The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Scotland.
After a smash hit 2024 season and fresh off a 9-week London run, best-pals-turned-bitter-rivals Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci return to Edinburgh! A bloodthirsty friar is on the hunt for homosexuals in Renaissance Italy just when childhood friends Mike and Leo realise they both like boys.
Hot Mess: a new musical.
Two friends perform breathtaking aerial shows.
For the past 17 years, Grace Helbig has been building her online presence as a content creator.
Douglas Widick’s Paperclip is a witty, genre-bending thrill ride, which imagines a world where the fate of humanity rests in the hands or rather, the wires of Microsoft Word’s long-forgotten writing assistant Clippy.
Prepare to be indoctrinated into your new favourite cult! This show is exactly as it says on the tin: a pseudo-religious service with all the elements required to make up (or make fun of) a church.
The Durham Revue's latest may not be their finest hour, but it sure is a fun one.
Like Fleabag meets Normal People, this play from writer/star Ned Blackburn is one of the greatest Fringe shows you will ever see.
I would be unsurprised to learn that Dunhuang was directed by a composer.
The King of Whimsy is back at the Edinburgh Fringe…it’s Alasdair Beckett-King with his hour of the silly and the fantastical with King of Crumbs.
Puppets and sparkles, sing-a-longs and a wee dance, Monski Mouse Baby Cabaret is fun for the whole family - the ultimate baby friendly event at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Two years since they last met, six friends receive an invitation to compete in “Escape Room: The Musical”.
Following her sell out show last year, Susie McCabe is back at the Fringe again with her latest show Best Behaviour.
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe following it’s debut in 2024, Shantify is a jukebox musical following the lives of 6 men from a fishing town, who are part of a band that take pop songs and ‘shantify’ them
A Jaffa Cake Musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year following a sell out run in 2024.
Diona Doherty: Get Your Pink Back is a confident, hilarious and heartfelt Fringe debut.
This debut hour from Bebe Cave has enough energy to power Murrayfield and enough whimsy to dazzle even the staunchest of stoics.
Greeted on the door by the very enthusiastic Steph and welcomed into a cosy, intimate venue.
'Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
Sketch Thieves provides a solid afternoon of laughs.
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.
Her last two sold-out, award-nominated Fringe shows explored the mind and body - and then Marjolein died.
A new show about extinct, gigantic, charismatic megafauna from three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Josie Long.
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
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.
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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) |
