Edinburgh Festivals

Edinburgh’s new tourism figurehead has admitted that the industry needs to “win the hearts and minds” of its residents and that its future growth will need to be more carefully managed in future.

One of Scotland’s leading theatre-makers has warned women are being dogged by huge “disparity” over acting, writing and directing work.

She won an Emmy for Nanette and now she's back after a life-changing autism diagnosis

It is an ancient Celtic legend about one of Edinburgh’s most famous landmarks - which is almost as old as the city itself.

Billy Connolly has revealed he has been haunted by stage fright for decades and finds his home city of Glasgow the most difficult place to perform.

Council chiefs in Edinburgh have ruled out imposing a cap on the number of events staged in Princes Street Gardens - as the city’s status as a world-leading cultural capital would be put at risk.

Here come the girls.

They have been a fixture of Edinburgh’s landscape since their creation in the middle of the 18th century. Princes Street Gardens are still the centrepiece of the ­Capital and play host to many of the city’s signature events and festivals.

Why failing at modern life makes him a success

Two of the biggest-selling Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows in modern times are set to be relocated to Leith in the wake of calls for events to be spread out more across the city.