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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – NewsRevue 2017
NewsRevue may be back every year but it’s always an entirely new show!
This Guinness World Record-breaking, Fringe First-winning, Perrier finalist, news-based song and sketch show is where...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Olaf Falafel presents The Marmosets Of My Mind
Critically acclaimed idiot, Olaf Falafel is back with another hour of surreal stupidity.
Who knows what it'll involve, probably conkers, maybe sandpaper. Whatever it is, he...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Prom Kween
From the team who brought you the sell-out hits Dizney Rascal; Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho and How to Win Against History; winner of a VAULT...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Carmen Lynch: LYNCHED
“I don’t think I’m going to live a long life because I’ve never seen any really tall old ladies.”
In her UK debut hour LYNCHED,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Andrew Doyle: Thought Crimes
Andrew Doyle doesn’t know his left from his right. But then, neither does anyone else. A staunch left-winger, Andrew has somehow found himself accused...
Topically Tinsel at The Traverse
By John Kennedy and Phyllis Stephen
Christmas-Pud cookin' and brandy flaming hot news reaches The Edinburgh Reporter from our friends at The Traverse Theatre announcing...
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus to host a Comedy Gala for Waverley Care
Jason Manford and Phill Jupitus will step aside from their roles in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to host a Comedy Gala in support of Waverley Care,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Don’t Push The Button (The Techtonics) *****
Photo credit: Joe Martinez
I have a confession to make. I have seen Don’t Push the Button two and a half times. The first time...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: When You Improv On A Star (The Cambridge Impronauts)...
Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW – Deliciously Stella ***
Sold out and packed, Bella Younger took her character Deliciously Stella to the Pleasance Courtyard to give the punters a tongue-in-cheek lecture on Smug...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – [title of show]
Four chairs. Three weeks. Two bickering writers. One award-winning original musical.
Follow the challenges and triumphs of four nobodies in New York on their hilarious...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: Für Elise****
Fur Elise, described as ‘un tragicomédie de mime’ is forgivably romantic, drenched in French piano sonata sensuality, and an utter delight. York DramaSoc’s engaging...
Avalon Promotions Ltd presents Alistair McGowan: 12th Impressions
One of Britain’s most celebrated impressionists (The Big Impression, Live at the Apollo, Tonight at the Palladium) returns to Edinburgh for a 12th year, with an hour...
Gilded Balloon / Mid-Brow present Mid-Brow: The Live Show
The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. Expect their trademark easy charm and fast-paced humour, now...
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Join the greats of comedy from across the globe as they strive to blur the lines between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a...
Gilded Balloon / Lisa Richards / Off The Kerb present Neil Delamere: Ctrl Alt...
One of Ireland’s top comedians is back in Edinburgh. After a couple of years away, Neil returns with show packed with more hilarious tall tales.
Includes tips on...
Gilded Balloon presents Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot
Gilded Balloon Presents Nath Valvo: Happy Idiot
With sold out shows across Australia and at Soho Theatre, five star reviews and countless
laughs – the Happy Idiot is set to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 REVIEW – Lynn Ruth Miller: Get A Grip ***
It is very hot in Studio 5 of C venues: C Nova.
'Anyone who falls asleep, I forgive them...this is going to turn into a...
Gilded Balloon Comedy in town this weekend
Justin Moorhouse will be in both Glasgow and Edinburgh this weekend doing what he does best -no-frills big-hearted stand-up comedy. Audiences of Gilded Balloon...
Africa in Motion – Scotland African Film Festival 2014
Where can you see a 1927 silent film about Zulu culture, a documentary about the Rwandan genocide and a thriller set in Guinea-Bissau? At...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I...
Dan Clark: Me, My Selfie and I, Pleasance Dome 8:20pm, until 24 August, £12.50 (£11.50 concessions)
Best known as the creator and star of the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit ****.5
Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit, Assembly George Square, until 24 August, See venue for ticket availability and pricing
To be frank, Skinner is a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe INTERVIEW – Hedluv and Passman
Hedluv and Passman: Doin' it Dreckly, Gilded Balloon 10:30pm, until 25 Aug, £11/10 (£9/8 concessions)
"In Cornwall they regard themselves as modern day folk heroes....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Off The Top *****
The conceit of this midday free-Fringe show was a fusion of both scripted and improvised sketches, lap-top Rap-lab experimentation and geek heaven brain-pan fried...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – Nick Hall – Helmet ****
It is a PHB Free Fringe full house at this comedy by the seat of its pants box-room venue. And they were still squeezing...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 REVIEW – FunBags a Go-Go! ****
FunBags a Go-Go!, St John’s (9 Victoria Street) 3:45pm, until 23 Aug (except 13, 20), Free
If it's a very likeable sketch comedy trio you're...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 – REVIEW – In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots *****
In Cahoots: Some Like It Hoots, St John's (9 Victoria Street) 6:15pm, until 25 Aug, Free
Well then. It's back. During my debut Fringe last year...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review – The Uglies *****
If Edinburgh's got a castle, it must be a good hunting ground for princes - or at least that's what Fanny and Annie think.
Fed...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – BattleActs
If you are travelling through Edinburgh Airport on Monday you might be forgiven for thinking you are already at the Fringe.
BattleActs will be there...
Watch out! The Uglies are back!
Cinderella had a terrible life, right? And her ugly sisters were to blame - of course! But have you ever looked at this from...
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