Leith Festival Fundraiser
With Con-Dem budget cuts starting to bite across the country, many arts ventures have found themselves with a fraction of their normal funding. The Leith Festival, running every June and...

With Con-Dem budget cuts starting to bite across the country, many arts ventures have found themselves with a fraction of their normal funding. The Leith Festival, running every June and...

Helen Keen tells us about the anti-Wonders of the Universe

Zombies in Ayrshire? It must be a social realist drama, then

Sometimes it feels like every festival launch you go to these days promises 'More Shows Than Ever Before!'. But, as we all know, it's how good the shows are that...
Gutted: A Revenger’s Musical A show can get away with murder if it can be described as ‘cult’, so why not set that murder to music? The creators of the...

As the worlds of standup and poetry converge, new and innovative forms have begun to emerge. Tom Hackett talks to the performers leading the way.

Charlyne Yi - ...Dances on the Moon At 24 years old, Yi is something of a trailblazer. Her debut film Paper Heart impressed judges at Sundance and her memorable appearance...

Maff Brown Brown started his comedy career as warm-up for ITV's Loose Women; and if he can handle the hordes of frenzied, maniacal housewives then one suspects the Edinburgh Fringe...

Jason Manford – Off On Tour We Go For five nights only, Manchester’s favourite son will be taking time out of his national tour to win a few more hearts...

Before the overwhelming kaleidoscopic festival of art, music and everything else hits Edinburgh in August there is the Leith Festival - a smaller, better groomed, more Scottish wee festival

Flight of the Conchords return to British stages for the first time in five years with two nights in the Clyde Auditorium.

Suited and bespectacled with a wondering, grumbling puzzlement at the world, Sean Lock is back at the Glasgow Comedy Festival with his brand new show, Lockipedia. Now regarded as...

Miles Jupp is a bit of a polymath, with a sizable CV of television and radio appearances as a stand up, an actor and part of sketch team The Lost...

Sean Collins has a smooth, laidback style of comedy you don't see so much any more. His laconic manner is reminiscent of a time before frenetic and wide-eyed mania seemed...

Come dare yourself to spend an hour or more with Barry and Stuart, where black and bloody magic comes tinctured with devilish humour. This devious pair of magicians have garnered...

He may appear as a small figure on a huge stage, but Andrew Maxwell will fill out the space with his gleeful storytelling. Born on the north side of Dublin,...

Coming from a family of comedians – she has previously supported her father in the US as well as performed with her brother in How to be Iranian – Shappi...

Fresh from the success of The Dullest Show at The Stand Edinburgh, The Skinny is staking its comedy claim on the west coast at the Magner’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival

However bad life might seem, there are always a host of comics out there more bitter, twisted and broke than you could ever imagine and this dull January, The Skinny...

Double strength comedy abounds as top acts get together to celebrate the tenth birthday of the Clowndoctors.