Now in its 15th year - Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians.
John Mackay & Sally Homer, in association with Debi Allen/Curtis Brown present Stewart Lee vs The Man-WulfIn this brand-new show Lee shares his stage with Louie…
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.
Daliso did his first show Feed This Black Man 20 years ago.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, and a sell-out nationwide tour, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of bruta…
World-leading pipa player Wu Man unveils the magic of traditional Chinese music.
Following a sold-out, award-winning run at the Fringe last year, the People’s Princess is back! Do you know the story of Diana? Probably.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
A rollercoaster ride through modern and post-modern musicals, rock opera, epics, jukebox theatre and the latest hit shows.
A journey through the golden age of musical theatre.
For one night only, the Taskmaster NZ star and Lorde’s favourite Kiwi musician (‘That was really nice of her’ – Paul) plays the hits at this year’s Fringe.
Why is half mask not seen on the West End? Why is Commedia so rarely performed in Italy today? Why do old canovacci not work? Reflecting on the rebirth of Commedia dell’Arte on the…
A Stallion’s misadventures: a playboy’s politically incorrect romp –ah, the tale of a young playboy whose antics were as wild as a nearly untamed stallion! This dashing fellow’s …
Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together.
Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise.
After three consecutive sold-out runs, Paul Black returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new hour.
Work as a group to bring ensemble musical theatre numbers to life.
The true story of Isabella MacDuff and Mary Bruce, condemned to hang in cages for all to see and abuse, a warning to any who would defy Longshanks.
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.
Moscow 2001.
Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts, and Stath Lets Flats, Kiell Smith-Bynoe brings his unmissable improvised comedy show back to the Fringe for one week only! Featuring the very best impro…
Paul makes fun of the French and they love it.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth.
At first Man & Board is an unlikely pairing of Rob’s moving body with a ritualised wooden board with which he sings, he dances, he wins and he loses.
Three of a Kind follows Sam as she juggles her responsibilities as a daughter in modern-day America.
Through haunting original music and rich spoken word, an actor-musician band deliver a feminist retelling of Mary Queen of Scots’ story.
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…
Getting in Bed with the Pizza Man is a racy, whimsical one-woman show exploring the perils and thrills of sex and singledom in the post-pandemic era by actress, writer and comedien…
Scotland’s original viral The Wee Man returns from the jail in a new one-man play written by Rab C Nesbitt creator Ian Pattison.
The story revolves around A-êng, a young boy who lives in Hêng-Chhun and strongly desires to eat a chicken leg.
Award-winning LBC radio presenter and For the Many podcast host brings his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs back to the Fringe with in-depth interviews featuring audi…
A fading political journalist is forced to interview a famous soap actress.
From its earliest known existence pre-1700s through to the golden age of 18th-century masters Niel Gow and William Marshall, onto the 19th century and beyond, the fiddle in Scotlan…
Fresh from their residency at London’s iconic Comedy Store, Fringe favourites Paul Merton and Suki Webster, two of the UK’s leading improvisers, bring their highly anticipated bran…
Hot Chocolate in Old Saint Paul’s: an evening of classical music by candlelight, accompanied by a cup of hot chocolate.
Martin Atkins is the definition of entrepreneurial activity in cultural arts endeavours.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
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…
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…
Winner of Best Magic Award at Adelaide Fringe, 2024 and weekly Theatre Award at FRINGEWORLD, 2023.
A fusion of storytelling and a one-person show, keeping as close as possible to the original text.
Two robo-clones, born of a mad professor and separated by family and class, must find a way to love where all odds are against them.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Back for a seventh year at the Fringe, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in New York City.
The incredible story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra, living rough on the streets of Dublin.
‘Chock-full of humor and satire, accompanied by a constant vein of honesty and self-analysis, Rachel Pollock’s solo performance is a hidden gem amongst the Fringe scene’ **** (DC…
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
Hannah Richards returns to Edinburgh with the award-winning Night Owl Band to tell the story of one of music’s most iconic artists.
Following their hugely successful run at last year’s Fringe, CRE8IV are back with their show that encourages you to sing along! You won’t be thrown out for belting out these musica…
‘She comes towards me on the floor; always approaching; never coming nearer; always visible as if by moonlight whether the moon shines or not.
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of his death, immerse yourselves in two of Edgar Allan Poe’s macabre classics.
1572.
Two boys meet.
A Bee Story is a uniquely Australian physical theatre show for children and families incorporating a kaleidoscope of circus, acrobatics, dance and live music.
A high-octane trip through the music of one of the architects of the Punk/New Wave movement.
Making its UK debut, a celebration of the 100 million record-selling giants of music.
A double-bill show.
Journey through the life and music of the 150 million record-selling Piano Man in this uplifting show.
After two consecutive sold-out runs, the celebration of the 120 million album-selling supergroup returns to Fringe.
While clearing out her family home, Leah discovers a letter her father wrote suggesting she lacked what it takes to become a professional musician.
Cambridge Footlight Lily Blundell’s sinful dark comedy musical full of greed, fraud, 1920s jazz and drink.
Direct from his sell-out run at Durham Fringe Festival, join Magic Circle member Tom Bolton as he shares with you what it’s really like growing up as a magician in the 21st centu…
Boiler Room Six tells the impossible true survival story of Titanic stoker Frederick Barrett.
Firefighter Micky and investment banker Andrew are choked by their respective blue and white collars.
How do you learn everything about being queer as quickly as possible? Beth has some catching up to do.
Big Bad Beck is ready to huff and puff and blow the house down in this WIP show.
Morag’s death left a silence in her place.
The Best Man Show is an interactive and darkly hilarious wedding reception where comedian Mark Vigeant plays the Groom’s brother Paul, who has been asked to give the toast at an un…
The awe-inspiring journey of one of the all-time musical greats delivered by one of the UK’s finest Angus Munro and Night Owl Shows.
A laugh-filled journey about finding every group you belong to insufferable.
A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus.
The comedy show comedians take their kids to is back and even more stupider! Join stupid comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which will be the s…
Can one man recreate live on stage, the greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie ever? Laurence Tuck is that man.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (scrub!) from the internet.
Returning after a total sell-out run in 2019, Fragility of Man follows one man’s epic, lifelong battle with the justice system.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Enter Edward Tripp’s bottomless mind as he straddles comedy and spoken-word, like a genre-defying slut.
Prateek’s been on the top comedy stages, from Comedy Cellar in NYC to top clubs across Europe.
Attention, Swifties! Join Blaze, Rujazzle and Rozie Cheeks as we take you on a journey through the eras of Taylor Swift.
‘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.
Turn on the radio, have a cup of tea – and don’t forget to take your pills! Get ready for an action-packed journey through the imagination of a playful, solitary old man as he di…
Mary Bourke and guests present an hour of hilarious Irish comedy from the best of the comedy circuit.
Andrew Silverwood will be alive on stage in a dead man’s shirt (don’t worry, the man doesn’t want it back).
Multi award-winning comedian and star of three Amazon Prime specials on finding fun in a chaotic world.
‘Hilarious.
Bone Man has returned to ride once again.
‘Incredibly powerful.
After a sell-out run, Nobody’s Talking About Jamie returns with “Taylor’s Version”.
A fully packed hour of entertainment.
Inside Chekhov’s masterpiece, Olga, Masha, and Irina are trapped in a cycle of disappointed hopes, heartbreak, and inertia.
A sell-out season at 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, shortlisted for Best Show in Comedians’ Choice Awards 2023.
Gareth’s desperately trying to be a modern man, but it isn’t easy.
One man.
Sherlock Holmes confronts his deadliest enemy yet: a man who hates him, his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Daliso performed his first show Feed This Black Man in the 2000s.
Award-winning musical comedy duo Flo & Joan present their own original one-man musical about a very renowned gentleman.
Hey, this is Paul’s show.
A joyful, captivating comedy about love, cancer and running for a really long time.
Emmy-nominated actress, Naomi Grossman made a name for herself as Pepper on American Horror Story, the fan-favourite and first crossover character.
Humans have started developing a genetically modified onion that doesn’t make you cry when you cut it.
The Wee Man is your MC for a night of no-rhymes-barred showdowns as some of the best comedians at the Fringe clash in banging bouts of hip-hop wits.
The star of Taskmaster New Zealand returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the third time after sell-out shows in Melbourne, New Zealand and London.
At Bet On It Youth Theatre, aspiring actors will do anything to climb the ladder of success.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Doktor Kaboom! The good Doktor’s newest show fuses astonishing live science experiments, stand-up comedy, and lessons in empowerment, for an…
Josh Glanc is back with a brand-new show.
Why live in the present when you could live in the past? Join viral sensation Lou Taylor as she dives back in time to her happy place: the 90s.
Indo-Kiwo-Ausso comedian Runi Talwar (writer for Hypothetical) presents the incredible story of a guy who once heard someone say ‘get your name out there’ and took it too seriously…
This women-created news satire stars comedian Maggie Metnick in drag as Chip Johnson, a red-blooded American male pundit on a mission to mansplain the news to women.
TEET makes a welcome return after its 2021 debut (during the weird quiet post-Covid Fringe).
When his mother was diagnosed with cancer, Ricky was faced with a question: Is now the right time to come out? After rave reviews at Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Ricky Sim returns with t…
‘American labour icon!? Ridiculous.
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 …
Join comedian Eddy Dibs as he gives a comedic spin on his daily struggle to fit into a tall person’s world.
Multi award-winning comedian Mark Nelson returns with a new show exploring whether it’s really possible to become a new and improved person.
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…
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…
After a sell out season at 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, Furiozo was shortlisted for Best Show in Comedians’ Choice Awards.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
Debuting at this year’s Brighton Fringe is a Fringe first in children’s entertainment.
Meet the intern.
Speak Up! Act Out! in collaboration with Brighton Fringe Academy, are excited to announce an Introduction to Forum Theatre workshop, on May 27th.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath ask Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and tea…
It’s the ‘Errors Tour!’, ‘Singing Andy’ is back with his cult Karaoke History show! The ‘pop star of the Proletariat’ Crooner Des (winner ‘Gulag’s Got Talent’,�…
I don’t wish to sound fussy, but I really don’t care to discuss false teeth during dinner.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
BBC Popcorn Award Nominee Abigail Paul, a “transformative talent” who “lights up the stage” (★★★★★, Theatre Weekly), dives into her sophomore solo show Miss Communication…
Is it time to break up with our phones? Based on the critically acclaimed album by indie rock polymath Tim Arnold, ‘Super Connected LIVE’ is a Black Mirror-esque show fusin…
Naughty Ever After has been ruining childhood memories at festivals around the world since 2017 .
After sell out sessions in March and April, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatr…
Tides.
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Two robo-clones are born of a mad professor and split up at birth.
Following critical success from Burnt Lavender, Missing Link Theatre Company has re-emerged with a thought-provoking showcase guaranteed to leave you pondering: Is this where we’…
This original post-dramatic showcase is united with trauma, twisted humour, and a cardinal sense of unease.
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
An unnerving triple bill showcase for anyone seeking quality discomfort, full of absurdist, post-modern theatricality.
An evening of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams: Portrait of a Madonna, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion & This Property is Condemned.
Multi-award-winning writer/performer Paul Richards returns with a radical percussion-led comedy about the perils of turning middle age and suddenly doubting absolutely everything.
An unlikely six, with clashing personalities, arrive for their weekly support group sessions: There’s Denial, Anger, the Bargaining’s, Depression and of course, the group leade…
We meet George Coleridge-Taylor terrified and hiding while bullets are heard loudly around him.
British singer-songwriter & filmmaker Tim Arnold has announced a run of unique tour dates in support of his nationally acclaimed new album and film Super Connected - a Black Mirror…
Paul and Laura are nice, kind and funny people who make work about tiny details, joy and finding light in the smallest of places.
London stabbings 2017.
Figment Arts will be sharing the folklore, heritage and history of Sussex this May in association with Artist Open Houses.
Jody Kamali is Jeremy Irons in Ironing Board Man.
‘Chaos’ by Laura Lomas A boy brings another boy flowers.
Black Brighton Market is a place where Black People and People of Colour have the opportunity to sell their art, goods, services and perform to the general public.
Best Stand-up Winner Brighton Fringe 2022/23 (The Brighton Seagull) with the first of his two new stand-up shows for 2024.
After a great session in March, Carmen Collective’s ‘Theatre: Making It and Doing It’ workshop is back, bigger and better than ever!Are you a theatre artist of an…
A forgotten moment of English history comes to life at Barons Court Theatre this spring with the debut play from Rosamund Gravelle.
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
The British Theatre Challenge returns to the Jack Studio Theatre to bring you five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Roll for Melanin.
Roll for Melanin.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
A captivating, joyful comedy about love, cancer and really long journeys.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Are you a theatre artist of any discipline who wants to:turn your creative idea into a viable production?obtain funding from Arts Council England?build a sustainable career in the …
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
The Longest Running and most listened to Glasgow Rangers podcast presents a live recording with ex Rangers Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first London Glasgow Rangers show…
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.
The Longest Running and most listened to Glasgow Rangers podcast presents a live recording with ex Rangers Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first London Glasgow Rangers show…
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 longest running Tottenham Hotspur Podcast presents a live recording with Spurs and England Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first West End show in many years.
The longest running Tottenham Hotspur Podcast presents a live recording with Spurs and England Legend Paul Gascoigne in his first West End show in many years.
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Olivier award-winning actor Brian Cox, makes his return to the London stage in Spring 2024 starring in Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
A one-man show by Christopher Lieberman.
The Hole.
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
Fresh from the viral success of his hit web series Fin vs The Internet, that comedian your mother doesn’t like you seeing shares a new hour of brutally funny stand…
BEASTSA mixed-race guide to fucking up.
2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show (Nominee).
2023 Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show (Nominee).
Meet Ben and Cyrus, the first gay winners of TV’s biggest reality-dating show.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
A HEART FULL OF SONG, is a musical theatre concert featuring lifelong musical favourites, but mixed together with real life stories.
Fin Taylor previews his upcoming UK tour in a room above a pub in Penge.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an …
Ryan Long is an NYC Comedian who has amassed more than 100 million views with his viral digital shorts, and is currently the host of popular podcast 'The Boyscast&a…
Ryan Long is an NYC Comedian who has amassed more than 100 million views with his viral digital shorts, and is currently the host of popular podcast 'The Boyscast&a…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for The Gangsta Baby University: a fundraiser for the play Gangsta Baby!The Gangsta Baby University is set up to give you an intensive-crash course on n…
Freckle Productions present STICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheff…
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Join us at The Hope Theatre for a transformative series of workshops and talks designed to unite and uplift working-class and queer individuals.
Now in its 14th year.
A Rose Original Production Next Christmas, an enchanting adventure awaits.
GOLDA is the remarkable true story of Jewish Ukrainian musician, Golda Amirova, who fled Ukraine following the Russian invasion.
Having just played a career defining headline show in The National Concert Hall, David Keenan is going on the road this winter for his “Geimhreadh G…
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him, and he even ends up on a fire! How…
Relaxed performances are specifically adapted for families with children with an Autistic Spectrum Condition, individuals with sensory and communication disorders and th…
The America’s Got Talent winner is back with a brand-new comedy show for 2023.
The America’s Got Talent winner is back with a brand-new comedy show for 2023.
The Offie-nominated Five Star hit show is finally coming to Ireland after sold out shows across the UK!Do you know the story of Diana? Probably.
“Why should I stay silent? They’ve been trying to shut me up from day one.
The Ironic Bionic Man We can rebuild him! Jason is, officially Bionic, “ironically” of course, as Jason, the accident-prone, general unfortunate gobshite (t…
Presenting the tragicomic theatrical tale of an artist on their life-changing journey to reach Paradise, in search of inspiration for their craft and a renaissance of their spirit.
New Wave Theatre: How To Run AwayThis new play is the dirty, mucky, sweaty second-cousin of Eat, Pray, Love.
In search of their long-lost mother, two sisters embark on a perilous sea voyage when one of them begins turning into an octopus.
It’s the final weeks of Suhana’s pregnancy.
“Water, water everywhere and not a place to sleep?” Morphea’s home on the canal is being disturbed, so off she sets on a journey.
Set on the streets of Dublin and described by many as a devastating yet heartfelt piece of theatre, Myra’s Story follows Myra, a homeless woman who awakes in a hostel in Dubl…
The Standard Short Long Drop is Rachel Garnet’s powerful new 90-minute drama filled with gallows humour.
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller” (Deadline) Mike Birbiglia plays a strictly limited run in the West End this Autumn with his hit show The Old Man & The Pool.
One of the magpie people is here. Though there’s no point in searching for him. He’s going to tell you stories. But he won’t tell you if they’re true.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
After the success of Failure Studies in 2021/22, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre are back with a brand new show, A Theatre Show.
Set in Paris, during the Olympic Games of 1924, we see the struggles Eric Liddell faces in staying true to his principles.
‘Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller’ (Deadline.
Acclaimed Canadian comedian J Murphy has been on some very strange dates.
Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of healing.
One fateful night, Tyler and Sam meet at a train station in the South of England.
Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats, Kiell Smith-Bynoe hosts a late-night improv show featuring the best improvisers at the Fringe.
One fateful night, Tyler and Sam meet at a train station in the South of England.
Join us in a sensational visual performance from an object-theatre master.
For 50 years Allan has travelled worldwide to festivals, concert halls and clubs, establishing a reputation as a foremost singer-songwriter with over 150 recordings of his songs by…
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
After a huge UK tour, Sara brings her Success Story to the Fringe for one night only.
Shauna and Robbie are expecting.
Michael Dillon, Mary Read, Bayard Rustin, Vesta Tilley, Hatshepsut.
Michael Dillon, Mary Read, Bayard Rustin, Vesta Tilley, Hatshepsut.
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.
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…
Star of Live At The Apollo, Have I Got News For You, and the man behind viral sensation Fin Vs The Internet with over 50 million views online - Fin Taylor is working up material fo…
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…
In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape.
Eight top comedians compete to see who is the champion beermat flipper 2023! Sikisa, Bella Hull and Stuart Laws host comedy’s premier sporting event, with eight guest comedians com…
Let’s face it, you need a very big man to follow Elvis Presley, and Paul Francis certainly is! Standing at an impressive 6’ 5”, ladies would describe him as a ‘hunk of burning love…
Ben Ashurst is struggling.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
It Won’t Be Long Now is drawn from first-hand accounts of Hong Kong under Japanese occupation.
Hilariously truthful – an unapologetically comic peek into the world of parenting: what comes before, during and after in this rambunctious mix of original songs and sketches fro…
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
The critically acclaimed Fringe 2022 smash hit returns to Edinburgh for two final shows.
Beloved comic and kids entertainer Nik Coppin brings his new show to the Fringe full of jokes, silliness, his own drawn cartoons, competitions based around Disney and superheroes, …
I See Three is a split-bill, stand-up comedy show from exciting new black comedy trio IC3.
Three Sisters and Them takes Chekhov’s play into the fractured world of today.
Northbrook is excited to present Made for This! A contemporary musical theatre and dance showcase filled with gripping, comedic and upbeat numbers.
We invite you to watch our very raw, honest and unfiltered tragicomedy show.
This evening’s performance will include an eclectic mix of solo and ensemble song and dance pieces from some of the West End’s best-loved musicals.
The thought of invisibility, and the advantages it could bring to someone, has captured the imagination of millions since HG Wells’ classic story was first published.
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.
Award-winning LBC presenter returns with a series of in-depth interviews featuring his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs and audience questions.
Sander Klaus is an underage soldier in America’s Civil War.
THE STORY OF IRELAND LIVE is an abridged narrated history of the Emerald Isle through music, poetry and song with a talented cast of live actor musicians.
THE STORY OF IRELAND LIVE is an abridged narrated history of the Emerald Isle through music, poetry and song with a talented cast of live actor musicians.
Social media star Paul Black returns to the Fringe this year with his new stand-up show, Nostalgia, a look back into his childhood as a gay wee boy growing up in Glasgow as the son…
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote some of the finest songs for a golden age of musical theatre.
In these supercharged socio-political times the challenge is more and more becoming separating what’s true and what’s real.
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Andy Williams was one of the world’s greatest light music entertainers and, in celebration of his legacy, Paul performs many of Andy’s biggest hits.
With a mixture of stand-up & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Paul Merton’s infamous Impro Chums return to the Fringe after a four year hiatus and is warmly welcomed by the Pleasance Grand’s 750 seat capacity bursting at the seams.
Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of healing.
Raw, messy, and honest, a show about what could happen if we were brave enough to grieve in the open and without the expectation of healing.
If with if and a washing machine We walk through it to the mood Have a scene which would bring if with if And take a look at the part you devoted to What is the difference betwee…
Ace in the Whole is a hilarious show by comedian Paul Connell.
If with if and a washing machine We walk through it to the mood Have a scene which would bring if with if And take a look at the part you devoted to What is the difference betwee…
How did a Jewish immigrant to London’s East End end up as a General in the Chinese army and become “Two Gun” Cohen? This incredible true story is recounted by Cohen from his cell i…
Join us in The Live Room every Monday in August for our free night of live bands.
Story of two friends who find themselves facing extreme climate events.
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
Voloz Collective’s production of The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much is a masterclass in physical theatre.
A collaborative Work-In-Progress with an exploding star of the UK musical comedy circuit and a newcomer Canadian comedian.
A collaborative Work-In-Progress with an exploding star of the UK musical comedy circuit and a newcomer Canadian comedian.
A tale about life, loss and love after the well-known happily-ever-after.
Join three friends as they embark on a Victorian boating holiday filled with mayhem and mishaps.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Back for a sixth year at the Fringe, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
Winner of awards at FRINGEWORLD Perth, Prague Fringe, and National Arts Festival South Africa.
Set not too far in the future, Twenty People a Minute follows four refugees of tomorrow on a perilous journey across the earth.
A fun cabaret, stories and songs intertwined about the romance, or not, of travel.
For casual Blondie fans, it might be easy to forget how many hits the genre defying band have had over the decades.
Cleopatra Higgins gives a fierce performance in The Whitney Houston Story, along with her band, Higgins sings Whitney Houston’s most recognisable hits while exploring Whitney Hou…
The amazing, strange-but-true story behind the weird stuff advertised in vintage American comics.
How to build a story – for everyone! Want to be the best storyteller you know? Come and join the Story Builders! You’ll learn the secrets of every great story and together we’ll …
A commedia twist on a Grimm’s classic, this high-energy, PG-ish show features traditional commedia characters and masks in a fractured fairy tale that’s fun for the whole family! A…
Get ready to sing your heart out at Sing-a-Long to Smash-Hit Musicals! CRE8IV presents an exhilarating revue show that brings together the best of Broadway’s iconic tunes.
The Aretha Franklin Story is back at Edinburgh Fringe by popular demand, with Cleopatra Higgins of 90s girl group sensation Cleopatra, returning with the Night Owl band to take you…
A nostalgic celebration of the 120 million album-selling supergroup.
By the end of 1928, all three Fail sisters will be dead: expiring in reverse order, youngest to oldest, from blunt object to the head, disappearance, and finally consumption.
Brand-new, non-verbal immersive comedy show, created by award-winning Belfast comedian and clownarchist, Paul Currie.
Hannah Richards returns to Edinburgh with the award-winning Night Owl band to tell the story of one of music’s most iconic artists.
The title, Dead Man’s Suitcase, doesn’t give much away and even at the end it’s a little unclear what the message of Felix Westcott’s musical is supposed to be.
A Bee Story is a uniquely Australian physical theatre show for children and families incorporating a kaleidoscope of circus, acrobatics, dance and live music.
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.
Long-Distance Roommates is an hour of stand-up comedy, split between up-and-coming comedians Casey Filips and Ollie West.
Night Owl Shows delivers a worthy and memorable spectacle with The Billy Joel Story that sees the talented troupe of Angus Munro on piano and vocals, Daniel Watts on drums, Alex Be…
The Northern Irish comic is back with a brand new show.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Ticking Clock Theatre brings to life the grim days of the Victorian hangman at the Space Triplex Studio in The Standard Short Long Drop, a fascinating play set in the cell of two p…
All jokes.
Country-rock crooner Sebastian Saint performs a selection of songs exploring what it means to be an American man while sharing intimate stories about life, loss, addiction, sex, an…
A disturbing yet absurdly funny portrait of toxic masculinity.
Inspired by Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, featuring original text and music which depict the extreme cruelty resulting from retaliation.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
If you still chuckle at those Twilight memes making fun of Kristen Stewart’s awkward portrayal of Bella Stark, or harbour some nostalgia for the immortal (and problematic) YA ser…
15 years after the brutal events of February 2020 in Delhi, a nation reckons with the truth of what really happened.
Jay Sodagar returns with his brand-new stand-up show.
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
It’s time.
The ‘storytelling genius’ ***** (Scotsman) returns with a greatest hits compilation featuring the best and funniest stories and routines from her best Fringe shows.
Acclaimed Canadian comedian J Murphy has been on some very strange dates.
Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Returning for another year, God Damn Fancy Man is the critically acclaimed show from internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
Lucas (Comedy Central) built his career talking about his family on stage.
Two comedians.
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 …
Drag Queen Story Hour: the theatrical experience is here! (Oh no they aren’t?) Oh yes they are! What do you get when you cross fabulously inclusive stories and fabulously dressed d…
We can rebuild him! Jason is officially Bionic – ironically of course – as Jason, the accident prone, general unfortunate gobshite (to no want of his own) is now half man, half…
In a world where one man can be one character, Alexander Richmond dares to be twelve of them.
With such an emotionally heavy title as An Asian Queer Story: Coming Out to Dead People, I was a little worried what to expect from this comedy show.
Palermo is clear about his sexual experiences and reminiscences of his teenage years in Rome, where he honed the art of picking up tourists and getting laid.
Where do you go when your role models let you down? Join award-winning comedian and jumped-up pantry boy Sian on a journey through masculinity and gender identity via Salford Lads …
Star of Spitting Image (Britbox), Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) impressionist Luke Kempner brings his one-man British Police Drama to Edinburgh.
The dishevelled prince of £10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair.
Following a complete sell-out, extended national tour, star of global hit Live Innit, Taskmaster and the first British-Asian stand-up to sell-out London’s Wembley Arena returns to …
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
Do you know the story of Diana? Probably.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Janine thought she knew her family.
Leroy makes his hotly anticipated Fringe debut, about becoming a Dad at 18, 24 and 38.
Acclaimed comedian, daytime TV star and global TikTok sensation, Paul Sinha is at least two of these.
How does a man find his purpose when he grows older and all the major life events come thick and fast? Should he retire to the solitude of The Shed as usual and escape from the wor…
30 Minute Musicals, direct from Hollywood, reports for duty with their fan favourite musical parody of quintessential homoerotic 80s film, Top Gun.
Cathal is 30, flirty, and having a breakdown at his best friend’s wedding.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of kid’s comedy which is now 20% more stupider than ever before.
On Hollywood Boulevard, a group of actors are posing as famous characters for photos with tourists.
Trotting down Memory Lane with feline steps in the wee small hours of the morning with the moon lingering, one of Hong Kong’s most iconic dancers and choreographers and her felin…
‘This Girl’ tells the story of Cynthia Powell, a shy student from Hoylake, who fell in love with a young musician called John when they met at Liverpool Art College in 1957.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
“Best of Three” by Nurit Chinn is a dark and funny world premiere about our compulsion to relive a past that haunts us.
‘This Girl’ tells the story of Cynthia Powell, a shy student from Hoylake, who fell in love with a young musician called John when they met at Liverpool Art College in 1957.
“Best of Three” by Nurit Chinn is a dark and funny world premiere about our compulsion to relive a past that haunts us.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Uair den t-saoghal is beag fios a bha aig mòran dhaoine air beul-aithris na Gàidhlig taobh a-muigh na Gàidhealtachd fhèin.
A musical about the life of Cynthia Lennon, who married the Beatles’ John Lennon.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
After a SELL OUT run at Durham Fringe 2022: Magic Circle Magician & Star of The Magic Corner Tom Bolton is back.
Magic Circle Magician & Star of The Magic Corner Tom Bolton presents: GROW UP MAGIC MAN.
Join us for an evening celebrating songs from the musical The Phantom Of The Opera and much more! Mark Robert Petty Mark has been producing the successful concert series The Crazy…
After their great success last year with ‘Failure Studies’, Marco Biasioli and Precarious Theatre return with A Theatre Show.
About the show The world is dying.
“How do you look the enemy in the eye?” “She endures.
London’s hottest new comedy night returns, headlined by Live at the Apollo regular and star of his own Netflix special, Phil Wang.
The Three Little Pigs tells the traditional tale of Piggy Straw, Piggy Sticks and Piggy Bricks in their battles against the big bad wolf.
About the show Each year Creative Youth’s wonderful team of young people head to Brighton Fringe to judge the best theatre and stand-up comedy shows by performers…
6-year-old Manny is preparing a special dinner.
Graham Greene’s brilliant story – which was made into a landmark film and published as a novella – now comes to the stage in a new musical written by Christopher …
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Fresh from a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Vault Festival ‘Mohan A Partition Story returns to Brighton as part of its farewell tour.
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
The debut Fringe event for Queer the Mic, a sparkly spoken word and poetry stage for queer poets, proudly hosted by The Brunswick.
Pioneers of Signdance theatre, Signdance Collective (SDC), bring their new street theatre production to Brighton Fringe.
International award-winning signdance pioneers, Signdance Collective, return to Brighton Fringe with their “creatively brilliant, inclusively cool street theatre” (AMI Awards & Int…
Buzzbox Collective presents 2 contemporary theatre double bills.
The debut Fringe event for Queer the Mic, a sparkly spoken word and poetry stage for queer poets, proudly hosted by The Brunswick.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Take a nostalgic journey from Dolly’s humble beginnings in the Smoky Mountains to her arrival as ‘Queen of Country’.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
Take a nostalgic journey from Dolly’s humble beginnings in the Smoky Mountains to her arrival as ‘Queen of Country’.
The Long Table originated as a performance installation by Lois Weaver, which experiments with using the private form of a dinner party as a structure for public debate.
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
A seagull manages to escape from an oil slick, only to lay one last egg and with her dying breath asks Zorba, a harbour cat in Hamburg, to promise that he will hatch the egg and te…
THREE is an observational comedy brought to you by new writer Christie Peto.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
VIEWPOINTS is an intensive 3-day physical theatre training process led by international theatre maker Erwin Maas.
A show about hating yourself and, amongst other things, choosing not to.
THREE is an observational comedy brought to you by new writer Christie Peto.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Who Let Him In? Paul Merryck re-emerges from the Essex Swamplands with a new show telling a lot of stupid jokes and daft short stories, tenuously held together by the narrative th…
Who Let Him In? Paul Merryck re-emerges from the Essex Swamplands with a new show telling a lot of stupid jokes and daft short stories, tenuously held together by the narrative th…
Fresh from a critically acclaimed and extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ‘Mohan, A Partition Story’ by renowned storyteller Niall Moorjani, returns to London.
'We don’t in general take to foreigners here… unless they take to us first' With characteristic humour, passion and pathos, Inspector Sands offer a fresh take …
A deeply moving, fast-paced true story of catastrophe, survival and love from Britain’s home front: these uniquely told stories intertwine and unfold to take you on a journey you…
A deeply moving, fast-paced true story of catastrophe, survival and love from Britain’s home front: these uniquely told stories intertwine and unfold to take you on a journey you…
‘Ace in the Whole’ is a hilarious show by comedian Paul Connell.
Direct from a sell out worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives at The London Palladium! Using huge projection photos and …
‘Ace in the Whole’ is a hilarious show by comedian Paul Connell.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? The Edinburgh Fringe Favourite comes to Brighton, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? The Edinburgh Fringe Favourite comes to Brighton, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
Silly, dark and surreal character comedy in Ben Macpherson: Bonfire Man.
Silly, dark and surreal character comedy in Ben Macpherson: Bonfire Man.
World-class acclaimed entertainer Movin’ Melvin Brown is back in Brighton with his smash hit soulful Musical ‘Me and Otis’.
Meet the Man in the Shed, a man of his (own) time.
Meet the Man in the Shed, a man of his (own) time.
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
7 people are about to have a very bad day, but which will be the last man standing? Join comedian and author Aidan Goatley in his first play - a dark absurdist satire that proves, …
Following a complete sell-out 2021 tour and 2022 extension, star of Taskmaster and global smash hit ‘Live Innit’, Paul Chowdhry brings his hit show ‘Fa…
Award-winning supernatural thriller 2.
Way out west there was this fella, a fella by the name of Bax.
Way out west there was this fella, a fella by the name of Bax.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
“Very dark, very funny clown”- Metro “What a great act.
The world is dying.
The world is dying.
Jamie’s girlfriend has just broken up with him for a man that goes to the gym – obviously.
Jamie’s girlfriend has just broken up with him for a man that goes to the gym – obviously.
The Importance of Being Earnest By 3 F*cking Queens And A Duck is a fun take on Oscar Wilde's classic Manners Comedy, told from the perspective of three actors (the queens) who…
The sell-out comedy hit of 2014, 2018 and 2022 Edinburgh Fringe finally descends upon Brighton in all its disrespectful glory as Australia’s award-winning Out Cast Theatre presen…
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
After last year's sell-out run and in preparation for it's run at The Brighton Fringe, The Man In The Shed returns for 2 nights only.
Nominated Reviews Hub/Brighton Fringe Best Show 2021.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
If you’re feeling playful and curious about immersive theatre, join the Carnie-fun of Caravanserai.
Sian loves men.
London’s hottest new comedy night kicks off with a mega line-up, headlined by star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and Matilda, Sindhu Vee.
Sian loves men.
There’s a growing dark cloud above the Rosenberg house.
There’s a growing dark cloud above the Rosenberg house.
Rose Theatre and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres in association with Swinging the Lens A Rose Original Production Following her critically-acclaimed production of Richa…
By Nigel Williams Adapted from the novel by William Golding In the midst of a raging war, a group of British school children are left stranded after surviving a devastating plane c…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Onsale Friday 14th OctoberTaylor Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage when her hour-long special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix just a…
Paul Black's brand new show 'Nostalgia' follows on from the Glasgow-born comedian's debut Edinburgh Fringe run, which sold out in minutes.
SESSION TIMES: 19.
Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, Tomlinson exploded onto the international stage with her first-ever, hour-long special, Quarter-Life Crisis, named “Best of 2020” …
“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.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for its seventh year.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase.
6-year-old Manny is making his very first guacamole for his dad’s welcome home dinner.
What’s the only thing proven to change the world? That’s right: issue-led fringe theatre.
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
Paul Smith is back with a brand new tour! ‘Joker’ is his biggest and funniest tour show to date in which the scouse funny man mixes his trade mark audience i…
Tamina was from Pakistan but living in London’s Notting Hill area during the 1950s, in the times before the decriminalisation of homosexuality came in 1967.
Ready to get your laugh on? This March, we're bringing you Live at Leicester Square Theatre: a side-splitting lineup of some of the circuit's top comedi…
After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
This is the story of the greatest Black Briton to have ever been forgotten.
Fourteen-year-old David has just been punched in the face by his best friend.
There are situations and circumstances in which if you didn’t laugh you’d cry or perhaps in Katie Arnstein’s case just freeze.
Theatre of Gulags is a theatrical installation exploring the dark history of the Soviet Union labour camps, and the full-scale theatres that were built inside them.
Fresh from a critically acclaimed and extended run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ‘Mohan, A Partition Story’ returns to London.
Myths, mystical music and a magpie.
“Light-hearted, never-to-be-seen-again fun.
blurb: Suitable for budding playwrights who want to meet dramaturgical story wizards Eoghan Carrick, Sarah Baxter, Michelle Read and Pamela McQueen to talk about their p…
“I think when it comes down to it Daniel, we’re probably looking for the same thing.
The Greatest Story Ever CastThe Devil is in the detail You Who!Knock knock: who's really there? The Greatest Story Ever Cast - Frank Notions Mary is auditionin…
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Feathered Again, I beg.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Fin Taylor is back on the road with a brand new trunk of painfully funny stand-up for 2023.
Fin Taylor is back on the road with a brand new trunk of painfully funny stand-up for 2023.
With a mixture of standup & video, comedian Lou Taylor discusses her life, relationship, childhood, and much more.
Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and…
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Earth is a story of a little boy Drop who dreams of travelling to space.
Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and …
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer …
The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES.
The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES.
The West End theatre event of the year will return for a fifth season by popular demand.
Freckle Productions present STICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler&rsq…
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.
Cal McCrystal’s Mother Goose is a self-described silly, fun show with an underlying commentary of failed economic policies that live up to that promise.
Hey Duggee: The Live Theatre Show is going to be huge! Betty wants to make costumes, Happy wants to sing, Tag wants to make music, Norrie wants to dance, Roly wants jelly and they …
Now in it’s 13th year! Leicester Square Theatre’s showcase for the UK's best up & coming New Comedians The best acts from almost 40 heats com…
Fin Taylor is not afraid to speak his mind, and his recent set Daddy Self-Care is proof of that.
“A Musical Theatre Christmas” returns to The Actors’ Church, presented by Mark Robert Petty.
From Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, writer of the Olivier Award-winning Emilia, comes a brand-new retelling of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic.
George has had a tough week.
Due to the huge demand for the first run of London shows, singer, songwriter, composer and producer, Gary Barlow, has announced the final two West End shows for his critically accl…
There’s a delightful anecdote about George Bernard Shaw at one of the early performances of Arms and the Man.
For the first time in London, Paul Mirabel presents “Zebre” “Terribly funny” Telerama “The new sensation” Le Parisien
Christie Peto’s dark, observational comedy returns to the Canal Cafe Theatre.
Freckle Productions presentSTICK MANTouching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s&…
Playing 100 distinct characters in a one hour performance, writer-performer Saul Boyer delivers the rip-roaring tale of Sir Paul Dukes, a child runaway who, after just three weeks’…
The royal affair that is Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story, is the most unhinged piece of theatre in existence.
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:…
Cathal is 35, renting, eternally single, and has just spent the last three years watching all of his friends settle down, get married and have kids.
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café.
Have you ever sat opposite someone on a bus quietly, both on your phones, and not say a word? Perhaps you glance up for a second and smile at each other.
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
Following on from the success of the first event, My Kind of Musical is back with more fat, more songs, more revenge, and more spiralling over whether or not you should feed the bi…
Does emotion help us make moral judgments? Alfie will address this question using jokes.
Drawing on music hall and vaudeville traditions, Skinner & T’witch’s show combines comedy and satire with folk, flamenco and theatre-style songs.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
10 years of war have ended.
In 1973, aspiring serial killer Rodney Buzzard sits in his thatched bungalow apartment, skinning spuds for practice… He waits for a knock at the door but hears nothing – the No…
There’s a lot packed in to Long Nights in Paradise, probably too much, but it still makes for an interesting story that explores the ups and downs of life, the building and disin…
Tim performs songs he composed for Frederick McKinnon’s musical about Captain James Cook, and tells the story of the 18th-century explorer.
What would you do if you reached a moment in your life that made you question everything about yourself? Walk almost 1,000 kilometres across northern Spain? Well, that’s what one m…
Smoking hot split bill of stand-up from two fully developed women.
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
Be transported into the supernatural world of The Three Seas.
THREE by Christie Peto.
Edinburgh’s favourite Guardian-approved naughty boy is back! And he’s bringing with him a brand-new hour of painfully funny stand-up for 2022.
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
Captivate Theatre brings the smash-hit comedy to the Fringe! ‘You gotta concentrate ain’t ya, with two jobs.
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises.
It’s 1932, prohibition has swept New York, and Tony Morino owns a small underground speakeasy in the Bronx, selling bathtub gin so steeped in ethanol it could easily kill you.
It’s 1932, prohibition has swept New York, and Tony Morino owns a small underground speakeasy in the Bronx, selling bathtub gin so steeped in ethanol it could easily kill you.
Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams is a solo acoustic concert showcasing many of Andy Williams’ greatest hits.
Jon Long (star of Radio 4’s Extinction Compendium) is back with more stand-up and songs about our impending doom, with thoughts on how we might yet avoid it.
Join John Bishop and Tony Pitts as they meet a special guest to chat about three words that mean something to them.
How to build a story – for everyone! Want to be the best storyteller you know? Come and join the Story Builders! You’ll learn the secrets of every great story and together we’ll …
Take songs that stop conversations, a voice that could stop wars and a fiddle that stops at nothing, and you have the icon Elsa McTaggart.
Immrama: Columba’s Journey, Your Story.
It’s a day like any other.
A tragicomedy combining clowning and physical theatre, Boat! follows two friends at sea as they navigate companionship, solitude and altering states of reality.
Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist…
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970s.
Born in the UK to Bengali doctors, the early 1990s saw Paul qualify as a doctor and take his first steps on the stand-up comedy circuit.
The songwriting genius of Neil and his writing partners will go down in history as one of the most successful of all time.
The West End theatre event of the year will return this summer by popular demand.
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Formed in 1982, Edinburgh Music Theatre will be celebrating its big birthday (40 years young!) by performing a musical revue.
The America’s Got Talent winner brings his latest smash-hit show to Edinburgh for the first time.
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church.
One performance only. Arrive early, sell-out expected.
Billy Parva is the greatest man who ever lived.
Billy Parva is the greatest man who ever lived.
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 …
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Back for a fifth year at the Fringe, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Back for a fifth year at the Fringe, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC.
Paul Richards literally can’t stop drumming; he’s performed all over the world, from huge gigs in China to grotty working men’s clubs, posh corporate gigs to the whole of the UK to…
‘Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice’ ***** (Tom King, Southside Advertiser).
Gecko’s playful story-songs will take you on a journey via ignored characters in Italian renaissance paintings, pig outlaws and tooth fairy admin.
Paul Savage wanted to do a fun, silly show but shows about trauma win awards.
A Romantic Comedy.
Fifteen Minute Break by Tuppenny Bunters.
A night of comedy featuring top acts from the Fringe, curated and programmed by London’s premier comedy venue Leicester Square Theatre.
The story follows a young prince who is accused of attempted murder and sentenced to die as a galley slave, but survives, eventually returning to his homeland, to find that his mot…
Tom Waits depicted the poor, the punks, the hobos and the lost.
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.
Completely sold out in 2014 and 2018.
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
Nostalgic journey from Dolly’s humble beginnings to becoming Queen of Country.
100,000 characters.
‘Five stars are not enough to do it justice!’ ***** (Daily Mail).
Playwright, composer, actor, singer; Noël Coward defined and shaped the 20th century.
Variety died on the 11th of March 2018, the day Ken Dodd died.
Sammy, an artist with a love of music, has a dark secret.
‘Arry Everyman has had all the crap careers in history: cannibal pot stirrer, medieval plague sniffer, lizard war cannon fodder, undandy highwayman, popper of anchovies into small …
Multi award-winning show taking you through the life and music of the record-breaking superstar, from humble beginnings in Nutbush to her crowning as Queen of Rock’n’Roll.
Multi award-winning show taking you on a journey through the life and music of Aretha Franklin, the most-charted female of the 21st century, with high-energy versions of Think, Nat…
Following standing ovations and raucous singalongs worldwide, The Nashville Story returns, taking you on a tour through time in Music City.
Scotland’s greatest bands/artists can often disappear under the title of UK artists.
Get ready for an evening of parody, poetry and fun as Eric returns with satirical classics, old and new.
After touring all over Europe, Mike Rice brings his electric hour show to Edinburgh.
Three by Nigro.
If someone happened to wander into the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh knowing nothing about Puppet State Theatre Company’s The Man Who Planted Trees, they’d certainl…
MC Hammersmith is the world’s leading freestyle rapper to emerge from the ghetto of middle-class West London.
When the three little wolves go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the Big Bad Pig.
Three Women and Shakespeare’s Will is is a nice little premise for a play.
It’s time for us to play.
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…
Incredible songwriter and entertainer, Neil Diamond has wooed the world with 38 singles in the top 10, and 10 number one hits! Timeless classics that are as relevant today as they …
‘All we have hinges on the worn thread of a memory.
The Dumb Man is a dark comedy about the man who lives inside a psychedelic world he created for himself to cope with grief.
Pat and Pete live happily in their tiny botanic bathroom, so happily they don’t remember any ambitions they’ve had in life.
The Dumb Man is a dark comedy about the man who lives inside a psychedelic world he created for himself to cope with grief.
Gara spent most of their life being a “girl”.
A nostalgic celebration of the 120 million album-selling supergroup.
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist 2021.
Father-son stand-up comics Paul and Paul wish life was more like television and they had the power to rewrite and recast the characters in their lives.
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Making its professional debut, In Stitches Theatre Company presents COMEDY IMPROV! A group of 11 improvisers born at Rose Bruford College! You can expect games, stories, questionab…
Sharlin Jahan (BBC 4’s The Now Show, BBC Essex Radio) is a Bangladeshi, British, Canadian Comedian.
Writer and performer Paul Black brings his theatre show Self-Care Era to the Fringe for the first time.
It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage…
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
A Google search is possibly the most used thing out of all the things you use after toilet paper, but what’s it like to work there? And are the people all weirdo IT people? And are…
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.
Ted Hill is incredibly brave for putting on his show, All The Presidents Man, which in itself is a very clever title.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
The continuing story of PD’s perpetually interrupted life.
Boy, you’re an alien.
Choir of Man is the best night in your local you’ve ever had.
He’s a stand-up and a clown.
Join comedian and children’s author Olaf Falafel for an hour of really stupid kids’ comedy plus a drawing lesson and possibly something that involves fishing, ducks, bumbags and …
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…
After moving to Switzerland, a wayward Aussie finds out he’ll be a father and so he does the obvious: Leaves everyone to embark on an acting career (AKA cocaine addiction) and accr…
‘After defeat, re-enchantment is necessary’, said Lola Olufemi.
Disney villain.
A hilarious new stand-up show from the star of Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Impractical Jokers UK and Stand Up Central.
Lanessa has been performing shows all her life.
A timely piece of theatre for 2022, which is the 75th anniversary of the Partition in India.
Join New Zealand’s fastest comedian (5km and 10km) for an enchanting afternoon In the Moonlight.
New show from Edinburgh-based piano virtuouso Will Pickvance (Anatomy of a Piano, Pianohood, First Piano On The Moon).
It’s a sticky situation.
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…
Can a man find his purpose when he grows older and all the major life events come thick and fast? Should he retire to the solitude of The Shed and escape from the world, or get out…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s darkly comic tale brought to the stage for children and adults to share.
Star of Spitting Image (Britbox), Steph’s Packed Lunch (Channel 4) and with over 10 million views online, comedian Luke Kempner has found out he is to become a father, but can he b…
One performer.
According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du…
An investigation into Welsh and queer identity or a show for anyone with a complex relationship to home.
Physical comedy meets Hollywood.
It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-…
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
Kazumi is hunting a sea monster.
Wes Anderson meets Hitchcock meets spaghetti western in this multi award-winning, intercontinental, inter-genre, cinematic caper of accusations, accidents and accents.
Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act…
Sold-out run: Off-Broadway, Asylum NYC (2022).
Andy’s an ideas man and he’s got ideas, man.
Does emotion help us make moral judgments? Alfie will address this question using jokes.
It’s Leigh’s 21st birthday, and they want nothing more than to just have a quiet night in.
Magic Circle Magician & Star of The Magic Corner Tom Bolton presents: GROW UP MAGIC MAN.
It’s Leigh’s 21st birthday, and they want nothing more than to just have a quiet night in.
Nana Rabbit’s Cake-off! Join Nana Rabbit and her friends as they re-enact her most famous adventure yet; The Quest for the Whisk of Destiny! Nana, who was once named ‘The Greatest…
Eccentric, scandalous, provocative, exuberant, and funny as ever, Jean Paul Gaultier is set to shake up London this summer when his stunning creation, Fashion Freak Show - 50 years…
Wes Anderson meets Hitchcock meets spaghetti western in this multi award-winning, intercontinental, inter-genre, cinematic caper of accusations, accidents and accents.
Fasten your seat belts – The Car Man is back! In a spectacular new staging for the Royal Albert Hall’s 150th anniversary.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Provocative, crude and iconic, Fat Rascal Theatre’s production of Unfortunate is nothing short of a showstopper.
Maverick comedian Fool F Taylor returns .
Maverick comedian Fool F Taylor returns .
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Astra’s people snatched their green homeland from the chaos of global eco-collapse.
Pioneers of Signdance theatre, Signdance Collective (SDC), bring their new street theatre production to Brighton Fringe.
The event might fall short of the hype that The Man Behind the Mask would be a ‘confessional evening – seasoned with highly personal, sometimes startling, and occasionally outr…
Everything begins with movement.
Everything begins with movement.
This highly acclaimed production continues to captivate audiences across the UK with its spectacular celebration of the classic songbook that made The Carpenters a legen…
Miracle Theatre brings Carol Ann Duffy’s radical adaption of Everyman right up to date, creating a multi-sensory experience with sizzling sound score (Dom Coyote – Kneehigh), m…
When your time’s up, how will you account for your life on Earth? Everyman is riding high, works hard and plays harder.
In this electric, pulsating autobiographical solo-show, Majid (Hollyoaks, War Horse) traces the origin of his own personal struggles with anger and probes the unspoken anxieties, d…
“Brilliant”, “amazing”, “fantastic”.
“Brilliant”, “amazing”, “fantastic”.
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
What next? If you’re thinking about developing your show, or setting up your own company after the Fringe, but don’t know where to begin, sign up to talk to Jackie Elliman, Leg…
A timely piece of theatre for 2022 - the 75th anniversary of Partition in India.
A timely piece of theatre for 2022 - the 75th anniversary of Partition in India.
Come and enjoy a late night comedy and drinking session at The Caxton Arms with the legendary Essex life-coach, philosopher and comedian, Paul Merryck, and some of his boozier mate…
A re-imagining of ‘Macbeth’ set in the 1950s.
A re-imagining of ‘Macbeth’ set in the 1950s.
He’s survived another year and he’s back! For the fourth year running (he even did a show in 2020), it’s the Brighton Fringe gig that is fast becoming a very dodgy institution.
Nominated Reviews Hub/Brighton Fringe Best Show 2021.
Guava Palava Arts present an award-winning comedy theatre show.
The sweet journey of an unlikely pear of lovers.
If you looked up the dictionary definition of a variety show, Johnny MacAulay’s Man of a Thousand Farces should be there.
A show for anyone with a complex relationship to home, Ryan Lane’s playful, inventive and intimate character comedy explores what it means to be Welsh, queer and the myths tha…
A show for anyone with a complex relationship to home, Ryan Lane’s playful, inventive and intimate character comedy explores what it means to be Welsh, queer and the myths tha…
The Man In The Shed is a highly amusing and at time hilarious solo rant by actor Alex Dee, co-written as Alex Donald with Tim Connery.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
He’s back! He’s a clowny comedian, he’ll do almost anything for a laugh, he’s been around for long enough to have lots of material.
He’s back! He’s a clowny comedian, he’ll do almost anything for a laugh, he’s been around for long enough to have lots of material.
An avant-garde performance created from three elements: words, dance, and projection mapping.
An avant-garde performance created from three elements: words, dance, and projection mapping.
THE STORY OF GUITAR HEROES“If you like music and guitars you will LOVE this show!”We all love a bit of guitar wielding in a song, it’s iconic, soulful …
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
A roller coaster comedy full of colourful characters and uplifting Cuban-inspired songs.
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
Come and watch our Musical Theatre (BA Hons) students perform in their end of year showcase
This is a double bill of monologues navigating grief: Intricate Rituals by Seth Douglas and The Same Rain That Falls on Me by Logan Jones.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
The country’s biggest sketch competition is back for it’s sixth year.
Star of Spitting Image, Steph’s Packed Lunch and with over 10 million views of his online videos, Luke Kempner is one of the UK’s hottest mimics and stand-up…
Live/Wire is The AC/DC Show.
Star of Spitting Image, Steph’s Packed Lunch and with over 10 million views of his online videos, Luke Kempner is one of the UK’s hottest mimics and stand-up…
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
All his friends are getting married, and he’s really happy for them.
Thank you, next The life of an auditioning actor Three Queens Stuck in Dublin City We’re all born naked, but the rest is shade! Thank you, next - Megan O&ap…
The year is 2021, and the world still doesn’t know what to do with those of us who have decided not to reproduce.
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
THE DIANA ROSS STORY The World’s Premier show in celebration of DIANA ROSS and THE SUPREMES Theatre audiences prepare to be taken on a spellbinding journey visi…
The (Not So) Quick Murder of Man Death over a bag of crisps Sorry, Denny's Dead.
The multi-award winning comedian presents his brand new show.
It feels like a lifetime since I was seated front of stage; looking up at the house lights, almost as nervous as the performers waiting behind the curtain.
Bart Lambert and Jack Reitman were joint winners of the OffWestEnd Award 2020 for Best Male Performance in a Musical for their roles in Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story at The…
Freckle Productions present STICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler&rsq…
Now in it’s 12th year.
Mark Gatiss (The Madness of George III, Dracula, The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) stars in his own retelling of Dickens' classic winter ghost story.
This show was originally scheduled for 21 November 2020 The multi-award winning comedian presents his brand new show.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Freckle Productions presentSTICK MAN - Relaxed PerformanceTouching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and A…
When Michał Piwowarski’s granddaughter, Tasha, finally moves out, Michał's whole world changes.
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
Welcome to the Jungle! The appropriately named fictional pub that is set within the walls of the Arts Theatre.
The multi-award winning comedian presents his brand new show.
Anything For Love – The Meat Loaf Story: It’s all about the music! Following his sell out 2019 national tour, the highly acclaimed Steve Steinman brings you …
Freckle Productions present STICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions’ delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler&rsq…
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
Performing live on stage - Paul Middleton at 8pmTicket link
Drag-A-Long is BACK! With another incredible night of dragifying your favourite musicals.
For a long time it had just been the two of them.
What’s scarier than a slice of gothic horror? Four slices, that’s what.
Romancero Books con el apoyo de la Oficina de Asuntos Culturales y Cintificos de la Embajada de Espaa en Londres presenta el Festival de Literatura Queer Espaola en Londres - FLQEL…
A lot has changed for Paul in recent years.
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Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our …
Capitalism has the city of Dollaropolis in its grasp, and only The Chosen One can extinguish its smog: Karl Kommufist, boy wonder! Can Karl, aided by his best friends Emily and Max…
Capitalism has the city of Dollaropolis in its grasp, and only The Chosen One can extinguish its smog: Karl Kommufist, boy wonder! Can Karl, aided by his best friends Emily and Max…
Capitalism has the city of Dollaropolis in its grasp, and only The Chosen One can extinguish its smog: Karl Kommufist, boy wonder! Can Karl, aided by his best friends Emily and Max…
Capitalism has the city of Dollaropolis in its grasp, and only The Chosen One can extinguish its smog: Karl Kommufist, boy wonder! Can Karl, aided by his best friends Emily and Max…
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
Over 300 acts compete for the title of New Comedian of the Year in Leicester Square Theatre‘s hunt for the best new acts in the country.
RENEGADE AMERICANA! Join three adventurers on an incredible journey, searching for the moonshine, myth and madness of the American Wilderness.
Join Jerome, Harris, George and Montmorency from Kingston-upon-Thames to Oxford as they encounter a variety of people, places and peculiar maladies and discuss various important to…
By James ColeBen battles to overcome his addiction while a ghost of his past seeks to destroy his future.
Using evocative imagery, video and narration to enhance the magic, Hello Again… takes you on a musical journey through Neil Diamond’s glittering 50 ye…
As we move forward into what we hope is a more inclusive and embracing world, the B of LGBTQ+ is still regularly left silent, particularly when it comes to men.
As we move forward into what we hope is a more inclusive and embracing world, the B of LGBTQ+ is still regularly left silent, particularly when it comes to men.
As we move forward into what we hope is a more inclusive and embracing world, the B of LGBTQ+ is still regularly left silent, particularly when it comes to men.
As we move forward into what we hope is a more inclusive and embracing world, the B of LGBTQ+ is still regularly left silent, particularly when it comes to men.
Richard Herring returns to The Leicester Square Theatre for his famous podcast, RHLSTP! Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and…
The whole family knew he was a good dad.
Oh, you like Josie Long? Political and personal in one sentence, angry but tender, did a brilliant and much-lauded Fringe show when we last had civilization.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Sharpen your swords, lace up your boots, and stick a great big feather in your hat! Morgan & West present a fun for all the family retelling of Alexadre Dumas’ The Three …
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
The Johnny Cash Story returns to Edinburgh Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the Man in Black.
Fin’s wedding was a few months before the pandemic.
This “Ugly Cabaret” is a performance meant to showcase selected scenes and songs from our first original musical “Three: A Generational Musical.
The perfect afternoon show.
This “Ugly Cabaret” is a performance meant to showcase selected scenes and songs from our first original musical “Three: A Generational Musical.
Some things aren’t a choice.
With 21 convictions for 76 offenses, beginning at the age of 13, including arrests for stabbings, shootings and murder; losing an eye and being told he would never walk again, Marv…
Some things aren’t a choice.
This multi-award-winning adaptation of Jean Giono’s classic environmental tale toured for almost 14 years, with repeat appearances at the Sydney Opera House and off-Broadway.
Multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and stand-up, Paul Dennis brings his music and comedy together for the first time.
MC Hammersmith (aka Will Naameh, the tall skinny posh one from Spontaneous Potter) is a freestyle rapper straight outta middle-class west London.
This 5-star show takes you on a journey through time in Nashville to experience how music influenced the bible belt city and in turn how Music City influenced the world of music.
WELCOME TO DRAG-A-LONG! A queer musical cabaret.
A show for anyone with a complex relationship to home, Ryan Lane’s playful, inventive and intimate character comedy explores what it means to be Welsh, queer and the myths tha…
A show for anyone with a complex relationship to home, Ryan Lane’s playful, inventive and intimate character comedy explores what it means to be Welsh, queer and the myths tha…
MAN UP! - The Grand Final is finally here! After 8 weeks of heats featuring over 120 of London & the UKs finest DRAG KINGS, The Glory brings the final of its ground-breaki…
Paul Black's Fringe debut had a lot to live up to.
So far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Welcome to undertaker Anna Morgan-Jones’ live Zoom webinar.
Patricia has been concocting the perfect speech in her head over the last year, of what she would say if she were ever to face her ex-abusive boyfriend again.
Nicola Benedetti performs a new multimedia concert, journeying through the musical history of the violin from Bach to the present day.
Does emotion help us make moral judgements? Alfie Brown is performing a work-in-progress show (which are often a lot more fun) that will attempt to answer this question.
‘Better than Sex’ is a one-woman tantalising and timeless cabaret reflecting on the infamous 1930’s sex-symbol, Mae West.
‘Better than Sex’ is a one-woman tantalising and timeless cabaret reflecting on the infamous 1930’s sex-symbol, Mae West.
When the red-suited moustachioed plumber goes missing, the Princess realises she has to break the cycle of her role as “damsel in distress”, turn the tables and go on an advent…
A modern man-free adaptation of the Chekhov classic.
This panel will explore dance, theatre and performance delivered both live and digitally.
Come immerse yourself in the steamy hot waters of TEET as Paul Currie dissolves, froths and fizzes all around you.
A modern man-free adaptation of the Chekhov classic.
Ross Cullum (Bridgerton) plays villainous English bastards on TV, depicting the cis-het-masc-posho-twat demographic.
When the red-suited moustachioed plumber goes missing, the Princess realises she has to break the cycle of her role as “damsel in distress”, turn the tables and go on an advent…
The perfect afternoon show.
Super Scott returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his own style of comedy juggling and escapology. Maybe a bit of magic. Expect the unexpected!
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill's debut stand-up show covers every single US President, and one man's recovery from a mental breakdown.
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.
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Comedian and silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show about every single US President, and one man’s recovery from a mental breakdown.
After sell out shows at Fringes worldwide, this show returns to Edinburgh to take you on Dolly’s incredible journey from the Smoky Mountains to her arrival as the Queen of Countr…
The untold side to the story of Aladdin’s Jafar and how he went from a selfless royal advisor to a man desperate to make things right again…
Puppetry, shadow theatre, mime and music all contribute to this charming oddity, which Caravan Theatre do indeed perform in a caravan.
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
Described as a ‘wonderfully chaotic and colourful tragicomedy’ Theatre-19 Presents: John is a particularly silly devised piece at theSpace@Surgeons Hall from a group of Bristol…
It’s only rock’n’roll, till it isn’t.
Lockdown Love Story is a UK-based comedy created by Alice Fforde and Charlie Dryden, highlighting the ups and downs of online dating during a pandemic.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
A referential piece of immersive digital theatre set in a flat that’s been possessed – Poltergeist style – by the ghost of pop-cultural masculinities.
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.
An avant-garde performance, created from three elements: words, dance, and projection mapping.
Through storytelling, poetry and illustration, this show transports you back to Westeros to narrate a different version of the Game of Thrones story.
A trio of new plays, presented digitally, by Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group.
Does instant connectivity help our attempts to make meaningful relationships with our surroundings and our fellow humans? Or does it reinforce feelings of isolation and inadequacy …
A ninety-minute monologue about a homeless person? Embrace it.
An avant-garde performance, created from three elements: words, dance, and projection mapping.
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Let’s get fabulous! An interactive and inclusive storytime like no other storytime you will ever be involved with! Are you sitting comfortably? Why? Get on your feet and let’s read…
Immrama were ancient voyage tales, allegories of our journey through life.
The runaway international hit comes to London! Known across the globe as “the ultimate-feel good show,” THE CHOIR OF MAN offers up one hour of indisputable joy! It&rsqu…
Journey through the life and music of this phenomenal record-breaking superstar from Tina’s beginnings in Nutbush, through to the crowning of the stadium-filling Queen Of Rock �…
Journey through the life and music of this phenomenal record-breaking superstar from Tina’s beginnings in Nutbush, through to the crowning of the stadium-filling Queen Of Rock �…
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Shelf are a musical comedy double act.
An evening of organically improvised live jazz and groove music. Led by saxophonist Quinn Oulton, and featuring some of the finest creative minds of the UK jazz scene.
Come and enjoy a late night comedy and drinking session at The Caxton Arms with the legendary Essex life-coach, philosopher and comedian, Paul Merryck, and some of his boozier mate…
Song, storytelling and circus, ‘The 3 Graces’ is the perfect antidote to lockdown blues, set against a beautiful garden backdrop.
Come and enjoy a late night comedy and drinking session at The Caxton Arms with the legendary Essex life-coach, philosopher and comedian, Paul Merryck, and some of his boozier mate…
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Lucy just ran over a guy.
Lucy just ran over a guy.
“Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice ” ★★★★ (Southside Advertiser) “Blown away from sta…
“Elsa is one of these very few people with a distinctive enough voice to do the music and songs of Eva Cassidy justice ” ★★★★ (Southside Advertiser) “Blown away from start…
After sell out shows at Brighton, Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide Fringes, this show returns to Brighton to take you on Dolly’s incredible journey from the Smoky Mountains to her a…
After sell out shows at Brighton, Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide Fringes, this show returns to Brighton to take you on Dolly’s incredible journey from the Smoky Mountains to her a…
It’s a summer night in Old Steine, the fairy lights twinkle, the drinks flow.
It’s a summer night in Old Steine, the fairy lights twinkle, the drinks flow.
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
In this new show, singer-songwriter Gary Edward Jones not only recites the music of one of his idols but also tells the unique story of Paul Simon combining visuals, stage design a…
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
This year, as a part of the National Lottery’s Thanks To You week, we are delighted to be hosting a talk about the heritage of our theatre.
Saturday 5th September, 7.
A trip to Story Corner is the perfect way start to your Fringe day.
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
Where do our missing socks go? Do they end up down the plug hole or do they go sunbathing in the Caribbean? Milo thinks that wearing odd socks is embarrassing, so his weird and w…
A haunting tale of a woman on the edge, entangled by her raw love and lust for three women.
Char Brockes and Jack O'Neill (Ava Cardo) brought the Rialto Theatre to life with their unique styles of drag and slapstick comedy, in order to explore the theme of Romantic Co…
A 20-minute two-man version of the Oscar Wilde classic play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’, adapted and performed by Jon Haynes and David Woods of Ridiculusmus and directed by J…
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Ellie is a schoolgirl with a very bright future ahead of her.
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
A haunting tale of a woman on the edge, entangled by her raw love and lust for three women.
Locally-composed Cape jazz produced at the foot of Table Mountain.
Three time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Josie Long is back with her most critically-acclaimed show to dateAfter a brief hiatus, during which she had a baby, started bringing the …
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
After phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Je m’appelle Paul, je suis Anglais et j’habite en France.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story (50th Anniversary Tour) Direct from a weeklong run in London’s West End at the Vaudeville Theatre, a SOLD OUT Worldwide tour and stan…
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…
This show has been rescheduled from 09 April 2020.
The smash hit film as you have never experienced it before.
£5510am - 3pmAge 16+ Artist Flora Gare will introduce sculpting with wire; learning to trace, join and shape coloured copper wire, from a drawing into a beautiful …
This event was rescheduled from Fri 01 May 2020 OFF THE KERB PRODUCTIONS PRESENTSPAUL McCAFFREY: LEMONAs seen on Live At The Apollo.
We open our Out of the Wings winter festivities with an evening of short extracts of translated plays from first-time and early-career theatre translators.
Award-winning genre explorers Encompass Productions return to the White Bear Theatre with Homecoming: A New Theatre Festival.
Where is the glitter and magic, our annual Christmas treat, without the Sugar Plum Fairy or the Snow Queen? With theatre doors closed during these sad times, Scottish Ballet have c…
Now in it’s 12th year.
Ceridwen the witch has a problem.
The multi-award winning comedian presents his brand new show.
The multi-award winning comedian presents his brand new show.
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…
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,…
“All for one and one for all!” When young D’Artagnan travels to Paris to join the king’s musketeers he uncovers a plot to discredit Queen Anne in the ey…
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
Through storytelling poetry, this show transports you back to Westeros to narrate a different version of the Game of Thrones story.
Get started with writing that story you’ve always dreamed of telling in this interactive one-hour workshop.
A one hour Zoom workshop exploring poetry and creative writing in theatre.
The Neil Diamond Story follows the tale of the boy from Brooklyn through to becoming one of the most popular singer-songwriters of all time, selling over a million records worldwid…
A light-hearted afternoon of trios, duets and solos from opera and musical theatre, encompassing Mozart to Sondheim.
This virtual live event explores the role of theatre and performance in military life, especially in boosting troops’ morale.
This multi-award-winning show takes you on a journey through the incredible life and music of Aretha Franklin, the most charted female of the 21st century.
Multi-award-winning show taking you through the life and music of the record-breaking superstar, from her humble beginnings in Nutbush through to her crowning of the ‘Queen of Ro…
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970’s. Performed by ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Small Truth Theatre are delighted to announce our DIGITAL CARAVAN THEATRE will be launching on Saturday 15th August 2020, with our first collection of audio plays that are all avai…
Learn how archival material can inspire your next creative project in this live virtual event.
Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature.
Join Rosie Kay as she talks about working in dance and film, from 5 SOLDIERS to Sunshine on Leith.
Following successful tours of Australia, the USA and the UK, English folk-acoustic duo Skinner and T’witch return to Edinburgh with a live show of original music.
Following sell out shows and standing ovations at Edinburgh Fringe, ‘The Dolly Parton Story’ premiers at Brighton Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of …
Four videos, four different stories: Haunted; The Singing Lesson; Lady M and Pamela Drysdale’s Lockdown.
This multi-award-winning show takes you on a journey through the incredible life and music of Aretha Franklin, the most charted female of the 21st century.
Multi-award-winning show taking you through the life and music of the record-breaking superstar, from her humble beginnings in Nutbush through to her crowning as the Queen of Rock’…
Three Times She Knocked, an erotic psychological thriller.
Completely sold out in 2014 and 2018.
After previous successful runs at Edinburgh, Adelaide and Brighton Fringe, follow Dolly’s incredible journey from the Smoky Mountains to her arrival as the Queen of Country.
Discover the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Scotland’s capital city with these entertaining, guided walking tours.
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,…
Following countless sell-out shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2019, this five-star show takes you on a guided tour through Nashville so you can experience how Music City influenced the wo…
A blistering celebration of a legend who, in his short career, sold over 20 million records and redefined his instrument and genre.
UK premiere: from his years as the visionary in one of the most successful duos through to his many solo hits, travel through one of the greatest back catalogues of all time.
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Beowulf sets out to save the Danes, redefine heroism and crack some legendary jokes along the way.
A nostalgic celebration of Fleetwood Mac, who have sold over 120 million records.
A feast for all the senses.
A hilarious new stand-up show from the star of Live at the Apollo, Russell Howard’s Good News, Impractical Jokers UK and Stand Up Central.
Tired of the goose? Swan Power is here.
They say comedy’s about speaking truth to power.
Patrick McPherson returns to Edinburgh with The Man revamped following its sold-out run at the Fringe 2019 where it received exclusively five-star reviews.
Disney villain.
Are you sitting comfortably kids? It’s time for Drag Queen Story Hour – an interactive storytime like no other! Join in on the interactive fun with sing songs, stories and lots a…
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Written by King Joffrey himself (after recently executing his ghost writer Sam Went) Joffrey! The Story of Joffrey: A Pantomime tells the true story of Joffrey’s f…
Elliot Wengler has many special features, and no, he doesn’t mean his dyspraxia, dyslexia, anxiety or his Pokémon championship wins (runner-up position, 200…
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Je m’appelle Paul, je suis Anglais et j’habite en France.
A lot has changed for Paul in recent years.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
A 10-piece collective of outstanding musicians interpreting the music of one of the greatest songwriters of our time, Bird on the Wire has already received rave reviews and will be…
In 1782, the owners of the Zong ship claimed insurance on the lives of the 130 slaves thrown overboard.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
It was the feel-good film of the year - the unlikely story of how a Pakistani boy from Luton was inspired to change his life by the music of Bruce Springsteen.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Back for it’s fifth year.
Alan and Ron are sweaty.
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
In this "Heart-wrenchingly moving and unquestionably funny” (Evening Standard) stand-up show Richard Stott examines body image, mental health and being disabl…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
PAUL MERTON & SUKI WEBSTER’S IMPRO NIGHT Paul Merton and Suki Webster present a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laug…
“It’s about us—together,” explain Jake Jarratt and Cameron Sharp, in their new play in which two drama students – straight “Jake”, gay “Cameron” – end up trying…
Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti is that relatively rare thing for the Royal Lyceum Theatre—a star vehicle, rather than an ensemble production, that happens to have two audience fav…
As Lin Hwai-Min, founder of the world-renowned Taiwanese company, steps down in 2020, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre brings works from the current and new artistic directors.
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 …
Matt Hoss is a man on a mission.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Join us at The Museum of Comedy as we showcase the best of emerging and established collaborative comedy talent.
Edinburgh’s Traverse has long-championed new drama—indeed, the venue’s self-description is the simple goal of being “Scotland’s new writing theatre”.
Gurnwah Productions - one of the most creative, prolific and downright hilarious production companies from Wales, embark on their first World Tour with their new hysteri…
Gurnwah Productions - one of the most creative, prolific and downright hilarious production companies from Wales, embark on their first World Tour with their new hysteri…
Touching, funny and utterly original, Scamp Theatre’s delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s STICK MAN is back at Leicester Square The…
Watching Super Sunday makes you think you really ought to get the gym more.
Now in it’s 11th year.
Welcome to The Republic of Biafra, 1967.
Apprentice Angels are looking for a Shepherd, a Shepherd is searching for a lost Sheep and a disguised King is hunting for a very special baby.
The Three Little Pigs is a lively show that breathes new life into these well-known characters - each of the pigs has an air of mischief and naivety, while the wicked wolf has just…
Enter a world of wonder at the home of pantomime, as the magical Goldilocks and the Three Bears come to the West End for Christmas! Following last year’s sold-out production …
What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him, and he even ends up on a fire! How…
What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants to play fetch with him, a swan builds a nest with him, and he even ends up on a fire! How…
It’s a Thursday afternoon, and I’m sat comfortably in the stalls of Brighton Theatre Royal amongst an absolute army of five-year-olds.
PAUL MERTON & SUKI WEBSTER’S IMPRO NIGHT Paul Merton and Suki Webster present a night of fast, and fabulously funny improvised games, scenes, stories and laug…
There is a limit to how much you can love your child.
Many Scots first experience of comics is likely to be two series published by Dundee-based D C Thomson in their long-running newspaper, The Sunday Post.
In 2039, a successful Black writer lives a perfect life in a future where racism has ceased to exist.
Definitely Oasis are regarded by many Oasis fans and promoters alike as the best Oasis tribute band there is.
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…
Steve Steinman brings you his brand-new production featuring Meat Loaf’s greatest hits with special guest star Lorraine Crosby, the female lead vocalist on Meat Lo…
He’s the man with the sunglasses and the black suit who delivered some of the world’s darkest and most emotional ballads, yet Texas-born Roy Orbison remains …
Fresh from recording her debut Netflix stand-up special, the star of The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo and QI is back with a brand-new show.
Fresh from recording her debut Netflix stand-up special, the star of The Mash Report, Live at the Apollo and QI is back with a brand-new show.
Touching, funny and utterly original, Scamp Theatre’s delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s STICK MAN is back at Leicester Square Theatre! What …
“We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond,” argues Roman Stornoway, a struggling musician and the central protagonist in Kevin MacNeil’s thea…
I well remember when Jenni Fagan’s explosive debut, The Panopticon, first appeared in 2013.
After being fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall is skint and hungry.
The British Theatre Challenge is delighted to be returning to the Jack Studio Theatre with five new plays, wrapped into one very entertaining evening.
Having this year reached the notable landmark of their 500th new production, the team behind the award-winning lunchtime theatre phenomenon that is “A Play, A Pie and a Pint” i…
Friday 27th September, 8pm Tickets: £16Duration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: ages 16+.
Stephen Mangan and Kara Tointon return to the West End to star in the world premiere of the classic Ealing comedy THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, adapted and directed by Sean Foley.
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Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Hank Marvin, Brian May and Slash are just some of the outstanding guitar heroes you will have chance to experien…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed program…
A Tribute to Arthur Conan Doyle, the Man Behind and Beyond Sherlock Holmes with a discussion by New York author, Elizabeth Crowens and Tania Henzell, a relation of the Doyle family…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids brings his perspective on the global television and film landscape in this special one-off event.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe Participants.
Edinburgh-based promoter The Soundhouse Organisation presents Three Times Five, featuring Moishe’s Bagel, Kinnaris Quintet and John Goldie and the High Plains.
19-year-old Connor has just signed for a Premier League team.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2019 and presented by Contact and STUN.
This award-winning writer’s powerful one-man show tears through the curtain of manners to reveal the wildlife of neo-liberal Britain.
Maggie Taylor has the ideal life as an ageing dominatrix.
This contemporary ballet choreographed by Helen and Emily Garner and Bryony Sullivan will take you on an emotional, yet uplifting journey, as these young performers sensitively po…
Award-winning production.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Comedian & silly boy Ted Hill’s debut stand-up show is about every single U.
‘When did no become a turn on? No.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
It’s Friday night.
How many years does it take to unspool a man? An odd king sails the waves of the wine dark sea in a bathtub.
Allan Taylor is the consummate professional who has taken songwriting to a high level.
See the Proopcast Live in hot Edinburgh.
Rob Carter’s cult hit creation is back with a glossy revamp of his 2016 debut show.
If humanity was on trial, who would be its lawyer? Evaluation centres around a singular condition: held captive by the perfect machine, one human must defend their species and answ…
Giant Wolf Theatre Company is a group of young artists whose goal is to devise, create and be makers of great theatre.
Narrative subverted for unwholesome purposes.
Lisa Klevemark, though Swedish, Lutheran and very boring, went to renowned clown school Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
A stand-up showcase featuring purveyor of one-liners and ‘Long Man’, Josh Massen, and storyteller and ‘Short Man’, Phil Green.
What happens when we pair up two theatre artists from different backgrounds to co-host a discussion about what makes great theatre in 2019? Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Ch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The Three Menopausal Maids are back with their new comedy sketch show for 2019 after the 2018 sell-out success and it’s getting hot, hot, hotter! Fly away with Princess and the Pee…
A solo, autobiographical performance by singer-songwriter Chiara Berardelli relating her experience of being childless-not-by-choice and her quest for being OK with that.
This multi award-winning adaptation of Jean Giono’s classic environmental tale by Puppet State Theatre Company has been touring internationally for the past twelve years, with repe…
Welcome to Bert and Horace’s junkyard.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
I need to preface with this review with a disclaimer – this is either a one-star or a five-star show, depending on your sense of humour.
First-century Jerusalem and the political climate is a hotbed of corruption and civil unrest.
Elliot Wengler lives at home in a village in the middle of nowhere and is fine with that.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Following his first national tour in 2018, which saw him go from circuit act to one of the biggest selling names in UK stand-up in less than a year, Paul Smith returns w…
Misha Rachlevsky and the multi award-winning Russian String Orchestra return for seven special evening concerts, each totally different, showcasing major works from the 18th centur…
Journey across three southern states of the US and revel in the sweet sounds of Southern Soul.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature.
A celebration of the life and songs of one of the most influential performers and humanitarians of the 1970s. Performed by ‘one of Scotland’s best singers’ (Tom Paxton).
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church just off the Royal Mile.
Come along to Just a Minute’s special recordings in Edinburgh.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Accidentally On Purpose (sponsored by Goldsmiths Drama Society) presents Piano Man, a short play in which four characters discover the true meaning of acceptance and understanding …
The Man From Verona – The Trouble with Harry is that he’s hanging from a Rope by the Rear Window.
Interactive story telling, plus an all day Riddling Competition! Mums, dads, teenagers, juniors and little ones over 5.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
Billy Joel: Piano Man Live showcases the very best of the dynamic songbook of the legendary Billy Joel.
A sensory experience, teaching you how to nose and taste whisky, helping to discover the perfect dram for your palate.
In our twenties, an independent lifestyle seems liberating.
Witness a magical extravaganza where you will marvel at The Biggest Balloon in the World and risk your dryness at the ultimate game of Water Pistol Roulette! All live on stage in f…
Whether it’s because Hollywood has force-fed us with them for decades, or simply because the concerns of teenage life are pretty universal across most of the Western world, we’…
I have absolutely nothing but admiration to the performers of Recirquel Company Budapest, given that some of their number must have spent their entire lives training their lean, mu…
Chris Read is a talented singer-songwriter performing his debut solo hour at the Fringe this year.
Let's be honest here: I've never particularly liked clowns.
A new and condensed adaptation of Chekhov’s must-see classic; often described as the first great modern play.
Paul Savage is no stranger to shame.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Back for a fourth year at the Fringe, as seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC and Yuk Yuk’s in …
Paul Currie is bringing his sell out 2014/2015 award-winning masterpiece back to Edinburgh.
Magic.
Award-winning Irish comedian Aidan Greene is a person who stutters.
Though the characters may be familiar, these favourite storybook fables are uproariously derailed in this children’s play of fractured fairy tales.
If you’re a parent looking for a show that you can enjoy as much as your children, you may be looking quite hard.
How to build a story – for everyone! Want to be the best storyteller you know? Come and join the Story Builders! You’ll learn the secrets of every great story and together we’ll …
Fancy a trip to Venice in Edinburgh? Join Arlecchino as he takes on two jobs and two masters.
Spencer bought a new looper, but he can’t beatbox.
Paul Zenon is one of the UK’s most beloved and sought-after magicians – a veteran of TV shows, corporate events, and high end cabaret, as well as becoming a regular guest on th…
It’s a long, hot summer.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has, for many years, produced and maintained a “Red List” of species which are either already extinct or in danger of bei…
Super Human explores and pushes the limits of the human body.
Entertaining and informative guided walking tours that tell the stories of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
The brand-new tribute show from Liquid Lunch Productions, Elton John: Rocket Man Live! showcases the very best of the eclectic songbook of the legendary Elton John and Bernie Taupi…
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one gives a flying f**k, does it really fall at all?… Inspired by Ovid’s myth, ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphn…
Five storytellers open a treasure chest.
A true story of friendship told with an eclectic blend of folk, flamenco and contemporary dance.
From The Wind examines Scotland’s relationship with renewable energy.
A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy.
Journey through the incredible life and music of the Queen of Soul – the most charted female of the 21st century! Featuring hit artist Cleopatra Higgins, as seen in West End hit …
When Shelly, recent grad and marketing whizz, is summoned to the secret headquarters of the world’s largest oil and gas company she thinks she’s hit the big time.
Niall McCarthy is obsessed with the duality in all of us: he looks confident but feels anxious, he loves questions but hates answers, he has a restless leg and a lazy eye.
Celebrating the works of the playwright and poet, Federico García Lorca, Enebro Teatro have brought together select pieces to create an altogether unique play.
Journey through the life and music of this phenomenal record-breaking superstar – the world’s only artist to have US top 40 hits in every decade since the 60s! Featuring hit ar…
Is Britain happy? Are we trapped in a bubble of despair? Comedian Aidan Goatley is on a mission to find out by going to the centre of all 105 counties in the UK and asking a simple…
Who is Analeise? I don’t know.
Take a journey through time in Nashville to experience how music influenced this Bible Belt city and in turn how Music City influenced the whole world.
Following two consecutive years of sell-outs and critical acclaim, the James Taylor and Joni Mitchell stories combine into one exciting show to take you on a journey through the in…
There are two challenges at the heart of Fox-tot!, a new work from composer Lliam Paterson and director Roxana Haines for Scottish Opera.
It’s the ruby anniversary of Madness and Paul Putner celebrates the past 40 years as a lifelong fan.
After receiving standing ovations last year, The Dolly Parton Story returns to the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the Queen of Country who curren…
Following sell-out shows and standing ovations in 2017/18, The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of six-time Grammy Award winner and…
This show explores the story of a girl’s life, her relationship with her environment and the notion that nature can act as a support system in the same way that family and friends …
One man, a guitar, and the most venerated love story of all time.
From the absurd to the moving, magical, funny and intriguing.
Race Horse Company’s massive international success Super Sunday is colourful, vivid and perky and was born out of the possibility of implementing the company’s wildest dreams and b…
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown! 1946: Charlie Brown is born in the mind of his creator, Charles Schulz.
The Johnny Cash Story returns to the Edinburgh Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the 18-time Grammy winner.
Tim, Harry and Ella have been sent on a mission – destroy a factory, send a message.
As a reviewer, there are several situations that I normally hope to avoid while covering the Fringe: it may surprise you, given that essentially I’m here to force my opinion on you…
There appears, these days, to be an almost apologetic desire among directors and producers to find ways of presenting traditional circus acrobatics and high-wire acts with some add…
James Barr is single.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned town planner Walter Bor) and his grandad’s best friend (world-renowned comedy…
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
The story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic woman, Myra McLaughlin, living rough on the streets of Dublin.
A mix of comedy, storytelling and even a poem or two.
A half-hour from half a man (her father was a man).
Clean your heads, strap yourselves in for the brilliant new show from ‘cryingly funny’ (Bath Chronicle) 2019 Musical Comedy Awards finalist, as seen on BBC One, ITV, Channel 4, Par…
Your favourite movies – musicalised! And you choose! Top Gun, Die Hard or Jurassic Park from the critically acclaimed Los Angeles comedy company, 30 Minute Musicals.
In the last couple of years, Paul McCaffrey has performed to over half a million people while supporting his comedy heroes Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges on their UK tours, and has go…
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
Following a sell-out 2018 Fringe and debut UK tour, the ‘utterly hilarious’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Vegan Jesus is arguably the greatest creative and artistic force of the century.
Disappear down the rabbit hole of a fool’s mind.
A poetic and poignant piece of storytelling; Choir of Man hit all the right notes in a story of brotherhood, the archetypical pub and the importance of community.
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
A show for anyone with a complex relationship to home.
It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it.
Award-winning comedian, writer and co-creator of Comedy Central’s Modern Horror Stories, Daniel Audritt brings his much-anticipated debut hour to the Fringe.
Genders and non-genders, come plunge your human meat gloves into this zeitgeist pavlova as you gently take each other delicately by the frontal cortex and we all ascend into the sp…
Horror meets hilarity! Spine-tingling original theatre that is hilariously dark and frighteningly funny.
Here Comes Your Man is a lovely hour of storytelling from a bright new talent Matt Hoss.
Paul Foxcroft is back with his first second show! A new hour that combines stand-up, sketch, character comedy and almost certainly improvisation.
The recovering songwriter now hooked on happiness, the sketch show absurdist with an identity crisis and the deadpan(sexual), Manson Family-friendly entertainer: Keith Carter is do…
After dropping 10 stone in weight Michael Livesley, the man described by Stephen Fry as an ‘outrageous talent’ is half the man he was but still just as funny.
Following the overwhelming success of this performance last year, it’s back – and this time with a full cast of professional actors.
Childhood memories can sometimes be blurry but you never forget your first school trip, especially when it turns into a permanent stay in Cote d’Ivoire.
I have a slight confession of bias.
Despite the title, it transpires that Joz Norris is not dead, but is merely busy having a bath.
Thus far, Paul has lived his life content in the understanding that stability and emotional happiness were lovely ideas but not really for him.
Josie Long has spent twenty years being a beacon of hope amongst the cynical cruelty of stand-up comedy.
Australian comedian Ray Badran recently moved to the UK and is performing his debut Fringe show.
There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs.
The Man is a sketch comedy and one-man performance piece from the side-splittingly funny Patrick McPherson, returning to Edinburgh after 2018’s five-star, Fringe sell-out Camels.
A critically acclaimed puppet musical, inspired by a neuroscientist.
It may be because of the stage productions and films which I saw growing up, but my innate and core expectation about musical theatre is that it tends to be on the big size, if not…
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o…
After a total sell-out run in 2018 with In Loyal Company, David William Bryan returns with a brand-new solo play exploring the effects of one man’s lifelong battle with the justice…
Physical theatre.
Leo Kearse isn't, by his own admission, a 'woke' comedian.
In a festival where comedians eager to share their personal histories, foibles and perspectives on the world can oft seem ten-a-penny, it makes a pleasant change of pace to spend a…
Celebrating their final year as Europeans, island monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to the 2018 European Capital of Culture in Malta.
Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says.
Pathetic Fallacy, at heart, has a Unique Selling Point—the show’s creator, Anita Rochon, isn’t actually in Edinburgh.
What makes a home? It’s one of a number of questions that Victor Esses asks of audience members as they come in, taping their responses for use later on in his show.
For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
Umbrella Man is the story of a young man from the north of Scotland who tries to prove the Earth is flat.
A Maori boy’s musical about his Hollywood hero.
Each of these award-winning artists traverse their own routes across the boundaries between fine art and craft, challenging context and materiality.
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran’s tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show packed full of jokes…
"Poor Fellow.
Mutch returns to the Fringe with a hilarious new hour chock-full of his trademark comedic tales of personal woe.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Frenemies Amaya, Lottie and Will tried everything to get noticed, except the unimaginable: working together.
Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us.
Move aside Maleficent, Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch is the new anti-hero tale in town.
From the creator of the international sensation Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany comes the highly anticipated sequel, detailing life after war.
You’ll learn two things from Aaron Simmonds’ Disabled Coconut.
Bystanders begins with staging reminiscent of a police detective’s office – plain desks, a few chairs, and piles of boxes full of paperwork and evidence.
It takes a certain bravery, or innocence, to name your debut full-hour show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Don’t Bother.
"It looks nice.
Joyful, daring and undeniably sharp, God Damn Fancy Man is the hotly anticipated new show from critically-acclaimed, internationally award-winning comedian James Nokise.
Liam Malone, it’s fair to say, is not backwards at coming forwards.
Titania McGrath may just be a young Kensington girl with a modest Trust Fund and a thirst for social justice, but she’s in Edinburgh to make a difference, and inspire us common peo…
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet…
Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t…
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
Eliot Wengler lives at home in a village in the middle of nowhere and is fine with that.
In this, the 60th Anniversary of one of the world’s most iconic music venues, the Ronnie Scott’s All Stars take to the road to celebrate the ‘Ronnie Sc…
From the maker of sell-out Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries; tour support for Ed Sheeran's tour support, Tom Taylor, stars in his debut stand-up show pack…
‘When on Earth did everyone become a detective?’ The voice rings out across the Almeida Young Company ensemble as they huddle beneath Sasha Venmore Rowland’s grief-stricken g…
Our current understanding of the evolution of man comes from evidence based on archeological digs.
Paul, now a fully-disqualified swan psychologist, delves deeper to discover the origins of the gay sperms and once again unleashes his bag of Disturbances.
A debut show from a comedian who was born with Poland Syndrome, making him lopsided with a misshapen hand.
Basal masks, puppetry and breath-taking original piano music tell a story of a little Moon Child who has to learn to adapt to the strange world of planet Earth.
Paul returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with a preview of his upcoming Edinburgh Festival show.
A mixture of best bits and new material for Paul's next touring show about the life-changing effect a couple of drinks can have.
This is a solo character/physical grotesquerie, with a bombardment of illusion, puppetry and sideshow.
Elliot Wengler lives at home in a village in the middle of nowhere and is fine with that.
It’s 2016.
Story is a short (15 minute) one person spoken word drama exploring the means of recovery from mental collapse and heart break - written and performed by @nickhollowayvox - FREE EN…
This is a solo character/physical grotesquerie, with a bombardment of illusion, mask, puppetry and sideshow.
At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical.
Fridge Door Productions are delighted to be sharing once more the unique comedic ramblings of the Three Menopausal Maids as they turn everyday situations into farcical events.
First, let’s get the biggest disappointment out of the way first: Them!, a joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland, writer Pamela Carter and director Stewart La…
The subversive, satirical, darkly comic story of the Victorian Music Hall with a twist of Weimar Cabaret! A wickedly fun singalong show, ‘Now Here’s A Funny Story’ reveals Music…
‘Theatre On Tap’, is a play in a pub, made in a day.
Jim Brown's Sea Changes is a play that delightfully and unashamedly embraces the info-dump, to the extent of having most of its characters directly introduce themselves to the …
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After a phenomenal sell out tour in 2018, Walk Right Back is.
Curious Shoes is a show that's unashamedly dominated by the perceived needs of its target audience, people living with dementia, and those who care and support them.
50 years on from the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck is back in theatres in 2019 with a brand new show, bringing to the stage a…
It’s systematic, it’s hydromatic… Why it’s Grease lightin’. Back at the Courtroom for another spin. T-Bird, Pink Ladies and Beauty School Dropouts all welcome.
Two artists, a stage technician and a musician are waiting to start their show.
We are SUPER CUMBIA PARTY BAND, a superhero ensemble with an important mission: to remove the sorrow from planet Earth.
A stand-up showcase featuring purveyor of one-liners and ‘Long Man’, Josh Massen, and storyteller and ‘Short Man,’ Phil Green.
‘Two the Power of Three’ is Theatre Handmade’s explosive new play.
Arguably a surprise word-of-mouth hit during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this physical-theatre exploration of a mass hostage-taking returns to the Scottish capital with - t…
An energy-packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Night Owl Shows have bought another crowd pleaser to Brighton Fringe.
It's appropriate that this particular production within the 2019 Edinburgh International Children's Festival is the only one slotted into the schedule for the Netherbow sta…
It’s back! Horatio Productions’ Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for a stellar second edition.
I have a confession: I’d never previously heard of Erich Kästner's 1929 novel, Emil and the Detectives; It just wasn't a part of my childhood.
When you’re used to holding the whip hand, Death can be an unwelcome distraction.
Come have the the time of your life, with the cult-dance musical of the 80’s. Our very own Steph will get you in the mood before the screening.
Be our guest at our Beauty-and-the-Beast sing-a-long. Free sweets for everyone in fancy dress.
The name of the game is, Mamma Mia 2… Here we go again! Calling all Super Troupers, Dancing Queens and Fernados. Join us for the second instalment of the smash hit film.
HALFWAY TO PARADISE: THE BILLY FURY STORY Billy comes alive via giant screen, re-united with his own Furys’ Tornados.
From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory.
Indie-rock girl formerly of the Blake Babies and one-time partner of Evan Dando, known for her seductive vocals and all-American rock-chick sensibilities.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Eva and Billie found each other; searching for someone to commit suicide with.
It is the year 2030 and our hero encounters a crack in the fabric of space and time.
Its supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
The simple story of three hungry goats and a grumpy old troll, told with a gentle ecological message.
There's little doubt that The Duchess of Malfi has become the most popular and successful work written by the English Jacobean playwright John Webster.
Lisa is always on time.
In 1980, Kirk Brandon formed Theatre Of Hate from the ashes of heralded punk band The Pack.
Three, as the song goes, is a magic number.
Super Human Heroes from theatre group The Letter J (in association with Paisley Arts Centre) has a simple message: We all need to do our little bit to help make the world a better …
Maori believes that seeing a Kotuku/White Heron will bring you good fortune but what if you get kidnapped by a bad one? Hopefully your adventure turns out better than expected and …
The lives of an eclectic community living in abandoned shipping containers are thrown upside down when a mysterious man arrives.
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta…
A man wearing a black suit walks on stage.
The Joni Mitchell & James Taylor Story played to a packed out audience at the Komedia.
Calling all dancing queens! Come and sing-a-long to the original smash hit film!
‘Map Man’ charts the monumental tale of a lonely giant, told by a man who loves pretending to be bigger than he is.
Paul Cox has been cutting his teeth on the London and UK comedy circuit since 2015.
Following its sell-out run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2018, Paul Bunyan will receive its first revival at Alexandra Palace Theatre this May.
The latest offering in Above The Stag’s main auditorium takes us back in time to a Victorian Working Men’s Club in Bermondsey.
A hilarious cabaret musical about depression that sings and throws glitter about how it’s OK to not be OK.
The first one-man show from one of the most original and outrageous character acts on the UK circuit.
There’s something reassuringly "classy" about this production of Patrick Marber's The Red Lion, now touring Scotland for the first time courtesy of Glasgow-based Ra…
In a world where it is North Islington, only one man stands between Camden and Holloway.
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…
Today he’s going to tell you a story – but he has no idea what it is.
Have you ever witnessed a couple’s divorce? When these people are your parents, your life turns upside down, especially if you’re 8-years-old.
The debut stand-up hour from the multi award-winning co-writer of ‘The Vicar of Dibley’.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
A trip to Story Corner is the perfect way start to your Fringe day.
Roll up, roll up, to the greatest show on earth! Sing-a-long with all your favourite songs, fancy dress encouraged.
The Hired Man has been doing the rounds since 1984 and now finds a home at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch.
A rousing overture, with blasting brass and pounding percussion raises hopes at the Coliseum for the first London production of Man Of La Mancha for over fifty years.
Performed by The Liberties, the songs and tunes of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, Ciaran Burke and John Sheehan is brought to life using the exact same instrum…
An air of timelessness perversely pervades Three Sisters at the Almeida.
From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
Come and see the comedy powerhouse Paul Chowdhry - star of Taskmaster, Live at The Apollo and Wembley Arena Sell Out.
Come and see the stand-up comedy powerhouse & star of Taskmaster and Live at The Apollo.
When Noel Coward warned a certain Mrs Worthington against putting her daughter on the stage, it's highly likely that he didn't have Matilda The Musical in mind at the time.
Sunday 31st March, 7pm Tickets: £15 or £10 concessionsDuration: approx 2hrs including an intervalSuitable for: most ages, but probably most su…
It’s seldom fun to leave a venue thinking: "Well, that's an hour of my life I'm never getting back.
The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame.
MAD Trust in association with Pianoworks West End present SINGEASY does Musical Theatre.
This is a Spoiler.
When Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre announced that they were producing a stage musical based on the iconic 1983 Scottish film Local Hero, I must admit to wondering if it was …
Following its sold out smash hit debut tour, Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners returns to theatres in 2019 with an even bigger production.
Following its sold out smash hit debut tour, Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners returns to theatres in 2019 with an even bigger production.
In drama, an audience can either be ahead of what the characters know, or behind them, catching up; each approach has its dramatic advantages and disadvantages, but what is needed …
Paul Carrack, one of the most revered voices in music and a figurehead of soulful pop for decades, will return to the delight his legions of admirers with the new album ‘Thes…
Flushed with success these ladies are hot so journey with them from Bognor to Belgravia via Bradford for a spot of lunch, bingo and afternoon tea.
FEMINEM It feels so empty without me Origin of Three Sometimes in life you have to, breathe FEMINEM - OXBOMarshall Mathers’ mam spent 73 hours in labour.
“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else.
Classic Hits! Fabulous Uplifting Mix made famous by Sinatra, The Dubliners, Pavarotti.
Paul McCaffrey has recently appeared on major UK tours with two of Britain’s foremost stand ups, Sean Lock and Kevin Bridges – playing to more than half…
How Many Tears in a Bottle of Gin?Trust me, this job is the shit Paul Currie - Trufficle MuskSurreal Python comedy with the twisted nonsensical sequiturs of Dadaism &nbs…
Yerloo UndergroundDeep dark subway.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned architect Walter Bor) and his grandad's best friend (also wor…
Back for it’s fourth year.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Back for it’s fourth year.
The No.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
HERE WE ARE NOW A Post-Minimalist Opus WireCan we think ourselves into different people? HERE WE ARE NOW - Paul GilgunnAlbum launch and debut performances of a bold and …
Greetings.
Greetings.
I didn’t actually see this performance; not by virtue of being absent, but rather because I had followed the request of actor and spoken word poet, Paul Daly, to blindfold myself…
£5010am - 3pmAge 16+ On this workshop you will be guided through the process of sculpting in wire.
Tuesday 5th February, 1.
Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo…
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JENNA RUSSELLwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 4pm Olivier Award Winner &…
Mark Cortale PresentsBroadway @ Leicester Square Theatre JUDY KUHNwith SETH RUDETSKY as music director & hostSunday, 3rd February @ 8pm Four Time Tony Nominee Judy K…
Friday 1st February, 7.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Director: David Lowery Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Q…
Earth’s funniest footwear bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence.
Saturday 26th January, 10.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
A classic story of good versus evil, law versus the gun, one man versus Liberty Valance.
Animal tales brought vibrantly to life with wonderous masks, movement and music.
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Now in its 4th year Sketch Off! is a competition open to any sketch groups & character acts currently performing in the UK as we search for the country's …
Freckle Productions present - STICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, this delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man is …
When Jo Clifford ("proud father and grandmother") first performed her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, it attracted bo…
“Have you ever seen such a night as this? So many stars, so many stories, which one is yours?” Three weary travellers from far off lands meet by chance as night approaches, …
Roy Orbison, the man with the sunglasses, who delivered some of the world’s darkest and most emotional ballads remains one of the most distinctive performers in modern music.
It's said that Edinburgh is a city, the size of a town, that feels like a village; or, in other words, the Scottish capital is sufficiently small and compact that you don't…
Freckle Productions presentSTICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, this delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man is back!Wha…
From the songwriting team behind the smash-hit Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen and the Academy Award-winning films La La Land and The Greatest Showman, - A Christmas St…
What makes a "traditional" pantomime? It's certainly not just a case of blowing the dust off a 1970s panto script and hoping for the best; here, the Brunton’s now r…
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is 200 years old and yet the universality of the novel’s core message keeps her creation in the very centre of popular culture.
Direct from a SELL OUT worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance.
Bestseller Sam Blake brings you some of the strongest new voices in crime fiction and finds out just how they did it.
Live at the RVT The Three Degrees are now celebrating 50 years as a group, and will be appearing for one night on the RVT’s celebrated stage as part of a UK tour Originally for…
The packed audience at The Old Market leant in expectantly towards an ordinary looking closed shipping container dominating the stage, oblivious to the surprises enclosed inside.
Freckle Productions presentSTICK MAN Touching, funny and utterly original, this delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s Stick Man is back!Wha…
A night of sparkling wit and humour featuring James Cary, Paul Kerensa and Simon Jenkins that lovingly looks at the flaws, foibles and funniest parts of faith and religi…
Calling all Bingsters! Bing and his friends are coming to Greenwich in the first ever Bing stage show!Join Bing, Sula, Coco and Pando as they find out how to tell stories by preten…
The works by French poet and playwright Edmond Rostand, just one of the victims of the influenza pandemic which swept the world in 1918, are today largely forgotten; the one except…
Watching Clare Duffy's one-act play "Arctic Oil", a particular phrase kept coming back to me: that mantra of 1960s' student protests and second-wave feminism, &qu…
An hour of sensational Improvised Comedy.
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 …
"Best leave history in the history books—get on with living.
Within a cluttered clearing in some woods that's neither town nor countryside and so somehow feels like nowhere, an unnamed Man (David McKay) sleeps the sleep of the just-finis…
It's just four years since Pitlochry Festival Theatre put on a production of Anne Downie's 1989 play The Yellow On The Broom, based on the autobiographical novel by Betsy W…
Award-winning stand-up Sooz Kempner spent the 90s playing Sonic, going from a little kid to a fully grown teen.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
16m subscribers.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One tube ride, 7 scenes, 67 years.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The year is 1940, the last Kindertransport to escape the German forces has arrived in England.
By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The widely acclaimed ex-Young Pleasance physical theatre ensemble Spies Like Us returned to the Festival Fringe this year with not only one show but two brilliant shows in an adapt…
Kevin Jones qualified in Medicine from Liverpool University.
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…
In a comic exploration of the disjoint between what we think and what we say, The Interview questions the meaning of living a life worth rewarding.
This unbelievably ambitious, deluded, multiple job-applicant failure attempts to inspire his audiences to become the best they can be.
A badly planned polar expedition in 1912 led to the Russian ship The Saint Anna to be locked into the ice of the Kara Sea.
In an original play by Alex Jones, an awkward Halloween dinner party between friends and a new boyfriend is interrupted by an invader with an unhealthy obsession with horror.
‘Laughs, heartbreak, war, regeneration, scented breezes, sparkling wit and the best dog puppet ever.
The nation’s favourite pub philosopher turned pop-up publican, brings his unique comedy genius to the Edinburgh Fringe, serving up his satirical brew of no-nonsense banter for thre…
The true and ongoing struggle of a family ripped apart, after Nazanin and her baby daughter were taken in Tehran in 2016.
Springing up from the wreckage of his famous car (a Spider), James Dean talks honestly, candidly and sometimes with discomfort about his life.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Allan Taylor is the consummate professional who has taken songwriting to a high level.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One man’s intimate story of escape from religion, to love, loss and triumph.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
End your Fringe day with relaxing classical music by candlelight in this beautiful historic church.
In the beginning was the Word, but I honestly don’t know which word to begin with when trying to describe this production.
Osric Omand and the Story of Hope is a horror-action-comedy that follows Osric Omand and his ex-Nazi caretaker Hans as their institute of monsters suffers an outbreak.
Brian Kellock, piano.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years.Turn up early.Sellout expected.
Free (ticketed).Sellout expected.
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood. Humorous, full of fun and fabulous musical numbers.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Laurel and Hardy – arguably the best comic duo ever, with never a bad word between them.
Billy Joel: Piano Man Live! showcases the very best of the dynamic songbook of the legendary Billy Joel.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
In a bar in Cambodia, a young Scottish tour guide is telling stories to travellers.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
A crazy alphabetical journey through the life of a modern vaudevillian loon.
Three Colours Guitar return to the Fringe with their critically acclaimed music show featuring jazz, classical and Celtic fingerstyle.
Set in the heyday of glam rock and science fiction, Rocket Man is the story of a young man with bipolar disorder.
A series of very special evening concerts which combine the wonderfully vibrant playing of the Herald Angel Award-winning Russian String Orchestra with the atmospheric and historic…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
From pin-drop delicacy to infectious grooves that leave you smiling.
Inspired by a true events, a young black woman rises to power in the Hollywood entertainment industry while suffering through an illness.
Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature.
Born in the UK to a family of Bengali doctors, the early 1990s saw Paul qualifying as a doctor and taking his first steps on the stand-up comedy circuit.
A captivating show suitable for all encompassing a variety of dance styles, colourful costumes and entertaining narrative.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The multi award-winning political agitators are back at the Traverse with a morning of outstanding new writing and fiery debate.
A converted 1960s caravan hosting installations both insightful and absurd, poetry, puppets and music.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Six friends.
These entertaining and informative guided walking tours tell the story of the musicians who have stayed, played and made music in Edinburgh.
There’s a better universe next door. Let’s go! Award-winning Fringe veteran brings all the feels. ‘An incantatory state of near-constant laughter’ **** (List).
Man Down emerges from three years of research and hours of interviews and discussions with people in Baltimore, USA.
It’s Story Slam time! Bristol Improv’s brand new show uses your ideas and experiences as the basis for its improvised stories.
NY comedian and Vice contributor Harmon has made a career infiltrating extremist groups.
Your pictures and regrettable digital utterings are public.
Watch Zillions of Comedians squeezed into just one hour.
Somewhere between who he is, who he thinks he is, who he wants to be, who he wishes he wasn’t and who he suspects people want him to think he is… you’ll find the child in adu…
It’s hard to do good when everything’s falling apart.
Join Jem (Best Newcomer Midlands Awards 2018), Joe (Chortle finalist 2015) and Horatio (Chortle semi-finalist 2018) for an absurd hour of stand-up about dads, insects, long hairy l…
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? As seen at the biggest comedy clubs in the world, including Caroline’s on Broadway in NYC and Yuk Yuk’s in Toronto – ‘exceptionally funny’ (Ma…
Henry found himself in a Travelodge, lunching on a can of John West Mediterranean Style Tuna Salad.
The Man of Mischief makes his Fringe debut with a one-man variety show! Having headlined at large theatres and performed for the BBC, Mark brings you his full evening show.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r…
Look, it’s David McIver, the nicest little man in town giving it a good go with his debut hour of riffs, bits and skits.
William Whitehurst’s savage and unflinching examination of abuse and isolation is given wings in the shape of Arthur Cork, performed by the award-winning Corin Rhys Jones.
Contemporary shamanic theatre inspired by the enchantment of timeless magician poets, mystics and dervish trance, unravels the threads of our time-spun space of dreams.
The Joni Mitchell Story returns to take you on an emotive journey through the life of the nine-time Grammy winner and folk music pioneer.
Mark Thompson is quite clear about what his (modestly) titled Spectacular Show isn't: "It's not a science lecture," he insists.
The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo…
It seems that Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre Company are happy to take risks.
You really don’t want to miss this show.
The Dolly Parton Story premiers at The Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the Queen of Country, who currently holds an astonishing 153 major awards i…
Paul Currie is a disturbingly brilliant comic who plays his crowd like the conductor of an orchestra.
Travel with the boy from Tupelo through his teenage years in Memphis, tentative footsteps into Sun Records studios, to his meteoric rise to the worlds biggest selling artist.
Come along and enjoy a fantastic sing-along to the musical classics.
Upon retirement, Corporal Liam Drury returns to be confronted with sudden and debilitating flashbacks to his time in combat.
Can Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) and her best friend, Guffy, find the purple super-farting bean and save Wiffyville from Prince Nastavia and the low-flying gnomes? Aide…
The James Taylor Story returns with the addition of Carly Simon to take you through Taylor’s career as he embarks on a journey into superstardom and his turbulent relationship wi…
After a sell-out run in 2017 The Carole King Story returns to take you on an incredible journey through the career of this six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit mak…
Three wise men followed a star to Edinburgh to bring you frankincense, myrrh and comedy gold.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Part stand-up comedy, part game show.
How to build a story – for everyone! Want to be the best storyteller you know? Come and join the Story Builders! You’ll learn the secrets of every great story and together we’ll …
Gordon Southern has successfully avoided winter for ten years, a feat only previously achieved by bees, some birds and most bears.
Trev Tokabi, from the Ivory Coast, has a knack for putting himself in compromising situations! If you have a mate, friend, partner, homeboy, homegirl, brother, sister, husband, wif…
He doesn’t know it all but Silky can make up something plausible really quickly.
Returning for its fifth year, the smash-hit, sell-out show returns to Edinburgh! Written and directed by award-winning playwright Liam Rudden and featuring the hit Bay City Rollers…
A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy.
Bare Productions are a new, fresh Edinburgh-based company comprising of some of the best local talent who have all performed in multiple five-star sell-out shows at the Fringe.
**** (TimeOut).
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
The Johnny Cash Story premiers at the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the 18-time Grammy winner.
Melbourne’s Out Cast Theatre company, using ‘bits of Mr Oscar Wilde’, as stated on the flyer, return a sort-of version of The Importance of Being Earnest to the Edinburgh Fri…
A sexier, more violent Waiting for Godot, Definition of Man is a physicalised post-apocalyptic decreation myth that won Best in Dance and Physical Theatre and Ripest Show at the 20…
Award-winning Lucky Dog bring their acclaimed Mr Merrick, the Elephant Man to Edinburgh for the first time.
In 2010, the island of Herm (the Channel Islands’ smallest island) declared a state of emergency.
Comedy.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
What a difference a decade can make.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
For anyone who thinks they don't make physical comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton any more, here's a word from the wise—which, in this context, essentially …
Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab…
Do you struggle to fit in in an ever-changing world? Does the speed of change make you feel old before your time? Then you know how Paul feels.
Featured in the top Fringe jokes of all time in The Scotsman, The Independent and The Mirror.
From the age of sieges and chivalry comes a show about medieval love, adrenaline junkies and an insane quest for glory.
She is arguably the most famous Hollywood screen icon and pin-up.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
In six years of stand-up, Aidan ‘Taco’ Jones has met great comedians from every continent (except Antartica, they’re rubbish).
The Choir of Man was the runway hit and ‘the ultimate feel-good show of 2017 Fringe’ ***** (Edinburgh Evening News).
As seen on Ricky Gervais’ Derek, Sky’s Rovers and Channel 4’s Gittins.
Heroic deeds, epic duels and a lavish masquerade ball all come to life in a huge, outdoor adventure for all the family.
Comedians Bronston Jones (USA) and Martin Mor (IRE) are joined each day by a different guest.
"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori…
Paul Patin is a French actor/singer/dancer who has performed around the world with international companies for more than 10 years.
Jon Long (Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2016) is out to entertain you and he’ll be using all the tricks of the Troubadour trade.
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.
There are going to be two kinds of people who read this review: fans of Paul Foot, and people who are curious about Paul Foot.
In 1966, Joe Welch, a skipper, sails into dingle harbour with a very unusual catch.
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns with a work in progress.
The creator of Fringe hit: The Charlie Montague Mysteries (sell-out shows 2016 and 2017), returns with 40 minutes of jokes and silliness.
He is Generation X.
The jig is up! Paul Williams is a quadruple threat – song, dance, comedy and opinion.
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
So what exactly IS the Trouble with Scott Capurro? Is it that this left-leaning liberal American (yes, he’s the one, apparently) seemingly talks without pausing for breath? (“Are y…
It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc…
After reviewing your application, Sam & Tom are pleased to offer you the opportunity to interview for the position of audience in their new cult comedy show.
Paul Foxcroft (Cariad and Paul, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show) is a professional improviser who, for some reason, has decided to script an hour’s show in defiance of his many years o…
Sock! Pow! Wham! Earth’s funniest footwear are back with their 10th new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
What happens to the women that men can’t write? In this showcase of strong female characters, a group of Cambridge’s finest lady and non-binary comics will endeavour to find out.
Discover the story of Scottish pop from the 1950s to the present day at this major exhibition.
Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan.
It's obvious from the loud, excited audience in Assembly Studio 3 that London-based comedy theatre trio The Pretend Men – Nathan Parkinson, Zachary Hunt and Tom Rose – have…
People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some…
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve.
This November happens to mark the 55th anniversary of the BBC broadcasting the first ever episode of Doctor Who, so it’s hardly surprising that several shows on this year’s Fringe …
When George was 12 he fell for the most beautiful, orangest girl in Stockport.
Marmite: it’s the breakfast spread that we apparently love or hate, and the word has – in that way the English language often does – subsequently evolved far wider metaphoric…
Hairy, ever so slightly scary tales for kids from the multi award-nominated wizard (alias John Henry Falle) and his arch-enemy, Mandy the Witch Who Lives Under The Sink (Funny Wome…
I was unsure what to expect from this performance, but "a musical about Robert Burns" already had my interest piqued.
Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio…
Charles ‘One-Man Star Wars’ Ross and Canadian Fringe legend, TJ Dawe, parody the Netflix smash series, Stranger Things.
Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s best-selling memoir of her youth, adapted for the stage and performed by her granddaughter Ingrid.
Tom Neenan has been a regular Fringe attraction for several years now, bringing a succession of one-man pastiches - Edwardian ghost story, Vaudeville Horror tale, 1950s British Sci…
To say that Paul Mayhew-Archer is not afraid to poke fun at himself would be the understatement of the last decade.
Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a fantasy novel by Samuel Butler which, first published anonymously in 1872, presented itself as the experiences of its narrator on discovering the m…
After last year’s sell-out run, Paul returns to Edinburgh with his life, seemingly, still bordering on disarray.
I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s…
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
Knowledge = Belief and Truth.
‘The most relevant comedian in Edinburgh’ (EdFestMag.
Come help jolly Mr Fizzywigg create a new story before his beloved factory is shut forever! Using all the tools of the trade, including the giant wheel of silly voices and the mass…
After last year's sell-out show, Paul returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with his life, seemingly, still bordering on disarray.
Inspired by our sister production of Phil Porter's Blink, Squabbling House Theatre are delighted to present the company’s first collection of new writing shor…
Brought together by a voyeuristic relationship that teeters on the verge of stalking, introverted Sophie and eccentric Esther relive the story of how they met.
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
An interactive technological comedy adventure with comedian David Callaghan.
Greetings.
Magicked! – Everyone loves Harry Potter, and in tribute to the world’s favourite pubescent wizard, this summer, tonight’s show assumes the form of an improvised tribute to Ha…
Multi-award winning comedians the Fringe Wives Club are here to bring lols, power and feminist-flavoured fun to the kids of London! Come join the dance floor as we sing songs, play…
After review of your recent application Sam & Tom would like to extend to you the opportunity to interview for the position of ‘Audience’ for their new c…
Standup and improv comedy unite in one explosively funny night! Join us as a group of experienced improvisers weave a (dramatic! funny! exciting!) story in three acts based on the …
Witness a free recording of 2 brand new radio comedies!https://www.
Taylor Swift’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, reputation, topped iTunes album charts in 111 countries and debuted at number one on the both the Official UK Albums C…
Taylor Swift’s critically acclaimed sixth studio album, reputation, topped iTunes album charts in 111 countries and debuted at number one on the both the Official UK Albums C…
Dennis, 32, is perfect according to his best friend and Nan, Elsie.
"Grow up, mature, and come back when you have something to contribute!" It's not the most sympathetic way to address a young audience; nevertheless, it succinctly sho…
Part of the inherent challenge for Noel Jordan and the Imaginate team when putting together their annual Edinburgh International Children's Festival is their very diverse poten…
Fairy tales survive because they can be constantly retold, uncovering new depths and relevancies to the world today.
Chris Woodley’s autobiographical solo show ‘The Soft Subject (A Love Story)’ invites us back into the classroom to learn about love, loss and The Little Mermaid.
If you ever wondered what a fantastically dark comedy musical mash-up of the traditional tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the classic 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smokin…
Andy Manley is undoubtedly one of the treasures of Scotland’s current theatrical landscape, all the more so given his seemingly innate (but presumably hard-learned) skill in hold…
Some Guys Have All The Luck is a fantastic theatrical production celebrating the career of one of rocks greatest icons, Rod Stewart – from street busker through to…
Edinburgh Comedy Award winners Max & Ivan (as seen on BBC2’s ‘W1A’ and heard on Radio 4’s ‘The Casebook of Max & Ivan’) bring their critically acclaimed origin story to Brighton, a…
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
Do you struggle to fit in in an ever-changing world? Does the speed of change make you feel old before your time? Then you know how Paul feels.
Earth’s Funniest Footwear are back for their 10th brand new show.
If you want a wonderful retelling and reimagining of the classic tale, told by two talented performers on a deliciously simple, yet complex, set, then look no further.
‘The Man of a 1000 Farces’ is the new touring show from that international man of misery, Johnny MacAulay.
What's your tipple? Pint of lager and a packet of cheese and onion crisps? How about an evening being transported to the White Oak pub where you will meet an eclectic mix of ch…
In 2010 the island of Herm declared a state of emergency.
‘Three M Egos’ features three diverse comedians, all in one show.
James Dean.
How can we enhance the impact of a theatre play with live music? An interactive workshop where participants are welcome to bring their own compositions to play or improvise.
An opportunity to see the culmination of three years’ work produced by The Hammond Graduate Musical Theatre Students, in a unique showcase performance for industry…
An energy packed performance by the Musical Theatre Degree students at Northbrook MET.
Comedian David Callaghan brings his newest interactive technological comedy adventure.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Debut hour from award-winning new comedian Jon Long (Musical Comedy Awards Audience Favourite 2016, Winner of Comedy Store King Gong 2015).
EXTRA PERFORMANCES ADDED BY POPULAR DEMAND Louis Pearl has thrilled audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer award-nominated ‘Story Beast’, “a bearded force of nature” (The Guardian) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), …
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.
Nothing interesting has ever happened to gay comedian Will Dalrymple.
Paul Savage spent last year trying to be better.
Step right down for a debauched carnie cabaret within tent, hosted by magic roustabout and snake-oil peddler Paul Zenon, TV trickster and longtime ‘La Clique’ ringmaster.
There is a housing crisis in this country.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Wow, it’s time for the debut hour of comedy from hot ticket and nice friend David McIver! That’s right girls and boys, your special little man is all grown up and raring to do some…
Friendly Cornish Giant Matt Price was going out with a woman.
From the minds behind Brighton improv titans Off the Cuff and Blanket Fort comes a full-throttle fully-improvised musical performed in full by only two men (plus one on guitar).
Join Lord Byron, the most notorious figure from literary history, for a stiff drink.
Brighton’s number one, award-winning traditional city walking tour.
A trip to Story Corner is the perfect way start to your Fringe day.
August Strindberg apparently subtitled his play Creditors (in Swedish: Fordringsäxgare) a “tragicomedy” but, while David Greig’s 2008 adaptation does indeed contain a few de…
Sometimes, when it comes to suspending our disbelief, we just have to go with the flow.
70 years after the Empire Windrush docked, marking the start of Caribbean migration to the UK, comes a new work from Phoenix’s artistic director Sharon Watson with a newly co…
“In my day, we trusted people.
A road movie, according to Wikipedia, is “a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip,” during which “the hero changes, grows or improves over the cou…
Walk Right Back tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers.
Once upon a time, approximately twenty years from now, Yorick stands alone, suited up and ready to blast off in a rocket on his celebrated journey to Mars.
The "Podfather" (Guardian) and "King of the Internet" (Time Out) returns with the award winning Podcast in which he chats with the biggest names in c…
Back for its third year.
If theatre is home to lies that impart truths, then this Actors Touring Company’s production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice (translated by David Tushingham) makes …
Mousetrap Theatre Projects is celebrating its 21st Anniversary on Sunday 18th March 2018 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, raising funds to give inspiring theatre experiences to ch…
Dance the night away with Adelaide’s hottest party boat and live acts on the Inner Harbour of Port Adelaide.
Inspired by some lesser known writings of the great novelist, poet and playwright, Jules Verne, The Man in the Mail tells the story of a lovelorn fellow who decides to send himself…
Damian Callinan, renowned character and stand-up comedian, suffers from OTTDS (Over The Top Dance Syndrome).
The Choir of Man was the runaway hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 the team behind The Magnets! and the Soweto Gospel Choir.
Sisonke Msimang is a South African writer and activist.
“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a …
The Andrews Sisters were America’s most popular singing trio - Patty, Maxine and LaVerne burst onto the entertainment scene in the 1940’s and were known for their close three part …
Basketball Man is an artist from New York that performs a variety of basketball tricks such as dribbling, spinning, juggling, and freestyle with basketballs all while telling s…
Ever wondered what teachers really think about you, your kids and the education system? Ben Knight delivers a brutally honest musical/standup fusion of what teachers REALLY think …
Mr Badger tells this much loved, classic story celebrating the joys of nature and friendship.
Recently, Simon was told he was going to be a dad.
Rich acapella singing opens this show as Melvin Brown takes to the stage.
Time to get out the hairspray and stud jackets as we let loose in the Pocket at Stirling Fringe.
A man and his case in a world of chance and opportunity, creates a happening of interactive participation, acute absurdity and mesmerizing manipulation.
Ever wondered what wine goes best with Fairy Bread? Why hasn’t the ‘Champagne Spider’ caught on? These questions and many more will be inadequately answered by the self-sty…
Fresh from SOLD OUT performances in 2016 and 2017 to standing room only crowds for The Adelaide Fringe, Motown Connection are back by popular demand at The Gov to present “The Moto…
Love a bargain? Love to sing along? Join us for some op shopping bargains as we head to a number of Op Shops around Adelaide.
Ingrid Garner wrote and performs the internationally acclaimed, theatrical adaptation of her grandmother Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s award-winning memoir, detailing her youth as an Am…
For over 10 years by luck or design Southern has only really experienced summer and autumn.
An international gross of $1.
Terry Who? (Final Touch/Gen XYZ) performs a tribute to the fantastic works of Sir Paul McCartney (Singer/Songwriter, Beatle, Trainee Bass Player, Trainee Piano Player, multi-lingua…
Jeff Jenkins opens the show with a tale of how a young 19 year old Bob Dylan hitch-hiked his way from Duluth Minnesota to New York City with a guitar and $10 in his pocket and went…
Adelaide’s 2016 Award Winner and 5 Star performer returns to show you why he is widely regarded as one of the funniest magicians on the planet! Dressed to impress and with more th…
‘If you’re unfamiliar with Marmalade 5, sort that out - you’re missing out on what would have to be one of the most musically-talented families in Adelaide’ The Advertiser.
IN GOOD COMPANY – a fabulous 40 voice acapella group will sing original arrangements of many of Paul Simon’s hits such as “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes”, “Cecilia�…
It isn’t just music, and it isn’t just a show—it’s an entire mariachi experience.
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…
An honest tale of one man’s modern escape from the prison of belief.
Tania Savelli, Kat Jade and Melanie Smith take you on a historical journey celebrating the most famous female vocal trio of all time.
After his fall from grace, lawyer Kane returns to the family sheep station for the first time in ten years.
The bawdy, the dirty, and the downright horny - The Towers of Song are going to rock’n’roll their way through the lustful side of Leonard’s music.
Two opposing presidential party candidates are neck and neck in an unscrupulous battle for the nomination.
Songs of beauty, songs of heartbreak, old squabbles and spontaneous nonsense.
WORKSHOP: Would you like to know how to structure a dramatic monologue, or make work inspired by lived experience? Acclaimed UK writer & theatre-maker Molly Taylor specialises in …
Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final …
Bring your best mates, your Mama, even your Last Time Lover.
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…
Writer and director Tony Cownie has established a particular niche at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, taking potentially overlooked 18th century comedies (like Carlo Goldoni’…
Most stand-up comedy these days is based on the lives of the people standing behind the microphone, albeit reshaped to varying degrees to ensure their material matches the “rule …
It’s 36 years since Andrea Dunbar’s breakthrough play announced the all-too-brief flowering of a new writing talent – “a genius straight from the slums,” as the Mail on S…
The central metaphor running through Frank McGuinness’s 2012 monologue The Match Box is almost breath-taking in its simplicity; it’s that all of us, all of our lives, are ultim…
Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre.
David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens, made a big splash back in 1995, recognised as a modern classic which has since seen revivals by companies as diverse as the Nation…
Following its sold out run as part of Bristol Old Vic’s 250th Anniversary season, Jeremy Irons and Lesley Manville reprise their roles in Richard Eyre’s acclaimed produ…
When watching the stage adaptation of any book, especially one I’ve not read, there’s often a question lingering at the back of my mind; would I appreciate this more, would I…
London Musical Theatre Orchestra presents A Christmas Carol.
There’s a deliberate cheapness to the temporary, painted proscenium arch erected in the Brunton’s theatre-space, indicative of this local panto’s rough ’n’ ready (and n…
This revival of Shona Reppe’s acclaimed puppet retelling of the iconic fairytale is a fascinating jewel of a production, ideal for young children and families alike; subtle, s…
It’s a real shame temporary roadworks make accessing this show’s venue ever-so-slightly off-putting; also, that the venue is still relatively new, especially when it comes t…
As Scotland’s self-declared “new writing theatre”, Edinburgh’s Traverse does like to offer up an alternative to the pantomimes and decidedly family-focused fare on offer…
A strange new act has arrived at the fairground.
It’s said that actors should never work with children or animals, presumably because of their unpredictability and the extra work this requires.
Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Our Storyteller is on the run from those three-headed monsters, trying to bring you the most fantastic tales from the Magic Land of Three.
EPIC is a theater troupe for actors living with (and without) developmental disabilities such as autism.
Award-winning artist; Bafta-winning TV presenter; Reith Lecturer and bestselling author with traditional masculine traits including having the desire to “always be right and …
It’s mildly amusing to see two grown men briefly falling into a childish bragging-match about their fathers—one a retired Church of Scotland minister, the other a former Bis…
“We’re beautiful, wild, free and full of joy,” say the titular Maids, Solange and Claire, towards the close of Jean Genet’s 1947 drama, courtesy of Martin Crimp’s 1999…
There’s a wonderful clarity to Linda McLean’s short play Thingummy Bob, a firm favourite with Scotland’s leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, Lung H…
“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…
There were a lot of expectation around this new Wales Millennium Centre production of Manfred Karge’s one-woman play, Man to Man.
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.
There’s no doubting the raw energy and physicality of this show, a work of dance theatre that definitely prefers choreography to speech, and uses it—along with some pretty st…
Site specific theatre is nothing new in Scotland; from the numerous innovative creations by the likes of Grid Iron Theatre Company to much of the work by the “without walls” …
Three wishes, three witches, three sisters, three pigs, three bears, three musketeers.
Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f…
This is a mating ground.
Historically speaking, the original “Damned Rebel Bitches” were—according to the “butcher” Duke of Cumberland—the Jacobite women who marched behind their men in order…
During the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation, its first Director-General Lord Reith established the BBC’s mission as being to “inform, educate and entertai…
Given that she’s such a much-loved public entertainer, an all-too-obvious challenge in creating a musical based on the early life of the late Cilla Black—born Priscilla Mari…
Celebrating 30 years since its UK première and following rave reviews and a sold out run at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival, Maggie Bain delivers a tour de force performance in …
A great night out with some of London’s best improvisers - presented by City Impro and the Just Us League. Improv comedy like you have never seen it before.
The first night of our season of songs about stories and stories about songs.
Direct from a SELL OUT Worldwide tour and standing ovations at every performance, The Simon & Garfunkel Story arrives in London’s West End! Using huge projection photos a…
I have been to Paradise and this is what I saw.
East 15 is holding auditions for these dynamic MA degrees. For more information email [email protected] with Edinburgh in the email title.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Set in the heart of Scotland, The Man Who Couldn’t Dance is a story of first love, broken promises and surviving suburbia in the aftermath of a broken heart.
From pin-drop delicacy to infectious grooves that leave you smiling, this renowned singer-songwriter brings you songs of love and seafood with some very special guest appearances.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe Participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A panel discussion with Caroline Bowditch (performance artist and choreographer); Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson (University of Edinburgh); Michael Richardson (Heriot-Watt University).
‘Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Forty something years into a lifetime of looking great but feeling fake, Cally Beaton is ready to come out about her double life in her hilarious brand-new stand-up show, Super Cal…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
America’s Got Talent winner, ventriloquist Paul Zerdin, heads to Fringe for three nights only, fresh from headline shows in Las Vegas, with a sparkling new show featuring his all-s…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The award winning & brilliantly imaginative Paul F Taylor is BACK.
Men have all the power.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Other Guys from the University of St Andrews return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the third time, with more energy and excitement than ever before.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Story Poker is a game where five comedians tell their true stories, to win a round of Story Poker.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
The Other Guys return to the Fringe with their show All Night Long with more charm, energy and dulcet tones than you can shake a stanky leg at.
David Earl’s alter ego, Brian Gittins is an utter prat and according to the Sussex Argus, ‘The World’s Worst Comedian’.
Uncovering the true and still unfolding story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: a charity worker detained in Iran while on holiday, visiting her family.
For His Lordship’s entertainment: In August 1717, Handel joined Lord Carnarvon’s household as what we would now call composer in residence at Cannons where Johann Christoph Pepusch…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
René knows how to keep kids entertained whilst giving adults a good laugh too.
Period production set in India in the 1940s, staging a spiritual journey two people take as they step foot into the theatre of life.
A few ideas structure Josie Long’s new show, the central one being simply that “not everything is for everyone.
At the all-male, male retreat for men, Guru Nigel will show you how to grasp the long, hard, curved (and, occasionally, in a periodic design) doorknob to your life.
The History of Jazz Piano is now expanded into a journey over three nights taking in the greatest jazz pianists from Fats Waller to Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans.
Snow is the newest prisoner at HMP Young Offenders Institution, Hull.
If you had to pick one writer to sum up the inventive spirit of the post-war transatlantic era, you could hardly do better than Paul Auster.
In a modern cabaret format, Now Here’s A Funny Story is a jaunty romp through the golden age of music hall, often delving into its dark underbelly.
You are asked to explain a purpose, statement of intention and concept.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Join us for traditional Choral Evensong and Benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Three Colours Guitar’s exciting new music show blends jazz, classical and Celtic fingerstyle.
Part confessional monologue, part lecture and part nostalgic trip back to the days of the BBC’s Jackanory, there’s no doubt that There Were Two Brothers is a funny, personal—…
When two women are dragged into an underground lair while bombs engulf their city, they dream about getting one last chance to see their family, kiss their loved ones, and punch th…
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
Wendy’s spellbinding show offers stunning interpretations of contemporary and traditional Scots, French, American and Canadian songs: Leonard Cohen, Mark Knopfler, Robert Burns, …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Brian makes a triumphant return to the Fringe to perform his hit album A Better Man in its entirety.
Premiered in 1901 in Moscow, The Three Sisters by Chekhov is a play perhaps surprisingly easy to adapt to many different circumstances, as it speaks about characters’ dreams for …
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Powerful like a dragon, supple like a dancer.
On a cliff edge somewhere, a man is about to jump to his death when he is stopped by a psychology professor.
Meticulously crafted and uplifting, ‘stellar stand-up’ (Age).
After sell-out shows at last year’s Fringe and Celtic Connections festivals, Bwani Junction return with their joyful rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland album.
Coltrane invites his best friends in comedy down for a friendly late-night geek retreat, as comedians play Super Mario Maker live: the most thrilling and infuriating platforming ga…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Come, meet our oriental beauty, mother of a great ancient nation.
Superfans of Greg Proops will enjoy the intimate feel of being in the room at the time of his Podcast live recording.
We like to think of it as a ‘daring exposé revealing the state of contemporary masculinity in a post-feminist milieu’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Come along and celebrate the 50th year of Just a Minute with special recordings in Edinburgh.
This startling, if indistinct production from Mind the Gap, England’s largest learning disability theatre company, gets straight to its point, with cast members slipping into ‘…
An intense thriller challenging the villains of the business world, the bullies who take pleasure in their success over others, no matter what it takes.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Paul Savage gets himself into good places, and then blows it all up.
1960s America.
Ever heard a bald man sing Rihanna? Fresh from performing at the world’s biggest comedy clubs, including Caroline’s on Broadway, NYC and Yuk Yuk’s Toronto, Scottish baldy Gary Sa…
There’s nothing that says ‘Edinburgh Festival Fringe’ quite like the portrayal of sex on stage: that said, compared with many of the thousands of shows in Edinburgh this August, …
The laws of stand up hold that childhood diaries are always good for a laugh.
The world’s first and only human/cartoon double-act return to the Fringe.
Dabek is an old-school showman; his banter is honed to a bleeding edge and you can easily imagine him holding forth on classic Saturday night TV, perhaps as a guest on The Paul Dan…
Super Scott returns to the Fringe with his own unique blend of comedy, juggling, magic and more. Expect the unexpected! (Recommended by his mother).
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
Forty something years into a lifetime of looking great but feeling fake, Cally Beaton is ready to come out about her double life in her hilarious brand-new stand-up show, Super Cal…
Upbeat Gordon Southern may dress like the kind of supply teacher that the kids love to bully (his words) but, despite his repeated mantra of ‘Not Laughing, Learning’, his lates…
Man And Boy is a perfectly poetic way to punctuate an otherwise hectic day at the Fringe.
An adventurous spin on the classic tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes and above all, honor.
Floating in deep space, an astronaut pleads with his lover to let him back in the airlock.
Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive …
An original, devised, loose adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1948 dystopian novel which examines a post-apocalyptic world.
Javier is talked about as surreal, absurdist, observational, daft, satirical: he doesn’t stand as a novelty, nor does he mirror what you know about stand-up comedy.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
The Californian pianist and composer’s improvisational flights through bebop and beyond – sometimes highly structured, sometimes wild – are rhapsodic, heartfelt and boldly melo…
The silver-tongued Goldilock can see that her days of selling moody goods on the cobbled streets of East End London are numbered.
A brand-new show from this hairy idiot man-child, strap in for more fun and nonsense as the entire audience is taken by the hand into a true circus of silly.
“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’…
The James Taylor Story is one of a series of shows at the Fringe under the Night Owl Shows, the company created by Dan Clews.
A portrayal of the life of Eva Cassidy through video, voice and song.
Can Princess Pumpalot (The Farting Princess) and her best friend Guffy find the purple super-farting bean and save Wiffyville from Prince Nastavia and the Low-flying Gnomes? Aided …
Direct from a sold-out appearance in Toronto, the 2014/15/16 smash-hit sell-out show returns.
The Symposium Hall is an ideal venue for an acoustic music show with great views from the whole of the theatre.
The Carole King Story premiers at the Fringe to take you on an incredible journey through the career of the six-time Grammy Award winner and 20-time platinum hit-maker.
If you are in search of some polite 1930s garden-party-esque comedy mixed in with a hilariously self-aware performance, this is certainly a play to catch.
What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…
Zinnie Harris has five plays on in Edinburgh this August, including two within the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme.
Stampin’, stompen’ coming through the trees, shuffling through the swamp grass, blowing in the breeze.
The summer is coming.
Sometimes, when comedians are interviewed, they talk about how they have a responsibility to talk about the issues.
Today’s class is about love, heartbreak and The Little Mermaid.
Following a sell-out 2016 Fringe and nationwide tour, the star of BBC’s Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and The John Bishop Show, Channel 4’s 8 Out of 10 Cats, and BBC Radio 4’s …
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Andrew Doyle has, allegedly, lost quite a few friends this last year.
It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’.
When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience.
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…
Jon Long performs stand-up comedy with songs – songs about unusual recycling, his hatred of jogging, alcoholism, and falcons.
Just twelve short months ago, Mark Row had never stepped on stage to perform stand-up comedy.
If the illustrious names that have performed as part of The Rat Pack Presents is a guide, then it is worth heading along to the Cabaret Voltaire during this year’s festival.
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
The blurb suggests this is a show about nothing, but amidst the surreal humour there is a deeper meaning.
The tricky thing with a show like The Man On The Moor is balancing the personal, fictional story being told with the larger, true-life event it is connected to.
Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming…
This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly …
Time and again during Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s famous farce, people tell each other not to be absurd.
Star of Impractical Jokers (BBC Three).
The truth about fairy tales, all too often forgotten by us grown-ups, is that the best ones are meant to be scary, albeit in an ultimately reassuring context.
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…
Very much in the spirit of the Fringe, Phill Jupitus steps out of his comfort zone with a show of improvisational comedy that sees him inhabit two wonderfully diverse characters th…
When Phill Jupitus commits to the Fringe, he does so 100 per cent.
In the world premiere of Pulitzer/Tony Award nominee Craig Lucas’s (Prelude to a Kiss, An American in Paris, Amelie) zany and touching new play, three stories collide in a world of…
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
There is something remarkably welcoming about being handed a free pint with a smile as you walk into a show.
Is it a curse to stay? What if we couldn’t travel, could never leave home and see the world? Can we still be happy? A girl looks across the ocean and longs to discover.
The alternative RSC’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s works might more succinctly be titled Shakespeare: The Pantomime.
Jason Byrne is no stranger to festival stand-up, or festival audiences, and he has returned once again to Scotland’s capital with his new tour, The Man with Three Brains (althoug…
Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey.
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…
One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe…
Given that so much of the stand-up comedy you’ll find on the Fringe is blatantly autobiographical—at least to some extent—it’s not surprising that a lot of Jamie MacDonald�…
Follow in the footsteps of power on this walking tour of capitalism from British Empire to banking crisis, with jokes.
By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes.
Malcolm Hardee Award nominee and Buxton Fringe Best Show winner (and triple nominee) explores bravery in a volatile world.
The most talked about comedian from last year’s Fringe is back.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story won the first Broadway Baby Bobby Award in 2014 as one of the most outstanding productions of that year’s Festival Fringe.
Thanks to the numerous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, we arguably don’t have the best impression of the Victorian Police Detective—especially when it comes to either their inte…
Culminating in an audience member punching a stuffed monkey named Jonnie whilst Paul Foot shouts ridiculous syncopated mottos about equality for all mankind, this show provides alm…
Fringe 2011’s Best Newcomer nominee Paul Valenti is back, this time on a semi-silent casual quest for universal truth.
Fundamental Theater Project’s Dickless is a tale of rumours, girls, a headless cat and bizarre sexual conquests in the small-town of Dunningham.
You are what you eat.
When a comedian comes on clutching notes you would expect that you were about to watch something that was underdeveloped and in need of refinement.
After sold out Fringe shows in 2014 and 2015, Angela Barnes is back with a new routine that is, at times, remarkably and worryingly prescient.
Luke Kempner takes a Luke in the mirror in this gently funny show, poking fun at himself and the impressions he uses to express himself.
Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th…
Anna Mann is, according to herself, the greatest actress of her generation—a quote she can now legitimately edit for future Fringe posters with no fear of censor.
Ian D Monfort communicates with many famous figures who have passed to the other side.
Deploying sketch comedy in its pinnacle form, Pelican, made up of ex-Footlights Guy Emanuel, Sam Grabiner and Jordan Mitchell, have put together a cohesive and hilarious narrative …
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.
Ed Byrne’s latest show is based around the notion that as a generation we are all spoilt.
Join visionary character comedy maverick Tom Skelton on a wild gallop through the history of blindness and his own sight loss.
It’s a hard task to sum up quite what The Andy Field Experience is about without using the words surreal and odd.
‘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…
Spies Like Us Theatre’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s classic novel is, quite simply, a joy.
Gloria and Padraic are best friends whose relationship changes forever.
Amy Conway’s Super Awesome World is a hidden gem of the Fringe that starts off all fun and games (literally) before delving into an account of living with depression that is so h…
The King is back, long live the King.
The Backyard Story, directed by Chen-Chieh Sun with lively music composed by Chien-Hsun Chen, is a charming black-light theatre show for children aged 5+.
There’s one point during Geoff Norcott’s latest show when it really flies, when you sense he really has most of the audience on his side — even though at least one or two of …
Australian comic Lauren Bok has a joke toward the beginning of her show about Australia being a country stuck a few years in the past; what she doesn’t achieve in her hour-long s…
It’s four years since Rob Lloyd first brought this autobiographical, Doctor Who-related show to Edinburgh.
A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) is about a woman’s struggle with depression, told through a simple, storytelling format and soundtracked by original music from Fris…
The technical choreography from Flabbergast Theatre that delivers this consistently joyful, yet bleak, puppetry extravaganza is exceptional.
Burly Glaswegian stand-up Scott Agnew has for many years joked about “blow-job knee”—wear and tear arising from too much time on his knees providing oral sex.
Given the way that Jan Ravens effortlessly reels off her startling array of impressions it begs the question why it has taken so long for her to branch out on her own.
Choose Your Battles is Lucy Porter’s 11th Edinburgh Show and it’s a wonderfully crafted hour that is both funny and, at times, a poignant look at someone who goes out of their way …
CBeebies’ favourites (Justin’s House, Spot Bots) swashbuckle their way through a hilarious, new adventure of chivalry, swordplay and slips.
It’s 54 years since the last conscripted British citizens returned to civilian life after completing their National Service.
Resting from the outdoor evening plays this utterly charming take on the Three Kings is indoors mid-afternoon.
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
Many an article’s been written on how the gay scene appears dominated by drugs and sex.
“Ah yes.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
Alan Bennett’s Bed Amongst the Lentils is one of the great observational pieces from the master wordsmith’s influential Talking Heads series.
The finals of the Great Yorkshire Fringe New Comedian of the Year competition as ever throw up a talented assortment of acts.
There is a tongue planted firmly in cheek with this affectionate tribute to the music of the Carpenters and in particular the legacy of Richard, forever doomed to be the “other�…
Tom Taylor returns with his one person particularly posh whodunnit featuring Charles Montague, a posh dandy womanizer who is one of those people who you can’t work out quite why …
At the opening of a new art exhibition, rakish aristocrat and gentleman detective, Charlie Montague, is presented with a double-threat: murder and modern art.
The show that offended a thousand piglets is back.
There’s a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but I reckon if you gave everyone a ukulele then you could go a long way to curing all that’s troubling.
Squeeze some culture into your lunchbreak! Grab a sandwich and join Lightbox Theatre this July for a lunchtime serving of darkly comic gems by some of theatre’s most prominent p…
Taking you beyond the sensory to the subliminal world of Oriental Aesthetics through poetry, music, dance, and visuals. £35 and £18 ticket link: bit.ly/HKSenses
“O, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott wrote in his epic poem Marmion, “when first we practise to deceive!” It’s a life lesson we can only hope unfortunat…
“Some stories didn’t make it into the history books” In 1943, young Mid-Westerner Stu serves in the army as a photographer for Yank Magazine, the journal ‘f…
An explosive hour of videogame geekery and Shakespeare, packed full of physical comedy, video projection and 16-bit, musical mayhem.
A marriage isn’t just the joining of two people, or even two families—it marks the coming together of two communities.
Saska (Corinne Furlong) decides to hold what which she hopes will be a cosy dinner party for a select group of her closest friends.
Much-loved guitarist, Paul Gregory, returns to perform a solo recital of J.
‘Eve’s Dawning’ combines storytelling, live music and animation to tell the dystopian fairy tale of Eve, the last girl in the world, as she navigates a post-apocalyptic waste…
The STAC @ Northbrook Showcase featured 14 Musical Theatre Degree students, advertising their many performance talents in just over an hour of song and dance.
Nathan Cassidy is pretty angry about a three star review he once received.
Three idiots spoof Noel Coward in a unique and ridiculous vision of ‘Blithe Spirit’.
The debut production from exciting new improvised theatre company, Sonder.
It’s fair to say that Bounce!, created and performed by French company Arcosm, is a delightfully playful blend of music and dance, performed with real skill and alleged wild a…
Recent years have seen a significant rise in the number of (usually) London theatre productions being transmitted live to cinemas and other venues across the UK.
We are back to lead you in a sing-a-long of hits from all the best musical shows, with a live band of West End theatre musicians backing you.
The Foster’s Edinburgh Best Newcomer Award-nominated ‘Story Beast’ (“a bearded force of nature” (Guardian)) and critically-acclaimed “charming storyteller” (Chortle), Ric…
See the act that has been thrilling audiences around the world for 30 years.
A dog is man’s best friend, and is for life.
Have you been more naughty or more nice this year? Are you sure?A company of gentlemanly vagabonds introduce themselves with a reminder to relax before the “Art” starts.
One Board Man is one of the most unique shows I have ever seen.
At one point during Glory on Earth, its two main characters—stage right, the young, romantic Mary, Queen of Scots; stage left, the firebrand Protestant preacher John Knox—ar…
CTRL ALT DEL: Restart, Repeat, Restart, Repeat.
A refreshingly innovative take on Mary Shelley’s 19th century novel, Augustus Stephens’ one-man performance effortlessly portrayed mental illnesses through the depiction of Vi…
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Star of ‘Live at the Apollo’, ‘Mock the Week’ and Radio 4’s ‘The Now Show’, tries out some new jokes for an hour or so.
Prepare for a schlock’n’roll explosion of magic, sideshow, physical comedy and a new high in lowbrow.
“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 …
Come and sing your heart out in this special viewing of the west-end hit turn film. Greek style mezze included in the ticket price. Prizes for fancy dress. Rating PG.
Lets do the Time Warp again! Join in with this cult classic in our big screen auditorium and don’t forget the rice and newspapers. Fishnets at the ready…
Blooming Ludas presents Power Story – a tooth-achingly sweet participatory, environmentally friendly piece of storytelling.
Earth’s funniest footwear return with their hit show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard himself.
A short adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’.
What is the meaning of life? Do aliens exist? And how many is too many raisins? This show will answer a maximum of one of these questions.
Critically acclaimed the world over, and winner of a Drama Desk Award, The Sovremennik’s Three Sisters is widely regarded as one of the seminal versions of Anton Chekhov&rsqu…
In a world of adultery and vanity can a lazy idealist be forced to confront what he really feels? Banned in 1926 the play appears in the west end for the first time.
Paul Prem Nadama is a singer-songwriter-guitarist of beautiful, soulful acoustic songs, with a new-age twist.
In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Armed with an ocarina, a ukulele and a thirst for revenge, Lecoq-trained Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia in an explosion of Shakespeare, live music and 16-bi…
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Come and sing along to this Disney blockbuster at our big screen, child-friendly auditorium in the heart of Brighton.
After Muofhe’s thriving musical career in her region in the northern province of Venda in south Africa, she has decided it’s time to introduce her African rhythms to the rest of …
The London-born artist Joan Eardley, who settled in Scotland to study and whose artistic career was cut short when she died—aged 42—in 1963, is best known for two very diffe…
Brighton’s most popular 90 minute traditional city walking tour.
Forty something years into a lifetime of looking great but feeling fake, Cally Beaton is ready to come out about her double life in her hilarious brand new show, Super Cally Fragil…
Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences worldwide for over 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles.
The 306: Day is the second of a three play trilogy instigated by the National Theatre of Scotland, inspired by the stories of the 306 British soldiers that we know were executed…
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, heads to Brighton Fringe with his debut hour.
The utterly hilarious and utterly heartwarming debut hour of stand-up from Robin Morgan (Writer of ‘Have I Got News For You’, ‘Newzoids’, ‘The News Quiz’ and the ‘Now Show’).
If you ever crave the feeling that all the weight has been taken off your shoulders, this show and its desire to unburden you is worth a shot.
This is a homecoming, of sorts; the revival of a play, first performed at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre back in 1989, which subsequently enjoyed successful productions in the West …
Adapted for the stage from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, critically acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Three Comrades portrays the greatness of the human sp…
“I used to be Shirley Valentine,” explains the focus of Willy Russell’s 1986 one-woman play; a 42 year old Liverpudlian woman who, now that the children have flown …
The comedic tone of David Weir’s Confessional is clear from the start; as Schubert’s beautiful Ave Marie fades into silence, “Good Catholic” Kevin—or, as he puts it, th…
There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always …
Based on the first novel of The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s debut novel has become so iconic in Western culture that the word “Frankenstein” is now used pejoratively to describe any scientific o…
If the usual writerly advice is to always “show, not tell”, then biography is arguably one of the few artistic forms where a certain amount of direct author-to-audience expl…
The Biblical narrative that is the foundation of the Christian faith has been described, on numerous occasions, as “The Greatest Story Ever Told.
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…
Almost at the start, Gilchrist Muir—here inhabiting the tweed suit of our lecturer, Glasgow University-based Theoretical Zombiologist Dr Ken House—insists that Zombies are no…
A young girl, annoyed by being made fun of by her seven older brothers, joins in the family’s evening game of throwing stones and unintentionally shatters the sun from the sky…
From the start of his exploration of the scientific method, through the prism of the 17th century rivalry between Isaac Newton and the now little-remembered Robert Hooke, playwr…
In one sense, this Lyceum revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play is exactly the “dynamic two-hander” described in the programme: the only actors on stage are Peter Forbes,…
The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to.
There’s always a risk attempting to present previously “unknown” stories as theatre.
I’m not a fan of promenade performances, especially those involving the audience being led in a group from one set piece to another.
Science Fiction isn’t the most common genre you find on stage; ironic, really, since it was Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.
Paul Carrack is one the UK’s great singer songwriters and multi-instrumentalists.
Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c…
Evan Placey’s Girls Like That (first performed at London’s Unicorn Theatre three years ago) came to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—courtesy of the neighbouring Lyceum Thea…
There’s much to love about this new touring production of La Cage Aux Folles; gloriously Technicolor™ sets, gorgeous costumes, tight choreography, clearly enunciated sin…
Three-quarters of a century on, there are still stories of the Second World War that aren’t as well known as they should, but Stuart Hepburn’s new play—while promoted as t…
The old showbiz adage that “the show must go on” is usually invoked—in the aftermath of some behind-the-scenes calamity—before curtain-up, but the point of The Play That…
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
Nostalgia is big business.
The writer and historian James Truslow Adams once defined the “American Dream” as the potential for life to be “better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity …
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…
Three fast paced, twenty minute, absurdist comedies that are completely unrelated.
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has all the characteristics of a Tragedy, as we speedily witness the horrendous consequences of King Leontes’ groundless jealousy for pregnant …
Warning: Contains text of a sensitive nature In the 70s and early 80s, the well-known Manchester band, Joy Division, took their name from events had nothing to do with joy.
“I’m so excited”—that iconic 1982 hit by the Pointer Sisters—is an apt intro to a show with a predominantly female audience that’s already wound up to have a good ti…
“Not a circus, it’s a Berserkus!” Cirque Berserk! boldly comes with two USPs.
18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl…
If politics is about people—specifically the ever-fluctuating power imbalances between people in different situations—then Federico García Lorca was right to focus his “po…
There is, ironically enough, a lot that’s incredibly old-fashioned about Thoroughly Modern Millie; it’s a feel-good, song and dance show about a young gold-digger who, while se…
For 9 weeks only, Dirty Great Love Story makes its West End debut! Two hopeful hapless romantics get drunk, get it on and then get the hell away from each other.
You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an…
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland isn’t known for its plot; in fact, it’s essentially a succession of wonderfully fanciful sketches which happen to share …
In Sartre’s existential drama, three characters are placed in a mysterious room with no way out.
As titles go, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a fine conflation of the innocent and disturbing, although the cultural impact of Joan Lindsay’s novel is arguably more down to Peter W…
Pantomime, as we’re reminded by the Ambassador Theatre Group’s pre-show video (narrated by Brian Blessed), is a peculiarly British theatrical tradition, although it’s a sha…
Charles Dickens' classic gets the full Broadway treatment buy the Broadway team of Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid), Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical) and Mike…
“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic.
Scottish writer Stuart Paterson now has a back catalogue of sufficient scale to warrant a revival or two; his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is curre…
Rub shoulders with actors, directors and the winning writers of Britain’s prestigious international playwriting competition for two absorbing evenings of diverse, exciting and si…
It’s a brave show which starts with the words: “I don’t like it.
Inside Out Theatre’s second pantomime for relatively news arts venue Websters (located in Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge area) is another self-consciously low-rent production which …
Attic Theatre Company presents Great Expectations by Charles Dickens at Merton Arts Space between 30 Nov and 18 Dec.
Reviewing Mamma Mia! almost feels like a lost cause; it’s an unstoppable global phenomenon and, if this touring production—setting up home in the Edinburgh Playhouse for Chri…
There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits.
As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” …
“Small boys are not to be trusted,” says the titular George’s gleefully malevolent Grandma in this new production—by Dundee Rep’s Associate Artistic Director Joe Dougla…
The master of the English ghost story, M R James, once described Irish author Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank” among supernatural storyteller…
New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents.
First performed in 1775, Sheridan’s The Rivals remains surprisingly relevant, not least thanks to its inter-generational conflict.
You get a strong sense of what Jumpy is going to be like from Jean Chan’s impressive set—two jumbled piles of household goods, surrounded by an off-kilter frame of plain wall…
A risk when putting any historical figure on stage—let alone a writer and thinker of the calibre of Dr Samuel Johnson—is that using their own words makes them appear less a …
It’s not every play that starts with a reaffirmation of one of the basic fundamentals of theatre: that things which aren’t true can be imagined, and that what can be imagine…
“It’s quite comfortable being old,” 80 year old actor Tim Barlow tells us at the start of his latest one-man show, a work co-devised with the writer Sheila Hill.
For at least some of its audience, it’s enough that Grain in the Blood reunites actors Blythe Duff and John Michie—long-time compatriots on STV’s Taggart.
A Dance Umbrella Orbital London Tour in partnership with the Albany, artsdepot, Stratford Circus Arts Centre, and Watermans, with The Broadway and the Unicorn Theatre.
A darkly comic and dangerously dreamlike tale of past and present history colliding.
There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a…
This one-man show, written and performed by Gary McNair, won lots of praise during its initial run as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
It was the head-to-head that, even at the time, seemed almost unthinkable; a televised face-off between British chat-show host David Frost—certainly at the time not exactly kn…
We’re somewhere among the Western Isles, and at least a thousand years back in time.
Edinburgh-based Grid Iron Theatre Company has long specialised in creating immersive, site-specific theatre.
If you’re a student theatre company with somewhat limited resources, but still want to try your hand at a reasonably successful Broadway musical, then [title of show] is argua…
Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” …
A new production of the award-winning National Theatre comedy play.
In ancient Greece, it was the practice before any theatrical performance to name those citizens who had financed it, and for a respected citizen to give “the libation” to th…
Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s…
R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis…
It’s fitting, in the weeks running up to the latest Arctic Circle Assembly (running from 7-9 October in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the team behind A Play, a Pie and a Pint opted…
Playful Productions have confirmed a West End run for Harold Pinter's No Man's Land starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.
When Goalen, Greenland and Wilkie sweep, commandingly onto the stage of the Soho Theatre, they announce their identity as goddesses ‘who know everything’.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Traditional, contemporary Scottish songs by five of Scotland’s celebrated folk musicians.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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 …
Cinema screening of live performance.
Fusing storytelling, rich imagery and dynamic movement, Murphy scales down and examines his opinions, insecurities, ambitions and the tricky nature of keeping a long-term relations…
This event is an opportunity for you to apply for East 15 Acting School’s MA/MFA in Theatre Directing led by Mathew Lloyd – one of the UK’s foremost authorities on director tra…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A scintillating 13-piece live band, featuring percussion and brass sections and fronted by Stu Goodall pay reverence to the songs of Paul Simon with an explosive show.
Cinema screening of film.
Even plays were buried by the bombs of World War I.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
One performance only. Turn up early – sell-out expected.
Two friends get together to write a comedy musical.
NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio…
In six years of bible storytelling, Yorick has built a reputation for delivering John’s Gospel with a gripping performance storytelling style that is authentic and accessible.
The shape-shifting comedy double act return with their live, comic existential meltdown that takes place as two comedians attempt to stage an epic, historical, romance novel in und…
Paul Kelly has recorded over 20 albums as well as several film soundtracks.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants.
Sometimes a little simplicity can go a long way in the theatre, and in this case, the title of this piece about the life of composer and performer Ivor Novello is very apt, as it r…
For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing …
Join award winning, West End performer Sharon Sexton in this smash hit one woman, musical rollercoaster.
Allan will sing his songs of the road, written from a lifetime of travelling throughout the world.
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.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
After three sell-out shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the UK’s premiere 1940s vocal trio The Three Belles are back for an afternoon of vintage delights, from Glenn Miller to…
Cinema screening of live performance.
The whole of the 20th century viewed through profound counterculture events and the whisky industry! An abridged history lesson and tutored whisky tasting, the Whisky Anorak way.
DON GNU are decked out in hand-knit socks and worn-out sandals and on the hunt for that dang thing called self.
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 …
Cinema screening of live performance.
This tragic romance has always been about the individual consequences of divisions in society.
Comedian and social change pioneer Josie Long is joined by investigative journalist and regular Guardian contributor Martin Williams for a topical mix of reportage and gags.
Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens.
The triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, BBC Radio 4 star and cult optimist Josie Long returns to The Stand with an hour of new material and knockabout fun, as she works towards …
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
The tweeting of the birds portends a beautiful day, but the view from the bridge is spoiled by an ominous thick mist.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The UK’s number one jive and swing band.
What if punctuation marks were superheroes? During this show, we follow Question Mark Man as he tries to rescue his love interest Becky from the evil Captain Conundrum.
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
Cinema screening of film.
Join us for traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
The tale of one daredevil’s quest for glory! This mischievous show will fire up your engines with dangerous feats, epic story and jaw-dropping magic.
Having assembled a crack team of musical legends from across the globe, notorious rock stars Rayguns Look Real Enough are now heading into space to bring home the Best Band in the …
It’s always disappointing to see an interesting concept marred by poor execution.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
From pin-drop delicacy to infectious grooves that leave you smiling.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Cinema screening of film.
Karl Jenkins’ compelling anti-war work charts the descent into and the consequences of war and the hope for peace.
The Ups & Downs Theatre Group was formed in 1995 by three school teachers and no one could have anticipated what an impact the group would have.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
The Confederate States of America lost its quest for political independence in 1865, but its symbol, the Confederate flag, lived on, long after the nation it represented cease to e…
Paul Merton returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year with an improvised comedy show.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
This legendary singer/songwriter and pop-icon performs his chart hits Ariel, Lucky Stars, Lydia and more.
A presentation followed by questions and answers about drama school training.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
Following her third year of successful, sell-out shows, Ann Treherne, Chairman of The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre, talks about this famous man of literature – and spiritualism!…
Imagine you’re fifteen.
The music of Egberto Gismonti is like a microcosm of his native Brazil – diverse, joyful and unique.
A world within a world, a tale within a tale; A Story of Stories is the visually stunning and innovative production that will capture a parent’s imagination as much as a child’…
There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Paul Foot pits two teams against each other, discussing a series of real-life, perilous, yet bizarre situations and attempting to work out which of Paul’s unusual items will save…
Paul Wady’s unique and controversial mass autism conversion show returns for a second year.
Offbeat one-liners, flights of fancy and a totally absurd storyline from surrealist fool and NATY 2013 winner, Paul F Taylor.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Cinema screening of live performance.
A gloriously friendly show packed with hopes, dreams, snacks and drums.
Fourteen concerts given by musicians from Estonia, Finland, Luxemburg, Poland, UK, and from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Paul Dabek is back in the spotlight at the Free Fringe and, without giving anything away; this is man who really knows how to make the most of a spotlight.
Meet Frankie.
Cinema screening of film.
The show begins with a strikingly visual movement piece, then a discovery of the characters in the story, revealed through various musical instruments.
The show begins with a strikingly visual movement piece, then a discovery of the characters in the story, revealed through various musical instruments.
Raising a laugh and a lump in the throat all at once is a good trick – possibly the best.
In an explosion of energy, raw intensity and emotion, RashDash theatre company shatters preconceptions of the patriarchy.
Bolton belle Rowena performs songs and stand-up inspired by a recent trip to the Deep South.
Cinema screening of live performance.
The story of Edinburgh’s beloved Margaret Sinclair and her everyday sanctity is vividly brought to life in this one-woman play.
Comedy with the blues – risible recollections of festivals, musicians, stolen instruments and the influence of morris dancing.
It’s pretty clear what kind of show we’re about to see when – as it becomes obvious that there isn’t actually a sufficient number of seats for all of the audience that’s …
Now in its third year at the Fringe, I Ran With The Gang written by Liam Rudden for his company LR Stageworks returns this year to the cosy yet lavish surroundings of Le Monde in u…
As it turns out there are lots of reasons for Marcus to have a long face at the moment, not least because he was born with one.
We are the performance group of the Japanese Drum HIBIKI.
This educational, charming piece on an American folk-rock visionary is fittingly presented by an up-and-coming sensation of the same genre, Dan Clews.
Cinema screening of live performance.
Welcome to Dreamform.
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
We all have our price.
Leo Kearse, in his guise as Pun-Man, has a simple mission: to save the world of comedy from banal observational stand-up and self-righteous, long-winded anecdotes.
Comedian Paul Johnson guides his two sons through first loves, playground fights, youth sports and the timeless longing to fit in and be one of the cool kids – an urge Paul still…
Til’ Death Do Us Part tells the story of David and Alison as they struggle through pressures of married life.
Welcome to Matchbox Theatre! Would you please take a moment to check that all mobile phones and other electronic devices are switched on? Your calls are important to us! Photograph…
“Poggle’s not scared of climbing trees,” we’re told early on in this beautifully clear and uncluttered piece of vibrant dance theatre aimed at very young children.
Mission accepted.
ShakeShakeTheatre present the tale of a man named Bumblegrum in a quirky and enjoyable puppet show for children.
Three wishes, three witches, three sisters, three pigs, three bears, three beers, three musketeers.
Northern Irish master of surreal nonsense and bohemian clownarchist.
Trust me, Fringe magic still happens.
Some stupid adults, having forgotten what it’s actually like to be children, are often surprised, disturbed and horrified by the serious issues lurking in the heart of the most s…
It’s clearly an uncomfortable time of life for Jo Caulfield; a succession of musical heroes have died, she’s moved from middle-class Morningside to somewhat more “cosmopolita…
Cinema screening of live performance.
Welcome to Woodburn.
Anybody who finds themselves rooting for a couple in a film or show will love the responsibility handed out by Ae-Ja Kim in Our Man.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
The Six-Sided Man is a tense and funny drama, based on Luke Rhinehart’s cult novel The Dice Man, which has toured the world for the last 30 years.
A very well-structured and well-performed show, delivered from a fantastic up-and-coming comedian.
Oy! Everyon’es favourite Yiddish girl Candy Gigi, Malcome Hardee Award winner 2014, has transformed Fiddler on the Roof into something truly bizarre and outrageous.
‘Classic nonsense… Stand-up comedy at its best’ (Scotsman).
For a comedian with such a cult following, renowned for surrealist originality, I was very excited about my first encounter with Paul Foot’s comedy.
Throughout history, every generation has thought they would witness the end of the world.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled…
Uplifting, illuminating and meticulously crafted comedy, from a ‘stellar stand-up’ (Age).
If you think you have seen and done it all, try John Pendal on for size.
Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne…
The Man of Mystery comes on stage looking like something out of a classic James Bond film: strong jawline, handsome stubble and a black turtleneck — topped off with an orange shi…
Paul Revill, Bath Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2014, returns to the Fringe with his debut hour.
What are a couple of self-deprecating, twenty-something stand-up comediennes to do at the Fringe, if not perform a stand-up act in two halves, in a rather shockingly intimate karao…
In Paul Duncan McGarrity’s eighth show at the Fringe, Ask An Archaeologist, interesting and funny are blended to create a must see stand-up at the heart of the Free Fringe Festiv…
Born in New York to an Irish Catholic immigrant family, Maureen Langan has been brought up to think that traditional values matter, and that life rewards hard work.
Armageddon is imminent.
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…
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
Stop.
Aidan Goatley’s stand-up show isn’t, despite its title, about ELO; indeed, there’s no obvious guarantee that he will get round to telling us why he chose one of that band’s…
A beautiful flower is born with the help of something dirty, trivial and unexpected.
Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system.
Underbelly’s largest venue is the huge tent – shaped like an purple cow tipped onto its back – that this year has been transplanted into the western half of George Square Gar…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
As seen on Showtime’s Knock, Knock, It’s Tig, and featured in Roxanne Gay’s Bad Feminist, Ever is bringing her debut show to Edinburgh.
Honest, unflinching and delightfully dark: the award-winning American comedian tackles everything from prenatal pandas to postnatal depression in a tale about surviving the never-e…
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.
Alistair Williams is a bit of a lad.
“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie…
James Wilson-Taylor has been discriminated against and enough is enough.
“Every woman is a riot,” is roughly painted on the wall behind the stage area of this hidden-away New Town bar’s seldom used attic space.
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
Star of Impractical Jokers (BBC Three), Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC Three), and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central), Paul returns with a brand new stand-up show.
People will recognise Ellie Taylor from the popular BBC3 show, Snog, Marry, Avoid, where she conducted make-unders on OTT members of the British public.
Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years.
There’s an anarchic edge to the Trash Test Dummies – as might be expected from a circus troupe who go on to perform a succession of tricks and humorous gymnastics using that mo…
Six and a half stone of vegan fury.
In a festival saturated with comedy shows about Shakespeare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company continue to reign supreme as the undisputed masters at reimagining the Bard into hilari…
“You come in like a lion and you leave like a lamb”.
Will Duggan is an angry man and it’s not entirely clear why.
Carl Donnelly has reached peak age, he’s a vegan, he recently took up yoga, and he’s content with his life – I know it doesn’t sound like a good recipe for stand-up but som…
Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s…
Geoff Norcott, as he points out quite early on in his set, has not been seen on television.
The sharp-suited David Mills is already seated on stage when his audience comes in, chatting with us, riffing along to a Barry Manilow hit; while he later insists that the role in …
When life gives you lemons, those with an optimistic, can-do attitude invariably suggest you make lemonade.
Mikey and Addie is a story about two pre-teen kids who couldn’t be more different – Mikey’s life is all about imagination and play, while Addie’s is focused on enforcing rule…
Tom Neenan appears to be making his way through the genres with his one-man/many characters shows: Edwardian ghost story in 2014, and 1950s-styled British science fiction thriller …
Neil Frost can’t speak, so his audience must tell his tale and help this nervous man change the monotony of his life by taking a risk.
Striding onto the stage accompanied by thunderous fanfare, taking his place on a podium and decrying the evil of tyrants and the chains of authority, Dominic Allen’s blistering a…
Andy Askins lives in blissful ignorance, at odds with rational thinking.
Taylor the ‘filth maestro’ (Time Out) takes on the ickiest thing there is! Being white.
Devised from the diaries of Fredrick Treves, Fringe Management and Canny Creatures Scotland present The Elephant Man.
Pretend news reporter Jonathan Pie – the creation of actor Tom Walker – has risen to public attention, during the last year, thanks to a succession of videos on YouTube which a…
Between Episode IV and V of Charles Ross’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy, the writer/performer spent some time polling the audience.
Paul McMullan’s debut fringe show is stuffed full of clever insights into the world of British drinking culture and its potentially destructive nature.
Male stand up comedians from certain parts of Glasgow often face a significant impediment; they can’t help but sound like Billy Connolly, and so inevitably find themselves compar…
There’s surely no better sign that mental health issues – and depression in particular – are becoming more openly discussed than for the likes of Colin Hoult to come along an…
As a father of four, Ali is well versed in dodging difficult questions or just making up the answers.
Max & Ivan are celebrating the anniversary of when they met – and having in recent years become a staple of the Fringe, it’s easy to understand why.
Some things never change; despite more than a decade performing stand-up, Laurence Clark still opens his set by drawing attention to his cerebral palsy: “This is just how I talk.
Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson is a forgotten giant in education.
Hit theatre festival Women Redressed is back, running for two nights at Park Theatre.
Spending a full day (11 hours from first curtain up to last curtain call) watching three of Chekhov’s early plays (hence the ‘Young’ of the title) may not sound like the most fun…
In this irreverent performance masculinity is examined from the perspective of a white, middle-class, straight western man as he picks at the history and culture that has made him …
Making a musical out of poetic animal stories aimed at children is nothing new but, while Andrew Lloyd Webber opted to turn T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats int…
A dark satire on workplace wellness showing that often the people telling you how to live your best life are the ones who don’t know how to do it themselves.
This ground-breaking stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th annual ‘Inter…
If theatre is all about holding a mirror up to ourselves, then Tales From the Hanging Captain certainly makes the grade – it’s the first performance piece arising from the thr…
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…
Strange Town is an Edinburgh-based company which offers opportunities for young people between the ages of five and 25 to fulfil their creative potential though drama and perfor…
There’s a definite shift in the second play in this double bill from Edinburgh-based theatre company Strange Town.
A selection of pieces dealing with current day issues.
Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done.
Stars of CBeebies’ ‘SpotBots’, The Three Half Pints ***** (ThreeWeeks), present a slapstick misadventure for the whole family! “Your cheeks will hurt from smiling so much” **** (Br…
“The here and the now is wow!” we’re told at the start of Broken Dreams.
From the creators of ‘Three Excellent Little Pigs’ and ‘Gorrid the Horrid’ comes another spell-binding musical puppet show.
There’s a simple idea at the heart of Australian company cre8ion’s show Fluff; rescuing and giving a new home to lost and abandoned toys.
Straight from London’s comedy duo ‘Carroll and Hodgson!’ Paul brings his absurd and sometimes downright nasty characters to life in this one hour spurt of bad language, bad d…
Taught by established professional performers and University of Brighton staff, this five day course provides intensive training in physical skills and creative approaches for devi…
Traces is a theatre show with no obviously clear-cut beginning or end; if there’s a start at all, it might be when the two principal performers – Marko Werner and Michael Lur…
Sometimes words feel unworthy of the task when it comes to describing and reviewing a performance, especially a dance-piece as vibrant, colourful and joyous as this.
On 4th July 1845 – Independence Day, suitably enough – the young Henry David Thoreau went into the woods at Walden Pond, near the town of Concord, Massachusetts, and lived t…
It’s back! Once again we’re ready to lead you in a sing-along of hits from shows such as Wicked, Mamma Mia, Grease and Oliver and so much more! With a live band backing you and fun…
Three elderly brothers fail to overcome their childhood rivalries in time to save the family fortune from being lost during the 2006 financial crisis.
Clown, dance and sketch collide as multi-award-winning Australian comedian, Tessa Waters, unleashes her new hour of stupidity.
There is much more to history than just learning dates and facts.
Armageddon is imminent.
The physical core of the The Little Gentleman is a large wooden crate, addressed to the show’s venue, which is slowly revealed to include numerous small doors and openings from…
As he shimmied onto stage, Gregoire Aubert’s performance of Queer Side Story could be nothing other than entertaining.
Short stories set to music.
Blue Man Group features three enigmatic bald and blue characters who take the audience through a multi-sensory experience that combines theatre, percussive music, art, science and …
Imagine if you lived your life according to the values set out in the movie Terminator 2.
Join Ellie Taylor (‘Mock the Week’, ‘Snog Marry Avoid’, ‘8 Out of 10 Cats’) as she prepares a brand new show.
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.
Earth’s funniest footwear returns with a brand new show of songs, sketches, socks and violence, taking on The Bard Of Avon himself.
Touring stand-up George Egg has spent – and, presumably, continues to spend – a lot of his life in hotels the length and breadth of the UK.
Never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the rich and powerful; that’s certainly one of the obvious lessons you can get from Liz Lochhead’s brilliantly funny take on the sc…
There are some incredible strengths in this latest production from Edinburgh’s most inspiring new theatre company.
A work-in-progress show from the star of BBC3’s ‘Impractical Jokers’ and ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’.
Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, secret agent 007, stands before the audience, pink gin in hand, a terrified look in his eyes.
I must admit to feeling a tad confused after experiencing Dirty Dusting.
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company continues to lead the way in producing theatre that’s fully accessible to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, both …
Three dance theatre masterclasses hosted at the new Nelly Lewis Centre.
Neil Frost has a story to tell.
Mr.
This solo stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th annual ‘International …
Debonair.
All theatre requires some degree of “suspension of disbelief”.
Who is the one with social disadvantage? The severely deformed John Merrick, or the upright, conformist Doctor Treves who rescues him from a carnival freak show? Quick wit, pathos,…
Who is the one with social disadvantage? The severely deformed John Merrick, or the upright, conformist Doctor Treves who rescues him from a carnival freak show? Quick wit, pathos,…
Surreal one-liners, flights of fancy and a totally absurd storyline from the NATY 2013 winner.
Louis thrills audiences with bubble art, magic and science.
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.
Learn all about the life and work of a theatre producer! What is a producer? Who are they? What do they do? Could you be a producer? Come along and find out.
Join Brighton Comedy Festival Squawker Awards finalist Paul Jones, as he presents his guide to parenting for nerds.
A work-in-progress of the debut hour from Robin Morgan, star of ‘The Greatest Welshman You’ve Never Heard Of’ (BBC Radio), writer for ‘The News Quiz’ and Laughing Horse New Act of …
London-based comedian Paul Laight and guests deliver a free hour of jokes, puns, observations and a song or two about the horrors of everyday life.
They say you should never meet your heroes.
Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl, and they live happily ever after.
Award-winning, ‘one woman wonder’, West End performer, Sharon Sexton.
During the 2008 Spring Season of “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” at Glasgow’s Òran Mór, writer and director Selma Dimitrijevic presented audiences with a delicate, poignant e…
Acclaimed for its unique fusions of ancient and modern traditions, and its exquisite choreography inspired by the wealth of spiritual practices found throughout Asia, Cloud Gate Da…
It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl…
Brighton’s No.
It says something about us as a species that one of our oldest myths, crystallised in the form of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, is about war – specifically the bloody climax of th…
Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H…
As a playwright, David Edgar long ago sped past the number of plays written by Shakespeare, but it’s fair to say that – while often making a big impact at the time – not m…
First lines are important; as attention grabbers, but also as indicators of what’s to come, tonally at least.
Ring roads are not usually places you go to; they’re a means of avoiding congestion, of giving a wide berth to somewhere.
On 10 January 1992, the container ship Ever Laurel, several days out from Hong Kong en route to Tacoma, Washington, hit a storm in the North Pacific Ocean.
There’s are plenty of laughs in this imaginary conversation between King James VI of Scotland – preparing in March 1603 to make his stately progress south from the Palace of…
It has become traditional for Lung Ha Theatre Company – Scotland’s principal theatre group for people with learning disabilities – to present at least one large show every…
(previews start on Sunday; opens on April 27) The Roundabout revives Eugene O’Neill’s “play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood.
Most of us come to fairy tales – folk tales in general – courtesy of their so-called “traditional” retellings by Disney or the local panto.
In the near-century since Czech writer Karel Capek first gave us the word “robot” (in his play R.
It is a tad ironic that, initially, the most overpowering element in this new show from Stellar Quines Theatre Company – established in 1993 to “celebrates the energy, exper…
David Leddy’s apocalyptic fable International Waters certainly starts as it means to go on; loud and bold, with the memorable image of four gas-masked figures performing a tab…
Tragedy and Comedy blend seamlessly together for this series of monologues performed byThe Theatre Workshop.
Phil Differ is not someone you’d immediately recognise.
This fast rising and consistently delightful American tenor presents a wide-ranging recital of songs by composers including Schumann, Wolf, Berlioz and Villa-Lobos, as well as the …
Most theatre audiences have an anonymous – some might even suggest voyeuristic – role, viewing the action on stage from the safety of a darkened auditorium.
In one sense this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena Theatre Company is nothing more than a theatrical game in which writer Jack Elliot creates a succession of…
Legendary Sheffield-born singer, songwriter and former frontman of Ace, Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics returns to the road with his band in early 2016 for a 34-date UK tour v…
In Greek mythology, princess Iphigenia is the eldest daughter of King Agamemnon, sacrificed to the goddess Artemis in order to allow her father’s warships to sail off to Troy.
There’s a beautiful symmetry to this new production from Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company; the start and end deliberately remind us that the four disabled men o…
Families eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t legally murder them for feeling that you have no more in common than a bloodline.
At the risk of sounding ageist, an immediate concern with any student theatre company taking on Shakespeare’s tragedy of tragedies, King Lear, is that it is in many respects a …
Combining a mixture of dance theatre, audio-description and imaginative storytelling with Casson & Friends’ trademark interactivity; Night at the Theatre is a fun, family adventu…
I’ve long been a fan of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, in which an Antarctica exhibition uncovers the still-living legacy of a previously unknow…
With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and …
Arguably, the most important part of any Agatha Christie play doesn’t happen on the stage at all; it takes place in the rest of the theatre during the interval, when there’s…
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
Outside of the almost factory-like default setting of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s one hour time-slot (long-since exported around the world), it actually feels somewhat odd…
In the face of something terrible, we can either laugh or cry.
This ground-breaking debut solo stand-up comedy show is the true story of how a shy Baptist boy from Watford became an unlikely international sex ambassador when he won the 25th an…
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…
In the run-up to Mike Bartlett’s play Cock opening at the Tron Theatre, a lot of people – myself included – clearly couldn’t help have some innocent adolescent fun with …
All theatre requires a certain suspension of disbelief, musical theatre even more so.
“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
Coming to a “classic” Agatha Christie whodunnit after a full day’s binging on the latest series of the BBC’s Silent Witness – oh, the life of a reviewer! – is, frank…
“A dastardly attempt was made in the early hours of yesterday morning by suffragists to fire and blow up Burns’s Cottage, Alloway, the birthplace of the national poet,” rep…
If there’s one moment in this new production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir that encapsulates the quality of its cast and director, it’s towards the close when a moment of …
ON YOUR FEET! is the new Broadway musical about two people who believed in their talent, their music and each other and became an international sensation.
Allison Frasca and Tovah Silbermann will showcase their love for the singer Sia and her hit song “Chandelier” with a melodramatic 45-minute dance routine to the song, w…
Strange Town is a theatre company based in Edinburgh which aims to “enable young people to fulfil their creative potential”, by providing five to 25 year olds with the opport…
At a time of year when most theatres across the land are bursting with colour, raucous laughter and the panto spirit, it’s typical of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, long-esta…
When it comes to retelling Cinderella, two of the three most important roles in terms of plot and audience participation are Cinders’ best pal Buttons and her Fairy Godmother.
Like most of Scotland’s producing theatres, the Citizens Theatre does not, as a matter of principle, “do” panto.
Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four…
Dream the impossible dream with this inspiring Broadway musical.
A brand new show stuffed full with highly skilled cabaret stunts and orchestrated madness.
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness.
To Breathe starts with its six performers standing in a circle, staring at the audience, just breathing.
“Smells like Seton Sands” is precisely the kind of line you expect in a pantomime at The Brunton theatre in Musselburgh; it’s hooked on local rivalries, and grounds the ubi…
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…
Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas are the subject of this White Light Festival event, featuring this British pianist of uncommon eloquence and depth.
Emerging feminist theatre company, Sheer Height, present Women Redressed - a brand new theatre festival showcasing 14 pieces of writing – new and old – that put female characte…
In the 70s and early 80s, the well-known Manchester band, Joy Division, took their name from events had nothing to do with joy.
“A truce is a truce, but war is war,” we’re told early on in Ben Blow’s history play focusing on the all-too-forgotten consequences of Robert the Bruce’s victory over …
The soprano Christine Brewer may disappoint some admirers of her sumptuous voice by not performing more often in opera.
Leicester-born David Campton, who died in in 2006, was a prolific British dramatist, especially adept at writing thought-provoking one act plays that make us laugh as much as we …
“Juke-box musicals”, which essentially use existing songs as their musical score, may strike you as a relatively modern theatrical phenomena – think Mamma Mia! or We Will …
Panopticon, written and directed by second year University of Edinburgh student Liam Rees, is set in a women’s prison, into which well-meaning dramatist Julia comes to run a s…
“One day every company will fear a geek in a garage,” we’re told early on in Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s Loserville.
One of the strengths of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company during the last half-century has been its ongoing commitment to providing quality drama education and performance opport…
A gem of the British comedy scene, Ms.
The first thing that strikes you about this new stage adaptation of William Golding’s classic dystopian novel is Jon Bausor’s astounding set: the huge section of a passenger…
This bi-monthly stand-up show presents a special performance in honor of New York Super Week and New York Comic Con.
While this troupe normally presents acts based on stories written by and for children, “After Dark” draws from the same material for an adults-only performance.
The family at the heart of Nina Raine’s Tribes is liable, at least initially, to make you yearn for the exit.
“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room.
A criticism sometimes made about Edinburgh – especially by Glaswegians – is that, while the city appears sophisticated and morally upstanding, this is just a facade hiding a …
There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti…
Arguably the most significant work of new theatre from “north of the border” in recent years is the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an excellent example of inve…
Panto legends Payne & Pearce bring their new, hilarious and live stage show to Clapham! Expect chaos, jesters, princesses and tons of giggles for the whole family.
This spooky show about a child-abducting fiend is sometimes performed in complete darkness, and is admirable for the many chances it takes even when the grim mood threatens to beco…
A riotous non-verbal comedy about a nervous man who decides to change the monotony of his life by taking a risk.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
Through their use of improvisation and mime, backed with a fantastic live band (The Glue Ensemble), Cariad and Paul bring to life a series of hilarious stories, based solely on one…
I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio…
Stand By Your Man: True Crime Cabaret presents chilling, thrilling true stories of regular women with one thing in common: they all fell in love with serial killers.
It’s just Proops and you.
A mash-up of dance, music, mobile phones and you! FlashMob begins as a game of words and ends as a dance party for all participants – with audience members interacting with movem…
Since March 2015, Skottes Musikteater has been taking part in a huge theatrical event in a renovated industrial site at Gävle (200 km north of Stockholm), where Gävleborg´s Folk…
Barry Bonaparte’s Travelling Circus is in trouble.
Theatre Uncut commissions playwrights to respond to current events, then make the resulting plays available online so that anyone can perform them.
A Traffic Jam On Sycamore Street is a Kafka-esque tale of persecution of the every-man figure by illogically logical authorities.
For those who like their dance without frills, Last Man Standing provides an hour of unrelenting raw movement.
Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec…
Vesper Walk describe themselves as a “quirky five to eight piece band performing art-pop music in a gothic style.
‘Cocking a snook at learned prejudices .
Join Morran, Weatherby, Brechin, Duff and Freeman on a musical journey through the centuries, a multicultural Scotland (Angles, Vikings, etc) rising from waves of settlers.
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
Allan will sing his songs of the road, written from a lifetime of travelling throughout the world.
Star of brand new BBC Three sitcom Fried and CBBC’s Ultimate Brain, Best Newcomer nominee Imran Yusuf returns with a special edition show of his latest, cutting edge socio-politi…
West End and opera star John Marshall returns with tenors Fraser Simpson, Bruce Davis, and Richard Lewis, piano, to perform favourite opera, Broadway and movie hits.
Why don’t we just let the Arctic melt? What will the Arctic look like in 50 years’ time? Will your children be the last generation to learn that the Arctic seas are covered by ic…
A line-up of the very best comedians from the hugely popular Shaggers show come together for one weekend only! ‘Spectacular … amazing’ ***** (Melbourne International Comedy F…
Man-ish has taken seven popular pantomimes, filled them with adult jokes and made a challenge to perform the whole show in under an hour.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Touch is the new one-woman play from Asylon Theatre exploring the difficulties of genuine human connection.
Recent cinematic reboots notwithstanding, there’s arguably at least one generation of television viewers for whom Star Trek’s starship captain of choice is not James Tiberius K…
Musical comedian Jamie Kilstein has an utterly charming stage presence.
Poems and jokes about why women and wordplay are tremendous whilst god and the patriarchy and DJ Steve Wright are much less so.
This show is reviewer proof.
Corium, the new show from Accidentally On Purpose Productions, tries to be exciting and contemporary by stylistically borrowing from Frantic Assembly but sadly doesn’t find its o…
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful…
Matt Abbott admits that poetry is a hard sell on the Fringe, impossible to talk about without coming across as pretentious – which may well explain why one of his bespoke marketi…
Join leading makers as we discuss what motivates artists to make theatre and dance for young audiences.
Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick.
FeatherStone Puppets began in 1960 as John Peel Puppets and played fifteen sell-out years on the Edinburgh Fringe.
Coffee house layabout, armchair revolutionary and poet Jonny Fluffypunk has become a dad.
Donald Torr was, apparently, the best big brother any little girl could have, especially growing up on the outskirts of 1960s’ Aberdeen.
It’s 2015.
Matt has been losing his best friend Sam to sport for years.
Brand New and Pembroke Players’ joint production of Thom May’s war war brand war is wonderfully witty and compelling.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f…
From pin-drop delicacy to infectious grooves that leave you smiling.
Thread Theatre’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests is a boisterous and entertaining farce.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A look at new and original ways of presenting and producing theatre.
Paul works as the Scottish agent for Keddie Scott Associates Ltd, a London based agency.
Beardyman has been a regular Fringe success for several years and it’s easy to see why.
Become autistic.
If the name isn’t familiar, the tunes will be.
If you could take over the world, what would you do? Arriving from Australia with an appetite for destruction, witness this hilariously horrible Super Villain, Seizure Kaiser execu…
Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature.
What is the price of free expression in theatre today? Are concerns about causing offence, security risks, or funding cuts leading to increased self-censorship? And what can the in…
Fun for all the family – a hugely popular, inspirational hour.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Expertly chaired by Nicholas Parsons.
The Whisky Anorak return this year with writer and performer John Mark’s new piece of Whisky Theatre.
Explore the labyrinth of secrets lurking behind the Edinburgh Playhouse foyer doors as the custodians (past and present) of this stunning theatre lead you through the history of a …
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
If you give a quick flick through the Fringe programme, it will be fairly obvious that puppetry is on the rise in the theatre section this year.
Sometimes a production doesn’t come together and it’s not for a lack of trying.
“Join our storytelling team as they use innovative improve [sic] techniques to craft a narrative from audience members’ true stories,” boasts the Five-a-Side flyer.
Dr Niamh Shaw is that relatively rare thing – a skilled and engaging stage performer who also happens to be a scientist and engineer, with both a degree and PhD to her name.
Classic jazz from the 20s and 30s from the wee band with the big, big sound featuring the great Jim Douglas on banjo and guitar, (Stephane Grappelli/Henry ‘Red’ Allen/Earl Hines), …
Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over is a collection of original fairy tales with morals and lessons for adults (ie.
For 20 years Alastair has taught salsa dance.
Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from…
The Creative Martyrs, that white-faced Laurel and Hardy of existential cabaret terrorism, are not men to be trifled with, as some rather talkative front-row audience members discov…
Modern man needs a positive role model, and Howard has the external genitals, a moustache and a suit.
Paul Savage can’t sleep.
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
Stephen Sondheim’s score for his self-described “black operetta” Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, must rank among his most complex and challenging works, if on…
‘Did you know that the German word gift means poison? It used to mean present – like in English – but then people started using it sarcastically.
Glenn Moore, ‘Tipped for great things’ (GQ), from critically acclaimed sketch duo Thünderbards, will tell a torrent of seriously silly jokes for 40 minutes, and you’re invited.
A Little Man’s Holiday tells the tale of an office worker with a big imagination.
UK Pun Champion Leo Kearse, aka Pun-Man, is here to save humanity from observational comedy with a pun party! But he’s having a bit of trouble adapting to your planet.
This production portrays the tempestuous love affair of two teenagers.
Cross Wire.
Mind that video? Know how the one wi the ned? A work in progress detailing the emancipation of a meme.
The 2014 smash-hit sell-out show returns, starring Alan Longmuir.
A man is desperate for a job.
There’s something primal about drums.
Glenn Moore, ‘Tipped for great things’ (GQ), from critically acclaimed sketch duo Thünderbards, will tell a torrent of seriously silly jokes for 40 minutes, and you’re invited.
Nelson: The Sailors’ Story.
There have been many books, films, documentaries, etc on Mary Stuart, giving us many perceptions of Mary, those involved with her, and incidents in her life.
Block is a production that constantly surprises, though not always in ways that are comforting.
Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez have once again brought their surreal blend of comedy and physical theatre to Edinburgh, and this time they’re taking on a classic of world literatu…
Sailor – he had a real name once, but he believes “Sailor” suits him now – is a street hustler, thief and raconteur; the illegitimate son of a prostitute who has taken up h…
Margaret Thatcher was – still is, two years after her death – a divisive figure, loved and hated in equal measure.
“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot.
Persuader.
It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th…
The highly anticipated Fringe debut from London comic Gurpal Gill.
Going to a percussion based show at the Fringe could go one of two ways: it’ll either be a case of just watching people hit things for an hour, or it’ll be a veritable fiesta f…
Even the most seasoned audience member has to concentrate to grasp every line of a Shakespeare play.
‘God, what a day’ is the first thing said to us by Scaramouche Jones, the red-nosed, white-faced clown who – sensing the ghosts of an audience in his dressing room – decide…
Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences.
Mr Children Man (The Beta Males’ Adam Blampied) is the acclaimed children’s author of Fabulous Fergus Goes to the Circus and is embarking on his debut reading tour.
There is something inherently heartbreaking about the small metal-framed chair standing centre-stage as the audience comes in, but no more so than when one of the show’s co-devis…
Jean is sitting in a cafe enjoying a lobster bisque when a phone nearby starts to rings.
Surrealist comedian Paul Foot is an Edinburgh Fringe institution.
Celebrating the life and work of Wales’ most revered writer, Hannah Ellis journeys to the heart of her genius grandfather’s story featuring rare images, his poems, stories and lett…
It’s your classic love story, really: inflatable crocodile meets mannequin head, they fall for each other but soon enough cracks show and they fall apart.
Great Scott! 2015, still no hoverboards.
Franz Kafka’s short story A Report to an Academy takes the form of an informative lecture given by an ape called Red Peter.
The Man Who Planted Trees was originally a tale from French author Jean Giono in the 1950s, now pieced together onstage with cloth hangings, felt animals, and wafting lavender (yes…
What’s living in the garden, among the grass and in the trees? Is it a bird, or is it a bee? Maybe it’s the Garden Man? Come along today and see! The Garden Man is a story insp…
Every serious actor wants to do his Hamlet.
One of several pieces of modern American writing brought to the Fringe by Phantom Owl Productions, Neil Labute’s 1989 play Filthy Talk for Troubled Times takes a frank look at ge…
Born out of 500 talks to students about what they want from life, Moj Taylor is seriously in the pursuit of crappiness.
Speaking to those of us in her audience who have never seen her perform before, Tiff Stevenson says ‘You’re so lucky… I remember seeing me for the first time.
‘A raconteur extraordinaire! One of a kind! Sunshine is star!’ (Japan Times).
Having rummaged around the UK, Paul takes you on a tour of some of his charity shop finds.
Paul Currie returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his anarchic, bread-filled 2014 masterpiece Release the Baboons after a triumphant run at Adelaide Fringe.
Okay, he doesn’t promise much - the title was his son’s butchering of the ‘one-man show’ term.
Conceived and directed by Guillaume Pigé, Blind Man’s Song follows the imagination of a blind musician at the speed of thought.
Bob Monkhouse was a complicated and enigmatic man.
The nightly cabaret features a selection of the best festival entertainment with a changing line-up of international and local singers, musicians and entertainment, all in the oak-…
George McNeill came from a small mining village called Tranent where he started out as a professional soccer player.
Return of acclaimed and libellously funny storytelling show on how to find outrageous nightly adventure on a budget of £5.
Mike Wozniak’s probably best known for playing moustachioed misfit Brian in Channel 4’s sitcom Man Down.
Do we choose the journeys we make or do the journeys choose us? A one-woman bittersweet comedy told through 80s tunes, old tapes, childhood memories and cake and tea.
During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug…
I was born with a long face and now there’s UKIP and Putin and being single and Islamic State and George Osborne and Paul Dacre of the Daily bastard Mail and tax dodging corporatio…
Spillikin, expertly directed and written by Jon Welch, follows two periods in the life of Sally, a charming and rebellious woman who married her unlikely childhood companion, the c…
Come see the birth of a true modern jester, a voice for the people.
British Asian, Paul Sinha, makes a very welcome return to the Stand Comedy Club during the Fringe after a four-year absence.
‘It’s fucking magic.
There’s been a murrrder! Some criminals put stockings on their heads, now Earth’s funniest Socks get their heads around crime.
Welcome to the house party.
Sixty episodes.
Not every comic has the wherewithal to build the feedline of a joke into the title of their show.
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…
John Henry Falle (of Radio 4, Chortle-nominated sketch idiots, The Beta Males) hath now become The Story Beast.
Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption…
As the beat of an ear-blistering house track pumps into the venue, Goldstein races onto the stage, adorned with neon bracelets, a glowing headdress and a ridiculously small pair of…
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
Following last year’s generally well-received comic homage to the Edwardian Ghost Story (The Haunting of Lopham House), writer and performer Tom Neenan shifts his genre gaze forw…
When I consider Charles Dickens, a man whose life was seemingly a stumble from one tragedy to the next, I tend not to think ‘comedy stage show material’.
Manfred Karge’s Man to Man is described as a modern fairy tale that follows the life of Ella, a woman who disguises herself as her dead husband in order to survive under Nazi …
At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea…
This is a big year for Nish Kumar.
One of the challenges of reportage theatre – works in which the words and experiences of real people are edited and put into the words of actors – is to justify the process as …
A lively new musical telling the life story of Robert Burns, starring BBC award-winning traditional Scots singers Claire Hastings and Robyn Stapleton, and introducing Kieran Bain a…
Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club, Ronnie Scott’s musical director and his ‘All Stars’, take to the stage to celebrate ‘The Ronnie Scott’s Story’.
In the first Robert Ross Requests the Pleasure.
Yes, the man with the silver shoes is back, and each of his 58 minutes on stage are as weird and wonderful as ever.
Paul Merton and his “Impro Chums”: Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster, have been practising short form improvised comedy for decades and bring their com…
Mr.
I was reading about a Gay Pride event in Glasgow last week that had banned drag acts from performing for fear they may offend transgendered members of their community who were conf…
You’ve got to hand it to him, Louis Pearl aka The Amazing Bubbleman is a crowd pleaser.
When Breaking Bad came to an end at season five, everyone thought that this would be it for the franchise.
Goronwhy Thom bursts through a film screen on stage after some very clever filmography and you just know that this group is taking it back to basics.
The first day of the first ever Great Yorkshire Fringe was kicked off with a bang - or rather a “Zip! Boing! Whee!” - by Scamp Theatre, setting a high standard for the rest …
As part of the Lincoln Center Festival, this new-music quartet consisting of two percussionists and two pianists offers three premieres by the composers Raphaël Cendo, Misato …
(in previews; opens on July 26) Is the director Jack Cummings III a miracle worker? He’s directing his new musical for the Transport Group, based on the life and words of Hel…
(previews start on July 9; opens on July 23) Colin Quinn recently complained that his boyhood neighborhood, Park Slope, had subsided into “Whole Food lesbian baby carriage st…
It’s not often that I’m asked back to see a show, let alone because those involved have openly taken on some of the points I made in my review!When the War Came Home is a …
German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Frühlings Erwachen – written around 1891 but not performed until 1906 – deliberately kicked against sexually-oppressive fin d…
Hailed by L.
Described as “a metaphysical shocker” on its release in 1970, The Driver’s Seat was apparently author Muriel Sparks’ favourite amongst her own stories, in part thanks to th…
“This is not just about me,” says one of the cast at the start and close of Chris Goode’s Stand.
(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…
Internationally acclaimed singer Kate Dimbleby & Naadia Sheriff on piano, explore the songbook & life story of cult 70’s songwriter Dory Previn.
Orford, the Suffolk coast, 1167.
Huff, puff and puppets! Start-Blooming are firm ‘family-show favourites’ in and around Brighton.
An eclectic mix of songs, scenes and ensemble numbers from the world of musical theatre accompanied by a live band.
Join Little Man as he leaves his boring office job behind him and begins a swash-buckling adventure on the high seas.
Having enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood and colourful teenage youth during the 1970s, I’m often still annoyed by the apparent cultural consensus which dismisses those y…
A short festival of four fantastic plays for young people performed by young actors over three nights.
The hugely popular Lucky Dog return to Brighton for a third time after two years of many five star reviews and sold-out shows.
Work in progress.
Site-specific works can be accused of relying on their location to do the heavy-lifting, theatrically speaking.
It’s 2015, and still no hoverboards.
In 2005, a suited man washed up on the Kent coast with no recollection of where he came from, how he got there and who he was.
A Landlord.
Look how we’ve evolved! Learn about women in policing.
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.
Poet.
Join life-sized cranky Hildegaard Von Nettles, Prince Dandelion and wicked Belladonna in their herbal adventures.
Hanuman is half human, half monkey.
Matt has been losing his best friend Sam to sport for years.
Join Adam Blampied “Delightful” (British Theatre Guide), Richard Soames “Excellent” (Sunday Times) and The Story Beast “Bearded force of nature” (Guardian) as The Beta Males finall…
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…
Noëlle Rimmington and Colin Pinney give a new insight into the lives of the Brontes: Branwell, mistaken for a doctor but dismissed from three posts; Emily, whose only friend when …
West End On Sea bring London’s theatre stars to Brighton.
A hardhitting, powerful, entertaining drama about the 1972 National Builders’ Strike and the trial of the Shrewsbury Pickets.
Mr. Proops, a 30-year veteran of stand-up, hosts this “salubrious soliloquy” of a podcast, in which he explores current events and any other topics that interest him.
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…
People with Parkinson’s Disease, researchers, graphic artists and comic creators have come together to capture a sense of being diagnosed with the condition.
The Vikings have a reputation of having been awful people.
A show about a man known as Benjamin, who created a comedy character known as President Obonjo of Lafta Republic.
In the shot and smoke of battle 4 crew aboard HMS Victory strive to destroy the Combined Fleet of France and Spain.
1926: Houdini’s right-hand man deals with the death of his boss.
Brighton’s No.
A stand-up tragedy show about great expectations, ambition, resilience and, ultimately, the horror of failure.
(previews start on Thursday; opens on June 11) Woodie King Jr.
Alice has lost her cat, but when her search leads her to the library, Alice discovers more than she could ever imagine.
Uproarious fun from Brighton’s own seafront stars of slapstick silliness. Plus extra puppet mischief, some bubbles, balloons and a museum treasure trail.
You will sing.
Alan Spence is not the first to imagine a meeting between two famous people from different worlds, though there’s certainly a whiff of wishful thinking in this thoughtful, if …
For some, he was “Italy’s Shakespeare”, “the Moliere of Venice”; yet it’s only relatively recently that British theatre audiences have warmed to work by 18th centur…
On 5th February 1941, during heavy gales, the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.
Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time…
It’s fitting that, this Eastertide, a resurrection of sorts lies at the heart of this latest collaboration between Glasgow’s Òran Mór and Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre.
Even the greatest of parties end with the hangover of cleaning up afterwards.
Fools and their stories were the theme of this latest set of short plays, dramatic monologues and glorified sketches presented in rehearsed readings by the Village Pub Theatre t…
Buttery Brown Monk are a dynamic trio that deliver old-school, sketch extravagance.
Many of the world’s greatest Tragedies – Shakespeare’s in particular – are grounded on the character flaws of their titular characters: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and so …
No less a figure than Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin once insisted that the only author to ever “nail” Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson in his classic 1886 novella, S…
The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”.
Life was so much simpler, back in 1980.
Only a clever or ignorant writer would deliberately choose to begin a play with that most egregious of sitcom clichés: “Hi Honey, I’m home.
There’s one thing I hate about musical theatre, which is especially common with “amateur” productions – there’s seemingly no way of stopping audiences full of family an…
There’s something particularly appropriate about experiencing Peter Shaffer’s Equus at the Bedlam Theatre.
It’s never too late to reinvent yourself: After 60 years as the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the group returns this year as Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance, a more in…
Taut direction, a spirited cast and marvelous turn-of-the-century costumes animate this revival of George H.
Joseph Merrick owes his existence to those who exploit his horrible deformities for their own ends.
At one point in the first act of The Judas Kiss, Oscar Wilde admits to always having had “a low opinion of what is called action.
Since its first publication in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been adapted for stage, cinema and television hundreds of times.
There’s rumbustious joy aplenty in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s infamous examination of legality and justice.
Little Man is leaving his dull office life behind and going on an adventure on the high seas.
Unexpected pre-show choice of “Easy Listening” music notwithstanding, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is an exciting theatrical ride, slipping from laugh-out-loud humour to…
They say that, while you can choose your friends, you can’t choose your family; even when you pick a partner, you have no say about the family that comes along with them.
A play about the battle between celebrity and “art” with a good dose of codpiece and a ghost thrown in!
Those who don’t know history, according to the Irish statesman Edmund Burke, are destined to repeat it, while the Bible insists more than once that the sins of the father will b…
Joseph Merrick owes his existence to those who exploit his deformities for their own ends.
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
Because of an “opossum infestation” at their home, Eli and Peyton Manning, played by Ryan Haney and Joel Weidl, are hosting their annual Super Bowl party and chili cook…
When reviewing a play – especially one verging on farce – where two of the main characters are professional theatre critics, it’s hard not to become a tiny bit defensive …
Jan-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unforgettable portrayal of hell.
Men – especially working class men from the West of Scotland – are not known for expressing their emotions, instead hiding behind either brutish silence or dry humour.
Lincoln Center’s popular Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts series offers rewarding, mostly younger artists in 60-minute programs starting at 11 a.
The “Scottish Play” is among Shakespeare’s shortest, but for critically acclaimed theatre company Filter to edit it down to barely more than 90 minutes, without missing an…
The First World War is often described as the first “total war”, that is involving the entire population, at home as well as on the battlefield.
Reality and performance lie at the heart of this solid production of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.
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…
Emmy Blotnick invites two headlining comics to perform 30-minute sets. This month’s guests are Adam Newman and Gary Gulman.
Bach wrote his “Goldberg Variations” for an instrument with two manuals; the excellent pianist Christopher Taylor has been resuscitating the tradition with performances…
Dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms.
In a departure from its usual format, A Play, a Pie and a Pint this week plays host to (and co-commissioned) Theatre Uncut 2014, a political theatre company producing short plays…
There’s a moment in Pamela Carter’s play Slope when the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, ensconced in a seedy London flat with his young lover Arthur Rimbaud, fears t…
What lengths would you go to to put the next meal on the table? As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a young widow discovers that her only means of survival is to take on her de…
‘John and Mark’ is a new play about a musical legend and his killer that sees prisoner Mark David Chapman visited by John Lennon, the man he shot dead years earlier.
A position paper and a cri de coeur, Han Ong’s play for Ma-Yi Theater mingles rage, rational argument and bleak comedy as four Asian-American actors and a white P.
Blackshaw Theatre Company presents Duncan Gates’ new play, Fetch, as part of ‘Halloween Tales’, a spooky 3-day theatre event at The Selkirk Pub in Tooting Broadway.
Nikoli Gogol’s The Gamblers (premiered in 1843) is relatively rarely-performed, at least in comparison with the writer’s most famous work, The Government Inspector.
“Nobody thought to save any of the roots,” says Sara towards the end of The Bondagers.
There’s a strong whiff of Farce about Cardinal Sinne from the off; only that particular genre, after all, requires quite so many doors in a set—in this case three interior d…
The British comedian Josie Long performs her critically-acclaimed show, “Cara Josephine,” an hour of stand-up about relationships, love and family.
Joseph Merrick owes his existence to those who exploit his horrible deformities for their own ends.
Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters focuses on three refined and cultured young women—Olga, Maria and Irina—forced to relocate to a rural province because of their father’s work…
Kill Johnny Glendenning is a play of two halves; each a brutally funny, finely-tuned treatise on the various overlapping hierarchies of power and violence that, while shaping ou…
There are five characters in Tennessee William’s breakthrough “memory play” The Glass Menagerie.
When a work of fiction becomes so iconic a cultural “classic” that it’s known and understood by people who have never read it, it’s unsurprising that a few inaccuracies cre…
This new show pays tribute to one of the greatest icons of popular music: Dolly Parton.
Alison Jackson has made a name for herself creating fake behind-the-scenes photographs and videos of celebrities with look-alike models.
The Fringe Society chats with musical theatre practitioners at the top of their game about making it in the business.
This intelligent piece of theatre focuses on the religious faith of the famous Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell and his trainer, Tom McKerchar.
During the last few years, the Belarus Free Theatre company has built a strong reputation in issue-based theatre, utilising a wide range of performance techniques to frame and ex…
From the slums of Manchester to the dark heart of colonial Asia, bungling revolutionaries Marx and Engels rattle through the mid 19th century rewriting history and common morality …
Successful stand-ups usually have a memorable on-stage persona; it may be manic, taciturn or just ‘nice’, but it’s what they’re remembered for.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell out expected.
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.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a Broadway musical based on the Peanuts comic strip, featuring familiar characters like Lucy, Snoopy and Schroeder.
Ever had a burning desire to see radio entertainment being made in the studio? Me neither.
Latymer Theatre Company’s Flight of the Lawnchair Man is the sweet tale of an average man who dreams of something more.
A completely spontaneous improv adventure, taking one word from the audience and immersing them in a bespoke world of bizarre scenes and bold characters.
Kiss Me Honey Honey! appears to be attracting a decidedly local crowd of middle-aged women, at least if this performance is anything to go by.
This contemporary ballet choreographed by Helen, Bryony and Emily Garner will take you on an emotional, yet uplifting journey, as these young performers sensitively portray the har…
In connection with the exhibition “James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography” at MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance series presents a rarely performed w…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the Catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
The story of how big band music became the first worldwide pop phenomenon, inspired the first ever youth culture revolution and became a byword for sexual liberation and teenage ex…
I first saw Chris Ramsey live in 2011 as a supporting artist for Russell Kane.
Sell-out 2010-2013! Spellbinding new show.
For over 40 years Taylor has been considered to be the consummate performer, a writer of literary gracefulness whose troubadour chronicles encapsulate the realism of otherwise unsu…
Some shows take the audience on challenging yet rewarding journeys through layers of meaning, interpretations, and staging.
Youth Music Theatre Scotland return for another successful year at the Fringe, this time with a remarkably professional and well-executed production of West Side Story, perhaps t…
The true roots of fiction are often misunderstood, strangely explained and just plain lied about.
Sixty Episodes in 60 Minutes.
Part history lesson, part guided whisky-tasting, Moonshine, Medicine and the Mob offers a fascinating insight into a key period in American history: Prohibition.
You’ll laugh, he’ll cry.
Showcasing the breathtaking natural beauty of Scotland, from the Borders to the Northern Highlands; spectacular, original and contemporary images by Scottish landscape photographer…
Ivor Novello: glamorous stage and screen star, author and matinee idol is mostly known today as a glorious melodic theatrical composer.
Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
The Sad Story of the Moon and the Sun is a shadow puppet adventure.
The Year Out Drama Company’s adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing begins with a game of charades and its brisk humour quickly melts away my scepticism.
Hamell has been working diligently on both a new album and a one-man show for the last couple of years after winning the prestigious Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival F…
You’ll laugh, he’ll cry.
This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions.
We don’t see one of the most important events in the life of James II, just its immediate consequences; a hurried, chaotic, almost dream-like explosion of fear and movement fo…
If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture…
Finlay can engage his house in conversation.
With The Three Peaks, the Dunnington Players explore not only the three peaks of Yorkshire but also what can happen to us over the course of a year.
World renowned Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) runs acting, stage management and technical theatre courses.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
The nineteenth century marked the golden age of death in art.
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…
Phantom of the Opera star John Marshall is joined by Scottish tenor Fraser Simpson, American Bruce Davis and renowned pianist Richard Lewis in a magical night of melody.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
From the gospel parlors of black Florida to the racist salons of white NYC, Sevan learns that it takes more than an NKOTB t-shirt to become a white American.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
Newcomers to the city should come to the Jazz Bar regardless of what’s on.
Paul Merton and his highly acclaimed Impro Chums are wonders of nature.
The Man Who Almost Killed Himself is a funny and tragic true story inspired by the work of anthropologist Andrew Irving in Uganda and Eastern Africa.
Al Murray’s One Man, One Guvnor is only in its preview stages, but already it is a spectacularly funny set.
A romp through the bits of the whisky industry that didn’t quite go to plan.
Proops greets every guest that enters the theatre with a personal handshake, a touch that shocked and pleased the audience.
Following the disappearance of Dick Whittington and several other fairy tale creatures, the five little piggies suspect the Big Bad Wolf has returned.
With such a wonderful title, it’s a shame that The Bee-Man of Orn is not as thrilling as it sounds.
Gary Little isn’t.
The double Fringe First winners return with new short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action.
This adaptation of Macbeth is told by Hecate, Goddess of Crossroads, from her point of view.
Award winning spoken word artist Kevin P.
The Story of Medieval England From 1066 to 1485 at Roughly Nine Years and Two Jokes Per Minute Incorporating The Hundred Years War as a Football Match and of Course Scottish Indepe…
Paul Dabek deceptively weaves a tangled web of comedy, magic and lies.
If the title’s not really doing it for you, it’s probably going to take more than these 100 words to bring you round.
After a lifetime studying hustlers, conmen and other thieves, ‘the world’s number one pickpocket’ (Time Out) is still an honest man.
Accompanying Paul Savage on his quest to find every joke in the Bible is an enjoyable way to spend an hour.
Theatrically interesting in the most accessible of ways, Paul F Taylor opens the show in the guise of an infomercial, claiming to be taking pills that cure him of his comedy lifest…
Ellie’s first foray into the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is certainly a treat.
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.
For several decades, it was the habit of the acclaimed medieval scholar Montague Rhodes James (who died in 1936) to entertain his Christmas guests with an especially composed tale …
One Man Breaking Bad is impressionist Miles Allen’s attempt to squeeze 60 Breaking Bad episodes into 60 minutes.
“Gossip,” we’re told, “travels fast in a valley.
‘Knob jokes with depth’ are the words that fifty-six year old Frank Skinner himself uses to describe his new stand up show Man in A Suit.
Super Tramp is based on the real life of Shane Fox who, at the age of fifteen, was told a piece of information that changed his life forever.
‘Laughs, heartbreak, war, regeneration, scented breezes, sparkling wit and the best dog puppet ever.
If this show was a stick of rock, it would have “Anger” written all the way through it in blood red: specifically anger at the medical, commercial and political establishments …
Out Cast Theatre return to the festival this year with their typically camp Carry On-style comedy.
A show which does not allow us to forget the contradictions of a civil and democratic society.
Hysterically funny, slightly weird and yet highly enjoyable, Hold for Three Seconds is a new comedy about three strangers trapped in a lift on the thirty-second floor of a buildi…
There are no actors in this show.
Arcos describe themselves as a ‘multimedia dance company’ and they certainly deliver.
The Tulip Tree is a very intelligent piece of theatre that crams a lot of subtlety into a short period of time.
There have been many books, films, documentaries etc, on Mary Stuart giving us many perceptions of Mary, those involved with her and incidents in her life.
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
It’s satisfying when a show delivers what it promises, but it’s a delight when a show gives more than it seems to offer.
Regulation 18b of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 is a now little-remembered piece of legislation which came into force just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
The centrally-located art gallery, Dovecot Studios, has provided a lovely break from the madness of fringe with its current offering of exhibitions.
“When a man starts a war against the State, it’s a war he cannot win,” says our nominal hero Willie McKay at the point in this play when the writer presumes we will sympathis…
Gambit Theatre’s offering at the Fringe is a theatrical exploration of two real-life conmen and more specifically, identity imposters.
The Fringe’s late-summer position in the calendar means that few of those who visit the Scottish capital ever experience one particular form of indigenous theatre — pantomime…
With the surreal scalpel of sketch and stand-up, sketchup will cut out the non-funny stuff, leaving only funny bones.
The award-winning comic’s libellously funny story-telling show on how to find outrageous adventure on a nightly budget of £5.
Chris is 18 years old, gay, and in search of fun and attention.
Following on from last year’s acclaimed show Awkward Hawk, Paul Duncan McGarrity (Amused Moose finalist 2011) looks at the power of schadenfreude, embarrassment, and how being hi…
A quick glance into the Fringe brochure may lead an innocent punter to think The Interview is an intriguing show.
Three Shot Mockery is a fine way to spend an hour of precious festival time.
In 1912, Captain Georgy Brusilov sailed to the Arctic.
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon.
Irish comedian Aidan Killian certainly cuts a surprising figure with his new show; not so much for the long, simple robe he wears, but the fact that he’s shaved off half his bear…
The God Box is a show which is well worth seeing.
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…
Sometimes, we can miss what’s important.
As a card-carrying, paid-up member of the Grumpy Old Men squad, I occasionally look at all those fresh-faced stand-ups staring out from the posters plastered across the city like S…
Patrick Mulholland and Paul McDaniel return to Edinburgh, and this time they’re full of beans.
MommAutism is one-woman show about raising a son with autism.
Paul Foot’s offstage microphone isn’t working, so the pre-show announcement of Paul Foot - Hovercraft Symphony in Gammon # Major is apparently ruined.
Tim Renkow has cerebral palsy.
Thomas Pocket presents: Me (Oscar Jenkyn-Jones) is the debut solo show from exciting young absurdist Oscar Jenkyn-Jones.
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
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.
Internationally infamous comedy concert for fun and freedom flying to the future fantastic.
Children will love this fun spectacle of bubble-blowing and even grown-ups will be impressed by the Amazing Bubble Man’s feats; not ten minutes into the show, I heard a Dad in fr…
Scheduling is an often overlooked aspect of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, not least by venues attempting to squeeze in as many popular shows as possible.
Not sure what colour you are? Join us.
‘This is the most inventive and hilarious act I have seen in years’ (Director, Leicester Comedy Festival).
The African Sahara, a wrecked plane, a stranded pilot and a vastness of sand.
Fin Taylor only has one joke, he explains, and he gets it out of the way early on.
A spectacular variety show featuring a plethora of unforgettable characters, performed and hosted by one man from Bristol.
For all its claims of being a one-man show, the stage can get pretty crowded during The Pitiless Storm.
Stephen Bailey—all silver dickie bow tie, floral grey suit and camp demeanour—is clearly in love with love and romance.
Paul Chowdry is perhaps one of the most interesting comedians at the Fringe this year.
We all have them, if we’re honest; those moments in our lives where we’ve reacted without thinking and “put our foot in it”, slipping from innocent victim to outright offen…
Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, my first experiences of academic lectures were either snatches of TV programmes aimed at those studying courses with the Open University (thankful…
The Trouble with Being Des, according to Des Clarke, is that he has an inner demon man child inside him which makes him “weird”—not least within the context of growing u…
During the last few years, Andrew Doyle has made a name for himself as a frequently hilarious, sharply intelligent, and fearless comedian, ready to push his audiences’ tolerance …
“You’ve proved my point: nobody has any respect for me”, McCaffery laments as four latecomers traipse across his stage to their seats, interrupting his flow.
I admit to having felt a tad disappointed when I heard that Josie Long wasn’t doing her political stuff this year.
This excellent one-man show from Mark Farrelly portrays the transformation of Denis Charles Pratt, born in suburbia, into Quentin Crisp.
What does it take to be remembered? What would you have to do to ensure that your name lives on forever? Three young lads have spent a few years on the music scene and have finally…
After much consideration and persuasion, Tom Craine became a columnist for Cosmopolitan where he writes about love and dating.
The now infamous case of the 1924 ‘thrill killers’ Leopold and Loeb is a well-mined source of theatrical material, from Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play Rope, in turn transform…
Since forming in 2005 in Aberdeen, the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre have performed internationally and on television around the UK.
Exciting ultraviolet performance for ages 1-6.
“There has not been a single incidence of Zombieism anywhere in the world to date,” according to Doctor Austin of the Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, but “this does…
“What is it that frightens you?” Tom Neenan asks at the start of this one-man pastiche of an Edwardian ghost story.
Dane Baptiste is a confident performer.
The king of surrealist stand-up, Sam Simmons, brings his incredible and irreverent style to the Udderbelly in Death of a Sails Man, the gut-achingly funny tale of a windsurfer lost…
Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”.
Much of Ross’s childhood was spent in a galaxy far, far away, watching Star Wars videos over – and over – and over again.
Age hasn’t softened Scott Capurro; nor, it has to be said, has marriage.
This musical adventure will have you exploring magical kingdoms, meeting wonderful characters and singing along by the end.
The exhibition includes paintings of early links courses in Bruntsfield, Leith and Musselburgh, and features the greatest golf painting of all time, Charles Lees’ The Golfers (18…
Condemned as a racist, revered as a prophet, Enoch Powell is the most divisive figure in British politics.
Follow the adventures and mis-adventures of Sally Bowles in this raucous and risqué musical comedy, set in the seedy underworld of 1930’s Berlin.
For 30 years, the Urban Bush Women have blazed a trail, combining spirited dance, probing text and a special sense of community that makes audience members feel like one of the tri…
Leicester Square Theatre: 30th Jun 7pm.
(previews start on July 7; opens on July 13) Few heartthrobs boast résumés as daunting as James Franco’s.
Four times Scottish champion of close up magic Michael Neto is an assured and amiable stage magician, whose slight of hand is smooth, assured and doubtless the result of decades …
This amiable “America’s Got Talent” runner-up headlines the weekend at Gotham Comedy Club.
Buddy is the story of the last three years of Buddy Hollys life, from when he made his first record at the age of 19 to his death, at 22, in a plane crash.
It’s had the audience on their feet in every corner of the globe and now Buddy “the world’s most successful rock’n’roll musical” is back and ready to explode on to th…
Phil Roach isn’t the first man to be dumped by his girlfriend and realise his life isn’t quite working out as expected but, as Julian Wickham’s “Lifeline” quickly shows, he’s pos…
Louis is one of Canada’s most respected teachers of classical literature.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 12 certificate film in the UK and so you can only attend if you are 12 or older.
Only one man can own the circus.
A poignant, defiantly lo-fi expedition to the heart of late-onset responsibility and the struggle for self-belief, with a nationally renowned stand-up poet, a cardboard suitcase an…
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…
Join Ellie Taylor (host of ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’ BBC3, team captain ‘Fake Reaction’ ITV2, ‘8 out of 10 Cats’ Channel 4) as she cobbles together an hour of stuff into an actual stand…
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Before he was a choreographer, Mr.
Paul F Taylor and Nick Hodder test out material.
Kasper’s Puppet Theatre presents a magical fairytale for children.
If I told you there was a Liza tribute act at the Fringe, you’d probably expect sequins, smoke, mirrors, lights, kick lines and, of course, an awful lot of dancing around chairs.
59-year-old Terry of ‘Brighton the Musical’ fame, Sony Gold award-winner for his ‘Last Bus to Whitehawk’ radio show and Guinness World record holder, happily sings and chats about …
Matt Dwyer has experienced both sides of the fat-coin.
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.
“You will not like me,” insists John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, at the start of The Libertine; not so much presented an unreliable narrator, more the self-created bad …
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/…
“The Twilight Zone” meets media critique meets psychological portraiture in this thought-provoking experiment from 3-Legged Dog, a company known for …
Us inhabitants of the British Isles can spend an inordinate amount of our time discussing the weather, yet it doesn’t automatically follow that our “four seasons in a day”c…
Host of Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week and Star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo Paul Chowdhry is back in 2014 with his biggest tour to date tackling everything borderline within th…
Explore hidden Brighton on this 90 minute walking tour of Brighton’s fascinating old town.
As part of its contribution to the many debates in Scotland during 2014—sparked into life, of course, by this September’s independence referendum—new National Theatre of Sc…
Most dance companies named after their founders use a concert to showcase the work of their namesakes.
These great rising headliners — Leah Bonnema, Sean Donnelly and Tommy Pope — share the stage.
Less Than Rent’s current production Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re The Very Man! is billed as ‘an adventure-capitalist rodeo.
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…
Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices …
In a backwater town in rural Russia, the Prozorov sisters contend with mind-numbing boredom by aspiring to a return to city life in Moscow.
There’s no doubting that Philip Ridley’s debut play, even now, feels like a strange beast; a modern fairytale of two infantalised and orphaned twins, Presley and Haley, somehow…
Paul Sinha is a stand-up comedian, but you might know him as ‘The Sinnerman’, from ITV’s tea-time quiz, The Chase.
Big, bold and buxom; playwright Tim Barrow’s Union, directed for the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s artistic director Mark Thomson, starts as it means to go on, with blocks of “sce…
After being “sent off” the Soccer AM sofa last year for misbehaving, Chris wonders whether he really is the Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning TV – not to mention, whethe…
The hue of blue is immediately recognizable, as are the characters, thanks to the ubiquity that comes with commercials, Jay Leno and the like.
A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t…
In this solo show, Jim Brochu blends cabaret, theater and scrapbooks to recall stage colleagues and inspirations like David Burns, Jack Gilford and Barney Martin (among many others…
Theatre Uncut is one of the few good things that has come out of the knock to public spending put in place in 2010, said to be the worst since World War II: it is from these cuts t…
Singer-songwriter Shaun Shears sort of fancies himself as a 21st Century reincarnation of the medieval Troubadour, travelling the country performing his songs about life, love and …
A riotous evening of laughter, live music and a magical story that may or may not be true. A real-life fairy tale followed by a right old knees up.
Big, bold, bible-black, bilious .
The life story of Jimmy Boyle, who in his younger years was a notorious criminal, was first staged back in 1977 at the Traverse.
Two wooden chairs, some books, an otherwise empty stage.
The idea of some supernatural being falling down to Earth and helping change the lives of us mere mortals is a powerful myth that resonates down human history, from the biologicall…
A Killer Story is a fast-paced, noir style detective play about passion, science, sex, and the incredible power of stories.
Comedy improvisers Matt and Ian are sensible enough to start their show with what the unkind might describe as their get-out clause; they admit, from the start, that they ‘might …
This living, timeless story unfolds from the depths of a Tango song.
Given that, at one point, Jon Ronson describes himself as ‘essentially [just] a humorous journalist out of his depth,’ you might be surprised that the Cardiff-born writer and docum…
Bert and Horace own a scrapyard filled with all the rubbish nobody wants.
Wendy Carle Taylor’s voice, presence and musicality are so special that it is a real challenge to adequately sum up her one woman show at Brunstfield Evangelical Church.
Hudson Taylor take their inspiration from both folk and pop, with a vivacity all their own.
A witty hour with Observer restaurant critic and One Show regular Jay Rayner as he takes apart the conventional wisdom in foodie-circles on how we’ll feed ourselves in the 21st C…
Even on paper, this ‘reconnaissance mission into the no-man’s land where death borders storytelling’ has the potential to be either really good or a recipe for self-indulgence; a…
To present such a talk upon the ins and outs of theatre at its bare business-driven bones is both innovative and opportune during the fracas of the Fringe, when an attentive audien…
Written by celebrated folk musician Alan Reid, storytelling and songs relate the tale of this controversial and extraordinary 18th-century Scots mariner.
‘Wow’ doesn’t even begin to describe the talents of these two comedians.
Honesty’s important in stand-up; so’s making stuff up, obviously, but audiences can generally sniff out if the person on stage doesn’t – at least for that moment – believe in …
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
In the style of Noises Off, the fictional Black Rubix Theatre (actually some of the students in the Queen Mary Theatre Company) attempts to put on what they think is a biting satir…
Meet Marx and Engels, hard-fighting, hard-drinking, mad, bad and dangerous to know.
Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Page to stage adaptations are nothing new but a sixty-three year old comic strip developing into a stage musical is certainly unconventional.
John Rivers is the first to admit he’s not an entertainer and that Poems and Pots isn’t a ‘show’ as such, but hopefully a relaxing opportunity to tease out and encourage the creati…
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…
Wouldn’t you love to see a socially awkward stick-thin man tell jokes and play you funny songs? Rick Wood returns after last year’s four-star show with observational stand-up and h…
Living a homeless existence in Wei Village during the late Qing Dynasty, the poor, fumbling Ah Q is faced day after day with his own short comings.
Year Out Drama Company, in association with Stratford-upon-Avon College, present one of Shakespeare’s rarely performed plays.
Before this show, every time I walked past the nondescript sign on Nicolson Street imploring me to give the Scientologists a try, I was tempted to stop.
Acclaimed show where you, the audience, provide true stories for the performers.
Last year I regretted not taking my junior reviewers to see the Three Half Pints.
There’s an unfortunate earnestness to this short piece from the Bangor English Drama Society, as they attempt with both script and performance to be all grown up and serious about …
‘A successful bachelor is always a puzzle to others,’ says the singer James Dinsmore, playing the composer and actor Ivor Novello.
A unique opportunity to gain insight into how we successfully market shows at the UK’s largest working theatre and as part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work.
WARNING: The front two rows will get wet! Thrust into the peculiar and fast-paced world of theatre, the scene is set immediately for us: a young ambitious playwright (Iftach Jeffre…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church.
In May 2013, David Piper - the modestly-titled ‘Global Ambassador’ for Scottish boutique gin producer Hendrick’s - accompanied master distiller Lesley Gracie and celebrated a…
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
Have you ever wondered what lurks behind the gates of a scrap yard? Some old tyres, a wheelie bin and maybe the odd rat or two, yet what about the people who work there? Bert and H…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
A really interesting, informative and helpful performance, particularly for all those budding authors and performers out there.
Equipped with his electro-acoustic guitar, Paul Gilbody promises for a magical evening of hearty tunes and ripping beats to drive home a funky Fringe show full of imagination.
Paul Merton and his impro chums return to Edinburgh for their tenth festival run, delivering many more hours of top quality improv.
Danish comedian Valdemar Pustelnik creates a picture of general discontent in his first English stand-up show, delivering laughs as big as the man himself.
Doogie Paul may not be the most familiar name in music, but amongst those who know him, both directly and indirectly, he is spoken of with a great deal of admiration.
Improvised comedy is a difficult art to master.
A beautifully imagined and powerful performance telling the story of David Livingstone from the perspective of his African friends.
It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun …
Experience some of the brightest, rising talents in Scottish music.
What with the recent Les Miserables fever, everyone has been fussing over Victor Hugo and ignoring that other cheerful scribe of poverty and dying children - our very own Charles J…
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane once stated his suspicion that ‘the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose’.
A participatory workshop led by Colin Watkeys, Director of Festivals in Edinburgh (Hill Street Solo Theatre) and London (Face to Face Festival) and award-winning solo performers Cl…
Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’.
Creased Productions’ Rough Theatre brings to the stage two of Beckett’s lesser known plays, Rough for Theatre I and II, in simple but effective style.
Theatre Uncut is a shoe-string operation aiming to provide immediate dramatic response to current crises.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan…
It is now 43 years since Love Story hit our movie screens and caused a generation to weep as one with its emotional storyline.
Fringe First, Herald Angel, Spirit of the Fringe award winners Theatre Uncut return with a brand new collection of short plays to get people thinking, talking and taking action on …
Chops is not a piece of naturalistic theatre, but then that’s hardly to be expected, given that this ‘linguistic farce’ by Brooklyn-based artist Kirin McCrory, performed by an all-…
The Love Story attempts to expose the nature of the individual in our relations with one another and our ability to cope of our own accord.
Death Ship 666 is Airplane meets Titanic; an exuberant rollercoaster ride of humorous grotesques, which revels in its own clichés and absurdities.
It’s said that the Devil has all the best tunes, but why shouldn’t the Godless also enjoy the fun and sense of community that comes from gathering on a Sunday morning to enjoy coff…
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�…
Canadian Shawn Hitchins bounces onto the stage with puppy-like energy, rushing straight into a ‘blond, brunette and a ginger’ joke to make the point that, as ‘a person of primary c…
Most magic shows you find on the Fringe nowadays are necessarily intimate, close-up affairs – not least because of the size of the available venues, budgets and the ‘close magic’…
Time Out’s One to Watch 2013; Chortle Best Newcomer nominee; second place in Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, Mark is ‘an exhilarating new voice on the comedy circuit’ (Spoo…
This all-female spoken word cabaret claims to offer ‘a veritable smorgasbord of poetry’; yet even though it is, to a certain extent, a daily-changing ‘sampler’ of numerous performa…
Now enjoying its third year in Edinburgh, the Magic Faraway Cabaret has a reputation for presenting the best burlesque, variety and sideshow skills available in the Scottish capita…
Cabarets are, by their very nature, fluid and changeable beasts, especially those in Edinburgh which act as convenient samplers of what’s available elsewhere on the Fringe.
Catherine Semark is a sharp, witty woman with some generally comical banter.
The first Prime Minister of India speaks his truth.
Paul Savage sometimes lies awake at night, convinced he’s a sitcom character.
Paul F Taylor is like a puppy: he has very fluffy hair, oodles of energy and even when he slips up, we still like him.
Jessica (whose name isn’t actually Jessica but people at work have been calling her that too long to be corrected) has a theory about love.
I first saw Alexis Dubus perform in 2008, when his ‘A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing’ provided an interesting spine on which to hang some very funny material – and a justificati…
Last year, with Activism is Fun, comedian Chris Coltrane explained how he had returned to political action after years of apathy, not least because – thanks to the likes of direc…
According to the neat-suited Paul Dabek, the Magic Circle demands that all its members must include a card trick at some point in their act, otherwise there’s a terrible risk of ‘m…
Is Greg Proops the smartest man in the world? Well, his 2013 Fringe show would certainly make you believe it.
Dr Professor Neal Portenza has more titles than I would give stars.
Warm-up for BBC2’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Glenn Wool tour support hits Edinburgh with a 40 minute free show.
Alex Holland and Ben Barker present a show on manliness, providing a clichéd but amusing take on what it means to be a man from two self-professed ‘unmanly’ men.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
One imagines that the members of the Principio Attivo Teatro are absolutely lethal at charades.
Popular culture often gets derided by critics because, unlike many of the so-called ‘great’ works of art (you know, the ones that allegedly make you look good when ‘appreciat…
From the start, I must point out that I fully accept that standing up on a stage, making people laugh in a foreign language, even if it’s the ‘lingua franca’ of the western world (…
Natalie Burgess and Richard Smithies work through the principal monologues of four of Shakespeare’s major tragedies: Othello, Hamlet, Richard III and King Lear.
It has been said that the one ‘mercy’ dementia offers is that the person who has it doesn’t know they do; so it is with the emotive subject of this solo play written and perf…
Stephen Schwartz’s musical about Jesus might not be quite as famous as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s counterpart, but it’s just as notorious.
Theatre SanTuoQi bring their famed blend of dance, physical theatre, puppetry and Nuo Opera to the fringe for their exploration of everyone’s favourite Norse deity.
In some 4,000 High Schools across the US, you’ll find a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) group.
One of the delights of the Fringe is that it can throw up the unexpected; so, for example, the first time I hear a delightfully bad-taste joke about a recent double suicide in one …
Waiting in the Summerhall lobby, three other people and I are greeted by a smiling American in chunky glasses who takes us downstairs.
Jump on board this unique venue-on-the-move for songs and stories for families with Peter Snow.
We Will Be Free is an historical tale beginning in 1834 and is based on the true story of George and Betsy Loveless, prominent members of the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
Returning to, and re-staging, the “classics” is not without challenges, not least because they were often originally written at a time when actors were considerably cheaper to hire…
Sign on to Sh!t Theatre’s JSA: ‘a curious though immensely likeable duo who merge stand-up with physical theatre and biting socio-political satire .
Ping Pong is an energetic game usually involving two or four people, but this latest stand-up show from Alistair Green is very much a one-man endeavour, with the only significant b…
Identity is a complicated matter for Rick Kiesewetter; not least because, as he points out from the start, his Asian face doesn’t match most people’s expectations of his adoptive f…
A sketch show delving deep into the heart of what it means to be a man with feelings.
The anthemic song ‘We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ by The Animals sets the scene for this one-woman, biographical monologue by the writer and performer Monica Bauer.
Comedy duo James Cottle and Kevin Kennedy take their audience through a series of hilarious scenarios verging on the absurd in this sketch show.
Watching Three Women is immensely frustrating.
Nominally, a Gay Straight Alliance is a pupil-based group found in some (though sadly too few) US schools, which meets regularly to discuss issues around homosexuality in order to …
‘I’ll save you yet,’ says the precocious Antony Sandel to the object of his desires, David Rogers.
Kevin Dewsbury is a bloke.
Despite graduating from the Wallis Simpson Slimming Academy, Pauline has never been too rich or too thin.
When Broadway veteran and world-famous mime Bill Bowers starts his show talking about sitting in a Hollywood make-up truck at three in the morning, with Hugh Grant to his left and …
Beachy Head in East Sussex has the tallest chalk sea cliffs in Britain, offering some fabulous views along the south east coast and across the English Channel.
Paul Foot, the backwards-haircut (short on top, long on the sides) staple of comedy panel shows, brings his slurring style of delivery and love for all things surreal to the Fringe…
Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him …
It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’…
Tomie James has travelled from Ireland to make a good point: we’re putting an awful lot of rubbish into our bodies.
‘Officer don’t be a Benny/the thing we saw was MGM-y.
There’s a playful, rough-round-the-edges physicality throughout this new show by Megan Heffernan and Sophie Fletcher.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
The funniest show (with a saucepan).
The value of art, human redemption, dead labradoodles.
‘I knew we should have booked a longer time slot,’ said one of the actors as another struggled to make it offstage while pretending to be a beached shark.
While the BBC’s iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who is currently one of the biggest, most popular shows on television at the moment - and it’s likely to be everywhere this November, wh…
Science reveals, magic conceals, but both can inspire a sense of wonder, according to stage magician Oliver Meech.
In this rather indie-style, little comedy, Robin is a lonely continuity announcer with only his imagination to comfort him.
From America to Asia and Australia this hairy Irishman has travelled around.
This is not the first time Doctor Who has been put on trial.
In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours.
We learn from the outset of the play that two of the three pigs are dead.
If you, like me, are skeptical on the subject of the existence of ghosts, go and see Paul Gannon Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghost.
‘Somewhere between Flight of the Conchords’ parody and Tim Minchin’s witty word-play lies home-grown talent Robert Taylor’ (Theatre Press).
Reg has skeletons in his 106-year-old closet but they fall out as Julie searches for her own future.
H to He, a solo show presumably named after Van de Graaf Generator’s third, physics referencing album, is loosely based on Kafka’s tale of transformation, The Metamorphosis.
Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything.
Chaos and Order - A True Story.
You’d be forgiven for assuming that the top British universities these days offer a BA (Hons) course in A Cappella Singing and you’d also be forgiven for assuming that that mea…
Zurich, the night before England’s failed attempt to bring the World Cup back home.
Feast your eyes and teeth on the bizarre, absurd and delicate world of Paul Currie.
When I worked at C venues, the Bubble Man had an almost legendary status: he was a guaranteed sell-out every year.
In his new Fringe show, Stephen Carlin sheds light on a unique problem that comes out of gambling addiction; while most addicts can feasibly avoid their choice drug for evermore, g…
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.
Riotous comedy cabaret troupe.
Company Man is a joy to watch, with professional clowning and circus skills woven into the stories of office workers.
The Man in the Moone, by the clearly passionate Rhum and Clay Theatre company, tells the story of Man’s fascination with the moon and his struggle to reach it.
If you are attracted by the glittering diversity of shows offered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, then this is one for you.
There’s a point in every show when stand-up Scott Agnew drops what he calls ‘the G bomb’; that is, he mentions that he’s gay.
Witty, full of puns, and anything but uninteresting, Name in Lights is a free-flowing performance that bears an aura of genuineness.
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
Winner of the ‘Funny Woman of the Year’ Award, Suzy Bennett delivers a pleasantly fluent and fast-paced monologue recalling her quest for fame, which originated during her chil…
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…
When a performer reaches a certain level of stardom, the reviews may come in easier than ever before; with prime venue, time slots and media attention, life is made all that much e…
Life must be hard if you want to be a different gender.
Fringe regulars, Puppet State Theatre Company return to tell the allegorical tale of Elzéard Bouffier - the titular man - based on a book by French author Jean Giono.
Is there a more delightful way to start the 2013 Fringe than with Edinburgh’s own Puppet State Theatre Company? This nearly pitch perfect production of The Man Who Planted Trees,…
The National Portrait Gallery hosts the first major exhibition of Man Ray’s highly-influential photographic portraits.
Directed by Fringe First Award winner, Andrew Dawson, The Idiot Colony is a stylish, symbolic and sorrowful account of three womens lives inside a mental asylum.
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…
Fourth Monkey theatre group are impossible to ignore this Fringe with an impressive total of six shows on offer.
Five experienced improvisers each request an audience suggestion, ranging from an item found in an attic to anyones favourite chocolate bar, and on the spot create characters and…
Since West Side Story was my first ever pocket-money album purchase, I am unbelievably, unreasonably touchy about its treatment onstage and off.
Flamenco dancing is perhaps not the first thing I would associate with the legend of the Minotaur and indeed neither is the idea that the conflict between the monster and Theseus h…
It’s not that The Improverts aren’t funny.
Heather Newton and Ernest Merrys critically acclaimed 2005 Fringe hit returns to bring you more holy milk, Hellish whores and stitch-inducing laughs.
Based on a true story, Sophie Pelhams one-woman show about coping with bipolar disorder is sensitively disturbing and, surprisingly, also fantastically funny.
From the moment you walk into this performance, you are greeted by anxious luxury.
A Real Man’s Guide to Sainthood is a show ‘about men’ or, more specifically, it is a show about one man - St George the dragon slayer.
This one-woman show about travelling the world to find a moment of peace tries hard but suffers from too much content and too few moments of empathy.
I am Google is listed as Comedy, Interactive and Stand-up.
Based on the Raymond Carver short story What Do You Do In San Francisco? this is a fragmentary tale of a postman, some beatniks and a whale.
Attempting to combine physical theatre with traditional Slavic song, acclaimed Czech directors Martin Kukučka and Luká Trpiovský have created an enchanting performance a…
Wolfgang Weinberger introduces his show as a lecture and perhaps that should have been the hint that this would be about as informative and as funny as secondary school sex-educati…
Returning after their 2007 sell-out Fringe hit, One Night Stand are back and better than ever.
The seventeenth-century garb and easily believed den of Restoration iniquity that awaits a wet and windswept audience inside the Baby Belly promises an onstage Black Adder, but sad…
Ged Manns apocalyptic comedy has some nice ideas and a few smile-worthy gags, but the plot is obvious and its actualisation painful.
After the success of their show The Ordinaries.
‘Success’ is an inventive, endearing and beautifully observed pastiche of self-help seminars.
New Yorks acclaimed Company XIV present a gorgeous display of hedonistic excess and divine manipulation.
Nik Coppin, London funnyman, was not long back from his hols when we caught him at the Upstairs at Three and Ten.
Are our lives ruled by fate or chance? It’s hard to decide most of the time but even harder when a stage magician is making the seemingly impossible happen before your eyes.
Lake Simons and John Dyers musical re-imagining of Lewis Carrolls much-loved tale is stylish and charming, but not quite captivating.
The award-winning Christopher John Domig stars in an unsettling and highly topical play about immigration.
Office Space meets Miranda July: Little Bulb Theatres delightful take on the mundane nine-to-five existence combines Indy humour with quirky performance art.
You may have heard of a play-within-a-play but a musical-within-a-musical is another matter entirely.
Critically acclaimed at last years Fringe and fresh from a successful run at the Avignon Festival, Koreas Cho-In Theatre return with their heartbreaking movement piece.
Ill be the first to admit that whenever I see dance shows at the fringe, I expect to see groundbreaking dance from around the world, but have never expected much from Scotlands…
Another Tarantino Story promises to challenge conventional dance practices while incorporating a multidisciplinary approach to dance theatre.
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.
A multi-talented ensemble present, through music, song and dance, the stories of Tantalus, Narcissus and Sisyphus, three men sentenced to eternal frustration for offending the gods…
At the heart of Allotment is a simple, visual metaphor: the burial and later uncovering of objects in the earth that clearly mirrors the suppression and later resurrection of memor…
Fancy a stroll on a Scottish summer evening? Follow four lost city-dwellers into the park beneath Arthurs Seat for an intimate and enchanting play about fantasy.
Be warned, nobody is safe in the audience of Tom Crawshaws new play, Auditorium .
The Putney Players, a US ensemble comprised of High School students who only met three weeks ago, bring an original interview-based docu-play to the Fringe for the fifth year.
Jay Parinis adaptation of Kiplings harrowing First World War story Mary Postgate is stiff but visually stunning.
I sit here, chastised, after trying to prove to myself that I could still juggle using eggs filled with jelly beans.
For the seventeenth year, C theatre gives festival-goers the chance to start the day with a croissant, coffee and a boisterous but brilliant slice of the Bard.
Irvine Welshs foul-mouthed portrayal of the drug-induced party scene makes a lewd, loud and laughter-filled transition to the stage.
‘I shall be remembered!’ cries Dame Elaine Montgomerie for the fifth time in her one-woman show about the life of Madame de Pompadour.
War! What is it good for? Well, in this case, it’s good for about half of this Warwick University student production of Naomi Wallace’s The Fever Chart: Three Visions of the Middle…
Observing a possibly cannibalistic civil insurgency ashore, two isolated sailors experience the grotesque impact of the last centurys contribution to warfare.
Straight from The Royal Court, Anupama Chandrasekhars poignant drama about the impact of one girls sex life on the rest of India cant help but provoke.
Though the name suggests this is another gimmicky Fringe production concentrating more on standing out in the bulging programme than putting something worthy onstage, Philip Stokes…
Miranda Julys feature length film Me and You and Everyone We Know is a beautiful and captivating meditation on the themes of love, isolation and art.
Who doesnt want to wake up to a coffee, a croissant and five finely crafted short plays? Hangover theatre or simply one for the early-birds, The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is …
Stuart Spencers century shifting, bed-hopping romp through American history leaves a smile but not a laugh.
Touring for two years without a home technically makes Glenn Wool a hobo.
Paul McCaffrey seems less like a performer and more like a mate in a pub.
Can a magician’s hand really be faster than the human eye? Paul Dabek may well use that serious question as an excuse for a simple physical joke, but by the end of this excellent…
The 2012 edition of Strictly Songtime’s film song series for the Edinburgh Fringe was organised around the theme of Oscar-winning music.
Franny Winters and her husband Harm Groespecker bound on stage to the music from The Avengers.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Yorkshire-born Chris Cassells seems such a trustworthy young man that it’s somewhat disconcerting to realise that he’s already recognised as a rising star among the UK’s stag…
This is as good a play as Ive ever seen about the absurdity of prejudice.
Panto usually involves a cast of thousands, huge sets and the theatrical magic supplied by trap doors, smoke machines and flying apparatus.
Stick Man has just gone out for an innocent jog, when suddenly he is snatched up by a dog.
Matthew John Curtis is famous.
This is a one-man show with a difference: the actor is also a magician.
The Loch Parry players have had a disaster: it is 24 hours until opening night and their lead of their upcoming musical extravaganza - The Wickerman - has disappeared.
Say what you will about ventriloquists, theres no denying their talent.
A dinner party and a stand-up comedy performance might not seem to have much in common - and, in social terms, they don’t - but Xavier Toby gamely welcomed his first Edinburgh au…
Like much of the comedy currently clogging up Edinburgh, Toby Hadoke’s latest show is fundamentally about the man on stage, about his life experiences and his personal relationsh…
Congratulations to Byteback Theatre for presenting a splendid physical show and going some way to alleviating my, not-uncommon, instinctive scepticism for the genre.
When she sees a stranger die in a café, Jean hardly thinks before answering his ringing phone.
This comedy thriller by Israeli duo Elephant and the Mouse has a plot twist so delicious that giving it away would be murder.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Budding musical thespians aim to be what is called a ‘triple-threat’, developing extreme talent in the three areas of musical theatre - acting, singing and dancing.
Matador, you say? As in, red capes and bulls and Spanish people? For an hour? And it’s comedy?Thankfully, the matador pretence is dropped in the first ten minutes of Asher Trelea…
Join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they take on a new recruit and set out to rescue the King’s golden plums!In this wonderfully camp late-night operetta jokes fly and genders bend…
When someone sits down to write a musical, it’s rare that they dream up a piece of work that is befitting to a small performance space, shying away from spotlights and microphones …
Country Air ‘A Contemporary Ghost Story’ is, to be frank, confusing and confused about what it is.
How many US Presidents does it take to run a country? Three, apparently - and in the late 90s that was Bill, Billy and Hillary Clinton.
Unlike His Ghostly Heart, another play on the Fringe which is played out in the dark, where the stage is darkened and the audience can make out the actors forms, in Don Qui…
Meanwhile Theatre Company present Mick Martins Frog Man, a physical piece of blackly comic theatre that premiered at the Fringe two years ago.
Out with the old and in with the new.
The witty and charming pair Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna give us a beat poetry rom-com ballad that, while not groundbreaking, at least treads old ground with the comfort and warmt…
Imagine if David Starkey did a Fringe show.
An entertaining hour of fairy tales drawn from Hans Christian Andersens collection.
Woody Guthrie was an Oklahoma folk musician, famous for his protest music and probably most famous for the song This Land Is Your Land.
Contrary to what some critics might suggest, it’s not a comfortable experience seeing someone ‘coming off the rails’ on stage, especially when they’re clearly talented and …
My abiding memory of this show is that I have no abiding memory of this show.
Paul Ricketts is a natural storyteller.
There is much to commend in Bob Karpers new one-man show at Zoo.
If we believe everything we see, at least on the video screen, the stage mentalist Doug Segal can get from his hotel bed to the venue — stopping off mid-route to buy a lottery ti…
Years ago, before my broad mind and narrow waist had changed places and I was a young actor, I went to Northern Ireland on tour.
Those looking for a bit of relief from the frenetic pace of the Festival can find it underground, in the idiosyncratic Jazz Bar on Chambers Street.
You know you’ve experienced a genuine one-man Fringe show when the guy who’s been performing on stage for the previous 50 minutes has to jump down, run to the tech desk at the …
Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go…
The Padua Playwrights present a double bill of classy fringe theatre; founder Murray Mednicks Tirade for Three and artistic director Guy Zimmermans Vagrant.
The Creative Martyrs are an absurdist cabaret duo who dress in white face make-up, bowler hats and black suits.
The Jazz Bar’s crowd on Sunday the 12th August was a bit of a mix.
Taylor Mac, drag queen, performance artist and ukulele player, presents what he calls The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac.
Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking.
This version of Hamlet is set in a high school classroom, where a group of schoolchildren decide to act out the play, partly to prove to their more sceptical colleagues that plays …
Taking immersive theatre to the next level, Applespiel have launched into this year’s Fringe with a set of corporate seminars, designed to improve everyone’s awareness of thems…
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 excitement in the audience is palpable as the lights dim in St George’s West, a beautiful venue that lends itself well to theatrical transformation.
If there’s a book you’re guaranteed to come across in a literature degree, it’s Beowulf.
Jessica Pidsley has given herself a challenge, one that she hopes will help her audience to change their attitudes towards their body.
Conference of Strange is in the form of a lecture, and it’s 30 minutes (not an hour as billed), and it opens with a woman ironing a projection screen, and then the air, and then …
In his book about the onset of his wife’s dementia, former ITN journalist John Suchet explained that the one ‘mercy’ he could see about the condition was that the person with…
This is the world premier of Nafeesa Monroes one woman show, Journey to Becoming a Super Woman.
Tin Girl Story is an interesting production but I am unsure as to whether 29 Shoes Theatre Company chose the appropriate setting, or listing for their creation.
The scene is set by a pumping house tune with a countdown.
The notoriously foul-mouthed Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets have toned down their act for this family friendly show.
Paul Merton introduces a selection of silent film classics, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Laurel & Hardy.
This is Soap takes improv comedy to a new level - forget sketch shows, musicals or short-form games.
Where Theatre In Heights’ production of this new musical is strongest is in its capacity to entertain.
You know something’s different about a show when the people in the first three rows - also known as the slosh pit - are issued with cheap Scotland-branded ponchos.
Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan.
Not quite a film night and not quite a variety show, sketch comedy troupe The Beta Males play host to a feast of entertainment from some of the Fringe’s finest comedy acts while …
It’s an intriguing concept, though not a new one: if you could write a letter to your future self what would you want to tell them? Henry Raby, poet and performer, uses the idea …
This play promises a quick and basic guide to the development of western theatre.
With its modest and pretty title, Some Small Love Story sets the tone for its performance.
Love Child is the story of two women - a mother and daughter - who have never met; the former gave the latter away at her birth, the daughter returns to seek out her lost parent.
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 …
Fringe-veterans Scottish Dance Theatre, this year celebrating their 25th birthday, return to Zoo in fine fettle with a mixed bill of three works, two of which showcase choreography…
Clout Theatre have hit on something good with this dusty, grotesque and wonderfully pointless piece of physical theatre.
Something consistently excellent about Belt Up’s productions is their dedication to preserving the illusion.
I must start with two clear statements.
Socks playing guitar.
The exquisitely moustached showman Donny Vomit was just 14, visiting an Oklahoma County Fair, when he saw a man swallow a long balloon.
This show is comedy flying by the seat of its pants: not exactly improvised, but certainly thrown together.
Anybody who thinks that you can perform Love’s Labour’s Lost without doing something serious to the script probably hasn’t read the play.
The sense of apprehension in the auditorium as the audience settles is at odds with an early afternoon show, but not surprising when one considers that we are about to witness Bela…
A one man experiment into the nature of humankind, Womb Man is an interesting idea which does not ask any new questions or indeed answer any.
Man-Go Unshaved, a take on ‘Django Unchained’, say they are ‘the good, the bad and the ugly of stand-up comedy’.
There’s one small, very special audience that most of us will be legally obliged to join at some point in our lives — a jury.
An honest, telling, but ultimately flawed piece of one-man theatre, Walk Like a Black Man is an autobiographical work by writer and performer Rafiq Richard, exploring the challenge…
Based on the true story of a man who emerges from the sea in a suit with amnesia, who then draws a picture of a piano and proves he can play as a virtuoso, Piano Man is a play abou…
In 1966 the American government wanted to build a military base in the Indian Ocean.
Like so many fringe productions this year, the Super Serious Show looks to be one of those stand-up variety, mash-up shows that is used as a platform for many of the acts out there…
Given the importance many people put on their annual holiday — the glittering gift to themselves for enduring the hard slog of everyday life for the rest of the year — there�…
First, a confession: I am a Lord of the Rings film fanatic, nay zealot.
We’ve all seen or heard about that infamous point in a man’s life where he starts to feel out of sync with the world - it usually results in a fancy new car or ridiculous hobby…
Fringe favourites Belt Up return with their highly acclaimed The Boy James, now transferred to the entirely new venue of C Nova, where up several flights of stairs the audience is …
Principal Parts is a play within a play.
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.
There’s a long tradition of the gentleman thief - not least in Edinburgh, the city of Deacon Brodie - so it probably seemed apt to bring to the Fringe an adaptation of Eleanor Up…
Fringe regulars may remember the moment towards the beginning of last year’s Festival, when performers, media and audiences alike slowly caught wind of the London riots, followin…
A mother, lover and cuckolded spouse describe their relationships with an unnamed victim that links them together through rounds of rhyming soliloquy.
I’m one of those people.
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.
Patrick Combs once deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.
Cloudia has been searching for Cloud Men all her life; on this journey she’ll finally find one on an expedition up Cloud Mountain but more importantly, she’ll learn a valuable …
Glasgow’s Tramway has a reputation for cutting-edge visual and performing arts; so it’s something of a radical change for them to join Glasgow’s other theatrical venues with …
Written and animated by the alleged French “polymath” François Sarhan, Enough Already incorporates live music, theatre and film in a frustratingly pretentious, paralysingly du…
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…
The blistering cold of the Arctic is a suitably atmospheric setting for Thin Ice, the latest offering from scribe Jonathan Young.
Necessity and determination are the watchwords for Man to Man, an intriguing story about a woman who takes up the identity of her husband following his death to keep his job.
The four brilliant men who are The Three Englishmen put on a sketch show that will have you in stitches.
There’s a brazen, wonderfully self-conscious theatricality in how director Dominic Hill approaches Chris Hannan’s new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s iconic novel, C…
Nine members of the Scottish Dance Theatre company take to the stage to dance.
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.
A10-strong cast from the Scottish Dance Theatre start off this performance with a still-life scene, a sculptural montage, in which all the characters appear in the same light.
Although based on true events, the story of Calum’s Road is so unique that it comes with a strong sense of some greater story being told, one of mythical proportions.
Children’s and young adult’s fiction have long been populated by orphans, characters who are both usefully free from parental restraints while also cut adrift from the traditio…
Inter-generational relationships are always controversial, especially when questions of predatory abuse arise in these Savile-dominated times.
Now I’m all for messing with Shakespeare.
There are actually plenty of comedy options at the Fringe if you want to avoid the ‘affable young bloke in jeans and a t-shirt telling jokes’ but perhaps none further removed t…
You could be forgiven for thinking that Jim Campbell was Mark Watson’s twin brother.
Josie Long’s Be Honourable! is on some level about being nice not the easiest subject for laughs, but one with which she succeeds partly by being such a shining example.
Can you do anything of theatrical note in under 10 minutes? Is there a place for a theatrical equivalent of flash fiction, whether as a testing ground for new writers or as a form …
Presumably the mention of Katrina and the Waves, Lulu or Bucks Fizz will have a reader questioning why they’re making an appearance in a review about a cappella electro singing.
When does real life stop and the cabaret begin? Or the cabaret stop and real life return? On this occasion, Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle offer no simple or easy answers in this in…
Chris Coltrane is the first to admit that any political radicalism he might once have possessed had faded over time, thanks in part to a depressing sense of powerless after the UK …
Paul McCaffrey can very much be categorised as an observational comedian.
Arguably the most famous Scottish story written by an Englishman is re-imagined as One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest by the National Theatre of Scotland, and showcases a remarkable sol…
From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman.
At one point in this freewheeling show, Paul Foot pulls out a heap of colourfully illustrated flashcards and asks us to yield to the ‘glimpses’ of jokes they contain.
Graham Macpherson, aka Suggs, has produced a show with a clue in the title.
The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway…
Salem is a production that attempts to do something dangerous - to perform a piece of theatre about a historical event that has already been covered by a really well-known play.
Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo…
Jean Paul Jones is an eighteenth-century US naval commander with Scottish roots; and this is the musical of his life.
What a joy and a rarity it is to see a cross-generational cast of performers, ranging in age from 28-78, share the stage in dance theatre of this calibre.
Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Suki Webster, Richard Vranch and Jim Sweeney improvise for an hour using suggestions from the audience.
The Hired Man is set during the first quarter of the Twentieth Century when many country people worked on the land or in the pits.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
The Fall Of Man is a reinvention of Miltons Paradise Lost, set in a bedsit in 2006.
Whether you know much about Chekhov or not, Anton’s Uncles still has something for you.
Thrill Me is based on the real-life story of wealthy law students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, who killed a school friend to test themselves at living life beyond limits as Nie…
Medieval dramas are an odd beast and very difficult to put on.
Here was the biggest audience yet.
What a bizarre hour of my life was spent watching this musical - bizarre, but not wholly unpleasant.
Paul Zerdin is clearly an accomplished ventriloquist.
Take two of Cambridge’s Footlights, give them guitars, throw them in front of a crowd full of people and watch the magic happen.
Paul Sinha has yet to really breakout, although hes been building a solid stand-up foundation over the years at the Fringe.
It’s sentimental, it’s a journey, it’s the story of Doris Day’s life.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
In these increasingly cash-strapped times putting on any musical on the Fringe is worthy of praise, even if — with a cast of six accompanied by electric piano and drums — the d…
As a show, NGGRFG has one obvious problem: people are either uncertain how to say it, or are simply reluctant to say out loud the two words it represents, because — quite underst…
The Big Project’s children’s choir returns for its third year at the Fringe, and if you’ve got children who love nothing more than to sing-a-long to chart toppers this is the…
Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects.
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
Three of hearts is a play done in rhyme, with a dark subject matter that wont waste your time.
A rather sad turn out for Taylor Glenn with immensely depleted audience numbers, it was certainly a lonely affair.
It’s been said before, it will be said again, people will say it for years and years to come.
It’s not often you would describe a story about shit as one of life-affirming transcendent beauty, but the moral fable ‘The Dandelion Story’ is all that and more.
This show is exactly what it is.
I knew three things about the show before it started; that there are horror stories, that there are three of them and that they are presumably related to Poe.
A play littered with second guessing, false pretences and a lot of alcohol would be the most apt generalisation of Brighton Little Theatre’s- or should that be Harold Pinter’s-…
Much celebrated world-class performer Melvin Brown, better known as Movin’ Melvin Brown, gives another uninhibited, inspiring and entertaining performance at the Edinburgh Festiv…
Crammed into one of the tiniest Fringe venues I have ever seen are three girls, in three separate scenarios.
Edinburgh can be a lonely place in August, as I found out turning up as the solitary audience member for Masses Man at C aquila.
In an increasingly categorised Fringe (this year added Spoken Word to an already multi-colour-coded Fringe programme), it can still be a delight to come upon a show that just doesn…
The Australian duo of musical comedian Sammy J and puppeteer Heath McIvor - best known for his purple puppet Randy - are now experienced Fringe regulars who, quite rightly, are mor…
Searching For Stevieman is a show based on a promising and absurdly amusing concept; a parody of recent documentary film Searching For Sugarman focused on the bizarre rise to fame …
Nick and Andrew are brothers, but that doesn’t mean they’re alike.
How can a full house of adults be entertained for an hour by a couple of grey socks in a tartan Punch & Judy tent? Ask Kev Sutherland, the writer and performer, who returns for fo…
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Josie Long, arguably the highest profile comic on this year’s Free Fringe, and newcomer Sam Schäfer are an odd pairing.
When three ex-Oxford Gargoyles return to the Fringe as part of a three-piece girl band, it’s expected of them to present a predominantly jazz-filled set and to be almost musicall…
The Man Who Planted Trees is a consummate piece of children’s theatre.
Peter Tate writes, directs and stars in this cacophony of self-indulgence.
There are few good things about international terrorism, but this show is one of them.
Bandwagon Theatre Company bring this short story to the fringe as they tell a murky tale of the secret sale of the then-Indian-Ocean island of Diego Garcia by the US and Britain.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a director’s dream.
For centuries scholars have disagreed about the authorship of the most famous plays in the world.
Three tables, each filled with the paraphernalia of different daytime meals; on each table, there’s an hourglass, progressively smaller.
Mr Price (Scott Baxter) has had a very significant role in an election or so it would seem.
There was something very apt about this production.
From the start Richard Purnell (the short one) and Gary From Leeds (the horribly tall one) insist that their teaming up as ‘360 degree poetry consultants’ is not a gimmick.
Sketch comedy duo Chris O’Niell and Paul Valenti started last night with a bit of a mountain to climb.
While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his…
Despite a long and successful career in both British film and theatre, Dame Margaret Rutherford is now best remembered for a role she didn’t, initially, care for at all — Agath…
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Describing his genre as ‘racist comedy’ and insisting that the show is not funny, Paul Chowdhry presents 55 minutes of offensive material that is often as uncomfortable as it i…
I don’t think that political soapboxing should ordinarily have a place in comedy.
Other Voices promised much — ‘comedy, politics, naughty lyrics, free sweets… And a veritable smorgasbord of poetry antics’, but the most significant terminology on its titl…
The Three Gaga men wear full body tights to produce a show of circus value that balances between being a little bit freakish and providing unique entertainment.
I firmly believe Ben Woolf is one of the most originally talented writers in the world.
Elephant Man was born in Benoit Hattet’s mind some 25 years ago and his devotion to the project - he is the writer, director, designer and actor - is clear in every aspect of thi…
The story of Helena and her faithless husband, Bertram, has puzzled theatregoers for centuries.
While not the slickest show this side of the Royal Mile, Sh!it Theatre’s Job Seekers Anonymous was definitely something extraordinary.
One Man Star Wars Trilogy delivers exactly what the title promises.
Sammy J is an Australian comedy singer-songwriter who interweaves stories from his own life with jaunty numbers on the piano, occasionally sipping on his carton of juice as a Frenc…
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a strong pedigree and reputation, built on its debut as part of Glasgow’s Òran Mór’s iconic A Play, …
Josie Longs effervescent cheeriness and excitement at all this world has to offer turns geeky, untouched topics in comedy goldmines.
Many comics wouldnt risk starting a show chatting about their hernia, but Tonkinson quickly gets up close and personal with his audience and their experiences.
The thoughtful touch at this venue was two rows of weenie seats at the front that my petit companion Olivia (4) announced she was going to sit in, next to the girl at the front.
Some Small Love Story, as the title may suggest, is a short, self-contained and in the end inconsequential story about love and loss, with some songs thrown in for good measure.
‘Come in girls, sit anywhere you like.
Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly played to a packed Queen’s Hall with his own brand of low-key folk-rock, featuring only him and his nephew Dan Kelly, who played guitar an…
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…
The Glasgow King’s Theatre panto, which last year marked its half century, is a much-loved institution in the city.
I live in Edinburgh and choose to go to this throughout the year because it is so good week after week.
Restoration comedies need restoring, and, contrary to what their name might imply, Braindead Theatre Company have made some very intelligent choices here.
Mid-afternoon, an audience of just 10 people is not what most standups would want to see in front of them.
Grapple Theatre Company, starring a cast from Bristol Grammar School, take to the stage in this adaptation of two Gothic stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
There are many things you can say about Chris Cross; that he’s a shrinking violet is not one of them.
Neil LaBute’s companion plays Land of the Dead and Helter Skelter explore a sudden change in life situations, portrayed through the lives of two couples.
In this one-hour show, talented Ross Sutherland brings philosophy, physics and fun together to create a highly entertaining view of contemporary society, which transcends the obvio…
Packed to the rafters without a single seat left The Three Englishman, of which there are four, are off to a blazing start.
The obvious, but often overlooked difficulty with one act plays is their length.
Everything’s absurdist these days.
Josie Long’s latest solo show at this year’s Fringe is optimistically titled Romance and Adventure.
Up there with The Deer Hunter and The Champ, Love Story came from a decade of schmaltzy tearjerkers that kept tissue manufacturers in healthy profits.
You may recognise these two from TV.
Following last year’s success with Sunday in the Park With George, The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s OneAcademy Productions have returned to the work of Stephen Sondheim in…
The Voodoo Rooms provide old-school trendy surroundings for a comedy variety show.
Two short plays by the same playwright Paul Richards collectively titled A Little Light Theatre had a lightness of touch that brought ordinary people facing dramatic episodes to li…
‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th…
Life is spectacular.
Leaving a theatre and having to critique a performance for potential visitors, despite knowing that it will never be recreated in that way again, is an undoubtedly difficult task.
If I were an anthropologist or a linguist I could write a thesis on non-verbal communication through shared laughter.
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…
Performed in the Pleasance Undergrand, 30 Birds multimedia production is undeniably aesthetically pleasing.
Having premiered in Edinburgh in 1988, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams and Ed Howards humorously disturbing portrayal of small town America returns for its 20th anniversary.
The pseudo-auditorium boxes in the theatre immediately made sure that there was a distinct ‘stage show’ feel to the performance, meaning that the audience knew from the start t…
The weather’s been good for an outdoor performance.
Atmospheric is the word for this production.
Do you love Alex? Let me tell you, if you are going to put A Clockwork Orange on, the audience simply has to love Alex.
Turnpike, three-sixty, tailwhip and wall ride: these are just a few of the words that entered my vocabulary in the hour I spent watching ten talented Edinburgh yout…
Three for Free is a fun and friendly showcase of new acts, featuring Alex Kealy and Patrick Morris, plus a special guest every day.
If comedy often rises out of adversity, could this help explain how Northern Ireland has proved such fertile ground over the years — from Frank Carson and Roy Walker to Patrick K…
When a group bills themselves as the self-proclaimed greatest improv comedy team in America, you have to question why they can find nobody to quote but themselves.
The Man Who Planted Trees is a story by Jean Giono about one man making a huge difference to the lives of thousands through planting enough trees to change a climate.
After a successful run at the National Student Drama Festival 2008 and working in conjunction with the Donmar Warehouse, Nottingham New Theatre present a new play by Anthony Lau th…
The premise is simple: a group of people meet in a park.
Andrew Dallmeyers Fringe First Award-winning exploration into the mind of the Surrealist genius, Salvador Dali, shocks, seduces and, most of all, utterly amuses.
This charming play, devised by New Yorks Messenger Theatre Company, is a classic tale of courage, masculinity and valour, but theres one difference: the hero is late.
Kings Hall has been taken over by Summer Hall and transformed into the Canada Hub over the festival, showcasing a series of Canadian acts exploring the issues surrounding Canada’…
It’s 1870.
The Thin White Ukes honour the timeless genius of David Bowie in small but perfectly formed arrangements for three precision ukuleles and lush three-part vocal harmonies.
It was the title, I must admit, which first attracted me to review Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation; its promise of combining "stage action and illust…
A timeless love story; an electrifying spectacle.
Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak…
From the creator of the international sensation ‘Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl In Hitler’s Germany’ comes the fascinating sequel, detailing life after war.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, spoke to Playwright Nick Maynard (NM), Director Scott Le Crass (SLC) and actors Stewart Dylan-Campbell (SDC) and Aiden Kane (AK) about the play abou...
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe after a sold-out Scottish tour and an OFFFest win for Best Musical/Circus at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe, writer and musical director of 'Godfath...
Making his Edinburgh Fringe debut, Michael Kunze talks with Katerina Partolina Schwartz about his show - Infinity Mirror - his character – Mitch Coony - and the nature of comedy ...
Director John Mitton tells tell us about this year's , The British Theatre Challenge, the plays and the writers.
Barry McStay tells us about his experience of writing and revising his play, Breeding
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
I spoke with Pharos (AKA Fraser Lawson), the artist behind Rave, to discover the intentions behind his mind-melting audio-visual set.
The producers of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club have announced that from Monday 25 September 2023, the roles of The Emcee and Sally Bowles will be played by music icons Jake Shears an...
Isabella Thompson enjoyed meeting the cast of Bed: The Musical and chatting to them about their rehearsal process. Here are some extracts from the interview.
James Macfarlane chats with Phil Ellis about his new show Phil Ellis' Excellent Comedy Show, celebrating 10 years at Edinburgh and his biggest achievements outside of comedy
We asked Emma Taylor, producer of Newsrevue, the world’s longest-running live comedy show, now in its 43rd year, about its background and success
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with MC Hammersmith to discuss raps, rhymes and his new Edinburgh show Straight Outta Brompton.
James Macfarlane sits down with the one and only Danny Beard to discuss their debut Fringe show Danny Beard and Their Band, life since winning RuPaul's Drag Race UK and why the art...
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...
"I think it just reminds people of a simpler time. So it is comforting. And not so politically correct!"
In this Valentine's Special we talk to comedian Matt Hoss about what would be on his Valentine's playlist, how to book a tour after Edinburgh Fringe and what to get a vegan for Val...
Comedian Catherine Bohart, star of 8 out of 10 Cats and The Mash Report, talks to us about ways to keep smiling despite the news, how to make your run at Edinburgh Fringe a success...
Does technology have a role in live performance? In 2014 The Old Market’s #TOMtech season blasted into Brighton, exclusively showcasing performances shaped by technology.
Alternative and experimental performances have always been at the heart of Fringe, but is there still space for something a little more unpredictable? Enter Harry Clayton-Wright.
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.
We're almost mid-way through the Fringe and it seems like there are more shows than ever to pick from.
Caitlin is a one-woman play by Mike Kenny about Dylan Thomas and his wife's tempestuous life together, written entirely from her point of view.
The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.
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Barry Humphries is our masterfully seasoned emcee and cabaret diva Meow Meow our chanteuse in this risqué, sophisticated and seductive tribute to the jazz-infused music of the Wei...
Having received rave reviews for The Secret Life of Humans as well as supporting dozens of other theatre companies at the Fringe and beyond, the New Diorama Theatre has made a name...
Having made their Fringe debut last year with The Life and Times of Lionel, theatre company Forget About The Dog are back with their new show, 100 Ways to Tie a Shoelace.
Betrayal, money, power, politics and love.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
Leyla Josephine is a performance artist and writer from Glasgow.
By any account, Dominic Holland has had a successful career.
Like A Prayer is a theatrical essay about personal faith in which six nuns deliberate attitudes towards the big questions of life. We spoke to Corinne via an email Q&A.
Sarah Callaghan returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, with the show, 'The Pigeon Dying Under The Bush'.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
Karen and Katy Koren are thrilled to announce that Gilded Balloon will expand into the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, as they embark upon an exciting new partnership with the Ros...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Celebrated actor, Ian Lindsay (Men Behaving Badly, Benidorm) directs the world première of his play Chinese Whispers at the Greenwich Theatre from July 13th-23rd based on the...
After the short run at the Royal Court Theatre sold out in just one day, Jez Butterworth’s epic, new play The Ferryman will transfer to the West End.
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Audiences have only six weeks left to see the critically acclaimed West End production of Sir Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser which brings together a multi award-winning cast and cr...
This week Greenwich Theatre opens its eagerly awaited new studio space with the world premiere of a new play, presented in partnership with emerging company CultureClash Theatre.
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...
Handing out flyers on the street is one of the most famously unpleasant parts of putting on a show at the Fringe.
Award-winning theatre company Bucket Club are melding together playful theatre with a live techno score for Fossils, a sceptical quest for the Loch Ness Monster at the Pleasance Do...
The Many Doors of Frank Feelbad is a brave and engaging work about how children and families process and communicate grief.
Do you work well under pressure? How about life-or-death pressure? Nuclear Family gives you the chance to find out by inviting the audience to mount an enquiry about a pair of sibl...
I Got Superpowers for my Birthday by Katie Douglas is an action-packed fantasy adventure about the pains of growing up and learning you can shoot fire from your fingertips.
Andrew Blair and Ross McCleary are Edinburgh-local writers and collaborators.
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
The festival is a place for the taboo and James Wilson-Taylor has brought the final taboo to Edinburgh… sort of? Ginger is the New Black sets out to rebrand redheads and challeng...
Theatre Ad Infinitum have become a fixture of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having won two Stage Awards, two Argus Angels, and a Guardian Best of EdFringe.
In the 1960s, NASA funded scientists set out to try and teach dolphins to speak.
Natasha Granger and Kerrie Thompson wrote, produced and star in 90s girl-band musical 2 Become 1, a story about romance, speed dating and the ideal post-night-out meal.
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...
He prefers getting up early, likes music and isn't adverse to a man in a kilt. We take Canuck Christopher Wilson on a first date (and we quite liked it).
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...
Brighton Fringe award winners, Certain Dark Things, invite you to spiral down the stairs to the world of the inventor.
Brighton’s improvised comedy favourites present an impromptu detective drama, replete with colourful characters and lurid plots.
A smash hit at the 2015 Prague Fringe, this is the portrayal of a complex man who thought of himself as a genius and ended up being a clown in the eyes of the world as The Gra...
German theatre isn't well known outside Germany.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Exploring humanity’s eternal fascination with the skies through the eyes of this playful and dynamic young ensemble, The Girl Who Fell in Love with the Moon is a dark, Tim Burton...
Gentleman Juggler and unwitting clown Tim Bat performs his impressive repertoire of amazing tricks with aplomb.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Katy Matthews tells us about Un-titled, her play about art, told by art.
Ally Cologna tells up about Birthday in Suburbia, a rich mixture of clown, dark comedy and rich visual imagery.
Tom Veryzer talks to us about his pixie-fuelled comedy riot packed with adventure, mischief, stand-up comedy and storytelling and leaves us wondering exactly was a fun-splosio...
Elsie Diamond, international burlesque performer, compere and singer, presents her one woman show, and talks to us about vintage looks, a bygone era and her famous erotic sewing sc...
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers a preview of the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Inspired by Elliot Rodger’s manifesto, Ballistic is a one-man tour-de-force about the life of a loner & the vulnerabilities & violent capabilities of a young man today.
Eva tells a comedic story of love, frankfurters, the other Eva and de-bunks the bunker story once and for all.
Neil has a story to tell.
West End performer, Sharon Sexton, stars as broadway legend Liza Minnelli recounting tales, secrets and blasting through her famous hits.
Award winning, comedic dance-theatre duo present their new show and we’ve been talking to them to find out a little bit more.
Shortlisted for the Brighton Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Jody Trehy talks about singing, 12 foot tall alien lizards and never leaving your wallet off-stage
A beautiful show incorporating theatre, live music and song.
Set in an airport, Blooming Surprise takes you on an unexpected journey into your heart, where hope blooms, ever fresh.
On his 400th anniversary, can Shakespeare help a father and child explore each other’s worlds? We talked to Rory and Simon Waterfield discussing how the bard inspired their ...
A comedy about German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his troubled relationship with women wowed audiences at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
Ever needed a guide to be a man? Perhaps you've read books, looked on the internet and searched for answers.
Numerous award-winning companies will be joining us again at this year at Brighton Fringe in the ever astounding Dance and Physical Theatre category.
A one man musical about a trans woman in 1970s NYC. This is Tanner Efinger's new play receives its world premiere at Brighton Fringe.
Nye Russell-Thompson invites you to take a look into the mind of a man who stammers in this dark comedy that was nominated for a Total Theatre award at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedian David Ephgrave is getting straight to the point in this wonderfully innovative comedy that aims to make powerpoints more exciting than you've ever seen them before.
As Brighton Fringe gears up for 2016, Broadway Baby offers an insight into the shows, the people and the world that is Brighton Fringe.
Lorraine Mullaney is an experienced writer and journalist whose last show was shortlisted for New Writing South's Best New Play award. She talks to us about her latest dark comedy.
Captivating close-up magic from this charming, comedic magician.
A key Brighton Fringe venue, The Marlborough is located in one of the oldest public houses in the city.
Matt Green once spent six hours in a car with Harvey Keitel.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
It’s the second year for the Rialto Theatre at the Brighton Fringe but it’s already gaining a reputation as a home for local talent.
Universal Arts announced this week that they are thrilled to be bringing BBC Radio 4 star Lach on board to produce and programme shows at the New Town Theatre (96 George St) for Th...
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Award-winning theatre director Thom Southerland has been appointed Artistic Director of London’s Charing Cross Theatre.
London Theatre Workshop has announced that after two successful years located above the Eel Brook Pub in Fulham, the company is relocating to an exciting new venue in Central Londo...
Greenwich Theatre’s spring season is being themed for the first time to promote and celebrate young female theatre makers, some at the start of their careers but others already e...
Bananaman the Musical will mark the live action debut of the Man-of-Peel.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe...
Paula Varjack is a writer, filmmaker and performance maker.
Hannah Chutzpah is a performance poet, writer and activist.
L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris is one of the world's most influential theatre schools.
Wojtek: The Happy Warrior is a physical theatre ensemble retelling of the real-life story of a Syrian bear who joined the Polish army to fight in World War II.
Ross & Rachel is a story of what happens after a happily-ever-after ending.
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...
Pipeline Theatre’s Spillikin is the moving story of an Alzheimer’s sufferer who is kept company by a robot made and programmed by her robotics-obsessed husband.
Mix ‘N’ Pick Theatre is reinventing the rooftops of Princes Mall this summer with the Boxsmall Festival, providing fun-packed interactive theatre shows for children every half ...
Ariella Eshad is the artistic director of Tik-Sho-Ret, an anglo-israeli theatre company that looks to share Jewish and Israeli culture between the two countries.
Brigitte Aphrodite describes herself as a punk pop poet showgirl who was on the 2009 shortlist for the Musical Comedy awards - but she’s almost impossible to categorise.
Acclaimed choreographers and performers Ramesh Meyyappan and Claire Cunningham bring two startling – and highly personal – shows to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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...
Secret agents, spies, world domination, illegal aliens, real ones - what could be better? Broadway Baby talks to Split Trunk Productions about Cross Wire, coming to Fringe '15.
New York City's "rapid-fire raconteur of sex and death" returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, where it’s fair to say he’s decidedly Trigger Happy!
Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October.
The UK’s largest reviewer of live arts performance, Broadway Baby, has come out in support of the Theatre Charter – a campaign for good behaviour in UK theatres.
Award-winning company Theatre Movement Bazaar, (Anton’s Uncles, Track 3), returns to this year’s Fringe with their new show Hot Cat, an inspired take on Tennessee Williams’ C...
Sabrina Mahfouz is the author of Chef, a one-woman play about a prison cook.
Lou Stein is the director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, currently playing at the Pleasance Courtyard.
Director Alexandra Spencer-Jones of Action to the Word made her name with her all-male production A Clockwork Orange, currently touring with Glynis Henderson Productions.
Comedian Lucy Porter’s first foray into theatre, The Fair Intellectual Club, plays at the Assembly Rooms this August.
John Conway is a wacky comedian all the way from Australia.
Kiya Heartwood is an award-winning American singer-songwriter who writes smart, funny and poignant songs about the famous and not-so-famous legends of America.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was the first show to win a coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award this Fringe.
Miles Allen is the star of One Man Breaking Bad, a solo show which ambitiously retells all of Breaking Bad in sixty minutes - that's just under one minute per episode.
Sue Bevan presents her magical-realist show, An Audience with Shurl, at Spotlites @ The Merchants’ Hall.
Chris Dolan is a Fringe First-winning writer, whose Scottish Independence-themed play The Pitiless Storm runs at the Assembly Rooms until the end of August starring David Hayman.
Randy Ross, an erotica-writer, has come to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to put on his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, a tale of a never-married hypochondriac, who t...
Steven Dawson, from Australia’s Out Cast Theatre, is the writer and director behind The Importance of Being Earnest as Performed by Three F*cking Queens & a Duck, a production th...
Samuel Ward is the director of GRIMM, which tells the story of a woman in a dystopian psychiatric institute, whose memories are replaced with Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
Oliver Lansley (artistic director) and James Seager (associate producer) are the masterminds behind Les Enfants Terribles, a theatre company now in its thirteenth year at the Fring...
Joao de Sousa is the director of The Curing Room, a show about seven Soviet soldiers who, stripped of clothes and trapped in an abandoned monastery’s cellar, are reduced to canni...
withWings Theatre Company's The Duck Pond, a music and physical theatre-heavy adaptation of Swan Lake, has enjoyed a sell-out run at the Bedlam Theatre so far this August.
Vinay Patel, writer of True Brits, is a young playwright from the Southeast of London who is ashamed to admit he has never lived north of the river Thames.
Alexis Rosinsky is the star of one-person Shakespeare show Where is She Now? She is also eleven years old.
Stephanie Dale is a playwright with work produced by BBC Radio 4 and Birmingham REP among others.
Sophia Walker is the reigning BBC Slam champion and winner of multiple awards for her spoken-word show Around the World in Eight Mistakes.
Casual Violence are a five-man comedy sketch troupe who have been performing sketch comedy at the Fringe since 2010, this year bringing the comedy play The Great Fire of Nostril to...
Dag Andersson and Tove Sahlin are a real-life couple and the artistic directors of Shake it Collaborations, a Swedish performance company examining body and identity politics.
Cathy SK Lam is a writer, actor and director from Hong Kong.
Anna Girvan is a director who loves the strange and the unique.
Steve Green is the artistic director of Fourth Monkey Theatre company, which this year brings five productions to the Fringe including Alice, a site-specific adaptation of the Lewi...
2013 Performance Poetry World Cup Champion Scott Wings, part of the Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company in Brisbane, is performing his one-man spoken word/physical theatre Icarus F...
Who isn't a sucker for a good production company name? That's right - no one.
Jo Clifford is a writer and actor whose body of work extends to over 70 produced plays, films and radio plays.
Alex Brockie is a midlands-based theatre maker whose play about a Mexican-wrestling star fallen on hard times, El Británico, is coming to theSpace this August.
Lewis Ironside is the director of Shit-faced Shakespeare, everyone's favourite inebriated classical theatre series, returning to the Fringe for the fifth year with a run at the Und...
Sam O’Rourke is co-writer and co-director of Much Ado About Zombies, a play coming to theSpace this August that.
Doctor Austin of the renowned Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, based in the University of Glasgow, has come to educate the Edinburgh Fringe about the inevitable Zombie Apo...
Andrew J Davies is the writer and producer of What A Gay Play, a shamelessly raunchy play about a group of gay friends playing at C venues this August.
Patrick Wilde is a writer and director who's been a formative influence in British gay theatre since his What’s Wrong With Angry? was first mounted in 90s London.
Best known for playing Albert in the National Theatre's War Horse, actor Jack Holden is about to star in Awkward Conversations With Animals I've F*cked, Rob Hayes's new play about ...
Martin Walker became Broadway Baby’s Stand-Up Comedy editor in March 2014.
Laura Witz founded the Edinburgh-based Charlotte Productions in 2009 and has since brought numerous plays about female history to the Fringe, including 2012’s Miss Marchbanks.
MargOH! Channing and MAN-ee Champagne are two delightful queens bringing fermented realness from New York to Edinburgh this August for a late-night run at The Laughing Horse.
Lucy Ayrton made her Fringe debut in 2012 when her first show, Lullabies to Make Your Children Cry, won her a Best Newcomer award at PBH's Free Fringe, along with a host of glowing...
A finalist at the Windsor Fringe Drama Festival, Julie Ford is preparing to premiere her new play, Totally Devoted, at theSpace this Fringe.
Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio...
Co-founder of Tasty Monster Productions, Heather Bagnall, made her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe last year with SINGLEMARRIEDGIRL.
Musician, comedian and actor Ben Fairey, known for his acting roles in Channel 4’s Random Acts and M.
Family-friendly Story Pocket Theatre is a new company bringing Arabian Nights to the Edinburgh Fringe. Pete Shaw grabbed a moment of their rehearsal period to ask some questions.
Broadway headliner Christina Bianco and West End showgirl Velma Celli (alter ego Ian Stroughair) are planning to cram in a lot of diva into their Edinburgh collaboration at Assembl...
Following sold out performances in Shanghai and New York, Apphia Campbell brings her Nina Simone inspired show to the Gilded Balloon.
Game-keeper turned poacher? Liam Rudden may be Entertainment Editor for the Edinburgh Evening News, but he also has decades’ experience as a writer and director for the stage–i...
Last year, Mzz Kimberley received five-star reviews for her show A Tranny Is Born.
Serial producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook have been a regular fixture at the Edinburgh Fringe for nearly a decade, but is this the last time we’ll see them at the Festiv...
Never work with children, they say, but comedian Mike Belgrave is back in Edinburgh with a show packed with the sort of mayhem kids adore.
Cameryn Moore's award-winning solo play Phone Whore comes back to the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Towering blonde ex-Vegas showgirl Miss Hope Springs is set to make her Edinburgh debut at the Playhouse this year.
Storyteller, Fiona Herbert tells Martin Walker she knows about everything from tee-total vegan dinner parties to dolphin assault; getting dumped at sea to getting dumped on Skype...
Alex Motswiri Director of African Tree Productions – producers of last year’s hit show The System, talks to Pete Shaw about their new Musical – Magadi – The Bride’s Pric...
Jessica Sherr is returning to Edinburgh with her show Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies.
A regular visitor to the Edinburgh Fringe from North America, Ian Garrett not only has brought many shows across the pond but also created the Edinburgh Fringe Sustainable Practi...
Irene Ros is writer and director of Marcel Vol 1, a surrealist show that attempts to turn the Berlusconi sex scandal into art.
Jeanette Bonner is an American heading to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time with her show Love.
The latest reviewer to hit Edinburgh is FringeDog.
The Edinburgh Fringe has more than its fair share of household-name comedians and high profile actors generating many column inches in the press, but at the heart of the festival a...
Texan writer-actor-knitter Elaine Liner had a surprise five-star hit with her show Sweater Curse: A Yarn About Love at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe.
Valerie Hager is an American ex-crystal meth addict and one-time pole dancer taking a show called Naked In Alaska to the Edinburgh Festival.
Although they may not grab the attention lavished upon the 'big four' at the Edinburgh Festival, theSpaceUK is nonetheless now the largest venue at the Fringe and this year celebra...