The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
NYC comedian Amy Veltman is set to make a splash this summer as she brings her award-winning comedic solo show PSA: Pelvic Service Announcement to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe with performances at theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall.
Theatre company Say It Again, Sorry? brought their smash Fringe hit Earnest? to the King's last week, turning Oscar Wilde’s classic of mistaken identity on its head in a brilliantly chaotic, genre-bending take that joyfully challenges theatrical convention.
Sikisa (Live at The Apollo, Off Menu, Jonathan Ross' Comedy Club) body-slams the expectations placed on women, especially those who are black, childless, or labelled 'successful' just for surviving.
The 2025 Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland will be presented on the afternoon of Sunday June 8 at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award nominated Best Musical, Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical is launching a globe-spanning World Tour.
The international cabaret icon and punk provocateur Bernie Dieter is set to make her return to the Edinburgh Fringe with her new show Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett.
Students at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland upload Anya Reiss’s unique adaptation of Spring Awakening to the Tron this week.
2023 Best Show nominee Janine Harouni is returning to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her brand-new hour ‘Janine Harouni: This Is What You Waited For'.
One of Adelaide's most sought after vocal coaches, award-winning performer, songwriter and vocalist Amelie Peters will make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut Sink or SING.
Join two sisters as they set off and go on an exciting trip ‘doon the watter’ to their favourite island! With the salty sea breeze in their hair and the gentle waves carrying them along, they fill the journey with stories of magical mermaids, soaring seabirds, and mischievous seal pups who love
An actor bursts into the theatre, pursued by the authorities.
Now a global smash hit, this hilarious and heartwarming drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix phenomenon, is written by Ins Choi, who calls the play his 'love letter to his parents and to all first-generation immigrants who now call Canada their home.
House of Oz will return to Edinburgh, with eight Australian shows across multiple venues, and a range of genres from dance, opera, cabaret, musical comedy, acrobatics to dark thriller.
BroadwayWorld caught up with Aidan MacColl to chat about making his West End debut in Pop Off, Michaelangelo!
The Edinburgh Fringe is changing – and SHEDINBURGH is rewriting the narrative.
Award winning comedian Joe Kent-Walters is set to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with a brand new hour, 'Joe Kent Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (good fun time)'.
Broadway and television star Kate Skinner has been announced to star in Help! I’m Trapped In A One-Woman Show, written by Mark Hampton with Skinner, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.
Summerhall Arts has launched its inaugural festival programme, and the 14th to take place in the now iconic Summerhall building this August.
K Media and Summerhall Arts have announced the world première at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 of SKYE: A Thriller, by Sunday Times bestselling author and award-winning theatre producer Ellie Keel, in her playwriting debut.
Here & Now will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 with a programme of the best dance, installation, integrated performance, movement and theatre being created in England right now.
2025 marks Underbelly's 25th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, celebrating a milestone year at the heart of the world's biggest arts festival.
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominees Crybabies (James Gault, Michael Clarke, Ed Jones) and the Olivier Award-winning producers behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer join forces to present The Scaring.
The hilarious, weird, and epic sci-fi from Japan is back! Space Hippo returns for Edinburgh Fringe 2025, with an updated script and even more space-hopping irreverence than before.
Jumper Bumps by Amelia Rodger will premiere at Fringe 2025 with a run at Gilded Balloon Appleton Tower in August.
The three plays that form this mini-rep season were all first commissioned by A Play, A Pie & A Pint, and are now receiving a revival in the Tron Theatre Changing House Studio.
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Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/29) |
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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 Time of Your Life The Voodoo Rooms (8/10-8/24) |
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Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again) Gilded Balloon Patter House – Coorie (8/05-8/31) |
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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Sitting (In Silence) Summerhall (8/06-8/31) |
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Long Way Home Gilded Balloon (Snug) (8/05-8/31) |
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In a Bad Way Gilded Balloon Patter House (Blether), (8/05-8/31) |
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Tell Me Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |
