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George Lewis: ‘The Best Thing You’ll Ever Do’
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 17th Oct 2024
Described as ‘the funniest dad on Instagram’, stand-up comedian George Lewis has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches ab…
George Lewis: The Best Thing You'll Ever Do (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 19th - 25th Aug 2024
The funniest dad on Instagram has racked up hundreds of millions of views online.
i am george massey
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 12th - 17th Aug 2024
What does it mean to be English anymore?.
The Rising – The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 10th - 23rd Aug 2024
Once again, this nine-piece ensemble will deliver the music of Springsteen with precision and energy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
George Cassidy: Piano Boy
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 6th - 7th Aug 2024
16-year-old Brit School pianist, guitarist and singer.
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food Masterclass
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2024
Hands-on masterclass and demonstration of three delicious dishes.
Mel & Sam: High Pony
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2024
Pussy-poppin’ Mel & Sam are yanking you by ya ponytails through a chaotic hour of musical sketch.
Bi-Curious George: Queer Planet
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024
Award-winning drag king and London’s loveable nature boy, Bi-Curious George, invites you into a raucous celebration of queerness and the animal kingdom.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th May 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Prezinsky and George: Best of Greatest Hits GOLD [Platinum Edition]
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Caroline of Brunswick
- 11th - 19th May 2024
Come join Bobby Prezinsky and Louis George as they debut their split bill comedy show, Best of Greatest Hits GOLD [Platinum Edition].
Mid Street Lab
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Mid Street Lab
- 8th May - 1st Jun 2024
WachArt For Altruistic Art invites you to its first public opening! “Just as man needs oxygen to survive, he also needs art and poetry.
The Bridge House Theatre: Three Years and Counting
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Apr 2024
The award-winning The Bridge House Theatre is delighted to invite you to a Three Year Anniversary Celebration this April.
Street Songs: A Busker's Tale
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Golden Goose Theatre
- 16th - 27th Apr 2024
Two London street performers take you on a rockin’ comedy drama through the crossroads of grief and letting go.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Apr 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Apr 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Mar 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Feb 2024
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!Get your dobbers out because THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocal…
Cable Street
- Listing
- West End
- Southwark Playhouse
- 17th Feb - 16th Mar 2024
It’s October 1936 in the heart of London’s East End.
Kildare Street
- Listing
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 17th Feb 2024
Fire! (and the politics of fire) A child collects bonfire wood.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Jan 2024
CHRISTMAS DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE with a FESTIVE SPECIAL!!! THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! Alright balls, fine…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Dec 2023
CHRISTMAS DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE with a FESTIVE SPECIAL!!! THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! Alright balls, fine…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Nov 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
A View From The Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Rose Theatre Kingston / Theatre Royal Haymarket
- 31st Oct 2023 - 3rd Aug 2024
‘Every man’s got somebody that he loves, heh? But sometimes… there’s too much.
Manic Street Creature
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Richard Beck
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 27th Oct, 2023
Making its London premier Maimuna Memon’s multi-award-winning Manic Street Creature is now showing at the Southwark Playhouse, Borough, following its barnstorming, sell-out world…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 16th Oct 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
HIGH STEAKS
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Jacksons Lane
- 29th - 30th Sep 2023
A thought-provoking, vulnerable, and healing show about labia-shaming, cosmetic surgery and fundamentally, labia celebration.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Sep 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
George-prov: An Improvised Theatrical Experience
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 25th - 28th Aug 2023
Retired filmmaker George Lucas (as seen in the long-running cult comedy show, The George Lucas Talk Show) performs a partially interactive, fully improvised one-person theatrical e…
Sunday in the Park with George
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 21st - 26th Aug 2023
Inspired by Georges Seurat’s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Sondheim’s classic follows George as he strives to finish his masterpiece while his ne…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st Aug 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!Get ready for a night of Bingo, live vocals, lip syncs and PRIZES! Host…
The Rising: The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 19th Aug 2023
This dynamic seven-piece band return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the 12th year to play the back catalogue and the latest album! With the precision and energy of the E Stre…
Dicks and Tricks: A Comedy/Magic Show featuring the Pundance Kid and the Flamboyant Chesney George
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 16th - 18th Aug 2023
Dicks and Tricks is an old-school comedy and magic variety show featuring the puns and knob gags of the Pundance Kid and the magic tricks and illusions of the Flamboyant Chesney Ge…
Old Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 14th - 19th Aug 2023
A young couple meet by chance by Stari Most, the bridge which unifies the multicultural city of Mostar.
Watch List
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 16th Aug, 2023
If you’ve been handed a flyer for Watch List in the street, you might expect what’s written on it –a show about an insecure police officer on a journey to clean up the street…
Sacred Arts Festival Music at St John's Princes Street
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just Festival at St John’s
- 13th Aug 2023
Songs of Displacement.
The Devil's Passion
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 17th Aug, 2023
I thought I knew what to expect from The Devil’s Passion.
2023 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway
- 5th - 27th Aug 2023
Award-winner George Zacharopoulos is back with a brand-new show about trying to be less of a garbage human being.
360° Street Art Exhibition, Spray Paint Tasters and Affordable Art Sale
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Quality Yard
- 5th - 26th Aug 2023
Quality Yard brings you a free outdoor 360° wrap-around exhibition of creative street art and graffiti by nationally and internationally exhibited artists.
Queer Street
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 4th - 22nd Aug 2023
Once upon a time, a load of gays and their cishet best friend walk into a bookshop, looking for love.
The George Lucas Talk Show
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 4th - 25th Aug 2023
Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a “normal talk show”.
High School Fangsical
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th - 26th Aug 2023
Vladiqueer is vampire, but he’s not always been proud of it.
Alfie and George
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 4th - 11th Aug 2023
Alfie and George are two well-loved but aging panto stars, but will this duo last as we reveal the tension between the pair – what will become of them? And will their friendship …
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food Masterclass
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 4th - 28th Aug 2023
Exclusive hands-on masterclass.
2 Joke Thieves at High Altitude (Laura's Version)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ West Port Oracle
- 4th - 27th Aug 2023
BAFTA crew director and award-winning stand-up Laura McMahon presents an hour that is half stand up and half documentary about joke theft and parrallel thinking covering legal case…
Caroline McEvoy: Street Smart
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 3rd - 13th Aug 2023
Northern Irish comedian Caroline is the dumbest smart girl you’ll ever meet.
2.7 Men – Louis George, Will Scambler and Louisa Corr
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 3rd - 15th Aug 2023
These three rising stars of the London comedy circuit have come to Edinburgh to do two things: blow their life savings on an Airbnb and perform an hour of mind-melting stand-up com…
Havana Street Party
- Review
- ★★★★
- Jessica Leanne
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 19th Aug, 2023
The vibes of a Havana street party brought to McEwan Hall, this dance troupe from Havana, Cuba are simply stellar, with styles such as street dance, salsa, rumba, afro and contempo…
Jingle Street
- Review
- ★★★★
- Tom Rolph
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 25th Aug, 2023
This new Chordstruck Theatre production is a feel-good, comedy musical cram packed with hilarious original jingles, as well as a message for a better world.
George Zacharopoulos: Wonderland
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2023
George found himself falling head over heels for Alice, straight down a rabbit hole of fantasy and delusion.
HIGH STEAKS
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd - 13th Aug 2023
HIGH STEAKS is a show about labia, labia-shaming, cosmetic surgery and fundamentally, body lovin’.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 24th Jul 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Jun 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
42nd Street
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Sadler’s Wells
- 7th Jun - 2nd Jul 2023
David Ian and Jonathan Church present the Leicester Curve and Sadler’s Wells production of 42nd Street.
42nd Street
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Sadler’s Wells
- 7th Jun - 2nd Jul 2023
It’s big… it’s bright… it’s a brand-spanking new production of ‘the original showbiz musical,’ 42nd STREET!Jonathan Church (Singin’ In The Rain, The Drifters Girl) …
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 2nd Jun 2023
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
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 Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 22nd May 2023
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 22nd May 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
The Music Of George Harrison - Live! The All Things Must Pass Orchestra
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 22nd May 2023
A fantastic 10 piece band dedicated to the Quiet Beatle’s work.
God on High
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 13th May - 4th Jun 2023
Tulip, a young, free-spirited vicar, whose debt-ridden church is on the brink of closure, is looking for a miracle.
God on High
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Lantern @ ACT
- 13th May - 4th Jun 2023
Tulip, a young, free-spirited vicar, whose debt-ridden church is on the brink of closure, is looking for a miracle.
Dry and High
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s / The Caxton Arms
- 5th - 10th May 2023
An hour of standup comedy about the ebb and flow of life in your 40’s, and how the desire of one massively homosexual and internationally promiscuous flight attendant (David), an…
Dry and High
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Presuming Ed’s
- 5th - 10th May 2023
An hour of standup comedy about the ebb and flow of life in your 40’s, and how the desire of one massively homosexual flight attendant (David), and one French Bulldog loving ‘F…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 17th Apr 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 20th Mar 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Charlie George: Grace (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Vault Festival
- The Basement at Vaulty Towers
- 7th Mar 2023
Charlie George Swindon’s finest queer, mixed-race, neurodiverse, working class, ex-Jehovah’s Witness comedian longs for Grace.
The High Life
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Barons Court Theatre
- 14th - 18th Feb 2023
Stuck in a dead-end job serving coffee, Kayla longs for something more.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 16th Jan 2023
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
George Takei's Allegiance
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Katerina Partolina Schwartz
- London Fringe
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 19th Jan, 2023
There are many stories that are lost or hidden from view, and George Takei’s Allegiance takes one of the shameful moments in American history - the incarceration of Japanese-Amer…
George Takei's Allegiance
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 9th Jan - 3rd Feb 2023
Inspired by the life story of renowned actor and activist George Takei, the UK premiere of the uplifting Broadway Musical, Allegiance, follows the story of the Kimura family and th…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Dec 2022
FESTIVE DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her baubles!! Bingo baubles! And they drop at 8!(I’ve tried make it festive, basically we’re pl…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- UK Regional & Tours
- Westcliff High School For Boys
- 8th Dec, 2022
Westcliff High School for Boys’ drama club under the direction of Ben Jeffreys, who otherwise teaches history, first came to our atttention at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 20…
A Christmas Carol - The Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- The Bridge Theatre
- 6th - 31st Dec 2022
A Christmas Carol didn’t just invent Christmas as we know it.
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…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 28th Nov 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 8!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bingo…
Tom Stade: The High Road
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Gareth Williams
- West End
- Leicester Square Theatre
- 26th Nov, 2022
From the bright lights of Live at the Apollo to the chaotic evenings of Edinburgh’s International Fringe Festival, we now see Tom Stade take on his epic stand-up comedy tour arou…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 31st Oct 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Bloomsbury Art Festival: Store Street Global Garden Party
- Listing Exhibition
- London Fringe
- Store St
- 14th Oct 2022
Join us on Alfred Place Gardens and Store St as we celebrate the opening of the Bloomsbury Festival 2022.
Store Street Global Garden Party
- Listing All Genres
- London Fringe
- Store St
- 14th Oct 2022
Join us on Alfred Place Gardens and Store St as we celebrate the opening of the Bloomsbury Festival 2022.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 19th Sep 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Thank You, Edinburgh: Princes Street Gardens
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Princes Street Gardens
- 27th Aug 2022
Enjoy a livestreamed concert from The Philadelphia Orchestra in the picturesque Princes Street Gardens, as we celebrate our 75th anniversary and thank all those who’ve supported us…
High Performance Sport?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand’s New Town Theatre
- 24th Aug 2022
Despite the concerted efforts to deter athletes from taking illegal substances to enhance performance, doping in sport remains a problem.
Dreamachine: High Sensory (Relaxed)
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Murrayfield Ice Rink
- 22nd Aug - 14th Sep 2022
A relaxed Dreamachine: High Sensory journey designed to make the experience more welcoming for anyone who would benefit from a more informal setting.
The Rising: The UK's No 1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 20th Aug 2022
Once more The Rising look forward to delivering the music of the Boss with passion and precision to Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Following previous festival sell-out shows, this seve…
Phil Kay: Quantity Street
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 18th - 28th Aug 2022
This is it.
George Egg: Set Menu (The Best of George Egg)
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 16th - 28th Aug 2022
George cooks food while making you laugh.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 15th Aug 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Faith: The Gospel According to George Michael
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 15th - 20th Aug 2022
Dr Reverend Jimmy Goodlove, the 1980s-styled American televangelist, preaches and teaches! Life’s answers are found in the lyrics of Grammy Award-winning album Faith by George Mich…
Tay Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Royal Scots Club
- 15th - 20th Aug 2022
The highly acclaimed Tay Bridge was commissioned by Peter Arnott for the 80th Anniversary of the Dundee Rep in 2019.
Neil Harris: A Short History of the High Jump
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 15th - 27th Aug 2022
Whilst wide awake one night, comedian Neil Harris found himself watching a video titled How One Man Changed the High Jump.
2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Banshee Labyrinth
- 14th - 28th Aug 2022
Award-winning comedy from the reigning title holder since 2018.
Dreamachine: High Sensory
- Listing Events / /
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Murrayfield Ice Rink
- 13th Aug - 25th Sep 2022
Travel through a technicolour world of light and sound in this immersive, collective experience.
Pick of the Fringe by Johnnie Walker Princes Street
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Johnnie Walker Princes Street
- 11th - 28th Aug 2022
At Johnnie Walker Princes Street, we know a thing or two about creating the perfect blend.
2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Subway
- 6th - 28th Aug 2022
Award-winning comedy from the reigning title holder since 2018.
Messiah (Part 1) George Frederic Handel
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 6th - 7th Aug 2022
Coro 22 returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform the celebratory first part, The Coming of Christ, from Handel’s masterpiece.
Alfie and George
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Hill Street Theatre
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Two pantomime stars keep complaining about people walking through their dressing room as they prepare for their performance, but not everything is good between them.
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food Masterclass
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 5th - 28th Aug 2022
Exclusive 100% hands-on masterclass with three delicious dishes.
The Big Love Exhibition (Contemporary Street Art By Sleek)
- Listing Exhibitions
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Watson Gallery
- 5th - 29th Aug 2022
Young Scottish contemporary artist Sleek debuts an exhibition of work showcasing his street art.
Love and Sex on the Spectrum
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Bar 50
- 7th Aug, 2022
It’s four years since George Steeves brought his Magic 8 Ball show to Edinburgh, winning the heart and mind of at least this reviewer with such an honest, bold theatrical collage…
Something About George
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th - 18th Aug 2022
All Things Must Pass, they say.
Tom Stade: The High Road
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at La Belle Angele
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Tom’s been trying to remember what was important before responsibility and fear got in the way.
George Fox: Night of the Living Dread
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy (Niddry St)
- 4th - 28th Aug 2022
Do you ever lay down to sleep only to be visited by the dread of embarrassing memories and intrusive thoughts? This show is for you! Award-winning Irish comedian and star of mega-p…
Manic Street Creature
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from the composer of critically acclaimed Electrolyte.
One of Two
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2022
There’s significant anger in One of Two; a sense of injustice felt by a young man whose experience of the not-so-subtle cruelties and discrimination endured by disabled people is…
Manic Street Creature
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 3rd - 28th Aug 2022
A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from the composer of critically acclaimed Electrolyte.
Feeling Afraid as If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 11th Aug, 2022
According to The Stage’s recently departed Scotland editor, Thom Dibden, comedy first overtook theatre as the largest proportion of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s programme du…
Les Dawson: Flying High
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Ian Billings
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square
- 7th Aug, 2022
With a forensic talent for pinpointing the precise foibles, flaws and faults of a character and an uncanny capacity for evoking their vocal DNA, Jon Culshaw gives new life to one o…
Moira in Lockdown
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 7th Aug, 2022
It must be a baker’s dozen years since Scottish author, playwright and performer Alan Bissett first introduced us to Moira Bell, his much-loved tribute to the hard-working, hard-…
Havana Street Party
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 4th - 29th Aug 2022
Three incredible groups from Cuba create a thrilling fusion of cool modern dance styles in this world premiere of breath-taking Cuban dance.
Ode to Joy (How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2022
Playwright/director James Ley first gained some attention as a co-producer and writer of Leith-based The Village Pub Theatre, which provided performing space to a fresh band of act…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 18th Jul 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 27th Jun 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Silent Disco Jubilee Street Party
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- MEET: Angel of Peace Statue
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2022
Welcome to the Greatest Fitness Party by the sea! Special Jubilee Street Party celebration, mainly about the dance and fitness but singing encouraged! Take your dance floor outsi…
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd Jun 2022
You’re late, you’re late, for a very important date! Returning for the 5th year with an all-new show, let our talented young performers take you on an exciting trip down the rabbi…
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 3rd Jun 2022 - 2nd Jun 2023
You’re late, you’re late, for a very important date! Returning for the 5th year with all-new acts, let our talented young performers take you on an exciting trip down the rabbit h…
Silent Disco Jubilee Street Party
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- MEET: Angel of Peace Statue
- 3rd - 4th Jun 2022
Welcome to the Greatest Fitness Party by the sea! Special Jubilee Street Party celebration, mainly about the dance and fitness but singing encouraged! Take your dance floor outsi…
Hard Times On Easy Street
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 21st - 23rd May 2022
A sexy and spirited musical created by Julie Burchill (words) and Robin Watt (music), Hard Times On Easy Street takes place in a louche Brighton nightclub fighting to survive - whe…
Hard Times On Easy Street
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Latest Music Bar
- 21st - 23rd May 2022
A sexy and spirited musical created by Julie Burchill (words) and Robin Watt (music), Hard Times On Easy Street takes place in a louche Brighton nightclub fighting to survive - whe…
George Coppen: Coppen Through Life
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th May 2022
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
George Coppen: Coppen Through Life
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Caxton Arms
- 13th May 2022
My name is George Coppen and life for me is unusual.
High and Mighty
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 11th - 12th May 2022
Join Ash Hennessy, Alex Green and Jay Corcoran as they attempt to wrap there heads around Conspiracy Theories, Billionaire Island’s and Pornhubs casting feature and more! ‘Ash is …
High and Mighty
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
- 11th - 12th May 2022
Join Ash Hennessy, Alex Green and Jay Corcoran as they attempt to wrap there heads around Conspiracy Theories, Billionaire Island’s and Pornhubs casting feature and more! ‘Ash is …
...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.
George Sawyer: True. Mostly.
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Conclave Brighton
- 6th - 8th May 2022
Brighton Fringe 2019 People’s Choice Nominee George Sawyer returns with a bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to him or to anyone, ever.
George Sawyer: True. Mostly.
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Conclave Brighton
- 6th - 8th May 2022
Brighton Fringe 2019 People’s Choice Nominee George Sawyer returns with a bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to him or to anyone, ever.
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 25th Apr 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Over The Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Dublin
- Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
- 20th - 23rd Apr 2022
Bright Umbrella present the 60th Anniversary production of Sam Thompson's iconic Ulster play, 'Over the Bridge', a powerful portrayal of sectarianism and …
Drag Bingo at The Bridge House!
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- The Bridge House Theatre
- 21st Mar 2022
DRAG BINGO AT THE BRIDGE HOUSE!!THAT GIRL is ready to show you her balls!! Bingo balls! And they drop at 7:30!(These ball gags doing anything for you?)Get ready for a night of Bi…
Christmas Screening of Miracle on 34th Street
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- All Saints Church
- 10th Dec 2021
Join us for a special screening of the classic Christmas movie ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (the 1947 version).
Christmas Screening of Miracle on 34th Street
- Listing
- Brighton Fringe
- All Saints Church
- 10th Dec 2021
Join us for a special screening of the classic Christmas movie ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ (the 1947 version).
Dinner dance with George Michael tribute artist Randall Butler and guest performers
- Listing
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Old Swan Hotel
- 8th Oct 2021
An amazing evening of dinner and live music.
i am george massey
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- International Anthony Burgess Foundation
- 17th - 18th Sep 2021
“Arrests of persons of White ethnic appearance accounted for 48% of arrests for a terrorism-related offence” - Home Office (National Statistics-2020).
i am george massey
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- International Anthony Burgess Foundation
- 17th - 18th Sep 2021
“Arrests of persons of White ethnic appearance accounted for 48% of arrests for a terrorism-related offence” - Home Office (National Statistics-2020).
i am george massey
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- International Anthony Burgess Foundation
- 17th - 18th Sep 2021
“Arrests of persons of White ethnic appearance accounted for 48% of arrests for a terrorism-related offence” - Home Office (National Statistics-2020).
i am george massey
- Listing Theatre
- The Greater Manchester Fringe
- International Anthony Burgess Foundation
- 17th - 18th Sep 2021
“Arrests of persons of White ethnic appearance accounted for 48% of arrests for a terrorism-related offence” - Home Office (National Statistics-2020).
Afternoon High Teas(e)
- Listing Events
- London Fringe
- CellarDoor
- 21st Aug - 20th Nov 2021
Drag Queen & Burlesque Show at London’s cult cabaret club CellarDoor with Black Magic & Bubbles, Cup Cakes, Comedy & Camp, Finger Sandwiches & FabulousnessTicket li…
George Fox and Chris Thorburn: Work In Progress
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy
- 20th - 26th Aug 2021
For one week only, George Fox and Chris Thorburn are bringing their award-winning comedy off the internet and back to the Monkey Barrel stage for their work-in-progress stand-up sh…
Gorgie Street Art Sculpture Trail – Walking Tour
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Meeting Point at picnic benches in White Park
- 19th - 20th Aug 2021
Join Gorgie’s first Street Art Sculpture Trail Walking Tour, hosted by contributing artist Mario A Gonzalez Robert.
High Whisk: 250 New Jokes!
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Opium
- 18th - 22nd Aug 2021
An insect joke? Tick.
360° Wrap-Around Outdoor Street Art Exhibition in the Heart of Leith
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Quality Yard
- 14th - 29th Aug 2021
Experience Quality Yard’s unique 360° outdoor street art painted courtyard exhibition of new artworks by Scottish street art and contemporary artists in the heart of Leith’s old t…
44 Scotland Street
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Beside Post Box on Elm Row
- 6th - 28th Aug 2021
Our unique tour sets out to capture the essence and idiosyncrasies of the characters and locations of the McCall Smith 44 Scotland Street books.
Amazing Chef’s Table: Thai Street Food Cooking
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
Treat yourself and be our special guest.
Avery Street
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 6th - 7th Aug 2021
This sketch comedy trio are opening the doors to all of their larger than life characters living on the same street.
Avery Street
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- Canal Cafe Theatre
- 6th - 7th Aug 2021
This sketch comedy trio are opening the doors to all of their larger than life characters living on the same street.
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 6th - 30th Aug 2021
Night and day in Thailand.
George Egg: Movable Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 23rd - 26th Jun 2021
Brand-new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage.
George Egg: Movable Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The McElderry
- 23rd - 26th Jun 2021
Brand-new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage.
High Whisk
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2021
A tartan joke? Check.
High Whisk: 250 Brand New Jokes!
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Sweet Old Steine: The Comedy Basement
- 2nd - 5th Jun 2021
A tartan joke? Check.
42nd Street
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Farnham Maltings
- 22nd Jan 2021
Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors.
Over on Grim Street
- Listing Theatre
- Online & Broadcast
- theSpaceUK
- 8th - 31st Jan 2021
Over on Grim Street, there lives a little old lady.
George Egg: Movable Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 24th - 30th Aug 2020
Last year’s sell-out show returns for one week only.
Choral High Mass
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Michael and All Saints
- 9th - 30th Aug 2020
Choral High Mass sung in the liturgical setting of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Anglican Communion).
44 Scotland Street
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Beside Post Box @ 19 Elm Row
- 7th - 29th Aug 2020
Our unique tour sets out to capture the essence and idiosyncrasies of the characters and locations of the McCall Smith 44 Scotland Street books.
George Lewis: Nudes
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th - 30th Aug 2020
When you type ‘George Lewis’ into Google, the suggestions that follow are pretty boring.
Sunday in the Park with George
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Savoy Theatre
- 11th Jun - 5th Sep 2020
Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony Award® winner Annaleigh Ashford star in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday …
W*nk Buddies
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 2nd Mar, 2020
“It’s about us—together,” explain Jake Jarratt and Cameron Sharp, in their new play in which two drama students – straight “Jake”, gay “Cameron” – end up trying…
Mrs Puntila And Her Man Matti
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Royal Lyceum Theatre
- 11th Mar, 2020
Mrs Puntila and her Man Matti is that relatively rare thing for the Royal Lyceum Theatre—a star vehicle, rather than an ensemble production, that happens to have two audience fav…
Pride Plays
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 28th Feb, 2020
Edinburgh’s Traverse has long-championed new drama—indeed, the venue’s self-description is the simple goal of being “Scotland’s new writing theatre”.
George Hinchcliffes Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- Listing Music
- UK Regional & Tours
- De La Warr Pavilion
- 11th Dec 2019
The original ukulele orchestra.
Oor Wullie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 3rd Dec, 2019
Many Scots first experience of comics is likely to be two series published by Dundee-based D C Thomson in their long-running newspaper, The Sunday Post.
High Fidelity
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Turbine Theatre
- 21st Oct - 7th Dec 2019
Don't miss the London Premiere of the irresistible new musical comedy HIGH FIDELITY, based on the British novel by Nick Hornby (About A Boy), at the Turbine Theatre from 21 Oct…
Faith - The George Michael Legacy
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 17th Oct 2019
Faith - The George Michael Legacy returns with a brand-new production for 2018.
The Stornoway Way
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 16th Oct, 2019
“We do not live in the back of beyond, we live in the very heart of beyond,” argues Roman Stornoway, a struggling musician and the central protagonist in Kevin MacNeil’s thea…
The Panopticon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Platform / Traverse Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2019
I well remember when Jenni Fagan’s explosive debut, The Panopticon, first appeared in 2013.
Fly Me To The Moon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2019
Having this year reached the notable landmark of their 500th new production, the team behind the award-winning lunchtime theatre phenomenon that is “A Play, A Pie and a Pint” i…
The Wolf of Wall Street
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- 5-15 Sun Street
- 5th Sep 2019 - 19th Jan 2020
Jordan Belfort.
George Machray (Singer/Songwriter): Singing Off Quay
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 25th Aug 2019
George is a fine and recognised singer/songwriter from the old fishing and mining village of Port Seton in East Lothian.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Review
- ★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 27th Aug, 2019
Brecht’s darkly comic play about the ascent of the moronic, childish but charismatic gangster Arturo Ui should be relevant for obvious reasons.
Soundhouse Presents: John Goldie and the High Plains
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pianodrome at The Pitt
- 19th Aug 2019
One of the best acoustic guitarists in the world right now, John Goldie, is joined by his brand-new backing band, the High Plains.
Piracy! A Comedy on the High Cs
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 18th - 24th Aug 2019
Hoist the mainsails and prepare for a thoroughly ridiculous adventure.
Simply George
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 18th - 26th Aug 2019
George Michael as you’ve never heard him before… From the producers of sell-out show Simply Bowie, recording artist and West End lead Oliver Darley brings his own inimitable st…
BBC – Bach, Bridge, Chopin
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 15th - 16th Aug 2019
Perhaps the most insightful left-handed piano player of today, Stefan Warzycki returns to St Andrew’s and St George’s West with dazzling performances of his own left-hand arrangeme…
Lisa Klevemark Waits for the Green Man (before crossing the street)
- Listing Comedy
- Camden Fringe
- The Albany
- 14th - 21st Aug 2019
Lisa Klevemark, though Swedish, Lutheran and very boring, went to renowned clown school Ecole Philippe Gaulier in France.
Holy Land
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 20th Aug, 2019
Tim runs the website Holy Land.
On a High Note
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 12th - 21st Aug 2019
On a High Note is a dramatic new piece of operatic theatre performed and written by award-winning soprano Erin Alexander.
A Chorus Line – High School Edition
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 12th - 17th Aug 2019
A Chorus Line is a stunning concept musical capturing the spirit and tension of 15 professional performers, auditioning for a job in a Broadway show.
High Trees
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Nicolson Square
- 12th - 24th Aug 2019
Memories erased.
George Duff and Kevin Macleod
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 10th Aug 2019
Top Scots traditional singer/guitarist George Duff performs songs featuring classics by Robert Burns, songs from the coal mining industry and Scottish and Irish traditional songs a…
A Sherlock Holmes Mystery: The Baker Street Irregulars and the Case of the Stolen Portrait
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 5th - 10th Aug 2019
London, 1887.
Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
Choral High Mass
- Listing Musicals and Opera / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Michael and All Saints
- 4th - 25th Aug 2019
Mass performed in a liturgical setting as an integral part of the Sunday morning eucharist (high mass) in a beautiful Victorian Episcopal church (Anglican Communion).
Filament
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 9th Aug, 2019
Whether it’s because Hollywood has force-fed us with them for decades, or simply because the concerns of teenage life are pretty universal across most of the Western world, we’…
2019 Greek Comedian of the Year: George Zacharopoulos
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- PBH’s Free Fringe @ Ciao Roma / PBH’s Free Fringe @ Liquid Room Annexe/Warehouse
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2019
Born in Greece and living in the UK, George is a UK, Europe and Australia comedy club favourite, appearing on BBC One and Sky.
My Land
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2019
I have absolutely nothing but admiration to the performers of Recirquel Company Budapest, given that some of their number must have spent their entire lives training their lean, mu…
Kombini
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 7th Aug, 2019
Let's be honest here: I've never particularly liked clowns.
360° Wrap Around Street Art Courtyard and Urban Art Exhibition
- Listing Exhibition / Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Quality Yard
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2019
Experience Quality Yard’s unique 360° street art courtyard and exhibition space featuring new works by Scottish street art and contemporary artists in the heart of Leith’s old tow…
George Michael Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The A Club at the Merchants Hall
- 2nd - 16th Aug 2019
Sublime tribute to George Michael and last year’s Fringe sell-out show returns.
Vigil
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 10th Aug, 2019
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has, for many years, produced and maintained a “Red List” of species which are either already extinct or in danger of bei…
Chalk (A Silent Comedy)
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 20th Aug, 2019
I didn’t know what to expect walking into Chalk.
Anything With a Pulse
- Review
- ★★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- ZOO Playground
- 20th Aug, 2019
Anything With A Pulse begins with boy meets girl in a nightclub.
Fox-tot!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Edinburgh Academy
- 6th Aug, 2019
There are two challenges at the heart of Fox-tot!, a new work from composer Lliam Paterson and director Roxana Haines for Scottish Opera.
The Witch of Wall Street
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpaceTriplex
- 2nd - 17th Aug 2019
Financier? Miser? Witch? A dry-witted tale about the life of Hetty Green, once America’s richest woman.
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 2nd - 25th Aug 2019
Masterclass 100% hands-on lesson, creating three delicious dishes.
BBC at George Heriot's School
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2019
Bringing the best of the festivals to audiences with live and recorded BBC broadcasts.
Shattered
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 6th Aug, 2019
As a reviewer, there are several situations that I normally hope to avoid while covering the Fringe: it may surprise you, given that essentially I’m here to force my opinion on you…
Paris de Nuit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 9th Aug, 2019
There appears, these days, to be an almost apologetic desire among directors and producers to find ways of presenting traditional circus acrobatics and high-wire acts with some add…
James Barr: Thirst Trap
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square / Underbelly, Cowgate
- 12th Aug, 2019
James Barr is single.
Shaving the Dead
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 20th Aug, 2019
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
When the Birds Come
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 9th Aug, 2019
As might be expected, the environment – specifically, the “environmental emergency” we currently face – is one of the more notable themes running through this year’s Frin…
Numbers
- Review
- ★★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C aquila
- 25th Aug, 2019
Numbers starts with Jack (Henry Waddon) in a therapy session on a sparse stage and moves through the chain of events that took him there.
Sam See: Coming Out Loud
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 6th Aug, 2019
It’s a fact of life that any standup on the Fringe who is neither white nor straight is likely required to spend at least part of their show addressing it.
George Rigden: Spooning with Uri
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
As a child, George Rigden (Leicester Mercury Comedian of the year nominee 2017) was friends with Uri Geller for two years.
George Egg: Movable Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 1st - 25th Aug 2019
Brand-new comedy from the stand-up who cooks on stage.
Son of Dyke
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 9th Aug, 2019
I have a slight confession of bias.
Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 7th Aug, 2019
There are lots of words you can use to describe Jon Long, purveyor of clever gags and witty songs.
Normaler Than Everyone
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 7th Aug, 2019
It may be because of the stage productions and films which I saw growing up, but my innate and core expectation about musical theatre is that it tends to be on the big size, if not…
David Benson – Cato Street 1820
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 18th Aug 2019
Benson shares his fascination with the infamous plot to murder Lord Liverpool’s entire cabinet and the grisly aftermath on the gallows at Newgate.
LipSync / Cumbernauld Theatre
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd Aug, 2019
Biographical performances like LipSync, produced by Cumbernauld Theatre as part of their Invited Guest project, don't always have some obvious, political point to make; they…
Chris Parker: Camp Binch
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 4th Aug, 2019
"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o…
GEORGE
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 31st Jul - 25th Aug 2019
George arrives in the city with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Leo Kearse: Transgressive
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd Aug, 2019
Leo Kearse isn't, by his own admission, a 'woke' comedian.
George Fouracres: Gentlemon
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
George Fouracres, Wolverhampton’s fancy-pantsiest son, tells stories of a Black Country childhood, sings ancient ballads, becomes occasional grotesques and splatters his odd brain …
Marcus Brigstocke: Devil May Care
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2019
In a festival where comedians eager to share their personal histories, foibles and perspectives on the world can oft seem ten-a-penny, it makes a pleasant change of pace to spend a…
Richard Stott: Right Hand Man
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 9th Aug, 2019
Apparently, Richard Stott got into comedy “for all the wrong reasons”; at least, that’s what the aforementioned Richard Stott says.
Pathetic Fallacy
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 13th Aug, 2019
Pathetic Fallacy, at heart, has a Unique Selling Point—the show’s creator, Anita Rochon, isn’t actually in Edinburgh.
Where to Belong
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 7th Aug, 2019
What makes a home? It’s one of a number of questions that Victor Esses asks of audience members as they come in, taping their responses for use later on in his show.
For All I Care
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 4th Aug, 2019
For All I Care is, first and foremost, the story of two women.
Best Girl
- Review
- ★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 23rd Aug, 2019
Best Girl is a story told by the nervous, but likable Annie.
Resurrecting Bobby Awl
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 7th Aug, 2019
"Poor Fellow.
Madame George by Keir McAllister
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2019
Madame George is a psychic in a slump.
Deer Woman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- CanadaHub @ King’s Hall in association with Summerhall
- 1st Aug, 2019
Her name is Lila, and she’s a proud Blackfoot woman, she tells us.
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 9th Aug, 2019
You’ll learn two things from Aaron Simmonds’ Disabled Coconut.
Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 12th Aug, 2019
Bystanders begins with staging reminiscent of a police detective’s office – plain desks, a few chairs, and piles of boxes full of paperwork and evidence.
Don't Bother
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 8th Aug, 2019
It takes a certain bravery, or innocence, to name your debut full-hour show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Don’t Bother.
On the Other Hand, We're Happy
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Roundabout @ Summerhall
- 9th Aug, 2019
"It looks nice.
Liam Malone: No Limbits
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Old Tolbooth Market
- 14th Aug, 2019
Liam Malone, it’s fair to say, is not backwards at coming forwards.
Titania McGrath: Mxnifesto
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 3rd Aug, 2019
Titania McGrath may just be a young Kensington girl with a modest Trust Fund and a thirst for social justice, but she’s in Edinburgh to make a difference, and inspire us common peo…
Typical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2019
Ryan Calais Cameron’s powerful new work plays with the meanings of its title in many ways: our central, point-of-view character has the “distinctive qualities of a particular t…
Paradise Lodge
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Lea
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 18th Aug, 2019
The framing of Paradise Lodge is odd at first.
George Egg: Movable Feast
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- 20th Jul 2019
More invention, more instruction, more ingredients.
George Benson
- Listing Events
- West End
- Apollo Hammersmith
- 18th - 19th Jul 2019
Legendary ten-time Grammy Award and NEA Jazz Master winner George Benson is set to dazzle the audiences over two nights at the inaugural Apollo Nights Summer Series as he is joined…
The Ugly One
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 10th Jul, 2019
At first glance, The Ugly One looks somewhat clinical.
Them!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tramway
- 5th Jul, 2019
First, let’s get the biggest disappointment out of the way first: Them!, a joint production between the National Theatre of Scotland, writer Pamela Carter and director Stewart La…
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Tower Theatre Company
- 12th - 22nd Jun 2019
Witness the transformation of Elisa Doolittle from flower girl to duchess in this timeless comedy about social divide, women's rights and the "education" of the working class.
Sea Changes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Leith Dockers Club Ltd
- 17th Jun, 2019
Jim Brown's Sea Changes is a play that delightfully and unashamedly embraces the info-dump, to the extent of having most of its characters directly introduce themselves to the …
Curious Shoes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 12th Jun, 2019
Curious Shoes is a show that's unashamedly dominated by the perceived needs of its target audience, people living with dementia, and those who care and support them.
Us/Them
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Studio
- 3rd Jun, 2019
Arguably a surprise word-of-mouth hit during the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this physical-theatre exploration of a mass hostage-taking returns to the Scottish capital with - t…
I Wish I Was A Mountain
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 3rd Jun, 2019
It's appropriate that this particular production within the 2019 Edinburgh International Children's Festival is the only one slotted into the schedule for the Netherbow sta…
Emil & The Detectives
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 3rd Jun, 2019
I have a confession: I’d never previously heard of Erich Kästner's 1929 novel, Emil and the Detectives; It just wasn't a part of my childhood.
George
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 21st - 23rd May 2019
George has been given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet with the mysterious J.
Faith - The George Michael Legacy
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 18th May 2019
Faith – The George Michael Legacy Faith - The George Michael Legacy returns with a brand-new production for 2018/19.
The Duchess (of Malfi)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Lyceum / Tramway
- 30th May, 2019
There's little doubt that The Duchess of Malfi has become the most popular and successful work written by the English Jacobean playwright John Webster.
Lisa Klevemark Waits for the Green Man (Before Crossing the Street)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Bunker
- 17th - 19th May 2019
Lisa is always on time.
This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 30th May, 2019
Three, as the song goes, is a magic number.
Super Human Heroes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 3rd Jun, 2019
Super Human Heroes from theatre group The Letter J (in association with Paisley Arts Centre) has a simple message: We all need to do our little bit to help make the world a better …
High School Musical - Young Idea
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Hertford Theatre
- 15th - 18th May 2019
Wednesday 15th May, 7.
Jack Cray: The Fittest Guy on the Street
- Review
- ★★★
- Sebastian Beaumont
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
- 18th May, 2019
Jack Cray is The Fittest Man On The Street.
George Egg: Movable Feast (Work in Progress)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 8th - 25th May 2019
More invention.
The Red Lion
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 17th May, 2019
There’s something reassuringly "classy" about this production of Patrick Marber's The Red Lion, now touring Scotland for the first time courtesy of Glasgow-based Ra…
Middle Street Synagogue Open Days
- Review
- ★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 17th May, 2019
The Jewish community in Brighton has a long history.
Summer Street: The Hilarious, Aussie Soap Opera, Musical Comedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 9th May, 2019
New British musicals are few and far between nowadays, but the Brighton Fringe is the one place where they are bound to be found.
George Sawyer: True. Mostly.
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Junkyard Dogs: The Kennel
- 3rd - 4th May 2019
A bunch of stories that may or may not have happened to me or to anyone.
Matilda The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 11th Apr, 2019
When Noel Coward warned a certain Mrs Worthington against putting her daughter on the stage, it's highly likely that he didn't have Matilda The Musical in mind at the time.
(Can This Be) Home
- Review
- ★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 1st Apr, 2019
It’s seldom fun to leave a venue thinking: "Well, that's an hour of my life I'm never getting back.
Get a Life!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Studio
- 11th Apr, 2019
The sketch show can be a difficult beast to tame.
High Rise eState of Mind
- Listing Theatre
- London Fringe
- Battersea Arts Centre / Camden People's Theatre
- 20th Mar - 11th May 2019
We all need homes…….
Fastlove - A Tribute to George Michael 2019
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- UK Regional & Tours
- Civic Theatre
- 16th Mar 2019
Duration: Approx 2hrs Get ready for an unforgettable evening with a global superstar, as he puts the Boom Boom into your heart in the all new production, Fastlove - A tr…
Fat Blokes
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 18th Mar, 2019
This is a Spoiler.
Local Hero
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 28th Mar, 2019
When Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre announced that they were producing a stage musical based on the iconic 1983 Scottish film Local Hero, I must admit to wondering if it was …
ANT STREET
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Dublin
- Civic Theatre
- 7th Mar 2019
What happens when all your wishes come true? A snowstorm in a heatwave.
The Funeral Director
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Mar, 2019
In drama, an audience can either be ahead of what the characters know, or behind them, catching up; each approach has its dramatic advantages and disadvantages, but what is needed …
Lost in Music
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- North Edinburgh Arts / Platform
- 4th Mar, 2019
“The music I listened to between the ages of 11 and 21 probably affected by life more than pretty much anything else.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 18th Dec, 2018
When Jo Clifford ("proud father and grandmother") first performed her play, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, at Glasgow's Tron Theatre, it attracted bo…
Mouthpiece
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 7th Dec, 2018
It's said that Edinburgh is a city, the size of a town, that feels like a village; or, in other words, the Scottish capital is sufficiently small and compact that you don't…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 11th Dec, 2018
What makes a "traditional" pantomime? It's certainly not just a case of blowing the dust off a 1970s panto script and hoping for the best; here, the Brunton’s now r…
Star Of Strait Street
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- London Fringe
- Applecart Arts / OSO Arts Centre
- 9th - 14th Nov 2018
The new hit musical - based on a true love story from WW2 Malta.
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…
Fastlove - A Tribute to George Michael
- Listing Comedy
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 15th Oct - 3rd Dec 2018
Direct from London's West End, the UK's finest George Michael tribute show.
Cyrano de Bergerac
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Lyceum
- 18th Oct, 2018
The works by French poet and playwright Edmond Rostand, just one of the victims of the influenza pandemic which swept the world in 1918, are today largely forgotten; the one except…
Arctic Oil
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Oct, 2018
Watching Clare Duffy's one-act play "Arctic Oil", a particular phrase kept coming back to me: that mantra of 1960s' student protests and second-wave feminism, &qu…
Scotties
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 11th Oct, 2018
"Best leave history in the history books—get on with living.
Nests
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 12th Sep, 2018
Within a cluttered clearing in some woods that's neither town nor countryside and so somehow feels like nowhere, an unnamed Man (David McKay) sleeps the sleep of the just-finis…
The Yellow on the Broom
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Dundee Rep Theatre / Macrobert Arts Centre
- 6th Sep, 2018
It's just four years since Pitlochry Festival Theatre put on a production of Anne Downie's 1989 play The Yellow On The Broom, based on the autobiographical novel by Betsy W…
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.
George Egg: DIY Chef
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 22nd - 26th Aug 2018
Stand-up comedy with real food, cooked live using power tools, and then the audience eats it at the end.
Bourbon Street 5: Funked Up and Blue
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
The funky gentlemen, who have been thrilling Edinburgh audiences with their unique brand of funky soul music, are teaming up with Greenside Venues to bring you six electrifying eve…
Dodo Street Band - The Last Word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stockbridge Church
- 18th Aug 2018
The last word in Celtic Gypsy Klezmer.
Princes Street Gardens: A Drama in Time
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outside Scott Monument
- 14th - 18th Aug 2018
Linking Old and New Towns, Princes Street Gardens are truly amazing in their unique geology, disputed history, diverse planting and the myriad ways that ordinary folk have used and…
Safeword with Anna Phylactic and Ruth Cockburn
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Liquid Room
- 13th - 16th Aug 2018
Anna Phylactic and Ruth Cockburn come together to bring you a cabaret show about love and friendship, with a few history lessons along the way.
Monday at Golden Oak High
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Niddry St
- 13th - 18th Aug 2018
Marco was never a popular kid.
Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 12th - 26th Aug 2018
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
George Duff and Kevin Macleod
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Acoustic Music Centre @ UCC
- 11th Aug 2018
Top Scots traditional singer/guitarist George Duff performs songs from his new album The Collier Laddie featuring classics by Robert Burns, songs from the coal mining industry, and…
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 …
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.
Princes Street Gardens Piano Afternoon Tea
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant
- 4th - 26th Aug 2018
Experience authentic light jazz by our in-house pianist, while also enjoying the Scottish Cafe’s award-winning afternoon tea.
Paper Dolls
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 6th Aug, 2018
Paper Dolls is advertised as a one-man show, but the person standing in front of us for the next hour isn't the show’s performer, writer, director and producer Shaun Nolan; r…
Cry God for Harry, England and St George!
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 11th Aug 2018
Sayara has always wanted to be a leader.
Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 6th Aug, 2018
Mark Thompson is quite clear about what his (modestly) titled Spectacular Show isn't: "It's not a science lecture," he insists.
What Girls Are Made Of
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2018
The Traverse One stage looks more ready for a gig than a piece of theatre, but while music undoubtedly runs through the heart of Cora Bissett's latest, most autobiographical wo…
The Flop
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
It seems that Cardiff-based Hijinx Theatre Company are happy to take risks.
Amazing Bangkok Thai Street Food Cookery Workshop
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Krua Thai Cookery School
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2018
Amazing Bangkok street food by executive Thai chef Rujira Herd (Ru).
High School English
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Infirmary Street
- 3rd - 25th Aug 2018
As a group of high school students work towards their English exam, but can’t remember anything about the classic texts they have to memorise, their teacher is forced to fabricate …
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 3rd - 18th Aug 2018
Sweeney Todd returns to London having been unjustly exiled by the evil Judge Turpin.
George Michael Songbook
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Merchant’s Hall
- 3rd - 15th Aug 2018
Sublime concert tribute to George Michael, starring Grant Macintosh – ‘soul sensation’ (Sun).
Midsummer
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Hub
- 6th Aug, 2018
What a difference a decade can make.
Kaput
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 4th Aug, 2018
For anyone who thinks they don't make physical comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton any more, here's a word from the wise—which, in this context, essentially …
Tim Renkow Tries to Punch Down
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
- 8th Aug, 2018
Tim Renkow insists he’s spent the last decade on the comedy circuit trying to find a social or racial group that he’s NOT able to insult, because that would mean – as a disab…
Providence
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 4th Aug, 2018
"Life is a hideous thing," we're told by the lean figure of Simon Maeder, dressed for dinner and sitting in a leather armchair like some classic teller of ghost stori…
George Michael Is Greek
- Review
- ★
- Sophia Charalambous
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
- 8th Aug, 2018
I realise I’m breaking the Greek code by saying this, but George Michael is Greek is quite possibly the most underwhelming show I’ve ever seen.
Free and Proud
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 2nd Aug, 2018
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
James Barr: Thirst Trap! – Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Counting House
- 5th Aug, 2018
Wonderfully unexpected opportunities can occur at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; even more so at the 'Free' variety.
Scott Capurro: The Trouble With Scott Capurro
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ Boteco
- 7th Aug, 2018
So what exactly IS the Trouble with Scott Capurro? Is it that this left-leaning liberal American (yes, he’s the one, apparently) seemingly talks without pausing for breath? (“Are y…
A Joke
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2018
It was irresistible, I suppose: part way through Dan Freeman’s absurdist play A Joke, the acclaimed Scottish actor John Bett turns to his co-stars to start a joke with: "Doc…
Ruth Cockburn – Love Letters from Blackpool
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ash Weir
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug, 2018
“Welcome to Blackpool!” Cockburn beams as her audience files into Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre.
David Mills: Focus People!
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 7th Aug, 2018
David Mills is always well turned out: sharp-suited, finely tuned, sitting on his stool like some Easy Listening Singer from a bygone age.
Rik Carranza: Still a Fan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2018
Rik Carranza is a Star Trek fan.
Police Cops in Space
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 10th Aug, 2018
It's obvious from the loud, excited audience in Assembly Studio 3 that London-based comedy theatre trio The Pretend Men – Nathan Parkinson, Zachary Hunt and Tom Rose – have…
The Last Straw
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 8th Aug, 2018
People Show have been producing work for more than 50 years which, given the self-indulgence of People Show 130 (or The Last Straw, to give its more Fringe-friendly title), is some…
George Rigden: George-ous
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 27th Aug 2018
Adjective: someone called George who is irresistibly beautiful to any gender.
My Left Nut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug, 2018
“Bitter Sweet Symphony” by The Verve.
Space Doctor
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 7th Aug, 2018
This November happens to mark the 55th anniversary of the BBC broadcasting the first ever episode of Doctor Who, so it’s hardly surprising that several shows on this year’s Fringe …
George Lewis: A Man, a Plan, a Girl With Fake Tan
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 1st - 26th Aug 2018
When George was 12 he fell for the most beautiful, orangest girl in Stockport.
Marmite
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Rose Theatre
- 9th Aug, 2018
Marmite: it’s the breakfast spread that we apparently love or hate, and the word has – in that way the English language often does – subsequently evolved far wider metaphoric…
Statements
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 3rd Aug, 2018
Until relatively recently in Western society, children with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, or a wide range of neural and behavioural challenges, were either institutio…
Tom Neenan: It's Always Infinity
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 10th Aug, 2018
Tom Neenan has been a regular Fringe attraction for several years now, bringing a succession of one-man pastiches - Edwardian ghost story, Vaudeville Horror tale, 1950s British Sci…
Erewhon
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 2nd Aug, 2018
Erewhon: or, Over the Range is a fantasy novel by Samuel Butler which, first published anonymously in 1872, presented itself as the experiences of its narrator on discovering the m…
Magic 8 Ball (My Life With Asperger's)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 9th Aug, 2018
I'm sure that history will suggest otherwise but, after seeing George Steeves perform his one man show, I couldn't help but think that Stevie Wonder must have written his s…
When You Fall Down: The Buster Keaton Story
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2018
If silent Hollywood star Buster Keaton is remembered for anything, it's his emotionless, mask-like expression; so the initial shock here is that this Buster speaks and smiles.
George Egg – DIY Chef
- Listing Comedy
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Turn Pot
- 24th Jul 2018
Direct from total sell outs at the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe 2017 and Brighton Fringe 2017, and following sell out Edinburgh Fringe runs in 2015 and 2016 plus a s…
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
- Listing Music
- West End
- Old Royal Naval College
- 7th Jul 2018
Fresh from the success of the No.
The Miracle Of Great Homer Street
- Listing Theatre
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Court Liverpool
- 1st - 30th Jun 2018
It’s Liverpool, 1978.
Expedition Peter Pan
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 4th Jun, 2018
"Grow up, mature, and come back when you have something to contribute!" It's not the most sympathetic way to address a young audience; nevertheless, it succinctly sho…
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 31st May 2018
Join us in the jungle for our hit annual ‘High Top Circus Student Showcase’.
Mbuzeni
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 4th Jun, 2018
Part of the inherent challenge for Noel Jordan and the Imaginate team when putting together their annual Edinburgh International Children's Festival is their very diverse poten…
Gretel and Hansel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 31st May, 2018
Fairy tales survive because they can be constantly retold, uncovering new depths and relevancies to the world today.
Stick By Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- North Edinburgh Arts Centre
- 31st May, 2018
Andy Manley is undoubtedly one of the treasures of Scotland’s current theatrical landscape, all the more so given his seemingly innate (but presumably hard-learned) skill in hold…
George Egg: DIY Chef
- Review
- ★★★★
- Elanor Parker
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Hat
- 27th May, 2018
You’ve been invited into George Egg’s shed.
Grace Eyre Street
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Purple Playhouse Theatre
- 23rd - 30th May 2018
Following a successful debut in 2017, we’ll be taking another trip to ‘Grace Eyre Street’ to meet some new characters! A showcase of live short performances made by artists with …
A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
The Field Street Monologues
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lois Zoppi
- Brighton Fringe
- Broadway Lounge
- 16th May, 2018
What happens behind closed doors? How much do you really know about your neighbours? Is that knowledge you're better left without? The Field Street Monologues consists of six m…
Family Day - Street Dance Workshop
- Listing Children’s Shows
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 12th - 12th May 2018
Street Dance workshops in a small group. Admission by ticket only.
1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: The Blockhouse
- 10th - 20th May 2018
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (Call the Midwife, The Crown, BBC Radio 4) returns to Brighton after a smash-hit, sell-out Edinburgh Fringe, Soho Theatre runs and a UK tour.
Fastlove - A Tribute to George Michael
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- The Broadway Theatre, Catford
- 5th May 2018
Direct from London’s West End, the UK’s biggest George Michael tribute show.
Creditors
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 3rd May, 2018
August Strindberg apparently subtitled his play Creditors (in Swedish: Fordringsäxgare) a “tragicomedy” but, while David Greig’s 2008 adaptation does indeed contain a few de…
Eddie and the Slumber Sisters
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 31st May, 2018
Sometimes, when it comes to suspending our disbelief, we just have to go with the flow.
George
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- London Fringe
- Theatre N16
- 24th - 25th Apr 2018
The story of George follows an everyman at a crucial moment.
Gut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 2nd May, 2018
“In my day, we trusted people.
Passing Places
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Citizens Theatre / Dundee
- 23rd Apr, 2018
A road movie, according to Wikipedia, is “a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip,” during which “the hero changes, grows or improves over the cou…
George's Marvellous Medicine
- Listing Children’s Shows
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oxford Playhouse
- 10th - 14th Apr 2018
Following the success of Fantastic Mr.
You Can't Take It With You
- Review
- ★★★
- A George
- London Fringe
- The Bridewell Theatre
- 13th Apr, 2018
You Can’t Take it With You is a 1930’s era screwball comedy enthusiastically embraced by Sedos (The Stock Exchange Dramatic and Operatic Society), an amateur company three deca…
Winter Solstice
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Stephen Joseph Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2018
If theatre is home to lies that impart truths, then this Actors Touring Company’s production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Winter Solstice (translated by David Tushingham) makes …
Sanaa Street Festival
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Mama Jambo
- 17th Mar 2018
From around the world, to the streets of Adelaide.
A Tribute to George Harrison
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Goodwood Institute Theatre
- 17th - 18th Mar 2018
This audio/visual tribute show is an evening of fun, music, harmony and story telling, performed by ‘the Highlights’ 10 piece band and narrated by Roger Stanning (as Harold Harriso…
Three Sisters
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Citizens Theatre / Perth Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2018
“It’s sweat on your brow that gives life meaning,” says one of the supporting characters in Chekhov’s Three Sisters, and it’s fair to say that, on occasions, there’s a …
Get Rich or High Tryin'
- Listing Comedy
- Adelaide Fringe
- Gluttony
- 12th - 18th Mar 2018
Lowe is no 50 Cent but he has been tryin’ to get the dollar.
Jazz High Tea
- Listing Music
- Adelaide Fringe
- Stirling Fringe
- 11th Mar 2018
Elegant, relaxing and fun.
BRIDGE
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Hart’s Mill
- 10th - 11th Mar 2018
Join us as we bridge time, gaps, cultures and differences, connecting between two adjacent elements and between the seemingly incompatible.
Street Art Explosion Walking Tours
- Listing Tours
- Adelaide Fringe
- Chesser Lane / East End / Whitmore Square
- 24th Feb - 17th Mar 2018
Explore brand new works that will erupt with colour and creativity in Adelaide’s CBD, alongside existing artworks throughout the city and Adelaide’s surrounding suburbs, with your …
Street Art Explosion
- Listing Exhibition
- Adelaide Fringe
- Various sites around Adelaide
- 10th - 18th Mar 2018
Blank walls will once again burst into life for the 2018 Street Art Explosion! Featuring brand new works that will erupt with colour and creativity in Adelaide’s CBD, alongside exi…
Waymouth Street Party
- Listing Events
- Adelaide Fringe
- Waymouth Street
- 9th Mar 2018
Experience one of Adelaide’s great city streets transform into a hip and sophisticated venue! Waymouth Street will be the destination of choice for scrumptious street food, tan…
The Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Adelaide Fringe
- Bakehouse Theatre
- 24th Feb 2018
From Vancouver, Canada, comes a post-apocalyptic tale in which an anonymous man and woman search for salvation and the remnants of human civilization under the beaconing arch of th…
The Last Bordello
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 24th Feb, 2018
Perhaps it was tempting fate, but David Leddy’s decision to call his latest work The Last Bordello now comes with a certain irony, given that it could well prove to be his final …
H G Wells' The Time Machine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 27th Feb, 2018
While not even Herbert George Wells’s own first dalliance with the concept of time travel, his 1895 novella The Time Machine has nevertheless become pretty much the definitive te…
The Belle's Stratagem
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 19th Feb, 2018
Writer and director Tony Cownie has established a particular niche at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, taking potentially overlooked 18th century comedies (like Carlo Goldoni’…
Showtime from the Frontline
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 24th Feb, 2018
Most stand-up comedy these days is based on the lives of the people standing behind the microphone, albeit reshaped to varying degrees to ensure their material matches the “rule …
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre
- 14th Feb, 2018
It’s 36 years since Andrea Dunbar’s breakthrough play announced the all-too-brief flowering of a new writing talent – “a genius straight from the slums,” as the Mail on S…
The Match Box
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 14th Feb, 2018
The central metaphor running through Frank McGuinness’s 2012 monologue The Match Box is almost breath-taking in its simplicity; it’s that all of us, all of our lives, are ultim…
It's Behind You!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Feb, 2018
Alan McHugh has played in enough pantomimes down the years to ensure It’s Behind You! reeks of authenticity, albeit the heightened theatrics of the genre.
Knives in Hens
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Perth Theatre
- 12th Feb, 2018
David Harrower’s debut play, Knives in Hens, made a big splash back in 1995, recognised as a modern classic which has since seen revivals by companies as diverse as the Nation…
The Lover
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 29th Jan, 2018
When watching the stage adaptation of any book, especially one I’ve not read, there’s often a question lingering at the back of my mind; would I appreciate this more, would I…
Bananaman
- Review
- ★★★★★
- A George
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 7th Jan, 2018
This show is ‘appeeling’ to all.
Christmas With The Rat Pack
- Review
- ★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- 23rd Dec, 2017
In the early 1960s the Rat Pack quintet (then including Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop) performed in the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.
How to Win Against History
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- London Fringe
- Young Vic Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2017
It is common knowledge that history is written by the winners.
Beauty and the Beast
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 12th Dec, 2017
There’s a deliberate cheapness to the temporary, painted proscenium arch erected in the Brunton’s theatre-space, indicative of this local panto’s rough ’n’ ready (and n…
Shona Reppe’s Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2017
This revival of Shona Reppe’s acclaimed puppet retelling of the iconic fairytale is a fascinating jewel of a production, ideal for young children and families alike; subtle, s…
The Tin Soldier
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Studio
- 13th Dec, 2017
It’s a real shame temporary roadworks make accessing this show’s venue ever-so-slightly off-putting; also, that the venue is still relatively new, especially when it comes t…
How To Disappear
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2017
As Scotland’s self-declared “new writing theatre”, Edinburgh’s Traverse does like to offer up an alternative to the pantomimes and decidedly family-focused fare on offer…
Tommy and the Snowbird
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Scottish Youth Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2017
It’s said that actors should never work with children or animals, presumably because of their unpredictability and the extra work this requires.
The Arabian Nights
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 5th Dec, 2017
Stories illuminate the truth, lies hide it; that’s just one of the lessons audiences of all ages can take from Suhayla El-Bushra’s energetic new adaptation of The Arabian N…
The Woman in White
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- West End
- Charing Cross Theatre
- 6th Dec, 2017
A single flickering lantern situated centre stage is an appropriately Gothic opening to the first London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White.
The House on Poe Street
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- The 14th Street Y
- 27th Oct - 12th Nov 2017
When twin sisters inherit the house where Poe composed The Raven, their lives take twisted turns that affect the future of mankind.
Our Fathers
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 30th Oct, 2017
It’s mildly amusing to see two grown men briefly falling into a childish bragging-match about their fathers—one a retired Church of Scotland minister, the other a former Bis…
The Maids
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 24th Oct, 2017
“We’re beautiful, wild, free and full of joy,” say the titular Maids, Solange and Claire, towards the close of Jean Genet’s 1947 drama, courtesy of Martin Crimp’s 1999…
Thingummy Bob
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Byre Theatre / The Lemon Tree / The Studio
- 22nd Oct, 2017
There’s a wonderful clarity to Linda McLean’s short play Thingummy Bob, a firm favourite with Scotland’s leading theatre company for people with learning disabilities, Lung H…
Pop Punk High
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Off Off Broadway
- Parkside Lounge
- 12th Oct - 30th Nov 2017
Pop Punk High tells the story of a high school where everyone is pop punk, it’s always 2006, and there’s never been anything cooler than shredding, pizza, and flipping off your…
Love Song to Lavender Menace
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 17th Oct, 2017
“Lavender Menace”, according to Wikipedia, were “an informal group of lesbian radical feminists formed to protest the exclusion of lesbians and lesbian issues from the fem…
Man to Man
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Everyman Theatre / Northern Stage / Traverse Theatre
- 13th Oct, 2017
There were a lot of expectation around this new Wales Millennium Centre production of Manfred Karge’s one-woman play, Man to Man.
One Mississippi
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2017
There’s little obvious theatrical artifice on show; just four actors, in casual clothes, sitting or lying on the plain black floor of an empty stage as the audience comes in.
St George and the Dragon
- Listing Theatre
- West End
- Olivier Theatre
- 7th Oct - 2nd Dec 2017
A folk tale for an uneasy nation.
Without a Hitch
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 13th Oct, 2017
There’s no doubting the raw energy and physicality of this show, a work of dance theatre that definitely prefers choreography to speech, and uses it—along with some pretty st…
Cockpit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 13th Oct, 2017
Site specific theatre is nothing new in Scotland; from the numerous innovative creations by the likes of Grid Iron Theatre Company to much of the work by the “without walls” …
Saint George and the Dragon
- Review
- ★★
- Simon Ximenez
- West End
- National Theatre
- 16th Oct, 2017
For those who don’t know much about mid-20th century Russian literature – I’m sure there must be one or two – satirical playwright Evgeny Schwartz’s 1943 play, Drakon …
Damned Rebel Bitches
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Multiple Venues
- 13th Oct, 2017
Historically speaking, the original “Damned Rebel Bitches” were—according to the “butcher” Duke of Cumberland—the Jacobite women who marched behind their men in order…
The Coolidge Effect
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 26th Sep, 2017
During the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation, its first Director-General Lord Reith established the BBC’s mission as being to “inform, educate and entertai…
Street Theater
- Listing Theatre
- Off Off Broadway
- Eagle
- 20th Sep - 4th Oct 2017
Set in Greenwich Village June 28, 1969, shortly before the first brick was thrown at the Stonewall Inn, Doric Wilson’s legendary satire STREET THEATER follows the exploits of the c…
Cilla – The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 21st Sep, 2017
Given that she’s such a much-loved public entertainer, an all-too-obvious challenge in creating a musical based on the early life of the late Cilla Black—born Priscilla Mari…
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.
George Dimarelos: Self Sabotage
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 22nd Aug 2017
Have you ever made a mistake that you instantly regretted? And then made that same mistake when you really should know better? Then done it a third time and realised you suffer fro…
A Bridge by a Cliff
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus / Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 21st - 27th Aug 2017
According to Isaac Newton’s theory, colours don’t exist; they are instead reflections of substances, vulnerable to our own perception.
The Romance Novel as High Art?
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 20th Aug 2017
Anyone can write a romance novel.
World Fringe Street Café
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 18th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Street Arts – Where To Go Next?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 18th Aug 2017
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Farolero. Magic Street Adventure
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Car Park at Scottish National Gallery on the Mound
- 17th - 18th Aug 2017
A magic adventure in the city of streetlights with elements of sightseeing, theatre performance and quest.
13 the Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- The Ambassadors Theatre
- 18th Aug, 2017
The greatest assets of 13 are also the greatest pitfalls.
George Dimarelos: Self Sabotage
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
- 14th - 27th Aug 2017
Have you ever made a mistake that you instantly regretted? And then made that same mistake when you really should know better? Then done it a third time and realised you suffer fro…
Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 13th - 27th Aug 2017
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th - 26th Aug 2017
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (The Crown, Sunny D, BBC Radio 4) returns to Edinburgh after a smash-hit, sell-out run in 2016.
There Were Two Brothers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bosco Theatre
- 17th Aug, 2017
Part confessional monologue, part lecture and part nostalgic trip back to the days of the BBC’s Jackanory, there’s no doubt that There Were Two Brothers is a funny, personal—…
Stand By
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Army @ The Fringe in Association with Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2017
There’s a real sense of excitement in the run-up to Stand By, not least thanks to the slightly-unusual venue—inside an Army Reserve Centre in the north of the New Town.
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 …
Mia: Daughters of Fortune
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 11th Aug, 2017
This startling, if indistinct production from Mind the Gap, England’s largest learning disability theatre company, gets straight to its point, with cast members slipping into ‘…
Prospect High: Brooklyn
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 5th - 9th Aug 2017
Listen closely with empathy to what high school students are saying.
The Amorous Ambassador
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre
- 8th Aug, 2017
There’s nothing that says ‘Edinburgh Festival Fringe’ quite like the portrayal of sex on stage: that said, compared with many of the thousands of shows in Edinburgh this August, …
Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope)
- Review
- ★★★
- Bella Roux
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Northern Stage at Summerhall
- 18th Aug, 2017
Manchester dark comedy duo Powder Keg (Ross McCaffery and Jake Walton) scream out their political statements in Morale Is High (Since We Gave Up Hope) but none which make an impact…
Rock of Ages: High School Edition
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 4th - 8th Aug 2017
It’s the end of the 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging.
Gordon Southern: That's a Fun Fact!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 9th Aug, 2017
Upbeat Gordon Southern may dress like the kind of supply teacher that the kids love to bully (his words) but, despite his repeated mantra of ‘Not Laughing, Learning’, his lates…
Bella Freak: Unwritten
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 13th Aug, 2017
Unwritten, according to the flyer, is ‘a secret history of Scotland’; specifically, though, it uses the individual experiences of three disabled people to talk about Inclusive …
Tommy Miah Street Food Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Raj Restaurant
- 4th - 27th Aug 2017
After last year’s successful fringe event, celebrity chef, Tommy Miah is running another Street Food Festival experience.
Caravaggio: Between the Darkness
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 8th Aug, 2017
“I need more light,” our protagonist Caravaggio says at one point, and it’s fair to say that the 16th century Italian’s use of light and darkness is one of his paintings’…
BBC at George Heriot's School
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- BBC
- 4th - 25th Aug 2017
Bringing the best of the festivals to audiences, with live and recorded BBC broadcasts and activities.
A Charlie Montague Mystery: The Game's a Foot, Try the Fish
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 14th Aug, 2017
What would an unpublished Agatha Christie mystery be like if, by some strange quirk of fate, its editor had given it over to P G Wodehouse for a final literary polish? Well, thanks…
Meet Me At Dawn
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2017
Zinnie Harris has five plays on in Edinburgh this August, including two within the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme.
Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 5th Aug, 2017
Andrew Doyle has, allegedly, lost quite a few friends this last year.
Blank Tiles
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 9th Aug, 2017
It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’.
I Can Make You Tory
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 4th Aug, 2017
When you see Leo Kearse — and you should — there’s a very good chance it’ll be a four-star experience.
Equality Street
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Nightcap
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Kimi is known for her exuberant style and her stories of taking on the tribulations of daily life.
Matt Abbott: Two Little Ducks
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 7th Aug, 2017
Wakefield’s poet son may have a self-confessed tendency for lewd social observation but Matt Abbott is also an unpretentious recorder of life in the raw, with a talent for coming…
Lilith: The Jungle Girl
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 5th Aug, 2017
This acclaimed show from award-winning Australian theatre company Sisters Grimm clearly aims to put the “lion” back in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, through a startlingly …
Rhinoceros
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 13th Aug, 2017
Time and again during Zinnie Harris’s new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s famous farce, people tell each other not to be absurd.
The Road That Wasn't There
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 8th Aug, 2017
The truth about fairy tales, all too often forgotten by us grown-ups, is that the best ones are meant to be scary, albeit in an ultimately reassuring context.
Milton Jones is Out There
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 8th Aug, 2017
Milton Jones is a true wordsmith, often dubbed the master of the one-liner, he is absolutely true to form in his latest Edinburgh Fringe offering.
Tony Roberts: Late Nite Ace High
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Tony Roberts is back, he’s loose and ready to blow your mind with cheeky, salacious stand-up, songs, stories and crafty card manipulation.
Letters to Morrissey
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 8th Aug, 2017
Confession time: I’ve never been a fan of The Smiths or Morrissey.
Performers
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2017
One figure doesn’t appear in Performers, Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh’s new play inspired by some of the behind-the-scenes stories surrounding the making of 1970 cult film Pe…
Jamie MacDonald: Designated Driver
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 9th Aug, 2017
Given that so much of the stand-up comedy you’ll find on the Fringe is blatantly autobiographical—at least to some extent—it’s not surprising that a lot of Jamie MacDonald�…
Jack Barry: High Treason
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
This show is about why we should legalise all the drugs.
George McGoldrick: The Good Herb
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Golf Tavern
- 3rd - 27th Aug 2017
Hello, I’m doing a solo show where I play a synth for a while and read some comedic short stories that I’ve written.
Victorian Gothic
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Holyrood
- 5th Aug, 2017
Thanks to the numerous adventures of Sherlock Holmes, we arguably don’t have the best impression of the Victorian Police Detective—especially when it comes to either their inte…
Snowflake by Mark Thomson
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 7th Aug, 2017
Snowflake, a new play written and directed by the former Artistic Director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, Mark Thomson, feels a necessity to explain its title right from th…
Colin Hoult / Anna Mann in How We Stop the Fascists
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2017
Anna Mann is, according to herself, the greatest actress of her generation—a quote she can now legitimately edit for future Fringe posters with no fear of censor.
Ella Enchanted
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2017
This production is based on Gail Carson Levine’s Ella Enchanted, a young adult novel that previously inspired Anne Hathaway’s second turn as a movie princess.
(More) Moira Monologues
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 13th Aug, 2017
Time has not withered Moira Bell, Alan Bissett’s 2009 tribute to the hard-working, hard-playing, straight-talking working class women of Scotland, and Falkirk in particular.
Geoff Norcott: Right Leaning but Well Meaning
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 11th Aug, 2017
There’s one point during Geoff Norcott’s latest show when it really flies, when you sense he really has most of the audience on his side — even though at least one or two of …
George Egg: DIY Chef
- Review
- ★★★★
- Emily Jane Kerr
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 17th Aug, 2017
George Egg is a hybrid chef and comedian.
Georgie Morrell: The Morrell High Ground
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
Georgie’s got 99 problems but disability is basically the main one.
Who, Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at Rose Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2017
It’s four years since Rob Lloyd first brought this autobiographical, Doctor Who-related show to Edinburgh.
1 Woman, a High-Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd - 28th Aug 2017
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (The Crown, Sunny D, BBC Radio 4) returns to Edinburgh after a smash-hit, sell-out run in 2016.
Iain Stirling: U OK Hun? X
- Review
- ★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 21st Aug, 2017
Iain Stirling’s latest sell out Edinburgh Fringe Festival performance has a lot of Love Island quips, but is truly grounded in Iain’s life experiences.
Night at the Museum
- Review
- ★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Museum
- 21st Aug, 2017
This show is described as an ‘unrehearsed show-and-tell’ from ‘the best comedians from across the globe’.
Scott Agnew: Spunk on Our Lady's Face
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 7th Aug, 2017
Burly Glaswegian stand-up Scott Agnew has for many years joked about “blow-job knee”—wear and tear arising from too much time on his knees providing oral sex.
Knock Knock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C primo
- 7th Aug, 2017
It’s 54 years since the last conscripted British citizens returned to civilian life after completing their National Service.
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.
5 Guys Chillin'
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Roxy
- 8th Aug, 2017
Many an article’s been written on how the gay scene appears dominated by drugs and sex.
Sarah, Sky and Seven Other Guys
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues – C royale
- 5th Aug, 2017
“Ah yes.
George Egg- DIY Chef
- Review
- ★★★★
- Zack Sizer
- Great Yorkshire Fringe
- The Shed
- 27th Jul, 2017
As a long time fan of daytime cookery shows and comedy in general, the concept of George Egg’s show intrigued me from the get go.
The Lying Kind
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 11th Jul, 2017
“O, what a tangled web we weave,” Sir Walter Scott wrote in his epic poem Marmion, “when first we practise to deceive!” It’s a life lesson we can only hope unfortunat…
The Waves on the Seas
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Out of the Blue & Drill Hall Arts Cafe
- 27th Jun, 2017
A marriage isn’t just the joining of two people, or even two families—it marks the coming together of two communities.
1 Woman, a High Flyer and a Flat Bottom: Samantha Baines (WIP)
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 2nd - 4th Jun 2017
Award-winning comedian Samantha Baines (‘The Crown’, ‘Sunny D’, BBC Radio) is exploring the lost women of science.
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 1st Jun 2017
Join our students for a fantastical cabaret showcase from High Top Circus workshops and our special guests.
Bounce!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 7th Jun, 2017
It’s fair to say that Bounce!, created and performed by French company Arcosm, is a delightfully playful blend of music and dance, performed with real skill and alleged wild a…
Grace Eyre Street
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Purple Playhouse Theatre
- 31st May 2017
A showcase of live performance and film made by artists with learning disabilities from Brighton & Hove and beyond.
Falling Dreams
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 6th Jun, 2017
Recent years have seen a significant rise in the number of (usually) London theatre productions being transmitted live to cinemas and other venues across the UK.
Glory on Earth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th May, 2017
At one point during Glory on Earth, its two main characters—stage right, the young, romantic Mary, Queen of Scots; stage left, the firebrand Protestant preacher John Knox—ar…
Street Stories
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Library
- 20th - 20th May 2017
Put on your headphones and set off on a journey through Brighton’s hidden corners accompanied by the fragments, stories and shifting sounds of six people who have experienced homel…
Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
- 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Music Is Torture
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Eden Court Inverness / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 23rd May, 2017
“Keep going,” actor Andy Clark says repeatedly to the musicians behind the glass screen in the unsubtly-named Limbo Studio created on stage, ensuring that we find our seats …
Living With George
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Rialto Theatre
- 13th - 15th May 2017
One Summer evening in 1952, a 21-year-old Margaret Williams enters a dance hall.
Daphne Oram's Wonderful World of Sound
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 11th May, 2017
In 1983, the BBC published a retrospective about “the first 25 years” of the by-then globally famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Middle Street Synagogue
- Listing Tours
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 7th - 28th May 2017
Discover Brighton’s Grade II* Synagogue (Thomas Lainson 1875).
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.
GEORGE EGG: ANARCHIST COOK PART TWO 'Second Helpings'
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Theatre Box
- 7th - 29th May 2017
George Egg, the stand-up comedian who cooks onstage using absurd and innovative techniques, returns.
Joan Eardley: A Private View
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Scottish National Gallery
- 8th May, 2017
The London-born artist Joan Eardley, who settled in Scotland to study and whose artistic career was cut short when she died—aged 42—in 1963, is best known for two very diffe…
George Crumb's 'Black Angels'
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- St Nicholas Church
- 5th May 2017
Special first night of Brighton Fringe event - Ligeti Quartet plays ‘Black Angels’ for amplified strings and percussion, which David Bowie named as being among his favourite ‘Top-2…
The 306: Day
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- The Station Hotel
- 8th May, 2017
The 306: Day is the second of a three play trilogy instigated by the National Theatre of Scotland, inspired by the stories of the 306 British soldiers that we know were executed…
Travels With My Aunt
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th May, 2017
This is a homecoming, of sorts; the revival of a play, first performed at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre back in 1989, which subsequently enjoyed successful productions in the West …
No Place For A Woman
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- Theatre503
- 10th May, 2017
The title does not playfully refer to the role of women in theatre as available at The Globe with Nell Gwynn at the moment.
Shirley Valentine
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 5th May, 2017
“I used to be Shirley Valentine,” explains the focus of Willy Russell’s 1986 one-woman play; a 42 year old Liverpudlian woman who, now that the children have flown …
Confessional
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 4th May, 2017
The comedic tone of David Weir’s Confessional is clear from the start; as Schubert’s beautiful Ave Marie fades into silence, “Good Catholic” Kevin—or, as he puts it, th…
Charlie Sonata
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 4th May, 2017
There’s much to admire, to even love, in Douglas Maxwell’s new play at Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum; a script full of humour and subtle characterisation, if not always …
Monstrous Bodies
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 4th May, 2017
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s debut novel has become so iconic in Western culture that the word “Frankenstein” is now used pejoratively to describe any scientific o…
Orlando
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Banana Skin
- 24th Apr, 2017
If the usual writerly advice is to always “show, not tell”, then biography is arguably one of the few artistic forms where a certain amount of direct author-to-audience expl…
The Edinburgh Easter Play
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Princes Street Gardens
- 18th Apr, 2017
The Biblical narrative that is the foundation of the Christian faith has been described, on numerous occasions, as “The Greatest Story Ever Told.
One Man Shoe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 18th Apr, 2017
Children’s entertainer Jango Starr is a total clown, but that’s certainly not meant as a criticism; sans white-face, he instead relies on a pair of trousers just sufficientl…
Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall
- 18th Apr, 2017
Almost at the start, Gilchrist Muir—here inhabiting the tweed suit of our lecturer, Glasgow University-based Theoretical Zombiologist Dr Ken House—insists that Zombies are no…
A Stone’s Throw
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall Place
- 10th Apr, 2017
A young girl, annoyed by being made fun of by her seven older brothers, joins in the family’s evening game of throwing stones and unintentionally shatters the sun from the sky…
Isaac’s Eye
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 10th Apr, 2017
From the start of his exploration of the scientific method, through the prism of the 17th century rivalry between Isaac Newton and the now little-remembered Robert Hooke, playwr…
A Number
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 10th Apr, 2017
In one sense, this Lyceum revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 play is exactly the “dynamic two-hander” described in the programme: the only actors on stage are Peter Forbes,…
Girl in the Machine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 7th Apr, 2017
The symbolism is hardly subtle; when we enter the Traverse Theatre’s principal performance space, we have to choose which side of a massive shipping container we sit next to.
Cosmonaut
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall Place
- 7th Apr, 2017
There’s always a risk attempting to present previously “unknown” stories as theatre.
Dr Stirlingshire's Discovery
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Zoo
- 7th Apr, 2017
I’m not a fan of promenade performances, especially those involving the audience being led in a group from one set piece to another.
The Nether
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Checkpoint
- 31st Mar, 2017
Science Fiction isn’t the most common genre you find on stage; ironic, really, since it was Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.
Adam & Eve and Steve
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- King’s Head Theatre Pub
- 29th Mar, 2017
If you’re looking for a wholesome chapter from The Good Book then this is not the show for you.
42nd Street
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- West End
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- 20th Mar 2017 - 5th Jan 2019
42nd STREET is the song and dance, American dream fable of Broadway.
Hay Fever
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre / The Lyceum
- 16th Mar, 2017
Dominic Hill, artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre, apparently doesn’t like to constrain any theatrical experience with the blunt instrument of a rising or falling c…
Girls Like That
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Mar, 2017
Evan Placey’s Girls Like That (first performed at London’s Unicorn Theatre three years ago) came to Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre—courtesy of the neighbouring Lyceum Thea…
La Cage Aux Folles
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 10th Mar, 2017
There’s much to love about this new touring production of La Cage Aux Folles; gloriously Technicolor™ sets, gorgeous costumes, tight choreography, clearly enunciated sin…
The Beaches of St Valery
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Mar, 2017
Three-quarters of a century on, there are still stories of the Second World War that aren’t as well known as they should, but Stuart Hepburn’s new play—while promoted as t…
The Play That Goes Wrong
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Theatre Royal Glasgow
- 13th Mar, 2017
The old showbiz adage that “the show must go on” is usually invoked—in the aftermath of some behind-the-scenes calamity—before curtain-up, but the point of The Play That…
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 6th Mar, 2017
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
Death of a Salesman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 2nd Mar, 2017
The writer and historian James Truslow Adams once defined the “American Dream” as the potential for life to be “better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity …
The Shoreditch Improv Festival improvised tour of Shoreditch street art
- Listing Comedy
- London Fringe
- The Water Poet
- 18th Feb 2017
Enrol in Balderdash Academy and join your improv professors on a tour de force of this century’s best street art focused in its natural home: Shoreditch.
Thriller Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- Lyric Theatre
- 8th Feb, 2017
Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough should be the new tagline for the musical which has just become the 15th longest running show in West End history.
The Winter's Tale
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 20th Feb, 2017
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has all the characteristics of a Tragedy, as we speedily witness the horrendous consequences of King Leontes’ groundless jealousy for pregnant …
69 Shades of Gay
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 13th Feb, 2017
“I’m so excited”—that iconic 1982 hit by the Pointer Sisters—is an apt intro to a show with a predominantly female audience that’s already wound up to have a good ti…
Cirque Berserk!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 9th Feb, 2017
“Not a circus, it’s a Berserkus!” Cirque Berserk! boldly comes with two USPs.
Dusty Won't Play
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 8th Feb, 2017
18 years after her death, “blue-eyed soul singer” Dusty Springfield remains many things to many people—not least a gay icon, thanks to her emotional fragility and memorabl…
The House of Bernarda Alba
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Royal Exchange Theatre
- 20th Feb, 2017
If politics is about people—specifically the ever-fluctuating power imbalances between people in different situations—then Federico García Lorca was right to focus his “po…
The Miller Comedy Festival Opening - Sara Pascoe - Carl Donnelly - Glenn Moore - Abigoliah Schaman MC
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- The Miller
- 2nd Feb, 2017
As Sara Pascoe explains, the peculiarities of a ‘job’ as a comedian, that is more ‘craft’ than job equally applies to describing whether something is funny or not.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 3rd Feb, 2017
There is, ironically enough, a lot that’s incredibly old-fashioned about Thoroughly Modern Millie; it’s a feel-good, song and dance show about a young gold-digger who, while se…
We're Going On A Bear Hunt
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 26th Jan, 2017
You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an…
Wonderland
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 26th Jan, 2017
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland isn’t known for its plot; in fact, it’s essentially a succession of wonderfully fanciful sketches which happen to share …
Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 18th Jan, 2017
As titles go, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a fine conflation of the innocent and disturbing, although the cultural impact of Joan Lindsay’s novel is arguably more down to Peter W…
Promises, Promises
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- London Fringe
- Southwark Playhouse
- 19th Jan, 2017
New York City, 1960.
The Kite Runner
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- Playhouse Theatre / Wyndhams Theatre
- 11th Jan, 2017
This adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-seller was written back in 2006, a year before the filmic representation.
Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- King’s Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2016
Pantomime, as we’re reminded by the Ambassador Theatre Group’s pre-show video (narrated by Brian Blessed), is a peculiarly British theatrical tradition, although it’s a sha…
Last Christmas
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 18th Dec, 2016
“I can be pretty dim, sometimes,” says Sion Pritchard as Tom, an office-working film school graduate who doesn’t, initially, come across as particularly sympathetic.
Hansel and Gretel
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 13th Dec, 2016
Scottish writer Stuart Paterson now has a back catalogue of sufficient scale to warrant a revival or two; his adaptation of Roald Dahl’s George’s Marvellous Medicine is curre…
Black Beauty
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 6th Dec, 2016
It’s a brave show which starts with the words: “I don’t like it.
Snow White and the Seven Wee Muppets
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Websters Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2016
Inside Out Theatre’s second pantomime for relatively news arts venue Websters (located in Glasgow’s Kelvinbridge area) is another self-consciously low-rent production which …
Mamma Mia!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 6th Dec, 2016
Reviewing Mamma Mia! almost feels like a lost cause; it’s an unstoppable global phenomenon and, if this touring production—setting up home in the Edinburgh Playhouse for Chri…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 3rd Dec, 2016
There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 3rd Dec, 2016
As a rule, the best children’s stories—be they novels, comics or TV shows—all inspire the same question: “What on Earth were they taking when they came up with that?” …
George’s Marvellous Medicine
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 30th Nov, 2016
“Small boys are not to be trusted,” says the titular George’s gleefully malevolent Grandma in this new production—by Dundee Rep’s Associate Artistic Director Joe Dougla…
Green Tea
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Gayfield Creative Spaces
- 26th Nov, 2016
The master of the English ghost story, M R James, once described Irish author Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu as “absolutely in the first rank” among supernatural storyteller…
The Rivals
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 7th Nov, 2016
First performed in 1775, Sheridan’s The Rivals remains surprisingly relevant, not least thanks to its inter-generational conflict.
The Red Barn
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- West End
- National Theatre
- 21st Oct, 2016
If you think The Red Barn will be a nice relaxing audience experience think again and then have another think.
Jumpy
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 2nd Nov, 2016
You get a strong sense of what Jumpy is going to be like from Jean Chan’s impressive set—two jumbled piles of household goods, surrounded by an off-kilter frame of plain wall…
Dr Johnson Goes to Scotland
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Oran Mor
- 31st Oct, 2016
A risk when putting any historical figure on stage—let alone a writer and thinker of the calibre of Dr Samuel Johnson—is that using their own words makes them appear less a …
Invisible Army
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Platform
- 31st Oct, 2016
It’s not every play that starts with a reaffirmation of one of the basic fundamentals of theatre: that things which aren’t true can be imagined, and that what can be imagine…
Him
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 25th Oct, 2016
“It’s quite comfortable being old,” 80 year old actor Tim Barlow tells us at the start of his latest one-man show, a work co-devised with the writer Sheila Hill.
Grain in the Blood
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 3rd Nov, 2016
For at least some of its audience, it’s enough that Grain in the Blood reunites actors Blythe Duff and John Michie—long-time compatriots on STV’s Taggart.
Walking on Walls
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 20th Oct, 2016
There’s no hanging about with Morna Pearson’s Walking On Walls; when the lights come up, we see a bespectacled woman observing a man who’s bound on an office chair, tape a…
A Gambler’s Guide to Dying
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 18th Oct, 2016
This one-man show, written and performed by Gary McNair, won lots of praise during its initial run as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Frost/Nixon
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 18th Oct, 2016
It was the head-to-head that, even at the time, seemed almost unthinkable; a televised face-off between British chat-show host David Frost—certainly at the time not exactly kn…
Mischief
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 12th Oct, 2016
We’re somewhere among the Western Isles, and at least a thousand years back in time.
Crude: An Exploration of Oil
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Shed 39
- 17th Oct, 2016
Edinburgh-based Grid Iron Theatre Company has long specialised in creating immersive, site-specific theatre.
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- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 7th Oct, 2016
If you’re a student theatre company with somewhat limited resources, but still want to try your hand at a reasonably successful Broadway musical, then [title of show] is argua…
The Shape of Things
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 17th Oct, 2016
Children are often said to be the most “difficult”—or, to put it another way, most honest—theatre audience performers are ever likely to face: they’re not “adult” …
The Suppliant Woman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 10th Oct, 2016
In ancient Greece, it was the practice before any theatrical performance to name those citizens who had financed it, and for a respected citizen to give “the libation” to th…
The Course of True Love
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 4th Oct, 2016
Among the gifts bestowed on the world by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the one-hour slot, into which everything—stand-up, spoken word, circus, dance or drama—has become s…
Journey's End
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 1st Oct, 2016
R C Sherriff’s Journey’s End, inspired by his own experiences of life in the trenches during the First World War, stands as an authoritative exploration of men “in extremis…
Breaking The Ice
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Oran Mor / Traverse Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2016
It’s fitting, in the weeks running up to the latest Arctic Circle Assembly (running from 7-9 October in Reykjavik, Iceland) that the team behind A Play, a Pie and a Pint opted…
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.
Venue Marketplace
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 27th Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Little Shop of Horrors
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- UK Regional & Tours
- New Wimbledon Theatre / Theatre Royal Glasgow
- 29th Aug, 2016
The gloriously grotesque cult-musical opens at New Wimbledon Theatre, complete with the necessarily capitalised X-Factor contestant RHYDIAN starring as The Dentist.
Unfaithful
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- Found111
- 5th Sep, 2016
In a converted Art school with stairs that spiral around a disused lift shaft leading to a venue which places the audience either side of a promenade stage very close to a versat…
George Egg: Anarchist Cook
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon Teviot
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2016
One man.
Street Arts – Where to Go Next?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
- 21st Aug 2016
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The Mr G Summer Heights High Singalong
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 18th - 24th Aug 2016
What do Frank-N-Furter, Mary Poppins and Mr G have in common? They’ve all given fans the chance to perform the iconic songs from their shows in singalong theatre events! The Mr G S…
Hammerton Community High Class of '75
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 18th - 27th Aug 2016
1975.
Henrietta Steventon: The Immoral High Ground
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 16th - 22nd Aug 2016
Henrietta returns from self-imposed exile in America having written, directed and starred in the New York premiere of her original farce Ennui: An English Comedy with a French Titl…
Dame Nature – The Magnificent Bearded Lady
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 20th Aug, 2016
Apparently, even circuses nowadays feel a need to satisfy the public’s desire to glimpse behind the scenes, to smell the greasepaint and discover how the magic happens.
Old Saint Paul's Festival High Masses
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Old Saint Paul’s Church
- 14th - 28th Aug 2016
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Rooms
- 13th - 25th Aug 2016
Cinema screening of live performance.
The Soul in the Machine – George Williams, YMCA Founder
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Palmerston Place Church
- 9th - 13th Aug 2016
‘We are more than bodies to be fed to a machine.
Panti: High Heels in Low Places
- Review
- ★★★★
- William Heraghty
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Aug, 2016
Panti Bliss has had a whirlwind of a few years and, naturally, she has more than a few fabulous stories to share.
Arthur Conan Doyle – Man of Mystery
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Mayfield Salisbury Church
- 12th Aug, 2016
There’s something wonderfully uncluttered and unpretentious about this particular wander down literary lane from the Mercators, one of Edinburgh’s oldest amateur drama clubs.
The High Noon Theater and Saloon
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Lucky Liquor Co.
- 8th - 14th Aug 2016
Howdy partner! There’s a western movie week you can’t pass up.
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.
Laurence Owen: Cinemusical High
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 6th - 28th Aug 2016
The 2015 Malcolm Hardee Award winner returns with a brand new musical adventure.
Robbie Cockburn: Badinage
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 6th - 27th Aug 2016
Back for his seventh Edinburgh Fringe, comedy magician and juggler Robbie Cockburn is here with a brand new stage show Badinage.
Chapel Street
- Review
- ★★★★
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 21st Aug, 2016
If ever the strength of a story lay in its telling, Chapel Street would be a perfect example.
The Man Who Knows Everything
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 12th Aug, 2016
It’s pretty clear what kind of show we’re about to see when – as it becomes obvious that there isn’t actually a sufficient number of seats for all of the audience that’s …
Marcus Brigstocke: Why the Long Face?
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2016
As it turns out there are lots of reasons for Marcus to have a long face at the moment, not least because he was born with one.
Doug Segal: I Can Make You Feel Good
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Voodoo Rooms
- 9th Aug, 2016
It’s apt, if a little predictable, that the pre-show music Doug Segal selects for his latest Fringe show is the classic James Brown track I Feel Good.
Tommy Miah's Indian Street Food Festival
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Raj Restaurant
- 5th - 25th Aug 2016
Experience the delights of India with a blend of delicious Indian street food and traditional dance.
George McGoldrick: Hot Milk
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Cabaret Voltaire
- 5th - 29th Aug 2016
I play a keyboard organ and live mix a soundtrack for 50 minutes, and read some comedy over it.
Poggle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Dance Base
- 10th Aug, 2016
“Poggle’s not scared of climbing trees,” we’re told early on in this beautifully clear and uncluttered piece of vibrant dance theatre aimed at very young children.
Angel to Vampire!
- Review
- ★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- SpaceTriplex
- 21st Aug, 2016
Osner enters with a song in which he repeatedly exclaims “don’t label me.
Dani Girl
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Greenside @ Royal Terrace
- 7th Aug, 2016
Trust me, Fringe magic still happens.
Fraxi Queen of the Forest
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 8th Aug, 2016
Some stupid adults, having forgotten what it’s actually like to be children, are often surprised, disturbed and horrified by the serious issues lurking in the heart of the most s…
Jo Caulfield: Pretending to Care
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 12th Aug, 2016
It’s clearly an uncomfortable time of life for Jo Caulfield; a succession of musical heroes have died, she’s moved from middle-class Morningside to somewhat more “cosmopolita…
Rhys Nicholson – Bona Fide
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 23rd Aug, 2016
Back again for his fourth time at the Edinburgh Fringe, Australian Rhys Nicholson’s fast-paced, intelligent wit has his audience engaged from the get go.
Isle of Edna: G Street
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
In an #upandcoming neighbourhood near you – four doors down from the betting shop, nestled between a pop-up patisserie and a pet taxidermy cafe – lies a community centre.
Expensive Shit
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Aug, 2016
Theatre audiences are, for the most part, quite comfortable with their self-assigned role of secret voyeurs of the people on stage who go about their lives with no apparent knowled…
Andrew Doyle: Future Tense
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 8th Aug, 2016
Andrew Doyle has now brought five solo shows to Edinburgh, each noticeably different in style and tone; even Doyle’s on-stage persona has shifted somewhat from one year to the ne…
Last Dream (on Earth)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 8th Aug, 2016
While categorised in the Fringe programme under theatre, this work – created and directed by Kai Fischer with contributions from its cast – is certainly not a play, at least in…
Will Franken: Little Joe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
- 12th Aug, 2016
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
Aidan Goatley: Mr Blue Sky
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 12th Aug, 2016
Aidan Goatley’s stand-up show isn’t, despite its title, about ELO; indeed, there’s no obvious guarantee that he will get round to telling us why he chose one of that band’s…
John Gordillo: Love Capitalism
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 2
- 10th Aug, 2016
Despite the commanding tone of his show’s title, John Gordillo doesn’t actually come across as a fan of Capitalism as an economic and social system.
The Amazing Bubble Man
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 10th Aug, 2016
Underbelly’s largest venue is the huge tent – shaped like an purple cow tipped onto its back – that this year has been transplanted into the western half of George Square Gar…
Mike Newall: High on Gravy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
From male grooming to rodents, Mike has it all covered in this eclectic hour of stand-up comedy.
This Belongs to George Osborne
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Moriarty’s
- 4th - 28th Aug 2016
Sit back and relax as we honour today’s real comedic geniuses – our very own tax-shirking, pig-pumping Westminster massive! Come join in a celebration of the absurdist joy that…
Alistair Williams: I've Started So I'm Finished
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just The Tonic at the Caves
- 15th Aug, 2016
Alistair Williams is a bit of a lad.
Joe Jacobs: Orthodox Joe
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Frankenstein Pub
- 6th Aug, 2016
“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie…
Samantha Pressdee: Sextremist
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 8th Aug, 2016
“Every woman is a riot,” is roughly painted on the wall behind the stage area of this hidden-away New Town bar’s seldom used attic space.
Wayne Carter Teaches You to Be Fabulous
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom
- 12th Aug, 2016
The word “fabulous” is defined as being extraordinary and wonderful, and having no basis in reality.
Carmen High
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 4th - 12th Aug 2016
Carmen High is a powerful story about a popular mean girl who jokingly dates a high school outcast.
Lili La Scala: Another F*cking Variety Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 14th Aug, 2016
For a night of revelry and a hot mix of incredible performances, Lili La Scala’s Another F*cking Variety Show is a tough show to rival.
Bricking It
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 13th Aug, 2016
Several years ago, a couple of wannabe stand-ups decided to do a Free Fringe show based around some of the odd things their respective fathers had said and done down the years.
Trash Test Dummies
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows
- 13th Aug, 2016
There’s an anarchic edge to the Trash Test Dummies – as might be expected from a circus troupe who go on to perform a succession of tricks and humorous gymnastics using that mo…
Shappi Khorsandi: Oh My Country! From Morris Dancing to Morrissey
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 20th Aug, 2016
In a very personal set, Shappi talks growing up in Britain as the child of refugee parents and being English.
Scott Agnew: I've Snapped My Banjo String, Let's Just Talk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon at the Counting House
- 10th Aug, 2016
Scott Agnew is looking good, these days; whether that’s down to him drinking less is unclear, though it’s clearly a bit of a culture shock on the night of this review as it’s…
Geoff Norcott: Conswervative
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 10th Aug, 2016
Geoff Norcott, as he points out quite early on in his set, has not been seen on television.
David Mills: Shame!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, George Square
- 10th Aug, 2016
The sharp-suited David Mills is already seated on stage when his audience comes in, chatting with us, riffing along to a Barry Manilow hit; while he later insists that the role in …
Johnny Cochrane: Appeal
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 5th Aug, 2016
When life gives you lemons, those with an optimistic, can-do attitude invariably suggest you make lemonade.
Mikey and Addie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 6th Aug, 2016
Mikey and Addie is a story about two pre-teen kids who couldn’t be more different – Mikey’s life is all about imagination and play, while Addie’s is focused on enforcing rule…
Tom Neenan: Vaudeville
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 13th Aug, 2016
Tom Neenan appears to be making his way through the genres with his one-man/many characters shows: Edwardian ghost story in 2014, and 1950s-styled British science fiction thriller …
A Common Man: The Bridge That Tom Built
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Joseph McAulay
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 5th Aug, 2016
Striding onto the stage accompanied by thunderous fanfare, taking his place on a podium and decrying the evil of tyrants and the chains of authority, Dominic Allen’s blistering a…
Jonathan Pie: Live
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2016
Pretend news reporter Jonathan Pie – the creation of actor Tom Walker – has risen to public attention, during the last year, thanks to a succession of videos on YouTube which a…
Jamie MacDonald: High Vis
- Review
- ★★★
- Simon Fearn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 12th Aug, 2016
Jamie MacDonald comes from a tradition of endearingly grumpy comics, ranting affably about all of life’s niggles, from racist taxi drivers to obnoxious ramblers.
Iain Stirling: Onwards!
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 11th Aug, 2016
Iain’s latest Fringe offering, Onwards!, focuses on his own experiences to explore life as a twenty-something in 2016.
Larry Dean: Farcissist
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 6th Aug, 2016
Male stand up comedians from certain parts of Glasgow often face a significant impediment; they can’t help but sound like Billy Connolly, and so inevitably find themselves compar…
Seann Walsh: One for the Road
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2016
Seann Walsh is a brilliant observational comic, with an ability to tease out the comicality of even the most mundane, everyday occurrence.
Colin Hoult / Anna Mann: A Sketch Show for Depressives
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 12th Aug, 2016
There’s surely no better sign that mental health issues – and depression in particular – are becoming more openly discussed than for the likes of Colin Hoult to come along an…
Sean McLoughlin: Kamikaze
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 17th Aug, 2016
Looking like footballer Lionel Messi, and bearing a name that has him often confused with comedian Sean Locke, this year Sean McLoughlin is on the lookout for some fans of his very…
Laurence Clark: Independence
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 16th Aug, 2016
Some things never change; despite more than a decade performing stand-up, Laurence Clark still opens his set by drawing attention to his cerebral palsy: “This is just how I talk.
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.
The Hairy Maclary & Friends Show
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Church Hill Theatre
- 22nd Jul, 2016
Making a musical out of poetic animal stories aimed at children is nothing new but, while Andrew Lloyd Webber opted to turn T S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats int…
The Merchant of Venice
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- Broadway
- 8th Jul, 2016
An extraordinary logistical display of theatre sees The Merchant of Venice taken out onto the streets of Barking; by the people, for the people.
Thyestes
- Review
- ★★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- The Courtyard Theatre
- 4th Jul, 2016
Derailed Theatre’s debut production thrusts us back to Ancient Greece with a disconcertingly familiar whiff of contemporaneous conservative leadership politics.
Tales From The Hanging Captain
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Out of the Blue & Drill Hall Arts Cafe
- 21st Jun, 2016
If theatre is all about holding a mirror up to ourselves, then Tales From the Hanging Captain certainly makes the grade – it’s the first performance piece arising from the thr…
The Wee One
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Leith Dockers Club Ltd
- 15th Jun, 2016
The Wee One starts with a scenario familiar enough from numerous television sitcoms – a couple well into middle-age who appear to be stuck with an adult child who has failed t…
In or Out
- Review
- ★★★
- George Meixner
- London Fringe
- The Bridewell Theatre
- 16th Jun, 2016
A prescient play from Caroline Loncq about the European Referendum sees Tory rising star Annie and Labour hack Jim put their party differences aside in a private but passionate deb…
What Next?
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Jun, 2016
Strange Town is an Edinburgh-based company which offers opportunities for young people between the ages of five and 25 to fulfil their creative potential though drama and perfor…
What Now?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Jun, 2016
There’s a definite shift in the second play in this double bill from Edinburgh-based theatre company Strange Town.
The Great Illusionist
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 7th Jun, 2016
Part of the attraction of seeing magic tricks performed well – beyond the sheer spectacle – is trying to work out how they’re done.
High as Sugar
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Studio 2
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Inspired by the true life of Warhol superstar Holly Woodlawn, ‘High As Sugar’ is a one-person musical about a trans woman living in 1970 New York City.
High as Sugar
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton
- The Warren
- 3rd - 5th Jun 2016
Inspired by the true life of Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn, ‘High As Sugar’ is a one-person musical about a trans woman living in 1970 New York City.
Broken Dreams
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Out of the Blue & Drill Hall Arts Cafe
- 7th Jun, 2016
“The here and the now is wow!” we’re told at the start of Broken Dreams.
High Top Circus Showcase
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 2nd - 3rd Jun 2016
Join our students for a fantastical cabaret showcase from High Top Circus workshops and our special guests.
Fluff – A Story of Lost Toys
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Jun, 2016
There’s a simple idea at the heart of Australian company cre8ion’s show Fluff; rescuing and giving a new home to lost and abandoned toys.
Traces
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 1st Jun, 2016
Traces is a theatre show with no obviously clear-cut beginning or end; if there’s a start at all, it might be when the two principal performers – Marko Werner and Michael Lur…
Constellations
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 1st Jun, 2016
Sometimes words feel unworthy of the task when it comes to describing and reviewing a performance, especially a dance-piece as vibrant, colourful and joyous as this.
Walden
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Old Lighting Depot
- 2nd Jun, 2016
On 4th July 1845 – Independence Day, suitably enough – the young Henry David Thoreau went into the woods at Walden Pond, near the town of Concord, Massachusetts, and lived t…
High Top Circus Workshops
- Listing Workshop
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Spiegeltent
- 30th May - 3rd Jun 2016
High Top Circus half-term kids workshops! Come learn circus skills such as trapeze, tightwire, hula hoop and juggling in our High Top in a fun and friendly Spiegel session.
Tales of a Grandson
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- National Museum of Scotland (Auditorium) / Traverse Theatre
- 30th May, 2016
There is much more to history than just learning dates and facts.
The Story of the Little Gentleman
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Learning Centre, National Museum of Scotland / Southside Community Centre
- 1st Jun, 2016
The physical core of the The Little Gentleman is a large wooden crate, addressed to the show’s venue, which is slowly revealed to include numerous small doors and openings from…
High Jinx
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Brighton Fringe
- Republic
- 25th - 27th May 2016
Republic is home to Michael Jordan’s ‘High Jinx’ magic and illusion show during this year’s Brighton Fringe.
George Egg: Anarchist Cook
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Soho Theatre
- 24th May, 2016
Touring stand-up George Egg has spent – and, presumably, continues to spend – a lot of his life in hotels the length and breadth of the UK.
Thon Man Molière
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 28th May, 2016
Never, ever underestimate the stupidity of the rich and powerful; that’s certainly one of the obvious lessons you can get from Liz Lochhead’s brilliantly funny take on the sc…
Living Like a Moth
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Wee Red Bar
- 23rd May, 2016
There are some incredible strengths in this latest production from Edinburgh’s most inspiring new theatre company.
Carnival Collective vs. Orkestra Del Sol: UK Street Band Sound Clash!
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Komedia Main Space
- 18th May 2016
Orkestra del Sol’s explosive reinvention of global brass band music has captured imaginations and left a trail of pummeled dance floors across continents.
Annie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 19th May, 2016
A childhood spent watching Fred and Ginger twirl Cheek to Cheek and Bing Crosby dream about a White Christmas gave me a lifelong appreciation for musical theatre.
Dirty Dusting
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Brunton, Musselburgh
- 23rd May, 2016
I must admit to feeling a tad confused after experiencing Dirty Dusting.
Role Shift
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 23rd May, 2016
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company continues to lead the way in producing theatre that’s fully accessible to people with physical and/or sensory impairments, both …
Art at St George's
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- St George’s R C Church
- 15th May 2016
A clue to the treasure house hidden within this Hove church is the woodcarving of St George at the door.
Ocean Deep, Mountain High
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Unitarian Church
- 14th May 2016
A musical journey from the shores of the British Isles to the Appalachian Mountains.
Avenue Q
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 16th May, 2016
All theatre requires some degree of “suspension of disbelief”.
Middle Street Synagogue - Open Days
- Listing Tours
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 9th - 15th May 2016
Street Stories
- Listing Spoken Word
- Brighton Fringe
- Jubilee Library
- 8th - 15th May 2016
An innovative digital oral history project from Little Green Pig and the heritage strand of the Brighton Homeless Trust .
Gods Are Fallen And All Safety Gone
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 5th May, 2016
During the 2008 Spring Season of “A Play, A Pie and A Pint” at Glasgow’s Òran Mór, writer and director Selma Dimitrijevic presented audiences with a delicate, poignant e…
Second Hand
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 3rd May, 2016
It’s not immediately obvious where Second Hand is located; Jonathan Scott’s set for this latest production in the Spring 2016 season of “A Play, a Pie and a Pint”, at Gl…
George Douglas: The Unseen Archive
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Brighton Photography
- 30th Apr - 5th Jun 2016
A new exhibition from the archive of Brighton photographer, George Douglas.
Nederland Dans Theater 2
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 2nd May, 2016
Diverse, curious and striking, Nederlands Dans Theater 2’s 2016 Dance Consortium Tour showcases the company’s acclaimed contemporary dance repertoire.
The Iliad
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Apr, 2016
It says something about us as a species that one of our oldest myths, crystallised in the form of Homer’s epic poem Iliad, is about war – specifically the bloody climax of th…
This Restless House
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 3rd May, 2016
Theatrical serendipity currently means that, after some masculine brutality set during the latter stages of the ancient siege of Troy (in the Royal Lyceum’s new adaptation of H…
Mary Barnes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Checkpoint
- 25th Apr, 2016
As a playwright, David Edgar long ago sped past the number of plays written by Shakespeare, but it’s fair to say that – while often making a big impact at the time – not m…
Right Now
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 21st Apr, 2016
First lines are important; as attention grabbers, but also as indicators of what’s to come, tonally at least.
Ring Road
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 13th Apr, 2016
Ring roads are not usually places you go to; they’re a means of avoiding congestion, of giving a wide berth to somewhere.
Lost at Sea
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall
- 8th Apr, 2016
On 10 January 1992, the container ship Ever Laurel, several days out from Hong Kong en route to Tacoma, Washington, hit a storm in the North Pacific Ocean.
Neither God Nor Angel
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Scotland
- Traverse Theatre
- 8th Apr, 2016
There’s are plenty of laughs in this imaginary conversation between King James VI of Scotland – preparing in March 1603 to make his stately progress south from the Palace of…
The Silent Treatment
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2016
It has become traditional for Lung Ha Theatre Company – Scotland’s principal theatre group for people with learning disabilities – to present at least one large show every…
The Vamps Live at the O2 with Dinner and Wine at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 1st - 2nd Apr 2016
All Vampettes of the world, unite! Come and enjoy an evening on unforgettable atmospere on Saturday 2 April 2016! With a brand new album released in November and massive single …
The Comedy About A Bank Robbery
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Francesca Street
- West End
- Criterion Theatre
- 19th Nov, 2016
Halfway through The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, I am laughing so much I have to take a moment to recompose.
Janet Jackson Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 31st Mar 2016
Janet Jackson, one of the best-selling artists in contemporary history, an award-winning singer and actress who's the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians, is back…
1984
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- UK Regional & Tours
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 12th Apr, 2016
Northern Ballet’s 1984 begins with a literary act of rebellion: Tobias Batley’s Winston enters an antique store and buys a blank diary.
Little Red and the Wolf
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2016
Most of us come to fairy tales – folk tales in general – courtesy of their so-called “traditional” retellings by Disney or the local panto.
Uncanny Valley
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall
- 4th Apr, 2016
In the near-century since Czech writer Karel Capek first gave us the word “robot” (in his play R.
Little Mix Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 27th Mar 2016
Get excited! Little Mix are coming! March 2016 might sound like an age away, but it can’t come soon enough for the return of Little Mix to The O2.
A-ha Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 26th Mar 2016
A-ha Concert and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Norwegian pop icons, A-ha, are back and will enjoy their return in sty…
The Air That Carries The Weight
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2016
It is a tad ironic that, initially, the most overpowering element in this new show from Stellar Quines Theatre Company – established in 1993 to “celebrates the energy, exper…
International Waters
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 28th Mar, 2016
David Leddy’s apocalyptic fable International Waters certainly starts as it means to go on; loud and bold, with the memorable image of four gas-masked figures performing a tab…
An Evening with Phil Differ
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton
- 28th Mar, 2016
Phil Differ is not someone you’d immediately recognise.
Novus NY and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Trinity Church
- 17th Mar 2016
Things turn percussive at Trinity Church this Thursday.
Rapid Departure
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Brunton
- 14th Mar, 2016
Most theatre audiences have an anonymous – some might even suggest voyeuristic – role, viewing the action on stage from the safety of a darkened auditorium.
A View from the Bridge
- Review
- ★★★
- Ali Schultz
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Byre Theatre
- 11th Mar, 2016
Good theatre doesn’t necessarily have to change the world, sometimes it is enough just to entertain.
For the Love of Cousins
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Wee Red Bar
- 14th Mar, 2016
In one sense this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena Theatre Company is nothing more than a theatrical game in which writer Jack Elliot creates a succession of…
Wet Wet Wet Live! at The O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 6th Mar 2016
Wet Wet Wet Live and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Be there for an evening of great entertainment, as soft rock legends We…
X Factor Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 5th - 5th Mar 2016
You’ve taken the journey with them from those first arena auditions, sat on the edge of your sofa during the dramatic six-seat challenge, followed their path to judges’…
Iphigenia In Splott
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 7th Mar, 2016
In Greek mythology, princess Iphigenia is the eldest daughter of King Agamemnon, sacrificed to the goddess Artemis in order to allow her father’s warships to sail off to Troy.
Trinity Wall Street Choir
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Trinity Church
- 3rd Mar 2016
For one night only, the invaluable and excellent choir and orchestra at Trinity Church at Wall Street perform Bach’s “St.
Purposeless Movements
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Eden Court / Tramway / Traverse Theatre
- 1st Mar, 2016
There’s a beautiful symmetry to this new production from Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company; the start and end deliberately remind us that the four disabled men o…
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 …
Jersey Boys
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 15th Mar, 2016
It’s a Wednesday night in March and the UK tour of Jersey Boys has reached its final destination: the Edinburgh Playhouse.
At the Mountains of Madness
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton
- 29th Feb, 2016
I’ve long been a fan of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, in which an Antarctica exhibition uncovers the still-living legacy of a previously unknow…
The Destroyed Room
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Battersea Arts Centre / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 3rd Mar, 2016
With typical modesty (not), Glasgow-based Vanishing Point describe themselves as “Scotland’s foremost artist-led independent theatre company, internationally recognised and …
Witness for the Prosecution
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 2nd Mar, 2016
Arguably, the most important part of any Agatha Christie play doesn’t happen on the stage at all; it takes place in the rest of the theatre during the interval, when there’s…
Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 1
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre Bar
- 24th Feb, 2016
The playwrights, directors, and actors who constitute the loose confederation that is the Village Pub Theatre once again moved in to the more upmarket, city central Traverse Thea…
Carmen
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Assembly Roxy
- 25th Feb, 2016
Bizet’s iconic opera Carmen is a dynamic, temperamental piece of theatre, with condemned, complicated characters singing a rousing score against the sizzling backdrop of Spain…
Village Pub Theatre LGBT Innovators 2
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre Bar
- 25th Feb, 2016
The Village Pub Theatre’s second evening of short new dramas at the Traverse, in celebration of LGBT History Month, came with a wonderfully louche vibe, thanks to the easy MC-i…
George London Awards
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Morgan Library & Museum
- 19th Feb 2016
Twenty-four North American singers vie for five top prizes in this prestigious competition, which, now in its 45th year, can rightfully claim to act as a springboard for major care…
My Name is Saoirse
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Traverse Theatre
- 22nd Feb, 2016
Outside of the almost factory-like default setting of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s one hour time-slot (long-since exported around the world), it actually feels somewhat odd…
The Crucible
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 23rd Feb, 2016
In the face of something terrible, we can either laugh or cry.
Footloose
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 24th Feb, 2016
Youth-orientated and iconic, warm-hearted and rebellious, Dean Pitchford’s Footloose remains one of the most beloved of ‘80s’ teen films.
All Time Low Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 11th Feb 2016
All Time Low and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Pop punk darlings All Time Low are thrilled to announce their return to the…
Cock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Lemon Tree / Traverse Theatre / Tron Theatre
- 11th Feb, 2016
In the run-up to Mike Bartlett’s play Cock opening at the Tron Theatre, a lot of people – myself included – clearly couldn’t help have some innocent adolescent fun with …
Guys & Dolls
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Church Hill Theatre
- 12th Feb, 2016
Guys & Dolls is a renowned theatrical oxymoron, depicting the menacing underworld of gambling gangsters via the melodic and cheerful medium of golden-age musical theatre.
Blood Brothers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Edinburgh Playhouse
- 10th Feb, 2016
All theatre requires a certain suspension of disbelief, musical theatre even more so.
Endgame
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th Feb, 2016
“Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
A Murder is Announced
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 4th Feb, 2016
Coming to a “classic” Agatha Christie whodunnit after a full day’s binging on the latest series of the BBC’s Silent Witness – oh, the life of a reviewer! – is, frank…
CauseWay
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 26th Jan, 2016
“A dastardly attempt was made in the early hours of yesterday morning by suffragists to fire and blow up Burns’s Cottage, Alloway, the birthplace of the national poet,” rep…
The Corrs Live at the O2 with Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café
- Listing Music
- London Fringe
- O2 Arena
- 23rd Jan 2016
The Corrs and Dinner at Gordon Ramsay's Union Street Café - A 5-hour experience! Irish sister songstresses (and brother), The Corrs, are back in business after…
The Weir
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 26th Jan, 2016
If there’s one moment in this new production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir that encapsulates the quality of its cast and director, it’s towards the close when a moment of …
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 7th Dec, 2015
Enthused with enchantment and wonder, Theresa Heskins’ adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe lovingly translates the classic book from page to stage.
Aladdin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 17th Dec, 2015
Strange Town is a theatre company based in Edinburgh which aims to “enable young people to fulfil their creative potential”, by providing five to 25 year olds with the opport…
Tracks of the Winter Bear
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 11th Dec, 2015
At a time of year when most theatres across the land are bursting with colour, raucous laughter and the panto spirit, it’s typical of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, long-esta…
A Belter of a Cinderella Story
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Websters Theatre
- 7th Dec, 2015
When it comes to retelling Cinderella, two of the three most important roles in terms of plot and audience participation are Cinders’ best pal Buttons and her Fairy Godmother.
Scottish Ballet: Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 11th Dec, 2015
In the opening sequence of the Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella, a young girl plants a single pink rose at her mother’s graveside.
Rapunzel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 8th Dec, 2015
Like most of Scotland’s producing theatres, the Citizens Theatre does not, as a matter of principle, “do” panto.
Ali Bawbag and the Four Tealeafs
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 7th Dec, 2015
Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four…
To Breathe
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Summerhall
- 30th Nov, 2015
To Breathe starts with its six performers standing in a circle, staring at the audience, just breathing.
Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton
- 30th Nov, 2015
“Smells like Seton Sands” is precisely the kind of line you expect in a pantomime at The Brunton theatre in Musselburgh; it’s hooked on local rivalries, and grounds the ubi…
One, Two, Three, Yippee
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Wee Red Bar
- 24th Nov, 2015
There is an intrinsic roughness to this latest production from Edinburgh-based Blazing Hyena productions: performed “in the round” in a student bar within city’s Art College, th…
George Zach: Greek Tragedy
- Review
- ★★★
- Lettie Mckie
- London Fringe
- Museum of Comedy / Waterfront Bar, The
- 19th Nov, 2015
George Zach is a Greek comedian who took this work in progress show, Greek Tragedy, to the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe.
The Bruce in Ireland
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Assembly Roxy
- 6th Nov, 2015
“A truce is a truce, but war is war,” we’re told early on in Ben Blow’s history play focusing on the all-too-forgotten consequences of Robert the Bruce’s victory over …
Cagebirds
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 2nd Nov, 2015
Leicester-born David Campton, who died in in 2006, was a prolific British dramatist, especially adept at writing thought-provoking one act plays that make us laugh as much as we …
The Smallest Show on Earth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Theatre Royal, Glasgow
- 29th Oct, 2015
“Juke-box musicals”, which essentially use existing songs as their musical score, may strike you as a relatively modern theatrical phenomena – think Mamma Mia! or We Will …
Panopticon
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 27th Oct, 2015
Panopticon, written and directed by second year University of Edinburgh student Liam Rees, is set in a women’s prison, into which well-meaning dramatist Julia comes to run a s…
Loserville
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Church Hill Theatre
- 22nd Oct, 2015
“One day every company will fear a geek in a garage,” we’re told early on in Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s Loserville.
Hidden
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Royal Lyceum Theatre
- 27th Oct, 2015
One of the strengths of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company during the last half-century has been its ongoing commitment to providing quality drama education and performance opport…
Rebecca
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 23rd Oct, 2015
“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Lord of the Flies
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 16th Oct, 2015
The first thing that strikes you about this new stage adaptation of William Golding’s classic dystopian novel is Jon Bausor’s astounding set: the huge section of a passenger…
Stomp
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 9th Oct, 2015
Famed for its stunning drumming and percussion, Luke Cresswall and Steve McNicholas’ Stomp – which first premiered on the 1991 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – combine…
Tribes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Assembly Roxy
- 5th Oct, 2015
The family at the heart of Nina Raine’s Tribes is liable, at least initially, to make you yearn for the exit.
Lot and his God
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 9th Oct, 2015
“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room.
A View From the Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Broadway
- Lyceum Theater
- 2nd Oct 2015
(previews start on Wednesday; opens on Nov.
The MsFits: Fur Coat & Magic Knickers
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Brunton
- 5th Oct, 2015
A criticism sometimes made about Edinburgh – especially by Glaswegians – is that, while the city appears sophisticated and morally upstanding, this is just a facade hiding a …
Waiting for Godot
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Sep, 2015
There are many good reasons for launching the celebratory 50th anniversary season of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre Company with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiti…
Gilbert & George Gentleman Party
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Museum of Modern Art
- 12th Sep 2015
The interactive sketch and improv troupe Gentleman Party, which performs regularly at the People’s Improv Theater, takes its act to the Museum of Modern Art.
The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 14th Sep, 2015
Arguably the most significant work of new theatre from “north of the border” in recent years is the National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an excellent example of inve…
Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho
- Review
- ★★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 24th Aug, 2015
Margaret Thatcher truly is the Queen of Soho.
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.
Edmund the Learned Pig
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 30th Aug, 2015
Barry Bonaparte’s Travelling Circus is in trouble.
A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street
- Review
- ★★★
- Hattie Long
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 27th Aug, 2015
A Traffic Jam On Sycamore Street is a Kafka-esque tale of persecution of the every-man figure by illogically logical authorities.
The Misfit Analysis
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 30th Aug, 2015
Theatre is, for the most part, about telling stories with the aids of actors, scenery and props; in contrast, stand-up comedy is usually about a single person sharing their perspec…
The Fallen Angel Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 30th Aug, 2015
Vesper Walk describe themselves as a “quirky five to eight piece band performing art-pop music in a gothic style.
Street Arts – Where to Go Next?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Fringe Central
- 21st Aug 2015
Performers, join a discussion set up specifically for Street and Outdoor Artists.
Jean-Luc Picard and Me
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Stafford Centre
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Recent cinematic reboots notwithstanding, there’s arguably at least one generation of television viewers for whom Star Trek’s starship captain of choice is not James Tiberius K…
Cluedo Inc.
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in Augustines
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Cluedo Inc is an upbeat, farcical musical inspired by everyone’s favourite murder-mystery board game, Cluedo.
The Pilgrim's Progress
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Edinburgh Elim
- 25th Aug, 2015
John Bunyan’s 1678 text The Pilgrim’s Progress is regarded as one of the most significant works of literature in the English Language.
Wendy Hoose by Johnny McKnight
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Glasgow-based Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is arguably Scotland’s most innovative and ground-breaking theatre company when it comes to exploring disability and producing ful…
Matt Abbott is Skint and Demoralised
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Matt Abbott admits that poetry is a hard sell on the Fringe, impossible to talk about without coming across as pretentious – which may well explain why one of his bespoke marketi…
High Torches
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Paradise in The Vault
- 17th - 22nd Aug 2015
Six women await their fate in a prison, while their homes, lives and families burn to the ground.
All's Well That Ends Well
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on Niddry St
- 26th Aug, 2015
A sweet, beguiling Shakespearean romance is skilfully reimagined against the backdrop of the Second World War in Youth Action Theatre (YAT)’s appealing production of All’s Well…
Rhymes with Orange
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Every successful show needs a Unique Selling Point – or, put simply, a gimmick.
I Got Rhythm – A Tribute to George and Ira Gershwin
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Outhouse
- 17th - 23rd Aug 2015
Come and join Pam Lawson, a Little Jazz Bird, as she performs her tribute to the amazing partnership of George and Ira Gershwin, with an hour of timeless songs such as Nice Work If…
Donald Does Dusty
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 25th Aug, 2015
Donald Torr was, apparently, the best big brother any little girl could have, especially growing up on the outskirts of 1960s’ Aberdeen.
Village Pub Theatre
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Village Pub Theatre
- 19th Aug, 2015
For those of you not lucky enough to live in Edinburgh all year round, Village Pub Theatre (VPT) is a regular “let’s put the show on here” brand of new theatre based in the f…
Andrew Bridge: AART
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Dropkick Murphys
- 15th - 30th Aug 2015
What time is it? It’s time for Aart! Learn how to make, see and do art.
The Rising – A Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Citrus Club
- 15th - 22nd Aug 2015
The Rising – A Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band.
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…
Dive and Summerhall Present… C U Next Tuesday Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2015
This show is wondrously delightful.
God's Waiting Room
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 16th Aug, 2015
Many religions insist that humanity was created in God’s image; others argue that, throughout history, the process has been the other way round.
To Space
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 14th Aug, 2015
Dr Niamh Shaw is that relatively rare thing – a skilled and engaging stage performer who also happens to be a scientist and engineer, with both a degree and PhD to her name.
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…
Thrill-Seeking Pianist WLTM Like-Minded Audience for NSA Fun and Good Times
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2015
Some cabaret performers attempt to lull you into a false sense of security about what they do, but thankfully any audience finds out quickly enough what they’re going to get from…
Tales from a Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Voodoo Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2015
The Creative Martyrs, that white-faced Laurel and Hardy of existential cabaret terrorism, are not men to be trifled with, as some rather talkative front-row audience members discov…
Dead Letter Office
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 24th Aug, 2015
Where do letters and parcels go, when – because of an incomplete address, or lack of forwarding address – they can’t be delivered? According to Catherine Expósito and Marli …
The Greenwich Street Party
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- London Fringe
- Rose & Crown
- 8th Aug 2015
A host of cabaret stars turn out to support charity including London’s original Drag Race.
Sweeney Todd
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 16th Aug, 2015
Stephen Sondheim’s score for his self-described “black operetta” Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, must rank among his most complex and challenging works, if on…
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…
George Zach: Greek Tragedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
George Zach: Greek Tragedy
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 7th - 31st Aug 2015
George is a Greek comedian living in the UK.
Madama Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Institut français d’Ecosse
- 19th Aug, 2015
In Madama Butterfly, Compagnie Nathalie Cornille Danse reimagines Puccini’s tragic 1904 opera as a short solo dance piece designed for children.
Complex
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Jury’s Inn
- 11th Aug, 2015
A man is desperate for a job.
Jo Caulfield: Awkward Conversations
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 15th Aug, 2015
Jo Caulifield is sardonic, cutting and fantastically witty.
With Their Eyes: The View from a High School at Ground Zero
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Venue45
- 7th - 12th Aug 2015
September 11, 2001, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks from the World Trade Center.
The Alice Effect
- Review
- ★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 23rd Aug, 2015
Instead of falling down a rabbit hole, Alice has been forcibly committed into a mental institution.
Block
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 16th Aug, 2015
Block is a production that constantly surprises, though not always in ways that are comforting.
After We Danced
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 22nd Aug, 2015
After We Danced depicts a love affair between two people, cut short before unexpectedly rekindling sixty years later, Love in the Time of Cholera-style.
Thief
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 14th Aug, 2015
Sailor – he had a real name once, but he believes “Sailor” suits him now – is a street hustler, thief and raconteur; the illegitimate son of a prostitute who has taken up h…
Pip Utton: Playing Maggie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 14th Aug, 2015
Margaret Thatcher was – still is, two years after her death – a divisive figure, loved and hated in equal measure.
Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly Hall
- 11th Aug, 2015
“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot.
High Jinx Magic and Illusion Show
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 6th - 16th Aug 2015
Fresh from his European Tour with the Festival International de Magie and his sell-out UK theatre tour the unique creativity, passion and talent of Michael Jordan brings together a…
Rossetti's Women
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Spotlites
- 27th Aug, 2015
His name might feature prominently in the title, but prolific Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti takes a back seat in this new production written by award-winning playwr…
39 Steps by Patrick Barlow
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- New Town Theatre
- 11th Aug, 2015
It’s fitting that, given how this is the centenary of its original publication by Edinburgh-based publisher Blackwood’s, that at least one version of John Buchan’s classic th…
Scaramouche Jones
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th Aug, 2015
‘God, what a day’ is the first thing said to us by Scaramouche Jones, the red-nosed, white-faced clown who – sensing the ghosts of an audience in his dressing room – decide…
CELL
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Cowgate
- 16th Aug, 2015
There is something inherently heartbreaking about the small metal-framed chair standing centre-stage as the audience comes in, but no more so than when one of the show’s co-devis…
Steve Hall: Zebra
- Review
- ★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club 5 & 6
- 11th Aug, 2015
It has been four years since Steve Hall last appeared at the Fringe.
Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 21st Aug, 2015
One woman, one show, one hour ten minutes and the entire works of Jane Austen to affectionately satirise: New Zealand comedian Penny Ashton’s Promise and Promiscuity is no mean f…
Matt Price: The Boy with Cake on His Face
- Review
- ★★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake
- 18th Aug, 2015
One of Matt Price’s ambitions is to be one of the nicest people in comedy, and man, he’s succeeding.
Dorian Gray
- Review
- ★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 23rd Aug, 2015
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is a tale ingrained in our cultural consciousness.
I Went To A Fabulous Party...
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C too
- 15th Aug, 2015
During the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, What A Gay Play gained a certain amount of attention, given that its late-night scheduling and blatant use of the cast’s flesh on the flyers sug…
Aidan Strangeman: Horsey
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 18th Aug, 2015
This is a beautifully funny, and, in parts, heart-wrenchingly honest performance.
Ian Smith – Whereabouts
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 13th Aug, 2015
Ian Smith is a wonderful comedian with a beautiful imagination.
St George is Cross
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly Med Quad
- 5th - 31st Aug 2015
Like Britain? Too bad, asshole.
Tez Ilyas: TEZ Talks
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 15th Aug, 2015
Tez talks, and you should listen.
May I Have the Bill Please? by Robin Mitchell
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Boards
- 10th Aug, 2015
Like every other animal on the planet, humans need to eat in order to survive, but arguably no other species has developed such complicated social etiquettes around the consumption…
Down & Out in Paris and London
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 22nd Aug, 2015
Strikingly staged, deftly acted and simultaneously hard-hitting and bitingly funny.
The Solid Life of Sugar Water
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 16th Aug, 2015
Graeae Theatre Company, according to the information sheet handed out before the start of the show, sees itself as ‘a force for change in world-class theatre – breaking down ba…
Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 24th Aug, 2015
Following last year’s generally well-received comic homage to the Edwardian Ghost Story (The Haunting of Lopham House), writer and performer Tom Neenan shifts his genre gaze forw…
George and Co (the Solo Tour)
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 19th Aug, 2015
At first it’s almost as if George Dimarelos has chosen to counter any preconceptions about loud Australians by opting for the least dramatic stage entrance possible; he’s alrea…
George Egg: Anarchist Cook
- Review
- ★★★★
- Ed Barnes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 30th Aug, 2015
George Egg has twenty years experience on the comedy circuit.
Of Mice and Men
- Review
- ★★★
- Francesca Street
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 23rd Aug, 2015
John Steinbeck’s classic novella Of Mice and Men chronicles the unlikely and touching friendship between two ranch workers in pursuit of the American Dream during the Great Depre…
Patrick Monahan – The Disco Years
- Review
- ★★★★
- A George
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 17th Aug, 2015
Patrick Monahan likes to boogie.
Trans Scripts
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 14th Aug, 2015
One of the challenges of reportage theatre – works in which the words and experiences of real people are edited and put into the words of actors – is to justify the process as …
When The War Came Home
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Leith Dockers Club Ltd
- 22nd Jun, 2015
It’s not often that I’m asked back to see a show, let alone because those involved have openly taken on some of the points I made in my review!When the War Came Home is a …
Spring Awakening
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The King’s Theatre
- 22nd Jun, 2015
German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Frühlings Erwachen – written around 1891 but not performed until 1906 – deliberately kicked against sexually-oppressive fin d…
The Driver's Seat
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum / Tramway
- 23rd Jun, 2015
Described as “a metaphysical shocker” on its release in 1970, The Driver’s Seat was apparently author Muriel Sparks’ favourite amongst her own stories, in part thanks to th…
Stand
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- The Arches Arts
- 10th Jun, 2015
“This is not just about me,” says one of the cast at the start and close of Chris Goode’s Stand.
Yer Granny
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Multiple Venues
- 1st Jun, 2015
Having enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood and colourful teenage youth during the 1970s, I’m often still annoyed by the apparent cultural consensus which dismisses those y…
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.
Persevere
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Out of the Blue & Drill Hall Arts Cafe
- 1st Jun, 2015
Site-specific works can be accused of relying on their location to do the heavy-lifting, theatrically speaking.
George Egg: Anarchist Cook
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- The Warren: Main House
- 17th May 2015
One man.
Middle Street Synagogue
- Listing Tours
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 3rd - 31st May 2015
Discover Brighton’s Grade 2* Synagogue (Thomas Lainson 1875), an opulent jewel in Brighton’s architectural crown.
The Marlborough Fringe Street Party
- Listing Events
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 2nd May 2015
Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best Fringe music, off-beat performance, plus there’ll be arty surprises! Choose from a selection…
Pulling Up the Draw Bridge
- Listing Theatre
- Brighton Fringe
- Exeter Street Hall
- 2nd - 30th May 2015
George can feel the earthquake coming.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Joyce Theater
- 1st May 2015
If the Midwest has a hub for European choreographers, Hubbard Street is it.
No Nothing
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 27th Apr, 2015
Alan Spence is not the first to imagine a meeting between two famous people from different worlds, though there’s certainly a whiff of wishful thinking in this thoughtful, if …
The Venetian Twins
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 30th Apr, 2015
For some, he was “Italy’s Shakespeare”, “the Moliere of Venice”; yet it’s only relatively recently that British theatre audiences have warmed to work by 18th centur…
Uisge-Beatha Gu Leòr / Whisky Galore
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- St. Columba’s by the Castle
- 24th Apr, 2015
On 5th February 1941, during heavy gales, the cargo ship SS Politician ran aground off the Island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides.
The Woman in Black
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre / Theatre Royal, Glasgow
- 16th Apr, 2015
Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time…
Broth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 9th Apr, 2015
It’s fitting that, this Eastertide, a resurrection of sorts lies at the heart of this latest collaboration between Glasgow’s Òran Mór and Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre.
Boys
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- The Drygate Brewery
- 10th Apr, 2015
Even the greatest of parties end with the hangover of cleaning up afterwards.
Fools
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Village Pub Theatre
- 17th Apr, 2015
Fools and their stories were the theme of this latest set of short plays, dramatic monologues and glorified sketches presented in rehearsed readings by the Village Pub Theatre t…
George London Foundation Recital
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Morgan Library & Museum
- 22nd Mar 2015
This foundation, which nurtures exceptional young singers, presents two alumni of the 2010 competition in recital.
Hedda Gabler
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 27th Mar, 2015
Many of the world’s greatest Tragedies – Shakespeare’s in particular – are grounded on the character flaws of their titular characters: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and so …
The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Dundee Rep Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 24th Mar, 2015
No less a figure than Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin once insisted that the only author to ever “nail” Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson in his classic 1886 novella, S…
The History Boys
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 24th Mar, 2015
The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”.
Beating McEnroe
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 15th Mar, 2015
Life was so much simpler, back in 1980.
Edgar and Annabel
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 14th Mar, 2015
Only a clever or ignorant writer would deliberately choose to begin a play with that most egregious of sitcom clichés: “Hi Honey, I’m home.
Chess - The Musical
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Church Hill Theatre
- 12th Mar, 2015
There’s one thing I hate about musical theatre, which is especially common with “amateur” productions – there’s seemingly no way of stopping audiences full of family an…
Equus
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 4th Mar, 2015
There’s something particularly appropriate about experiencing Peter Shaffer’s Equus at the Bedlam Theatre.
The Judas Kiss
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 2nd Mar, 2015
At one point in the first act of The Judas Kiss, Oscar Wilde admits to always having had “a low opinion of what is called action.
Trinity Wall Street
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
- 21st Feb 2015
Under the leadership of Julian Wachner, this venerable church’s brilliant musical forces come together (along with the Washington Chorus and the Washington National Cathedral…
Jekyll & Hyde
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Brunton Theatre
- 20th Feb, 2015
Since its first publication in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has been adapted for stage, cinema and television hundreds of times.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 25th Feb, 2015
There’s rumbustious joy aplenty in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s infamous examination of legality and justice.
Fleabag
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Soho Theatre / The Garage / Tron Theatre
- 20th Feb, 2015
Unexpected pre-show choice of “Easy Listening” music notwithstanding, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag is an exciting theatrical ride, slipping from laugh-out-loud humour to…
Netting
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor / The Lemon Tree
- 20th Feb, 2015
They say that, while you can choose your friends, you can’t choose your family; even when you pick a partner, you have no say about the family that comes along with them.
When The Rain Stops Falling
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 7th Feb, 2015
Those who don’t know history, according to the Irish statesman Edmund Burke, are destined to repeat it, while the Bible insists more than once that the sins of the father will b…
Village Pub Theatre: Bill Murray Night
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Village
- 5th Feb, 2015
American film actor and comedian Bill Murray allegedly fields offers of work via a voice mailbox which, according to Wikipedia, “he checks infrequently”.
The Real Inspector Hound
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Bedlam Theatre
- 2nd Feb, 2015
When reviewing a play – especially one verging on farce – where two of the main characters are professional theatre critics, it’s hard not to become a tiny bit defensive …
Butterfly
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 2nd Feb, 2015
Men – especially working class men from the West of Scotland – are not known for expressing their emotions, instead hiding behind either brutish silence or dry humour.
Filter's Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Vault Festival
- Multiple Venues
- 25th Jan, 2015
The “Scottish Play” is among Shakespeare’s shortest, but for critically acclaimed theatre company Filter to edit it down to barely more than 90 minutes, without missing an…
When The War Came Home
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- St Brides Centre
- 21st Jan, 2015
The First World War is often described as the first “total war”, that is involving the entire population, at home as well as on the battlefield.
Faith Healer
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- The Lyceum
- 21st Jan, 2015
Reality and performance lie at the heart of this solid production of Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Faith Healer.
George London Foundation Recital Series: Angela Meade and Nicholas Pallesen
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Morgan Library & Museum
- 11th Jan 2015
Among its many valuable activities, the George London Foundation presents a series of recitals at the Morgan Library & Museum, including artists who have been winners of the fo…
Luke George
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
- Chocolate Factory
- 22nd Nov 2014
Upon entering Mr.
An Evening with Matt Wayne, Selena Coppock and George Gordon
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Union Hall
- 19th Nov 2014
Kendra Cunningham hosts these three impressive young talents from the Park Slope area for half-hour sets.
Slope
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 18th Nov, 2014
There’s a moment in Pamela Carter’s play Slope when the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, ensconced in a seedy London flat with his young lover Arthur Rimbaud, fears t…
Bridge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- Oran Mor
- 27th Feb, 2015
Bridge opens with a woman sitting on an isolated bridge being harassed by a stranger who won’t let her be.
The George Lucas Halloween Show
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
- 31st Oct 2014 - 31st Oct 2015
Connor Ratliff and Shaun Diston return with a special Halloween edition of their “Star Wars”-inspired variety show.
The Seven Dirty Words: George Carlin Finally Gets His Own Way
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Carolines
- 22nd Oct 2014
On the day that a Harlem block is officially renamed George Carlin Way, the comedian’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, gathers friends and fans to celebrate and honor the great Mr.
The Gamblers
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 6th Nov, 2014
Nikoli Gogol’s The Gamblers (premiered in 1843) is relatively rarely-performed, at least in comparison with the writer’s most famous work, The Government Inspector.
Bondagers
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- 6th Nov, 2014
“Nobody thought to save any of the roots,” says Sara towards the end of The Bondagers.
Cardinal Sinne
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 6th Nov, 2014
There’s a strong whiff of Farce about Cardinal Sinne from the off; only that particular genre, after all, requires quite so many doors in a set—in this case three interior d…
Alexandre Bis and Comedy on the Bridge
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
- 14th Oct 2014
This company presented a Martinu double bill in 2003, and does so again, with different works, to open its season.
92nd Street Y Opening Night
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- 92nd Street Y
- 18th Sep 2014
92nd Street Y is going back to the well to open its season with Bach’s spectacular, daunting six solo violin sonatas and partitas: Christian Tetzlaff played the same program …
Kill Johnny Glendenning
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- 23rd Sep, 2014
Kill Johnny Glendenning is a play of two halves; each a brutally funny, finely-tuned treatise on the various overlapping hierarchies of power and violence that, while shaping ou…
The Glass Menagerie
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Dundee Rep Theatre
- 16th Sep, 2014
There are five characters in Tennessee William’s breakthrough “memory play” The Glass Menagerie.
The Killing of Sister George
- Listing Theatre
- Off Broadway
- Beckett Theater at Theater Row
- 2nd Sep 2014
(previews start on Sept.
1984
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Citizens Theatre
- 17th Sep, 2014
When a work of fiction becomes so iconic a cultural “classic” that it’s known and understood by people who have never read it, it’s unsurprising that a few inaccuracies cre…
International Street Food Extravaganza
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh
- St John’s Episcopal Church - Hall
- 24th Aug 2014
Ever fancied a tasty taco, or a nibble on a noodle? Try some free tasters with more to buy from a range of international cuisine - with opportunities to make your own.
The Genius of George Gershwin
- Review
- ★★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
- 26th Aug, 2014
Gershwin fans will enjoy this programme of carefully selected tunes as well as biographical readings, including letters between Gershwin and his brother and collaborator Ira.
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.
George and Co (The Solo Tour)
- Review
- ★★★
- Ryan O’Connor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C nova
- 24th Aug, 2014
Australian comic George Dimarelos’s first full-length show at the Fringe is a solid effort, with his conversational style and obvious talent for observational comedy showing a lo…
merry christmas, Ms Meadows
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Dome
- 20th Aug, 2014
During the last few years, the Belarus Free Theatre company has built a strong reputation in issue-based theatre, utilising a wide range of performance techniques to frame and ex…
David Kay
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 22nd Aug, 2014
Successful stand-ups usually have a memorable on-stage persona; it may be manic, taciturn or just ‘nice’, but it’s what they’re remembered for.
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…
Kiss Me Honey, Honey!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 20th Aug, 2014
Kiss Me Honey Honey! appears to be attracting a decidedly local crowd of middle-aged women, at least if this performance is anything to go by.
James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 18th Sep, 2014
This trinity of new plays by Scottish playwright Rona Munro are a timely study of nationhood, identity and the consequences of political actions.
James II: Day of The Innocents
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 18th Sep, 2014
We don’t see one of the most important events in the life of James II, just its immediate consequences; a hurried, chaotic, almost dream-like explosion of fear and movement fo…
James III: The True Mirror
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Festival Theatre Edinburgh
- 18th Sep, 2014
If we’re to believe Rona Munro, the third James Stewart to rule Scotland was the country’s answer to England’s Edward II; a monarch who, while undoubtedly a man of culture…
Bridge Over Troubled Lager (Volume 2)
- Review
- ★★★
- Dave House
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 26th Aug, 2014
Bridge Over Troubled Lager (Volume 2) from Rory McGrath and Philip Pope is an evening of easy listening funny tunes and mild jokes.
High Noon Over Camelot
- Listing Cabaret and Variety
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Whynot?
- 10th - 23rd Aug 2014
Gunslingers, lawmen and hellfire preachers draw iron on the burning metal deserts around Camelot.
Sunday in the Park with George
- Review
- ★★★
- James Beagon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 16th Aug, 2014
Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society have brought their leisurely afternoon stroll Sunday in the Park with George to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
George Galloway: My Life in Five Games
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sue Bevan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 9th Aug, 2014
George Galloway is best known as the fiercely pro-Palestinian Respect Party MP for West Bradford.
Yearbook: The High School Musical
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Church Hill Theatre
- 5th - 9th Aug 2014
There is no time more funny, moving and awkward than high school.
Gary Little: The Thing Is
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club
- 10th Aug, 2014
Gary Little isn’t.
Mindful Peace Walk in Princes Street Gardens
- Listing Workshop
- Edinburgh
- Meet beside Henderson’s Café at St John’s, Princes Street
- 3rd Aug 2014
This silent walking meditation will be led by members of the Community of Interbeing, who follow the practice of Zen Buddhism Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Toast with Ruth E. Cockburn
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Viva Mexico
- 2nd - 23rd Aug 2014
A magical medley of music, stand-up and stories.
George Orwell's 1984
- Review
- ★★
- Maria Hagan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
- 4th Aug, 2014
Taking on the literary giant that is George Orwell’s 1984 is a notoriously difficult task, and The Stevenage Lytton Youth Thursday Group have bitten off a little more than they…
Casting the Runes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- theSpace on the Mile
- 3rd Aug, 2014
For several decades, it was the habit of the acclaimed medieval scholar Montague Rhodes James (who died in 1936) to entertain his Christmas guests with an especially composed tale …
A Bridge Over Toddled Warder
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Cowgatehead
- 1st - 25th Aug 2014
Hark! The errant, off-beat voices of Amused Moose Award winner Richard Todd, ‘a smart surrealist’ (Independent), and NATY finalist Thomas Ward, ‘fine writing, evoking silly images …
God's Own Country
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo Southside
- 6th Aug, 2014
“Gossip,” we’re told, “travels fast in a valley.
Factor 9
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summerhall
- 17th Aug, 2014
If this show was a stick of rock, it would have “Anger” written all the way through it in blood red: specifically anger at the medical, commercial and political establishments …
India Street
- Listing Exhibition
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gayfield
- 1st - 31st Aug 2014
Newly commissioned textile designs from Scotland and India provide a critical response to The Bombay Sample Book in the National Museum of Scotland’s archive.
18b
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Zoo
- 5th Aug, 2014
Regulation 18b of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 is a now little-remembered piece of legislation which came into force just before the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Bridge
- Review
- ★★★
- Sue Bevan
- Edinburgh Fringe
- just Festival
- 12th Aug, 2014
This intimate solo show is written, produced and performed by acclaimed Edinburgh-based writer, director, performer and filmmaker Annie George.
3,000 Trees by George Gunn
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gryphon@WestEnd
- 20th Aug, 2014
“When a man starts a war against the State, it’s a war he cannot win,” says our nominal hero Willie McKay at the point in this play when the writer presumes we will sympathis…
The Pure, the Dead and the Brilliant
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2014
The Fringe’s late-summer position in the calendar means that few of those who visit the Scottish capital ever experience one particular form of indigenous theatre — pantomime…
Lisa-Skye: Bunny and Mad Dog Get High
- Review
- ★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Mash House
- 31st Aug, 2014
In Australian comedian Lisa-Skye’s “love letter to the sex-and-drug-soaked 70s” she tells the tale of Melbourne hedonism in the 1970s star-crossed hippy lovers Bunny and Mad Do…
The Beta Males Sessions: Richard and The Storybeast
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Espionage
- 8th Aug, 2014
In addition to their main show at the Pleasance, the writer-performer foursome known as the Beta Males have split into pairs to do something a bit different in the afternoon.
Aidan Killian: Jesus Versus Buddha
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Irish comedian Aidan Killian certainly cuts a surprising figure with his new show; not so much for the long, simple robe he wears, but the fact that he’s shaved off half his bear…
3,000 Trees: The Death of Mr William MacRae
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 31st Aug, 2014
Sometimes, we can miss what’s important.
Old Folks Telling Jokes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Just the Tonic at The Community Project
- 4th Aug, 2014
As a card-carrying, paid-up member of the Grumpy Old Men squad, I occasionally look at all those fresh-faced stand-ups staring out from the posters plastered across the city like S…
Tim Renkow: At Least Hell Has Ramps
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Heroes @ The Hive
- 7th Aug, 2014
Tim Renkow has cerebral palsy.
It's All About George
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
- 31st Jul - 13th Aug 2014
In 1914 George joined the war.
Four Screws Loose in The Big Screw Up
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Gardens
- 7th Aug, 2014
“Are you ready to party?!” blares the PA at the start of the show and the audience roars in the agreement.
Love. Guts. High School.
- Review
- ★★
- Emma Gibson
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 4th Aug, 2014
We can all remember the name of our first crush, can’t we? That’s the question Love.
Playdough Face
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Sweet Grassmarket
- 5th Aug, 2014
Scheduling is an often overlooked aspect of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, not least by venues attempting to squeeze in as many popular shows as possible.
The Pitiless Storm
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 8th Aug, 2014
For all its claims of being a one-man show, the stage can get pretty crowded during The Pitiless Storm.
Jonny Pelham and George Zach - Subtitles Not Provided
- Review
- ★★★
- Alice Quine
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde
- 11th Aug, 2014
Jonny Pelham is affable and tells some thoughtful stories about his life, with original punchlines, great timing, and a good sense of narrative.
Stephen Bailey: Neon Heart
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 7th Aug, 2014
Stephen Bailey—all silver dickie bow tie, floral grey suit and camp demeanour—is clearly in love with love and romance.
Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues
- Review
- ★★
- Jenni Ajderian
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 13th Aug, 2014
It is possible to do feminist comedy very, very well.
Laurence Clark: Moments of Instant Regret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Theatre
- 4th Aug, 2014
We all have them, if we’re honest; those moments in our lives where we’ve reacted without thinking and “put our foot in it”, slipping from innocent victim to outright offen…
Zombie Science: Brain of the Dead
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 8th Aug, 2014
Growing up as a kid in the 1970s, my first experiences of academic lectures were either snatches of TV programmes aimed at those studying courses with the Open University (thankful…
Des Clarke: The Trouble with Being Des
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 7th Aug, 2014
The Trouble with Being Des, according to Des Clarke, is that he has an inner demon man child inside him which makes him “weird”—not least within the context of growing u…
Andrew Doyle: Zero Tolerance
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Stand Comedy Club III & IV
- 4th Aug, 2014
During the last few years, Andrew Doyle has made a name for himself as a frequently hilarious, sharply intelligent, and fearless comedian, ready to push his audiences’ tolerance …
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Gilded Balloon
- 8th Aug, 2014
This excellent one-man show from Mark Farrelly portrays the transformation of Denis Charles Pratt, born in suburbia, into Quentin Crisp.
Zombie Science: Worst Case Scenario
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- C venues - C
- 8th Aug, 2014
“There has not been a single incidence of Zombieism anywhere in the world to date,” according to Doctor Austin of the Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, but “this does…
George Ryegold: Iron Face in a Velvet Beard
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Underbelly, Bristo Square
- 30th Jul - 25th Aug 2014
Award-winning comedian Dr George Ryegold is back to celebrate his triumphal return to the medical elite with the truth about stockings and economics plus Greek mythology, drugs, th…
Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 8th Aug, 2014
“What is it that frightens you?” Tom Neenan asks at the start of this one-man pastiche of an Edwardian ghost story.
Dane Baptiste: Citizen Dane
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Pleasance Courtyard
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Dane Baptiste is a confident performer.
Jamie MacDonald: That Funny Blind Guy 2 - The Good, the Stag and the Ugly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Assembly George Square Studios
- 2nd Aug, 2014
Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”.
Scott Capurro Islamohomophobia: Reloaded
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- The Assembly Rooms
- 4th Aug, 2014
Age hasn’t softened Scott Capurro; nor, it has to be said, has marriage.
Tragic Magic
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Scottish Storytelling Centre
- 2nd Jul, 2014
Four times Scottish champion of close up magic Michael Neto is an assured and amiable stage magician, whose slight of hand is smooth, assured and doubtless the result of decades …
Lifeline
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- South Leith Parish Church Hall
- 1st Jul, 2014
Phil Roach isn’t the first man to be dumped by his girlfriend and realise his life isn’t quite working out as expected but, as Julian Wickham’s “Lifeline” quickly shows, he’s pos…
In My Father's Words
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Tron Theatre
- 2nd Jul, 2014
Louis is one of Canada’s most respected teachers of classical literature.
NY Phil Biennial: Circles of Influence: George Benjamin
- Listing Music
- USA Regional & Tours
- Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
- 1st Jun 2014
Atmospheric, dramatic and intensely colorful, the music of George Benjamin is always a visceral experience.
How High the Moon
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Friends’ Meeting House
- 28th May 2014
Piano: Max Gorman. Songs of the high Romantic Tradition for times that are low. By Rodgers and Hart, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern.
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…
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�…
Yiri Baa West African High-Life Afro Beat
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- The Brunswick
- 24th May 2014
Yiri Baa – West African Roots Manding AfroBeat Band brings you a performance of the wildest music from The Gambia, Senegal and Mali, West Africa.
George Egg: Anarchist Cook
- Listing Comedy
- Brighton Fringe
- Upstairs at Three and Ten
- 12th - 15th May 2014
If you like food, you’ll like this.
Middle Street Synagogue
- Listing Exhibition
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 4th May - 1st Jun 2014
Discover Brighton’s Grade II Synagogue (Thomas Lainson,1875),opulent jewel in Brighton’s architectural crown.
Middle Street Synagogue
- Listing Tours
- Brighton Fringe
- Middle Street Synagogue
- 4th May - 1st Jun 2014
Discover Brighton’s Grade 2* Synagogue (Thomas Lainson, 1875), an opulent jewel in Brighton’s architectural crown.
The Libertine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Bristol Old Vic / Citizens Theatre
- 10th May, 2014
“You will not like me,” insists John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, at the start of The Libertine; not so much presented an unreliable narrator, more the self-created bad …
The Marlborough Fringe Street Party
- Listing Music
- Brighton Fringe
- Marlborough Theatre
- 3rd May 2014
Join us for a street party like no other! Our outdoor stage will be showcasing the best of the Fringe’s alternative music, snippets of off-beat theatre plus there’ll be arty surpri…
The George Lucas Talk Show
- Listing Comedy
- USA Regional & Tours
- Upright Citizens Brigade Theater East
- 3rd May 2014
Connor Ratliff, an Upright Citizens Brigade regular, embodies the filmmaker George Lucas for this costume-friendly talk show, which counts down to Star Wars Day (on Sunday).
Pressure
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Chichester Festival Theatre / Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- 10th May, 2014
Us inhabitants of the British Isles can spend an inordinate amount of our time discussing the weather, yet it doesn’t automatically follow that our “four seasons in a day”c…
Dear Scotland
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery
- 2nd May, 2014
As part of its contribution to the many debates in Scotland during 2014—sparked into life, of course, by this September’s independence referendum—new National Theatre of Sc…
The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- Citizens Theatre / Traverse Theatre
- 15th Apr, 2014
When the Glasgow-born poet, playwright, song-writer, musician, cartoonist, humorist and story-writer Ivor Cutler died in March 2006, the nation’s obituarists remembered an “una…
The Best of Village Pub Theatre
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Traverse Theatre
- 9th Apr, 2014
Edinburgh’s revered Traverse Theatre has, for many years, defined itself as “Scotland’s new writing theatre”, regularly giving over its stages to a variety of new voices …
The Pitchfork Disney
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 4th Apr, 2014
There’s no doubting that Philip Ridley’s debut play, even now, feels like a strange beast; a modern fairytale of two infantalised and orphaned twins, Presley and Haley, somehow…
Union
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- 4th Apr, 2014
Big, bold and buxom; playwright Tim Barrow’s Union, directed for the Royal Lyceum Theatre’s artistic director Mark Thomson, starts as it means to go on, with blocks of “sce…
This Wide Night
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- Tron Theatre
- 3rd Apr, 2014
A common factor in the best sitcoms–and dramas, for that matter–are situations from which the characters can’t escape, most notably from each other: the binds of family (t…
The Rising: The UK's No.1 Tribute to Springsteen and the E Street Band
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug 2013
The Rising: a dynamic group of talented musicians who play tribute to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band. An absolute must for fans of the Boss.
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.
The New Age Labrador
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
Singer-songwriter Shaun Shears sort of fancies himself as a 21st Century reincarnation of the medieval Troubadour, travelling the country performing his songs about life, love and …
The Dragon and George
- Review
- ★★
- Tom Moyser
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
There is no dragon in The Dragon and George.
A Reason to Smile
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Two wooden chairs, some books, an otherwise empty stage.
Notes from Bermondsey Street
- Review
- ★★
- Isla VT
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
The premise of Notes from Bermondsey Street is that it reveals the secret urban lives of Londoners through their anecdotes written on notes and concealed in the drawer of a table i…
Landfall
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
The idea of some supernatural being falling down to Earth and helping change the lives of us mere mortals is a powerful myth that resonates down human history, from the biologicall…
Matt and Ian's Improv Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Comedy improvisers Matt and Ian are sensible enough to start their show with what the unkind might describe as their get-out clause; they admit, from the start, that they ‘might …
Piracy! Comedy on the High C's
- Review
- ★★
- Nancy Napper-Canter
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Pirates, exclamation mark.
Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test and Other Real Life Mysteries.
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Given that, at one point, Jon Ronson describes himself as ‘essentially [just] a humorous journalist out of his depth,’ you might be surprised that the Cardiff-born writer and docum…
Street Artists - Where to Go Next?
- Listing Events
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug 2013
Hear from a panel of programmers and festivals who book and tour street artists.
Story's End
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Even on paper, this ‘reconnaissance mission into the no-man’s land where death borders storytelling’ has the potential to be either really good or a recipe for self-indulgence; a…
The Bridge That Tom Built
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joseph Cunningham
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
It is always sheer joy to watch Dominic Allen perform.
Our Father
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2013
Honesty’s important in stand-up; so’s making stuff up, obviously, but audiences can generally sniff out if the person on stage doesn’t – at least for that moment – believe in …
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.
Poems and Pots
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
John Rivers is the first to admit he’s not an entertainer and that Poems and Pots isn’t a ‘show’ as such, but hopefully a relaxing opportunity to tease out and encourage the creati…
A Hundred Minus One Day
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
Playwright Idgie Beau sets out the parameters of A Hundred Minus One Day quickly and economically; 20 year old Jen, who has lived away from home for many years, has returned to her…
Easter Eggs
- Review
- ★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
There’s an unfortunate earnestness to this short piece from the Bangor English Drama Society, as they attempt with both script and performance to be all grown up and serious about …
The Ivor Novello Story
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
‘A successful bachelor is always a puzzle to others,’ says the singer James Dinsmore, playing the composer and actor Ivor Novello.
The Perilous Botanical Expedition
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
In May 2013, David Piper - the modestly-titled ‘Global Ambassador’ for Scottish boutique gin producer Hendrick’s - accompanied master distiller Lesley Gracie and celebrated a…
Patrick Monahan and Bob Slayer Set a World Record!
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
It was wonderfully refreshing to come upon something on the Fringe that, by its very nature, had blown the one hour slot to smithereens; further, that tapped into a reserve of fun …
A Play With Songs ... and Music and Film and Dance
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland is an independent development organisation for playwrights, working with them across the country, including through its talent development programme.
Robin Ince - Importance of Being Interested
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane once stated his suspicion that ‘the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose’.
That's Not How You Spell Pedantic
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Life’s not easy when you’re a pedant; not that you see yourself as being pedantic, according to Jim Higo, a self-described ‘punk poet, social commentator and general irritant’.
Everything That Happened in the 20th Century, Seen Through the Eyes of a Liar
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
Mike Shephard likes his history and, as a cash-conscious volume-drinker, the prices of rounds of drinks have always easily segued for him into historical anecdotes from the relevan…
The High-Schooler's Guide to the Galaxy
- Review
- ★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Claiming to ‘hilariously’ address the issues of high-school and create a helpful guide, Memorial High School from Houston Texas have come to the Fringe Festival with their show ent…
Chops
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Chops is not a piece of naturalistic theatre, but then that’s hardly to be expected, given that this ‘linguistic farce’ by Brooklyn-based artist Kirin McCrory, performed by an all-…
Death Ship 666
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Aug, 2013
Death Ship 666 is Airplane meets Titanic; an exuberant rollercoaster ride of humorous grotesques, which revels in its own clichés and absurdities.
The Sunday Assembly
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
It’s said that the Devil has all the best tunes, but why shouldn’t the Godless also enjoy the fun and sense of community that comes from gathering on a Sunday morning to enjoy coff…
High Masses - Music for the Liturgy
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th - 25th Aug 2013
Experience Mass settings within their original church context.
Ginger Nation
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2013
Canadian Shawn Hitchins bounces onto the stage with puppy-like energy, rushing straight into a ‘blond, brunette and a ginger’ joke to make the point that, as ‘a person of primary c…
Young & Strange - Magic, Illusion and a Hate for Each Other
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2013
Most magic shows you find on the Fringe nowadays are necessarily intimate, close-up affairs – not least because of the size of the available venues, budgets and the ‘close magic’…
Other Voices: Spoken Word Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
This all-female spoken word cabaret claims to offer ‘a veritable smorgasbord of poetry’; yet even though it is, to a certain extent, a daily-changing ‘sampler’ of numerous performa…
Magic Faraway Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
Now enjoying its third year in Edinburgh, the Magic Faraway Cabaret has a reputation for presenting the best burlesque, variety and sideshow skills available in the Scottish capita…
Magic Faraway Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Cabarets are, by their very nature, fluid and changeable beasts, especially those in Edinburgh which act as convenient samplers of what’s available elsewhere on the Fringe.
Ghosts of the Happy and High-Spirited
- Review
- ★★★
- Beth Cochrane
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
A blend of good stand up and well-presented storytelling, Ghosts of the Happy and High-Spirited is a firmly funny and chilling hour of Free Fringe comedy.
Music on the Street
- Listing Music / Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd - 24th Aug 2013
An event to bring Christian gospel music from the church to our streets.
Alexis Dubus - Cars And Girls (2013 version)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
I first saw Alexis Dubus perform in 2008, when his ‘A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing’ provided an interesting spine on which to hang some very funny material – and a justificati…
Chris Coltrane: Compassion is Subversive
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Last year, with Activism is Fun, comedian Chris Coltrane explained how he had returned to political action after years of apathy, not least because – thanks to the likes of direc…
Paul Dabek - Stand Up and Be Conjured
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
According to the neat-suited Paul Dabek, the Magic Circle demands that all its members must include a card trick at some point in their act, otherwise there’s a terrible risk of ‘m…
Ruth E. Cockburn Doesn't Even Smoke
- Review
- ★★★
- Milly Reilly
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
Are you tired of the persistence of peer pressure to be cool and to fit in? Ruth E.
George Galloway’s Fighting Talk
- Review
- ★★★
- James Macnamara
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
George Galloway arrives on stage chewing gum and wearing a military style jacket.
We Are All Orange Ghosts
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
Popular culture often gets derided by critics because, unlike many of the so-called ‘great’ works of art (you know, the ones that allegedly make you look good when ‘appreciat…
Björn Gustafsson
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2013
From the start, I must point out that I fully accept that standing up on a stage, making people laugh in a foreign language, even if it’s the ‘lingua franca’ of the western world (…
Acoustic and High Energy Electric Blues
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd - 9th Aug 2013
2012 reviews: ‘Loaded with energy’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
In Tune With Dementia
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2013
It has been said that the one ‘mercy’ dementia offers is that the person who has it doesn’t know they do; so it is with the emotive subject of this solo play written and perf…
Gay Straight Alliance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2013
In some 4,000 High Schools across the US, you’ll find a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) group.
French Kiss
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Aug, 2013
One of the delights of the Fringe is that it can throw up the unexpected; so, for example, the first time I hear a delightfully bad-taste joke about a recent double suicide in one …
A View from the Bridge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
My ear for accents is pretty poor; I think that Dick Van Dyke does a passable Cockney.
Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 11th Oct, 2013
Returning to, and re-staging, the “classics” is not without challenges, not least because they were often originally written at a time when actors were considerably cheaper to hire…
Alistair Green: Ping Pong
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Ping Pong is an energetic game usually involving two or four people, but this latest stand-up show from Alistair Green is very much a one-man endeavour, with the only significant b…
Rick Kiesewetter: Chink
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2013
Identity is a complicated matter for Rick Kiesewetter; not least because, as he points out from the start, his Asian face doesn’t match most people’s expectations of his adoptive f…
Milton Jones On The High Road
- Review
- ★★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Milton Jones enters, characteristically via scooter, clad in a blue print shirt, orange trousers, orange shoes, and hair which defies gravity.
The Year I Was Gifted
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
The anthemic song ‘We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ by The Animals sets the scene for this one-woman, biographical monologue by the writer and performer Monica Bauer.
George Galloway’s Political Football
- Listing Spoken Word
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug 2013
Throughout Galloway’s campaigning life football has remained a consuming passion.
Gay Straight Alliance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Nominally, a Gay Straight Alliance is a pupil-based group found in some (though sadly too few) US schools, which meets regularly to discuss issues around homosexuality in order to …
Sandel
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
‘I’ll save you yet,’ says the precocious Antony Sandel to the object of his desires, David Rogers.
Kevin Dewsbury Out Now
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2013
Kevin Dewsbury is a bloke.
It Goes Without Saying
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2013
When Broadway veteran and world-famous mime Bill Bowers starts his show talking about sitting in a Hollywood make-up truck at three in the morning, with Hugh Grant to his left and …
Way Back
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2013
Beachy Head in East Sussex has the tallest chalk sea cliffs in Britain, offering some fabulous views along the south east coast and across the English Channel.
Burton's Last Call
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2013
Nearly 30 years after his death, Richard Burton still stands tall among the ghosts of Hollywood, the poor boy from a Welsh mining village whose acting talent and ambition took him …
Tyke Rider: A Yorkshire Lass's Driving Adventure from the City of Angels to Graceland via the Big Easy
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2013
It was the 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian known to the English-speaking world as Rumi who said that ‘travel brings power and love back into your life’…
Luke Wright: Essex Lion
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
‘Officer don’t be a Benny/the thing we saw was MGM-y.
Roll It in Sequins
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2013
There’s a playful, rough-round-the-edges physicality throughout this new show by Megan Heffernan and Sophie Fletcher.
The Pyramids of Margate
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
While the BBC’s iconic sci-fi series Doctor Who is currently one of the biggest, most popular shows on television at the moment - and it’s likely to be everywhere this November, wh…
Oliver Meech: When Magic and Science Collide
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2013
Science reveals, magic conceals, but both can inspire a sense of wonder, according to stage magician Oliver Meech.
Rob Lloyd: Who, Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2013
This is not the first time Doctor Who has been put on trial.
Kevin Shepherd: Confess Nothing - Free
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
In the past Kevin Shepherd has apparently used his Fringe shows as a kind of confessional, finding thoughtful humour in his past social and legal misdemeanours.
High Plains (A Western Myth)
- Review
- ★★★★
- Gwen Sims-Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
The first few minutes of High Plains was like being cornered after last orders by a sad-eyed drunk intent on regaling me with a digression about his life.
Desperately Seeking the Exit / Free Festival
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2013
Heard of screenwriter William Goldman’s rule about Hollywood? ‘Nobody knows anything.
The Boadicea of Britannia Street
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st - 25th Aug 2013
Fran Lamb starts a creative writing group but chaos erupts.
Outside on the Street
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
The poster for Outside on The Street features a young Aryan man with blood running down his face.
Rory McGrath and Philip Pope in Bridge Over Troubled Lager
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013
After their hit dad-rock album Dark Side of the Moob, the boys are back with another collection of witty, elegant, sophisticated and, at times, rather unpleasant songs.
George Ryegold: Adulterated
- Listing Comedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2013
Scotsman’s Top 5 Comedy Show at the Fringe 2012 and winner of Best Show at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival 2011, Dr George Ryegold is back with all the characteristic grace and hu…
League of St George
- Review
- ★★★★
- Amanda Fleet
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2013
A brotherhood of racist skinheads is the only way of life that Adam and his fellow gang members know.
Scott Agnew - Something's Gotta Give
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2013
There’s a point in every show when stand-up Scott Agnew drops what he calls ‘the G bomb’; that is, he mentions that he’s gay.
The Bridge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Brett Herriot
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2013
Written and performed by Benjamin Scheuer, The Bridge is a beautiful addition to the C Venues programme.
Dan Nightingale: Love in the Time of Cholesterol
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 2nd Aug, 2013
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
Bridge to an Island
- Review
- ★
- Zoe Hunter Gordon
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2013
‘If others can write about it so can I’ says the main character in Bridge to an Island.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
Given that the original award-winning novel by Mark Haddon is told from the very singular, focused perspective of a 15-year-old boy on the autistic spectrum, it’s surprising that…
Bridge to an Island
- Review
- ★★
- Kat Pope
- Brighton Fringe
- 3rd Jun, 2013
“When I was very young, I had a dream that I could step inside any book and become part of the story.
The Hamiltons: High Jinks with the Hamiltons!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Eleanor Lischka
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 26th Aug, 2011
High Jinks With The Hamiltons! certainly is a sight to behold.
Laurent Piron - Unusual Day
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
Are our lives ruled by fate or chance? It’s hard to decide most of the time but even harder when a stage magician is making the seemingly impossible happen before your eyes.
Allotment
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
At the heart of Allotment is a simple, visual metaphor: the burial and later uncovering of objects in the earth that clearly mirrors the suppression and later resurrection of memor…
High North Movement
- Review
- ★
- Andy Read
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
Remember when Mimi from RENT held a large performance protest and it was brilliant because we could all see the sense of irony and sarcasm behind it? High North Movement is this wi…
Animals Of Butter Bridge
- Review
- ★★★★
- Robyn Forsythe
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2009
And so our heroes spirits were sinking, like a child in a swimming pool.
Paul Dabek - Nothing Up My Sleeve!
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Can a magician’s hand really be faster than the human eye? Paul Dabek may well use that serious question as an excuse for a simple physical joke, but by the end of this excellent…
From Houdini to Potter
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Yorkshire-born Chris Cassells seems such a trustworthy young man that it’s somewhat disconcerting to realise that he’s already recognised as a rising star among the UK’s stag…
George's Marvellous Medics
- Review
- ★★★
- Joanna Alpern
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
George’s Marvellous Medics is a sketch show about medics by medics, with a few Olympics pieces thrown in too, as well as a scattering of quite random ones.
Wild Allegations
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2012
Matthew John Curtis is famous.
Xavier Toby: Binge Thinking
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
A dinner party and a stand-up comedy performance might not seem to have much in common - and, in social terms, they don’t - but Xavier Toby gamely welcomed his first Edinburgh au…
My Stepson Stole My Sonic Screwdriver
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2012
Like much of the comedy currently clogging up Edinburgh, Toby Hadoke’s latest show is fundamentally about the man on stage, about his life experiences and his personal relationsh…
Austen George
- Review
- ★★
- James Dolton
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
‘I haven’t played original stuff for a while’ was Austen George’s mumbled apology to the Acoustic Music Centre audience after encountering difficulty remembering his chords…
George Ryegold's God-In-A-Bag
- Review
- ★★★
- Ali Quaile
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
Dr Ryegold returns to Edinburgh with a new show that wouldn’t be amiss on Radio 4.
George In The Dragon's Den
- Review
- ★★
- John C Kennedy
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2009
George in the Dragons Den is an odd mix of child and adult humour; a two hander, it markets itself as a topical tour de force where pantomime meets Monty Python, however desp…
East 10th Street
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Leon Conrad
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2009
Life in a rooming house in New Yorks East 10th Street is the subject of this gripping one-man show, which is billed rather pompously as a self portrait with empty house.
Stories from the Middle
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Contrary to what some critics might suggest, it’s not a comfortable experience seeing someone ‘coming off the rails’ on stage, especially when they’re clearly talented and …
Street Cries
- Review
- ★★★★
- Kai Sedgwick
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 7th Aug, 2012
The term ‘award-winning’ has long since been rendered meaningless, devalued by anyone who ever unlocked a Steam gaming achievement appending it to their LinkedIn profile.
Doug Segal: How to Read Minds and Influence People
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
If we believe everything we see, at least on the video screen, the stage mentalist Doug Segal can get from his hotel bed to the venue — stopping off mid-route to buy a lottery ti…
Age of the Geek
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2012
You know you’ve experienced a genuine one-man Fringe show when the guy who’s been performing on stage for the previous 50 minutes has to jump down, run to the tech desk at the …
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
Is Judas Iscariot the ultimate fall-guy, unfairly damned for his necessary role in what was once called The Greatest Story Ever Told? Is his sin — of “selling out the Son of Go…
Des Clarke: Final Destination
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Particularly when compared to the polite folk of Edinburgh, Glaswegians have a reputation for talking.
Dating George Orwell - Free
- Review
- ★★
- Sam Waddicor
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
Dating George Orwell is a one woman play that looks at the unhealthy relationship between a teenage girl and the books that she has become engrossed in.
I'm High On Life: What Are You On?
- Review
- ★★★★
- Anna Cory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 9th Aug, 2012
Billed primarily as comedy, it’s only natural to spend the first few minutes of this show wondering where the jokes are.
Scotland in Song
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2012
It’s no small challenge to summarise a country and its history in a single hour, which is perhaps why Carolyn Anona Scott and Jack Foster instead choose to pay ‘homage’ to Sc…
An Evening With Dementia
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
In his book about the onset of his wife’s dementia, former ITN journalist John Suchet explained that the one ‘mercy’ he could see about the condition was that the person with…
Street Dreams
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Philip Liebman
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2011
A scattering of cardboard boxes, newspaper and plastic bags greet the audience on stage.
Blossom Street: A Capella @ the Kirk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Mark Gregory
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
The London based ex-York University graduates that make up the Blossom Street choir form a refreshingly different type of a cappella group that takes the genre back to its roots an…
Gein's Family Giftshop: Volume 3
- Review
- ★★
- A George
- London Fringe
- 14th Feb, 2018
Gein’s Family Giftshop adopts a very particular style of dark humour.
Re-Animator The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
You know something’s different about a show when the people in the first three rows - also known as the slosh pit - are issued with cheap Scotland-branded ponchos.
Sweeney Todd ... The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Review
- ★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2008
Tim Burton gave hostage to fortune in his rather splendid big-screen version of Sweeney Todd, which opened in the UK earlier this year.
George's Marvellous Medicine
- Review
- ★★★★
- Asja Dally
- FUSE International
- 18th Jul, 2013
Widely regarded as one of Roald Dahl’s most beloved children’s books of all time, George’s Marvellous Medicine has certainly bottled up an impressive thirty-two years of shel…
From Broadway to Hollywood - A Tribute to George and Ira Gershwin
- Review
- ★★★
- Alexis Macnab
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 4th Aug, 2012
Pam Lawson has a crush.
42nd Street
- Review
- ★★★
- Madeleine Ash
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 18th Aug, 2012
The Tony award winning musical 42nd street tells the story of famed musical producer Julian Marsh’s attempt to put on a profitable production during the Great Depression.
The Curious Couple from Coney
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
The exquisitely moustached showman Donny Vomit was just 14, visiting an Oklahoma County Fair, when he saw a man swallow a long balloon.
Murder On The High C's
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2007
This fun production satirises Agatha Christie type murder mysteries, The Love Boat and even Titanic (an iceberg does appear at the end).
Irreconcilable Differences
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
There’s one small, very special audience that most of us will be legally obliged to join at some point in our lives — a jury.
Coming Up For Air by George Orwell
- Review
- ★★★★
- Honour Bayes
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2008
Simply and elegantly staged, George Orwells Coming Up For Air is a breath of fresh air in the middle of all of the over dressed, multi-media, post-modern shows which seem to have…
When Holidays Attack
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Given the importance many people put on their annual holiday — the glittering gift to themselves for enduring the hard slog of everyday life for the rest of the year — there�…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2007
Sweeny Todd is arguably one of the finest works in musical theatre.
Montmorency
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
There’s a long tradition of the gentleman thief - not least in Edinburgh, the city of Deacon Brodie - so it probably seemed apt to bring to the Fringe an adaptation of Eleanor Up…
Sunday in the Park with George
- Review
- ★★★★★
- James Robert Ball
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2011
‘Colour and light’ exclaims Georges, and this production takes that seriously.
This Isn't Over Till Everybody Gets High
- Review
- ★★★★
- Juliet Colbert
- Camden Fringe
- 10th Aug, 2012
In a performance which uses music and expressive movement as well as dialogue, This Isn’t Over Till Everybody Gets High is an intriguing look at the darker side of modern society…
Red Shoes
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 19th Dec, 2013
Glasgow’s Tramway has a reputation for cutting-edge visual and performing arts; so it’s something of a radical change for them to join Glasgow’s other theatrical venues with …
Enough Already
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 14th Nov, 2013
Written and animated by the alleged French “polymath” François Sarhan, Enough Already incorporates live music, theatre and film in a frustratingly pretentious, paralysingly du…
In Time o' Strife
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 15th Oct, 2013
The Pathhead Halls on the corner of Commercial Street and Broad Wynd, Kirkcaldy, Fife were built in 1882, originally as a theatre and music hall although one room was later used fo…
Crime and Punishment
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 7th Oct, 2013
There’s a brazen, wonderfully self-conscious theatricality in how director Dominic Hill approaches Chris Hannan’s new stage adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s iconic novel, C…
Let The Right One In
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 11th Jun, 2013
There is one word that, quite deliberately, is never uttered by anyone on stage during the National Theatre of Scotland’s Let The Right One In—vampire.
High Vis
- Review
- ★★★★
- Dale Phoenix
- Brighton Fringe
- 10th May, 2013
As one of the great villains of modern Britain, The Parking Warden is perhaps a subject desperately crying out for exposé via a one man show.
Calum's Road
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 1st Jun, 2013
Although based on true events, the story of Calum’s Road is so unique that it comes with a strong sense of some greater story being told, one of mythical proportions.
Running On The Cracks
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 12th Feb, 2013
Children’s and young adult’s fiction have long been populated by orphans, characters who are both usefully free from parental restraints while also cut adrift from the traditio…
Harold and Maude
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 31st Oct, 2012
Inter-generational relationships are always controversial, especially when questions of predatory abuse arise in these Savile-dominated times.
Any Objections?
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 24th Oct, 2012
Can you do anything of theatrical note in under 10 minutes? Is there a place for a theatrical equivalent of flash fiction, whether as a testing ground for new writers or as a form …
Markee De Saw & Bert Finkle
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 15th Oct, 2012
When does real life stop and the cabaret begin? Or the cabaret stop and real life return? On this occasion, Markee de Saw and Bert Finkle offer no simple or easy answers in this in…
Activism Is Fun
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2012
Chris Coltrane is the first to admit that any political radicalism he might once have possessed had faded over time, thanks in part to a depressing sense of powerless after the UK …
Macbeth
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- 19th Jun, 2012
Arguably the most famous Scottish story written by an Englishman is re-imagined as One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest by the National Theatre of Scotland, and showcases a remarkable sol…
An Audience With Tomás Ford - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Aug, 2012
From the start, you know that Tomás Ford isn’t your ordinary late night showman.
Rob James: Magicana
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2012
The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway…
Dance Theater of Harlem Street Festival
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- USA Regional & Tours
Dance Theater of Harlem is back with its annual block party.
Arguments and Nosebleeds - Free
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Aug, 2012
Arguments and Nosebleeds is becoming a little nugget of tradition, a one-off poetry performance — now in its third year — that gives a platform to a host of Scottish poets, alo…
George's Marvellous Medicine
- Review
- ★★★
- David Knowles
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
George’s Marvellous Medicine had the children in the audience bemused at some points and enthralled at others.
Street Life
- Review
- ★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Aug, 2006
In this UK premiere of Streetlife, French choreographer Lorca Renoux works with an eclectic ensemble of dancers representing the various hip hop dance styles in Germany today.
Have a Nice Life
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
In these increasingly cash-strapped times putting on any musical on the Fringe is worthy of praise, even if — with a cast of six accompanied by electric piano and drums — the d…
Nggrfg
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
As a show, NGGRFG has one obvious problem: people are either uncertain how to say it, or are simply reluctant to say out loud the two words it represents, because — quite underst…
Just a Gigolo
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Among the delights of the Fringe are the opportunities it occasionally presents to see quality performers in more intimate, personal projects.
Yearbook: The High School Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Alan Chorley
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 21st Aug, 2006
This musical does not have a linear narrative, but presents a series of scenes and songs showing events that take place during the last year of high school.
Warde Street
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Jocelyn Cox
- Camden Fringe
- 25th Aug, 2013
This powerful production embodies new writing at its best: relevant, challenging, and absorbing.
Legs 11
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
In an increasingly categorised Fringe (this year added Spoken Word to an already multi-colour-coded Fringe programme), it can still be a delight to come upon a show that just doesn…
Sammy J and Randy - The Inheritance
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 6th Aug, 2012
The Australian duo of musical comedian Sammy J and puppeteer Heath McIvor - best known for his purple puppet Randy - are now experienced Fringe regulars who, quite rightly, are mor…
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.
Kin
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
Three tables, each filled with the paraphernalia of different daytime meals; on each table, there’s an hourglass, progressively smaller.
The Long and the Short of It
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 23rd Aug, 2012
From the start Richard Purnell (the short one) and Gary From Leeds (the horribly tall one) insist that their teaming up as ‘360 degree poetry consultants’ is not a gimmick.
Alistair Green: Jack Spencer - Why Anything?
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
While Green’s professionalism for going ahead with his solo performance with a tiny audience is worth a mention, this shouldn’t distract from the most important point: that his…
Murder, Marple and Me
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 12th Aug, 2012
Despite a long and successful career in both British film and theatre, Dame Margaret Rutherford is now best remembered for a role she didn’t, initially, care for at all — Agath…
Other Voices: Alternative Spoken Word Cabaret
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Other Voices promised much — ‘comedy, politics, naughty lyrics, free sweets… And a veritable smorgasbord of poetry antics’, but the most significant terminology on its titl…
Chapel Street
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Laura Francis
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 13th Aug, 2012
Blisteringly funny, audacious, and moving, watching Scrawl’s Chapel Street (written by Luke Barnes) is akin to taking a shot of vodka, followed by a bottle to the face.
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 11th Aug, 2012
Casablanca: The Gin Joint Cut comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a strong pedigree and reputation, built on its debut as part of Glasgow’s Òran Mór’s iconic A Play, …
Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- 17th Dec, 2015
The Glasgow King’s Theatre panto, which last year marked its half century, is a much-loved institution in the city.
Damien Crow: The World According to Damien Crow
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
Mid-afternoon, an audience of just 10 people is not what most standups would want to see in front of them.
Chris Cross: Loose Cannon 2012
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 20th Aug, 2012
There are many things you can say about Chris Cross; that he’s a shrinking violet is not one of them.
Alan Bissett: The Red Hourglass
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 17th Aug, 2012
‘O wad some Power the giftie gie us/To see oursels as ithers see us!’ wrote Robert Burns in his famous poem To A Louse, apparently inspired by seeing the insect roaming over th…
Sesame Street Live - Elmo Makes Music
- Review
- ★★★
- Rebecca Brown
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 8th Aug, 2012
How do you get to Sesame Street? This is a question many of us have asked throughout our lives and receiving a ticket to Sesame Street Live was, for me, like someone had suddenly h…
Ward and Bartlett's Double Impact
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 19th Aug, 2012
If comedy often rises out of adversity, could this help explain how Northern Ireland has proved such fertile ground over the years — from Frank Carson and Roy Walker to Patrick K…
Building Emily Warren: The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge
- Listing Children’s Shows
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Central Hall
- 13th - 16th Aug 2018
It’s 1870.
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
- Review
- ★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Studio
- 13th Aug, 2019
It was the title, I must admit, which first attracted me to review Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation; its promise of combining "stage action and illust…
La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh International Festival
- The Lyceum
- 8th Aug, 2019
Theatre-making manifestos always make me wary, in part because I'm inherently suspicious of portentous artists in any field: "The aim is not to depict the real, but to mak…
Greenside Vacates Old Town Infirmary Street in Move to New Town George Street
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Dec, 2023
Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe.
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.
Having Fun on the High Seas with Max Norman
- Feature
- Simon Ximenez
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 3rd Aug, 2023
Simon Ximenez is considering a life on the ocean wave after talking to Max Norman about his Edinburgh show, A Pirate’s Life for Me.
Clare Cockburn Blossoms With Her Rose
- Feature
- Richard Beck
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 30th Jul, 2023
We talked to Clare Cockburn, who, at the age of 54, is presenting her debut play Tennessee, Rose at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
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...
Prom Kween’s Rebecca Humphries on Why she Won't be Doing a Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Feature
- James T. Harding
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 16th Aug, 2017
Underbelly Untapped Award-winner Prom Kween is a high-energy comedy musical about Matthew Crisson, the first non-binary person to win a prom queen title in a US high school.
Paines Plough’s George Perrin on Directing Interactive Theatre
- Feature
- Sophia Charalambous
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2016
If you were to list Every Brilliant Thing about life, what would you include? This is the idea behind Duncan Macmillan’s critically acclaimed play, broaching the subject of menta...
Unfaithful's Niamh Cusack & Matthew Lewis: “I really like smelling the audience!”
- Feature
- George Meixner
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 15th Aug, 2016
Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter film series, The Syndicate) and Niamh Cusack (Heartbeat, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) will appear in Unfaithful by Owen McCafferty...
Interview: High as Sugar
- Feature
- Nicholas Abrams
- Brighton Fringe
- 7th May, 2016
A one man musical about a trans woman in 1970s NYC. This is Tanner Efinger's new play receives its world premiere at Brighton Fringe.
Brighton Insider - Living the High Life
- Feature
- Francesca G
- Brighton Fringe
- 6th May, 2016
If the new i360 on Brighton seafront has inspired you to raise your gaze or you’re suddenly feeling the need to quit your job and run away with the circus, then it's time to ch...
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.
James Plays Playwright Rona Munro does Christmas at the Traverse
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- 11th Dec, 2015
Rona Munro, writer of the three James Plays – critically acclaimed and popular with audiences at the 2014 Edinburgh International Festival – has a new collaboration with Stephe...
Choreographers Claire Cunningham and Ramesh Meyyappan talk Hieronymus Bosch and Madame Butterfly
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 27th Jul, 2015
Acclaimed choreographers and performers Ramesh Meyyappan and Claire Cunningham bring two startling – and highly personal – shows to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Jun, 2015
A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street promises to be absurd, dark, surreal yet humorous. A severed finger in the mail sets off a chain of unlikely events. Broadway Baby investigates.
Three Minute Interview: Dandy Darkly
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 22nd Jun, 2015
New York City's "rapid-fire raconteur of sex and death" returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, where it’s fair to say he’s decidedly Trigger Happy!
Going To Space: A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street
- Feature
- Levi Bailey
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 24th Mar, 2015
Broadway Baby chats to the absurdists behind A Traffic Jam on Sycamore Street.
Glasgow: Arches LIVE festival to present self-help theme this October
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Glasgow
- 1st Oct, 2014
Arches LIVE, the annual festival of new performances and artwork by some of Scotland’s most exciting creative talent returns to Glasgow’s The Arches this October.
The Doctor Austin Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 1st Aug, 2014
Doctor Austin of the renowned Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies, based in the University of Glasgow, has come to educate the Edinburgh Fringe about the inevitable Zombie Apo...
The David Leddy Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 14th Jul, 2014
Described as a “theatrical maverick” with “a propensity for fearless experiment” by the Financial Times, writer-director David Leddy returns to Edinburgh with two productio...
The Liam Rudden Three Minute Interview
- Feature
- Paul F Cockburn
- Edinburgh Fringe
- 5th Jul, 2014
Game-keeper turned poacher? Liam Rudden may be Entertainment Editor for the Edinburgh Evening News, but he also has decades’ experience as a writer and director for the stage–i...
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