Alan Cumming to end 20-year Fringe hiatus

BROADWAY star Alan Cumming is to return to the Edinburgh Fringe with his solo cabaret act 20 years after the Festival show that launched him on the road to stardom.

The Scottish actor will fly to the Capital to appear for three nights between filming in the US.

His appearance in a midnight version of his cabaret show, I Bought a Blue Car Today, is seen as a major coup for the Assembly venue as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations this year.

In the late 1980s, Mr Cumming scored a cult hit with his musical comedy double act, Victor and Barry, co-starring Forbes Masson. The pair went on to write and star in the Scottish sitcom, The High Life.

Assembly director, William Burdett Coutts, said: "He has an enormous history with the Fringe and performed with us many times in the late 1980s."