Edinburgh Fringe
The Skinny guide to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We bring you everything you need to get the most out of the Fringe, including previews, interviews, reviews and features.
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ComedyFringe Dog: How to find a 5-star show
With over 1000 comedy shows listed in the official Edinburgh Fringe programme, choosing between them can be tricky. Luckily wise comedy guide Fringe Dog is here to help plan an itinerary Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
ComedyBob Slayer on the BlundaBus: Comedy Spotlight
The latest Fringe venue is a double-decker bus. We asked the BlundaBus' registered keeper Bob Slayer to explain himself Read more »| 28 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
The Gilded Balloon at 30: An interview with Karen Koren
Going strong for 30 years, The Gilded Balloon's founder and artistic director Karen Koren tells us what it takes to make a home for pioneering comedy Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeEdinburgh Festivals 2015: Top 5 picks
Our section editors narrow their Edinburgh Festivals picks down to a tick-'em-off-as-you-go top 5... Read more »| 27 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Candy Gigi: Comedy Spotlight
Candy Gigi returns to the Fringe after winning the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality last year. She's also been acting the honeytrap on Tinder recently – so we sent her on a date with our own resident siren, Fred Fletch. Read more »| 16 Jul 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeEdinburgh Fringe: Tickets, times and when to go
When is the Edinburgh Fringe?The 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe officially begins on Friday 7 August, and runs until Monday 31 August. However, a wide range ... Read more »| 07 Jul 2015
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ComedyGlenn Wool on credit cards, jacuzzis and God
Ahead of multiple dates across the Northwest and the Edinburgh Fringe, Canadian comedian Glenn Wool talks divine jacuzzi intervention Read more »| 06 Jul 2015 -
Theatre
Walking the Tightrope: politics at Edinburgh Fringe
Playwrights Neil LaBute and Omar El-Khairy talk about Walking the Tightrope, censorship and the arts, and The Arches closure ahead of their short plays coming to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Read more »| 02 Jul 2015 -
Comedy
Fringe previews in Liverpool and Manchester: our picks
Preview season heats up in July – a cheap opportunity to take in the best of the Fringe before it's even begun. Here are our picks Read more »| 01 Jul 2015 -
Theatre
Traversing the Fringe
With Traverse Theatre's Fringe programme launching this week, we ask artistic director Orla O'Loughlin for an overview of what's in store Read more »| 03 Jun 2015 -
Comedy
Hunting the Big Four: Our Comedy and Theatre Picks
With the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe fast approaching, last week saw the so-called ‘big four’ Edinburgh Fringe venues – the Pleasance, the Gilded... Read more »| 25 May 2015 -
Theatre
Jamaica Farewell @ Pleasance Courtyard
If Debra Ehrhardt’s Jamaica Farewell were an entry at a story-telling competition, she’d win hands down. Her attempt to leave the eponymous ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Bond! @ Zoo
Gavin Robertson’s Bond! is dad humour at its finest. “No hydrogen peroxide? I guess I’ll dye another day!” Apart from fantastically ... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
True Brits @ Assembly Hall
True Brits is Vinay Patel’s engaging one-man show about a first love and post 7/7 racial alienation in London. Sid Sagar is exquisitely affable as Rahu... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014 -
Theatre
Burton @ Assembly Hall
Rhodri Miles is mesmerising as the actor Richard Burton, who celebrates his 46th birthday by unapologetically looking back on a life of drama, drink and dall... Read more »| 09 Sep 2014