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Laughing Horse Free Festival Venue
Boston Bar (New Town)

Fringe Venue 499 - Click here for map

104 Hanover St, Edinburgh, EH2 1DR  / 01316030103

Food  Wifi  Licensed  Air Conditioned
Open from 11:00 to 01:00
18+ only

Come for good Scran, stay for good times at this Irish American themed Music Bar, with free shows downstairs through the Fringe in 'The Basement Bar'


Shows at Boston Bar (New Town)
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Basement Bar 

#BorderlandsComedy COMEDY 
AUG 6-30 at 12:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
#BorderlandsComedy is a sharp Irish stand-up compilation featuring the best uncompromising comedians, hosted by two border comedians — Monaghan Horse dealer Justin Cassidy(BBC Northern Ireland, Electi...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

100% Irish Beef – An Irish Crowd Work Show COMEDY 
AUG 6-16, 18-30 at 14:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
A standup comedy compilation show featuring the best Irish acts at the Fringe plus the occasional special international guest. Hosted by award winning Irish comedians, Darren Gaffney and John O'Keefe&...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Almost 50 AND a Woman COMEDY 
AUG 6-17 at 11:30 (30 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £2.50 
Almost 50 and a Woman is the comedy version of the most difficult moment in my life. The man I loved mansplained to me my age and lack of fertility he diagnosed with his medical degree from men-know-...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Barnish & Carmichael: Probably The Greatest Improv Duo You Have Never Heard Of COMEDY 
AUG 24-27 at 21:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
For almost a decade, the superbly talented Barnish and Carmichael have performed some of the greatest improv comedy shows around the world to virtually empty rooms, which is why you've never heard of ...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Bitches in Stitches: The New Grrrl Order COMEDY 
AUG 10-13, 17-20, 24-27 at 20:15 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
Welcome to Bitches in Stitches: The New Grrrl Order — a femme-forward, community-powered comedy hour that’s as raucous as it is unfiltered. This is the Fringe debut of Bitches in Stitches — the globa...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Captain Code COMEDY 
AUG 10-13 at 17:45 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £2.50 
🎤 Stand-up Comedy Special “Captain Code” Ziyin is a stand-up comedian from China — and a full-time programmer. By day, he writes code. By night, he talks about why none of it works. “Captain C...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Games Night Improv COMEDY 
AUG 10-13 at 21:30 (60 min) - Free 
Classic party games meet improvised comedy in Games Night Improv: Salad Bowl Edition. Think Articulate on steroids, powered by audience suggestions. You create the clues, audience members team up with...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Hot Seat COMEDY 
AUG 10-14 at 16:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £2.50 
Lighting impossible things on fire. Locking eyes with Donald Trump and feeling compelled to describe her mood to the President. Bombing her comedy set in front of 500 pharmacists. As both an award-wi...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

In Flight Entertainment COMEDY 
AUG 10-14 at 19:00 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
You are on a plane that's been delayed and is now stuck in the air unable to land. Sarah Ison and Laura Johnston are your flight attendants and their job is to keep you, the passengers, entertained fo...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Kimchi Comedy: A Spicy Korean Stand-Up Show COMEDY 
AUG 17-20, 24-27 at 19:00 (60 min) - Free 
Kimchi Comedy – Spicy Korean Stand-Up No more K-Pop. Welcome to K-Comedy. Two Korean comedians bring the spicy, chaotic and brutally honest side of Korean life to the stage. From dating disasters an...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Linked Out the Musical MUSICALS AND OPERA 
AUG 10-13 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free 
What happens when a woman climbs the ladder of Big Tech… and then writes a musical making fun of it? Linked-Out is a witty musical satire about corporate ambition, tech culture, and the bizarre theatr...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Lve Music at Boston Bar (New Town) MUSIC 
AUG 7-9, 14-16, 21-23, 28-30 at 16:00 (540 min) - Free 
Come to the Boston Bar for some lively Irish-American pub music. You can expect everything from traditional live "trad" sessions (acoustic folk, fiddles, and banjos) to upbeat, modern sing-alongs and ...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Lve Music at Boston Bar (New Town) MUSIC 
AUG 6, 10-13, 17-20, 24-27 at 23:00 (120 min) - Free 
Come to the Boston Bar for some lively Irish-American pub music. You can expect everything from traditional live "trad" sessions (acoustic folk, fiddles, and banjos) to upbeat, modern sing-alongs and ...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Mary-Kate and Ashley Ruined My Life (WIP) COMEDY 
AUG 18-30 at 11:30 (60 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £2.50 
When I was a child, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen had everything figured out. They had careers, apartments in New York and fully formed personalities before the age of sixteen. Unfortunately there were...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Millennial Man (WIP) COMEDY 
AUG 17-20, 24-27 at 17:45 (45 min) - Pay What You Can tickets - from £5 
Clayton Smith went to Pompeii and found that, as a Millennial, he related to it a little too much! He found solidarity with the people who perished there: frozen in time, forever trapped in doom. Cl...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

Rule of Threes COMEDY 
AUG 17-20, 24-27 at 16:30 (60 min) - Free 
Semi finalist in the BBC Funny Women Awards (2025), Laura's first show was listed as "one of the top show picks" of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe (Theatrevillage). She's now back from Down Under just to s...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

TMI with TIM CABARET 
AUG 17-20, 24-27 at 15:15 (60 min) - Free 
You tell a story, TIM makes up a song - simple, right? TMI with TIM is an improvised music/comedy act that will have you singing, belly laughing, gasping and pearl clutching. Based on the theme of the...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

TMI with TIM CABARET 
AUG 17-20 at 21:30 (60 min) - Free 
You tell a story, TIM makes up a song - simple, right? TMI with TIM is an improvised music/comedy act that will have you singing, belly laughing, gasping and pearl clutching. Based on the theme of the...
Boston Bar (New Town) / Basement Bar 

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