Wed 10 Jun, 6:30pm
John Kearns - Tilting At Windmills
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
Nottingham Fringe
A city-wide festival built from rooms people already love and shows they have not discovered yet.
A Festival Across Nottingham
Nottingham Fringe opens 23 July 2027. For ten summer days, local venues can turn their rooms into festival spaces while acts apply, venues approve, and audiences find the next show from the screen, poster, or listing in front of them.
For audiences
Build your own Fringe week, discover rooms you already pass, and hear first when new shows are announced.
Get UpdatesFor acts
Apply for real venue slots, get a ticket link, and turn each accepted show into something you can promote.
Find SlotsFor venues
Fill quiet rooms, approve the acts, appear on the Fringe map, and turn extra audience attention into trade.
Open Your RoomAlso On In Nottingham
More live comedy and performance around Nottingham, including current stand-up.co.uk shows and selected events with tickets on partner sites.
Use these listings to plan the rest of the night, find familiar names, and discover what else is happening across the city.
Sun 14 Jun, 6:30pm
Scott Bennett - Stuff
Theatre Royal Nottingham, Nottingham
Sat 12 Sep, 5:00pm
Carl Hutchinson: Fine Whine
Just The Tonic at Metronome, Nottingham
Sun 13 Sep, 6:00pm
FIN TAYLOR
Theatre Royal Nottingham, Nottingham
Thu 17 Sep, 6:30pm
Al Murray - All You Need Is Guv
Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, Nottingham
Thu 1 Oct, 6:00pm
Jason Byrne: 30 Years Byrning
Just The Tonic at Metronome, Nottingham
Sat 3 Oct, 6:30pm
Phil Wang: UH OH
Theatre Royal Nottingham, Nottingham
Sun 4 Oct, 6:30pm
Maisie Adam: Whatsherface
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
Sat 10 Oct, 6:30pm
Flo & Joan - With Feeling
Nottingham Playhouse, Nottingham
Find Your Fringe
Start with one show, then let the night open out. Follow a venue, chase a genre, catch something before dinner, or take a chance on a room you have never been in before.
Plan
Make a shortlist
Comedy, theatre, music, cabaret, spoken word, family shows, and the strange little things that make a fringe feel alive.
Explore
Move through Nottingham
Hop between pubs, clubs, studios, theatres, cafes, and hidden rooms with something new starting all evening.
Book
Get in quickly
Buy ahead, scan at the venue, or grab a last-minute ticket when the screen tells you something brilliant is about to start.
Return
Follow the buzz
Hear when fresh shows are added, extra dates appear, and the one everyone is talking about gets another slot.
Turn Footfall Into Tickets
People are already at the bar, in the queue, or checking what to do next. Put today's shows on the screen, let them scan or tap, and sell the next room while the day is still moving.
- Your screen becomes a live prompt for the room, beer garden, or queue.
- QR booking and tap-to-pay turn impulse interest into paid seats.
- The same listing is ready on the website, on the venue screen, and at the door.
- Native ticketed shows can also publish to Eventbrite, with stock pulled back when stand-up.co.uk sales fill the room.
- Your venue stays visible in the Fringe programme, map, QR artwork, and local promotion.
1
List spaces
Add each room, capacity, tech notes, access details, and the times you can programme.
2
Approve shows
Acts apply for the slots that fit. You keep the decision on what reaches your calendar.
3
Choose ticketing
Use unreserved tickets, a saved reserved seating plan, or an external box office link where that is right for the room.
4
Promote everywhere
The same event can feed the programme, venue screens, QR posters, door sales, Eventbrite where useful, and stand-up.co.uk discovery.
Why Venues Say Yes
Different rooms need different reasons. A pub wants trade, atmosphere, and low hassle. A theatre wants useful programming, protected standards, and a model that respects how the space is normally hired.
Pubs, bars, and clubs
Use the Fringe to make quieter parts of the day feel alive, give regulars something extra, and bring in people who would not otherwise be buying drinks in your room.
- Start with one room, one afternoon, or one evening.
- Use existing screens, posters, table cards, and QR links.
- Approve the acts before anything reaches your calendar.
- Sell tickets before the show and take impulse door sales on the day.
Theatres and arts spaces
Use the Fringe to fill daylight slots, studio spaces, bar stages, rehearsal rooms, or whole-day hire blocks while staying in control of quality, access, and technical expectations.
- Offer full-day blocks or individual slots depending on your hire policy.
- Keep approval rights over every application.
- List capacity, tech, accessibility, fees, and turnaround notes up front.
- Appear as an official venue on the city Fringe map and programme.
How The Room Fills
The model is venue-led: venues publish availability, acts apply, venues approve, and the Fringe turns accepted shows into listings, ticket links, QR assets, and local promotion.
1. Venue
Add availability
Tell us which rooms, dates, times, capacities, tech, and access details are realistic for your space.
2. Acts
Apply for slots
Performers send show details, images, tech notes, setup time, and preferred slots for the venue to review.
3. Venue
Approve the fit
You stay in control. Accept the shows that suit the room, hold slots, or ask for more detail before confirming.
4. Fringe
Promote and sell
The accepted show gets a listing, ticket route, QR-ready assets, and a place in the city-wide programme.
For Acts Who Need Audience
Apply once, get considered by real local rooms, and turn accepted shows into ticket links, listings, and social posts you can actually use.
- Find venues with open Fringe slots instead of cold-emailing every room yourself.
- Send one application with show style, tech needs, image, and preferred times.
- Use your profile, event page, and social tools to push the show once it is accepted.
- As more social integrations arrive, the same listing can feed scheduled posts and short-form promotion.
Promotion should not be another full-time job
The wider stand-up.co.uk account already supports connected social accounts, scheduled posts, event tags, stats, and video-led promotion. The Fringe can use that machinery so artists are not left with a listing and a shrug.
That means accepted acts can build repeatable promo around the show: ticket link, venue tag, date, image, clips, reminders, and follow-up posts.
Find Performer SlotsBe Part Of It
Get early programme drops, bring a show, offer a venue, or join the team making Nottingham Fringe happen.