EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LAURA BENANTI: NOBODY CARES, Underbelly
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EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FORGET-ME-NOT, Fern Studio at Greenside @ George Street
An all-true, two-hander beauty of gig theatre Forget-Me-Not celebrates the multitudes of womanhood, the beauty in reclaiming your voice and the lifeline that is the power of female friendship.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DEAD AIR, Pleasance Courtyard
Since Alfie's dad died, he's visited everyone's dreams but hers.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: HANNAH MORTON: CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, Gilded Balloon
You're invited to Lachlan-Thomas' sixth birthday party hosted by your favourite children's party entertainer, Hannah Banana! Hannah is a writer, performer and most importantly, a children's birthday party entertainer.
EDINBURGH 2025 Review: MAKE IT HAPPEN, Starring Brian Cox
Set in Edinburgh, Make It Happen sees legendary actor Brian Cox return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade as Adam Smith, the ghost of fiscal past.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FLOAT, Gilded Balloon
Join Astronaut Indra on a nine-month mission to the moon.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: A GAMBLER'S GUIDE TO DYING, Traverse
This is the story of one boy's grandad who won a fortune betting on the 1966 World Cup and, when diagnosed with cancer, gambles it all on living to see the year 2000.
EDINBURGH 2025 Review: AMY MASON: BEHOLD! Pleasance Courtyard, Baby Grand
Amy Mason is witty, unfiltered, and enjoyably coarse, diving right into how connection, intimacy, and the chaos of how modern life works in reality.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: RIFT, Traverse Theatre
Two brothers — one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang — shared a traumatic childhood.
EDINBURGH 2025 Review: JOZ NORRIS: YOU WAIT. TIME PASSES. The Pleasance Dome
Joz Norris is an enthusiastic lover of fun, concerned with elevating joy and embracing his inner weird.
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, King's Theatre
The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide and has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STUART MCPHERSON: CRISPS AND A LIE DOWN, Monkey Barrel
Following his sell-out 2023/24 runs, Stu returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new show about settling down, growing up and how he’s being controlled by his step-dog.
Edinburgh 2025 Review: JESS ROBINSON: YOUR SONG, Piccolo Tent, Assembly George Square Gardens
Jess Robinson, Your Song: Elton Reimagined is an uproarious triumph which cements Jess Robinson as the reigning diva of comedic musical impressions.
Review: MORNING STAR, Theatre 118
On 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.
Review: SUICIDE, AND OTHER ACTS OF SELFISHNESS, Theatre 118
Edge-of-nowhere, Glasgow, Central Belt.
Review: THE LAST LAUGH, Theatre Royal
The 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.
Review: THE GREAT GATSBY, Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Set in the summer of 1922, this gripping story unfolds in the West Egg district of Long Island.
Review: CALAMITY JANE, King's Theatre
Based on the much-loved Doris Day movie, this plumb fancy new production stars the multi-award-winning West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher.
Review: MAN'S BEST FRIEND at Tron Theatre
Celebrated Scottish writer Douglas Maxwell returns to the Tron Theatre, more than two decades after his debut with Our Bad Magnet in 2000.
Review: RESTLESS NATIVES, King's Theatre
The Clown and the Wolfman ride again as the classic Scottish movie starts a new adventure as a stage musical! Forty years after Restless Natives hit the big screen, it has been staged as a musical with songs from Big Country.
Review: THE HAUNTING OF AGNES GILFREY, Oran Mor
A gothic comedy thriller set in a remote stately house in the Highlands, drawing on Scottish folklore and holiday horror stories.
Review: YOU WON'T BREAK MY SOUL, Oran Mor
After a very average hook-up, Jordan realises this particular ‘gentleman caller’ has stolen his irreplaceable Beyoncé concert tickets for her Murrayfield show the next day.
Review: THE NAKED NEDS, Cottiers
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
Review: KELI, Tramway
KELI tells the story of a fiery, sharp witted seventeen year-old in a former mining town.
Review: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE at Kings Theatre Glasgow
Few stories capture the wonder of childhood and the weight of war as gracefully as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
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Elvis in Chaos Lime Studio at Greenside @ George Street (8/07-8/15) |
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Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! Gilded Balloon Patter House - Other Yin (8/05-8/30) |
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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) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alhambra Theatre (10/07-10/10) |
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Tell Me Summerhall (Dissection Room) (8/07-8/31) |
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Long Way Home Gilded Balloon (Snug) (8/05-8/31) |
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Sanctuary Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome) (8/05-8/31) |
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Reparations Pleasance Courtyard (Above) (8/05-8/30) |
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Glob Underbelly (8/05-8/30) |
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Father, Away She Goes Zoo (Playground 1) (8/07-8/30) |