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It’s Pink Wednesday at Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon stars Paul Black, Michelle Brasier and The Kinsey Sicks joined Artistic Directors Katy and Karen Koren to paint the town pink for 'Pink Wednesday'.
On Wednesday there will be discounted £5 tickets for shows across Gilded Balloon...
Fringe review 2023: Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith ★★★★
Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith tells the story of the playwright’s younger daughter.
Stuck at home in Stratford while her father enjoys life in London, expected to marry well and settle down to the business...
Gilded Balloon – temporary jobs available
The Gilded Balloon is looking for more than 100 people who might like to work with them this summer at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The company will produce more than 180 shows at three...
Gilded Balloon have had a good Fringe
As Gilded Balloon’s 32nd Fringe comes to an end, it’s time to celebrate another successful festival. It’s been the biggest year yet, with two new venues joining the family, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Henry Box Brown
Henry Box Brown, the acclaimed musical inspired by the true story of an escaped 1850s slave, is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Performed by a superb cast of New York Gospel singers and Broadway...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – Mandy Muden: Is Not The Invisible Woman
The magnificent, multi-award winning Mandy Muden is bringing a brand new show packed with mind blowing magic and camp comedy to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Her spectacular performances on Britain’s Got Talent 2018 and non...
At the King’s – Double Feature
Double Feature by Phil Differ. A Gilded Balloon production | King’s Theatre Edinburgh |Friday 18 & Saturday 19 May
Delightfully pun playing and based on a long time ago cinematic format, the A & B movie programme, this...
Gilded Balloon – shows added for Fringe 2018 – tickets on sale now
Another 70 shows have gone on sale today for the shows forming the Gilded Balloon's Fringe 2018.
Katy and Karen Koren, Directors of Gilded Balloon, said: “We cannot wait to host the Honeys in our...
Fred Macaulay at Gilded Balloon
Gilded Balloon has a new venue and it is really making the most of it with some classy comedy.
In the next two shows, stand up veteran, Fred Macaulay, is taking on two very different...
Cabaret – Dive Queer Party presents – Goddess Awards
Calling all responsible mothers and fathers across the Central Belt, it is time again to lock up your sons and daughters (a wide selection of ‘enhancement restraints' are available at luvcuffs.com) and send them...
Gilded Balloon launches its FIRST Winter Programme!
Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End
Headlining Gilded Balloon’s inaugural winter programme will be Morag Fullarton’s critically-acclaimed,...
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 pianist and the puppet he buys to keep him company...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Tom Stade – I Swear at Gilded Balloon
Who is Tom Stade - are we any closer to the real Tom now that we have met him? Will the real Tom Stade stand up?
Tom Stade is appearing at the Fringe this August and...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Pub Quiz for Kids
It is Temperance heaven with Quiz inquisitor Patrick Monhan as he teases toddlers and so-called grown-ups clever clogs alike with his infectious interrogations.
The fantastically fun family quiz is back after last year’s triumphant silliness...
Craig Ferguson to Head Gilded Balloon’s Extension Into the New Town
It’s the time of the year when thoughts turn to who will be starring in the Edinburgh Fringe in August. For the first time in 24 years, Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson will headline the...
Theatre preview: Careful – The Studio, 22 Potterrow
Careful
Horse McDonald’s acclaimed biographical play.
There are times in life when you need to be careful...
The Scottish singer-songwriter, Horse McDonald, is taking her award-winning one-woman play, Careful, on the road for a Scottish spring tour.
First...
With a battery of ridiculous props comedian George Egg heads to Edinburgh
With a huge suitcase full of props, George Egg, one of the hottest alternative acts on the circuit, will serve up his surreal, absurd and very silly style of comedy when he headlines Gilded...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: When You Improv On A Star (The Cambridge Impronauts)...
Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been hypnotised. Mochrie, of whom I am a long-time fan, makes...
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum
Join the greats of comedy from across the globe as they strive to blur the lines between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set, prompted by the historical artefacts housed in the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Barry Cryer & Colin Sell: Twittering On ****
Barry Cryer has written for the likes of Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Morecambe & Wise, Stanley Baxter and Bruce Forsyth. So when a man of his considerable experience comes to town you simply have...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013 REVIEW – Mark Dolan – You’re Awesome! ***.5
Mark Dolan - You're Awesome!, Gilded Balloon 7:45pm, until 25 Aug, £9 (£7.50 concessions)
Largely known for presenting 'Balls of Steel' and documentaries, Mark Dolan has been taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Lloyd Langford, Galoot ****
We’ve overheard more than one* Cowgate conversation this festival about people’s lists of 30 things to do before they turn 30 (basically a bucket list condensed into a smaller amount of time). Coincidentally, stand-up...
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