Edinburgh festival 2013 | Culture

Editor's picks

Bridget Christie: 'I've a long way to go'

The winner of this year's Edinburgh Comedy award is one of our sharpest and most political standups – but reckons she still has a lot to learn
- Christie wins Edinburgh comedy award with show poking fun at sexism
The best (and worst) of the Edinburgh fringe

As the dust settles on the Edinburgh festival, Brian Logan and Lyn Gardner name the highlights – and lowlights – of everything they saw on this year's fringe

Edinburgh festival 2013 - your photographs

We invited you to share your photos of this year's Edinburgh festival season – and you more than came up with the goods
- Is Edinburgh comedy too left-wing?
Witches & Wicked Bodies show keeps sex under wraps

Jonathan Jones: Sexuality is key to our fascination with witchcraft, but this rather genteel exhibition denies us a wild ride with the temptresses
Edinburgh festival: Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast episode 13

Johnny Walker, Ronnie Chieng, Richard Gadd, Tumi Morake and Barry from Watford all join today's host Mark Dolan.
Edinburgh fringe closes with record ticket sales

Festival organisers issued nearly 2m tickets spread over 45,000 performances and 2,871 shows

Squally Showers – review

It's not entirely clear what Little Bulb's exuberant show about a 1980s TV production company is really trying to say, but there's no denying its energy, writes Lyn Gardner
American Lulu – review

Olga Neuwirth's misfiring reinterpretation of Alban Berg's unfinished opera is little improved by this new production, writes Kate Molleson
RSNO/Oundjian - review

Todd Machover's Festival City - a world premiere - was cleverly put together but gimmicky.
Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich/Zinman – Edinburgh festival 2013 review

David Zinman's brisk conducting produced a slick and efficient performance, but more emotion would have been welcome, writes Kate Molleson
I'll Go On – Edinburgh festival 2013 review

Barry McGovern illuminates Beckett's dark vision in a one-man show that still feels fresh after 30 years, writes Lyn Gardner
Sam Rose in the Shadows – Edinburgh festival 2013 review

Tucked In's inventive father-and-son adventure lets the audience take as much or as little as they want from it, writes Lyn Gardner
More Edinburgh reviews

Witches & Wicked Bodies – review

Wizened or suspiciously beautiful, the witch in art has proved a scarily compelling muse, writes Laura Cumming
Edinburgh art festival: the best of this year's public commissions

Burke and Hare beermats, 19th-century computer code and a scrap-heap organ brought back to life … ghosts have taken over this year's Edinburgh art festival. Jonathan Jones is spooked
Edinburgh art festival round-up

Peter Doig's mesmerising paintings somehow suggest memories shared by both the artist and the viewer, writes Laura Cumming

Murdo MacLeod's portraits at the Edinburgh International book festival - in pictures

Gallery (14 pictures)
A selection of the photographer's best portraits from this year's Edinburgh International book festival
Edinburgh international book festival sees rise of author-as-performer

Appetites for premium-price events peak at literary festival as readers jostle to see their favourite authors perform
William McIlvanney 'in the dark' about Scottish independence manifesto offer

Author shares stage with Alex Salmond at Edinburgh book festival, but says he has not been asked to write foreward

My Edinburgh: Nish Kumar – It's a party. I'm a factory of good times

With few other skills other than building Lego, the comedian is a pushover for extra gigs. Besides, this is a city that values kebabs, he tells Nosheen Iqbal
My Edinburgh: Nat Luurtsema – eyeball ulcers at a Mark Watson show

The comic and writer may have ended up in A&E four years running, but she'd never go anywhere but Edinburgh in August
My Edinburgh: Tom Wrigglesworth on all the things that have made him cry

Comedian Tom Wrigglesworth's emotionally intense show makes his audiences blub – but it's tap-dance dubstep that really sets him off

Max and Ivan: welcome to the standup slamdown

Their wrestling show put Edinburgh in a chokehold, their latest play hits London soon – and they've only been full-time at the comedy game a few months. Brian Logan meets Max and Ivan
Why feminism has never been so funny

Mathilda Gregory: At the Edinburgh fringe, new comedy icons Bridget Christie and Adrienne Truscott took on the F-word. I can't wait to see what they and their patriarchy-smashing pals do next
Edinburgh festival: Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast episode 15, with Lee Mack and Tim FitzHigham

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In the last of Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcasts, Lee Mack chats about riding Red Rum and Tim FitzHigham tells Mark Dolan about sailing across the English Channel in a bathtub

Eh Joe – Edinburgh festival 2013 review

After the triumph of Krapp's Last Tape, Michael Gambon is back in a crueller Beckett piece about an elderly man being tormented for his sins, writes Lyn Gardner
All That Fall – Edinburgh festival 2013 review

Beckett wanted his radio play to 'come out of the dark', and this intriguing installation-style production delivers just that, writes Lyn Gardner
On Behalf of Nature – review

Meredith Monk's skilful work encourages us to reflect on our relationship with nature, writes Clare Brennan
The Tragedy of Coriolanus – review

On-stage heavy metal bands gave bite to the Beijing People's Art Theatre's production of the Shakespeare tragedy, writes Clare Brennan