Edinburgh Festival

An empty restaurant but for two people. A successful married couple sit opposite one another. They are celebrating the opening of their new venture as they wait for a guest to join them. When he arrives he will quietly and confidently lay waste to their comfortable lives and everything they ever believed. They wait… he enters … and the horror gradually unfolds.

From shy minister's daughter to Oscar-nominated, booze-soaked, shockingly foul mouthed Hollywood star… Come and meet Rachel Roberts at the Roxy at 3pm each day at this year's Edinburgh Fringe…

The World Premiere of Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker's sharp and satirical musical plays C Venues at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Grace Bishop, Nicola Kill, and Rosie Watson will take on the titular role of Greta, Annie Kirkman makes her professional debut as the manipulative Fay, they will be joined by Sam Turrell as Tony, Michael Rees as Reg/Fred, Melissa Hovelle as Rita, Will Mulvey as Gregory Hampton M.P, Chelsea Corfield as Ute and Paul Brangan as Norm. The production will run today, 31st July - 26th August (not 13th) : 21:35 (1hr10) | C (venue 34).

BONK! will be performing each night (except for Sundays) at 21:20 hrs in TheSpace @ Jury's Inn throughout the Edinburgh Festival and we would very much love for you to pop along and see us in action.

'It's not that I always dreamed of being onstage,' says Dallas, Texas, theater critic and playwright Elaine Liner. 'But I'm a storyteller and this is my story.' Liner's one-act solo comedy Sweater Curse: A Yarn about Love debuts at this summer's Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 1:15 p.m. daily, August 1-26, at Sweet/Grassmarket International 4 (Venue 18).

MoCKeD HArts presents a happy side (as well) by Niall Wilson. 'Anna? Anna, anything to say?'

After a successful London run, Aloff Theatre joins the Edinburgh Fringe with the British premiere of Elchin Afandiyev's play My Favourite Madman, which runs 2 - 10 August (preview night: 2-3 July) at the Gryphon Venues.

Chaz Royal & Edinburgh Burlesque Festival presents 'BEST OF BURLESQUE' at the ASSEMBLY GARDENS, BOSCO TENT, 11:59pm Nightly, 1-25 AUGUST 2013.

The cast has been announced for the World Premiere of Tim Anfilogoff and Alan Whittaker's sharp and satirical musical at C Venues at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Grace Bishop, Nicola Kill, and Rosie Watson will take on the titular role of Greta, Annie Kirkman makes her professional debut as the manipulative Fay, they will be joined by Sam Turrell as Tony, Michael Rees as Reg/Fred, Melissa Hovelle as Rita, Will Mulvey as Gregory Hampton M.P, Chelsea Corfield as Ute and Paul Brangan as Norm.

Performer Aisling Kiely brings Cinderella Lives! - her sexily-skewed solo retelling of the Cinderella story - to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe from the 3rd - 24th August.

Female double-act Wilkinson Ford bring their new full-length show 'Wilkinson Ford: Webmasters' to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2013. The show runs 3rd - 24th August inclusive (exc. Wednesdays) at 8.45pm at Base (Venue 56), 69 Cowgate, EH1 1JW.

An empty restaurant but for two people. A successful married couple sit opposite one another. They are celebrating the opening of their new venture as they wait for a guest to join them. When he arrives he will quietly and confidently lay waste to their comfortable lives and everything they ever believed. They wait… he enters … and the horror gradually unfolds.

Josh Rochford and James Robert-Moore lead a young and vibrant cast in the European Premiere of Stephen Cole and David Krane's bio-comic musical which tells the true tale of how the Emir of Qatar commissioned Cole and Krane to write him an arena style musical production.

John Rawls's A THEORY OF JUSTICE: THE MUSICAL! is an all-singing, all-dancing romp through 2,500 years of political philosophy. The sell-out and critically acclaimed original Oxford production is being revived for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at C Venues, beginning Wednesday 31 July and playing through Monday 26 August 2013.

Whilst studying together at Guildford School of Acting in 2011, co-creators Jessica Spray and James Wilson-Taylor created a 10-minute musical about Doctor Who that they have since developed into an hour-long show called I NEED A DOCTOR, under the guidance of renowned theatre director Ben Occhipinti, The Pleasance Theatre Trust, producer Anna Haigh and general managers Stormy Teacup Theatre. Click below to watch the official trailer for the show!

Since its foundation in 2010, critically acclaimed theatre company Fourth Monkey has established a reputation for productions that are as entertaining as they are challenging. Having previously secured two Edinburgh Fringe sell-out laurels (for its adaptation of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in 2010 and Sarah Kane's 4.48 PSYCHOSIS last year), it returns to theSpace on Niddry St. this year, 2-24 August, with three productions.

NoFit State Circus returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with two new shows this summer, BIANCO in the Big Top and NOODLES at New Town Theatre.

Following two critically-acclaimed runs in London and a multi-city Canadian tour, SAPPHO ...in 9 fragments by Jane Montgomery Griffiths, plays for three nights only at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 8, 9, 10 at 19:15 at theSpace Venue 45.

There have been a number of changes and additions to the programme for Edinburgh Festival 2013 since the launch in March. The Festival has announced the casts for Gate Theatre Dublin's productions of Eh Joe and First Love.

Lynx Ensemble will co-produce Bill Bowers' phenomenal solo show IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING in the 2013 International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh next month! But before Bill heads off to this grand adventure, you can support him a bit closer to home at 59E59 Street's East to Edinburgh Festival.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Buonasera! will play the Edinburgh Fringe Fest, beginning 12 August and running through 24 at Space Cabaret (Venue 54.) The production will also preview at London's Proud Cabaret on 4 August.

BETWEEN EMPIRES, a new British musical with book and lyrics by Morgan Mackintosh and Orlando Simon and music by Michail Palaiologou, will receive its world premiere at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing in Symposium Hall from 12 to 24 August.

Hirsch previews at Berkeley Street Theatre, Upstairs July 19 at 8pm, and runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at The Pleasance from August 1-25 at 2:15pm daily (except for Aug. 14).

National Theatre Wales' award-winning political production, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, is to be staged at a school in Edinburgh this summer, as part of both the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the British Council Showcase. It will be staged simultaneously on stage, and in a live stream via an interactive website.

Marko Djordjevic and Sveti will appear tonight, July 4th at Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal St, Manhattan, NY. Call (212) 529-5945 for more information. Sets at 8:30 to 9:45pm and 10:30 to 11:45pm. $12.00 cover-all night.