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Edinburgh festival 2022

October 2023

  • Bronté Barbé and Rebekah Hinds sitting close together with a notebook while looking at a laptop.

    Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! review – podcast sleuths are cracking fun

    The hit Edinburgh fringe musical about two friends on the trail of a killer has been awkwardly expanded but is still a delight

March 2023

  • Edinburgh International Film FestivalÕs free outdoor screenings., Port Edgar Marina, Edinburgh, UK - 31 Jul 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by BRIAN ANDERSON/REX/Shutterstock (12240768j) This weekend sees Port Edgar Marina transformed into an outdoor cinema thanks to Film Fest on the Forth, Edinburgh International Film FestivalÕs weekend of free outdoor screenings showing aquatic-themed family favourites such as Whale Rider and Jaws. Edinburgh International Film FestivalÕs free outdoor screenings., Port Edgar Marina, Edinburgh, UK - 31 Jul 2021

    Edinburgh film festival to return this summer after shock closure

    Scaled down version will run alongside Edinburgh’s other arts festivals, while panel considers reviving standalone event from 2024 on

December 2022

  • ‘It managed to surpass my expectations’ … Davina De Campo in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

    Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2022

  • A heart-shaped biscuit with the message 'Proud of you', baked by Jordan Gray's wife.

    Snapshot of 2022
    Standup success was sweet, but the review I cared about most was written on a biscuit

    Jordan Gray

November 2022

  • The Delightful Sausage

    The Delightful Sausage: ‘Impostor syndrome has propelled us forward’

    It will take more than multiple Edinburgh nominations to convince comedy duo Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill that they’re a success. Perhaps a TV sitcom would do it?

October 2022

  • ‘I’m not out there trying to be this cool guy’ … Campbell.

    ‘My parents wanted to give me horse hormones’ – Sam Campbell, comedy’s new champion

    He breezed into the Edinburgh fringe late with just half a show – and won the ‘Oscar of comedy’. In his first ever face-to-face interview, the eccentric Aussie standup reveals what’s next (‘Something’)
  • ‘The show was fine. I overran by 15 minutes and you don’t do that unless it’s going well’ … Sadowitz.

    Jerry Sadowitz on his Edinburgh ban: ‘Cancel culture isn’t a culture. It’s a diktat that’s been imposed on us’

    When his show was pulled this summer over reports of nudity, sexism and racism, it caused a furore. In his first major interview since, the comedian explains why he will never tone down his splenetic act
  • ‘Not a single fibre of my being thinks what I’m doing is important on any level’ … Reich.

    ‘I’m a venal narcissist’ – standup Leo Reich on skewering his inner Gen-Z monster

    The hotly tipped comic was the talk of Edinburgh with his blistering hour of hilariously hollow egomania – and audiences haven’t a clue whether to pity or deplore him

September 2022

  • Circus street performer Reidiculous performs at the Edinburgh fringe.

    ‘We need an intervention’: five ways to fix the Edinburgh festival fringe

  • Tom Walker in Javelin, in athletic vest and sweatband

    Tom Walker: Javelin review – lots to enjoy, even if the central conceit does not soar

  • Equivocal does not mean mild … Jessica Fostekew at the Monkey Barrel, Edinburgh.

    Jessica Fostekew review – sexuality switch exposes rich vein of fast-paced mirth

  • Anya Ryan

    Fringe audiences are 99% white? As a South Asian critic, I found Edinburgh’s screaming lack of diversity hugely troubling

    Anya Ryan

August 2022

  • Jamali Maddix

    Jamali Maddix review – the somewhat funny side of sex addiction

  • Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher.

    BriTANick review – dazzling mirth from two SNL sketch masters

  • Brian Logan

    Sam Campbell once joked about killing me – but the Aussie comedian’s Edinburgh win is well-deserved

    Brian Logan
  • The Edinburgh skyline

    Edinburgh fringe ticket sales suffer as price of accommodation soars

  • The Edinburgh fringe is too long, too expensive and too gruelling. It must change or die

    Brian Logan

  • Emmanuel Sonubi review – between beefcake and beta male

  • Edinburgh festival’s funniest performers for 2022 are revealed

  • Lauren Pattison review – fall and rise of a comic motormouth

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