Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh FringeFast @ theSpace, Niddry St
An intense, dark drama, made all the more chilling due to the authenticity of its roots Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh FringeClara Cupcakes: The Worst @ Underbelly Bristo Square
The Worst is completely silly in all the best ways Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Class @ Traverse Theatre
Parent-teacher meeting goes awry in this disappointing three-hander Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh FringeCoriolanus Vanishes @ Traverse Theatre
Coriolanus Vanishes examines a single human in microscopic detail, whose life is one tiny example for a case in which Leddy has the whole world on trial Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh FringeRoman Fraden @ Gilded Balloon
A coming out show that'll make you wish you'd stayed in Read more »| 21 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
No One is Coming to Save You @ Pleasance Courtyard
Full of both mesmerising and tedious moments, the play has many strengths, but the point being made is sometimes lost along the way Read more »| 20 Aug 2018
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BooksOttessa Moshfegh's Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival and took some time out to chat to us about her new novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Great British Mysteries @ Pleasance Courtyard
Witchcraft and stagecraft meet in Great British Mysteries' sophomore hour Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Clara Bijl @ Greenside, Infirmary Street
An open-ended introduction to Clara Bijl Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
A&E @ theSpace @ Venue45
Though not quite so undeliberate as to be deemed an accident, A&E could possibly do with an emergency rewrite Read more »| 20 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Merry Wives of Seoul @ C Venues
A bumbling orange-haired Falstaff eats humble pie in this colourful Korean take on the lesser-known Shakespeare play, The Merry Wives of Windsor Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Clay Nikiforuk @ Just The Tonic, The Grassmarket Centre
Fun to be Around is a well crafted, intelligent take on mental illness awareness Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
Music
End of the Road 2018: Preview
Knee-deep in festival season (and thankfully not mud), we gear up for Dorset’s ever-expanding indie fest, End of the Road, and dish out our top alt-picks to track down off the beaten path Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
About Lady Fox with Nine Tails @ Assembly George Square Studios
As part of the Korean season, About Lady Fox With Nine Tails blends together two unlikely cultural mammoths: Macbeth and the Korean Kumiho Read more »| 17 Aug 2018 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Solarplexus: An Alternative Energy Play @ Zoo Charteris
Ambitious, but unclear sci-fi comedy Read more »| 17 Aug 2018