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.
A closed-down puppet orphanage reopens, leaving resident squatters Ozzie Airwalker and Jim Horgletooth having to deal with new friends and challenges.
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
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…
Gimme the thrills, gimme the spills, gimme a man with a microphone in his hand and careless abandon in his heart, gimme the winner of the Comedians Choice Award for Best Show, gimm…
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
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…
Hilariously dirty comedy with no sad bits.
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their Grandma.
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.
This is a show about eyes when they are open and eyes when they are shut.
Who’s your go to? Your ride or die? Your best friend? Your mum? Not David.
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 …
Star and co-creator of the critically acclaimed, BAFTA winning and Emmy nominated Channel 4 show Catastrophe, author of two-time New York Times and Sunday Times Bestsell…
Rob Duncan has found a persona that really resonates with him.
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…
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!
Star and co-creator of the critically acclaimed, BAFTA winning and Emmy nominated Channel 4 show Catastrophe, author of two-time New York Times and Sunday Times Bestsell…
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…
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.
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…
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.
A charming, self-obsessed criminal mastermind assembles five eccentric individuals with peculiar skills to rob a world-beloved charity toy maker.
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…
Rob Duncan (from award-winning shows Legs, Logs and Jeremy Segway) presents an hour of professionally researched nonsense, featuring relatable topics including trains and babies.
The Wheel of Misfortune returns to the Fringe with new stories and new quirky tales full of funnies and frights, all presented by the Games Master.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
Lovable scamp Alex Hylton has done stand-up for a third of his life.
Gremlin Head is a stand-up comedy show about intrusive thoughts and the guilt that they cause us.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Join the best-joke-list-bothering, holey-cheese-flinging, diaphragm-jiggling comedian as he presents a hostess trolley full of stuff he finds funny.
The Rob Auton Show is unlike any other stand-up comedy show in existence.
The Doktor is back! With even more science! More laughs! More Kaboom! Spin the wheel and choose what happens next.
Wonderfully offbeat stand-up comedy from one of the UK circuit’s most distinctive and uniquely talented comedians.
Wonderfully absurd stand-up from a fool’s thinking man.
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.
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.
Fresh off a sold-out North American tour, Rob Anderson is bringing his comedy show to Europe! Taking on the role of a young scientist, Rob tries to get a better understa…
From news and sports studios, kids and cult quiz television shows to quantum mechanics, the cosmos, parallel universes and more.
From news and sports studios, kids and cult quiz television shows to quantum mechanics, the cosmos, parallel universes and more.
Gremlin is the first work-in-progress show of rising stand-up star Annabel Edmonds.
Gremlin is the first work-in-progress show of rising stand-up star Annabel Edmonds.
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.
ROB NEWMAN LIVE ON STAGE Fresh from his BBC Radio 4 series Rob Newman On Air, the award-winning comedian’s new show is a stand-up epic that goes from cave pain…
ROB NEWMAN LIVE ON STAGE Fresh from his BBC Radio 4 series Rob Newman On Air, the award-winning comedian’s new show is a stand-up epic that goes from cave pain…
‘The Crowd Show’ is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds by award-winning writer, actor and podcaster Rob Auton.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
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.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
Frighthouse presents – The Wheel of Misfortune.
An hour of professionally researched nonsense featuring the relatable topics of trains and babies.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
In this comedy romp, audiences will meet a colourful cast of characters who are certain to tickle those funny bones.
Faye Treacy’s highly anticipated new show (Musical Comedy Awards Best Newcomer, as featured on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Three).
Filmed on the go from various locations in New Zealand, stand-up comedian Rob McLennan brings you a hilarious smorgasbord of pun-heavy one-liners, quickfire jokes and sight gags th…
When Rob got on his ship, he didn’t know he would never reach his destination.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
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…
I saw a Mario-themed stag do yesterday.
When Rob was 12, they attempted a full-blown Disney parade in their house for their grandma.
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.
Selected as one of the best shows to see by Time Out and The Times.
Using his innate ability to craft songs on the spot, Rob creates a full discography for a fictional artist created by you, the audience.
Rob Rouse (Bottom, BBC’s Upstart Crow) has performed stand-up since winning So You Think You’re Funny? at Edinburgh in 1998.
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…
It’s the late night comedy gameshow that put’s the ‘dick’ in dictionary.
So much science, so little time.
The Crowd Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about crowds by award-winning writer, actor and podcaster Rob Auton.
Like binge-watching a season of MTV’s Catfish on acid, Henry Charnock’s ambitious new comedic drama ¿Rob or Rose? leaves us with the question, “what if reality .
Like binge-watching a season of MTV’s Catfish on acid, Henry Charnock’s ambitious new comedic drama ¿Rob or Rose? leaves us with the question, “what if reality .
In Earwhacks Rob Barratt takes you on a journey to the outer reaches of his brain.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
In Earwhacks Rob Barratt takes you on a journey to the outer reaches of his brain.
A coming-of-age story about falling in and out of love with yourself.
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.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
The UK’s leading musical theatre company for young people, British Youth Music Theatre has announced an all female musical all about the wild world of UK roller derby.
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.
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…
No Refunds.
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.
We’re gonna be honest.
We’re gonna be honest.
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.
Four stories.
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.
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.
£12 per 1 hour session10am-11am11.
£148 for 5 week courseTuesdays, Wednesdays and ThursdaysTuesday 12 Jan - 09 Feb and 23 Feb - 23 Mar 2021Wednesday 13 Jan - 10 Feb and 24 Feb - 24 Mar 2021Thursday …
£12 per 1 hour session10am-11am11.
Weaving together Nietzsche’s sunglasses, James Bond in Toxteth, electric spiders and singing neanderthals into a hilarious tour-de-force that offers new hopes for a changing worl…
Following on from his critically acclaimed shows about talking, hair, sleep, water, faces, the sky and the colour yellow, “the Fringe’s comedian laureate” (British Comedy Guide…
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company Presents Liz Lochhead’s 'Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off'.
The Time Show is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time.
I was young when I chose to love my city.
Spin that wheel! Join us for an evening of totally improvised musical comedy where you create the show.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Former pastor Rob Bell is the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, How To Be Here and What is the Bible?.
Last year I weighed 24 stone and was a Finalist in Old Comedian of the Year 2018.
High-energy powerhouse standup for purists featuring big laughs from a road-hardened pro.
Ready your laughing gear for a delicious dollop of Strange Jam, a unique blend of high-energy, clowning-based stand-up from, Rob Copland.
The closest I get to remembering my dreams are the ideas that occur during the thin veil between sleep and awake, where your mind wanders unimpeded and undirected.
Ten friends.
Were you to design a concept for a show that ticks all the boxes from your wildest fantasies, if any festival in the world could fulfil your wishes, it’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Tom Short travels all the way from glamorous Salford with his Wheel of Misfortune to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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.
After his 2018 Fringe debut, Worm’s Lament (The Guardian’s Top Shows of the Edinburgh Fringe), Rob Oldham is back.
Fancy a full music festival in 60 minutes? Abandoman’s got your back! Rob Broderick brings his innate ability to craft songs on the spot to the world of Coachella.
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…
June 25th 2018 - weight was 22 stone.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
A family, clown, theatre show.
Rob Madin (Jerk, Man Like Mobeen, 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown) brings a brand new show every month to 2NorthDown, featuring music, comedy, video and some very special guests.
For one night only, an evening with two indisputable titans of comedy.
Rob Auton is described as many things in addition to being a stand-up comedian – a philosopher, thinker, poet, surrealist.
Rob Auton Award winning stand-up comedian and poet Rob Auton (Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe award winner, Glastonbury’s ‘Poet In Residence’)…
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra don’t care what genre you choose to put them in – western swing, country blues, ragtime hokum or whatever else – …
Dan was almost shot – and it's all Rupert Murdoch's fault.
Rob Beckett: Work In Progress
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
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…
Journalist, musician and stand-up Marc Burrows presents a surprisingly silly trek through psychiatric wards, suicide attempts, depression and bipolar diagnosis.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Comedians losing their heads and performing with no bodies! This sell-out show returns with more of the best comedians from the Fringe.
This is a comedy/theatre/spoken word show about talking.
A new hour of stand-up.
As seen on BBC Two’s Upstart Crow.
The multi award-winning Fringe cult hit is back.
Ireland’s finest hip hop musical comedian, is back in the Cow with his biggest show yet.
Agent November is hot on the trail of international thief Rob Berry! A priceless artefact is missing from the Museum of Secrets.
Rob Oldham, Amused Moose Breakthrough Comic 2017 and tour support for John Kearns and Abandoman, considers politics, youth and death.
Rob Deering is back with his most tenacious tunes yet.
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…
Rob Oldham is going to do an hour of stand-up.
Paul Foot’s support act and Pleasance Reserve 2015 winner Malcolm Head brings his debit solo hour to the Brighton Fringe.
Bi-cultural, demi-sexual, 42 year old Londoner WLTM varied audience with GSOH to tell jokes of a politically irreverent nature.
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.
A split bill musical/absurdist stand up comedy show.
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…
Two Northerners and a Southerner, a power couple and a singleton, two ‘comedians’ and a ‘comedienne’.
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…
You know those brilliant ideas you get after last orders, and then in the morning you’re like, what was I thinking? This show must have been one of them: “Hey guys, what if we …
A family, clown, theatre show.
An hour of creative stand-up from multiple comedy-award finalist Rob Thomas.
Rob Broderick, Abandoman’s freestyling frontman, is bringing his new solo show to the Fringe.
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.
Rob Hunter (writer ‘Rosehaven’, ‘Spicks & Specks’, ‘Get Krack!n’, ‘You’re Skitting Me’, ‘Late O’clock’) presents a brand new bunch of oddball stand-up and sketches in a show guaran…
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…
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.
Cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis*.
An hour of creative stand-up from this multiple award finalist (“Very strong payoffs” Chortle).
Annie is just a normal girl with normal problems.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
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.
Come and spend an hour with us if you like! Third place in the Musical Comedy Awards 2017, Matt Hutson sings intense anthems about love, loss, friendship and the extent to which he…
Unhinged physical comedy from Rob Cawsey on dating, sex and trying to find love.
Cult classic horror movie Evil Dead 2 reinterpreted through the songs of Elvis*.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Rob Mulholland assures us that he’s a popular comedian and then launches into a tirade against the so-called middle class comedians who sell out at the Fringe.
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 …
Brink is a free stand-up show from award-winning young comic Rob Oldham.
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…
Rob Broderick is a one of a kind performer.
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…
It’s incredibly hard to place Rob Auton’s new show at the Edinburgh Fringe but then again, it’s hard to place Rob Auton.
Following the untimely death of their friend Dylan, Polly and Eve are fulfilling his final wishes by travelling around the UK with his ashes in a Wizard Of Oz lunchbox.
From behind the comic shop counter, Rob Deb will regale all you fanboys and girls about all that is Marvel from his stall.
“Ingenious and hilarious” (The Guardian).
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 …
“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.
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…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
The live music-based game show and late-night Fringe favourite from ‘brilliant musical comedian’ (Time Out) Rob Deering returns.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
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…
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Fat Head and the Big Dog is a stand-up comedy show by Northern Ireland’s fast-rising comedians Aaron McCann and Dave Elliott.
Cirrus the dog has a serious job: he has to keep watch on the sheep.
Two men live in a cold and barren land.
Every Friday and Saturday night we proudly present the Wheel of Fortune.
What is sleep to you? A distraction? A reward? A perversely sweet taste of that undiscovered country? Whatever it is, it’s a massive part of your life: around a third of your tim…
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…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Christopher is a novelist; a passionate, committed and self-confident novelist.
Rondo comedy show Head Sets features a rotating line up daily, so you cannot be certain of what to expect.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Rob Deb and Patrick Casey bring you an hour of thrill-powered stand-up comedy.
A family clown theatre show.
Rob’s life fell apart five years ago.
(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…
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…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Beckett’s back with a brand new hour of funnies and he’s taking on the big issues like Kit Kats and flatbread! Star of BBC One’s Live at the Apollo, BBC Two’s Mock the Week, Channe…
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…
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Replicate on stage the chance and excitement of daily life.
The Water Show is a show about water.
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…
Garry Roost is both writer and performer in this broad, jumbled examination of the life of the troubled artist, Francis Bacon.
Voices returns, pitting the festival’s best comedy performers against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
Tim Dingle is an extraordinarily clever man.
John Robertson’s send up of classic text based video games succeeds in being an hilarious evening of retro fun.
The everyday story of sex, drugs, being a headmaster in a red dress and doing stand-up comedy.
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…
Beckett’s back with a brand new hour of funnies and he’s taking on the big issues like Kit Kats and flatbread! Star of BBC One’s Live at the Apollo, BBC Two’s Mock the Week, Channe…
After quickly establishing himself on the circuit Rob’s cheeky chappy persona saw him winning fans starring on BBC1’s Live At The Apollo, Would I Lie To You, Channel 4’s 8 Ou…
In the UK, the hirsute bear of a man that is US comic Rob Delaney is probably better known for being the Comedy King of Twitter (and for starring alongside Sharon Horgan in Chann…
Host of This American Life Ira Glass sits down with comedian Judd Apatow, who has spent decades interviewing comedians about the craft of comedy.
Mr. Delaney became a global sensation with his never-ending stream of wry, smutty tweets; onstage, he’s a likable storyteller with an affinity for silly filth.
(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…
In a special selection, Barb Jungr launches ‘This Wheel’s On Fire!’ Extending the repertoire of her hugely acclaimed new CD, ‘Hard Rain- The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard …
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.
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…
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…
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.
Stand-up comedy from the original dork knight. Rob Deb returns as the Duke of Dorkdom as he brings comedy and jokes about a world that hates and fears him.
Mr.
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…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
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…
Life on the One Wheel experiments with everyday experience and elements of popular culture to explore the fragile simplicity of human emotion.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
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…
Are you confused by life? Do you miss Y-fronts? Did you even realise they were gone? Ever wonder what a live sex show is like, or how accountants chat girls up? Are you worried abo…
Rob Auton’s show has a mercurial quality, slipping somewhere between spoken word show, stand up comedy and theatrical piece.
Cameron knows what you’re thinking.
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.
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…
Back in June 1994, young, in love with stand up and being a Cosmic Comedy Club semi-finalist, 18-year-old Robin Deb started a voyage of comedy for the next 20 years.
A powerful portrait of the artist Francis Bacon.
The late night live music-based game show from Rob Deering – ‘brilliant musical comedian’ (Time Out) – returns.
The title and poster of this show - a photo of Rob Rouse’s face literally looking through the legs of a naked bottom - are somewhat misleading about the nature of this show.
Cutting through the audience with a sunburst Fender acoustic guitar, Rob Deering attempts to capture the spirit of Richie Havens at Woodstock, before singing a frustratingly catchy…
Located in the heart of the city centre at East Princes Street Gardens, the newest addition to Edinburgh’s Festival season provides unrivalled views of Edinburgh’s Old and New Town…
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 dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Twenty years is a long time.
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 show about the sky and the things in it (you know, clouds, birds, weather, etc.
A family clown theatre show.
Multi award winning comedian Rob Beckett has extended his national tour due to outstanding demand.
The Edinburgh Incidental Orchestra is a self-run orchestra for 14-24 year olds, but this was no school concert: the playing was of the highest level.
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.
With close to one million Twitter followers, Delaney has been named the ‘Funniest person on Twitter’ by Comedy Central and is one of America’s most exciting US stand-ups.
Allow this exciting sketch troupe to take you for a spin through a random roulette of manic sketches, including celeb comedians, a singing prime minister and an outrageous chat sho…
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
The two nations represented in this one-off concert were China and Scotland, with Dong Yi and Eddie McGuire as representatives.
This concert was part of the first in a series of 30 at the Royal Overseas League that showcase the talents of musicians supported by the ROSL.
It is barely a week since I reviewed Cathedral Festival Evensongs at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place but these two services are listed separately in the Fringe Programme …
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.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
This is a tough script that has been competently delivered by a young student cast.
Everyone loves shoes.
Like Rob Auton, I’m Yorkshire born and bred so I speak as I find.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
The sheep look down, the sheep look round, one sheep looks up and sees the clouds.
You remember The Canterbury Tales dont you? A group of pilgrims meet in a Southwark tavern, all on pilgrimage to Canterbury, and agree to pass the time by telling each other stor…
Rob Deb, ‘the Lenny Bruce of sci-fi’ (Skinny), returns retooled and rebooted.
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.
Twenty-two years of taking medication for an illness he never actually had culminated in Rob being admitted to a psychiatric hospital convinced he was Jesus Christ.
‘Possessed of lightening wit!’ (BroadwayWorld.
This is not the first time Doctor Who has been put on trial.
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…
2012’s Fringe hit returns, pitting the festival’s best comedians against a disembodied Voice who will interrogate and inspire, creating spontaneous comedy mayhem.
Much of Rob Carter’s chat centres on being awkward and posh.
When an audience member throws up on stage five minutes into this particular evening of Rob Deering’s Never Mind The Buzzcocks-esque quiz show, it’s difficult to consider how t…
A public-school Ed Byrne in appearance with the patter of a middle-aged Jack Whitehall, Mark Dolan’s You’re Awesome is a gentle, beguiling hour.
“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…
To devotees of Test Match Special, the voice of Henry Blofeld – deep, resonant, quite improbably plummy – is iconic.
Rob Deering and his funky electric guitar are joined onstage by James Acaster, Mark Smith, Ben Norris and Carly Smallman.
Halfway through this likeable but ill-conceived show, Gráinne Maguire recounts an anecdote of her short-lived stint as a primary school teacher.
The Phill Jupitus Experiment.
As I walked into the Scottish Storytelling Centre I was greeted by a delightfully impish man in a wizard’s robe assigning fairy names to all the children (and adults if you want)…
At some stage in the rehearsal process for this misguided venture, some bright spark decided to site a desk lamp on stage.
There is an enormous amount to like about Inglorious Stereo.
I have reviewed a number of services in ordinary churches and I am comfortable reviewing them as performances while not covering the worship aspects that are between God and the wo…
Written, directed and performed by Edinburgh University students, Wild Allegations centres on Matthew John Curtis, adored actor to his fans, liar, cheat and fraud to his brother an…
Heres the pitch and dont run away: a Victorian-themed Shooting Stars with two insane Victorian aristocrats in the roles of Vic and Bob.
Tom (Howard Thompson) and Lucy (Amy Newman) live a Desperate Housewives kind of life.
The sights, smells and sounds of eighteenth century London live on in the Gilded Balloons Debating Hall.
According to Anna and Katy there are two things a comedy double act need: chemistry and jokes.
An hour can be a long time.
A man lies passed out in his bed, surrounded by discarded cigarette packets and empty bottles.
This venue has just one entry in the Fringe Festival programme and this covers 11 different events.
Close-up magic is a tricky act to sell.
Lucy Porter is a darling of the Fringe.
In great deeds, something abides.
This concert was held in the Royal Overseas League with the performers having won awards from that organisation.
Fringe favourite Andrew Maxwell returns to Edinburgh with a show that touches on everything from Barack Obama to the difficulties of sexual self-gratification as a young father.
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.
This show was one of a series of concerts held on Saturdays at 5pm: an early cocktail hour and a time suitable for a quick sharpener before the rigours of the evening.
Described by its creator Mark Brailsford as the Fringe like it used to be, News Brunch is the latest show in the News Revue tradition.
Yesterday I watched a man in a yellow coat talking about his favourite colour for an hour.
Say what you will about ventriloquists, theres no denying their talent.
Fancy a Threesome, the vehicle for three different and complementary stand-ups, is a peculiarly apposite name.
Waiting for Lefty begins in medias res.
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…
Behind The Truth is an endearing but frustrating show.
Holly Burns new show is a rip-roaring hour of delicious madness.
The boys and girl comprising The Leeds Tealights performers, and of course their behind-the-scenes team, have created a comedy sketch show that can be hailed as a storming success …
David Tennant and Robert Peston walk into a bar.
Im pretty sure that if you decoded the earliest cave paintings they would be about the differences between men and women.
ArtC Venues5/5Jaw-droppingly, edge of your seat incredible.
I have always been of the opinion that Shakespeare cannot be read but must be performed.
Jason Robert Browns American song-cycle is a Fringe favourite with student companies.
The most controversial musical of all time returns to its spiritual home in a production that is so vastly superior to the professional one that it is staggering.
Cricket, as we know, can be an all-consuming passion.
This isnt, Helen Arney tells us at the outset, a high-energy show.
This was the first of a series of 6 evening concerts They are free, though a retiring collection is requested.
Another year, another series of words that shouldnt be followed by the musical: The Musical.
Two very young guys share a house.
Zoe Lyons is an excellent comedienne.
Congratulations to the Exeter University Theatre Company for this production which allows the emotion to bubble just under the surface without allowing it to erupt into cliché.
Even in Edinburgh, the M25 is at a standstill.
From bizarre eccentricity to deadpan mundanity, character comedy comes in many guises.
A full run through of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas is definitely on the very fringe of the International Festival.
A Parisian café concert in an imposing cathedral, the largest ecclesiastical building in Scotland no less, is an interesting idea and one that, by and large, works.
Ava Vidal was first on my list for this years Fringe.
Its all too easy and all too dangerous to dismiss the Free Fringe.
Warm, sunny afternoons in Edinburgh are rare and precious.
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.
It is much to Miles Jupps credit that, at no stage in this terrific show, does he venture a pun on the Wankhede Stadium.
This concert caught me by surprise.
I must start with two clear statements.
Death by jazz and neurotic nurses: two of several comedic gems featuring in this years offering from Durhams funny bunch.
It is impossible not to warm to The Aspidistras.
Tucked away in the bowels of the Underbelly in an unfairly small room is the rarest of finds: an actual Fringe comedian.
James Christopher’s tactic of combining the show titles of award-winning comedians seems a strange choice.
Chihuahuas always look terrified.
This was a very entertaining start to a Sunday from a very experienced and polished performer.
Improvisational comedy shows are always a tricky thing to review.
Some partnerships are thrown together at the whim of agents and producers; others seem to fit like Siamese twins of the comedic arts.
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.
Phil Cornwell is a frighteningly talented man.
The National Theatre of Scotland has one of the most recognisable names at the Fringe.
D H Lawrence’s Women in Love is a thick tome that has been produced as a number of films and serials, most recently on the BBC in the spring.
This concert had a programme of instantly recognisable pieces that will no doubt be in the CD or LP collections of most of those present.
The fantastically immersive theatre of Belt Up has once again managed to captivate the minds of their audiences, with a new adaptation of Sophocless Antigone, reworked into m…
The downside of performing in a multi-show venue must surely be that you may have very little time to set up a show beforehand — often little more than 10 minutes — while alway…
When Martin’s best friend is murdered by a shadowy assassin, he discovers he’s at the heart of a 400-year-old conspiracy involving the RSC, Shakespeare’s most nefarious villain and…
Heres a trade secret for you, readers at home: reviewing comedy is the hardest part of this job.
Spotlights swirl as Bond tunes blast from the speakers, a gun-toting silhouette hung from the ceiling as a backdrop.
Full disclosure: I was dreading this show.
Imagine being sat in a stand-up comedy show where the comedian in question makes one faintly amusing joke.
Like a lot of comedians these days, Rob Beckett is quick to self-deprecate.
St Mark’s is an excellent space for chamber music, and I suspect, many other types of music.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
This was my third church service of the day after a morning visit to St Mark’s Unitarian Church and Choral Evensong at Old St Paul’s.
How to avoid a parking ticket: knowledge that doubtlessly appeals to the countless car-owners Fringe-wide who have been plastered by the yellow tickets of bureaucracy.
This one-off concert, part of a series from St Andrew’s and St George’s West, was held in the Royal Overseas League in a room cooled to such an extent that the air conditioning…
Oleanna is David Mamets unflinching and controversial portrayal of power relations as viewed through the prism of a potentially fraudulent allegation of sexual harassment.
Rob Rouse, winner of ‘So you think you’re funny?’ in 1998, returns to Edinburgh with his new show ‘My family.
Twisting one leg around the other in a show of girlish innocence, Pascoes stage presence is that of the coquettish schoolgirl, rambling aimlessly whilst making puppy dog eyes at …
Bud Take The Wheel is the new play from Clara Brennan.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
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…
More and more churches are using Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival as a window for their work.
Jack Whitehall is a man on top of his game.
Overheard at C Soco: Id like to see Your Mum but only if theres room.
Where do you begin with A Clockwork Orange? Is it with Burgess 1962 novella? Or Kubricks 1971 film, whose style and invention is forever omnipresent? Or Burgess resulting sta…
The cast of this show come from Bablake School, Coventry.
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.
So, another year another thousand student companies bringing I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change to the Fringe.
I live in Edinburgh and choose to go to this throughout the year because it is so good week after week.
Rob Deering presents an exponentially better performance than the few silly guitar songs he delivered when I last saw him take to the stage.
Sospiro Baroque are an Edinburgh-based choir specialising in Baroque music.
Shakespeares classic tale of two warring households in fair Verona comes to the Finchley artsdepot on its national tour.
Three strong performances stand out in this production by Palindrome Theatre from Austin, Texas.
In a little Russian town, cut off from the rest of the world, a rumour is brewing.
This was the first of a series of lunchtime concerts from the recently renamed Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
In this remarkable one-woman show, Karin de le Penha plays Emily, the author of this autobiographical piece.
This is an incredibly difficult review to write because to give away anything about the show will ruin it for you.
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.
Editor-in-Chief, Richard Beck, interviews Noah McCreadie, director of Getaway/Runaway.
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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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.
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.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story was the first show to win a coveted Broadway Baby Bobby Award this Fringe.