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Video: Comedy, music and chat from Edinburgh Tonight

Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight will air on Edinburgh Festivals throughout Augus...

The Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe
Festival under fire for China’s key cash role

HUMAN rights organisations have hit out at the Edinburgh International Festival’s decision to accept help from the Chinese government to bankroll this year’s event.


Stage first a hit with McCall Smith

BEST-selling Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith has told how he “really enjoyed” seeing his Scotland Street characters brought to the stage for the first time at the Fringe.

Josie Long
Comedians reveal need for some quick thinking as scripts rewritten on London

FRINGE performers are having to constantly rewrite shows to reflect tensions caused by the riots in England.


Nick Barley said writers had seemed to predict events
Authors put disaffected youth high on agenda

THIS week's riots in England are high on the agenda at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as it rides the headlines with writers and commentators on disaffected youth, economic division and ...


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Dance review: 1-2-3, 2-2-3, 3-2-3: Triplets!

There are a few solid moments in this dance/theatre triple bill, but not enough to sustain an entire show.

Children's show review: The Panther's Scream and Other Texas Tales

It's a little thing, but the fact these Texas Tales are told in the authentic accent of the state makes a lot of difference.

Theatre reviews: An Instinct for Kindness | Good Death: Created in Collaboration with Tectonic Theater Project

IN NOVEMBER, writer and actor Chris Larner accompanied his terminally ill ex-wife to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. By then, multiple sclerosis had robbed Allyson of most of her physical abili...

Theatre review: Sex, Lies and Eurovision

Lanarkshire theatre group Practical Magic's 11th show at the Fringe focuses on a group of middle-aged friends, who reform their childhood band in an attempt to get into Eurovision.

Theatre review: Black Shorts - Free

This free show, taking place in a small back room, is so popular that sitting in the audience is like being trapped in an underground train at rush hour. Putting my pint of lemonade in my handbag, ...

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Francisco Hurtado Hurtado in Urban
Circolombia: Art for a nation

The amazing life stories ofsomeof the young performers in Circolombia are matched by their feats of strength and agility in their Fringe show. Tim Cornwell hears how...


A minute of your time: Steve Pretty, musician

What is Steve Pretty's Perfect Mixtape?

Mission Drift
The first round of Scotsman Fringe First winners

Arts editor Andrew Eaton-Lewis introduces this year’s first round of Scotsman Fringe First winners


The Boy With Tape on his Face
Our Best of the Fest show is back

The Scotsman’s Fringe show returns on Monday, and today we’re very pleased to announce the line-up


Interview: Desiree Burch

'A minute of your time' with Desiree Burch

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