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Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Nathan Cassidy : 42
In this show by Nathan Cassidy, the audience chooses a set list of 10 ideas from 42 options, creating infinite different shows. Can happiness...
Five things you need to know today Edinburgh!
Pony Show at Newhailes
New restaurant in town
Canonmills Garden
Gordon MacDonald is post for the day
Dads Rock Playday
The National Trust...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Mr Incredible
Mr Incredible is a brutal new play about modern love and old-fashioned entitlement from the award-winning writer/director team behind Edinburgh Fringe 2015 sell-out show Where Do...
Surviving the school Holidays!
School holidays can be a nightmare for a parent’s pocket – but they don’t have to be. There are lots of things to do...
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Dublin Oldschool
This garrulous blizzard of Gælic word wizardry, riotous punchy patois and infectious urban guerilla idiom screams from the eclectic, eclectic pen of Award...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Front Line
Created and performed by international musician and performer Elyssa Vulpes, Front Line tells the story of Sophia, a refugee from the Bosnian war who...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Evil
After last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out show Beethoven in Stalingrad, Jesper Arin is back with solo-show Evil.
Twenty years ago, Erik was sent off...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Journeys
Journeys is a series of farcical stories, each ridiculous and occasionally poignant.
Four actors perform a variety of weird and wonderful characters and create a...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Emoji
Emoji, written by Imperial College Dramatic Society, is set inside a mobile phone and imagines the world that these tiny digital figurines live in....
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Finding Joy
Vamos Theatre in a co-production with The Courtyard, Herefordshire’s Centre for the Arts mark their Edinburgh Premier with this highly engaging and innovative masked...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Sweet Child of Mine
What exactly is the POINT of art?
Australian performer Bron Batten’s 65-year-old parents are wondering the same thing, which is why she’s invited them onstage...
Five things you need to know today
Trident vote
Edinburgh Airport breaks more records
Slow Food
Cafe Tiki
Lothians MSP calls for participation in the City consultation
Later today the UK Parliament...
What’s On In Edinburgh This Week
Although we still have lots of school holiday fillers this week, we're not forgetting the grown-ups! If you're looking for a laugh, The Stand...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – ONCE UPON A… And Beyond!
Founded by 5 actors based locally in Edinburgh and Fife, Pipe Up Productions creates opportunities for children to experience theatre in an interactive way. They believe...
Gilded Balloon / Mid-Brow present Mid-Brow: The Live Show
The winners of Best New Sketch Act 2015 return with their highly anticipated new show. Expect their trademark easy charm and fast-paced humour, now...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Africa
Africa – Weird and Wonderful Facts, Rhythm and Stories.
Children's Shows (storytelling, children's)
‘It will change the way you think about Africa.’
Laughing Horse @ The Free...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Dropped
Dropped is a play in which two female soldiers are haunted by unspoken traumas that bubble to the surface as they try to cope with...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Chinese Women’s Whispers
This mesmerising production, Chinese Women’s Whispers, is one that weaves together the story of three generations of Chinese women with the story of ‘nushu’;...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Unseen
Unseen is an intimate, newly written play by Ashley McLean, who is also directing, producing and performing in this production.
The story is based on...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Dracula
The appropriately titled Let Them Call It Mischief theatre company promises its Goth and blood-besotted audiences an afternoon of, ‘Dracula’ meets ’39 Steps’ meets...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Macbeth
TWIST Theatre Company (The Way I See Theatre) presents Macbeth - a modern tale of lust for power, betrayal and murder within King Records,...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – Saturday Night Forever
Saturday Night Forever is a roller-coaster ride through Cardiff’s night-life, as Lee, a gay man in his thirties living in the heart of the...
Edinburgh to Newquay flight opens up the southwest
Cornwall is a big tourism draw in the southwestern corner of England, but now it has become very accessible from Edinburgh as there is...
Take a step into Wonderland: A Review of The Roseleaf, Leith
Over recent years, Leith has become a bit of a culinary treasure trove for those looking to escape the hubbub of Edinburgh's city centre.
Quirky...
Five things you need to know today
First Minister meets the Prime Minister
Floral Clock is now finished
The Festival Wheel
Musselburgh Racecourse have a new sculpture
Today at the...
Tommy Sheppard to stand for election as SNP Deputy Leader
He may have only been elected as an MP for little over a year, but Tommy Sheppard MP for Edinburgh East is to stand...
Our Pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – The Point
The Point is written, performed and produced by Glasgow artists; it is a daring and challenging project driven by female artists: Every city has...
Two days out on the Isle of May
Scottish National Heritage invites families to join them for two days of fun-filled activities on the Isle of May this summer.
The events will take place on 26 and...
University of Edinburgh teaching flower arranging
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and University of Calgary, Canada, made a surprising discovery about flowers while studying the flight patterns of bumblebees.
While...
Edinburgh-based hydrologist is on the team for Rio
Hazel Smith, an Edinburgh-based hydrologist and AECOM employee has been selected to participate in Rio 2016 Paralympic Games as a member of Team GB.
She...
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