Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018

SOLD OUT: Edinburgh Fringe SOLD OUT: Melbourne International Comedy FestivalStamptown Comedy Night is a chaotic, late-night experience featuring the best alternative acts on the international scene. Hosted by anarchic, Norwegian-American comedy duo Zach & Viggo, this...

Theatre has always been a mouthpiece for some of the most pressing international concerns and Revenants, set twenty-five years after the execution of the Romanov family and twenty-five years before the murder of Martin...

Welcome to The Abode – a Seductive Dark Fantasy World of the Far Right Fringe collaboration between leading Scottish playwright Davey Anderson and award-winning American theatre company. Leading Scottish playwright Davey Anderson will transport audiences into an American...

As a bomb disposal expert doing VIP protection at the Fringe Ken Bellringer never expected to appear there on stage himself.But this year he is among 15 members of Bravo 22 Company, a military arts based...

All of the events at the Scottish Arts Club are open to the public and you can find more details of them here on the club's website (and also details of how to join).In...

In a Fringe show designed for whisky enthusiasts, you are invited to Contini Cannonball on Castlehill where you can enjoy an immersive journey into the heart of Scotland's slowest stills.The show is hosted by...

The BBC and Avalon are collaborating on DEBUT at this year's Fringe. This project allows writers who have never written for the stage to create their debut play. The writers are names you might...

Perhaps this is the show with the longest name?theSpace UK will present David Kaye’s award-winning solo-play How I Brought Peace to the Middle East: A Tragicomedy for a limited five-performance run, August 8-12 at...

In 2016 internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Joanna Wallfisch cycled 1,154 miles down the Pacific Coast Highway carrying little but a ukulele and a loop pedal. She called her journey The Great Song Cycle. This odyssey, rich with...

Social media has been taken over by ‘bots’ spreading hate, fear and influencing how we vote. In ‘LOVEBOTS’, Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and New Act of the Year winner Bilal Zafar sets out to put this right.In...

The battle is on – the villagers of Little Middleton are fighting to preserve their historic community and keep it safe from progress. A Beginner’s Guide to Populism is a darkly comic play following the fortunes...

Viennese cross over cellist Peter Hudler returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his brand new show Cello On Fire.Following last year’s success with Caleidocello, Peter Hudler returns with a solo cello music show –...

Born and raised in Hopeless Junction USA, Gibby Stone is a gentle-hearted teenager who simply wants to be loved and fit in - but fate is cruel.Geek, which premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

AUDACIOUS Mr ASTLEY Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) 1st to 27th AugustIn this 250th Anniversary year of the world's first circus performance, and surrounded in Edinburgh by shows in many styles of circus presentation, who better to tell...

Ahh, Russia! Home of words! Home of books and plays! Home of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Brezhnev, Gogol!Russian literature is the finest in the world. Gambling devices are also excellent! In this show, we  combine Russian literature with...

Pravda @ Espionage | 2 - 27 (not 14) @ 7.30pm Scottish Comedian of the Year Leo Kearse rips into liberals in his follow up to last year's sellout hit I Can Make You Tory. He takes a...

3 Years, 1 Week and a Lemon Drizzle examines the relationship between two sisters and how their close bond was affected when one of them was diagnosed with a severe eating disorder as a teenager.Recalling touching...

Gilded Balloon Teviot, Billiard Room 1 - 26 August 2018 (except 15) @ 17:00 Kerr-ching! For his much anticipated return to Edinburgh, following his widely-acclaimed show, Let’s Talk About Tax, the world’s only financial expert and comedian, Dominic Frisby has devised a...

BARRY FERNS: BARRY LOVES YOU | 3 - 27 August (not 13) @ 21:00 |Just The Tonic at The Tron Love is an absolutely subjective term. What does love mean to you? Is it possible that Barry Loves You?...

It is 20 years since the Fringe Society has managed the Virgin Money Street Events and this year there will be a new look area on the Royal Mile with accessible stages and new...

The 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Programme is now available and invites you to take a Leap into the Unknown to create your own Fringe adventure.There are some notable anniversaries : It is 10 years...