Buxton Fringe

Buxton Fringe goes ahead outdoor and online

Buxton Fringe 2020 is hoping to go ahead with live outdoor performances that do not contravene government guidelines and online events.

Hopes that Buxton Fringe will continue

Buxton Festival Fringe has announced it will do its best to go ahead in some form in 2020 and has introduced key changes.

“Whopping” number of entries for Buxton Fringe

Buxton Fringe 2020 has reported a “whopping” 100 entries at the close of its discounted early bird deadline.

“Early bird” entry fee for Buxton Festival Fringe

A discounted £50 "early bird" fee to enter the 2020 Buxton Festival Fringe will run out at the end of February.

Hannah designs Buxton Fringe programme cover

Hannah Webb, a 21-year-old graphic design student at Manchester School of Art, has won a competition to design the cover of the 2020 Buxton Festival Fringe programme.

New team takes over at Buxton Fringe

A new team has taken over running Buxton Fringe, which has celebrated 40 years of festivals in the Derbyshire town.

Buxton Fringe calls for programme cover entries

Organisers of the 2020 Buxton Fringe have announced a competition to create the programme cover which is open to everyone.

Keith steps down as Buxton Fringe chair after award ceremony

Keith Savage has stepped down as chair of the trustees of Buxton Festival Fringe after six years, his final public engagement being the awards ceremony at the Green Man Gallery.

Davis returns to Buxton Fringe with modern family life comedy

Buxton Fringe’s “favourite mum, writer and performer” Ginny Davis will return to Buxton Fringe playing nine characters in a new one-woman play UpDownSizing.

Grace races onto her soapbox at Buxton Fringe

Grace Cordell will perform Ben Schwarz’s new play about love, loss and connecting with your inner daredevil Soapbox Racer at Buxton Fringe.

Rare Gilbert and Sullivan songs to be aired in Buxton Fringe show

Youth theatre company PB Theatricals is taking on three new challenges with shows for those aged 10 to 18, one of which will be performed at Buxton Fringe.

New take on nursery rhyme at Buxton Fringe

Goblin Theatre is to visit Buxton Fringe with its show Hey Diddle Diddle, aimed at ages two to seven, as part of a UK tour of more than 40 venues.

Gillian back at Buxton with She Wolf monologues

Australian solo performer Gillian English, who is bringing three shows to the UK, will return to Buxton Fringe with She Wolf, performed in a cave as a promenade piece of theatre.

Two shows JustOut at Buxton Fringe

JustOut Theatre is to mark its debut Fringe season with two shows at Buxton, White Nurse and Home.

Special Measures teaches Buxton Fringe about life in schools

Two young teachers make their Buxton Fringe debuts with Special Measures which explores why more people are allegedly leaving the profession than ever.

Duo hope for more Buxton Fringe success with jewel heist show

Nathan Peter Grassi and Ida Berglöw Kenneway return to Buxton Fringe with Tropez!, a new theatre production which is a “fast-paced screwball comedy about a jewel heist on the French Riviera”.

Women under the microscope at Buxton Fringe

People Zoo Productions is to take its comedy sketch show Men Chase Women Choose, which “puts women, sex and science under the microscope”, to Buxton Fringe.

One woman’s search for identity in Buxton Fringe show

South Yorkshire-based Plush Tiger Productions takes a new version of Clara-Nel Haddon’s Desert Bloom, performed by Valerie Monti-Holland, to Buxton Fringe.