http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/rss/festivalnews.xmlLatest Edinburgh Festival News from Scotsman.comen-GBCopyright 2011, Johnston Press PlcMon, 05 Sep 2011 11:15:00 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss30 http://www.scotsman.com/template/group/images/rss/SCOT_rss.gif http://www.scotsman.com 144 http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3382THE Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has suffered a 3.3 per cent drop at the box office since last year’s record-breaking event, organisers have admitted.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3382Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:00:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3376A LEADING Australian businessman has revealed he has helped to bankroll this year’s Edinburgh International Festival to the tune of £200,000.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3376Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:21:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3368A REWORKING of Faust by the veteran Scottish author Alasdair Gray, brought to life by a cast of literary superstars, last night brought the Edinburgh International Book Festival to an unforgettable close.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3368Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:39:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3367EDINBURGH Festival Fringe organisers are celebrating record-breaking box office success for the third year in a row.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3367Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:34:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3366What were the highlights and low points of this year's festival?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3366Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:20:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3365SCOTTISH rock icons Primal Scream will headline this year’s scaled-back Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3365Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:03:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3372A Fringe comedian who persuades audience volunteers to ride his assistants’ backs, kiss, and feed him with their mouths has won the Edinburgh festival’s top comedy prize in a year when participation in shows has hit “risky” new highs.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3372Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:18:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3364A DIRECTOR whose stage productions have ranged from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles to a play about the teenage survivor of a tragic car crash that killed three friends was named the new artistic director of the Traverse Theatre yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3364Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:14:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3362A PRODUCTION that fuses extraordinary physical artistry with cinematic tricks to cast the illusion of a man defying gravity has won the ultimate Fringe prize of a guaranteed run on the New York stage.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3362Sat, 27 Aug 2011 18:12:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3221Today we reveal our final five Fringe First winners - all special guests at this morning’s awards showhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3221Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:51:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3220Has balance been restored at the Edinburgh festivals this year? The Edinburgh International Festival has arguably reclaimed its place as a flagship and talking point for the Edinburgh festivals. Many of the Fringe acts making waves, meanwhile, seem closer to the old Fringe tradition.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3220Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:45:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3218Festival Frank is an innovative comedy show from the Gilded Balloon which sees big name Fringe acts perform, be interviewed and interact live with an audience viewing the show online.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3218Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:57:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3217Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight airs on Edinburgh-Festivals.com throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3217Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:47:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3216ARE we now living in an age of renewable politics? Has social media changed the face of democracy? These are just a few of the questions posed by this year's Festival of Politics at the Scottish Parliament.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3216Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:15:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3215This year edinburgh-festivals.com will be speaking to some of the stars (and stars in the making) performing at this year's Fringe. Say hello to John Scott!http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3215Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:30:17 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3214A COMIC who takes on the Arab Spring and the rioting in English cities in a Fringe show driven by this year’s hard-hitting headlines earned his second nomination yesterday in the festival’s top comedy awards.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3214Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:09:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3213OFFICIALS at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the National Library of Scotland have said they have no links to an American publisher that claims to be able to offer special access to both organisations.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3213Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:04:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3212STAND-UP comic Nick Helm has got something to laugh about after one of his gags was named the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3212Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:58:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3170THE nominations for this year's Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards have been announced, with Adam Riches, Andrew Maxwell, Chris Ramsey, Josie Long, Nick Helm and Sam Simmons up for the main prize.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3170Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:48:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3116PUBLICISING a Fringe show in 2011 requires command of everything from Twitter and Facebook to e-mail and bluetooth. But it seems that one old fashioned tool is still king - the humble flyer.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3116Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:47:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3115A COMEDIAN staging her main show as part of the Free Fringe is among the favourites for a place in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3115Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:44:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3114FRINGE promoter Tommy Sheppard has declared war on the andquot;disgustingandquot; levels of flyposting authorised by city council chiefs across the capital.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3114Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:43:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3113Shelter Scotland benefited from a sell-out show at the Edinburgh Fringe, which raised £1,300 for its housing and homelessness campaign.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3113Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:38:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3056THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe is set to launch a marketing drive months earlier than normal in a bid to prevent a slump in ticket sales due to a clash with next year's London Olympics.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3056Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:00:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3009Get yourself along to our showcase of acts given four and five stars in the Scotsman - today, Assembly George Square, 1pmhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3009Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:28:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3007Key technical staff for the Edinburgh Fringe could be imported from Finland and Scandinavia in 2012 as the huge demand for temporary spaces during the London Olympics soaks up vital expertise.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3007Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:24:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3006THE Edinburgh International Film Festival could be moved back to August after the chief executive of its parent company gave the idea his backing.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3006Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:22:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3112COMEDY promoter Tommy Sheppard has won the bitter war that has broken out on the Fringe and has now vowed to try to break up the andquot;cartelandquot; of Fringe super-venues.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=3112Tue, 23 Aug 2011 11:57:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2978THE director of the Edinburgh Fringe's best-known venue operation has warned it would be andquot;disastrousandquot; for the event if champions of free shows at the festival win a slew of seats on its board today.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2978Sat, 20 Aug 2011 12:32:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2920This year edinburgh-festivals.com will be speaking to some of the stars (and stars in the making) performing at this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2920Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:29:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2917Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight airs on Edinburgh-Festivals.com throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2917Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:22:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2883Arts editor Andrew Eaton-Lewis reveals our second round of Scotsman Fringe First award-winnershttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2883Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:20:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2882YOU have one more chance to catch The Scotsman's new Best of the Fest show - the only variety show on the Fringe consisting entirely of acts given four- or five-star reviews by the most influential and respected team of critics at the festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2882Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:20:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2881This year edinburgh-festivals.com will be speaking to some of the stars (and stars in the making) performing at this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2881Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:22:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2880Best-selling gaming franchise The Sims 3 is the headline sponsor for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s best new act stand-up comedy competition, So You Think You're Funny.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2880Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:42:01 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2826THE Free Fringe could win a commanding presence on the Fringe board in elections this weekend with a radical agenda of slashing registration fees for the smallest groups and championing free shows, turning the organisation’s finances on its head, it has been claimed.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2826Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:14:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2791Festival Frank is an innovative comedy show from the Gilded Balloon. Dubbed andquot;the show which doesn't mince its wordsandquot;, it will see big name Fringe acts perform, be interviewed and interact live with an audience viewing the show online.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2791Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:16:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2825Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight will air on Edinburgh Festivals throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2825Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:53:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2822A WAR of words has broken out over where to site a year-round home for a national literary quarter in Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2822Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:21:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2732THE Fringe entered its critical middle week yesterday with a string of mid-size venues reporting increased ticket sales of as much as 10 per cent on last year’s figures.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2732Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:29:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2731THE head of Scotland’s main arts funding body has thrown his weight behind plans for a multi-million-pound “city of literature” hub in Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2731Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:25:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2730Alzheimer’s the Musical, a comedy sketch show about ageing brought to the Fringe by three Australian performers to celebrate their 60th birthdays, has emerged as an unlikely hit at the Gilded Balloon.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2730Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:24:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2729Zambezi Express, the award-winning Zimbabwean show set to return as a highlight of the Assembly line-up, has cancelled its Edinburgh run at a cost of about £50,000 in lost ticket sales, producers said yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2729Tue, 16 Aug 2011 10:22:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2725The Edinburgh International Book Festival will have no waste bins on its Charlotte Square site this year in a bid to generate almost zero land-fill waste.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2725Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:40:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2724Punters and performers are being asked to submit ideas for improving the Edinburgh festivals.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2724Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:37:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2674Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight will air on Edinburgh Festivals throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2674Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:34:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2673HUMAN rights organisations have hit out at the Edinburgh International Festival’s decision to accept help from the Chinese government to bankroll this year’s event.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2673Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:07:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2672BEST-selling Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith has told how he “really enjoyed” seeing his Scotland Street characters brought to the stage for the first time at the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2672Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:03:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2671FRINGE performers are having to constantly rewrite shows to reflect tensions caused by the riots in England.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2671Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:55:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2670THIS week's riots in England are high on the agenda at the Edinburgh International Book Festival as it rides the headlines with writers and commentators on disaffected youth, economic division and hoodie gang culture, according to the event's director.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2670Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:48:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2647This year edinburgh-festivals.com will be speaking to some of the stars (and stars in the making) performing at this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2647Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:00:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2646Fancy some udderly brilliant comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? We’ve teamed up with Magners to offer 5 readers a pair of tickets to the show of their choice at the E4 Udderbelly in Bristo Square.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2646Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:45:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2613A FORMER artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival has launched an outspoken attack on the decline of the event since he was in charge - claiming it has now become a “badly devalued brand”.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2613Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:58:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2612India will become a major partner of the Edinburgh International Festival from 2012, spending millions of pounds in the city from the London Olympics to the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, the head of the country’s leading cultural organisation has told The Scotsman.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2612Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:53:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2611This year edinburgh-festivals.com will be speaking to some of the stars (and stars in the making) performing at this year's Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2611Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:18:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2610Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight will air on Edinburgh Festivals throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2610Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:46:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2580A FEMALE comedy troupe is running back-to-back plays at this year’s Fringe where they transform from coarse, crotch-rubbing male footballers into slinky female strippers in a matter of minutes.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2580Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:59:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2579A ZIMBABWEAN dance group has revealed it has lost £50,000 after being trapped at home by an airline strike for most of the first week of the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2579Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:56:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2578The director of the Stand Comedy Club urged the chief executive of the Fringe yesterday to stop his rival for a key seat on the festival’s governing board making “malicious” and “untrue” allegations against him. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2578Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:54:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2577Co-hosted by Joe Simmons (Butch of Topping and Butch fame) and Lorraine Chase, Britains's best loved cockney gal, online chat show Edinburgh Tonight airs on Edinburgh Festivals throughout August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2577Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:00:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2524THE EDINBURGH International Book Festival’s box office has been thrown into chaos days before the start of the event - after being shut down by lightning strikes in Ireland.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2524Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:54:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2523Roadkill, the searing production on sex trafficking that swept the awards at last year’s Fringe, is poised to become one of the festival’s biggest exports with a success that has inspired several shows on the subject this year.

http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2523Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:48:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2522A SURGE in the popularity of shows at the “Free Fringe” has forced organisers to introduce a token system to accommodate the crowds turning up this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2522Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:43:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2462The innovative comedy show from the Gilded Balloon is live tonight and can be viewed right here on Edinburgh-Festivals.com.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2462Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:42:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2520ALMOST a third of Edinburgh Festival-goers are spending up to £500 each on their visit to the city, according to detailed research carried out over the past week.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2520Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:27:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2519MORE than 500 shows are eligible for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards this year, in what has been billed as “Year of the Newcomer”.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2519Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:24:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2518A GROUP of comedy musicians from Sendai - the Japanese coastal city closest to the epicentre of the devastating March earthquake - have pursued their Edinburgh dream to show the spirit of their country.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2518Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:20:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2468Like the idea of a variety show in which every act has had a five star review? Come to Assembly on Mondayhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2468Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:35:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2466FIONA Hyslop outlined her festival choices yesterday as she headed to a show of Gaelic song and then to an international acapella choir.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2466Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:49:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2464TWO Fringe foes are to face off in elections for a key seat on its board this month.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2464Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:41:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2463AVERAGE ticket prices for the Edinburgh Fringe have dropped to just over £9 this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2463Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:37:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2460THE new glass heart of the Edinburgh Arts Festival has been unveiled at St Andrew's Square - a £125,000 Solar Pavillion of curved glass plates, which is intended as a showcase hub for more than 40 exhibitions across the city.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2460Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:20:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2459ORGANISERS of Edinburgh's long-running jazz and blues festival have admitted failing to boost ticket sales despite moving the event's dates forward a week to avoid a direct clash with the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2459Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:15:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2458BEST-selling author Irvine Welsh returned to his native Leith to help promote a youth theatre company's Fringe shows - and launched an attack on the growing centralisation of the Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2458Thu, 04 Aug 2011 11:13:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2457You've bought your show tickets, precision-planned your travel arrangements and will shortly be arriving at accommodation booked many moons ago.But have you considered where you'll be grabbing a quick refreshment in betweenshows or spending a relaxing evening after an entertainment-filled day?Here we list five pubs worthy of your consideration during your stay in Edinburgh. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2457Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:26:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2455THE man at the helm of this year's scaled-back Edinburgh International Film Festival has launched a staunch defence of the event, admiting it had suffered in the face of budget cuts.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2455Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:52:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2454PLANS to stage an intimate Fringe show in the flats of festival-goers have stalled due to a lack of bookings.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2454Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:51:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2453FOR nearly 100 years it was home to Edinburgh's celebrated veterinary school.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2453Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:48:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2446scotsman.com has teamed up with Edinburgh Tonight to offer ten pairs of tickets to the online TV show's first screening of the festival season.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2446Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:34:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2445WITH the influx of tourists and daytrippers to Edinburgh during festival season combined with the proliferation of pop-up venues, maps have always been a crucial tool for tracking down those little performance spaces tucked away in an Old Town alleyway.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2445Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:30:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2440Technophiles and “geeks” are being provided with a festival of their own in Scotland this month.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2440Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:24:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2439ORGANISERS of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo have promised the most spectacular show in the event’s history will be staged this year in its new £16 million arena at the castle esplanade.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2439Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:21:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2438It’s the old Edinburgh story - faced with an unruly mob in the Old Town, Fringe venues in the New Town have banded together to keep their southern festival rivals from swamping them.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2438Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:12:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2437THE number of X-rated, over-18 shows at the Edinburgh Fringe has almost doubled a year after age ratings were introduced. More than 500 shows, about a fifth of this year's total, have declared themselves andquot;adult onlyandquot;.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2437Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:39:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2433AN AWARD-winning Fringe venture which saw thousands of tickets given away on the day of shows is to launch a huge expansion this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2433Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:09:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2414BACK in 1999, the Edinburgh International Film Festival hosted the British premiere of The Blair Witch Project.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2414Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:28:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2413In his second round-up of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Alistair Harkness wonders what has happened to one of Scotland’s most promising film-makershttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2413Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:46:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2412FILLED with faux edgy humour, ironic bigotry and self-referential gags, The Guard HH, which opens the 65th Edinburgh International Film Festival tonight, is one of those films that presents itself as a subversive take on movie conventions but is really just a lazy recycling of cinematic clichés and recent trends.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2412Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:12:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2400ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have admitted inflating its box office numbers by including thousands of free shows in the ticket sales figures.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2400Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:06:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2399MAJOR European orchestras, dance and performance companies must offer their staff more flexible holiday dates before the Edinburgh Festival can explore moving its schedule closer to that of the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2399Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:38:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2394IT WAS billed as the unmissable experience of this year's Edinburgh festival season.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2394Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:30:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2392Act to sink without tracehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2392Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:54:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2386TICKET sales at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have soared by more than 95,000 to a record new level - despite claims that the event has hit an audience limit.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2386Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:53:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2379DOCTOR Who fans have been promised the show's greatest ever cliffhanger — as plans emerged to split the next series into two.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2379Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:00:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2378LEADING promoters believe the audience level for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe may have reached its limit amid claims that a andquot;vortexandquot; of venues in the city's south side is sucking in punters.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2378Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:48:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2238Arts editor Andrew Eaton reveals our final Fringe First winners of 2010, and announces the full line-up for today’s Scotsman Fringe Awardshttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2238Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:48:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2230FRINGE organisers are facing a major financial headache after it emerged the Royal Bank of Scotland's sponsorship of free entertainment on the Royal Mile is set to expire next week.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2230Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:55:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2229Everyone by now has probably heard the winner of the best gag on the Fringe prize, Tim Vine's pun-tastic one-liner, andquot;I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.andquot; But what about all the rest? To save you having to go to around 800 comedy shows to find them all for yourself, we've picked out the best jokes for you. Enjoy.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2229Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:01:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2190THE American comedian Bo Burnham, who turned 20 during this year's festival, yesterday became the youngest ever nominee for the Fringe's top comedy award.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2190Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:16:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2189POLICE have ordered a clampdown on people trying to cash in on the Tattoo after the Royal Mile was flooded with ticket touts.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2189Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:12:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2188THE nominees for this year's Edinburgh Fringe comedy award were announced today, with Bo Burnham, Greg Davies, Josie Long, Sarah Millican and Russell Kane in the running for the main prize.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2188Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:40:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2182A NEW generation of Asian comics may be taking shape at this year's Festival Fringe, with Kenyan-born comedian Imran Yusuf — described as one of the UK's best young comics — emerging alongside better-known stand-ups such as Paul Sinha.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2182Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:31:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2181A TRIO of shows by male comedians exploring the tricky dynamics of father-son relationships are tipped as strong contenders when the short-list for the Fringe's top comedy awards is announced today.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2181Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:29:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2157Performing two different programmes on alternate days, Cape Dance Company has certainly put in the hours for its Edinburgh sojourn. This is the South African group's fourth visit to the Fringe, but as all dance companies know, you're only as strong as your current line-up - and Cape isn't fighting at quite the same weight as in 2007.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2157Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:20:08 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2144EDINBURGH'S long-running Film Festival is looking for a new artistic director after former movie critic Hannah McGill's surprise decision to quit the post after four years.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2144Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:19:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2126Part of the magic of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is undoubtedly the wide variety of quality entertainment on offer. Unfortunately, one man's meat is another man's poison, as some of the following reviews suggest.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2126Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:34:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2125Hannah McGill has stepped down from her role as artistic director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival after four years in the job.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2125Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:37:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2083Zimbabwe's culture minister has called for forging new ties between festivals in Edinburgh and his country's major cities of Harare and Bulawayo.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2083Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:58:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2082A QUICK look at the posters plastered over every Fringe venue and hoarding this year suggests almost every show has been given a four- or five-star rating. But who are all these Fringe reviewers - and what are their stars really worth?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2082Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:56:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2080HAVE you heard the one about the stand-up comic who was crowned king of the one-liners?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2080Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:27:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2079Skein, an exhibition in Glass andamp; Thompson on Dundas Street, features work by six Scottish women artists. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2079Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2055WHAT is the future of fiction? If the fast-paced, fragmented, digitised world of the 21st century is no longer served by the kind of long, traditional narratives which have been in vogue for more than a century, what should the novel look like? This was the question being considered by Reality Hunger author David Shields and Eli Horowitz, editor of ground-breaking US publisher McSweeney's.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2055Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2053THE writer behind the National Theatre of Scotland's showpiece festival production Caledonia missed its premiere after leaving Edinburgh days before the show opened, The Scotsman has learned.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=2053Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:36:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1960Fifty years ago tomorrow, one of the most famous festival shows of all time made its debut. Nicholas Leonard was therehttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1960Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:11:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1955One of the Fringe’s top-selling performers claims he has been banned from promoting his show properly on Edinburgh’s taxis.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1955Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:40:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1918American singer-songwriter and pop icon Dean Friedman is best known for the classic 1978 hits Lucky Stars and Lydia. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1918Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:57:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1870Burlesque performers descended on the Scotsman office yesterday to protest about comments by reviewer Sally Stott.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1870Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:11:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1869THREE of the biggest names in comedy are to return to the celebrated venue where they made their Fringe breakthrough to celebrate its 25th anniversary.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1869Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:07:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1833A SCOTTISH comedian has been charged with serious assault after an alleged headbutting incident at a late-night show.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1833Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:25:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1832ORGANISERS of the Fringe and Edinburgh city council officials are being urged to create new areas for free street entertainment in the wake of overcrowding at packed arenas.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1832Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:23:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1831THEY have become a staple of the Fringe, treading the fine line between performance art, satire and titillation. But following a critical review in The Scotsman in which they were branded andquot;miserable-looking womenandquot; adorned with the andquot;glazed expressions of porn starsandquot;, Edinburgh's burlesque performers are fighting back.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1831Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:10:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1802THE good, bad and ugly of social networking are under the spotlight as sites such as Facebook fight a running PR battle over privacy rules and the dark side of internet friendships.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1802Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:59:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1801STRONG sales have set the Edinburgh Fringe on track to beat last year's record of 1.8 million tickets sold, but venue bosses are keeping a nervous eye on sales in the critical last week.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1801Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:56:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1752Scotland on Sunday's arts editor Andrew Eaton hosts a webchat to discuss whether Edinburgh's Festivals should merge together - today at noon.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1752Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:49:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1738Lord Mandelson, the architect of New Labour dubbed the "Prince of Darkness" for his expertise in the dark arts of spin, has joined the political line-up at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1738Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:47:09 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1737WORK on a new £4 million andquot;arts quarterandquot; outside the Usher Hall will have to restart in the autumn after an 11th-hour patch-up job was ordered with hours to spare before the gala opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1737Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:44:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1736THEY were an obscure Anglo-Japanese comedy troupe who made a brief ripple at the Fringe more than two decades ago.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1736Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:39:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1661THE number of shops selling andquot;tartan tatandquot; on the Scottish capital's most famous streets could be controlled by using compulsory purchase orders, the city council has suggested.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1661Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:54:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1656But now Edinburgh's festivals have received a significant boost of investment from foreign governments with hundreds of thousands of pounds pumped into support major shows.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1656Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:11:14 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1639Scotland is the world's Book Nation. That is a large but entirely justified claim. No nation has as many book festivals as we do, with 42 at the last count. They quarter the country, from Shetland to Wigtown and all points between.
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1639Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:40:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1617Arts editor Andrew Eaton introduces our opening week of 2010 Fringe First winners, and invites you to our awards show on Friday 27 Augusthttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1617Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:27:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1584A FRINGE venue has turned to a novel way of punting its shows — enlisting the help of the vendors of the Big Issue, the magazine sold by the homeless.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1584Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:38:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1583The Edinburgh International Book Festival is safe from the march of the electronic book, its director declared yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1583Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:33:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1538DOZENS of Fringe shows are offering free tickets for performances under a new venture aimed at filling empty seats in shows at the last minute.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1538Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:45:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1536ONE of Britain's top comedians is locked in a war of words with the biggest promoter on the Fringe after pulling out of its flagship 30th anniversary show at the last minute.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1536Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:40:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1533Calling all performers at this year's Edinburgh Festivals!How would you like to make a cameo appearance in video on The Scotsman's Edinburgh Festivals website? http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1533Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:36:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1532ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe faced an angry backlash yesterday over controversial plans to curb membership of its ruling body.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1532Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:18:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1531THE director of the Edinburgh International Festival has staged a fierce defence of the arts flagship after claims that it was failing in the shadow of the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1531Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:14:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1438THE actor Simon Callow has spoken movingly about his mother's battle with Alzheimer's disease and her struggle to remember her past.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1438Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:49:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1437High jinks at Late 'n' Live reported at the Gilded Balloon, where improv rap duo Abandoman raised the bar for all the other acts by improvising a storming and hilarious rap based on what members of the audience had in their pockets.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1437Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:43:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1436THE extraordinary career leap of 23-year-old Glasgow comedian Kevin Bridges was the andquot;story of the festivalandquot;, according to Edinburgh Comedy Awards boss Nica Burns.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1436Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:40:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1365To celebrate their sponsorship of the Spiegeltent at Edinburgh International Book Festival, Highland Park is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of tickets to the sell-out Highland Park masterclass hosted by Gerry Tosh on Monday 23rd of August, plus a bottle of award winning Highland Park 12 year old. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1365Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:47:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1370MARK the date in your diary: Friday 27 August at 10:30am sees the return of the Scotsman Fringe Awards, our free annual show featuring live music, star guests and performances from award-winning festival shows. It's an ideal chance to catch the best of the Fringe at a time when the best of the Fringe is often sold out.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1370Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1367Amid all the hype, cash and corporatisation, it’s time for Edinburgh to have a radical rethink, argues Rupert Thomsonhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1367Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:26:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1364THE Edinburgh Fringe Festival kicks off in all its multi-tiered glory today, from dramatic new stages in the heart of the city bustling with star names to struggling novice performers on a shoestring budget in the tiniest back rooms.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1364Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:08:55 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1360A STUNT inspired by the classic water escape act of Harry Houdini a century ago was billed as a highlight of the Gilded Balloon launch show last night. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1360Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:07:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1359A LEADING Russian conductor has cancelled his appearance in a Festival concert to fight charges of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in Thailand.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1359Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:02:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1358LONG-awaited plans to introduce a one-stop ticket outlet for Edinburgh's festivals have been shelved at the eleventh hour, The Scotsman can reveal.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1358Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:56:55 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1357There's less than a week to go until the diamond jubilee Edinburgh Tattoo gets under way and Major General Euan Loudon is rocking backwards and forwards in his chair in a very unmilitary fashion, chortling at the litany of cock-ups and misunderstandings to have punctuated his tenure as the chief executive and producer of the world's most venerable and successful gathering of massed military bands.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1357Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:05:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1350andquot;HELLO, we are starting.andquot; So comedy producer Darrell Martin kicked off the venue preview shows at The Caves in the Cowgate.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1350Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:09:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1349AN OPERA-singing Scots builder hoping to become the next Andrea Bocelli returns to the festival this month at the venue that gave his career a flying start.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1349Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:04:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1348THE stage is set for one of the biggest openings of this year's Fringe: this weekend's premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's Beautiful Burnout, a gritty story of the Scottish boxing world set in a Glasgow gym.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1348Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:02:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1347ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been accused to trying to silence criticism of the way the event is run by scrapping online discussion forums.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1347Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:52:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1346THE biggest promoter on the Fringe has revealed that it has boosted ticket sales by a third after announcing it has added a major new venue in one of Edinburgh's main beauty spots.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1346Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:43:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1339THE number of official festival flyposting sites in Edinburgh is to be doubled following the success of a pilot project to tackle the long-running menace, The Scotsman can reveal.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1339Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:11:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1333More than a decade following the act of devolution, the Scottish Parliament remains something of a work in progress, but so too is the country’s democracy.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1333Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:48 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1332TO MISQUOTE an old Incredible String Band song, the Fringe comes sneaking up when it thinks you're not looking… Yes, it's that time already, and as Auld Reekie breaks into its annual cultural lather, with the Fringe opening on 6 August, here are a few pointers to folk, jazz and related antics taking place.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1332Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:33:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1328ONE of Britain's leading comics has launched an outspoken attack against organisers of the Edinburgh Fringe's top comedy prize over plans to stage an online poll to decide a major new award.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1328Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:36:05 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1322THE centrepiece of this year's Edinburgh Mela will be the premiere of a large scale outdoor theatre performance looking at why people want to move to Scotland.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1322Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:48:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1321ONE of Scotland's leading actors has called for the capital's major cultural events to be spread out over the summer following the success of the city's film festival relocating from August.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1321Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:51:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1312SIR Patrick Stewart has described how he spent andquot;one of the most enjoyable weeks of his adult lifeandquot; as a judge at this year's 64th annual Edinburgh International Film Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1312Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:11:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1305THE Edinburgh International Film Festival returned to the heart of the city last night in one of its most glamorous opening galas in years with the world premiere of The Illusionist, an animated masterpiece described as a andquot;love song to Edinburgh and Scotlandandquot;.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1305Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:54:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1301A LEADING Fringe promoter yesterday revealed it had seen ticket sales treble compared with this time last year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1301Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:19:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1300OSCAR-winning film star Tilda Swinton is to organise a andquot;flash mobandquot; event inspired by a famous Laurel and Hardy routine during the Edinburgh International Film Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1300Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:16:22 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1299THREE of the biggest names in Scottish rock and pop are to perform during this year's Edinburgh festival season.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1299Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:13:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1298NOVELIST Nick Hornby and musician Nick Cave have joined the line-up of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1298Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:23:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1297A-LIST director and screenwriter Jane Campion, an Oscar-winner for The Piano, is to join top British writer and director Mike Leigh in a masterclass and mentoring programme overseen by the Edinburgh International Film Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1297Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:15:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1296SOUL diva China Moses, the singer, songwriter and MTV host - in partnership with jazz pianist, Raphael Lemonnier - is one of the top draws in the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1296Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:09:07 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1295THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe has announced a 17 per cent increase in the number of its shows, defying the economic downturn and looming funding cuts in the arts.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1295Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:59:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1294THE bombing of a passenger jet in the skies over Lockerbie killed 270 people and was the worst terrorist atrocity in the UK.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1294Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:31:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1293OSCAR-winning actress Emma Thompson is to bring a show about sex trafficking to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1293Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:35:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1291EDINBURGH'S biggest Fringe promoter has lifted the lid on the line-up for the major new venue it is introducing to herald its 30th anniversary this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1291Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:30:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1290IT MAY have been a dreich morning in the capital but, as one journalist observed before the official launch of the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival, the weather hardly matters to the practice of cinema-going.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1290Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:07:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1288THE National Theatre of Scotland yesterday unveiled a series of big names for its Edinburgh Festival programme in a bid to silence critics who claim it has failed to hit the heights during the last year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1288Mon, 31 May 2010 16:07:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1287CINEMA audiences in Scotland will be the first outside of the US to see one of the most eagerly anticipated sequels of all time.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1287Mon, 31 May 2010 15:34:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1210THEY are the jewels in the crown of Scotland's cultural scene, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors and pumping £200 million into the nation's economy every year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1210Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:15:21 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1021IT IS surely the greatest line-up of Fringe comedians ever seen on the same bill.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1021Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:37:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1020A ROW has broken out among Scotland's leading authors on the state of fiction north of the Border.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1020Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:35:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1019IN THE Main Tent, David Simon is telling a story. He's told it many times before and he'll tell it many times more, because when people ask where The Wire comes from, this is where it begins.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1019Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:28:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1017MEDIA boss James Murdoch called yesterday for a wholesale retreat of state intervention in broadcasting and the press, denouncing regulator Ofcom and the BBC for stifling independence and killing commercial profits.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1017Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:05:50 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=925THERE are plenty of free shows on the Fringe this year, but none - if we may be so bold - has the excitement factor of our annual Fringe Awards. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=925Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:20:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=906EDINBURGH's festivals are all on the verge of reporting record ticket sales in the face of the economic downturn, The Scotsman can reveal.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=906Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:34:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=891CHERIE Blair practised the art of diplomacy last night at the Edinburgh Book Festival. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=891Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:17:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=876HEARD the one about the return of traditional stand-up comedy to the Fringe?http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=876Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:57:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=905THIS year, Underbelly celebrates its tenth season on the Fringe. I can hardly believe we’ve got to ten. Charlie Wood and I met through the Fringe but it was never our intention to run a venue here. Charlie directed plays (well), I acted in them (badly). I and Fred Hood, who tragically died at Christmas, were bringing up some shows and wanted to do them somewhere different: odd, quirky, site-specific.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=905Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:25:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=874They’re two of the best-loved venues on the Fringe - and this year they’re celebrating signifcant milestones in their history. Here, we pay tribute to the birthday boys - the Pleasance (25) and the Underbelly (10)http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=874Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:46:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=847ROSSLYN Chapel was last night hosting a gala opening of an opera production for the first time in its history.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=847Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:18:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=807FOR decades, The Scotsman steps, built in 1899 with ornate Victorian decor and linking the heights of North Bridge with Waverley Station below, have defied efforts to keep them clean and clear of vandals and litter.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=807Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:19:55 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=801IT WAS the kind of hitch the Edinburgh International Festival was probably not envisaging when it chose the 18th-century Enlightenment as its theme for the Year of Homecoming.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=801Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:55:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=800TICKETS for all of Edinburgh's festival events will be available through a single online box office from next summer - more than five years after the idea was first mooted.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=800Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:45:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=799ALREADY, in Edinburgh, they're calling Friday evening "the James Tait Blackout" - the night when a generator failure at the Book Festival meant that Britain's oldest literary awards were presented at an hour-long ceremony hardly anyone could either see or hear.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=799Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:36:42 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=798A FLURRY of activity has been reported in a normally-quiet oasis at Makar's Court.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=798Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:35:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=797A GAG about hedgehogs has been voted the funniest joke at the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=797Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:32:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=750One visit to Arthur's Seat inspired Mathias Malzieu to create a novel, an album and a film. Now he tells Chitra Ramaswamy why the capital is so magicalhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=750Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:28:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=749MORTALITY stalks through the pages of these two superlative collections of poetry. Don Paterson's Rain includes a long elegy, "Phantom", for the poet Michael Donaghy, as well as his spiky, aphoristic renku, "My Last Thirty-Five Deaths". John Burnside's The Hunt In The Forest opens with "Learning to Swim", in which the poet recollects "the death I had lost"; and features work entitled "In Memoriam" and "The Art of Dying", and where even "the morning has the air of hospice flowers".http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=749Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:25:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=748MALCOLM McLaren, the original enfant terrible of popular culture, pulled out of an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night, in a spat over artistic differences.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=748Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:22:40 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=747IN BROOKES Bar at Pleasance Dome, I’m waiting to meet the great success story of this year’s Fringe. He hasn’t had a single five-star review (or a four-star one, actually), he’s playing a modest 180-seat venue that, on the Tuesday night I’m there, is nowhere near full, and until this morning I had never heard of him.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=747Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:23:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=734MORE than one million tickets have been sold at the Fringe, with Scots accounting for two-thirds of transactions, according to new research.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=734Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=733NOT ONE but two comic awards will be handed out in memory of Fringe prankster Malcolm Hardee this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=733Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:33:53 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=670Arts editor Andrew Eaton reveals the full line-up for this year’s Scotsman Fringe Awards - including Camille O’ Sullivan and Creole Choir of Cuba - and five more Fringe First winners...http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=670Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:16:33 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=694FRINGE chief executive Kath Mainland will try to put a tally on growing audiences for free shows on the Fringe amid claims that several hundred thousand people could be flocking to unticketed comedy and theatre this year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=694Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:34:25 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=693AN AUTHORISED biography of author Ian Rankin and his creation Inspector Rebus is due out early next year from John Blake Publishing.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=693Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:31:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=655FILM star Alan Rickman, last seen at Hogwarts, has been kidnapped by VisitScotland and brought to Edinburgh, it has emerged.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=655Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:53:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=656THE first breakdown of where Fringe shows come from has reveal the number from England has soared in recent times.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=656Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:53:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=609Grolsch is bringing a touch of laid back Amsterdam to Edinburgh this August by teaming up with everyone’s favourite upside-down purple cow, the E4 Udderbelly, to create the Grolsch Pasture, an unconventional grazing ground for urban culture seekers.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=609Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:13:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=604EDINBURGH'S festivals are to mount a major counter-offensive to head off a string of potential threats from the staging of the 2012 London Olympics, The Scotsman can reveal.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=604Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:44:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=603THE real star of A Very British Subject arrived in Edinburgh yesterday. The Pleasance play tells the story of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British Asian who spent 18 years on Pakistan's death row, and the efforts to release him.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=603Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:35:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=542THE Hotel, the show, keeps being taken for the real thing.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=542Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:11:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=530FRINGE chief Kath Mainland is to hold crisis talks with independent venue operators amid fears that the soaring costs of bringing shows to Edinburgh risk killing the festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=530Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:52:36 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=480IT has long been the scourge of Scotland's capital when the world's biggest arts festival rolls into town. Each year, every available inch of space on a wall or railing becomes an unofficial billboard for a Fringe comedian or student musical.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=480Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:36:46 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=479A NEW row over the future of the biggest Fringe venue has flared after its owners insisted they were pressing on with a radical refurbishment plan which could see the whole building out of commission for two festivals.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=479Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:34:49 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=478IT IS the world-famous event which takes over Edinburgh every August, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors and bringing millions of pounds to the city.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=478Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:32:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=477WHEN Vince Cable stands up at the Edinburgh Book Festival next week to debate the global financial meltdown, he is unlikely to provide his audience with much cheer.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=477Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:06:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=452‘I DON’T know where my home is,” says Lydia Azzopardi, without a trace of melancholy. “I’ve been here for nearly 30 years, and it was very difficult in the beginning because I couldn’t speak the language, but I was used to that, I’d moved around a lot.” By “here”, Azzopardi means Barcelona, where she has spent the past three decades living and working, alongside her partner (on stage and off), Cesc Gelabert. Born in England and trained at the London Contemporary Dance School, Azzopardi spent several years travelling the world, eventually arriving in Spain where she fell in love with Gelabert - the man and the dancer. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=452Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:08:45 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=436SCOTTISH authors are proving a popular draw across the Edinburgh International Book Festival, staff said yesterday, and big names from the Booker Prize list are also selling well.Sarah Grady, programme director for the children's festival, said: "Sales are up; this is a really good year."http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=436Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:20:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=435DAYS before, William Hurt had been on the high-rolling set of Hollywood's latest take on Robin Hood, playing a powerful English earl in a $130 million (£79m) epic of swordplay, archery and horsemanship, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=435Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:16:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=399TICKET sales for the Edinburgh International Festival are running neck and neck with the bumper year of 2008 - but key shows this opening weekend are experiencing radically different fortunes, it has emerged.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=399Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:08:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=371IN INDIA'S state of Chhattisgarh, plagued by malnutrition and malaria, a glimmer of hope arrived 12 years ago in the form of a pioneering doctor.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=371Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:23:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=364THE director of a leading independent Fringe venue accused Edinburgh City Council yesterday of "pure greed" in crippling small Festival operators with a huge rise in theatre licence fees.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=364Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:46:27 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=363A NIGHT out in Edinburgh is never a cheap affair, but having a drink during the Festival requires extra deep pockets.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=363Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=331A MAJOR consultation exercise is to be launched by Edinburgh's Fringe Society in the wake of last year's box office fiasco.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=331Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:35:02 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=330THE curtain went up this week on a Fringe show that threatens to dash Edinburgh's strait-laced reputation for good.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=330Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:23:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=270THE festival season in Edinburgh got under way yesterday with a traditional cavalcade taking a new route in the city.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=270Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:38:29 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=269THE first time I saw Patrick "Dirty Pat" Bath was on a stage at Bristo Square, putting a sword up his nose. Now here he was in front of me, two days later, pitching his Fringe show The Dark Party to me.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=269Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:34:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=233FILM stars Brian Cox, Richard E Grant and Alan Cumming are among the stars who have been lined up to act as international ambassadors for the Edinburgh festivals.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=233Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:45:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=207AN 8,000-strong crowd saw the Edinburgh Military Tattoo start its Homecoming celebrations last night - with a show featuring everything from operatic versions of Burns classics and a dramatic military rescue to dazzling drumming displays, swaying calypso beats and stilt walkers in horse costumes.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=207Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:48:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=206TELEVISION coverage of this year's Fringe acts has surged, helped by the popularity of big comedy shows, the director of one of the event's biggest venues said yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=206Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:44:24 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=205THE fierce competition and heavy costs for new comic talent trying to break through on the Fringe brought warnings yesterday that the next generation of comedians could stay away from Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=205Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:41:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=201ADVANCE sales of Fringe tickets have soared by 40 per cent.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=201Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:28:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=200AMNESTY International has revealed the names of a further two comedians who will perform at its Stand Up For Freedom show at the Capital's Assembly Hall.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=200Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:24:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=199ORGANISERS of this weekend's Mela Festival are promising it will be the biggest and best yet, with 50,000 people expected to flock to Pilrig Park.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=199Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:50:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=196AMONG the many weird and wonderful spaces employed as Edinburgh Fringe venues, one of the strangest has to be my Glasgow flat.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=196Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:40:51 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=193LONG-AWAITED plans for a spectacular new arena which will host year-round events at Edinburgh Castle esplanade can be revealed today by The Scotsman.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=193Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:47:39 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=192A FUTURE director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival should embrace the organisation's unique ties to Scottish writers to keep its pole position on the literary scene, the boss of its biggest rival said yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=192Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:44:20 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=191AN AWARD-winning novelist and a celebrated children's writer are the two latest additions to the bill of the Edinburgh International Book Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=191Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:39:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=190THE annual Edinburgh People's Festival kicks off tomorrow with a fine arts competition that will offer artists the chance to win £1,000.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=190Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:36:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=189ACTOR Brian Cox met some of the cast of the controversial Fringe show Mercy Madonna of Malawi yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=189Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:35:11 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=188THE Festival of Spirituality and Peace is to hold its official launch this weekend.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=188Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:29:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=187 POP star Peter Andre is to lift the lid on his heartbreak over splitting from former glamour model Katie Price in Edinburgh later this month.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=187Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:27:23 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=186THE Capital's largest conference venue expects more than 50,000 revellers to attend its series of dance and comedy performances.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=186Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:24:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=177PRE-SCHOOL characters and presenters from Five's TV programme Milkshake! will perform a brand new stage show at the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=177Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:46:32 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=171FUNDRAISING tickets for this year's Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert have still not sold out.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=171Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:01:52 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=170THE Edinburgh Jazz Festival got off with a swing as thousands flocked to free events at the weekend.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=170Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:56:47 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=176THE BBC is "short-changing" Edinburgh's festivals after it emerged that it is sending fewer staff to cover the world's largest celebration of the arts than it did to T in the Park.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=176Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:30:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=166THE Edinburgh Military Tattoo has announced record box office receipts - despite taking three months longer to sell out than last year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=166Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:59:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=159A LEADING Fringe venue has enlisted a special doctor to cope with potential swine flu cases during the Festival season.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=159Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:28:00 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=158AMNESTY International has seen a record number of entries for its Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=158Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:25:15 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=154THEY say that it's too big, too commercialised, dominated by big-name comedy, and increasingly hostile to new work: and there's a grain of truth in all those complaints.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=154Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:41:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=153FIVE pedestrian crossings are to be opened up across the tramworks in Princes Street in Edinburgh City Council's "mitigation plan" for the Festival's biggest headache.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=153Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:37:38 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=152ONE of Scotland's most prestigious independent schools is marking its 350th anniversary in an unusual way - with an exhibition in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=152Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:33:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=151ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo have insisted this year's event will be played out before full houses - as it was revealed that acts from China, Canada, Australia and Switzerland will be among the star attractions.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=151Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:30:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=150THE Bank of Scotland is giving 600 prime tickets for the festival Fireworks Concert on 6 September to the British Heart Foundation charity to sell at £25 apiece, it announced yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=150Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:26:35 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=149MORE late-night trains should be operated during the Edinburgh Festival, passenger watchdogs have urged.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=149Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:24:34 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=141ONE of the world's most famous social networking sites is being brought to life on stage in the Capital.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=141Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:41:19 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=134EDINBURGH Jazz Festival Orchestra Director Dave Milligan visits Cafe Royal where the inspiration for his latest work began.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=134Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:18:18 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=133ACCLAIMED actors Frances Barber and Niall Buggy will perform Brian Friel's Afterplay at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=133Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:12:54 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=132ACCLAIMED musicians Shubhendra Rao and Saskia Rao-de Haas are heading for the Capitalhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=132Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:09:30 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=130THIS YEAR'S festival season in Edinburgh is shaping up to be one of the most successful ever. While that might seem an odd state of affairs, given the current economic outlook, the disruption to the city caused by the tram works and the threat of an all-out strike by binmen, it is hard to deny the facts.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=130Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:24:28 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=129THE saga of the queen of pop's controversial African adoptions is heading to the Fringe.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=129Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:28:04 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=1241 Chomp: A Zombie Musicalhttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=124Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:25:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=123NEVE McIntosh is sitting across the table from me in a coffee shop in St Pancras Station. A stopping-off point for Eurostar travellers, it is not a place you expect to see displays of high emotion. Which is why it is so incongruous to see the actress's eyes welling up and her speech going to pieces as she stifles a sob. She has to excuse herself while she grabs a napkin and wipes the tears away, flummoxed that merely talking about her latest stage role has set her off.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=123Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:23:12 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=121'HANG on a sec," warns Jim Jefferies down the line from his rented home in Malibu, California. "I'm just trying to find a flat surface to roll up on." Fittingly for a comic with a reputation for happily violating the boundaries of decency and taste, he chances upon an appropriately improper object for the task in hand: "It's an illustrated children's Bible," he snickers. "Now, where were we?"http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=121Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:18:58 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=115SIR Sean Connery used the final day of Scotland's major film festival yesterday to launch an outspoken attack against the BBC's poor coverage of the event.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=115Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:20:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=108LEADING venues at the Edinburgh Fringe are reporting record ticket sales - despite fears the event would be damaged by the box office chaos which engulfed the festival last year.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=108Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:32:13 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=92EDINBURGH Festival Fringe organisers have come under fire from angry customers who were forced to wait hours to book tickets on a "priority" hotline.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=92Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:51:44 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=81IN HIS latest novel, published this week, crime writer Quentin Jardine imagines a murder in the authors' yurt at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=81Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:18:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=80FRINGE shows this year range from staged witness accounts of the Mumbai terror attack in A Personal War to the global recession through the prism of the 1929 crash in Suckerville.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=80Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:14:56 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=79EDINBURGH Festival Fringe organisers yesterday promised that a new box-office system would not let down festival-goers, as they unveiled details of a record-breaking 2009 event.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=79Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:13:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=72AN AWARD-WINNING Jewish director has asked for his name to be stripped from the records of the Edinburgh International Film Festival after organisers rejected a travel grant for an Israeli film-maker.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=72Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:50:16 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=71SCOTLAND'S most famous living composer has waded into the Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) funding row.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=71Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:47:59 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=70ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh film festival apologised last night for the "distress" caused after it accepted cash from the Israeli embassy, sparking a major funding row.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=70Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:43:43 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=69GUY Pearce, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Emily Blunt are among a star-studded cast of actors who will be gracing the red carpet at next month's Edinburgh International Film Festival, it was revealed yesterday.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=69Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:41:06 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=78SIR SEAN Connery is to attend this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival to help celebrate Scotland's Year of Homecoming. http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=78Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:36:57 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=63TEN Hollywood agents are to be enticed to "network" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in a bid to find US backers for Scottish film-makers.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=63Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:33:10 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=62ORGANISERS of the Edinburgh International Film Festival have been forced to return a donation from the Israeli embassy after director Ken Loach waded into the funding row and called for people to boycott the event on political grounds.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=62Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:31:26 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=59BOBBY Carlyle was in the first film I ever shot," recalls cinematographer Seamus McGarvey.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=59Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:23:03 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=75THIS year's full line-up already seems significantly stronger and more confident than its immediate predecessor.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=75Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:11:37 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=74THE Edinburgh International Film Festival unveiled a programme boasting a record 23 world premieres from 31 countries yesterday, including five new Scottish films.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=74Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:10:41 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=57THE programme for this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) boasts 23 world premieres and 16 international premieres, it was announced today.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=57Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:18:31 GMThttp://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=56TOP directors Sam Mendes and Darren Aronofsky will appear at the 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival it was announced today.http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewnews.aspx?id=56Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:16:27 GMT