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.
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
Social media sensation Christopher Hall tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
SCOTTISH PREMIERE The boundaries between reality and myth crumble in Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young’s imaginative new dance work.
One performance only. Turn up early, sell-out expected.
Hear our innovative piano orchestra perform finger-gymnastics music for three pianists playing one piano together.
Five dancers, five guys, 40° in the studio.
The music of Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass is both beautifully simple and yet complex to convey.
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this award-winning, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
Joe and his wife want to have a baby.
Boiler Room Six tells the impossible true survival story of Titanic stoker Frederick Barrett.
Join us on these guided tours of the musical treasures on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh’s Musical Instr…
A tale of comedy, Covid, cancer and some complete and utter c*nts! Four years ago Simon went through a break up and decided to try comedy.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
Back in it’s fourth year.
We all know the fairy tales and their immortal final line: happily ever after… But that isn’t real life.
After a complete sell-out run in 2023, the Scottish comedian and viral sensation who has 50+million views online is back with a brand-new show or even a brand-new Joe.
100 years of television in one hour.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
Social media sensation Christopher tells of his life, as a ‘boy who’s a bit girly really’.
‘American labour icon!? Ridiculous.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Here he is! Yorkshire’s biggest bastard.
Hugely anticipated hour of stand up from the Scottish viral sensation who's amassed over 45 million views online.
An exploration of the power boat-racer, war hero and one of 20th century’s boldest queer figure.
TONY winner and Grammy Nominee Lena Hall is set to bring her latest one woman show “Little Career of Horrors,” to London’s Cadogan Hall.
As seen on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle, Hypothetical and a number of apps on your phone.
Finlay and Joe are tired.
Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed memoirs, Nailing It, Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, knife-edge observations, thrilling mu…
Fresh on the heels of his critically acclaimed memoirs, Nailing It, Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, knife-edge observations, thrilling mu…
Playwright Tim Coakley has created an interesting twist on Luigi Pirandello’s groundbreaking play, Six Characters in Search of an Author, with his latest work, Six Characters in …
After crushing it opening for Russell Howard’s SOLD-OUT UK Tour, Steve Hall and Steve Williams are in town with a double dose of fantastic stand up.
After crushing it opening for Russell Howard’s SOLD-OUT UK Tour, Steve Hall and Steve Williams are in town with a double dose of fantastic stand up.
Join Chris on his (un)wellness journey of discovery (of procrastination methods), personal development (of his anxious thoughts) and self-help(lessness), as he wades sar…
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
This year, ‘the most renowned sketch troupe of them all’ (Independent) will again be embarking on an exceptional world tour, performing to over 20,000 across two continents.
Join Chris on his (un)wellness journey of discovery (of procrastination methods), personal development (of his anxious thoughts) and self-help(lessness), as he wades sarcastically …
Based in Tenerife, Frankie Mack is a born showman who performs the swing and Rat-Pack genre, such as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé and Robbie Williams.
Andy is one of Scotland’s top swing vocalists offering a big band sound production with professional sound and light.
All new and all Jew.
Taj has worked with a diverse range of musical styles, as a guitarist improviser he has worked with John Hiseman and Dominic Miller.
An exploration of Dorothy Parker’s life through her writing, including poems and monologues set to music with Joanne Grant, Alison Bishop and Stuart Hope.
Residents of Bristleburg, USA: Meet at the bus to begin our exploratory Fringe Festival tour.
From afternoon wonderings to late night existential blackholes, Be Right Back will show you that there’s six degrees of separation between everything - including what you search fo…
Wolfgang David, Austrian violinist, will perform all six Sonatas and Partitas of JS Bach in three programmes, twice each: BWV 1001 & 1002, BWV 1003 & 1004 and BWV 1005 & 1006.
From afternoon wonderings to late night existential blackholes, Be Right Back will show you that there’s six degrees of separation between everything - including what you search fo…
Rise up against your neurotypical overlords! ‘One of my favourite comics’ (Frankie Boyle).
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for this multi award-nominated, epic session of bopping, bonkers, beautiful fun.
The poignant tale of a writer and musician, Jon Lawrence, who walked 500km over five deserts on five continents to grieve for his father and raise money for a cancer charity.
Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children’s show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual …
Will Hall: Mild Peril – Rising star Will Hall (seen on BBC Three and Channel 4) brings 45 minutes of his ‘electrically witty’ (BroadwayBaby.
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
Join Chris on his (un)wellness journey of discovery (of procrastination methods), personal development (of his anxious thoughts) and self-help(lessness), as he wades sarcastically …
A compilation show featuring three of the best comedians hand-picked from the Fringe pack, create a show that is flush with fantastic acts.
Fresh from a TV appearance two years ago, Joe Sutherland returns with a brand-new PR strategy.
Hugely anticipated debut hour from the Scottish viral sensation who’s amassed over 30 million views online.
Mark Watson is a stalwart at the Edinburgh Fringe with his casual style and observationist humour and anecdotes that lead us down convoluted paths of thinking.
Winner of Best Comedy Weekly Award four years in a row at Fringe World, and Perth Critics Choice award, Joe was also selected as one of the top six comedy shows to watch with Ameri…
Fresh from Off-Broadway, the sold-out, smash-hit comedy finally comes to Edinburgh.
Finlay and Joe are tired.
National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture.
There is just something so wholesome about Priya Hall’s Grandmother’s Daughter.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on" When the sorcerer Prospero conjures up a storm to shipwreck his enemies, he sets the scene for an enchanting tale of spells, mon…
If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www.
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe festival for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in th…
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.
Joe Orton’s Last Laugh is a fresh take on the fraught relationship between the celebrated writer Joe Orton and his aggrieved partner Kenneth Halliwell.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
A work in progress show from Joe Wells.
Fascinating Aida’s Liza Pulman teams up with acclaimed musician and singer, Joe Stilgoe, in a vibrant and entertaining potpourri of classic songs and wit, highlighting Joe…
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Stand up comedian and rap singer Joe Jacobs returns to Brighton Fringe to flog his wares once again.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
The first opera in the double bill is The Six of Calais, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play, which premiered in 1934 and featured Greer Garson.
Filthy, fun and downright delicious.
TV’s Priya Hall brings you her new WIP all about her 2021 breakdown. Expect cats, breakdowns and BIG REALISATIONS.
Finlay and Joe are proud to show you the Perpetual Hype Machine, a formidable high-tech device they have precision-engineered to generate the perfect sketch comedy show with every …
Literally what it says on the tin: ‘Six Plays One Day’ offers a wide variety in a short space of time.
Even a prince needs a woman’s first gift.
A world comedic debut, one-woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
Joe Smith is a regular bloke.
Nick had a bit of breakdown in 2021, but now he’s coming back strong! Hilarious and inventive stand-up, as seen and heard on BBC2, BBC3, and BBC Radio 4.
Nick had a bit of breakdown in 2021, but now he’s coming back strong! Hilarious and inventive stand-up, as seen and heard on BBC2, BBC3, and BBC Radio 4.
This show brings the comedian who played one of Father Ted’s most loved characters Father Damien Lennon (Father Damo) to the stage with stand-up and musical comedy, interspersed …
After my last Fringe appearance (August, 2016), I had to step away from Edinburgh and consider how to be less devastatingly funny.
Liz Lochhead’s slick modern take on a sadly relevant ancient tale is brought to life with intelligent staging and a ferociously powerful central performance from Adura Onashile.
Enjoy some adult comedy entertainment with Shogun Joe and The Vagabonds as they complete their 2022 summer touring schedule at the Edinburgh Fringe.
One performance only. Arrive early, sell-out expected.
They’re back! Philip Contini and his six-piece Be Happy Band in tuxedos live on stage – all-new Rat Pack Show.
Taking inspiration from the Korean shamanic rituals known as Gut, WeMu reimagines the traditional in a concert combining Western and Korean instruments, creating modern music based…
Chortle Student Comedy Award winner Joe Kent-Walters and runner-up Sam Williams join forces to bring you an absolute home run of a comedy show, covering two bases: stand-up and cha…
Joe is not a “person with comedy”; he’s a comedian.
Why toddle when you can dance? Join DJ Monski Mouse and her dancers for an epic session of bonkers, bopping, beautiful fun.
At the beginning of 2020 Joe Bates (BBC Radio 4Extra, Chorts 2021 finalist) started taking anti-depressants to check if things in the world were as bleak as they seemed or whether …
A shiny new flat.
High energy, observational stand-up with ‘fast-fire expert jokiness’ (BathEcho.
Multi award-winning Pete Storm and Pete Sinclair bring to life the Rat Pack era of The Sands Hotel with their tribute to Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.
Join us on these free guided tours of the musical treasures on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home to the University of Edinburgh’s Musical …
If you were conceived to fix your parent’s marriage, obsess over whether people like you, and have visited your dad in prison, then this show is for you! Left to raise himself by…
Watch in amazement as Finlay and Joe shovel comedy coal into the furnace of their patented content generation device: the Perpetual Hype Machine.
One of the (many) great things about Fringe is that new comics, who don’t yet have an hour’s worth of material, can buddy up to put on a show — Chris Hall and Mark Bittleston…
Al Lubel talks about his name for fifty-six minutes and about something else for four minutes.
A world debut one woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
A world debut one woman show written by and starring Anaïs Gralpois.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Joe is not a ‘person with comedy’, he’s a comedian.
Simon Hall brings his manic energy and style to Brighton Fringe in his new show Simon Hall is Completely Fine.
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
A singer-songwriter who absolutely writes from the soul.
They were the definition of cool during their Fifties and Sixties Vegas heyday – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
Comedy Award Finalist Jane Postlethwaite & Comedian Joe McCarty join forces to bring you a hilarious yet dark look into the human condition to explore what it really means to be a …
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! What’s Hot! is a brand new variety show to fill the void that Pick of the Fringe has left behind! Unsure what you want to see at Brighton Fringe Festival this y…
Join Drag Race UK Season 2 and cabaret legend Joe Black, as he returns to Brighton Fringe for an evening of musical mischief, vaudevillian villainy and cabaret chaos in the decaden…
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
Where does a man go to get some peace? Sick of people, stand-up Joe Foster found it on the roof of his flat, high above the city.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
The international, multi-award-winning smash hit musical SIX is making a royal return.
Arland Town.
Celebrating the musical numbers of the finest villains, evil doers, baddies and the downright despicable.
The Grand High Supreme Mega-Witch Extraordinaire is dying.
A stony silence filled the air at the end of act one of Joe & Ken at The Old Red Lion Theatre, Islington, the old stomping ground of the eponymous couple who lived just down th…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
“Miss Polly had a dolly and its head popped off” On a rainy afternoon, at a fly tip in the woods, an eclectic group of teenagers are catapulted head first into the unknown te…
They were the definition of cool during their Fifties and Sixties Vegas heyday – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
Joe Thomas is a 37 year old, weary, cheeky young anxious, old upstart who once played Simon in inbetweeners and then played Simon in some other shows and now plays no-one.
Arland Town.
Arland Town.
With caller Ken Gourlay and ceilidh band.
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.
Celebrate the return to live entertainment with an exciting evening of variety hosted by radio personality Mark McKenzie in the home of the Army.
Join two of Scotland’s finest comedians for an hour of energetic stand-up with unique observations and hilarious stories.
Celebrate the return to live entertainment with an exciting evening of variety hosted by radio personality Mark McKenzie in the home of the Army.
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.
With only six degrees of separation, we are all connected.
Joe Stilgoe is an internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and songwriter.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
Will Hall (as seen on BBC Three and Channel 4) and Sharlin Jahan (BBC Asian Network) present a brand new work in progress split bill.
Will Hall (as seen on BBC Three and Channel 4) and Sharlin Jahan (as heard on Union Jack Radio) present a brand new work in progress split bill.
William Blake said that everything is an attempt to be human.
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.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
The show that brings the history of the club to life using the songs from the terraces is back to celebrate the lifting of number six in Madrid.
They were the definition of cool during their Fifties and Sixties Vegas heyday – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
They were the definition of cool during their Fifties and Sixties Vegas heyday – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
Westcliff High School for Boys’s troupe of players from all year groups brings the late 19th century tradition of Music Hall back to life with some wonderful old songs, glorious …
Booking opens from Friday 18th September at 8am Please note: that this venue will offer available seats based on social distancing.
In 1880, Debussy was piano teacher and accompanist to the children of Nadezhda von Meck, a wealthy patroness.
Join Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter and Joey for the last great showbiz party.
Smokey Joe’s Cafe celebrates many of the greatest hits of the golden age of rock’n’roll in America.
With caller/dance teacher Ken Gourlay, ceilidh band and piper.
With only six degrees of separation, we are all connected.
Johann Sebastian Bach’s music has influenced so much of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s choreography.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
Threedumb Theatre returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre for another whole day of one-act plays, showcasing a wide variety of new writing.
The story of love through music and poetry.
The story of love through music and poetry.
Hits & Misses with his Electric Band The “Empty Pockets” After touring for the last year in the USA with his band the Empty Pockets, Al has decided to bring this s…
Playwright Peter Nichols died only last month at the age of 92.
Sit back and enjoy an hour of some of the most beautiful 19th-century German lieder.
They were the definition of cool during their fifties and sixties Vegas heyday – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Three of Scotland’s leading contemporary jazz groups each play a 40-minute set in one stunning concert with world-class musical guests from India and Shetland.
Alec Frank-Gemmill directs Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and the Serenade No 1 by Brahms in its original version for nonet.
In this amazing hour of comedy, Joe will distill what he’s learned about the history of everything and the future of everything, and what it all means.
Transfigured is a sounding together of all things, a diapason, a cacophony of understanding.
Join our curators, conservator and volunteers on special highlight tours of St Cecilia’s Hall, Scotland’s oldest concert hall and home of the University of Edinburgh’s world renown…
A mix of hits from the Great American Songbook that will have your fingers clicking and toes tapping all afternoon. See website for further details: www.mcsorleysbar.com/events/
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh 2018 (Comedy.
The news is too horrible to joke about, so Joe’s looking for a new shtick.
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world; come find out why.
A true story of friendship told with an eclectic blend of folk, flamenco and contemporary dance.
With caller Ken Gourlay, ceilidh band and piper.
Join Captain Jake’s Crew as he takes you on a journey to the high seas in this historic adventure.
Chasing dreams, planting seeds and mining for gold in this work-in-progress show from ‘one of very few comics who manages to do something new with the art form while keeping an aud…
Joe Jacobs is back like he left his car keys.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned town planner Walter Bor) and his grandad’s best friend (world-renowned comedy…
As seen on BBC Three and Channel 4.
‘Brilliant blend of sharp wit, optimism and perfectly dark humour’ ***** (EdFestMag.
The award-winning co-creators of smash-hit Fringe comedies Vampire Hospital Waiting Room and Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy, top…
Four of the best jokers from the Fringe pack, perform the finest material from their club sets, which have been honed in comedy clubs across the UK.
The best comedy and cabaret at the Fringe! Six sell-out years.
Join two of Scotland’s fastest rising comics for a fun hour of stand-up comedy.
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.
Ray Fordyce is back to host an early evening feast of comedy, music and entertainment from all over the world.
Joe Rooney (Father Ted’s Father Damo) returns to the Fringe with an evening of stand-up and music.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
With sold-out shows on London’s West End and the Sydney Opera House, Australia’s newest and hottest sensation; The Tap Pack are high energy entertainment inspired by Frank, Dean an…
Somewhat new to the interactive theatre scene, and a little suspicious of what I would find, Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders was an unexpected delight.
Top Ten Best Reviewed Shows, Edinburgh Fringe 2018 (comedy.
In a time where the country has never been more divided, Stan Wallace has complete conviction in his belief that both Remainers and Leavers need to fuck off, and he’s here to vent …
Steen Raskopoulos and Carlo Ritchie are multi-award-winning improvisers.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
An interesting addition to the Fringe schedule, The Hunters of Ghost Hall's paranormal premise, pitch-black stage and eerie soundtrack seems to lend itself more to a Halloween …
Joe used to do political comedy but recently the news has become so horrible that he can’t bear to do it any more.
Infamous cabaret misfit and drag miscreant Joe Black invites you to indulge in a gloriously raucous gin soaked musical cabaret extravaganza.
Lambert Jackson Productions are proud to present a new series of intimate concerts called ‘Sunday Favourites at The Other Palace’.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
The award-winning co-creators of smash hit fringe comedies ‘Vampire Hospital Waiting Room’ and ‘Apocalypse Cruise Ship Love Affair’ bring their debut split hour of stand-up comedy …
The Jerry Hall Show' is a bizarre narrative comedy, based loosely on the life of celebrity Jerry Hall.
Rich Hall’s critically acclaimed new show begins its second leg of touring.
Award-winning comedian Joe Bor retells the story of the friendship between his grandad (world-renowned architect Walter Bor) and his grandad's best friend (also wor…
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
A close-up look at how bipolar disorder affects a couple’s relationship.
After delighting audiences at last years Kids Comedy Club event at Piece Hall, ComedySportz return to the Spiegeltent this Christmas for more all action, all improvised comedy fun!…
TV and recording star Joe Longthorne returns to Leicester Square Theatre in 2018 as part of his 50th Anniversary Tour.
Hawkwind, the originators and innovators of space rock, have confirmed a special, one-off performance at the iconic London Palladium for November 2018.
The Jacksons are a nice middle aged English couple.
Authentic Indian & Slightly Racist Deported into the West with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
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…
Britain’s most popular magicians and amateur bounty hunters, Joe and Ryan, perform an hour of classical music and salsa dance, with Claire Sweeney on banjo.
David Alacey, Des Coleman and Paul Drakeley star as Frank, Sammy and Dean in the original Rat Pack show, now celebrating its 21st record-breaking year.
The original show, performed for the first time in 10 years.Turn up early.Sellout expected.
Free (ticketed).Sellout expected.
The Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, Live at the Apollo star, the Lidl Enya, the broken Bublé… DAVID O’DOHERTY headlines.
The Bear Pack is Sydney’s Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated Steen Raskopoulos (Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia, BBC’s Top Coppers) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout) accompanie…
Fringe hit! A different daily bill of global stand-up comedy stars.
No man is an island.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
The Monster in the Hall by David Greig follows a day in the life of Duck Macatarsney as she cares for her dope-smoking biker father who suffers from multiple sclerosis.
With caller Ken Gourlay, a ceilidh band and piper.
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
Why toddle when you can dance!? Sell-out shows around the world, come find out why DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with under fives and their parents/carers.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Forty-five minutes of free (or £5 guaranteed entry) stand-up from a comedian who’s fresh out of the Cambridge Footlights and hoping this isn’t all a terrible mistake.
Joe Foster (Winner of South Coast Comedian of the year 2015) presents his eagerly anticipated debut stand-up show.
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.
A pop song musical about the six wives of Henry the Eighth is not, at first glance, something you’d think would necessarily work.
Expect sharp suits and smooth vocals as Frank, Sammy and Dean hit the stage with their live band.
Coat? Check.
Masculinity – isn’t it, like, over? Or are there new ways to model manliness? Growing up Joe felt less like a boy, more like a Spice Girl.
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
Toxic is a collection of laugh-out-loud stories from Joe Sutherland’s life in Coventry, London and (briefly) a town in France which, when pieced together, create an intimately ho…
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
Join us on a journey of music and dance telling the story of York's community Tang Hall.
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.
The Welsh singing legend, who is known for hits such as Delilah and What New Pussycat is.
Broadway Actor and Streamy Award Winner Todrick Hall announces his new world tour Todrick Hall American: The Forbidden Tour.
A one-woman show which looks at the complex line between actress and character.
Jerry Hall bursts her way into Brighton Fringe, in this riot of a cabaret developed at Soho Theatre.
With successes in Edinburgh, Beijing, Berlin and London, this high-energy, tap comedy show gives a modern twist to the classic Rat Pack.
Traditional, Victorian ‘Old Time Music Hall’ All the songs you love to sing and the jokes you love to hear.
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.
Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy, the Pirates of the Caribbean series) stars as a cop who moonlights as a killer-for-hire in the multi-award-winning…
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.
Rich Hall’s critically acclaimed new show begins its second leg of touring.
Mental health is a topic often uncomfortable or awkward to address directly, especially when tackling very personal experiences.
Joe Wells returns with his unique brand of acerbic political humour about how we all grow increasingly right wing as we age.
Let’s get the review part over and done with; this was going to be a five star review from the moment I saw the title Joe Black - Touch of Evil: A Celebration of Villainy in Song…
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…
Why toddle when you can dance? Join our resident dj-mumma, Monski Mouse and her Dancers for an hour of bopping family fun.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in the friendliest of discos.
Growing up in the deepest darkest parts of India and then being thrown into the west with no language, culture, personality, looks, or even a clue.
Eagerly anticipated debut show from the South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015.
Inspired by the kings of swing: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr, The Tap Pack are bringing a new, exhilarating energy to a timeless style.
Legends Band,fronted by perennial popular Adelaide vocalist,presenter and comedian,Paul Reading, present a tribute concert to three of their favourite artists, Rod Stewart,Van the …
Winner: Barry Award Melbourne International Comedy Festival Everyone’s favourite sardonic straight shooter, Rich Hall, returns! After a sell-out Fringe season in 2016 the crank…
Why toddle when you can dance?! Selling out shows around the world, come find out why Adelaide’s own, DJ Monski Mouse is a hit with the under fives and their parents/carers.
Award Winning Adam Hall & the Velvet Playboys bring the dance Party! Bring your dancing shoes! 6 piece band with full horn section featuring the music of Prince, Bruno Mars, Marvin…
Having “hiccuped” his way to fame in 2015 with the Australian National Anthem at a baseball game, 9 year old Ethan Hall will perform a solo event to showcase his singing abilities …
Come join the pack.
The Old Married Couple may be married but they’re certainly not old.
Tribute show The Rat Pack - Live From Las Vegas lights up the West End at Theatre Royal Haymarket, transporting audiences back in time to a fictional night at the Sands Hotel hoste…
From Tudor queens to pop princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII sing their way out of the history books and into the spotlight.
In the early 1960s the Rat Pack quintet (then including Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop) performed in the Sands Casino in Las Vegas.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Impromptu Shakespeare create an entirely new and unique ‘Shakespeare’ play on the spot, inspired by audience suggestion.
I have been to Paradise and this is what I saw.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Jim and Eve are happy, career and love life all figured out.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Join host Joe Lycett (as seen on TV giving Lorraine Kelly a quiche lorraine) and a bunch of special guest comedy friends (to be announced because I didn’t have a chance to book t…
Moisés Kaufman, recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Obama, speaks about creating new work for the theatre.
The Bear Pack is Sydney’s Steen Raskopoulos (Whose Line Is It Anyway – Australia, BBC’s Top Coppers) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout, Big Head Mode).
In terms of comic legends, and certainly in terms of comic writing, the name of Barry Cryer is right up there.
The best stand-ups and storytellers on the Fringe come together as The Rat Pack celebrates five sell-out years with a different line-up every day, plus occasional live music and ca…
The Polis are Scotland’s number one Police tribute act.
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.
Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year 2016, Top Joe, has invented a new word.
Received opinion says that we become more right-wing as we get older.
Spencer Percival has one claim to fame.
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…
Eric, ‘intriguing and amusing’ (Chortle.
Why toddle when you can dance?! It’s time to get heads, shoulders, knees and toes bopping along to lashings of swing, pop, rock, latin and more! Selling out shows around the world,…
Whip out some dancing shoes and get ready to whirl around a dance floor at the fantastic event that is Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall brought to the Fringe by Edinburgh Ceilidhs.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Jess and Joe want to tell us their story.
Cambridge University Musical society hits Edinburgh to redefine the stories of Henry VIII’s six wives through a contemporary pop girl-band SiX.
In Ripe, Jacobs takes us through the stages of a banana corresponding to the stages of life; through stand-up and rap.
If the illustrious names that have performed as part of The Rat Pack Presents is a guide, then it is worth heading along to the Cabaret Voltaire during this year’s festival.
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…
London.
See Frank, Sammy and Dean’s world-famous recordings brought to life on stage in this sophisticated evening of razor-sharp wit and silky smooth swing.
Immersive Joe’s NYC Bar returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with two shows a day at Assembly Underground.
New interactive video game show from Joe Hart (SYTYF? Finalist and Tickled Pig Winner)! Nerd out, level up and just maybe live to respawn another day.
Originally opened in 1763, St Cecilia’s Hall is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland.
pencer Percival has one claim to fame.
Following her success of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Penelope brings her unique combination of stand-up, character comedy and songs in this nationwide tour of ‘I was a penis.
Religion, rap, Pogs, sexism, Gaviscon, mental illness, success, commitment and coffee coasters.
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 …
A double bill from: Joe Hart (SYTYF finalist, Tickled Pig winner, as seen on BBC Trending) and Liam Webber (Best New Act nominee, Midlands Comedy Awards).
In this lushly hilarious show, noir superstar Joe Black conjures up the atmosphere of the Eldorado; the Berlin nightclub that served as a regular haunt for gay men and women before…
“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.
In 1812 Spencer Percival became the first, and only, British Prime Minister ever to be assassinated.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under-5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
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…
Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever comedy series, this 2 hour interactive production is set in a restaurant where you the audience are the diners.
With the London production now spanning over 25,000 performances, it is clear that Agatha Christie’s play—set in the secluded, snow-bound Monkswell Manor Guest House where a …
Rapture Theatre Company’s production of Michael Frayn’s Democracy is a far cry from their rendition of the Bay City Rollers musical, Shang-a-Lang which they performed i…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Final special performances of this critically acclaimed 2015 sell-out show following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Drunk History.
Unexpected item in bagging area… Over-worked, under-appreciated, threatened with unemployment, a tin of baked beans that refuses to scan pushes the beleaguered shop assistants of…
The Bear Pack is Steen Raskopoulos (BBC’s Top Coppers, Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee) and Carlo Ritchie (The Checkout).
Famous as Father Damo from Father Ted.
With stand-up, character comedy and a sprinkling of original songs, BBC Radio 4 TV critic Penelope (BBC’s Goodnight Sweetheart and Fist of Fun and BBC Radio 2’s Sony nominated King…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Freaky Family are back! Aki Remally, Jamie Graham and Allan Ferguson head this groundbreaking band traversing funk, jazz, hip hop beats and groove sensibility.
Madeline and Joe want to have a baby.
A vaguely outrageous, psychedelic three-piece hip-hop folk funk outfit, hand-crafting screwball anthems deep in the Scottish Highlands.
Frantic, fun and frivolous, this fast-paced one-man show is an entertaining comic thriller of Cold War intrigue and Scrabble.
World champion slam poet Harry Baker returns to the Fringe, accompanied by his talented friend Chris Read on guitar for a spoken word/acoustic fusion set.
Duncan MacMillan and Jonny Donahoe’s Every Brilliant Thing (which first came to the Fringe in 2014) has the largest cast you’ve ever seen for a one man show.
Lower Swell is having its summer festival! Come and be a part of the village as character comedian Dave Lemkin brings to life all the guest speakers: Colin Jackson, a self-employed…
Interactive theatre is a tricky beast.
‘My job as a comedian’, Tommy Tiernan clarifies at the beginning of his set, ‘is to undermine reality’.
I grew up on a hippy commune thinking my dad was a Spanish sailor called Manuel Sanchez Gomez, but I smelt a rat.
Why toddle when you can dance? Get glam and get dancing at this international hit, retro-fabulous vintage disco for under-5s (babies under 6 months can go free).
With caller Ken Gourlay, ceilidh bands Flaming Heather, HLI, Scott Leslie, Willie Fraser and piper.
Towards the beginning of Image - Selfie with Eggs, gymnast Natalie Reckert describes herself as a ‘handstand machine’ and calmly guides us through the component ‘stability points’ …
Given the popularity of the monarchy these days, one forgets about some of the more unsavoury types who’ve reigned (however briefly) in the last century.
The Six-Sided Man is a tense and funny drama, based on Luke Rhinehart’s cult novel The Dice Man, which has toured the world for the last 30 years.
US writer, actor and stand-up Joe DeRosa makes his highly anticipated UK debut.
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…
My Eyes Went Dark takes us down into the abyss of overwhelming grief and denies us any chink of light.
Daffodils is an unusual show of two halves.
Pete Otway takes the opportunity in his first Edinburgh solo show to get audiences up to speed with what’s been happening in his life up to now.
There are two ways to reach the small room where UK-based American character comedian Will Franken is performing.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
From the team behind Edinburgh Fringe hit and West End sell-out show The Rat Pack Stand-up Comedy, a series of distinct and inspiring performances from top comedians – a brand ne…
Based on the six degrees of separation concept, all actors are said to be linked to Kevin Bacon in less than six steps.
Just one glance at this year’s stuffed-to-bursting wedge of a programme is enough to see that there are bewildering array of performance disciplines represented at this year’s …
Liberated from sketch group WitTank, English-Turkish comedian and Naz Osmanoglu (a self-monikered ‘posh twat’) airs his own dirty linen in a no-holds-barred solo show around th…
With the ascendance of circus being one of the great success stories of the Fringe in the past few years, there is no shortage of breathtaking physical feats taking place all over …
“Orthodox”, according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, is an adjective that suggests “following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or belie…
Triple Threat is a gloriously transgressive flurry of punky, feminist mayhem.
Russian Company Derevo’s Once takes place early in the morning by Fringe standards and many of the audience members at the George Square Theatre might have been wondering whether…
The proper teaching of sex education remains a rather thorny topic, and this one-woman comedy-drama with songs positions itself to probe some of the more profound issues of this fi…
Joe Hart (SYTYF? 3rd Place 2014, Tickled Pig Winner 2014) has a brand new show all about the digital world.
Power yourself up with a cult Edinburgh favourite.
‘It’s a bit weird when I talk to you, eh?’ says Tim Carlsen’s Moko, the vulnerable and homeless protagonist of this curious one-man-show from New Zealand.
Life has given Australian performance artist Bron Batten what she calls ‘theatrical lemons’.
If a panto and a Sarah Kane play had an unimaginably grotesque love-child it would look a lot like this.
When he wasn’t writing the books that have captivated children for fifty years, Roald Dahl wrote a collection of gleefully macabre short stories for adults, published in various …
Sell-out hit returns! Singer, pianist and entertainer Joe Stilgoe pays tribute to much-loved movies.
If you only see two shows this festival, see this one.
See Frank, Sammy and Dean’s world-famous recordings brought to life on stage in this sophisticated evening of razor-sharp wit and silky smooth swing.
Australian musical trio Doug Anthony All-Stars were the anarchic kings of the alternative comedy scene in the late 80s and early 90s, achieving considerable success with such sleep…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Nick Hall’s one-man cold war thriller is an active piece, darting through London, Amsterdam, and under the Iron Curtain to the heart of the Soviet Union, all in the pursuit of a …
Character comedian Nick Hall brings a one-man Cold War thriller to Brighton.
An insight into the weird worlds of three up-and-coming local comics, with three very distinct voices: Joe Foster, Graeme Collard and Dave Fensome.
Brighton’s very own Joe Foster (Winner of Foster’s South Coast Comedian of the Year 2015) presents his debut full length stand-up show.
Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of the Hitchcock film of the John Buchan novel is certainly an impressive feat of theatre.
The atmospheric Spiegeltent was bursting at the seams as the three tenors took the stage and the audience with their sunny, easy-going manner.
Alan Felton and Tim Roycroft will give an insight into Skiffle, a form of entertainment influenced by American and British folk and jazz music that encouraged do-it-yourself music …
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Terry Pack’s Trees is an unfeasibly large ensemble, of up to 40 local musicians, which performs exciting, groove-based, new and original jazz.
The week’s most illustrious guest here is the German baritone Matthias Goerne, a powerfully dramatic Lied interpreter, who on Wednesday presents a recital of songs by Schuman…
A magnificent week at 57th and Seventh begins with *Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax giving a rare performance of all five Beethoven cello sonatas in the Stern Auditorium (Friday at 8 p.
Theodora Skipitares’s puppet-filled multimedia investigation of family, creativity and home takes its main inspiration from Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in …
Griffin Newman and Joe Garden return with another holiday-themed show, this one to celebrate “this most sacred Irish holiday.
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.
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…
An opening act for the universally beloved Brian Regan, Mr. Zimmerman is an endearing young absurdist with a clever approach to observational stand-up.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Back by popular demand, Songs on Film – The Sequel sees pianist, singer, songwriter and film nerd Joe Stilgoe pay tribute to 100 years of music that aided and abetted the legenda…
In 2009, a crack vocal quartet was put on a diet for a crime they didn’t commit.
Mr. Horner and Mr. Zimmerman, both up-and-coming favorites in the city, each present a half-hour of their best material.
What does Tomorrow mean to playwrights across the globe? This year the Traverse has commissioned six leading playwrights from China, Egypt, Ukraine, Canada, Turkey and Scotland to …
Ian Hall and Bruce Edhouse (both former Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival award winners) present a daft but affectionate tribute to some of the great comedy double acts of our time.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Edinburgh 2013/14 sell-out hit and Time Out Critics’ Choice 2014 returns for a limited run.
A river of drink runs through Scotland’s history – plague, murder, temperance and social reform are drenched in six iconic drinks (swallies, as the locals say).
Noted US violist Christine Rutledge returns to Edinburgh to perform her new transcription of Bach’s six cello suites.
Edinburgh 2013/14 sell-out hit and Time Out Critics’ Choice 2014 returns for a limited run.
Anything is possible.
Straight from London’s comedy and cabaret circuit: Harry Scott-Moncrieff, Faye Treacy, Steve Mclean and Oh Standfast return following their hit run of 2014 (Daily Mirror, Pick of t…
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…
Who knew that a Dusty Springfield favourite could provide such an effective description of man’s descent into unspeakable evil? Ewan Downie and Jonathan Peck from Company of Wolv…
Back from their unsuccessful world tour, the singing dictators of dark cabaret have come to Edinburgh.
There could not be a more accurate term for these six raucous acrobats than a wild wolf pack.
A belated denouement to his lauded 2005 work The Factory, award-winning performer Al Seed returns to the subject of war with striking psychological rigour.
No matter who you are, where you come from or if you’ve danced The Gay Gordon before, the Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall will inject a traditional Scottish night into your Fringe exper…
Working within the rather large shadow of the National Theatre’s verbatim triumph London Road, new Leeds-based company 203 Theatre have hopped on this particular niche musical ba…
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer Floe-Joe invites you to indulge in his wacky world of sketc…
It has been four years since Steve Hall last appeared at the Fringe.
One of the fastest rising young comedians from across the pond, Michael Che is back in Edinburgh for a third year running with his new show Six Stars.
Noun (Doh-dek-uh-hee-drun).
Fight Back at 50 is the ultimate antidote to the mid-life crisis.
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…
Hijinks and flying kicks abound in this piece of non-verbal physical comedy from the Hong Kong-based Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio, last unleashed on an unsuspecting Fringe in 2012.
The self-proclaimed absolute lad returns, following appearances on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and a wine tour of the French Riviera.
Fifty minutes of the classic Rat Pack numbers with a full swing orchestra, bringing a little bit of that onstage banter that the trio are known for, and adding in the two Burelli s…
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.
Apples are the most important fruit in the world: think the Garden of Eden, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers! Join Joe Hart (So You Think You’re Funny? finalist 20…
“Shakespeare’s R&J” is an exciting and refreshing new adaptation of Shakespeare’s original love story.
(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…
Armed with just his bedroom-made beats and a very literal multiple personality disorder, Iowa’s dopiest music producer, Floe-Joe, invites you to indulge in his wacky world of ske…
The Victorian Music Hall, vulgar, jingoistic, patriotic, slightly naughty to downright rude, with a mix of songs still sung and loved today.
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.
Built in 1766 as a glamourous Georgian Ballroom in the Old Steine, it was the place to be seen for Brighton’s fashionable crowd! The building later became the Chapel to the Royal P…
Peak into this perfect postcard of a play, following the McLeavy family deep in mourning.
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…
An entertaining and uplifting hour of stunning vocals, luscious harmonies and witty banter from the UK’s premier classical-crossover vocal trio.
The hip-hop improv troupe North Coast celebrates six years of freestyle comedy with a special show. Guests include Rob Cantrell and the spectacular beatboxer Kaila Mullady.
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…
Brighton Fringe’s number one free family event will entertain both you and your little ones.
Why toddle when you can dance! Parents and under 5s are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
Joe Foster and Mike Cox team up again for another JAM Comedy! After a successful run in Edinburgh ‘13 and a short run in Camden ‘14, JAM Comedy returns offering the ultimate combin…
Apples are the most important fruit in the world; from the dawn of man, the discovery of gravity, the advent of computers and the medieval crusades.
All five original members of the influential Canadian sketch troupe reunite for a night of live sketch comedy.
Typical of the genre-crazed Vampire Cowboys, this post-apocalyptic entertainment, written by Qui Nguyen and directed by Robert Ross Parker, mingles westerns, samurai stories, blaxp…
Jean-Luc Lagarce’s beautiful, incantatory play is about a company of three performers who cling to art and shredded dignity as they hoof from stage to ever more pathetic stag…
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.
Dan Licata, Joe Pera and Charles Gould present this reliable weekly show, with stand-up from Mark Normand, Rob Cantrell and Giulia Rozzi.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Flat Pack is a coming-of-age story.
Hungry Wolf presents an energetic and enthusiastic offering for children at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Really Broadway Baby? You want me to review a one-off stand up show in which the venue description literally reads “On Top of Arthur’s Seat” (Venue 354)? Really? I got into c…
You feel a certain apprehension going into a Miranda Sings live show.
The California Musical Theatre Ensemble’s abridged version of A Chorus Line feels like a high school production.
Joseph is wiling away his days in a tea shop looking for inspiration.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Alzheimer’s is a disease close to the hearts of many people, as it affects so many of such a wide variety of ages, cultures and societies.
Described by TS Elliott as ‘the greatest Scots poet since Burns’, Joe Corrie was a Fife miner who influenced and inspired thousands through his plays and poems.
Join the gang as they sweep you down to the grand old days of London, packed full of extreme patriotism and purpose, The Music Hall Menagerie promises singing, dancing, comic caper…
The big issue with Bristol Improv’s horror-comedy offering is sadly a brutal one: the show simply wasn’t funny enough.
Airbourne Theatre Leeds’ original piece is a live-action cartoon, bursting with energy, colour, and child-like enthusiasm.
Musical comedy meets character comedy in the debut solo show from stand up and improviser, Jacky Wood.
Nick Hall: Helmet is a splice of easy going, bittersweet stand-up from a man in his early thirties re-evaluating his life.
Harry Scott-Moncrieff, Faye Treacy, Steve Mclean and Oh Standfast mix comedy and cabaret to deliver much more than just another show.
Sunshine on Leith really is a daft musical.
Madonna is the queen of pop.
With caller Ken Gourlay and ceilidh bands Flaming Heather, HLI, Scott Leslie, Willie Fraser and piper.
Watching Sister Amnesia’s Country and Western Nunsense Jamboree brought me right back to a long-forgotten primary school experience.
Ben Fairey brings you the grooviest, new one-man line-up.
Sometimes we’re too afraid of looking like an eejit to fully embrace life: whether it’s not standing up for something you believe in, or being too shy to ask out the handsome…
With some beat poetry, some interpretative dance and their patented Joy testing machine, comic actors Becky Brunning and Katharine Marwick claim that they can pull an audience out …
Ray Gunn and Luke Reel were expecting to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but a misunderstanding about the eligibility criteria means that they’re going to have to f…
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! Parents and under fives are let loose on the dance floor in this friendliest of discos.
I think it’s fair to say that there are issues with your sketch show when the funniest thing that happens is that a man fingers a swiss roll.
Three Shot Mockery is a fine way to spend an hour of precious festival time.
Joe Stilgoe and his excellent band create a wonderful atmosphere with their musical stylings, charming personalities, and atmospheric lighting.
Welcome to Jill’s cookery show! Well, technically it’s a pilot, but let’s be honest, it’s going to be a sure-fire hit.
Eclectic music cabaret in the Mysterious theatre bar, with veteran Fringe chanteuse Miss Woodstock Taylor, her band and a changing line-up of talented international and local guest…
Intelligent motherluvin’ comedy.
A new stand-up show from Jewish Comedian of the Year, and the TV warm up for The Graham Norton Show and Mock The Week. As seen on Dave.
It’s the question on everyone’s lips.
The Rat Pack Stand Up Comedy features swing hits and a changing line up of comedians from the Fringe catalogue.
The Fringe is absolutely saturated with wonderful improvised comedy.
Chris is on the precipice of an existential crisis.
2013’s sell-out hit returns with top comedians on stage for the whole show, freewheeling stand-up and live Rat Pack music.
The Jest feels TV-ready and in more ways than one.
The seemingly unwavering appeal of swing music has made the Rat Pack Live an irresistible draw to Fringe audiences year after year and this packed house proves that this year is no…
Deliciously silly, startlingly original and completely incomprehensible Mat Ewins’ new stand up show is a comic tour de force.
It is amazing what a coffee and a croissant can do to a bleary-eyed audience.
Tensions are building north of the border.
The Rules of Engagement, Tony Jameson’s latest Fringe hour, has the feel of bumping into a charming acquaintance that you haven’t seen in a while on the street.
This weekly stand-up showcase, hosted by Dan Licata, Joe Pera, and Charles Gould, features Wyatt Cenac, Sue Smith and Matt Ruby.
The up-and-coming favorites Sam Morril and Joe Machi host this weekly stand-up show, with performances from Josh Gondelman, Nick Vatterott, Anthony DeVito and Seaton Smith.
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…
‘The Jurassic Joe Dinosaur Show’ is fun, interactive, educational, relevant, accessible and also great for mumosaurus and daddydactyl too.
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.
The Heath Quartet feature Roxanna Panufnik’s setting of Private Joe Wood’s letters from the Front, sung by his great-nephew Royal Opera House baritone Nigel Cliffe.
Comedian Joe Munrow takes you on a well-structured meander through his stupid brain.
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.
A new chamber opera for a cast of 5 singers accompanied by clarinet and piano and given in the form of a ‘costumed recital’.
Why toddle when you can dance, dance, dance! DJ Monski Mouse and her team bring high energy smiling in a fabulous retro music and dance event for parents and children under 5.
I love a bit of late night showbiz.
THE TIGHT SIX COMEDY SHOWCASE (Edinburgh Preview) The Buffalo Bar, Islington, N1 1RU April 27th 8pm - 10.
A solid night of stand-up is sure to be had at this showcase, with sets from Mr. Hanley, Mr. DiStefano, Mr. List, Dave Smith, Maddog Mattern and Paul Virzi.
‘Above the Stag’ (ATS) is one of the most distinctive and necessary production houses in London.
Doncaster Dome: 5th Apr 7pm.
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.
Ragweed, a ‘scuzzy rock trio’ from Brighton, appreciate the importance of being immersed in live music.
Magic Number Six documents the friendship between actor Patrick McGoohan and TV producer Lew Grade throughout the making of TV series The Prisoner.
I don’t think I’ve felt as privileged to be in a performer’s company at a Fringe show as I felt when watching Keith Jarrett.
Bobby Bulloch takes us through his journey to parenthood in a one man show set in a living room written by Elizabeth R Davidson.
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.
I just want to first make sure that we’re on level ground here: I think Barnardo’s is super.
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.
It’s the old romcom cliché: boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, girl marries into the suffocating institution to which boy belongs, girl divorces boy.
It’s a well-worn formula: Man-child isn’t ready to completely give himself over to his relationships, ensnared as he is in a mentality of self-interest and a fear of commitment…
Roddy Hart and his band, the Lonesome Fire, appear on the stage dressed as dapper as anything.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Rachel Sermanni comes onto the stage and blithely announces that she has made a new instrument – out of spoons that she bought in a charity shop.
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
Doogie Paul may not be the most familiar name in music, but amongst those who know him, both directly and indirectly, he is spoken of with a great deal of admiration.
Dean Friedman is a personable guy.
A series of vignettes dedicated to ‘modern-day café culture and the problems that come with it’ doesn’t scream mirth, so I think the success of Kaffa! pays hearty testament …
Phildel’s story is poignant and it is one to which she subtly but frankly alludes with explanations as to how each song came to be written.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
The nature of the Spoken Word Showcase is such that each night is an entirely different affair, as Fay Roberts proudly announces at the beginning of the show.
It always seems like a good idea to take a chance on the Free Fringe, to discover your new favourite comedian before they start charging a fortune for their tickets.
Of all the ukulele workshops I’ve ever been to, this was by far the best, and let me tell you, I’ve uked a fair bit in my time.
Matt Panesh is Monkey Poet: A poet who runs out of poems after half an hour.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Welcome to the Calorie Galaxy, in which Tina Sederholm’s protagonist Evie struggles under a regime of browbeating and humiliation, all in the pursuit of a narrow waist.
Four Walls playfully follows the story of Sara, a girl who wakes up to her slippers farting, her mirror talking back to her and her kettle boiling at the brim.
S/He is Nancy Joe is more than just an exuberant dance performance.
With caller Ken Gourlay and ceilidh bands Flaming Heather, HLI, Scott Leslie, Willie Fraser and piper.
John Wills, guitarist of Pumajaw, the musical pairing behind Song Noir, entered the room and crossed the stage, barely acknowledging the audience as he picked up his electric guita…
In a spoken word account – I would assume non-fictional, though this is never made clear – Laurel Lockhart tells us of her time in New York as she tries to hit it big in the gr…
Uninitiated to the world of sweaty, foot-stamping organised dance most of us would rather watch Scottish Highland music than participate in it.
To give these enthusiastic students credit, it is not easy to pull off a pantomime.
I forget where comic duo Damn Danes are from, but their comedy is in any case a welcome presence at this year’s Fringe.
Hirsch is a well written and brilliantly performed biographical account of the turbulent life of Hungarian director John Hirsch from the perspective of an actor, Alon Nashman, who …
Sketch comedy group Graham present an hour long show based around a boy trapped in an underground bunker, following an apocalyptic badger invasion.
At times contemporary dance and physical theatre is dismissed by new audiences as pretentious, shut off, or incomprehensible; Tangram is the opposite.
The Rat Pack did far more than sing.
Rich Hall becomes immeasurably funnier if you try not to laugh at him.
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.
To spend one’s afternoon in the company of Raymond Considine is a relaxed and amusing affair.
Traverse Theatre is the central hub of Scottish new writing.
Mike attended six weddings in eight months and applies what he’s learnt from an expensive and emotional year to his own hopes and fears of settling down.
Pressing the right pedal records, pressing the left pedal replays.
The absurdist mantle is an invaluable crutch for this play.
We see a lot of Rich Hall on panel shows these days: QI, Have I Got News For You?, Eight out of Ten Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
The onstage rapport of the three actors of Panto-Monium is nothing to be sniffed at.
Join Rich and his virtuoso musical mates, Ronnie Golden, Rob Childs, Nick Pynn, Antonio Forccionne (‘nuff said) for a mashup of music, comedy and gratuitous coloration.
I’m going to start simply: Liam Mullone is funny – much more so than his association with Russell Howard’s Good News would suggest.
Each day at 7am artist vickiweitz will set off to run 26.
Joe Munrow takes you on a hilarious ramble as the stand-up details his quest to find, from the observational to the surreal, his true comedy voice.
Ellie Taylor’s bold and vibrant style of stand up comedy makes her a pleasure to watch.
I’ve got a lot of time for people who don’t perform at the Fringe for any reason other than to exhibit a hobby.
McEwan Hall is one of the vastest spaces at the Fringe.
The name Ontroerend Goed packs a punch.
Try it at least thrice and you’re bound to get a laugh: so goes the philosophy of sketch duo Toby – consisting of siblings Sarah and Lizzy Daykin – and Nathan Dean Williams.
Despite the many celebrations for Drum Struck that have been quoted on its posters, I went in ready to be critical: I’m not impressed so easily, thought I.
Thünderbards present a two man sketch show that leaves the audience in stitches.
After two years dominating the Fringe with critically acclaimed Translunar Paradise, Theatre Ad Infinitum are back with a brand new show.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel, charting the dual-natured existence of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, is well-trodden turf, having seen adaptations aplenty on television, radio, film and…
‘Fame is a mask that eats into the face’.
2012 Foster’s Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee Joe Lycett is back in Edinburgh with his latest stand-up show If You Lycett Then You Should’ve Put A Ring On It.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
At a time when high-profile comedy seems frequently to constitute pointing out things that people do, Richard Herring’s satirical wit and eye for originality – not to mention h…
I’ve little doubt that I’d have a lot of fun with a pony who knows one-trick but it’s safe to say that it would eventually get tiresome.
The Six Wives of Henry VIII promises us ‘silly songs and historical hysteria’ and that’s exactly what Howard Coggins and Stu McLoughlin set out to do.
The Man in the Moone, by the clearly passionate Rhum and Clay Theatre company, tells the story of Man’s fascination with the moon and his struggle to reach it.
Throw on your suit, kick off your shoes and do not be afraid to sing along.
Lead Pencil deliver a wacky, ‘90s themed sketch show, with nostalgic throwbacks and two dimensional, completely hand drawn set and props.
The Rat Pack was a group of actors and musicians who performed on stage and in films in the early-1960s.
“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…
Breaking the Silence follows the story of a Jewish grandmother, mother and daughter.
Joe Fairbrother has talent in abundance.
One complaint reserved by many locals is that the Festival attracts a lot of sorts born with silver spoons in their mouths, or, as Joe Bor’s climber creation puts it, the sort wh…
It’s an old cliché that there is nothing more boring than listening to someone talking about their dreams.
Joe Bor stands out by sheer force of personality.
Jazz is a study of madness, perhaps.
An am-dram production in a church hall, this show comes from another world entirely to even the worst of fringe shows: a world where a serviceable witch’s hat can be made from a …
At the age of 18, Allegra Levy is already a considerably more compelling performer than handfuls of Parky regulars.
Songs For a New World is a perennially popular Fringe favourite, a revue of cabaret numbers by Jason Robert Brown loosely themed around the American experience.
I fell in love with somebody completely by accident, just by sitting beside them, is a great way to introduce a song.
The duo of Ian Millar on tenor and soprano saxes and Dominic Spencer on (electric) piano play a standards-based set at the Radisson Hotel every lunchtime (though, 12:30 is breakfas…
Based on Conrad’s novel, The Secret Agent, transplanting its protagonist to modern-day Soho, attaching the story to a real alleged bomb plot on the London Eye, incorporating so…
A terrible crime sends Leila and Lee running into the Scottish highlands.
In 1999, Anna Bagenholm became trapped under ice after a skiing accident.
Joe Wilkinson comments wryly that the convention is for a stand-up’s debut show to focus on what’s happened in their life so far, but unfortunately nothing interesting has ever hap…
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Ford and Akram are versatile and genuinely likable performers with an excellent character dynamic; Akram is confident and arrogant, walking all over the intelligent but overwhelmin…
Parents Evening promises an hour of character-based sketch comedy in a school setting, which is already an idea devoid of originality, but is handled particularly poorly.
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…
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Steve Hall, part of the sketch comedy show We are Klang, is an appealing comic.
Written, directed and performed by Gari Jones, Wretch is clearly a deeply personal project.
Just as ones heart sinks when sent to review Shakespeare done by students or kids, when I was told that this young company were attempting their own version of the West End hit I…
Imagine Richard and Judy.
The Six O’Clock News was a varied and eclectic mix of political satire, stand-up, and some serious, thought-provoking talks.
The Tony Award winning musical revue Smokey Joe’s comes to the Fringe care of Tempo Productions, a native Amateur company with a long history of presenting musicals.
Dream Pill is a tale of modern slavery.
Stuart Goldsmith can win an audience over in seconds.
Six Ways is one of those small musicals that sends you out into the Edinburgh rain with a big heart.
Very soon after Joe Sutherland took to the stage, it was clear we were in good company: here was someone personable and inclusive, rude and funny with a penchant for great one-line…
Joe Lycett can be found in the Pleasance Hut, a small and intimate venue.
This was the grand opening of a new show which will happen regularly through this years Fringe, hosted by Joe Simmons at Symposium Hall.
Rich Hall is familiar to most of us mainly through his work as a comedian on TV, particularly on panel shows.
Now I’ll be the first to admit, sometimes seeing a beautiful person performing on stage can lift your overall enjoyment of a show.
Terry Alderton is a surrealist stand-up.
William (Josef Salvat) is about to perform for the first time in his one-man show and finds himself looking back at his life.
Between Ten and Six is a dark comedy that draws a fine line between humour and disturbing scenes.
Dim, dingy lighting barely illuminates this musty Edinburgh bar, its vague seafaring theme embodied by scale wooden models of old sailing boats, naval pencil sketches suspended fro…
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.
Kieran and Joe may have gone from a trio to a duo since their last trip to the Fringe but fans can rest easy: the loss of a man doesn’t mean a loss of laughs.
Bluebird is the story of Jimmy, a London taxi driver the various people – ‘fares’ – he meets.
Jonny & Joe are couple of young lads with an inventive and interesting series of sketches.
The set is nothing more than a small section of floor and two chairs.
Fat Joe’s Chicken Shack is a play about a football advertising company in London and its impact on the developing world.
Here was the biggest audience yet.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
This show is exactly what it is.
‘I’ll keep you alive.
Opening the show with some very impressive and fast-paced wordplay, Matt Rudge sets the bar high and despite occasional lulls in energy, manages to be consistently funny throughout…
Matt Forde is a chatty, friendly man who quickly gets an audience on board.
I am not the first and certainly won’t be the last reviewer to write about Six Women Standing Against A White Wall at this year’s Fringe.
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…
The Sexual Awakening of Peter Mayo is the story of a sexually repressed man accidentally stumbling onto the world of swinging and no-frills sex after a text goes awry.
I have faint memories of being taken to a children’s dance and movement class when I was about two.
Bellini Song selectionStrauss Four Last SongsBarber Song selectionIves Song selectionWagner Wesendonck Lieder A native of Oregon, the American soprano Amber Wagner has been feat…
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.
Simon Ximenez talks with Alistair Hall, whose success with his gripping one-man play Declan, was one of the few positive outcomes of lockdown.
Copstick is back at Surgeons' Hall chatting to Martha McBrier, Darcie Silver, Pope Lonergan and Lisa Frischemeier.
Kate Copstick chats to Paul Wady of Stealth Aspies about questioning labels on the topic of autism.
Kate Copstick presents episode 1 of Slaughtered at The Surgeon's Hall with President Obonjo and Zach Zucker.
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.
The relationship between poetry and alcohol is renowned and Joseph J Clark continues in this tradition with his show, Drunk With A Pen (Sweet Werks 2, 5th-13th May, 19:00).
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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.
Love for Sale a theatrical cabaret celebration of the music of Kurt Weill set in 1930s Paris.
We talk to the kid-rocking, dance-loving DJ Monski Mouse about her disco-dancing extravaganza perfect for under fives (and their parents too)
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.