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Edinburgh festival 2017

December 2019

  • Fireworks at Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations. Underbelly’s event is expected to attract more than 70,000 people.

    Hogmanay fury as Edinburgh residents told to apply for access to own homes

    Local people must ask Underbelly if they want more than six passes to their houses

August 2019

  • Delayed gratification … Joe Barnes and Henry Perryment of Goodbear.

    Goodbear: Dougal review – smart sketch show scrambles reality

    When the billed act fails to materialise, front-of-house staff played by sketch duo Goodbear fill in – and prove themselves more than capable

May 2019

  • Kathy Hinde leads a session of ‘deep bog listening.’

    The bogs are alive: how art is healing Scottish peatlands

    An ambitious project is restoring areas of blanket bog in the heart of the Flow Country in northern Scotland that have been damaged by forestry planting

August 2018

  • Tal National from Niger perform on stage at this year's Womad Festival

    Visa refusals starve UK’s arts festivals of world talent

  • Marjan Vafaeian, an illustrator from Iran who has been subjected to the Home Office’s ‘humiliating’ visa process

    Home Office shamed for barring writers and artists from festival

  • Home by Geoff Sobell

    'Buildings tell stories': how the housing crisis inspired an Edinburgh show

  • Mix-and-match cast of characters … Julian Spooner in his one-man show Mistero Buffo.

    Mistero Buffo review – chameleonic solo romp through reimagined Bible tales

June 2018

  • Former Blue Peter presenters (from left) Mark Curry, Peter Duncan, Janet Ellis, Valerie Singleton, Peter Purves and Tim Vincent

    Edinburgh fringe 2018 to tackle #MeToo and celebrate Blue Peter

    Lineup for 71st edition includes hard-hitting debuts and plenty of nostalgia

January 2018

  • John Robins

    John Robins: ‘Men need to be honest with themselves’

    The comic and radio DJ on mining his own misery for laughs, avoiding topical material, and why the Louis CK and Aziz Ansari scandals are a wake-up call for all men

December 2017

  • A scene from 10,000 Gestures by Boris Charmatz

    Best culture 2017
    The top 10 dance shows of 2017

  • Beardie Glaswegian with a husk for a heart … Frankie Boyle.

    Best culture 2017
    The top 10 comedy shows of 2017

November 2017

  • Jackie Wylie

    National Theatre of Scotland boss Jackie Wylie: 'I want to take theatre off its pedestal'

    As she announces her first season, including a My Left Foot musical, the new head of NTS says she wants to demystify the artistic process and is calling on young people to shape the company’s future

September 2017

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    'No one laughed at me dancing in the mosh pit' – readers' festival stories

    With Dorset’s Bestival signalling the end of the UK’s summer festival season this weekend, we asked you for your favourite sights and sounds this time round

August 2017

  • Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Edinburgh book festival with Colson Whitehead and others – books podcast

  • Desiree Burch.

    Edinburgh festival 2017: standup shows going on tour

  • Omnivorous charm … Stephin Merritt with his array of objects and instruments.

    The Magnetic Fields review – a double dose of life as Stephin Merritt

  • A Machine They’re Secretly Building

    A Machine They're Secretly Building review – spies, lies and videotape

  • Edinburgh dance review: The Narrator; Dollhouse; Velvet Petal: Bedroom; Folk

  • Brexit the Musical: in Edinburgh, I understood how farce can be more persuasive than argument

    Will Hutton
  • Edinburgh’s double comedy winners mix humour with darker takes on life

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