Edinburgh Festival

Did you know Mark Watson went on a reality TV show about surviving on an island for a month? It seems not many did. Not to worry, as he shares what he gleaned from that experience in a show called How You Can Almost Win.

Many are familiar with the tradition of singing 'Auld Lang Syne' at the end of ceilidhs, or to bring in the new year. How much do we know of what the man who wrote it left behind? Burns: A Lost Legacy, directed by Melanie Bell, tells the story of Robert Burns' granddaughter, Sarah (Bethany Tennick) and her fight to keep the royalties for her grandfather's poems in the family.

Amy Booth-Steel picked up a ukulele while trying to find a new hobby and started to post performances of candid songs about life on twitter earlier this year. Fast forward to August and she has crafted a solo show, with direction from Kathy Burke, called #HonestAmy a?' because she, in her own words, a?oetells it like it isa??.

While Edinburgh may be a hub of activity at the best of times, not just August, Islander: A New Musical transports its audiences to the remote island of Kinnen. The piece of music theatre is part of the Made in Scotland 2018 showcase.

The Saturday Night Live writer and former editor-at-large of online satirical women's magazine Reductress comes to the Fringe for the first time with a show all about true crime, the dark side of reality TV and very powerful ghosts. As seen on Comedy Central and CollegeHumour and heard on The Guilty Feminist podcast.

What makes a killer? What makes the yearning for connection and friendship so great that you would do anything? How does a mind justify the most terrifying act? In 1991, four Austrian nurses were charged with murdering 49 patients in their beds, but were suspected of killing up to 200. The world premiere of this blistering new play by Jessica Ross, directed by Steven Roy and executive produced by Matrix star Carrie-Anne Moss, forces us to confront all we deem evil, horrible, and hideous. Look carefully enough, and we might just see a little bit of ourselves.

'My mum threw a trifle at my best friend and that's when I first thought something was probably wrong.' A mother. A daughter. An hour. A bond. Questions. Answers. Trifle. Tides. Refresh. Restore. Release. Critically acclaimed SpeakUp Theatre present a searingly honest and personal one-woman show investigating the complexities of loving someone with mental illness. A moving, funny and relatable insight into how it feels to care for someone who can't always show that they care for you.

Ahead of bringing his darkly comic clown show, Beep Boop, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, physical comedian and clown, Richard Saudek, answers five questions for BroadwayWorld.

Writer Iskander Sharazuddin's play POST-MORTEM fuses physical theatre, dance and gripping new writing to present an unflinching, complex and comedic look at young love; the giddy joy, the fragments, the trauma that outlives it and the lies we tell ourselves when it ends. Ahead of the show's run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe he had a chat with us here at BroadwayWorld.

Ahead of bringing her dark and twisted tale of paranoia and addiction, Monsoon Season, to the Edinburgh Fringe, upcoming New York playwright, Lizzie Vieh, answers five questions for BroadwayWorld.

Musical comedian JON LONG's debut comedy hour PLANET KILLING MACHINE provides a selection of brilliantly original songs, whilst also launching into a hilarious tirade on all the ways we are destroying the planet and the steps we can all take to turn the tide.

Comedian JIM CAMPBELL's latest show BEEF confronts his family curse. The show is a fast-paced and bold attempt to overcome overthinking, anxiety and find self-acceptance through humour. Ahead of performing it at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he chats to BroadwayWorld.

Astonishingly killer character comedy in JACK TUCKER: COMEDY STAND UP HOUR sees Zach Zucker lampoon every bad joke and hack comic in the book with conviction that has had audiences as extremely baffled, as they are entertained. JACK TUCKER chats to BroadwayWorld before what he is certain to be the greatest comedy show you'll ever see.

Coming all the way from Korea, Brush Theatre present the utterly beguiling follow-up to smash hit Woogie Boogie. DOODLE POP is 55 minutes of sheer delight in the form of animated live doodling, projections, mime, physical acting, shadow play and puppetry. Lee Heeae and Lee Seungeun Yeom, performers in this year's show, talked to BroadwayWorld about the show ahead of its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run.

A conversation with Whitney White & Jonathan Caren on cultural appropriation, The Edinburgh Fringe and what's exciting in the theatrE right now.

ENDLESS SECOND is a new play about consent between a young and in love couple and explores how we talk about sexual violence. Ahead of the show's run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, writer Theo Toksvig-Stewart, co-star Maddie Gray and director Camilla Gürtler, talk to us about ENDLESS SECOND.

BWW catches up with Manual Cinema to chat about bringing Manual Cinema's Frankenstein to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with the team behind Drowning to chat about bringing the play to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with the creators of Wireless Operator to chat about bringing the show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Comedic actor WILLIAM HARTLEY is best known as one third of sketch comedy troupe Clever Pete. GUN is his debut solo theatre show - a pastiche-cum-homage to the spaghetti Western that is more cowboy than Clint himself. Ahead of performing Gun at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe he had a chat with BroadwayWorld.

Seattle-based performer TATIANA PAVELA is bringing her intimate and brutal one-woman show BRANDI ALEXANDER to Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This is a primal scream of a show about rape: Howlingly funny and agonisingly uncomfortable. 

BWW catches up with Isma Almas to chat about bringing About A Bouy: Adventures In Adoption to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Two Hearts to chat about bringing The Comeback Tour to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with writer Cedric Chapuis to chat about bringing Beat to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Mr Thing to chat about bringing their show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.