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Mario the Maker Magician throws red clown noses and large balloons from stage to the kids in the audience.

Children's Shows

Mario the Maker Magician

30 July - 17 August 2025, 10:30 am

Underbelly George Square

Darryl is crampped into a large pink box, he is holding a small dog. surrounding darryl, who is a smily white male with a pink suit on and a bright orange wooly hat is a selection of objects that have cascaded out of the box, including toothbrushes, a ru

Children's Shows

Out of the Box

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:30 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A performer in a pink apron and hat holding a wooden spoon. Behind her is a man wearing a pink apron and holding a guitar.

Children's Shows

Cinderella Ice Cream Seller – A Musical

30 July - 17 August 2025, 11:40 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A white man in his early 30s with mid-length curly brown hair and a short brown beard, wearing a blue t-shirt, lies on a piano keyboard with his hands clutching at the sides. He is looking directly at the camera and has a slight smirk on his face.

Comedy

Alex Prescot: Cosy

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:45 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man in the middle of the image is smiling and holding onto a keyboard. Behind him is a backdrop of newpapers.

Cabaret and Variety

Daniel Cainer: Topical

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:50 am

Underbelly George Square

To the right of the image a man in jeans and a waistcoat holds a large gold letter A, and a woman in a rainbow striped dress holds an orange and blue zig-zag patterned letter Z To the left of this image, the same two people conduct a series of science de

Children's Shows

The Alphabet of Awesome Science

30 July - 24 August 2025, 12:00 pm

Underbelly George Square

At the centre of the image is an illustrated egg being fried in a black and orange pan, against a light blue watercolour painted background. Coming in from the top left corner is a black and white photo of a hand holding half a cracked egg, and another c

Theatre

Eggs Aren't That Easy to Make

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

balck and white image of a women looking to the right wearing a dress agagint a blue background

Musicals and Opera

Song Society

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man looks shocked while a toddler's small hand covers his right eye

Comedy

Tom Skelton: VIP (Visually Impaired Papa)

30 July - 11 August 2025, 1:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A green apple sits on a wooden rocking chair. Two eyes and a mouth have been bitten out of her.

Cabaret and Variety

An Evening with Dame Granny Smith

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Woman in red dress against red backdrop looking at camera

Theatre

Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two stone walls either side of the photo. Inside the image a photo of a person with short brown hair and clear glasses staring out into the distance. They are wearing a turquoise jacket and a white shirt.

Comedy

Cerys Bradley’s Queer Tales For Autistic Folk

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man with a drawn on monobrow and beards wearing a yellow fishermans Sou'wester stares down the camera.

Comedy

Fisherman Jon: What's on the End of My Rod? A Clown Odyssey

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Sutton is hiding under a pearl encrusted veil. Matching pearl earrings dangle from her ears. She is looking straight down the barrel at you. She has green eyes. She looks guarded and concerned, with her lips slightly parted, ready to say something.

Theatre

ALTAR

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

Comedian Chris Turner, wearing a black jersey and silver chain, stands in front of a blue background, pointing both fingers at the camera, moderately distorted by a prism to seem as if he's in motion.

Comedy

Chris Turner: Spontaneous

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

a man in a velvet tuxedo without trousers, he is holding his trousers up with a pair of scissors

Comedy

Bryan Safi: Are You Mad at Me??

30 July - 25 August 2025, 5:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Kat McGarr dressed all in gold, skin and all, holds up a gold telephone.

Cabaret and Variety

STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person)

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman leaning against a kids toy car, she is wearing long black boots and has brown curly hair.

Comedy

Holly Spillar: Tall Child

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A group of 5 performers holding various musical objects and wearing red and black are laughing and smiling.

Comedy

Impromptunes – The Completely Improvised Musical

30 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Alex Mitchell sits on a large black arm chair, wearing a blue feather bower, positioned next to a pot plant.

Comedy

Alex Mitchell: Tough

30 July - 25 August 2025, 6:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A photo of a woman wearing a knight's costume and hugging a toy horse

Comedy

Knight, Knight

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

A woman with windswept red hair and black-framed glasses wears a bright pink ruffled dress and holds a daffodil-yellow shoe.

Cabaret and Variety

In These Shoes: A Fashion-Fuelled Cabaret

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedian James Barr in a blue cardigan, close up and looking hopeful, with a slightly shaded face and a light ish blue background.

Comedy

James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum)

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt. He is holding his head up with his hand sulkily.

Comedy

Ali Woods: Basher

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

4 Athenian well dressed nobles are looking on terrified/worried to the centre of the image where Puck, the Fairy, from Shakespeare's a Midsummer Nights Dream, is holding the long ears of a half donkey, half man. This is the character Bottom, from Shakesp

Comedy

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A photograph of a woman with dark brown hair sitting in a light pink sparkly leotard.

Cabaret and Variety

Apocalypse Cabaret: Songs for the End of the World

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman in a green outfit is sat in the cinema holding a bag of popcorn. Kernals are flying everywhere and she is wearing 3D cinema glasses

Comedy

Cabbage the Clown: Cinemadrome

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

An image of David and Katie. Katie is lying on the floor and David is standing over her in a squatted position.

Theatre

David and Katie Get Re-Married

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Theo lies on a mattress in a large body of water. He is wearing a suit and has a rose inbetween his teeth.

Comedy

Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing

30 July - 24 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man in a hat and black clothes holds a large bubble containing a tornado of fog. He looks excited and surprised.

Children's Shows

Amazing Bubble Man

31 July - 25 August 2025, 11:20 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A person dressed in a tree costume made of green felt leaves and a leafy crown poses with their face resting in their hands. They are looking at the camera with a serene expression. The background is a lush, green forest.

Children's Shows

Treeeeee

31 July - 12 August 2025, 11:45 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A shadow puppetry scene where a hippo walks through a mysterious crystal cave.

Theatre

Space Hippo

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A close up of a woman. She is wearing orange and is staring right into the camera.

Theatre

WANTED

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two friends lie on a green carpet surrounded by cut-outs of Princess Diana and sewing materials. One wears her iconic black revenge dress and holds white rosary beads; the other wears a white YALE jumper and holds a measuring tape. They face each other,

Theatre

Don't Tell Dad About Diana

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts with Mr Bing robot head between them, against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Children's Shows

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo Kids

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Connor Delves as Cadel Evans in the new play CADEL: Lungs On Legs. Delves, as Evans, rides a BMC road bike, following the 2011 win of the Tour de France.

Theatre

CADEL: Lungs on Legs

31 July - 24 August 2025, 1:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Theatre

The Horniest Girls in New York City

31 July - 11 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

White door in the middle of a plain dark wall with white skirting running along bottom of the wall. The door has four panels with performer Neil Frost in four different costumes. Top left door panel - white shirt and black bowtie costume, Top right door

Theatre

Neil Frost: The Door

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Black background with yellow Durham Revue logo showing the silhouette of a group of students

Comedy

The Durham Revue: Sketch Marks the Spot

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men in prison officer uniform, in a multi-coloured ball pit

Theatre

Going Soft

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:35 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

5 performers are on stage all wearing a suit with waistcoat and tie. Three are center stage performing an acrobatic handstand, the other two are stood slitghtly behind them one off to the left and the other on the right

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Black Blues Brothers: Let's Twist Again!

31 July - 25 August 2025, 3:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

man wearing an open white shirt with a white tshirt on underneath stares at the lighter he is holding in his hand. the background is black and he is been lit with an orange light

Theatre

Scatter: A Horror Play

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven)

31 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

The statue of David, wearing sunglasses and featuring a saintly halo, sits in front of two Doric columns, surrounded by pink clouds and a blue background.

Musicals and Opera

Pop Off, Michelangelo!

31 July - 25 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A woman is dressed in a white shirt, red bowtie, black jacket and a black hat with flowers and cherries on them. She is looking into the camera with a confused look, wide eyes and red liptick.

Comedy

Dirty Work

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A man is on a cobbled street, he is smiling and holding onto a lamppost in one hand and an umbrella in the other hand. Playing cards are spiralling out of the umbrella. There is a newspaper on the floor.

Cabaret and Variety

James Phelan – The Man Who Was Magic

31 July - 13 August 2025, 5:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A drag artist in white clown make up stands in front of a mirror that has been adorned with many little photographs and images.

Theatre

KINDER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Mhairi MaCall as 'Mary' surrounded by the cast of 'Mary Queen of Rock!'

Musicals and Opera

Mary, Queen of Rock!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Karen, dressed up in white feathers, yawns. Crash of the expectations of a

Theatre

Karen Houge: DREAMGIRL

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Comedy

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A musical comedian lying on the floor

Comedy

Bennet Kavanagh: Crank Up the Volume!! (To a Reasonable Volume)

31 July - 22 August 2025, 8:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

An man in a naked body suit is being soaped-up by giant pair of hands. The soap bubbles are illustrated in a Japanese Ukiyoe style painting and projected onto a screen behind the man to create the illusion that he is interacting with the painting.

Theatre

SHUNGA ALERT

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Three childlike astronauts in white school polo-neck t-shirts look on in awe. Behind them we see the Yorkshire Dales beneath a starry sky. A rocket takes off, the planet mars lies on the horizon, Cleggy, Compo, and the third one sit, whilst Dame Jessica

Comedy

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Events

Underbelly After Dark - Cowgate

31 July - 24 August 2025, 11:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

DeliaDelia has a green face and is wearing a witch's hat in full black dress, squatting in the middle of a ring of green fire, holding a wand

Comedy

DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 11:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

8 actors dressed in blue and black sit on and around a bench. They are comedically handcuffed to each other, eating doughnuts and wrapped in police tape.

Comedy

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation

1 - 17 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Wellness

Soul Water Sauna at Circus Hub!

1 - 23 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Image of female performer in a cropped bodysuit standing on a male performers head.

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Circa: Wolf

1 - 23 August 2025, 6:20 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A woman with long blonde hair is wearing headphones and speaking through an attached headphone mic. She is mid dance.

Wellness

Move to Feel

2 - 23 August 2025, 11:00 am

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

5 members of FLIP fabrique are scattered around the page doing tricks with hoops. There is a baby blue background and in the centre of the page is the company name in white.

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

FLIP Fabrique: Six °

2 - 23 August 2025, 2:05 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A wooden spoon being poured onto a bunch of greenery, there are sauna stones underneath.

Wellness

Soul Water Sauna at Circus Hub! - Ritual Sessions

2 - 23 August 2025, 2:15 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Maxwell the Bubbleologist is flying in the air making millions of bubbles

Children's Shows

The Flying Bubble Show

2 - 23 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Nina Conti smiles and holds a face mask.

Comedy

Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway?

7 - 15 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

man with a beard and short dark hair wearing a black blazer and blue tshirt in front of a grey background

Comedy

Geoff Norcott: BASIC BLOKE 2 - There's No Bloke Without Fire

11 - 24 August 2025, 3:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man embraces a woman in a red dress

Comedy

Alice Fraser: A Passion for Passion

11 - 25 August 2025, 6:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A young dishevelled man with dark shades on

Comedy

Jake Roche: Neporrhoids!

11 - 24 August 2025, 8:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

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