Edinburgh Fringe

The biggest arts festival in the world.

This round-up of some of the musical acts playing at the Fringe opened with an absolute bang courtesy of…
The Edinburgh Bach Choir of about 50 voices moved to their places betwixt the pulpit and font from where they…
It was Martin Swan's name that attracted me to this show, for Martin runs the UK's largest online violin shop.
A brilliant show: funny, touching, and completely satisfying to someone who had no familiarity with the books…
Picture this. Christmas 1959, the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, one of the remotest places on the…
This was the first of three consecutive concerts of Bach's Gamben Sonatas and Brahms' cello sonatas in the…
Adrian Sims returned for the third year of four in his series of Chopin piano recitals with poise and…
Is Mark Thomas the bravest performer in comedy?
There was a nice mix of people sitting inside the Udderbelly this afternoon. Grandparents shared programs…
ā€˜The 3rd Sector’ promises well; the actuality, after all, is, in these challenging times, deserving of some…
The action opens with the sound of frantically galloping hoofs. Four backpackers wander on rather aimlessly.…
Support band The Ray Summers are actually going down well, but lead vocalist Andy Ure is under no illusions…
How do people with an acute ā€˜green’ conscience square the circle of whether or not to add to the world’s…
The spirit of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival continues to thrive in the National Theatre of Scotland’s…
Introducing the double-bill Dalgety and Fragile, both by David Greig, director Emma Callander gave us a bit…
Found, quite literally underground, beneath the excitable streets of Edinburgh, the Trainspotting cast are…
As the theme of ā€œ(There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Doverā€ fades and Big Ben tolls, a third…
Albert Lamorisse’s Oscar-winning 1956 film set in MĆ©nilmontant in the 20th arrondissement of Paris is a…
Issy van Randwyck is a star of the musical stage: a triple Olivier Award nominee for various West End…
I was once on a bus in Chile which had in place of the usual Don't Disturb the Driver sign one which read "…