With an apology for being faithful to Steinbeck’s racist language both written in the programme and announced at the start, the team behind Of Mice and Men are clearly concerned …
There was barely an empty seat in Canongate Kirk for this concert and the Bach Ensemble of Edinburgh rose to the occasion with a programme to match the unsettled Edinburgh weather.
As hour-long, mountain-top, star-studded, musical comedy extravaganzas go, this was a rather low-key affair.
The Jazz Bar is not what first comes to mind as a Fringe hotspot but this small, classy venue continues to offer the eclectic, high quality gigs it programmes throughout the year.
‘How do you come out as straight?’ Dan Student asks the early evening audience at Fingers Piano Bar.
Stan Skinny admits that this show is a work in progress, having only started writing it a matter of weeks ago.
A boy finds a balloon on the streets of Paris.
Old St Paul’s Church Hall is the understated setting for this musical’s week-long run and there is no venue more appropriate for a show with no pretentions of grandeur.
This is Glasgow-based pianist Sebastian Thirlway’s third Fringe appearance and he clearly enjoys being here.
Doubtless the lure of this event is the promise of hot chocolate to round off the day and it doesn’t disappoint.
Wes Zaharuk is a man with experience.
A sizeable crowd took the brave decision to bring their 6-year-olds to the Gilded Balloon for an hour of bum jokes on Sunday morning.
Someone should tell Danny McChrystal that having a blokish demeanour and a regional accent doesn’t make you a comedian.
Sticking with the name that they have made famous over the last 20 years but going for what they described as ‘more casual’ jeans and shirt attire, The Pajama Men’s Improv Sh…
It is either brave or it is foolish to attempt to put on such a well-worn classic as Dracula in pursuit of success at the Fringe.
Mark Thomas’ new show is certainly a departure from his usual lambasting of politicians and furious campaigning.
There are actually plenty of comedy options at the Fringe if you want to avoid the ‘affable young bloke in jeans and a t-shirt telling jokes’ but perhaps none further removed t…
Reprising their 2007 Fringe First show, Hangman, influential dance-theatre company Do-Theatre, part of Assembly’s Russian Season, must be confident of similar success five years …
Doubling as a launch for her new book about her Norfolk-dwelling protagonist and his ferret friends and as a one-woman performance for young children, Eve Stebbing’s show is doin…
Belfast company At Large Theatre’s new production is good fun at times but it’s unclear - I think even to the actors - who it’s for and why they are performing it.
Elephant Man was born in Benoit Hattet’s mind some 25 years ago and his devotion to the project - he is the writer, director, designer and actor - is clear in every aspect of thi…
This group of students from Oxford’s Trinity College presumably came to the conclusion that you can’t go far wrong with Noel Coward.
From the bewildering title to the closing dance number, this show is an hour of surprises, both comic and moving.
Young writer Tim Foley is an exceptional talent.
The magnificent Merchants’ Hall on Hanover Street provides a setting too grandiose in the extreme for Best Rest Theatre Company’s production of their new play, ‘Frank and Fer…
‘Sorry I dropped the knives a couple of times,’ Perico Circus Express winces.
The Royal Overseas League on Princes Street is well-known for showcasing up-and-coming musical talent.
Double Edge provides excellent entertainment here in the damp, sweaty attic of Underbelly, the ideal venue for their immersive piece set in a 1930’s Princeton speakeasy.
‘Just had a moment of self-awareness there,’ Ryan Withers stopped halfway through a joke to announce.
This show is narrated by a cat.