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Edinburgh Art Festival – exhibitions open on Friday at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
From Friday new exhibitions open at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (ESW) which are part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2026.
One of the exhibitions, Fair...
Fringe 2026 – four solo shows from New York
Four New York performers who are bringing solo shows to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe explained the tangled, often chance, encounters that connected them...
Fringe review 2026 – David Benaim: Excel Comedy & Mathem-antics ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It’s not often that you come out of a comedy show to be offered Excel and Google Sheets shortcut stickers, together with a copy...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Simple Minds – “the band I never left”
It is a beautiful day in Kelvingrove, Glasgow, and Derek Forbes is showing me the artefacts of a life in music.
There are gold...
The Whistlebinkies eschew the sound of silence at the Fringe
The Whistlebinkies face a quandary when they return to artSpace@stmarks for their annual Fringe concert on Saturday 22 August.
The band, one of the...
Wifi free audiobook player to be sold during the Edinburgh International Book Festival
Voxblock, the screen-free, wifi-free audiobook player for children, will be sold at the Waterstones shop on the Edinburgh Book Festival site from 15 August...
Stuart returns to his rugby roots coaching Forrester as Broughton drop out
Stuart Dennis has gone back to his rugby roots by taking up the coaching reins at East Division Two rugby club, Forrester.
The ex-forward cut...
Willowbrae bowlers win Purves Triples
Willowbrae, with a team comprising Gino di Ponio, Kris Fraser and Matthew Craig, won the William Purves Funeral Directors sponsored invitation triples held annually...
Festivals 2026 – Tuesday’s picks
There are our choices from the wide range of arts on offer today.
Edinburgh International Festival
Today the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) continue...
Scots and Dutch spearhead cricket protest
Cricket Scotland and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association are leading criticism of the International Cricket Council’s decision to change the format of the men’s...
Fringe review 2026 – Andy MacLeod’s Soho Days and Camden Nights ⭐️⭐️⭐️
There is something almost brutally appropriate about sitting through Andy Macleod’s Soho Days and Camden Nights with an audience of three or four people....
Fringe review 2026 – Burke and Hare: Body Snatchers, Serial Killers, Ulstermen ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Edinburgh knows Burke and Hare almost too well. Their names have become part of the city's folklore, sitting somewhere in the shadows of ghosts,...
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 review 2026 – Rockbeth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Rockbeth is a thrilling, high-energy reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, performed with infectious enthusiasm by a talented neurodiverse ensemble.
Combining the darkness of Shakespeare’s tragedy with the...
Fringe 2026 – Laura is making her debut appearance this year
Actor Laura Bisset first gained theatre experience treading the boards in Shetland pantomimes and youth drama – but now she is performing at the...
Scots go for the hat trick
Heriot's wicket keeper/bat Matthew Cross claimed player of the match honours while Jasper Davidson, from Grange, hit the winning runs as Scotland defeated UAE...
Fringe 2026 – Elvis in Chaos
Scientific theory in chaos at the home of smart thinking
An American lawyer brings his alternative take on scientific theory to the home of the...
HMP Edinburgh prisoner sentenced to additional time for attack
A man who is already serving a sentenced as a convicted sex offender launched a “sadistic” prison attack on a rapist inmate by throwing...
Edinburgh International Festival review – The Galloping Cure at Festival Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️
On Sunday night it was the World Premiere of a new opera co-produced by the Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Opera, written by composer...
Children invited into magical worlds of wonder at Edinburgh Deaf Festival
First performances of the joy-filled children’s show Singing Willows and the Magical Bed took place this weekend as part of the Edinburgh Deaf Festival...
Review – A Dairy Story ⭐️⭐️⭐️
If there’s a lover of all things bovine in your life, or if you, yourself, have a case of the ‘mad about cows’ disease,...
Fringe 2026 – Pleasance acts in the spotlight at Opening Gala
The Pleasance Opening Gala highlighted the artists who are performing shows in one of the venues - at Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Dome or Pleasance...
Fringe 2026 – All Styles Street Battle
A special collaboration took place on Saturday between Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance and Belgium’s Detours Festival, a world-leading urban arts festival.
All...
Handing over the mic at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards
As she celebrates another year leading the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Nica Burns, CBE, announced at the annual Movers and Shakers lunch in Edinburgh that...
Friends aiming to create a community space at Starbank House
The Friends of Starbank Park, an organisation which has been running since 2013, has begun a conversation about taking over Starbank House in the...
Review – Opening concert at Usher Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The official opening of the Edinburgh International Festival took place on Saturday evening.
The opening concert featured the symphony in 12 parts by Wynton...
Greens predict they will run Edinburgh council after next May’s elections
With two by-elections coming up at the end of the month, the Edinburgh Greens are working on continuing their period of success in the...
Fringe review 2026 – Furniture Boys ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I turned up a few minutes early for Furniture Boys and, with no one there, picked my seat in the middle of the vacant...
EIF Review – A Trial – at The Lyceum ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play ‘An Enemy of the People’ deals with the scandal of an expose of water pollution resulting in the exile of...
Spoils shared as late Edinburgh goal denies Spartans comeback
Edinburgh City left it late to claim their first point of the season as they battled to a 2-2 draw against city rivals The...
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