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Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Frankie Boyle Work In Progress Shows at Leicester Square Theatre & Museum Of Comedy

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 1st Dec 2024

Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Elim Chan

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 18th Aug 2024

Three pioneering musical languages drastically contrast in this marathon of the concerto form. 

Hu Opera Love Bridge

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Venue150 at EICC
• 15th Aug 2024

‘Love Bridge’ fully shows the characteristics of the Shanghai opera ‘singing the news we talking about’. 

1 Irish 1 English: Afternoons

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Eastside
• 11th - 25th Aug 2024

Join us at 16. 

In Conversation with… Tom English

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stand Comedy Club 3 & 4
• 11th Aug 2024

Chief sportswriter for BBC Radio Scotland, whose previous award-winning years in print were spent at the Sunday Times, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman. 

Opera Arias – Starring Andrii Kymach, Baritone, with Jâms Coleman, Piano (Produced by Ian McFarlane)

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh New Town Church
• 9th Aug 2024

Andrii Kymach, baritone – a unique recital celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Edinburgh-Kyiv twinning (1989-2024). 

Attila the Stockbroker: 14 Days, 14 Completely Different Shows

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ Bannermans
• 5th - 18th Aug 2024

Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far. 

One-Person Shows / Solo Shows: Daily Picks of the Fringe

• Listing
Spoken Word / Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• PBH’s Free Fringe @ Doghouse Hotel
• 3rd - 25th Aug 2024

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… 

English[bird] in New York

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Saint Stephen’s Theatre
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2024

As seen on HBO and at Carnegie Hall, join Briony for this lively blend of music and storytelling that gripped audiences in New York. 

The Phantom of the Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Edinburgh Academy
• 2nd - 17th Aug 2024

Based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of ter… 

Miss English's Holiday by Action Theatre (Italy)

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Symposium Hall
• 2nd - 24th Aug 2024

A teacher’s magical seaside summer holiday is interrupted by an enthusiastic stowaway, Platypus. 

Madame Chandelier Saves Opera

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Opera needs a hero. 

11 Lessons on Being Loud (from an American Opera Singer)

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Home Bar
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Knockout opera-singing stand-up comedian Steph DePrez is back with a new show about dreams, risks and how exactly Americans learn to be so… loud. 

Dragon Shows for Babies

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• LifeCare Centre
• 1st - 20th Aug 2024

The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons. 

The English Teacher

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Home Bar
• 1st - 25th Aug 2024

Step into the comedic whirlwind of Alicia’s life – a thirty-something artist turned English teacher, navigating unfulfilled dreams and unexpected detours as an immigrant. 

Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian. 

Yoga with Jillian: The Guardian Top 50 Shows to See!

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 31st Jul - 26th Aug 2024

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 … 

Tosca

• Listing
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 1st - 21st Jul 2024

Set in Rome, 1800, this gripping opera tells the story of Floria Tosca – a tempestuous opera singer who is used to being in the spotlight. 

English

• Listing
• West End
• Kiln Theatre
• 5th - 29th Jun 2024

‘In this room, we are native speakers. 

English Disco Lovers at The Tempest Inn!

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Tempest Inn
• 28th May 2023 - 26th May 2024

For their second Brighton Fringe knees up, legendary party starters English Disco Lovers will be down by the sea at The Tempest Inn! Resident Disco Lovers DJs Sam & Spike will be p… 

Mattia Sedda: The National Actor

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Windmill
• 25th - 26th May 2024

An immigrant, an actor, an impossible dream. 

The Opera Locos

• Listing
• West End
• Peacock Theatre London
• 8th - 11th May 2024

The greatest hits of opera in one night; this is a show for everybody – from opera buffs to those who don’t know their Aida’s from their arias. 

Dawn Again: A Rap Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Rotunda Theatre: Bubble
• 4th - 18th May 2024

Government special adviser Elliot has a problem: his two girlfriends are giving birth on the same day in the same hospital. 

English National Ballet and English National Ballet School - My First Ballet: Swan Lake

• Listing
• West End
• Peacock Theatre London
• 4th - 13th Apr 2024

Experience the thrill of the world’s most famous ballet with your little ones, in this specially adapted version for children aged three upwards. 

English National Ballet - Johan Inger’s Carmen

• Listing
• West End
• Sadler’s Wells
• 27th Mar - 6th Apr 2024

With its fiery drama and iconic music, Carmen never ceases to thrill. 

Giselle - English National Ballet

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 11th - 21st Jan 2024

Giselle is a haunting story of innocence and betrayal – a timeless tale about the redemptive power of love. 

Hansel and Gretel - Royal Opera House

• Listing
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 16th Dec 2023 - 7th Jan 2024

A great family opera sung in English – Antony McDonald’s exquisite production of Humperdinck’s fairytale masterpiece returns in time for Christmas. 

The Threepenny Opera

• Review
• ★★
• Richard Beck
• London Fringe
• The Cockpit
• 13th Oct, 2023

Taking on The Threepenny Opera can be a precarious business, as OVO demonstrate, without flinching from the challenge. 

Peter Grimes - English National Opera

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 21st Sep - 11th Oct 2023

Featuring some of the most powerful and evocative opera music ever written, Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes paints a vivid picture of a small community’s transformation… 

English National Ballet - Our Voices

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Sadler’s Wells
• 21st - 30th Sep 2023

Three works celebrating classical, contemporary and neo-classical dance – this programme is not to be missed. 

In Conversation with… Tom English

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stand’s New Town Theatre
• 20th Aug 2023

Chief sportswriter for BBC Radio Scotland, whose previous award-winning years in print were spent at the Sunday Times, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman. 

Supporter Event: The Threepenny Opera Backstage Tour

• Listing
Supporter events
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Festival Theatre
• 19th Aug 2023

An exclusive event for members and supporters of Edinburgh International Festival. 

The Threepenny Opera

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Mark Harding
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Festival Theatre
• 19th Aug, 2023

There are many aspects to the brilliance of this show, but the greatest revelation is the singing. 

National Youth Choir of Scotland

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 13th Aug 2023

The nation’s leading youth choir performs a poignant and poetic programme of works. 

Another Afternoon at the Opera with Brian Bannatyne-Scott and Friends

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
• 12th - 12th Aug 2023

An enchanting concert of operatic highlights, performed by international operatic bass Brian Bannatyne-Scott and fabulous up-and-coming young singers, accompanied by Polish pianist… 

National Youth Choir of Scotland

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Giles’ Cathedral
• 7th Aug 2023

Join Scotland’s finest young singers and a superb jazz trio for Bob Chilcott’s Jazz Mass. 

NYCOS National Girls Choir

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Giles’ Cathedral
• 7th Aug 2023

Howard Blake’s delightful settings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem The Land of Counterpane form the centrepiece of this concert by the critically acclaimed NYCOS National Girls Ch… 

Ukrainian Songs and Opera Arias

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
• 5th Aug 2023

Come and hear Andrei Kymach, the world-famous Ukrainian baritone and winner of the 2019 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World opera prize, accompanied as in Cardiff by Llyr Williams, as … 

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Traverse Theatre
• 4th - 27th Aug 2023

When shy Aaron joins the hotel’s ramshackle team, he encounters volatile guests, inept management and even rumours of singing ghosts stalking the corridors. 

Why English?

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo Southside
• 4th - 19th Aug 2023

‘Why do I speak English??’ I have been asked this in an accusatory manner. 

The Opera Diva's Boudoir

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Niddry St
• 4th - 22nd Aug 2023

The Baroness narrates her eventful riches-to-rags life story with the help of opera and operetta arias, Lieder, and maybe the odd song from a musical. 

24 Shows in 24 days: Live at the Big Cave

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings. 

The Opera Comedy Show

• Listing
Comedy / Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Home Bar
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2023

Wagner turned up to 11! A hilarious dive into the ridiculous world of opera and life as a Valkyrie and Rheinmaiden, peppered with hits from Puccini and Verdi from Berlin’s thrill… 

TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Jasmine Arden-Brown
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance at EICC
• 17th Aug, 2023

At the tender age of thirty, I mostly associate Tony Blair with my very first childhood experiences of politics. 

Tones: A Hip-Hop Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Laura Tucker
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 20th Aug, 2023

Uplifting and bold, Tones is one-man’s lyrical life story growing up in the ends, exploring black identity in a UK culture obsessed with class and race. 

Madame Chandelier's Opera Party for Kids

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 2nd - 15th Aug 2023

Dazzling divas. 

Kpop UK National Competition

• Listing
Events
• FUSE International
• Rose Theatre
• 9th Jul 2023

About the showThe Kpop UK National Competition returns for its 5th year. 

Venue B Takeover Gig

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 30th May 2023

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

Venue B Takeover Gig

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Caravanserai Brighton: Luna Parc
• 30th May 2023

Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs. 

English Disco Lovers at The Tempest Inn!

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Tempest Inn
• 28th May 2023

For their second Brighton Fringe knees up, legendary party starters English Disco Lovers will be down by the sea at The Tempest Inn! Resident Disco Lovers DJs Sam & Spike will be p… 

Grindr: The Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Union Theatre
• 27th May - 8th Jul 2023

The award winning musical returns in a dazzling new production. 

Madame Chandelier's Opera Party

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
• 13th - 14th May 2023

If Fringe tickets are SOLD OUT visit www. 

Madame Chandelier's Night at the Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Johanna Makelainen
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco
• 14th May, 2023

If the encore of a show entails audience members chucking white tennis socks at you, would you consider it a success? You might, if the tennis socks were props for an avalanche so … 

Morris Dancing & English Folksong Session in the North Laine

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• MEET: Outside The Foundry
• 11th May 2023

Brighton Morris welcomes you to our North Laine dance out for 2023! We will be brandishing our bells, cracking our sticks and flashing our hankies as we tour through the North Lain… 

Morris Dancing & English Folksong Session in the North Laine

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• MEET: Outside The Foundry
• 11th May 2023

Brighton Morris welcomes you to our North Laine dance out for 2023! We will be brandishing our bells, cracking our sticks and flashing our hankies as we tour through the North Lain… 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 7th May 2023

**Holiday Sunday 7th May!** TICKETS NOW AT: www. 

Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 27th Apr - 6th May 2023

A meaningful meditation on motherhood, love and loss, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs adapts texts in Polish taken from sources spanning the centuries, giving perspectives from both a … 

Blue - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End

A generational rift leads to father and son at odds, with the fate of the family at risk. 

TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Review
• ★★★★
• Katerina Partolina Schwartz
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 28th Apr, 2023

Whether you remember Tony Blair becuase of the international laws he broke or the fact that he made fox-hunting illegal, TONY! is a raucous, cartoonish musical. 

TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 15th Apr - 21st May 2023

Nicholson Green Productions presents the Park Theatre production of TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]  By Harry Hill & Steve Brown   "Look a… 

TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 15th Apr - 21st May 2023

Nicholson Green Productions presents the Park Theatre production of TONY! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] By Harry Hill & Steve Brown "Look anyone will tell you, I’m a p… 

The Dead City - English National Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 25th Mar - 8th Apr 2023

Recently bereaved, Paul is haunted by visions of his deceased wife Marie. 

Creature by Akram Khan - English National Ballet

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Sadler’s Wells
• 23rd Mar - 1st Apr 2023

Inspired by Woyzeck with shadows of Frankenstein, English National Ballet’s production of Creature by Akram Khan is an unearthly tale of exploitation and human frontiers, set… 

The Rhinegold - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 18th Feb - 10th Mar 2023

When the forging of a prophesied ring of the Rhine proves more problematic than you’d possibly think, the realms of gods and men prove all the more chaotic for it. 

Much Ado About Nothing - National Youth Theatre

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Duke of Yorks Theatre
• 7th - 10th Feb 2023

Remixed by Debris Stevenson Directed by Josie Daxter Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps Shakespeare’s much-loved comedy meets reality TV romance in a raucous and… 

Carmen - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 1st - 24th Feb 2023

Carmen: a woman ablaze with passion, surrounded by men possessed by obsession and jealousy. 

Gloriana - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 8th Dec 2022

In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, we present a rarely performed gem from Benjamin Britten’s pool of works: Gloriana. 

It's a Wonderful Life - English National Opera

• Review
• ★★
• Gareth Williams
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 27th Nov, 2022

Opening the London Coliseum festive season is the UK premier of It’s a Wonderful Life, based on the classic 1946 Frank Capra movie. 

GUTH NA hÉIGSE National Final of Poetry Speaking Competition

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 17th Nov 2022

Is comórtas píolótach Comórtas Labhartha Filíochta d’Iarbhunscoileanna é Guth na hÉigse, atá bunaithe ar an… 

The Yeomen Of The Guard - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 3rd Nov - 2nd Dec 2022

The Tower of London is the scene for a tangled web of melancholy and mirth in Gilbert & Sullivan’s beloved operetta, The Yeomen of the Guard. 

From Alfred The Great to Victoria: Who Was The Greatest English Monarch? With Dan Snow And Guests

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 19th Oct 2022

When Intelligence Squared and History Hit joined forces on this event, neither company imagined it would take place after the death of Britain’s longest serving mo… 

From Aethelstan to Victoria: Who Was the Greatest English Monarch?

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Leicester Square Theatre
• 19th Oct 2022

Dan Snow’s History Hit and Intelligence Squared have joined forces for this in-person debate to discuss a question that spans more than 1000 years: who was the gre… 

Tosca - English National Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 30th Sep - 4th Nov 2022

Compromise is for the weak: and Tosca is nothing of the sort. 

Stop Learning English!

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stand’s New Town Theatre
• 26th Aug 2022

Everywhere you go people speak English. 

The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Dance and Stop Learning English!

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Stand’s New Town Theatre
• 17th Aug 2022

Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, top academics explore dangerous ideas. 

Cosi Fan Tutte/Love Me Out - The Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Camden Fringe
• Upstairs at the Gatehouse
• 16th - 21st Aug 2022

‘100% my type on paper. 

Cosi Fan Tutte/Love Me Out - The Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Camden Fringe
• Upstairs at the Gatehouse
• 16th - 21st Aug 2022

‘100% my type on paper. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 9th Aug 2022

Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Elim Chan join forces with Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček to take on works by Dukas, Liszt and Bartók. 

Bare: A Pop Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• RSE Theatre
• 5th - 28th Aug 2022

At St Cecilia’s school, Peter and Jason have a hidden love affair, but what happens when this is exposed to their family and friends? A riveting piece of musical theatre brought to… 

Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Nicolson Square
• 5th - 27th Aug 2022

Have you ever wondered where the divas go, in between getting married or getting killed, night after night at the opera house? Madame Chandelier’s Opera House Party, of course. 

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 4th - 28th Aug 2022

They’re back! After years away touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Fring… 

Tony [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• London Fringe
• Park Theatre
• 1st Jun - 9th Jul 2022

From stand-up comedian and TV legend Harry Hill and his long-time collaborator Steve Brown comes the premiere of the rock opera the world has been crying out for: a reckless reappr… 

Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera]

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Park Theatre
• 9th Jun - 9th Jul 2022

'Look anyone will tell you, I’m a pretty straight sort of guy. 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 14th May - 2nd Jun 2022

The Disco Lovers return to the Spiegeltent for their seventh sell out season, bringing their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclusivity and fun to Brighton Fringe… 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 14th May 2022 - 7th May 2023

The Disco Lovers return to the Spiegeltent for their seventh sell out season, bringing their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclusivity and fun to Brighton Fringe… 

Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 7th - 8th May 2022

Get out of the opera house and into the ‘Opera House Party’ with Madame Chandelier! She’s got jokes, party games, and she’s invited all her favourite opera characters. 

Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Walrus (Raised Room)
• 7th - 8th May 2022

Get out of the opera house and into the ‘Opera House Party’ with Madame Chandelier! She’s got jokes, party games, and she’s invited all her favourite opera characters. 

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• New Road
• 7th May 2022

Ahead of their event at Brighton Spiegeltent on 14 May and 2 June, the English Disco Lovers join us at Fringe City with their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclu… 

English Disco Lovers @ Fringe City

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• New Road
• 7th May 2022

Ahead of their event at Brighton Spiegeltent on 14 May and 2 June, the English Disco Lovers join us at Fringe City with their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, anti-racism, inclu… 

...The Secret Comedy Club by Artista (Voted audience choice award best Fringe venue 2021)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Artista Cafe & Gallery / Artista Upstairs
• 6th May - 5th Jun 2022

We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe. 

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• West End
• Soho Theatre
• 7th - 23rd Apr 2022

Based on the 18th century Beggar’s Opera and Brecht & Weill’s Threepenny Opera, the band present their own version of this wildly entertaining story as a song cycle swarming wi… 

AT HOME: Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Elim Chan

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Online
• 25th Nov 2021

Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta. 

AT HOME: Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Elim Chan

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Online
• 25th Nov 2021

Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying filmed concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta. 

Lunch and talk at the National Liberal Club

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• National Liberal Club
• 3rd Nov 2021

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Madame Chandelier's Opera House Party

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• West End
• Phoenix Arts Club
• 26th Sep 2021

Whether you love opera, or need to know more so you can pretend you do, Madame Chandelier’s OPERA HOUSE PARTY is the place for you. 

English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company

• Listing
Theatre
• The Greater Manchester Fringe
• GMF Digital Events
• 13th - 30th Sep 2021

https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/ 

English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company

• Listing
Theatre
• The Greater Manchester Fringe
• GMF Digital Events
• 13th - 30th Sep 2021

https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/ 

English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company

• Listing
Theatre
• The Greater Manchester Fringe
• GMF Digital Events
• 13th - 30th Sep 2021

https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/ 

English-Italian Version Of THE COMEDY OF ERRORS/ LA COMMEDIA to be Presented by The Blind Cupid Shakespeare Company

• Listing
Theatre
• The Greater Manchester Fringe
• GMF Digital Events
• 13th - 30th Sep 2021

https://www.blindcupidshakespearecompany.com/ 

National Trust

• Listing
Theatre
• Camden Fringe
• Upstairs at the Gatehouse
• 27th - 29th Aug 2021

“Ambition. 

National Trust

• Listing
Theatre
• Camden Fringe
• Upstairs at the Gatehouse
• 27th - 29th Aug 2021

“Ambition. 

Pop-up Opera: A Little Bit of The Pirates of Penzance

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Musselburgh Racecourse
• 21st - 22nd Aug 2021

Experience all the drama and wonder of grand opera on a miniature scale, with open-air performances brought to life by a storyteller, two singers and instrumentalists. 

A Night at the Opera

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
• 21st Aug 2021

A Night at the Opera: critically-acclaimed pianist Andrew Wright performs attractive arrangements by Liszt and others, taken from operas by Wagner, Mascagni, Bellini and Rossini. 

Pop-up Opera: A Little Bit of HMS Pinafore

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Musselburgh Racecourse
• 21st - 22nd Aug 2021

Immerse yourself in a pint-sized version of HMS Pinafore, with an unforgettable journey through the opera’s musical and dramatic highlights – in just 30 minutes. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Valery Gergiev

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Academy Junior School
• 18th - 18th Aug 2021

Conductor Valery Gergiev and pianist Daniil Trifonov return to the International Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a radiant concert. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Elim Chan

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Academy Junior School
• 16th - 16th Aug 2021

Principal Guest Conductor Elim Chan leads the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in an electrifying concert featuring cellist Sol Gabetta. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Thomas Søndergård

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Edinburgh Academy Junior School
• 11th - 11th Aug 2021

Mendelssohn’s bewitching A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, narrated by Dame Harriet Walter. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• Etcetera Theatre
• 8th - 15th Aug 2021

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Nice Try and Clown Nipples (Two Comedy Solo Shows)

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• Etcetera Theatre
• 8th - 15th Aug 2021

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Camden Fringe
• Etcetera Theatre
• 8th - 15th Aug 2021

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Sherlock's Secret Challenge – The Puzzle Solving Game That Shows You The City

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Outside The Conan Doyle Pub
• 6th - 30th Aug 2021

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. 

Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Omnibus Theatre
• 5th Jul 2021

Shutters: A Lesbian Rock Opera explores love, lesbian spaces, and the songs that shape our lives. 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 25th Jun - 9th Jul 2021

The English Disco Lovers Community Group return to the fabulous Brighton Spiegeltent for THREE (count ‘em!) fully non-distanced club night parties: ‘8th Birthday Ball’ / ‘Mermaids… 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 25th Jun - 9th Jul 2021

The English Disco Lovers Community Group return to the fabulous Brighton Spiegeltent for THREE (count ‘em!), seated club night parties: ‘8th Birthday Ball’ / ‘Mermaids Ball’ / ‘El… 

Sara Segovia and Lachlan Werner are making shows (WORK IN PROGRESS)

• Listing
Comedy
• UK Regional & Tours
• The Miller
• 15th Jun 2021

Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Caxton Arms
• 7th - 27th Jun 2021

Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill. 

Clown Nipples and Nice Try (Two Solo Shows - Works in Progress)

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Caxton Arms
• 7th - 27th Jun 2021

In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy. 

Royal Opera House: Macbeth

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 9th - 9th Feb 2021

This event has been rescheduled from Tue 17 November 2020. 

Met Opera: The Magic Flute

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 26th Jan 2021

Please note that Tier 2 regulations mean that only members of the same household or support bubble may meet together indoors. 

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE: THE NUTCRACKER (ENCORE)

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Hertford Theatre
• 29th Dec 2020

This film is a socially distanced film. 

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Symposium Hall
• 16th Aug 2020

Enthusiastically vote alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2020’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and shiny moose trophies. 

In Conversation With: Capturing a Story: Inspiring Photography - Hosted by The National Army Museum

• Listing
Events
• Online & Broadcast
• A Company 6 Scots
• 13th - 30th Aug 2020

Learn how archival material can inspire your next creative project in this live virtual event. 

Madame Chandelier’s Rough Guide to the Opera

• Listing
Comedy
• West End
• Museum of Comedy
• 8th - 9th Aug 2020

In proud association with Camden Fringe; Whether you love opera or need to know more so you can pretend you do, Madame Chandelier has a show for you. 

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Valvona & Crolla
• 8th - 9th Aug 2020

Celebrating Hamish Henderson’s recent centenary. 

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 5th - 30th Aug 2020

They’re back! After years away, touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret celebrate their 30th anniversary with a triumphant return to the Frin… 

Polly (The Heartbreak Opera)

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• London Fringe
• Greenwich Theatre
• 14th - 15th Feb 2020

A riotous adaptation of John Gay’s banned sequel to The Beggar’s Opera, with techno, tracksuits and palm trees. 

Opera Undone

• Listing
Theatre
• West End
• Trafalgar Studio 2
• 5th Feb - 7th Mar 2020

The Olivier Award nominated producers of 2017's ★★★★★ smash hit La bohème present a brand new Puccini double-bill Opera Undone: Tosca & La bohème Ra… 

Madame Chandelier's Rough Guide to the Opera

• Listing
Comedy
• UK Regional & Tours
• Kings Arms
• 18th - 19th Jan 2020

In a camp fusion of comedy, cabaret and opera, Madame Chandelier guides you through her favourite opera plots, with jokes, drinking games, and a Nessun Dorma sing-along! Having sto… 

English National Ballet 70th Anniversary Gala

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 17th - 18th Jan 2020

Celebrate the countless dancers, choreographers, artists, musicians, artisans, technicians and audience members who, over 70 years, have been a part of the English National Ballet … 

Le Corsaire - English National Ballet

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 8th - 14th Jan 2020

Travel to a faraway land for the adventures of a dashing pirate, Conrad, and his feisty girlfriend Medora. 

Nutcracker - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 11th Dec 2019 - 12th Jan 2025

Over 100 dancers and musicians bring Nutcracker to life with exquisite dancing, beautiful sets and Tchaikovsky’s popular score played live. 

Broken English

• Listing
Spoken Word
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on North Bridge
• 19th - 23rd Aug 2019

A contemporary exploration on the journey of the English language. 

Love Me Out: The Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 19th - 23rd Aug 2019

100% my type on paper. 

Questions for Quiz Shows

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Summerhall
• 17th Aug 2019

Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform. 

Bilingual Producers Workshop – In Mandarin and English

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 10th Aug 2019

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Bilingual Producers Workshop – In Korean and English

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 10th Aug 2019

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Peking Opera: Farewell My Concubine

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Hall
• 9th - 10th Aug 2019

A historical tragedy, a hero failed in battle, his beautiful lover and the handsome warhorse accompanying him towards the end of the inevitable fall of the kingdom, a heartbroken f… 

Scotland's National Bard: Hamish Henderson

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Valvona & Crolla
• 9th - 10th Aug 2019

Celebrating Hamish Henderson’s centenary with songs that won the recognition of Bob Dylan and Nelson Mandela. 

The National and ELT Short Play Winners

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Hill Street Theatre
• 5th - 25th Aug 2019

The National newspaper and ELT short playwright winners. 

The Perfect Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in The Vault
• 3rd - 10th Aug 2019

Love! Death! And a pantomime camel! After extensive audience research, we listed the 47 things people demanded in operas and shoehorned them into this show. 

Adventures on the National Cycle Network Photography Exhibition

• Listing
Exhibition / Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Lochrin Basin
• 3rd Aug - 1st Sep 2019

Visit the Union Canal to experience an array of inspiring and breathtaking images showcasing the best rural, urban and wildlife photography captured on the National Cycle Network i… 

English Speaking Comedy Borsch

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Mirth Meltdown @ 52 Canoes
• 2nd - 26th Aug 2019

The Eastern European Comedy Festival presents English Speaking Comedy Borsch – the series of shows where some of the biggest acts from Eastern European countries translate their … 

Grow Up in the Sun – Shanghai Huangpu Student Art Troupe’s Chinese National Cultural Performance

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Venue150 at EICC
• 2nd Aug 2019

The Chinese Orchestra of Shanghai Huangpu Youngster Art Activity Centre has been established for more than 20 years. 

Madame Chandelier's Rough Guide to the Opera

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ City Cafe
• 1st - 18th Aug 2019

Madame Chandelier guides you through her favourite opera plots, with jokes, dramatic death scenes, and a Nessun Dorma singalong! The joyfully ridiculous and self-proclaimed anti-di… 

The National Trust Fan Club

• Review
• ★★★
• Rebecca Vines
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Gilded Balloon at the Museum
• 7th Aug, 2019

The National Trust Fan Club is what happens if you imagine a Dave Gorman show delivered by your bouncy Auntie Joyce and her preoccupation with how to pronounce ‘scone’ (to rhym… 

Camille: National Treasure

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Brighton Fringe
• Diva’s Piccol-Odeon
• 25th - 27th May 2019

The spirit of French sculptress Camille Claudel has been awakened by an influx of interest in her work. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: The Blockhouse
• 20th - 21st May 2019

BA Theatre Arts at GBMet. 

Heroes & Heroines - Opera Gala Concert

• Review
• ★★★★
• Johanna Makelainen
• Brighton Fringe
• All Saints Church
• 20th May, 2019

In their Opera Gala Concert, the Sussex Symphony Orchestra is celebrating some of opera’s most iconic heroes and heroines and their wicked stories of lust, passion, death and betra… 

All My Sons (12A cert tbc) - National Theatre Live

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 14th May 2019

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) sta… 

Met Opera: Dialogues Des Carmélites 2019

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 13th May 2019

£15, (£10 under 18's) COMPOSER: Francis Poulenc Sung in French. 

Met Opera 18-19: Dialogues Des Carmélites

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 11th May 2019

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Poulenc’s masterpiece. 

HSO A Night at the Opera

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Hertford Theatre
• 11th May 2019

Saturday 11th May, 7. 

English National Opera presents Paul Bunyan

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• Alexandra Palace
• 9th - 13th May 2019

Following its sell-out run at Wilton’s Music Hall in 2018, Paul Bunyan will receive its first revival at Alexandra Palace Theatre this May. 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
Nightlife
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 5th - 26th May 2019

The English Disco Lovers Community Group return to Brighton Spiegeltent for their fifth sell out season! As ever, they will be bringing their irrepressible mix of disco, humour, in… 

Summer Street: The Hilarious, Aussie Soap Opera, Musical Comedy

• Review
• ★★★
• Lois Zoppi
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: The Blockhouse
• 9th May, 2019

New British musicals are few and far between nowadays, but the Brighton Fringe is the one place where they are bound to be found. 

Madame Chandelier's Rough Guide to the Opera

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Brighton Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant
• 3rd - 4th May 2019

Madame Chandelier’s Rough Guide to the Opera is everything you never knew was funny about opera. 

The Royal Opera House Live: Faust

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 30th Apr 2019

There are many versions of the story of Faust, who trades his soul with the Devil for youth and power, but Gounod’s opera remains one of the most constantly enthra… 

Met Opera: Die Walküre 2019

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 2nd Apr 2019

£15, (£10 under 18's) COMPOSER: Richard Wagner Sung in German. 

Met Opera 18-19: Die Walkure

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 30th Mar 2019

Featuring some of the most glorious music ever written—including, of course, the Ride of the Valkyries—Die Walküre is the second of the four operas that… 

Met Opera: La Fille Du Régiment 2019

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 5th Mar 2019

£15 (£10 under 18's) COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti Sung in French. 

Met Opera 18-19: La Fille Du Régiment

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 2nd Mar 2019

Full of wit and invention, Donizetti’s comic opera is a delight. 

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Encore

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 17th - 25th Feb 2019

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. 

Met Opera: Carmen 2019

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 5th Feb 2019

£15 (£10 under 18’s) COMPOSER: Georges Bizet Sung in French. 

Antony & Cleopatra (12A) - National Theatre Encore

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 4th Feb 2019

Extra encore performance added - Monday 4 February @ 11am - Booking Now Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare&rsquo… 

Met Opera 18-19: Carmen

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 2nd Feb 2019

Don’t miss this revival of Sir Richard Eyre’s dynamic production. 

I'm Not Running (12A) - National Theatre Live

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• London Fringe
• Watermans Art Centre
• 31st Jan 2019

I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. 

The Royal Opera House Live: The Queen of Spades

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• UK Regional & Tours
• Farnham Maltings
• 29th Jan 2019

In Tchaikovsky’s intense opera of obsession and the supernatural, Gherman is caught between the woman he loves and a destructive fixation. 

Baroque Opera Double Bill

• Listing
• Dublin
• Smock Alley Theatre, 1662
• 19th Jan 2019

DIDO AND AENEAS (PURCELL) &IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA (MONTEVERDI) Purcell’s much-loved masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas, recounts the love of Dido, Q… 

Grindr: The Opera!

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Above the Stag Theatre
• 17th Jan - 16th Feb 2019

Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of opera. 

Manon - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 16th - 20th Jan 2019

Kenneth MacMillan’s full-blooded ballet of love, decadence and passion. 

Swan Lake - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 3rd - 13th Jan 2019

English National Ballet brings the timeless classical ballet to life in Derek Deane’s enthralling production. 

Michael English and His Band

• Listing
Events
• West End
• Islington Assembly Hall
• 22nd Sep 2018

Following the huge success of Michael’s previous visits to The U. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 26th Aug 2018

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Esther – The First English Oratorio

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greyfriars Kirk
• 22nd Aug 2018

Steadily establishing a reputation as specialists in music from the Enlightenment era, Opera dei Lumi return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a rare performance of the very first Engli… 

National Touring With Black Theatre Live

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 21st Aug 2018

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

A Show About Shows About Show Biz

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Nicolson Square
• 20th - 25th Aug 2018

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… 

The Beggar's Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh International Festival
• King’s Theatre
• 16th - 19th Aug 2018

Swarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, cri… 

National Youth Orchestra of Canada

• Listing
Music / Music / Music / Music / Music / Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 14th Aug 2018

National Youth Orchestra of CanadaJonathan Darlington ConductorMarjorie Maltais Mezzo-Soprano (Symphony No 3) John Estacio MoontidesCopland Appalachian SpringVaughan Williams Symp… 

BSL and English D/deaf Culture

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 14th Aug 2018

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants. 

Mr Saxon's Excellently English Evening of Entertainment

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 13th - 25th Aug 2018

Roll-up. 

National Killing Day

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace on the Mile
• 13th - 18th Aug 2018

When the government declares slaying legal to reignite a sense of self responsibility and respect, James has the urge to pay his ex-wife a visit. 

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Final

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Symposium Hall
• 12th Aug 2018

Vote excitedly alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2018’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and the shiny moose trophy. 

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland

• Listing
Music / Music / Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 9th Aug 2018

National Youth Orchestra of ScotlandPaul Daniel Conductor Debussy IbériaLili Boulanger D’un matin de printempsColes Behind the LinesDebussy La mer The International Festival’s… 

Opera Mouse

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Pleasance Courtyard
• 6th - 17th Aug 2018

Tilly Mouse lives under an opera house, and she just loves to sing! Her dream is to perform on stage. 

Go Wild on the National Cycle Network Photo Exhibition

• Listing
Exhibition / Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Lochrin Basin
• 6th - 31st Aug 2018

The National Cycle Network (NCN) is a series of traffic-free paths and quiet, on-road cycling and walking routes that connect to every major town and city in Scotland. 

National Youth Choir of Scotland

• Listing
Music / Music / Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 5th Aug 2018

National Youth Choir of ScotlandChristopher Bell Conductor Andrew McTaggart Baritone Michael Bawtree Organ Vaughan Williams Five Mystical SongsTippett Five Spirituals (Child of Ou… 

The Show Between Shows Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• BrewDog Lothian Rd
• 4th - 25th Aug 2018

New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

All About Her – Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in Augustines
• 4th - 11th Aug 2018

All About Her — Feminism in Chinese Traditional Opera creatively combines traditional Chinese Opera with contemporary ideas, exploring feminism in the traditional opera repertoir… 

High School English

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Greenside @ Infirmary Street
• 3rd - 25th Aug 2018

As a group of high school students work towards their English exam, but can’t remember anything about the classic texts they have to memorise, their teacher is forced to fabricate … 

Rob Kemp's Wheel of Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Monkey Barrel / Monkey Barrel Comedy Club
• 3rd - 26th Aug 2018

Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel. 

Yes, That Nick Page, Apparently. Winner of English Comedian 2017

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just the Tonic at The Mash House
• 4th - 25th Aug 2018

Nick Page has had an interesting year, he won English Comedian of the year after coming second the previous year and being really grumpy about it. 

Best of English Comedian of the Year

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just The Tonic at the Caves
• 2nd - 25th Aug 2018

As discovered at Murrayfield, Wimbledon and Russia, the English aren’t used to winning. 

Grindr: The Opera!

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Above the Stag Theatre
• 3rd Jul - 26th Aug 2018

by Erik Ransom UNRESERVED SEATING ON ALL PERFORMANCES OF GRINDR: THE OPERA Grindr: The Opera! puts the most notorious gay hook-up app into the exaggerated world of … 

The Sleeping Beauty - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 6th - 16th Jun 2018

Fall under the spell of Kenneth MacMillan’s fairy tale classic. 

A Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton - and Other Shows

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
• 18th May - 3rd Jun 2018

By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way. 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

• Review
• ★★★★
• Carmen Dupre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Theatre Box
• 9th May, 2018

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… 

York Dungeon Venue Template

• Listing
• Great Yorkshire Fringe
• 3rd May 2018

The Basement Venue Template

• Listing
• Great Yorkshire Fringe
• The Basement
• 10th Apr 2018

Macbeth - Royal Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 2nd - 10th Apr 2018

The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth an… 

English National Ballet: My First Swan Lake

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• Peacock Theatre London
• 29th Mar - 7th Apr 2018

The ever popular My First Ballet series returns with a new beautifully adapted version of Swan Lake, in a unique collaboration between English National Ballet and English National … 

MATES! A struthin' Aussie Soap Opera

• Listing
Comedy
• Adelaide Fringe
• Black Bull Hotel
• 8th Mar 2018

Darryl is suspected of murder. 

Maestro – 3rd Annual National Impro Games

• Listing
Comedy
• Adelaide Fringe
• National Wine Centre
• 3rd Mar 2018

Performing hilarious family-friendly improvised games – like you’d see on Whose Line is It Anyway? – Maestro pits Australia’s best improvisers against each other in a winner-ta… 

Nick Page: English Comedian of the Year

• Listing
Comedy
• Adelaide Fringe
• East Terrace Continental / The Austral Hotel
• 25th Feb - 3rd Mar 2018

Nick Page is a seemingly indestructible, larger than life, award winning English comic whose life is a series of disasters somehow turning into unlikely triumphs. 

Carmen - Royal Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 6th Feb 2018 - 20th Jul 2019

Barrie Kosky directs Bizet’s much-loved opera, with Jakub Hrůša and Christopher Willis conducting two casts led by Anna Goryachova and Gaëlle Arquez in the title… 

Tosca - Royal Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 15th Jan 2018 - 20th Jun 2019

Three casts, led by Adrianne Pieczonka, Angela Gheorghiu and Martina Serafin and conducted by Dan Ettinger and Plácido Domingo, star in The Royal Opera’s production of… 

Rigoletto - Royal Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Royal Opera House
• 14th Dec 2017 - 16th Jan 2018

Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. 

The Nutcracker - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• London Coliseum
• 13th Dec 2017 - 30th Dec 2018

Over 100 dancers and musicians bring The Nutcracker to life with exquisite dancing, beautiful sets and Tchaikovsky’s glorious score played live. 

Side Shows

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Sadler’s Wells Theatre
• 25th - 26th Nov 2017

Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows. 

The Phantom of the Opera (ENO)

• Listing
Film
• London Fringe
• London Coliseum
• 8th Oct 2017

The World Premiere of Roy Budd’s masterpiece score to the 1925 classic silent film. 

Jekyll & Hyde - National Youth Theatre

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Ambassadors Theatre
• 27th Sep - 6th Dec 2017

Everyone has another face they hide behind… The National Youth Theatre REP Company invite you into the world of Victorian England, where civilised society meets seedy Soho f… 

Othello - National Youth Theatre

• Listing
Theatre
• London Fringe
• Ambassadors Theatre
• 26th Sep - 8th Dec 2017

This is a mating ground. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 27th Aug 2017

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Celebrating 60 Years of Edinburgh Grand Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Brunton
• 24th Aug 2017

Celebrate 60 years of EGO with highlights from much-loved operas by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein and Bizet. 

Sustainable Shows: Emerging Trends

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 23rd Aug 2017

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Tesco: The Opera!

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues – C royale
• 22nd - 26th Aug 2017

One man, a piano and an unexpected item in the bagging area… the supermarket trip is explored in musical form with a fun, frantic and family-friendly trolley dash to the conveyor… 

Amused Moose Comedy’s National New Comic Award: Grand Final

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Symposium Hall
• 13th Aug 2017

Vote alongside international talent scouts, relishing the excitement of seeing 2017’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making. 

US Tour Booking For Small And Independent Shows

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 10th - 21st Aug 2017

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

British Sign Language & English/Deaf Culture

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 9th Aug 2017

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Live Shows in an Internet Media Age

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 9th Aug 2017

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

The City – A Detective Hip Hop Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Drummond Community High School
• 8th - 10th Aug 2017

A rap opera written entirely in rhyme, performed as one continuous song. 

Macbeth: Fringe of Cantonese Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• New Town Theatre
• 7th - 8th Aug 2017

Shakespeare’s Macbeth is one of the world most renowned plays, however this year the production will be performed in an entirely unique style, that of traditional Cantonese opera… 

The Show Between Shows Show

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 52 Canoes (Grassmarket)
• 6th - 26th Aug 2017

New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly. 

Top Joe's Oxford English Dictionary Bid Word Launch

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Waverley Bar
• 6th - 27th Aug 2017

Liverpool Echo Comedian of the Year 2016, Top Joe, has invented a new word. 

The Boor (Peking Opera)

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Sweet Grassmarket
• 5th - 7th Aug 2017

Adapted from Anton Chekhov’s comedy. 

Chamber Pot Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Daisy McConnel
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Hall
• 6th Aug, 2017

This isn’t an eccentric metaphor or a pseudonym for a filthy cabaret, it is exactly what it says. 

Madame Señorita: 25 Different Shows, Come Every Day!

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot. 

Yuriko Kotani: Green in English, Blue in Japanese

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ Dragonfly
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2017

Hello everyone! I am a UK-based new-ish comedian Yuriko Kotani from Japan. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square Gardens
• 3rd - 27th Aug 2017

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… 

Sasquatch: The Opera

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Summerhall
• 8th Aug, 2017

I’m not sure where to begin in dissecting Sasquatch: the Opera. 

Duker & Henderson: Soph Opera

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Lamb @ Nowhere Man
• 26th May - 3rd Jun 2017

Two of the UK’s best new comics, Sophie Duker (Funny Women finalist 2015) and Sophie Henderson (SYTYF? finalist 2016) ride into Brighton for an unrelentingly hilarious hour of subv… 

Bom-Bane's Musical History of 24 George St, Brighton & Other Shows

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Bom-Bane’s Music Cafe
• 18th May - 3rd Jun 2017

An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 … 

BA Theatre Arts Graduate Shows

• Listing
Theatre
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Studio 3
• 8th - 9th May 2017

“The true mystery of the world is the visible . 

Heidi Regan and Will Rowland Present: Some Comedy in a Venue

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• Blue Man
• 7th - 28th May 2017

Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles. 

The Shoreditch Improv Festival Sunday Funday Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• The Water Poet
• 19th Feb 2017

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… 

Thenford: The Creation of an English Garden - In Conversation with Lord and Lady Heseltine

• Listing
Spoken Word
• London Fringe
• Hampstead Theatre
• 11th Feb 2017

Michael and Anne Heseltine describe the ups and downs of their shared 40-year project to transform, bit by bit, the wild, overgrown and often dilapidated woodland at their family h… 

National Television Awards

• Listing
Events
• London Fringe
• O2 Arena
• 25th Jan 2017

Make it a night to remember. 

Giselle - English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 11th - 22nd Jan 2017

Giselle is a haunting story of innocence and betrayal, a timeless tale about the redemptive power of love. 

The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Royal Albert Hall / Royal Opera House
• 4th Jan 2017 - 31st Dec 2019

The Nutcracker is classical ballet at its most approachable and visually entrancing – Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without it! A young girl’s enchanted present… 

National Ballet of China - The Peony Pavilion

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Sadler’s Wells
• 29th Nov - 1st Dec 2016

The 16th Century epic, The Peony Pavilion, is one of the most enduring love stories in Chinese literature. 

Tosca

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• London Fringe
• London Coliseum
• 29th Nov - 3rd Dec 2016

Opera singer Tosca’s love for artist Cavaradossi knows no compromise. 

National Ballet of China

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Sadlers Wells
• 29th Nov - 3rd Dec 2016

The 16th century epic, The Peony Pavilion, is one of the most enduring love stories in Chinese literature. 

English National Ballet

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Sadlers Wells
• 15th - 19th Nov 2016

One of the most anticipated dance events of 2016, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Akram Khan creates a brand new version of the iconic romantic ballet Giselle for English Nat… 

New English Ballet Theatre

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Peacock Theatre
• 9th - 12th Nov 2016

New English Ballet Theatre returns with a programme showcasing five new works from the UK’s top choreographic talents. 

British Youth Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• London Fringe
• Peacock Theatre
• 7th - 10th Sep 2016

British Youth Opera — English Eccentrics By Malcolm Williamson Libretto by Geoffrey Dunn based on the book by Edith Sitwell. 

British Youth Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• London Fringe
• Peacock Theatre
• 3rd - 10th Sep 2016

British Youth Opera: Owen Wingrave By Benjamin Britten. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
• 28th Aug 2016

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

Venue Marketplace

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
• 27th Aug 2016

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

ROH: Tosca

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 22nd Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: From Stage to Screen

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 22nd Aug 2016

NT Live forms part of the NT’s Broadcast department which is also responsible for producing digital content covering all aspects of the craft of theatre-making and produces Natio… 

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus

• Review
• ★★★★
• Megan Atkins
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 20th Aug, 2016

For those who couldn’t get down to London to watch the brilliant Tom Hiddleston boast a magnificent Coriolanus at the National Theatre, the Fringe is hosting the next best thing … 

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 18th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Munch: From the Munch Museum and National Gallery, Oslo

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 18th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Rembrandt from the National Gallery, London and Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 17th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Man and Superman

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 17th - 23rd Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Simon Lukacs Shows His Range

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Southside Social
• 15th - 23rd Aug 2016

Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body. 

YCA Secret Opera: Mansfield Park

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Edinburgh Academy
• 15th - 20th Aug 2016

Following a sell-out run and five star reviews for their recent production of Carmen, Edinburgh Studio Opera return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Jonathan Dove’s Mansfiel… 

Young Classical Artist Secret Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Edinburgh Academy
• 15th - 20th Aug 2016

Staged opera performances from some of Scotland’s most talented young singers. 

BA Performance in BSL and English: Audition Preparation

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
• 15th Aug 2016

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, specifically for Fringe participants. 

Brubeck: the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Queen’s Hall
• 14th Aug 2016

Brubeck: an incredible jazz legacy. 

National Theatre Live: A View From the Bridge

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 13th - 25th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 13th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Daniel Sloss: So? (Late Shows)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Venue150 at EICC
• 12th - 27th Aug 2016

Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor. 

Shanghai Opera House: Thunderstorm - sponsored by MG

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• London Coliseum
• 11th - 14th Aug 2016

Thunderstorm is an award-winning modern opera about family, society and corruption in Old Shanghai. 

National Theatre Live: As You Like It

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 11th - 18th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 10th - 24th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 8th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Hangmen

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 7th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 6th - 20th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Opera Mouse

• Review
• ★★★★
• James Beagon
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 10th Aug, 2016

Opera Mouse is a pleasant Canadian import presented as a one-woman puppet show by Melanie Gall. 

National Theatre Live: The Audience

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly Rooms
• 5th - 15th Aug 2016

Cinema screening of live performance. 

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Game Shows

• Review
• ★★★★★
• William Heraghty
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Assembly George Square Gardens
• 8th Aug, 2016

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 Slayer: 24 Hour Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Heroes @ Bob’s BlundaBus
• 4th - 29th Aug 2016

Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures. 

What Can You Do to Make Your Venue Autism-Friendly?

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central@Infirmary Street
• 1st - 2nd Aug 2016

Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants. 

National Killing Day

• Listing
Theatre
• UK Regional & Tours
• The Kings Arms
• 19th - 22nd Jul 2016

‘On a day when the UK government have declared slaying legal, James has the urge to pay his ex wife a visit. 

The Threepenny Opera

• Review
• ★★★
• Simon Ximenez
• West End
• National Theatre
• 3rd Jul, 2016

A common preconception of Brecht’s work is that his political views, his ‘anti-theatre’ style and the didactic tag that precedes any conversation about it, creates theatre that s… 

Tenors Unlimited:The Rat Pack of Opera

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Johanna Makelainen
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 17th May, 2016

The atmospheric Spiegeltent was bursting at the seams as the three tenors took the stage and the audience with their sunny, easy-going manner. 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
Nightlife
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 7th - 29th May 2016

Sell-out 2014 and 2015, the ‘English Disco Lovers’ are back at the best little tent at Brighton Fringe. 

English National Ballet - She Said

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• London Fringe
• Sadlers Wells
• 13th - 16th Apr 2016

English National Ballet’s triple bill features three new pieces created by world-class female choreographers Aszure Barton, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Yabin Wang. 

English Concert

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 13th Mar 2016

This impressive period ensemble continues its series of Handel performances in New York, which last season included a memorable “Alcina. 

Heartbeat Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Theater at St. Clement’s
• 10th - 20th Mar 2016

The adventurous Cantata Profana ensemble teams up for the second time with its innovative sister company, Heartbeat Opera, for re-imagined, contemporary productions of Donizetti… 

Russian National Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 2nd Mar 2016

This acclaimed orchestra, which made its debut in 1990, brings a Russian program to Carnegie Hall. 

National Sawdust Percussion Festival

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• National Sawdust
• 20th Feb 2016

This five-hour percussion marathon curated by Andy Akiho and Ian Rosenbaum features works by Steve Reich, Jason Treuting, Mark Applebaum, Paul Lansky and a premiere by Mr. 

Valentines Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• USA Regional & Tours
• Littlefield / Magnet Theater / The Stand
• 9th - 14th Feb 2016

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… 

Orchestre National de France

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 28th Jan 2016

Daniele Gatti conducts this acclaimed orchestra in a program including Debussy’s ethereal “Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune” as well a… 

New York City Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center
• 2nd Jan 2016

A renaissance, this company is calling it: After bankruptcy and a protracted legal battle, the name, at least, has returned. 

Metropolitan Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
• 2nd Jan 2016

Two alluring sopranos making house role debuts are on the lineup this week: Nina Stemme sings with a powerful, luxuriant voice and offers an unusually nuanced portrayal of the titl… 

Prototype: Opera/Theater/Now

• Listing
Theatre
• Off Broadway
• various locations
• 31st Dec 2015

(performances start on Wednesday) A tuneful celebration of musical and theatrical experiment, this year’s festival features the world premiere of “Angel’s Bone,&#… 

Amore Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Sheen Center
• 18th Dec 2015 - 31st Dec 2016

This energetic small company, an offshoot of the now defunct Amato Opera, offers its production of “La Bohème” directed by Nathan Hull, conducted by Jason Tramm an… 

Mannes Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
• 11th - 12th Dec 2015

The young singers of Mannes Opera have a chance to demonstrate their vocal and comic gifts in Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’amore,” presented in a fully sta… 

Juilliard Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Lincoln Center
• 18th - 22nd Nov 2015

In their first performances of the season, these reliable students a double bill of dark comedies: Poulenc’s “Les mamelles de Tirésias” and Viktor Ullmann… 

Chelsea Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• St. Peter’s Church
• 12th - 14th Nov 2015

Chelsea Opera has been admirably committed to “Glory Denied,” the opera by the composer Tom Cipullo. 

Tosca

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
• 16th Oct 2015 - 28th Nov 2016

One of the most controversial productions of the Peter Gelb era, Luc Bondy’s “Tosca,” returns to the stage for a run that lasts through Dec. 

National Sawdust

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• National Sawdust
• 30th Sep 2015

Brooklyn has been a hotbed of musical creativity for some time. 

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The National Lampoon in New York City 1970-1988

• Listing
Comedy
• USA Regional & Tours
• 92nd Street Y
• 10th Sep 2015

In anticipation of Douglas Tirola’s documentary “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon” (to be released on Sept. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 27th Aug 2015

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Plain English

• Review
• ★★
• Elaine Liner
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 25th Aug, 2015

There is no shortage of solo shows about valiant teachers. 

The English Channel

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Zoo
• 23rd - 29th Aug 2015

After 60 years, Liz Aggiss finally gives herself permission to do what she damn well pleases. 

Shakuntala: A Rock Opera in English

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Church Hill Theatre
• 16th - 21st Aug 2015

Shakuntala: A Rock Opera in English, is based on an ancient Indian folk tale by the famous poet Kalidasa. 

Daniel Sloss: Dark: Extra Shows!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Venue150@EICC
• 14th - 29th Aug 2015

Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox. 

Opera Mouse

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Edinburgh Fringe
• The Safari Lounge
• 12th - 31st Aug 2015

Tilly Mouse lives under an opera house, and she just loves to sing! Her dream is to perform on stage. 

Fat Shirley's: A Trailer Park Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Cafe Camino
• 10th - 23rd Aug 2015

A cacophony of foot-stomping bluegrass musical numbers telling the simple story of a very simple community. 

The Nursery Improv Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Thistle Edinburgh, The King James
• 7th - 30th Aug 2015

The Nursery together with Freestival is bringing an improv only venue to Edinburgh - a Fringe first! Every night for three weeks, the Holyrood Suite at the Thistle Hotel will trans… 

English Cabaret Hour

• Listing
Cabaret and Variety
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C south
• 6th - 31st Aug 2015

The English Rose of the contemporary cabaret scene, Sue Casson, returns for a second year with another mouth-watering smörgåsbord of song, satire and shortbread. 

My Favourite Words in the English Language

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just the Tonic at The Tron
• 6th - 30th Aug 2015

Omid Singh is an American touring stand-up comedian, based in Los Angeles. 

Sunshine! Japanese Rakugo Comedy in English!

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Spotlites
• 6th - 31st Aug 2015

Sunshine! Japanese Rakugo Comedy in English! Come for an hour of laughter and leave with a piece of Japan in your heart! Currently on his world tour! ‘This blonde raconteur with … 

Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Against English Giant Windmills!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ Espionage
• 6th - 30th Aug 2015

A comedian came to Edinburgh from Japan, the country worst at speaking English! After miscommunication, cultural friction, struggle with an immigration officer, a disastrous first … 

The Underbelly Radio Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly Med Quad
• 5th - 28th Aug 2015

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… 

Soweto Afro Pop Opera

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C
• 5th - 31st Aug 2015

A harmony quartet offering as wide-ranging a repertoire as their name suggests, coming across like a South African Il Divo and a sleepy Ave Maria. 

DellArte Opera Ensemble

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Baruch Performing Arts Center, Rose Nagelberg Theater
• 2nd Aug 2015

This enterprising young group, accompanied by the Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra, celebrates the playwright Beaumarchais with operas famous and obscure. 

Apotheosis Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• El Museo del Barrio
• 31st Jul 2015 - 31st Jul 2016

Many start-up opera companies focus on baroque works, operetta or chamber operas. 

Glimmerglass Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Glimmerglass Opera
• 1st Jul 2015

This summer the Glimmerglass Festival, which continues to thrive under the leadership of the director Francesca Zambello, offers four main stage productions, all them up and runnin… 

On Site Opera

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Fabbri Mansion, House of the Redeemer
• 9th Jun 2015

This imaginative company offers a site-specific staging of the “Barber of Seville. 

Shows for Days

• Listing
Theatre
• Off Broadway
• Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center
• 31st May 2015

(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… 

Venue B @ Brighton Youth Centre

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Youth Centre
• 23rd - 30th May 2015

See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details. 

The Improverts - Exam Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh
• Teviot Debating Hall, Teviot Row House
• 14th - 15th May 2015

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 Evening With... The Rat Pack of Opera

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 10th May 2015

An entertaining and uplifting hour of stunning vocals, luscious harmonies and witty banter from the UK’s premier classical-crossover vocal trio. 

The Colin Hoult Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Warren: Theatre Box
• 7th - 25th May 2015

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… 

English Disco Lovers

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 3rd - 24th May 2015

Honoured to be invited back for two nights of disco celebration at Brighton Fringe after a sell-out debut at the beautiful Spiegeltent in 2014. 

An Opera of Daniel

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Unitarian Church
• 3rd May 2015

The biblical story of Daniel is well-known: the writing on the wall at Belshazzar’s feast, Daniel’s rise to power, his fall at the hands of conspirators - and the lions’ den. 

English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 1st May 2015

Closing Carnegie Hall’s Before Bach festival, these two superb ensembles, both led by the great John Eliot Gardiner, turn their attention to Monteverdi’s seminal 1607 o… 

National Open Art @ SILO

• Listing
Exhibition
• Brighton Fringe
• SILO
• 1st - 31st May 2015

Highly-acclaimed art and food - an exciting collaboration between National Open Art (NOA) on its UK tour with selected artists and SILO, an innovative restaurant|bakery|coffee hous… 

Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center
• 22nd Mar 2015

Every year, opera lovers have a chance to hear the stars of the future during the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Grand Finals concert. 

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 11th Feb 2015

Scandinavian works unsurprisingly make up this touring ensemble’s program. 

The Improverts - London Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• London Fringe
• The Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar
• 9th - 10th Jan 2015

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… 

Voce: Rising Opera Stars in Recital

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University
• 21st Sep 2014

This series at Pace University, started last year by the veteran impresario Matthew A. 

National Ballet of Canada: Alices Adventures in Wonderland

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• USA Regional & Tours
• David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
• 31st Aug 2014

There are many ways of falling down the rabbit hole, and Christopher Wheeldon, along with his creative team, has devised an extravagant one. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 22nd Aug 2014

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved. 

Fury and Flirtation: Opera Scenes

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• St Andrew’s and St George’s West, George St
• 13th - 19th Aug 2014

Following sell-out shows and five-star reviews, Edinburgh Studio Opera returns to the Fringe once again in Fury and Flirtation: Opera Scenes. 

Opera Alba

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• artSpace@StMarks
• 12th - 14th Aug 2014

Opera Alba’s aim is to provide luxury entertainment, accessible to all, offering a wide-ranging repertoire from opera’s greatest hits to traditional Scottish favourites in Derek Cl… 

Meet the National Theatre Literary Department and Studio

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Fringe Central
• 11th - 18th Aug 2014

This talk is ideal for theatre-makers of all kinds who create work from scratch and want to find out more about how the National Theatre develops work. 

The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Emily Dunford
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Venue45
• 14th Aug, 2014

I loved The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera because, although the cast are by no means the best dancers, singers or actors, this production has so much charisma and passio… 

Daniel Sloss – Really...?! Extra Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Venue150@EICC
• 8th - 23rd Aug 2014

Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox. 

National Collective Presents...

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• 7th - 23rd Aug 2014

As the date of Scotland’s Referendum fast approaches, National Collective presents a series of entertaining and informative performances, speakers and discussions to inspire deba… 

Sensing Humour in English

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Edinburgh Language Centre
• 5th - 6th Aug 2014

ELTons award winning English language material writers and teachers delve into the experiences of getting it and not getting it in English. 

Bare: A Pop Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• Edinburgh Fringe
• theSpace @ Surgeons Hall
• 4th - 15th Aug 2014

Through its pulsating rock score and emotionally charged story, Bare has thrilled and moved audiences around the world since its first staging in Los Angeles over a decade ago. 

National Loaf

• Review
• ★
• Tom King
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Paradise in The Vault
• 8th Aug, 2014

There’s a sort of delicious irony to queuing for a show about rationing whilst watching one of the cast frantically stuffing their face with crisps. 

Metropolitan Opera HD Series

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Lincoln Center Plaza
• 2nd Aug 2014

With the Metropolitan Opera and labor unions agreeing to a new contract deal, the show can go on. 

English Cabaret Hour

• Review
• ★★★
• Emma Gibson
• Edinburgh Fringe
• C venues - C south
• 16th Aug, 2014

Set at the fictional Celebrity Café, this cabaret features sketches, song, and the baking of mini-cupcakes. 

Japanese Samurai Don Quixote Challenging Giant English Windmills!

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Laughing Horse @ The Free Sisters
• 31st Jul - 24th Aug 2014

A stand-up comedian arrived in Edinburgh from Japan, the country worst at speaking English! After miscommunication, cultural friction, struggles with an immigration officer, a disa… 

Soweto Afro-Pop Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Rivkah Brown
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Underbelly, Bristo Square
• 19th Aug, 2014

Despite the geographical specificity of their title, the performers of the Soweto Afro-Pop Opera draw their influences as widely as the so-called ‘Rainbow Nation’ from which th… 

The Art of Golf: The Story of Scotland's National Sport

• Listing
Exhibition
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Scottish National Gallery
• 28th Jul - 31st Aug 2014

The exhibition includes paintings of early links courses in Bruntsfield, Leith and Musselburgh, and features the greatest golf painting of all time, Charles Lees’ The Golfers (18… 

National Youth Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
• 22nd Jul 2014

This orchestra of gifted youngsters itching to prove themselves takes to Carnegie Hall’s main stage under the direction of David Robertson in a vibrant program of classics, i… 

Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield / Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park
• 23rd - 25th Jun 2014

In recent years, the Met has been fielding free concerts with young artists in lieu of its old series of operas in concert. 

Children's Shows and Workshops

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Brighton Fringe
• Academy of Creative Training / The Old Market
• 31st May - 1st Jun 2014

A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement. 

Gotham Chamber Opera

• Listing
Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
• USA Regional & Tours
• Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
• 28th May 2014 - 28th May 2015

Alessandra Ferri took a break from dancing after her 2007 retirement from American Ballet Theater, but recently she has been drawn back to the stage. 

How to: Run a Venue at Brighton Fringe

• Listing
Workshop
• Brighton Fringe
• Marlborough Theatre
• 24th May 2014

Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va… 

Venue B

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Youth Centre
• 24th - 31st May 2014

What kind of music do you like? We got it. 

Venue B Presents the Mystery Weekender

• Listing
Children’s Shows
• Brighton Fringe
• To be discovered…
• 24th - 25th May 2014

2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�… 

An Evening of English Nonsense

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• St Luke’s Church - Queens Park
• 23rd May 2014

Come and celebrate English eccentricity with Duck Soup and the Trio Buschellini in a uniquely silly concert that will take you from the Village Green to a Persian Market and back a… 

King & Country World War 1 Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Duncan Grindall
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Unitarian Church
• 29th May, 2014

The King and Country World War I Opera is a show presented in a rather strange format at the Brighton Fringe Festival. 

The Greatest Shows on Earth

• Listing
Music
• Brighton Fringe
• Brighton Spiegeltent
• 17th May 2014

A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals. 

Opera Naked: Singers' Lives Laid Bare

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Johanna Makelainen
• Brighton Fringe
• The Chapel Royal
• 26th May, 2014

Warning: this operatic cabaret contains no nudity in spite of its name. 

The Colin Hoult Shows

• Listing
Comedy
• Brighton Fringe
• The Burrow at The Warren
• 5th - 25th May 2014

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. 

Opera Lafayette

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
• 2nd May 2014

This excellent group, specializing in the French Baroque, turns its attention to Rameau in honor of the 250th anniversary of his death. 

Opera Feroce

• Listing
Music
• USA Regional & Tours
• Middle Collegiate Church
• 15th Apr 2014

A relatively new player among New York’s shoestring opera companies, this six-member company, which focuses on Baroque repertory, offers “Magdalene’s Dilemma,R… 

The Phantom of the Opera

• Listing
Musicals and Opera
• West End
• Her Majesty’s Theatre
• 3rd Apr 2014 - 29th Mar 2025

Based on the 1910 novel “Le Fantome de l’Opéra”, The Phantom of the Opera was adapted into a musical sensation by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is currently showing at Her Majesty… 

The Threepenny Opera

• Listing
Theatre
• Off Broadway
• Linda Gross Theater
• 1st Mar 2014

(in previews; opens on April 7) Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s glittering gutter-musical masterwork returns courtesy of Atlantic Theater Company in this production of Marc B… 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 23rd Aug 2013

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

Fringe Guide to Running a Venue

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 23rd Aug 2013

Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking. 

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

• Review
• ★★★★
• Bryce Lucas
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 19th Aug, 2013

In the familiar surroundings of their hometown venue, Tommy Smith and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra showed why they have become one of the most respected ensembles of their … 

Blues! Live at Venue 45

• Listing
Music / Music
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 13th - 22nd Aug 2013

The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45. 

Pigeon English

• Review
• ★★★
• Tom Moyser
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 20th Aug, 2013

Gbolahan Obisesan’s adaptation of Stephen Kelman’s novel Pigeon English has a lot of big names behind it: a popular novel and school classroom-reader; an acclaimed playwright; and … 

Meet the National Theatre Studio and Literary Department

• Listing
Events
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th - 19th Aug 2013

Meet the National Theatre studio and literary department and find out more about how the National Theatre develops work. 

Daniel Sloss - Stand-Up (Extra Shows!)

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 9th - 24th Aug 2013

Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox. 

Secret Opera Society

• Review
• ★★★
• Lily Blacksell
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 8th Aug, 2013

Centotre’s Italian food is delicious. 

Secret Opera Society

• Review
• ★★★★
• Laura Francis
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 20th Aug, 2012

The Secret Opera Society event at restaurant Centotre brings together music and cuisine in a stunning fusion of Italian culture with a strong Scottish sensibility and humour. 

Robbie the Robot Learns English - And Saves the Day!

• Review
• ★★
• Lia Sanders
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 9th Aug, 2013

Just because a show is intended for children is no excuse for bad acting. 

BiDiNG TiME - Various Shows

• Listing
Theatre
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 5th - 24th Aug 2013

International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations. 

The Horne Section Live in a Cow - Extra Shows

• Listing
Comedy / Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 3rd - 24th Aug 2013

Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem. 

Iain Stirling: At Home - Extra Shows

• Listing
Comedy / Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 1st - 23rd Aug 2013

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. 

This Is Soap: The Improvised Soap Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Emma Obank
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 14th Aug, 2013

Year after year, a plethora of improv acts arrive in Edinburgh for the fringe. 

The Francis Bacon Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Peter Scott-Presland
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 1st Sep, 2012

The 1985 South Bank Show interview with Francis Bacon is a television classic. 

Pop-up Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Peter Scott-Presland
• London Fringe
• 21st Jun, 2013

Pop-Up Opera are a (very) small-scale touring company taking opera with piano accompaniment to unusual venues in the hope of creating new audiences. 

The Big Bite-Size Breakfast /Matinee Shows

• Review
• ★★★★
• Pete Shaw
• Brighton Fringe
• 3rd May, 2009

The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title. 

Daniel Sloss - Extra Shows!

• Review
• ★★★★
• Frankie Goodway
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 12th Aug, 2012

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… 

Jerry Springer The Opera

• Review
• ★★★★★
• Rob Marks
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 16th Aug, 2009

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. 

National Theatre of Scotland Presents Love Letters to the Public Transport System By Molly Taylor

• Review
• ★★★★
• James Beagon
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 6th Aug, 2012

Writing a show is a difficult enough task; to then both act and direct said show is worthy of a titan. 

Opera Shorts

• Review
• ★★★★
• Alan Chorley
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 6th Aug, 2008

Opera Shorts was created in late 2007 with the objective of creating a platform for young up-and-coming composers in Scotland. 

Prototype Festival: Opera/Theater/Now

• Listing
Theatre
• Off Off Broadway

(performances start on Jan. 

Fairy Liquid And The Burst Bubble ... And Other Science Shows

• Review
• ★★★★
• Kathryn Mack
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 16th Aug, 2009

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. 

The Great British Soap Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Damian Sandys
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 14th Aug, 2009

The UK loves a good soap opera. 

Random History of Rock'n'Roll in Middle English, by Geoff Chaucer Junior

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard O’Brien
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 27th Aug, 2010

This is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. 

Chris Stokes: An Opera Written On Napkins

• Review
• ★★★
• Madeleine Ash
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 20th Aug, 2012

The phrase ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ is one your parents will most certainly have quoted at you at some point - no doubt when it seemed a particularly unhelpf… 

The Red Bus Puppet Shows

• Review
• ★★★
• Kai Sedgwick
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 7th Aug, 2012

It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows. 

The National

• Review
• ★★★
• Richard O’Brien
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 27th Aug, 2011

There’s something a little unusual about The National’s rise to power as a festival-filling headline band; their sound is so hushed, so intimate, so suited to a guttering candle an… 

Szambalia: Rock Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Ilana Hirschberg
• FUSE International
• 20th Jul, 2014

From the Red Light district in Second World War Germany to the lost tunnels under the Red Gate of Tibet, this original rock opera by the Maciej Pawlowski Musical School follows the… 

Dan Nightingale: The 11 and a 1/2 Ill-conceived Edinburgh Shows of Dan Nightingale

• Review
• ★★★★
• Wayne Cleworth
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 6th Aug, 2012

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 Threepenny Opera

• Review
• ★★★★
• Pete Shaw
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 1st Aug, 2005

Much has been written about Brechts Threepenny Opera - after all, it was written in 1928 and plenty of critics have had a chance to dissect what has been become one of the earliest… 

Animal Songs: Bestiaries in English, French, and German

• Review
• ★★★
• Julia Oliphant
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 15th Aug, 2012

In this show, Stephen Swanson and David Gompper present a classical recital of 25 songs from a fine selection of composers and lyricists, including Gompper himself. 

Amused Moose Comedy's National New Comic Award: Final

• Listing
Comedy
• Edinburgh Fringe
• Just the Tonic at The Grassmarket Centre
• 19th Aug 2019

Vote excitedly alongside dozens of international talent scouts for 2018’s hottest breakthrough stars in the making, who battle for glory, fame and the shiny moose trophy. 

National Youth Orchestra of the USA

• Listing
Music / Music / Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 9th Aug 2019

Davis Delicate TensionBerlioz Les nuits d’été Prokofiev Symphony No 5 Opening the concert is Delicate Tension by Tyson J. 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

• Listing
Music
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Usher Hall
• 10th Aug 2019

James MacMillan Quickening Strauss Ein Heldenleben Birth, life, struggles and triumphs: two immensely powerful reflections on our existence, performed by a celebrated Internatio… 

VAULT Announces New London Venue and Return of VAULT Festival for 2024

• Feature
• Levi Bailey
• London Fringe
• 28th Nov, 2023

VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn. 

Five outstanding EdFringe shows scoop a Broadway Baby Bobby in 2023

• Feature
• Pete Shaw
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 25th Aug, 2023

A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. 

4 Family Friendly Shows in Brighton This Half Term

• Feature
• Elanor Parker
• Brighton
• 16th Feb, 2019

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. 

5 Brighton Shows To Entertain You This Christmas

• Feature
• Elanor Parker
• Brighton
• 11th Dec, 2018

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. 

5 Brighton HorrorFest Shows To Sink Your Teeth Into This October

• Feature
• Elanor Parker
• Brighton
• 17th Oct, 2018

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.  

Black Friday Deals on West End Shows

• Feature
• Levi Bailey
• West End
• 23rd Nov, 2017

All this week we've got some fantastic offers on your favourite West End shows. Check back daily for the latest offers. 

The Scottish Story Telling Centre: A Venue for Voices

• Feature
• Richard Beck
• Edinburgh Fringe
• 21st Aug, 2017

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events... 

Eight shows heading to Brighton Fringe with the support of Greenwich Theatre

• Feature
• Levi Bailey
• Brighton Fringe
• 27th Apr, 2017

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... 

Brighton Fringe: 10 Shows to Book Before They Sell-Out

• Feature
• Nicholas Abrams
• Brighton Fringe
• 11th Apr, 2017