Edinburgh Festival

Following performances on The Late Show with David Letterman and Live at the Apollo, hit tours of Australia, New Zealand and North America; one of Scotland's biggest comedy exports, Danny Bhoy, brings his internationally renowned Gaelic charm back to Scotland for 5 nights at the Edinburgh EICC 3rd-8th August and tour dates across Scotland from the 12th September.

The Edinburgh City Council have approved plans to close George Street, Edinburgh, for David Bates' Famous Spiegeltent and an al fresco festival area promoted jointly with Tommy Sheppard's Assembly Rooms, according to Brian Ferguson of the Scotsman.

Acclaimed young ensemble curious directive returns to Edinburgh with a brand new show, following the outstanding, Fringe-First winning Your Last Breath at Edinburgh 2011. AFTER THE RAINFALL plays 1-27 August, 2012, at 15:40 (1 hour 15) at the Pleasance.

In 2011, Mark Grist went from being an English teacher in the fens to defeating a teenage grime artist in a rap battle that has attracted over 2 million hit on YouTube. In his first solo Edinburgh show, ROGUE TEACHER, he shares his eventful journey from the classroom to the battlefield through his unique brand of spoken word. The show plays August 2-26 (not 14th) at the Delhi Belly, Underbelly.

Action to the Word's breathtaking all-male version of A Clockwork Orange returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following its five-star, sell-out run in 2011. This electrifying and testosterone-filled physical theatre horror show exquisitely captures and transcends the spirit of Anthony Burgess' original literary masterpiece, 50 years on from its publication. The show will play August 1-26 at Pleasance Forth in the Pleasance Courtyard at 15:40pm.

The record-breaking West End show Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain is charging up to the Pleasance Courtyard for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. This special Edinburgh production introduces William Wallace and Burke and Hare into the horrible history of Britain and will run from 3rd - 26th August 2012.

C venues will operate the India Buildings on Victoria Street for this coming Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2012. One of Edinburgh's best-known A-listed buildings in the heart of the Old Town, India Buildings will operate under the festival name C nova.

Mick Perrin for JFLL presents Nina Conti in DOLLY MIXTURES at Pleasance Dome, Potterow, 1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL from 1st - 27th August at 8.30pm, as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

William Burdett-Coutts, the artistic director of Assembly Theatre, the organisation which ran Fringe shows at the Assembly Rooms before moving to George Square due to the building's refurbishment in 2010, has suggested that Assembly Fringe is 'passing off'. As previously reported in BroadwayWorld, the Assembly Fringe will be running shows in the Assembly Rooms this year from July onwards.

Tommy Sheppard, the new Fringe Director of the Assembly has announced that a newly refurbished Assembly Rooms will showcase forty producton as part of the Assembly Festival's programme for the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August.

In his solo show entitled DESPERATELY SEEKING THE EXIT to be performed at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Peter Michael Marino tells the warts 'n all story of how the much anticipated musical featuring the music of Blondie opened on London's West End in 2007… and closed a month later.

The World Shakespeare Festival opens Monday 23 April and the UK is set for its largest ever celebration of Shakespeare. The Edinburgh International Festival's three contrasting takes on Shakespeare at Festival 2012 will form a key part of the World Shakespeare Festival in Scotland this August.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society have endorsed two new short-term insurance packages put together specifically for performers at the Fringe festival.

Following a sell out run at the Traverse Theatre during the 2011 Fringe, A Slow Air, written and directed by David Harrower, will tour to 59E59 Theatres, New York (4-28 April) before arriving at the Tricycle Theatre for a limited run from 7 May to 2 June, with opening night on 10 May. A Slow Air is being produced by Tron Theatre Company.

Sell A Door Theatre Company will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with a revival of their production of David Auburn's Proof from 3rd to 27th August at the Pleasance Above Theatre, 2pm daily.

Iron Shoes has announced the national tour dates for their production of Mad About the Boy. The production will receive its London première at the Unicorn Theatre on Saturday 12 May before embarking on a UK tour.

Mickey & Judy was a sold out hit at last year's Toronto Fringe Festival and is now off to NYC and Edinburgh! Before it makes its' international debut the show will return to The Toronto Centre for the Arts for one night only on April 21st, 2012. The enigmatic and extremely funny star, Michael Hughes, took a few minutes to talk to BWW about the show, his love of showtunes, Smash versus Glee and more.

2008: MACBETH, directed and adapted by Grzegorz Jarzyna, plays at the Edinburgh International Festival, August 11 to 18. In this scary trailer for the show, we get a preview of the pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and layered soundscape Jarzyna uses to transform Shakespeare's web of politics, ambition and the supernatural into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film.

Almost 3000 artists from 47 nations will gather to share the live experience of theatre, dance, opera and music with audiences from approximately a third of the world's nations at Edinburgh International Festival 2012. This year the festival will take place August 9 to September 2.

After an award-winning debut run in 2010, Fresher the Musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe, chest puffed and with a confident swagger, its flyer announcing a cast recording and the release of the amateur rights to perform it. And it has every right to be cocky - it's a highly entertaining romp through five students' early time living together at university and it's uniquely and refreshingly British, standing out in an unmistakably America-focused musical theatre landscape.

All smiles, wide eyes and key changes, the high school glee club is an all-too-familiar concept thanks to a certain hugely popular and equally irritating, inescapable television show. And so, One Academy Productions' ‘Show Choir! The Musical' doesn't have to work too hard to introduce itself. Even so, the expository opening number is a wonderfully over-the-top, sparkling treat. It's part of a dream sequence though, and what follows doesn't quite ever reach the same histrionic heights.

Despite enjoying a boosted profile thanks in part to a supposed copycat performer on last year's Britain's Got Talent, Frisky & Mannish are hard to describe succinctly. 'Pop songs with a twist' was the best I could manage outside the venue when a curious attendee asked, but this duo absolutely needs to be seen to be understood, and there really aren't many better ways to spend an hour at this or any other Fringe.

The setting of John and Gerry Kielty's Wasted Love - a group therapy session - immediately brings to my mind the 2009 Fringe production of Conor Mitchell's Have A Nice Life, my favourite of all the shows I've seen in my three years attending the Fringe. It seems an unfair comparison to make, given how much I enjoyed that, although it soon becomes clear that this show can more than hold its own.

I attended Flawless' latest Fringe show with what I imagine were standard expectations: that I was about to see a production featuring dazzling, pin-sharp choreography performed by extremely talented young men. And talented they undoubtedly are, but this hour is stuffed with superfluous and unnecessary narrative devices which do little more than waste time that could be better spent dancing, if you wouldn't mind, lads.

Pleasance Theatre has taken six nominations, with Assembly Theatre, the Traverse and Zoo Venues all receiving four nods for this year's Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.