Listings: Cabaret, Fringe

We're back! The desire. The fantasy. The nightmare. Terrifying. You're back! The costumes. The attitude. The hedonism. A gory, bloody, wicked club night of horror characters. Dress up - think Halloween. World's biggest burlesque club (Guinness World Records). Biggest Fringe cabaret event for five years. 'Top 10 cabaret…

Joan Shepard started on Broadway at seven, hired by Laurence Olivier. Hollywood followed. Humorous music memoir of inside showbiz tales. 'Shepard takes on the best of them … a gleeful account' ★★★★ (Times). Directed by Margarett Perry.

Finger In The Pie. Out of Yorkshire via Oz, Damsel in Shining Armour mixes self-deprecating storytelling, music and audience collaboration to witty, moving and elevating effect. Damsel Sophie ('A new shining star' (Scotsman) combines her memories of looking for romance in Paris with tongue-in-cheek musings on the…

Introducing New York City's renowned raconteur of supernatural sleaze and homosexual horror, Dandy Darkly! '…an utterly unique and potentially fatal cocktail of mince and menace that's not to be believed … even once he's been seen!' (Villager Newspaper). Multiple critics pick and 'one of five things to do this week!…

Master songwriter presents more Jewish chronicles, truisms, and sharp wit, set to music. You don’t have to know your schtick from your schmear, your schlep from schlock or your Israel from your Palestine. This one man show is chicken soup for everyone, heartbreakingly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. ‘Stories within…

TREMers in association with Theatre Bench. Debbie Chapman comes to Edinburgh direct from the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End. Through an amalgamation of comedic stories and heartfelt song, Debbie will ponder (aloud) why her fairy tale of love has yet to become a reality and why in many ways, she feels just…

Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords, say 'hallo' to your new favourite band. Catch Berlin's prince and princess of indie rock before they release their feature film in 2014. A lipstick-smeared, tantrum-loving, sonic collision between B52's, Kraftwerk and early Ramones. Their songs are ridiculously infectious…

Sarah-Ann Cromwell. Winner of Buxton Festival Fringe Spirit of the Fringe Award 2012 and Nominated for Best Solo Vocal, the UK's first operatic cabaret: Diva Gigs: A week in the life of a diva, is an unforgettable romp into the operatic world of Birmingham Conservatoire trained Soprano, Sarah-Ann Cromwell. Described by…

Mick Perrin Worldwide. ThreeWeeks Award winner Doug returns with a brand new comedy mind reading show where he turns the audience into mind reading mentalists. 'Imagine if Derren Brown was funny' (Evening Standard). Expect comedy, animation, interaction and mind blowing miracles performed by you, the audience. 'One of…

Cabaret star Dusty Limits: 'The Trailblazer' (Time Out London), delivers a new show exploring the crazed pursuit of joy and truth, returning to the site of 2012's TO&ST award-nominated Post-Mortem. Songs of love and lunacy delivered with exquisite poise and a sense of the absurd. 'One of the foremost practitioners…

The award-winning, internationally acclaimed musical comedy duo return with an all-new array of hilariously naughty original songs. Discovered in a bedsit above a gin joint in East London, Bernadette Byrne and Victor Victoria will share their strangest, sauciest misadventures, armed with an accordion, a musical saw and a…

EttieBoo and Friends. Ettieboo (Ria Lina) presents the best value for money cabaret can buy! Each show is different, with a line-up comprised of the best, brightest, and most beautiful acts participating at the Fringe. If you're getting to the end of your Fringe experience and you feel like you haven't seen enough…

Flamboyant: Like a Flame, But Buoyant is a whimsical, musical journey into the mind of Clara Bell. See the world through the eyes of an Aussie girl with a heart of gold, a love of potatoes and thinly veiled anger issues. Come with Clara as she escapes the clutches of creepy men, battles a zombie and searches for…

Voodoo Rooms / Blond Ambition. The ubermeister of lounge's comedy cabaret war machine rolls into Edinburgh after a successful European tour and victories in Australia. Frank returns to his spiritual home with his new show, accompanied by his psychopathic daughter Nancy Sanazi (Jack Boots) and outrageous guests, Frank…

Kiss & Tell Cabaret. Glamorous chanteuse and vacuous socialite Melinda Hughes drags her long-suffering accompanist Jeremy Limb from party to party, drunkenly flirting with younger men, airing her opinion on the recession, the Euro, the literary world, recycling and French émigrés in London. These original risqué…

Scary Little Girls / PBH’s Free Fringe - Join Monika de Plume (glamour puss, academic, thespian) and her assistant Non (dog's body, ensemble cast, backstage crew), for a romp round the nation's favourite literary sisters! A mixture of comedy and music, ‘works billiantly on every level!’ (Brighton Fringe). Be you a…

Mark Cairns. Mark Cairns can't really read minds. Think of him as a fake psychic who is honest about being a fake. Three years ago, out of the blue, Mark's wife secretly converted to Islam. As someone who spends his life making people believe things that aren't true, Mark sets out to try and understand how his (now…

Join Kreestan Sennakie, storyteller and magician in exploring the bizarre side of magic. Meet with the spirits as they tell their tales of murder, mystery and betrayal. Tread carefully, you never know what might happen on this journey to the darker side of magic.

If knowledge is the food of the soul, then let us feast! This travelling parlour of enlightenment combines exceptional experts and erudite amateurs in a fiesta of learning and fine cocktails. Prepare to be delighted by unusual characters, exquisite libations, and wisdom of the most eye-opening variety in the decadent…

New York musical theatre entertainer/comedian Jonathan Prager brings his golden voice, heartfelt interpretation and comedic sensibility to a glorious and hilarious mix of little known gems and heartwarming favorites. www.theSeriousComic.com

Flagrant Productions. From the toxic utopia of Our Day Will Come, to a North Korean traffic girl- an exploration of women in uniform as signallers and authority figures, to horses and their wild equestrian spirit, In Flagrante is a show with a vicious little edge. Fusing cabaret and contemporary dance, fetish and…

Michael Griffiths. Australian music theatre star Michael Griffiths is Madonna. No accent, costume or wig. Just Madge accompanying herself at the piano, leading you on a journey through her tough life and tender songs. Strike a pose, get into the groove and express yourself as Madonna opens her heart. 'A borderline…