Edinburgh Festival

A new location at Fountainbridge for the hottest, funniest show this side of Bangkok. Beauties and the Beats will take you to a new level of frantic fun, laughter and good times as only the Lady Boys know how to deliver!

UKIP! The Musical is a rollicking satirical swipe at the most radical political party of our time. Witty and irreverent, this exuberant musical features a host of original songs.

Star of Almost Royal (E4) and the not beard one from the Peacock and Gamble Podcast, Chortle Award-winning Ed Gamble moseys back into town with a brand new stand-up show about why it's hip to be square. He's a prophet, a shaman and a wildly inaccurate blurb writer.

Tuffbroad Productions present BABY LAME: DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK! in an Edinburgh preview tonight 12th August 2015 at 8.30PM. Leave your inhibitions at the door... SHE'S BACK. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Zanna, Don't is your typical high school rom com, with a slight twist.  There are all the traditional elements - quarterbacks and queen bees, cliques and crushes - but in the upside-down universe of Zanna, Don't, chess players are sex symbols, musical theatre is super cool, and gay relationships are the norm.

Set in a West End theatre, the acclaimed hit new musical comes to Edinburgh! Following the lives of the stagiest people in theatre - the Front of House staff - and portraying the hilarious, ridiculous and frequently moving stories of ice cream sellers who dare to dream…

BWW:UK speaks to Broadway, West End and Youtube star Christina Bianco about her 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show "Party of One". 

Award-winning comedian Ian Smith (BBC1's The Ark, BBC3's Sweat the Small Stuff) returns with his third hour. It's about whereabouts things are and whatabouts they're doing there. While others sleep, Ian is knocking back 35p energy drinks and searching for the answers.

John Hannah (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doors, The Mummy) stars in this madcap comedy of illusion. Four tramps huddle together at an abandoned railway station, full of vodka-fuelled dreams of escaping on one of the passing trains.

BWW:UK speaks to Apphia Campbell about her two Nina Simone-inspired shows that she is performing at this years Edinburgh Fringe.

A brand new musical following the seemingly simple journey of a girl on a single Glasgow Subway car. Forced to face her fears and overcome private demons on this very public platform, surrounded with characters on journeys of their own. Under the Ground explores the phenomenon of loneliness on a train packed with strangers, stories and secrets.

Improvisation is a tricky thing to get right on stage, but what happens when you also have to improvise full band accompaniments, a cappella harmonies and dance routines? The Showstoppers, a talented troupe of improvisers as heard on BBC Radio Four, manage to do just that in their show at the Pleasance Courtyard.

Amazing mimicry, stunning singing, cheeky wit and a different show every night, thanks to the legendary Wheels of Sixty-Four Tunes. Showstopping musical mash-ups, incredible vocal gymnastics and irreverent celebrity impressions make the perfect feel-good show.

Broadway performer and YouTube sensation Christina Bianco takes you on a hilarious musical comedy journey, showing you what led her to become a multi-faceted, multi-voiced party of one! Christina performs an eclectic selection of your favourite pop, standard and Broadway tunes in her own voice as well as impersonating great divas who have inspired her.

The small English village of Bakewell, Derbyshire is holding its annual baking competition and the eclectic group of contestants, including a local postman, a German transsexual and a nun, are each hoping that their baking skills will impress the judges.

Keeping you at the edge of your seat, Bruce will sweep you away on an adventure of love and revenge. He may be a yellow block of foam, but Bruce's out to prove he's got a heart of pure gold.

This intimate new show from the award-winning Worklight Theatre draws on writer/performer Joe Sellman-Leava's experiences of mixed heritage and racism. Labels examines the way we use words, the line between curiosity and fear, and the rise of anti-immigration rhetoric.

The Edinburgh International Festival opened last night with The Harmonium Project, a free outdoor animated performance that lit up the city's key concert hall, to celebrate 50 years of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Approximately 19,500 watched a series of projected artworks, designed by 59 Productions, on the Usher Hall whilst listening to John Adams' mesmerising choral work Harmonium. Scroll down for photos!

BWW:UK speaks to vocalist and impressionist Jess Robinson about her 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show.

Edinburgh based virtuoso pianist, wit and raconteur Will Pickvance has adapted his award winning, smash hit show Anatomy of the Piano for children -- but it still includes plenty in for adults to enjoy.

The Hogwallops by Lost in Translation Circus is slapstick fun for all the family from a multi skilled circus and physical theatre troupe. Thrillingly spectacular circus skills blend seamlessly with physical comedy, clowning, juggling, theatrical storytelling and slapstick in this colourful, loud and funny dramatisation of the domestic adventures of a chaotic, dysfunctional family of misfits.

Award winning children's theatre company Story Pocket Theatre will present Storyteller, Storyteller from today 7 - Sunday 30 August 2015, 14.30 Free Show, Arch 3, New Waverley Arches, as part of the Freestival.

Tuffbroad Productions present BABY LAME: DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK! in an Edinburgh preview on 12th August 2015 at 8.30PM. Leave your inhibitions at the door... SHE'S BACK. Scroll down for a sneak peek at the cast!

Acclaimed singer, actor and impressionist Christina Bianco returns to Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her solo show Party of One! at Assembly George Square Gardens Spiegeltent Palazzo from tonight 6 - Sunday 16 August, 19.20 (ends 20.20).

A dazzling new show called Nina Simone: Soul Sessions will be performed at Assembly Checkpoint from tonight 6 - Sunday 30 August, 20.50. The concert is devised and performed by Apphia Campbell, creator and star of 2014's Fringe hit Black Is The Color Of My Voice.