Tag: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

by Anoushka Stokes-Wilson (10)Arty’s Animagination is about a 10 year old girl  who misses her older sister Sophie, who is now too cool to play with her and mostly talks in Hashtags about boys...

Thanks to the unwavering support of its audiences, the Pleasance Theatre Trust returned to its Edinburgh home this summer, presenting a defiant programme of exciting newcomers, thought-provoking artists and much-loved Fringe stalwarts.With 662 performances...

The Palais du Varieté Spiegeltent is back in George Square Garden ready for the Assembly Festival to fill it up with a variety of acts.Assembly Festival was awarded £162,962 from The Scottish Government...

In the latest on-sale, the Pleasance have ensured the programme is packed full of the best comedy, theatre and performance! Pleasance favourites Seann Walsh and Tall Stories will be back this year. There’s even...

Musician Simon Thacker premieres a live music experience for the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thacker is a Scottish composer, classical guitarist, improviser and ensemble leader whose ever expanding musical world draws on a deep...

Following a tough year for the performing arts Army@TheFringe is offering two special variety nights that celebrate Edinburgh talent.It includes everything from stand up, folk song and improvised rap to queer spoken word and...

Returning this August as one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s main venues, The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) is set to deliver what the EICC’s CEO says is its most diverse line-up ever. The...

With the first of their comedy shows now on sale, Pleasance’s Edinburgh Fringe programme is packed with some of the top names on the circuit as well as the most exciting newcomers. There will...

The award-winning Grid Iron Theatre Company is pleased to announce further details for its hugely anticipated outdoor, site-specific staging of Doppler, an adaptation of the best-selling novel by Norwegian author Erlend Loe.The world premiere...

At the Colorado premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, gun violence turned a celebration of cinema to tragedy. Devastated by one man’s actions, a community refused to be torn apart.This hard- hitting verbatim...

A hell of a lot can happen in the time you await the results of a pregnancy test. PUSH is the story of a woman staring down the barrel of motherhood, torn between her...

This powerful show which can be seen in both London and Edinburgh this summer aims to shatter the weathered stereotype of the 'broken woman’ and instead presents a survivor in all her colours.Based...

Pleasance will make their return to Edinburgh this August, bringing the best of theatre, comedy, magic and family shows to Pleasance Courtyard and the EICC while making available a fantastic selection of shows for...

The Québec Government Office in London and Assembly Festival today launch a showcase enabling Québec artists and culture to continue to connect with and entertain Fringe audiences and industry through a digital venue on...

After going digital in 2020, Army@TheFringe is returning to the stage at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe,welcoming audiences back inside the historic Hepburn House drill hall in Edinburgh’s New Town. As ever it aims to...

With rave reviews following their sold out workshops in New York City, WeCameToDance by Food Tank was originally meant to debut last June with Tony-award winning non-profit theatre company La MaMa as an off-Broadway...

'Ithaca' is an autobiographical feminist one-woman adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey from writer and performer Phoebe Angeni. Exploring contemporary social issues, 'Ithaca' follows the journey of Nobody, a feminine aspect of Odysseus, as she re-defines...

Returning for the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the Made in Scotland Showcase presenting the best of theatre, dance and music from Scotland live in-person and online.The curated showcase features a range of work...

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society announced today (Friday 19 Feb) that they were delighted to appoint Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the role of President.The position, which is the first of its kind, will see Waller-Bridge...

The 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe drew to a close on Monday (31 August) after a series of online events, programmes, platforms and initiatives kept the spirit of the festival alive during the covid-19 pandemic.Almost...

The final edition of AJ Bell Fringe on Friday will hit the airwaves tonight from 9pm BST, so grab a ticket and help us reach £200,000 for Fringe artists and venues.More than £190,000 has...

Every August, Edinburgh becomes the epicentre of the global comedy scene, as it hosts the world's largest arts festival - the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.Since its debut in 2017, Monkey Barrel Comedy has programmed some...

From fading Victorian photographs to WWII cartoons – research into an astonishing collection of pictures and memorabilia is revealing the forgotten of one of the Army’s most remarkable regiments.The Artists Rifles, whose members included...

The third edition of Fringe cabaret, now in its penultimate week - AJ Bell Fringe on Friday – is being livestreamed on Friday 21 August at 21:00, with exciting new performances from Bernie Dieter,...

Playwright and director Rasheka Christie-Carter believes that many people still think of black British history as a post-World War II phenomenon, beginning with Windrush.On Tuesday, 18 August at 19:30 Army@TheVirtualFringe is hosting a free...

Following on from a hugely popular first week, the second edition of new Fringe cabaret - AJ Bell Fringe on Friday – is being livestreamed on Friday 14 August at 9pm, with special performances...

The Courtyard doors may be closed this summer but the Pleasance Theatre Trust are already thinking ahead to 2021.To mark the first day of what would have been the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe, they are...

Mouths of Lions presents Ellie and the Enormous Sneeze at Assembly RoxyFrom the creators of family favorite; Dr. Zeiffal, Dr. Zeigal and The Hippo That Can Never Be Caught! Aug 2- 13 15-20 22-27'A sneeze is a...

PROFESSIONAL by CHARLOTTE CROMIE6:15pm 21st - 26th AugustTheSpaceontheMile2, The Radisson, The Royal Mile, EH1 1TH Half past five on a Friday evening, and a school’s electronic door-locking system shuts down for the weekend… with four...

After a BEST COMEDY AWARD nominee at the 2017 Brighton Fringe, award-winning Norwegian comedian Viggo Venn makes his solo debut with The Life Of Pepito!A graduate of École Philippe Gaulier in France, Viggo is...