Scotland Theatre Newsroom

Award winning stand-up comedian and viral sensation Finlay Christie will return to the Edinburgh Fringe this year after a critically acclaimed debut in 2022 with his show 'OK Zoomer'.

Here & Now will present its programme of work created in England, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. Learn more about the lineup here!

Bobby Davro will appear at Edinburgh Fringe Festval this Summer.  The comedy legend has been one of the UK's top comics and best-known celebrity entertainers for over 40 years. 

A Play, A Pie and A Pint will present MEDEA ON THE MIC by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh, Monday 10th - Saturday 15th June 2024, 1pm.

The award-winning producers of Fleabag, Baby Reindeer and Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder have announced the world premiere of a dark comedy about wrecking the places we love.

Experience the thrill as DON GNU brings the game of tennis to the Edinburgh Fringe. This unique performance is a must-see for sports and theatre enthusiasts alike.

A quartet of London's best West End talent converge for a musical parody all about the courtroom clash that followed ‘that' legendary crash on the slopes! 

Discover the latest additions to Pleasance's programme with their third epic on-sale. Get updates on new shows, dates, and what to expect from the upcoming performances.

Dylan Mulvaney will present her solo musical at Edinburgh Fringe. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Established in 2022, philanthropic arts platform, House of Oz, has announced a return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, marking its third consecutive year presenting original Australian talent at the world's largest arts marketplace. 

Join dance floor anthropologist, Aunty Jonny for an edifying lecture on the history of radical music, sexed up dance floors and the people your mother warned you about. The only show with a built-in After Party.

Grace Bellavue was a high-class sex worker, who rose to meteoric fame on social media. She was an activist and modern-day maverick, until suddenly, she died...  Award winning artist, and fellow South Australian, Michaela Burger (A Migrant's Son, Exposing Edith) explores her legacy in this new one-woman show.   

House of Oz is presenting two UK premieres from choreographer to watch, Lewis Major, as part of a portfolio of shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Learn more about the upcoming performances here!

Adelaide's circus and physical theatre superstars, Gravity & Other Myths (GOM), return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE of their new work Ten Thousand Hours .

Cross-dressing, guns, psychiatry, politics, incest, adultery and accidental overdoses interlace in Joe Orton's final and most subversive play. Unfortunately to a modern audience it feels dated.

A surreal chaotic comedy following a misfit family from Glasgow’s fringes as they prepare a party to say farewell to a beloved black-market animal.

After riding triumphant waves in the Edinburgh Fringe, camp musical parody Unfortunate dives into Glasgow to stage a revolutionary queerification of Disney's 1989 movie The Little Mermaid. 

Join Silent Uproar and Hull Truck Theatre as they present DEAD GIRLS RISING, a new production touring the UK from 14 May to 11 June.

Founded in 2021, the UK Pantomime Association (UKPA) is a charity that explores, shares and celebrates pantomime by investigating the genre's rich past, engaging with contemporary practice and inspiring the future.

This divine revival of the iconic movie follows nightclub singer Deloris van Cartier (Landi Oshinowo), whose life takes an unlikely turn after she witnesses a mobster murder. Seeking refuge in a holy convent, she poses as a nun revamping the sisters' struggling choir... despite protests from the austere Mother Superior (Coronation Street's Sue Cleaver). 

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, devised, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, is coming to the Theatre Royal in Glasgoe from 21-25 May 2024.

Comedy sensation, National Comedy Award and triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Amy Gledhill will return to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand new show – Make Me Look Fit On The Poster.

Now the UK's leading political comedian, Matt Forde will return to Edinburgh Festival Fringe ahead of the UK and US elections. His brand-new show The End of An Era Tour will run from 1st - 25th August at 8pm at Pleasance Beyond.

‘Bridezilla’ Amber and her fiancé Gary are desperate to find the perfect venue for her their upcoming wedding when the peculiar Lady V offers up her seemingly ideal estate.

In a world where quiet facts are repeatedly drowned out by loud opinions and with calamity around every corner, do we rock paper scissors for not just the right to be heard, but the right to survive?