Looking back at a successful 2023 Fringe
Pleasance have reported that their 39th Fringe was a great success with more than 36,000 people visiting the Courtyard on the busiest day in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – ends today with 2.4 million tickets...
The Fringe comes to an end today after selling 2.4 million tickets to audiences who come from 170 countries.
2,445,609 tickets
288 venues
67 countries represented
17...
Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 – winners announced
The winners of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards which is the highest honour at the Fringe have been announced.
The winner for Sky Best Comedy...
Mervyn Stutter’s Spirit of the Fringe Awards 2023
In his 30th year on the Fringe, Mervyn Stutter has announced his Spirit of the Fringe Awards - the MERVs - chosen from all...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – The Courteous Enemy ★★★★
Reviewing can be a balancing act, with actors saying they want reviews but all too often really meaning they only want good ones. Preferably...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Patrick Spicer: Yes…haha. what? ★★★
After initial microphone issues, Spicer quickly built a nice rapport with the audience and made it clear to them that they were in safe...
Edinburgh International Fringe 2023 – Sad-Vents ★★★★
A Bloody Delight
Sad-Vents is not a play about making its audience feel comfortable. And maybe that’s exactly why you ought to see this tragicomedy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Call Me Elizabeth ★★★★★
The Queen of Hollywood arrived in Edinburgh this week, Elizabeth Taylor.
Often described as the last movie star and certainly of a certain era....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – One Night With Marilyn ★★★★
One Night With Marilyn, The Voodoo Rooms, Fringe
There’s a lot of audience participation in a cabaret and variety style show that brings Monroe’s bubbly...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Spirit of Ireland ★★★★★
Spirit of Ireland features Irish dancing like never seen before, during a dance off you can literary see sparks flying from the heels of...
Brickie hitting right notes at Fringe
Bricklayer Stuart Alexander has been playing a part in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe after swapping his spirit level for a guitar.
The West Lothian brickie...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Alan Turing – Guilty of Love...
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician, computer scientist and cryptanalyst.
His work at Bletchley Park during World War Two is credited with having shortened...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Fringe Affair ★★★
The show is something of a love letter to the Fringe and Edinburgh as a place of cultural adventure. Edward W. Feery has greatly...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Frank Skinner 30 Years of Dirt...
Skinner is immediately drawn to a man in the front row with a black kilt, sparkly black jacket and cane.
He proves to be...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Geraldine Hickey: Of Course We’ve Got...
Geraldine Hickey is a popular comedian in Australia, where she won the best show award at the 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Not yet...
Izzard creates Edinburgh Fringe Gin
Comic legend Eddie Izzard has helped to create a new limited-edition gin to support artists at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Izzard's collaboration with Edinburgh Gin...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Antonio! ★★★★
‘Liberate yourself from the gender binary and celebrate queer joy!’ screams the flyer. And a celebration is exactly what Antonio! provides.
This show is...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – A Show for Gareth Richards ★★★★★
This show, prompted by tragedy, is one of the 'underground' highlights of this year's Fringe. Arriving 45 mins before kick-off, it was clear that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Michelle Brasier ★★★★★
When you see a Michelle Brasier show you can be guaranteed of two things: you will laugh and you will feel.
This is the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Party Ghost ★★★
Picture yourself at a birthday party hosted by the twins from The Shining and a collection of aggressive ghosts, where you’re forced to play...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Godot is a Woman ★★★★★
There’s lots of comedy and visual humour in Silent Faces Theatre Company’s Godot is a Woman, but this is a clever, slick and entertaining...
Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Tom Robinson in Conversation
Tom Robinson shot to fame in the late 1970s when the (‘modestly named’) Tom Robinson Band had hits with 2-4-6-8 Motorway and Glad to...
Popcorn Writing Award 2023 – winner will be announced this week
The winner of an award made by Popcorn Group will be announced on Thursday in a ceremony at Gilded Balloon.
This award is made to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Loud Poets: Grand Slam Final
Poetry is an important part of Scottish heritage and the Grand Slam Final promises to be a festival highlight.
It will combine fist-thumping music with...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Victorine ★★★★★
The team of writer Joshua King and Jasmin Gleeson, the founders of Moon Rabbit theatre company, return to this year’s Fringe with another...
Mervyn Stutter’s 30th year Charity Gala
The line-up for Mervyn Stutter’s special charity gala on Monday 21 August has been announced.
Mervyn’s gala celebrates three decades of Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe, the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Mrs President examines Mrs Lincoln
The memory of President Lincoln is widely revered – there is even statue of him in Edinburgh – but the First Lady who supported...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Luminescence at St Giles’ – Friday...
Luminescence, a collaboration between the visual artist Maria Rud and saxophonist Tommy Smith, opened in St Giles’ Cathedral on Thursday night as part of...
Free Fringe – talking about climate crisis
The activism group Extinction Rebellion Edinburgh and Lothians are holding a Fringe talk on 22 August.
The Liquid Rooms event will be led by two...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – When Kurt Met Thora ★★★...
It’s not exactly clear if Kurt Cobain did meet Thora Hird when he appeared at BBC studios back in November 1991 just as Nirvana...
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