3 d. ago Chris Kamara and Ben Shephard to star in play about England fan who put flare up his bum

Why I Stuck A Flare Up My A*** For England, which is returning to the Edinburgh Fringe, is based on the infamous moment from the Euros in 2021 when a fan of the Three Lions put a lit flare up his backside

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4 d. ago Rising Voices, Bold Visions: The Fresh Talent Redefining Edinburgh Fringe 2025

As the world’s largest arts festival returns, Edinburgh Fringe 2025 is set to showcase an extraordinary wave of fresh voices and bold new talent. This year’s lineup features powerful explorations of identity, resilience, friendship, and societal change—offering audiences a chance to connect with stories that are as timely as they are personal.

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5 d. ago Tim Minchin: Songs the World Will Never Hear review – a bumper night with the marvellous misfit

Hammersmith Apollo, LondonMinchin embraces his oddball status – is he musician, comedian, auteur or clown? – in this three-hour showIt’s 20 years since Tim Minchin’s life-changing Edinburgh fringe in 2005, and tonight he’s singing 20 songs of commemoration. There’s a lot to celebrate: few careers are this distinctive, or this successful. And there’s a real sense Minchin has got life where he wants it tonight. With a five-strong band in tow, the balance is better than on his last tour between troubadour and rock Gargantua. And there’s an embrace, too, of his misfit status: who cares if no one knows whether he’s a musician, a comedian, an auteur or a clown – or whether tonight’s show is, as Minchin describes it, “an absolute shitshow of tonal inconsistency”?I mean, he’s not wrong. Minchin has always been a curious mix of cool and uncool, sending up rock theatrics while openly in thrall to them. He is an artist of excess, never knowingly underwritten – and for more than three hours ton...

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1 week ago New insider guide to booking university rooms for the Edinburgh Festival launches online

The world-famous Edinburgh Festival and Fringe returns on 1 August but organisers have warned that soaring accommodation costs and holiday let restrictions could mean the event is facing ‘grim’ obstacles. The good news is that a new online guide has just launched revealing how festival-goers and performers can easily book bargain university rooms for August.

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1 week ago Premiership winner returns to Edinburgh Rugby after six years away

Second-row forward buzzing to come home

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3 w. ago Edinburgh Pride: 10 best photos from Edinburgh’s first ever Pride march in 1995, 30 years ago

Pride Edinburgh returns this weekend for its 30th event – but back in 1995 the city witnessed the first ever Pride Scotia march.

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3 w. ago Best show nominee Sam Nicoresti returns to the Fringe with 'Baby Doomer'

Described as “simultaneously smart and silly” by Chortle, Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Winner and Chortle Best MC Nominee Sam Nicoresti returns to Edinburgh Fringe from 30 July to 24 August (except 11th) at 5.40pm at Pleasance Bunker 2 with Baby Doomer (Best Show Nominee Leicester Comedy Festival 2025), a show about losing your mind and finding the perfect skirt suit. In the summer of ‘23, following a sartorial emergency in a TK Maxx changing room and a stressful house move a whole minute round the corner, the acclaimed comedian and burgeoning trans icon lost their mind.

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3 w. ago Scotland natives are bringing back popular game show to the Edinburgh Fringe

Gooses Quizzes, Edinburgh’s premier quiz company, has today announced the return of its popular show, The Elimination Game, to the Edinburgh Fringe 2025. The Elimination Game will run consecutively across 25 nights from July 31 - August 24 at Assembly Rooms, Bijou on George Street.

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4 w. ago Government spends nearly £30m of taxpayers' cash on fringe research projects including gay porn studies and recording Syrian harvesting songs

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been given the eye-catching amount of funding for overseas projects, which appear to have no clear benefit to British taxpayers.

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4 w. ago Frank Sanazi Returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with “Songs for Swinging Leaders”

As the world teeters on the brink of global annihilation, who better to restore a new world order than the ultimate swinging dictator himself?

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4 w. ago Edinburgh Fringe Hot Tickets 2025: Here are all 17 Edinburgh Comedy Award winners returning this year

With thousands of shows to choose from it can be hard to decide what to book at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. All these comedians are tried-and-tested comedy champions.

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