Edinburgh Festivals

Fast and Furious 9 star Tyrese Gibson has uploaded a video on to his Instagram page where he's told told the single best thing about Scotland is Glasgow football giants Rangers.

All of these people will be picking up Fringe Firsts at our big awards show at the Pleasance this morning. Will you be joining us?

Star of stage and screen Stephen Fry has told how he owes his career to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as he praised the “extraordinary” nature of the event 40 years on from making his debut.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe are in talks about creating new areas for street performers in the heart of major new developments in the city centre.

It is the final Sunday of the Edinburgh Festival and I am setting off from Leith for the Traverse Theatre on a much-needed day off. The previous night I attended my first opera in years at the King’s Theatre, and marvelled at the ingenuity of the revolving set for Breaking the Waves, how the cast emerged from and vanished into its shadows. Today I am on the front row of the Traverse’s studio theatre for the final performance of one of the Fringe’s hottest tickets, wondering what will unfold on a sparse set consisting of a table, a chair and a pair of steps.

It’s the final weekend of the Edinburgh festival, so I’m excited to reveal the winners of this year’s most important awards.

The tents are being dismantled and carted off on lorries; Charlotte Square falls quieter and sadder and starts to imagine autumn. The book festival boards attached to the railings were among the last to go. “We need new stories” they proclaimed. Time for an inquest. Did we?

On what was one of the warmest Fireworks Concert nights in many a year, the phenomenon that is Edinburgh and its summer festivals signed off with a truly spectacular finale on Monday evening.

Crowds of spectators gathered across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife to watch Monday night's fireworks extravaganza at Edinburgh Castle.

British actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to host Saturday Night Live alongside musical guest Taylor Swift.

THERE can have been few finer moments at this year’s Edinburgh Book Festival than when Thomas Keneally burst into song.

Prime target for dystopian satire on the state ruled by a must-have app.

I’ve rarely seen a more brilliant opening to a show or a more uncomfortable ending.