchtime chamber music concerts for children! Bring along your own picnic and munch your lunch as Bessy and friends serenade you in ou…
Want Some More explores the harsh realities of living with a whole range of eating disorders from binge eating to diabulimia; retelling word for word accounts in Stage Strong Produ…
DJ and journalist Steve Lamacq celebrates 30+ years in the music industry with an intimate one-man show full of anecdotes and observations, clocked up over three decades of champio…
The award-winning Fiona Henderson School of Dance returns to the Edinburgh Fringe after their sell-out debut in 2017 with a unique creative dance composition created and rehearsed …
A blend of original solo acoustic guitar pieces and songs, Birdsong and Folk Song reflects two sides of the nylon string guitar.
An evolution of his successful 2018 Edinburgh Fringe and Perth Australia Fringe World show Twisted, Aaron Ayjay continues to take you down the dark and twisted road of musical come…
Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes.
Presented by Indigenous Contemporary Scene, performance-based installation This Time Will Be Different denounces the Canadian government’s discourse on Indigenous people and takes …
Miss Sophie has invited her four closest friends to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Enjoy watching some of the best one-liner comedians at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe rise to the challenge of performing a total of 1,000 of their best one-liners to raise money fo…
On a pale horse: in 1547, King Henry VIII is dead, and his court is reeling from the news.
Six actors, neon tutus and the unmistakable lyrics of Agadoo.
Part I: fool me once.
This year’s hottest product has just hit the city.
In an unassuming French restaurant, an American news anchor meets with a man who reveals to her that the 1969 moon landing was faked and this time there’s proof.
Calling all adventurers! Following their critical success at last year’s Fringe (selected as EdFringeReview.
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…
Robyn Stapleton, a BBC Traditional Singer of the Year, partners the historian David Purdie to trace the story of the Scots nation through its songs.
Kimjang is a Korean foodie tradition, where families and friends come together to make kimchi.
In this concert you will hear a wide variety of piobaireachd (pronounced approximately ‘pee-broch’), the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national in…
Join farmers David and Sam, as they share with you their untold adventures, full of mishaps and misfortunes.
An exceptional opportunity to be immersed in classical and Tai Chi contemporary dances performed by talented young dancers.
Morning: coffee concert of informal music-making.
Later! Ramblier! Jimeoin’s 26th Fringe! ‘Inspired ramblings.
Their iconic songs and swing instrumentals are performed by Roy Mac (Spatz Showband), Dick Lee (Dick Lee’s Sextet), Malcolm MacFarlane (Scottish Guitar Quintet) and Ed Kelly (bass)…
Since 1999, ROSL has brought together young classical musicians from across the Commonwealth to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Everybody knows Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, our beaches and landscapes, but the Balearics are not only sand and sun.
A night of Romanian traditional music with songs from Maria Tanase, Ileana Sararoiu, Liviu Vasilica, Surorile Osoianu and many more.
Music from the Heart with Andrew Leslie and Stephen Roberts is a concert for lovers of acoustic music featuring compositions by Andrew Leslie played on acoustic guitars and double …
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church just off the Royal Mile.
Join our curators, conservator and volunteers on special highlight tours of St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home of the University of Edinburgh’s world renown…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award and since then he has been writing music inspired by trees.
Join us on the red carpet for the big premiere of this concert featuring hit songs from the silver screen, including The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia, James Bond, La La Land and mor…
The Brunton’s series of classical lunchtime concerts.
Queen are in Edinburgh and they’re here to rock in a brand-new show guaranteed to blow your mind.
Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5.
The Mother Music Daughter Dance is a lively, funny, bittersweet theatrical duet between a real-life mother and daughter.
Venture into a magic land of epicness with this film music concert.
Following their run of sell-out lunchtime acoustic blues shows in Fringe 2018, Whisky Road are back with their lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Brought to you by the folk orchestra of Hangzhou Jiangnan Experimental School of Zhejiang.
Crichton Kirk welcomes internationally renowned ensemble The Marian Consort, whose dynamic, fresh approach to Portuguese polyphony entranced audiences in 2017.
Join us for a huge selection of free acoustic music, duos, bands, singers and more through the day and night on this launch day of Fringe Music on the Grassmarket.
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Described last year as the best-kept secret of the Fringe, one of Ireland’s best comedy writers returns with another brand-new show.
In It’s Beautiful, Over There, Stephanie Greenwood relates the death of various members of her broad family tree with vignettes about grandparents, resistance fighters and Polish…
This piece is a dramatic interpretation of Mwatabu Okantah’s epic poem Cheikh Anta Diop: Poem for the Living using digital media, the performing body, and a multilingual cast to …
And other noble-minded nonsense.
A collaboration of Chinese and Western instruments performed by young musicians from Shenzhen Bao’an Children’s Palace Orchestra.
When he was seven years old, Edward Hilsum attended a party at which a magician was performing.
Fight Song is part of this year’s programme of four plays by students from the celebrated CalIfornia Institute of the Arts (CalArts) at Venue 13.
Magic.
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…
Free Fringe Music.
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Boy meets girl, they fall in love, and everyone lives happily ever after. If only it were that simple. Hold on to your heart. Cupid is armed and dangerous!
Actors from around the world rehearsed via Skype for four months and then met here in Scotland to put on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Come join us for …
A thought-provoking show about haircuts and heartache.
‘The writing is fabulously blackly comic and timed to perfection’ (Deirdre O’Halloran, Literary Associate Soho Theatre).
After a baffling 2018 run (The Wee Review Fringe Experience Award: ‘most memorable experience – be it good.
Surrealist comedian, author, illustrator and Fringe favourite Olaf Falafel presents his latest book It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind.
Join us down at The Shore for live music every Friday and Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon during the Fringe.
The Byrd International Singers, directed by Markdavin Obenza, participates in an annual Renaissance course offered by the Byrd Ensemble (US).
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Entertaining and informative guided walking tours that tell the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
Some love it, others loathe it, but we can’t avoid it – it’s everywhere! A laugh-out-loud look at our undying obsession with football, celebrating everything from weird match day…
Back To Black premiers at the Fringe to take you on an electrifying journey through the career of a modern legend who shattered records and moved millions.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
One man, a guitar, and the most venerated love story of all time.
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show 2018! ‘Absolutely phenomenal, sensitively portrayed with painstaking accuracy’ (BroadwayBaby.
Ten strangers visit the same park bench on the same day.
There are worse ways to start a show than with free sweets, and no better way to end it than with a singalong.
What’s more mundane than death? What’s more absurd? In a slice of often brave, often very funny, and occasionally extremely poignant clowning, Amritha Dhaliwal and Gemma Soldat…
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
A combination of stand-up comedy, crowd work and improvised music.
A mix of comedy, storytelling and even a poem or two.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
The Ghillie Dhu’s very own local artists performing every night of the week with a mixture of traditional and popular classics. Come and join us for drams, jigs and reels!
If you’ve been unlucky in love, nothing makes you feel better about yourself than laughing at someone else.
RLS is synonymous with Edinburgh.
Phoebe Traquair’s vivid arts and crafts murals (painted 1888-1892) include allegorical and religious images, portraits of leading figures, choir and clergy of the day and images of…
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and restaurant for a vibrant foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
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.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
A split bill comedy show featuring Thanyia Moore (Funny Women Award winner 2018) and Sian Davies (Hilarity Bites New Act winner 2018).
Ockham’s Razor, winners of the Total Theatre and Jacksons Lane Award for Circus 2016 for their hit show Tipping Point, return with their new aerial theatre show, This Time.
Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, emote to electronica, caper to classical, wave to world music and tuck into techno with our cherry-picked musical assortment! A powerhouse o…
If you’re looking for fun and interactive quiz formats that work well as hour long Edinburgh Fringe shows, then pickings are comparatively slim.
Chris Dugdale: Down to One.
Join us for a prime selection of acoustic music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with different musicians and duos specially chosen for the Fringe; performing each night i…
This is definitely not the first time I have seen a play about being gay or about the AIDS epidemic, but it is the first time I have seen an eclectic and moving look at life post H…
Runaways.
Doug Crossley’s solo show brings together songs, comedy and the heartache of trying to understand a friend’s suicide.
Join the quickest wits in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-dubbed ‘Lie-in King’, Seann Walsh returns to Edinburgh.
London’s best comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh to ask the funniest people on the Fringe if they have what it takes to be heroes.
As seen on ABC, The Comedy Channel and Channel 11 which featured their one hour comedy special.
Last spotted leaving BBC’s River City in a limo with Claire from Steps – Gary is back at the Fringe following smash-hit runs in 2016/17.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Focus people! Shit’s about to get real.
A tambourine aficionado from the Midlands, Vikki Stone delights us with this hour of joyful mirth as she delves into modern life as a millennial.
Part party, part PSHE lesson and part coming-of-age rom-com, A Womb of One’s Own is a heartfelt love letter to women’s bodies everywhere.
Silly, surreal show about time travel, love and time travel.
One Duck Down.
Inside my skin is a rattling beast and when I breathe my last it will emerge.
Join the quickest whites in comedy for a side-splitting, jaw-dropping, time-travelling adventure that’s fun for literally everyone.
When the Britpop band ‘Shed Seven’ disbanded in 2003, a dozen people witnessed the drummer’s only attempt at standup comedy.
Rare Groove Legends RAMP announce an exclusive European Concert.
At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical.
Agatha Christie’s The Rats - one of her perplexing shorter plays in all its intrigue and deceit.
SOMNIUM: A Dancer’s Dream, is the explosive dance show starring World Latin Showdance Champions and Strictly professionals Neil and Katya Jones.
As part of Nomad Festival @ Greenwich pop-up Rotunda Theatre.
The popular Q The Music Show is coming to Lighthouse and they will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert.
COMPERED BY MADELAINE SMITH - LIVE AND LET DIE The spectacular Q The Music was launched in 2004 by the incredibly talented Warren Ringham.
The first British tribute band performing the classic songs of Don Williams.
Rachel will never forget Mary Day, the damaged local legend.
Joske, Annelie and Marthe Koning combine storytelling, movement and song to portray the universal dynamic of the family.
1983, Gravesend.
Amazing tales elegantly told.
Dena Blizzard, the viral video sensation and creator of the Back to School Rant (125 million views), Chardonnay Go (24 million views) and Chardonnay Go, The Board Game f…
Sounds Familiar Music Quiz is the biggest, best, most raucous music quiz in the UK! Beware serious quizzers.
Can a young astronaut and a fallen star save a former dancer who is fighting a bizarre illness and her bohemian roommate? Or will they be captured and tortured with no end in sight…
An invitation to take part in this unique evening featuring uplifting and meditative musical performances from the Indian spiritual tradition.
David and Sam know every story ever told.
Do you want to know how to solve your problems and become practically perfect in every way? Whenever you are in a stew, just ask “What would Julie Andrews do?” Eliza von Poppins …
Another triumphant show from Ciadhra McGuire and Erik Igelström or, as they’re better known on stage, Earnest and Wilde.
Forget “a song for Europe” - the Eurosceptic Song Contest is very much a song against Europe.
The Good Grief event is for anyone who has ever experienced loss or for those who would simply like to understand more about grief.
‘I’m not expecting anything.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
What’s happening on the French live music scene Right Now? Come and check out a selection of fine French bands playing a rich mix of originals and covers.
4 April 1968.
A new stand-up show from Comedian David Callaghan.
Majk Stokes is a singer-songwriter, poet, environmentalist, Quaker and self-confessed caffeine-addict.
Welcome inside the mind of endearing oddity Kallis Kyriacou.
Join Brighton’s award-winning Music Mike in an action-packed musical adventure.
A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk.
Musicians appearing in the 8th Lewes Chamber Music Festival in June 2019 will perform chamber music by Mozart, Faure and the little-known Lekeu in this special Festival Launch conc…
In Fringe theatre, no one can hear you scream: one hour, one woman, one cult movie! The sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show returns to Brighton, celebrating 40 years of the horror cla…
A four piece Japanese rock band who formed in 2005.
Heidi Regan, winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2017 and So You Think You’re Funny 2016, presents a work in progress of her new show.
Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award for his solo show.
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St Bartholomew’s Church.
Styling itself as a 'heartfelt and hilarious musical tribute' to the city of Brighton, All Things Brighton Beautiful utterly triumphs as a celebration of everything we love…
Jenny Rowe’s solo show Tiptree: No One Else’s Damn Secret But My Own is about a woman with many lives, who is best known for not being a man.
It is still one of the best kept secrets in show business that Patricia Routledge trained not only as an actress but also as a singer and had considerable experience and success in…
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (‘Harry Hill’; Sky1, ‘Dog Ate My Homework’; CBBC, ‘Doctor Wh…
Sound Sculpture and Giant Percussion Workshops This fun music workshop is divided up into two sections.
A fun space to connect with music and dance! DJs playing vinyl only, hosted by Nin Warrior guesting local legends.
Kaviraj Singh - Santoor & Voice and Upneet Singh - Tabla Combining musicality with complex rhythm, Kaviraj Singh is emerging as a unique and celebrated talent of the new generatio…
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
It’s Mary Flanigan and Robbie McShane! One’s a comedian, one’s a robot pretending to be a comedian.
Fresh from his sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run at the Pleasance Courtyard, Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe! Expect the unexpected…
THEY’RE COMING TO GET YOU, LONDON Based on George A.
Two of the most celebrated British icons of stage and screen, Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid meet on stage in conversation for the first time.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and the self-dubbed “Lie-In King”, Seann Walsh is “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation" (…
The Time Machine From the creators of Orlando, Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, Austen’s Women, Christmas Gothic, Dalloway, I, Elizabeth, The Unremarkable Death of Mar…
Andrew Bird is the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of.
Andrew Bird is the funniest comedian you’ve never heard of.
Farnham Festival 2019: Symphony and Song Our second concert of the day will feature musicians from More House School and Lord Wandsworth College, as well as a full orche…
West End and Broadway star Kerry Ellis chats to broadcaster Gaby Roslin about her 20 years in show business and performs songs with her band from throughout her illustrious career.
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of&n…
Hip-hop dance-based production with some added variety to celebrate our twenty-year anniversary and showcase our talented students, which range from the age of 4 upwards…
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…
The curious little owl is back, and this time she’s ready to discover the wonders of night-time, from the big, bright moon to the bats in the sky and the foxes dee…
“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else.
No One is ComingMy Mam's different to yours.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
Listen to the “Queen of the New Wave of Storytellers” (BBC Radio 3), as she reclaims and reconfigures a lost Arthurian epic following a non-binary knight on a quest for equalit…
Based on the memoir "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff and "Tweak" by his son, Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experi…
Proforça Theatre Company presents the next generation of “Feel More”, Seven more stories from the universe of our main production of "Feel" returning in Spring 2019.
3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle pieces together Alexandra and Kate Donnachie’s sometimes heartbreaking but often hilarious memories of growing up together and managing their cl…
Come and have fun with the We Do Good Disco team on Saturday 2nd February, as we kick off the LGBTQ+ history month in Lewisham with a film and disco extravaganza.
One Love is a joyous exploration of friendship, what it’s like to be in love and have a learning disability.
Babygirl is eighteen, a student, and has just discovered SEX – in spite of her strict Catholic upbringing by two crotchety old women.
by Jon Bradfield & Martin Hooper songs by Jon Bradfield directed by Andrew Beckett designed by David Shields Celebrating 10 years of Above The Stag Theatre&ap…
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
A scathing and bitterly amusing attack on the increasingly powerful and narcissistic super-rich, set against the backdrop of terrifying state oppression, the highly pertinent Party…
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for a brand new adventure anywhere…
A toothless punk wakes one morning and asks herself the all-important question: why are we here? Expect cod philosophy, serious attitude and a chicken going on.
Z E I T is an Irish electronic music synth collective borne out of a common passion for synthesizers and the pioneering electronic music era of the 1970s and 1980s.
Join us for a soaring celebration of love through the ages as we open London's first ever purpose-built immersive theatre venue with an evening of romance, dance and decadence.
Fresh from their sold-out, five-star run at the Edinburgh Fringe, join multi-award-winning duo, Zak Ghazi-Torbati & Toby Marlow (co-writer of SIX), for the cabaret comedy extra…
Book now for next year's fabulously filthy adult panto at Above The Stag Theatre.
Dystopian Dream is the brand new production created from a concept originated by Nitin Sawhney and co-devised with Honji Wang and Sebastien Ramirez.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Mikhail Lermentov’s novel A Hero of Our Time has been newly adapted for the stage by Oliver Bennett, who also plays the lead - Pechorin, and Vladimir Shcherban.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Cast Iron Theatre returns to Brighton HorrorFest with their hugely popular night of spooky storytelling from local writers.
Fresh from his SELL OUT Edinburgh Fringe run, Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
When we can have sex whenever we want, with whomever we want, why settle for a normal relationship?
Following the story of the British-Brazilian Charles Miller who first brought football from UK to Brazil, The Beautiful Game traces the history of football that filled with war, ra…
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Courage leads the way, cutting the icy stage for Disney’s most adventurous dreamers at Disney On Ice presents Dream Big.
Following James Hurn’s sell-out 2017 tour, he is back by popular demand with his stunning one-man, many voices, show, celebrating over 60 years of Hancock’s …
This stunning cabaret stars Gregory Hazel, whose dazzling vocals, wit and charm will take you through a celebration of Musical Theatre’s most iconic women.
The Three Inch Fools bring their innovative productions of two of Shakespeare’s most infamous and iconic plays to The George Inn on the South Bank, London’s Shakespearean heart.
Jamie Lloyd must be excreting pheromones of cool right now.
The captivating sound-world of medieval music, featuring Scottish chant from Inchcolm Abbey, music by Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas, Jewel of Canterbury – an eight-part work by …
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, clarsach, lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, doublebass and percussion has captivated aud…
Ronnie and Maggie have been a regular feature around the Midlothian folk scene for a number of years.
Cantica Alba, the Edinburgh-based, ten-voiced, a cappella ensemble, directed by Michael Harris, return for their annual Fringe performance.
Appearing for the 28th successive year in the magnificent setting of St Andrew’s and St George’s West, Fife vocal concert group Ensemble (www.
Piano music of Erik Satie.
Tenth anniversary tour celebrating a decade of Big Girls Don’t Cry featuring The East Coast Boys.
Aberdeen-based ensemble marks 90th anniversary of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and 50th anniversary of his Intuitive Music by performing selected compositions from his Aus den Si…
The link between imaginary and existing worlds is explored by 23 visionaries in a range of media.
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…
Scottish street-funk brass band Brass Gumbo take a magical musical tour through the back catalogue of The Beatles, mixing instrumental jazz and funk (and plenty of New Orleans seas…
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
Having only been in existence for three years, both Academy and Pitch Fight have already shaken up the UK a cappella scene.
Part of the Fringe Central Programme for Fringe participants.
East meets West in this wild mash-up of comedy, electric violin, characters, spoken word and songs from legendary AmerAsian duo Slanty Eyed Mama.
One Woman, One Cello and 500 Years of Music.
Pechorin is a superfluous man.
Last year Judah’s 84-minute stand-up comedy performance film, America Is the Greatest Country In the United States, debuted on Netflix to rave reviews from across the globe.
To be well or not to be well, that is the question.
Matt Griffo from Chicago is an internationally touring musical comedian, combining music with comedic lyrics.
One is a comedian doing relatable stand-up, the other is a robot programmed to do relatable stand-up.
Music by 17th-century composer John Dowland for lute, soprano and viol.
After receiving her sell-out garland in 2017, Bessy returns to the Fringe with a brand-new show.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Following on from last summer’s smash-hit Touch, Vicky Jones returns with her award-winning debut play.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).
Featuring musicians from the internationally acclaimed Complete Songs of Robert Burns (Linn Records). ‘Great voices, great songs… Who could ask for more?’ (fRoots).
Be transported back to early 90s Los Angeles; the seedy underworld of gangsters, drugs, danger, and a mysterious briefcase.
A quintet of Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians pays joyous tribute to the bebop/soul music of Cannonball and Nat Adderley.
America’s Diversity in Song.
Russell Arathoon presents his debut hour.
A new stand-up show from David Callaghan.
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era with her gorgeously characterful and distinctive voice and a stunning five-piece band of outrageous mus…
Following sell-out shows in 2017, Bruce returns with more Dylan, Paxton, Seeger, Simon, etc.
A showcase of the finest piano and chamber music from Royal Conservatoire Scotland and St Mary’s Music School rising stars, featuring great composers such as Bach, Rachmaninov an…
Every year I have to write a 100 word blurb for a new show and basically I’ve now been doing this long enough to know that none of this bullsh*t makes any difference.
Fresh from his tour of Australia earlier this year, comedy singer-songwriter Majk Stokes presents a new collection of witty and whimsical songs and poems covering two of his bigges…
Linking Old and New Towns, Princes Street Gardens are truly amazing in their unique geology, disputed history, diverse planting and the myriad ways that ordinary folk have used and…
A show about someone who doesn’t need to exaggerate the absurdities of his life.
A man and a woman wait in a flat in Camden for a phone call from a colleague.
Vocal Force returns to the Fringe with an all-new line-up of songs! These young, enthusiastic performers from the USA harmonise their way through beloved hits that will inspire and…
The Time Traveller dedicates his life to creating a time machine in an attempt to alter the moment of his greatest loss.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A musical memoir about one woman’s solo bicycle/music tour 1,254 miles down the west coast of the USA.
When three sisters come together on their autistic brother’s 30th birthday, they can’t help but mull over their childhood with him, which was shaped by his insistence that he w…
Join us for an evening of chilled jazz as new Scottish quintet The Misinformed Quintet makes their Edinburgh Festival Fringe and AMC debut with One Note at a Time, a one-time perf…
With the theme ‘the starting point of love, silk road and art’, our festival has a variety of performances and art from countries on the One Belt One Road.
Rab and Jill bring their unique collaboration to AMC in 2018.
This is a chance to hear some of the finest exponents of classical pipe music, or piobaireachd (pronounced peebroch).
Long before Luke Skywalker, another hero mastered the sabre, and fought imperial forces.
After sold-out shows, rave reviews and standing ovations at Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe, Lord of the Strings! – the ultimate one-man guitar show, first created for touri…
Hyde Panaser’s debut show about living a multicultural life with and without a beard.
One of London’s hottest improv teams returns to the Fringe to bring you an hour of comedy inspired by music.
This time, the art troupe will present a performance featuring lots of Chinese ethnic arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Cuerdas features professional musicians, Lindsay Martindale (cello) and Sophie Askew (harp) who show their amazing versatility and artistry with performances which include works by…
Join multi award-winning Amersham A Cappella as they celebrate their Fringe debut.
‘Leeson in the title role is absolutely phenomenal.
Bernard MacLaverty was born in Northern Ireland and brought his family to Scotland in 1975.
From prehistory to 1877, you choose which version of Scotsman JT Stewart’s Palmerston will be told through music by one of New Zealand’s celebrated Maori instrument makers and his …
‘I simply cannot wait to see more of their magic’ ***** (Tribe).
One of the BBC’s best-known journalists and presenters, James Naughtie is now is now special correspondent for BBC News.
The talented vocalists of Edinburgh Music Theatre return with another fantastic musical extravaganza for all the family this August.
Discussions about drug use and drug policy often involve stories – personal experience combined with knowledge gleamed from the media and other sources.
Renowned Scottish pianist Christopher Guild offers listeners the chance to become acquainted with a burgeoning force in Scotland’s culture: its classical music.
Meet Liv – clever, funny, confident – everything a 15-year-old girl wants to be.
The beautiful songs of Edward Elgar and Maude Valérie White.
Danny slept rough on the steps of St.
Julia Krone Oliver, a local Edinburgh artist originally from Cape Town, paints life-affirming dreamlike landscapes.
A journey through chamber music gems with the Edinburgh Quartet – featuring works by Mozart, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak and Gesualdo over three performances.
Inclusive theatre group The Theatre Shed will explore end of life and organ donation in a unique and inspiring way.
These entertaining and informative guided walking tours tell the story of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
Calling all adventurers! With the Mariner as your guide, prepare to brave the elements, sail stormy waters and embark upon a grand voyage into the great unknown.
Edinburgh’s iconic Jazz Bar showcases some of their favourite resident bands and the very best of Edinburgh’s local talent with late night funk, blues and soul, as well as special …
Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson weaves through time with jokes, anecdotes and storytelling.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best young contemporary music talents perform an exciting blend of Scottish pop, traditional Scottish songs and instrumental s…
Watch Zillions of Comedians squeezed into just one hour.
Up ‘til now, I had only ever seen Tom Crosbie perform short spots at Fringe cabaret shows where his skill with a Rubik’s Cube and his awkward, amiable persona intrigued me.
An evening celebrating the legendary partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Join Meg and her band of misfits on a voyage through time and space.
Following last year’s Amused Moose: Best Show nomination for One-Linerer, Mark Simmons presents the hotly anticipated One-Linererer.
A nice, relaxed way to spend an hour of your Edinburgh Fringe with conversational-style delivery from ‘one of the best comedy writers in Ireland’ (Aidan Bishop, The International C…
Stunning, skilful magic from Caspar Thomas.
‘If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended.
Porky’s back at the Free Fringe and in rare form after two UK tours supporting The Lovely Eggs as well as his alter ego Phill Jupitus, whom he’s not really that fond of.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Improviser Mara Joy (TBC Improv, The Spontaneous Players) is joined by a different special guest every day to create an entirely unique two-person show based off one word from the …
Poet and raconteur Tina Sederholm has long been an adult, but still feels like a problem child.
Join us for a huge selection of acoustic music, duos, bands, rock, folk music, singers and more every day and night of the Fringe.
The seal woman’s skin has been stolen, stranding her on a reef of rage and tragedy.
After a sell-out, five-star run in 2016, One Musical to Rule Them All returns to parody everyone’s favourite trilogy about wizards, hobbits and a quest to destroy some magical je…
Legacy: A Mother’s Song, one of two devised musicals under the ‘Legacy’ banner at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is the distinctly less crowd-pleasing of the pair.
After last year’s sell-out show, Pete Sinclair returns with his cool crooners and a new mix of hits from The Great American Songbook: numbers like Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, S…
A Eurovision for Brexit, as conceived by the UK’s foremost IDS themed Smiths tribute band The Iain Duncan Smiths.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd’s album The Wall. Travel back in time to 1979 with this progressive rock album enhanced with spectacular wrap-around immersive dome visuals.
London’s best comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh to ask the funniest people on the Fringe if they have what it takes to be heroes.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
June has ambitions of going into space.
Jo Caulfield strides on stage with all the self-assuredness of the seasoned performer that she is.
Visit St Giles’ Cathedral and enjoy a relaxed musical concert from performers from all over the world in a unique and beautiful historical setting.
Heather-Rose Andrews skilfully acts out this minimalist stage version of cult classic Alien.
On average, victims of domestic violence experience 35 assaults before calling the police.
When Edinburgh’s famous One O’Clock Gun goes missing the city is outraged.
A woman stands downstage right, a spotlight illuminating her from one side.
Enjoy a rotating line-up of bands featuring a host of top local musicians doing a collection of familiar and unique covers, a great night to sing along and get your toes tapping at…
The Last One is the end of all things, and still needing more.
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure every day based…
Steve Chang takes you on an introspective journey to find meaning in life by means of ayahuasca, hookers and gay conversion camp.
Inspired by the music of Pink Floyd, this dome spectacular features the 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon in explosive surround sound.
Excitement! Drama! Romance! And… knitting? A scintillating cabaret, featuring the lost knitting songs of WWI and WWII from Canada, Britain, America and France.
**** (TimeOut).
Lose yourself in Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here, this new full-dome music and light show interprets the acclaimed rock album through mesmerising HD graphics.
Enjoy a showcase of the best comedy talent to kick-start your day with our hand-picked selection – and watch what you should be seeing more of from around the city.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
After winning the Edinburgh Panel Prize in 2014 with Funz and Gamez, Phil’s ready to bring his unique, anarchic and unreliable comedy to the masses.
Caught between Berlin and New York, Daniel Louis Vezza explores and takes on the differences between these two cities and the lifestyles that come with them, in an hour of observat…
Sofía & Marcelo are an innovative Mexican duo who combine different musical elements to achieve an experience in the spectator.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
‘In my view, best new show at Leicester Comedy Festival’ (Tony Booth, Leicester Comedy Festival Judge).
Stand-up comic Gareth Berliner was cast in Coronation Street four years ago to play dodgy drug dealer Macca, and was told he didn’t need make-up! He’s also very funny.
Inspired by real events: in 1969, in a segregated city in the American Midwest bursting with racial tension, a 14-year-old black girl, Vivian, was shot by a white cop, igniting one…
Oliver Harris digs deeper into his journey through Elvis Presley’s great songs with a different show and an evening twist! From Love Me Tender, The Wonder of You, Are You Lonesome …
Dream Logos is the divine logic of dreams in the backdrop of the known universe in projected image, dance, aerial, and theatre.
Alison Skilbeck tells the linked tales of four women with only a postcode in common.
After their multi award-winning debut at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, the hot gays are back.
Join us on a thrilling journey to a future age where things are not as they seem.
Twice featured on BBC Radio 4’s Pick of the Week.
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with ‘a sackful of promise’ (Chortle.
Step aside Ricky and Bianca, there’s a new duo in town.
World premiere of this fresh, funny, fantastical story starring award-winning comedian, singer and dancer Charlie Baker (Harry Hill’s Tea Time, Dog Ate My Homework, Doctor Who) and…
Amazing tales, elegantly told.
Following sell-out shows on the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringes for Never Mind the Cossacks – ‘brilliantly conceived’ (FringeGuru.
Puns! Lots of puns! Spoken puns, visual puns, musical puns, contrived puns and a lot of props.
New work-in-progress solo show from Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
Back in the building! Following his massive success at last year’s Fringe, Oliver Harris again brings a new playlist of Elvis Presley’s great songs.
Join Phil in a lighthearted romp through the the world of collective delusions.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that an actor in possession of a woman’s story must be in want of a wife – to help him adapt it.
Join us for a prime selection of acoustic music every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night with different musicians and duos specially chosen for the Fringe, performing each night i…
Australian comedian Ross Voss’s show in the form of a basketball game! Four quarters of 12 minutes of comedy! Each quarter is different, from more about me to storytelling, longe…
Russell Hicks returns with another free-form explosion that he deems ‘necessary medicine’ for any artist who is trying too hard to make it.
No refunds. @catpicsmusicFU #catpicsmusicFU
This Welsh comedian was the first major victim of Identity Theft in the UK.
If you break my heart, I’ll break yours too.
Hold on to your raincoats! Tom Brace brings a jam-packed hour of laughs and magic that you simply won’t believe! Expect the unexpected in this mind-boggling variety show.
Jerry and Jacks want to be Big Time, but at what cost? They take on a job that they hope will shoot them up the ladder in the organisation.
Power? Sex? Control? Part One: Meet Baby, a prostitute willing to entertain you with Barbie dolls… Experience a bizarre underworld of desire and oppression.
After sell-out shows in 2016 and 2017 Gareth Mutch returns with a bucket list to help fix his tragic life.
Some years ago, comedian Lucy Frederick appeared in a reality TV show in which she had to get naked.
A unique blend of achingly honest poetry, side-splitting stand-up and personal story telling about romantic love and why we prioritise it above all else.
Traquair’s vivid murals (painted 1888-1892) include religious and allegorical images, portraits of leading figures, the choir and clergy of the day, and images of the natural world…
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
We in the L.
Fringe First winner 2017.
Robert Bathurst (Cold Feet, Downton Abbey, Toast of London) and Rebecca Johnson (The Trip, The Flood) star in this hilarious and poignant drama of a disastrous attempt to rekindle …
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.
Parody on love, friendship and shoes.
One is found buried in a culmination of emotions when life takes an unexpected turn.
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…
After their five star runaway success with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Middle Child were always going to suffer from difficult second album syndrome and it’s a real shame …
There’s a line in How to Keep Time that sat very deeply in my heart: “All my memories have been rewritten for who you are now.
Join us at the multi award-winning Whiski Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at Whiski Bar during August.
Gripping World Premier drama of Cowgate fire.
Fame is everything nowadays.
Caspar brings to York his stand up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of hand magic and mentalism - no suspicious looking boxes, no camera tricks, no stooges! &…
June has ambitions of going into space.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The hilarious improvised Doctor Who parody returns! Featuring a live radiophonic workshop and a crew of hysterical performers, join us for an entirely new adventure base…
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, led by the club’s musical director, take to the stage to celebrate two giants of jazz…
Recent years have witnessed mounting criticism of mumbling actors, mostly on television but also in the the theatre.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
A play promising to be the first of its kind premieres in July at Landor Space, Clapham, inviting audiences to take control of a show where every night really is different.
Michael Bublé – a true global superstar in his only UK performance is coming to Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2018! The undisputed ‘King of …
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Pop superstars Steps are the first headline act to be announced for Greenwich Music Time 2018.
Tom and Ollie are ‘creative, witty, sketchsmiths’ with a ‘sackful of promise’ (Chortle).
A rare concert performance of Samuel Beckett’s radio play Words and Music with American composer, Morton Feldman’s score.
Caroline Reid, the comedian behind the beloved, brash flight attendant Pam Ann, is stripping off her stewardess uniform and performing her brand new, bare-all, stand-up …
Instrumentalising Folk Song explores the idea of the musical setting of language in, perhaps, its purest humanistic form.
Energetic, playful stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian Russell Arathoon.
Sketch Off 2018 runners up Bread & Geller bring you their sell-out debut hour, a hot mix of character comedy, observational sketch and musical parody.
We are thrilled to open our new, larger home on 1 June with a 25th anniversary production of Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey.
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times called Mike Birbiglia’s recent show 'Thank God For Jokes' “the best night I’ve spent in a theatre in a…
Join us in the Victorian setting of Brighton’s Old Courtroom for a special screening of this classic film.
Everyone had a favourite subject at school taught by their favourite teacher.
A unique blend of meditation and music performance to enlighten the soul and lift your spirit! Come and experience a mix of live Eastern and Western vibrational music to help brin…
Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest magicians of the last 120 years) stand-up, interactive, before your very eyes sleight o…
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
Following on from the phenomenal success of Transfigured Night, Danish choreographer and two time Olivier Award-winner Kim Brandstrup creates a new work for Rambert.
"In theatre no-one can hear you scream" unless you head down to the Sweet Dukebox this Fringe to see One Woman Alien, billed as a one hour (standard Fringe fair) one woma…
Canadian comedian Katharine Ferns is relentlessly funny with her confessional and brutally honest storytelling style of comedy.
Adam Astra, a young rocketeer witnesses a star-girl fall to earth one night and vows to rocket her back among the stars.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
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.
‘Good Grief.
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays comes to Oxford after its critically-acclaimed London and international festival runs.
The intention of Shakespeare’s plays is writ large under the titles.
Rouge your knees, shine your shoes and prepare to enter a razzling dazzling world of Swing! From the decadent 20s Jazz age, the glamourous 30s, the spirit of the 40s, to the rebels…
Grab a bunch of mates and hit the dance floor with Australian party machine Tomas Ford for Brighton Fringe’s most ridiculous party.
Esther Manito, a finalist on ‘So You Think You’re Funny? 2017’ and heard on BBC radio 4 Extra, is working on her first solo show.
The battle for happiness has been won but there were casualties.
Radu started comedy in 2006 in Bucharest and was known as Romania’s comedian’s comedian.
In music, variation is a formal technique where material is repeated in an altered form.
Stand-up comedy from Manchester-born comedian, Russell Arathoon.
Let’s get the review part over and done with; this was going to be a five star review from the moment I saw the title Joe Black - Touch of Evil: A Celebration of Villainy in Song…
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…
A panicked run to Canada.
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St.
Singer/songwriter, Jon McLeod, brings his original acoustic compositions to Artista Cafe & Gallery.
The human heart.
Set in London during the devastating plague of 1665, Lost in the Fog’s A Song of Plague blends music, puppetry and poetry to tell the story of a physician’s attempts to find a …
The game show where celebrities compete to become UN Goodwill Ambassadors.
Violinist Benedict Cruft and J.
Born from the desire to bring visionary art into greater awareness, the ‘Psychedelic Dream Temple’ is not just a showcase of some of the worlds most talented artists but also a pla…
I’m happy to admit that my knowledge of Norse mythology is patchy, but becoming more familiar with what was advertised as a fusion of "ballad song, galdr chant and ancient E…
Fresh from their five-star, sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and winners of the Brighton Fringe Award for Excellence 2017, ‘Hot Gay Time Machine’ cover all the most important m…
Gallery Lock-In is a makeshift gallery space tucked away in the backstreets behind the beachfront.
The internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated vocalist, Stacey Kent, returns to the UK for a very limited number of 2017/18 dates, featuring music from her latest albu…
Alongside his interviewing and writing Sir Michael Parkinson has spent much of his career promoting the appreciation of the music of the Great American Songbook and encouraging t…
The Lyric and Filter’s riotous reinterpretation of one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Lyric for two performances only…
In a well-paced, one-hour monologue, eighteen-year-old Alex talks about the generations of family who have had a significant impact upon his life.
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West’s marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected, believe the unbelievable,…
Following five-star rave reviews across UK and international tours where it was seen by more than 19,000 people, One Small Step returns to the BT for a fast, furious and full throt…
Five Star Awarded West End Actor & Singer Harry Kit Lee (Hair The Musical.
Best Children’s Show Award 2016! Buckle up and take a trip in a giant time machine to get up close and personal with a life sized T-Rex! Incorporating science with circus, pu…
The Fame Train gang star in this awesome show that sees the kids travel through the ages from the prehistoric times, to the swinging 60’s, all the way to the modern day! Cool chara…
After the sell-out success of their 2017 Fringe performance, the all-star cast of musicians that are ‘Eclipse’ are coming together once again to perform one show only for the 2…
Three hilarious one-act comedies - plus a few other bits and pieces that will guarantee a great evening out!!.
“Time and Machines - gymnastics in motion” has it’s premiere in SA and introduces acrobats, gymnasts, dancers, aerialists and circus performers to Adelaide audiences.
ONE HIT WONDERLAND will be a magical night of unforgettable songs.
THE DEER JOHNS get the party going as they take you on a trip through your favourite eras, playing a song-per-year chronological musical history.
Cafe Boite Presents 3 Friday events presenting a variety of music and dance from SA’s newest communities, Afghan, Persian, Syrian, South Asian and African.
Grab your mates and hit the dance floor with hyperactive party machine Tomás Ford for the Fringe’s most ridiculous night.
Award winning Irish Comedian Andrew Stanley returns to this years fringe after an explosive season last year selling out his solo show in Fringe World Perth and the Edinburgh Fring…
A magical place, fabulous Adelaide Hills wine, and a very special performance under the candlebark gums.
Adelaide based singer/songwriter Tara Carragher makes a long awaited return to this years Adelaide Fringe for ‘Righteously - The music of Lucinda Williams’.
Rich acapella singing opens this show as Melvin Brown takes to the stage.
Best Comedy Award - Brighton Fringe 2016 Best Comedy Weekly Award - Adelaide Fringe 2017 Internationally-renowned, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo returns to Adela…
Access Denied are a group of 18 talented performers ranging in ages from 12-18 years.
Australia’s biggest and most authentic Bon Jovi Tribute Show is here! This show captures the essence of what this great band is about, the passion & hunger of the early years and t…
A wonderful program of three concerts featuring voice and organ that make the most of the gorgeous acoustic of this space.
Come and experience Music with Motion.
This is a tale of a man that lost his mullet and his identity.
Alice is becoming more and more forgetful.
An international gross of $1.
The play revolves around Sarah, a photo journalist who has just returned from covering the war in Syria after being severely injured.
Fame, Fortune & Lies : the Life and Music of Eileen Joyce is a window into the life of Eileen Joyce; an Australian concert pianist, recording artist, radio performer, fashionista a…
2018 is Etsuko Kawaguchi’s 10th year in the Adelaide Fringe.
UK-based singer-songwriter, poet, musician, environmentalist and caffeine addict Majk Stokes comes to Adelaide for the first time to present a show built around two of his greatest…
Based on Shakespeare’s popular comedy, Britten’s opera follows the consequences of a falling-out between the fairy-king Oberon and his queen, Tytania.
In a fiery display of wit, comedy and anecdotes dressed up with glamour and style, Joanne Kam (Comedy Central Asia) will have you crying with laughter as she shares her views on li…
After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years.
Staged within the famous Buckingham Arms dining room with their traditional “All you can eat” menu whilst being entertained by “Skullduggery” one of Adelaide’s great dynamic and di…
Love passion deceit betrayal and some of the most iconic songs ever written formed a soundscape that touched every listener of popular music in the 70’s and 80’s.
English-born Australian singer-songwriter Glenn Shorrock is known for being a founding member of The Twilights, Axiom, and Little River Band, as well as his extensive solo career.
In an alternate universe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is introduced to the characters of Twilight and chaos ensues.
Adelaide’s premier Open Mic night returns! EVERY MONDAY catch 10 different comedians from across the Fringe PLUS a special guest headline act.
While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te…
Celebrating the rich contribution to the world’s culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, this performance brings together leading contemporary SA artists Corey T…
The Old Married Couple may be married but they’re certainly not old.
Ever wanted to experience your own Doctor Who adventure? Our team of time lords will whisk you round the universe and home in time for tea in this hilarious improvised parody! ★�…
Based on a true story, is about two women, working side by side in a school infirmary who discover a startling truth about one another.
The Sound of Music is a beautiful, uncomplicated musical about courage, love and doing the right thing, and this production is a beautiful, uncomplicated rendition that stays true …
Lazarus Theatre kick off their year-long residency at Greenwich Theatre on a visceral note with Christopher Marlowe’s homoerotic epic Edward II.
English National Ballet returns with a double bill featuring Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece Song of the Earth and Frank Andersen’s recreation of the beloved classic La…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
They are the most beloved and recognisable big and small screen creations of all time – let alone just in the world of the Fantasy genre – and now, for the first time, …
Launching their 2017-18 concert season, the Reid Consort performs Rachmaninov’s serene All Night Vigil (Vespers) on Saturday 11 November, 7.
An extremely flamboyant, ‘riotous but subtly moving’ (The List) extravaGAYnza, fresh from its sold-out, award-winning run at Edinburgh.
Join award-winning songwriter and musician David Gibb on a musical journey through his hilarious and often surreal imagination.
“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem…
Bread & Geller are back! Join the world’s first comedy trio with only two members as they return with their sell-out exploration of all* things time.
There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in.
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Adapted and directed by Gavin McAlinden and set in modern music Festival culture; this is a radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s tale of youth, love, sex, drugs, music, mistaken …
Three elegant women musicians from Suzhou, costumed in Whispering Lotus Chi-pao will give us a concert on Chinese guqin, zheng, dizi and xiao (bamboo flute and end-blown bamboo flu…
Following last year’s popular success with The Magic of MGM, Fife’s leading operatic concert group, Ensemble (ensembleinfife.
Nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show and total Fringe sell-out 2015 and 2016, Sarah Kendall returns with her brand-new show One-Seventeen.
After an exciting run at the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival the companies of three musicals (Porn, X and Suicide) come together to perform musical highlights from the shows in what…
Songerie vers Jack.
David O’Doherty – the Ryanair Enya, the Aldi Bublé – returns to the Fringe with last year’s hit show Big Time, an hour of talking and songs in a haunted hall on a hill fille…
O’Doherty is back with his mini-keyboard, flopping hair, and uninhibited attitude, but this time in one of the most prestigious venues that the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has to o…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Russell Arathoon brings his previous sold out debut stand up show to London.
The HandleBards are the world’s first cycling theatre company.
Superb duo: Catriona McKay (Clarsach) and Chris Stout (Shetland fiddle/viola).
HG Wells’s sci-fi masterpiece is reborn as a brand new musical adventure.
As one of the most famous American authors of all time, many people will know of F.
In the early 1980s Pinter became increasingly interested in human rights abuses and in particular the torture of political prisoners in Argentina and Turkey.
The Mantles have issues that probably need to be addressed, only problem being none of them talk to each other, not properly anyway.
On One Condition draws on stories from Dan Daw’s lived experiences, asking us to question our own perceptions of normal while offering a stripped back look at the world we live in.
Truscott wrestles with: standing up while telling jokes, second shows, stealing material and bad reviews – back in the town where she got ‘em! All while paying homage to her fa…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Whimsical, surreal, truly inspirational: psychedelic pioneers The Incredible String Band entranced listeners in the late 1960s and early 1970s with their visionary, dream-like so…
Two cabaret favourites – Don One from Birmingham and Claire Benjamin from London – join together for this unusual musical comedy pairing to host a variety show with a twist.
A quintet of Scotland’s foremost jazz musicians pays joyous tribute to the bebop/soul music of Cannonball and Nat Adderley.
Geraldyne are a team of improvisers that grew up mishearing song lyrics.
‘Theatrical knock-out’ (Times).
This is the year 1929, Tom is a happy, wealthy and young broker who lives in London and whose life is about to radically change.
A programme of Finnish, German, English, Scottish and Russian 19th to 21st-century songs conceived and devised by Ian McFarlane, produced and funded by McFarlane Productions.
Jump aboard the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and join Scotland’s top jazz musicians Brian Kellock (piano), Colin Steele (trumpet), Roy Percy (bass) and Tom Gordon (drums) to celebrate t…
It’s Shakespeare performed in a completely new way: a Shakespeare play condensed to the size of one woman, Emily Carding, and the way she deals with the audience.
The girls are back in town.
Forthright and sincere, Mulan is the first-born daughter to her family.
Alyona Ageeva’s PosleSlov Physical Theatre Company presents the UK premier of this contemporary physical theatre performance.
Musical adaptations of other works often struggle to either make themselves distinct or justify their existence.
Alyona Ageeva’s PosleSlov Physical Theatre Company brings the UK premiere of On This Side of Time from Russia to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
We’ve all had the question.
A unique take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from a Russian company dedicated to the Bard.
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
Scotland’s ‘queen of vintage blues and jazz’ (OCWeekly.
An ear-opening recital of music for Horn and Piano – including an Elgar first – by leading Edinburgh musicians, Neil and Gill Mantle.
SCCC is proud to present splendid programme for audiences.
A woman returns to a hometown she no longer recognises in this haunting new play from Dalia Taha.
The Rising: the UK’s number one Springsteen tribute brings the energy and precision of the E Street band to the Festival Fringe once more.
Scottish early guitar/lute specialist and composer Gordon Ferries plays solos by the great 19th-century guitarist/composer Mauro Giuliani including Le Bouquet Emblematique (where e…
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
One Hundred Miles is a physical theatre performance structured around the experiences of a woman traveling through India in a bid to discover a different culture and way of life.
The music of Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.
Hot Dub Time Machine is the world’s first time travelling dance party, taking festivals, theatres, rooftops and venues all over the world on a transcendent dance through pop musi…
A Shakespeare comedy done right, this play manages to put a modern twist on the well known classic by filling it with quirky characters that look like they’ve picked right out of…
Extra shows – later, ruder, sillier and absolutely full-on.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
London’s Critical Hit comedy Dungeons & Dragons show is rolling into Edinburgh for one night only, five times! Join your host, Paul Foxcroft (Cariad & Paul, Marcus Brigstocke’s Una…
Powerful like a dragon, supple like a dancer.
A Scottish Documentary Institute production for the Edinburgh International Festival directed by Anne Milne and produced by Noe Mendelle.
If you don’t know your Grandmaster Flash from Public Enemy, then Hip Hop Time Machine is going to seem less like a nostalgic reminder of your childhood and more like you’ve act…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Inaugurating the Friends of St Cecilia’s 2017 Fringe season in the stunningly refurbished concert hall on Niddry Street, John Kitchen and David Gerrard will demonstrate the flamboy…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Maisie Adam – “one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming comedians” (Ditto Theatre) - presents her latest show, drawing on personal experiences of being a young Yorkshire…
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era.
Returning from Australia after a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, A Case of You is a poignant, imaginative and dynamic homage to one of the greatest songwriters of the Wo…
Beautiful Little Fools is a all female, unique piece exploring how media can manipulate the human mind.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Doig, a disgraced businessmen, has fallen into despair.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
Internationally acclaimed British/Syrian musicians Waseem Kotoub (piano) and Ayman Jarjour (guitar) in concert, accompanied by a visual display of Syria before and after the war.
Hot, new(ish) comedy trio are back in Edinburgh with a playful new sketch show.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum as the best contemporary talents take inspiration from our Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites exhibition to perform traditional …
This show is for people that like jokes.
Edinburgh’s famous multi award-winning venue stages its own extensive programme of evening jazz and late-night funk every night of the Fringe.
Following his successful runs at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Edinburgh to perform more new and classic (invented by some of the greatest mag…
The future is brought to you from the past in this musical adaptation of H.
Escaping his war poetry homework, a schoolboy re-enacts the movie 300 to the spirit of Wilfred Owen.
A good dose of local acoustic talent, join us for a selection of music treats from some of Edinburgh’s finest musicians.
Join award-winning Irish comic Andrew Stanley as he returns with more messing, more questions and more mayhem.
I remember when Doctor Who was a practically forgotten, long cancelled show that was only the domain of nerds (like me).
The key to a happy life is avoiding all forms of useless and unproductive time – Leere Zeit – as propagated by the Institute of Positive Lifestyles.
We all want to meet people from history.
Six award-winning clowns, characters, and comedians all show off, separately.
Taking its title from critic Waldemar Januszczak’s rundown of the 2016 Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the Royal Academy – ‘there is not enough emotion in our art any mo…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Tucked away in one of Greenside’s smaller studios, Baby Mama is a shining diamond of a show: beautiful storytelling and intimate staging come together to create a heartbreakingly…
The gameshow where celebrities compete to end world poverty.
Think Less, Feel More is the second solo exhibition in Edinburgh by up-and-coming abstract artist Alice Boyle.
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
It’s the launch day of the Free Fringe Festival music stages at Biddy Mulligan’s and the Wee Pub featuring a selection of our favourite musical maestros all day.
Stuck in a lift, Ruth waits to escape in order to visit her husband who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.
Making Waves was written in 2014 by Daniel Cartwright & Tom Brassington at the University of Central Lancashire.
Almost 50 years after George Romero launched the zombie film genre on a shoestring budget, Night of the Living Dead holds a dear spot in the hearts of horror film fans.
Chamberlain has been relegated to history as one of life’s wishful thinkers.
A good storytelling piece is lovely.
Grab your mates and hit the dance floor with hyperactive Australian party machine Tomás Ford for the Fringe’s most ridiculous party.
Artist, musician and Turner Prize-winner Martin Creed invites you to a delightfully nonconformist evening of words, music and more, as he takes up residence for the 2017 Internatio…
Visit St Giles’ Cathedral and enjoy a relaxed musical concert from performers from all over the world in a unique and beautiful historical setting.
The incredible, true story of the Wild West’s greatest Lakota warrior, this original one-man drama depicts the quiet, brilliant figure who defied the mighty US military, attempting…
A toothless punk wakes one morning and asks herself the all-important question: why are we here? Expect cod philosophy, serious attitude and a chicken going on.
Captain Zarg and Williamina Foxx are Guardians of the Universe.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
They say fame is a fickle friend, and the St Andrews Revue have been lonely for years.
Everyone has a crazy family.
Hi Anne, just put: ‘Low mileage, one careful owner, four new tires and MOT till June 2017’. Don’t mix this Auto Trader ad up with edfringe programme entry please.
It’s 1956.
When the headline act fails to show up, Jango, a bumbling theatre caretaker, is suddenly thrust into the limelight and embarks on a hilarious journey of highly crafted and heartfel…
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.
Is this Romanian guy supposed to be the future of stand-up comedy? Bold, brash and a total smartass, Victor Pãtrãscan wings it in this one-man show and tries to get away with it.
‘One of the UK’s best young observationalists’ (Guardian) went viral in India this year – not in a good way.
One in One Out spans Davina’s journey from losing a parent and partner to gaining an enormous new nephew and several new partners.
From two former students of Philippe Gaulier.
Chris Washington is an ordinary guy; he explains this to us from the very beginning.
Puns.
Apocalypse Now, with its 153 minute running time, multi-million dollar production costs and jungle location, might not seem like the most obvious contender for adaptation into a on…
Strange physical theatre with soul-lined theatrics and odd feats.
Many will be familiar with the big budget movies inspired by the works of HG Wells (The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man) for example, but fewer might have actually read the…
Anything Can Be a Podcast! Podcast! John Hastings improvises an hour of comedy based on suggestions from the Fringe’s top comedians, his teenage blog, and his friend Paul Stanley H…
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Enjoy an hour of the best up-and-coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
Quirky, honest, dark and irreverent humour from this critically acclaimed Australian stand-up and writer (The Last Leg) forced by love and money to live in suburban UK where he can…
One dimwit comedian’s every dumb decision presented in list form.
Vicki is done with degrading retail jobs, fed up of waiting around for Mr Wrong and ultimately ready to get out of bed.
‘Nick Cope is the indie-surrealist kids’ entertainer Robyn Hitchcock and Syd Barrett, foolishly distracted by cult status, never were.
In 1986, the Kendall family stood in their back-garden, staring at the Australian sky and hoping to catch a glimpse of Halley’s comet.
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
Flatulence, fornication and filth; Sean Patton brings his show Number One to Edinburgh armed with a New Orleans attitude and an unashamed subject matter of all things vulgar and bo…
‘Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I am going to show you how to change the world…’ The world’s most notorious terrorist tells his remarkable, provocative and multi award-winnin…
Amazing tales elegantly told.
I’m guilty of being a magic sceptic.
Master songwriter and Fringe favourite returns with more of his trademark smart and funny story songs (plus new gems).
This ‘highly energetic laugh-a-minute show’ (TheTab.
When an Edinburgh Fringe virgin asks a seasoned Fringe-lover (that’s me, by the way) for show recommendations there are a number of shows I always highlight before reviews have e…
The technical choreography from Flabbergast Theatre that delivers this consistently joyful, yet bleak, puppetry extravaganza is exceptional.
From the Bronze Age to Brexit, get ready to laugh and learn with More or Less Theatre as they present to you a whistle-stop tour through European history that can be enjoyed by bot…
The greatest comeback concert ever! Featuring all your favorite groups you’ve never heard of from the 80s to the present day, including Familiar County, Simon Never Said and The …
Chris Turner has moved to the good old US of A and he’s back in Edinburgh to tell the festival audiences about it.
This extremely famous one-handed actor shares his hilarious encounters with the world.
Bigger, bolder and more brilliant than before! Time travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a brand-new marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young…
Originally opened in 1763, St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland.
Join us Whiski Bar for a vibrant, foot-stomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands during August.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
The most fantastic improvised parody in all of space & time is back! Brand new episodes of Doctor Who created with your suggestions and a live radiophonic workshop.
Great Scott! Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West bring a magical extravaganza to a millennium near you! Not content with their lot as the nineteenth century’s greatest magic …
Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses
Put classical, jazz, and pop music under the microscope and watch it metamorphose in Music Lab. Full Price £10 to £18; Concessions £8 to £16 Ticket link: bit.ly/HKMusicLab
Having previewed to a sold-out crowd at the 2016 Ilkley Fringe, this show promises an eclectic mix of anecdotal and observational material along with the self-deprecating charm tha…
Old meets New; East meets West.
Signing their first record deal in 1967, the group (with the late Michael Jackson) made history in 1970 as the first recording act whose first four singles reached No.
Alexander O'Neal, who came to prominence in the late 80s thanks to a string of chart-topping singles including Criticize, If You Were Here Tonight and Never Knew Love Like This…
The Maydays present their signature brand of freewheeling black comedy and surrealism with special guest Scott Adsit (Second City, 30 Rock, Veep), plus Edinburgh sellout show Me Pl…
Stand up comedy at the Trafalgar tavern, a place that has seen William Gladstone and Charles Dickens dining side-by-side.
Join us for the first program of Orchestra of St.
A concert of words and music focusing on the relationship between Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny.
Stevenage.
Three idiots spoof Noel Coward in a unique and ridiculous vision of ‘Blithe Spirit’.
Renowned American pianist and conductor Joel Sachs (Juilliard School, New York) performs piano music by three of America’s greatest composers: Charles Ives’ First Piano Sonata, pio…
A programme of three great works by Frederick Ashton closes The Royal Ballet’s Season.
Join Covent Garden’s cheekiest street performer, award-winning magician Tony Roberts for mind-blowing card magic and more! There’ll be laughs, mayhem and classic conjuring for …
Time-travelling magicians Morgan & West return to the stage with a marvellous magic show full of crazy capers for the young, old, and everyone in-between! Expect the unexpected…
Music can nurture us, music can uplift us.
A dog is man’s best friend, and is for life.
Taking a much loved pop culture reference point is always a sure fire way to fill seats.
A stunning acrobat suspended beneath a free standing arch performs to an original live score performed by DJ Tigerstyle, Matt Constantine (strings/keyboards) and David Shaw (percus…
In a time of pre-war political tension, gone are the days of frothy fashion journalism for Pamela More, a feisty and glamorous Times journalist who stubbornly prioritises haute-c…
‘Time Please’ is a darkly-comic play, set in a run-down pub in a deprived neighbourhood.
One Board Man is one of the most unique shows I have ever seen.
In the beautiful, atmospheric church of St Nicholas, dating back to 1091, Duo Maddalena recreate the soundscape of medieval France, England and Spain.
Italian Photographer Andrea Pucci is based in London and his photographs combine long exposures with accelerating rhythms of bright reflections.
Winner: Best Comedy Award, Brighton Fringe, 2016.
A newly-devised piece exploring issues of mental health.
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 …
“Keep going,” actor Andy Clark says repeatedly to the musicians behind the glass screen in the unsubtly-named Limbo Studio created on stage, ensuring that we find our seats …
A day offering people the opportunity to step into our experiences of living with loss and bereavement.
‘Living On The Edge - LIVE’ is the new one-woman stand-up comedy show from Maisie Adam, “one of the UK’s most exciting up-and-coming young comedians” (Ditto Theatre).
Richard III.
It’s the Swinging Sixties.
One Summer evening in 1952, a 21-year-old Margaret Williams enters a dance hall.
Soaring soprano and passionate cello lines intermingle with sumptuous piano writing in a recital programme featuring Esther Ward-Caddle (cello)and Nicole Panizza (piano) performing…
Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Robinson? With those classic lines memories of the sixties, songs and sexual liberation come flooding back.
Blending many influences, The Shakespeare Heptet’s distinct sound is alluring and wholly contemporary, providing a stunning soundtrack to the sonnets.
Lunchtime recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St. Bartholomew’s Church.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Following successful runs at Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe 2015 and 2016, Caspar returns to Brighton to perform more close-up, interactive, before-your-very-eyes sleight of …
We welcome violinist Benedict Cruft along with his fine Cruft-Robertson-Pleeth String Trio and guest guitarist, Paul Gregory.
Did you know that every sound has a colour? What are your true colours? And what happens when all those colours blend together in a choir? Come and discover an amazing choral rain…
Everyone has a crazy family.
Twelve years ago, Tobias and Alexander came together to form a spiritualist commune based on their shared visions of a peaceful and harmonious community.
Children’s entertainer Jango Starr is a total clown, but that’s certainly not meant as a criticism; sans white-face, he instead relies on a pair of trousers just sufficientl…
Live gameshow and comedy night.
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…
you thought Gleb was sizzling in the Master Chef kitchen and Kristina was stunning on Strictly then imagine how spicy it will be when you see the…
A new production of the award-winning National Theatre comedy play.
Join us for the legendary gameshow and comedy night. Take part in hilarious challenges to win prizes and enjoy comedy from some of the funniest alternative comedians in the UK.
A new writing night for alternative comedies.
Casey and Mikey cannot escape: not from who they are, not from how their lives have moulded them and, more immediately, from the rooftop onto which they have just clambered.
Please! Come in and browse.
Andrew Hunter Murray, star of Fringe smash-hit Austentatious ***** (Times), QI podcast No Such Thing as a Fish and No Such Thing as the News (BBC Two), presents his debut solo hour…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The music of old and new Scotland – misty isles, enchanting glens, awe-inspiring mountains, history, passion and ambition.
Peter Rabbit knows very well that he is not to go into Mr McGregor’s garden, especially as it was there that his father met his untimely end! But he cannot resist, and after severa…
Mediterraneo is bringing Africa, Cuba and southern Italy to Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert.
This famous traditional music ensemble has thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the USA, with their unique blend of fiddles, smallpipes, harp, flute, concertina, doub…
Arbroath-based musician Mark Spalding follows on from last year’s warmly received recital marking 40 years of Stockhausen’s Tierkreis, with a programme honouring veteran Hungarian …
Fiona Hunter, Mike Vass, and Innes Watson ride high in the pantheon of young musical talent with which Scotland is blessed.
The award-winning trio with a big band sound, Barrule elevates the Isle of Man’s native music to a new level of performance and musicianship; a knockout live act performing Manx …
Live from the BBC’s venue in Edinburgh, featuring topical stories and big name guests.
Edinburgh Fringe veteran, Perrier nominee, co-founder of the Comedy Store Players, multiple BAFTA-winning Horrible Histories songwriter, inadvertent creator of the phrase ‘comedy i…
Harold Pinter’s short play, One for the Road, concerns torture, and you can assume it’s talking about state-sanctioned torture, given Rising Phoenix Repertory’s decision to t…
Sophie Williams (violin), Hugh Mackay (cello), Anna Michels (piano) and Emilia De Geer (piano) perform Smetana Piano Trio in G minor and music by Ravel and Debussy.
Plastics harm our world, right? Costing us energy, using up resources and polluting? Wrong.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Looking for peace and tranquillity? You are welcome to join us for an hour’s quiet time and enjoy some stillness, scripture, music, poetry and prayer appropriate for the Year of Me…
You’ll Never Get This Time Back is a zany, absurd and irreverent hour of fun that casts a comic eye over the darker regions of the human soul.
Beautiful, funny and completely moving, Really Good Stories’ production of The Silence at the Song’s End is one of the best pieces of theatre you’ll see this Fringe.
Two friends get together to write a comedy musical.
Improvisation is the one word that can strike fear into the heart of any actor no matter what their experience.
The Spelling Bee is a beloved American pastime, encouraging good sportsmanship and the pleasure of taking part; however, deep down it becomes clear every contestant has a thirst fo…
‘You hungry?’ A boy breaks into a London house during the Blitz and is discovered by the man living there.
For those of you not yet converted, Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music is a screening of the classic Julie Andrews film musical in glorious, full-screen technicolor, with subtitles – s…
In a world where it’s possible to trade time off your life to change your body into society’s definition of perfection, how much time would you spare? 5 Years is a very eye ope…
The seal woman’s skin has been stolen, stranding her on a reef of rage and tragedy.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
In this performance, three talented musicians play some of Glenn Miller’s greatest hits.
You have been cordially invited to a time travel to where the poetry of the Tang dynasty, an artistic pinnacle on par with Shakespeare and Dante, is brought to life by this troupe …
You have been cordially invited to time travel, to where the poetry of the Tang dynasty – an artistic pinnacle on par with Shakespeare and Dante – is brought to life by this tr…
A masked figure, all in white, carries the biggest drumstick you’ve ever seen and drops it on the biggest drum you’ve ever seen.
Dan Offen (Amused Moose semi-finalist) and Jonny Gillam bring you this slice of alternative comedy.
The Living Room takes us home, to a place in which we welcome another.
The Living Room takes us home, to a place in which we welcome another.
Starting a show with a song containing the lyrics “it’s a stupid idea and it’ll never work” feels somewhat disingenuous when the song’s fully orchestrated and lit.
Set in small, Irish living room - somewhere between cosy and claustrophobic - Three Days’ Time is a thoughtful domestic comedy about weird parents, leaving home and mysteriously …
The Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble perform the best of the city’s new chamber music with works by Peter Nelson, Harry Whalley, Kostas Rekleitis, Stuart Taylor, Julien Loncha…
Ross and Tom return to the Fringe with a new show after their sell-out performances in 2013 and 2014.
Ian Bruce and Ian Walker combined have been producing songs for 80 years! Their creative partnership is unique in current Scottish folk music, both for the quality and worldwide re…
Beautiful Resistance promotes human rights through creative and non-violent responses to the armed occupation of Palestine.
When it comes to music, virtual reality will change the industry.
In the summer of 1990, four lads from Liverpool were working on renovating and decorating the palace of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein when they were taken hostage by Saddam and his…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
In the opening tableau, the stage is littered with a collection of bodies sprawled all over the stage, all paper white overalls and unsettling masks.
The Doctor’s back and combating rogue aliens at the Fringe! Directed by one of the makers of Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes, we take you on a transcendental journey…
Pick Yourself Up, Slap That Bass and Let’s Face the Music and Dance.
Fans of The Office and The IT Crowd, we’ve found the answer to the gaping sitcom shaped hole in your life: an office where the graduate dream has died.
Breezing in as part of the Made In Adelaide initiative after a sold out run there, I had high expectations of this presentation.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Two late night showings of Murnau’s classic 1922 German expressionist film Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror, with live music provided by the ensemble Gladstone’s Bag.
Hamlet is a woman, she is living the play from the lovers’ point of view, going into the depths of humanity.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Fringe’s best party ever is back! Hot Dub Time Machine returns for its fifth year.
Showcasing the finest piano and chamber music from RCS and St Mary’s Music School students.
Escape into the Renaissance for an hour with music from Octavoce in the beautiful surroundings of the Robin Chapel, Edinburgh.
The European premiere of the official documentary film on Neil Gaiman, one of the world’s most beloved storytellers (Sandman, American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, Neverwhere, Dr Wh…
For over twenty years Chechelele have been delighting audiences with songs about love, freedom, slavery and everyday life: music with stories and meaning performed with energy and …
Folk music is the treasure of the splendid Chinese civilization, with its elegance, charm, neatness and harmony and the beauty of Oriental Art in the folk music melody, we will bui…
Come join Bessy Bass and share in her adventures as she leaves her Scottish, coastal home to embark on a journey to visit musical friends and family in several European destination…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Countertenor James Laing, theorbo player James Akers and bass violist Susanna Pell’s hour long feast of Dowland was one of the most spectacular concerts I have attended in a whil…
The music of Egberto Gismonti is like a microcosm of his native Brazil – diverse, joyful and unique.
Transforum Theatre’s adaptation of Alice in Wonderland sets the Lewis Carroll classic in a mental hospital.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A programme of spoken word and song deeply rooted in the Scottish folk tradition.
Love is complicated.
Prière; 3 Gymnopédies; 3 Embryons Dessèchés; 6 Pièces Froides: 3 Airs à Faire Fuir; 3 Danses de Travers.
Let acoustic duo Lunabaï weave you into a world of spirited sound.
Join Dracula’s arch-nemesis Professor Van Helsing in a gothic camp vamp romp of biting satire punctuated with sucky songs.
South African sensations return.
Three people’s dreams merge in post-apocalyptic Britain.
Really? Music tricks are the only resource for this group of orphans? They’re losing hope.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The American High School Theatre Festival presents Little Shop of Horrors, a wacky musical journey downtown to Skid Row, a poor run-down neighbourhood where all its residents want …
Two of Newcastle’s rising stars present two separate half hours of stand up.
What if you could see into the future for a thousand years? Would that be long enough? A battle for the future, a battle for a child, a battle for a dream.
Experience the joy of live music at the museum with the best contemporary talents from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales.
Harriet Dyer is accidentally alternative.
In the setting of voice, bass and guitar, Sophie Bancroft and Tom Lyne create a dynamic, entertaining and intimate interpretation of beautiful songs.
Let’s just appreciate that title for a moment.
Genre-defying Nu Nordic pioneers Auvo Quartet, the stage-melting powerhouse duo Ross Couper and Tom Oakes and his many forays into cinematic, classical and improvised material.
Live music throughout the day and night at Stramash, featuring the best Edinburgh-based and visiting musicians.
Grab your mates, request a crap song and hit the dance floor for a ridiculously fun night! Tomás Ford, (Craptacular!) is proudly the worst DJ in the world, returning with his idio…
As well as a full daily schedule of incoming Fringe shows, Edinburgh’s famous multiple award-winning venue stages its own programme of jazz and late-night funk every night, with 5a…
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
Breathe deeply and appreciate the moment.
An “Original Lord of the Rings Parody” One Musical to Rule them All is full of puns, mocks the bits of Lord of the Rings that we all thought were a bit ridiculous and illogical…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Vocal Force is making their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut! These young, enthusiastic performers from the USA harmonize their way through the past 60 years of chart-topping hits!
Vesna Tominac Matacic’s adaptation of the works of Croatian poet Vesna Parun is an impassioned and beautiful spectacle that somehow still manages to feel lacking in substance.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Gotham is exactly what it says on the tin.
After another successful European tour, Frank Sanazi’s comedy-cabaret war machine rolls into Edinburgh, accompanied by his psychopathic daughter Nancy Sanazi, Saddami Davis Jnr, De…
It seems almost almost impossible that a man could go through his life and when his naked body is washed up on a shore in Ireland no one knows who he is.
Welcome to Woodburn.
Pete Sinclair returns with a brand new show titled after an Andy Williams hit.
From the pen of former Royal Court Young Writer, Nick Cassenbaum, comes a brand new absurd comedy for young people about living a dream.
Literature narrows the gap between diverse nations.
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
I imagine Camille O’Sullivan has been called an Irish Chanteuse in reviews more times that you’ve had a flyer thrust at you on the Mile.
Early on, Schaffer decided that the show wasn’t going so well.
South African sensations return.
An episode of Doctor Who improvised before your eyes! From a fantastic team, including five-star directors, producers, actors and comedians, (Nouse, 2015).
Hastings Comedian of the Year (yes that accolade is as good as it sounds) brings his brilliant debut hour.
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…
Three top-line comics bring their fast-paced comedy showcase to the world’s most famous comedy festival.
BBC Radio 4‘s multi award-winner Viv Groskop presents Be More Margo, the follow-up to her sold-out five-star 2015 debut.
Brought to you by Northumbria Drama Society, Just a Quick One by Hannah Sowerby, is a mockumentary-style comedy that follows a day at Blackpool’s most controversial cafe: coffee sh…
Enjoy an hour of the best up and coming one-liner comedians on the circuit in this celebration of puns, one-liners and wordplay.
This is the forgotten story of a controversial gang that robbed the streets of London for over a hundred years.
Doris Day is one of the most loved singers and actresses of the 1950s and 60s.
Who is that strange Frenchman signalling from the island? What’s in Aunt Fanny’s famous fish pie? Has anyone actually seen Timmy? The Famous Five are back! Shedload presents Robert…
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
A magical showcase of the funniest, fiercest female comics at the Fringe, curated by Funny Women 2015 finalist Sophie Duker and hotshot Texan improviser Erin Bimmons.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
A gunshot on New Year’s Eve on a beach in Thailand changed musical theatre artist Nils Bergstrand’s life forever.
Beautiful Ducks is a comedy show loosely based on the infamous book of the same name by renowned duck fancier Liz Wright.
Push to Shove Theatre Company have devised a simplified version of Dracula giving it the justice it deserves without taking anything away from Bram Stoker’s original concept.
Femmetamorphosis is an easy going play that explores the relationships of five very different characters as they help one of their own through a nasty break up.
Based on a gauge adapted from his previous call-centre telemarketing experience, David O’Doherty rates being a professional stand-up as an eight out of ten, with two points dropp…
Susie McCabe’s worst fears are coming true: she’s slowly turning into her parents.
A selling exhibition of kitchenalia old and new, exploring the culinary traditions of India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
What should you do in a zombie apocalypse? Well, according to Rob and Paul, just try to have fun.
In the future, mimes are no longer physical theatre practitioners and have become the sole operators of the world’s time machines.
Hamlet transported to a slaughterhouse in modern-day South Korea.
Join Danny as he goes through a year that has seen him dumped by his girlfriend on the set of a BBC drama, nearly get beaten up by his dad, discover internet dating, have a health …
Ever heard a song come on the radio and instantly been taken back to particular memory? It’s strange the way a melody can evoke an emotion, the feeling of falling in love, remind…
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
Ten Storey Love Song may be the greatest Fringe show I’ve ever encountered.
Yinka Kuitenbrouwer welcomes you into her shed, pours you a cup of tea, gives you a house-shaped biscuit, and the words come out in a torrent.
You won’t find many performers at this year’s Fringe trumpeting their lack of uniqueness.
Joining the ranks of slightly nerdy comedians who primarily joke about their non-existent sex lives, So You Think You’re Funny finalist Alex Kealy is a safe bet for some well-tho…
Between Episode IV and V of Charles Ross’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy, the writer/performer spent some time polling the audience.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Delivered with buckets of energy and enthusiasm, Felicity Ward’s new show is lively, facetious and a little erratic.
Star of Austentacious, No Such Thing as Fish (and its television transfer - No Such Thing as the News), the QI Elf finally has his one-man-show.
Seann Walsh is a brilliant observational comic, with an ability to tease out the comicality of even the most mundane, everyday occurrence.
This is the story of two men who were very, very good at failing.
Attacking her material with a mixture of nervous energy and enthusiasm Juliette Burton launches into her act by describing her difficulties in making decisions, then tracing the bi…
Step back in time for a relaxed afternoon with our Scottish folk musician.
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
A Moment in Time, new works by Tom White and associates from Clifton Fine Art, Bristol and Chroma, paintings by Jackie Higgs and Alan Chapman and jewellery by Eleanor Symms.
Painted 1888-1892 and restored in 1998, Traquair’s acclaimed murals illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
Following the lives of Marie, John and their thirty-something son Danny, The Wee One is a heart-warming original comedy about the true-to-life challenges of a modern day family in …
The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t…
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
Does anyone ever read these blurbs? Here’s an experiment: if you are actually reading this right now, text your favourite animal to Alex at 07450 846 211.
Delighting London audiences since 2013, The Science of Living Things bring their trademark show to Brighton.
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…
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
Internationally-acclaimed proponent of the steel pan (steel drum) Rachel Hayward returns to the Fringe with a solo recital in the beautiful setting of Brighton’s oldest building, p…
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…
Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi has performed his unique mix of hip hop, jazz, African, reggae and other genres as part of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and all over the UK, su…
A one-man drama about Indian chief, Crazy Horse that captures the high adventure of the Sioux Wars of the Wild West.
Laurene Hope, who amazed as Piaf, is now ‘La Divina’ Callas - from unwanted child to opera Goddess and her obsession with Onassis.
Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi has performed at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and all over the UK, supporting the likes of Omar, Prince Fatty and Rizzle Kicks.
The course of true love doesn’t run smooth for long in this Shakespearian comedy.
Everybody lies.
Award-winning docu-comedian Juliette Burton must make a BIG decision.
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
In January 2015, topical comedian Alistair Barrie’s wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, which gave him some perspective on what really constitutes bad news.
Funny Women’s share and gig night is perfect for comedy lovers and beginners.
Virtuoso solo violinist Michalis Kouloumis performs traditional music from the Balkans, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey.
The acclaimed theatrical phenomenon is Broadway’s Tony®-winning best play.
A brand new work-in-progress about snobbery, class, Britishness and The Good Life, fuelled entirely by gin.
There are some incredible strengths in this latest production from Edinburgh’s most inspiring new theatre company.
Following its critically-acclaimed Edinburgh production in 2014, Liam Borrett's debut play This is Living is to receive its London premiere at the Trafalgar Studios in May.
Experience the fire of Scottish traditional music, the delicacy of classical perfection, the spirit of jazz and the life of the city from Urban Folk duo, An Dhá.
Mr.
Ben Watson’s meet and greet as we entered the theatre made his audience immediately warm to him.
Hastings-based Oudolin will be bringing you authentic music from a range of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, Syria, Greece, Lebanon, Turkey and Moorish S…
The star of BBC’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘The Impressions Show’, ITV’s ‘Newzoids’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Bad Girls’ takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impression…
Everything you ever wanted to know about everything .
A day offering people the opportunity to consider living with loss and bereavement.
An adventure set on the high seas that is story-telling at its very finest.
Captain Morgan and First Mate Hammond quest for the secrets of time-travel in a rip-roaring comedy adventure.
Martha Tilston has carved her unique niche in the modern English folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world.
If you like your comedy dry and your comedians sly and your jokes wry, then this is for you.
A choir meets to rehearse a song to make things better.
Oh what a man! Francis Henshall is a man driven by his needs, whether its food or a good woman, he is totally consumed and motivated by his desires.
Join us on a journey through the magical forest where three fairy tales are imaginatively brought to life.
We all know the refuge that music and singing can bring.
An intimate, audience-collaborative theatre show with projected imagery and text messaging, exploring love, desire and dating with your clothes on.
Inspired by a phrase from Virginia Woolf to describe dusk, Owl Time is a gentle production that provides political punch.
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…
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Truscott undoes the rules and rhetoric about rape, comedy and the awkward laughs in between.
Recitals on Tuesdays by distinguished local organists on the fine organ at St.
Local thespians in Brighton may be familiar with the Academy of Creative Training (ACT), which strives to offer instruction to the ordinary individual who dreams of a life on the…
The 13th iteration of this festival celebrating all things flamenco brings a bright lineup of music and dance to locations throughout the city.
All Time Low and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Pop punk darlings All Time Low are thrilled to announce their return to the…
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 Saturday, in this series blending sight and sound, the Brentano Quartet plays Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” in a performance installation thought out by Gabriel Ca…
Mr. Adsit, a longtime improviser, teams with Oliver Chris for a night of impromptu comedy that promises to defy its title, which refers to a beginner- level improv course.
Aparna Nancherla and Josh Gondelman join forces (and faces, for a somewhat off-putting promotional poster) in this excellent stand-up show.
This company from China makes its American debut with “Dragon Boat Racing,” a glossy production that recounts the origins of a popular Cantonese musical composition.
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II didn’t shirk from social issues within their musical theatre productions: racism (South Pacific), transient/absent fatherhood (Carouse…
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears' dead dog.
(previews start on Jan.
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
Although only 15 inches tall, Clementine is still a mighty big talent.
For its first New York show, this Pittsburgh-based new music series offers Burr Van Nostrand’s “Fantasy Manual for Urban Survival,” performed by the cellist Dave …
There is an intrinsic roughness to this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena productions: performed “in the round” in a student bar within city’s Art College, th…
In support of the comedian Erik Bergstrom, a master of dry one-liners who was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 100 comedians will perform their favorite gags to ra…
Since 1975, the Richard Tucker Music Foundation has been fostering the careers of emerging singers.
Living Between Lies is a one hour comedy drama telling the story about four women living in London who all struggle with loneliness, isolation, self-deception and how women in part…
Some lives are touched by war.
This enterprising series, dedicated to the pairing of invigorating contemporary music with comfort snacks, presents New Morse Code, a duo made up of the cellist Hannah Collins and …
The latest edition of this now happily long-running series comes on the Noguchi Museum’s Community Day, when admission is free.
All This Jazz present a wonderful set of sumptuous songs and dazzling duets by vocalists Alison Bishop and Shelagh Westwater, featuring fabulous virtuoso playing from Robbie Hether…
‘If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended… That you have but slumbered here while these visions did appear…’ With a quarrel raging between Oberon, Kin…
Prélude de la Porte Héroïque du Ciel, 6 Gnossiennes, 3 Sarabandes, Dances Gothiques.
BBC Radio Nan Gàidheal host an evening of the best new music from Rapal radio.
This annual concert has built up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi…
A programme of varied art song and a smattering of Operatic favourites from around the world including Mozart, Ravel, Shostakovich, Korngold, Schumann, Berlioz and Bizet.
Taking festivals, theatres and rooftops all over the world by storm, Hot Dub Time Machine returns for five nights only, bigger and better than ever! Join DJ Tom Loud on a transcend…
Described by Lau’s Aidan O’Rourke as having ‘an accuracy and tone that many fiddlers only dream of,’ Patsy is one of the UK’s finest and most in-demand traditional musicians.
Senior players from St Mary’s Music School perform Schubert’s final chamber work, the sublime String Quintet in C major and a new work by Tom David Wilson.
The popular Scottish composer presents highlights from his chamber music, musicals and operas.
Beardman production Time At The Bar was written and directed by Kieran Mellish and follows the story of The Duck’s Beak pub, whose future is uncertain.
Waste of Time takes the audience both back and forwards in time from the grounds of an abandoned scrap heap.
Through a series of surreal, nostalgic and captivating scenarios, the piece draws on personal experiences of the artist Sarah Vaughan-Jones in order to investigate how we measure a…
Award-winning New York-based saxophonist and composer Ben Bryden brings the songs of eccentric poet/songwriter genius Ivor Cutler into the jazz canon, with his indie-rock-infused j…
Heartfelt jazz, blues and Americana, Lorna and her musicians perform beautiful standards from the great American songbook.
There’s something infectious about certain ad jingles.
Featuring singer/songwriter Euan Drysdale on vocals, guitar and piano and Alastair Savage on fiddle.
Edinburgh’s very own established 40-strong Capital Concert Band plays stirring Scottish themes in an hour’s tour of iconic music, including Highland Cathedral, Braveheart, A Scotti…
Jump aboard the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and have fun as top jazz players Brian Kellock (piano), Colin Steele (trumpet) and John Rae (drums) celebrate the greatest American dance band…
An hour of pure delight.
Song for The Bowdoin, Old Zeb, and Song for Gale – examples from a writer considered a leading voice in the American folk tradition.
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
Classical Music Concert @ connected - musical miscellany with the Rasaratnams. Enjoy a relaxing evening in an intimate venue with a selection of solo and chamber works.
Three of Scotland’s most exciting young professional musicians unite to perform ravishing repertoire for voice, viola and piano, including Brahms, Poulenc, Rubbra, Falla and Loeffl…
From the Royal Botanic Gardens you can see (when it isn’t raining) almost all of central Edinburgh, the Athens of the north.
Heady musical cocktail of Fitkin, Nyman, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos served by master mixologists Huw Wiggin (saxophone) and James Sherlock (piano).
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.
Piano Transcriptions of Irish and Scottish Music by Mary McCarthy.
Musical comedian Jamie Kilstein has an utterly charming stage presence.
Mark Dean Quinn returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the fifth year running attempting to win the best newcomer award.
Written by Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan, Music for Dogs is a story of survival, set during Ireland’s Celtic Tiger years, and takes place on Dublin’s Burrow beach.
BuskingBrahms sings art song melodies from great classical and traditional composers and poets of the 18-20th centuries and beyond.
To dream or not to dream? For the residents of Lhaytar, the only remaining city on an otherwise flooded Earth, the answer is definitively the latter.
Exciting, young French pianist Louise Cournarie will give a recital on the Cathedral’s Steinway, including music by Handel, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
Scottish song, music and comedy at its finest.
Texan Kiya Heartwood (Stealin’ Horses, Wishing Chair) is ‘an award-winning American singer/songwriter who writes smart, funny and poignant songs about the famous and not-so-famou…
Ian Munro leads the Edinburgh Festival Ensemble in music for strings including Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue.
Eight Tibetan monks present an exciting performance of sacred masked dance from their New Year festival, interspersed with the mesmerising chant and music of the Buddhist monastic …
Students of Cambridge University have reinterpreted Shakespeare’s popular comedy, putting a darker spin on the story.
Make Some Noize is Edinburgh’s most anticipated all day music festival featuring some of the world’s biggest music artists.
In their 12th Fringe recital, the talented trio of Frances Cooper (soprano), Anne Lewis (mezzo-soprano) and Colin Dundas (piano) sow the seeds of a musical garden: a floral bouquet…
After a sell-out show in 2014, Fischy Music return to connected@the Fringe.
Free Fringe Music all day at the famous Inn on the Mile, at the crossroads at the heart of the Fringe.
Charlotte Rowan is recognized for her compelling, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance.
Two staves (and all the leger lines!) become one under Stefan Warzycki’s dextrous left hand, in two virtuoso piano recitals including works by Bach, Chopin (arrangement by Godowsky…
Ranging from pleasantly slow and soothing to fast and excitable and even angry, the sounds produced by the Chechelele World Music Choir were vibrant and vast.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Last show ever – will sell out.
Site specific theatre is a great way to immerse an audience into the world that the piece creates.
Eddie McGuire, former Chairman of the Musicians’ Union (Scottish Region), and classical zheng performer Dong Yi, the first and so far only musician of any Chinese instrument to g…
Beardyman has been a regular Fringe success for several years and it’s easy to see why.
Irish singer/songwriter, novelist, coach on The Voice of Ireland.
There’s niche and then there’s the niche of the niche.
How often is your creative practice playful? Is fun the thing we’re scared to have? Amid the pressures of the Fringe, Poorboy/The Bell Rock Co.
Need better media coverage? Learn easy steps for generating positive publicity in print, online – everywhere! – from social media pro and arts journalist Elaine Liner.
Be transported by this enormously spirited and fast-moving production to the mischievous world of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
As you walked by that parked car, have you ever wondered just what were the two people inside talking about? What do you imagine they might be telling each other? Random Acts bring…
St Patrick’s parishioners invite you to spend some time reflecting on the mysteries of Christian faith, and so be renewed in body and soul for our day to day activities in this wor…
Enjoy a showcase of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s finest piano students in this exciting nine concert series.
‘He had fallen into the hands of death.
Time is the only thing we can’t control, but this is my time so it can be whatever I desire. The 229 is never on time … and there’s nothing worse than being late right?
Producers David Hutchinson and Phillip Rowntree discuss how they grew touring company Sell a Door from a shoestring Fringe company to a large scale and West End production company.
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
The New Liszt Ferenc Chamber Choir was established on 1 February 2010 from the members of the Liszt Academy’s Alma Mater Choir and from the freshly graduated students of the Lisz…
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
Join West Country comedian Cerys Nelmes as she entertains you and your children for 45 minutes of onesie fun! Wear your onesie, and have some funsie! There will be music, dancing, …
Jazz Bar Music is an event which shows off the musical skills of several different performers, making each night different.
Oliver Suddon, comedian and broadcaster, hosts a relaxing evening of comedy and music with a variety of selected performers from the Fringe and creates radio broadcast inserts for …
The answer we get from Jack Heal to the question of his show’s title is that, not only do scientists dream of genetically engineered sheep, but they are actively pursuing how to …
Experience the joy of live music at the museum.
Alistair Barrie (‘Excellent’ Independent) is one of the most widely respected topical comics on the international circuit.
A family magic show accessible for even the youngest of children, Edward Hilsum: Genie is a charming magical experience.
A host of cabaret stars turn out to support charity including London’s original Drag Race.
Music all day at the smallest pub in Scotland or probably anywhere. Visit and enjoy.
Perhaps Shakespeare’s most famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream has the potential to either be comedic gold or irritating lip-service, depending on the quality of the cast …
Join CSWO as they celebrate their 20th anniversary of music making in the East Midlands.
Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.
From now until August 31st, visitors can soak in the buzzing atmosphere at Edinburgh’s premiere music venue.
The Dream Sequentialists is a show about dream goblins.
Beautiful, Terrifying, Love written and performed by award-winning actress, director and playwright Debra De Liso.
Shakespeare’s classic comedy, as you’ve never seen it before.
Picture this.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
A slick absurdist piece, PALP’s One Above is an intelligent offering from the young company.
As one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a very common choice for the Fringe.
A solid and entertaining piece of Shakespeare that’s well handled by its young cast.
The anarchic late night DJ party is back! Request any song you want, so long as it’s crap.
Irish comic and professional procrastinator Matthew Collins (BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions) brings his Favourite Waste of Time back to the Fringe.
Dave Callan, Irish born Australian based comedian brings the sequel to last years must see comedy dance spectacular to Edinburgh.
Sometimes love comes to you and sometimes you have to make it happen.
Lord Byron: hellraiser, fashionista, sexual predator, poet, punk.
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.
In this fun one-woman show, a self-described bi-dyke shares with us stories of her sexual evolution, from Mormon adolescent scanning second-hand books for smut, to monogamous domes…
Like or hate Facebook, you’re guaranteed to love this all-female social media inspired comedy improv show.
Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.
Nick Payne’s bittersweet love story One Day When We Were Young charts Leonard and Violet’s tangled relationship across five decades of love and longing.
Broadway performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco takes you on a hilarious musical comedy journey, showing you what led her to become a multi-faceted, multi-voiced party of…
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
Doris Day is one of the most loved singers and actresses of the 1950s and 60s.
One of Korea’s most celebrated contemporary dance companies, who have toured to over 30 countries, make their UK debut with a double bill of two of their most acclaimed works.
A dirty afternoon party hosted by the king of alternative cabaret, Tomás Ford.
Award-winning brass ensemble Buzz presents The History of Music, a fabulous theatrical odyssey that travels through space and time at a thrilling tempo to explore the music of the …
Die-hard fans of classic BBC Sitcom Dad’s Army will particularly enjoy this panel discussion, Q&A and selection of nostalgic clips from Ian Lavender, aka Private Pike, and fellow…
Billed as both musical theatre and performance art, the audience for Brigitte Aphrodite’s My Beautiful Black Dog, her autobiographical account of depression, is likely to bring v…
Attention customers: the store will be closing in five minutes.
Conceived and directed by Guillaume Pigé, Blind Man’s Song follows the imagination of a blind musician at the speed of thought.
Whenever you’re waiting for your next train on the platform, do you imagine yourself having a connection with the person standing next to you? Do you imagine having any common gr…
Mike Wozniak’s probably best known for playing moustachioed misfit Brian in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down.
Phone Whore is a show that is equal parts witty, sexually frank and dripping with cynicism.
Sixty episodes.
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…
We are welcomed into the Stand 2 by a red-headed young woman in the guise of an older man.
One Trick Pony is the follow up to the critically acclaimed mouthful of a fringe show, Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little…
These singers know how to dazzle and excite their audience.
Mistaken presents four short monologues, written and directed by Nick Myles and performed by William McGeough.
The show you’ve been waiting for! One man fights his involuntary mechanism for telling jokes at the worst times possible and tells them during this show which is the best time poss…
Charlie Baker blends song with stand-up, as he intersperses his versions of one hit wonders with tales from his life.
If you think that swashbuckling adventures are only for children, think again.
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
Painted 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
Join us at the multi award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
When Breaking Bad came to an end at season five, everyone thought that this would be it for the franchise.
A man walks slowly onto the stage with his back to the audience, he holds himself in a wide stance and begins to strike the taiko drum.
Over 20 plays, some well known pieces, some new writing, some one person plays, some with a massive cast but all performed in 1 hour or less by numerous theatre companies
This lively summer festival offers free concerts on Tuesdays on the main stage of Washington Square Park.
It might be difficult for patrons in Edward Scissorhands costumes to get past security at Avery Fisher Hall.
We have the best of the Edinburgh Fringe Under One Roof in South London for one special week 6th - 11th July.
With ever more sophisticated technology at their fingertips, composers of electronic music are producing a dizzying array of works that often draw on video and performance art, too…
As part of the Pop Up Concerts series at the Miller Theater, the adventurous American Contemporary Music Ensemble offers a program of works by the pianist and composer Timo Andres,…
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…
(performances start on Wednesday) James Baldwin sounds unusually musical in this new song cycle from Stew (“Passing Strange,” “The Negro Problem”) and…
The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
Saturday May 23rd All Saints Church, Hove, 7:30pm.
Poet Charles Antony is well known in Sussex for his performances which bring his poetic stories to life.
Hit the dancefloor for party monster Tomás Ford’s late night rave.
This critically acclaimed recording-artist performs popular hits, Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia, and more.
Work in progress.
Soak up the swing.
Join us in the magical forest where three fairy tales are imaginatively brought to life.
Three Brighton-based performance poets grab hold of the microphone at Over Broadway in order to shout at you on the subject of politics, sexuality and death.
This adventurous group celebrates the music of Mathew Rosenblum and Lee Hyla, an American composer who died last year and whose scores mesh elements of classical, rock and jazz.
The dance which is like a knife in the shadows, the dance of gamblers and the farewell of lovers - tango! A dreamlike collision of tragedy and unexpected humour.
Please join us for a unique evening combining a short guided meditational experience with a variety of live music and spoken word performances.
A festival favourite founded by its current producer in 1989 in Queens Park.
Demolition expert Ned and his wife of eleven years live in a nice new house on a nice new estate.
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…
Delve into the world of a depressed bulimic, it might surprise you.
Deux Johns Orchestra, formed two years ago by John Trelawney, is a Jazz outfit that adapts in size for varying original material and venues.
French-Mexican acoustic guitar duo JP & Leonardo bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
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…
Sy Thomas is a nice guy.
The world is not quite right, so she decided to listen to the voices in her head.
Martyna Majok’s stealthily devastating “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge,” an indelibly acted portrait of intimacy and entitlement, makes this a must-see.
Though the music is catchy, the band is terrific, and the cast is strong, this jazz musical by Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz hasn’t reconciled its improbable source materia…
Roedean’s extended community of musicians perform highlights from Orff’s exhilarating Carmina Burana in the beautiful Edwardian school Chapel.
Deep in the forest, faeries wait .
MUSICAL BABBLE For twelve years, MJ Paranzino, composer and director has commissioned New Choral Music for Brighton Fringe.
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on May 18) Let’s hope local playwrights have been running wind sprints and agility drills, because Ensemble Studio Theater’s Maratho…
Brighton-based storytellers, musicians, artists and wizards ponder the crippling and humiliating effect of unhealthy relationships (humour included!).
Ensemble Studio Theater’s evening of one acts races between decades, places, genres and forms.
This adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1961 comic novel, part of Brits Off Broadway, is moderately amusing but is more interesting for the perspective.
Spanish verse is the inspiration for this program, which features music by Shostakovich, Schumann, William Bolcom, Taneyev, Wolf, Peter Lieberson, Xavier Montsalvage and Granados, …
Douglas Maxwell’s new play, Fever Dream: Southside, is set round the corner from the Citz in nearby Govanhill.
Meet Helena & Hermia, two teenagers addicted and dependent on social media.
The erotically charged music of Monteverdi’s “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” and glittering arias by Handel are the focus of this concert presented by this cele…
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on April 20) Renée Fleming and her luscious, lyric soprano will make their Broadway debuts in Joe DiPietro’s update of Garson Kanin…
Jean-Luc Lagarce’s beautiful, incantatory play is about a company of three performers who cling to art and shredded dignity as they hoof from stage to ever more pathetic stag…
HANK, the mostly online comedy duo of Dan Fox and Betsy Kenney, celebrates its one-year milestone with this live show, featuring new videos and stand-up from Jo Firestone, Carmen C…
(Saturday) The clarity and grace of Mozart and his contemporaries is the focus of a concert by this organization’s classical orchestra.
Steven Fox conducts this excellent period instrument ensemble, expanded for the occasion, in Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony.
(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…
A new musical about 2 naïve boys as they embark on dynamic journeys.
A highlight of the Ecstatic Music Festival is Bang on a Can’s annual People’s Commissioning Fund Concert, which highlights imaginative new works by a range of composers…
The Boston ensemble Blue Heron delves into richly expressive secular and religious vocal music from the 15th century by composers including Johannes Ockeghem, Gilles Binchois and G…
Juilliard’s “Focus!” festival of Japanese music has concluded, but Asia Society’s series is still going strong.
The Song Continues, an annual festival of master classes and concerts, led by the great mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, comes to a close with a concert featuring a quartet of rising a…
A husband and wife meet in a smoky bar and relive the last ten years of their lives.
This annual festival of master classes and concerts, led by the great mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, returns with the usual bevy of talented young singers, including solo recitals fr…
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…
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This friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
Brett Davis and Sally Burtnick celebrate the first birthday of their monthly comedy show (which remains unconnected to the titular actor).
(previews start on Sept.
This popular festival opens its season with an intriguing program, “Art Song on the Couch: Lieder in Freud’s Vienna.
The versatile and fiercely accomplished Pacifica Quartet offers an unusual program with string quartets by Haydn (“Sunrise”) and Mendelssohn framing a newly commissione…
Robin Montague hosts these stand-up shows featuring some of the top female talents in the business, including Sasheer Zamata, Michelle Wolf, Sara Schaefer, Emmy Blotnick, Aparna Na…
Ennio’s wildly entertaining show features a whirlwind of superb paper costumes and split second transformations, a sizzling soundtrack, and wicked celebrity send-ups.
Sound and image mingle in illuminating ways in this production by the composer Philip Miller and the artist William Kentridge, two South Africans and longtime collaborators.
Mo Fathelbab and Tim Ellis go all out to celebrate the first anniversary of their weekly comedy show.
Any list of famous Belgians must include the trio Georges Simenon, Audrey Hepburn and Jacques Brel.
‘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.
The organist K.
Once again the Philharmonic begins a new season with the Art of the Score film series.
The harpsichordist Avi Stein directs this festival, which features some of New York’s top period instrument players.
During what is usually a slow week in the classical music season, the New York Chamber Music Festival has been stepping up for several years with an ambitious series of programs.
This new opera by Laura Kaminsky, with a libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed, stars the baritone Kelly Markgraf and the mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, husband and wife in real …
Directed by Luke Sheppard, Associate Director of Matilda in the West End and Broadway, Soul Music is written by stand-up comedian Andrew Doyle with music by resident composer of th…
Come and hear accomplished music scholars from Fettes College, Edinburgh give a lunchtime recital of vocal and instrumental music in the magnificent surroundings of St Cuthbert’s P…
In the surrounds of St Cecilia’s Hall, my view of pianist Peter Bream is through a glass case displaying a set of tartan-clad bagpipes.
This well-known, local band simply enjoy entertaining their audiences.
This annual concert has built-up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi…
Billed as an uplifting tale about murder, Send More Paper is entertaining and thought provoking in equal measures.
Join Lorna and her award-winning musicians for a laid-back hour of classic jazz from great writers Cole Porter to Rogers and Hart.
Richard Lewis, Edinburgh’s Convener for Culture, and international mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker look at how Scotland has inspired other nations.
A young woman sits on the floor in a bright upper room in the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, a large rucksack with a sleeping roll dumped by her side.
Inspired by the public performances of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, the less decorated but more alive writer and actor B.
Relive the angst of young unrequited love, the nerves of amateur actors who have to perform for the Duke or risk being hanged, and the mischief and mayhem caused by the fairies.
The Man, the Music, the Panj is a conversational songwriting showcase by wheelchair bound singer/songwriter Shaun Shears and the stories that have created his work.
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Peter Seivewright performs piano music by the English romantic composer Cyril Scott (1879-1970).
One performance only! ‘Several of the best one-liners you will hear.
Pop icon and master tunesmith Dean Friedman, returns to the Fringe to perform his delightfully silly hour of sing-along fun for the under-10 crowd.
Inspired by the extraordinary tenth century Aberdeenshire gospel book, Richard Ingham leads an evening of plainsong, reels and electronic soundscapes.
Life on the One Wheel experiments with everyday experience and elements of popular culture to explore the fragile simplicity of human emotion.
Fischy Music play fun and thoughtful songs to primary school-aged children, but the adults will love it too.
xYMTS are back walking the path of life and picking up pace.
Middlesbrough sketch-pros Heavy Petting put on a wacky and fast-paced comedy sketch show complete with a weird fetish for Batman, hitting people with hammers and totally authentic …
The world’s only stand-up/improv/tattoo-chat comedy show returns with host comedian Billy Kirkwood.
Travelling at the speed of thought in his brand new music production spaceship, the world class multi-award-winning musician and comedian, transcends mere mimicry to produce studio…
What impact has streaming had on the music industry? What are the pros and cons? A panelled discussion focusing on the key details involved in streaming music and the future of mus…
Sixty Episodes in 60 Minutes.
Radio nan Gaidheal hosts an evening of the best new music from Rapal radio.
It should be a speakeasy with small round tables and lowballs of stiff drinks on the rocks – but it ain’t.
This is not for everyone.
Her daughter has been taken, she sends in three dodgy nurses who enlist the disaffected youth and his somewhat feather obsessed friend.
Though the inviting Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park is just over 90 years old, this summer is the 109th season of free classical music at that site.
Star of Live At The Apollo and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Kerry recently appeared as Hannah in Ricky Gervais’ sitcom Derek and played Lacey Turner’s mum in Our Girl.
The New Zealand Music Showcase is a great way to see some of New Zealand’s greatest artists here at the fringe.
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in a British mental hospital with a strict, unbending routine.
Shakespeare in Song attempts to bring the works of Shakespeare to life using songs from through the centuries and chosen complimentary verses.
Jyotsna Srikanth, an exciting and amazing South Indian carnatic violinist presents Carnatic Nomad, a traditional South Indian offering with classical, folk and contemporary South I…
A misfit with a dangerous grudge.
Following their sell-out Summerhall shows at last year’s Made In Scotland showcase, this genre-defying quartet take a break from performing with Scottish Dance Theatre to perform…
Opera singer Ann Liebeck and Edinburgh pianist Guy Newbury will perform songs by Granados, Ginastera, de Falla, Villa Lobos and Lecuona.
After a phenomenal run at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, The Accidentals are back with ‘99 Problems But a Pitch Ain’t One’.
Opera singer Ann Liebeck and Edinburgh pianist Guy Newbury will perform songs by Granados, Ginastera, de Falla, Villa Lobos and Lecuona.
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…
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking opera, folk, choir and dancing presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
“Schubert and His World” is the most ambitious undertaking of the Bard Music Festival in its 25th anniversary summer season.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
A programme of Italian baroque mandolin music accompanied by harpsichord and interspersed with readings from Frances Taylor’s evocative memoir, The Mandolin Lesson.
Al Murray’s One Man, One Guvnor is only in its preview stages, but already it is a spectacularly funny set.
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A darkly humorous one-woman physical theatre piece with an elaborate costume made of black bin bags.
Eight shows only! Winner Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award 2013.
Biding Time (Remix) holds some interesting ideas and memorable visuals, but it’s often hard to decipher what the aim of the company’s design and concept really is.
A Moment in Time is an immersive piece of theatre, which explores our relationship with the word investment, both from an audience and performer perspective whilst remaining at its…
Join the gang as they sweep you down to the grand old days of London, packed full of extreme patriotism and purpose, The Music Hall Menagerie promises singing, dancing, comic caper…
Billing their series of gigs as Playtime, some of Edinburgh’s finest Jazzers are creating very interesting and enjoyable music in the intimate space of The Outhouse’s attic.
From the critically acclaimed SU Drama company comes a double play performance that combines Brien Friel’s Afterplay and an original piece named The White Peacock.
In the 1970s, 9,000 people were employed at the Linwood car factory near Paisley.
Sunday evening live piano with Robert Harrison in Edinburgh’s newest Royal Mile venue by Victor & Carina Contini.
An anarchic late night DJ party where you can request anything you want.
From bold brass to fabulous fiddlers, soprano soloists to singer/songwriters, enjoy daily live music performances at the museum, showcasing the best contemporary talents from Scotl…
Proudly the only performance poet on the Fringe circuit with two hearts, the “Ginger Nigel Havers of spoken word” Richard Tyrone Jones presents an hour of witty, candid and spe…
Twelve hours after it happened, Alice waits with her husband, held between life and death.
It’s time to bring improv comedy bang up to date.
A woman escaping from noisy modern life finds herself in a garden, the shelter of gods, through an inner flux helped by songs, she shares reflections, visions and epiphanies.
The first weekend of the festival kicks off with the pianist Joyce Yang performing in Schumann’s Piano Quartet for a benefit concert on Saturday.
In this hour of fine free comedy Joe Well combines his two greatest loves; political satire and zombies.
The world’s first time travelling dance party is back, bigger than ever, and still powered by your dancing.
Multimedia theatrical comedy that spans millennia.
Medical student music group One Dissection from St George’s, University of London escape the dissecting room and break into a different kind of theatre to present a medical a cappe…
Struan Logan and John Sheppard are funny, charming and handsome (on average) comedians.
Perrier/Chortle award-winning musical comedian makes sense of your universe.
An afternoon of Jazz from the Jazz Bar’s very own Jazz Trio; Ed Kelly on double bass, David Patrick on piano and Bob Kyle on drums.
Now that Freddie is a family man he is trying his best to be responsible.
How many kilos of flour does it take to tell a good story? In the case of Heather Lai, over fifty during the course of her Fringe run and every gramme is put to excellent use.
One Man Breaking Bad is impressionist Miles Allen’s attempt to squeeze 60 Breaking Bad episodes into 60 minutes.
This is the debut show by one of the UK’s finest comedians.
Its the worst thing you can do at work, but we all do it, clock watch.
Infinity Repertory Theatre update Shakespeare’s comedy to the 21st century as a musical with a rollicking rock’n’roll aim in mind.
Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up.
Tripped Theatre’s stylised adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream fits one of the Bard’s most famous and fun plays into the space of one hour, with only four…
Rick Kiesewetter talks about being Asian (not Oriental), being raised on the Jersey Shore and how living in the UK for 18 years has made him wonderfully British.
‘I have had a most rare vision.
Join us at the multi-award-winning WHISKI Bar and Restaurant for a vibrant footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at WHISKI Bar during August.
Much as if I’d been with real-life evangelists, I imagine, I left this show wondering what on earth had just happened.
Broken Britain or just broken lives? Rowena Moreno’s new one woman play - Modern Living - explores one of the last taboos of modern theatre, that area of our lives, that side of ou…
(performances start on Aug.
When did kissing and cuddling become vanilla? When did it become cool to be a geek? Are all failed artists doomed to work in Kwik Fit? What if Jesus Christ was a republican? Self-d…
Painted in 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
The Seussification of a Midsummer Night’s Dream sees an all female cast embark on a speedy but delightful adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy.
The ubermeister of dark comedy cabaret’s war machine rolls into Edinburgh.
Journey through the Great American Songbook, captivating jazz vocals with piano trio and anecdotes about songwriters.
Live and let die blares from the speakers as Marc Burrows circles the room, high-fiving everyone in sight.
Short Stories - True Song Tales from the American Edge is an acoustic solo show from Kiya Heartwood, an award-winning American singer-songwriter.
Yorkshire girl Nalika comes to London to make it but reality hits when she ends up living with a violent squirrel.
Irish comedian and computer nerd Matthew Collins, Puzzled 2013, **** (ThreeWeeks) and BBC’s Great Unanswered Questions, returns with a handpicked selection of comedy pals.
This production of Shakespeare’s classic and well loved comedy is set in the pretty garden of a church.
Some Fringe clichés exist for a reason.
To tell the truth, I’m a little bit scared of Dr.
Self-proclaimed adversity avoidance advocate Paul Swoops links together a show that manages to trap members of The Tourists in a surreal sketch landscape of their own devising.
How do you go about describing Goose (An Odd One-Man Comedy Whodunnit)? It’s one of those shows that you just have to see with your own eyes to understand it’s sheer awesomenes…
Jenny moved from the Welsh mountains to the Big Smoke in 2010 and has since embarked upon a career in stand-up comedy.
The idea of the song cycle is to use an original thought from which the music and lyrics is constructed as opposed to writing a book or adapting material from an original source.
If you wander the streets of the Edinburgh Fringe, you might run into Cameryn Moore.
Inviting us into an office adorned with a giant map of Australia and piles of unfinished scripts and screenplays, Clare Pickering embarks on the energetic and meandering story of h…
Are you a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings? If so, look no further, this will be the highlight of your Fringe experience.
Music, Speech and the Sound of a Wheelbarrow. The static crackle prior to a record starting, how we learn language and various celebrities losing their heads! Funny.
Comedians can be a cynical bunch.
Before comedy Robert did 67 jobs in seven years, went to prison for a practical joke and wrote symphonies for his sock-puppet.
British comedian Gareth Berliner and Australian comedy actress, Kiruna Stamell present a dynamic, funny, edgy, fresh, new double-act comedy show, One of Us Will Die.
A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters, performed and hosted by one man from Bristol.
Join the One-Eyed Men’s new cult today! They’ve dedicated their lives to the worship of the great prophet Barry Ashworth, inventor of long-life milk! It’s just a matter of time unt…
Get down to The Stand for a brand-new psychological, philosophical and largely nonsensical comedy panel show.
If you are someone that enjoys magic in its more basic, “no frills” form, like sleight-of-hand tricks and close-up magic, you can’t go wrong with this show.
A visceral performance, The Time of Our Lies benefits greatly from the impassioned commitment of its five-strong cast.
Five years of IVF and love going down the tubes and a sex life reduced to cold rooms with plastic cups.
Ennio revolutionises the art of origami into hilarious theatrical magic.
Dream Girls is a masterful collection of comedy mixed with surprisingly (even for McCullough) emotional moments that had the audience in awe.
Saucy hostesses Hope and Gloria are back with Titty Bar Ha Ha: Hard Time, following on from their show at last year’s Fringe.
Much of Ross’s childhood was spent in a galaxy far, far away, watching Star Wars videos over – and over – and over again.
A Moment in Time is an immersive piece of theatre, which explores our relationship with the word investment, both from an audience and performer perspective whilst remaining at its…
A one-woman cabaret show presenting the life of Anita Boult, a jobbing musical actress trying to cope with life in New York city.
Creator Tom Ward-Thomas has written a two-act comedy that peers into the lives of passengers commuting to Cornwall.
Rising stars perform with prominent musicians at this prestigious festival, directed by Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, who will perform in Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G mino…
Royal Festival Hall: 8th Jul 7pm.
This international music festival at the bucolic Caramoor Center opens with a gala program featuring, as so many gala festival do, the violinist Joshua Bell, who is appearing with …
Great Scott! Victorian magic duo Morgan & West travel 100 years into the future presenting baffling magic, unparalleled precognitive powers and a totally genuine ability to travel …
Boat, an inventive and extremely funny sketch group comprising Amos Vernon, Mike Lane and Nunzio Randazzo, returns with a new show.
This long-running festival kicks off its summer season with a gala performance by the Emerson String Quartet.
The NY Phil Biennial is meant as a forum for new music, but 11 days is not enough time to explore all the recent works worthy of attention.
Jolle Greenleaf and Donald Meineke are at the helm of the inaugural Early Music Festival: NYC, which will present 16 concerts featuring first-rate soloists and ensembles at churche…
Brazil and bratwurst, Bach and potatoes are among the unlikely pairings in this festival, which sparkles with invention.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The playwright Joan Beber issues a posthumous pardon to Ethel Rosenberg (Tracy Michailidis), executed for conspiring to commit espionage in 1953.
This was by far one of the most outstandingly bizarre pieces of theatre I have ever seen; I am still not entirely sure what I actually witnessed, but I know that I liked it.
Lorna is settling into her new life in London while Brian is enjoying a reclusive lifestyle as a night chef; between Lorna’s brave forays into various evening classes and Brian�…
The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher…
Sitting in the pews of Brighton’s Unitarian Church and readying myself for an evening of devotional music largely centred on Hindu and Sufi traditions, I felt slightly dubious.
Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton Pavilion, reflects on the importance and value of music in her life with live illustrations from the Sussex Symphony Orchestra.
As part of his season as artist-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic, the brilliant pianist Yefim Bronfman plays a chamber music program with top players from the orchestra.
Ever get the feeling you were born in the wrong time? Justin Panks does, a lot.
Play your part in creating a modern musical response to a First World War poem.
Join John McDonnell MP, Mark Serwotka (PCS), Maria Exall (CWU) & Janine Booth (RMT) to discuss if we should stop outsourcing public services, bring council services back inhouse, a…
A jamboree of performances from second-year performing arts students of Varndean College.
A Beautiful Day in November on The Banks of The Greatest of The Great Lakes (written by Kate Benson, directed by Lee Sunday Evans) is one of three world premieres in rep at The N…
I greatly admire Union Music Store’s mission to bring their home-grown acts to the masses – a labour of love and angst warding off cynics like me, to be sure.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
A concert of British music to mark the 2014 centenary of the Great War and the impact of the conflict on heritage and culture.
Acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
Always rich in young composers, this series has taken on venerable status by this, its 13th season.
The composers’ collective Random Access Music presents a vibrant offering of new music.
Join the One-Eyed Men’s new cult today! They’ve dedicated their lives to the worship of the great prophet Barry Ashworth, inventor of long-life milk! It’s just a matter of time unt…
A dark, atmospheric production by A Band Called Quinn & Ben Harrison.
Emma Kirkby, Gavin Henderson, BREMF Singers, Orchestra and Brass Ensemble, Conducted by John Hancorn.
‘Space and Time’ is an exhibition of unexpected landscape photographs.
Experience life from another perspective! Borrow a Human Book who will share extraordinary stories of survival and resilience.
Work in progress stand-up comedy from Asian-American comedian Rick Kiesewetter, getting ready for Edinburgh 2014.
Chamber Music had a small turn out in beautiful St Nicholas’ Church.
Touted as the next big thing in comedy, Leicester Square New Comedian Finalist and One to Watch Winner 2013, Sarah asks you for at least one more year of anonymity by keeping this …
This festival continues with James Conlon conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus in a program that opens with John Adams’s exhila…
Playwright Werner Schwab was just 35 when he died from what must have been quite a drinking spree after a New Year’s Eve party in 1994.
The second concert of the Spring for Music series features this ensemble and the dynamic conductor Ludovic Morlot, who has galvanized the group and excited Seattle audiences since …
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.
“Music at the Heart of the City”.
Sketch group Clever Peter (BBC Radio 4) return with brand-new sketches and old favourites in a fun-packed hour of comedy.
Following a sell-out run at last years Brighton Fringe and described as “one of the highlights of The Brunswick’s Fringe programme for the 2013 Festival”, TPTPC are back with more …
A dance party for kids and social event for adults too.
‘Time = Money’ is a 1-2-1 participative poetry performance art event which explores the notion of the relative exchange values of time, money and poetry.
Trace the story of Brighton’s secret river, flowing from the source’s solo in the attic to the sea-bound chorus in the cellar, then enjoy a feast of foods foraged en route! Thur/…
Directed by MJ Paranzino.
I love a bit of late night showbiz.
(performances start on May 9) Who could fall asleep in the midst of Times Square? You are invited to try when Jim Findlay and Time Square Arts, in partnership with Allied Partners …
French-American acoustic guitar duo JP & Xochitl bring you their unique and haunting sounds: a fusion of Arabic, Spanish and Gypsy music.
This adventurous series, organized by the composer Victoria Bond, continues with the New York debut of the Blue Streak Ensemble, a chamber group founded by the composer Margaret Br…
The storied festival offers a tantalizing program of teasers from its two-month season, including appearances by the soprano Dawn Upshaw and the conductor-pianist Robert Spano, in …
‘Everything is easier to explain if you use lots of fire.
A major American conductor, Leonard Slatkin, takes the podium for a concert at Carnegie Hall with the orchestra of the renowned Manhattan School of Music.
When the Glasgow-born poet, playwright, song-writer, musician, cartoonist, humorist and story-writer Ivor Cutler died in March 2006, the nation’s obituarists remembered an “una…
Musicians including the violinist Daniel Hope, the clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois and the cellist David Finckel offer a program exploring music by 20th-century composers who w…
A double bill of landmark 20th-century choral writing provides a showcase for the conservatory’s symphonic chorus and chamber choir.
Menier Chocolate Factory: 3rd Apr 3pm.
Take a 2004 Swedish vampire novel that was made into a subtitled horror film as your starting point.
Desky, Dedman and Gramo met in a closet and were so taken with each other that they decided to form a club.
This drama by Beau Willimon, the man behind the Netflix series “House of Cards,” begins with two guys in an office, exchanging unremarkable banter until it becomes evid…
(in previews; opens on April 17) Moss Hart’s classic autobiography becomes a play courtesy of James Lapine, who also directs this Lincoln Center Theater premiere.
Come and hear accomplished music scholars from Fettes College, Edinburgh give a lunchtime recital of vocal and instrumental music in the magnificent surroundings of St Cuthbert…
A unique opportunity to hear these extraordinary works prior to their outing at the BBC Proms.
Eric Satie: 3 Sarabandes, 3 Gnossiennes, 3 Danses de travers, 3 Gymnopedies. www.peterbream.com
Tony Law presents a deeply hidden, powerfully meaningful show for night-time freaks.
A celebration of the music and tradition of the Northumbrian small pipe from the 18th century to the present day, demonstrating the development of the music alongside the instrumen…
In his hugely popular free show Think Big, Yianni sets out his ambition to sell-out the biggest venue at the Fringe, have Michael ‘HackIntyre’ open for him and to enter the stage ‘…
It has always amazed me how classical musicians are able to perform a twenty-minute long sonata without a note of music in front of them.
Enjoy Fong Liu’s entrancing voice, Chinese traditional instruments (including Hooi Ling Eng’s percussion and zheng, Xian Shan’s accordion, Yulu Wang’s zheng and Eddie McGuire’s bam…
After her successful programme of Polish songs in 2010/11, Edinburgh-born Natasha Day returns to sing songs and arias by Massenet, Debussy, Hahn, Schubert, Strauss and Dvorak.
A shared love of songs, some original, some unaccompanied - sung with broad smiles and borrowed bravery, bringing acoustic music with heart and soul to the AMC stage.
Songs from two great song cycles, Elgar’s Sea Pictures and Schumann’s Eichendorff Liederkreis plus some rarely heard piano works by Schumann’s circle: Ferdinand Hiller, Joach…
This annual concert has built a loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty and power of the blend of pipes, fiddle, harp, concertina, flute, bass and drum.
Comedian David Schneider, you know, him from Alan Partridge, tries to justify those wasted hours on Twitter with a funny show about the internet.
American song and dance man Movin’ Melvin Brown is not content to have just one show at the Fringe (The Ray Charles Experience), or two (an interactive workshop Tap into Health -…
Fresh from YouTube and Top 40 success, St Andrews’ The Other Guys bring their hilarious parodies, exquisite musicality and suspect dance moves for one night only in a show that won…
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, formed of around 100 of the UK’s best young singers, performs unaccompanied music including works by Byrd, Palestrina, Bach, Brahms, Brit…
The mouth of a million sounds BeardyMan brings his beatboxing brilliance to Edinburgh with an extremely ambitious new project.
From the tremblingly loud intro to the wild medley of an ending, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers were magnificent.
The Emma Packer Show is audaciously bad.
These celebrated musicians give a presentation with bamboo flutes, classical flutes and Chinese zheng (zither) on the music of the two nations in comparative perspective.
Like other communities in Europe that have historically suffered political repression the Celtic peoples of the British Isles have for centuries expressed their culture through mus…
Comprised of 9 silent short films with musical accompaniments from Dmytro Morykit, Music in Manufacture seeks to bring together two different mediums to create something entirely n…
The two nations represented in this one-off concert were China and Scotland, with Dong Yi and Eddie McGuire as representatives.
Playwright Idgie Beau sets out the parameters of A Hundred Minus One Day quickly and economically; 20 year old Jen, who has lived away from home for many years, has returned to her…
Some Like It Hot! Get a touch of that Old Black Magic as Pam celebrates the songs Marilyn Monroe performed via voice, piano and bass.
A celebration of Scottish Highland music featuring the great Highland bagpipe, the clarsach (harp), and traditional singing.
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches is given new wings by St Andrews Mermaids Theatre.
An exploration of our life’s journey through original song in multiple genres, enhanced by visual imagery, that tells a story of finding our way in the choices we make through st…
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…
Youth string ensemble South West Camerata, a JUTP Music ensemble perform Vivaldi Four Seasons with poetry recitations at St Giles’ Cathedral on Friday 9th August at 12.15pm.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking Opera, folk choir, national dancing, presented by one of China’s top young performing groups.
A haunting glimpse into one family’s past, Last One Out is a bittersweet tale of loss, memory and grief.
Dean Friedman is a personable guy.
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
Music from a Piece of Leaf.
The Water Reflection Dance Ensemble delivers a very strong performance that’s extremely visually pleasing.
Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them.
How much do you know about the history of the Traverse Theatre? If the answer is ‘very little’, don’t expect to leave enlightened.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Pam Lawson’s tribute to Doris Day takes the audiences on a chronological journey through Doris Day’s movies.
It’s Magic. Take a sentimental journey with Pam Lawson, as she celebrates her not-so-Secret Love for Doris Day on voice, bass and piano. You’ll be Shakin’ the Blues Away!
A host of eclectic characters emerge in this electrifying play / poem.
Explore the Traverse Theatre’s dynamic 50-year history through a series of talks by theatre practitioners and scholars, illuminating founding days and reflecting on the Traverse�…
Experience Mass settings within their original church context.
Head to the magnificent Grand Gallery to celebrate the Museum’s collections through daily live music performances, from Renaissance to the best young contemporary Scottish tal…
Watching this show is like experiencing fallout from an imagination bomb.
Ellie and Oscar want to show you themselves this year.
Back by popular demand.
One of a trio of pieces that make up the Czech dance showcase at this year’s fringe, One Step Before the Fall uses a contemporary style to explore the life of Muhammad Ali.
From being a Nazi war criminal’s daughter and only girl in boys school to snogging politician Chris Huhne and a bishop.
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
An event to bring Christian gospel music from the church to our streets.
Comedian Robin Cairns is famous throughout Scotland.
“In Da Club came out in 2003, not 2005!” I found myself shouting across the dance floor at around half past two this morning.
Paper Birds’ On the One Hand looks and feels a lot like a John Lewis advert.
Close-up card magic with a true English gentleman. Hear tall tales of a magician learning his craft and be confounded by events which are not easily explained.
Rowena Haley’s show has a simple, yet entertaining foundation: what is it like to grow up with a 93-year-old as your best friend? Through wittily penned songs, anecdotes and lar…
Life-long coward, Sarah Hendrickx, travels back in time to her past in a bid to become brave and fearless.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
The title of the show, Flyerman 2: This Time it’s Funny is perhaps a little misleading.
‘A tour de force on the Fringe’, ***** (RemoteGoat.
Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience.
A beautiful way to start your Fringe! Three of Scotland’s most critically acclaimed new artists, Turning Plates, Jo Mango and The State Broadcasters, perform an intimate seated eve…
Gothic fairies .
John Wills, guitarist of Pumajaw, the musical pairing behind Song Noir, entered the room and crossed the stage, barely acknowledging the audience as he picked up his electric guita…
Edinburgh’s famous quadruple award-winning music venue hosts Fringe shows daily and also promotes its own superb jazz and funk programme.
Four comedians.
There, in the midst of the darkness, sits the earth, glowing eerily, surrounded by silence.
A commanding, busty Titania sits with her changeling child as drab fairies dance woozily around her to crackly swing music.
Edinburgh’s famous, multiple award-winning atmospheric music venue hosts all kinds of shows all day from 1pm, and stages its own fantastic programme of high-quality modern jazz, la…
Is this your first time? Edinburgh can be daunting for new participants, so come and meet Fringe Society staff who can support your experience.
I was so ready to tear this show down.
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.
Truth and taboo collide in this intimate visit with a phone sex operator.
In this rather indie-style, little comedy, Robin is a lonely continuity announcer with only his imagination to comfort him.
Painted in 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite omnia opera.
Painted in 1888-1892, Traquair’s acclaimed murals, restored in 1998, illustrate the canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera.
It’s a stand-up comedy show. At half 11 in the morning. In a tent. Two comedians. We’re not seeing anything else at that time. It’s a yurt tent apparently. Let’s definitely go.
Edward Aczel is the master of anti-comedy.
They may have the charm of a boy band but The Magnets are certainly all men.
The Wee Room is a rather hot and sweaty venue, perfect for Bath Time; Ruaraidh Murray’s one man show is intense, febrile and gritty.
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
With a show that is definitely not for the easily offended, Adam Kay reels off a series of his inimitable brand of parody songs with expert comedic timing and the hilarity that onl…
Davey Connor is a charming, unimposing performer whose style washes over the audience and wins them over seemingly without effort.
Gary Delaney gets straight to the point of this one-man performance, declaring ‘I’ve just written some new jokes - this isn’t a ‘my dad’s dead’ kind of show.
Nick Helm has endured pain and suffering to become the greatest living example of not giving up the world has ever known and he will entertain you until it kills him.
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
Mat Ewins is a passionate fan of history and of stand-up comedy, so quite naturally he brings his ardour and insider knowledge of both to create a show that is clever, silly and br…
From the moment this quirky Cornish duo burst onto set with an eclectic combination of 80s-style electronic music and energetic moves, you know you’re in for something a little d…
The song circle is familiar territory for parents and carers of the under fives: here local performer Gill Bowman added her take on the popular format.
My favourite part of the Fringe is getting the chance to find that one unexpected show which really blows you away.
It is rather difficult to pinpoint exactly why Music Show, Wedding! is so enjoyable.
What if I told you that Adolf Hitler was going to do a reading of Mein Kampf for a small audience, offering you tea and biscuits while you sit together and discuss his ideology? No…
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
Join us for a footstomping good time as we showcase many traditional Scottish music bands at the WHISKI Bar during August.
Situated on the historic Royal Mile, open from 9am – 3am every day.
Whistlebinkies really wants you to know they have free live music.
If you find yourself staggering down the Royal Mile at 2am desperately looking for a drink, there is a string of late-night live music bars ready to keep your liver happy and suppl…
Given that the original award-winning novel by Mark Haddon is told from the very singular, focused perspective of a 15-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, it’s surprising that…
Andy Day, of Cbeebies fame, and Mike James deserve a standing ovation for their efforts to save parents from having to entertain their children on a rainy Sunday morning in Edinbur…
Dream On is a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is performed here with great energy and humour by Side by Side Theatre.
I was thrilled to experience a piece of theatre performed in its traditional style but with a fair number of contemporary tweaks to keep the audience on its toes.
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
If your thirty year old son reveals to you that they have fallen in love with an eight year old, how would you deal with that? That is the question asked in Nicky Silver’s darkly c…
The setting is a construction site outside a café on a day like any other.
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.
In the gardens of the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art Two (formerly known as the Dean Gallery), a combined cast of Scottish performers and the Norwegian company Stella Polaris put o…
Dave Baucett is a puppyish like-me-pleeease comedian in his early twenties.
In an interview for the seminal concert movie Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, acting as the interviewer in his own interview asks himself, ‘I don’t think…
The Pauly Show – Episode One, is a brilliant idea on paper: a stand up comedian with a ramshackle sitcom pilot live on stage.
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…
A musical drama inspired by Chekhov? It’s a concept that inspires more of an ‘oh’ than an ‘oh my, where can I get a ticket?’ Visions of passionate speeches interrupted by…
This venue has just one entry in the Fringe Festival programme and this covers 11 different events.
An hour long performance constructed out of the colourful and controversial life, ambitions and writings of Oscar Wilde was always going to be an evening well spent.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
The problems started right from the word go.
Bossa Nova and More is a Hungarian guitar duo that aims to play authentic Bossa Nova combined with less traditional numbers to create an entirely enjoyable experience.
We are given a window into a mental asylum as this absurdist tale of tragic delusion unfolds before us.
‘One Touch of Venus’ is Kurt Weill’s most ‘commercial’ American score, attached to a kind of variation on the Pygmalion theme, in which an ancient statue of Venus, brough…
Covering a range of singer/songwriter greats, Juliet Nisbet and Bruce Birrell, collectively known as Spirit of Love, take us on a musical journey across Scotland, Ireland, France a…
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
The GirlBand Improv was an entirely enjoyable experience but not quite what I expected.
The Music Box, a new play by Cambridge University’s Emma Stirling is not only bad, but bad for theatre.
Looking for emotional charge? If so, this new musical blows everything else out of the water.
Hunger Warrior Theatre, a group of young American Theatre professionals present this tale of lust and its dangers, written Andrew J Hungerford.
In an unspecified location, a group of society’s elite mix and mingle discussing everything and nothing.
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…
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
Visiting Time opens dramatically in a hospital room.
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
Tina and Ken tell the audience the story of their showbiz journey in Underbelly, Bristo Square.
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
Holly Burns new show is a rip-roaring hour of delicious madness.
Clive James returns to Edinburgh with two daily shows, a lunchtime chat show for those who want to see him in one-to-one conversation with guests and an evening one-man show in whi…
Most school kids don’t want to read Shakespeare.
An ambient evening of harp music and vocals which was enjoyable, but not exceptional.
Imagine if David Starkey did a Fringe show.
Living with Johnny Depp, by the Irish Madcap Theatre Company is one woman show written by and starring Joanne Mitchell.
This is easily the most unusual thing I have ever seen at the Fringe.
Lashmela might sound like any ordinary girl.
Every year theres about three or five Fringe shows that feel like they could open up on the West End tomorrow and do fine.
Hildegard of Bingen is a twelfth-century German abbess now famed for her extraordinary writings and music.
Ionesco’s Rhinoceros depicts a sleepy French town where the inhabitants are slowly overcome by a strange phenomenon turning them into rampaging rhinos.
Thomas Annand and David Day have come all the way from Ireland to prove that there’s far more to African drumming than monotonous banging.
Daphne Pena returns to Edinburgh with a new show for 2007, adding more tales and dances from Cairo, following up her 2006 Bellydance Diaries.
As Piers Fawcett lies ill in hospital suffering from AIDS, he receives a visit from his best friend Tom.
Elis James bounds onto the stage with wonderful energy and a poetic way with language; there is something wonderfully friendly about this Welshman that gives you the feeling that r…
Singing a Different Song was a cosy affair.
Talented Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford has the infectious ability to find hilarity and absurdity in the banality of his everyday routine.
This was the first of a series of 6 evening concerts They are free, though a retiring collection is requested.
The plot of One Night Stand is, unsurprisingly, the repercussions of a drunken work night out for two colleagues who wake up in the same bed.
It is very hard to know how to describe Gareth Morinan’s show.
The Pajama Men are impossible to describe, or do justice do, in a review.
As the lights dimmed for the start of One Hour Only, video projections and voice-overs appeared on stage, calling the audience to attention as the characters set the scene for the …
In this highly energetic performance, dancer-actor John Macaulay welcomes the audience and ushers them in, attempting to build up a friendly rapport.
Courage Performers, a youth performing arts club from Wiltshire, presents a very strong rendition of the Shakespeare classic ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ with a Second World W…
Mario Morris presents his comedy magic show, the All Human One Magic Show at Zoo Southside.
It’s no small challenge to summarise a country and its history in a single hour, which is perhaps why Carolyn Anona Scott and Jack Foster instead choose to pay ‘homage’ to Sc…
The bagpipes might be the butt of more jokes at the Fringe than any other subject.
Bundle up for the cold-weather version of the annual summer Make Music New York festival.
Dream Pill is a tale of modern slavery.
What was it Margaret from The Apprentice said about Edinburgh University this year? ‘Perhaps it’s not what it used to be.
Three years ago, at my first Fringe, I saw Chris Martin do a fifteen-minute free set in a basement room.
‘Improv Comedy’, for a genre whose very definition implies limitless scope, seems to be becoming an increasingly tired medium.
Scottish jazz singer Pam Lawson is joined by pianist Tom Finlay and double-bassist Ed Kelly for a musical celebration of the infamous partnership that was Fred Astaire and Ginger R…
There are some novels so enduring, that their stories can be told again and again in any medium, whether that be written word, stage or film.
Twice Total Theatre Award-nominees You Need Me tackle heavy subject matter and live up to their reputation for creating evocative physical theatre in this highly-charged drama, wit…
As promised in the blurb, In-Transit Dance Company deliver a fast-paced and energetic dance performance, to the degree that at times the onstage action is almost dizzying.
In his own words, Tom Goodliffe is a big, friendly nerd.
Make sure you are on time for this show: youll get enough exercise during this hour-long musical romp without sprinting down Nicholson Street beforehand.
The Traverse Theatre Company is spending the next fortnight showing breakfast-time script-in-hand readings of pieces of specially commissioned new writing.
One of the joys of the Edinburgh Fringe is that every year there are new adaptations of Shakespeares plays, which often throw up new ideas and new ways of looking at these old fa…
The Chyngton Youth Academy made up of 11 to 15 year olds performs this seasonal Shakespeare favourite with enthusiasm and fervour.
What is Hamlet if not a man that stands alone and, in his isolation from others, tries to discover truth where validation is impossible?If you think about it this way, perhaps the …
Henry Adam’s Petrol Jesus Nightmare is set in a military hideout against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This production is intended as a Hitchcock-esque thriller, but even with strong storytelling techniques, the level of suspense is disappointing.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is one of Shakespeares most popular plays and theres probably hardly a day when it isnt performed somewhere in the world.
Mil’s Trills, starring a very bubbly Amelia Robinson on the ukulele, has travelled all the way from New York City to introduce the little ones of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fri…
Shakepeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, is one of his most popular works, so it’s not surprising that the majority of hands are up when The Pantaloons ask their au…
Free comedy is like cinema pick n’ mix.
The best often start out young.
The central premise of the play is that there is an afterlife which everyone goes to after they die.
The connection between traditional Scottish music and Chinese music is something I had given no thought to until this concert, but the Harmony Ensemble changed all that with their …
First, a confession: I am a Lord of the Rings film fanatic, nay zealot.
The brilliance of the Edinburgh Fringe is that you can see things which blow you away in the most unexpected of places, and things which are awful in the most anticipated.
In Any More Legroom?, Liverpool John Moores University showcases its recent graduates’ dissertation dance pieces.
A word of warning: if an hour of explicit homosexual phone sex is the sort of thing that sends you running to complain to Mary Whitehouse, then look away now.
Music Bugs is a company which provides music classes for ‘babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers’, an age group whose three primary occupations seem to be screaming, laughing and f…
Don Quixote has forgotten his role and nature.
Please ensure your seat is in the upright position and that your tray tables are securely stowed.
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Starting with a video of him in distress in the worst hotel room ever, Tom Wrigglesworth spends an entertaining hour spinning us a complex yarn about how his wedding day came to en…
Nick Sun’s latest show, Potty Time!, is truly bizarre.
The Pathhead Halls on the corner of Commercial Street and Broad Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife were built in 1882, originally as a theatre and music hall although one room was later used fo…
I lowered my expectations dramatically during the opening scene of Xenu is Loose when the smoke effect obliterated the audience’s view of the action for at least a couple of minute…
There is one word that, quite deliberately, is never uttered by anyone on stage during the National Theatre of Scotland’s Let The Right One In—vampire.
In recent years Gordonstoun School has put on entertaining versions of some of Shakespeares darker plays (Macbeth That Old Black Magic and Hamlet Shadow Of A Man).
What starts out with Shoko Ito charmingly asking the audience if they love someone with Japanese pop songs gently wafting into their ears quickly devolves into a series of dreamsca…
‘I thought it was a magic show.
Chris Kent managed to fill most of the room in the Turret of the Gilded Balloon, but there are many others comedians far more deserving of these bums on seats.
Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title.
Comprised of two one-act plays, The Words Upon The Window-Pane (W.
What seemed to be an amateur dance troupe clad in black soon became a moving sculpture of body art, with hands morphing into waves, words, trains, cars and faces - all timed precis…
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
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…
Edoardo Okamoto has played this piece for seven years now and it has become part of his identity.
A Soldier’s Song is a stage adaptation of Ken Lukowiak’s book that narrates his experience of the Falklands Conflict.
This is the story of the rise and fall of concrete tower blocks.
Warnings about what not to do in the presence of Andrew O’Neill put you in mind of safety signs around zoos, which is apt given that his stand-up set is pretty wild and erratic.
If you saw Stephen Frears movie My Beautiful Launderette, made way back in the mercifully distant days of Thatcherite Britain, or even if youre too young to remember it (like m…
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
A one-man show is a terrifying prospect for any actor.
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
St Mark’s is an excellent space for chamber music, and I suspect, many other types of music.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Citymoves Productions’ ‘GOD (Grumpy Old Dancers)’ combines two contrasting personalities in a darkly comic exploration of grumpiness.
After last year’s storming Edinburgh performance in All of Me, Stephen K Amos returns with another great comedy outing in More of Me.
‘I’ll keep you alive.
Much celebrated world-class performer Melvin Brown, better known as Movin’ Melvin Brown, gives another uninhibited, inspiring and entertaining performance at the Edinburgh Festiv…
The streets, plazas, parks and waterfronts of the five boroughs will be alive with music during this free, outdoor extravaganza, which features over 1,300 concerts from dawn to dus…
Traversing the line between the silly and the outrageous whilst keeping a comic dignity is a difficult skill to master.
And No More Shall We Part at the Traverse Theatre is the European premiere for Tom Holloway’s new play that oozes brilliance and subtlety as it gently explores what it means to b…
The perplexingly named One-Eyed Men are the very genial trio of Alex, Sam and Ben.
The poet Bryon was famously described by one of his countless paramours as mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Agnes, played by Abi Tedder, is hosting a wake for the father who abandoned her as a child.
A man who is scared of women, a man in a long-term relationship, and a man who has seven women in one week - in Who’s Dorian Gray, we are introduced to all these characters.
Dysart Productions return to the Fringe with an updated version of their 2011 show and really wows the crowds with their peerless vocal performances of some of the great songs from…
Tickets to see Scottish-grown chamber orchestra Ludus Baroque at Canongate Kirk are now bought by many as a matter of ritual, so strong is the group’s popularity and reputation f…
Les Misérables fans will be disappointed to discover that this show not in fact a musical revue of the West End hit.
It could have been me, but in a hot Spiegeltent on the Southbank with chairs rammed closely together with a mixture of expectant adults and children, I wasn’t feeling it as the l…
As the Phantom of the Opera music played a cloaked figure appeared, sang along for a few bars before ripping off the cloak to reveal he had a Henry Hoover for a head.
With its poetic language and truthful performances, Night Time is one of the most professionally done Fringe shows I’ve seen in some time.
Kicking off BBC Radio 1s series of four one-off, one-man shows by Scott Mills, Nick Grimshaw and the team at this years festival, The One Who Doesnt Speak presented an eclect…
Bud Take The Wheel is the new play from Clara Brennan.
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…
High-school teachers by day, DJ Danny and his glamorous assistant (the P.
Three soldiers are hit by a mighty explosion.
Playing songs about the goriest aspects of the Victorian era, Steampunk band Men Who Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, deliver an hour of music and comedy.
After an evening of song recitals from Soprano Rachael Wheatley and Pianist Ingrid Sawers, I left late, feeling very chilled out.
After about ten minutes where I was convinced I was in the wrong place and the wrong time, I stumbled onto the top deck of the Comedy Bus in The Free Sisters’ courtyard for some …
Cancer Time is a special piece of theatre.
The claws may not be fully out for this night of name dropping and gossip mongering with the Queen of Dynasty, but there’s certainly still a lot of fun to be had, especially if t…
A man in the front row at Bec Hill’s show accuses her of being the worst comedian he’s ever seen.
Durham University Light Opera Group’s (DULOG) show is an unexpectedly touching coming of age story juxtaposed with moments of raucous insanity.
Jonathan Harvey is more widely known for scripting the BBC comedy Gimme Gimme Gimme, but before Tom and Linda were a glint in his eye he wrote the play Beautiful Thing.
Much of the Shakespeare at the Fringe this year has been performed with a twist: musicals, dance, physical theatre, spin-offs, the playwright’s words given new meanings or even tak…
Bath University’s Student Theatre Society presents the story of a struggling writer, aided by three contrary muses, desperate to create the best work of fiction ever to be perfor…
More and more churches are using Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival as a window for their work.
A Little Night Music is one of Sondheim’s most exquisitely written shows- somewhere between Wilde’s comedies of manners and Chekhov and Ibsen’s simpering naturalism.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
Four young men and women in their underwear lay in a pool of dim light.
The songs of Belgian-born chanteur Jacques Brel are renowned for their colourful imagery and dramatic storytelling.
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 shows title gives little away, so when an electronic voice counts up the percentage complete, this looks likely to go geeky.
It was an evening to be remembered for up-tempo tunes mixing Irish, Bluegrass, Country and Folk.
Garrett Millerick impersonates different characters from standard British life in Which One’s Fergal? Millerick only had three audience members and was performing at the back of a …
One Man Star Wars Trilogy delivers exactly what the title promises.
Christian Reilly has walked upon and calmed the boiling seas of the Royal Mile and resurrected the flogged and lifeless corpse of comedy music.
Hamlet is such a murky, obstinate text that so refuses definitive interpretation that a point is sometimes made that Shakespeare probably created a play greater than himself.
The name alone conjures up nostalgia, decadence, style and class and this show delivers.
Two storytellers kick start the play as a fairytale, but with a difference like none other we have seen before.
With so much excellent improvisation at the Fringe, it must be difficult to compete.
The creator of One Man Star Wars returned to the Fringe last year to put on One Man Lord of the Rings - a certain hit for all who are fans of the book, and one that clearly has had…
Rob Deering presents an exponentially better performance than the few silly guitar songs he delivered when I last saw him take to the stage.
The idea behind The One Hour Plays is that through audience involvement a script can be written, cast and performed with the appropriate costumes, props and music in under an hour.
Time/Dropper, choreographed and performed by Jose Agudo, is a raw, visceral and masculine performance evoking a sense of distorted tension.
A new play written by Lou May Miller, a modern take on Pedo Calderon’s ‘Life Is A Dream’ ,finds an early grave in this debut performance by Kudos.
How do you solve a problem like Maria? Well take all the glitter and Lamee in the world and youve got a start.
A million miles away from turbulence, Flawless have a smooth take off, a pleasant flight and a well-rehearsed landing that can’t help but bring a smile to my face.
Alongside an impressive collection of literature-referencing music, Robert Finn guides us through his attempt to follow Dan Brown down the literary garden path.
Nick Cope is the children’s singer-songwriter who brings acoustic, folky indie rock to the under-fives.
There are certain criteria that a Free Fringe Show should fulfil when performed in a public bar.
Frenchman Claude Bourbon’s one-off evening of Medieval and Spanish blues opened with what at first seemed to be a lengthy instrumental number: as fine a demonstration of Bourbon’s …
How do you get to Sesame Street? This is a question many of us have asked throughout our lives and receiving a ticket to Sesame Street Live was, for me, like someone had suddenly h…
One Rogue Reporter describes its presenter Rich Peppiatt’s progression from Daily Star lackey to vehement tabloid terror.
I have to begin by saying that I am incredibly thankful to my flatmate, Adam, for taking the time to give me a brief rundown of all the Star Wars films prior to my arrival in Edinb…
Ali Shahrukhi ‘s show Leaves on the Line is pretty much a very long series of one-liners.
A Little Night Music promised a delightful evening of choice piano pieces associated with the night-time.
Jay Foreman’s show is a nostalgia trip for the young.
Three brothers with tent peg rifles, colander helmets and a French flag pose for a photograph.
In Ancient China the Emperor places his hand upon death’s door.
Taking Flight theatre’s interpretation of the raucous and farcical Shakespearian classic captured perfectly the sense of carnival at the play’s heart, in their open-access adap…
They say the art of comedy is timing; it is therefore ironic that in a show about time we aren’t given enough of it to enjoy the jokes.
Rachel Rose Reid is a young storyteller who places herself firmly within a long tradition of oral storytelling.
Jackson Voorhaar’s set details the things he loves and loathes.
If the world was ending in an hour’s time, what would you do? This is the central premise of this new play as two teenage boys sit and talk about everything and nothing while the l…
The premise is simple: a group of people meet in a park.
Stand-up comedy and storytellin’ with Brandon Burke.
I originally held out much hope for this production from How to Deal with Rude and Unruly Women, however being there was like serving a prison sentence.
The world-famous Hip Hop Time Machine lands in Edinburgh for a special one-off Fringe show! Prepare to be transported in a complete audio/visual, interactive journey through the gr…
Returning after bringing all of the noise in 2018, David’s had time to reflect on one heck of a year.
Comedy, circus, storytelling, poetry and stupid science.
We ask the director and cast of Frozen at the Greenwich Theatre about their experiences of putting on this hugely demanding play.
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.
James Macfarlane sits down with André De Freitas to discuss his Edinburgh debut What If, some of the best advice he's received from his peers and the unexpected moment that got hi...
Nell Bailey, Artistic Director of November Theatre talks about the company's new play, Pitch at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Four women.
Lisa Verlo talks about how her Hollywood experience gave rise to her show Hollywoodn't, in another of our meetings with artists from the USA.
James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre, and the cast: Brandon Kimaryo, who plays Davey (Male, aged 17), and Kerrie Taylor who plays Anita (Female, aged 53) talk abo...
Literacy, lockdown and the love of music are the themes of a new play which has its world premiere in Hove on July 6.
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.
All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
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...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
At the largest arts festival in the world, it's easy to forget that theatre wasn't always welcome in Britain.
Bobby Winner Ten Storey Love Song (adapted by Luke Barnes from the Richard Milward novel) is a play cum techno gig about five wretched tower-block inhabitants who deserve better fr...
Agent of Influence: The Secret Life of Pamela More is the story of a high-society fashion journalist recruited by MI5 to facilitate the abdication of King Edward VIII.
One Day Moko is a devised solo show following the life of a homeless busker and the characters he meets in his daily life.
The Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre has been bringing Georgian theatre to Edinburgh for nearly 20 years, filling theatres and getting critical acclaim for foreign-language theatre...
It’s the 1600’s, and a blind boy from a village in Yorkshire wants an education.
Groomed, a powerful play about child abuse written and performed by Patrick Sandford ex-artistic director of Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre, swept the board at the Brighton Fring...
Today we're chatting to A Case of You: The Musical of Joni Mitchell, a contemporary interpretation of the hits that made Joni an icon of the 70's.
Our panel of judges were unanimous in voting Captain Morgan as the winner of the 2015 Broadway Baby Bobby award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Broadway Baby chews the fat with It Just Takes One - something that ought to appeal to any fans of The IT Crowd or The Office.
If the new i360 on Brighton seafront has inspired you to raise your gaze or you’re suddenly feeling the need to quit your job and run away with the circus, then it's time to ch...
A theatre company nominated for an Olivier Award will open the ninth annual Greenwich Children’s Theatre Festival at Greenwich Theatre on Good Friday, March 26.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
It’s been nearly two years since The James Plays made their considerable impression at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival and today audiences have the opportunity to spend...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
It’s the iconic Edinburgh film and book - and now nearly 21 years since the film opened - a young theatre company brings Trainspotting to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Four-handed piano duo Worbey and Farrell (that’s two hands each, silly) have been wowing audiences with their unique blend of pianistic skill and peerless patter for nearly a dec...
Greenwich Theatre has a long and successful association with the Edinburgh Fringe, but why does a London Theatre have such a keen interest in a festival hundreds of miles away from...
Broadway Baby and PALP have a chat about One Above.