EDINBURGH 2025: Review: GOD IS DEAD AND I KILLED HIM, Pleasance Courtyard
How do you rebel against parents who are already rebels? Form a band? Cool.
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Review: DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE, Edinburgh International Book Festival
Podcaster, comedian, and bestselling author of The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White wants to know when we stopped talking and, more importantly, listening to each other.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: HOW TO WIN AGAINST HISTORY, Underbelly
Henry Cyril Paget was one of the world's wealthiest men, until he lost it all by being too damn fabulous.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: OHIO, Assembly
When Shaun turned his back on the church, he found a new home in music.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: EMILY WILSON: UNDRESSED, Pleasance
Emily Wilson returns to the Fringe at long last and proves herself, yet again, as one of the funniest acts at this years Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DEVIL'S POINT, TheSpace On The Mile
Devil's Point is an interesting show with plenty of potential, but one which never quite succeeds in engaging us fully.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CHRISTOPHER MACARTHUR-BOYD: HOWLING AT THE MOON, Monkey Barrel
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd proves himself as one of the funniest men Scotland has ever produced.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LOVETT, Pleasance Courtyard
Newly-widowed Mrs Lovett needs to find a way to survive.
Review: ROLLERS FOREVER, Glasgow Pavilion
When two old friends meet at a haunt from their youth they relive their exciting teenage years in the poptastic seventies.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROBYN REYNOLDS: WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU, Snug Bar At Assembly Roxy
In a perfectly paced show featuring musical numbers and smooth crowd work, Robyn Reynolds details the ups and downs of her life – or rather, brings out the silver lining in the downs.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JODIE SLOAN: IS SHE HOT? Pleasance Courtyard
In 2023 TikTok sent a notification to millions of users with Jodie's face, and the caption 'Is She Hot?'.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARGOLYES AND DICKENS: MORE BEST BITS, EICC
After her hit sold-out show at last year’s Fringe, national treasure Miriam Margolyes returns with a brand new piece.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 1612, TheSpace On The Mile
Unsettling music and Chekov's child draw the audience in before 1612 even starts, creating the perfect environment to learn about this historic witch trial.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LUCY CHURCHILL: BIG B**BS LONG LEGS, Greenside At George Street
This whirlwind show absolutely flies by in the time we wish it took to learn to love ourselves.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 113, The Space
49 and 64 are in the room.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DIRTY MONEY, TheSpace On The Mile
Following the arrest of a famous billionaire, four unlikely friends team up to break her out of prison in return for half her fortune.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LOST LEAR, Traverse Theatre
Advertised as a 'moving and darkly comic remix' of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Lost Lear retells the play through the eyes of Joy, an elderly dementia patient and former actress trapped in a perpetual memory of rehearsing King Lear for the stage.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: NOWHERE - HERE & NOW SHOWCASE, Traverse Theatre
Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Crown) redefines and reclaims the solo show in a lyrical tapestry where resistance, displacement and selfhood are delicately woven through an avant-garde aesthetic.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARY: A GIG THEATRE SHOW, Gilded Balloon Patter House
Mary: A Gig Theatre Show is a cool concept.
Review: CHICAGO, King's Theatre
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JESSICA FOSTEKEW: ICONIC BREATH, Monkey Barrel
A monster's guide to tolerance and temperance.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: A SMALL TOWN NORTHERN TALE, Underbelly
A Y2K-drenched coming-of-age comedy-drama: ASTNT follows David’s move from the city to a small Northern town where being the only Black kid means fitting in isn’t an option.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOSH ELTON: AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES, Hoots @ The Apex
Josh Elton makes an assured and highly memorable Fringe debut with Away With The Fairies, a show which captures both the unfiltered chaos of the life of a comic and the mythic absurdity which shapes it.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: AVENUE Q, Braw Venues At Grand Lodge
What did our critic think of AVENUE Q at Braw Venues At Grand Lodge?This smash hit musical is a hilarious satire of modern life starring a mixed cast of humans and puppets.
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Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/29) |
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Reparations Pleasance Courtyard (Above) (8/05-8/30) |
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Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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AEW All In: London Wembley Stadium - Connected by EE, London (8/30-8/30) |
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One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven Greenside Venue @ Riddles Court (Willow Studio) – Venue 16 - 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PG (8/07-8/29) |
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A Costume Drama ZOO (Playground 3) (8/07-8/30) |
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Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Copycat Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome) (8/05-8/31) |
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Jerk Off! Underbelly (Dairy Room) (8/05-8/30) |
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The Three Marias Voices Collective (8/26-8/31) |