Edinburgh Festival listings

Lisa Faith Phillips. Five stars! Best of the DC Fringe! Growing up in a test site for cable television through her jobs as a stripper to pay for the LSE, a voice on the Penthouse phone sex line, to dancing in a Mick Jagger video and a night in jail, Lisa's stories create a 'wildly entertaining' (*Time Out, New York *…

The Drama Boys. This dynamic, innovative, all-male company presents a unique mix of theatrical genres. From Shakespeare to slapstick, with mime, song, hilarious dance and newly-commissioned comedy sketches, there is truly something for everyone. Led by actress Caroline Secombe (former Miss Moneypenny), the 12 young men…

The Callàs Company. All Or Nothing? is a unique story of two people from opposing theatrical genres meeting for the first time. There is a man from within the world of imagination and mime; there is a woman from the naturalistic physical world. The story follows them firstly discovering one another's existence, then…

Norris once licked the floor of Euston Station for £5. She would have done it for free. We like doing things for free. That's why we're at the Free Fringe. There will be ginger moustaches, dubious smelling costumes and songs and sketches galore! Join Manchester's favourite insomniacs for an evening of dark and ridiculous…

Chris Dobrowolski / Escalator East To Edinburgh. Chris has lovingly repaired his family Triumph Herald Estate so that he can drive it from his home in Colchester to Rome. Part investigation into his father's account of his time as a Polish soldier in the Italian Campaign and part muse on consumerism, this show brings…

‘A life of unending misery in a world devoid of God, now that’s funny.’ Maddy Rooney is in her seventies – unsightly, ungainly and unwell – laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Station. This is a landscape whose details are drawn from the suburbs of Foxrock and Leopardstown from Beckett’s youth, but…

Dazzlingly versatile, All That Malarkey’s repertoire spans operatic classics to R&B, musical theatre to cheesy pop, jazz standards to their own original material and much more besides. Classically trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, this supremely talented group comprises four singers: Amy…

After their official sell-out show in 2012, these men return to the Fringe for the fourth successive year. 'This show is slick, oozes professionalism and utter precision… It would be foolish to miss it!' ★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com). 'My favourite boy band of all time!' ★★★★★ (ThreeWeeks). 'They connected with a full house…

Adam Oliver and Zuma Puma are Almond Roca. Adam Oliver and Zuma Puma lead you on an epic journey. Witness sacred comedy of almonds unfolding in surreal, super-fun and insanely entertaining love festival. The Lost Cabaret. Find it. 'An absolute blast!' ★★★★ (ThreeWeeks). www.pay-what-you-want.info. Ages 18+.

Angela Lemaire has exhibited widely and her work can be found in both private and public collections. Alpha and Omega is an exhibition of her prints, paintings and books and is in celebration of the publication of Jubilate Agno, a fine press book produced in collaboration with The Old Stile Press. It was written…

A host of comedians who provide something more anarchic than your typical comedy evening, busting out their best comedy moves, with a line-up that change each time.

Alternative Comedy Memorial Society / The Stand Comedy Club. The ACMS marches on Edinburgh in pursuit of Noble Failure: life-risking comedy from changing bills of left-field dolts. ACMS is less a comedy show, more a way of life – albeit a way of life that is a ticketed event with comedy in it. Actually, thinking about…

LCP Dance Theatre, Choreography by Joanna Puchala. A new dance performance from a professional company from London; hugely successful at Camden Fringe. This multimedia performance is based on human trafficking, explores the dual identity of a sexual slavery victim and trafficker. A victim can be a trafficker and…

Bound & Gagged Comedy / Mandy Ward Artist Management. Amateur Transplants frontman Adam Kay sits at a grand piano and sings smutty songs. He has had 20 million YouTube hits (including the iconic London Underground Song) and three number one albums in the iTunes comedy charts. 'Fast-paced, filthy and incredibly…

National Museum of Scotland. Bringing together highlights from National Museums Scotland's fine collections, Amazing Amber reveals the origins, properties and uses of this precious substance. Found all over the world, amber can vary widely in appearance and has many different uses. In this exhibition see pieces from…

Louis Pearl / The Assembly Rooms. Louis Pearl has been thrilling audiences around the world for nearly 30 years with the art, magic, science and fun of bubbles. A Fringe favourite, he has sold out every year for the last six years. Louis explores the breath-taking dynamics of bubbles, combining comedy and artistry with…

Some of the biggest names at the Fringe and from around the globe come together for one evening of incredible entertainment. Over two hours of top drawer comedy awaits as these stars give up their time to support the Wooden Spoon Society. The Wooden Spoon Society is a UK-wide children's charity, funding projects…

Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift.

Y’all come on down and let Scotland’s own five-piece Americana band Flagstaff take you on a road trip across America. From the honky tonks of Milwaukee to the truck stops of Texas, with classic and modern songs about love, loss, revenge, trucks and Cadillacs - you’ll want to stomp, holler and maybe even cry real…