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.
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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.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE CRAWL, 10 Dome
Two people.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHE'S BEHIND YOU, Traverse Theatre
Scottish comedy legend Johnny McKnight examines the panto dame through an inventive new lens in She’s Behind You.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CONSUMED, Traverse Theatre
Four generations of Northern Irish women gather for a 90th birthday party in Karis Kelly’s Consumed, and what unfolds is a pitch-black dark comedy with razor wit and gasp-inducing shock.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE IS COMING, Traverse Theatre
Flora Wilson Brown’s six-hander examines climate change across 250 years of real and imagined history.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STEFFAN ALUN: STAND UP at Hoot 4, Hoots @ The Apex
Welsh comedian Steffan Alun brings warmth, wit and a proudly offbeat perspective to his debut Fringe hour, Steffan Alun: Stand Up.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: TARTAN TABLETOP: A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMEDY, Bramley, Gilded Balloon, Appleton Tower
Tartan Tabletop is a Dungeons and Dragons panel show which thrives on live comedic improvisation, uncertainty and risks, which results in riotous game play.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MESSY MAGIC, Assembly Festival, Bijou
Written and Performed by Lizzie T Ollemache and David Ladderman from Rollicking Entertainment, a riot of magic, slapstick and sparkle is brought to the stage with Messy Magic, a family show which manages to be silly, but skilful.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROSCO MCCLELLAND: HOW COULD HELL BE ANY WORSE, Monkey Barrel
The winner of the 2025 Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, Rosco McClelland brings his brand new show for 2025.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACKIE!!! Gilded Balloon
Sex, drugs and coercive control.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE FIT PRINCE, Pleasance Courtyard
The King is dead and the Prince is unmarried – if he doesn't find someone soon, he must forfeit the crown! In NYC, baker Aaron Butcher is butchering his career as a family baker.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SARAH BRADLEY: JUST LIKE OTHER GIRLS, Gilded Balloon
After spending her formative years trying to be 'not like other girls', Sarah Bradley is celebrating all things feminine – from rosé to romance novels, horoscopes to hot celebrities, inconvenient crushes to crying at inconvenient times.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: INSIDERS, St John's Church
With prisons rarely out of the news, Insiders gives insight into the challenges of life in jail.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SIGNOR BAFFO, Assembly Rooms, Bijou
There is nothing quite like the delicious mix of chaos and charm that Josh Burton brings to his gleeful children’s show Signor Baffo.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LEVEL UP! Gilded Balloon, Patter House
Goldspun Media’s Level Up! begins with a promising burst of nostalgic energy.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DANNY O'BRIEN: ADULTING HARD!, Beehive 2 (The Attic)
Adulting Hard! is an energetic stand-up show where Irish comedian Danny O’Brien tells us about his attempts at buying a house in Dublin.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CAROLINE MCEVOY: TRAIN MAN, Assembly Roxy
Caroline McEvoy: Train Man is an honest yet lively stand-up show at the Fringe this year.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: PICKLED REPUBLIC, Anatomy Lecture Theatre At Summerhall
Described by its creator as “50 minutes of vegetable insanity”, this surrealist and entirely enjoyable hour of physical theatre, tragicomedy and puppetry has a certain ‘je nais sais quoi’.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE MANCHESTER REVUE IN CUBICLE LAND, Just The Tonic
An entire sketch comedy show based around real-life graffiti scrawled in toilet cubicles is the sort of premise you could only ever wish to come up with.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: GUYS SING DOLLS, Studio At Paradise In Augustines
An amazing show all round, Guys Sing Dolls, a cabaret style concert, was expertly executed.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: TED MILLIGAN: UNITED, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker Three
From the moment Ted Milligan strides on to the stage to the roar of football anthems, the atmosphere is electric.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHARON WANJOHI: IN THE HOUSE, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker 2
In her debut hour, Sharon Wanjohi strides on stage with dynamic energy on a mission to share her comedic mock wisdom.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FLY, YOU FOOLS!: RECENT CUTBACKS, Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Beyond
From the creators of Hold On To Your Butts, Recent Cutbacks return with a gloriously inventive UK premiere which transforms an epic fantasy film into a joyous, lo fi theatrical romp.
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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) |