Tag: Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Hip Hop Under the Big Top
UniverSoul Circus at the Circus Hub
America’s biggest circus, has been stunning USA audiences for 25 years and making its European debut at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe at Underbelly’s Circus Hub on The...
Wasabeats Crew ‘Break Free’ with Urban Dance Comedy
European Premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
From the company that brought the acclaimed Siro-A to Edinburgh and London, Wasabeats Crew present the European premiere of Break Free at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Wasabeats...
Edinburgh Food Festival 2018 – begins today
Get ready for this year’s Edinburgh Food Festival which takes place in Assembly George Square Gardens, and opens today!
There will be stalls with over 20 top local food and drink producers during the free...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 – Alice Marshall The Strike
Alice Marshall: The Strike
Winner of the 2017 Brighton Fringe Best Comedy Award returns with a brand new show!
Just The Tonic @ The Caves - Aug 2nd-26th, 5.30pm
Critically acclaimed character comedian Alice Marshall returns to the Edinburgh...
Pauline Quirke coming to the Fringe at Riddle’s Court
This summer Pauline Quirke, known to millions as Sharon in Birds of a Feather is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
She has chosen Riddle's Court which will become a theatre venue for the first...
Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit 2018
The second of Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefits, will take place at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the McEwan Hall on 13 August 2018.
Tickets on sale now at underbellyedinburgh.co.uk
The line up will be...
2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition – and the winners are….
The winners of the 2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition were revealed at a prizegiving ceremony at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh yesterday.
From left to right: Secondary 1 to Secondary 6 winner Riona Harrison (aged 14,...
Theatre – Royal Lyceum announce 2018/19 programme
The Royal Lyceum has announced an exciting and World Premiere rich 2018/19 Season.
Artistic Director, David Greig is in understandably celebratory and justifiably good spirits about his signatory panache for not only pushing the boat...
Underbelly at the Fringe 2018 – tickets go on sale on Monday
It may not be Easter yet but Underbelly are already looking forward to August when they have some cracking shows lined up for you at the 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Booking opens on Monday 19...
Fringe shop gets its annual makeover
Partly because it happens every year, and partly to mark Scotland's Year of Young People the Fringe Shop on the Royal Mile has a new art display in the window.
Artist Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng and...
2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition launched
The artist Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng helps the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to launch the 2018 Fringe Schools Poster Competition.
Schoolchildren from across Scotland are invited to submit artistic impressions of the Fringe with any kind...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Cardboard Citizens : Cathy
Following its hugely successful UK tour, acclaimed theatre company Cardboard Citizens comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time with its critically acclaimed production Cathy, featuring the original cast.
Cathy premiered last autumn following Cardboard Citizens one-off...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 -Jane Doe
In New Zealand there’s an issue that runs deep in rugby league teams, in Facebook groups between high school students, with a Prime Minister who believes it is his right to pull on waitresses pony tails.
In...
Edinburgh Fringe: Jayde Adams****
Jayde AdamsPleasance Beneath2135 hrsJAYDE Adams describes herself as a "difficult woman" and I doubt there are many people who would dare argue with her.A quintessential larger than life figure, her packed out show begins...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017: DeLorean: The car’s not just the star *****
DeLoreanAssembly BallroomNoonTHE DeLorean story became a morality tale for the eighties.The rise and fall of a self made man who took a risk and fell but who was admired by many for taking a...
Edinburgh Fringe: Boom time with Sean Kelly****
The Sean Kelly ShowUnderbelly Ermintrude1535 hrsNow this was a lovely hour in the company of Storage Hunter star, Sean Kelly and two guests (Al Porter and Lorna Paterson).Sean has his own show in the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Swan Bake ****
‘I'm really angry at my parents for letting me follow my dreams because now I can't get a job.’ Bell wants to get back into the Royal Ballet School, but that's much easier when...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – My Leonard Cohen
Assembly Rooms – Ballroom (Venue 20),
Edinburgh │Thursday 3 – Sunday 27 August │ 7.45pm (1 hr 20 min)
Following acclaimed seasons at the Sydney Opera House and Adelaide Fringe Festival, My Leonard Cohen returns to the Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Modern Maori Quartet: That’s Us! ****
Magical Songs of Love and Longing
**** Assembly George Square Studios
In 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 – Arielle Dundas: Vulva Cupcake
A member of the liberal elite comes to the Fringe to pursue laughter, love, and politically correct baked goods with a lunchtime show at Laughing Horse (Venue 146).
What are we smarty pants progressives supposed...
Alastair McIntosh: Poacher’s Pilgrimage – An Island Journey
Alastair McIntosh was born in 1955 at Leurbost on Lewis, that northern part of a Hebridean island with two names, two identities. Forty-three years earlier, a certain Mary Anne MacLeod had been born just...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 : Fitz Barbershop and the Fitz Sirens at the Fringe:...
In 2016 the Sirens and Barbers of Fitzwilliam College wowed their Fringe audiences. Now it’s 2017 and, in the immortal words of Gloria Gaynor, they’re back.
Since their last appearance in Edinburgh, the oldest a...
70 years of the Edinburgh Festival
What 70 years of the Edinburgh Festival has done for the arts – and the economy
Adam Behr, Newcastle University
Sir Rudolph Bing, co-founder and first director of the Edinburgh International Festival, once said: “The opera...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sh!t I’m in Love with you Again
Rachelle Elie can tell you more about love and relationships than Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna and Katy Perry could ever do – and she’s laying it all on the line.
The Outstanding Canadian Comedy Award winner is bringing her...
Sleep deprived at the Fringe? Book a nap here
We’ve all been there - it's mid-afternoon, the coffee’s worn off and you’re wishing you were snuggled up in bed...enter Casper, the global sleep company, as its European Sleep Tour comes to the UK as...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Hero
Live illustration to draw in families at new free theatre show at
Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Hero, a new family show which uses live illustration to share a fantastical adventure story tackling depression, premieres at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
Letter from Scotland
Edinburgh was an unlikely place for the largest arts festival in the world to begin, 70 years ago. Yet the project has proved an ever record-breaking success, despite the rain and umbrella-tossing wind which...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 A Girl & A Gun
‘All I need to make a movie is a girl and a gun’ Jean-Luc Goddard
In the sixties French new wave filmmaker Jean Luc Godard famously claimed that all he needed to make a film was a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Birmingham Rep
Whilst our friends at Birmingham Repertory Theatre are all gearing up for their annual BE FESTIVAL international four day bonanza, nips and final tucks are being made to two of their home-grown productions that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A Drinking Game!
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A Drinking Game!
Love to watch films? Love to drink? Come see your favourite cult classics read live and turned into an interactive drinking game! Direct from...
