My favourite comic could be Spike Milligan. I saw him on a school trip to see Treasure Island. Or perhaps Tommy Trinder, the ...

I don’t think I knew you could go on a holiday that wasn’t booked as a package until I was 25. Even now as a fully grown man, a part of me panics when I land in a foreign country and I’m not ...

The original Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (actually the sixth entry) is one of the most popular games in the long-running series. Released almost 13 years ago on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U (remember ...

Bursting on stage in an extraterrestrial one-piece, an alien mask and a gold-sequined fringe jacket, Debra Tammer starts as she means to go on. With fierce wit and an authentic performance, she traces ...

The winners of The List Festival Awards have been announced, celebrating the wealth of creativity and talent across Art, Book, Film, Fringe and International festivals. Poet and winner of the Nan ...

The shortlists have been revealed for The List Festival Awards, shining a light on the fantastic range of creativity and talent in Art, Book, Film, Fringe and International festivals this summer.

This succinct career survey of South African photographer Jillian Edelstein is so emotionally dominated by her coverage of the Truth And Reconciliation Commission in her country’s post-apartheid era ...

Try as she may, Amy Matthews can’t get angry. She suffers from alexithymia, a condition that means she experiences a lag in expressing emotions. Over the past few years, she’s had a lot to be angry ...

In the wonderful, welcoming Scottish Storytelling Centre, we travel back almost 3000 years for a retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad (prequel to The Odyssey). Italian performers Paola Balbi and ...

The List Festival Awards 2026 will once again bring together artists, industry professionals and festival organisations for an afternoon celebrating the creativity and ambition that defines Edinburgh ...

What’s the point of anything? In a challenging hour, Guy Branum questions the meaning of life and, more specifically, his own existence as a fat (his word, which he tortuously forces an audience ...

Norway’s Viggo Venn plays a cockier, kinkier Mr Bean in this slice of audience-led clowning. An alumnus of Philippe Gaulier, Venn went on to win Britain’s Got Talent in 2023 by making a show of Simon ...