Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Fringe 2014 will welcome BIANCA BAGATOURIAN AND FRINGE MANAGEMENT's THE TIME OF OUR LIES: The Life and Times of Howard Zinn by Bianca Bagatourian. Performances will play the Gilded Balloon Teviot - DINING ROOM, today, July 30 - August 25th.

Direct from Limerick City! Rubberbandits, the plastic-bag wearing musical comedy duo - the Chortle Award winners responsible for YouTube sensation 'Horse Outside' - bring their brand new musical CONTINENTAL FISTFIGHT to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, straight from its critically-acclaimed, sold-out London season at Soho Theatre. CONTINENTAL FISTFIGHT, which they also recently performed to a packed crowd at Shakespeare's Globe (the first ever comedy gig to play the intimate, candle lit surroundings of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse) is packed with dazzling new songs, great big hits and at least one celebrity puppet.

The VOCA PEOPLE will make their UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014, with a thrilling and original musical comedy sensation already seen by over 1 million viewers worldwide. The show will play today 30 July - 25 August 2014 at 6 p.m. at the Pleasance Courtyard, The Grand.

2012 Fringe First winners Pepperdine Scotland return to the Fringe with another world premiere, FORGET FIRE, devised by the company with Scottish playwright J.C. Marshall.

Writer Rachel Mariner speaks to BWW:UK about her upcoming Edinburgh Fringe 2014 play Bill Clinton: Hercules.

6 - a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Zack Zadek (additional lyrics by Gina DePalo), will receive its European premiere at the Space on North Bridge, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 with previews at London Theatre Workshop 27th - 28th July. Zack is one of America's youngest and most promising composers having 6 - a new musical selected by New York Musical Theatre Festival and featured in 2012. He was soon after invited to perform a solo concert at NYCs famous Joe's Pub. In January 2014 TwentySomething produced Zack's UK debut concert featuring some of London's finest voices.

EVA RYSOVÁ, TEATRO NOD AND CZECH CENTRE LONDON present SIX BILLION SUNS, a play inspired by Alzheimer's disease and picked as one of The Guardian Newspaper Edinburgh Fringe 2014 Hot Tickets. SIX BILLION SUNS, directed by Eva Rysova and dramatized by Ondej Novotný will perform at ZOO (The Monkey House) 8th - 16th August at 14:30 (running time: 60mins).

First he wrote the best-selling book. Then came the OSCAR-winning film MIDNIGHT EXPRESS. Now, Billy Hayes comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his one-man show RIDING THE MIDNIGHT EXPRESS with BILLY HAYES. Live on stage, Hayes will bring his sensational true story of arrest and escape from a Turkish jail to life at new Fringe venue Upstairs@Le Monde from Sunday 3 August 2014.

Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Anne Archer will make her Edinburgh Festival debut starring as 'Jane Fonda' in the world premiere of THE TRIAL OF JANE FONDA, written and directed by seven-time Emmy award-winner Terry Jastrow. Scroll down for a sneak peek at Archer and the company in rehearsal!

Producer Alison Beattie speaks to BWW:UK about her children's play Arabian Nights ahead of its run at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

Comedian Paco Erhard speaks to BWW:UK about his Edinburgh Fringe 2014 show Worst. German. Ever.

Margaret Thatcher Queen Of Soho speaks to BWW:UK about her upcoming performance at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014.

Comedy writer and actress Lizzy Mace speaks to us about her second solo show 'Overlooked' at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.

The producers of Forgotten Voices, a play by Malcolm McKay based on the best-selling book Forgotten Voices of the Great War by Max Arthur, are delighted to announce the cast and special guest artists for the show's run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014. The acclaimed stars of stage and screen who will be appearing as guest artists* are: Julian Sands and Robert Vaughn (30 July - 6 August), Christopher Timothy (14 - 18 August), Robert Powell (14 and 15 August), James Fleet (20 - 25 August) and Celia Imrie (20 - 22 August). They join core cast members: Philip Fox, Geoff Leesley, Gerrard McArthur and Wendy Nottingham. *Further guest casting is to be announced.

Premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, The 3rd Sector inspired by real life events, takes the audience on a dark satirical journey through the modern world of corporate charity. The play investigates our relationship with charity at a time when spending cuts are felt in every sector, and in every household. The 3rd Sector is set in a high profile charity, Transplants for Britain and is a dark comedy which explores how your charity contributions are actually spent, and asks you to decide what kind of charity you want to support.

Paul Merton returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with his world renowned Impro Chums. Paul and his Chums are wonders of nature. They take audience suggestions and create cascades of fantastic tumbling laughter... Most of the time. Paul's Impro Chums are Mike McShane, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster and together they will create a new and unique comedy show every single night, based entirely on suggestions from the audience, their own finely honed improvisational skills and an almost manic compulsion to show off.

They say 'write about what you know', so Irish comedian Michael Downey decided to write about being blue, because he's experienced all its shades. Yes Michael has been blue but who hasn't? Michael knows the despair of making tea and discovering he has no milk, he knows the sadness of sitting an exam with nothing but blind optimism in your head that you might pass. And he's suffered the darkest blue by missing an episode of Coronation Street.

das Blackout is an insider's guide to Earth's final frontier: the eerie yet fascinatingly dark landscape of the German soul - a mysterious place, were guilt, Schadenfreude and bratwurst reside. Along the way Michael will be also be journeying into the uncharted realms of Austrian nuclear intelligence, Swiss erotica and hijackers from Outer Space in his efforts to make the world realise that German funny bones should be an essential dish on every comedy connoisseur's menu.

'WANT AN ALL OUT LAUGH-FEST WITH GAGS-A-PLENTY? MAFF BROWN IS YOUR MAN. I SAW HIM TEAR THE ROOF OFF, GENERATING MORE JOY AND MORE LAUGHTER THAN ANY ARENA-SELLING COMEDIAN' - GQ From the writer of Shooting Stars and Mock the Week comes a brand new show featuring some of the sharpest one-liners you're likely to hear at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe (or anywhere else for that matter).

'ONE OF THE NATION'S FUNNIEST IMPERSONATORS' - Independent Jess Robinson, the star of BBC1's Dead Ringers, Impressions Show, and the UK tour of Jim Cartwright's Little Voice, is proud to present her debut solo show at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 'A BLIZZARD OF SONGS. SHE BRINGS THE HOUSE DOWN' - Express Join Jess for a sublime hour of music and laughter as she impersonates everyone from classic Hollywood stars to pampered pop celebs. Discover why she is a mimic (her overbearing Jewish mother) and learn some impressions yourself so you can impress your mates. You may never be yourself again...

"A TOUR DE FORCE...REALLY HIT HOME WITH THE AUDIENCE…I IMPLORE YOU TO WATCH THIS ACT AS SOON AS YOU CAN" - Salfordian Lee Martin for Gag Reflex is proud to present the debut full-length show from Gein's Family Giftshop. An hour of dark, absurd and fast paced sketches marrying the tragic with the riotous. This unique trio has rapidly (or should that be rabidly) become known for applying their very own warped world vision to the hilarious subject matter of abject misery and human tragedy.

American satirist Erich McElroy returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with the final show in his British Trilogy - a brand new show inspired by the forthcoming referendum for Scottish independence. Erich's first show in 2006 - Brokeback Britain - looked at the UK from the point of view of a foreigner in a foreign land and in his 2012 show - The Brit Identity - he chronicled his transition from expat to immigrant. Now in his latest show, The British Referendum, Erich makes his case for the Union. He's proud of his British passport and when he got he didn't realize the Scottish section might get torn out. Having Scottish ancestry, becoming British made Erich feel like he had come home. However, if the referendum passes there will be a border guard to the top floor of Grandpa's house. And that's where all the whisky's kept. Could it be that this American - turned Brit - with Scottish heritage is the only comic at the Fringe to stand by the Union Jack?

'A MASTER OF PUNS... BRIMMING FULL OF ENERGY, IMPROVISED HUMOUR AND FINELY TUNED ROUTINES...QUICK WITTED, WITHOUT CYNICISM, AND HILARIOUS' - Broadway Baby After four sell-out runs with Fringe favourites Racing Minds (Aaaand Now For Something Completely Improvised), 1.5 million views on YouTube and sold out tours to Australia and India, BBC New Comedy Award finalist Chris is proud to present his debut solo show.

Gilded Balloon are proud to present American Comedians Camilla Cleese, Sarah Tiana and Cort McCowan in their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut show. Three American stand-ups, and guests, bring American humour to our shores, and show us how to laugh... Sarah Tiana (Chelsea Lately, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson), Cort McCowan (twice voted best in Vegas, and regular at The Comedy Store in Hollywood) and Camilla Cleese (she of the tall father - making her own way in the world of stand-up) soon to appear in the movie Bachelorette Weekend.

Gilded Balloon are proud to present the debut full-length solo show from Comedian Andy de la Tour at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Only two human activities happen in front of a brick wall. Standing at a mic telling jokes or being shot by firing squad.