EDINBURGH 2025: REVIEW: BEBE CAVE: CHRISTBRIDE, Jack Dome And Pleasance Dome
This debut hour from Bebe Cave has enough energy to power Murrayfield and enough whimsy to dazzle even the staunchest of stoics.
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EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 8 WAYS TO BREAK A GLASS (WITH AN AMERICAN OPERA SINGER), Laughing Horse @Dragonfly
Greeted on the door by the very enthusiastic Steph and welcomed into a cosy, intimate venue.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARC JENNINGS: BREAD AND CIRCUSES, Monkey Barrel Comedy
'Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SKETCH THIEVES at The Laughing Horse
Sketch Thieves provides a solid afternoon of laughs.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: RHYS DARBY: THE LEGEND RETURNS, Pleasance
Rhys Darby's brings his stand-up routine back to the Edinburgh Fringe and proves, yet again, why he is a true legend of the festival.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON: LEIN, Pleasance
Her last two sold-out, award-nominated Fringe shows explored the mind and body - and then Marjolein died.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOSIE LONG: NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS, Pleasance
A new show about extinct, gigantic, charismatic megafauna from three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Josie Long.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MOTORHOME MARILYN, Gilded Balloon
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
EDINBURGH 2O25: Review: TIFF STEVENSON: POST-COITAL, Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
Tiff Stevenson: Post Coital is a stand-up show that brings Tiff Stevenson's post-coital thoughts, and Google search history, to the Edinburgh Fringe Stage.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: NERDS, Underbelly
If South Park and the IT Crowd had an affair, Nerds would be the unapologetic lovechild they put up for adoption to avoid a scandal.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MISS CONGENIALITY: THE UNAUTHORISED MUSICAL CONCERT, The Space
With music based on the 2000 comedy classic, Gracie Hart is a clumsy yet brilliant FBI Special Agent who must go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant! Come hear the original songs inspired by the movie as the cast retell the story of this cult classic.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF GIANTS, Traverse Theatre
It's the early noughties and Lucie Barât is fresh out of drama school busy auditioning for laxative-ads and flipping burgers.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: BRYAN SAFI: ARE YOU MAD AT ME??, Underbelly
Emmy-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.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: COMEDIANS ON STAGE AUDITIONING FOR MUSICALS, Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower
One hour of pure mayhem, Comedians on Stage Auditioning for Musicals is the perfect junction between laugh out loud comedy and genuinely stellar musical theatre performance with a dash of good old-fashioned humiliation and gossip thrown in for good measure.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE TALE OF THE LONELIEST WHALE, Underbelly
'I can hear someone out there.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROSIE O'DONNELL: COMMON KNOWLEDGE, Gilded Balloon
The eleven-time Emmy and Tony Award winner, known for her legendary career in film, television and stage, brings her highly anticipated debut show to the Fringe following her recent move from across the pond.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHAME SHOW, Pleasance Courtyard
Storm Seamus has struck Northern Ireland and Adam and Stevie are stuck inside.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: PALS, Gilded Balloon
PALS makes a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MAIRI CAMPBELL: PULSE (PENDULUM TRILOGY), Scottish Storytelling Centre
To the left of the Netherbow Theatre stage hangs an ancient stone from a trio of canes, to the right a chair and instrument stand – our programme tells us it was designed by Tim Vincent-Smith.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FOOTBALLERS WIVES THE MUSICAL, Assembly
A new British musical based on the iconic TV series following the fall and rise of captain's wife Tanya Turner as she schemes to save her marriage and her husband's career.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ATHENS OF THE NORTH, Scottish Storytelling Centre
To the left of the stage of the Netherbow Theatre sits an original leather Lothian Regional transport bus seat.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SINGLE USE, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker Three
What happens to our plastic waste after we toss it in the recycling? Where does climate action fit into our messy lives? These are the questions Verity Mullen’s Single Use intends to explore.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACK TRAYNOR: BEFORE I FORGET, Pleasance
One of Scotland's fastest-rising stars, Jack's highly anticipated debut combined the bizarre and the brilliantly relatable.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MOLLY MCGUINNESS: SLOB, Monkey Barrel
Join BBC New Comedy Awards finalist Molly McGuinness for her highly anticipated debut show about what it means to be a slob.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROSE + BUD, Pleasance Courtyard
Derry Freshers’ Week, closeted Bud is in for a rollercoaster of tequila, tiaras and transitioning.
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Elvis in Chaos Lime Studio at Greenside @ George Street (8/07-8/15) |
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Reparations Pleasance Courtyard (Above) (8/05-8/30) |
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It Couldn’t Get Worse; or, The Margarita Boat Tour Incident theSpace @ Venue 45 (8/24-8/29) |
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Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square (8/05-8/31) |
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100 Years of Magic Aberdeen Arts Centre (9/04-9/05) PHOTOS |
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years The Stand 1 (9/23-9/23) |
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Shamilton! The Improvised Hip Hop Musical Assembly George Square Studios - One (8/05-8/30) |
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Glob Underbelly (8/05-8/30) |
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Woodcutter Triplex Studio @theSpaceUK (Venue 38) (8/07-8/29) |
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The Business Man and The Case of M. Valdemar Greenside Venue @ Riddles Court (Willow Studio) – Venue 16 - 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PG (8/07-8/28) |