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Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW Alexei Sayle****
And so on to the Underbelly's Cow Barn where "the godfather of alternative comedy", as the impish London-based Scouser is billed, vented his pot-bellied...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – La Vie Dans Une Marionette, award-winning family show
La Vie Dans Une Marionette is an award-winning family show by the New Zealand based company White Face Crew.
This whimsical story of a lonely...
Royal High School Preservation Trust appeal to the Lord Provost
The trustees of the Royal High School Preservation Trust have appealed to the Lord Provost to support their bid to convert the empty school...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Naked Dietitian – Raising the Roof *****
Once or twice in a lifetime a performance comes along that strikes a chord so pure, resonates so loudly with your own experience, that...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sea Hames
Yes there are too many shows for you to go and see but you can couple this one with a visit to Restoration Yard...
Edinburgh Police still looking for hit and run driver
On Saturday evening around 6.35 pm a 10 year old boy was struck by a motorcycle while crossing Ferry Road at a pedestrian crossing....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Binge Culture
Performance alchemists Binge Culture are a New Zealand based group of artists who are working to renew theatre for the information age by giving...
Contact the Elderly do the Fringe
Contact the Elderly have been taking some older people to Fringe shows thanks to a donation of Edinburgh Festival Fringe vouchers.
The charity received £1800...
Dynamic New Zealand writers feature at Edinburgh International Book Festival
New Zealand writers making waves at home and abroad are presenting their work and participating in this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Participation in the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Trick of the Light Theatre: The Road That Wasn’t...
In New Zealand there are some 56,000 kilometres of paper roads – streets and towns that exist only on surveyors’ maps. Or do they?...
Edinburgh Art Festival – Shannon Te Ao
New Zealand artist Shannon Te Ao has been chosen to produce an ambitious new artwork for the Edinburgh Art Festival.
The Edinburgh Art Festival is the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Power Ballad
After her inaugural visit and a highly successful presentation of If There’s Not Dancing at the Revolution, I’m Not Coming at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Juan Vesuvius: I Am Your Deejay
Juan Vesuvius (aka New Zealand’s Barnie Duncan), the suavely outlandish Calypso DJ and Caribbean maraca maestro is back in Edinburgh for the third time, with a brand new...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – DESCENT
DESCENT, by Scottish playwright Linda Duncan McLaughlin, is set to make its Fringe debut at Gilded Balloon's spanking new venue, the Rose Theatre.
50-somethings Rob...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Confabulation!
Confabulation! at EdFringe– new comedy theatre show exploring memory by writer and performer Eamonn Fleming.
Experienced actor-turned writer, storyteller and performer Eamonn Fleming is hitting...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Shappi Khorsandi: Mistress and Misfit
SHAPPI
KHORSANDI
‘MISTRESS AND MISFIT’
Assembly George Square
Studios (Studio 3), 3rd – 27th August (not 14th)
at 6.40pm
Shappi Khorsandi presents England's unsung heroine, Emma, Lady Hamilton. For too many...
Edinburgh International Book Festival: On the Money – Celebrating Nan Shepherd
We are (not terribly comfortably, it must be said) seated in the Bosco Theatre, a wooden tent in the middle of George Street. Outside...
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...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Box Clever
nabokov and The Marlowe present Box Clever WORLD PREMIERE
Written & performed by Monsay Whitney | Original live music and clowning by Avi Simmons
4 - 27 August...
Edinburgh Cocktail Weekend to take place in October
The Capital’s cocktail enthusiasts will be delighted to hear that more bars and pop-up spaces have been revealed for the inaugural Edinburgh Cocktail Weekend,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 : Star Trek Vs Star Wars
Prepare yourself for the ultimate showdown - Star Trek vs Star Wars! Geek culture collides in this fight to see which is better, a...
Leith Street Works begin in September
We are getting quite close to 2 September when Leith Street will be closed to traffic for ten months, meaning that a diversion route...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Rik Carranza: I’m a Fan
How far would you go to fit in? What happens when you deny something that defines you? In this deeply personal show, Comedian Rik...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Cat Man Curse
The Cat Man Curse, a fast paced, surreal comedy, makes its Edinburgh Festival Fringe premier. TV actor Charles Heron has it all thanks to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – DIGS
Theatre with Legs present DIGS
Wanna crash at Theatre with Legs’ flat? Swinging sledgehammers and cutting loose to 70s pop, Theatre with Legs are pushing through...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Christine Bovill Paris*****
If you want to know how the opening night of Christine Bovill's 10 night residence at the New Town Theatre went, then let's start...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Like A Prayer
In St. Joseph Monastery in Switzerland there is a Franciscan Cloister where six sisters lead a life of prayer and faith. But what does...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Sandra Hale: Self-Helpless!
Sandra Hale is a self-help guru like no other. In fact, she's no guru at all. In her first solo comedy show, SELF-HELPLESS! Sandra...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – REVIEW – Alexander Fox Ringo****
Alexander Fox as Ringo | Pleasance Garden-1700
Alexander Fox is a first time performer at the Edinburgh Fringe but he had a packed audience in an...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Older Brothers’ Almanac
Siblings of all shapes and sizes, rejoice: The Older Brothers’ Almanac has made it to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe! This darkly comic and occasionally...
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