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Cyprus Avenue wins the James Tait Prize for Drama
Tragicomic take on sectarian divide wins top drama prize
A play that explores the extremes of sectarianism has scooped one of the UK’s most distinguished...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Laugh, Why Don’t You? A Sketch Show By Fish...
LAUGH, WHY DON’T YOU? A SKETCH SHOW BY FISH PIE!
22:40, until 26th August, Just the Tonic @ The Caves
Tickets: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/laugh-why-don-t-you-a-sketch-show-by-fish-pie
The sketch troupe ‘Fish Pie!’...
Edinburgh Festivals legacy funding package announced
Funding for our festivals has received a boost by the council approving an annual funding contribution of £1million over each of the next five...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – So You Think You’re Funny? winner announced
Maisie Adam has been announced as the winner of 2017’s So You Think You’re Funny? competition, in the 30th year of the UK’s original...
At the Festival Theatre – Shane Filan
Mark Saturday 23 September 2017 in your diaries now!
Shane Filan will perform music from his brand new album Love Always at the Festival Theatre...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Form Rendered Retina*****
Review: Rendered Retina
Form
Pleasance Dome
It seemed appropriate that the first review of many for The Edinburgh Report by YourThurrock should indeed be a Thurrock company.
We...
Edinburgh Leisure launches September membership campaign
#KeepOctoberFree – Edinburgh Leisure launches September Campaign
Edinburgh Leisure has unveiled their September offer, designed to help thousands of new customers to try new activities...
Edinburgh councillor blogs – Cllr Scott Arthur
by Labour Councillor Scott Arthur who represents the Colinton/Fairmilehead Ward.
"Much has been made recently of the fact that complaints relating to waste management have...
Pondering a panda pregnancy
It appears that there might be a pitter patter of panda paws this year - perhaps. We have been here before after all, as...
Complaints against Edinburgh councillors decided by Standards Commission
There were two recent cases against councillors heard by The Standards Commission for Scotland.
One of these centred on an alleged breach of the Councillors'...
Macmillan Art Show at Bonhams
As part of the Fringe there will be an art show at Bonhams from Thursday morning and you will be able to buy a piece...
Edinburgh College of Art Masters Degree Show 2017
This year’s Masters Degree show at Edinburgh College of Art presented international and homegrown art full of character. From stimulating conceptual work to inventive...
New Town murder – man jailed for life
A man who murdered his friend at a property in Edinburgh's New Town has been jailed.
Kieran Davies, 28, was sentenced to life in prison,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Four Go Off On One! A Jolly Good Romp...
FOUR GO OFF ON ONE! A Jolly Good Romp Through Childhood
16:30, 2nd-27th August (not 15th), Gilded Balloon Teviot
Tickets here
After sell-out crowds and a clutch...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Hi. (Entering Burned Area)
Let’s recognize and celebrate human struggle at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Theatre Infinite presents
Hi. (Entering Burned Area)
Clown Rodeo Debbie is your guide on her...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Ian Smith: Snowflake****
Ian Smith: Snowflake
Underbelly: Ermintrude
Time: 5.15pm
GOOLE and Tromso. There are two words you don't hear every day but Ian Smith is from Goole and he...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – The Best of Pip Utton****
Pip Utton
Pleasance Beneath
1225 hrs
PIP Utton fans have loved his one man shows where he has played Frances Bacon, Margaret Thatcher, Adolf Hitler and Winston...
Zebbie dog walks from Edinburgh to Oxford: Walking for Jay
Zebbie, a 9 year old Labrador, and his owner Katrina are walking from Edinburgh to Oxford to raise awareness of a little known cancer called...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – Lucy Porter****
Lucy Porter
Choose Your Battles
Pleasance Beneath
By Louise Leach
THERE are some of us who seem to be growing old (er) with Lucy Porter. This reporter could...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 REVIEW – Guy Pratt****
Guy Pratt
Inglorious Bassterd at Frankensteins
1700 hrs
GUY Pratt is a veteran bass guitarist who has played for such great bands as Pink Floyd and Roxy...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Godspell****
Well, here’s a thing. Godspellwas first performed at the Carnegie Mellon University Theatre in Pittsburgh 37 years ago – who’d have thought it? Certainly no-one...
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe2017 REVIEW – Jerry Sadowitz*****
Jerry Sadowitz
Assembly Rooms Ballroom
9.30pm
THIS reviewer first saw Jerry Sadowitz in 1987 when he played to about 300 people in the Edinburgh Playhouse....
Woman charged with motoring offences
A woman has been charged with a number of motoring offences following what police describe as "a proactive stop of a vehicle" in the...
Police ask for assistance in tracing man missing from Corstorphine
Police in Edinburgh are appealing for the public's help to trace a man reported missing in the Corstorphine area.
Norman Skivington was last seen leaving...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – Turntable/Edinburgh *****
Turntable started when MJ McCarthy and his Great Aunt Kathleen – 55 years his senior – connected over a stack of vinyl. Since then...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – The Offering (Guru Dakshina) ****
A curious boy, full of wonder, dreams of great warriors of the past and wants to be one of them. He meets up with...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – WHYTE
Emerging Gaelic electronica duo WHɎTE (Alasdair Whyte and Ross Whyte) released their debut album, Fairich in October 2016. Each from very different musical backgrounds (traditional Gaelic and ambient electronica),...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Rise and Fall of Marcus Monroe
THE RISE AND FALL OF
MARCUS MONROE
Assembly George Square Gardens
(Piccolo), 3rd – 27th August at 3pm
From the writer of Orange Is The New Black and producer...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Phil Kay: Euphoric****
Phil Kay's current show is part of Bob Slayer’s Heroes of Fringe and let’s face fact, that’s what Phil is. In ten minutes, he...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Mimi’s Suitcase****
"Mimi's Suitcase" packs an incredible amount of moods and experiences into one hour as it describes how a party-loving young girl confronts the realities of...
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