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Magician Ben Hart brings a sense of beauty to his magic shows - combining world class illusions with stunning visual effects. He tells Entertainment Now why the Edinburgh Fringe is one of...

Gravel voiced, terminally laid-back Canadian comic Tom Stade has a very clear idea of how he wants a gig to feel. “My style is - I don’t turn it into a comedy...

If the Edinburgh Fringe is a living, breathing, performer, then sketch comedy is its favourite outfit – ever changing each year, yet always marvellously there. Sketch comedy has a deep history at...

Fringe Frontier have released Criminal Hour, a new eight-track album that combines driving rhythms, punchy guitar hooks, and vivid Americana-inspired storytelling into a confident indie rock statement. The duo of John Lloyd and...

The long life of the Edinburgh Fringe is packed with the creative and the unexpected, not just in performances but in performance spaces.It is, I believe, of the very essence of a...

A dark comedy show about luck, sadness, and delusion, all set in the familiar space of your parents’ basement. The venue itself (which is basically just a curtain) some people might think...

Here’s an unlikely thought. Could it be that, at the age of 55, Tom Stade might be calming down a bit? Not mellowing exactly. That would be too much to expect from...

In Erotic Vagrancy, his entertainingly excessive memoir of the excessive lives of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor the author Roger Lewis paints a portrait of the couple in shades of vulgarity, violence,...

I BLOODY love Gearóid Farrelly. I first saw him at the Fringe two years ago playing in a glorified cargo container and I was helped out, sore of side and red of...