Namaste Motherf*ckers is the new show from Cally Beaton (QI, Live at the Apollo) – a quick-witted, unexpected and unapologetic insight into life in midlife.
‘This double act is unmissable’ ***** (WestEndBestFriend.
Performance by MIHR Theatre, Armenia’s first contemporary dance company.
A tribute to our dear friend, the irreplaceable comic and actor Tony Slattery.
It’s a roller disco about immigration.
A children’s party, but for adults.
Jenny’s had one of the most original experiences ever: moving to London as an Australian.
Join Shabaz Ali, in his debut comedy show, jam packed with his roaring, on point and hugely requested observations of the mindboggling lengths that are taken to present a “perfect”…
Prototyping is an innovative physical theatre and martial arts show that intertwines dance, street art and circus influences.
After a sell-out run at last year’s fringe, Abi brings her debut show back for three nights only! As seen on BBC, ITV2, Comedy Central and Channel 4; support to Phil Wang and Russe…
Terry Wogan is back from the dead as part of his ongoing attempts to return to light entertainment, no matter the cost.
Cyril Blake’s Edinburgh Fringe sell-out returns to explore the legend of James Bond, the actors who’ve played him and what it all means to guys trying to find their way through l…
CHALLENGE is a non-verbal comedy from Japan about an ordinary office worker who wants to change his boring, negative life.
Winner of Best Male Performer at Asian Arts Awards 2024! The internationally acclaimed LIVE MANGA from Japan returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! Physical performance duo GABE…
After a sell-out run of her show Role Model at last year’s fringe, Abi returns for one week only to try jokes and introduce you to her favourite acts! As seen on BBC, ITV2, Comedy …
The Australian cult comedy classic returns to Edinburgh after sell-out seasons at Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival.
A play that captures the joy and sorrow of memory using just a table and a single sheet of paper, The Time Painter creates a dreamlike world where memory, dreams, history and reali…
Fringe legend Guy Masterson presents Sam Blythe’s brilliant Hamlet.
In the sleepy Irish village of Bunderr, silence speaks volumes.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history.
The story of Molly is an enigma told for over 70 years in the city of Chiredzi in Zimbabwe.
In 15th-century Korea, boy King Danjong was overthrown and poisoned by his ambitious uncle.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out six years running.
Ginger has had a problematic year! No, not like that.
In 2002 Brett Blake was charged with inciting a riot, disorderly conduct and assaulting a public officer in Perth, Australia.
A handful of playful props and physical buffoonery in an illustrated world.
It’s 1746 and Mary is desperately and dangerously single.
This epic fan-favourite returns in 2025! Get ready for an absolute rowdy night of magic and fun in this action-packed adults-only spectacular – starring Sam, Justin and Magnus ‘D…
Back by POOPular demand.
Someone Like Me is a physical solo performance by Nina Khyzhna about the journey of a disembodied person through the bodies of others.
This Sh*t Happens All The Time is a true story about queer love, about tummy flips and hearts skipping beats.
Baby Wants Candy’s 2024 total sell-out hip-hop hit returns! We improvise an epic musical based on a historical figure/celebrity of your choosing (Genghis Khan, Paul Hollywood, Kim …
When the annual ‘Totally Awesome Magic Show’ in HappyVale takes an unexpected twist, Mojo and Jimmy must rise to the occasion in a thrilling, laugh-out-loud adventure to save the f…
Japanese comedian Takashi is back in Edinburgh to be a comedy samurai.
Olivier winner Guy Masterson directs the phenomenal Sam Blythe in his legendary solo of Orwell’s allegorical masterpiece, returning for its 30th anniversary.
Potentially the worst contestant in Taskmaster history, and the host of the iconic TV series New Zealand Today, Guy Williams returns! Sandwiched between a seemingly ineffective and…
Tammy Tooth’s midlife crisis hits rock-bottom when an 80s mixed tape sends her back to 1987.
Chris: ‘What if I wrote a new one-hour show every day of the Fringe?’ Friend: ‘That sounds like a terrible idea’. Chris: ‘Okay, I’ll do it’.
The forgotten story of Amadeus’ genius sister, who performed alongside him to equal acclaim.
Ted Hill (normal) performs classic, non-autistic stand-up comedy.
Welcome to Abby’s dream.
Song Unburied.
Best Magic Show: HELLO! Magazine 2022 and 2024.
Legendary mime Trygve Wakenshaw and his best pal Barnie Duncan return to Edinburgh with their award-winning show.
Set in the cut-throat world of competitive netball, this cautionary tale explores the consequences of unchecked ambition and the fierce determination of teenage girls.
Step into the witty world of PG Wodehouse in this charming new play.
Comedian Ismael Loutfi’s father tried to convert the state of Florida to Islam.
Solastalgia: noun (sol-a-stal-gi-a) the emotional, physical or existential distress caused by environmental change to your home.
Let me take you on a tour through my personal gallery, there’s all kinds of treasures and wares.
Chris Grace (Superstore) and Jon Gracey (No Rolls Barred) met last year.
Celebrate FringeBEAT’s second annual festival issue release with a late-night line-up of this year’s cover stars, ending in a DJ disco dance party! Comedy for the first hour (Erika…
Variety Magazine’s Comic To Watch for 2024.
Grubby Little Mitts presents a new material night dedicated exclusively to sketch comedy! Join the Grubbs with your favourite sketch comedians as they present a scrapbook of madnes…
Three improvisers.
Join Angela Barnes (Mock The Week, Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The News Quiz) as she tries out some new ideas she’s working on for her upcoming tour.
Well, it looks like it’s time to get your ears syringed because acclaimed musical comedy duo Flo & Joan are taking to the stage, and they have some quote unquote music and/or c…
Twelve years from the 2012 Fringe Street Events, GABEZ return with their international award-winning performance Live Manga! GABEZ create non-verbal performance based on mime.
In my home, the first thing you encounter is two tall Billy bookcases from IKEA.
In a basement office in Illinois, there’s a job waiting for you.
From Rifco Theatre, comes an immersive DJ bromance.
A history of dance floors and joyful regret.
I’m a fan of classic drag.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history.
Giant Steps is an improv comedy show with a brilliant live band! Improvisation meets improvisation as top UK comedians and virtuoso jazz musicians inspire each other in real time i…
Holly’s been apprehended in Superdrug with a handbag full of shoplifted lipsticks.
Six comedians.
Terry Wogan is back from the dead as part of his ongoing attempts to return to light entertainment no matter the cost.
A castaway is saved from the surging seas.
I Sell Windows is one Black woman’s exploration of what is birthed at the collision of grief, ambition and sex.
Comedians Sweeney Preston and Ethan Cavanagh guide you through tasting five wines and at least five jokes.
Japanese comedian NON STYLE Akira Ishida teams up with actors and performers to present a non-verbal comedy show with traditional Japanese sword fighting.
JINKLES CHRIST! A group of former kid detectives return to the scene of their greatest unsolved case: the gruesome murder of their talking dog, Cluebert.
Ventriloquist Queen: a true African Queen.
A comedy magic adventure for the whole family! The annual comedy-magic extravaganza in Happyvale takes an unexpected turn into a thrilling adventure to rescue the forest! Experienc…
Hilarious yet poignant F*GHAG explores Dylan Mulvaney's life at different stages.
‘Really funny.
Fringe regular Chris Grace returns from the US to muse on death, posing such questions as can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? In less than an hour, he tells of the passing of…
An exhibition of remarkable stone sculptures from new and established Zimbabwean artists.
Alison Larkin opens her show with a truth: people cope with grief in different ways; some by drinking to excess, some by turning to drugs, others become depressed, a few will throw…
Prepare for a wild and raunchy, adults-only night of magic and comedy with Sam, Justin and Magnus ‘Danger’ Magnus.
It will never not be weird seeing someone you have only ever seen through a phone with a dodgy greenscreen effect in the flesh.
Maeve Press spent 17 years under special education observation.
Armed with a dry charm, Bronwyn brings her solo debut to Edinburgh.
Smash-hit, one-woman show from the award-winning Det Andre Teatret is coming to Edinburgh! Nominated for Best Theatre Play by the prestigious Hedda award.
A silly show about love and war.
Ted Hill – ‘genuinely hilarious’ ***** (BroadwayBaby.
Japan’s latest comedy export is coming to Fringe for the first time.
Join sketch comics Grubby Little Mitts (Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown) in their third magnum opus! Award-winning sketch duo Grubby Little Mitts amplifies the normal to chaotic …
Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong.
We come up with a title, they turn it into a one-hour musical — this is the promise the cast of Baby Wants Candy makes every time they get on stage and, boy, do they deliver.
Glamorous, hilarious and fiercely clever Jens Radda explodes on the Edinburgh scene with a brilliant comedy cabaret.
Improv legends Racing Minds return to Edinburgh for their 11th year of unscripted escapades! A doddery grandfather can’t quite remember his ripping yarn, but with your help, a myst…
I’m bringing my award-winning brand of humour to the Edinburgh Fringe in a show that explores grief and grieving – for youth, for loved ones, for booze – and what to do about i…
Star of New Zealand Today and last-place finisher on Taskmaster NZ, Guy Williams makes his Edinburgh debut! Nominated for Best Show, Melbourne Comedy Festival 2023.
The dressing room set may be spooky, but the uncanny element is the actors’ supernatural embodiment of Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecombe and Bob Monkhouse.
Painfully funny improvised medical drama.
Baby Wants Candy’s total 2023 sell-out hip-hop hit returns! We improvise an epic musical based on a historical figure/celebrity of your choosing (Genghis Khan, Paul Hollywood, Kim …
For years, Reginald D Hunter has been misinterpreted as a controversial comedian because of his show titles despite his repeated objections that he is not a controversial comedian.
Witness mind-blowing sounds, beats, sketches and vocal agility performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
Who Do Ya Love? is a fun-loving larger-than-life jukebox musical about Harry Wayne Casey’s journey to starting KC and the Sunshine Band.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history.
Welcome to the Last Thursday Club! An evening of theatre, comedy and storytelling hosted by acclaimed writer-performers and poolitzer prize winners Roann Hassani-McCloskey and Jame…
Sold-out run: Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2022).
When I saw the playbill for Jazz Emu: You Shouldn’t Have, I couldn’t get my hands on tickets fast enough.
Fimbo Butures (Maya Williams and Lizzy Tan) bring For you: wicked to the Fringe after a world premiere at VAULT Festival 2023.
World-class entertainer Brown returns from his five-star musical A Man, A Magic, A Music presenting a dazzling journey through Sam Cooke’s life: The King of Soul Music.
Are you just a teenage dirtbag, baby? Wanna watch weird vids and drink morning coffee with me, maybe? This is a show about a queer, autistic, latinx caterpillar, on the edge.
Abishek Kumar and Nirmal Pillai are back on the road with their hugely fun and interactive show that’s guaranteed to leave you cackling.
Anuvab Pal returns on official business.
I thought I knew what to expect from The Devil’s Passion.
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
We all make mistakes, but rarely do they change the course of history.
Do you consent? I consent is a one hour 18+ Drag comedy and cabaret show starring Aunty Ginger (nationally tolerated Drag Queen from the UK Cabaret Circuit).
A bin man swaps steel-toed boots for stilettos to chase his dream of becoming a drag queen.
Do you believe in our survival? Alone is a multi award-winning New Zealand sci-fi drama about feminism, climate change and David Bowie.
On the surface, this is yet another 'coming out' story.
Comedian Connor Ratliff (Dead Eyes, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel) appears as George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and interviews guests like a “normal talk show”.
The conceit of this podcast is that Clive Anderson invites a different member of the comedy circuit to share with him their own seven wonders of the world.
Australia’s campest drag queen bares all in this chaotic cabaret about her double life as a drag queen accountant.
The best place in town to catch rising comedy stars and your Fringe favourites.
In a basement office in Illinois, there’s a job waiting for you.
The competitive club night: the disco where winner stays on.
After a three year hiatus, Tom Skelton, Daniel Roberts, Chris Turner and Dougie Walker return to the Edinburgh Fringe with their critically-acclaimed improv show, Aaaand Now For So…
An irresistibly charming homage to the magnificent circus horses and the silent movie era.
In 5 Mistakes That Changed History, host Paul Coulter establishes the self-evident premise, that this will be something of a comical TED Talk about some fascinating moments that sh…
An annual work review that goes horribly wrong.
The Hunger is a chilling horror, following mother and daughter Deborah and Megan as they attempt to fend for themselves amid an apocalyptic pandemic.
Transfixing, she’s staring at us through a doorframe – or is it a painting? We’re invited to draw, then bid…Created by Diana Feng, Tegan Verheul and Clarisse Zamba of the W…
A magical fairy tale for young and old.
Watson is alone.
In 1941 a precocious young upstart of New York’s glittering theatre scene tried his hand at making a movie and accidentally created the greatest motion picture of all time.
Dom Chambers’ unconventional magic has made him an online sensation, garnered fans around the world and landed him on a Broadway stage.
Whilst the cat's away, the mice will play.
Fringe fave Baby Wants Candy is back! Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
Witness mind-blowing sound, energy and vocal dexterity performed by international touring beatboxers and world champions, The Beatbox Collective.
USA, 1985: Rookie Police Cop Jimmy Johnson joined the force to protect and serve.
Chris Grace, Chinese-American character best known for playing Jerry on Superstore, portrays the greatest living Asian actor Scarlett Johansson through comedy, theatre, stand-up an…
Did you just roll your eyes at me? Therapy methods as unconventional as her response “You get what you pay for”.
The sequel to their award-winning debut! Traverse the perils of employment, friendship and love; be dazzled with ear-splitting music; try not to be sick if you see too much flesh.
Daniel Newton stars in Shadow Boxing, directed by Mdu Kweyama and written by James Gaddas, a heavy-hitting one-man show coming to the Fringe this year.
Matt is an NHS doctor – what a hero! Also a fast-rising comedian, finalist in the Leicester Square New Comedian and Hackney Empire New Act competition.
Melbourne-born and based but cosmopolitan at heart, Hannah flies to Edinburgh for the very first time to give you a taste of her funny little bag o’ sketch comedy sweets.
Viral sensation, maestro of musical mayhem and lord of lyrical miracles, Matt Storer presents an award-winning musical comedy concert.
The stage presence and energy of this clown duo is something you have to see live.
A painfully funny improvised medical drama: St.
Australia’s premier First Nations comedians bring huge belly laughs from the heart of the wide brown land.
It Gets Worse is a raw, comedic exploration about the horrors of being in relationships, specifically with oneself.
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
Baby Wants Candy’s hip-hop Hamilton homage returns! Following sold-out runs in Chicago, NYC and LA.
Viral Nurse Georgie Carroll’s gloves are off for this award-winning power hour.
Straight outta Wagga Wagga, Australia – the star of hit show Aborigi-LOL makes his Fringe debut with a swag of gut-bustingly funny stories, fun facts and big laughs.
I want you to think of the person you are most jealous of.
As 90s TV star Gail Porter walks onstage, she confidently addresses the fact that her mic isn't working, and, in doing so, somehow wins the audience over more than she may have…
Join comedian and writer David Baddiel for an informal and unscripted audience Q&A exploring ideas in his bestselling books Jews Don’t Count, and The God Desire.
National broadcaster Television 1 has been a proud British institution for 100 years and has played a prominent role in British life and culture.
“This is not a play,” we’re told.
On the back of her TV debuts (Have I Got News for You, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order), Susie also supported Kevin Bridges, Frankie Boyle and Jason Manford on their tours.
Does emotion help us make moral judgments? Alfie will address this question using jokes.
Join your favourite galactic gal pals Figs in Wigs for the cosmic game show for astrology lovers, bingo wingers and their sceptic friends.
One of The Guardian’s top five shows of 2021 returns for a limited run! Join The Duchess of Canvey on a hilarious journey of self-discovery as she reclaims her place in the heart…
For three shows only we bring together the hottest comedy night of the Fringe! Featuring the Fringe’s most phenomenal acts in sixty minutes of late night laughs.
Join the creator of The Room Next Door in this final run at the Edinburgh Fringe after a successful sell-out tour as he talks about making comedy under the radar and the dangers of…
Odd couple Mark Watson (you know, from Taskmaster, and ‘an unstoppably funny superhero’ according to The Times) and Michael Chakraverty (you know, from Bake Off, and a ‘brilliant b…
For centuries philosophers have asked the question, Who am I? But it’s now time to ask, Am I Sam Smith? Through the camp ecstasy of comedy cabaret, Dan Wye, creator of Séayoncé, …
Mark Borkowski is the doyen of the world’s most controversial artform: the publicity stunt.
‘Extreme close up on a mushroom, glowing softly against the forest floor.
Join Queen of Fake, BAFTA-winning mischief maker Alison Jackson, as she reveals sensational behind-the-scenes celebrity secrets and adventures in guerrilla filmmaking while transfo…
Brown Sauce is a comedy night with the best South Asian comedians (and other Asian friends) on the circuit.
Does for politics, religion and philosophy what Simon Evans Goes to Market (BBC Radio 4) did for economics – makes it fresh, compelling and funny.
Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Taskmaster star Sophie Duker is bringing Wacky back for two unmissable festival specials, joined by psychotically talented one-man white-man hous…
It’s time to get your head in the game: Bristol’s best trans/non-binary/female comedy night is taking Edinburgh by storm for one night only.
Following three culturally deeply unsettling, sell-out smash-hit runs, this bafflingly entertaining late-night comedy extravaganza returns to the Fringe for a fourth hammer blow.
In a basement office somewhere in Illinois, there’s a job waiting for you.
Anarchic and surreal, Horse Country is a satirical spin on early 21st Century American culture which aims to surprise and provoke in equal measure.
Following a completely sold out 2019 Fringe season, the host of Whose Line Is It Anyway, Talks Back and Loose Ends returns to Edinburgh with a live version of his hit new podcast f…
Diane Chorley brings you her chart-topping podcast Chatting with Chorley live from the glamour of her cult 1980s nightclub The Flick.
Take a trip with Debra (Dead Ringers, Spitting Image, The Imitation Game, Bad Girls) as she hurtles through time in a multiverse of musical icons from Billy Holliday to Billie Eili…
One small step for man, one giant pile of rubbish left behind! Man’s dream to reach the stars leaves the world in ruins and disturbs the sleeping dinosaurs.
Straight from selling out London venues and her national tour, Bo Peep is bringing her flock to the Edinburgh Fringe! Counting sheep always sends Bo Peep off to sleep by bedtime, b…
Fab-u-lous! A new high-energy physical comedy about a lonely old man and a homeless dog who become friends and enter the world of ballroom dancing.
Get ready for an evening of bombastic bad taste in the killer new show from cult drag superstar Baby Lame.
Join cult songstress Diane Chorley, and sidekick Milky, as they bring back their iconic 80s nightclub The Flick, where the dancing doesn’t stop, the band keeps playing and the Baby…
Girl meets anatomical wax sculptor.
Jason Slavick’s Yellow Bird Chase shows us that the best children’s shows have something for everyone, whether it is the gibberish of the language, the compelling storyline or …
Returning to Edinburgh following a near sell-out 2016 Assembly season, Alison Skilbeck’s critically acclaimed one-woman show reveals the public and private life of one of the most …
Don’t be fooled by the singing cowboys, this is an incredibly serious play, if only for the fact that the pair of Will Rowland and Eddy Hare have clearly done their research for …
Total Edinburgh Fringe sell-out 2015-2019.
One of Australia’s best stand-up comedians returns with his new show Yoho Diabolo.
The American stand-up, TV writer and “neurotic Jewish millennial” returns following her acclaimed 2019 debut.
A fast-paced, comic fantasia by two-time Fringe First winner Brian Parks.
If the title sounds familiar you’re probably thinking of the film, In the Name of the Father, but you’d be on the right track because In the Name of the Son deals with the same…
A magical, charming show of dance and acrobatics which will delight children and adults alike.
Comedy supergroup Baby Wants Candy presents improvised hip-hop homage to Hamilton! After sold-out runs in Chicago, NY and LA, Shamilton comes to the Fringe! Join Shamilton as we im…
From House of Cards writer Bill Cain and The Shark is Broken director Guy Masterson, 9 Circles is a brilliantly performed, harrowing psychological thriller that would be shocking a…
The vibe is wild as I sit down for Adults Only Magic Show.
Sometimes you’ve just got to listen to your balls.
Sold-out run: Off-Broadway, Asylum NYC (2022).
The fastest-selling act at Glasgow International Comedy Festival three years running is back with a brand-new show! In her 40th year, Susie has decided to leave cynicism behind to …
‘Few comics reduce their audience to the constant waves of laughter for the full hour like Britton does’ (Chortle.
Stephen Mullan arrives at the Edinburgh Fringe bringing his special brand of goofy energetic comedy to the festival for the first time.
Oh wow, the last two years have been awful haven’t they? So what do we do now? Laugh and pretend it’s definitely fine? Or deal with the trauma of multiple lockdowns, emotional shut…
This show is a scrapbook of memories about my family.
Live show based on the book Hot Mess: What On Earth Can We Do About Climate Change.
Andy’s an ideas man and he’s got ideas, man.
An uncomfortable stare; a shriek heard in the background of a dream; the noise a sloth makes when receiving divorce papers.
The ‘amazingly funny’ (Forbes) Christopher Titus, one of the States’ most prolific and respected comedians, is finally making his Edinburgh debut.
With sell-out seasons and five-star reviews in the UK and throughout Australia, the Allstars bring huge belly laughs from the heart of the wide brown land.
Physical comedy meets Hollywood.
Never Let Go is a thrilling, hilarious one-man show the New York Times calls ‘a feat of ingenuity’.
Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) carefree, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her world is about to be turned upside down …
Of the 39 shows I saw in three and a half days this Fringe, the biggest gamble and least familiarity was Randy Feltface.
Brian Cox presents She/Her, a multimedia performance of a diverse group of women speaking their truth.
Framed around the personification of Goethe’s Faust, a sinister figure adorned in black strides purposefully on stage to proclaim that to strive is divine, because movement is li…
Part insider look at the making of the film Jaws and part musings on what constitutes an artist, The Shark is Broken, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and directed by Guy Maste…
Shaving the Dead starts with two undertakers waiting at a coffin.
"I could be one of the Boys," New Zealander Chris Parker sings ecstatically at the start of Camp Binch, wearing a shirt and leggings echoing Elaine Stritch's iconic o…
Baby Wants Candy has become almost as much a staple of the Fringe as being slapped in the face with flyers on the Royal Mile.
If there was an alien invasion of planet earth who would you want to represent the human race? Politicians, David Attenborough, The cast and crew of Stranger Things? What about a g…
Truly funny, indigenous comedy, Aboriginal Comedy Allstars features three Aboriginal Australian comedians: Kevin Kropinyeri, Steph Tisdell and Andy Saunders.
Gird your loins and suspend any disbelief for the weirdest, rip-roaring adventure you’ll ever experience.
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.
One bright and sunny day, a fish jumps out of a river, and promptly meets a fellow animal with whom he will share the next 46 years of his life.
Jena Friedman is scared shitless and wants to feel less alone.
Nath Valvo can really get a room worked up.
Joanne Hartstone’s one-woman show is a brilliant send up to classic Golden Age Hollywood that keeps the glitz and glamour of the period whilst showing the grimy and exploitative …
Perhaps it is because of the multi-show venue, or just the financial realities of bringing any production to the Edinburgh Fringe nowadays, but Peter Darney’s production of Charl…
Millennial anxieties are unpacked and explored in devised comedy I’ll Have What She’s Having.
Two brothers meet by the banks of a river in Nigeria, the same river which saw them turn from children into fishermen many years before.
A blissfully domestic sitting room in a nameless American suburb is the setting for Brian Parks’ riotous comedy The House.
Zoo is a play which touches upon awkward social contracts between people, and the total indifference of the natural world.
Hope Theatre Company bring us this brutal and beautiful production exploring sexuality through the lens of two boxers.
Dystopia is a tricky subject matter to get right in a world obsessed with its own destruction as our current one.
It's obvious from the loud, excited audience in Assembly Studio 3 that London-based comedy theatre trio The Pretend Men – Nathan Parkinson, Zachary Hunt and Tom Rose – have…
A master of audience coersion, Kate Berlant mines her best material from audience response rather than her own resources.
Demi Lardner feels the need, at one point in their most recent show, to unveil a banner listing their previous accomplishments and awards they have won.
John-Luke Roberts is, for a certaint quotient, one of the staples of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
As the lights go down, the audience are met with a film playing on a screen, with a voiceover asking various people of diverse identities what utopia means to them.
The year is sometime in the 1800s, it seems, or else 2018.
This isn’t a comedy show, it’s raw storytelling.
Sam Simmons is a dad now.
Shappi Khorsandi returns to the Fringe for 2017 with her new show Mistress & Misfit, a touching hour of comedy that weaves narratives from her own life and the story of Emma, Lady …
Nobody wants to be lectured.
This piece of historical new writing takes its audience through four periods in Zimbabwe’s turbulent past, stretching a staggering 120 years, from 1895 to 2015.
Glasgow theatre company Tidy Carnage explore the modern phenomenon of internet shaming by fusing theatre and film through Shame, written and performed by Belle Jones.
If you are looking for a show that demonstrates exceptional acting and physical theatre skills Tobacco is where you will find it.
Some Riot theatre’s new play is a rollercoaster of love, loss and the passion and pain of being young that hooks you from the first word, makes you fall in love with it then breaks…
Americana Ad Absurdum Productions certainly lives up to its name by combining America’s most-loved export, free-market capitalism, with some surreal and absurdist humour.
It might seem all-too-witty for a SCRABBLE World Champion, when asked by the media for “a few words” on his victory, to admit ‘I don’t really know any’.
Gazing at a Distant Star follows three lives individually dealing with their own losses.
Immersive Joe’s NYC Bar returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with two shows a day at Assembly Underground.
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a Fringe favourite and you can tell immediately by his stage presence that he is relaxed with the audience.
Ian D Monfort communicates with many famous figures who have passed to the other side.
Clad in brown flairs and turquoise patterned shirt, Mike Bubbins is instantly a performer who stands out.
Canadian rapper Baba Brinkman has explored several of the world’s biggest talking points – from evolution to climate change – and now he’s back for more.
Meet Benjamin and James.
A pure and exhilarating romp of a good time.
Recently I have become a bit disappointed after seeing a few household name comedians as I feel that some of them have become a little out of touch with their audiences in the mate…
Warning: Spoilers, swearing and a hilarious combination of incest and sex jokes.
I have never seen anyone manage to create humour from pessimism and snobbery as well as Simon Evans does and oh my, we were in for quite a helping of it in this hour long show.
The last stand in not-growing-up, Nath Valvo is holding the frontline for all those amongst us who are done shelling out for their brother’s baby monitor, done giving up every we…
In 1986, the Kendall family stood in their back-garden, staring at the Australian sky and hoping to catch a glimpse of Halley’s comet.
If you’ve ever seen Ron White before, you already know what to expect.
A disenchanted falconer from Norfolk.
Ross Leadbeater is an alumnus of the all-male Welsh choir Only Men Aloud!, who won the 2008 television show Last Choir Standing.
What to expect from a show called F*cking Men? Yes, it is ostensibly about sex, specifically gay sex, and as you’d expect it’s ripe for memorable one-liners like “I’m not g…
This contemporary a cappella group returns with a musical this year about stories of gap year.
Returning Fringe classic White Rabbit Red Rabbit is Nassim Soleimanpour’s experimental monologue, in which the relationship between actor, writer, audience and text is …
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was a French pilot, poet and writer, who is best known as the author of children’s classic The Little Prince.
In the latest theatrical offering of a Jane Austen themed adaptation, this piece, which is billed as a new musical by Penny Ashton, interweaves thirty-three direct passages from Au…
Emerging in a Grecian breastplate of gold, to a poetic backdrop of Wilfred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est the stage is seemingly set for the presentation of a man whose view of hims…
Looking like a cyberpunk priest, Tsai Pao-Chang’s hero is swamped in technology — AI, encrypted files and dating sites.
Hurricane Michael is the kind of production I come to Fringe to see: a very specific, niche show, seemingly outside of my interests, that is found to be a surprisingly charming hou…
A production without any set or props is a risky move.
“Charles Hawtrey 1914 -1988 – Film, Theatre, Radio and Television Actor Lived Here.
First things first.
Jamie MacDonald comes from a tradition of endearingly grumpy comics, ranting affably about all of life’s niggles, from racist taxi drivers to obnoxious ramblers.
Witty, lively and often heartwarming, Britney is a hilarious and hugely watchable production.
This is a disappointing show, mainly because the Oxford Revue don’t have that many funny sketches to perform.
90s-kid’s television hero Dave Benson Phillips brings back his hit children’s game-show Get Your Own Back, but there’s a twist.
It can probably be agreed that there’s a lot to be unhappy about in the world at the moment.
‘Musical’? Check.
Sarah Kendall’s stand-up routine has a different format to most: it’s all centred around a single tale, and it’s in the hands of someone who really knows their way around sto…
Between Episode IV and V of Charles Ross’s One Man Star Wars Trilogy, the writer/performer spent some time polling the audience.
Come Get Some! is a rather energetic title, as titles go, but its excitement about Nick Cody is absolutely justified.
It’s a bowl of sugar mixed with grit.
Part TED talk, part psychic extravaganza, Tom Binns’ extrasensory expert Ian D Montfort is back at the festival and he’s determined to convince the sceptics the dead are among …
In your Face Theatre in conjunction with the King’s Head Theatre return to the Fringe with their highly acclaimed and incredibly visceral adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s cult novel …
Incredible, hilarious, infectious, amazing.
Standup is often at its best when it is possible to discern a great deal of the performer in their material.
Television personality, Patrick Kielty, attempts to revive his stand up career in what is billed as a fresh hour of comedy.
As a career move, dying was the savviest option for Jimmy Savile.
Two Sore Legs is an affecting testament to the fierceness of a mother’s love and the determination of one woman in the face of oppressive societal expectations.
Franz Kafka’s short story A Report to an Academy takes the form of an informative lecture given by an ape called Red Peter.
Of the two offerings of Julius Caesar that the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School are offering this year, this review concerns the all-male version: a show brimming with great ideas ye…
It’s a deceptively simple bag of ingredients that Jim Cartwright lists in the script for his new play Raz, which has had its premiere at this year’s Festival Fringe.
With current situation in Calais, the rise of UKIP, depressing rhetoric used by politicians to describe migrants, this play could not be staged at a more fitting time.
One woman, one show, one hour ten minutes and the entire works of Jane Austen to affectionately satirise: New Zealand comedian Penny Ashton’s Promise and Promiscuity is no mean f…
Amiable hosts Dingo (Joshan Chana) and Dog (Thomas Fraser) present surreal sketches and storytelling in this enjoyable and inventive show that will sometimes be lost on younger aud…
Adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s original play by Tom Parry – one third of Fringe favourites Pappy’s – Marriage stars the cream of Edinburgh’s crop: Ben Clark (also of Pappy’s), Ad…
The Venn diagram containing those who enjoy watching football and those who enjoy watching theatre might not have the largest overlap in the world.
Seattle comedy duo Charles (Chuck Armstrong and Charlie Stockman) present an imaginative, original and witty comedy, using physical theatre, sharp word play, and absurdism to launc…
A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them.
A Day in October centres around Kendall’s teenage years at a rough high-school in Newcastle, Australia.
In this rendition of an all time favourite, in-yer-face piece of theatre, the King’s Head Theatre, London presents Trainspotting, a gritty Scottish drama that isn’t afraid to sta…
Who Do I Think I Am? is an hour long rip roaring stand up performance.
Burgeoning Fringe comedy legend and self-professed borderline alcoholic John Robins indulges his audience with a startlingly self-referential hour of stand-up comedy.
Glenn Wool isn’t afraid to engage with Big Themes: feminism and the existence of God take centre stage during his set.
Festival of the Spoken Nerd present a variety of comedy stylings on maths, physics, and all things ‘nerdy’.
Being a show in the weird and wacky world that is the Fringe, I must admit, I had certain expectations of magician Chris Dugdale.
“Some people would kill to have what we have,” says Sophie, describing her job as a toilet attendant in a nightclub.
Jamie MacDonald is a gentle comic, even when brandishing his white cane as a weapon.
The Oxford Revue’s 2015 Fringe offering is a confident display of strong student comedy.
The opening salvo of this musical Game of Thrones pastiche has such brazen, devilish promise that for a while I entertained the possibility of being blown away by it.
If you’re planning on making the trip to see Baby Wants Candy, get your title suggestions ready now! The audience for his fully improvised musical comedy has barely taken their s…
Pantomime is not just for Christmas, according to Òran Mór, whose take on the genre is a wonderfully satirical look at the corridors of power.
For a show with this title, it is perhaps surprising that Nick Cody’s eye-catching facial hair is not the main feature of this performance.
According to Andrew Ryan, he is a failure.
Jack Dee’s Help Desk sees Dee and a panel of surprise top comedians address problems that audience members put to them.
The Alleycats say that they love the Edinburgh Festival so much that they create an entirely new show of material just for coming here each year.
High energy, witty and often silly, Josh’s weekly XFM radio programme hits the stage, bringing the humor and voices that you usually hear through speakers into the room.
Antonio Forcione is such an established and adored Fringe regular it almost seems redundant reviewing him because, just as day follows night, a five star review follows Foricone’s …
Once in a while at the Edinburgh Fringe you stumble across an interesting and adventurous piece of theatre, a so-called diamond in the rough, proving the point of the festival and …
Mervyn Stutter has been sourcing and sharing his picks of the Fringe for, unbelievably, 28 years and he is clearly not waning when it comes to separating the wheat from the chaff.
Are you a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings? If so, look no further, this will be the highlight of your Fringe experience.
The African Sahara, a wrecked plane, a stranded pilot and a vastness of sand.
Freak should be on the curriculum.
The latest offering from acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau is an ensemble piece in every sense of the word.
This moving piece of new writing from Vivienne Walshe follows two teenagers trapped in their own versions of hell, who find the route to escapism in each other.
Bill Clinton was one of America’s glowing presidents, a shining democrat in the fashion of Jimmy Carter and even America’s beloved JFK.
Race first opened on Broadway in 2009 and ran for almost 300 performances, directed by its Pulitzer Prizewinning writer, David Mamet.
Italy, late World War II.
There’s a lot going on in Dogs of War.
‘Health and Happiness Guru to the Stars’ Marijana (Gabby Best) takes her audience on a journey to find themselves.
A week into the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and I’m sure that most parents have had to endure fairies, talking animals and patronising presenters, all for their little darlings.
This engaging one-man play by Alex Oates is a novel take on the descent into drug-dealing: our protagonist, Geordie lad Bruce Blakemore, begins buying cocaine through a shady websi…
When seeing a piece of new writing it can be best to have no expectations, to let the play lead you where it will.
Playwrights and theatre producers alike are increasingly taking bigger risks and becoming more creative when considering how their work is presented onstage.
The Matchmaker is a light-hearted show about Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor, a self-made cupid for rural Ireland’s slightly-more-than-middle-aged singletons.
Standing centre stage in a dress and a dodgy blonde wig, Mark Grist jokes that this is what two guys with Arts Council funding really look like.
An epic march through Paris searching for the grave of someone called Jean-Paul Satre just to please an ex-girlfriend is one of the many very funny and brilliantly recounted tales …
You’d be forgiven for thinking you’d come to the wrong classroom: at times this show seems more like Sara Pascoe vs Biology, what with the fascinating nano-lectures on “spe…
Holly Walsh makes it clear in the opening sentences of Never Had It that she certainly doesn’t have ‘it’.
We’ve all been there—the post-show discussion that goes on for too long or goes nowhere at all.
Australian award-winning comedienne and author of the successful Australian television art doco Hannah Gadsby’s Oz, Hannah Gadsby is back this Edinburgh Fringe with a fresh batch…
If you are someone that enjoys magic in its more basic, “no frills” form, like sleight-of-hand tricks and close-up magic, you can’t go wrong with this show.
Being visually impaired, Glaswegian stand-up Jamie MacDonald definitely brings a new meaning to “observational humour”.
Paul Chowdry is perhaps one of the most interesting comedians at the Fringe this year.
There is no lack of glitz when it comes to The Nualas; a costume change after just one minute reveals their blindingly sparkling dresses.
Despite his onstage charm, Marlon Davis could have done more to cover up for a set that contained predominantly weak material.
In his first full Edinburgh show, Jonny Leonard takes issue with stand-up comedians’ perennial bugbear – children’s literature.