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Brighton Rocks!

With over 3200 performances of 685 shows across 178 venues, no wonder England's biggest arts festival is a week longer this year. Brighton Fringe hits the south coast from 4th May - 2nd June, and Broadway Baby will be your guide to the good, the not-so-good and the positively sublime. Full listings for the Brighton Fringe are on Broadway Baby here: Brighton Fringe.

Follow The Cow

Now in its 5th year, the big upside-down purple cow has become an iconic feature on the London's South Bank, with over 50,000 tickets sold in 2012 and many many more visiting the site. The festivals laid back atmosphere and packed programme of comedy, circus and family shows saw it win Best London Festival at the London Lifestyle Awards in late 2012. Broadway Baby is covering every last drop of this year's festival. For more details, see here.

We've Gone West End!

Broadway Baby is proud - no, thrilled - to announce the expansion of our listings to cover London's West End. In addition, we're also now listing shows UK-wide. This means you can now add your own audience reviews to shows across the country and we've also added a innovative new homepage search panel to get you to the listings faster than you can say "we're not in Kansas anymore, Toto".

SEE A SHOW! What's on now and next...
DATE	TIME	SHOW	VENUE	CITY
18 May	18:00	Udderbelly Festival 2013 - Circus Maximus - Heat 4	Udderbelly	London	GRAB A TICKET
18 May	18:00	Udderbelly Festival 2013 - Circus Maximus - Heat 4	Udderbelly	London	GRAB A TICKET
18 May	18:00	Udderbelly Festival 2013 - Circus Maximus - Heat 4	Udderbelly	London	GRAB A TICKET
18 May	18:00	Udderbelly Festival 2013 - Circus Maximus - Heat 4	Udderbelly	London	GRAB A TICKET
18 May	18:00	Udderbelly Festival 2013 - Circus Maximus - Heat 4	Udderbelly	London	GRAB A TICKET

Fringe Heatmaps

Fascinated by Fringe stats and data? We've created a page to satisfy your inner geek. Heatmaps of the best-rated shows over the years, plus comparisons of Fringe show locations between 2011 and 2012. Get your geek on.

Latest Broadway Baby Reviews

Persuaded

Broadway Baby Rating:

12, 19 May 19:00 £9 (£8) [2hrs15mins]

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After a sell-out season in 2012, Brighton sees a new production, cast and venue for this modern take on Jane Austen's 'Persuasion'. Sam Elliot must choose between love and duty in a gripping romantic drama that keeps the audience intrigued until the last...

Jack the Ripper: Facts, No Fiction

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Broadway Baby Rating:

16-19 May 19:30 £8 (£7) [1hr]

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London, 1888: Jack the Ripper is killing Whitechapel prostitutes. 125 years later, all most people know about this serial killer are myths and theories. Philip Hutchinson is an author, guide and lecturer on the Ripper murders and regarded as a world authority on the...

Persuaded

Jack the Ripper: Facts, No Fiction

Laurel and Hardy

Stuperstition

Words Apart

Window

In Your Dreams!

In Your Dreams!

The Boy Friend

The Fantasist

No Exit

Make Tea, Not War

Bash

Abyssinians

Cold Comfort

Bianco

Holocene

Let’s Get Angry: An Adolescent...

This Was Your Life

Sword and I

Brighton Rocks!

Follow The Cow

We've Gone West End!

Fringe Heatmaps

Latest Broadway Baby Reviews

	Persuaded Persuaded is very loosely based on Jane Austen’s novel of a similar name. Sam Elliot is the forgotten sister of three siblings who had been assumed to be alone forever by her family. However everything changes when she meets Kate Wentworth. With all the...
	12, 19 May 19:00 £9 (£8) [2hrs15mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Saffron Amis

	Jack the Ripper: Facts, No Fiction Jack the Ripper is undoubtedly acknowledged as a tall figure in a top hat, creeping through the foggy streets of London’s East End and pouncing on lascivious ladies of the night. As historian Philip Hutchinson so succinctly describes, nothing could be...
	16-19 May 19:30 £8 (£7) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Dale Phoenix

	Laurel and Hardy I hold fond memories of watching Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s pieces on television as a child. Their conceit of the hapless and blundering joker messing things up for his pompous and dominant friend was a simple one that translates to and resonates with...
	13-19 May 18:00 £10 (£8) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Dale Phoenix

	Stuperstition I am on stage at the Marlborough theatre verifying a magician’s mouth is empty. I am watching Stuart Lightbody swallow needles and proving they are real. My logical brain is telling me that he isn’t really swallowing the needles but I can’t for the life...
	14-15 May 21:15 £8.50 (£6.50) 17-18, 23-25 May 22:30 £8.50 (£6.50) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Lou Rogers

	Words Apart Words Apart is a gallant effort from Mustardseed Theatre Company to tackle psychological abuse by boldly peering through the looking glass at famous male and female relationships of the classical literary canon. Sadly the delivery of the message is more...
	18 May 14:30 £6 (£5) 14-18 May 19:30 £6 (£5) [1hr45mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Veronica Aloess

	Window Window is the highly ambitious project of Witness Theatre, a relatively new company on the Fringe scene. One of the winners of the IdeasTap IdeasFund Brighton Fringe Award, it is a solo multimedia show that examines our obsessive relationship with technology...
	13 May 19:30 £9 (£7.50) 30-31 May 21:00 £9 (£7.50) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Eleanor McConnell

	In Your Dreams! Here is a show well worth catching with dark humour at every point - although there are some more serious moments in contrast to the general tone. The cast from Second Impression Theatre give exceptional performances with not a weak link in the...
	15-18 May 21:00 £8.50 (£7) [1hr10mins]
		Audience review by Peter Turner

	In Your Dreams! Meet Jess, a young woman with whom we can all relate to at some time in our lives. Jess is tired of her work life and bored with her home life, but is stuck in a rut she can’t get out of. She is constantly berated by her boss Val and is irritated by her...
	15-18 May 21:00 £8.50 (£7) [1hr10mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Saffron Amis

	The Boy Friend Ah, I always enjoy watching the English parody the French. It’s like imitating your sister, the one you don’t like, behind her back. The same thing happens when common South Easterners play ‘Posh’. Both results, if done well, deliver hyperbolic...
	11-18 May 19:45 £10 (£9) [2hrs25mins] 12, 18 May 14:30 £10 (£9) [2hrs30mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Amy Holtz

	The Fantasist By its very name The Fantasist indicates a world of mystery and make-believe. What this intelligent and beautifully crafted play delivers however is a very real and very affecting internal battle that appears fantastical on the outside but is all too real for...
	1-2 June 17:45 £11 (£9.50) 15 May 19:45 £10 (£8.50, £7 STUDENT) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Alex Jose

	No Exit I have a confession to make. My AS Level drama days were marred by an utter disinterest in THOSE kinds of plays. You know exactly what I mean. That sort of translated-from-a-foreign-language “Oh look at us, making big grand statements about life and the...
	5, 12 May 14:30 £10 4, 7-11, 14-18 May 19:45 £10 [1hr30mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Dale Phoenix

	Bash The Brighton Rep Theatre is a new company trying to achieve an admirable goal; repertory theatre for the local audience employing local professionals. Yet I couldn’t help wondering how choosing Bash fitted this vision? La Bute’s plays are strongly linked...
	25 May, 1 June 15:00 £7 4-5, 14, 18, 23, 30 May, 2 June 19:00 £7 10 May 20:30 £7...
		Broadway Baby review by Lou Rogers

	Abyssinians This roots harmony vocals trio are pretty much reggae royalty, although for many people today their name, The Abyssinians, would not ring a bell. Their songs, on the other hand, are well known in Jamaica and have been covered by various international artists....
	14 May 20:00 £15 [2hrs30mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Jessica Osborne Lax

	Cold Comfort From the moment the man pulls the trousers off the corpse lying in the coffin and puts them on himself, you realise this play is going to be irreverent. Set in an old-fashioned sitting room, Cold Comfort is a one-man piece by Irish contemporary...
	14, 20 May 19:30 £10 (£8.50, £7.50 Student) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Kat Pope

	Make Tea, Not War To sip on a quaint mug of English tea or to go to a bloody war in the Middle East? Make Tea, Not War presents its audience with this dichotomy and is set around the parochial, crumpet-laden festivity that is the tea party. The piece documents the lead-up...
	14 May 18:00 £6 27-28 May 21:00 £8 (£6.50) [45mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Dale Phoenix

	Bianco While the circus has received a barrage of bad publicity in recent years and suffered dwindling crowds, NoFit State’s tremendous new experience Bianco proves that the circus can still wow and enthral audiences of all ages. Stripped-back and irrefutably...
	18, 25, 27 May, 1 June 14:30 £18 (£14, £48 Family) 19, 26 May, 2 June 15:00...
		Broadway Baby review by Alex Jose

	Holocene "As well as being born gay, I was also born scared. Thanks God!" cries the yellow-kagooled and barefoot young man on stage, a man obsessed with volcanos and all things geological. His mum was a geography teacher, you see. They used to share their rock...
	14-15 May 21:00 £8.50 (£6.50) [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Kat Pope

	Let’s Get Angry: An Adolescent... Portmanteau’s production of Let’s Get Angry was an immersive piece that shared real life adolescent experiences and tried to look at reasons behind adolescent angst. The piece consisted of two girls, Sophie and Melissa, who told stories through a plethora...
	12, 19 May 15:30 £9 (£7.50) [45mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Yasmin Codron

	This Was Your Life Should he go to heaven or face eternal damnation? The audience decide in this fresh and raucously funny musical. Quite Nice Theatre present This Was Your Life, a parody of many American style chat-shows. Enter the theatre and you will be transformed into its...
	13-15 May 21:30 £9 (£7.50) [55mins]
		Broadway Baby review by Amber Gregory

	Sword and I Mime transcends the bounds of international borders, right? I would, here, in this very theatre, find myself, for the very first time in my life, laughing at a Frenchman (albeit one who lives in Canada), right? Wrong. I SO wanted to love him too. What...
	13-15 May 18:00 Free, non-ticketed 19-21, 28-29 May 19:15 Free, non-ticketed [1hr]
		Broadway Baby review by Kat Pope