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Variety Film Club: The Commitments (1991)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 5th Sep 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 19th - 25th Aug 2024
Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies explores the tragic, hilarious and baffling road of silence travelled by women in Western culture.
Kings of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 16th Aug 2024
Electric swing blues tribute show, celebrating the music of the three blues masters: BB King, Albert King, Freddie King.
The Sun King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 24th Aug 2024
Each summer, young Jamie comes to the same spot on the same beach and speaks with a mysterious figure – the king of a magical realm far, far away.
The Gardening Club: A New Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
The Gardening Club is a new musical that takes place in 1960, Georgia, USA.
Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 11th - 20th Aug 2024
Returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Czech fusion guitarist and composer Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy jazz, funk and soul.
Rhapsody in Chicago Blues by Pianist Tim Barton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
- 10th - 18th Aug 2024
Tim plays a new show every year at the Fringe.
2 Guys, 3 Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 8th - 24th Aug 2024
2022 and 2023 Fringe sell-out show.
The Stuff of Legends: The Sequel – Music of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 7th - 24th Aug 2024
The Spatz Trio return with part two of their award-winning tribute. Hit songs, and the wonderful stories behind them. Musically polished, fascinating, nostalgic.
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 21st Aug 2024
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the sixth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double-bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 25th Aug 2024
Following successful shows in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues) returns to the Jazz Bar to perform his new show of authentic, up-…
Rat King Gospel
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 24th Aug 2024
A coincidence or an act of a god? Are the children who created a god as a game truly responsible for the unexplained events unfolding around them? Ten years after their last plea, …
12th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2024
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons’ Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2024
Journey through these two remarkable intertwined careers.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul: The Road Trip
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2024
The feel-good, eight-piece band returns to Edinburgh with their award-winning show, taking its audience across America and discovering the roots of blues and soul.
Club Life
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 2nd - 10th Aug 2024
The 2023 Fringe First-winning club/theatre immersive experience returns for eight performances only! Lemon Jelly’s Fred Deakin hosts an interactive joy-ride through his 80s/90s clu…
Blues and Burlesque
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Following sell-out runs in Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back with a brand-new show.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Since 2005, Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups, sketch acts and cabaret stars from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged…
You're SO F**king Croydon!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance.
King of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 32 Below
- 1st - 13th Aug 2024
Ring-a-ding-ding, you’ve got the King! Master of the crowd and slave to the laugh, Kyle Legacy is back with more riffs and less hair.
The Black Blues Brothers
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
After thrilling the world, with more than 600,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance, Monte Carlo Festival and Moulin Rouge, the ‘best circus s…
The Alternative Book Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
The Alternative Book Club presents a stand-up comedy compilation show about books, where there is absolutely NO required reading.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2024
‘Funny.
Mime Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter House
- 31st Jul - 15th Aug 2024
Sexy dads, vacuum cleaners, the German State Theatre.
Variety Film Club: The Beverley Hillbillies (1994)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Jun 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
THE ILLUSTRIOUS REIGN OF KING LOUIS XIX (IN ITS ENTIRETY)
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Space
- 11th - 15th Jun 2024
One King. One Kingdom. And literally no time to rule. Based on historical events, House of the Onion debuts the untold story of the world’s shortest reigning monarch.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul - The Road Trip
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 31st May - 2nd Jun 2024
Join Ken Wood and the Mixers on a once in a lifetime musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
Slug in a Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rotunda Theatre: Squeak
- 26th - 27th May 2024
Follow a brown bi woman on a night out to the club - but she has head of a slug.
PG Hits! Family-friendly comedy club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus / Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 6th May 2023 - 2nd Jun 2024
The best way to discover your new favourite comedian! We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
Rueda With London Gaita Social Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- St Augustine’s Arts & Events Centre - Alter Room
- 25th May 2024
London Gaita Social Club is an urban collective that plays and celebrates the afro-indigenous musical traditions of Colombia.
Hanover Psychedelic Club presents Technicolour Hours of Emergent Happenings
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Annunciation, Brighton
- 18th - 18th May 2024
A Summer of Love-style Dada Happening blurring the boundary between audience and performers featuring live music, art, dance, performance poetry and an improvised album driven by c…
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th - 24th May 2024
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 16th - 24th May 2024
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 11th May 2024
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
The Other Side Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Snug
- 10th - 12th May 2024
The Other Side Comedy Brighton Fringe Showcase @ The Snug, 3 Jolly Butchers.
King of More: #FOMO Clinic
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Bleach (up stairs at the Hare and Hounds)
- 10th May 2024
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Brighton Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Other people might be having more fun? S…
Neon Moon Paradise Circus CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Vault @ Fool’s Paradise
- 5th - 26th May 2024
Headlining the opening weekend of BRIGHTON FRINGE in the brand new venue THE VAULT at FOOLS PARADISE, Neon Moon’s CABARET & CLUB shows, on May Bank Holiday weekends SUNDAY 5th MA…
Club Cream
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Vault @ Fool’s Paradise
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2024
The shows are over and its time to dance.
Blues and Burlesque
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 3rd - 17th May 2024
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
Artista presents: 'Best of the Fest' @ The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 5th May 2023 - 1st Jun 2024
Welcome to The Secret Comedy Club’s “Best of the Fest” shows throughout Brighton Fringe Festival 2023! Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt as we bring you a hilarious lineup o…
The King of Hollywood
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 28th - 29th Apr 2024
Before Tom Cruise, Cary Grant or Clark Gable, Douglas Fairbanks was the King Of Hollywood! Now virtually forgotten, Doug was a remarkable actor and gifted visionary.
Variety Film Club: Yesterday (2019)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 28th Mar 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Variety Film Club: Ghost (1990)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 29th Feb 2024
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Shortland
- London Fringe
- Almeida Theatre
- 25th Feb, 2024
Danny Sapani (Misfits, Killing Eve, Black Panther, the National Theatre’s Medea) is King Lear in this intricate, striking production directed by Yaël Farber.
The King and I
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Dominion Theatre
- 20th Jan - 2nd Mar 2024
Helen George, best known as Trixie in the hit BBC One series Call The Midwife, will star as Anna Leonowens.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 17th Jan - 5th Jun 2024
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Variety Film Club: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 14th Dec 2023
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Nutcracker - The Tuff Nutt Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Tuff Nutt Club, Royal Festival Hall
- 28th Oct 2023 - 6th Jan 2024
Diving into the glittering winter wonderland head on, McOnie Company dancers perform to Tchaikovsky’s world famous score, reimagined for an onstage Jazz band by multi-award w…
Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Boulevard
- 17th Oct 2023 - 6th Jan 2024
The darkest, funniest and most debauched Kabarett Klub west of Berlin.
The Dirty Blues Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Green Note / The Bread & Roses
- 12th - 15th Oct 2023
Saucy, sexy, dirty blues songs from the 1920s-40s, many of which feature the word ‘hot dog’ performed by chanteuse Suzanne Noble accompanied by ‘Gorgeous’ George Webster on the pia…
Hidden Jazz Club
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hoxton Hall
- 30th Sep - 4th Nov 2023
Experience exhilarating live jazz in the incredibly atmospheric setting of a Grade II Listed Music Hall from the 1800s!! Discover one of London’s best kept secrets and join us a…
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Arcola Theatre
- 17th Oct, 2023
The play’s excessively long title has a folktale ring to it and with only limited knowledge of Balkan history sounds like a work of comic fantasy.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Hen & Chickens Theatre
- 26th - 27th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
Niki King
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Rose Theatre
- 25th Aug 2023
Niki King is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer.
Ali Affleck: Bessie Smith and the Blues Queens – 1913-1933
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar
- 25th - 27th Aug 2023
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
The Last Thursday Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 24th Aug 2023
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
Ali Affleck: Bessie Smith and the Blues Queens – 1913-1933
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 22nd - 27th Aug 2023
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
The Leading Lady Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
You’re invited to a private meeting of The Leading Lady Club! At this meeting, the women are sharing their experiences with dating apps, heartbreak, self-defense, workplace interac…
King of the Table
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 18th - 25th Aug 2023
Xu Xin, Ma Long, Ray Badran, Jan-Ove Waldner, Mark Silcox, Fan Zhendong.
Variety Film Club: Paddington
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 17th Aug 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever p…
Beautiful Magicians Club presents Battle Magic Cabaret
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 17th - 28th Aug 2023
What do you get when you mix rap battles cabaret, and an open mic, and then throw in the title of Cabaret God with an audience vote? Top Fringe cabaret stars try out their new mate…
The White Heather Club's Fringe Ceilidh
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
- 17th Aug 2023
Book your spot at the The White Heather Club for a night of traditional Scottish dancing at Bonnie & Wild’s legendary Food Hall in the St James Quarter.
Ali Affleck: America the Epic – The Hot Jazz and Blues Roots That Changed the World
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 17th Aug 2023
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
Pitchblenders Swing the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 16th - 26th Aug 2023
Pitchblenders swing quartet dishes up old-school blues and jazz.
Ali Affleck: America the Epic – The Hot Jazz and Blues Roots That Changed the World
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Le Monde
- 16th - 20th Aug 2023
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th - 27th Aug 2023
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, now leads a self-development pyramid scheme.
Adult Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 15th - 16th Aug 2023
Adult Film Club is a raucous showcase of comedy short films, bizarro music videos and truly effed-up MP4s.
Dust Bowl Blues with a Glasgow Kick
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 15th - 22nd Aug 2023
Alexander’s strong songwriting, riff-driven guitar work and rich vocals, strut the high ground between folk, blues and Americana music.
The Breakfast Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 14th - 27th Aug 2023
The Breakfast Club is a free stand-up comedy compilation show featuring three fantastic comedians.
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2023
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fifth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Kings of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 13th - 20th Aug 2023
Following their sell-out shows in 2022, Scotland’s acclaimed band Main Street Blues return with their fabulous Kings of the Blues show.
King of More: #FOMO Clinic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 13th - 17th Aug 2023
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? The Fringe confuses you – where to go, what to choose? Worry not! After a sold out BlundaGarden show A Divination in 2022, Dr K…
King Kandoro’s Family Meeting
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 13th Aug 2023
Finally, a Family Meeting in the UK.
Revolting Arts Club: Smutty Letters
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus & Magical SpiegelYurt
- 13th - 17th Aug 2023
‘I tore open your letter and licked the envelope’s seal for any lingering taste of you.
Glee Club UK Adult Community Choir
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Vincent’s
- 12th Aug 2023
Glee Club UK are taking you on a musical journey all the way from the swinging 60s, right up to the present day.
Up Close with the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Ryrie’s Bar
- 10th - 19th Aug 2023
Up Close with the Blues with international blues star Giles Robson and featuring Sandy Tweeddale, guitar.
The Stuff of Legends: The Songs of Tony Bennett and Nat King Cole
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Valvona & Crolla
- 10th - 26th Aug 2023
Celebrating two musical icons, paying homage to their hits, both in melody and lyrics. Musically polished, relaxing, informative. Pure nostalgia.
2 Guys, 3 Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 10th - 26th Aug 2023
2022 Fringe sell-out show.
Holly Stars' Cabaret Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Phoenix Arts Club
- 9th Aug 2023
Join Holly Stars as she hosts a glorious night of camp comedy and cabaret at this all-drag extravaganza.
Holly Stars' Cabaret Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Phoenix Arts Club
- 9th Aug 2023
Join Holly Stars as she hosts a glorious night of camp comedy and cabaret at this all-drag extravaganza.
Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 13th Aug 2023
Following sell-out Fringe shows in 2022, acclaimed Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues and Whisky Road), is back at the Jazz Bar to perform his authentic…
Trouble In Mind: 100 Years of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar / The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 28th Aug 2023
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Blues Guitar Duo – Hot Tin Roof
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 14th Aug 2023
Popular Edinburgh-based guitar duo Hot Tin Roof play original bluesy tunes and well known blues covers, featuring Andy Challen on acoustic guitar/vocal and Gavin Jack on electric g…
Trouble In Mind: 100 Years of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 15th Aug 2023
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Joe Wells: King of the Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
11th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2023
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Manchester Revue's Lonely Hearts Sketch Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2023
The Manchester Revue’s Lonely Hearts Sketch Club is not a tribute act.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul: The Road Trip
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 12th Aug 2023
Come on a musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
White Bear Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Pear Tree
- 4th - 28th Aug 2023
Bristol’s biggest comedy night is coming to Edinburgh! Harry Allmark shall present the best comedy acts the Edinburgh Fringe has to offer! White Bear Comedy Club is THE space for…
The Canonized Club: The Curious Lives and Deaths of the Saints
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 8th Aug 2023
It’s 1969 and Pope Paul VI, much to the chagrin of many holy spirits, has made an announcement that puts into question the existing canon of Catholic saints.
Rhapsody in Chicago Blues by Pianist Tim Barton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
- 4th - 6th Aug 2023
Tim Barton plays the piano.
Blues and Burlesque
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
King of More: Veza
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 4th - 19th Aug 2023
There is secret connection among all of us.
Aaron Wood's Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 4th - 20th Aug 2023
Join Aaron Wood – one of the North West’s fastest-rising stars as he hosts this hour-long compilation show featuring some of the best acts at the Fringe this year! Each night up …
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Circa's Peepshow (Club Remix)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elinor Arden
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 16th Aug, 2023
Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, CIRCA Contemporary Circus is pushing the boundaries of circus excellence, blending incredibly skilled circus performances with contemporary dance …
Gus Lymburn and Jay Lafferty: Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
KING
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly @ Dance Base
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
Olivier and triple Fringe First-winning Fishamble’s KING, by Herald Archangel winner Pat Kinevane, tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Ba…
Sauchiehall Comedy Club Presents
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hootenannies @ The Apex
- 4th - 28th Aug 2023
The Sauchiehall Comedy Club is proud to present their first full run at the Fringe, with a series of compilation shows, featuring the finest up-and-coming comedians, plus guest app…
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
This nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of music legends Carole King and James Taylor is a masterpiece.
Ross Leslie: Unfit for a King
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
A lot has happened to Ross since last year’s Fringe.
101 Comedy – Club Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
‘Funny.
Wholesome Prison Blues: Wicked Comedy for (Mostly) Good People
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
WPB are six rising comedy stars who’ve been performing in prisons across Scotland since November 2022.
An Afternoon with the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield, 1995
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Step back in time to 1995 and come join a hilarious taster session of the Cliff Richard Fan Club! Our group of ladies will welcome you, make you laugh (and maybe cry too) and even …
The Eazy Club
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
In the digital world there’s no greater joy than talking face to face.
PG Hits! Family-Friendly Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Three top stand-ups perform their very best routines just as they do in comedy clubs up and down the country and abroad, just without the swearing! PG Hits is a professional stand-…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Back for our 18th Fringe, we remain adamant that just because you’re six, you shouldn’t miss out on the festival’s best stand-ups and sketch acts! And just because you’re an adult …
Angus Coutts – Short King
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
There’s a new king in town, and his name is Angus Coutts.
Aaaaaand now! Teknicolour Smoof Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Shropshire’s crazy-named grassroots comedy club comes to the Edinburgh Fringe with a daily line-up of five different comedians.
RVG's International Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
Hello, asalaam alaikum, bienvenido and welcome to RVG’s International Comedy Club! Resident MC of Malaysia’s first comedy cub Rizal Van Geyzel (as seen on Comedy Central) introduce…
The Black Blues Brothers
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica Leanne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 18th Aug, 2023
An acrobatic spoof of the movie The Blues Brothers, with plenty of flips and stunts weaved in alongside some clowning.
Lara A King – Midlife at the Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee from award-winning, climacteric comedian.
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the s…
The Queer Comedy Club Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2023
The UK’s first permanent LGBTQ+ comedy club comes to Edinburgh Fringe and we’ve got a bunch of queer comedians who we know you’re going to love! Every night join us for an hour sho…
Club Life
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Mel Evans
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 16th Aug, 2023
Club Life is club promoter Fred Deakin's personal autobiography.
Le Wine Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 2nd - 27th Aug 2023
Join chanteuse and sommelier Anna Lou in her wine bar as she invites you to discover the world of wine and solve the mystery of her lover’s death.
It's a Motherf**king Pleasure
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 7th Aug, 2023
This is a brilliant show.
The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
Bulgaria just told Hitler to f*ck off, saved nearly 50,000 Jewish lives.
Variety Film Club: The Sting
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 29th Jun 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
Alasdair Beckett-King - The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Jun 2023
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
Alasdair Beckett-King - The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Jun 2023
Join the award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King on a ramshackle jaunt through a multiverse of wonders.
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
BARCO & TNS PRESENT: KING TAFARI LOVE MUZIC
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 3rd Jun 2023
The one and only King Tafari Love Muzic Sound System bring the Island feels with their authentic sound system.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B Takeover Gig
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 30th May 2023
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 28th May 2023
The celebration of Black performers and our kin of colour! Decolonising & Moisturising these dry and dusty streets Hosted by HottGirl Founder and Curator, Sadie Sinner The Songbi…
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 28th May 2023
The celebration of Black performers and our kin of colour! Decolonising & Moisturising these dry and dusty streets Hosted by HottGirl Founder and Curator, Sadie Sinner The Songbi…
Lara A King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Lara A King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
In a desert of hot flushes – refreshing repartee, rants and banter from award- winning, climacteric comedian.
Lara A. King: Midlife At The Oasis
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Theatre
- 27th - 28th May 2023
Award-winning comedian Lara A King brings her unique brand of clever observational comedy, uplifting melodies and lyrical wordsmithery, to her spiritual home of Brighton with this …
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 14th May 2022 - 27th May 2023
Awwwww I Feel Good! Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to jump and jive to the fun, all-action sounds of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 26th - 27th May 2023
Awwwww I Feel Good! Join manic frontman Kenneth B Woode and the cast of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’ as they tell the sensational story of soul music and its greatest pe…
Komedia Presents: Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 20th May 2023
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 21st May 2022 - 20th May 2023
Take a romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect sing-alongs, madcap stage show, hula hooping, confetti cannons plus the finest pop, rock, disco a…
Komedia Presents: Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 20th May 2023
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Joe Wells: King Of The Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th May 2023
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Joe Wells: King Of The Autistics
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th May 2023
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
The Dirty Blues Show
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Back Bar
- 18th - 19th May 2023
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
The Dirty Blues Show
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Actors - Back Bar
- 18th - 19th May 2023
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 14th May - 4th Jun 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the smoot…
Film Club: An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 14th May - 4th Jun 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating high-stakes scenes from your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to the smoot…
Variety Film Club: Mamma Mia! (2008) – Eurovision Special!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 11th May 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
Blue Camel Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 10th May 2023
Carousel is excited to bring Blue Camel Club to Brighton Fringe for this very special event, hosted in the Caravanserai pop-up festival.
Variety Lunch Club: Eurovision Special!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 10th May 2023
In May we are celebrating all things Eurovison so our Variety Lunch Club is getting a Eurovision Special!Sam Avery will be brining Eurovision themed acts to the stage to…
Blue Camel Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 10th May 2023
Carousel is excited to bring Blue Camel Club to Brighton Fringe for this very special event, hosted in the Caravanserai pop-up festival.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 8th May 2023
The friendship between Carole King and James Taylor played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May 2022 - 8th May 2023
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
The King's Speech
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 6th - 13th May 2023
It’s 1936.
Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The award winning Forge Comedy Club (Best Comedy Club - South 2023 Chortle Awards) is the hottest comedy ticket in Brighton all year round (#1 Comedy Club in Brighton - Trip Adviso…
Neon Moon Carnival Royale CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 6th May 2023
Neon Moon’s infamous CLUB night with a right royal twist! Come and revel in joy, glitter and wonder at Carnival Royale! Be amazed by thrilling headline acts on stage and in the a…
Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 6th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The award winning Forge Comedy Club (Best Comedy Club - South 2023 Chortle Awards) is the hottest comedy ticket in Brighton all year round (#1 Comedy Club in Brighton - Trip Adviso…
Neon Moon Carnival Royale CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
- 6th May 2023
Neon Moon’s infamous CLUB night with a right royal twist! Come and revel in joy, glitter and wonder at Carnival Royale! Be amazed by thrilling headline acts on stage and in the a…
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2023
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British Comedian.
PG Hits! Family-friendly comedy club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2023
We choose the best comedians of the festival to perform their funniest PG-rated material.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th - 8th May 2023
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British Comedian.
The King's Speech
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 6th - 13th May 2023
It’s 1936.
Club Silencio presents Return, Again, to OZ
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Arcobaleno
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 5th May 2023
It’s time to go on a journey that punches you straight in the feels while filling your heart with love and warmth.
Komedia Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Johanna Makelainen
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 15th May, 2023
I was intrigued to see who would choose a regular Saturday night comedy club over the spectacle of the Eurovision final being shown all around Brighton.
The Verdict Jazz Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Verdict
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The Verdict 11th Anniversary Celebration Nominated Jazz Venue of the Year 2022 The Verdict has been named as one of the 10 top jazz clubs in Europe by The Guardian.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May 2022 - 3rd Jun 2023
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
Club Silencio presents Return, Again, to OZ
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Arcobaleno
- 5th - 8th May 2023
Dorothy has made millions off her novelised adventures in the Land of Oz.
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 5th May 2023
It’s time to go on a journey that punches you straight in the feels while filling your heart with love and warmth.
The Verdict Jazz Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Verdict
- 5th May - 3rd Jun 2023
The Verdict 11th Anniversary Celebration Nominated Jazz Venue of the Year 2022 The Verdict has been named as one of the 10 top jazz clubs in Europe by The Guardian.
F★★king Men
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Waterloo East Theatre
- 28th Apr, 2023
The current production of Joe DiPietro’s F**king Men at Waterloo East Theatre is an updated version of his original 2009 script that successfully takes note of developments on th…
F**king Men
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Waterloo East Theatre
- 20th Apr 2023 - 26th May 2024
The hit play F**king Men returns to London this Spring for a strictly limited engagement.
Variety Film Club: Encanto
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 6th Apr 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever p…
Variety Film Club: Some Like It Hot!
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 30th Mar 2023
The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greatest films ever pro…
Stag King
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Studio
- 17th - 18th Mar 2023
Stag King is a performance lecture / drag show about personhood, productivity and what happens when your role is made redundant.
Film Club - An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 11th - 12th Mar 2023
An improvised sketch show recreating your favourite high-stakes movie scenes, but with hilarious twists.
Ira Sylvester: Someone Save the King (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 9th Mar 2023
Ira Sylvester in his first one-man show takes to the stage to deliver an auto-biographically generated story of his journey where he tries to delve into where one of mixed-heritage…
RAT KING
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Leake Street Arches
- 28th Feb - 5th Mar 2023
Kelly wants change.
Fist Club - Beyond Vaulterdome
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 26th Feb 2023
Making their Vaults debut, Fist Club is a queer cabaret & pro wrestling night - aka your new favourite pastime.
Naked Chats: Drawing and Conversation with Body Love Sketch Club & Friends
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- The Flair Ground
- 26th Feb 2023
Nudity, bodies, and how to feel more comfortable in our own skin in a society which conditions us to be very critical of ourselves? A panel discussion and life drawing class with b…
Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Crypt
- 23rd - 26th Feb 2023
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
It's a Motherf**king Pleasure
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 21st - 26th Feb 2023
“Blindness isn’t sexy.
Club Culture
- Listing
- Vault Festival
- Crescent
- 18th Feb - 11th Mar 2023
A disruptive, black-owned and black-curated platform demonstrating the viability of every artistic voice, and normalising inclusivity for all artists.
Bewitch Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Spacement at The Glitch
- 11th Feb 2023
Stand up comedy showcasing top comedians from minority backgrounds.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- Pit
- 10th - 11th Feb 2023
Serena Flynn, as seen on BBC Comedy and at Soho Theatre, and Morag Davies Productions present Lizard King.
The Pudding Club
- Listing Theatre
- Vault Festival
- Cage
- 24th - 27th Jan 2023
Are you ready to have a baby? How much effort will it take to bring your baby to term safely and successfully? What if the process of pregnancy was treated like a game, traversing …
Variety Lunch Club 2022/23
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 18th Jan - 22nd Mar 2023
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 18th Jan - 22nd Mar 2023
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Drag King 101 [online] - a Zoom workshop with Dorian T. Fisk
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Online Event
- 17th Jan 2023
Heads up all you wannabe drag kings scattered all over the globe - we are kicking off the Year Of the King by bringing back our most popular online workshop, Drag King 101 with Dor…
VARIETY FILM CLUB: ELF
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 22nd Dec 2022
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
Club Sexquisite
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton / ZODIAC - Bar & Club
- 17th Jun - 17th Dec 2022
Club Sexquisite is back! Welcome to slut heaven baby An all inclusive queer party with pop up performances Come & celebrate with us for INTERNATIONAL END VIOLENCE AGAINST SEX …
VARIETY FILM CLUB: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Dec 2022
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the gr…
VARIETY FILM CLUB: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 1st Dec 2022
Variety Film ClubThe team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of the greate…
Off Broadway Comedy Club Night
- Listing Events
- Brighton
- Bar Broadway
- 13th Nov 2022 - 31st Dec 2023
Off Broadway Comedy Club by Giggle GaggleThe Off Broadway Comedy Club is Brightons newest comedy night.
SUGGS What a King Cnut – A Life in The Realm Of Madness
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 10th Oct 2022
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tours with ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again.
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- 22 Hope St / Watford Museum
- 2nd Oct 2022 - 3rd Mar 2023
A compelling, humorous and emotion-filled solo show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor…
Blues for an Alabama Sky
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- The Lyttelton Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2022
Are dreams supposed to be ambitions we strive to realise? Or simply ideals meant to be unattainable, existing to help us get through our mundane everyday lives?This seems to be the…
King of More: A Divination
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 27th - 28th Aug 2022
Join a ritual performance around Bosnian coffee-reading to both slow down time and look to the near future.
Last Thursday Club
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 25th Aug 2022
Stories! One magical night with the best solo theatre makers and storytellers in the Fringe, nay, Britain! Nay, the world! The Last Thursday Club is a London institution so Fringe …
Jamali Maddix: King Crud
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 25th - 27th Aug 2022
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel 4), Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC Two), Never Mind the Buzzcocks (Sky) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, Jamali …
The White Heather Ceilidh Club at Bonnie & Wild
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bonnie & Wild’s Scottish Marketplace
- 25th Aug 2022
Join us for a bonnie (and wild!) evening of Scottish Ceilidh Dancing in the heart of Edinburgh.
Claude Bourbon: Progressive Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 25th Aug 2022
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
Tangled Up in the Blues: The Blues of Bob Dylan
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 20th Aug 2022
John Carnie and Spider Mackenzie explore Dylan’s bluesier side, which has influenced half of his canon of over 500 songs, as well as interpretations of his other classics.
Riss Obolensky: Healing King Herod
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 19th - 23rd Aug 2022
King Herod, famed for his Massacre of the Innocents, is now the face of a self-development pyramid scheme.
2 Guys, 3 Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 26th Aug, 2022
Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald return to the Fringe this year in an act that delivers a whisky-soaked night of tremolo and bass that walks through the annals of blues classic…
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C ARTS | C venues | C aquila
- 18th - 21st Aug 2022
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
Kings of the Blues: Electric Blues Tribute
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 18th Aug 2022
See The Main Street Blues band perform a special two-hour show featuring an expanded line up to their usual four-piece set up for one night only at The Brunton.
Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show.
Mason King – Mind Games
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
Mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for another journey into the inner depths of your mind! In this brand new mind reading, magic and mentalism show, Mason invit…
Bonnie Bayou Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 15th - 26th Aug 2022
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
Kings of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 26th Aug 2022
An Electric Blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddy King, including classics such as The Thrill is Gone, Born Under a Bad Sign, Hideaway and many many more.
Wacky Racists Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 14th - 21st Aug 2022
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Taskmaster star Sophie Duker is bringing Wacky back for two unmissable festival specials, joined by psychotically talented one-man white-man hous…
World-Class Blues and Folk With a Dash of Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 13th Aug 2022
An aural delight of soulful, melodic jazzy-blues, pop and folk-blues to shake your tail-feather.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 12th Aug 2022
Stephane Grappelli-style violinist Alex Yellowlees, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and wonderful double bassist Kenny Ellis.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 28th Aug 2022
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
1933 – Prohibition Ends! Long Live Bessie Smith and the Blues Queens
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 11th - 20th Aug 2022
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Dream of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 10th - 26th Aug 2022
On April 3rd 1968, Martin famously gave a speech that was a premonition of his own death.
Revolting Arts Club... Life Drawing Aboard the Blun-Doodle-Bus!
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BlundaGardens: BlundaBus
- 9th - 13th Aug 2022
Relaxing, joyful life-drawing sessions hosted by Revolting Rosy Pendlebaby starring a different Fringe artist muse every day! Are you drowning in the creative outpourings of others…
The Laughienda Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 9th - 16th Aug 2022
Manchester’s award-winning free comedy club comes to Edinburgh for the first time! From the scene that produced the likes of Peter Kay and Johnny Vegas comes four rising stars, e…
Lone Bear: Blues and Ragtime
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar
- 9th - 26th Aug 2022
Internationally acclaimed bluesman Lone Bear brings to the stage the powerful delta blues and ragtime on resonator guitar, harmonica and vocals.
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOOTV
- 9th - 26th Aug 2022
Tuesday Night Sleeping Club: a night-and-action radio.
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 25th Aug 2022
Following their sell-out Fringe shows from 2018 / 2019, Whisky Road are back to perform their latest acoustic blues show at The Jazz Bar.
Film Club – An Improvised Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Revolution Bar
- 7th - 26th Aug 2022
An improvised sketch show recreating the high-stakes scenes from all your favourite movies! From the breathless intensity of thrillers, or the fleeting serendipity of romance, to t…
Riding With the King: The Music of Eric Clapton
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 23rd Aug 2022
Making its debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, up-and-coming Czech jazz fusion guitarist Honza Kourimsky blends the music of Eric Clapton with high-energy psychedelic jazz.
Bonnie Bayou Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
The Murder Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 6th - 26th Aug 2022
Based on true stories, Steve Hennessy’s play follows two inmates at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Richard Prince and Ronald True.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn has moved to London to follow his life-long dream of becoming a British comedian! ‘Viggo is Norwegian’ (EdFestMag.
10th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues And Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 27th Aug 2022
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
The Laughienda Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Canons’ Gait
- 6th - 16th Aug 2022
Manchester’s award-winning free comedy club comes to Edinburgh for the first time! From the scene that produced the likes of Peter Kay and Johnny Vegas comes four rising stars, e…
The Richard Osman Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 8th Aug, 2022
After airing nearly 2,000 episodes since it was first broadcast in 2009, Pointless has become a regular family favourite and made a nationwide star out of its intelligent and amiab…
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show, Queens of the Blues, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years.
Briefs: Bite Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Australia’s award-winning cult-cabaret mischief-makers, circus stars and heart-stopping hooligans Briefs Factory, join forces with much celebrated songbird Sahara Beck.
The Disgraceful Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 26th Aug 2022
On tour from London’s Bush Hall, The Disgraceful Club is a wild Friday night of comedy hosted by the audacious queen of no shame, critically acclaimed, ‘one of the funniest women i…
Acoustic Blues in the Afternoon
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2022
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last one hundred years…
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 5th - 13th Aug 2022
This feel-good show connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion of the pioneering R&B and soul acts of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Audrey's Art Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Online
- 5th Aug 2022
Expect sticky lips, foil dinosaurs and a whirligig of love in Audrey’s Art Club.
School's Out Comedy Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 18th Aug 2022
Let Philip Simon keep your little ones giggling more than that time they saw their teacher’s dirty washing on Google Classroom! Created during lockdown to entertain the children bo…
Jay Lafferty: Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2022
A nostalgic journey through the lives and careers of two music legends in this international sell-out show.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
‘Funny.
The Alternative Book Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
The Alternative Book Club presents an unconventional comedy show about books where there is absolutely no required reading.
An Afternoon With the Ladies of the Cliff Richard Fan Club, Sutton Coldfield 1995
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 27th Aug 2022
Sutton Coldfield, 1995.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
‘A festival mainstay, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 18th Aug, 2022
Looking like an ethereally pale, and bearded, pre-Raphaelite muse, Alasdair Beckett-King cuts a striking onstage figure.
Ciarán Dowd: King Rodolfo
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
There’s anarchy in the monarchy as renowned swordsman and dumb hussy Don Rodolfo has risen from humble peasant to the highest seat in the land.
Sad Girls Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2022
Welcome to Sad Girls Club, where girls are allowed to be.
The Black Blues Brothers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 7th Aug, 2022
Black Blues Brothers have quickly gained the reputation as one of the go-to circus-based acts on the Fringe, and, after witnessing this spectacle, it’s not hard to see why.
Eme Essien: Flat Shoes In The Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Ever wondered what takes a girl so long to get ready on a night out? It’s Saturday night, the big girls’ night out and this girl is trying to get ready on time.
Your Dad's Mum: Tonight at the Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
Explosive, gag-packed comedy from Leicester Comedy Festival Award nominees returning to the Fringe following their acclaimed 2021 run.
The Club Valentine Comedy Hour
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
This wacky, vaudevillian comedy extravaganza takes you on a journey led by the two Irish mayors of Laughtown, USA, where you’ll find absurd characters, silly skits, dynamite music …
Club Chemo
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2022
A tale of one man’s fight against testicular cancer.
Club Chemo
- Listing Theatre
- Camden Fringe
- Etcetera Theatre
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2022
A tale of one man’s fight against testicular cancer.
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 27th - 29th Jul 2022
Experience the best upcoming talent from the North of England as one cast stage two of Shakespeare’s least known plays… What comes to mind when you thi…
Briefs: Bite Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Christopher James
- West End
- Queen Elizabeth Hall
- 23rd Jul, 2022
In 2017 I last saw Briefs in a Spiegeltent on the Southbank.
Disney’s The Lion King (UK Tour)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 9th Jun, 2022
Touring productions of West End musicals can often feel like a poor shadow of their original run as they usually require considerable downscaling to easily fit into a multitude of …
The Last King of Porn
- Review
- ★★★
- Sascha Cooper
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 5th Jun, 2022
Porn is a form of entertainment that has always had mixed reactions, yet brings a lot of pleasure to many individuals.
The Last King of Porn
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Poets Ale and Smoke House
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2022
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
CLIMATE GUILT CLUB
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 28th - 30th May 2022
How green are you? Could you be more eco-friendly? What about everyone else? Is there any point recycling when multinationals do nothing? Uncorked presents an immersive, interacti…
CLIMATE GUILT CLUB
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 28th - 30th May 2022
How green are you? Could you be more eco-friendly? What about everyone else, like Mrs Smith from down the road? You know you saw her putting a whole load of cardboard in her bin, r…
The Blues Corporation Live
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 28th May 2022
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
The Blues Corporation Live
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 28th May 2022
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 10th Jul 2021 - 21st May 2022
Returning once more to Brighton Fringe, after consecutive sell-out shows, it’s time again to romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect huge anth…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 5th Jun 2021 - 21st May 2022
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 21st May 2022
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Serena Flynn: Lizard King
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 20th - 21st May 2022
Serena Flynn (as seen on BBC Comedy, Soho Theatre) and Morag Davies Productions present ‘Lizard King’.
MR BONGO RECORD CLUB LAUNCH PARTY
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2022
Mr Bongo is a British, Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house/world cinema.
MR BONGO RECORD CLUB LAUNCH PARTY
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 20th May 2022
Mr Bongo is a British, Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house/world cinema.
Club Queer Presented by Devine Tension
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 20th May - 3rd Jun 2022
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
King of the Swingers
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 20th May 2022
Sensational Brighton swingers The Soultastics are returning to Brighton Fringe 2022 with a brand new show celebrating the icon musician Louis Prima and his sidekick Keely Smith.
Club Queer Presented by Devine Tension
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Club Revenge
- 20th May - 3rd Jun 2022
Devine Tension proudly presents CLUB QUEER: a unique queer cabaret/clubland experience.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 19th - 27th May 2022
A work in progress show from award-winning stand-up comedian Alasdair Beckett-King (‘Mock the Week’).
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- North Laine Brewhouse / The Brunswick
- 11th Jun 2021 - 15th May 2022
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May 2022
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King played a vital part in both of their incredible careers.
Jazz Supper Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wagner Hall & Fig Tree Garden
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
Experience Cool and West Coast jazz music in an NYC-styled ‘Supper Club’ setting.
Jazz Supper Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wagner Hall & Fig Tree Garden
- 8th May - 5th Jun 2022
Experience Cool and West Coast jazz music in an NYC-styled ‘Supper Club’ setting.
Neon Moon CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th May 2022
An electrifying night from Neon Moon featuring DJ’s From Swingamajig plus spellbinding world-class circus, cabaret, and burlesque! Scream if you want to go faster! Neon Moon’s expl…
WRAP UP – A Kid’s Cabaret Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wrap Play Cafe
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
Spun Glass Theatre will once again transform WRAP into a theatrical family playground launching Brighton’s first kid’s cabaret club for the 2022 Fringe! Our Kid’s Cabaret C…
The Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2022
The Forge Comedy Club is Brighton’s Flagship Stand Up Comedy night.
Neon Moon CLUB
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th May 2022
An electrifying night from Neon Moon featuring DJ’s From Swingamajig! Featuring Internationally acclaimed DJ and Producer - C@ in the H@ https://youtu.
WRAP UP - A Kid's Cabaret Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Wrap Play Cafe
- 7th May - 5th Jun 2022
WRAP UP! will harness the energy of a classic cabaret, in a space that will be entertaining and familiar for children and their families.
The Forge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ironworks Studios
- 7th May - 4th Jun 2022
The Forge Comedy Club is Brighton’s Flagship Stand Up Comedy night.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2022
Viggo Venn was the winner of The Brighton Fringe “Best Comedy Award” for his mad and free-flowing clowning in 2016 with ‘Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop’.
Viggo Venn: Club Comedian (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 6th May - 2nd Jun 2022
Viggo Venn was the winner of The Brighton Fringe “Best Comedy Award” for his mad and free-flowing clowning in 2016 with ‘Zach & Viggo: Thunderflop’.
...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
- 6th May - 5th Jun 2022
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
Fever Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
Komedia Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2022
Discover the best in live comedy, featuring three top acts and an MC! Boasting the hottest line-ups including; Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jordan Brookes, Olga Koch, Barbara Nice, Jarr…
Blow Away Them Blues: A Tribute to Horace Silver
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 6th May 2022
A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Horace Silver.
A.A.A. presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
- 25th May 2021 - 5th Jun 2022
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
An Evening with the Good Enough Mums Club
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Pleasance Theatre
- 30th Apr 2022
he Good Enough Mums Club is a new musical, produced, written, directed and performed by mums, featuring songs such as “Only My Nose Is The Same”, “The Price To Be Paid” and…
An Evening with the Good Enough Mums Club
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Lowry
- 22nd Apr 2022
NOT PERFECT? SEE THE SHOW! The Good Enough Mums Club is a poignant and hilarious musical toddle through the highs, lows and sleep deprivation of mummyhood.
Le Wine Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- West End
- The Other Palace / Trinity Theatre
- 17th - 25th Feb 2022
Popular cabaret chanteuse Anna Lou Larkin takes the role of sommelier, pairing wine tasting with a murder mystery of who killed her lover, in this brand-new solo show that has adde…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 9th Feb - 25th May 2022
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Doll Parts: A Club Night Celebrating Women in Rock
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Aatma
- 4th Feb 2022
Calling all Rebel Girls and VioletsOn Friday 4th February 2022, XS POP will be tearing up Aatma in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter, to celebrate all of the best women wh…
Courtyard Bar & Kitchen Pudding Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 25th Jan 2022
The proof of the pudding is in the eating… On Tuesday 25 January Courtyard Bar & Kitchen are bringing back the night that celebrates the wonderful world of p…
Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- National Liberal Club
- 3rd Nov 2021
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FUNNYBOYZ presents DIVAS @ THE CAVERN CLUB
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Cavern Restaurant
- 27th Oct - 29th Dec 2021
DIVAS introduce this sensational new fine dining experience with drag queens SESSION TIME: 18.
Courtyard Bar & Kitchen Pudding Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 27th Oct 2021
The proof of the pudding is in the eating… On Wednesday 27 October Courtyard Bar & Kitchen are celebrating the wonderful world of puddings! Join us for an ev…
Riposte x Club
- Listing
- London Fringe
- The Cause
- 23rd Oct 2021
8 Djs - 15 visual artists - 15 performers - 10 stalls (people selling merch) Queer art-rave.
Club Queer
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Chancers Nightclub
- 23rd Oct 2021
Devine Tension Presents Club Queer Queer Clubland Cabaret set in the heart of rural Dumfries & Galloway.
Chichester Cabaret Club
- Listing Events
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oaklands Pavilion
- 16th Oct 2021
It’s FINALLY Back! After a hiatus due to you know what, we’re back stronger than ever and raring to go! Chichester Cabaret Club was officially born in 2016 and has featur…
Simply The Breast - Drag King Fundraiser
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Old Nuns Head
- 8th Oct 2021
SIMPLY THE BREAST - Drag King Fundraiser The m*n, the myth, the legend, Jamie Fuxx, is undergoing some gender affirming surgery this October.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 6th Oct - 1st Dec 2021
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club runs throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of entertai…
Aunt Flow's Fight Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Karaoke Hole
- 6th Oct 2021
Desperate for some variety in your performance consumption? Craving inspiration to fuel your feminist vagenda? Helen Potter and Frankie Regalia are proud to present the r…
Rat King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- The Hope Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2021
Rat King at The Hope Theatre, Islington, is a new production written and produced by Bram Davidovich for Kryptonite Theatre Company.
Hundred Watt Club - An evening of burlesque in Hastings!
- Listing Film
- UK Regional & Tours
- St Mary in the Castle
- 25th Sep 2021
Join Hundred Watt Club as they return to St Mary in the Castle for a vintage inspired, champagne popping evening of burlesque! Let your hair down and enjoy a good old fashioned gli…
The Horsedonkey Club
- Listing Nightlife
- London Fringe
- VFD
- 23rd Sep 2021
The Horsedonkey Club is strange variety nights organised as the context for a surprising mix of performing artists and artists who use performance.
The Sunday Art Club: Sessions
The Sunday Art Club: Sessions launches at Arboretum in London’s West End offering an evening of intimate performance that provides a platform for multidisciplinary artists.
Filthy in Peach - The Bitten Peach Club Night at Colours Hoxton
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Colours Hoxton
- 17th Sep 2021
Come and get FILTHY IN PEACH at The Bitten Peach’s CLUB NIGHT at Colours Hoxton! PARTY + POP UP PERFORMANCES from 10pm-2am featuring an Asian cabaret dreamhouse of FILTHY FA…
Dreamgun Film Reads Kids: The Lion King
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Underbelly Earls Court
- 5th Sep 2021
Dreamgun present their first film read that is intentionally for young audiences instead of accidentally for young audiences.
Club Kali After-Party Party on the Boat!
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Bar & Co Party Boat
- 4th Sep 2021
Special After-Party Party.
Hundred Watt Club - Burlesque & Vaudeville in Alton, Hampshire
- Listing Film
- UK Regional & Tours
- Alton Assembly Rooms
- 4th Sep 2021
Join Hundred Watt Club at Alton Assembly for a vintage inspired, champagne popping evening of burlesque! Let your hair down and enjoy a good old fashioned glittering line-up of sho…
Duckie's Queer History Club
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hold Creative Spaces
- 29th Aug 2021
Free2pmSunday 29 AugustHold Creative Spaces, Penstone House, Albert Street, Ramsgate CT11 9HDDuckie are taking queer history out of the museum and back to the pub where it belongsJ…
The Lion King Movie Night
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Clapham Grand
- 26th Aug 2021
Find your place on the path to The Clapham Grand for our LION KING MOVIE NIGHT Weve already given you Mamma Mia, but were roaring back to full capacity Movie Nights here at T…
The Blue and The Blues
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Water Rats
- 22nd - 25th Aug 2021
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
Duckie's Queer History Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton
- Charles Street Tap
- 22nd Aug 2021
Free2pmSunday 15 August in BrightonCharles Street Tap, 8 Marine Parade, Kemptown, Brighton BN2 1TADuckie are taking queer history out of the museum and back to the pub where it bel…
The Blue and The Blues
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Water Rats
- 22nd - 25th Aug 2021
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Victor Black
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 24th Aug, 2021
Tues Night @ Social Club is one of those 'Marmite' shows that some people would consider their worst nightmare, while others could consider it tailor-made for them.
'Selfish' Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King!
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Friends House
- 17th Aug 2021
Join ‘Selfish’ Creativity Workshop with poet Antonia King to to better understand yourself and events in your life!Workshop overviewSo, this workshop will be all about how to use w…
MARGATE PRIDE AFTER PARTY 2021 / MARGATE ARTS CLUB
- Listing Workshop
- UK Regional & Tours
- MARGATE ARTS CLUB
- 14th Aug 2021
JONJO JURYJACQUI POTATOJANET DISTRICT COUNCILGINROSY ROSSTED ROGERSANT CJOYLESSBONKSPECIAL GUESTS ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
CLUB FLIQ: Launch party with DJ Jeanie Crystal & Lemur Beats
- Listing Nightlife
- UK Regional & Tours
- Crown House
- 14th Aug 2021
Join us for the launch of CLUB FLIQ, a new club night in St Leonards exclusively for queer women and non-binary babes.
Club Kali Independence-Gay Boat Party
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Bar & Co Party Boat
- 14th Aug 2021
Get back on board with Club Kali Independence Gay Boat Party! Saturday August 14th on board Bar&Co.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Taiwan Hengchun Folk Songs Singing Club – Sing To the World (Free)
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 14th - 21st Aug 2021
The grannies in the show will tell you their life stories through singing and playing the moon guitar.
Tues Night @ Social Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Aug 2021
Nominated for Best Debut Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2020 Explosive, gag-packed debut from Your Dad’s Mum.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 12th - 22nd Aug 2021
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to dazzle children (aged 6+) and their families.
Lori Mae & Lubrikunt's COUNTRY MONDAY BLUES at The Glory
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- The Glory
- 9th Aug 2021
WHEN WE SAY YEE, YOU SAY HAW! WE DIDN’T F**KING SAY YEE! Join East London’s showgirl LORI MAE (yall!) & international drag idiot CRYSTAL LUBRIKUNT down in…
Watford Outdoor Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Stage In The Park
- 7th Aug 2021
We’re proud to present our evening of summertime hilarity, mirth and merriment for your pleasure.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 6th - 28th Aug 2021
Take a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two award-winning legends in this internationally sold-out show.
Ronald Forbes: The Dreamweaver's Puzzles Exhibition at the Scottish Arts Club
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Arts Club Online
- 6th Aug 2021
Ronald Forbes RSA RGI festival exhibition, The Dreamweaver’s Puzzles at the Scottish Arts Club (28th July to 29th August).
King John: A Theatrical Film
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Online@theSpaceUK
- 6th - 9th Aug 2021
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Queens of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 13th Aug 2021
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show after a year-long hiatus, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years with an intimate perform…
Bonnie Bayou Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Player
- 6th - 6th Aug 2021
Scots-Cajun music, Louisiana French classics and vintage blues jostle with distinctively Scottish straight-from-the-heart original songs by Jennifer Ewan and the blues-drenched Caj…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Stage In The Park
- 4th Aug 2021
Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires).
Briefs Bite Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Southbank Centre - Queen Elizabeth Hall
- 28th Jul 2021 - 31st Jul 2022
BRIEFS BITE CLUB is a brand new, iconic extravaganza that sees the glittery gang serving up their signature camp-cabaret fantasy of circus, drag and comedy in a sexy showcase of ou…
Swinging At The Cotton Club
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Stage In The Park
- 25th Jul 2021
Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’! ‘Swinging at The Cotton Club’ is the action-packed sh…
THE BLUES BAND: 40 Years & Back for More
- Listing Music
- World Tours
- De La Warr Pavilion
- 23rd Jul 2021
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
‘Drink & Draw‘ with Queer Culture Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Balans Soho No.60
- 19th Jul - 23rd Aug 2021
Welcome to the return of our beloved Drink & Draw Social! Or for those who joined us in lockdown- finally an IRL Make & Mingle! Join Ellie & Megan on Monday a…
Club de Fromage
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 10th Jul 2021
Returning once more to Brighton Fringe, after consecutive sell-out shows, it’s time again to romp through the decades with London’s legendary pop time machine! Expect huge anth…
Youth Club Experience: a slice of the 80s
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 25th - 26th Jun 2021
You remember what it was like to go to the youth club, don’t you? No.
Le Wine Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 19th - 26th Jun 2021
Chanteuse and sommelier, Anna Lou, presents a wine tasting to remember.
Le Wine Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Werks 2
- 19th - 26th Jun 2021
Chanteuse and sommelier, Anna Lou, presents a wine tasting to remember.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
Serena Flynn: Lizard King (Work In Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 15th - 16th Jun 2021
Think it’s been a weird year? Meet The Lizard King.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Jun - 20th Dec 2021
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 11th - 14th Jun 2021
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- North Laine Brewhouse
- 11th - 13th Jun 2021
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
Divorced, Beheaded, Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 11th - 14th Jun 2021
King Henry VIII is ‘brought to life’ in this most dramatic of performances! In all his splendour and magnitude, the King, now in old age, recounts the events of his long life a…
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII
- Review
- ★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 15th Jun, 2021
Period music greets loyal subjects as they enter the Friends Meeting House to attend Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: An Audience with King Henry VIII, written and directed by John Wh…
Bruce: Death of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 7th - 13th Jun 2021
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Bruce: Death of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- theSpaceUK
- 7th - 13th Jun 2021
Politics, power and war drive much of our history, but what about those who drive world-changing events? How would one of the history’s greatest winners face the moment of his own …
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 6th - 13th Jun 2021
This compelling one-man show by Mark Stratford charts the life and times of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the 19th Century.
Drama King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 8th Jun, 2021
Unless you have studied the history of theatre it's easy to imagine that performances on stage have always been very much as they are today.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 5th Jun 2021
Since 2005, the ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
New Parent Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 1st Jun - 8th Jul 2021
New parent? In need of entertainment for grown-ups? Come to these special daytime showings of our evening programme, where you can enjoy some of our best shows with your baby in to…
King Jamsheed: Lonely Piano
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 30th May - 12th Jul 2021
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work.
Fringe Club
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Electric Arcade
- 29th May - 10th Jul 2021
Continue your evening with the Fringe’s wildest late-night show.
King Jamsheed: Lonely Piano
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming / St George’s Church
- 29th May - 28th Jun 2021
Neo-classical electronic composer King Jamsheed brings together a year’s work in livestream.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 29th May - 26th Jun 2021
After many long months of closure, we are now absolutely delighted to bring back Komedia’s renowned (and now socially distanced) live stand-up show, Krater Comedy Club! Discover…
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 29th May - 26th Jun 2021
After many long months of closure, we are now absolutely delighted to bring back Komedia’s renowned (and now socially distanced) live stand-up show, Krater Comedy Club! Discover…
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 29th May - 12th Jul 2021
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
The King of Broken Things
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Fringe Streaming
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
A journey into the broken heart of a young boy, who, through creativity, imagination, and determination, teaches us that the rehabilitation of things broken and discarded gets to i…
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
The 3P Club Movie
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Get ready to ride your mighty stallions to Hollywood in 3.
The 3P Club Movie
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Get ready to ride your mighty stallions to Hollywood in 3.
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Living Record
- 28th May - 27th Jun 2021
Armed only with a drum, a guitar, a knife and a chair, this irreverent, inventive and highly accessible one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is presented from the poin…
Artista presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 11th Jul 2021
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
AAA presents The Secret Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 11th Jul 2021
** ALL TICKETS FOR FRIDAY 9 JULY ARE NOW 2-4-1, this will be applied automatically at checkout ** Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you!…
Artista's Secret Comedy Club: The Comedy Hub
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 25th May - 27th Jun 2021
Don’t know who to watch this Fringe? Why not let us curate a comedy show for you! Performances on 6 days per week, 4 to 6 times per day, from 17:30 until 23:00 on weekdays and 14:3…
SUGGS: KING CNUT, A LIFE IN THE REALM OF MADNESS
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 23rd Apr 2021
Thursday 22nd October, 7.
Stand Up Comedy Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 15th Jan 2021
Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Drama King
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Pump House Theatre
- 8th - 9th Oct 2020
“Drama King” is a compelling new one-man show, written and performed by Mark Stratford, which tells the story of William Charles Macready, one of the greatest actor-managers of the…
‘Drink & Draw‘ Returns! with Queer Culture Club
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- Balans Soho No.60
- 9th Sep 2020 - 6th Sep 2021
Welcome to the return of our beloved Drink & Draw Social! Or for those who joined us in lockdown- finally an IRL Make & Mingle! Join Ellie & Megan on Monday a…
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 1st - 7th Sep 2020
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of two legends.
Claude Bourbon: Progressive Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 20th Aug 2020
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
Jamali Maddix: Strip Club Einstein
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 19th - 30th Aug 2020
Critically acclaimed comedian and host of Vice’s Hate Thy Neighbour and Channel 4’s Adventures in Futureland, Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour again after his incredible 2018 W…
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
King Richard the Lionheart is dead.
Mason King – Mind Reader: Sleight of Time
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall / theSpace on North Bridge
- 17th - 29th Aug 2020
Following sell-out runs in 2016, 2018 and 2019, mind reader Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his unique brand of entertainment! Having been a fan of time-th…
Bonnie Bayou Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar / The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 29th Aug 2020
This year Jennifer and her band bring a blues theme to their bonnie bayou.
Acoustic Blues at Lunchtime
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 15th - 31st Aug 2020
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 90 years.
Acoustic Blues and Beyond
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 31st Aug 2020
Whisky Road are very pleased to be back for a third year at the Jazz Bar presenting their top-class, sell-out, lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 14th Aug 2020
Stephane Grappelli-style violinist Alex Yellowlees, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and wonderful double bassist Kenny Ellis.
2 Guys, 3 Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 13th - 22nd Aug 2020
Join The Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
Delta Blues and Country Rags
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Arts Club
- 11th - 22nd Aug 2020
Lone Bear plays early blues and country rags on resonator guitar, blues harp and kazoo, with classics from the 20s, 30s, 40s and originals which showcase his unique finger-picking …
Spider MacKenzie and Danny Britt: Texas Americana Meets the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 10th Aug 2020
This pair of renowned musicians met and regularly play in Texas.
Kings of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 31st Aug 2020
An electric blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddie King, including classics The Thrill Is Gone and Born Under a Bad Sign.
Al Start's Go Kid Music Club: Tall Tales
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton
- The Warren Outdoors
- 9th Aug 2020
Brighton resident and local legend Al Start is heading to the beach this Summer with an array of stories and songs for kids and their grown-ups.
10th Year: John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 29th Aug 2020
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 28th Aug 2020
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting hour of foot-stomping acoustic blues.
Daniel Smith – Whole Lotta Blues'n'Boogie Goin' On!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 13th Aug 2020
Rockin’ blues, stomping boogie-woogie and silky soul jazz! Pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith delivers class and variety, explosive dynamism, classic songs and dry humour.
The Carole King and James Taylor Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
An international sell-out show taking you on a nostalgic journey through the career and music of these two legends.
Blueswater Presents: Blues! – The 10th Anniversary Show
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that …
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues – Live at The Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 30th Aug 2020
Acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit returns to the Fringe with her sell-out show Queens of the Blues, a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we kn…
Alasdair Beckett-King: Nevermore
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 31st Aug 2020
Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps; his sword of jokes, his shield of whimsy and his armour made of a third amusing thing.
The Glee Club
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Kiln Theatre
- 4th - 27th Jun 2020
‘When I go back those days in my head, it’s to that pit and the fun I had with a bunch of old men singing songs.
All The King’s Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th Feb 2020
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
All the King’s Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 29th Feb 2020
All the King's Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
MANDEMIC: A DRAG KING CABARET
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Omnibus
- 28th Feb 2020
Join The Family Jewels for a full frontal night of comedy, song, and a disarmingly sexy exploration of gendered power.
The Female Pilot Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Feb 2020
Come for a double at the Pilot Club! Two brand new sitcom pilots, read by the best comedy actors in Britain.
Kunene and the King
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Ambassadors Theatre.
- 30th Jan - 28th Mar 2020
Don’t miss John Kani’s highly acclaimed play Kunene and the King marking the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid with a strictly limited London run, following its …
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 13th Jan - 27th Apr 2020
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
MagicFest - Comedy Magic Club
- Listing Magic
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 28th - 29th Dec 2019
Have your mind blown as you laugh yourself silly! A line up of the funniest, scariest, and freakiest, conjured up for your delight in our magic comedy club.
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Omnibus Theatre
- 18th Oct 2019
The Cocoa Butter Club brings you a fierce line up celebrating feminine attitude.
King of Pop - The Legend Continues
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 12th Oct 2019
KING OF POP - THE LEGEND CONTINUES showcases the extraordinary talent of an impersonator who has performed for 28 years in over 350 international shows, 62 different cou…
Carole: The Music of Carole King
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Oct 2019
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
Carole: The Music of Carole King
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 6th Oct 2019
From the producers of the West End hit shows 'Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of The Dubliners' and 'Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story', t…
The Monthly Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 3rd Oct - 4th Dec 2019
The Museum of of Comedy’s brand new monthly line up show! Hand-picked bills showcasing some of the finest acts on the circuit and our Monday Club regulars bri…
Female Pilot Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Sep 2019
Care for a double at the Female Pilot Club? Two brand-new sitcom scripts are taken up for a spin.
Amusical Club Night
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 24th - 25th Aug 2019
Dance the night away to your favourite songs from the musicals – featuring live music from Amusical house band Dave and The Quavers, plus guest DJ sets from the best comedians in…
Cold Turkey Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 24th Aug 2019
Cold Turkey Blues – singer/songwriter Chris Ray King with a one-off, solo acoustic set. Storytelling, dark humour, romance and a surprisingly high body count.
Blues and Burlesque
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 21st - 25th Aug 2019
Saucy, sexy, award-winning live music cabaret.
Apocalypse Comedy Club featuring Mick Neven
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Sneaky Pete’s
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
The award-winning Aussie comedian is back with a brand-new show, taking on the end of the world.
The 900 Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Poetry Library
- 20th - 24th Aug 2019
Five years after the death of their friend, Emily, Avery, Fi and Mac reunite to celebrate his life.
Claude Bourbon: Medieval and Spanish Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 18th Aug 2019
‘Bourbon weaved his songs through the audience as if on a journey through life, taking in different flavours of Europe and beyond.
Pianist Tim Barton: Rhapsody in Chicago Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
- 17th - 18th Aug 2019
Learning from the Chicago Symphony, the home of the blues, Chi-Town’s singular jazz scene, folk, roots-rock and life in the 60s-70s, Tim’s wondrous musical immersion allowed him to…
Caledonian Folk and Blues at The Guildford: 25th Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 15th - 25th Aug 2019
The 25th year of the Festival’s best free music event.
Winter Wilson: Folk With Its Roots in Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 14th Aug 2019
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
Blues and Soul Review
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 13th - 19th Aug 2019
The show they couldn’t stop! Back by popular demand for their second year running, join the most famous Brothers in Blues as they sing and dance their way through the greatest hi…
Ali Affleck's Torching the Blues – Blues and Torch Songs from the 1920s to the 1950s
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar / The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 14th Aug 2019
Award-winning jazz vocalist Ali, with a heavy hitting band of internationally acclaimed musicians, resurrects the original outspoken blues and torch song divas.
Build a Football Club, IRL!
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 13th Aug 2019
Have you taken your team to the Champions League Final in Football Manager? Is this all it takes to go pro? Mason Robbins (University of Edinburgh – FC Barcelona partnership) rec…
The First King of England in a Dress
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Vikings, giants and magic await you in this fun-packed historical adventure.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion generated by the pioneering R’n’B and soul acts of the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 9th - 24th Aug 2019
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot-stomping acoustic blues and roots.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 9th Aug 2019
Sold-out AMC 2017, 2018! Alex – the Scottish modern day Stephane Grappelli on violin, virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, p…
Two Guys, Three Drams: The Ultimate Live Blues and Whisky Experience
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alec Martin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 13th Aug, 2019
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
Kings of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 25th Aug 2019
Main Street Blues present an hour of blues from the trio of blues icons known as The Three Kings.
Acoustic Blues'n'Roots With Passion and Humour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 25th Aug 2019
A return Fringe visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their highly successful show.
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C viva
- 5th - 7th Aug 2019
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
The Sinners Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
Where can you go to find all the dirty scandals on campus? The Sinners Club is the only radio show where people can call in anonymously and tell the whole university their biggest …
1890-1930: Uncrowned Queens of Blues, Hot Jazz and Hokum from The Red Hot Rhythm Makers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Argyle Cellar Bar / Lauriston Halls / The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 24th Aug 2019
From their critically acclaimed show Six Gals Named Smith, the six women of the RHRM present songs and fun chat on original jazz and blues queens.
Acoustic Lunch Time Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 24th Aug 2019
Following their run of sell-out lunchtime acoustic blues shows in Fringe 2018, Whisky Road are back with their lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Shappi Khorsandi: Skittish Warrior... Confessions of a Club Comic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 4th - 10th Aug 2019
Comedian, author and, most recently, idiot who agreed to be tortured on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!, Shappi is a woman of many parts.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and mooch about and make you laugh at midnight.
The King of Ghosts: Zhong Kui
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 4th - 5th Aug 2019
This story is based on Chinese traditional myth, Zhong Kui.
Howl Comedy Club Free Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Kilderkin
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Ever been to a really well-run comedy club? Watch an hour of pro comedy for free instead of the £10 charge outside of the Fringe.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★
- William Leckie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 25th Aug, 2019
The play follows Nick: a young, successful artist struggling with his identity and mental health.
The Jazz Bar Presents: Funk, Blues, Jazz and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2019
Edinburgh’s leading independent music venue showcases the very best local talent with nightly danceable funk, blues and special jazz performances (including The Jazz Bar’s 17-piece…
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Little Death Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 14th Aug, 2019
The air of the Speigeltent circus hub is thick with dark debauchery, smoke and gin soaked Weimer punk jazz, setting the atmosphere for a celebration of the extraordinary.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues Live at The Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2019
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
In a festival that pours scorn on comedy without a poignant ending, one show dares to celebrate the purity of the undiluted, unadulterated and altogether far funnier club set.
Arts Barge Riverside Festival: Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
FOC It Up: The Femmes of Colour Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Isla Whateley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 20th Aug, 2019
FOC It Up is a comedy collective aiming to showcase the talents of women and non-binary people of colour, in a comedy world that is mostly made up of straight white men.
Puppet King Richard II
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 2nd - 14th Aug 2019
Two used actors, recycled utensils, hand-carved Czech puppets, live music and you, the court, bring Shakespeare’s poetic drama of power and abdication to life.
Rap Club the Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2019
The true story of how a group of Croydon kids.
Strut Club Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Strut Club Cabaret Presents…Hello Sailor!: Arts Barge Riverside Festival
- Listing
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2019
The Strut Club Cabaret presents.
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Returning for their ninth year, the award-winning Blueswater tell the stories and perform the songs of the artists that defined popular music around the world.
The Last King of Porn
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
What are you willing to do to become a legend? A porn actor performing his last record-breaking movie: a sex marathon with 100 women.
Mason King – Sleight of Mind
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2019
Following sell-out runs in 2016 and 2018 Mason King returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a brand-new show! As a child Mason always dreamt of mastering the art of sleight of hand.
Dream of a King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 9th Aug, 2019
Actor/writer Christopher Tajah of Resistance Theatre Company gives an impassioned performance in Dream Of A King at theSpace Triplex, as he reimagines the hours leading up to the a…
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
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…
Vibe Revue Supper Club at The Grange
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Grange Club
- 2nd - 15th Aug 2019
Jazzy / funk supper club at the Grange Club in trendy Stockbridge, 20 minutes from Princes Street.
Global Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Global Comedy Club: showcasing some of the best up-and-coming comedians on the circuit.
Blues Guitar Duo – Hot Tin Roof
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2019
Playing their eighth consecutive Festival Fringe, Hot Tin Roof are back with their highly acclaimed show Blues Guitar Duo, playing originals and popular blues classics at Edinburgh…
The Brunch Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Pop-Up: Levels
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2019
Rebel, geek, emo, which were you? Or were you the popular one? Scotland’s brightest new talents, The Network, take on the cliques in a homage to classic coming-of-age movies.
Ubu the King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C south
- 1st - 10th Aug 2019
Delightfully deranged and beautifully berserk, Ukrainian group Misanthrope Theatre re-ignite the flames of rebellion and fervour that saw Alfred Jarry’s play close upon its openi…
Lucy Farrett: Lois
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 8th Aug, 2019
Character comedy is a difficult discipline at the best of times and, with a trope as thoroughly picked-over as the oblivious action-hero, it asks at lot from a performer to find so…
Canadian Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Bier Keller
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Canadian Club is a stand-up comedy show produced by one of the most Canadian people in the world, Brad Bryans. Free maple syrup offered to all audience members.
The Black Blues Brothers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2019
It’s a sell-out audience in the huge space at Assembly Rooms.
She Sells Sea Shells
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 6th Aug, 2019
Searching through the Fringe guide for a show worth seeing is a job that could perhaps be likened to archaeology – you spend hours carefully probing, sorting the dross from the d…
Who Is Daniel King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 1st - 24th Aug 2019
A story of a man who decides to be a dancer.
Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Join the funniest acts on the UK and international circuit as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
A Talking Therapist's Blues
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Brass Monkey
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Poettess is a psychotherapist.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
‘Funny.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
TV producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
Just cos you’re a kid doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show doesn’t mean you can’t also hav…
Down with the Poetry King!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2019
Award-winning silliness and choose-your-own-adventure poems for the whole family as you work to transform your writing skills.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Review
- ★★★★
- Isla Whateley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 20th Aug, 2019
Have you ever been to a comedy show by someone who can travel through dimensions, from one world to another? No, me neither.
The National Trust Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Vines
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 7th Aug, 2019
The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym…
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 31st Jul - 17th Aug 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
The Burning Duck Comedy Club £5 / PWYW Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 26th Jul 2019
York’s alternative comedy sensation the Burning Duck Comedy Club returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe, presenting the best ‘up-and-coming’ musical, ch…
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club - Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 26th - 27th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club: Jonny Awsum, Lauren Pattinson & Hayley Ellis
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 26th - 27th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 23rd Jul 2019
The award-winning Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
Blues in the Night
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Kiln Theatre
- 25th Jul - 7th Sep 2019
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who will leave you to sing, the blues in the night.
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club - Gary Delaney, Angelos Epithemiou & Alex Boardman
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 19th - 20th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club: Gary Delaney, Angelos Epithemiou & Alex Boardman
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 19th - 20th Jul 2019
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire Fringe with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream…
The Cocoa Butter Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 19th Jul - 13th Sep 2019
The Cocoa Butter Club presents a triple bill of exhilarating, vibrant and titillating cabaret.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Preview)
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 15th - 18th Jul 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
SHAPPI KHORSANDI : Skittish Warrior...Confessions of a Club Comic
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 28th Jun 2019
28th June, 8pm Tickets: £16 Suitable for: ages 14+.
The Female Pilots' Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jun 2019
How about a double at the Pilots' Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
The Female Pilot’s Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jun 2019
How about a double at the Pilot’s Club? Two pilots in just one hour.
King of Pop - starring NAVI
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 7th Jun 2019
Led by the world’s number one Michael Jackson tribute artist ‘Navi’, which alone sets this show above the rest.
Club Glitoris
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 6th Jun - 4th Jul 2019
Southend Fringe Festival Presents Club Glitoris. A drag, cabaret, burlesque, comedy night for all the weird and wonderful people to come together and party the night away.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 21st - 23rd May 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (Peep Show, Toast of London, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
Dream of a King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 20th - 22nd May 2019
4 April 1968.
An Evening with the Sussex Musicians' Club
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 18th May 2019
An evening of brilliant music-making with soprano Valeria Guidotti, flautist Karen Rash, violinist Sophia Bartlette, guitarist Sebastian Goodwin-Day, and pianists Jon Byrne, Joe Wa…
The Blues Corporation Rides Out
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 18th May 2019
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul, with a set including original numbers, and new arrangements of classics …
artrepublic Kids Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- artrepublic
- 18th May 2019
Join us for our popular monthly Kids Club; a creative couple of hours, hosted by an artrepublic artist on one Saturday each month and centred around one theme or activity.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 17th - 19th May 2019
Leicester Mercury Comedian of The Year 2017, Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with a dimension-hopping stand-up comedy show.
King Hedley II
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Theatre Royal Stratford East
- 17th May - 15th Jun 2019
1980’s Pittsburgh, a city in decay.
KING LEAR
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Lovat
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 12th May, 2019
Hands up anyone who was bored rigid by studying Shakespeare at school.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Doghouse
- 10th - 11th May 2019
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul, from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smoldering sounds of Stax and Motown.
Confessions of a Drag King
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 8th - 24th May 2019
A pole-esque tale, telling the story of one woman’s journey through pole, from the seedy underworld of Brighton, to her respectable reinvention as a drag king.
The King Of Pop
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th May 2019
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
The King Of Pop
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 5th May 2019
This incredible production stars the world’s leading MJ tribute artist Navi who is joined by Jackson’s original lead guitarist - Jennifer Batten.
Boat Show Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Boat Show Comedy Club
- 3rd May - 30th Nov 2019
London's finest floating comedy club aboard the Tattershall Castle.
The Secret Comedy Club: Fringe Comedy Hub
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Artista Cafe & Gallery
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2019
We have over 80 professional comedy acts who applied to Artista Cafe & Gallery.
Little Death Club
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 18th Apr - 23rd Jun 2019
Welcome to the darkest, funniest and most debauched kabarett club this side of Berlin! A gin soaked, Weimar-punk jazz band soundtracks a hazy night of dangerously fu…
film maltings: The Kid Who Would Be King
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 18th - 18th Apr 2019
KIDS OFFER: free child ticket with every adult ticket purchased, subsequent child tickets are half price.
Stand-Up Comedy Club (April)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 17th Apr 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Variety Film Club - My Fair Lady
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 4th Apr 2019
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of th…
Stand-Up Comedy Club (March)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Mar 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Variety Film Club - Wizard Of Oz
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 28th Feb 2019
Variety Film Club The team behind Variety Lunch Club have hatched a new plan so that you can come and have an afternoon out with friends while watching some of th…
Teens pottery & ceramics club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 27th Feb 2019
£78 for 5 week courseWednesdays at 6.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton
- Komedia Brighton
- 16th Feb 2019
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 16th Feb 2019
Comedy Club 4 Kids It's a comedy club, right, but for kids.
It's A Scream Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 15th Feb - 14th Jun 2019
New parents! You can do a fun thing without ditching your babies! Three great stand up comedians performing in a room where babies are welcome (up to the age where they …
Stand-Up Comedy Club (February)
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 13th Feb 2019
Farnham Maltings and Off the Kerb Productions present their popular Stand-Up Comedy Club, your chance to catch up-and-coming comedy talent in a club environment.
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 13th Feb - 3rd Jul 2019
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club will run throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of ente…
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
Lee Memphis King 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
Duration: Approx 2hrs 20mins More information to follow
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 9th Feb 2019
All the King’s Men are a world-renowned, award-winning, all-male a cappella group based in the heart of London.
NT ENCORE: THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD THE SECOND
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 29th Jan 2019
Tuesday 29th January, 7pmTickets: £15 or £11 for school groupsSuitable for: no age suitability has been given yet for this screeningDuration: …
Puppet King Richard II - Dumfries Fringe 2019
- Listing Puppetry
- Scotland
- Container Theatre
- 26th Jan 2019
A “highly engrossing”, ‘pocket epic’ staging of Shakespeare’s Richard II.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 23rd Jan 2019
TV comedy producer Izzy (The Windsors, Peep Show, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
London Blues Week 2019
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- 100 Club
- 14th - 19th Jan 2019
Six Night of Live Blues Music in the Heart of Central London.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 14th Jan - 25th Mar 2019
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
The 24/7 Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 22nd Nov 2018
Charlie Vero-Martin plays historical characters who share her birthday - the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in this fun and thought prov…
King Crimson
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 3rd Nov 2018
With three drummers, Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey, as well as the return of multi-instrumentalist Bill Rieflin on keyboards, guitarist and original founding mem…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 26th Oct 2018
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
The Worm King
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- Sweet Werks 2 - Werks Central
- 23rd Oct 2018
An audio drama performed live and scored, produced by the team behind the podcast series Whisper Through The Static.
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Above the Stag Theatre
- 19th Oct - 18th Nov 2018
Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club By Jonathan HarveyDirected by Steven DexterDesigned by David Shields Lighting designed by Jamie PlattFrom the writer…
The Covent Garden Comedy Club @ Heaven
The Covent Garden Comedy Club @ Heaven is celebrating 16 years of making London laugh in 2018 and is the biggest and most successful independent comedy club in Central London with …
Ali Affleck's Storyville Roots of Jazz – Hot Jazz and Cool Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse / The Jazz Bar
- 17th - 27th Aug 2018
Two shows only! Award-winning jazz vocalist, washboarder and early jazz historian Ali resurrects the original outspoken blues and jazz divas who shaped today’s music via their pass…
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 26th Aug 2018
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Alan Cumming presents Club Cumming
- Listing Music / Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 25th Aug 2018
Club Cumming began in Alan’s Studio 54 dressing room after performances of Cabaret on Broadway in 2015, where pals like Sting, Gareth Pugh and Monica Lewinsky would come backst…
Rachel Parris' Musical Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2018
For three nights only, award-winning musical comedian and star of BBC Two’s The Mash Report, Rachel Parris, presents a late-night jamboree of tunes intended to tickle, including so…
Cathedral Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary’s Cathedral
- 23rd Aug 2018
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist, Daniel Smith and band, with John Burgess.
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Bill Murray
- 20th - 26th Aug 2018
TV comedy producer Izzy (Peep Show, Toast of London, Harry & Paul) has been pathologically tactful all her life.
Daniel Smith Trio – Blues Piano
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 18th - 26th Aug 2018
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, rhythmic New Orleans piano, hard bop classics with searing guitar evoking the good-time speakeasy atmosphere.
Taylor & Leigh’s Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 17th - 19th Aug 2018
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
Caledonian Folk and Blues at the Guildford: 24th Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 16th - 26th Aug 2018
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale and Sandy Tweeddale featuring guests Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, On The Wagon, Mad Ferret Band, Edgehill, Kevin Gore and …
Bongo Club Cabaret vs Cancer
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th Aug 2018
The legendary late-night variety show returns for one night only! An incredible line-up of cabaret, comedy and music acts from across the Fringe presented by Rhymes with Purple and…
Love and Blues: Unplugged
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 16th Aug 2018
Winner of the UK Perrier Jazz Vocal Award, Scottish Style Award and Spirit Of Scotland Music Medal, Niki King has released five albums and performed in leading jazz venues includin…
The Fun Club Presents...
- Review
- ★★
- C. M. Cromie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 21st Aug, 2018
I’m not sure how to explain The Fun Club Presents… Three performers – Sara Page, Franny Anne Rafferty and Alistair McPhail – in a room, all in animal face-paint, talk obliq…
Medieval and Spanish Blues – Guitar and Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 15th Aug 2018
It is very hard to describe the almost endless amalgam of different influences in Claude’s playing, all melting into each other as he moves from classical openings, across a whole …
Avocet: Folk Over Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 14th Aug 2018
With original evocative songs, Avocet explore folk over blues.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
All Hail the Rat King!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
The Skits, Cornell University’s original sketch comedy troupe, has crossed the Atlantic to deliver some cold, hard jokes.
King Lear (Alone)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PQA Venues @Riddle’s Court
- 12th - 15th Aug 2018
One-man show telling King Lear’s story in his own words, using text from the original and new words.
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Showcase
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 10th - 17th Aug 2018
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 10th Aug 2018
Sold out AMC2017! Alex (the Scottish modern day Stephane Grappelli) on violin and virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform…
King Creosote
- Listing Music / Music / Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Leith Theatre
- 9th Aug 2018
King Creosote, aka Kenny Anderson, returns to the International Festival three years after he performed his glorious soundtrack to the nostalgia-soaked film, From Scotland With Lov…
King John
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 9th - 11th Aug 2018
Direct from the USA, the defending three-time National Shakespearean Acting Champions present Shakespeare’s rarely done history, King John.
King Arthur – The Panto
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 8th - 10th Aug 2018
When Uther Pendragon passes away England falls without king.
Blues and Soul Revue
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 8th - 21st Aug 2018
The show they couldn’t stop.
Dani Sicari and The Easy Rollers: Live at The A Club
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 8th - 9th Aug 2018
What’s that, old sport? Swing classics and Prohibition-era hits from some of the finest talents in the country? Precisely! Prepare to be transported back to the golden age of jaz…
Nigel Slater’s Toast
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2018
One of the hardest calls for a reviewer to make is where to draw the line between production and play.
Mason King – Game of Chance
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 6th - 18th Aug 2018
Following a successful Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2016, mind control artist Mason King returns for another journey into the inner depths of the human mind.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
‘Consistently boasting the most interesting line-ups in the country’ (Times). The best acts from the Fringe come and muck about and make you laugh at midnight.
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
Former PM and cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back.
Main Street Blues: High-Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2018
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 27th Aug 2018
Exciting Scottish acoustic blues trio featuring three acclaimed Scottish blues musicians.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Club Swizzle
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Roundhouse
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Comedy, circus and cabaret – served with a twist Loose, glorious and irresistibly fun, Club Swizzle is a night of sassy entertainment at the wildest bar in town.
Chris Chopping's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dr Livingstone’s / The Clootie Dumpling / Three Broomsticks
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Last year, Chris was finally feeling happy and well-adjusted.
All Hail the Poetry King!
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bourbon Bar
- 4th - 25th Aug 2018
Award-winning silliness for all the family from one of the nation’s most successful spoken word artists.
Main Street Blues: Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 12th Aug 2018
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Little Death Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 22nd Aug, 2018
An atmosphere of fun and weimar cabaret beats envelop us as we enter Beauty at the Circus Hub.
The OS Map Fan Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
Edinburgh Fringe sell-out show in 2017.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
‘This is late-night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
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…
Diamond Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
The Diamond Comedy Club is bringing some of the freshest voices in stand-up comedy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an unmissable late-night party! Each night, a different line…
Berlin Survivors' Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Berlin, the capital of dark humour, dark history and dark rooms.
The 900 Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Poetry Library
- 3rd - 12th Aug 2018
Four friends reunite after five years to commemorate the death of their friend, which broke them apart.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2018
Just ‘cos you’re a kid, doesn’t mean you should miss out on the best stand-ups and sketch acts of the Fringe! Just ‘cos you’re an adult at a kids’ show, doesn’t mean you can’t also…
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
A return visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their own brand of acoustic blues and roots music played on acoustic guitar and double bass w…
Blueswater Presents: The Roots of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
Join Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, on a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired each other.
The King and Ol' Blue Eyes
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- McSorley’s Irish Bar
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2018
Following his army demob, Elvis Presley joins Frank Sinatra’s 1960 Timex TV show special.
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
One hundred years of blues, 60 minutes to play it.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
‘Funny.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 2nd - 26th Aug 2018
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a different selection each day of four of the best comics at the Fringe.
The Cat's Mother
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square / Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2018
One of the most valuable functions of theatre is to offer us a way to explore difficult issues without fear of blame without fear of censure.
Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
Twice a day, Audrey, the unique 22-seat Vintage Mobile Cinema will become a comedy venue.
Jess Robinson: No Filter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 8th Aug, 2018
Though now a household name thanks to a semi-final place in last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, singing impressionist Jess Robinson is a familiar face of the Fringe.
Mickey Sharma – Filthy Club Comic
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2018
With five Edinburgh shows under his belt and nine years experience as a professional, Mickey brings his best material. No feelings, just good jokes.
Phill Jupitus: Sassy Knack
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 12th Aug, 2018
As a huge number of the entries in the Fringe programme could tell you, the life of a stand-up is a tough one – hours and hours of unpaid work just to get a decent set together a…
After Hours Cabaret Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Jodie McVicar
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 6th Aug, 2018
Entering the Underbelly Fresian, we were enticed by the melodious notes of a live band playing.
All the King's Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 1st - 10th Aug 2018
Returning to Edinburgh for their eighth year, All the King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
A Fortunate Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 15th Aug, 2018
There are books which are called seminal largely because so many people have read them.
Sticks and Stones
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
Free speech is a right fiercely protected in today’s society.
In for a Penny
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 8th Aug, 2018
In For A Penny is Libby McArthur’s true-life tale of the unforeseen consequences of an unpaid parking ticket - how one person can fall foul of a system that sees only the facts a…
Unsung
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
With the advent of the internet, smartphones and social media, today’s politics happens under an unprecedented level of scrutiny.
Blackthorn by Charley Miles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
Home is a powerful concept.
Fringe Wives Club: Glittery Clittery
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Annabel Pribelszki
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 10th Aug, 2018
If you like your cabaret kick-ass, feminist, patriarchy-smashing and unabashedly consensual, do not miss Glittery Clittery Fringe Wives Club.
A Broad Abroad
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 8th Aug, 2018
If there’s one thing the majority of people at the Fringe can empathise with, it’s how hard the life of a jobbing actor can be.
Famous Puppet Death Scenes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 12th Aug, 2018
An enigmatic title is the hallmark of many Fringe shows – I’m sure no one knows quite what to expect from Duckpond: An Element of Mystery in Umpteen Samples or Lights Over Tesc…
Charlie V Martin: The 24/7 Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Welcome to The 24/7 Club, where everyone was born on the 24th July! Party with Zelda Fitzgerald, Amelia Earhart and more in Charlie V Martin’s new solo show about her birthday.
The Blues Brothers – Live
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
Hold onto your shades as the smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for rhythm’n’blues to remember.
The Onion Club: American Apocalypse Now
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 1st - 25th Aug 2018
A deliciously dark musical cabaret exquisitely crushing the American dream, delivered with rare power and visceral beauty.
Exit the King
- Review
- ★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- Olivier Theatre
- 27th Jul, 2018
For those who pertain to be students of the Theatre of the Absurd movement prevalent in the 1950s and 60s, there is nothing of value to you in this review.
LJ Da Funk in... When will these fascist bastards all be lined up and f**king shot?
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 25th Jul 2018
Trump.
Club Briefs
- Listing Events
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 25th Jul 2018 - 3rd Aug 2019
Get your dancing shoes on with cult cabaret hooligans and mischief makers BRIEFS in a late night romp of music, performance and mayhem - all inside Underbelly Festival’s stun…
The Burning Duck Comedy Club £5/PWYW Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Basement
- 23rd - 29th Jul 2018
York’s alternative comedy sensation the Burning Duck Comedy Club returns to the Great Yorkshire Fringe, presenting another handcrafted artisanal smorgasbang of the…
King Courgette
- Listing Music
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Tea Pot
- 22nd Jul 2018
King Courgette is an old-time vegetable string band Featuring Wild Zucchini Bill from international trash-bashing phenomenon STOMP! Expect a righteous mix of fiddles, ba…
Hyena Lounge Kids Comedy Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 21st Jul 2018
Featuring 3 acts from the comedy circuit performing jokes that are suitable for children, but funny enough to get everyone laughing.
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Duke of Yorks Theatre
- 21st Jul - 20th Oct 2018
★★★★★ “Ian McKellen reigns supreme in this triumphant production.
Hyena Lounge Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The White Rose Rotunda
- 20th - 21st Jul 2018
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows on Friday and Saturday nights featuring the cream of the…
The King and I
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- London Palladium
- 21st Jun - 29th Sep 2018
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and…
Variety Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 29th May 2018 - 8th Jun 2019
The very best variety acts from all around the world do their awe inspiring and death defying performances for an audience of children (aged 6+) and their families…but witho…
Funk The Format's Club Tropicana
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Venue (Formally The View)
- 27th May 2018
DJ Format, Soul Casserole, Lynda Phoenix, Nick Maxwell, King Prawn, Odyssey, Soozy Q and Lucy ‘Elle J’ Small.
Club Click: Miami Meltdown
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 26th May 2018
Booty queens and hip hustlers pack your bags and fly down with us to Coconut Grove, Miami for a tropical night of sultry glamour, cabaret chic and dirty disco dancing.
Club de Fromage
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2018
Started by ex-gangster Fat Tony and now run by his half-wit son, Slow Alfie, this is the club that time forgot.
The Blues Corporation Live
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 19th May 2018
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
The O.S. Map Fan Club
- Review
- ★★
- Julia French
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Dukebox
- 16th May, 2018
On paper – cartographical paper by preference – this is the sort of show that is the heart of fringe theatre.
Paul Zenon's Hellfire Club with the Urban Voodoo Machine
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 12th May 2018
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.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 12th May 2018
Since 2005, ‘Comedy Club 4 Kids’ has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and …
Massaoke's Club La La
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 11th - 25th May 2018
A live rock band, big-screen lyrics, and a room full of party-goers singing and dancing their hearts out together to the greatest rock and pop anthems of all time.
Brexit Blues
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 10th May - 2nd Jun 2018
French cabaret star Oriana Curls, acclaimed 5-star ‘Piaf remembered’ (Edfringe 2017) and singing judge on BBC TV show ‘All together now’, contemplates the future with ex-Dexy…
King Charles III
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Little Theatre
- 5th - 12th May 2018
Queen Elizabeth II is dead.
Mister Frank's Cotton Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- MEET: The Warren Box Office
- 5th - 26th May 2018
The famous Mister Frank presents a debauched prohibition themed night of live music, Charleston lessons, dancing and plenty of drinking! Meet at the Warren Box Office for your pas…
The Conjuring Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum
- 5th May - 2nd Jun 2018
A world of wizardry hidden inside the spellbinding Toy Museum.
Fever Club
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 5th May 2018
Salon of Soul with a contagious beat, ‘Fever Club’ has grown out of the joyous, social atmosphere of our extraordinary house parties.
Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th - 19th May 2018
Join our handpicked curators of comedy as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
Alasdair Beckett-King: Full Velvet Jacket (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 4th - 6th May 2018
Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017 Alasdair Beckett-King returns to this timeline with an inter-dimensional, work in progress stand-up comedy show.
Club Cairo: The Serpent Slayer
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 4th May 2018
Club Cairo presents an evening of live music, dance and theatre from the Middle East and beyond.
LJ DA FUNK in... When will these fascist bastards be lined up and f**king shot?
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
- 4th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Remember when Nazis were only found in Germany, Austria, and Clacton-on-Sea? Well now they’re in the White House, Downing Street, and Clacton-on-Sea.
Massaoke Club La La
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Spiegeltent at Southbank Centre
- 4th May - 7th Sep 2018
Coming to Underbelly Festival for the first time, Massaoke Club La La is a night out you will never forget.
Blues and Burlesque 70s Soireé
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 4th May - 3rd Jun 2018
70s themed Cabaret with saucy, sexy live original music.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 4th May - 2nd Jun 2018
Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians.
Fringe Club: A Silent Disco
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 3rd May - 2nd Jun 2018
The legendary Fringe Club returns to the Warren in 2018 with it’s own version of the legendary night out, Silent Disco.
All The King’s Men
- Listing Music
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 28th Apr 2018
All the King’s Men bring their five star, sellout tour to London’s West End… AtKM’s astonishing vocal colour and arresting, creative choreograp…
Variety Lunch Club
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 25th Apr - 1st Aug 2018
The Royal Court Variety Lunch Club will run throughout the year on Wednesday afternoons in the main theatre and is open to anyone who wants to enjoy an afternoon of ente…
It's A Scream Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 20th Apr 2018
New parents! You can do a fun thing without ditching your babies! Three great stand up comedians performing in a room where babies are welcome (up to the age where they…
The Golden F**king Years
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
- 17th - 28th Apr 2018
Helen and Gordon spend their retirement on their Mediterranean balcony, reading and drinking gin, quite a lot of it.
The Monday Club
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Museum of Comedy
- 26th Mar - 30th Jul 2018
Grab yourself a drink and join us in the Museum bar for a relaxed weekly night of new material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit.
Rawhide Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 23rd Mar - 28th Apr 2018
What do you want from a night out? A bit of dinner? Table service drinks? Some staggeringly good comedians making you laugh? Thought so.
Suggs - What a King Cnut
- Listing Music
- West End
- London Palladium
- 22nd Mar 2018
Due to huge popular demand, after his first tour-de-force, smash hit, sell out tour, ‘My Life Story’, Suggs is treading the boards again with a brand new show.
Council Depot Blues
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 22nd - 24th Mar 2018
Dave Kirby (Lost Soul, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Reds & Blues, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, Brick Up 2 the wrath of Ann Twacky) is back with his smas…
Idris Stanton - The Last King of Vaudeville
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 14th Mar, 2018
As one quarter of the amazing Pants Down Circus and one half of hit children’s show The Circus Firemen, Idris Stanton has absolutely earned the right to put his name above the ti…
A Taste of RHYTHM @ BLUES
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Adelaide Bowling Club
- 16th Mar 2018
The Incredible BLACKHAWKS present an evening of fabulous New Orleans Rhythm & Blues and Roots music, coupled with a sumptuous , fully catered dinner, and bar service, at the beaut…
Blues at the Fringe
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Global Music Revolution Live Room
- 16th Mar 2018
The blues exists in Adelaide in all of its glorious variations.
Rhapsody in Chicago Blues, "Piano" Tim Barton
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Burnside Library / The Jade
- 4th - 15th Mar 2018
Ragtime, Chicago Blues and classical concert pianist Tim Barton performs: Toccata by J.
Gary Little: Scottish Club Classics
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Two time Scottish Comedy Award winner.
Puberty Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Stirling Community Theatre
- 13th - 17th Mar 2018
This original work, written specifically for DTC with the approval of the book’s creators – Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.
California Crooners Club
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Hilton Adelaide
- 11th - 12th Mar 2018
How do you top two sold out seasons at the Adelaide Fringe? You just make it better!! New songs, different mash ups, more people, better venue, extra sizzle!! Plundering the class…
Massaoke Club La La
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 9th - 17th Mar 2018
The Fringe’s No.
King of Comedy UK - Kyle Legacy
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Producers
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
King of the comedy, master of the crowd & slave to the laugh.
The Skeleton Club Presents: Songs You Love to Hate
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Grace Emily Hotel
- 10th Mar 2018
The Skeleton Club are here to save music! Bold claim, they know! Yet, they’re sticking by it and coming at you with their new cover experience.
After Hours Cabaret Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 9th - 18th Mar 2018
Welcome to the After Hours Cabaret Club.
A History Of Early Blues
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Wheatsheaf Hotel
- 4th Mar 2018
Multi-award-winning blues guitarist Cal Williams Jr, double-bass virtuoso Kory Horwood and Canadian harp maestro Will Kallinderis will guide you through the songs and stories of ea…
A GREEK TRAGEDY 'OEDIPUS REX-THE KING'
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 24th Feb - 18th Mar 2018
AN ADAPTATION BY LOUCAS LOIZOU.
King Jack Queen
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Market Apartment
- 4th - 4th Mar 2018
“Get around pres at Danni’s.
Smooth & Swampy Blues
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Jade
- 4th Mar 2018
Join Adelaide-based blues collective The Furball Express as they stomp, strum and croon their way through an hour of swampy blues classics interspersed with a modern bluesy numbers…
Tommy Little - The Last King Of Stupid
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- The Garden of Unearthly Delights
- 3rd Mar 2018
As seen on The Project.
Diamonds & the Blues
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 25th - 25th Feb 2018
Diamonds and the Blues are creating a sultry and potent cocktail of Jazz and Blues performances in some of Victorias most iconic Venues and Festivals.
King Lear Retold
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Greenwich Theatre
- 5th - 6th Feb 2018
Dark and challenging, epic and shocking, human and uplifting.
Three Random Words - Improv at Backyard Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Backyard Comedy Club
- 17th Sep 2017
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.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Main Street Blues: High Energy Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 25th Aug 2017
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that bring together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material.
Claude Bourbon: Medieval and Spanish Blues – Guitar and Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 21st Aug 2017
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Club Nights
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 20th - 27th Aug 2017
Former Prime Minister and global cabaret superstar Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho is back – and this time she’s hosting a club night! There’ll be non-stop 80s hits from a non-st…
Caledonian Folk and Blues at the Guildford: 23rd Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 17th - 27th Aug 2017
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and Yard of Ale featuring guests Bedford Falls, Mike Whellans, Delacroix, Coaltown Daisies, Hot Tin Roof, On the…
All the King's Women
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 14th - 18th Aug 2017
The life of Elvis Presley told through 17 women: some enthralled, some appalled, all obsessed! From Tupelo, Mississippi where 12-year-old Elvis wanted a BB gun instead of a guitar,…
Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 20th Aug 2017
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
The Fair Intellectual Club
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
1717 – the inaugural meeting of a secret society where young ladies exercise their minds.
King Arthur
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 14th - 26th Aug 2017
Classical music close up where wriggling is allowed.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 14th - 19th Aug 2017
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
Alice and the Black Hole Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 14th - 18th Aug 2017
This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptio…
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 12th Aug 2017
Alex – the Scottish modern-day Stephane Grappelli – on violin, and virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet plus legendary double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform truly into…
Cathedral Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary’s Cathedral
- 11th Aug 2017
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Showcase
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 11th - 18th Aug 2017
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Elgar's King Olaf
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Usher Hall
- 11th Aug 2017
World-renowned Elgarian Sir Andrew Davis conducts a rarely heard masterpiece: Elgar’s Viking cantata Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf.
Carry King
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 10th Aug 2017
Brought to you by EnjoyMedia Cultural Company, Carry King is a visually striking, experimental piece of theatre.
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C too
- 10th - 11th Aug 2017
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Blues: High-Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 28th Aug 2017
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Afternoon Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 28th Aug 2017
New show for this year at the award winning Jazz Bar from Scottish duo Colorblind Slim.
Daniel Smith: Blues Piano
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 7th - 22nd Aug 2017
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Ali Affleck's Birth of the Blues! – The Preaching Divas
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 7th - 13th Aug 2017
Award-winning vocalist Ali – ‘stunningly expressive’ (San Diego Union-Tribune) – celebrates the powerful songs of the bold women who laid the ground for today’s music.
Ali Affleck's Birth of the Blues! – The Divine Divas
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 6th - 20th Aug 2017
“Scotland’s ‘queen of Vintage Blues and Jazz’ (OCWeekly.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 5th - 26th Aug 2017
‘Boogie-woogie.
Supper Club at Checkpoint
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
The glitz, the glamour, the good times.
Blues Guitar Duo
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
Hot Tin Roof regularly pack The Jazz Bar playing classics and originals, earning a reputation for playing excellent music while creating a relaxing atmosphere.
Moulin Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 4th - 19th Aug 2017
The Bluebelles return to take Edinburgh for the third year running! Following sold-out performances and 5-star reviews, this year expect a night of vintage cabaret, as you are whis…
Leaf by Niggle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 15th Aug, 2017
With Hollywood’s recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope.
Club Sol Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th - 28th Aug 2017
The best holiday of your life! Club Sol will transport you to sunny Spain for an evening of comedy cabaret that you will never forget! Your holiday reps, The Mauve Coats, will pres…
The Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
This famous showcase returns with a dazzling array of the best comics from the Fringe.
Comedians Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
This brilliant show returns to Edinburgh.
The Carole King Story
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Symposium Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
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.
Scotch Egg Club Presents: Whisky on Water
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lochrin Belle
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
Ever wanted to drink whisky, eat cheese, chocolate and scotch eggs while cruising along a canal? Well now you can! Scotch Egg Club brings you a Whisky tasting with a difference, wh…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
‘Nish Kumar, James Acaster, Tom Allen and Bec Hill are among the big-name comics giving up an hour of their time to bring comedy to the juvenile masses; an inspired idea, and it’s …
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Led by superb vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unr…
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night, mixed-bill shows.
Blueswater Presents: The Roots of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired eac…
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2017
One hundred years of blues, one hour to play it.
The OS Map Fan Club
- Review
- ★★
- Caitlin Rebecca
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 9th Aug, 2017
Helen Wood delivers a bizarre, amiable love letter to the ordnance survey in The OS Map Fan Club.
Classic Joke Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Join the funniest acts in Edinburgh as they share classic jokes handed down to them by their family.
Massaoke's Club La La
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
The Fringe’s number one party just got bigger! Rocking until 2.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
‘Funny.
Gary Little: Club Classics
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2017
After headlining at some of the top comedy clubs around the UK and abroad, Gary returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with the sets, the stories and the jokes that have earned him the re…
Siri
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2017
A two-woman show starring only one woman – not a typo but the conceit at the centre of the latest show by Canadian actress and interactive artist Laurence Dauphinais.
Séance
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2017
Theatre today increasingly falls into one of two broad camps.
Siblings
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 18th Aug, 2017
The art of the comedic double act is a difficult one and its success largely based on chemistry between the two performers.
The Gruffalo's Child
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 24th Aug, 2017
Much as it is a pleasure to discover a hidden gem amongst the mass of shows in Edinburgh, there’s also something very reassuring about having a list of reliable prospects.
Britney in: John
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 13th Aug, 2017
In 2011, Charly Clive and Ellen Robertson were women without a mission.
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
The award-winning comedian Alasdair Beckett-King is legendary, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
All the King’s Men
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 2nd - 22nd Aug 2017
Returning to Edinburgh for a 7th year, All The King’s Men are the voices that are defining a genre.
The Blues Brothers – Live
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
Hold onto your shades as this smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for a night of rhythm and blues to remember.
A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 15th Aug, 2017
Victor Hugo once said “You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.
King Jack Queen
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- 84 Great Bridgewater St
- 7th - 8th Jul 2017
A site specific, immersive play invites the audience into Danni’s student flat for pre-drinks and Ring of Fire with her best friend, Jack.
Comedian's Cinema Club: Beauty and the Beast
- Review
- ★★★★
- Carmen Dupre
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 9th Jun, 2017
Film and comedy lovers alike will appreciate this increasingly popular show, led by an impressive group of comedians that changes every performance, along with the film they choo…
Blues and Burlesque
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 29th May - 4th Jun 2017
After last year’s sell-out run, the Blues and Burlesque are back with a new show.
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ruby Speed
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 31st May, 2017
Nominated for Funny Women’s Best Show Award, Revan and Fennell’s Fan Club is a lively, goofy and above all entertaining sketch show, starring double act Rosie Revan a…
Club Click: The Soul of Dirty Disco
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 27th May 2017
Booty queens and hip hustlers let your freak flag fly at our dazzling evening of sumptuous glamour, glittering divas, cabaret chic and dirty disco dancing.
King of the Fringe: Best Of
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 26th May 2017
Join us for some drag king cabaret by the seaside as we celebrate the bois from previous King of the Fringe competitions.
Club De Fromage
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 19th May 2017
Started by ex-gangster Fat Tony and now run by his half-wit son, Slow Alfie, this is the club that time forgot.
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 18th - 20th May 2017
Alasdair Beckett-King is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 13th May 2017
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
Kevin, King of Egypt
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 11th - 12th May 2017
Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being on a section of the Mental Health Act and distinctly upset about being …
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- Udderbelly
- 7th May 2017 - 2nd Jun 2019
Kids, bring your folks to see the international circuit's best comedians, sketch acts and cabaret stars.
Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Blue Man
- 7th - 28th May 2017
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Krater Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ruby Speed
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 9th May, 2017
When compére Stephen Grant takes the stage, he capably gains control of the large, boisterous audience with his high energy stage presence and quick-witted quips.
The Life & Death of Puppet King Richard II
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton Fringe
- ONCA
- 15th May, 2017
This is Richard II as you’ve never seen him before, in a purple shell-suit wielding power over his puppet kingdom with subjects that range from beautiful two foot high hand carve…
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Ambassador Hotel
- 5th May - 4th Jun 2017
Comedy Compilation show of some of the best up and coming comics from the UK Comedy Circuit.
The Lion King
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Lyceum Theatre
- 17th Feb 2017 - 19th Oct 2024
Set against the majesty of the Serengeti Plains to the evocative rhythms of Africa, this spectacular production explodes with glorious colours, stunning effects and enchanting musi…
Growing Up Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- The Albany
- 25th Sep - 13th Nov 2016
Indoor and outdoor craft and gardening activities: dig, grow, play and discover before or after watching a show in the theatre. Adults do not require a ticket.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 28th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Gourmet Cinema Club - Malmaison Hotel London
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Malmaison
- 28th Aug - 26th Nov 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
Venue Marketplace
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 27th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
King Creosote
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 25th Aug 2016
Fife’s Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote, has become one of Scotland’s most acclaimed and prolific singer-songwriters: a squeezebox Casanova and a seafaring pop heart-breaker who…
King John
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 24th Aug, 2016
Performed by a company of young actors, this is a credible adaptation of Shakespeare’s rarely performed King John that revels in the high stakes of its historical narrative.
Blueswater Presents: The Big Blues Party
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 20th Aug 2016
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
Jack Lukeman: King of Soho and Other Stories
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 20th Aug 2016
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Gourmet Cinema Club - Sanctum Soho Hotel
- Listing Attraction
- West End
- Sanctum Soho Hotel
- 20th Aug - 22nd Oct 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
Dr Alasdair Raffe Presents James VII: A Misunderstood King?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place
- 19th Aug 2016
James VII (reigned 1685-8), Scotland’s last Catholic king, was overthrown by his son-in-law William of Orange in the revolution of 1688-9.
Caledonian Folk and Blues at The Guildford 22nd Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 18th - 27th Aug 2016
Festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and FCUKulele featuring guests like Hot Tin Roof, Mike Whellans, Heidrum, Mud in Your Ear, Coaltown Daises, Chilli D…
Claude Bourbon: Medieval and Spanish Blues – Guitar and Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th - 19th Aug 2016
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Jack Lukeman: King of Soho and Other Stories
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th - 19th Aug 2016
One of Ireland’s most respected, best-loved singers, this renowned international entertainer, ‘a mixture of all the great voices of the 20th century’ (Guardian), has few peers for …
Blues is a Primary Colour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 14th - 20th Aug 2016
A music and projection performance through the prism of blues with live music by Justin Lavash and projections by Darrell Jónsson.
Comedians Cinema Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 14th - 28th Aug 2016
Chaotic, alcohol-fuelled and very funny indeed.
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 13th Aug 2016
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 12th - 20th Aug 2016
Blues and Roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Cathedral Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary’s Cathedral
- 12th Aug 2016
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist-vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Cradle King
- Review
- ★★
- Joshua Clarke
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 17th Aug, 2016
In this one-performer play by writer Donald Smith, actor Robin Thomson plays King James – at once James VI of Scotland and James I of England.
Blues! Acoustic Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 9th - 24th Aug 2016
New for this year: Main Street Blues have created a fully acoustic blues and roots show with a powerful set of original material plus blues classics.
Blues Now
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 9th Aug 2016
Blues – the base root of modern music – presented by popular, in demand Edinburgh four-piece, playing lovable, timeless standards plus some driving originals.
Mason King – Mind Control
- Review
- ★★★
- Ellie Coote
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 11th Aug, 2016
Mason King’s Mind Control mixes card tricks, deception and mind-reading into just under an hour of delving into the human psyche.
Blues! High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 22nd Aug 2016
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band with a powerful set of up-tempo original material plus new and old blues classics.
Rory O'Hanlon – You Are Where You Need to Be
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Opium
- 15th Aug, 2016
The show’s stated theme is a philosophical discussion of how we end up where we end up, In actual fact this thread isn’t really followed up.
Midnight Show – Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Come witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows.
Daniel Smith: Blues Piano
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Best of UCLU Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Movement
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
UCLU Comedy Club’s sketch troupe, The Gower Line, return to Edinburgh with their brand of ‘fast paced madness’ (Pi Media), presenting their favourite new sketches from the past yea…
The Low Down Dusty Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 6th - 8th Aug 2016
The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not the only force of nature that ripped families apart.
Boomerang Club
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pilgrim
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
London’s favourite spoken word night arrives in Edinburgh.
Not the Horse
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2016
Almost twenty years ago, Guy Ritchie changed the landscape of British cinema with his love letter to the charismatic psychopaths of the East End underbelly Lock, Stock and Two Smok…
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Matthew Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 19th Aug, 2016
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
Blueswater Presents: Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
100 years of blues, one hour to play it.
The Master and Margarita
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO at St Cuthbert’s
- 14th Aug, 2016
There’s a certain size and scale that one gets used to at the Fringe.
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Proudly supporting the Free Festival with a selection of four different comics daily.
Supper Club at Checkpoint
- Review
- ★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Checkpoint
- 9th Aug, 2016
Assembly’s Supper Club is up against the big, flashy late night circus revues and cabaret shows and sets out to compete with these by presenting many of the very best guest acts …
Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
‘Consistently boasting some of the most interesting line ups in the country’ (Times).
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The Life and Times of Lionel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 12th Aug, 2016
New work is at the heart of the Fringe experience; new work by new companies all the more so.
Ros & Guil R Dead
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 13th Aug, 2016
When deciding on a show to bring to the Fringe, you have two main choices: one, a piece of new writing - exciting and impactful but harder to market - or two, a take on a classic -…
The Reel Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Vintage Mobile Cinema
- 5th - 24th Aug 2016
Once a day the unique 22-seat Vintage Mobile Cinema will briefly become a comedy venue.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
‘A festival mainstay for 10 years now, the always worthwhile Comedy Club 4 Kids should be on the schedule of any self-respecting, chuckle-loving young Fringegoer.
The Shakespeare Club
- Review
- ★
- Fiona Russell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 9th Aug, 2016
In the programme, The Shakespeare Club promises to be a somewhat cheesy, yet harmless play about finding oneself through Shakespeare’s characters.
Comedians Film Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Vintage Mobile Cinema
- 5th - 28th Aug 2016
Our favourite comedians present their favourite films.
Blueswater Presents: Early Blues and Roots with Toby Mottershead
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 5th - 27th Aug 2016
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents his personal history of early blues and roots music in an intimate solo show.
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
A show about growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India (Southall) and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality or brains.
Blueswater Presents: Queens of the Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 19th Aug, 2016
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
Greater Belfast
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2016
The gamut of performers at Fringe brings with it a spectrum of experience; from shiny new student companies, powering forward on naive enthusiasm and off-brand energy drinks, to ve…
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
Club Spiegel
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 4th - 29th Aug 2016
Live, up late and luscious.
Crack Comedy Club's Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
If you’re a real fan of comedy, Crack Comedy’s Pick of the Fringe is the place for you.
Liars' Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ 48 Below
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
This successful London club night comes to Edinburgh.
David Longley: Everything I Hate About My Club Set
- Review
- ★★
- Sam Speedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 20th Aug, 2016
David Longley’s act is structured almost like Shakespeare, summarizing the course of the evening in its first moments: “I’ve always wanted to do standup that’s like talking…
Tim Renkow: King of the Tramps
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 18th Aug, 2016
Tim Renkow has a handy tip for anyone who feels uncomfortable around him as a result of his cerebral palsy.
101 Comedy Club – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Hanover Tap
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
‘Funny.
WWE Hall of Famer Hacksaw Jim Duggan’s 2x4 Tour One-Man Comedy Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 11th Aug, 2016
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 …
Frugl Presents Classic Joke Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
I say, I say, I say.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Pick of the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club present their Pick of the Fringe, following full houses from 2013-2015.
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Award-winning double act, Revan and Fennell, return to the Fringe after making their critically acclaimed Edinburgh debut last year.
lara A king: Not Broken, Just Bent
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
My name is Lara and I broke the law.
All the King’s Men: The 11 Tour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C scala
- 3rd - 29th Aug 2016
Fresh from London, Boston, New York performances, returning to Edinburgh for a sixth year.
Michael Morpurgo's King Arthur
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 9th Aug, 2016
Story Pocket Theatre bring Michael Morpurgo’s novel about King Arthur to life with a solid and enjoyable production.
Boris: World King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 16th Aug, 2016
A lot has happened to Boris Johnson since Boris: World King’s runaway success at last year’s Fringe.
Shite Club – The Downfall of Jellybean Martinez
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2016
First rule of Shite Club: F*ck Shite Club! The mad Spanish bastard that is Jellybean searches for his new style of comedy by any means possible.
Boris & Sergey: Preposterous Improvisation Experiment
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2016
Improv comedy is a tricky beast - when it’s good, it’s very, very good; when it’s bad, it’s pointless.
The Blues Brothers – Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Frodo Allan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C scala
- 29th Aug, 2016
It’s a pretty short drive to Stockbridge, I’ve got a full tank of gas, no cigarettes whatsoever, it’s dark.
The Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jamie P Robson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 12th Aug, 2016
Before the play starts, you can glean some idea of where this hour is headed from the onstage desk: bottles of wine and vodka, a line of cocaine, a singed teddy bear and a dildo ar…
Tatterdermalion
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2016
Puppet pioneers Flabbergast Theatre have made an interesting move this year, establishing their own dedicated performance space, The Omnitorium, within the confines of Assembly Ge…
Brendon Burns and Colt Cabana Do Comedy and Commentary to Bad Wrestling Matches!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 22nd Aug, 2016
I’m sure we’re all used to growing the Fringe brochure and seeing shows with enigmatic titles which tell you nothing about the eventual content.
What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 1st - 2nd Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Floating Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Westminster City Pier
- 2nd Jul - 27th Aug 2016
Whats Included Brunch or Afternoon Tea (screening time dependant) Glass of bubbles each Allocated Tables Edible cinema tickets per person Floating Cinema Club brin…
Gourmet Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- London Fringe
- Malmaison
- 25th Jun - 27th Aug 2016
Gourmet Cinema Club brings you a unique way to enjoy some of the best loved films back on the big screen, but with the all-important All I Want twist.
The Daddy Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 4th - 5th Jun 2016
Masculinity meets Artificial Intelligence in jukebox sci-fi ‘The Daddy Blues’.
Copperdollar Club Night
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd Jun 2016
A night of debauchery at the hands of Kat Lil and a whole rabble of Skellies, there in numbers like never before! Immerse yourself in the land of the carnival.
The Gary and Robert Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren
- 2nd Jun 2016
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind, and reconnect with the world.
The Gary & Robert Blues
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2016
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind; and reconnect with the world.
Club Click: Get Ya Freak On
- Listing Nightlife
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 28th May 2016
Let your freak flag fly at Brighton’s own Studio 54 by the sea.
The Alasdair Beckett-King Mysteries
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 27th - 28th May 2016
Alasdair Beckett-King - “One to Watch” (Time Out) - is a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence he exists.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical NEW YORK
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Broadway
- Stephen Sondheim Theatre
- 24th May 2016 - 12th Mar 2017
She fought her way into the record business as a teenager and, by the time she reached her twenties, had the husband of her dreams and a flourishing career writing hits for the big…
Club Cairo
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 22nd May 2016
Club Cairo offers an exotic array of entertainment from Arabia.
The Wanton Taste Club
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Phoenix Brighton
- 22nd - 27th May 2016
Five afternoons of energising art, food and wellbeing! Eat your happy and put a tang in your step this May.
The King and I NEW YORK
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Broadway
- Lincoln Center-Vivian Beaumont
- 21st May - 4th Sep 2016
Winner! 4 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical! Tony Award® winner Kelli O’Hara (The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific) and Jose Llana (Here Lies Love) star in a magni…
Club Briefs
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 21st May - 4th Jun 2016
Cult cabaret hooligans Briefs present this late-night romp of disco dancing and pop-up performance.
The Blues Corporation Returns!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 14th May 2016
The Blues Corporation returns! New material, new show.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 14th May 2016
“Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up sets from grown-up, high-quality acts who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bits,” says The Independent.
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 14th - 15th May 2016
Comedians’ Cinema Club brings together the UK’s best comedians and forces them to improvise their way through movies.
Blues and Burlesque
- Review
- ★★★
- Oliver Lugg
- Brighton Fringe
- The Rialto Theatre
- 10th Jun, 2016
This clever infusion of comedy and burlesque from Dexys’ former piano man Pete Saunders proved to be a treat.
King of the Fringe
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 12th May 2016
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out to win the crown (and 100 quid)! Expect a night of bulging biceps, protruding …
Hetty the King (and Other Women I Have Loved)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 8th - 24th May 2016
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic, early 20th century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
Hetty the King (and Other Women I have Loved)
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren
- 8th - 24th May 2016
A show inspired by Hetty King (an emblematic early 20th-century drag king), which embraces the possibility of women making connections across stages, in time.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 6th May - 4th Jun 2016
Award-winning comedy with top international and UK comedians. Brighton’s best night out. “THE place in Brighton to catch stand-up comedy” (The Independent)
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Lou Rogers
- Brighton
- Theatre Royal Brighton
- 6th May, 2016
This is the second time Michael Pennington has donned the crown of Lear and this time it’s a Lear clearly made for a 21st Century audience; cut down and pacey.
Buena Vista Social Club Live at the O2 with Tapas Dinner and Wine
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 6th Apr 2016
Channel the musical spirit of Havana for the evening paired with a delicious pre-concert meal at the O2 Arena! Named after the famous Havana members’ club that closed in t…
Locusts Have No King
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Intar Theater
- 31st Mar 2016
A love-triangle comedy with a supernatural streak, this excellently cast new play by J.
King of the Fringe: Heat Two
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton
- The Marlborough Pub & Theatre
- 11th Mar 2016
Brighton’s only drag king competition is back and tougher than ever! It’s time for bois to become men as they battle it out over three heats to make their way to the final.
Apollo Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Apollo Theater
- 10th Mar 2016
Marshall Brandon hosts this comedy show at the legendary theater’s Soundstage. Performers include Meshelle, Neko White and Heather Jay Harris, with music from DJ Qool Marv.
King and Country: Shakespeares Great Cycle of Kings
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- BAM Harvey Theater
- 2nd Mar 2016
(performances begin on Thursday) It’s a royal spring at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when the Royal Shakespeare Company arrives with a quartet of celebrated productions: …
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Pleasance Theatre
- 6th Mar, 2016
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 …
Good King Richard
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Drayton Arms
- 1st - 12th Mar 2016
Drawing on contemporary sources, unsullied by Tudor propaganda, ‘Good King Richard’ dramatises for the very first time, the true events which propelled Richard III onto the thr…
Gourmet Cinema Club
- Listing Attraction
- West End
- Sanctum Soho Hotel
- 13th Feb - 23rd Apr 2016
Experience a cinema screening like never before! There’s no better place to enjoy an indulgent movie night than at a private cinema in the heart of Soho - the traditional …
King Charles III
- Review
- ★★★★
- Julia French
- UK Regional & Tours
- Theatre Royal Brighton
- 11th Feb, 2016
Mike Bartlett’s beautifully worded imagining of a constitutional crisis without a constitution invites us to witness the starkness of the Royal Family stripped bare whilst presen…
Thalia Book Club: Michael Ian Black
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Symphony Space
- 7th Jan 2016
Mr.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Aldwych Theatre
- 5th Jan 2016 - 4th Nov 2017
Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
The Blues Brothers XMAS special
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Arts Theatre
- 5th - 10th Jan 2016
Hartshorn - Hook Productions presents The Blues Brothers XMAS Special, the most electric rock'n'roll party of the year.
BOUND FEET BLUES - A Life Told In Shoes
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 24th Nov - 12th Dec 2015
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
Sally Gross, Kenneth King and Sally Silvers
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- University Settlement, Speyer Hall
- 1st Nov 2015
The Construction Company, a 45-year-old arts organization, presents an evening of new and revivified works by the veteran choreographers Sally Silvers and Kenneth King, as well as …
King Charles III
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Music Box Theater
- 1st Oct 2015
(previews start on Saturday; opens on Nov.
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Cherry Lane Theater
- 1st Oct 2015
Mr.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 27th Aug 2015
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Pistol Pete Wearn - Footstomping Acoustic Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Tron Kirk
- 23rd - 27th Aug 2015
Tearing it up with his own raucous interpretation of traditional blues, Pistol Pete Wearn is a renowned vocalist, slide guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter.
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night with Special Guest Zara Janjua
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 21st Aug 2015
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
Caledonian Folk and Blues at The Guildford 21st Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 20th - 29th Aug 2015
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band and guests: Sandy Tweeddale, Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, Maria Barham, and On The Wag…
Claude Bourbon: Medieval and Spanish Blues – Guitar and Songs
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 20th - 24th Aug 2015
Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, S…
The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Club
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- La Belle Angèle
- 20th Aug 2015
A late Thursday night celebration as the Funk ’n’ Soul Show goes live with presenter, DJ, acclaimed actor and funkster about town Craig Charles manning the decks until 5am.
Sketch Club: The Final
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 19th Aug 2015
Welcome to the Grand Final of the Gilded Balloon and Sketch Club’s exciting new competition to find the very best new sketch performers.
The King of Monte Cristo
- Review
- ★★★
- J W Close
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 22nd Aug, 2015
The best humour is the kind which refers to shared experiences Luckily, The King of Monte Cristo picks up on the stereotypes and personalities familiar to anyone who’s worked in …
Comedy Club 4 Kids 4 Grown-Ups
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 14th Aug 2015
Metaphorically, if our afternoon Comedy Club 4 Kids shows are Doctor Who, then this is the Torchwood spin-off.
Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 14th - 22nd Aug 2015
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 14th Aug 2015
‘Simply outstanding jazz musicianship’ (Turin International Jazz Festival).
Cathedral Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary’s Cathedral
- 14th Aug 2015
A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul jazz from dynamic pianist and vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Ali Affleck's Speakeasy Sessions, New Orleans Jazz and Blues, Moody Moonshine
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 13th - 26th Aug 2015
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
Blues! Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 12th - 31st Aug 2015
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar.
King Lear with Sheep
- Review
- ★★★
- Laura Cress
- London Fringe
- The Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2015
The bard gets replaced by the baaard in Missouri Williams’ eccentric production King Lear With Sheep at The Courtyard Theatre.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 12th - 26th Aug 2015
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louise Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 17th Aug, 2015
No amount of advance research can prepare you for Comedians’ Cinema Club.
Troubadour Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 11th - 17th Aug 2015
Local songwriter Allan Grant.
Poker Night Blues
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th - 30th Aug 2015
In Poker Night Blues, Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire is undone – dismantled and distilled to its essential elements.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 9th - 18th Aug 2015
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
99 Club Stand-Up Selection – Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Proud to support the Free Festival, The 99 Club brings a selection of some of the best comics at the Fringe.
Bayou Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Venue 13
- 14th Aug, 2015
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
Daniel Smith Blues Piano
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Daniel Smith Blues Piano.
The USOL Best Friends Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dragonfly
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
An hour of stand-up from award winners and best friends, Thom Barrett, Rob Saunders and Liam Sullivan.
UCLU Comedy Club Presents...
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Movement
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
Join UCLU Comedy Club’s Blank Slates for an hour of thrilling improvised comedy, as they follow the story of a young superhero on their rise to glory.
The Secret Life of Suitcases
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 22nd Aug, 2015
There are some shows that you just get a good feeling about from the moment you step into the theatre.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 29th Aug 2015
‘Boogie-woogie.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club – Midnight Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Come and witness one of the greatest late-night mixed bill shows on offer.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Midnight Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 8th - 30th Aug 2015
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club goes late night, with a midnight show at the Edinburgh Fringe, following two sell-out runs.
The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Thistle Edinburgh, The King James
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans…
Blues! Roots of the Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Conor Matchett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 17th Aug, 2015
Toby Mottershead presents an excellent selection of blues tracks in a 50 minute display of musical talent in the SpaceTriplex venue on Nicolson Square.
Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour
- Review
- ★★★
- Max Falkenberg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Caley Bar
- 12th Aug, 2015
Created by the wonderful Pete Saunders and his lovely ladies Miss Vicious Delicious and the delightful Scarlet Belle, Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour offers an enchanting evening o…
Simon Caine Does His Club Set
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Fancy watching a comedian perform their club set during the world’s largest arts festival? You’re in luck.
Blues!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
100 years of blues, 55 minutes to play it.
Blues! Storyville
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Named after New Orleans’ historic red-light district, Blues! Storyville features the raunchiest, smuttiest blues songs ever written, guest burlesque performers, and the band behind…
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following two sell-out runs.
Dean Martin and Friends (Christmas Special)
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 20th Aug, 2015
The Fringe is a place for new discoveries – the freshest, young talent rubbing shoulders with the world’s best at their craft.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
‘At the end of a long day’s Fringe-going, this club is Just the Tonic’ (Scotsman).
Ali Affleck's Speakeasy Sessions, New Orleans Jazz and Blues, Moody Moonshine
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 7th - 11th Aug 2015
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
Blues and Burlesque – What the Funk
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Caley Bar
- 7th - 30th Aug 2015
Boogie on down with sassylicious Vicious Delicious and divatastic Scarlett Belle for a late night disco-cabaret at the historic Caledonian Hotel.
What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 22nd Aug, 2015
It’s easy to get lulled by the constant flow of shows at the Fringe, to give in the mid-afternoon slump and the heavy-eyed semi-slumber.
The Stand Late Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
‘This is late night comedy at its finest’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Present and Correct: Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 7th - 29th Aug 2015
Dead Duck Productions brings you another hilarious and original sketch show from the Present and Correct series! We need one more member for our cast to be complete and we’re wai…
Fairly Tales
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 21st Aug, 2015
This play tells the story of Benji and Alf, next-door neighbours becoming best friends, bonded by their love of the titular ‘Fairly Tales’.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
‘Comedy Club 4 Kids has stand-up from grown-up, high-quality acts like John Robins, Stu Goldsmith and Nish Kumar, who perform their usual sets, just without the swearing or rude bi…
Titty Bar Ha Ha: Club Titticana
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 6th - 30th Aug 2015
The murderous hostesses, Hope and Gloria return for their third year of high end filth and games.
Tom Binns: The Club Sets
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 6th - 31st Aug 2015
One man, three hilarious comedy acts.
The Star Rover
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 15th Aug, 2015
Despite being one of Jack London’s more obscure works, his 1915 novel The Star Rover or The Jacket is one that feels oddly contemporary.
All the King's Men Photo Exhibition
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
A series of personal portraits of extraordinary men.
Boris: World King
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2015
Boris: World King is a giddy, silly and savagely satirical delight.
The Blues Brothers – Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Conor Matchett
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 15th Aug, 2015
If you’re looking for an enjoyable, happy-go-lucky hour of rhythm and blues entertainment, then look no further than this show.
Bat-Fan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2015
When boredom threatens at the Fringe, a hero will rise.
Revan and Fennell: Fan Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 9th Sep, 2015
Brimming with originality and presenting a confidently executed show, Revan and Fennell are a double act that have the potential to succeed the comedy throne of French & Saunders.
The Glorious Damnation of Eddie Small
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Bedlam Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2015
The legend of Faustus, the man who sold his soul for knowledge, wealth and power is one which has been in the public consciousness for over 500 years.
Lydia King: A Date with Density
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
If at first you don’t succeed, try online dating.
All the King's Men presents: Radio Gaga
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Dan Parker
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 13th Aug, 2015
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
King Henry V
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Union Theatre
- 7th - 18th Jul 2015
An all-new, all-female production of Shakespeare’s war play, King Henry V follows Henry and her band of brothers as they face the challenges of life on the front line, exploring …
King Liz
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- McGinn/Cazale Theater
- 1st Jul 2015
(previews start on July 13; opens on July 27) The career of a sport agent is a high-testosterone avocation, but Liz Rico does it a as well or much better than her male colleagues.
Club Click: The Soul of Dirty Disco
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 30th May 2015
Booty Queens & Hip Hustlers come on down for a dazzling evening of sumptuous glamour, glittering divas, cabaret chic & dirty disco dancing.
Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 23rd - 30th May 2015
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
Hundred Watt Club: Burlesque & Cabaret
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Old Market
- 22nd May 2015
Returning to Brighton with another rip-roaring line-up! Featuring raucous, risqué and hairy boylesque from Dave the Bear; flirtatious striptease from pin-up Jeanie Wishes; plus hi…
John Crampton ... Blues & Bluegrass
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Mesmerist
- 21st May 2015
Hebden Bridge Blues Festival: “This was a quite breath-taking performance by a phenomenal musician who brought the clamouring audience to its feet on more than one occasion and had…
The Fool and The King Workshop
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- 10 Steine St
- 17th May 2015
Through movement and play participants will identify their own Fools and Kings to explore the beautiful, ridiculous and poignant conflict of this unlikely alliance.
The Blues Corporation Live!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 16th May 2015
The legendary Brighton based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
Flamenco Blues
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Ropetackle Arts Centre
- 10th May 2015
‘Flamenco Blues’ arrives with a tender tribute to blues and flamenco.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 9th May 2015
Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the international circuit to do their thing for an audience of children (aged 6+) and th…
King of the Fringe
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 8th May 2015
Drag Queens are over and the boys are back in town! Strap on a strap on, bang on a beard and join your hosts for the Drag King competition of the century! Be amazed by the figurati…
Spiegel Late with Club Click DJs
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 7th - 29th May 2015
The weekend starts Thursdays at the Spiegeltent with Club Click DJs playing a slinky mix of funky soul, R&B and dirty disco.
Kernow King: Minority Rapport
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Studio
- 4th May 2015
Rebel armies, the pub darts team, political parties, chaps who drive Audi TTs, religion, Cornwall, knitting clubs, men who wear crocs with socks.
Red Brick Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Otherplace at the Basement: Main Space
- 2nd - 30th May 2015
The Fringe’s favourite stand-up comedy club returns.
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 1st - 31st May 2015
Award-winning comedy every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Copperdollar Club Night
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 1st May 2015
Kick off the Spiegeltent season in spectacular style.
Fringe Club on the Neilson Stage
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren Bar: Neilson Stage
- 1st - 31st May 2015
The best place to hang out this May, the Neilson Fringe Club Stage features a busy line-up of fantastic free performances this Fringe with family entertainment, followed by live mu…
Alonzo King Lines Ballet
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Joyce Theater
- 30th Apr 2015
At first glance, Alonzo King and San Francisco make an unlikely pair.
The King and I
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center
- 1st Mar 2015
(previews start on March 12; opens on April 16) Fans of the midcentury musical are most likely whistling a happy tune as Lincoln Center revives this Rodgers and Hammerstein show fr…
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Stephen Sondheim Theater
- 22nd Dec 2014 - 22nd Dec 2015
This friendly, formulaic jukebox show about the New York-born singer-songwriter might as well be called “Brooklyn Girl,” so closely does it adhere to the template of th…
The King's Kilt
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 2nd Mar, 2015
Rona Munro’s comedy drama, originally produced for Radio 4 in 2008, tells the story of a period in the life of Walter Scott when he was tasked with commissioning a kilt for King …
Club Class - The Aviation Comedy
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- THE LONDON THEATRE - New Cross
- 27th - 29th Nov 2014
Join a cast of 5 dressed as cabin crew yet playing everyone form pilots to passengers, baggage handlers to bits of the Airbus A320 on this charter flight of hell to the Algarve.
Bound Feet Blues - A Life Told in Shoes
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Tristan Bates Theatre
- 13th Oct 2014
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 22nd Aug 2014
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Club Spiegel presents Shooglenifty
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 19th - 22nd Aug 2014
The Shoogles return with a brand new album.
Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 18th Aug 2014
We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten…
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Henry’s Cellar Bar
- 17th - 20th Aug 2014
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
King David's Wives
- Review
- ★★★
- J. A. Sutherland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Cuthbert’s Church
- 20th Aug, 2014
The Old Testament story of King David is quite a romp.
Cathedral Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Mary’s Cathedral
- 15th Aug 2014
A set of rocking Chicago blues, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
King Creosote
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Queen’s Hall
- 15th Aug 2014
In January 2014, Mercury Music Award nominee Kenny Anderson (AKA King Creosote) completed his first ever film soundtrack for Virginia Heath’s poetic documentary, From Scotland With…
Caledonian Folk and Blues at the Guildford 20th Year
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Guildford Arms
- 14th - 23rd Aug 2014
The festival’s best free music event, 20th year hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk ‘n’ fun band and guests - Sandy Tweeddale, FCUkulele, Bedford Falls, Gallo Rojo, an…
Claude Bourbon: Medieval and Spanish Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 14th Aug 2014
Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically trained.
Bright Club: Scotland’s Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stand in the Square
- 13th Aug 2014
We’re straight from the research field to the Fringe! Bright Club is the freshest thing in stand-up - an academic comedy cocktail synthesised for your entertainment and enlighten…
Blues! The Late Night Sessions
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceCabaret @ 54
- 13th - 22nd Aug 2014
From the band behind award-winning show Blues! comes a selection of not quite family friendly blues songs that couldn’t be picked for the show.
Let It Fall (After King Lear)
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th - 23rd Aug 2014
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 11th Aug 2014
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
Harry the King
- Review
- ★★★
- Grace Knight
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 20th Aug, 2014
This is a solid performance of a classic play which, while it doesn’t amount to a re-telling in anything but the literal sense, does a creditable job of rendering the whole thing w…
King Ubu
- Review
- ★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 19th Aug, 2014
King Ubu was performed only once in playwright Alfred Jarry’s life.
Niki King Quintet: The Songs of Duke Ellington
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Brunton
- 10th Aug 2014
King’s exciting new show pays tribute to the timeless songs and musical genius of one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers of the 20th century, Duke Ellington.
Sarah Bennetto's Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2014
This show is a little different from what the rest of the Festival has to offer.
The Worm - An Underground Adventure
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2014
As anyone who’s ever dealt with a three-year-old can tell you, keeping their attention can be a Herculean task.
Taylor & Leigh's Country Blues Night
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 8th Aug 2014
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
Blues! Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 25th Aug 2014
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues! They will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar, one of Edinburgh’s best live music venues.
Blues and Roots
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 8th - 16th Aug 2014
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride’s
- 18th Aug, 2014
Alex Yellowlees and his band take us back in time to the swinging twenties with a collection of hot club swinging jazz tracks, played with a lightness of touch and a lot of skill…
Club Spiegel Present The Loveboat Big Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 7th - 25th Aug 2014
Sumptuously celebrating the golden age of shipboard romance, while forging full steam into the future, Scotland’s premier swing sensation The Loveboat Big Band invite you aboard …
Bloody Trams
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2014
I’ve often wondered how Edinburgh locals truly feel about the Fringe - is it a huge party or just a massive disruption? Given the wealth of subjects from around the world being d…
Daniel Smith Blues Piano
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 3rd - 22nd Aug 2014
Down-home blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano/vocals, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Susan Murray's F*ckwit Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Alanta Colley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 10th Aug, 2014
The feisty fire-headed pocket rocket Susan Murray is here to reveal the breadth and depth of just who possesses membership to the F*ckwit Club.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Jazz Bar
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
‘Boogie-woogie.
National Loaf
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 8th Aug, 2014
There’s a sort of delicious irony to queuing for a show about rationing whilst watching one of the cast frantically stuffing their face with crisps.
Newton's Cauldron
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 7th Aug, 2014
Newton’s Cauldron is an unexpected gem, a brisk little piece which mixes storybook, history book and textbook deftly and amusingly.
The Breakfast Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 2nd - 24th Aug 2014
World class morning variety that rocks the whole family.
Lisa Scott Sings Blues and Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 2nd Aug 2014
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 11th Aug, 2014
The Midnight Comedy Club features different comedians each night showcasing their talents.
Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour
- Review
- ★★★
- Charlotte Ivers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Caley Bar
- 21st Aug, 2014
Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour is an enjoyable, if not particularly spectacular, way to spend an hour.
Licence To Laugh Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 1st - 24th Aug 2014
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
Club Spiegel
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Famous Spiegeltent
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
The legendary late, live and luscious Club Spiegel will present a series of live bands, DJs and dancehall shenanigans throughout the festival.
Soho Comedy Club at the Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Freestival St Mary’s
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
An hour of top quality comedy by the best acts at the Fringe bought to you by London’s famous Soho Comedy Club, rated by Time Out as one of the Top 10 Best Comedy Clubs in London…
IndieRound (Fool Members Club) with Bob Slayer & Tim Fitzhigham
- Review
- ★★★
- Aron Penczu
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Bob & Miss Behave’s Bookshop
- 31st Aug, 2014
Some way into a verbal onslaught directed at yours truly, Bob Slayers makes an unexpected allusion to the observer effect in particle physics.
The Man Who Would Be King
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Isla VT
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Dawn State’s sharp, modern adaptation of Kipling’s classic novella could be deemed a classic in itself.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club: Showcase Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Jane Thompson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 31st Aug, 2014
Hilarity Bites, as comedy showcases at the Fringe go, is a solid choice - a mix of an experienced compere and a good range of acts promising a solid hour of entertainment.
The Comedy Cow: Prime Cut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 24th Aug, 2014
Free Fringe comedy can be a risky prospect but it can be a risk worth taking in service of finding a night worth seeing.
99 Club Stand-up Selection - Cowgate - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Stuart Mckenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 19th Aug, 2014
Luke Benson hosts 99 Club’s pick of the Fringe with a free hour of comedy that shows off the talents (and faults) at this year’s festival.
Barbara Morrison: Dinah Washington – Queen of the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 1st - 3rd Aug 2014
Seven years with Ray Charles, Barbara Morrison demonstrates her full range of musicality and fun.
A Journey Round My Skull
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2014
Science-theatre is in vogue at the moment.
Blues!
- Review
- ★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 10th Aug, 2014
Aiming to cover ninety years of Blues in sixty minutes is a mightily ambitious endeavour.
Comedians' Cinema Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Kayleigh Blair
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Tron
- 16th Aug, 2014
This improv show sees stand up Eric Lampaert direct a series of movies with a cast of Fringe comedians that changes daily - some of whom have never even seen the movie they are …
A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at King’s Hall
- 5th Aug, 2014
My first clue should have been the warmup.
The Fair Intellectual Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Megan Dalton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 17th Aug, 2014
In 1717, three young women strove to discover ‘what we might attain unto if we were as industrious to cultivate our minds as we are to adorn our bodies’, and so set up the soci…
Blues and Burlesque: Hotter Than Hell
- Review
- ★★★
- Sarah Coombes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens / BOSCO TENT
- 5th Aug, 2014
Blues and Burlesque, featuring sexy Scarlett Belle, sassy and silly Vicious Delicious and their smooth accompanist, Pete Saunders, is a good value 50 minutes of raunchy entertainme…
Danny Bhoy: 12 Nights, 12 Charities
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 7th Aug, 2014
There’s a particular pleasure in seeing someone do their job incredibly well.
Working Men's Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Step into Working Men’s Club - the best bits of that unique type of entertainment.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 9th Aug, 2014
I didn’t expect to be hearing hard-hitting political satire this afternoon, but wow, that was actually quite a good Tibet joke.
Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Faith-Ashleigh Wong
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 16th Aug, 2014
Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues is a fabulously facetious musical comedy produced by New Zealand’s Cuba Creative.
The Explorers Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Comedy Festival @ The Beehive Inn
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Comedy! Exploring! Adventures! Life! Death! Other stuff! Come see the first solo Edinburgh Festival Fringe show from comedian Andrew Learmonth.
Kraken
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2014
Billed as ‘Comedy (mime, physical theatre)’ I was a little unsure about what to expect from Kraken, but whatever it was that I had been expected was soon proven to be way out.
101 Comedy Club - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The White Horse
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
‘Funny.
Mark Restuccia - Stooch Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014
Ever wondered what it’s really like to be a comedian? Ever wondered what they get up to the rest of the time when you don’t see them on stage? Ever wondered how they come up with t…
Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2014
Lord of the Dance Settee marks Richard Herring’s 23rd Fringe show, an accumulated Edinburgh residency of just under two years; enough, as he himself points out, to make him mor…
King Arthur
- Review
- ★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 31st Jul, 2014
Sometimes in this show, there’d come some songs like this.
The Blues Brothers- Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jack Chown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 14th Aug, 2014
These Blues Brothers take a cliché and put their own mark on it.
Laika: A Space Dogyssey
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 7th Aug, 2014
One of the best things about the Fringe is the energy and ingenuity of the young companies performing here and these are both words that apply perfectly to Double Edge Drama, creat…
The Twins Macabre: Small Mediums at Large
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
As Ethel Merman famously sang in Gypsy, ‘you gotta get a gimmick if you want to get ahead’.
David O'Doherty Has Checked Everything
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2014
David O’Doherty is one of those rare stand-ups who is a familiar face without being plastered everywhere, who is successful without being packaged.
BEASTS: Solo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
In themselves the Beasts’ sketch personas are fairly standard; the nutcase, the buffoon and the straight man.
Potted Sherlock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2014
Edinburgh stalwarts Dan and Jeff are back for another energetic hour and, following Potted Potter, Potted Pirates and Potted Panto, it’s the turn of Baker Street’s own Sherlock…
Mark Grist & MC Mixy: Dead Poets' Death Match
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 13th Aug, 2014
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
Inheritance Blues
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Henry St Leger
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2014
Hosted by some occasionally fallible blues band members and housed in “deepest, darkest Dorset”, Inheritance Blues is a tale of three sons as they meet to mourn their father (o…
Rachel Parris: Live in Vegas
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2014
It’s heartening to see a deserving standup successfully transfer from the Free Fringe to the larger potential audience of the mega-venues.
King Kirby
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amanda Miller
- Off Off Broadway
- The Brick
- 29th Jun, 2014
As the audience takes their seats, they see a man hunched over an easel, drawing pictures on a large sheet of paper with feverish intensity.
Sundae Club
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 1st Jun 2014
Sundae Club returns for a very special four fabulous hours of creative fun for children and families at Komedia and Dukes @ Komedia.
King Kirby
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- Brick Theater
- 1st Jun 2014
Crystal Skillman and Fred Van Lente, the husband-and-wife playwrights behind this supple production about the towering comic book artist Jack Kirby, deftly compressing much informa…
The Blues Corporation Live!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 31st May 2014
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
King of the Fringe
- Review
- ★★★
- Anna Pitts
- Brighton Fringe
- St James’s Street Pop Up
- 2nd Jun, 2014
Having never been to a Drag King pageant before I was not entirely sure what to expect from King of the Fringe.
The Blues Corporation Live!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 31st May 2014
The legendary,Brighton-based,nine-piece blues and soul band are back for one of their rare appearances. Frequently a sell-out so book ahead and don’t miss out!
Explorers Club: Lucid Dreaming
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 28th May 2014
Eccentricty and the quest for experience don’t stop at Brighton and further down the coast is another hotbed of intellectual pursuit.
How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 24th May 2014
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jay Kidd
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 26th May, 2014
Comedy Club 4 Kids is a first-rate comedy show for children and adults alike.
Venue B
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Youth Centre
- 24th - 31st May 2014
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- To be discovered…
- 24th - 25th May 2014
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
Working Men's Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 23rd - 24th May 2014
Come join our club.
Working Men's Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 10th Aug, 2012
The title of Luke Benson and David Hardcastle’s show can easily give rise to the fear that it will be a rather patronising pastiche of working class culture for the benefit of a …
King & Country World War 1 Opera
- Review
- ★★★★
- Duncan Grindall
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 29th May, 2014
The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival.
King Porter Stomp + Kings Mews
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Green Door Store
- 16th May 2014
Energetic, dynamic and refreshingly unique, King Porter Stomp celebrate the release of their new single ‘pocketfulofrocketfuel’ with an intimate and very special performance.
Robin Ince's Dirty Book Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jay Kidd
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 15th May, 2014
Clutching a handful of books, Robin Ince takes to the stage to welcome the audience into his world of lurid literature from across the ages.
Ronnie Rialto Sings Jazz, Swing & Blues
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Cubar: Chill-Out Lounge Bar
- 10th - 31st May 2014
Ronnie Rialto, Lounge Singer Extraordinaire, entertains at the Cubar Chill-Out Lounge Bar in Preston Street, Brighton.
Red Brick Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 3rd - 31st May 2014
The finest, funniest late-night stand-up on the Fringe.
Krater Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Harriet Hirschler
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 4th May, 2012
The basement of Komedia is buzzing as soon as I enter; this is the place to be for stand up comedy in the South (or so I’ve been told).
Krater Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space
- 2nd - 31st May 2014
Komedia’s award-winning Krater Comedy Club has been described as “THE place in Brighton to catch stand-up comedy” by The Independent and has been winner of Chortle’s Best C…
Fringe Club
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 2nd - 31st May 2014
Continue your Brighton Fringe evening at our late-night show. Music from Brighton’s finest bands and a bar that won’t break the bank. For full listings see www.warrenvenue.com
Fringe Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Rowan Dent
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 24th May, 2014
As a child of rural Somerset, I am no stranger to folk music.
Club Sol Party
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 1st - 20th May 2014
‘Club Sol Party’ is a completely immersive event that will transport you to sunny Spain for an evening of comedy and cabaret that you will never forget.
Blues In The Night
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Peter Scott-Presland
- London Fringe
- Hackney Empire
- 1st May, 2014
“Blues in the Night” is a compilation revue, a tribute to the black performers and music of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s.
BABY/LON
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- Hackney Downs Studios
- 21st Apr, 2014
‘BABY/LON’, the second work by Hackney-based theatre company The Big House, is a big story; one of homelessness, violence, motherhood on the lowest rungs of society and the strug…
The Comedians Club
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- The Comedians’ Club of New York
- 7th Apr 2014
New York City’s newest comedy club kicks off its Monday night show — with the emcee Josh Spear and stand-up from Jesse Joyce, Dan Soder and a surprise guest.
King Lear
- Review
- ★★★
- Abigail Lewis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- 13th Aug, 2012
Act One is a company full of high quality actors, all of whom were captivating to watch.
King Lear
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- 1st Mar 2014
In Arin Arbus’s thoughtful and affecting production, Shakespeare’s most daunting play lowers its voice, the better to be heard more clearly.
Safehouse: Rock, Blues. Psych ... and Beyond!
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Edinburgh’s favourite blues / rock combo play Heat, Feat and much more.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Fringe Guide to Running a Venue
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug 2013
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Medieval and Spanish Blues: Guitar and Songs
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug 2013
A musical journey from haunting Spanish moods, ethereal eastern influences and strains of western folk.
John Carnie and Spider Mackenzie Still Have the Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug 2013
A driving mix of celtic, jazz, folk and blues.
Lisa Scott Sings Blues and Jazz
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug 2013
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
Storytellers' Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th - 17th Aug 2013
Sarah Bennetto is joined by some of the world’s best comedians telling stories by a fireside.
Caledonian Folk and Blues at The Guildford
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th - 24th Aug 2013
Festival’s best free pub music event, 19th year hosted by Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band Yard Of Ale and guests - Sandy Tweedale, Bedford Falls, FC Ukulele, Eddie Walker, The…
Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug 2013
This modern day Grappelli on violin with virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform intoxicating hot club jazz laced with Latin rhythms…
Caledonian Folk and Blues at the Guildford
- Review
- ★★★
- Sam Bradley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Folk stalwarts Yard of Ale are in residence at the Guildford Arms for the duration of the 18th Caledonian Folk and Blues Festival and they play with the confidence and verve of old…
Dustbowl Blues with a Glasgow Kick
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th - 21st Aug 2013
A soul-grasping musical road trip from this Glasgow roots and bluesman.
Slap and Giggle: Recharged
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Double act comedy is very difficult.
Blues! Live at Venue 45
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th - 22nd Aug 2013
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
The 27 Club as a concept is comprised of a much revered collection of musicians who died aged 27.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alistair Grant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
The 27 Club is possibly the only club in the world as exclusive to join as it is undesirable.
Who Runs the World?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
For me, female acapella is really difficult to get right.
Murder, She Didn't Write
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
There are two rules to improvised comedy: One, you’re only as strong as your weakest member and two, never, ever say no.
The Jive Aces - King of the Swingers Tour
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th - 13th Aug 2013
UK’s No.
Gavin Crawford - A Bummer Abroad
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I have to admit, I was not convinced by Gavin Crawford to begin with.
All the King's Men - Knight Fever!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Justin McCarthy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
A capella group All the King’s Men return to the Fringe for their fourth consecutive year with Knight Fever! It is a professional, well presented and well executed performance, t…
All the King's Men Presents
- Review
- ★★★
- Ella Moran-Jones
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Perhaps I’m experiencing a cappella fatigue, but the singers at this show did nothing to wow me particularly.
Slaves of the Kingdom
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Slaves of the Kingdom is a new musical based around the Bible story of Moses and the Exodus and it’s one hell of an ambitious undertaking.
Dinner with the King of the Swingers
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th - 25th Aug 2013
Philip Contini and his Be Happy Band celebrate 20 years with our favourite numbers from Prima, Porter, Martin, Sinatra and Naples.
In the Pink - Fabulous Female a Cappella!
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Kourtney Kardashian.
Club Noir Burlesque: Schlock Horror
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug 2013
A gory, bloody, wicked show.
Blues
- Review
- ★★★
- Bryce Lucas
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Performing under the simple show title ‘Blues,’ the Dana Dixon Blues Band want to be perfectly clear about what kind of music they’re performing.
Blues! Live at the Jazz Bar
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th - 26th Aug 2013
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar.
John McNamara Acoustic Soul and Blues
- Review
- ★★★
- Joe Walsh
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
Red Shoes and Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug 2013
An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country.
King of the Swingers
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th - 26th Aug 2013
Philip and The Band celebrate 20 years (!) at the Fringe.
Alaska's King Island Christmas
- Review
- ★★
- Agnes Chambre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Straight from Alaska comes a new piece of musical theatre from a 40-strong cast.
John McNamara Acoustic Soul and Blues
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th - 25th Aug 2013
Must see Australian artist.
The Blues Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug 2013
The Blues Band are acknowledged throughout the world as being the finest and most entertaining purveyors of rhythm and blues.
Danny the Champion of the World - Plays for Children
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
When you’re looking for a kids’ show at the Fringe, there are a few names which ought to be a safe bet and, of these, none more so than Roald Dahl.
Oh My Darling
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Folk is a big deal at the moment, with bands such as Mumford and Sons bringing English traditional music to the stadium stage, while American artists such as Alison Krauss enjoy a …
Blues Guitar Duo
- Review
- ★★★
- Bryce Lucas
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Andy McKay-Challen and Gavin Jack are the ‘Blues Guitar Duo’ you’re likely to find listed in your Fringe guide.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★
- Frankie Goodway
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Just the Tonic clearly understand the demands of their audience: the only way into the Midnight Show venue is through a bar and past the toilets.
Dick Lee's Swingtet featuring Ali Affleck
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Licence to Laugh Comedy Club - Free
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2013
London’s up-and-coming comedy club brings you some of the finest comedians from the London comedy circuit. Different line-up each day, all hosted by Joe Bains.
The Distraction Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 26th Aug 2013
London’s top musical comedy night arrives in Edinburgh! Featuring the best musical comedians and the funniest musicians to be found at the Fringe.
Christian Reilly: Songs of Praise
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Christian Reilly is on a mission to save the world through music.
King Creosote
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Blacksell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
King Creosote is no stranger to Queen’s Hall.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Bryce Lucas
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
Just the Tonic Comedy Club's Midnight Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Susan Ford
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Late night shows throughout the Fringe are well known for being a bit raucous, a bit crazy and best enjoyed with a bevvy or two.
The Rabbie Burns Supper Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rory Mackenzie
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Set in the impressive venue of the Ghillie Dhu, the Rabbie Burns Supper Club is an ostensible celebration of Burns poetry and Scots culture.
John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Catherine Bryer
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
King Kong the Musical!
- Review
- ★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
It’s the 1930’s and a few years have passed since Carl Dunham, the fabled showman brought King Kong from the jungle to New York.
The Breakfast Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Margaret Sessa-Hawkins
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
It’s hard, a lot of the time, to find comedy that appeals to both children and adults.
Adam Buxton: Kernel Panic
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
To a certain generation of British people, Adam Buxton is a bit of a legend.
Best of Waterloo Comedy Club - Ralph D'iamond Hosts
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 6th Aug 2013
Come and see the stars who’ve appeared at Waterloo Comedy Club including radio and TV guests, award winners and Fringe favourites.
Wits End Comedy Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 12th Aug 2013
Our dashing hosts present a naughty nightcap of raucous comedy, cabaret and late night frivolity.
Blues
- Review
- ★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
There is a huge difference between having obvious musical talent and putting on an entertaining, engaging show.
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2013
2012 reviews: ‘Loaded with energy’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
Free - 99 Club Stand-Up Selection - Cowgate
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2013
Proudly supporting the Free Festival, the 99 Club brings a selection of four different comics every day.
The Tom Show: The Grand Tour
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
The story of the Fringe is a story of the periphery.
Blues!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lily Blacksell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
The age old question whether a white man can sing the blues was answered fairly conclusively at the Space on Niddry Street last night.
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Komedia - Main Space / Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
- 5th Aug, 2012
The Bongo Club is more accustomed to hosting face-chewing ravers than sweet-chewing kiddies, but this evening the kindergarten has taken over.
The Scottish Burly Ceilidh Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
For first-time ceilidh-goers, some tips: do not wear high heels.
Sam Rose in the Shadows
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
In the right hands, theatre is an immensely powerful tool for taking large issues and bringing them down to a manageable level.
Blues and Burlesque Speakeasy Show
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2013
***** ‘Blues and Burlesque is a thoroughly engaging show that gives burlesque a range most other shows aren’t even aware of’ (ThisIsCabaret.com).
Comedy Club 4 Kids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Where can you get an hour of stand-up that includes routines about farts, worms and Charles Darwin? The Comedy Club 4 Kids, that’s where.
Superhero Snail Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
I’m not a morning person at the best of times.
Jamie MacDowell and Tom Thum
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 6th Aug, 2013
My favourite thing about the Edinburgh Fringe is the sheer concentration of talent in creates in the city, an array of people with skills that I can only dream of having.
Hilarity Bites Comedy Club Showcase
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Since 2007 Hilarity Bites alumni include John Bishop, Sarah Millican, Chris Ramsey, Russell Kane, Jason Cook, Pete Firman, Richard Herring, Reginald D.
Superbard: The Flood
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
Music, video, comedy and theatre? A physical performance and an eBook? Attempting to tackle the subject of the apocalypse? From reading the show description of ‘The Flood’, you…
Big Value Comedy's Lunchtime Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
An early afternoon, discount show with another four of the hottest unknown acts on the first step of the ladder to success.
Ellis & Rose: Big in Denmark
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Watching Ellis and Rose in the dank damp of the Bunker gives a moment of odd synchronicity.
The Islanders
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
The Islanders tells the simple tale of a young Dorset couple, Amy and Eddie; the beginnings of their love, the slow disaster of their living together and the titanic struggle of or…
Working Men's Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Emily Edwards
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Luke Benson and David Hardcastle are bringing back the Working Men’s Club; pints and pork scratchings at the ready.
The Hill and Weedon Fan Club
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 14th Aug 2013
Hill and Weedon (Winners of Musical Comedy Awards 2013, Laughing Horse New Act of the Year finalists 2012) are back with a powerhouse hour of funny music, sketches, beard whisperin…
Daly's Comedy Club @ The Edinburgh Fringe
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
In this special free Fringe show you can expect the unexpected with some of our favourite acts handpicked for each show and a different line-up every day, there is something for ev…
Esio Trot
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Often high marks are awarded to those companies who create a new world in the theatre through their use of advanced set, puppetry, props or movement so it is good to sometimes be r…
The King and Queen of the Universe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Justin McCarthy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
A poignant adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s tale, The King and Queen of the Universe, produced by Slippers and Rum, tells a story of adulation and bereavement set in the depths of t…
Rich Hall's Hoedown
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
We see a lot of Rich Hall on panel shows these days: QI, Have I Got News For You?, Eight out of Ten Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
Cookstown Sizzling Comedy Club Presents the Irishtorats of Comedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Showcasing the very best in Irish comedy, this daily show will not disappoint, with the best headline acts on the Irish circuit and support from new up-and-coming comedians.
Rik n Mix
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
Rik n Mix is actually a showcase of three comedians combining their short sets to make an hour long show compered by Rik Carranza.
Micheline Sings Brel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
It’s likely that, when you think of France at its coolest, there are certain figures who spring to mind –Francois Truffaut, Jean-Paul Satre, Brigitte Bardot.
Will Seaward: Socialist Fairytales!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.
This Was the World and I Was King
- Review
- ★★★★
- Nicole Adam
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
The force and power of a child’s imagination against adversity has long been fodder for writers.
Knightmare Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Southbank Centre Pop-up Festival Area
- 7th Aug, 2013
I’m sure any fringe veteran worth their salt has had the experience of seeing a famous face from their childhood appearing out of an Edinburgh side-street to bring back a flood o…
Jay Foreman: No More Colours
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Ensconced in an inflatable dome, in the children’s area of the Pleasance, bravely struggling through a voice ravaged by cold and flyering, Jay Foreman does not have an easy job o…
Sotho Sounds: Junk Funk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Sotho Sounds in the band’s current form is four men: cheerful front-man Khuti, guitarist Tankiso, string-player Josepha and frowning powerhouse percussionist Paseka.
Seann Walsh: The Lie-in King
- Review
- ★★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
Though a wayward arachnid hanging from the ceiling threatened to steal Walsh’s show on the night I was there, his genuine reaction to it – ‘HOLY SHIT’ – turned into ten m…
The Blues Brothers - Live
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Heather Bagnall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
I have a confession to make.
Katie Goodman: I Didn't F*ck It Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Katie Goodman absolutely delivers – a gutsy comedian with a satirical side and a fairly foul mouth.
My Brother the Robot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
I often revisit companies and venues at the Fringe, simply because I know that their work works for me.
Pajama Men - Just the Two of Each of Us
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Mime and physical theatre can be risky aspects of a comedy show.
The Blues Brothers - Live
- Review
- ★★★
- Alexander Boughton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Advertised as a five star crowd-pleaser from Fringe’s past, this show might be expected to drum up a frenzy.
New Art Club: Feel About Your Body
- Review
- ★★★★
- Troy Holmes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Dynamic, physical, moving (literally), touching (even more literally) and hilarious; this is the New Art Club, Tom Roden and Pete Shenton, two men who are on a mission to make you …
Bright Club: Scotland's Fringe
- Review
- ★★
- Milly Reilly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
A show that gathers different academics, doctors, scientists and the like to intellectually entertain has real potential and if the hour had been filled with funny facts from enter…
Chris Dugdale - Magic and Mischief!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
The Fringe isn’t always the best place for magic.
Phill Jupitus and Deborah Frances-White: Voices in Your Head - The Phill Jupitus Experiment
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
Best of Waterloo Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★
- Catherine Anderson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
The volume of shows presented at the Edinburgh Fringe can sometimes be overwhelming, so the Waterloo Comedy Club has put on a free show to give the audience a taster of some of the…
John McNamara Acoustic Soul / Blues Singer - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
The Edinburgh Festival has some unusual venues – that is a well-known fact amongst regular Fringe-goers, as avid audience members hop from university building to converted wareho…
Joanna Neary: Youth Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Adam Lebovits
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
If most people had a time machine, it’s unlikely their first choice of destination would be Truro in 1987.
The Bongo Club Cabaret (and NYE Club)
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Nadia Mehdi
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Bongo Cabaret always has a lot to live up to, being well regarded as one of the best cabarets at the Fringe.
Tom-Tom Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tim Earl
- Brighton Fringe
- 31st May, 2008
What a box of delights! Jaw-dropping acrobatics, superb DJ-ing, stunning beat-boxing, intricate drumming, and enthusiastic, up-tempo presentation and compering.
Biloxi Blues
- Review
- ★★★
- Larry Bartleet
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Bishops Diocesan College, an independent boys’ school in Cape Town, brings this ambitious production of Biloxi Blues to Edinburgh after their run of Master Harold.
Death and the King's Horseman
- Review
- ★★★★
- John C Kennedy
- London Fringe
- 14th Apr, 2009
Set in Oyo, Nigeria in the middle of World War II, Wole Soyinkas Death and the Kings Horseman centres around the battle between British colonialist views and the local traditio…
Red Riding Hood and the Wolves
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
There’s been a bit of a pattern to Fringe children’s theatre over the past few years.
New Art Club: Quiet Act of Destruction
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Kahn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2011
New Art Club are certainly as good as their word, and over an hour they they recount an elaborate tale which centres around a fierce rivalry between two small, dull villages in Cam…
The Alchemystorium
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
I feel a little drained after seeing this show but in the best possible way.
The Cheese and Pineapple Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah Verhaeg
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2008
We are invited to a party.
New Gondoliers Play Mediterranean Homesick Blues
- Review
- ★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
What do you get if you mix Gogol Bordello with Bob Dylan, but without Dylan’s lyrical genius? The New Gondoliers.
Joe Bor: In Search of the Six Pack
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Dustbowl Blues with a Glasgow Kick
- Review
- ★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
One man’s Skrillex is another’s alien communique; one woman’s James Blunt is another’s coffee table garbage.
Andrew and the Pony
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
‘Andrew and the Pony’ is, oddly enough, the story of how performer Andrew Bridges has always, since early childhood, desperately wanted a pony and of all the bizarre situations…
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2011
Right, listen here.
Festival Folk @ The Oak/The Wee Folk Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Byrne’s material tonight takes in a range of styles and moods, but is mostly taken from poetry written in Scots dialect traditions, and there were clearly a number of jokes that I …
The Top Secret Comedy Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tiffany Shepherd
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Apparently not such a big secret after all, the Whistlebinkies was packed with those in the know waiting for a line-up of top comedians to kick start their night.
West End Glee Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Sep, 2010
The Sears Basset Glee Club is looking for a soloist for its London debut, and we - the audience - get to vote on who it will be.
Circus of the Orient
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
I haven’t been to the circus for a while and there’s a reason for that.
The Shuffle Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Bruce Kent
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2007
Let the Spiegels resident late night band entertain you through the early hours with their slick performance of swing classics in a fantastic setting.
Belgrave and Manera's Music Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Richard O’Brien
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 29th Aug, 2010
Over the last few years at the Latitude festival Robin Ince’s Book Club has been a runaway success.
Time for the Good Looking Boy
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
Five stars only go to a show that is to all intents perfect, that wakens something inside you and keeps you utterly captivated for an entire hour.
Bongo Club Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Kathryn Mack
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2008
Before going to the Bongo Club I was a cabaret virgin.
King Creosote
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2012
King Creosote’s iron-clad strengths are his songwriting - whimsical and understated - and his voice - fragile and melodic.
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 21st Nov, 2012
We live in the age of the cultural mash-up, of old names reimagined into new forms.
Grimaldi: King of the Clowns
- Review
- ★★
- Jock Maitland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
This piece, performed by students of Howard Payne University, tells the tragedy-laced story of Joseph Grimaldi, father of the modern day clown.
Brilliant Books for Kids
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
Everyone remembers storytime – that happy time at the end of the day when the hard work of colouring in and sticking bits of paper to other bits of paper could be safely put behi…
Brotherly Love - Free
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2011
Barry and Ian are two estranged brothers in their late middle-age.
Tomboy Blues – The Theory of Disappointment
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Carly McConnell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2011
Pink pants, Doris Day and Spider Man trainers.
Stripped Back Blues Guitar Duo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Early afternoon jazz runs the risk of coinciding with an early afternoon sugar crash; it’s possible that mellow blues might prove more soporific than scintillating.
Wee Andy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
There’s a certain type of show that prompts a degree of fatigue in me.
Lisa Scott Sings Blues and Jazz
- Review
- ★★
- Tristram Fane Saunders
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2012
Lisa Scott was introduced by her venue manager as having ‘been here for many, many a Fringe’, and Scott is indeed showing her age as a performer.
Cu*ts
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2011
Few would argue that the Fringe isn’t all about showcasing up-and-coming talent.
A Christmas Carol
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 8th Dec, 2012
There’s a reason Charles Dickens’ stories endures in popularity.
Tim FitzHigham: Gambler
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
Tim FitzHigham is a true eccentric and a sucker for a challenge.
Squirrel Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
It’s a funny thing - children’s TV has changed a lot recently.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2007
I must confess to having felt more than a little embarrassed at turning up at a childrens show in the middle of the day; we had a heated debate in the queue on the way in as to w…
Dracula
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2007
This new adaptation of Dracula plays slightly with the order of the original; the voluptuous vampire orgies of Dracula’s castle take place in the second half as opposed to the firs…
This is an insult to Beckett and Fo
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2007
Be prepared, the caption warns, to laugh and cry, probably at the same time! This is unfairly self-deprecating; I felt both shows were well-performed, with considerable ent…
ASBO! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
A stellar performance from an all-singing, all-dancing cast of miscreants and their formidable opponents from the local neighbourhood watch, Asbo: the Musical is the story of Darre…
Blues!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Nina Glencross
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Spanning an impressive 90 years of blues, from its roots and founders to 21st Century contemporaries, The Blueswater Collective are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring…
Truant TV
- Review
- ★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
Do you remember the days of yore? Of gum detentions, boredom pure? Deep in the Smirnoff Underbelly, a group of Scottish students are putting on a play in memory of those school day…
Sordid Lives
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2007
Sordid Lives is the story of the overwhelming weirdness of small-town American life and the empowerment of its women, through the discovery of pink sequins and two-barrelled shotgu…
King Lear: The Pantomime
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2008
Greshams have been performing at the Fringe for many years and have a history of approaching traditional works in a new way.
An Audience with the King
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
Andre King’s style is an endearing one.
All the King's Men - It's Reigning Men!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
In three short years, All the King’s Men have gone from a little-known university a cappella group to the third best collegiate group in the world, and from the simply phenomenal…
Confessions of a Mormon Boy
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
I’ve a confession of my own to make; when I chose to review this show I thought it was something entirely different.
Holly Burn: The H Club
- Review
- ★★★
- Nadia Mehdi
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Holly Burn seems to think she has provided us with something we have always wanted: the chance to join a private members club.
Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2012
Storyteller’s Club was the friendliest stand-up night I’ve ever been to.
Blues!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Louise Hemfrey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
The hour-long musical and cultural immersion created by the Blueswater Collective would have received a perfect five stars if they had started as strongly as they finished.
Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Bad things shouldn’t happen to nice people.
Fat Club: The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Theo Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2009
Five people are compelled to join a fat club due to self deprecation and the search for a sex life.
Will You Hold My Hand?
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
There’s something about the marriage of the arcane and the amusing, the faux Victoriana of shows like ‘Bleak Expectations’, that I always find enjoyable.
Revolting Rhymes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
There’s basically no-one who doesn’t like Roald Dahl – he’s been a cornerstone of kids’ literature for 50 years and with good reason.
Frisky & Mannish: 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Brett Herriot
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Frisky and Mannish are well known for their comedy capers in their madcap tribute to pop icons, but what happens when the duo turn serious and take a look at the pop and rock pheno…
Bordello Blues
- Review
- ★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Shrouded in fans of red, showgirl feathers, our French prostitute heroine Isobel slinked across the stage for the big reveal.
101 Comedy Club - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Alistair Grant
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
With 101 Comedy Club seeing different up and coming comedians performing every night in four ten minute sets, it is perhaps unfair to form a complete judgement based on one night a…
Take Desire Away by Mansel David
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
A one-man show about a spare British poet - a challenging prospect for a sweaty Sunday in a tiny black box theatre.
Too Cool To Care
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
There are many things that make for a successful comedian.
Spiegel Supper Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Gross
- Brighton Fringe
- 22nd May, 2013
Broadway Baby doesn’t often get the chance to turn restaurant critic, but as Sam’s of Brighton have added their pre-show Supper Club at the Spiegeltent to the official Fringe p…
An Edam Odyssey
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
Sketch comedy is, by its nature, a slightly hit-and-miss affair.
All the King's Men - Putting It Together Again
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Priestnall
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Aug, 2011
One song short of a Spice Girls Tribute band, the boys from King’s have smashed another year at the Fringe.
Scales of the Unexpected
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2012
Too often, fringe theatre can be overly serious and overly worthy.
One Man and His Masks - Boudicca: Britain's Dreaming
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2011
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
Peter Pan - Learn to Fly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2011
I’m upside down, the blood’s rushing to my head and I’m swinging madly like some sort of unwieldy pendulum.
Pretty When I'm Drunk
- Review
- ★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Structuring a review is basically fairly straightforward.
Palimpsest One
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Palimpsest One is a bit of an odd beast.
Pistol & Jack – Smash.Glam.Sex.Music.
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Character comedy is one of the most difficult types to do well.
Pete Firman: Jiggery Pokery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2011
In a Fringe increasingly dominated by comedy it can be difficult for stand-ups to stand out.
The King's Got Donkey's Ears!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ian Billings
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2011
In the perfect setting of the Scottish Storytelling Centre, sixty or so children of varying ages and sizes sat enraptured by the accomplished storytelling and puppetry of the Theat…
Mr Benn: The Extraordinary Adventures of an Ordinary Man
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
The things we love as children stay with us forever.
Nick Hodder: Insert Comedy Here!
- Review
- ★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
The Camden Fringe is home to many different types of performer; opera singers, musicians, burlesque dancers and poets.
Much Ado About Nothing
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 7th Sep, 2012
Sat atop a hill in Highgate town, beneath the clouds but throned over London’s starry spread sits a gem of Fringe theatre and a pleasure unrestrained.
King of Scotland
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2011
One-man fringe shows tend towards extremes.
Matt Tiller's Musical Messaround
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Few talents serve a stand-up better than audience rapport and I’m happy to say that Matt Tiller has it in spades.
Club Noir Burlesque - The Games
- Review
- ★★★
- Kirsty Allen
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
En route to The Picture House, the Fringe’s home to the UK’s biggest burlesque night, there was just one day left of London’s golden games.
The Lunchtime Club 2011
- Review
- ★★★★
- William Summerlin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2011
In the beguiling little bunker that is the Tron, the Lunchtime Club, class of 2011, are predictably well attended.
Main Street Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Nightingale
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Shuffling grooves, wailing guitar solos and growling, whiskey-drenched vocals: This is Main Street Blues, who for one hour brought a slice of America to Scotland.
It's A Puppet Life
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2012
On its face, ‘It’s a Puppet Life’ seems like a fairly straightforward concept.
The 27 Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
The 27 Club is a club in which all members died at the age of 27, explains Jack Lukeman, having strutted onto the stage in sunglasses to a hefty round of applause.
Edinburgh Folk Club Festival Showcase
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
Established in 1973, the Edinburgh Folk Club was represented at the Fringe for the first time this year with a showcase at the Acoustic Music Centre at St Bride’s that displayed …
The Blues Brothers - Live
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
Join Jake, Elwood and the band as they roar their way through the classics from Soul Man to Jailhouse Rock.
The Phoenix: A Failure On a Mission
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2011
Tania Edwards is a strange sort of stand-up for the Fringe.
DugOut Theatre's Inheritance Blues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Rebecca Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
All the King's Men - Picking Up the Pieces
- Review
- ★★★
- Amy Crothers
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2010
Making their Fringe debut under a year since their foundation, All the Kings Men is comprised of twelve charming, charismatic, but, unfortunately, not musically satisfying chaps …
Full Stage Splash: A Comic Look at the Comic Book
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- Camden Fringe
- 28th Aug, 2012
This summer’s clutch of blockbuster popcorn-bait has been dominated by the four colour heroes of the comic book.
The Storytellers' Club
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gill Smith
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2008
When the doors only open fifteen minutes after the stated start time, it doesnt bode well, but this show is worth the wait.
The Blues Brothers - Live!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Damian Sandys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2009
Warning: this show will put you in a permanent state of happiness, fill your head with music and make you want to dance all day long.
Bridget Christie - The Court Of King Charles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Powell
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2007
You might think that a visual gag involving a woman with hair not dissimilar to that of King Charles II, dressed up as King Charles II might get old after a time.
The Madness of King Lear
- Review
- ★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Were I a paying customer in the audience of The Madness of King Lear, I would have walked out when Lear - Leofric Kingford-Smith – began his imitation of Rammstein using Shakespe…
Vaudeville Cabaret Club
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2007
It’s an all too familiar, but unfortunate, story for a reviewer.
Storytellers' Club at the Establishment
- Review
- ★★★★
- Terry Gilliland
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2007
Once upon a time at the Edinburgh Festival, a pretty young girl named Sarah Bennetto wanted to reclaim the late night shows from drunken debauchery and low brow skulduggery, so she…
Phoenix
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 30th Nov, 2013
As a rule, I’m not always the biggest fan of ‘issue’ theatre.
Medieval and Spanish Blues: Guitar and Song
- Review
- ★★
- Alex Franklin
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Frenchman Claude Bourbon’s one-off evening of Medieval and Spanish blues opened with what at first seemed to be a lengthy instrumental number: as fine a demonstration of Bourbon’s …
Lara A King - People Pleaser
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alasdair Richardson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Lara A.
The Cagebirds
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom King
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
We all live our lives within walls.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Part II
- Review
- ★★★
- Tom King
- London Fringe
- 5th Apr, 2012
Taking up the action with Kate’s harassment by the rakish Sir Mulberry Hawk and Nicholas and Smike’s return to London, this second half of Space Productions’ revival of the R…
Blues and Burlesque
- Review
- ★★★
- Lynne Marie Martens
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
If you are looking for something fun and free with a few laughs at this year’s Fringe, then head on up the stairs of The Laughing Horse for a drink and some Blues and Burlesque i…
Club Gotham: Villains of Vaudeville
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Adelaide Fringe
The Dark Knight keeps watch over our city.
VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 28th Nov, 2023
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
The King And I - On Sale Now
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- West End
- 17th Nov, 2017
Tipped to be London’s theatrical event of 2018, the multi-award winning and critically acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King And...
The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2017
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...
C Venues launches new flagship venue at St Stephen’s Stockbridge
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Mar, 2016
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
King's Head show highlights growing Chemsex crisis
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- London Fringe
- 16th Jan, 2016
Following a successful run at Brighton Fringe in 2015 and two previous sold-out and critically acclaimed runs at the King's Head Theatre, 5 Guys Chillin' returns this February.
Going To Space: The King of Monte Cristo
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Mar, 2015
The King of Monte Cristo will explore the nature of theatre through theatre. Broadway Baby has a little chat to find out more.
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