Lynn Ruth Miller, the septuagenarian, stripping granny from San Francisco, says that a member of the audience found her better digs when she heard that she was staying in a remote Edinburgh flat without heating.

The 62nd Edinburgh Festival Fringe, ending today, appears to have survived the wettest August on record and a ticketing fiasco which saw it suspending counter and telephone ticket sales even as preview shows were about to start.

I suppose the musical equivalent of "don't judge a book by its cover" could be "don't choose a band just for their name" - but thankfully, I don't subscribe to that sort of thinking. So when I came across the listing for Shooglenifty in the Fringe programme, I just thought, what a great name for a band, and signed up on the spot. And having deliberately done no more research than read the information in the programme, off I went to the Speigel Tent armed with no knowledge or preconceptions. And what a result.

One of the great things about the Fringe is the variety of venues you can find yourself in to watch a show. On a great night, with the right performance, even the most unlikely space ceases to matter once you get caught up in the moment. On a very wet August evening, in a pretty non-descript - but very warm - room up Surgeons Hall, Dana Gillespie pretty much managed to make me forget where I was, and transported the audience to a prohibition-era New Orleans bordello. If that seems a little unlikely, let me explain ...

"Everything you have is never enough" claimed Andrew Lawrence, in yet another venue where you could cook meat. But, his interesting point, and indeed his whole show, seemed to be lost in a flurry of bad accents, lack of laughs and his incessant need to shout down the microphone.

The Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards, the UK's premier comedy awards, are now in their 28th year. The two awards are given for the most outstanding up-and-coming, funny, original comedy show

Fancy a murder mystery weekend but not got the time? Then this production of Cluedo will give you the experience in 90 mins.

You need to know and probably love musicals to get the most out of this show. Anyone who dismisses musicals as a trivial art form would have their prejudices confirmed, but unless they had sat through a variety of shows then a lot of subtleties and gags would be lost.

Full steam ahead is the message for The Danish New Works Development Center after seeing one of only two performances on the Fringe.

In the current climate of economic recession and general "cutting back" on outings this summer, numbers attending performances in this year's Fringe have dropped considerably. With this in mind, it is perhaps necessary to take more consideration than usual in choosing what to recommend to the few who journey out to the festival. One piece which is really essential to see is Ryan JW Smiths New World Order.

Edinburgh's ever-popular Todd Gordon presented his fans with another new ‘first' by marrying his voice to a big band sound. His Sinatra-Basie Sessions Revisited opened up a new dimension, allowing him to build on his well-known Sinatra sessions by singing for the first time with a big band.

I had a laugh even on the way in to see Sir Barrington Ganch the other day.

As its title suggests, this new play by Bill Dunlop has more than just a soupcon of the French about it. Set squarely amid the chaos of Paris during the Revolution, it filters events through the thoughts and experiences of three lowly seamstresses: Bleu, Blanc and Rouge. In so doing, it gives us a glimpse into what it might be like to live in a place and time where people gave up their lives for a dream, some might say a fantasy, of freedom.

Te POOKa, Edinburgh based street theatre performers, have transformed their premises in Lady Lawson Street into a fabulous, opulent Victorian salon where they provide entertainment every night from nine till one - Wednesday to Sunday.,

St Andrew's and St George's church are holding daily recitals till 24 August, and Anne-Isabel Meyer has just completed her performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's series of six suites for Violoncello, performed over three days.

Duddingston Kirk, nestling at the foot of Arthur's Seat, is one of the oldest churches in Scotland and is a perfect, intimate environment for a chamber recital.

Slick lives up to its name in the perhaps somewhat restricted space of Traverse 2; essentially a pantomime for adults, the performance seen bowled along in fine style, taking no prisoners and occasionally shocking audience members.

"Cúirt An Mhéan Oíche" in the original, "The Midnight Court" to those not blessed with an understanding of the Irish tongue, is a bold jeu d'esprit in which the language of saints and scholars is booted up the backside with Father Jack alacrity.

Powerful performances impress in this fly-on-the-school-wall musical about the effect of a teenager going missing on her fellow students. The cast of around forty were drawn from auditions involving a thousand young people from all corners of the UK, and have produced a quality show after ten days of intensive rehearsal.

Viva Youth Theatre! is not just the name of this company from Cambridgeshire but the sentiments that this excellent production engenders. A show without an obvious lead has a cast of twelve with quality throughout.