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 FringeBrand New Ancients @ The Traverse
Everyday Epics Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Road to Qatar @ C too
The Road to Qatar, a musical about a couple of New York Jews who write musical comedy being whisked away to the Middle East to write a show for some overbear... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dance Derby @ Paterson's Land
This dance/jazz/theatre show is both an enjoyable and uncomfortable experience, as it explores how far we are willing to go. Based on the American dance ma... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeCape Wrath @ Northern Stage at St Stephen's
This charming, totally involving show, performed to an audience of sixteen, in a cosy mini-bus, takes you on an imaginary journey to Cape Wrath, the top lef... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Garden @ Paterson's Land
The intimate space of Paterson's Land is perfect for this exquisite mini-opera, first performed at Aberdeen's Sound Festival, by the husband and wife team, ... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh FringeMetamorphosis @ The Merchant’s Hall
Gregor is a lithium addict. Her life is a little routine to her, to put it mildly, in fact is seems unbearably so as she moves increasingly mechanically, lik... Read more »| 02 Sep 2013
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Edinburgh FestivalsEdinburgh International Book Festival: Grant Morrison
Ah, Grant Morrison. Ever since we saw you coming up on ecstasy and talking about sigil magic at DisinfoCon in 1999, we've loved you. No, scratch that. Ever s... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
The Phantom of the Fringe @ The Merchants' Hall
"You are blind" the Phantom booms. And I am a little, after having a torchlight shone into my eyes during a little-too-drawn-out introduction. As slow begin... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Ciara @ Traverse
In Ciara, his love song to Glasgow, playwright David Harrower has created a complex character worthy of the city and a play whose ending packs a punch. ... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard's Castle: Oper Frankfurt @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
This is a daring, hugely inventive and emotionally affecting double-bill, conducted by Constantinos Carydis and directed by Barrie Kosky: two short operas 2... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Missing @ Underbelly Cowgate
Engineer's Missing is an incredibly important piece of theatre at this year's Fringe. It takes verbatim interviews with families and officers alike to look i... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Fringe
Hag @ Underbelly, Cowgate
The Hag is Baba Yaga, the witch from Eastern European folk-tales who eats children. This production, involving actors and some puppetry, will appeal to blood... Read more »| 01 Sep 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Joanne Harris
Another sell out event in the Baillie Gifford Theatre, this time welcoming the enormously popular Joanne Harris in conversation with Steven Gale. Harris is p... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: DBC Pierre
“Day by day, I think we’re fucking doomed.” DBC Pierre’s verdict on the future of humanity is typical of the cynical humour that char... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013 -
Edinburgh Festivals
Edinburgh International Book Festival: Will Gompertz
As the BBC’s Arts Editor, Will Gompertz is undoubtedly an expert on the subject. But, the decision in 2009 to appoint him as the new artsy one for... Read more »| 29 Aug 2013