After bringing a string of sold-out shows with her sister, Writer/Actress Bebe Cave’s long-awaited solo Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut is a one woman daring dark comedy play about the perils of show-business. The Screen Test is a coming-of-age tale about a girl who is desperate to become a star, even if she sacrifices herself…
Rifco Theatre Company in partnership with Watford Palace Theatre and HOME Manchester have announced the headline cast for its most spectacular and ambitious musical to date. Laila Zaidi (Clem in ‘Little Bits Of Light’ (National Theatre, London); Charlie in ‘The Selfish Giant’ (Vaudeville Theatre, London’s West End); Tassita in ‘Starlight Express’ (The Other Palace…
On paper Stamptown is a raunchy, chaotic, and full-on comedy experience; it’s a late-night variety show featuring the best alternative performers on the international scene. Hosted by the bad boy of clown, Zach Zucker, this show has packed out rooms at Netflix Is A Joke, Edinburgh Fringe, SXSW, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Glastonbury, The…
Playwright Dina Ibrahim is delighted to bring her new play The Mother of Kamal to Upstairs at the Gatehouse, in Highgate. The play will run from 19th – 28th January 2024. Based on real life events and inspired by Dina Ibrahim’s own father’s family memoir novel Um-Kamal (‘mother of Kamal’ in Arabic), the play revolves around the tumultuous events in the saga…
With several viral internet hits, appearances on Mock The Week a debut performance on Comedy Central Live and an upcoming debut on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown later this year, two sensational children’s books and a sell-out UK tour earlier this year under his (vegan leather) belt, Alasdair Becket King is thrilled to be…
Phil McIntyre Live is delighted to announce that Jordan Gray will embark on her first UK tour, with her smash hit show ‘Is it a Bird?’ visiting Quays Theatre, Salford on Friday, 20 October 2023, 8.00PM. Is it a Bird? – which now has over 20 x 5-star reviews – brings together Jordan’s love of superheroes,…
Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where he performed to packed houses, the hottest British talent from the magic scene, breakdancing magician and finalist of Britain’s Got Talent, Magical Bones, is on a national tour with his acclaimed unique high energy magic show, Soulful Magic. Magical Bones is set to bring perform his show ‘Soulful Magic’ to…
Critically-acclaimed double act Crizards are set to return to the Pleasance during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with their brand-new show This Means War. Directed by Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Jordan Brookes, Crizards weave together a show exploring the human struggle to be brave during uncertain times through sketch, narrative and song. Set during wartime, the story follows the misadventures of Private Grandad as he attempts to…
They keep adding dates and they keep selling out. After the first UK tour dates sold out within hours of going on general sale, and the second round of additions going much the same way, Mick Perrin Worldwide is delighted to announce a further extra date for Australia’s favourite absurdist sketch group Aunty Donna at Eventim Apollo London – adding…
London Clown Festival is delighted to announce it’s 2023 line up, a selection of the finest clowns the city, and indeed the world has to offer. The week-long event has cemented itself as a fixture of the London comedy scene; a festival of physical comedy and clown influenced contemporary performance. Packed with physical comedy and buffoonery London…
A theatre company like no other, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® takes a sevensome of professional actors, a Shakespearean script and throws a bucket-load of booze into the mix. Sounds classical to us… Having performed multiple sell-out runs at the Leicester Square Theatre, Edinburgh, Brighton, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Sydney, Boston, Austin, Atlanta and Minnesota, this merry band of…
Twitter sensation and BBC Radio 4 regular, Sooz Kempner takes to the road in her debut UK comedy tour, following a totally sold-out Edinburgh Festival residency which played to notable critical acclaim. In 1998, Sooz got a PlayStation, a console for the first generation of adult gamers, and finally felt grown-up. But is she a grown up,…
After years away touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret, the legendary alternative-rock trio The Tiger Lillies embark on a European tour of their highly-acclaimed back catalogue of music with their show ‘From the Circus to the Cemetery’, to coincide with the release of their first ‘best of’ album, ‘The Worst of The Tiger…
Following an incredibly successful and highly critically acclaimed run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and a current UK tour SHEWOLVES is delighted to announce that it will be coming to the Southwark Playhouse from 21 June – 8 July 2023 Armed with a backpack full of Pop-tarts, Priya and Lou embark on a covert expedition into the wild.…
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment is thrilled to announce that following an incredible one-night-only theatrical release, the award-winning West End hit Heathers: The Musical will be streaming exclusively on Icon Film Channel from 1st May. The release will include a special 10-minute ‘Behind The Scenes at The Other Palace’ bonus feature. Based on the 1989 cult classic film starring Winona Ryder…
After years away touring the world, the Olivier Award-winning godfathers of alternative cabaret, the legendary alternative-rock trio The Tiger Lillies embark on a European tour of their highly-acclaimed back catalogue of music with their show ‘From the Circus to the Cemetery’, to coincide with the release of their first ‘best of’ album, ‘The Worst of The Tiger…
Tickets on general sale – more info @ http://www.auntydonna.com/ Following their critically acclaimed Netflix series, Australia’s favourite absurdist sketch group, Aunty Donna, are bringing their first live tour to the UK and Ireland. It’s their first visit to perform on these shores in well over five years, and their first ever UK tour. Their trip will see…
After sell-out shows for “JUST TRYING TO HELP” at the Edinburgh Festival and Soho Theatre in 2022, and the filming of the live show by a major American label for worldwide release in the pipeline… audiences are invited to join Garrett Millerick as he delivers a searing and timely investigation into the unintended consequences of doing our best,…
Ireland’s most renowned female playwright; Deirdre KInahan has work performed internationally and translated into many languages. Her new play, Bloody Yesterday is playing London next week ahead of it’s tour. Inspired by a true story, it delicately depicts the broken relationship between a Mother and Daughter : Exploring loss, estrangement, identity, resilience and motherhood. Haunted by a ‘nineties’ soundtrack Bloody Yesterday also…
Beinghuman® is delighted to announce the world premiere of a brand-new play, incorporating digital and performance artwork. Written by and starring Gaynor O’Flynn, TIME will run at the Vault Festival from 7th – 12th March 2023, having been selected from 600+ works to appear as one of the VAULT 5. TIME explores the inescapable passing of the years; the story of a…
Directed and co-written by Sam Blumenfeld. Soho Theatre Mon 13 – Sat 18 Mar 2023 9.15pm https://sohotheatre.com/shows/emily-wilson-fixed/ Humiliating and outrageous, Fixed was Emily Wilson’s Edinburgh Fringe debut, sharing the story of her disastrous experience as a finalist on The X Factor USA at the age of fifteen. Emily auditioned for the show in a duo with her best friend,…
It’s eleven o’clock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road in London. In two hours’ time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, fifteen crackers with spreadable cheese, ten pink biscuit wafers and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours’ time, as is…
Following their sell-out Edinburgh Festival run, the award-winning comedy true crime podcast takes to the road for its first full tour, from September this year. Recently celebrating their 200th episode, Drunk Women Solving Crime has quickly taken the UK by storm since its 2018 launch. With a unique blend of historical true crime in a quiz-style…
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods… following their smash hit run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival; Edinburgh Fringe Best Newcomer nominees (2019), Crybabies (James Gault, Michael Clarke and Ed Jones) are bringing their new creation: Bagbeard to The Soho Theatre. Join James (still tall), Ed (less handsome) and…
Join Garrett as he delivers a searing and timely investigation into the unintended consequences of doing our best, the mayhem that ensues when people try to help. A blisteringly funny and cathartic appeal for calm, from one of the least calm people in the country. Just Trying to Help is sensible answers to stupid questions. Firm…
Multi-award-nominated Front Foot Theatre continues their season of Pulitzer Prize-winning plays with Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends opening at the newly-refurbished Golden Goose Theatre in November.Dinner with Friends is a comic drama that sets out to challenge our sometimes deeply held convictions about relationships, loyalty, and acceptance. When couple Karen and Gabe’s closest friends’ marriage…
Middle class, middle aged multicultural mother of millennial sons, Sudha lives a “squeezed middle” life in Wimbledon. As she navigates her career, family and returning to India as a NRI (Non-Resident Indian), she is prompted to investigate her own sense of home and her place in the world. Evening Conversations is a warm-hearted monologue inspired by…
About Bill productions are delighted to announce a three-night run of About Bill at The Other Palace – The one woman show starring Kim Ismay will run from 7-9 October 2022. Kim Ismay is well known to London Theatreland and has starred in countless West End and national tour productions including Wicked, Mamma Mia, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Saturday Night Fever, Acorn Antiques, Singing In The…
Becky knows what she wants, she knows what she needs, and she knows how to get it. When drag artist Becky Biro is told she needs a larger following to be considered as a contestant in the next series of international TV hit ‘The Drag Factor’, she can just smell success. And my god she knows she’s earned it.…
Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most famous works and arguably, the greatest play ever written. It’s a dramatic epic about greed, ambition and the heights and depths of the human condition. Now, imagine it being performed by a rotating cast, one of who is completely inebriated? That is the very essence of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® as they…
Following hugely successful run the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022, Wildcard Theatre brings one-woman thriller Ruckus to London Theatre Southwark Playhouse from 5-29th October – performed and written by Jenna Fincken – Ruckus is a compelling, unsettling play exploring the suppression and destruction caused by coercive control. Inspired by the daunting and real stories of real women. Ruckus is produced by Wildcard’s Joey Dawson who also produced the highly successful Manic Street…
Following a hugely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022, the award-winning actor, writer and comedian Elf Lyons is taking her terrifying and darkly funny Stephen King-inspired comedy show on tour this Autumn 2022. Beginning in Bristol on 1st October, before heading across the UK, culminating with nine nights at London’s Soho Theatre, just in time to spice up…
Fresh from a sell out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Harriet Kemsley is bringing her new critically acclaimed show ‘Honeysuckle Island’ to the Soho Theatre and then touring nationally this autumn. Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry…
The team behind The Windrush Warriors invite you to join them, to laugh with them and to cry with them as their theatrical show shares the story of one of the most cruel & vindictive initiatives ever undertaken by a government The Windrush Warriors is a show that exposes the despicable persecution of African-Caribbean people…
As 2022 continues its race through the months, yep its pushing into panto season here in the UK and earlier today actor Nicole Faraday revealed on her social media, the poster for Aladdin, which runs from the 9th of December to the 31st of December 2022 at the Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone. Whilst of course…
Inspired by the gameplay of Dungeons and Dragons, this hilarious adventure is never the same tale twice as audience members control the story from the palm of their hands. It’s time for adventure at The Twenty-Sided Tavern. Choose your heroes, battle monsters, and solve riddles to influence the narrative as it unfolds. This is a…
This is the first play from Abigail Thorn, creator of the hugely popular web show Philosophy Tube, which she has built to more than one million subscribers since it was established in 2013. Abigail publicly came out as a transgender woman in January 2021, with her video Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story. The Prince – which she both wrote and…
Award-winning, British-Iranian, acclaimed actor/comedian, Omid Djalili, will be bringing his show, The Good Times Tour, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August this year. On the road since July 2021 (although I hope Omid has managed a day off now and again) , he has conquered the hearts of his audience one by one, and continues to impress with his…
The multi award-winning acknowledged master of psychological illusion returns to the West End stage for the first time in four years. SHOWMAN, Derren’s new, interactive one-man show, has received the most off-the-chart reviews of his career. Fresh off a universally acclaimed 155-date national tour, which ends in October, Brown brings his unique brand of uplifting magical genius…
Trapped within the confines of Henry IV Part One, Jen and Sam know they do not belong here, or in the many Shakespeare plays they have unwillingly flitted between. They are not like the others; they are not mere characters fated to repeat the words and actions written for them. They belong in the real world.…
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