Edinburgh Festival

Debut hour from nice young man, Sam Lake. In 2020, Sam wrote a show all about his upcoming wedding. Then both the wedding and show were swiftly cancelled. Based on his own personal love story, it's a show about reassessing your goals when things don't go how you planned. But it's also funny. And there's cake. We'll have a lovely time. As well as starring in All 4's The Joy of Missing Out and Dave's The Comedy Guide to Life, Sam has also won Leicester Square New Comedian of The Year.

The 'New York comedy institution' (New York Times) and host of the Beautiful/Anonymous podcast makes a much-anticipated return to Edinburgh following a six-year absence.

A gripping, at times hilarious revenge tale about an actress in her 40’s under investigation for the murder of an auteur theatre director.

50% Polish, 50% Italian, 100% legend. Ania Magliano's debut show tackles the stuff that matters: Lush, horse girls and buying a cat off Gumtree. Winner of the Leicester Comedy Festival Best New Show 2022. Writer for Amelia Dimoldenberg's Chicken Shop Date. As seen on The Stand Up Sketch Show (ITV2) and Dave Online. 'Already has the cool, calm and collected stage presence of a standup veteran' (Guardian). 'A finesse usually seen after decades in the game' (DIVA). Come if you want to, but absolutely no worries if not.

Highly anticipated debut from this 'one to watch' (FunnyWomen.com), 'rising star' (OxInABox.co.uk) and multi-competition finalist. She was 'innocent' (Oxford Mail) and 'adorable' (MumbleComedy.net) but in this thought-provoking and playful show, she explores the things that aren’t so lovely: sex, drugs and rock'n'roll*. 'A real talent, outshining the big guns with her easy charm and sparkling humour…

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue lists her top picks from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe free Fringe programme.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is well known as a place to discover 'the next big thing'. BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue has listed her top newcomers who are bringing their debut hour to the festival.

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top Cabaret highlights in the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.

BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue lists her top picks of circus shows at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BroadwayWorld select their top Edfringe 2022 pick of children's shows

BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue shares her top picks for musicals at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW reviewer Natalie O’Donoghue has selected her top ten theatres picks across the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme to highlight the shows you really don’t want to miss this year!

BroadwayWorld reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue shares her top comedy picks for the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Best in Class have announced a new bursary for working class performers at the Edinburgh Fringe. House of Class is a new fund established with the help of a Fringe Recovery Grant specifically to support working class acts with rising accommodation costs.

Monkey Barrel Comedy is delighted to announce its Fringe 2022 programme.

Withered Hand is the songwriting output of Edinburgh-based Dan Willson. Since 2009, Dan has released two widely acclaimed albums, New Gods (2014) and Good News (2009) and has toured extensively, both solo and with various incarnations of the band. Currently working towards a long-awaited third LP under the name Withered Hand, Dan has also been working with the Mercury-nominated songwriter Kathryn Williams during lockdown on a collaborative project to be released in early 2022 and is looking forward to a joyous return to the live music scene, performing material new and old with his band.

'Pain trumps pleasure. People get flashbacks to horrible shit that happened to them; PTSD. There's no post-pleasure euphoria disorder, is there? I've never caught someone with a massive grin on their face because they remembered an ice cream they had 10 years ago.' Everyone loves Joe Koppell, especially his famous movie, Star Sign Wars. But he is trying to keep a low profile on a sleeper train north. However, when an old friend heading to her father’s funeral crashes his carriage, the journey leads them to examine their deepest convictions of what it means to be alive.

Single, 32, and with her clock ticking, Erin's eggs – according to Facebook – are 'dying off.' For $15k she could freeze them, but does she even want a child? Is she just buying into social pressures and guilt-laden marketing? Winner of a Weekly Best Dance Award in its debut, sell-out 2021 Adelaide Fringe season, and recipient of numerous five-star reviews, Egg is a hilarious, topical and moving solo work from award-winning performer Erin Fowler, combining dance, clowning, pre-Covid dreams of moving to Scotland and a cheeky life-sized egg to question all things fertility and motherhood.

In association with Smock Alley Theatre, acclaimed Irish comedian Tadhg Hickey brings you his weird and wonderful part-theatre, part-stand-up comedy show, In One Eye, Out the Other. The show tells the story of Feargal, the downtrodden but cheery man who fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming an alcoholic. Using the Catholic calendar as a roadmap, Feargal leads us on a surreal and hilarious journey with many poignant twists in the hope of arriving at a sort of light at the end of the tunnel for the bright man.

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes...? One couple's journey through dating, marriage, trying to start a family and beyond. But can they play by society's rules? Lorna Fitzgerald and Liam Oko star in the story of Jen and Simon, a couple of young professionals starting a life together.

A round-up of all of BroadwayWorld's reviews from the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

With nothing but the titular suitcase, a trench coat and a scarf, this true story centers on questions of identity, immigration, women's rights and involuntary displacement in a humorous and heartfelt portrayal of 27 characters in four languages. A tour de force performed in English, Spanish, French and Persian with English supertitles, Mimi's Suitcase is a universal coming-of-age story of resilience and hope at once relevant, vibrant and authentic. Mimi's Suitcase premiered in NYC in 2015 as a bestseller at United Solo Festival and went on to win the Audience Choice Award for Best Play at Kulturverein Boje in Heidelberg, Garmany.

Two girls; one kind of a lesbian, one kind of a liability, are friends. Kind of. This is kind of their story, and it's kind of yours too. A story about sexuality and sexual health steeped in the beautiful bluntness of the rural East Midlands, It Kind of Looks Like a Doughnut collides the living with the dead, friendship with grief, and seeks to reawaken our relationship with a dazzling matriarchal heritage that we've been encouraged to forget.

Triple Fringe First and Olivier-winning Fishamble, return to Dance Base for the 10th anniversary of Pat Kinevane’s SILENT, the touching and challenging story of homeless McGoldrig, who once had splendid things. But he has lost it all – including his mind. He now dives into the wonderful wounds of his past through the romantic world of Rudolph Valentino. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.

In 2019, Fede and his mother, went on a quest to look for América. Shared memories and conflicting recollections led them through their past in a city that had taken them in more than 30 years before, when following his Father's arrest, Fede and his family were forced to flee the Salvadoran civil war. A story of two journeys. The journey of that night in Havana looking for an ex-Guerilla fighter and the journey of escaping the catastrophe in Fede's country decades before. Sometimes the idea of home has to be remade. And remade. And remade.