EDINBURGH 2025: Lorna Rose Treen Q&AJuly 28, 2025Award-winning character comedian Lorna Rose Treen has made a diner. She's inviting you in for an hour of characters, nonsense and a working grill. (Now with no working grill!) Afterwards, you'll say to your neighbour, 'I'll have what she's having!'
EDINBURGH 2025: Lily Phillips Guest BlogJuly 25, 2025'Fresh' from hatching a baby girl and a sold-out Edinburgh run, '...uninhibited feminist with a foul mouth' **** (Daily Express), Lily Phillips, as seen on ITV, BBC, Comedy Central and E4, is back with a new hour… and she and her perinium are fine!
EDINBURGH 2025: Katie Boyle Q&AJuly 25, 2025Irish comedian Katie Boyle brings her newest stand-up, a uniquely personal dark comedy, to Edinburgh. It's about living in America, Catholic shame, St Brigid, cutting off a parent and somehow all connected to abortion.
EDINBURGH 2025: Old God Q&AJuly 25, 2025Old God is a foppish, irreverent oracle. A singer of doom. A weaver of myth. A being so old they have forgotten their own name. With beautiful costuming, painted canvas backdrop and fancy golden foot lights, this white face clown seems to have walked out of the theater houses of the 1800s. Pantomime is performed along side improvisational feats of language. No one can keep up as Old God buries the audience beneath a sea of imagery and play spinning wildly in topic but elegantly in body.
EDINBURGH 2025: Bryan Safi Q&AJuly 25, 2025Emmy-winner Bryan Safi (star of ABC's 9-1-1, Netflix's You, Attitudes!) brings his distinctive voice to this solo comedy spiral all about queerness, confidence and the art of being unapologetically too much.
Review: MORNING STAR, Theatre 118July 24, 2025On the eve of a High Court appeal, a desperate reporter is offered an exclusive in the top-floor flat of a Springburn tower block - one that could revive his career, but set a guilty man free. First he must listen to a story which could change the world, told by an old woman who claims she is not of it.
EDINBURGH 2025: James Trickey Guest BlogJuly 25, 2025James Trickey is throwing it all away. A hotly anticipated debut hour from award-winning new act and chartered accountant (but in a cool way) which explores what it means to risk everything. Expect to laugh, learn and crucially, laugh again.
EDINBURGH 2025: ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE 2.0 Q&AJuly 18, 2025ack at the Fringe with an electrifying, one-of-a-kind spectacle of slick, mind-bending magic, laugh-out-loud comedy, cutting-edge video production and astonishing illusions – magic like you've never seen before!
Review: SUICIDE, AND OTHER ACTS OF SELFISHNESS, Theatre 118July 18, 2025Edge-of-nowhere, Glasgow, Central Belt. An abandoned, derelict bridge. A young man and an old man decide to take their own lives. In the same spot. At the same time. They've never met and they didn't know the other was going to be there.
EDINBURGH 2025: Sikisa Q&AJuly 18, 2025oin the hilarious diva Sikisa for Serving Justice – a bold, thought-provoking hour exploring truth, identity, and what justice looks like in love and life. She dives into her love of wrestling, the pressure to have kids, and the realities of the immigration system – with a twist.
Major New Scottish Folk Musical Ballad Lines To Release All-Star AlbumJuly 18, 2025The brand new recordings feature an all-star cast of guest artists including Gaelic Singer of the Year Kim Carnie, JUNO Award-winning banjo player Kaia Kater and four-time BBC Alba Scots Singer of the Year Siobhan Miller alongside top musical theatre talent including Olivier Award-winner Rebecca Trehearn and CATS Award-winner Kirsty Findlay.
EDINBURGH 2025: GARDEN PARTY Q&AJuly 16, 2025A mysterious investigation of the great American writer, inspired by his scandalous life and the Black and White ball he hosted at the Plaza Hotel. A provocative journey through success, sabotage, addiction and true crime, from Garden City to New York.
Review: THE LAST LAUGH, Theatre RoyalJuly 16, 2025The Last Laugh is written and directed by the award-winning Paul Hendy, and stars “a trio of sublime performances” (WhatsOnStage) by Bob Golding as Morecambe, Simon Cartwright as Monkhouse and Damian Williams as Cooper.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Announces Autumn 2025 SeasonJuly 15, 2025PPP announced 12 new plays as part of their 2025 Autumn season. A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has today announced its Autumn 2025 season, with 12 brand-new productions performing weekly from Monday 1 September to Saturday 22 November 2025 at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and on tour across Scotland in Ayr, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paisley.
EDINBURGH 2025: SPLIT ENDS Q&AJuly 13, 2025Claudia is consumed by her split ends until she fell in love with a hairy Vacuum. The Vacuum would shed his hairs, leave, reappear, malt, leave, appear, cheat, shed. She waited for him to pull the plug on what they had because she couldn't.
EDINBURGH 2025: Parker Callahan Q&AJuly 11, 2025Soda Pop is an alt-comedy tour de force: a multimedia, stream-of-consciousness ride through the mind of a slightly deranged gay man. Featuring original music and media, Parker keeps audiences laughing and asking, 'is this the gay agenda'?
EDINBURGH 2025: SUGAR Q&AJuly 11, 2025Theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy, Tomáš Kantor's award-winning debut is about Sugar – a gender-queer twink who discovers there's money to be made from transactional relationships (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman).
EDINBURGH 2025: DO YOU ACCEPT THESE CHARGES? Q&AJuly 11, 2025A bad boy? Hot. A bad person? Not. It’s Christmas Day and Laurie’s on her way to visit her boyfriend… in prison. A must-see fringe debut from US comedian Laurie Magers (Netflix’s Obliterated, Upright Citizens Brigade) about the time she dated an incarcerated multi-felon.