Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
UK PREMIERE Director Christiane Jatahy fuses the qualities of cinema and theatre to explore structural racism and the legacy of slavery in her native Brazil.
The Mandé jazz sensations blend West African folkloric music with the sounds of London’s music scene.
Jenny is an award-winning, court-case fighting (no spoilers), Welsh stand-up comedian.
An hour of mind-bending semi-improvised physically inflected comedy from dancer/comedian Lewys Holt.
Trust, truth, and tequila.
With oral history passed down over the family generations, Peter gives a stirring and passionate account of his great-grandmother’s hard-fought campaign for the right to vote ove…
Using The Trojan Women by Euripides as a starting point, After Troy interweaves the stories of those women left behind, awaiting their fate with the stories of the women who have s…
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Midlife gets a dose of music and magic in this transformational take on Oz.
Edinburgh’s iconic independent and award-winning music venue showcases the city’s phenomenal local talent with nightly danceable live funk, soul, blues and special jazz performance…
The tumultuous life of Richard III: not the villain of Shakespearean lore, but loyal brother to a king, devoted husband and father, and eventually reluctant monarch.
Gritty, powerful and daringly revolutionary, Cruel Britannia: After Frankenstein is a transgender reimagining of Shelley’s seminal novel, set in the year of our Lord 1980.
Join us at the world-renowned tapestry studio after hours.
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
An actor makes a deal with the devil.
Teachers know the feeling all too well.
Mosinee, Wisconsin, 1950.
A comedy drama… or “dramedy” about Ade, a successful writer, or so it seems.
After their sell-out sensation at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023, Insane Magic are back.
An hour of wall-to-wall laughs from two of Scotland’s most exciting new comedians – Liam Jackson and Grant Barr! Liam dissects his mishaps in the job market, travels and Scottish…
After Endgame masterfully combines the strategic nuances of chess with the uproarious comedy of life.
Nick Cassenbaum’s two-hander comedy heist, directed by Emma Jude Harris, romps through 2018 Jewish Essex.
We all know the fairy tales and their immortal final line: happily ever after… But that isn’t real life.
BC:AD (Before Children, After Diapers) is a stand-up comedy show and one mad, mommy’s take on how the definitions of words change before and during motherhood.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
A new solo performance by Funny Women finalist Natalie Bellingham using comedy, storytelling, movement and interaction to celebrate being human in all its banality, sprinkled with …
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 …
A musical puppet show with mischief and mycelium! When Ivy answers a call for help from a stranded worm she is led on a wild adventure! Soon she is battling birds, meeting mystica…
All of us have been on our own respective journey individually, focusing on healing from heartbreak, trauma, loss and a rediscovery of self.
Naughty Ever After has been ruining childhood memories at festivals around the world since 2017 .
Join Chichester Festival Theatre as part of our Life After Fringe series, highlighting development opportunities post-Fringe.
Join the team from World Fringe and National Rural Touring Forum to find out what’s next for you post-Fringe.
Mayor, Cabinet Minister and stooge; not the CV of Boris Johnson, but just some of the jobs attempted by Sandy Surname, the protagonist of the uneven, but entertaining narrative ske…
The Working Girls of Soho, takes you on a captivating journey of discovery, meeting the women who made Soho happen.
Aziz Ansari and guests work on new material.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
Let’s just get this out the way: Colin Cloud’s After Dark is the most powerful, impressive and poignant magic and mentalist show I’ve ever seen.
Don’t be put off by the topic - this dance show about death is far from gloomy.
A darkly comedic play-with-music about 16th century Italian diplomat and self-described “comedian, tragedian, historian” Niccolò Machiavelli’s relationship and creative part…
A darkly comedic Goth-Rock musical about the life, misadventures and failures of Niccolò Machiavelli.
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
A creeping deadline, combined with creative block and family tensions makes a wacky, hybrid piece.
Francesca is a 20-year-old woman who is able to time travel to speak to her younger self. A multi-genre devised piece about the different stages of growing up and its consequences.
The Sleep Project: presented by Arcana Company.
The Sleep Project: presented by Arcana Company.
The neo-trad trio brings its innovative blend of Scottish traditional music and pop influences to The Hub.
Scotland’s mercurial and psychedelic Safehouse return for a tenth year playing homage to the Allman Brothers Band in Edinburgh’s finest live venue – Stramash.
Director Dennis Corsi writes “At the end of a play, a gay couple celebrates their one-year anniversary.
Brand-new original musical drama comedy based on the true stories of Jill Morrell and John McCarthy.
What happens to Shakespeare’s best-loved heroes and most reviled villains after the curtain falls? Come and join a host of familiar Shakespearean characters as they reflect back on…
MI5 operative.
Following his sell-out 2022 show, award-winning stand-up and viral sensation Ali Woods returns with loads of new material! Nominated for Best Show at Leicester Fringe 2023, Ali has…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
After The Act (A Section 28 Musical) is an eye-opening performance about Section 28 a series of laws introduced to the UK in the 1980s that prohibited the “promotion of homosexua…
Irish madman John Spillane is back with the return of his 100% improvised stand-up show.
Award-winning actor/playwright John Jiler and clarinetist Sweet Lee Odom tell the remarkable story of the youngest child of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
I quit drinking in 2019.
Berlin’s prince and princess of art rock and Europop, Otto and Astrid, spent years arguing about which songs should appear on their much-anticipated fifth Die Roten Punkte album.
Celebrate the mining heritage of County Durham, the history, the passion and camaradarie through story, poem and song performed by members of The Cheesy Waffles Project showing the…
Celebrate the mining heritage of County Durham, the history, the passion and camaradarie through story, poem and song performed by members of The Cheesy Waffles Project showing the…
Mark Robert Petty presents Don’t Tell The Bishops! The After-Pride Concert at The Actors’ Church on Sunday 2nd July at 7.
About the show A Creative Youth special performance in association with the Korean British Cultural Exchange 'We have all experienced the feeling of anxiety that co…
Poet Alceste is disgusted with French society & life at court.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
Venue B hosts a monthly sell out gig of local young up and coming bands and DJs.
A comedy about the passing of time.
A comedy about the passing of time.
Wine and Hotdogs is a 60 minute piece about young love and friendship.
Project COMEDY: Gag’s Army.
Project COMEDY: Gag’s Army.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus present their annual Fringe Festival show - After Dark.
UPDATE: Tickets for tonight’s performance are no longer available through the Fringe Box Office.
Meet outrageous office admins: Grace and Amy, stuck in a soul-sucking job slogging their way through the working week.
Premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2021, After Love is a powerful exploration of love and loss.
What’s the only thing proven to change the world? That’s right: issue-led fringe theatre.
Abseiling lesbians! Queers in classrooms! Perverts panicking parents! And an act of oppression that inspired a generational riot.
“Ripe tomato.
Yuanzi/原子 is a doomer in her 20s and a Chinese living in London.
The intimate and sensual Tango After Dark delves into the world of authentic Argentine tango.
On the 100th anniversary of the classic horror film’s original release, Theatre Non Grata are bringing Nosferatu both to the stage and back from the dead.
In her fabulous new show The Working Girls of Soho, Josephine Pembroke, creator of Pussies Galore, the infamous club act of the 1990s and darling of the iconic Café de Paris, Heav…
Our show will take you on an exciting journey through the world of Broadway showtunes all the way to some of your favourite pop song classics.
From the experience of the Europe Funded Deaf-led project Beyond Signs, we invite professionals and artists from Scotland and abroad to support and participate in the International…
Surrealist stand-up comedian George Bricher will take you on a path of bizarre thought experiments, strange rants and lessons in how to stay optimistic in the face of middle-class …
Scotland’s mercurial and psychedelic Safehouse return paying homage to the Allman Brothers Band in arguably Edinburgh’s finest live-music venue, Stramash.
In 2017, I was raped.
Children’s Classic Ballet for Dance Teachers offer a workshop on how to teach children’s classical ballet, split between a theoretical lecture and a practical demonstration.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov, performed by the best young classical musicians out there – all ROSL prizewinners.
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries as performed by ROSL prize-winners; some of the finest international classical musicians arou…
A post-lunch concert of romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from ROSL’s renowned Annual Music C…
Alongside sell-out tribute shows to Gil Scott-Heron and Jimi Hendrix, Remally returns to the Fringe with a whole set of new original funk and soul music! Expect massive grooves, he…
The Loving Earth Project, started by a few Quakers in 2019, now comprises over 400 textile panels exploring responses to climate change and environmental breakdown.
The After-Dinner Joke doesn’t quite land.
Boiler suits, beanies and a barrow! That’s what was waiting for this musical duo when lockdown hit! From a sunny party land in Gran Canaria to the cold, wet, windy Western Isles …
Allyson June Smith and Daisy Earl are two of the highest regarded female comedians in the industry.
Working, from the book by Studs Terkel.
Filed mistakenly under E for Mystery: unscripted episodes of the television anthology known as The Twilight Zone.
Not ready for the night to end? Neither are we! So head on over to The All Irish After Party, where the craic is only just beginning!! A true late night show, this show is always b…
From interviewing guests such as Lorraine Kelly and Karen Dunbar, drag queen Vanity von Glow swaps the studio for the stage as she interviews the stars of the Fringe in this hour-l…
Rhum and Clay's Project Dictator is a commentary on democracy and dictatorships, utilising different theatre genres to do so.
The Laramie Project is about the 1998 murder of gay university student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.
The Song Project returns in 2022 with nine performances in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at the Royal Court, followed by performances at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) lat…
Mime duo DeRonde/Deroo explore the struggle and the beauty of melancholy in this award-winning, visually stunning physical performance.
Mime duo DeRonde/Deroo explore the struggle and the beauty of melancholy in this award-winning, visually stunning physical performance.
You walk into a play but none of the actors have learned their lines, because there are none.
You walk into a play but none of the actors have learned their lines, because there are none.
Award-winning improvisers, The Maydays, present ‘Happily Never After’: a twisted musical tale inspired by the likes of Tim Burton and The Brothers Grimm.
Award-winning improvisers, The Maydays, present ‘Happily Never After’: a twisted musical tale inspired by the likes of Tim Burton and The Brothers Grimm.
We run comedy nights at this venue all year round but we have something special planned for the Fringe.
There’s something truly life-affirming about theatre that entertains and makes you think.
Theatre Relationship Managers, Anna Jefferson and Claire Soper, from Arts Council England will be holding an online advice session on Zoom to talk you through the National Lottery …
Algorithm After Party is Roy’s first headline show.
A delightfully funny and touching musical
One man.
Classical music, tango and cabaret - from Kurt Weill to Schoenberg, from Carlos Gardel to Britten, these musical genres have always found ways to meet.
The Gay Happiness Project is an 8-week mindfulness-based group training programme designed for gay men who want to increase happiness and life satisfaction.
To launch the book and showcase the podcast, I’m hosting a live event at the Museum of Comedy in Bloomsbury which will feature some of my favourite subje…
For over forty years, writer and comedian Arthur Smith has been at the forefront of new and emerging comedy.
Classical music, tango and cabaret.
Devine Tension Presents Dumfries & Galloway Pride 2021: After Party at The Theatre Royal, Dumfries An exclusive spectacle of camp drag performance of a variety of s…
Biting political satire The Guardian Observer”The perfect mash-up of drag, political satire, catchy music and entertainment” - Broadway Baby The critically acclaimed LIKE A S…
3 different comedians, 3 different styles - All mixed up into 1 tasty show! Jen Larner, Aruhan Galieva and Sean Bilton all met during lockdown (take you pick as to which one!), on …
Special After-Party Party.
After a critically acclaimed debut hour, Ollie Horn returns with a new hour of stand-up about what happens when you let yourself try new things.
Monkey Barrel Comedy’s alternative comedy night, Project X presents, all the way from Tennessee (US of America), The Chuck Wagon Chuckle with Dusty Rambusky! Join Dusty and his ban…
Classical music, tango and cabaret.
JONJO JURYJACQUI POTATOJANET DISTRICT COUNCILGINROSY ROSSTED ROGERSANT CJOYLESSBONKSPECIAL GUESTS ITS BEEN A LONG TIME COMING.
Concerts include: Saxophonist Jonathan Radford and pianist Ashley Fripp perform with some brilliant arrangements of some of Gershwin’s contemporaries, culminating with a show stopp…
The Emoji Project is an intergenerational, participatory anthology of new writing responding to emojis as an ever-evolving, nuanced language.
The Emoji Project is an intergenerational, participatory anthology of new writing responding to emojis as an ever-evolving, nuanced language.
Join Miss Carmen Aurora for ‘An Hour With The After Dark Cabaret & Burlesque’, offering a glamorous evening right in the heart of Camden.
Chopin is the inspiration for our post-lunchtime recitals.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
After a critically acclaimed debut hour, Ollie Horn returns with a new hour of stand-up about what happens when you let yourself try new things.
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.
A collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada.
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
Don’t miss The Tango Collective for a celebration of the life and work of composer Astor Piazzolla in the year that would have seen his 100th birthday.
Dance and digital worlds collide on this journey exploring choice and control.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
Join ‘The After Dark’ for a glamorous evening of cabaret and burlesque right in the heart of Brighton.
After the flood we hold the crystals, emerged from the mud.
Time has a habit of taking its revenges.
After the flood we hold the crystals, emerged from the mud.
After All These Years is a trilogy of plays courtesy of Close Quarter Productions and Theatre Reviva! in association with Holofcener Ltd.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
An ode to resilience, a celebration of shadow and light, an ancient ritual for our times ’If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and t…
In the mockumentary ‘Happily Ever After’ we meet Frank and Gary, a couple who were inspired by their own Disney themed nuptials to go into business planning the weddings of oth…
To launch the book and showcase the podcast, I’m hosting a live event at the Museum of Comedy in Bloomsbury which will feature some of my favourite subjects includ…
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov.
A post-lunch concert of the romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from ROSL’s renowned Annual Mus…
Edinburgh’s iconic independent and award-winning music venue showcases the city’s phenomenal local talent with nightly danceable live funk, soul, blues and special jazz performance…
Five years after the tragedy of Bly Manor, the world wants answers.
A pandemic-striken sitcom set on Zoom. The team of an on-demand gardening app struggle to keep their business functioning during the COVID-19 outbreak.
by Peter Quilter 22 January – 1 MarchMain House Thomas wakes up surprised and naked in a young man’s bed, and memories of last night’s one-night-stand …
Harrison Birtwistle’s iconic masterpiece retells the Orpheus myth in a non-linear narrative, as the opera’s leading characters appear in three distinct guises.
DRACULA: ONE BLOODY FANG AFTER ANOTHERWritten and Performed by John Hewer Whitby, England, 1897.
Orpheus in the Underworld transports us to a hedonistic, party-filled Underworld.
Willing to go to any lengths to be reunited with his one true love, the gods agree to let the grief-stricken Orpheus rescue his wife Eurydice from the underworld.
by Don Cotter FREE EVENT London.
Year 2099.
Packed with real stories, borrowed utensils, and secret ingredients, The Cardboard Kitchen Project explores cultural inheritance and what gets passed down through recipes and cultu…
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Back to Broadway: returning for their fourth annual evening of (decidedly secular) cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir head Back to Broadway with a glittering progr…
Join Willis & Vere for three evenings of live comedy podcast recordings with special guests.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Enjoy a relaxing concert of music from one of the kings of jazz and his contemporaries performed by Royal Over-Seas League prize-winners, some of the finest international classical…
Jeff, Heidi, Hunter, and Susan write a musical about Jeff, Heidi, Hunter, and Susan writing a musical.
Experience the romantic passion of the music of Rachmaninov and his contemporaries, performed by the best young classical musicians out there, all Royal Over-Seas League prize-winn…
A post-lunch concert of the romantic and passionate music of Chopin and his contemporaries, performed by the finest international classical talent from Royal Over-Seas League’s r…
The World premiere of a breathtaking new Cuban dance show, created in Havana.
Join Project X in welcoming the weird, wacky and the downright hilarious to the stage.
A past hit at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival! #213 is a silent, sad clown who has learned how to find laughter through the tears.
Backenders is a live comedy sketch parody of the BBC soap opera Eastenders.
Nothing’s Happening: A Black Mountain College Project celebrates and pays homage to the tiny school in the mountains of North Carolina that in 24 years became one of the most inf…
Back in 99, Tony Blair said ‘We’re all middle class now’.
Edinburgh’s only dedicated comedy open mic and best kept comedy secret – Mirth Meltdown – comes to the Fringe and we are after hours! Come see the finest comedians of the Fring…
‘At first you feel a winding pain.
Dress up for a special night at the Grange Club in trendy Stockbridge (following the Vibe Revue Supper Club) – live music and dancing from a range of jazz, pop and funk performer…
If this was billed as Music and took place in a concert hall, the MP4 Quartet’s perfomance of three pieces by Steve Reich, Pendulum Music, Different Trains and WC 9/11 would earn…
As a teenager, Calum asked a famous comedian how to get into comedy.
You never know what’ll change your life.
Hooray! ‘Bob is an Architect of the hilarious.
In 1961, Hannah’s mum, Angela, was in the Australian premiere production of The Sound of Music.
The Female Role Model Project is just that, a project.
At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe it can often feel very hard to be alone.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-dubbed ‘Lie-in King’, Seann Walsh returns to Edinburgh.
Hopefully, you know the kind of show you’re in for, with a deliciously meaningless title like this, and crafted surrealism is exactly what is in store.
A twisted, gothic musical tale inspired by Tim Burton and the Brothers Grimm.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
One woman, Fiona Clift, presents many women.
Bill Grundy’s fall from grace due to that interview with the Sex Pistols on Thames TV’s ‘Today’ programme and what he did next.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
The ‘Hera Project’ will present an exhibition and programme of readings, talks and performances exploring the links between creativity and health.
Scottee is making a new solo show commissioned by HOME about the c word – class.
Lady is trapped in a loveless marriage, surrounded by a dying husband and intolerant people, living a boring small-town life.
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
In June 2018 musical comedian, Micky P.
Nia’s found her true love, and it isn’t her fiancé.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
What’s it like to be the 11th most famous BBC Jeremy, behind Paxman, Clarkson, Vine and the rest? Sony Award-winning broadcaster, Jeremy Nicholas brings his succe…
Terence Rattigan personifies the maxim that you can’t keep a good man down.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and the self-dubbed “Lie-In King”, Seann Walsh is “unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation" (…
After diving into the world of romance and heartbreak in critically acclaimed multi-award winning May-We-Go-Round?, Cristina and Chess explore what it means to be a young woman in …
Using their powerful blend of comedy, energetic dance and theatre, they imagine a world where women can be, and do, whatever they want, breaking free of the boxes and letting go of…
Title and Deed by Farnham Maltings A beautiful and poetic evening of storytelling from the team that brought you Brilliance and The Iranian Feast.
£68 for 5 week courseWednesdays 4pm – 5.
A two-day (Tue 19 and Wed 20 Feb) creative animation project using old techniques and new technologies.
Jeff and Hunter have a dream – and that dream is for their work to be selected for the upcoming New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Gúna Nua presents the internationally acclaimed and multi award winning, The Morning After The Life Before, at The Liverpool Irish Arts Festival.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
Creative Projects: An afternoon with Wendy and friends at Greyfriars Kirk.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice is based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, who - unable to accept the death of his beloved wife Eurydice - descends into the Un…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
21 August 2018, 10:00-13:00, The Space @ Jury’s Inn.
COMMON is an arts organisation which exists to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, and help working-class artists build sustainable caree…
Tectonic Theatre’s The Laramie Project is a masterpiece in verbatim, a chronicle of the 1998 real-life kidnap and murder of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student from Wyoming.
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…
Whoever you are, you’ll only know first love once.
Returning for this their third annual evening of cabaret, the members of St Giles’ Cathedral Choir shirk their choir robes once more to perform a sparkling cocktail of (decidedly…
Take a trip through time to discover the origin of classic fairy tales from Aesop’s Fables to the Brothers Grimm to Disney.
Childhood friends Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are back after their smash-hit Fringe debut, serving up their dirtiest, most disturbing and patently misguided VHS finds from 25 year…
COMMON: GROUND is an initiative developed by COMMON, an arts organisation who exist to support the UK theatre industry in achieving greater socio-economic diversity, delivered with…
Every year I have to write a 100 word blurb for a new show and basically I’ve now been doing this long enough to know that none of this bullsh*t makes any difference.
In 2014, The Telegraph released an article headlined: “Five Geckos Freeze to Death on Space Sex Mission.
People who live with, work and volunteer in The Salvation Army’s Homelessness Services Units in Scotland participated in a big Paint Off on Friday 18th May.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme for Fringe participants.
Josh drinks Stella before yoga.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours.
Enjoy an hour of relaxing and evocative music from one of the greatest jazz composers and his contemporaries.
Join us in our overarching quest as we bring soul music to a troubled world.
Experience some of the most virtuosic classical music ever written by Rachmaninov and his contemporaries.
A post-lunch interlude with one of the greatest composers for piano, exploring the fire and gentility of Chopin and his contemporaries.
The end of the world is nigh.
Working Class Hero’s biggest flaw is that it isn’t about anything.
Al Lubel also considered Mean Jewish Boy and Boy of Inaction as titles.
Could you be a psychic spy? In 1972, the Cold War took an unusual turn.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Posturous Productions and the writer of the critically acclaimed Glass Slippers and Silver Bullets and the sell out shows The Haunted Hunt and Build-Up And Climax pr…
Want to experience doing your bit? Meet and hear from characters involved in the WWI war effort such as a field nurse, a coastguard, a canary girl and the mother of a soldier.
In this mixture of drama and black comedy, we meet TV presenter Bill Grundy some three years after his profanity-littered, car-crash interview with the Sex Pistols live on teatime …
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
A dazzling white floor space sets off Nigerian/Finnish Ima Iduozee’s black skin and his grey and black outfit perfectly in This Is The Title, a production in association with Fro…
Alexander Wright, our poet for the evening, tells us that this piece was written in The Meadows – the park not very far from Summerhall where they are performing now.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Multi award-winning creators of Anton’s Uncles, Track 3, Big Shot and Hot Cat, Theatre Movement Bazaar assembles its ultra-modern troubadours for the company’s latest adventure, …
Entering the Underbelly Fresian, we were enticed by the melodious notes of a live band playing.
Join Willis & Vere for their live comedy podcast recording with a new guest comedian every day.
Sony Award-winning broadcaster Jeremy Nicholas brings his hilarious debut hour.
Scottish rising star and oddball, Eleanor Morton tries to reinvent herself as the sexy, confident comedian she has always secretly probably been.
Produced by Raw Material, in association with the Beacon Arts Centre.
This is a new collaboration with a local drama company that will see an external director working collaboratively with members of the local community and our own student…
Sony Award-winning broadcaster, Jeremy Nicholas brings you his hilarious debut hour.
Award-winning improvisers, The Maydays, present ‘Happily Never After’; a twisted musical tale inspired by Tim Burton and The Brothers Grimm.
24th May 2015 was the day that Ireland became the first country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote.
Fiona Sagar (Funny Women Best Show Nominee 2016, The Groundlings Comedy Theatre, LA) returns to Brighton Fringe with her new character comedy show.
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.
Inspired by collecting stories for a eulogy, Angus looks at our evolving public selves, how our friends police who they think we should be, and thwart our attempts to try on new fa…
This is the description of the show.
Set in an apocalyptical world, After feels like a theatrical experiment on many levels.
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…
The Erebus Project has an interesting premise.
The young disabled students of the Orpheus Centre work the same magic as the original Orpheus – they make the world stop and listen.
“Funny, engaging, informative and empowering… You will leave feeling inspired, fulfilled and ready to change the world.
You may have seen comedians sweat on stage, but this is a line-up show with a difference! Hosted by ex-academic, ex-corporate lawyer, banjo player and sort-of-for-a-bit-one-tim…
After School Hours is an outrageously fun, wonderfully wacky cabaret for kids! Set in a whimsical vaudeville style world let Australia’s best entertainers show you things you’ve ne…
Want to be Instagram famous? Or want to know what’s really happening on social media? Get inside the head of an out of control ‘influencer’ and her perfectly curated life throu…
‘AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER’ - I remember listening to it & then again & again .
Welcome to the After Hours Cabaret Club.
Dave is single, stood with his mates at the bar, and is turning 30 next week.
When the night falls, the tango is revealed in its most authentic and pure form.
Experience the sublime harmonies of Adelaide’s acclaimed a cappella group Allegria, in the intimate surrounds of a unique underground venue - Adelaide’s Treasury Tunnels.
With Science telling us the prospect of life everlasting is just around the corner, Mike Rudd’s 1st BASE in Life after Life sees piano accordionist George Butrumlis and bassist J…
Sit back, close your eyes and enjoy the symphonic sounds of Fusion Pops Orchestra & Choir as they take you to the underworld, outer space and somewhere in between.
The Maydays present a tale of black comedy and music, inspired by Tim Burton Sitting in a Tin Can - Two astronauts kill time in a space capsule The Deconstruction - See our players…
The Ukrainian ballet star, Sergei Polunin has created a programme that will feature an international cast and creative team, including Polunin himself.
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Happily Never After - Created from a single audience suggestion, The Maydays weave a playful tale, full of black comedy and haunting songs.
A trio of improv: The Owls Are Not What They Seem revisits Twin Peaks.
The Society is part-show and part self-help group.
Award-winning improvisers The Maydays present this skin-prickling tale full of black comedy and haunting music, inspired by Tim Burton.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Winner of Asia and India’s Best Stand-up Comedian Awards, Papa CJ has performed over 2000 shows in over 20 countries.
Hip-hop dance superstars Boy Blue Entertainment bring emotional energy, fierce movement and blistering music in a bold dance show presented in the heart of the community of Craigmi…
Returning after their first immensely popular After Dark outing last year, the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers return with another sparkling cocktail of decidedly non-sacred…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A mind reading show based on the true story of America’s psychic spies.
Composer and pianist Julian Layn returns to the Fringe to perform his unique 21st century classical music, including his Thunderstorm Trilogy, the Queen and the Ecocalypse works.
This is a show about belonging.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
If you’re feeling adventurous after lunch, come along to these virtuoso performances of the great Romantic composer, Rachmaninov.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A post-lunch interlude with one of the greatest composers for piano, exploring the fire and the gentility of Chopin’s works.
Fourteen cast members.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
As Americans, who have we been and who are we now? Through a collage of song, scene and verbatim text, we explore our identity as a nation and attempt to answer where do we go from…
Nocturnal and intimate adventure through American golden age of music.
The ambiguity and space for misunderstanding in [title of show]’s name and concept are such that it is entirely possible it could put audience members off, but the University of …
Part of Summerhall’s Big in Belgium season, Working Method is an interactive piece which explores the process of making art.
The Amish Project (Ensemble Version), a story of grace and healing, is a fictionalized account of the shooting at an Amish school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 2006.
In Korea when somebody dies, people say they have gone ‘over the moon’ or ‘crossed the river’.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Beta-males Nathan D’Arcy Roberts (shortlisted for BBC Radio New Comedy Award, 2016) and Ross Smith (So You Think You’re Funny? Semi-Finalist, 2015) explore identity, nostalgia …
Award-winning improvisers The Maydays present this skin-prickling tale full of black comedy and haunting music, inspired by the warped imaginations of Tim Burton, Lemony Snicket an…
If Moonlight After Midnight were easier to follow, I’m sure it would make for an incredible piece from Concrete Drops Theatre.
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…
BlundaBus infamous and intimate late-night knees-up that probably isn’t for you.
Thought-provoking theatre and assured acting are on offer at this show, which is split into two plays, both written by the late playwright James Saunders, a one-time mentor to Tom …
Impromptu Shakespeare improvise a new & unique Shakespeare play on the spot from audience suggestions, while The Maydays present Happily Never After – a dark, twisted musical tal…
Solo autobiographical show exploring app dating - incorporating original song, spoken word and projection
An inventive and brilliant celebration of Access to Music Brighton as it faces closure.
Being inspired by fairy tales, Gothic themes and the warped imagination of Tim Burton was all-too-clear in the wide and undeniably impressive range of sketches, theatre troupe The …
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 …
Winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2016; this show tells the story of the three weeks that changed Scott’s life forever.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
Will and Heidi are two thoughtful, principled stand-ups who will do anything to get a laugh, including dropping all principles.
“This parable of limiting life down to human usefulness is as beautiful as it is bleak” (Exeunt).
Tap is visual jazz.
The Royal Ballet celebrates contemporary ballet with a programme that includes a world premiere from Crystal Pite and works by Christopher Wheeldon and David Dawson.
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…
We wonder why so many women wear an ill-fitting bra? Why do some women not wear a bra at all? Do women have to wear a bra? PERKY is a bra revolution, to ‘undo’ bewilderment ar…
More than 10 years ago, Alexander Gog embarked on a radical experiment in the extremes of artistic expression, social protest, &theatrical activism; caged & delivering nightly perf…
A darkly comic and dangerously dreamlike tale of past and present history colliding.
If you’re a student theatre company with somewhat limited resources, but still want to try your hand at a reasonably successful Broadway musical, then [title of show] is argua…
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Renowned pianist Martin Cousin performs a recital of Rachmaninov to fill the post-lunch relaxation mood. Tea, coffee and pastries included afterwards.
Get a glimpse of something new happening.
Jen Stone and Megan Thompson Dance Project is known for its dynamic physicality, powerful imagery and emotive choreography.
Experience the multi-talented Cathedral Choir singers as you’ve never heard them before in this decidedly non-sacred cabaret programme.
Mendelssohn and Webern, peformed by the Solem Quartet. Tea, coffee and other refreshments afterwards.
A Working Title is about the belated coming-of-age and struggles of millennials as they confront a world of expectations and disappointments.
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Award-winning comedy duo Noah & Jordan will debut their sketch show, ‘INSERT TITLE HERE’. A series of fast paced and energised sketches, each with their own caption or title.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the museum after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our spe…
Scotland’s fresh new opera company present a unique production of Charpentier’s Descent Of Orpheus to the Underworld in an exciting Scots language translation.
Chopin and the romantics.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Find the perfect whisky for your personality.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
In the wake of the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history, Allison struggles to come to terms with losing everything.
After Magritte is a rip-roaring comedy about ordinary people in a most bizarre situation: a senile woman obsessed with the tuba may or may not be the mother of anyone in the room; …
Science fiction is a rare thing to find at the Fringe; even rarer is finding it done well, but the Sundial Theatre company has little to fear with their latest offering, After the …
Desperate and looking for love, Anna (AFI award-winner Bojana Novakovic, star of Rake and Shameless) is a woman at a karaoke bar waiting for a date.
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…
As cryptic as the title of this show may seem to be, its basic premise is established very early on.
Gabby is nearly 30 and has achieved absolutely nothing apart from a string of failed relationships, a lot of debt and a few unwelcome pets along the way.
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
Hamlet transported to a slaughterhouse in modern-day South Korea.
A dark and twisted musical tale inspired by the warped imaginations of film director Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice) and the Brothers Grimm.
This is Scott Gibson’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut, and he is fantastic.
Wave After Wave builds on a reputation for presenting new frontiers in digital art, cyanotype and screen print.
Enjoy a dazzling performance of everyone’s favourite musical theatre songs with twists, themes and special guests ensuring every show is unique.
Asthmatic newcomer and 2015 So You Think Your Funny finalist Ed Night is coming to ruin Edinburgh.
Inspired by collecting stories for a eulogy, Angus examines the evolution of our public selves and how our circle of friends can choose to thwart or support our attempts to try on …
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
A mind reading show based on the true story of the Cold War’s psychic spies.
LA Dance Project is a Los Angeles-based artistic collective founded in 2012 by renowned choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied, now Director at the Paris Opera Ballet.
Genre-defining classical composer and pianist Julian Layn tours Europe with ‘The Julian Layn Project’ that brings rock-alt classical, Julian’s unique form of 21st century classic…
Two pieces of new British writing that have been produced by Bred in the Bone Theatre.
A unique fusion of live traditional and classical music from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the UK alongside video performances from Kabul.
A UFO has crashed over Brighton and your help is needed to save them from the Agents In Black.
Set in the year 2039, this is a world that man has destroyed.
You don’t need to have read any of the Arthur Conan Doyle novels in order to feel that you know a great deal about Sherlock Holmes.
By turns whimsical, campy, hallucinatory and poignant, Laura Zlatos’s candy-colored play about gender identity begins as a rom-com about a couple who expect their new baby wi…
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…
In the past 20 years, Danspace Project has commissioned nearly 500 works, and it’s kicking off 2016 by remounting four recent ones.
While this troupe normally presents acts based on stories written by and for children, “After Dark” draws from the same material for an adults-only performance.
For the fifth consecutive year, Ms.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
The Fringe premiere of Scotland’s leading singer/songwriter’s latest project following his performance at Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games closing ceremony and the release of Till Tomo…
‘I looked for it on Blackpool beach with my Mum.
Bobby Nitro hosts After Dark, a comedy chat show and showcase.
Killing most of an hour, and murder to sit through, The Ted Bundy Project does bait-and-switch on its audience.
A new musical from award-winning director Zhao Miao.
The title of [Title of Show] tells you quite a lot about what you need to know! This musical, within a musical, within a musical writes itself as it plays out.
A 250-year-old opera is a difficult proposition for the Edinburgh Fringe, where the emphasis is frequently placed on innovation and experimentation.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore our galleries after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, music, comedy, bars and entry to our …
Go ahead and sip the gunpowder green tea poured into dainty cups by Tom Barnes and Matt Wilks, the handsome, engaging young performers of The Litvinenko Project.
A new comedy about gender conformity and sexual identity.
Mendelssohn, Schumann and romantic composers performed by international award-winning musicians Solem Quartet, Ruben Palma (cello), and pianists Jan Hugo, James Sherlock, Alexander…
This comedic beat poetry duo have spent the last seven years successfully entertaining festival audiences across the land.
Music by Chopin and other romantic composers performed by international award-winning musicians including cellist Matthew Sharp, Catherine Kwak, pianists Jan Hugo, James Sherlock, …
The Paradise Project by Third Angel and mala voadora is set in a futuristic shelter-in-construction, inhabited by Stacey Sampson and Jerry Killick as they create a society within w…
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…
Tied to a fence, beaten, and left to die in the cold, October night in Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard lost his fight for life five days after being discovered mutilated in this …
Four separate but interweaving stories following dispossession and alienation on the fringes of Australian society, providing a profoundly moving portrait of Australian working-cla…
Told through the story of a young male character, Sphiwe, this musical takes the audience through the ups and downs of youth life in Soweto.
“I don’t fall in love, I tumble”Tumbling After is a modern day love story and commentary on the ways we stumble in and out of relationships.
After We Danced depicts a love affair between two people, cut short before unexpectedly rekindling sixty years later, Love in the Time of Cholera-style.
Imaan is in Love.
Winner: Best Comedy, Melbourne Fringe.
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…
When he was 16 The NHS asked Jonny if he wanted cosmetic surgery to improve his appearance.
When life gives you lemons, sometimes you shouldn’t make lemonade.
With over two million subscribers to his YouTube channel and fifty two million views and counting for his first Disney parody video After Ever After, Jon Cozart is something of a s…
In his debut hour of Fringe stand-up, Jack Barry delivers an entertaining and energetic set which, despite his insistence to the contrary, contains an undercurrent of awareness and…
The Arts Barge project knows how to turn a dreary, wet Sunday night into a fun filled extravaganza.
In a cavernous corner of the Dragonfly Brewery in Acton, London, Franz Schubert ponders life, death and music.
Victory Dance Project was founded a year ago by Amy Jordan to celebrate her recovery from a near-fatal accident.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
See the best in live performance for and by young people (and open to everyone!) at Venue B, Brighton’s only dedicated venue for young people. Check our website for full details.
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…
This musical is billed as a work-in-progress showing as it will premiere at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.
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…
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…
Deriving its clever name from the Baroque master Monteverdi, this centerpiece of the season for the early-music ensemble Tenet and its artistic director, Jolle Greenleaf, returns w…
After a celebrated career as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, Benjamin Millepied decamped to the West Coast in 2012 and started the L.
Jacqulyn Buglisi’s “Table of Silence Project 9/11,” first presented on the 10th anniversary of the Sept.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a hugely rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking for all involved.
China Box Arts Project (CBAP) is a China themed multimedia arts project based on Konghou, a traditional Chinese instrument similar to the harp.
I gave up studying all forms of science at the age of 15, so on the surface, I would not be the natural choice for Jim Al-Khalili’s Quantum – Still Crazy After All These Yea…
This play, about a group of high school students attempting to adapt the Greek classic with disastrous consequences, thankfully doesn’t end in a case of life imitating art, altho…
A discussion on approaches to working collaboratively with people who face barriers in participating in the arts.
Follow dark figures down winding streets into a world of masque, deceit, status and desire.
Leah wants to rest, Goneril and Regan want to party, Cordelia’s off to France and matricide is in the air.
Daniel’s Beard (named after the appearance of the designer of their main venue) perform a series of afternoon concerts in the stunning surroundings of Canongate Kirk.
With over two million YouTube views for their wicked takes on Atomic Kitten, Kylie, Girls Aloud, Steps and Taylor Swift among others, Queens of Pop take over stylish Edinburgh nigh…
Music by Chopin and other romantic composers performed by international award-winning musicians including cellist Yelian He, pianists Carson Becke, Sophia Dee, Yasmin Rowe, James S…
Alex Rossi and friends roll a mash-up of traditional blues, the swagger of hip-hop and the high energy of rock’n’roll into three funky hours of music. Special Fringe guests!
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Enjoy a unique flavour of the Fringe and explore the magnificent National Museum after hours across three exhilarating nights, each with hand-picked performers, cabaret, music, bar…
Clive Anderson hosts one of the best improv shows on the Fringe with a troupe of seasoned professionals at his side.
Described by TS Elliott as ‘the greatest Scots poet since Burns’, Joe Corrie was a Fife miner who influenced and inspired thousands through his plays and poems.
This show began as an attempt to understand high school in Louisiana today and became a statement on how talent, hard-work and desire can be the ingredients to a great future no ma…
Looking After Norman by Scottish writer Stewart Brown, tells the beautiful story of eight-year-old Georgia and her elderly neighbour, Scottie.
In a near future where genetic screening is used to determine your place in society, the Anima Project uses controversial therapy to cure those with unfavourable genetic personalit…
A slick piece of cyberpunk with noir flourishes, The Orpheus Project is an atmospheric re-imagining of Kafka’s The Trial combined with the myth of Orpheus and his quest to bring …
Hailed as the world’s greatest video DJ, Maxx mixes turntablism with state of the art video technology, mashing together the biggest tunes, film and TV.
‘Our tales are similar but the endings are different.
Silly and idiotic character comedy. Philanthropist Henry von Stifle and his valet, Spencer, reverse the dumbing down of Britain.
Step into Working Men’s Club - the best bits of that unique type of entertainment.
Plays by leading contemporary playwrights are becoming more common at the Fringe.
There are those, the outsiders, that like to shock us all, that like to fire poisonous sound bites into the pits of our souls to question our own accepted comfortable western ident…
Katie Mulgrew’s show about Disney Princesses is exceedingly well suited to her venue, The Turret at Gilded Balloon.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Tuesday) This venerable conductorless ensemble is particularly crisp and compelling in Beethoven.
This Estonian composer has made a rare trip to the States to hear this concert, produced by the St.
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
The brilliantly funny Myq Kaplan celebrates the release on Netflix of his new special, “Small, Dork, and Handsome,” with performances from Chris Gethard, Aparna Nancher…
This vibrant chamber ensemble wraps up its season with the premiere of Lowell Lieberman’s “Ten Minutes” as well as Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, Dv…
Ever thought about running your own Brighton Fringe venue? Then this panel discussion is for you! Hear about the practicalities, pleasures and pitfalls of running a venue from a va…
What kind of music do you like? We got it.
2 big days, several SECRET locations and a mash-up of live music and epic performance! Special guest stars, festival fever, dance off, skate jams and all the weird and wonderful�…
Come join our club.
The title of Luke Benson and David Hardcastle’s show can easily give rise to the fear that it will be a rather patronising pastiche of working class culture for the benefit of a …
Portraits from the end of life.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
A house reverberating with the sounds of different generations; different times – joined together by the walls around them.
The comic duo push their oft-neglected third member (their projector) to the forefront, for an hour of slideshow-based stand-up.
With a title too ripe to ignore, Abigoliah is definitely working on it.
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.
This is not your typical childish ghost walk filled with tales of ghouls, beasties and ghostly little girls in their pyjamas.
To quite a large extent this is exactly the play you would expect bright young private school Londoners to bring to the Fringe.
The stars of this tribute to the Harlem jazz clubs of the 1920s and ’30s are the 16 virtuosic musicians who perform — with verve, style and a good splash of sheer joy &…
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be a rewarding experience, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
Managing a venue at the Fringe can be hugely rewarding, but is also a mammoth undertaking.
The Laramie Project is a heart-wrenching play depicting the reaction to the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepherd, a gay University of Wyoming student in Laramie, Wyoming.
‘The Laramie Project’, Moisés Kaufman’s internationally successful play, captures the emotions, reflections and reactions of the people who were most closely related to the …
Smart new parodies plus sweary classics from the Fringe’s favourite musical anaesthetist.
The mischievous musical medic showcases some of the most popular parody songs from the former duo’s fourteen years together (made suitable for a lunchtime audience).
What could be cooler than hanging out in the Nation Museum of Scotland, having a few drinks, seeing some top notch performers and seeing some cool new exhibits? Maybe my expectatio…
Society has crumbled, zombies are on the loose - what do you do next? A) Search for food, B) try to find other people or C) go see some bad comedians late at night with an underwri…
Originating from Glasgow’s Sloans bar, this promenade opera vividly captures the emotional life of a pub ‘.
The stories of the Brother’s Grimm are world renowned and loved by generations.
Stage One, the charity dedicated to developing the next generation of commercial theatre producers will be putting together an industry panel to discuss the producing profession an…
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.
This concert was part of the first in a series of 30 at the Royal Overseas League that showcase the talents of musicians supported by the ROSL.
In amongst the more controversial theatre on at the Fringe this year we have emerging playwright Sophie Foster’s new work, which dissects the media culture surrounding suspected …
I’m not sure what Chopin had for lunch, but it would appear it was full of beans.
What ever happened after they lived happily ever after? When Red Riding Hood (not little) is sent to a psychiatric ward and told that she cannot be who she says she is, we realise …
Mr Lyan and the Rebel Dining Society explore the future of food and drink.
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
An epic tale told on an intimate scale, inspired by maverick British adventurer Gertrude Bell.
Exploring the growing demand for improvisation in all mediums - film, television and theatre.
Adapted from a book of interviews with American workers by Studs Terkel and first performed in 1978, Working explores American working life through the actual words of those interv…
Based on Studs Terkel’s book of interviews with American workers, this is a musical exploration of 24 people from all walks of life.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Certainly adhering to it’s name, Todd Gordon and a multitude of talented musicians played well into the night.
3BUGS Fringe Theatre presents a rare production of Tennessee Williams’ one-act play The Pink Bedroom as part of their Morning After Season with fairly limited success.
There’s social unrest in the North, disease in the South.
Part protest, part poetry, part party.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Few novels of the nineteenth century convey as powerful a passion as Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, a high-Gothic family saga of destructive, toxic love on the Yorkshire Moors.
I really wanted to like this show.
After What Comes Before is a Dr.
I was not too surprised to read that The Project was specially created for the Edinburgh Fringe: it has that ‘experimental’ feel.
A unique concept of a musical about two guys writing a musical thats all about two guys writing a musical, [title of show] made it debut on Broadway back in 2008 but remains unkno…
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.
As we took our seats, furnished with appropriately rose-patterned cushions, and gazed on at the living room set before us, it was as if we were in someone else’s house, listening…
Luke Benson and David Hardcastle are bringing back the Working Men’s Club; pints and pork scratchings at the ready.
Inveterate gagster Ivor Dembina **** (Guardian) chaperones you through an hour of comedy, music, guest and surprises, news and reviews all in collusion with the Orchestra of An…
Only Markus Birdman can talk about the most taboo of topics and get away with it.
Based on Ettore Scola’s 1977 film Una Giornata Particolare, Working on a Special Day succinctly adapts a historical story of repressed feeling for the stage.
It is difficult to critique a show that is raising awareness and funds for ovarian cancer research, but I will try my best.
In a rather curt start to the show, Sally Barker apologised to the audience for not being Joni Mitchell.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
Assisted suicide, euthanasia, murder.
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…
After the bustle of Princes Street and the Royal Mile with their American Indian/Celtic/Oriental drumming combos and hundreds of flyers, the last thing I expected in the middle of …
In Working the Devil, dance collective Dog Kennel Hill Project present two courses of stylistically contrasting dance that explore the world of work from differing perspectives.
Do you like Art Brut? Half Man Half Biscuit? Have you ever heard of Ian Sinclair? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘no’ then you may be bemused, vexed and possibly appall…
After the Bomb, ostensibly a 1950 spy piece, is presented by Cicero Productions at the Zoo Southside.
After Magritte is a very short, surreal comedy by Tom Stoppard, inspired by the paintings of Rene Magritte.
It has been ten years since American university student Matthew Shepard was murdered by Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, bringing the issue of gay hate crime to an internation…
Death by jazz and neurotic nurses: two of several comedic gems featuring in this years offering from Durhams funny bunch.
Andreas Grassl is the piano man who washed up in Kent.
This play is a newly written sequel to Eugene ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra.
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.
Project Adorno is a double act after the philosopher Theodor Adorno.
Ants successfully colonised the world; Britain didn’t.
The students performing this play take us through the drama wardrobe into a Shakespearean Narnia.
This interpretation of Sophocles’ much-repeated tale of incest and murder isn’t as radical a departure from the original as I was expecting, given the hijacked authorship of the ti…
When the original version of Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind was shown in New York City in 1917 it was closed down, on the grounds that it was too pornographic.
In October 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten and tortured to death near Laramie.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Just before the lights went down at the start of this production of Athol Fugard’s 1972 play, a front of house person barked at an audience member clambering over a seat ‘Stop …
This was my first venture over to C eca, a venue with a reputation amongst some as being out of the way.
The Laramie Project is a play documenting the tragic death of Matthew Sheppard, who was kidnapped and savagely beaten before being left to die tied to a fence on the outskirts of a…
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…
Warzycki proves that having a disability is no hindrance to virtuosic piano playing.
It is hard to know where to start in writing a review for Clipa Theater’s ‘Orpheus’.
Centre College presents After Orpheus, a devised piece of theatre that deals with the many differing experiences of, and approaches to, love.
VAULT, the creators of VAULT Festival have found their new London home which will open in Spring 2024 with VAULT Festival returning in the Autumn.
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
James Macfarlane chats with stand-up comedian David Ian about his debut Fringe show (Just a) Perfect Gay, queer role models and just what it means to be 'a perfect gay'.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Australian comedians Michelle Brasier and Laura Frew made their duo debut at this year’s Fringe as Double Denim, having previously performed as part of Backpack Anorak.
Graeme Macrae Burnet’s literary thriller, His Bloody Project, explores a brutal triple murder in the Scottish Highlands in 1869 through a variety of different, at times conflicti...
The Scottish Storytelling Centre is, in its own words, ‘a vibrant arts venue with a seasonal programme of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events...
When Matthew Shepard was brutally tied to a fence, beaten, and abandoned outside Laramie, Wyoming, members of Tectonic Theatre Group came to ask questions.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Philip Pullman’s The Ruby in the Smoke sees the author’s Victorian mystery novel come to the stage for the first time.
Multi award-winning comedian James Meehan wonders where all the working class comedians have gone.
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s Stockbridge returns in 2016 as the latest addition to the C venues stable.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Rona Munro is an award-winning Scottish writer for theatre, television and radio.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Part nursery rhyme, part domestic drama, Tumbling After charts the story of two young couples as they 'stumble in and tumble out of love'.
The About Turn Theatre Company are bringing Orpheus and Eurydice to EdFringe '15.
After We Danced is a story about love, mystery and tragedy bundled up into one neat package. Broadway Baby finds out more.
Broadway Baby is chatting to Kate Goodfellow of RedBellyBlack and the show she is bringing to Ed Fringe, Tumbling After.