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Council awards increase in cultural grants
After several weeks of to-ing and fro-ing, the council has finally agreed to increase funding to festivals, including Edinburgh International Festival, The Edinburgh International...
Fringe review 2026 – Dylan Thomas: Return Journey ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
To inhabit another man’s ghost on stage is a perilous undertaking.
Yet in Dylan Thomas: Return Journey at the Pleasance, Bob Kingdom accomplishes something far rarer....
Fringe review 2026 – Ulster’s Doctor Death: The Killer Case of John Bodkin Adams...
Some crimes become part of the national memory, but many others gradually disappear into the shadows of history.
The story of Dr John Bodkin...
Fringe 2026 review – Ten Ways to Die Happy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ten Ways to Die Happy arrives at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the aim of laying bare the finite time and energy that its...
Fringe 2026 review – Depths of Wikipedia ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐
Annie Rauwerda has been a constant presence on certain corners of the internet for what feels like forever, but is only just making her...
Fringe review 2026 – Vittorio Angelone: you can’t Say Nothing any more ⭐️ ⭐️...
At one point during his sold-out Edinburgh Fringe show “You can’t Say Nothing anymore”, Irish comic Vittorio Angelone says he recently took a trip...
Fringe 2026 – Ross Allen on the unreality a self-funded Fringe show
This is Ross Allen's first play, and his first time performing at the Edinburgh Fringe.
He has been to the Fringe as an...
Fringe 2026 review – Nichola McAuliffe revisits Annie Wobbler ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
There’s a mesmerising agelessness about Nichola McAuliffe as she slips from character to character in Annie Wobbler (Revisited), a series of five monologues...
Fringe 2026 – Adam Bromley: Hyperconnected ⭐⭐⭐
Adam Bromley: Hyperconnected
At the heart of the Fringe are shows such as this, in small, dark, muggy rooms with small audiences.
This was Adam Bromley's...
Fringe review 2026 – The Ghost of White Hart Lane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Football has a way of making ghosts of its heroes.
Some survive in photographs, others in statistics, names preserved in old programmes and the...
Festivals 2026: Wednesday’s picks, from shadow puppets to a comedy rave
Here is your daily guide to the biggest arts festival in the world, with Wednesday’s Fringe picks ranging from an absurd hunt for the...
Fringe review 2026 – Call Me Elizabeth: From Burton to Humanitarian ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Elizabeth Taylor is still on the telephone. During Kayla Boye’s performance of the Hollywood superstar Call Me Elizabeth: From Burton to Humanitarian, the telephone...
Fringe 2026 – Sitting (In Silence)
Sitting (In Silence) is a dark comedy that brings humour, honesty and humanity to one of the most urgent conversations of our time.
Set...
Craigmillar Tapestry to be exhibited at the Storytelling Centre
The Craigmillar Tapestry, which has been stitched by over 500 people, will be exhibited to the public ahead of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The...
Fringe 2026 – Heart Beats Strong
After five sold-out previews in London, the side-splitting, groundbreaking new 'play with dance’ Heart Beats Strong is on for a whole month at Pleasance Courtyard's Bunker...
Fringe 2026 – Overtone
When two teenagers meet after choir practice, they begin the most important relationship of their lives.
From Fringe First award-winning theatre-maker Tom Brennan...
Fringe 2026 – An A to Z Guide to Dating
A hilarious one-woman musical based on an unapologetic dating advice book that writer-performer Grace O'Keefe's own mother wrote.
Publishers said it would set feminism...
Interview – Paul Ready on his Fringe debut and Ann Droid
Motherland star Paul Ready, talking about his Scottish roots, male friendship and his Edinburgh Fringe debut.
Paul Ready is no stranger to exploring the stranger...
Fringe 2026 – Glob
Just looking at the photos of Glob, audiences are in for a treat as finally the Scottish premiere of this international multi-award-winning sensation comes to town. ...
“Zero-commission” tickets announced for Edinburgh Festival Fringe
A new "zero-commission" ticket initiative has been announced for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe to help artist retain more income from ticket sales.
Love The...
Real-life siblings to star in new Fringe show
Two real-life siblings will star in a show about an unlikely friendship between a pensioner and a new friend five decades younger than her...
Fringe 2025: After the Service: Tales of Love and Loss ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Grief, we are told, is love with nowhere to go.
But when it overwhelms us, we look for something to take the pain away. We...
Five things you need to know today
Let the Festivals commence
Today is the day when all the festivals in town kick off for real. The Edinburgh Reporter diary is full of...
Fringe 2025 – show goes on for US teenagers despite the death of their...
Fringe veteran Paul Andrew Perez was in the midst of writing a new teenage pop rock musical for the Edinburgh Fringe when he died...
Fringe 2025 – Comedy hypnotist Matt Hale promises his show won’t change your life...
No political statement, no underlying metaphor, no great revelations about the nature of humanity. And that’s a solemn promise.
Matt Hale’s Funbelievable! 90s Rewind comedy...
Collins makes Edinburgh Fringe Debut as ‘Marilyn Monroe’
EastEnders favourite’ Michelle Collins is set to make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut at the age of 62 in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill,...
Female friendship that doesn’t beat around the bush
Fresh off the back of a five-star powerhouse Northern tour Is This Thing On? follows two flatmates, one a musician and the other a...
Hearts story is now on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
This Is Our Story takes you on a journey through the last 150 years of Heart of Midlothian FC, celebrating the legacy and triumphs...
Paines Plough announce show they are bringing to the Fringe in their 50th year
As the touring theatre company Paines Plough reach their half century they have announced the show which they will bring to Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 – Havana Street Party
Havana Street Party, the spectacular summer dance show from Cuba featuring sexy salsa, sizzling rumba and thrilling street dance from the best dancers on the...
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