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5 stars		5
4 stars		118
3 stars		199
2 stars		72
1 star		6
3.1 stars average of 400 reviews.

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5 star shows(5 reviews)

- Theatre
America Is Hard to See
Fest
- Theatre
Baby Reindeer by Richard Gadd
Fest
- Comedy
Desiree Burch: Desiree's Coming Early
Fest
- Theatre
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Fest
- Comedy
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Little Death Club
Fest

4 star shows(118 reviews)

- Theatre
- Physical theatre
10:31, MCR
Fest
- Dance
9
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Aaron Crow: FearLess
Fest
- Comedy
Adam Riches: The Beakington Town Hall Murders
Fest
- Comedy
Aditi Mittal: Mother of Invention
Fest
- Comedy
Alfie Brown: Imagination
Fest
- Comedy
Alice Snedden: Absolute Monster
Fest
- Comedy
Andrew O'Neill – We Are Not in the Least Afraid of Ruins; We Carry a New World in Our Hearts
Fest
- Dance
The Beautiful Game
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Birth
Fest
- Theatre
Blood and Gold
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Boar
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Bobby & Amy
Fest
- Dance
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: Symbiosis
Fest
- Music
- Opera
Breaking the Waves
Fest
- Dance
Bromance
Fest
- Theatre
Bryony Kimmings: I'm a Phoenix, Bitch
Fest
- Theatre
Burgerz
Fest
- Music
Camille O'Sullivan Sings Cave
Fest
- Theatre
Cardboard Citizens: Bystanders
Fest
- Theatre
- Books
- Spoken word
Cat Hepburn: #GIRLHOOD
Fest
- Comedy
Catherine Cohen: The Twist…? She's Gorgeous
Fest
- Comedy
Chris Mcglade: Forgiveness
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Christina Bianco: First Impressions
Fest
- Comedy
Ciarán Dowd: Padre Rodolfo
Fest
- Theatre
The Claim
Fest
- Theatre
Collapsible
Fest
- Theatre
Coma
Fest
- Theatre
CONSPIRACY
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Contra
Fest
- Comedy
Courtney Pauroso: Gutterplum
Fest
- Theatre
Crocodile Fever
Fest
- Theatre
Daddy Drag
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Dance
Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company: The Art of Believing
Fest
- Comedy
Demi Lardner: Ditch Witch 800
Fest
- Dance
The Desk
Fest
- Comedy
Diane Chorley: Modern Love
Fest
- Comedy
Dreamgun: Film Reads
Fest
- Comedy
Eleanor Morton: Post-Morton
Fest
- Comedy
Eleanor Tiernan: Enjoying the Spotlight Responsibly
Fest
- Theatre
The End
Fest
- Theatre
Enough
Fest
- Comedy
Eric Lampaert: Borne of Chaos
Fest
- Theatre
The Examination
Fest
- Comedy
Fern Brady: Power and Chaos
Fest
- Dance
FrontX
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Funny in Real Life
Fest
- Comedy
Garrett Millerick: Smile
Fest
- Comedy
- Physical theatre
Garry Starr Conquers Troy
Fest
- Comedy
Glenn Moore: Love Don't Live Here Glenny Moore
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous
Fest
- Kids
- Theatre
Islander: A New Musical
Fest
- Comedy
Isma Almas: About a Buoy – Adventures in Adoption
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical
Fest
- Comedy
Jack Tucker: Comedy Stand-Up Hour
Fest
- Comedy
James Nokise: God Damn Fancy Man
Fest
- Comedy
Jen Brister – Under Privilege
Fest
- Comedy
Jessica Fostekew: Hench
Fest
- Comedy
John Kearns: Double Take and Fade Away
Fest
- Comedy
Jonny Pelham: Off Limits
Fest
- Theatre
Josephine
Fest
- Comedy
Josie Long: Tender
Fest
- Comedy
Kai Samra: Underclass
Fest
- Dance
Knot
Fest
- Theatre
La Reprise Histoire(s) du theatre (I)
Fest
- Comedy
Laura Davis: Better Dead Than a Coward
Fest
- Comedy
Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk
Fest
- Comedy
Leo Mohr: When I Was Zorro
Fest
- Comedy
London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck
Fest
- Dance
Louder Is Not Always Clearer
Fest
- Comedy
Lou Sanders: Say Hello to Your New Step-Mummy
Fest
- Theatre
Manual Cinema's Frankenstein
Fest
- Comedy
Mat Ewins: Actually Can I Have Eight Tickets Please?
Fest
- Comedy
Max & Ivan: Commitment
Fest
- Comedy
Milo McCabe as Troy Hawke: Tiles of the Unexpected!
Fest
- Music
Misha's Gang: Strings on Fire
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Moby Dick
Fest
- Comedy
Myra DuBois: Dead Funny
Fest
- Theatre
Nightclubbing
Fest
- Comedy
Olga Koch: If/Then
Fest
- Theatre
Orlando
Fest
- Dance
Out
Fest
- Theatre
The Patient Gloria
Fest
- Comedy
Paul Currie: Trufficle Musk
Fest
- Music
#Pianodrome Live
Fest
- Theatre
Pink Lemonade
Fest
- Dance
Raven
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
The Red
Fest
- Theatre
Ripped
Fest
- Comedy
Rob Auton: The Time Show
Fest
- Comedy
Róisín and Chiara: Get Nupty
Fest
- Theatre
Roots
Fest
- Comedy
Sara Barron: Enemies Closer
Fest
- Comedy
Sean Morley: Soon I Will Be Dead and My Bones Will Be Free to Wreak Havoc Upon the Earth Once More
Fest
- Theatre
The Secret River
Fest
- Theatre
Sex Education
Fest
- Theatre
Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum with Expats
Fest
- Comedy
Sophie Duker: Venus
Fest
- Comedy
Stevie Martin: Hot Content
Fest
- Dance
- Physical theatre
Super Sunday
Fest
- Comedy
Susie McCabe: Domestic Disaster
Fest
- Comedy
Suzi Ruffell: Dance Like Everyone's Watching
Fest
- Theatre
A Table Tennis Play
Fest
- Dance
Taiwan Season: Floating Flowers
Fest
- Theatre
- Dance
- Circus
This Time
Fest
- Theatre
Tokyo Rose
Fest
- Comedy
Tom Ballard: Enough
Fest
- Comedy
Tony Law: Identifies
Fest
- Comedy
- Talks & lectures
Tony Slattery: Slattery Will Get You Nowhere
Fest
- Dance
- Visual art
Trisha Brown: In Plain Site
Fest
- Theatre
Trying It On
Fest
- Theatre
Typical
Fest
- Theatre
Until the Flood
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Vigil
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Vulvarine: A New Musical
Fest
- Theatre
Who Cares
Fest
- Theatre
Working On My Night Moves
Fest
- Theatre
Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
Fest

3 star shows(199 reviews)

- Theatre
- Physical theatre
8:8
Fest
- Comedy
Aaron Chen: Piss Off (Just Kidding)
Fest
- Comedy
Aaron Simmonds: Disabled Coconut
Fest
- Comedy
Abbie Murphy: Eat Sleep Shit Shag
Fest
- Theatre
The Accident Did Not Take Place
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Ada Campe and the Psychic Duck
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
The Afflicted
Fest
- Comedy
Alasdair Beckett-King: The Interdimensional ABK
Fest
- Dance
Ali and Alpo
Fest
- Comedy
Alison Spittle: Mother of God
Fest
- Theatre
All of Me
Fest
- Dance
And the Birds Did Sing
Fest
- Theatre
Anguis
Fest
- Comedy
Anna and Helen: Stuck in a Rat
Fest
- Comedy
Anna Drezen: Okay Get Home Safe!!
Fest
- Theatre
Appropriate by Sarah-Jane Scott
Fest
- Theatre
Armour: A Herstory of the Scottish Bard
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Art Heist
Fest
- Theatre
Arthur
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Ask A Stripper
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
- Physical theatre
Bait: Kill the Princess
Fest
- Comedy
Bec Hill: I'll Be Bec
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
beep boop
Fest
- Theatre
Before the End
Fest
- Visual art
Below the Blanket
Fest
- Comedy
Ben Pope: Dancing Bear
Fest
- Comedy
- Dance
- Physical theatre
The Black Blues Brothers
Fest
- Theatre
Bleeding Black
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Blind Date
Fest
- Comedy
Bollywood and Birmingham to Berlin and Brexit
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Bubble Show for Adults Only
Fest
- Theatre
Burns: A Lost Legacy
Fest
- Theatre
Butterflies
Fest
- Music
Camino de Sangjaru
Fest
- Comedy
Catherine Bohart: Lemon
Fest
- Theatre
Chaika: First Woman in Space
Fest
- Music
- Dance
Chocolate
Fest
- Dance
The Chosen
Fest
- Comedy
Chris Parker: Camp Binch
Fest
- Comedy
Christopher KC: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Rice
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Colin Cloud: Sinful
Fest
- Dance
Le Coup
Fest
- Theatre
Cruel Intentions: The '90s Musical
Fest
- Comedy
Daisy Earl: Fairy Elephant
Fest
- Comedy
Daliso Chaponda: Blah Blah Blacklist
Fest
- Dance
Danny MacAskill's Drop and Roll Live
Fest
- Theatre
Deer Woman
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Definitely Louise
Fest
- Comedy
Diane Chorley: Down the Flick
Fest
- Theatre
Do Our Best
Fest
- Comedy
Double Denim: Adventure Show
Fest
- Theatre
- Spoken word
Drone
Fest
- Theatre
Drunk Lion
Fest
- Theatre
E8
Fest
- Theatre
Ejaculation – Discussions About Female Sexuality
Fest
- Comedy
Elliot Steel: Merked
Fest
- Comedy
Eshaan Akbar: Infidel-ity
Fest
- Comedy
Esther Manito: Crusade
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Exposing Edith
Fest
- Dance
Filament
Fest
- Theatre
Fires Our Shoes Have Made
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Fishbowl
Fest
- Theatre
Forbruker
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Four Woke Baes
Fest
- Theatre
Fox
Fest
- Comedy
Foxdog Studios: Tomorrow's Office
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Frankie Foxstone AKA The Profit: Walking Tour
Fest
- Comedy
- Music
Frisky & Mannish: PopLab
Fest
- Theatre
- Dance
- Circus
- Physical theatre
La Galerie
Fest
- Comedy
George Fouracres: Gentlemon
Fest
- Theatre
The Good Scout
Fest
- Comedy
Gráinne Maguire: Guys… It's Problematic
Fest
- Comedy
Guy Montgomery: I Was Part of the Problem Before We Were Talking About It
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Harriet Braine: Les Admirables
Fest
- Theatre
Hatch
Fest
- Music
- Dance
Havana After Dark
Fest
- Comedy
Heidi Regan: Heidi Kills Time
Fest
- Comedy
Helen Bauer: Little Miss Baby Angel Face
Fest
- Theatre
Hindsight
Fest
- Theatre
House of Hundred
Fest
- Theatre
How Not to Drown
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
How to Use a Washing Machine
Fest
- Theatre
I Am
Fest
- Theatre
If This Is Normal
Fest
- Comedy
Impulse Control
Fest
- Theatre
The Incident Room
Fest
- Theatre
I Run
Fest
- Comedy
Ivo Graham: The Game of Life
Fest
- Comedy
James McNicholas: The Boxer
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Jekyll vs Hyde
Fest
- Comedy
Jena Friedman: Miscarriage of Justice
Fest
- Comedy
Jenny Bede: The Musical
Fest
- Comedy
Joe Bor: The Story of Walter and Herbert
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Jon Long: Planet-Killing Machine
Fest
- Comedy
Josh Glanc: Glance You for Having Me
Fest
- Comedy
Joz Norris Is Dead. Long Live Mr Fruit Salad.
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Julius 'Call Me Caesar' Caesar
Fest
- Music
- Dance
Kalakuta Republik
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Karaoke Saved My Life
Fest
- Comedy
Kelly Convey: Telephone Voice
Fest
- Comedy
Ken Cheng: To All the Racists I've Blocked Before
Fest
- Comedy
Kieran Boyd: Crashing the Party
Fest
- Comedy
Ladylikes: Top Secret House Party!
Fest
- Theatre
Legally Blonde the Musical
Fest
- Comedy
Legs
Fest
- Comedy
Leo Kearse: Transgressive
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
The Letter
Fest
- Comedy
Liam Malone: No Limbits
Fest
- Theatre
Like Animals
Fest
- Comedy
Lola and Jo: Escape
Fest
- Theatre
LOVE (Watching Madness)
Fest
- Comedy
Luca Cupani: Lives I Never Lived
Fest
- Comedy
Lucy Beaumont: Space Mam
Fest
- Comedy
Lucy Pearman: Baggage
Fest
- Comedy
Luke Rollason's Infinite Content
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Macbeth
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Madame Chandelier's Rough Guide to the Opera
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Madame George by Keir McAllister
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Magical Bones: Black Magic
Fest
- Comedy
Marjolein Robertson: Da Shetland Spree
Fest
- Comedy
Marlon Davis: Emotional Black Male
Fest
- Comedy
Mary Houlihan: Me and Jack
Fest
- Comedy
Matt Price: Broken Hooters and Geezers with Shooters
Fest
- Comedy
- Talks & lectures
Matt Winning: It's the End of the World as We Know It
Fest
- Comedy
Michael Legge: The Idiot
Fest
- Comedy
Michael Odewale: #BLACKBEARSMATTER
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Modern Maori Quartet: Garage Party
Fest
- Comedy
Moon: We Cannot Get Out
Fest
- Theatre
MOOT MOOT
Fest
- Music
Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers: Beat Grrrls
Fest
- Comedy
Naomi Karavani: Dominant
Fest
- Comedy
Nathan Roberts: Glowed Up
Fest
- Comedy
Nath Valvo: I'm Happy for You
Fest
- Comedy
Naz Osmanoglu – Scandinaveland
Fest
- Comedy
Nigel Ng: Culture Shocked
Fest
- Theatre
The Nights by Henry Naylor
Fest
- Theatre
- Dance
- Physical theatre
Notre Dame de Paris aka The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Fest
- Theatre
Oedipus
Fest
- Theatre
Oh Yes Oh No
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
A Partnership
Fest
- Theatre
Pathetic Fallacy
Fest
- Comedy
Paul Foxcroft: Debut
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Paul Putner's Embarrassment – Me and Madness (The Band)
Fest
- Theatre
Peter Gynt
Fest
- Comedy
Phil Cornwell: Alackadaddy
Fest
- Comedy
Phoebe Robinson: Sorry, Harriet Tubman
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Piramania! The Swashbuckling Pirate Musical
Fest
- Theatre
Pizza Shop Heroes
Fest
- Theatre
Pops
Fest
- Theatre
Portents
Fest
- Theatre
- Dance
- Physical theatre
Post-Mortem
Fest
- Comedy
Reality Sucks!
Fest
- Theatre
Red Dust Road
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Reuben Kaye
Fest
- Theatre
Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran
Fest
- Comedy
Robin Grainger: Dog Complex
Fest
- Comedy
Rosie Jones: Backward
Fest
- Theatre
Rust
Fest
- Comedy
Sam Nicoresti: UFO
Fest
- Comedy
Sarah Kendall: Paper Planes
Fest
- Comedy
Sarah Keyworth: Pacific
Fest
- Comedy
Schalk Bezuidenhout: South African White Boy
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Scotland Bingo! with The Latebloomers
Fest
- Theatre
Scottee: Class
Fest
- Theatre
Sea Sick
Fest
- Comedy
Seymour Mace is My Name Climb Up My Nose and Sit in My Brain
Fest
- Theatre
Shit
Fest
- Comedy
- Dance
Shower Scene
Fest
- Comedy
Simon Munnery: Alan Parker Urban Warrior Farewell Tour
Fest
- Theatre
Since U Been Gone
Fest
- Music
SK Shlomo: Surrender
Fest
- Comedy
Sleeping Trees: Silly Funny Boys
Fest
- Comedy
Snort
Fest
- Comedy
Sofie Hagen: The Bumswing
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Solitary
Fest
- Comedy
Spencer Jones: The Things We Leave Behind
Fest
- Theatre
Spliced
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Spray
Fest
- Comedy
Stand Up with Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
Fest
- Comedy
Sukh Ojla: For Sukh's Sake
Fest
- Comedy
Sumit Anand: Nothing About Godzilla
Fest
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Super Hugh-Man
Fest
- Dance
Taiwan Season: Monster
Fest
- Comedy
Tiff Stevenson: Mother
Fest
- Theatre
Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
Fest
- Comedy
- Physical theatre
Viggo the Viking
Fest
- Theatre
Walls and Bridges
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Show
Fest
West Side Story
Fest
- Theatre
When the Birds Come
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Wild Swimming
Fest
- Theatre
The Wild Unfeeling World
Fest
- Comedy
Witch Hunt
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
A Womb of One's Own
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Yours Sincerely
Fest
- Comedy
- Dance
YUCK Circus
Fest
- Comedy
Zach Zimmerman: Clean Comedy
Fest
- Comedy
Zoë Coombs Marr: Bossy Bottom
Fest

2 star shows(72 reviews)

- Comedy
- Theatre
Apollo: Take 111
Fest
- Comedy
Aunty
Fest
- Comedy
BBC: British-Born Chinese
Fest
- Theatre
Bible John
Fest
- Theatre
Black and White Tea Room – Counsellor
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
Boulder
Fest
- Theatre
BoxedIn Theatre Presents: From the Wind
Fest
- Theatre
Brandi Alexander
Fest
- Theatre
The Brunch Club
Fest
- Comedy
Caroline Mabey – Hair of the Dog
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Community Circle
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
Cyst-er Act
Fest
- Theatre
Die! Die! Die! Old People Die!
Fest
- Theatre
Dream of a King
Fest
- Theatre
Drowning
Fest
- Comedy
Edward Aczel: Artificial Intellect
Fest
- Comedy
Eleanor Conway: You May Recognise Me From Tinder
Fest
- Comedy
- Music
- Theatre
Elizabethan
Fest
- Theatre
Father
Fest
- Theatre
- Dance
- Physical theatre
Footnotes
Fest
- Dance
For now we see through a mirror, darkly
Fest
- Theatre
Friendsical
Fest
- Theatre
Fulfilment
Fest
- Comedy
George Egg: Movable Feast
Fest
- Comedy
Georgie Morrell: Eyecon
Fest
- Dance
Goliath in the Water
Fest
- Theatre
Happy Hour
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Hitler's Tasters
Fest
- Theatre
Honey
Fest
- Theatre
If You're Feeling Sinister: A Play with Songs
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Inflatable Space
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
In the Shadow of the Black Dog
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
It's Britney, Bitches
Fest
- Dance
it will come later
Fest
- Comedy
Izzy Mant: Polite Club
Fest
- Comedy
Jack Gleadow: Mr Saturday Night
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Cabaret
James Phelan: Troublemaker
Fest
- Comedy
Jojo Sutherland: Riches to Rags
Fest
- Comedy
Julia Rorke: Jeneane’s Kinky Room of Astrology and Ciggies
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Just Desserts
Fest
- Comedy
Konstantin Kisin: Orwell That Ends Well
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
The Last of the Pelican Daughters
Fest
- Comedy
Laufey Haralds: Nordic Noir
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Leave a Message
Fest
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Lorca: A Theatre Beneath the Sand
Fest
- Comedy
Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
Lucille and Cecilia
Fest
- Theatre
Lucy McCormick: Post Popular
Fest
- Comedy
Maisie Adam: Hang Fire
Fest
- Comedy
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Melinda Hughes: Off the Scale
Fest
- Theatre
Moby Dick
Fest
- Theatre
Musik
Fest
- Comedy
Nick Revell: Eurasia’s Most Eligible Psychopaths and Their Lovely Homes
Fest
- Comedy
Orlando Baxter: Finding Mariah
Fest
- Comedy
Pierre Novellie: You're Expected to Care
Fest
- Music
- Theatre
- Cabaret
Polly: A Drag Rebellion
Fest
- Theatre
Romeo & Juliet: One-Man Musical
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
Scream Phone
Fest
- Comedy
Sean Patton: Contradickhead
Fest
- Theatre
SHINE
Fest
- Comedy
Shivani Thussu: Prefer Not to Say
Fest
- Comedy
Sooz Kempner – Mega Drive
Fest
- Theatre
Stanley
Fest
- Comedy
- Theatre
- Physical theatre
There She Is
Fest
- Comedy
The Three Deaths of Ebony Black
Fest
- Theatre
Ticker
Fest
- Theatre
Traumboy
Fest
- Theatre
Traumgirl
Fest
- Theatre
Unicorn Party
Fest
- Comedy
Who’s the Daddy Pig?
Fest
- Comedy
Will Adamsdale: Facetime
Fest
- Theatre
You and I: A New Musical
Fest

1 star shows(6 reviews)

- Theatre
(Ab)solution
Fest
- Comedy
Boycotted: Comedy from Israel
Fest
- Comedy
David Correos: Better Than I Was the Last Time
Fest
- Comedy
Grace Campbell: Why I'm Never Going Into Politics
Fest
- Theatre
Resurrecting Bobby Awl
Fest
- Theatre
Tricky Second Album
Fest