Edinburgh Fringe

The biggest arts festival in the world.

A request from the producer and an audience of musical experts – what could possibly go wrong?
On a new bridge before dawn, when mist is still swirling across the river, a young man (Duncan Riches) stands…
‘And so to the Jury’s Inn hostelry, there to see an lively group of actors perform some drolls…’
Glasgow Girls is an utter knockout from concept to execution.
Lee Hall is best known for Billy Elliot, but in 1997 his play Spoonface Steinberg was broadcast by the BBC to…
As the audience enters the theatre, we hear the resonating voice of Richard Burton in a recorded extract from…
Friends, we are gathered today to bid farewell to our Friend, Mr Matthew Chambers.
The House of Fun was a full house but the delay of 30 minutes in starting was sheer 'madness'.
The Fringe is a chaotic and frenetic beast. I’ve worked every day since the 25th of July – some days less…
Welcome to RAF Waddington, home of the “Chairforce”, where pilots operate drone aircraft to stalk the skies…
It was a delight to hear two of last year's graduates of Edinburgh Napier University music department give…
‘Bubble Revolution’ claims to be ‘a fairytale about growing up during and after the fall of communism in…
Mark Thomas’ ‘The Red Shed’ is subtitled ‘a topical tale of the miners’ strike’. It does, however, feature a…
Kat Woods, acclaimed Irish writer of Belfast Boy and Wasted, returns to this year’s Fringe with her new play…
Katy is going to tell us a story. Stories are important to Katy, as are rules.
Mikey and Addie first appeared in 2012 and was part of that year’s imaginate Festival (Read my review
There’s nothing unusual these days about groups re-forming and touring with old material to bathe their fans…
In 1836 aged just twenty, Charlotte Brontë sent a sample of her poetry to the Poet Laureate, Robert Southey,…
Now tonight is one for the cultural socionomical history books, tonight of all nights, tonight and only…
There is something deeply ancestral about the effect of unaccompanied Scottish psalms on even the most…