Comedian and drag king DAISY DORIS MAY brings three iconic characters – STEVE PORTERS, HÄNS OFF & THE DIVINE KAREN MOONSTONE – take us on their big #EdFringe night out See @daisydorismay at @AssemblyFest festmag.com/2025/08/15/daisy…

"Performers bend into startling shapes, lift themselves precariously high above the stage, and enact breathtaking stunts" Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words) – ★★★★ #EdFringe review festmag.com/2025/08/19/revie…

JEEZUS! is a fun and filthy musical theatre show about growing up queer in Latin America – and there's still a chance to catch the ★★★★ #EdFringe show this weekend festmag.com/2025/08/20/revie… [Review: @claire_sawers]

"An hour of acerbic, self-deprecating and satirical jokes" ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: GIANMARCO SORESI – read @louis_cammell's review and catch @GianmarcoSoresi's last available tickets festmag.com/2025/08/19/revie…

Light-hearted, citrus coloured zealotry of the non-sectarian kind ★★★★ #EdFringe comedy review: ORANGE CRUSH by @IvoGraham – read @jayirichardson's review now festmag.com/2025/08/17/revie…

"Pussy Riot are an antidote – demonstrating tonight what it means to call out complicity" RIOT DAYS is at @Summerhallery this #EdFringe – @anitabhadani gives ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ to the Russian protest art collective's show festmag.com/2025/08/17/revie…

"There was something about grunge that always felt queer. It felt like I could access something in it that I couldn’t elsewhere." NO APOLOGIES explores discourse around Kurt Cobain’s gender identity – @anitabhadani interviews Emma Frankland festmag.com/2025/08/17/inter… #EdFringe

"What’s the stinkiest alley off the Royal Mile? Flushmarket close." Australian #EdFringe double act @TheListies give us their top 12 💩 jokes festmag.com/2025/08/16/the-l…

"From the moment he stomped onto the world stage, he changed everything" Two #EdFringe shows – Monstering the Rocketman (@HenryNaylorUK) and Your Song – pay homage to the iconic Elton John festmag.com/2025/08/16/inter… [Interview: @jayirichardson]

"There are ways in which the culture around you threatens you and denies certain stories that are foundational; threatens your safety if you express them" Actor/activist @khalidabdalla on #EdFringe show NOWHERE, inspired by the 2011 Egyptian revolution festmag.com/2025/08/16/inter…

"Secrets and denials, which are shared with us as if we were best friends at a sleepover, speak to a self-inflicted damage caused by running away" TELL ME WHERE HOME IS (I'M STARTING TO FORGET): ★★★★ #EdFringe theatre review festmag.com/2025/08/16/revie…

"Places everyone in the auditorium at the heart of the show’s narrative" ★★★★ for THANKS FOR BEING HERE, an #EdFringe theatre piece by collective @1OntroerendGoed festmag.com/2025/08/15/revie…

"Under harsh white fluorescent light, and sonically textured by ambient industrial drips, rattles, and mechanical groans, Isaiah Wilson’s Score is an eviscerating depiction of alienated labour" ★★★★ #EdFringe review: SCORE festmag.com/2025/08/15/revie…

"He ricochets around his transparent cage with ferocity and uses white markers on the clear wall facing the audience to lucidly sketch out the complex tax scheme" ★★★★ #EdFringe REVIEW: The Insider festmag.com/2025/08/14/revie…

"The content is different but it’s supposed to be" Making her highly-anticipated debut at this year’s #EdFringe, Zainab Johnson (@zainabjohnson) talks politics, identity and being a responsible gun owner festmag.com/2025/08/14/inter… [Article: @jayirichardson]

"You can do Faustus like the Royal Shakespeare Company, but if you put your mindset back 400 years, the play is scandalous" Two plays, one at the #EdFringe and one at the @edintfest, take on Marlowe’s Faustus, but in contrasting and confronting ways festmag.com/2025/08/12/inter…

"Replacing astroturf with a vegetable garden, the couple experience intense effects to their health that only the horror genre could create" Read our ★★★★★ review for ELYSIUM, at @Gildedballoon this #EdFringe festmag.com/2025/08/13/revie…

"Magicians should only wear suits if they’re in court. Which they should be. For this poster design" Comedian/bookseller BEN POPE went viral for sharing the book cover tropes that need to end. We asked him to give #EdFringe posters the same treatment festmag.com/2025/08/13/ben-p…

"Sikisa is mentally juggling as many flaming batons as the lads outside on Blair Street" ★★★★ for satirist/immigration attorney @sikisacomedy, at @BarrelComedy this #EdFringe festmag.com/2025/08/12/revie…

"From writing erotica online since the age of 14 to altercations with medical professionals, she’s laying it all out there" HOW TO BE A BADDIE will deliver the lessons you need – check out @louis_cammell's ★★★★ review of Urooj Ashfaq's #EdFringe hour festmag.com/2025/08/13/revie…