Late night events, Theatre

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Vitamin

Pushing the boundaries of physical comedy, storytelling and clown in 55 minutes of surreal skits, bizarre caricatures and demented accordion playing.

Soho Theatre, London W1D

Thu 20 Jun

£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100

  • 22:00

Fri 21 Jun

£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100

  • 22:00

Sat 22 Jun

£10; £12.50 (£10; £10) / 020 7478 0100

  • 22:00

Minskys Show Bar, Cardiff

Sat 28 Dec

£3 / 029 2023 3128

  • 21:30

Up4aMeet?

Bold and brassy musical about a new app for cruising LGBT folks (so think Grindr, but … you know … not Grindr) which leads a couple of flatmates into a spot of bother. Starring X Factor 's Lloyd Daniels.

Electric Circus, Edinburgh

Tue 6 Aug

£14 / 0131 226 4224

Wed 7 Aug

£14 / 0131 226 4224

Thu 8 Aug

£14 / 0131 226 4224

Lantern Theatre, Liverpool

Wed 31 Jul

£16 / 0151 7030000

Marlborough Theatre, Brighton

Fri 19 Jul

£16 / 01273 570028

Sat 20 Jul

£16 / 01273 570028

The Well

Something Underground Theatre company presents Jonathan Brown's mixture of physical theatre and storytelling which explores the story of Brighton's famous hand-dug well.

Hove Town Hall

Sat 10 May

£10 (£8) / 01273 917272

  • 21:00

Minskys Show Bar, Cardiff

Sat 8 Jun

£3 / 029 2023 3128

  • 21:30

Sat 15 Jun

£3 / 029 2023 3128

  • 21:30

Fri 29 Nov

£3 / 029 2023 3128

  • 21:30
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Tongue Fu: Spoken Word, Music, Film, Improvisation

The UK's sharpest poets, storytellers and comedians perform with jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks and films from the genre-hopping Tongue Fu Band and East London design studio CR&D. One of London's liveliest and largest spoken word shows, it is a riotous experiment in live literature, music, film and improvisation.

Royal Festival Hall, London SE1

Wed 29 May

£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Wed 10 Jul

£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Wed 14 Aug

£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Wed 18 Sep

£17.50–£12.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£11) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Traf Takeover: Pinter Shorts (Family Voices & Victoria Station)

  • Directed by: Edward Stambollouian
  • Written by: Harold Pinter

Director Edward Stambollouian directs a cast including Joanna Lumley and Andrew Scott, in two of Harold Pinter's short plays.

Trafalgar Studios, London SW1A

Fri 28 Jun

Studio 1

£5 With any ticket to The Hothouse, but not Mon 15 ticket / 0844 871 7627

  • 22:00

Trannyshack

Miss Dusty O, Tasty Tim and Lady Lloyd spin commercial dance and pop at a weekly celebration of glamorous polysexuality.

Madame Jojo's, London W1F

Wed 22 May

£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040

  • 22:00 – 03:00

Wed 29 May

£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040

  • 22:00 – 03:00

Wed 5 Jun

£5 ( £3) / 020 7734 3040

  • 22:00 – 03:00
…and 8 more dates until 31 Jul

The Trilogy

Three short plays will be created on the night in one hour from audience suggestions. Whether it's a gritty thriller, a love story or a comedy, The Trilogy is chance to see fresh, responsive and entertaining new theatre.

Exeter Phoenix

Thu 6 Jun

£6 / 01392 667080

  • 21:00

Tumble Circus: This is what we do for a living

Come and see the show that won the Best Circus award at Adelaide Fringe in 2012. No fanfare or sequins, just the extraordinary skill and passion of two talents on a lifelong adventure. Featuring flying hulahoops, slapstick acrobatics, aerial rope moves and daring double trapeze.

Royal Festival Hall, London SE1

Tue 6 Aug

£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Wed 7 Aug

£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Thu 8 Aug

£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15

Fri 9 Aug

£20.50–£15.50 Booking: £1.75 (Members £0.00) (£14) / 0844 875 0073

  • 21:15
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Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)

Trajal Harrell performs a stripped down, solo version of Twenty Looks imagining dance history as it might have been.

Tramway, Glasgow

Sat 25 May

Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501

Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.

  • 21:45

The Twits

  • Directed by: Andrew Room
  • Written by: Roald Dahl

David Wood's darkly comic adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel, which uses UV Blacklight technology to tell the story of the revolting Mr and Mrs Twit.

ADC Theatre, Cambridge

Wed 19 Jun

£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085

  • 23:00

Thu 20 Jun

£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085

  • 23:00

Fri 21 Jun

£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085

  • 23:00

Sat 22 Jun

£5; £6 (£4; £5) / 01223 300085

  • 23:00

Unburden: Scratch

In the early stages of research and development, Adrian Howells offers a small group of audience-participants an opportunity to experience an intimate, one-on-one prototype 'performance'.

Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11

Fri 24 May

Donations welcome / 020 7223 2223

  • 21:00

#untitled lipsync 2

Lip-sync drag performance from boychild, a young black transgender artist who re-appropriates mainstream fashion and hetro-pop to change its meaning completely.

Tramway, Glasgow

Sat 25 May

Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501

Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.

  • 21:15

Sun 26 May

Festival Pass £14; Evening Pass £6 / 0845 330 3501

Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.

  • 22:45

Unwinding Into The Windshield & Brave New World 1

  • Directed by: Valentina Ceschi
  • Written by: Thomas Eccleshare

A double bill of contemporary theatre pieces: in the first, Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor flee a shattered New York together. The second is created by Valentina Ceschi, Kate Lane and Guoda Jaruseviciute, with a script by Thomas Eccleshare.

The Yard, London E9

Tue 2 Jul

£10

  • 21:00

Wed 3 Jul

£10

  • 21:00

Thu 4 Jul

£10

  • 21:00
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Vesta

Fighetta welcomes you to the world of Vesta! A theatrical, darkly comic celebration of humanity, inspired by Italian film-maker Federico Fellini and brought to you by six sordid women. With startling imagery and outrageous behaviour, this playful physical piece features blood, grapes and a wedding (possibly). Suitable for…

The Temple, Brighton

Wed 22 May

£6 (£4) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Thu 23 May

£6 (£4) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Fri 24 May

£6 (£4) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

…and 2 more dates until 26 May

Window

A thrilling multi-media performance examining our obsessive relationship with computer technology. Witness Alice fall ever deeper into the world behind the screen in this powerful and chilling contemporary tale. " IdeasTap fund winners Witness Theatre are back after last year’s sell-out performance. “…remember the name…

The Warren, Brighton

Thu 30 May

£9 (£7.50) / 01273 917272

Friends 2 for 1 Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Fri 31 May

£9 (£7.50) / 01273 917272

Friends 2 for 1 Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Window

Witness Theatre presents a multimedia performance in which a woman becomes entangled in an obsessive relationship involving computer technology.

The Warren, Brighton

Thu 30 May

£9 (£7.50)

  • 21:00

Fri 31 May

£9 (£7.50)

  • 21:00

A Year And A Day: Faded Image Theatre

  • Written by: Christina Reid

In an ancient garden, hear the story of the two tribes who fought long ago, and of the two ghosts who still haunt the earth. This fully immersive performance holds the nature of humanity to the light, and questions its desire to fight and separate.

Theatre Royal, Winchester

Mon 24 Jun

£6 / 01962 840440

  • 21:00

You Know Me, I'm Jack Ruby!

November 24th 1963, 11.21am. Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of the 35th President of The United States, is gunned down in the basement of the Dallas Police Department by a man who shouldn't be there: local nightclub owner Jacob Rubenstein, also known as Jack Ruby. The Mafia's man in Dallas. Really? Take a seat.

The Dukebox Theatre, Hove

Fri 31 May

£8 (£6) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

Sat 1 Jun

£8 (£6) / 01273 917272

Part of Brighton Fringe Festival.

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You Know Me I'm Jack Ruby!

Clifford Barry presents a drama based around the life of the man who murdered John F Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, hoping to dispel some of the many questions that surround his life and motives.

The Dukebox Theatre, Hove

Fri 31 May

£8 (£6) / 01273 917272

  • 21:15

Sat 1 Jun

£8 (£6) / 01273 917272

  • 21:15