Edinburgh Fringe

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".

The stats bear that out: the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe saw 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 Fringe venues. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances. There were also 607 free shows at the 2011 Fringe.

The art deco surrounds of the HMV Picture House, at the bottom of Lothian Road, provided the perfect backdrop for this Fringe production of The Seven Deadly Sins.

New York City based the TEAM are this year's recipients of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, for their musical drama Mission Drift. The award supports up-and-coming talent at the Edinburgh Fringe by giving the winner the opportunity to develop their ideas or devise a new work for the official Festival.

I confess to having not so much a blind spot as a completely glazed over spot when it comes to sport and anything sport related.

The Scottish Arts Club lounge was full to overflowing last night for the presentation ceremony and party for the inaugural Fringe Award for Scottish Drama.

This New York newcomer's show Misspelled is a definite single-topic solo show. His comedy revolves around his dyslexia and how it influenced his 1970s Queens upbringing.

The small Back Room at St Brides was the venue for the three-strong Edinburgh women’s a-cappella group, Stairheid Gossip. It is not clear how l

Adam Riches is the winner of the prestigious Foster's Best Comedy Show 2011, it was announced at 2.30pm today in the packed Dovecot studios in Edinburgh.

Once in a while, you see a comedian who is so perfectly suited to performance, channelling such pure talent, that you feel they have been doing this since they were born; Adam Riches is just such a

After having seen the glamorous trio that is Fascinating Aïda, I have to wonder how it has taken me so long to find this fabulous act. They have been performing since 1983, though with sl

The joint winners of the 2011 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award were announced yesterday. The winners of the award that honours productions fighting for human rights were Sold (view photos), directed by Catherine Alexander at the Pleasance Courtyard, and The Wheel, directed by Vicky Featherstone at the Traverse.

Josie Long has been bringing quality stand-up to the Fringe for the last three or four years, winning the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer for her 2006 show, 'Kindness and Exuberance'. Her performances are generally marked by these gentler attributes, making her stand out from the usual vitriolic comedians that marks a lot of the newcomers to the Fringe comedy circuit.

From Ferrero Roche to sexual excrement, Richard Herring tries to answer the ultimate dilemma (according to him) of 1981: what is love? This is a much softer show than those who have seen Herring before will perhaps be used to, but it is no less polished.

Familiar to anyone who has ever seen the Police Academy movies, Michael Winslow's run at this year's Fringe has proven to be a huge success.

I, Malvolio opened in a secondary school in Brighton in May 2010 and forms the fourth part of Tim Crouch's one man forays into making Shakespeare accessible to young people. It's hard to tell that this is watered-down Shakespeare then, given that the whole thing is riotously funny.

Ah, Kafka. Poster boy for the alienated, tortured artist. Dying from apparent starvation shortly before his 41st birthday (he had long suffered from Tuberculosis and, it has been suggested, a schizoid personality disorder), his only success coming too late, with most of his works, much unfinished, published to mass acclaim after his death.

Passion. Love. Vengeance. It could only ever be a Greek tragedy. It could only ever be Euripides’s Medea.

As Beatriz and her little sister Rosa put final preparations in place for the youngest woman's wedding, intruders arriving with the groom change their world forever.

The Traverse has just announced that Orla O’Loughlin of Pentabus Theatre will be its new Artistic Director. Orla will join the Traverse in January 2012. 

This was the second of Stefan Warzycki’s piano recitals for this Fringe.