A Donald Trump impersonator is to stage a Fringe comedy-drama about efforts to thwart a takeover by the US President of a “once-glamorous Scottish hotel.”
Best-selling author Ian Rankin has uncovered long-forgotten scripts for a sitcom and a crime drama series in a vast personal archive he has donated to the National Library of Scotland.
Scottish cycle stunt superstar Danny MacAskill has unveiled a breathtaking new video - showing him taking a two-year-old girl on an action-packed adventure around Scotland.
Scotland’s notorious Bible John murders are to be turned into a play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer – half a century on from the killings.
Comedy star Tony Slattery has launched a fundraiser to get to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer, claiming he is "completely broke" - days after revealing he once had a £4000 a week cocaine habit.
A new Scottish comedy-horror movie starring Eddie Izzard as a deranged Highlands huntsman is to open this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
By the time you read this Edinburgh’s official summertime will be up and running. Heralded in a blaze of fire from atop Calton Hill, the changing of the seasons also heralds the start of the city’s four-month festivals season.
Edinburgh’s world-famous Beltane Fire Festival has been overhauled so that the spectacular show to be staged atop Calton Hill tonight tackles climate change for the first time.
As the daughter of arguably Britain’s best-known spin doctor, Grace Campbell has been immersed in the world of politics ever since she was born a quarter of a century ago.
Scottish-born Hollywood star Craig Ferguson is returning to the Fringe, where he first made his name as Bing Hitler in 1986, for his first UK stand-up comedy show for 25 years this summer.
One of Edinburgh’s main public spaces will be transformed into an outdoor food, drink and entertainment arena for two months to accommodate an expansion of the city’s jazz and blues festival, university graduation celebrations and the Fringe.
Violinist Nicola Benedetti, singer-songwriter Karine Polwart, musician and composer Donald Shaw and comedian Fred MacAulay have joined forces to back the creation of the first new concert hall in Edinburgh for a century ahead of a crunch decision by councillors this week.
Scotland’s stunt cycling icon Danny MacAskill has promised fans he will stage his ‘biggest and best’ live show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer - including nerve-shredding new tricks and “audience participation.”
The American actress and activist Rose McGowan, one of the leading figures in the global #MeToo movement, is to stage her own-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Edinburgh’s first new concert hall for 100 years is needed to help ensure a proper “balance” between business interests and culture in the city in future, the project figurehead has warned.
