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 FringeA Letter to Lyndon B. Johnson or God: Whoever Reads This First @ theSpace
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland's Fringe First-winning new play is a tightly-woven DIY masterpiece about boyhood, queerness, masculinity and empire Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIF: Assembly Hall @ Festival Theatre
Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's absurdist dance piece is a wonderful exercise in surrender Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeJosephine Lacey @ Pleasance Courtyard
Josephine Lacey hits the Edinburgh Fringe with Autism Mama, an hour of enlightening stand-up which cuts close to the line Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeMarjolein Robertson @ Monkey Barrel at the Hive
Marjolein Robertson's new show is a vital, surreal one-two punch of esoteric storytelling and reflections on reproductive health Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIF: After the Silence @ The Studio
This multi-media narrative about the assassination of João Pedro Teixeira treads a fine line Read more »| 26 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeTom Lawrinson @ Underbelly Cowgate
Buried Alive and Loving It is an unexpectedly sedate sophomore hour from socials star Tom Lawrinson Read more »| 26 Aug 2024
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Edinburgh FringeThe Besties: Week Three Winners
Teatro La Plaza, John-Luke Roberts, Gig Buddies and new Scottish music documentary Since Yesterday are among the winners for our third batch of The Besties Read more »| 24 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeGlasgow’s Alana Jackson wins So You Think You're Funny? competition
This year’s So You Think You're Funny? Award – one of the UK’s biggest awards for new comics – goes to Glaswegian standup Alana Jackson Read more »| 23 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeDerek Mitchell: Goblin @ Pleasance
Derek Mitchell's Goblin is an intense rollercoaster ride fusing comedy and melodrama Read more »| 23 Aug 2024 -
MusicTirzah @ The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, 19 Aug
Stripped back and experimental, Tirzah's vulnerability carries tonight's Edinburgh International Festival audience through an abstract show Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
FilmEdinburgh Film Festival: The 2024 award winners
The new-look Edinburgh International Film Festival came to a close with the world premiere of an excellent new Scottish documentary and an awards ceremony for its mint-fresh competitions Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringePretty Delusional @ theSpaceTriplex
Gianna Milici hilariously exposes the agonies, ecstasies, and humiliations of what it means to desire and want to be desired as a young woman in Pretty Delusional Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
Edinburgh FringeBirdwatching @ theSpace at Venue 45
Birdwatching's teenage trip to the woods is a tense and dark look at the misogynistic structures which haunt our society Read more »| 22 Aug 2024 -
FilmEIFF 2024: To Kill a Wolf
Little Red Riding Hood gets a modern retelling in Kelsey Taylor's restrained psychological drama To Kill a Wolf Read more »| 21 Aug 2024 -
FilmEIFF 2024: *smiles and kisses you*
A man's relationship with an AI doll is the heart of this engaging, humane but slightly repetitive documentary Read more »| 21 Aug 2024