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Stars of the Edinburgh Festival set to appear at a new London venue this summer Robert Dex Some of the stand out stars of the Edinburgh Festival could appear at a new London venue this summer. Acts who prove a hit in Scotland will be on stage as part of London Wonderground, which is set to take over the Earls Court 2 Exhibition Centre from July to September. The free-to-enter event includes a mixture of free and ticketed shows as well as bars, fairground rides and an outdoor beach. Shows will be performed in two indoor venues including a 36-metre Big Top with plans for sociall...

Submitting... Billed as “the ultimate staycation playground for Londoners” its new festival will also boast outdoor bars, street food vintage fairground rides. However Underbelly insisted it was still hopeful of staging shows in other venues in Ednburgh this August – if official guidelines for venue operators are eased early enough over the next two months. The plans have emerged weeks after leading venue operators expressed fears over the future of the Fringe over a lack of government support to help the event return this year – amid warnings that artists and performers could effecti...

At a new site off Oxford Street The Underbelly Festival is set to return  to London this summer - but in a new home. Plans have been submitted to erect a wooden Spiegeltent - rather than the familiar upside-down cow - in Cavendish Square, just behind Oxford Street. If approved, the pop-up festival will run every day from July 1 to September 26, hosting cabaret, circus, variety and family entertainment. Underbelly has been operating  on the Southbank since 2009, selling more than 1.2million tickets since then. The initial programme for Cavendish Square, behind John Lewis’s flagship store, ...

The Underbelly Festival will return to London this summer at a brand-new location. With comedy, cabaret, theatre and more set to be staged at the central London location, the Festival runs from 1 July to 26 September. Underbelly co-director, Ed Bartlam, said: "We are thrilled to bring Underbelly Festival back to London and to be able to bring this much-loved festival to the heart of the Oxford Street District. Our proposed new home in Cavendish Square is perfectly positioned within minutes of Oxford Circus, the city's artistic heart in the West End, and its late-night cultural soul in Soho,...

Will we see performers on Edinburgh's Royal Mile again this year? Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Work is intensifying behind the scenes to put together a reduced Edinburgh Festival Fringe – potentially with in-person attendances – in August.  But the heads of the four main Fringe venues – the Pleasance, Assembly Festival, Gilded Balloon and Underbelly – are cautioning that a clearer timetable for the return to normal life in Scotland plus substantial state support are required if it’s to go ahead. They further warn that the survival of the world’s biggest arts festival, estimated...