What has quickly became an annual tradition.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
A closed-down puppet orphanage reopens, leaving resident squatters Ozzie Airwalker and Jim Horgletooth having to deal with new friends and challenges.
It’s all in the title (hahahahahahahaha).
Alastair returns to the magical Canongate Kirk for a special celebration of the Scottish fiddle tradition, featuring a stellar cast of top performers.
Music that makes people wanna shake their bones! This trio are known for their unique live show, transporting the audience to a bygone era when witches and black magic were rife.
Award-winning Jam Theatre Show Choir bring their fabulous harmonies and fun to their new show That 70’s Choir featuring all your favourite hits that will get you grooving – all…
Ave Maria: Centuries of Prayer and Praise.
TS Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday is widely regarded as a work of great spiritual depth.
One day you’ll be in M&S and you’ll suddenly go ‘Ooh, a beige cardigan with elbow patches.
After a sell-out show in 2023, award-winning magician Dan Bastianelli returns with an all-new evening of close-up magic.
The Stray Notes Choir makes a welcome return to the Fringe with three performances this year.
Having performed at private events and festivals across the Highlands over the last few years, Highland Voices look forward to their second year at the Edinburgh Fringe.
From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, South Australian cellist/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
Orange Claw Hammer, following their triumphant appearance at the Zappanale Festival in Germany, continue to rework the music of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band for the 21st ce…
Old Git (Jim Bryce) has had enough! Having inhabited an increasingly wizened body for 74 years, he blows the gaff via a head-banging ride powered by comedy, songs and non-sequiturs…
It’s tough being a deaf kid.
Hot Chocolate in Old Saint Paul’s: an evening of classical music by candlelight, accompanied by a cup of hot chocolate.
Dan and Shubba, two of Scotland’s best up-and-coming comedians, gather their friends to ride the wave in an hour of wild, high-octane comedy.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Pub Choir is low-key a big deal in Australia, but we realise that counts for nothing because it’s so far away! So here we are, flying around the world to prove our point: everybody…
Voices of Lions perform songs from many genres, sacred and secular: pop classics, show tunes, spirituals, traditional songs and ballads.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Award-winning comic Dan Lees returns with more high musical octane nonsense.
Join Dan Schreiber (co-host of podcasts No Such Thing As A Fish and The Cryptid Factor) as he takes to the stage for a show of oddities and jokes with his hit No.
Join Rock Choir, the award-winning national phenomenon, for a spectacular concert of uplifting songs! Throughout August, more than 3,000 Rock Choir members will light up the stage …
In 1916, Christabel Mennell writes a letter of apology to Katie Marsh.
Unhinged, in the best way, and genuinely original.
Immerse yourself in the world of 007 and the legendary voices that have accompanied Bond.
Award-winning Irish comedian returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for his 13th year at the Festival with a brand-new high-octane show Killa-Dan-Jaro!
The voices of Edinburgh’s communities shape an ever-evolving sound installation inside St Giles’ Cathedral’s magnificent interior.
Guilty or innocent? You decide! The award-winning, critically acclaimed courtroom roast returns to the Fringe for its eleventh year! You accuse friends and family of crimes, and to…
Title says it all! *Evil laugh*.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (scrub!) from the internet.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Join three comedians who almost certainly have no idea how to play Dungeons & Dragons, as they attempt to go on a live fantasy adventure! Questing ain’t easy especially when th…
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, part improv, part video ga…
Second great year! Old-school jokes meet lived experiences.
Turn on the radio, have a cup of tea – and don’t forget to take your pills! Get ready for an action-packed journey through the imagination of a playful, solitary old man as he di…
Covering everything from history to religion and folklore, this walking tour is an original tour of Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
Join Dan Fardell (‘one of the best new joke writers I’ve seen in ages’ (Romesh Ranganathan)) as he turns his charming, gag-heavy style in a very personal direction for this hilario…
Winner of Best Solo Show of 2023 at the Clubbies, Gremlin Head is a stand-up comedy show about having a menacing, rude, nasty, naughty gremlin inside your mind.
Annie Lennox’s transcendent solo album DIVA stands at the centre of this sparkling story about strong, defiant women and the little gay boy who loves them.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Have you experienced the intensity of being famous without any of the perks? Been doppelgäng-banged to the point you no longer exist? Lube up for this deep dive into fame and misf…
Who’s your go to? Your ride or die? Your best friend? Your mum? Not David.
Last year I was bitten by a tick in the central business district.
Enter the flamboyant depths of a Victorian Music Hall… When Albert Baggley, the founder of The Queen’s Head, mysteriously disappears, two burlesque numbers, devastated dames, a g…
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and ‘Mancunian wild-man’ (Guardian) returns with show two, following a totally sold-out debut last year.
In February 2023 a letter hit the world news cycle and captured imaginations across the globe.
Join three comedians who almost certainly have no idea how to play Dungeons & Dragons, as they attempt to go on a live fantasy adventure! Questing ain’t easy however, especially w…
Old Movies Saved My Life: 2.
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
Join Brighton comedy stalwart and regular host of On The Edge comedy, Dan Fardell, in his new hour of stand-up, in which he tries a new direction and brings a more personal story t…
Experience a musical journey with Dan Driver’s latest show, “The Sound of Muzak,” a show that will tug at your heartstrings and make you regret selling your CD collection.
Clive Copeman (BBC New Act competition runner-up) and Arna Spek (99 Comedy Club Female bursary Winner) are this year teaming up with Michalle Paker (Go New York Finalist)! All 3 …
Does your kid want to have awesome skills! Do they love the circus? Well this is the class for them! An hour long workshop learning all the foundations of circus skills taught b…
2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award - Best Newcomer (Nominee) The reigning BBC New Comedy Awards winner and British Comedian of the Year presents his Edinburgh Comedy Award…
2023 Edinburgh Comedy Award - Best Newcomer (Nominee) The reigning BBC New Comedy Awards winner and British Comedian of the Year presents his Edinburgh Comedy Award…
You’ve seen him on Countryfile, Blue Peter and that episode of Springwatch that the BBC have tried to scrub (SCRUB!) from the internet.
Galton & Simpson ‘Godfathers of Comedy’ Award Winners 2023 tear-up the script as they return to Londons West end in their anarchic, two man long-form Impro Show!
Love Mooves In Mysterious Ways.
Get ready for the premier of In the Time of Dragons, an action packed, funny and ultimately heartwarming new musical from the creators of Spinach.
Come chant with us!Venture into the mesmerizing world of Sutartinės, the ancient polyphonic vocal art, and immerse yourself in the spirit of Lithuanian folk music.
What has quickly became an annual tradition.
What exactly is acting your age? And who decides? These are the questions Alan Cumming has been grappling with for a very long time.
Join the London Community Gospel Choir for an evening of uplifting festive tunes and seasonal fun with special guests! After a dazzling 40th anniversary concert in 2022, the choir…
A curated screening of essay films exploring the theme of ‘Grow’ made by young filmmakers working in Bloomsbury, in collaboration with students from the MA Film Programming and…
If you are partial to rather extraordinary pieces of theatre, that contain elements of many genres but cannot be pigeon-holed into any of them, then The Nag’s Head at the Park Th…
Dan has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others, whilst being one half of the smas…
Dan has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others, whilst being one half of the smas…
Sufficiently disillusioned with her theatre career that she shoved cake into a woman’s face (she deserved it, FYI), Victoria Melody turns to Plan B: stand-up comedy.
Three works celebrating classical, contemporary and neo-classical dance – this programme is not to be missed.
A sincerely told story, a captivating performance and a wealth of humour make for a well-spent eighty minutes upstairs at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre with David Patterson, who makes…
The contribution of Stephen Sondheim to musical theatre was commemorated in a one-off tribute show last year, following his death in 2021.
Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller” (Deadline) Mike Birbiglia plays a strictly limited run in the West End this Autumn with his hit show The Old Man & The Pool.
The Phoenix Choir are Edinburgh’s uplifting, high-energy, fast-paced soul and gospel group.
Spoken word and performance artist Subira Joy explores their experiences being targeted by the police as a Black, queer and trans person in the UK.
‘Broadway’s greatest comic storyteller’ (Deadline.
Old movies saved Mel Byron’s life a few Fringes ago and they can save yours too.
Is Exeter University emerging as the new powerhouse in student musical groups on the Edinburgh Fringe? Let’s not complicate this - the answer is simply but emphatically Yes.
Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi…
This year, celebrating his 50th birthday, one of Scotland’s leading fiddle exponents presents an extra-special journey of classic folk music accompanied by his closest collaborator…
Come and join in with Fab Choir, we’d love to meet you.
Duruflé Requiem: Life and Death in Music with Poetry.
Come and join us for a night of singing and joy as we teach you a classic hit that will leave you dancing and singing in the aisles and all the way back to your hotel.
The internationally renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings music from coronations and royal occasions past and present.
It is the 10th anniversary of Voices of Lions, the outstanding youth male-voice choir, and singers from the past 10 years are getting together to celebrate with a look back at some…
Pub Choir is the low-effort, high-return show of your dreams! Led by the living sunbeam Astrid Jorgensen, become the music legend you’ve always dreamed of, even if your voice is ap…
This is a stand up comedy show about life, specifically Martin Graham’s life.
Come and enjoy our blend of Scottish traditional instruments! In decades of developing our sound we’ve brought together fiddles, concertina, clarsach, wire-strung harp, flute, smal…
This is a stand up comedy show about life, specifically Martin Graham’s life.
In the Steps of the Master: Jesus and Landscape.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Rising to the Life Immortal: Organ Music for Easter and Ascension.
Drawing on inspirations from his Scottish-Italian heritage, Edinburgh magician Dan Bastianelli presents an incredible close-up magical experience that explains the difference betwe…
A young couple meet by chance by Stari Most, the bridge which unifies the multicultural city of Mostar.
The Crocodile of Old Kang Pow is a compelling story told with an intoxicating blend of musical styles, set against the fetid backdrop of 18th-century Paris.
He’s 27, gay and riddled with dyspraxia.
The nation’s leading youth choir performs a poignant and poetic programme of works.
Join Tony Law as he warms you up for 25 minutes of some recent classic routines featuring ww2 bombers and finishes the hour with brand new forays into Space, serial killers and som…
Join Tony Law as he warms you up for 25 minutes of some recent classic routines featuring ww2 bombers and finishes the hour with brand new forays into Space, serial killers and som…
Daniel Lambert is deaf.
Daniel Lambert is deaf.
From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, South Australian musician/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
Glee Club UK are taking you on a musical journey all the way from the swinging 60s, right up to the present day.
Acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) are taking London by storm and reality by surprise with their brand new, critically acclaimed long-form improv show.
Acclaimed double-act The Electric Head (Al Ronald & Cy Henty) are taking London by storm and reality by surprise with their brand new, critically acclaimed long-form improv show.
Are you fit to reign? How long do you think you can survive as ruler? Come and find out in this one-of-a-kind interactive comedy video game! Part comedy, improv, video game and cho…
This is a heartfelt piece, in which a group of intrepid teens set out to discover monsters… and discover them in the last place they thought to look.
Join Scotland’s finest young singers and a superb jazz trio for Bob Chilcott’s Jazz Mass.
Howard Blake’s delightful settings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem The Land of Counterpane form the centrepiece of this concert by the critically acclaimed NYCOS National Girls Ch…
Raymond will lead you on a comedy walking tour of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
This trio are known for their unique live show, transporting the audience to a bygone era when witches and black magic were rife.
When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors.
50 years on the planet.
Enjoy a 45-minute spectacular concert by award-winning national phenomenon Rock Choir, the pioneering contemporary choir of the UK.
Immerse yourself in the world of James Bond and the legendary voices that have accompanied six decades of the world’s most famous spy.
The exhibition features people, street images and architectural details, all taken in the area surrounding the studio in Blackfriars Street.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Award-winning alternative comedian Dan Lees brings forgotten album covers back to life.
Written/directed by Amanda Bothma; musical direction/piano by Germaine Gamiet; starring Daniel Anderson.
They teach.
Witness the impossible as Myles and Dan attempt to complete the most live comedy sketches in a single live sketch-comedy show in live sketch-comedy history.
Lovable scamp Alex Hylton has done stand-up for a third of his life.
From the creator of Science Magic comes a comedy roleplaying show where the audience partakes in an adventure themselves.
Gremlin Head is a stand-up comedy show about intrusive thoughts and the guilt that they cause us.
Join three of the mightiest comedians in the land as they embark on an epic adventure, filled with dice rolls, glory and probably at least a few failed death saves! This is a live …
10th great year! Edinburgh’s funniest, and most successful ever kosher comedy show.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Edinburgh solo debut from London’s favourite 75-year-old stand-up comic.
Winner of Best Kids Show at Adelaide Fringe 2023.
Ray Fordyce is back to host a wonderfully spiffing show full of comedy and entertainment.
Join the best-joke-list-bothering, holey-cheese-flinging, diaphragm-jiggling comedian as he presents a hostess trolley full of stuff he finds funny.
Clownfish Theatre’s Jonathon Tilley and Jess Clough-Macrae overact the premise of this kid-friendly show, to the delight of kids and grown-ups alike.
The horrifying debut from the award-winning poof prince of puppets.
Dom Chambers’ unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage.
If you do meal prep and watch Ted Lasso you’re typical.
Tartan Tabletop: The Neverending Quest is not your average improv show.
In his debut, Dan Jones takes the audience through his struggles with love without borders.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Watching Dan Tiernan’s Going Under taught me the distinct difference when reviewing comedy between using language like ‘laugh out loud’ or ‘hysterical’ and laughing so mu…
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Durham Scratch Choir always sound like fun.
This enthusiastic community choir has a wide-ranging repertoire.
Post Traumatic Slay Disorder is a dark comedy following twenty-something waitress Kit who moves to London with a fresh diagnosis, PTSD.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen before.
Winner of ‘Best Show’ at Leicester Comedy Festival, Alex Hylton returns to Brighton Fringe with a brand-new show for 2023.
Winner of ‘Best Show’ at Leicester Comedy Festival, Alex Hylton returns to Brighton Fringe with a brand-new show for 2023.
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Come join award-winning comedian Dan Lees for a joyous night of musical madness and expert clowning.
As choirs emerged out of Covid lockdown, St.
As choirs emerged out of Covid lockdown, St.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
A Funny Old Life is the largely fictional autobiographical story of one middle-aged man’s journey through the ups and downs of life.
If you had the opportunity to be your most authentic self.
OLD BONES, by Jen McGregor, is the debut production of Third Pier Theatre.
Brighton comedy stalwarts Sam Savage (creator of viral hit comedy character Linda Larkin) and Dan Fardell have teamed up to bring you a double dose of their formative brand new wor…
Brighton comedy stalwarts Sam Savage (creator of viral hit comedy character Linda Larkin) and Dan Fardell have teamed up to bring you a double dose of their formative brand new wor…
A dark comedy following twenty-something waitress Kit who moves to London with a fresh diagnosis, PTSD.
A new comedy about devotion, desire and dancing queens.
Dan has been a data collector for 10 years.
Adam Riches and Dan Cook have finally joined forces to create what the public have been clamouring to happen for years - a character comedy show about two men.
In her solo show Adventure of an Old CxNT or Living my Dream Helen Prior tells a hilarious story of life with the help of her own curated gallery of art masterpieces.
Alex MacKeith goes electric for his second musical comedy show.
The award-winning horror hit from comedy’s poof prince of puppets is back for Valentine’s Day! Lachy is a poof, and apparently a virgin.
It’s summer and teenage runaways Dakota and Bede are hiding out in an abandoned quarry, buried deep in the belly of England.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
What happens when you try to run 26.
This Seems Ambitious is the debut hour from Amused Moose National Breakthrough Comedian of the Year, and double Pleasance Reserve Nominee Dan Jones.
Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’ big-hearted, smash hit production of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic returns to The Old Vic, joyously adapted for the stage…
A moving piece of verbatim theatre about survivors of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum’s sound archive.Five extraordinary stories, five extraordinary voices
When Intelligence Squared and History Hit joined forces on this event, neither company imagined it would take place after the death of Britain’s longest serving mo…
Dan Snow’s History Hit and Intelligence Squared have joined forces for this in-person debate to discuss a question that spans more than 1000 years: who was the gre…
Join storyteller Laura Sampson, accompanying sound artist Sam Enthoven and special guests for a selection of grown-up folk and fairytales on the theme of mortality.
The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School (BOVTS) is pleased to present its 2022 MFA Graduate Showcase.
Boris who? Join the panelists from Britain’s premier rage-driven politics podcast to “welcome” our new Prime Minister – whomever he or she turns …
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Extreme nonsense from award-winning idiot Dan Lees.
The Dan Daw Show is a peep into the shiny and sweaty push-pull of living with shame while bursting with pride.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
They say a bull sees red when it loses the plot.
Founded in 1947 at the Rose Street Telephone Exchange, the well-known Edinburgh Telephone Choir is still in fine voice and continues to perform in several concerts each year, raisi…
Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen before.
From Bach to The Beatles and beyond, renowned South Australian musician/songwriter William Jack presents a free (non-ticketed) multi-style cello recital in the heart of Edinburgh.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
In Every Corner Sing: The Choir of Old St Paul’s with Director of Music John Kitchen MBE, Edinburgh City Organist.
Music from across the ages marking important royal events from deaths and funerals to weddings and coronations, sung by ‘one of Scotland’s (indeed the UK’s) musical jewels’…
For centuries philosophers have asked the question, Who am I? But it’s now time to ask, Am I Sam Smith? Through the camp ecstasy of comedy cabaret, Dan Wye, creator of Séayoncé, …
Right before your very ears, comedian & actor Mike Capozzola transforms into “Loquacio - Master of Nearly a Dozen Voices,” an impersonator of an impressionist.
Right before your very ears, comedian & actor Mike Capozzola transforms into “Loquacio - Master of Nearly a Dozen Voices,” an impersonator of an impressionist.
Cutting Edge Theatre: Hope Rises.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
The Stray Notes Choir are a fun, friendly choir from the beautiful spa town of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
Sacred Arts Festival 2022 Opening Service High Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, celebrated in accordance with the Scottish Liturgy of 1970 in the beautiful setting of the hist…
100% Soul! With Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir.
One of Scotland’s leading fiddle exponents returns to the wonderful Canongate Kirk with a spectacular line-up and new 2022 album release.
Mary Beth Barone is an expert in bad dating (just lucky I guess!).
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church.
A Scottish/African group presenting original songs by composer/playwright, Neo Vilakazi, based in Edinburgh.
One performance only. Arrive early, sell-out expected.
The international award-winning BYC makes its long-awaited return to the Edinburgh Fringe.
From the creators of cult hit, The Complete History of Pop Music in an Hour.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Work in progress - a debut solo comedy show.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 45 young singers based in south-west London.
‘Superb and fun’ ***** (TheWeeReview.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
Take a trip with Debra (Dead Ringers, Spitting Image, The Imitation Game, Bad Girls) as she hurtles through time in a multiverse of musical icons from Billy Holliday to Billie Eili…
Old Town – New Perspective is a collection of contemporary photographs of Edinburgh taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard, founders of Tete-a-Tete Photo.
A grenade hits Joe Bonham in WW1.
In March 1952, hunched over a typewriter on a semi-circular table in the corner of a Jamaican villa, a man has finally completed his first draft of an espionage novel that would re…
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
Gosh this is good.
A profound, thrilling mix of music and storytelling, head/lining is a lyrical deep dive inside the mind of a working-class white lad coming to terms with his life so far; from noxi…
2019 Pick of the Fringe award sell-out sensation.
Calling all brave heroes! Unveil a myriad of dark secrets and come face to face with some of the most magnificent monsters and terrifying beasts ever to walk the earth.
Clownfish Theatre has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with an updated version of their show which saw sell-out audiences in 2019 as well as similar success in Adelaide.
What happens when you try to run 26.
Choir of Man is the best night in your local you’ve ever had.
Title says it all! (Evil laugh).
A one-man show set in early 90s London about a band who didn’t become rich or famous but had a manager who did.
Al Lubel talks about his name for fifty-six minutes and about something else for four minutes.
Dan Tiernan is a gay, Mancunian, dinner lady with dyspraxia but he’s also the sweetest little angel that ever lived.
2019 Grammy Award winners for Best World Music Album, the world’s critically acclaimed choir performs Freedom, songs which celebrate and commemorate South Africa’s democratic strug…
Selected as one of the best shows to see by Time Out and The Times.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s darkly comic tale brought to the stage for children and adults to share.
Life begins at 56 and 3/4s – having raised four kids and divorced twice, Jojo is starting life all over again with the emphasis on living and Don’t Stop Me Now as her funeral mus…
Acclaimed stand-up Dan Cook returns with a brand-new show of high-energy, contemplative idiocy.
Delving into amateur stand-up culture and trying to make peace with a messy brain, the new documentary-theatre show from Victoria Melody sees her in wearable tech, scanning her bra…
A fascinating insight into Edinburgh’s past, hear incredible stories of royalty, writers, sieges, battles and plagues.
This entertaining tour will take you through the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town covering history, culture, folklore and much more.
This enthusiastic community choir has a wide-ranging repertoire.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
Acclaimed stand ups Sarah Keyworth (as seen on Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and 8 Out of Ten Cats) and Dan Cook (as seen on Absolutely Fabulous, Toast of London and Man v Bee)…
An evening of summer music to lift the soul presented by Penge's wonderful Chamber Choir.
One of comedy’s most exciting rising stars, Steve Bugeja (AKA ‘The Mighty Booj’, ‘Moulin Booj’, or – for December only – &lsquo…
One of comedy’s most exciting rising stars, Steve Bugeja (AKA ‘The Mighty Booj’, ‘Moulin Booj’, or – for December only – &lsquo…
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Work in progress - a debut solo show.
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
Ahoy Shipmates! All aboard for a night of singing, dancing and sea shanties at a show like ye’ve never been to before! Old Time Sailors is an immersive, audience participation, …
In the greatest underwater discovery since the Titanic, the wreck of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship has been found and Dan Snow and Saunders Carmichae…
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
Faye Treacy doesn’t mean to blow her own trumpet, but she managed to overcome every expectation of her to become the coolest international musician in world history.
‘Mémoires d’un Amnésique: A piano, a film and Erik Satie, in his own words’ is, in equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique t…
‘Mémoires d’un Amnésique: A piano, a film and Erik Satie, in his own words’ is, in equal parts, a piano recital, a one-man play and a surrealist film, amalgamated into a unique t…
Rising star, Chloe Petts presents an hour of stand-up, including old bits, new bits and stuff she probably just made up on the spot.
Rising star, Chloe Petts presents an hour of stand-up, including old bits, new bits and stuff she probably just made up on the spot.
Robert Hamberger and Simon Maddrell deliver armchair poetry readings and intimate discussion between two old queens with subjects ranging from fatherhood to serenity, celebration t…
Robert Hamberger and Simon Maddrell deliver armchair poetry readings and intimate discussion between two old queens with subjects ranging from fatherhood to serenity, celebration t…
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
The first rule of character comedy is as follows: Be yourself! Unfortunately, young Daniel Wakeling hasn’t really figured out who he is yet.
Lachlan Werner is a ventriloquist with a love for theatrical horror and cheeky risqué comedy.
The first rule of character comedy is as follows: Be yourself! Unfortunately, young Daniel Wakeling hasn’t really figured out who he is yet.
Since her first stand-up special launched on Amazon Prime in 2020 it's received a huge amount of critical acclaim, amassing a staggering 60 million v…
Since her first stand-up special launched on Amazon Prime in 2020 it's received a huge amount of critical acclaim, amassing a staggering 60 million v…
When Michał Piwowarski’s granddaughter, Tasha, finally moves out, Michał's whole world changes.
Momentum Theatre Productions is proud to present the Irish premiere of The Great War along with Lovely Head in a night of two dark comedies by Neil LaBute.
Welcome to the Jungle! The appropriately named fictional pub that is set within the walls of the Arts Theatre.
Ventriloquism as you’ve never seen it! The Exorcist… with puppets!Lachlan Werner (ventriloquist, clown) presents an hour of frights, where demonic voices come from every corner…
ANTHEM - OLD SKOOL REUNION - LOVE MUSCLE CLASSICS A SPECIAL EVENT PAYING TRIBUTE TO LOVE MUSCLE DJ LEGEND MARC ANDREWSWith DJsSTEVE BENNISONANDY ALMIGHTYPlus live PA from MOTI…
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Please join us for the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Graduating MFA Actors London Showcase where there will be a selection of monologues and duologues delivered by our …
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MIND UR HEAD @ THE YARDa queer dance platform + party Saturday 11th September // evening + night evening join us for an evening in theatre space for a sharing of pro…
Alan Cumming employs his usual charm and wit through story and song in a wickedly memorable performance.
With 21 convictions for 76 offenses, beginning at the age of 13, including arrests for stabbings, shootings and murder; losing an eye and being told he would never walk again, Marv…
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral sings Fauré’s moving and famous work.
Pick of the Fringe award winner (2019).
The Scottish-African choir present upbeat, vibrant songs from a new musical set in Scotland and Zimbabwe.
ITS GREAT TO BE BACK.
Acclaimed stand-up Dan Cook returns with a brand new hour of high-energy, contemplative idiocy.
Acclaimed stand-up Dan Cook returns with a brand new hour of high-energy, contemplative idiocy.
Moderated by Sandy Hsiu-chih Lo, curator of Green Island Human Rights Art Festival in Taiwan, this webinar will look into how the Festival enabled the artistic expression of …
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Pick of the Fringe award winner (2019).
Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk (Scottish Gaelic for Rainbow) is a community of queer folk musicians based in Scotland and beyond.
Visit the largest network of 1700s Old Town underground vaults and hear tales of how the poor and unfortunate lived in these former slums.
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
Covering everything from history to religion and folklore, this walking tour is our original tour of Edinburgh’s medieval Old Town.
Discover the sinister side of Edinburgh’s Old Town from villains to aristocracy; slums, prisons, execution sites, and the architecture of its famous sons.
It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other…
Exploring Flow Experiences.
It’s two of the coolest and cutest up-and-coming comedians DANIEL MCKEON and JASMIN GLEESON bringing an hour of premium comedy to Camden this August with a two-hander like no other…
Exploring Flow Experiences.
The runaway international hit comes to London! Known across the globe as “the ultimate-feel good show,” THE CHOIR OF MAN offers up one hour of indisputable joy! It&rsqu…
I was five when I first heard them.
I was five when I first heard them.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Voices From Home is a curated selection of short audio plays, featuring the most exciting emerging writers from the South East.
Voices From Home is a curated selection of short audio plays, featuring the most exciting emerging writers from the South East.
A wonderful theatre clown show for the whole family.
A wonderful theatre clown show for the whole family.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
Well I never expected that! Cancer of any sort is a difficult thing to manage physically.
Memory, loss, mother-daughter relationships and the hokey-cokey.
Memory, loss, mother-daughter relationships and the hokey-cokey.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Join Daisy Rogers, Founder of Liberally, as she discusses the place of storytelling in the fight for greater diversity and inclusion across the liberal arts, through expressive mix…
Calling all brave heroes! Enter into a magical world of myths and legends in this fantastical new interactive show for all the family.
Witness a spectacular display of uplifting, feel-good pop, rock and contemporary chart songs performed by the national phenomenon, Rock Choir.
A feast for all the senses.
The magic of David Attenborough live! A blue whale swims through the depths.
Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, Long Day’s Journey into Night) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings) as former …
If you want to be a ‘successful independent woman person’ you better have something you want to say and you better be wearing a Serious Black Jumper™.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
There will be no refunds.
There will be no refunds.
Global Voices Theatre works with international playwrights based outside the UK to showcase plays in translation and from the wider English-speaking world, through uniquely curated…
Straight from Edinburgh 2019 where it was selected in Editors’ Top Ten Pick of The Fringe’ by Three Weeks.
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company Presents Liz Lochhead’s 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'.
Forget any notions of political correctness, civility or polite drawing room conversation.
Welcome to the campaign after the campaign! Three unlikely adventurers attempt to right the wrongs caused by a party of legendary heroes who screwed up the world wh…
A couple confront impending death with bawdy humour and burgeoning sadness in Ridiculusmus’s unsettling two-hander, set in a future cursed by eternal life without eternal youth.
See a scratch performance about the unique bond between real life grandfathers and grandsons that explores male family relationships and the legacy that is passed down through gene…
Alt-country legends led by singer-songwriter Jason Ringenberg (who has also carved out a parallel career making children's music, under the name Farmer Jason).
Come along to an inspirational evening of music making brought to you by the Voices of Hope choir, comprised of people connected with The Salvation Army Homelessness Services in Sc…
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, lowland pipes, Scottish small-pipes, double bass and percussion has captivated audiences a…
Led by soul powerhouse Maryam Ghaffari, Scotland’s funkiest choir will kickstart the final weekend of this year’s Fringe with their patented brand of uplifting, foot-stomping soul …
I was young when I chose to love my city.
Alastair, together with long-time collaborators Euan Drysdale (guitar/piano) and Iain Crawford (double bass), celebrates Scotland’s proud fiddle tradition.
100% Soul: The Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir live.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
High octane stories from men who would steal the eyes of ya and you wouldn’t know until you went to read the paper.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record review).
A man eats a meal on stage.
Die! Die! Die! Old People Die! Ridiculusmus.
Dan Clark, star of BBC Three’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life and host of the popular podcast Screen Talk, is dusting off his comedy cape* to perform stand-up for the fi…
Pupil voice is one of the hottest topics in education right now, but what do young people want from their education? Just how democratic should schools and universities be when it …
Raised Voices shines light on some of the reasons that people become homeless and how, when all may seem lost, they can pick themselves up and rebuild their lives.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Last year I weighed 24 stone and was a Finalist in Old Comedian of the Year 2018.
I need to preface with this review with a disclaimer – this is either a one-star or a five-star show, depending on your sense of humour.
Misha Rachlevsky and the multi award-winning Russian String Orchestra return for seven special evening concerts, each totally different, showcasing major works from the 18th centur…
The magic of David Attenborough live on stage! A blue whale swims through the ocean depths.
Time to relax and listen to classical music in this beautiful historic church just off the Royal Mile.
Excitations by InChorus will be well worth viewing from the other side.
The stand-up poet, reluctant bear and attempted vegan strips.
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
Enjoy a relaxed walk through the historic Old Town with a bona fide Scottish Historian.
River Voices: Robert Powell & FriendsA lively reading by York-based poet Robert Powell and other writers - of work inspired by the Ouse and Foss, rivers, streams, ca…
The circus has come to town, a circus that is quite unlike any other.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 40 young singers based in south-west London.
International touring songwriter Dan Haynes comes to Edinburgh as part of his Had Some Falls tour.
Internationally-renowned, Canadian-based Autorickshaw is on the cultural cutting edge with their seamless and downright cool sounding blend of jazz, folk, pop and Indian classical …
A young boy with an enormous gift. Follow Ma Liang as he discovers a very special skill that could help his whole village as long as it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands…
Rock Choir is the largest contemporary choir in the UK offering the general public the chance to sing without audition or any requirement to read music.
Ten friends.
Nights are dark and lonely at the end of the world.
Help Michelle celebrate her first time.
‘Too young to stay in, too old to go out!’ Nigel Osner casts a quizzical eye over life’s challenges for those that little bit older.
Voices of Bond is a spectacle like no other.
At 32 Kate should have so much more: a great career and perfect family.
Old new act, Pat Cahill, brings another hour of his confused neo-music hall stupidity to the Fringe.
This tour will take you into parts of Edinburgh that you did not know existed, off the tourist trail.
A poetic and poignant piece of storytelling; Choir of Man hit all the right notes in a story of brotherhood, the archetypical pub and the importance of community.
Dan Cardwell is in recall.
Seventh consecutive year for the UK’s longest-running and most successful ever Jewish comedy show.
After sell-out shows and scooping up awards at Melbourne and Sydney comedy festivals, Blake and Dan are setting off to Edinburgh to take part in the world’s biggest arts festival! …
See That Bloke Who Does Voices where impressionist Danny Posthill tells us about how Johnny Vegas helped him get over his anxiety, the incident of Dianne Abbot blocking him on Twit…
Introducing sloth, the debut stand-up show from Cambridge Footlight and all-round privileged white male Dan AG.
If you love sitting on a chair and watching stand-up comedy then this is the show for you! Joe is an up-and-coming comedian based in Edinburgh.
In his new hour of stand-up, American comedian Dan Soder addresses the many questions that the mid-30s bring: should he (if given the chance) have kids? Is wanting to be liked a ba…
Rebecca Perry’s one-women tribute to four icons of the Golden Age of cinema is a cheery and bouncy hour celebrating Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball.
Jayde Adams is back and this time it’s serious.
Mutch returns to the Fringe with a hilarious new hour chock-full of his trademark comedic tales of personal woe.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Old new act, Pat Cahill, brings another hour of his confused neo-music hall stupidity to the Fringe.
The Grand Old Uke of York will twist your perception of the tiny ukulele.
Alan Bennett is an institution in Britain - he can encapsulate a world of voices within a single monologue.
Enter the darkness, take a seat and prepare as your master of ceremonies ‘Jen’ guides you through this chilling theatrical experience.
Dave Kirby (Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels, Lost Soul, Council Depot Blues, Reds & Blues, The Wrath of Ann Twacky, Barry White Christmas) is back with a brand new seque…
Brighton16 is a newly formed choir of 16 classically trained singers.
June 25th 2018 - weight was 22 stone.
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
Former Brighton & Hove Albion football manager and now club Ambassador, discusses his life and the major incidents that have helped shape a successful playing career for England, T…
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
Back by popular demand for the second year running! TotRockinBeats throw down an amazingly funky, three hour, outdoor, family-friendly, hip-hop, funk and soul block party.
Stephen Don’s one-man show has him reading his long short story which is about a violent young man with a penchant for Japanese films and samurai swords.
Strap in for a night of scandal and stories with Australia's reigning Crown Prince of Comedy.
In 2014, Eastern Ukraine sits on a knife edge.
Strap in for a night of scandal and stories with Australia's reigning Crown Prince of Comedy.
A funny and fragile farce about ageing, dying and mourningExpect fumbling, coffee, call centres and cat food… rants, dribbles, pills and cough bombs… symbolist mysticism and sy…
Brace yourself for extreme investor-tainment as stand-up comedian Dan Evans pitches his 20% complete business ideas.
A family, clown, theatre show.
“Growing up gay, as a teenager, just when everyone else is becoming involved with the opposite sex, you’re alone in having to hide your feelings.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
In this show of songs and character vignettes, Nigel Osner casts his perceptive and somewhat mischievous gaze over the poignance and ridiculousness of clinging to the illusion of y…
Old Clown Wanted is a show produced by a young group of international people called The Void Theatre Company in their first collaboration with Ementior Dance Company.
Farnham Festival 2019: Young Voices This exciting concert will include performances from pupils at the Ridgeway School, plus Surrey Arts’ Just So Singers and the A…
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of&n…
A brand new nostalgia show, taking you back to the good old days of variety entertainment.
ANGER IS AN ENERGY! Old punk rocker Annie and young African Dub Dave strike up an unlikely friendship in this tale of marginalisation, alienation and regeneration.
Grammy Award winning jazz rock band Steely Dan today announce a U.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Tuesday 5th February, 1.
Director: David Lowery Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Q…
Inside Voices blends dark comedy and magic realism in its portrayal of three Southeast Asian Muslim women challenging the bounds of freedom, feminism and faith.
Harold Pinter’s first play, The Room, features in a triple-bill directed by Pinter’s colleague and friend, Patrick Marber.
Dan was almost shot – and it's all Rupert Murdoch's fault.
Following on from his highly-acclaimed reunion concerts in the USA with Billy Joel’s original touring band and now in its fifth, hugely-successful year, Elio Pace …
The Spirit & Sound of Steely Dan.
Apollo Theatre Company in association with Spike Milligan Productions Ltd presentsThe Goon Show featuring Lance Ellington and his BandBy Spike MilliganFrom the producers…
Two exciting double bills.Retail Therapy & The Jailer’s Daughter@ Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre PubSugar Buddy & Snow Angel of Antarctica@ Katzpace
The packed audience at The Old Market leant in expectantly towards an ordinary looking closed shipping container dominating the stage, oblivious to the surprises enclosed inside.
Following the huge success of Michael’s previous visits to The U.
Following James Hurn’s sell-out 2017 tour, he is back by popular demand with his stunning one-man, many voices, show, celebrating over 60 years of Hancock’s …
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
The Whistlebinkies’ rich blending of the tones and rhythms of fiddles, flute, concertina, clarsach, lowland pipes, Scottish smallpipes, doublebass and percussion has captivated aud…
Join Jason in conversation as he shares moments from the last four decades that he wasn’t able to tell us about on daytime television! Jason has many guises – star of stage and s…
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
After last year’s sold-out, five-star run, Exeter University’s Spotlights Show Choir are back at the Fringe with another set of musical hits! With songs ranging from classics l…
The University of St Andrews\\\' all-female a cappella group present Voices.
Consort of Voices return to the historic Canongate Kirk in what will be our tenth year of Fringe performances.
Do you remember when we used to go camping? And when you helped me make an ATM out of cardboard for my school project? Do you realise what a big impact you’ve had on who I am? Fr…
Nigel Osner takes a quizzical look at the challenges and opportunities for those no longer young.
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).
End your Fringe day with relaxing classical music by candlelight in this beautiful historic church.
Three Northerners and three Southerners residing in one nursing home.
This high-energy performance features real-life mother Lucy and her 15-year-old son Raedie.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years.Turn up early.Sellout expected.
Free (ticketed).Sellout expected.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
The story of Romeo and Juliet receives medical treatment in Cepacia from Durham School and Shadow Dreams.
Using nothing but their voices and innovative live looping techniques, genre-bending FreePlay takes you from the concert halls of Europe to the jazz clubs of Manhattan, the temples…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic Anglican Catholic church directed by Dr John Kitchen.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with renowned choir and organ directed by John Kitchen.
Dan was almost shot – and it’s all Rupert Murdoch’s fault.
Alastair celebrates Scotland’s magical fiddle tradition in the glorious Canongate Kirk acoustic.
An Almighty Night Out with PA JILL SAWARD, the voice of Almighty’s JACKIE ‘O’DJs ANDY ALMIGHTY and SEAN SIRRS will play all the big Almighty remixes and productions.
When the soldier goes to war what of those left behind? This is the question posed by InValid Voices, a new theatre piece based on interviews with women serving as and married to C…
A series of very special evening concerts which combine the wonderfully vibrant playing of the Herald Angel Award-winning Russian String Orchestra with the atmospheric and historic…
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a surprisingly silly trek through psychiatric wards, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis.
Fresh from Britain’s Got Talent 2018, Robert White brings you his unique form of musical stand-up in a laugh-packed hour.
Scotland’s own Soul Nation Rock Choir are back again with a sizzling hot show to lift you even higher and higher.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 40 young singers based in south-west London.
National Youth Choir of ScotlandChristopher Bell Conductor Andrew McTaggart Baritone Michael Bawtree Organ Vaughan Williams Five Mystical SongsTippett Five Spirituals (Child of Ou…
It's what Dan Simpson would want.
Weaving through courtyards, kirkyards and vennels, hear poems about Edinburgh past and present written by residents, tourists and those who visited only in imagination, including R…
Everyone has a party trick.
Welcome to our open-hearted open mic, where you can enjoy features from fantastic spoken word artists and different special guests daily, with a sumptuous cabaret vibe.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
A heart-warming comedy play following Rosie and Vera who are brought together through a ‘befriend the elderly’ scheme.
Voices of Bond is a spectacle like no other.
Sometimes the best education comes from the most unexpected places.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Original photographs of the people, streets and architecture of Edinburgh’s Old Town taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard.
Rock Choir is the largest contemporary choir in the UK offering the general public the chance to sing without audition or any requirement to read music.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Comedians losing their heads and performing with no bodies! This sell-out show returns with more of the best comedians from the Fringe.
The Choir of Man was the runway hit and ‘the ultimate feel-good show of 2017 Fringe’ ***** (Edinburgh Evening News).
Ever tried to order a curry with all ten members of the Wu Tang Clan? Ever thought about what it all means (love/life/lager) mid downward-dog? Ever scored the winning goal in the l…
Another great hour of stand-up from of the UK circuit’s very best (award-winning) comedians.
The spectacular two-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir returns to Edinburgh with a special concert, Songs of the Free, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of …
A new hour of stand-up.
The 1991 holiday camp talent show winner, frontman of Best Hertfordshire Band 1998 and Most Promising Student 2002 pinpoints where things went wrong.
Sixth year of the UK’s most successful ever Jewish comedy.
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
Alex Stone is a hotshot lawyer about to make partner, when an urgent call from an old friend drags her back to the town she thought she’d left behind.
Enter the Dragons is a riotous, surreal odyssey exploring the pressures facing women as they age.
The secret life of man’s best friend is pondered in BARK: The Musical.
More stories-in-song from this multi award-winning Jewish songwriter and Fringe favourite.
The first human to live to a thousand years old has allegedly already been born.
As writer and performer, Barry Cryer has worked with the great and the good of comedy, from Max Miller to Ross Noble; Kenny Everett to Frankie Howerd; Tommy Cooper to Bo…
Returning to the Fringe for the third time, this 13 strong ukulele collective began playing together 7 years ago.
After a severe case of writer's block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a child write his show for him.
Dan Attfield (Abandoman, Amusical, The RH Experience) presents his second musical comedy hour, Futureproof.
Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans.
“Hello” La Voix is the brand new show from ‘Ab Fab the Movie’ star La Voix! La Voix’s new show is a feast for the senses, with a show featuring her amazing live musicians, side-s…
In his new show Nigel Osner casts a quizzical eye over life’s challenges for those, shall we say, just that little bit older.
The first human to live to a thousand years old has allegedly already been born.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Paul Foot’s support act and Pleasance Reserve 2015 winner Malcolm Head brings his debit solo hour to the Brighton Fringe.
After a severe case of writer’s block, Owen has thrown caution to the wind and decided to let a six year old child write his show for him.
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.
Come and watch as award-winning, stand-up comedian, and much credited writer Dan Evans releases 53 minutes of his latest entertainment into the wild.
Meet Maurice and Ivy Macabre, the world’s most prolific ten-year-old killers with a penchant for finger painting and murder.
With live, original music, this highly visual, sensitive production is a humorous and touching exploration of the dragons we all face. £7 / £24 family
An amazing, three-hour, outdoor, family-friendly, old-school, Hip-Hop, Funk and Soul block party.
Folk tunes, stories and song inspired by the Scottish, Irish and English folk music traditions come alive with the immaculate fiddle and cello mastery of An Dhá.
The Cascade Coffee Shop is at the centre of a drive to help rehabilitate and reintegrate the homeless population of Brighton through the Cascade Creative Recovery organisation.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a personal trek through his mental health history, including his time in a psychiatric ward, suicide attempts, depression an…
"Make a fist with your hand and place it roughly where you think your heart should be," Cole Moreton instructs us at the start of his set, The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away…
‘Go Slay Dragons’ tells tales of love, adventure and existential despair, probably with too much swearing.
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
A family, clown, theatre show.
Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans.
A mysterious atmosphere vibrates through the small room in Manchester Street’s Latest Music bar as two women take to the stage and where flowers lie scattered beneath their feet.
Discover the magic of a show named at the last possible moment, by joining acclaimed local comic Dan Fardell in his second full length Brighton show ‘Joke Furniture Land’ (work in …
Sadler’s Wells Associate Company English National Ballet returns with a programme of works packed with the audacious attitude of American-style neo-classical ballet, featurin…
Forget cheery optimism & skinny jeans.
The Choir of Man was the runaway hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 the team behind The Magnets! and the Soweto Gospel Choir.
For an entire hour Guy Montgomery will do the unthinkable as he resists the overwhelming urge to check his phone for any possible notifications, emails or text messages.
Multi Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir brings together South Africa’s greatest singers performing songs in 8 of Sth Africa’s official languages in a repertoire that inc…
An evening of rapturous dark jazz alternative music from renown artist Jennifer DeGrassi and her band .
Join Adelaide based vocalist Dennis Russell and his band “Tunisian Nights” for an evening of the iconic swing music made famous by artists such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble.
Described as “inspired eclecticism”, FreePlay takes you from the concert halls of Europe, to the jazz clubs of Manhattan, to the temples of India, and back to their native Toro…
Steely Dan’s Grammy Award winning ‘Aja’ is one of the most outstanding jazz-rock albums of all time, influencing the musical tastes of a generation of listeners.
Our fab disco for Under 7s returns! Grab your pink leg warmers, don your ankle boots and make you hair as big as can be! It’s our retro disco for the digital generation to party …
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
She speaks! After two Emmys, a Grammy, decades of starring in television shows and touring, Kathy Griffin is launching her FIRST world tour after suddenly never being more in-deman…
Multi-platinum international music sensation and 2017 Grammy® Nominee Celtic Woman, returns with their all-new tour, Voices of Angels.
Formed in 1963 by steelworkers in Llanwern, the Eisteddfod-winning choir has since travelled both in the UK and abroad, delighting audiences with their wide repertoire of songs sun…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
What better way for Adrian Plass to celebrate 30 years as a professional writer than to bring a wonderful show to the Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jim Everett, AKA Jimmy Francis, is relatively new to comedy.
The legendary retired football manager turned alcoholic pundit from hell is back with a show to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wembley 1967.
Ivor Dembina is very funny and manages to entertain the audience for an hour by conforming to as many stereotypes of a Jew as he can.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall, Rob Beckett and Shappi Khorsandi on sold-out tours, Tom brings his hotly anticipated debut show to the fringe.
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate for the ninth successive year, presenting another varied and eclectic programme of music, this year with an emphasis on Scandinavian compo…
‘You’ll have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ (International Record Review).
A selection of favourites, old and new, from those (ouch) fifty years of performance poetry, theatre pieces and bittersweet, polemical, comical, in-character monologues by the form…
Debut stand-up hour from Ben Shannon about cats, growing up and being easily distracted.
Alastair presents his annual celebration of the Scots fiddle tradition in the Canongate Kirk’s vibrant acoustic.
Following the sell-out success of last year’s Choir on Fire, Soul Nation are ready to take it to the next level – lifting it higher and higher.
Annie is just a normal girl with normal problems.
Join us for traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic church, directed by City and University Organist Dr John Kitchen.
Join us for traditional Choral Evensong and Benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
An ear-opening recital of music for Horn and Piano – including an Elgar first – by leading Edinburgh musicians, Neil and Gill Mantle.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 40 young singers based in south-west London, with performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
They say all the best stories contain pirates or dragons.
Welcome to our open-hearted open mic, where you can enjoy features from fantastic spoken word artists and different special guests daily, with a sumptuous cabaret vibe.
Old Town – New Perspective is a collection of contemporary photographs taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard.
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
All the way from Austin, Texas, it’s The Cowgirl Mary Old West Puppet Theatre Show.
Eddie’s attic’s a mess, junk all over the place, in need of a vacuum, There’s one on his face.
The Old Men, Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair return for a 6th year, joined again by the fantastic and slightly more youthful Raymond Mearns.
Witness a spectacular display of uplifting, feel-good pop, rock and contemporary chart songs performed by national phenomenon, Rock Choir.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Meet Luke McQueen: The Boy With Tape on His Face, not Tape Face.
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows returns following his 2014 show The Ten Best Songs of All Time with a personal trek through his mental health history, including his …
Daniel Audritt (BBC Radio 4 and Channel 5) and Jamie Oliphant (ITV2’s TVOD and BBC New Comedian) bring an hour of stand-up to the Free Fringe’s most popular venue – the Free Sist…
This idiot’s back.
Debut stand-up hour from Ben Shannon about cats, growing up and being easily distracted.
Raised a devout Christian, Kevin knew sex was meant for marriage only.
Extra performance on the 21st at Laughing Horse @ Counting House with full run from 3rd to 27th (excluding Tuesdays) at Laughing Horse @ Finnegan’s Wake.
Comedians losing their heads and performing with no bodies! This sell-out show returns for a second year with more of the best comedians from the Fringe.
Andrew White’s It Was Funnier in My Head takes a look at life as a parent-dependent teenager, being only 17 himself! Covering everything from passing out in PE to the banes of elde…
There is something remarkably welcoming about being handed a free pint with a smile as you walk into a show.
The Soweto Gospel Choir was formed in 2002 and embraces the diverse music of South Africa, a country with eleven official languages and subsequent communities.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
When you’re genetically blessed with an unthreatening physique and the voice of Frank Spencer, comedy cannot go much more in your favour.
Last seen in 2013, the prodigal triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee returns ‘as inventive as ever’ (Guardian) with his eighth stand-up hour about change, pain, honour and gain.
Psychedelic trip meets TED talk.
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd genuinely feels like it’s the dawn of the apocalypse.
York’s legendary comedy club makes a welcome return to the Great Yorkshire with four laughter-packed shows featuring the cream of the UK’s comedy circuit.
There’s a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but I reckon if you gave everyone a ukulele then you could go a long way to curing all that’s troubling.
Following the Grammy Award nominated success of INALA, a Zulu ballet performed with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Sisters Grimm return with the tale of a water spirit from the Amazon Ri…
How do fathers and sons communicate? Sports? Cars? The Jeremy Kyle show? For Aidan and his dad, it was films.
A dog is man’s best friend, and is for life.
On an epic adventure to halt ageing in its tracks, writers and performers Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards swim the sea of apology, march the bridge of tears and conquer the dark de…
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 …
Old people, eh? A bunch of forgetful wasters who always have a hatchet to unbury or a cup of tea going cold.
Exhibition and public screening of digital stories created by children and young people with family members or loved ones in prison.
Indie theatre legends David Woods and Jon Haynes of ‘Ridiculusmus’ as two crustaceous elders putting off death in a snail paced farce.
One-man show from established comedian and writer, Dan Evans - “A favourite with audiences as well as with his notoriously hard-to-please comedic peers” (The Guardian).
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
Come and hear Reading Phoenix Choir in its only weekend at Brighton Fringe.
Invisible Voices of Brighton & Hove and Cascade Creative Recovery continues to focus on aspects of the housing crisis in our fair city by the sea.
Jam Tarts has enjoyed a string of successful shows in 2015 and 2016, including festival appearances and a critically-acclaimed collaboration with Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta.
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Scottish Voices, directed by Graham Hair, presents a recital for four women’s voices and piano.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk for our eighth consecutive year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
This famous traditional music ensemble has thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the USA, with their unique blend of fiddles, smallpipes, harp, flute, concertina, doub…
In loving memory of Mr Jordan, a darling husband, brother, lover, dickhead, mumbler and ghost.
One performance only. Turn up early – sell-out expected.
Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir has over 75 members aged 9-19 years.
Scunthorpe Cooperative Junior Choir has over 75 members aged 9-19 years.
‘Downton Abbey with gardening tips’ (Guardian).
A concert to celebrate the launch of the choir’s Stravinsky CD, including music by Gesualdo, Bach, Stravinsky and Gabriel Jackson.
Legendary radical performance poet Attila brings his acclaimed autobiography Arguments Yard (Cherry Red Books) to life on stage.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
As an Edinburgh based act performing in the Edinburgh Fringe there’s always going to be a certain level of expectation from the local crowd.
Ranging from the bittersweet to the rude and raunchy, Scotland’s former national poet and recent recipient of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry weaves a spellbinding and beguiling …
Delighted to turn 40, Julia is having a breakthrough, not a breakdown! Typically a time to reflect, re-assess.
Harold Pinter’s two short plays make only rare appearances nowadays and yet they are rewarding pieces.
One-man shows are no easy thing to pull off, especially when the subject matter is like something out of Wes Anderson’s daydreams, but Keenan Hurley does just that in The Man Who…
After Fringe sell-out shows in 2014 and 2015, plus releasing their debut EP This Old Guitar this year, the trio return to AMC for two shows.
Join us for traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir, organ and congregation of this historic Anglican Catholic Church.
Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom brings the Lost Head Band together for the fourth year in a row to perform her songs influenced by the songwriting traditions of the Americ…
Alastair presents a concert of music from Scotland’s proud fiddle tradition in the wonderful ambience of the Canongate Kirk.
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.
Ever wanted to sing along with a professional band and 60 world-class performers? Sing your favourite pop songs alongside the international award-winning Barnsley Youth Choir.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
For over twenty years Chechelele have been delighting audiences with songs about love, freedom, slavery and everyday life: music with stories and meaning performed with energy and …
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
Singing hits by John Legend, Coldplay, Take That, ELO and others, the international award winning Barnsley Youth Choir will take you on a musical ride through pop, classical, gospe…
Following successful sell-out shows in previous years, Jo Jingles is back for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fat Head and the Big Dog is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Ireland’s fast-rising comedians Aaron McCann and Dave Elliott.
Caught between the youthful conviction that just because you can’t see something it doesn’t mean it isn’t real and a growing realisation that “nothing’s easy to understan…
Voices of Lions is an outstanding youth male voice choir of 40 singers from south-west London.
Cirrus the dog has a serious job: he has to keep watch on the sheep.
Some Voices is a sharp, gritty and touching play that some may recognise from a 2000 film adaptation starring Daniel Craig.
Two men live in a cold and barren land.
Got the smartphone blues? Stand-up poet Dan Simpson (Glastonbury Festival, Canterbury Laureate) focuses his high-speed fuzzy logic on the screens and machines that rule over our li…
Mark Smith (Russell Howard’s Good News) returns to Edinburgh with a new show and Lord have mercy is he excited.
Welcome to our open-hearted open mic, where you can enjoy features from fantastic spoken word artists and different special guests daily, all with a sumptuous cabaret vibe.
Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair, two of Scotland’s more mature stand-up comedians return for the fifth year in a row with their successful Old Men show.
Maurice is an amazing cat.
Released from the family basement after 300 years, alleged cannibal James Douglas (1697-1715) invites you to join him and his guests for a depraved late night horror show splattere…
Bubble-lovers will rejoice in this fun, immersive spectacle lead by the energetic assistant Ms Squeaky Bottom and the Nutty Professor himself.
Racial identity, puberty, sexuality and childhood trauma may not seem like the ideal topics for a one man camp cabaret, but here in Edinburgh anything is possible.
Ubuntu, meaning compassion and humanity, is a show that speaks about unity amongst the African continent and the world.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
This show doesn’t disappoint.
Sometimes you wonder if you need the context of a previous comedian’s shows to really ‘get’ their most recent work.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Rondo comedy show Head Sets features a rotating line up daily, so you cannot be certain of what to expect.
With referendum fever sweeping the country, Haggis’s face was on every TV.
The show is a modern adaptation of the famous Arab folk story, in which Aladdin takes his wife Jasmine (her real name is too difficult for a European audience to pronounce) to Gree…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
In loving memory of Mr Jordan, a darling husband, brother, lover, dickhead, mumbler and ghost.
It’s a dangerous move to end your fringe show with a cover of Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is? as you run the risk of audiences leaving with that very question ringing in…
A family clown theatre show.
Brighton Swing Choir is a brand new community choir specialising in music from the swing era and beyond.
Myles and Dan present their debut hour of disorganised double-act sketch comedy.
The star of BBC’s ‘Dead Ringers’ and ‘The Impressions Show’, ITV’s ‘Newzoids’, ‘Coronation Street’ and ‘Bad Girls’ takes to the stage for an evening of comedy, music and impression…
The Kalverienberg choir from Vienna will sing at our 10:30am service on 8 May.
A platform for Brighton’s homeless to make their voices and stories heard during Brighton Fringe.
Winner of the Brighton Fringe Visual Arts Award 2015, Brian Mander performs as The Dark Laureate. Drowned Voices Rise; poetry by Eliot, Auden, Yeats and others.
Things turn percussive at Trinity Church this Thursday.
This excellent long-running stand-up show, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould, has found a new home at this Williamsburg distillery.
The UK’s university show choir and glee competition comes to the Arts Theatre for one night only! Warwick, Cambridge, Royal Holloway, Sussex, Swansea, Kent and Portsmouth compete; …
For one night only, the invaluable and excellent choir and orchestra at Trinity Church at Wall Street perform Bach’s “St.
(in previews; opens on Monday) Tarell Alvin McCraney, the acclaimed playwright of “The Brother/Sister Plays,” turns his attention to a mother in his adaptation of the B…
As ambitious as it is stiff and silly, Peter Mills and Cara Reichel’s new musical for Prospect Theater Company concentrates on the real-life Renaissance composer and multiple…
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
(previews start on Jan.
“I must learn to keep my mouth shut when there’s an angel in the room.
This esteemed ensemble begins the Sacred Music in a Sacred Space series with a program of works ranging from the Renaissance to the present, with selections by Tallis, William Byrd…
Glasgow-based Aurea Quartet comprises of four prize-winning graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
This annual concert has built up a wide and loyal following, with listeners surprised by the beauty of melody and power of rhythm growing from the group’s blend of Scottish smallpi…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Star of BBC3’s cult hit sitcom How Not To Live Your Life, Dan Clark, presents The Wow Wow Show! A very British take on the American late night talk show such as Letterman and Fallo…
The Dloko High School Choir from Umlazi Township, South Africa, return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, having performed sell-out shows in the Assembly Rooms in 2014, where it was…
Older women have the comedy edge because they are less inhibited and have more stories to tell.
Based in Edinburgh and founded in 1991, Consort of Voices specialise in performances of a cappella music and small-scale choral repertoires from the 15th century to the present day…
Powerful music by Haydn in the beautiful setting of St Mary’s Cathedral.
New kids on the block in Edinburgh’s bustling folk scene, Dowally make unclassifiable, thrillingly energetic music, fusing their love of traditional Scottish music with jazz harmon…
Alastair returns to the wonderful surroundings of the Canongate Kirk for his annual celebration of the Scottish fiddle tradition.
At 70, Virginia Ironside writes a regular agony column for the Independent and the OIdie, and her latest comic novel is Yes! I Can Manage Thank You! In her one-woman show she expla…
This show is reviewer proof.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
How can you review Barry Cryer? He’s a British comedy legend, practically an institution.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
This is what happens when you come up with a good pun and have to tenuously link your show back to it: Inside Simon Hofmeister’s head (here we go) are answers to many of life’s…
Free morning films for the whole family.
Ranging from pleasantly slow and soothing to fast and excitable and even angry, the sounds produced by the Chechelele World Music Choir were vibrant and vast.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
Outdoor cinema returns to the Fringe with a season of classic films in the iconic Old College Quad.
A moving multilingual anthology of the First World War, recreated by contemporary poet and playwright, Andy Cargill.
Come to hear Colin Kingsley at 90 years old playing Mozart at age 22 (Sonata in C K309) and age 31 (Rondo in A minor K511), also stylish Schubert spring-like Grieg, idyllic Chabrie…
Since forming in the early 1990s, Old Blind Dogs have stood on the cutting edge of Scotland’s folk and roots revival.
With a large cast aged between 12 and 13, Breaking Voices is an original piece that explores bullying and peer pressure at that age, especially in a school environment.
Ursula K Le Guin, noted author of A Wizard of Earthsea, is visited by an alien adopting her form.
We’ve all got to eat.
A multi-verse of awesome spoken word from stand-up poet Dan Simpson (BBC, Glastonbury).
One-man musical comedy about a young man, Barry, who works in a cafe where he gets told off by his boss but has a real crush on his daughter, the waitress, Mary.
‘Did you know that the German word gift means poison? It used to mean present – like in English – but then people started using it sarcastically.
John Lennon was not only a Beatle, but also a skilled short fiction writer, poet and doodler.
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…
Fancy watching a comedian perform their club set during the world’s largest arts festival? You’re in luck.
He’s a true-blue, straight-talking Aussie and he’s in town for some old fashioned stand-up, knock-em down comedy.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 30 young singers based in south-west London.
Children’s entertainment should be brimming with energy, lovable and over-the-top characters, and enchanting tricks.
Rod Hunter and Les Sinclair, two of Scotland’s more mature comedians, return for a fourth year with their Old Men show, for a longer run after last year’s full houses.
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
Old Town – New Perspective, is a collection of contemporary photographs taken by Ewan Barry and Audrey Pinard.
Frank Sinatra is one of those rare artists that is universally loved and respected by all.
Voices returns, pitting the festival’s best comedy performers against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
The second ever Scots Makar (national poet) Liz Lochhead has teamed up with saxophonist Steve Kettley for this nostalgic selection of her favourite poems from a 50-year career.
Tim Dingle is an extraordinarily clever man.
Last year I used the word Schadenfreude in my description, and it seemed to frighten off dumb people as I had lovely audiences.
It’s your classic love story, really: inflatable crocodile meets mannequin head, they fall for each other but soon enough cracks show and they fall apart.
John Robertson’s send up of classic text based video games succeeds in being an hilarious evening of retro fun.
In a world where debt, identity crisis and prejudice are factors towards the term ‘Broken Britain’, it is more difficult than ever for young people to succeed.
Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have inhabited the island for 12,000 years, and seen many new cultures arrive and depart over the centuries.
Whenever you’re waiting for your next train on the platform, do you imagine yourself having a connection with the person standing next to you? Do you imagine having any common gr…
It’s less than a year to go until TV screens will be fixed on the Olympics and Paralympics in Rio.
One of Matt Price’s ambitions is to be one of the nicest people in comedy, and man, he’s succeeding.
Return of last year’s brilliant hit kosher comedy show.
The everyday story of sex, drugs, being a headmaster in a red dress and doing stand-up comedy.
Like all good pieces of children’s theatre, The Last of the Dragons does not talk down to children.
Life’s weightier questions are thoroughly demolished in Dan Lees’ Brainchild, an award-winning physical comedy that veers from the profound to the ridiculous.
‘Slick, stylish and definitely cool, modern without diluting their roots and with a diverse repertoire taking in jazz, Afrobeat and gospel.
A cabaret full of birds falling in love with each other? Embrace the madness if you will, and your heart will certainly be warmed by Robert J.
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Smooth Faced Gentlemen have subverted the original performance conditions of Shakespeare’s plays, which were all-male productions, and have tackled his bloodiest tragedy, Titus A…
Only in Edinburgh could you start your morning off having breakfast while watching some theatre.
In her one-woman play, Portrait, Racheal Ofori fuses poetry, music and monologues as she gives her take on the perception of role models and cultural stereotypes with black women i…
Collegiate a cappella has become a major trend in recent years at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Great British Bake Off – what’s not to love? Cake, puns galore and HRH Mary Berry showing her soft spot for gin.
They say 50 is the new 30, if that’s true then I am only 27.
In this 50th anniversary production of David Halliwell’s comedy Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against The Eunuchs at The Southwark Playhouse, Soggy Arts invite us to visit t…
John Patrick Shanley’s early work about two young lovers with a penchant for arguing in florid prose gets a revival by the Attic Theater Company.
Host of This American Life Ira Glass sits down with comedian Judd Apatow, who has spent decades interviewing comedians about the craft of comedy.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
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.
Discover the many facets of the cello with British/French Cellist Corinne Morris accompanied by Johan De Cock.
We welcome the Sundbybergs into our voluptuous acoustic to hear them sing the most beautiful choral music of Karl Jenkins, Debussy, Rutter, Weelkes, Rachmaninov, Durufle,Bairstow, …
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
The consistently excellent St.
Africa Entsha’s performance style comes from the South African a capella gospel tradition.
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Join “winningly self-deprecating” (Chortle.
Get digging for neon-jellycakes, fight mad mosquito armies, put a clothes peg on your nose visiting Café Burp [the smelliest cafe in the world] and help row our boat across shark …
A family clown theatre show.
The Jam Tarts are a Brighton based 60-voice indie, pop and rock choir performing unusual arrangements of songs by artists such as The Smiths, Bat For Lashes, Nick Cave, P J Harvey,…
Closing Carnegie Hall’s Before Bach festival, these two superb ensembles, both led by the great John Eliot Gardiner, turn their attention to Monteverdi’s seminal 1607 o…
In Ping Chong & Company’s probing and persuasive new work of interview-based theater, five young New Yorkers — all of them children when the Sept.
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Stimmung” has a good claim to being the most brilliantly weird piece ever composed within sight of the Long Island Sound.
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
Mr. St. Germain hosts this vaguely seasonal show, with performances from Brooks Wheelan, Jared Logan, Kevin Barnett, Jacqueline Novak and the comedy duo Team Submarine.
‘John and Mark’ is a new play about a musical legend and his killer that sees prisoner Mark David Chapman visited by John Lennon, the man he shot dead years earlier.
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.
Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould present this reliable weekly show, with stand-up from Mark Normand, Rob Cantrell and Giulia Rozzi.
In “The Other Room,” one of two solo musicals that make up the 2014 edition of this Premieres series, Lena (Phoebe Strole) paints while her friend, in the end stages of…
‘It’s impossible not to be blown away by songwriting that is musically precise and emotionally expansive’ (Sunday Herald).
In the 1993 family film “Free Willy,” a boy bonds with a captive whale before helping him escape to freedom.
The Chamber Choir of Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire, presents a varied programme of sacred and secular music ranging from the English Renaissance through to the present day, incl…
‘You will have to go a long way to hear finer choral singing than this’ writes International Record Review of the Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Since forming in the early 1990s, Old Blind Dogs have stood on the cutting edge of Scotland’s folk and roots revival.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell out expected.
Through a combination of monsters, demons, and his dysfunctional relationship with his father, Stasiu tries to overcome the harsh reality of his own existence, as his narcotic-abus…
Scottish Voices presents a recital of duets by Mendelssohn and Brahms, Greek Songs by Ravel, Seiber and Skalkottos and the premiere of a new work by Graham Hair, entitled Mediterra…
Traditional choral evensong and benediction in the Catholic Anglican style with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
Heard it before? Not like this, you haven’t.
Could you tell your life story in the space of a moment - the length of a sonnet? Award-winning playwright Jose Rivera’s thoughtful investigation of what it means to be alive takes…
There is a character in Old Gristle who carries a bin bag and, within it, the liquefied remains of his dead dog.
The Dloko High School Choir from Umlazi Township, SA explode on stage with gospel, Zulu songs and dance.
The O-Kai Singers, the outstanding indigenous a cappella chorus group and the winner of 2013 CARA, along with Amis Liyar Percussion group, who represents the most significant Amis …
Finlay can engage his house in conversation.
“Are you ready for some adequate comedy?” Brett Goldstein asks whilst doing his own intro to this work-in-progress show.
Virginia Ironside writes a regular agony column for the Independent and the OIdie and her latest comic novel is No! I Don’t Need Reading Glasses! In her one-woman show she explai…
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church close to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile with renowned choir and organ.
The Consort of Voices return to Canongate Kirk in the Royal Mile for their sixth appearance at the Fringe, and present a varied choral programme of items from both sides of the Twe…
Rod Hunter, John Purves and Les Sinclair, three of Scotland’s more mature comedians, return to the Fringe for the third time with their popular Old Men show.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Cafe Voices is held in the beautiful John Knox House, where the elegant wooden panels of the large bright room provide perfect acoustics for storytelling.
The Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club, the active networking club based at the University of Edinburgh Business School, is delighted to host James McVeigh as part of our Fringe serie…
After a successful career in London as a playwright and actor, William Shakespeare has returned home to his wife in Stratford.
Voices of Lions is an outstanding male voice choir of 30 young singers based in south-west London.
Supported by the University of Edinburgh, offering a life affirming, joyous celebration of traditional and contemporary African music and dance.
DiapasonG choir from Bolzano, northern Italy performing a wide range of music.
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
Dan Nicholas (shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Award) hosts a chat show like no other, where he interviews you the audience.
A personal organizer and her client find their lives entangling in this disappointing play (1:45).
With so much improvised comedy coming to Edinburgh every year, it’s important to create a formula for a show that allows it to stand out from the crowd.
Dan Lees brings his first solo show to the Edinburgh festival in which he will seamlessly reveal the mysteries of the universe in less than an hour.
A late night lock-in with elf loving, Edgar Allen Poe and speech impediments on the agenda.
Marie was no ordinary woman … at fifteen, when her mother died, she raised her siblings, learned four different languages including Esperanto, got a degree, became a prize-winnin…
‘What an a cappella choir should be.
An hour of comedy split between an idiot and a dork.
I’ll never trust a woman who carries Imodium in her purse.
To tell the truth, I’m a little bit scared of Dr.
A powerful portrait of the artist Francis Bacon.
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…
There is no doubt that an audience of a certain age will fondly remember the two famous actors starring in You’re Never Too Old, although audiences of any age could not fail to e…
Lovable diva Sharnema Nougar and charming imbecile Leo Conville debut their unique blend of love songs, absurd comedy and vaudeville.
Liz Lochhead’s solo spoken word show at Assembly Rooms opens with songs from Joni Mitchell’s delicately moody album ‘Blue’ on the sound system; appropriate not only for her…
Ivor Dembina cut his teeth on the alternative comedy circuit with original material, so I was surprised to discover him performing a show called Old Jewish Jokes for the third y…
Dan Schreiber is a fact-obsessed Aussie who has spent parts of his life in Hong Kong and London and most of it in denial of being a complete and utter geek.
Tshwane Gospel Choir, a unique community of like-minded souls from South Africa, combine beautiful harmonies with joyful rhythms.
It’s hard to imagine an audience that won’t enjoy this show, based (exceedingly loosely, one hopes) on the boarding school experiences of WitTank’s cast of three: Mark Cooper…
Dan Jones: New Kid is a character-based stand up show in which Jones’ hopeless characters try desperately to entertain and showcase their talents.
After a hilarious pre-show announcement which tells the audience to prepare themselves for an “extravaganza”, Dan Nightingale has set the bar for himself considerably high.
Oddball alert! A guy wearing headphones sits strangely close to me and asks whether I like “communist romcoms.
A stand-up show about feeling bamboozled by the modern world.
Taken from the Imperial War Museum’s oral testimonies of the veterans of World War One, Forgotten Voices is a series of vivid and deeply moving accounts of battle and its terribl…
Dan Clark is back on form.
This weekly stand-up showcase, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera, and Charles Gould, features Wyatt Cenac, Sue Smith and Matt Ruby.
Fifty years after its founding, this choir maintains its unusually fresh sound and adventurous spirit.
The host of the excellent Williamsburg show “Big Terrific,” Mr. Silverstri celebrates his new stand-up album, “King Piglet.”
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
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…
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
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�…
A mass of pink and red strode onto the stage.
Unfortunately, the likeability of these two ladies wasn’t enough to reject the notion that they should have, to quote an age old cliché, ‘stuck to the day job.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
The Ensemble present a concert of Early Music on lute, mandolin, and three viols with their guest soprano. It also includes three new works for instruments and pre-recorded sounds.
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
The not-so-silent clown Mr Pineapple Head had children in stitches this Saturday afternoon.
A family clown theatre show.
Directed by Patricia McGregor, José Rivera’s drama uses the micro (family ghosts, turbulent love triangles) to explore the macro (Puerto Rico’s future), but the la…
After a 2/3rd sell-out at the Fringe last year, Jonathan and friends return to put their slant on original songs that speak about our psychological, political and emotional lives f…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
The internationally-renowned Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral pays homage to composer Kenneth Leighton, who died 25 years ago this August.
Four genre-blending soloists (countertenor / lutenist on liuqin and zhongruan, sitarist, erhu player, percussionist) immerse themselves with each other’s traditions to share a so…
What do you get when you cross a story of a boy who loves westerns with pop music and the Jeremy Kyle show? You get Billy With His Boots On.
Enjoy oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song in the relaxed ambience of the Storytelling Cafe.
Enjoy oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song in the relaxed ambience of the Storytelling Café.
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.
In a society where the older generation is generally ignored and marginalised by the media, Two Old Gits comes as a welcome change.
It is very difficult to appreciate a show when the performer alienates you from the rest of the audience.
Before this show, every time I walked past the nondescript sign on Nicolson Street imploring me to give the Scientologists a try, I was tempted to stop.
Virginia Ironside is witty and sparky as she discusses the triumphs, as opposed to the tribulations, of growing old.
Traditional choral evensong and benediction with the renowned choir and organ of this historic church.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
Traditional Catholic Anglican liturgy in this historic church with its renowned choir and organ.
What do you do when your husband decides to take another wife? Well, if you live in Saudi Arabia, where men are legally permitted up to four wives, there’s not much you can do.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
The affably natured Rod Hunter, John Purves and Les Sinclair bring their charming stand-up routine of one-liners galore and light observation to the Bee Hive Inn.
Alexandra Devon’s play promises an exciting musing on terrorism, questioning violence and injustice and exploring the reasoning behind them.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Everyone loves shoes.
St Augustine’s choir are delighted to present a selection of fabulous medleys enjoyed by London audiences.
The duo will perform Edward Elgar’s La Capricieuse, Sonata No.
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…
The first Prime Minister of India speaks his truth.
Back by popular demand.
Before the curtain goes up on one of the most whispered about shows at the Fringe, The Boy with Tape on His Face looks at his already delighted audience with wide eyes and what mus…
Through the darkness of a subterranean music bar, in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town, glimmers a gem of theatrical history.
No in-depth knowledge of Dungeons and Dragons lore is required to appreciate the excellent comedy this show provides.
For the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the Fringe’s epicentre, Iain Donald provides a truly remarkable performance with The Voices of Lions, a choir group of studen…
Comedy duo Dan & Dan, famous such YouTube hits as Requiem for a Wardrobe and the brilliant Daily Mail Song, have graduated to the real world of live comedy.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
One imagines that the members of the Principio Attivo Teatro are absolutely lethal at charades.
Out of His Skin supposedly tells the tale of a man who, bored with the monotony of everyday life, embarks on a journey to find his place in the world, taking ever increasing risks …
The sheep look down, the sheep look round, one sheep looks up and sees the clouds.
You’ve just received the news that the capital has been struck by a horde of flesh-eating limb draggers, with the power to infect and eradicate the human race from existence.
Stand-up legend and Red Dwarf star returns to continue The Sugababes debate plus much more.
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
‘Possessed of lightening wit!’ (BroadwayWorld.
Jokes that everyone’s heard before are always the hardest to make funny, so spare a thought for that most venerable of comedian: the ‘Jewish comic’ who has decades of comedic folkl…
Okay, so we’re going to take the Festival’s best stand-up and sketch comics and freak them out with the voice of God, who’ll get them improvising like you’ve never seen the…
‘You can tell the bits, but can never complete the picture.
2012’s Fringe hit returns, pitting the festival’s best comedians against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
Marking the 25th anniversary of Lockerbie, Lockerbie: Lost Voices tells the story of the infamous Pan Am flight 103 and seeks to provide a voice the those who now can’t speak.
When a man chooses to present an hour of unrelenting comedy wearing an orange jumpsuit and sequinned jacket, you know he doesn’t take himself too seriously.
“You can leave, if you want to,” Laura Jane Dean tells her audience – a simple statement of fact about the freedom afforded to an individual untouched by obsessive-compulsive…
Dan Nightingale wants us to like him.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
Last year, Dan Antopolski won the coveted accolade of Best Joke at the Fringe (‘hedgehogs: why can’t they just share the hedge?’) and he could easily be a contender again this …
Dinner and a show: a winning combination.
We are warned at the beginning of this show that audience interaction is imminent.
Stand-up comedy can be awkward when the audience is small.
As an avid fan of old noir movies, crooked cops, and general hard-boiled quick witted cynicism, needless to say I was looking forward to this show.
The sights, smells and sounds of eighteenth century London live on in the Gilded Balloons Debating Hall.
First of all, there were no handmade puppets.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
With her phenomenal voice and subtle and sexy ambiance, Ali McGregor knows how to make an entrance.
An inconsistent show which never quite gained momentum, Jigsaw was full of good ideas which weren’t properly realised and fell by the wayside to badly executed surrealism and poor …
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
The Dreamer Examines His Pillow is one of the earlier stage plays written by John Patrick Shanley, the playwright best known for his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning stage pla…
The Old Spice Boys make their debut on the Fringe with a fun show that will get your toes tapping to swing, jazz, reggae and blues rhythms.
This is a performance with no frills attached, it is truly a showcase of voices from around the world coming together to create beautiful music.
Imagine if David Starkey did a Fringe show.
Apologies for the length of this review.
In this supposedly fifty-minute show, the audience were met with twenty minutes of relatively weak material, often sitting through unjustifiably long stories for their mediocre pun…
Dan Nightingale has that rare and slightly unnerving attribute that induces instant familiarity.
I have always been of the opinion that Shakespeare cannot be read but must be performed.
Two very young guys share a house.
There is a reason why Potted Potter is celebrating its fifth anniversary at this year’s Fringe.
The show starts (after a song) with ‘once upon a time’ and ends with ‘happily ever after’, which is pretty indicative of the standard of writing on display.
The clinical, modern lecture theatre of the Symposium Hall, undoubtedly one of the less atmospheric fringe venues, is rather at odds with the style of this show.
I must start with two clear statements.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
The play is set entirely in the middle of the night in the caretakers storeroom of a school in the North of England.
The choir of St.
This was a very entertaining start to a Sunday from a very experienced and polished performer.
Word Power Books on West Nicholson St played host to Ciaran O’Driscoll, an Irish poet and prose writer of distinction, as part of their Edinburgh Book Fringe programme.
The stage looks like a science teachers nightmare: covered in tangles of wire, buckets and bins, the tables overflowing with mysterious bottles, flasks, gas-torches, tubes and an…
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
You could be forgiven for thinking that Jim Campbell was Mark Watson’s twin brother.
As she shuffles onto the stage assisted by a Las Vegas showgirl, Ida Barr hardly looks like Grandma-rapper billed in the programme; but Ida is the lesser-known creation of Christop…
A modern interpretation of Macbeth, with atmospheric effects, bright lights and the songs of Frank Sinatra.
British folklore is packed with some of the most iconic figures anywhere in the world.
Dave Levinsohn and Loyiso Gola are billed as South Africa’s premier comedians, and Barely Legal does not disappoint as a platform to bring both these talented men together.
Liz Bower’s versatile characterisation and talent for story telling create a perfectly bonkers yet compelling narrative to which I was engrossed from start to finish.
I’m sat in a dark room in Camden with 20-odd random strangers and Clare Clifford is showing me close-up shots of todgers.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Citymoves Productions’ ‘GOD (Grumpy Old Dancers)’ combines two contrasting personalities in a darkly comic exploration of grumpiness.
Dan Wright, with his highly controversial and misleading title, attempts to lure all the Whacko Jacko conspirators under one roof and, Guy Fawkes-like, burn them all down with a fi…
This show is exactly what it is.
Hailing from Switzerland, Tom Lauri (and his fingers) is attending to all our magic needs at the Sweet Grassmarket with his deadpan offering of comedy/cabaret magic.
A popular nursery rhyme gets a reality check: just like in real life, the story of the children of the old woman who lived in a shoe, whom she whipped black and blue, did not just …
Dan Willis wants to talk to you about the songs that he loves; about the feel-good music in his collection that takes him back to his happy memories.
As the Phantom of the Opera music played a cloaked figure appeared, sang along for a few bars before ripping off the cloak to reveal he had a Henry Hoover for a head.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Other Voices promised much — ‘comedy, politics, naughty lyrics, free sweets… And a veritable smorgasbord of poetry antics’, but the most significant terminology on its titl…
The first thing that was instantly noticeable about this ensemble was its intelligent manipulation of the acoustics of the St Mary’s Cathedral to create appropriate sounds for th…
Two film-makers, filming the lighthouse on Beachy Head for a documentary about lighthouses unwittingly come back with video footage of a mans last moments before committing suici…
A new theatre company created in 2007, Gin in the Teas first production The Space Between My Head and My Body shows promise for the future but lacks narrative drive and clarity.
At the age of four, poo is funny.
I live in Edinburgh and choose to go to this throughout the year because it is so good week after week.
Alongside an impressive collection of literature-referencing music, Robert Finn guides us through his attempt to follow Dan Brown down the literary garden path.
It may seem surprising that Dr Brown, Phil Burgers, has turned his comic taste towards a children’s show, given his panache for brazen vulgarity and extreme physical comedy, ofte…
Graham Woolnough’s lusciously bizarre backstage peek at the lives of royalty is a theatrical treat for those with any political disposition.
Meet Robert Swann, the talentless writer, director and star of what is possibly the trippiest travesty of a play ever to be seen at a Fringe.
Its a conventional play with a difference acted out on stage, with an audience seated front-on in the dark.
Kings Hall has been taken over by Summer Hall and transformed into the Canada Hub over the festival, showcasing a series of Canadian acts exploring the issues surrounding Canada’…
Greenside makes a dramatic move to The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) on George Street for 2024 Fringe.
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.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Comedy and Scotland Editor James Macfarlane sits down with magician and mentalist Colin Cloud to discuss his new Edinburgh Fringe show After Dark, adjusting to Zoom life and why he...
Unlike its sister crawl, Old Town North, Old Town South traverses more of the South Side’s bars that lie adjacent to many Fringe venues.
The third of our pub crawls, the Old Town North trail has an extensive list of both core and optional bars to choose from.
The Old Market are excited to announce that they have managed to raise £1,057 for Brighton Women’s Centre throughout their Reigning Women season.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Graeme Macrae Burnet’s literary thriller, His Bloody Project, explores a brutal triple murder in the Scottish Highlands in 1869 through a variety of different, at times conflicti...
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...
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Dan Simpson is a former Canterbury Laureate, and has performed at the Glastonbury Festival, Roundhouse Camden, and the BBC Fringe Slam.
He prefers getting up early, likes music and isn't adverse to a man in a kilt. We take Canuck Christopher Wilson on a first date (and we quite liked it).
Buddy Wakefield is a three-time world champion spoken-word artist, featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National, and signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Re...
A beautiful show incorporating theatre, live music and song.
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Following a successful run at Brighton Fringe in 2015 and two previous sold-out and critically acclaimed runs at the King's Head Theatre, 5 Guys Chillin' returns this February.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Actor William McGeough was terrified to perform a sexually explicit extract from his one-man play Mistaken to the august Edinburgh establishment that is the Scottish Arts Club.
Dan Simpson is doing six shows at the Fringe this year. Six. Did I mention he's doing SIX SHOWS?
The Nutty Professor and his Amazing Magic Bubble Show promises to amaze adults and kids alike! Broadway Baby finds out more.