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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Power Ballad

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After her inaugural visit and a highly successful presentation of If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Julia Croft is returning to Summerhall for the 2017 Fringe with...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Juan Vesuvius: I Am Your Deejay

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Juan Vesuvius (aka New Zealand’s Barnie Duncan), the suavely outlandish Calypso DJ and Caribbean maraca maestro is back in Edinburgh for the third time, with a brand new show that takes audiences deep into his own clubbing universe.Vesuvius’...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – DESCENT

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DESCENT, by Scottish playwright Linda Duncan McLaughlin, is set to make its Fringe debut at Gilded Balloon's spanking new venue, the Rose Theatre.50-somethings Rob and Cathy are looking forward to reclaiming their own lives...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Woman on Fire

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Certain Curtain Theatre presents'Woman On Fire'WOMAN ON FIRE is an original play that will take you into the fiery heart of one of the most dangerous women, in history. Ruthless terrorist or impassioned freedom...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Confabulation!

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Confabulation! at EdFringe– new comedy theatre show exploring memory by writer and performer Eamonn Fleming.Experienced actor-turned writer, storyteller and performer Eamonn Fleming is hitting the Fringe for the first time as a solo artist...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit

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SHAPPI KHORSANDI ‘MISTRESS AND MISFIT’ Assembly George Square Studios (Studio 3), 3rd – 27th August (not 14th) at 6.40pm Shappi Khorsandi presents England's unsung heroine, Emma, Lady Hamilton. For too many years she has been known as just Nelson's mistress, a bit...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Box Clever

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nabokov and The Marlowe present Box Clever WORLD PREMIERE Written & performed by Monsay Whitney | Original live music and clowning by Avi Simmons 4 - 27 August (not Tuesdays), 16:40 (17:40), 14+Whitney’s frank and moving performance alongside...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 : Star Trek Vs Star Wars

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Prepare yourself for the ultimate showdown - Star Trek vs Star Wars! Geek culture collides in this fight to see which is better, a galaxy far far away or the final frontier. Hosting this...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Rik Carranza: I’m a Fan

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How far would you go to fit in? What happens when you deny something that defines you? In this deeply personal show, Comedian Rik Carranza revisits a past that forces him to choose between...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Cat Man Curse

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The Cat Man Curse, a fast paced, surreal comedy, makes its Edinburgh Festival Fringe premier. TV actor Charles Heron has it all thanks to his career playing hot-shot lawyer, Harvey Hardtruth. However, when an...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – DIGS

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Theatre with Legs present DIGSWanna crash at Theatre with Legs’ flat? Swinging sledgehammers and cutting loose to 70s pop, Theatre with Legs are pushing through grime, through grief, through the wall. They are clawing for...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Christine Bovill Paris*****

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If you want to know how the opening night of Christine Bovill's 10 night residence at the New Town Theatre went, then let's start at the end. The audience gave her a standing ovation.And...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Like A Prayer

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In St. Joseph Monastery in Switzerland there is a Franciscan Cloister where six sisters lead a life of prayer and faith. But what does that mean? How do people have such closely held beliefs...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sandra Hale: Self-Helpless!

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Sandra Hale is a self-help guru like no other. In fact, she's no guru at all. In her first solo comedy show, SELF-HELPLESS! Sandra will help you rid yourself of your moral compass with...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – Alexander Fox Ringo****

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Alexander Fox as Ringo | Pleasance Garden-1700Alexander Fox is a first time performer at the Edinburgh Fringe but he had a packed audience in an "igloo" at the Pleasance, and he didn't let them down.His...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Older Brothers’ Almanac

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Siblings of all shapes and sizes, rejoice: The Older Brothers’ Almanac has made it to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! This darkly comic and occasionally poignant guide brings you everything you ever wanted to know...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Seven Crazy Bitches

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Take Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’, put it in a variety of cheap wigs, teach it the juke box of a regional gay bar, roll it in a whole lot of glitter, and- with the help of...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Inheritance***

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Inheritance by Ben Clover |Royal Overseas LeagueThere are some comedians that just seem to be nice people with a nice turn of anecdote and phrase. There doesn't appear to be a career trajectory, just...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Sandman

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Inspired by ETA Hoffman's Der Sandmann, Shindig Theatre Company bring a bold new spin to this classic story. Haunted by a childhood encounter with the sinister Sandman, Nathaniel deals with the struggles of adult life whilst trying...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Sooz on Film****

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Clover | Underbelly | 1850If there is one thing that this reviewer will be grateful to Sooz Kempner for, it is introducing us to a film called The Room. Look it up.We are also grateful...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen – The Final Tribute*****

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Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen – The Final Tribute.  The day before the presidential election last year, Leonard Cohen finally fell silent.  In Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen – The Final Tribute, Arthur, in...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Half Breed*****

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Jazmin is the only black in the village - but not 'proper black'.    When people ask where she's from, she was born in Wiltshire, but when they ask where she's "originally" from, she...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Two Dunnit

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TWO DUNNIT 11:50am, 14th-26th August (not 20th), theSpace@Surgeons Hall An infernally complicated murder mystery, a barrage of suspects and an hour of comedy - all brought to life by only two comedians.Louisa Keight (of the Cambridge...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – IlluminArchie: Archie Maddocks ***

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IlluminArchie is the hilarious new show by 'super cool, super smart storyteller' (Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard) and award-winning comedian, Archie Maddocks.  He is described as 'poignant, inventive and razor-sharp' (BroadwayBaby.com) and as having 'a...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Doris, Dolly and the Dressing Room Divas*****

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 Come along on a rollicking singalong from Edinboro (sic) to the glamorous world of the silver screen, and some of the most famous Hollywood divas. Just like us mere mortals when at the hairdresser,...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – How to Act ***

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Internationally renowned theatre director Anthony Nicholl has travelled the globe on a life-long quest to discover the true essence of theatre. Today, he gives a masterclass, demonstrating first-hand the methods he cultivated in Africa...
Modern Maori Quartet Edinburgh Fringe Assembly

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Modern Maori Quartet: That’s Us! ****

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Magical Songs of Love and Longing **** Assembly George Square StudiosIn the 1950s and '60s Maori show bands rode a wave of popularity in New Zealand and soon Australia, taking the cabaret and nightclubs world...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – TuTu Mucky Photo Call

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Scottish Dance Theatre return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand-new piece made for the company by star hip hop choreographer Botis Seva. Seva's TuTuMucky has received rave reviews since its debut at...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Died Blondes**

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“Died Blondes” is an ambitious attempt to depict the last hours of two fascinating and flawed women – Ruth Ellis and Marilyn Monroe. The show is presented as two separate monologues with little attempt to...

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea ***

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The Alien Chicken Remembers Galatea is inspired by John Lyly's pastoral comedy, Galatea.  Lyly's Galatea follows two maidens, disguised as boys and sent away to escape Neptune's monster, to Diana's Woods.  They fall in...