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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 Show has been won by Ahir Shah
Urooj Ashfaq has...
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 dripping with talent this Fringe.
As audiences arrive at the Underbelly’s...
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 will raise funds for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to...
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 unique talent of a comedian whose act is as much...
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 show which conveys a serious message.
Why are people so keen...
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 Be Gay.
Over 40 years later he’s still going strong, still...
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 legendary showcase that presents a curated mix of Fringe picks,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Luminescence at St Giles’ – Friday and Saturday only
Luminescence, a collaboration between the visual artist Maria Rud and saxophonist Tommy Smith, opened in St Giles’ Cathedral on Thursday night as part of the Fringe.
It is completely improvised in the moment – Smith...
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 had become a cultural phenomenon performing Smells Like Teen Spirit...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Jack Docherty ★★★★
Jack Docherty takes us back to Edinburgh in the 1970s to Carrick Knowe and “love across the divide” with the subject of his unrequited affection Eleanor. In many ways, David Bowie became a passport...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Machine Man Spectacle
Shahar Marom told us about his Fringe show, the Machine Man Spectacle at the Hill Street Theatre.
He explains: " I try to answer seven questions by using seven machines that were built especially...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Darling Boy ★★★★
Rupert Bevan delivers a powerhouse performance in Darling Boy, a one-man show exploring longing, love and loneliness in a queer coming of age story that is both poignant and mesmerising.
It charts a young...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Tending
A play which will be premiered at this year's Fringe has input from 50 nurses who have shared their experiences working in the NHS.
All contributors are anonymous but their stories have resulted in...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground ★★★★
In Alison Skilbeck’s Uncommon Ground we are introduced to seven characters, all of whom frequent an unnamed common every day during the Covid lockdowns. Skilbeck portrays each of the characters – female and male...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – After Shakespeare ★★★★
In After Shakespeare, Lexi Wolfe imagines the lives of four of the Bard's characters after their plays have ended.
What happened to them? And why?
If this all sounds a little Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, it’s...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – VESSEL ★★★★
When I was a student, many years ago, I saw an amateur dramatisation of Susie Orbach’s groundbreaking book Fat is a Feminist Issue.
I felt so seen that I still remember it now. Back...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Festival -Fool’s Gold ★★★
Saskia Solomons's highly stylised show about money is very much a performance in need of an audience.
Dressed in a golden body-hugging tunic, designed by the Italian tailor Antoinetta Gambino, with a bodice containing a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Chamberlain & Haywood
Edinburgh musician Paul Chamberlain and his duo partner Michael Haywood are looking forward to making their return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a concert on Friday 11 August.
Last year, Paul received a life-saving...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – The Mystery Plays reimagined
Faith is a member of the Edinburgh Festival of The Sacred Arts committee, who, with friend Peter Holloway, are putting on a drama production which will see a contemporary twist on Twelfth Century ‘The...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – at The Scottish Storytelling Centre
Some of the best storytellers and performers will be part of the Fringe show at the Storytelling Centre this August talking about climate, queerness, friendship and nature.
There will also be two productions from the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Bad Play
The play Arthur Miller would write after getting kicked in the head by a horse
Death of a Salesman. Our Town. A Streetcar Named Desire. And now, Bad Play. American sketch comedy group Big Tobacco...
Luke Wright reurns to the Fringe for his silver jubilee
It's time to get out the bunting as the multi award winning poet celebrates 25 years on the literary frontline.
In this year of coronations and joy what better time to celebrate the Silver Jubilee...
Rose Theatre revival for the Fringe
The Rose Theatre will pop up again for this year's Fringe under the organisation of the Soundhouse live music charity and Edinburgh-based Bellfield Brewery.
The venue had been mothballed pending sale, but over 25 days...
Fringe actors commemorate Colonel Anne at Leith Churchyard
Actors preparing for this year’s Fringe picked a fitting location to make an appearance in full Jacobite costume: North Leith Churchyard, where the heroine of their play Colonel Anne lies buried.
Anne Farquharson Mackintosh defied...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Rosenberg/Strange Fruit Project
Twilight Theatre Company in association with New Jersey Repertory Company presents a powerful journey through a family's legacy and America's history of injustice.
This summer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will witness the premiere of The...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – new play trys to pray the gay away
The Orange Works, a Kent based theatre company, are returning to the Fringe with Locusts, a timely play about conversion practices and the belief that you can pray the gay away.
Spoiler warning –...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Chopped Liver and Unions
Women have always faced exploitation in the workplace – back in the 1920s Sara Wesker was a trade unionist, activist and radical who battled for change.
Largely forgotten today, her name and story deserve to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Brotipo
Two clown friends plan to put on a show but Dede goes off the idea – can Tibeh get him to change his mind?
Canadian “masters of slapstick” (The Scotsman) and multiple international award-winners Les Foutoukours make a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – The Last Flapper
Mad or just angry – she’s certainly alone. Jazz icon Zelda Fitzgerald is locked up in a mental hospital and has just hours to live.
Award-winning actress Catherine D. DuBord and Texan director Lydia Mackay...
New Fringe app announced for this year’s festival
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has published details of a new app, which will be available just before this year's festival.
Last year there was a great deal of outcry when the Fringe eventually admitted it was...
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