Whatever else Edinburgh knows hows to do, it knows how to party and in August and September Edinburgh lets it hair down. The worlds biggest theatre and fringe festival take centre stage. Is it worth the effort should I make the trip www.edinburghfestivalfringe.com would suggest that whatever else you do this year try to come to Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Film Festival 18th -29th June
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival
25th July -3rd of August
Edinburgh Book Festival 9th-25th August
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
3rd-25th August - Booking Now
Edinburgh International Festival
8th August -31st August - Programme launch 2nd April - Bookings from 12th April
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
 1st - 23rd August 2008 - SOLD OUT
Edinburgh Comedy Festival
30th July -25th of August
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The New York International Theatre Film and Arts Festival 

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will be held again in 2009 and shows and films will be selected again from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Dublin Fringe Festival, the New York Fringe Festival and all the other fringe festivals around the world. So if you want your show to be reviewed by the NYIT Fest, please email your interest as soon as possible so it can be arranged for a NYIT Fest Review Team to see and reveiw your show live at one of the fringe festivals around the world. Unfortunately there are not enough members of the review team world wide to see all fringe shows, so please get in earlly and show your interest. The review team are also looking for fringe plays that maybe suitable to be turned into films, so if your are keen about your show being selected to be turned into a film also please email your interest as soon as possible.
All enquires to be made to:
International Entertainment, Music, Theatre and Film Consultant
Email Address: info@nyitfest.org

Fringe Venues Year Round
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DANCE

Dance Base (pictured)
Dancebase is the National Centre for Dance in Scotland. Throughout the Fringe it hosts dance classes held by visiting dance artists as well as a wide range of Fringe workshops. For the latest dance events at the venue CLICK HERE.

 

COMEDY

The Stand Comedy Club
Edinburgh's year round comedy club is housed in an intimate basement bar just off St. Andrews Square. The atmosphere is relaxed and informal with comfortable cabaret style seating (although some late night shows are not all seated).  CLICK HERE to find out who's playing.

Jongleurs
A unique blend of fun, food, dance and comedy that will have you laughing your heads off.  Jongleurs comedy normally takes place on Friday and Saturday and when the comedy finishes at 11pm you can stay and dance to some classic musical hits until 3am.  CLICK HERE to find out who's coming.

THEATRE

Traverse Theatre
Scotland's new writing theatre is 'one of Europe's most important homes for new plays' (Sunday Herald) and a multiple Fringe First & Herald Angel award winner. Includes the legendary Traverse Bar Cafe offering high quality food and drink 09:00-02:00.  To find out what's on now CLICK HERE.

Theatre Workshop
Buzzing year round venue in Stockbridge within easy walking distance of Princes Street.  Theatre Workshop aims to produce theatre that is well crafted, moving, challenging, beautiful, accessible and honest and was the first professional producing theatre in Europe to include disabled actors into its main house production season and continues to do so.  CLICK HERE to go to their website.

Brunton Theatre
Brunton Theatre is situated within Brunton Hall, a civic building located on the western side of Musselburgh. The Theatre seats 296 in tiered seating and all seats have a clear, open view of the stage. The Theatre is fully accessible for disabled patrons and performers.  From Drama to Film, Family Fun to Music you'll find it all here.  CLICK HERE for details.

Church Hill Theatre
In addition to being one of most popular venues at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Church Hill Theatre is also the annual home to many of the city's amateur theatre companies including Lothian Youth Arts, Tempo, SMYCMS, Edinburgh Music Theatre Company and Showcase.  Contact Assembly Rooms for further information enquiries@assemblyroomsedinburgh.co.uk

MUSIC

Bongo Club
The Bongo Club is the home to all that's funky and fun, new and experimental in Edinburgh. It's festival features have included the infamous Bongo Club Caberet as well as being the venue for The Tap Water Awards, the Bongo Club's answer to the Perrier Awards. For the latest news on Bongo Club events CLICK HERE.

The Jazz Bar
Scotland's only purpose-designed, full-time, dedicated Jazz and Music venue. This stylish, comfortable bar has music as the focus, presented twice a night, seven nights a week. The emphasis is on programming Scotland's top musicians plus occasional visiting international bands.  For more details CLICK HERE.

The Queen's Hall
Part of Assembly Venues during Fringe The Queen's Hall is the HQ of live music in Edinburgh.  It offers a wide range of events to tempt you all year round - classical, jazz, blues, pop, rock, world, folk and comedy, and is also home to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.  CLICK HERE to get all the listings.

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FRINGE 2008 3 - 25 AUGUST

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is officially the largest arts festival in the world. In 2007 hundreds of groups participated putting on 2,050 different shows with a total of 31,000 performances in 250 venues.

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Anyone can perform at the Fringe as it's an open arts festival. The Festival Fringe Society (commonly known as the Fringe Office) does not produce any of the shows, does not invite anybody to perform and pays no fees to performers. We do, however, help you every step of the way. Click here to get started.

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Comedy
Big Jessie's bag of drag
Drags Aloud & Gilded Balloon Productions &
TEVIOT - WINE BAR
00:30 - 02:00
Dip into Big Jessie's comedy-cabaret and experience a chorus line of divas and dancers, feathers, sequins and support hose.. and more costume changes than a Kylie concert. Featuring show stopping Broadway numbers, Disco Divas and irresistible mus...
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Comedy
Carnival des Phenomenes
This Is Serious
TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB
00:30 - 04:00
To the ladies and gentlemen about town, for your amazement we present an extravagant and revelrous evening of improvised comedy spectacles, partying and entertainment. Following months of sell-out shows in London, the improv showcase and debauche...
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Comedy
Late 'n' Live
GB Productions
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL
01:00 - 05:00
It’s late and it’s live. The Queen of the late night shows at the Fringe where comics live and die and the audience is King! Not for the fainthearted! The hottest late night compares, comedians and bands. 'The celebrated comedy abattoi...
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Childrens
...Pat&Mat!
Divadlo Neslysim
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL
10:30 - 11:30
‘...Pat&Mat!’ (‘...and that's it’) is a popular children's TV program in Europe, and our theatre performs it onstage! We use live actors, not puppets, and is hysterically entertaining. Children have responded to this performance very positively since...
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Childrens
Ian Billings Out Of His Mind
TEVIOT - WEE ROOM
11:00 - 12:00
Enter the wonky bonkers world of kid’s comedian and author, Ian Billings, for a tickle-filled hour of chuckle puns and giggle gags. Do dinner ladies come from outer space? Be prepared for belly laughs – remember to bring your belly. ‘Ian...
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Childrens
Silly Billy Bum Breath Strikes Back
Black Can Productions
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM
11:00 - 12:00
The 2006/2007 sell-out kids' comedy sketch show is back for five days only so catch it while you can. The most fun you can have in one hour with your kids. Mess and mayhem guaranteed! 'The most enjoyable children's show on the fringe.' TH...
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Childrens
The Just In Case
Ambidextrous
TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM
11:30 - 12:30
WHAT's in your case.. just in case? Just in case of WHAT? A host of weird, wonderful and wacky WHATs are brought to life by dance, physical theatre, puppetry and object animation! Come and join Ambidextrous and The Just In Case on an adve...
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Childrens
Apple Tree Maiden
Divadlo Neslysim
TEVIOT - WINE BAR
12:00 - 13:00
With a gentle humour, and a Gothic style, from a beautiful poem, a beautiful performance. For the little kids, and the big kids too! Come in and lose yourself in a great story. Everything expected from a fairytale: a fearless prince, an enchan...
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Theatre
Bully
Richard Fry
TEVIOT - THE TURRET
12:00 - 13:00
‘Bully’ is a gripping tour-de-verse about one man’s struggle against a life of violence and oppression. Dealing with dark subject matters ranging from homophobia and domestic violence to death and Su Pollard, Richard Fry's punchy script unfolds a...
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Comedy
Rule of Three - Sketchual Healing
Rule of Three
TEVIOT - BALCONY
12:00 - 13:00
Straight from their sell-out West End hit, Brooks Livermore (one for the ladies), Roisin Rae (one for the dads) and James Card (one for the road) bring you some sketchual healing to cure the Edinburgh hangover. 'Fast-paced, anarchic fun.' Reco...
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Comedy
The Guardian at the Gilded Balloon
TEVIOT - NIGHTCLUB
12:00 - 12:45
You can get the best of the festival, free all week! Join The Guardian At The Gilded Balloon for the recording of our podcast - the perfect way to start your day. Comedian Miles Jupp is your host for a fast paced show featuring some great acts, re...
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Theatre
DIRT
Dreck Productions
TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS
12:15 - 13:25
An Iraqi immigrant tells his story. His name is Sad. He lives in your city. He sells roses and loves to speak English. But nobody listens. Will you? The most powerful play about racism currently on stage. Sold out: New York/Vienna/Hamburg. ...
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Comedy
It Is Rocket Science!
Helen Keen
TEVIOT - WEE ROOM
12:30 - 13:25
Helen Keen (winner of Channel 4’s New Comedy Writing Award, ‘highly amusing’ Time Out) loves space rockets. She brings their story to life with a meteor shower of jokes, a cosmos of costumes and approximately 99 feet of tinfoil. Space-based silli...
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Theatre
Love labours Won
Rogue Shakespeare Company
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM
12:30 - 13:30
Now in its third successive year! The critically acclaimed, multi award-winning original verse comedy returns by popular demand. Pick of the Fringe 2006 & 2007! ‘This is unmissable.’*****‘funny, brilliantly acted’*... THREE WEEKS
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Theatre
The Patriot Act
The Green Room Presents
TEVIOT - BILLIARD ROOM
12:45 - 14:30
A world-famous, playwright runs afoul of US anti-terror laws and is given a stark choice: write a government-approved, anti-terror play or be imprisoned for the rest of his life. A drama by Lydia Bruce and Sandy Burns about how America faces dan...
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Comedy
Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe
TEVIOT - DEBATING HALL
13:00 - 14:30
So many shows! How do you choose? Why not watch and enjoy this 90 minute show of carefully researched live extracts from 8 of the best shows in town and then go and see the ones you like? Simple! Brilliant! 17th Year ‘A vibrant and stimulat...
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Theatre
Beyonce - Stop Punching Robbie!
Cecilia Delatori
TEVIOT - BALCONY
13:15 - 14:15
Divorcing teacher struggles at George Galloway Nursery, Bethnal Green. B*LLOCKS sprayed on sandpit covers. Christmas party clown pissed. Staffroom Bullying. Defiant little Beyonce Dimmock and mother Sade. Yet special needs teacher resembles Bollywoo...
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Theatre
Which to Burn?
Seafar Productions
TEVIOT - THE TURRET
13:15 - 14:15
Obsessed with a man is one thing. Obsessed with a bridge, quite another. A chance discovery in a second-hand bookshop forces a choice between a safe, imagined relationship and a terrifying real one. Rachel Ogilvy (High Road) returns to the Fring...
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Theatre
British Ambassador's Belly Dancer
Nadira Murray
TEVIOT - WINE BAR
13:30 - 14:40
The extraordinary true story of Nadira Murray, the British Ambassador's Bellydancer. Dismissed in the press as a dumb bimbo, she faught tooth and nail to survive an undemocratic regime that practices systematic torture of its citizens, Scraping a ...
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Comedy
Dan March-My Myspace Baby
Unexpected Productions
TEVIOT - WEE ROOM
13:45 - 14:45
Award nominated Dan March discovered he was a father...a year AFTER the birth of his daughter. The surprising, hilarious and heart-warming true tale of the one night stand, the Myspace message and the patter of tiny feet...oh and the DNA test! ...
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Theatre
In A Thousand Pieces
The Paper Birds Theatre Company
TEVIOT - DINING ROOM
13:45 - 14:45
Jig-saws, bus tickets and buttons tell the physically and visually breathtaking tale of an Eastern European girl on her journey to England. A delicate depiction of an isolated world home to thousands of women forced into today’s sex industry beautifu...
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Theatre
Table 23
Hot Tubs and Trampolines
TEVIOT - SPORTSMANS
13:45 - 14:45
Timmy Mallett once used the toilets of the mermaid cafe! But empty seats attract empty people, in a city where somebody is constantly searching for their someone. What is it to be lonely? What's behind the pasta promises and facebook facade? ...
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Theatre
Torn Out Pages
Reduced Circumstances
TEVIOT - NIGHT CLUB
14:00 - 15:00
With her pants round her ankles and about to lose her virginity at the grand old age of 39, Elaine Reid has a flashback. What the hell happened during that blistering 60s summer? Her mother holds the answer, but should this secret stay buried? ...
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Theatre
Attack Of The Soccer Moms
Green Room Presents
TEVIOT - THE TURRET
14:30 - 15:45
Satan cuts a deal with a pair of back-stabbing American mothers who will stop at nothing to make sure their little princesses succeed on the soccer field in a satire that mocks America's desperate lust to succeed and "win" at all costs. Written ...
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Comedy
Dermot McMorrow: 13 Black Cats in the shape of a Magpie
EdCom8 presents
TEVIOT - BALCONY
14:30 - 15:30
What would you do if cornered in an alleyway by algebraic equations? What would you find if you stopped to look under some fresh road-kill? Of course you know speed-dating, but what in the world is magic-mushroom-dating? Only Dermot McMorrow knows th...
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Theatre
Like A Virgin
Bubblebum Theatre