Summerhall News

[caption id="attachment_20979" align="alignleft" width="200"] Summerhall Festival 2016[/caption] Summerhall celebrates its most successful festival fringe to date – five years after the year-round Edinburgh... [more]

Shows at Summerhall have won ten Fringe Firsts out of a possible 19. This week judges from the Scotsman newspaper handed out the prize for new writing at the Fringe to Scorch, Growth, One Hundred Homes and Letters to... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20937" align="alignright" width="300"] Summerhall Director Robert McDowell - picture by Dima Nechepurenko[/caption] Summerhall's Director Robert McDowell has paid tribute to the artists and... [more]

Another three Summerhall shows have been awarded Fringe Firsts. Jenna Watt's Faslane, Two Man Show by Rash Dash and Us/Them by Bronks were all awarded The Scotsman's prize for new writing in the second week of the... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20881" align="alignleft" width="300"] Tamsyn Challenger in her Hyperbowl - ©Peter Dibdin[/caption] MIND-BENDING, MOOD ENHANCING, INVIGORATING, BEYOND EXCITING. TIRED OF THE STARS? CONFUSED... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20839" align="alignleft" width="300"] Orkestra Del Sol[/caption] We're really pleased to have our friends, Orkestra Del Sol playing in The Dissection Room tonight as part of Nothing Ever... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20823" align="alignleft" width="300"] Fringe First Winners[/caption] Summerhall are delighted to announce that three of our shows at this year's festival have been awarded Fringe Firsts by the... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20791" align="alignleft" width="300"] Summerhall Press Coverage 2016[/caption] The stars have come out and it's only the first week of the Fringe! We've been really happy with the reviews... [more]

After all of our behind-the-scenes preparation, and days of transforming Summerhall, our crews have downed their tools, put on their new Summerhall uniforms and flung open the doors to a new audience for this... [more]

[caption id="attachment_20701" align="alignleft" width="300"] Summerhall sign, one of many[/caption] It’s the first of August, and all through Summerhall, construction, as the sign says, is everywhere. The old... [more]

With our spacious and accessible café, bright courtyard area and Zoom Club events throughout the week, Summerhall is already a destination venue for families across the local area.  As ever, our Fringe programme will... [more]

Summerhall's 2016 festival programme, a feast of theatre, performance, dance, visual art and music for audiences of all ages, is on sale now via the Edinburgh Fringe box... [more]