The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it - "the largest show on Earth".
It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances.
Free Fringe Shows
Free street shows on the Royal Mile (aka the High Street) and at the galleries on The Mound (aka Mound Precinct) take place throughout the Fringe with the daily schedule of performers listed from 10am each day on the Fringe website here.
There are hundreds of free shows and pay-what-you-want shows at many venues at the Fringe as well (see PBH free venues and Laughing Horse venues, for example).
Fringe 2024 Programme
The full Fringe 2024 programme is out - you can view the printed Fringe brochure online and pick it up at the Fringe office and around town.
As in previous years, shows have been released in batches, with most of the shows revealed by the time that the printed Fringe programme hit the streets on 12th June.
- Check the Fringe tickets website for booking info - its advanced search is useful for filtering shows
- Printed Fringe brochure online - the Issuu version allows you to flick through the brochure pages
- Check back here for news and reviews from the Fringe! You can find our reviews archive below.
Fringe App and Covid
Fringe 2023 saw the return of a Fringe app (released on Tuesday 11 July) after the Fringe Society controversially dropped it for Fringe 2022. Fringe boss Shona McCarthy said this was due to lack of time, money, and general uncertainty caused by the pandemic, to develop the app.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions, the Fringe in 2021 followed a slimmed-down, hybrid programme of both live performances at fewer, socially distant in-person venues and online, but returned to in-person shows in 2022 and returned in strength in 2023.
The Fringe Society did not print a Fringe brochure in 2021. The summer Edinburgh festivals were cancelled in 2020 due to Covid-19, although an online programme did take place.
Edinburgh Fringe Reviews Archive:
- 2023 Fringe Reviews
- 2022 Fringe Reviews
- 2021 Fringe Reviews
- 2019 Fringe Reviews
- 2018 Fringe Reviews
- 2017 Fringe Reviews
- 2016 Fringe Reviews
- 2015 Fringe Reviews
- 2014 Fringe Reviews
- 2013 Fringe Reviews
- 2012 Fringe Reviews
- 2011 Fringe Reviews
- 2010 Fringe Reviews
- 2009 Fringe Reviews
- 2008 Fringe Reviews
- 2007 Fringe Reviews
- 2000 to 2006 *
* Reviews archive back to 2000 are temporarily offline after a site upgrade