Edinburgh Festival

The Edinburgh Festival is a bit like the internet; they're both vastly complex, information-rich environments that we need guides and simplifiers to help us to manage.

The Pleasures of Being Lost 2005

The Edinburgh Festival was the bane of Rebus's life.

Mortal Causes Rankin, Ian 1994

You can trace it back to the Edinburgh Festival, which is such a great breeding ground for comedians.

Evening Standard - Home Jimmy Carr 2011

The autocratic Hearts owner was in town, unlike Spurs, to whom it apparently came as a surprise that there was not a hotel room to be had in the Scottish capital, on account of some lark called the Edinburgh Festival.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

I'm English and love Edinburgh, but the Edinburgh Festival is my idea of hell.

The Guardian World News 2010

Performing at the Edinburgh Festival is a great opportunity.

icLanarkshire 2009

Surprisingly, Glyndebourne's website claims that in 1947, Glyndebourne founded the Edinburgh Festival.

Eat, Drink and Be Entertained Paul Levy 2011

The Edinburgh Festival's website, by contrast, only mentions Bing's connection with Glyndebourne, and Eileen Miller's official history of the festival, "The Edinburgh International Festival, 1947-1996," makes it clear that Bing's real interest was to clear some of Glyndebourne's debts by selling his productions to Edinburgh.

Eat, Drink and Be Entertained Paul Levy 2011

Adam Riches breaks his leg at the Edinburgh Festival, and a couple of years later gets the Foster's Comedy Award.

This week's new comedy 2012

Edinburgh Festival "Edinburgh International Festival 2011" presents music, theater and dance, including the opera "Orlando Paladino" by Joseph Haydn, recitals by pianists Martha Argerich and Nelson Goener, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, a rare performance by the Yogyakarta Palace Gamelan Orchestra and others.

What's on Around Europe 2011