Tag: Gilded Balloon

Gilded Balloon stars Paul Black, Michelle Brasier and The Kinsey Sicks joined Artistic Directors Katy and Karen Koren to paint the town pink for 'Pink Wednesday'.On Wednesday there will be discounted £5 tickets for shows across Gilded Balloon...

Upstart! Shakespeare’s Rebel Daughter Judith tells the story of the playwright’s younger daughter.Stuck at home in Stratford while her father enjoys life in London, expected to marry well and settle down to the business...

The Gilded Balloon is looking for more than 100 people who might like to work with them this summer at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.The company will produce more than 180 shows at three...

As Gilded Balloon’s 32nd Fringe comes to an end, it’s time to celebrate another successful festival. It’s been the biggest year yet, with two new venues joining the family, Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose and...

Henry Box Brown, the acclaimed musical inspired by the true story of an escaped 1850s slave, is returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Performed by a superb cast of New York Gospel singers and Broadway...

The magnificent, multi-award winning Mandy Muden is bringing a brand new show packed with mind blowing magic and camp comedy to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Her spectacular performances on Britain’s Got Talent  2018 and non...

Double Feature by Phil Differ. A Gilded Balloon production | King’s Theatre Edinburgh |Friday 18 & Saturday 19 MayDelightfully pun playing and based on a long time ago cinematic format, the A & B movie programme, this...

Another 70 shows have gone on sale today for the shows forming the Gilded Balloon's Fringe 2018.Katy and Karen Koren, Directors of Gilded Balloon, said: “We cannot wait to host the Honeys in our...

Gilded Balloon has a new venue and it is really making the most of it with some classy comedy.In the next two shows, stand up veteran, Fred Macaulay, is taking on two very different...

Calling all responsible mothers and fathers across the Central Belt, it is time again to lock up your sons and daughters (a wide selection of  ‘enhancement restraints' are available at luvcuffs.com) and send them...

Gilded Balloon is proud to present a brand-new, year-round home for comedy, theatre and cabaret right in the heart of the city’s West End Headlining Gilded Balloon’s inaugural winter programme will be Morag Fullarton’s critically-acclaimed,...

La Vie Dans Une Marionette is an award-winning  family show by the New Zealand based company White Face Crew.This whimsical story of a lonely pianist and the puppet he buys to keep him company...

Who is Tom Stade - are we any closer to the real Tom now that we have met him? Will the real Tom Stade stand up?Tom Stade is appearing at the Fringe this August and...

It is Temperance heaven with Quiz inquisitor Patrick Monhan as he teases toddlers and so-called grown-ups clever clogs alike with his infectious interrogations.The fantastically fun family quiz is back after last year’s triumphant silliness...

It’s the time of the year when thoughts turn to who will be starring in the Edinburgh Fringe in August. For the first time in 24 years, Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson will headline the...

CarefulHorse McDonald’s acclaimed biographical play.There are times in life when you need to be careful...The Scottish singer-songwriter, Horse McDonald, is taking her award-winning one-woman play, Careful, on the road for a Scottish spring tour.First...

With a huge suitcase full of props, George Egg,  one of the hottest alternative acts on the circuit, will serve up his surreal, absurd and very silly style of comedy when he headlines Gilded...

Last week I saw Colin Mochrie of Whose Line Is It Anyway fame improvise with four different members of the public who had been hypnotised. Mochrie, of whom I am a long-time fan, makes...

Gilded Balloon presents Night at the Museum Join the greats of comedy from across the globe as they strive to blur the lines between arteFACT and arteFICTION in a wholly improvised set, prompted by the historical artefacts housed in the...

Barry Cryer has written for the likes of Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Morecambe & Wise, Stanley Baxter and Bruce Forsyth. So when a man of his considerable experience comes to town you simply have...

Mark Dolan - You're Awesome!, Gilded Balloon 7:45pm, until 25 Aug, £9 (£7.50 concessions)Largely known for presenting 'Balls of Steel' and documentaries, Mark Dolan has been taking to the stage at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe...

We’ve overheard more than one* Cowgate conversation this festival about people’s lists of 30 things to do before they turn 30 (basically a bucket list condensed into a smaller amount of time).  Coincidentally, stand-up...