Edinburgh Fringe

The biggest arts festival in the world.

If it saves time, you are only likely to enjoy this show if you are under 23, preferably male and think that…
I have just escaped from a claustrophobic cellar, where a madman held an audience for 90 minutes. We shared…
I was sitting in a late night bar, as one does on the Fringe, supping a few cold ones down with a fellow…
The stage is set: coffee table piled high with antiquarian leather-bound volumes and battered paperbacks;…
Felix Mendelssohn was born two hundred years ago and this we celebrated in the first half of the concert.
I seem to remember that when I was a youth there was a sign in the local swimming pool that went along the…
This is a real treat of song and dance from two dozen boys and girls aged between 8 and 12 from villages in…
Choral Classics was the first of 19 late night classical music concerts to be held in August in a really…
It feels good in here tonight, within this grand, wood-panelled chamber. The clock has just struck midnight…
A truly historic reunion took place today at Henderson's Restaurant, of many of those involved in setting up…
Political satire is hardly a new concept, but this piece by Tom Basden (if.comedy Best Newcomer 2007) manages…
This is a sweet little tale, told in a series of monologues in an endearing, almost, over-the-garden-fence…
The American short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was first published in 1892 in…
The three young soloists made this a delightful evening of French sacred music at St Andrew's and St George's…
There are some things that should never have found their way onto this good green earth.
Hoipolloi's production is based on the American author and illustrator Edward Gorey's book for children The…
The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's rhyming-couplet tale of domestic disruption, is given a lively, if lengthy…
It's not every day that you see almost completely naked performers pull pieces of chocolate out from between…
Bette Bourne, the renowned drag artist, is now in his seventies. In three separate parts, A Life in Three…
Throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe the Traverse Theatre Company is staging a series of new short plays…