Edinburgh Festival

Putting burlesque to its originally intended purpose, LOLLY JONES' unique style of satire fuses lip sync to political speeches with clowning and cabaret. Embodying a host of Europe's forerunning female politicians, I BELIEVE IN MERKELS is the sultry, silly and subversive send-up of Brexit shambles that we all desperately need. She chatted to BroadwayWorld ahead of performing the show at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Theatre Re to chat about bringing Birth to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with the team behind Ogg 'n' Ugg 'n' Dogg to chat about bringing the show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Rosa Hesmondhalgh to chat about bringing Madame Ovary to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

BWW catches up with Doodlebugs Productions to chat about bringing Paradise Lodge to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Ockham's Razor to chat about bringing This Time to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

LA based TV actor LANGSTON KERMAN has some badman truths to lay down in his Edinburgh debut LOOSE CANNON, as he lets loose on material born out the experience of living with a convicted sex offender. He talked to BroadwayWorld about the show ahead of its Edinburgh Festival Fringe run.

Powerhouse storyteller KIRSTEN VANGSNESS is best known as the unforgettable Penelope Garcia from CBS' Criminal Minds. She is bringing two very different yet equally barmy shows of female empowerment in rep and under the umbrella of FEMPIRE to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year. CLEO, THEO & WU sees Lucy in a race to save the universe, aided by a cast of creatively reimagined superheroes from ancient history; and MESS is a celebration of the disorder in our lives. 

JAMES BARR is best known as the star of applauded podcast A Gay and a Non-Gay (which is also playing Edinburgh for the last week of the Fringe). Painfully relatable and delectably funny, his Edinburgh Fringe show THIRST TRAP sees him IRL tinder-swipes his way through the audience whilst dressed as an avocado. Ahead of that, he had a chat with us at BroadwayWorld.

Canadian Triple BroadwayWorld award-winner REBECCA PERRY, loved for her Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl shows will be diving all-singing and all-dancing into the Golden Age of Hollywood with FROM JUDY TO BETTE: THE STARS OF OLD HOLLYWOOD, at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Embodying a host of convention-breaking female megastars, the show is powerful love song to the stage presence and real-life chutzpah of these formidable women. 

ELI MATTHEWSON is a young and fabulous darling of the New Zealand stand up scene. He's in the UK this August to perform AN INCONVENIENT POOF at the Edinburgh Fringe, sharing a few - self-deprecating and endearing - things to say about why millennials make lousy activists.

BWW catches up with Danyah Miller to chat about bringing Michael Morpurgo's I Believe in Unicorns to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Dave Bibby to chat about bringing Crazy Cat Lad-y to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Sarah-Jane Scott to chat about bringing Appropriate to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Jennifer Paterson, Artistic Director of All or Nothing to chat about bringing Heroes to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Yuriko Kotani to chat about bringing Somosomo to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Late Bloomers, the team behind Scotland! to chat about bringing the show to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW reviewer Natalie O'Donoghue blogs about how she chooses which shows to see at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Ed Night to chat about bringing Jokes of Love and Hate to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Richard Marsh to chat about bringing Phoenix to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Anna Drezen to chat about bringing Okay Get Home Safe to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with the performers of Wannabe- The Spice Girls Show to chat about bringing it to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with Katie Greenall to chat about bringing Fatty Fat Fat to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW catches up with The Shift Theatre to chat about bringing Hallowed Ground to the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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