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Edinburgh festival 2023

January 2024

  • ‘I wanted to do something beautiful on stage’ … Masli at Soho theatre, London.

    ‘I wanted to be serious – but people would laugh so hard’: Julia Masli on her accidental comedy masterpiece

    Her midnight agony aunt clown show became the hot ticket of the fringe – despite the fact that the Estonian never regarded herself as a comic. In fact, she says, she much prefers making audiences cry

December 2023

  • Rosie Sheehy in Machinal at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath.

    2023 in Culture
    Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2023

    This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four times

September 2023

  • Brian Logan

    Will the Edinburgh fringe ever return to its pre-pandemic self? I hope not

    Brian Logan
    Fresh from this year’s jubilant festival, I’m not the only one hoping that it has given up its addiction to growth, says Brian Logan, the Guardian’s comedy critic
  • ‘I want to come back every year!’ … Urooj Ashfaq, left, and Ahir Shah in Edinburgh.

    ‘I need to have a big party and show off!’ Edinburgh comedy award-winners reveal what’s next

    For the first time ever, both the ‘Oscars of comedy’ have gone to standups with South Asian heritage. So what do the two performers who set the fringe alight have planned? Lots of boasting, finds our writer
  • Adrian Bliss in red hat with long feather and a white singlet

    Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone review – fun lucky dip of historical sketches

  • ‘I’m aware it sounds unbelievable’ … Paul Foot: Dissolve.

    Paul Foot: Dissolve review – a comic antidote to life’s pain

  • A street entertainer juggles on Edinburgh's Royal Mile during the final full week of the city's festival fringe on 22 August 2023.

    Was it worth it? Edinburgh fringe acts give their verdict on the festival

  • Gustavo Dudamel rehearses with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra ahead of the EIF concert.

    Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel review – technicolour exuberance

  • Convivial company … Darren Harriott.

    Darren Harriott: Roadman review – tentative steps to self-improvement

    The comic pores over the insecurities that attended his twisty journey from Black Country boyhood to TV celebrity
  • Sir Donald Runnicles conducts Deutsche Oper Berlin in a concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser

    Tannhäuser review – Runnicles’ semi-staged Wagner sounds celestial

    The festival’s concert staging with Donald Runnicles conducting the Deutsche Oper brought Wagner’s score to life, with Clay Hilley in command of the lead role’s technical challenges
    • Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No! review – Indian standup makes an endearing debut

    • The Edinburgh fringe is just another choking canary in the toxic national mine

      Stewart Lee
    • Edinburgh festival dance: After All; Dances Like a Bomb; The Rite of Spring – review

  • Brian Logan

    Ahir Shah arrived at Edinburgh with a work-in-progress but leaves as comedy champ

    Brian Logan
  • Ahir Shah and Urooj Ashfaq smile as they hold Edinburgh comedy awards

    Edinburgh festival fringe: Ahir Shah’s Ends wins best show at comedy awards

  • Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Oslo Philharmonic in Usher Hall

    The week in classical: Oslo Philharmonic/Mäkelä; Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou – review

  • Phil Ellis

    Phil Ellis’s Excellent Comedy Show review – helter-skelter hour of fun

  • Zoe Coombs Marr as her character Dave.

    ‘I used to get in role by harassing my girlfriend’: the risky brilliance of playing anti-woke characters

    Edinburgh fringe comics portraying cancelled standups and rightwing politicians talk about the dangers and successes of their satire
  • Louise Young.

    Louise Young: Feral review – upbeat blast through a wayward youth

    The comic’s material on years lost to drugs, booze and drama school is delivered with energy but this show lacks context and heft
  • Lindsey Santoro.

    Lindsey Santoro: Pink Tinge review – unpretentious filth and fun

    Her material may be crude but there is no denying the bawdy Brummie comedian’s craft, nor her gift for getting the audience onside
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