WHAT'S ON UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE
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3 - 30 August
The Camden Fringe is a performing arts festival, established in 2006, which takes place in Camden during August. Anyone and everyone is welcome to apply. Previous fringe events have encompassed new writing, opera, musicals, stand-up, sketch comedy, dance, cabaret, poetry, opera, mentalism, improvisation and opera. Shows take place throughout the day and generally last one hour.
The Camden Fringe was set-up as an alternative to Edinburgh Festival, offering performers the chance to try out new material and different ideas in a supportive setting with less time and financial commitments than EdFringe did at the time. The Camden Fringe aims to give anyone the chance to perform and showcase their talents, from very experienced performers and companies, to ambitious newcomers. Since 2006 the Camden Fringe has gained a reputation for supporting acts, providing helpful information and guidance for the acts involved.
SEE FULL PROGRAMME OF SHOWS AT UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE HERE
OR pick up a brochure at the venue.
1 - 13 Sep 2026
Play
Production by:
Spoon, Fork, Knife Productions
MAMMY'S HOUSE
A New LGBTQ+ Irish Play from Amy Clarke & Derek Murphy
Camden, 1985. Behind the door of a London terrace, a queer Irish household is cobbling together a life filled with humour, drag, and a freedom they could never have imagined back home. But their community is on the edge of their greatest challenge yet. Being Irish in the UK is complicated. Being queer and Irish during the early years of the AIDS crisis is downright perilous.
Mammy’s house rises to meet the challenge; offering warmth, care, sarcasm, petty squabbling, and the fierce loyalty of
LONDON AND LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL 16 - 20 September
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, in association with in-house company Chromolume and writer-performer Sandra Tsing Loh, announces the inaugural LOLA Festival: LOLA is a short, sharp comedy festival in London with the spirit of LA poured over it: works-in-progress, new writing, cabaret, storytelling, live masterclasses, and a run of you-had-to-be-there one-off events.
Veteran US actor, writer, and coach Michael Kostroff (The Wire, The Producers, and fresh from Broadway's Dog Day Afternoon) makes his London stage debut with a four-session THEATRE LAB, opening with his cult AUDITION PSYCH masterclass and widening across the week, with Sandra Tsing Loh, into sessions on solo performance, science communication, and comic acting.
Brooke Adams (Days of Heaven, The Dead Zone) and Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), married 37 years, share an evening of STORYTIME Hollywood tales.
Melanie Mayron (Thirtysomething, Girlfriends), Sandra Tsing Loh, and Julian Fleisher bring their sold-out Los Angeles pyjama party GRIEF BACON to London.
And in the festival's closing event, stage and screen legend Stockard Channing (Six Degrees of Separation, Grease, The West Wing) joins Adams and Mayron for the first ever ‘cocktail concert’ staging of Loh's hit comedy MAD WOMEN OF THE WEST.
The full programme is available to view
here.
