Edinburgh festival

It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. Dedicated to new plays, the...

I’m standing on an Edinburgh street corner waiting for my next show but things feel a little different: I’m in a queue of...

There are drag queens, drag kings – and then there’s Wet Mess. In May on Instagram, they revealed what is for them a...

Stephanie Laing admits she hasn’t been very kind to her body over the years. “I’ve been an alcoholic, I’ve self-harmed, and just been...

‘If you’re not in an OK place, you’re just re-traumatising yourself,” says Anna Akana, who is performing her show, It Gets Darker, at...

No Edinburgh fringe is complete without a strident conversation about how much it costs artists to perform: who is excluded and who is...

Olaf Falafel: My desire to spontaneously sing The Lion Sleeps Tonight is always just a whim away.Jack Skipper: I failed RE. Couldn’t believe...