Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts Festival in the world - featuring theatre, comedy, dance and physical theatre, music and musicals, children’s and street theatre, exhibitions and events, magic and mime, and just about anything in-between. This Festival more than any other transforms the streets of Edinburgh city centre in the month of August, with buskers, street theatre and live entertainment filling nearly every cobblestone.

The 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is host to 31,000 performances, 2000 shows and 18,000 performers who will entertain more than 1.5 million people in 250 venues across the city.

Festival Dates

2008: 3 - 25 August
2009: 7 - 31 August

Fringe invite entries for arts journalism award

Arts journalists take note! The Edinburgh Festival Fringe have unveiled details of a competition that seeks to recognise and encourage quality arts journalism.
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Edinburgh's first dedicated musical programme launches

It's a call to the Diary Room as Musical Theatre @ George Square - a programme devoted purely to musicals - opens its doors.
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Watching the humans

Edinburgh's Festivals checks in to see how the unusual inhabitants of Enclosure 44 at Edinburgh Zoo are getting on during day two.
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Transgressive tendencies

Is it a garden? Is it a beach? And why is that man going backwards upside down through the air? Welcome to Transgression in the Urban Garden.
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