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 FringeFringe Comedy Reviews: LetLuce and Twisted Loaf
LetLuce's Edinburgh Fringe show is simply joyful, as Twisted Loaf host the brutally funny Stale Mate. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeFringe Theatre Reviews: Female Voices
Maria Connolly, Lucy Grace, Violet Fox and Rebecca Perry turn in solo performances at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeFringe Theatre Reviews: Circus & Physical Theatre
We review Circa's Close Up, Bromance, Traces and the Gandini Juggling School at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
The Last Hotel @ The Royal Lyceum Theatre
A stunning new opera with the taboo-breaking subject of assisted suicide, The Last Hotel will surely become a classic of our times. It has bleak vision but i... Read more »| 12 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Comedy Reviews: Theatrical & Literary Comedy
A report from the Edinburgh Fringe, with Thom Tuck, Marriage, Pajama Men, Moby Alpha and Tom Neenan. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeFringe Comedy Reviews: Takedowns and Bad Attitudes
Round-up from the Edinburgh Fringe, with Diane Spencer, Sarah Callaghan, Brett Goldstein and Dane Baptiste. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015
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Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Comedy Reviews: Out on the Edge
Most comedians pick at their scabs, but Australian comic John Robertson [★★★★☆] really likes to get under the skin. His new show Let’s Redecorate focus... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Comedy Reviews: A Walk on the Weird Side
Esoteric Fringe shows? Try Butt Kapinski, Max and Ivan, Beasts, Twonkey's Stinking Bishop and Tatterdemalion. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh FringeFringe Comedy Reviews: International Acts
As performers come from far and wide to be seen in Edinburgh, we saw a selection of some of the more notable comedians from overseas currently attempting to make the local population laugh Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Theatre Reviews: Jethro Compton
Jethro Compton presents The Frontier Trilogy and stand-alone production Sirenia at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Walking the Tightrope @ Underbelly Potterrow
It is no revelation to talk of the tension between art and politics, but it is rare and exciting to see it approached as dynamically as this. Inspired by hi... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress @ Festival Theatre
Subtle, intelligent, playful and moving, Life in Progress exemplifies Sylvie Guillem’s attitude through the 39 years of her dance career: balancin... Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Theatre Reviews: The Best of Trav One
Fringe theatre report, with The Christians, An Oak Tree, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing and Swallow. Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Love Letter to Theatre: Stewart Laing interviewed
Stewart Laing discusses Paul Bright's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, reinvention and theatre about theatre at the EIF Read more »| 11 Aug 2015 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Fringe Theatre Reviews: The Best of Dance Base
We review Tamsyn Russell, E Motion, Tjimur Dance Theatre, Al Seed and Fishamble at the Edinburgh Fringe. Read more »| 10 Aug 2015