0 Reviews for the 2026 Edinburgh Fringe (In order from most enjoyable to least)

Welcome to the 2026 version of my Fringe reviews.� I am a 73-year-old retired Computer Science lecturer from the University of California in Davis who thinks even a bad play is better than no play at all.�� You can see my schedule at 2026 Schedule.htm.� I expect to see between 150 and 175 shows this year.� This year my wife, Debbie is here.� Unlike me, she has an excellent memory, and has acted and directed.� While my ratings of enjoyment will not be affected by her, my reasoning may be. To facilitate seeing eight to ten shows in a day, I try to devote each day to a venue, or at least a small geographic area.� The biggest problem is that comedy dominates the Fringe evening programming.

This year I have created a separate page that has my thoughts on reviewing as well as access to all of my reviews from the past, Reviewing and Archives.htm.�

Because the Fringe website no longer allows search results to be downloaded as csv files, I wrote a C++ program, main.cpp that parses the html files results from the saved files produced from searches on edfringe.com, and stores the information in a .csv (comma separated file), named AllShows2026.csv�� I also converted AllShows2026.csv to an Excel file, AllShows.xls.� Each includes information about 3690 shows.� The coding for the availability of each show for each day is: 0=No show, 1= Sold out/cancelled, 2= Available, 3= 2-for-1, 4= Preview, 5= Free Fringe.� Please note that all of these files were created before the Fringe started and won�t be updated during the Fringe.� They will not indicate that a show is Sold out!

You can change the sorting column of the table below by first clicking anywhere in its header.� Each succeeding click in the header sorts the table by the column clicked.� Succeeding clicks of a column will reverse the previous sort order.� Sorting by the Date column on the right allows returning viewers to see my most recent reviews.

Fringe Festival Reviews

Rank	Review	Venue	Begins	Ends	Date
1.	None so far!	?	?	?	?

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