The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Footballers’ Wives: The Musical, a bold, high-energy adaptation of the iconic ITV drama, will make its Edinburgh Fringe debut this summer at the Assembly Rooms (Music Hall) from July 30 through August 24 (excluding August 13), with performances at 6:35 p.
Improbotics will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with RoboTales, a new interactive theatrical experiment fusing human improvisation with artificial intelligence.
An interactive science theatre experience for the whole family that blends comedy with STEM, A.
Inspired by the relationship between playwright Gabriel Jason Dean and his brother, an incarcerated high-level member of the alt-right.
The countdown is on to the opening of a spectacular and unmissable art attraction which arrives in Aberdeen next month.
Transforming homophobia into a defiant celebration of queer joy, Edu Diaz’s wordless A Drag Is Born blends clowning, lip-sync, and drag with a touch of audience interaction.
Dutch Kills Theater Company and Wet Hands will present the world premiere of Channel, a meditative and immersive sound experience created by American sound artist Jack McGuire, at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Whisper Walk is partly inspired by the Japanese Kaze no Denwa (“wind phone”) and explores how memories are deeply connected to a seemingly ordinary place.
Confronting surveillance, misinformation, and authoritarianism in the modern age, this fresh adaptation of Orwell's 1984 fuses puppetry and storytelling with original music and a shape-shifting set.
Playback is a tragicomic drama drawn from Scottish writer and performer Euan Munro’s lived experience as a YouTuber between the ages of 11 and 14.
Chrome Yellow is headed to Edinburgh Fringe.
MARIUPOL is coming to Edinburgh this summer.
Linus Karp and Joseph Martin – the real-life couple behind ‘Gwyneth Goes Skiing' and 'The Fit Prince' are heading down the aisle – or rather, onto the Pleasance Grand stage – to get married live during the Edinburgh Fringe.
Multi-award-winning comedian, writer, podcaster, and actor Rob Auton (The Change, Marching Powder, Starstruck) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with CAN: The Story of a Man Called CAN - his first-ever fictional show.
The High Life musical, starring Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart, will tour Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverness and Glasgow in spring 2026.
Previously known for her funny songs about single life like Tube Ride of Shame, musical comedian Tamar Broadbent is coming to Edinburgh Fringe with Plus One.
This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see Andrew Doherty present his sophomore show, 'Sad Gay AIDS Play'.
Multi-award-winning comedian and rising star Kate Dolan will bring her second hour to this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe with The Critic, for which she recently won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Golden Gibbo Award 2025.
A heartwarming comedy with unexpected connections across cultures.
2025 sees the upgraded version of Mary, Queen of Rock! at the Fringe.
Shetland Choreographer and Performer Kathryn Gordon has Assembly@DanceBase all a birl this Edinburgh Festival Fringe as she introduces her sublime new work A JOURNEY OF FLIGHT.
Following her hit stand-up special Hijabs Off (Prime Video), and her first UK run with her sell-out and critically-acclaimed show at London's Soho Theatre last year, comedian, actor and writer Zainab Johnson makes her at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Ben Pope will return to the Fringe after a 6-year hiatus before going out on tour with a blisteringly personal new stand-up show.
Berlin based theatre company Hysterie Theater will present their Edinburgh Fringe Premiere comedy theatre show Wenches! at Greenside.
As the Citizens Theatre prepares to re-open its doors later this summer, the company has revealed its new Participate programme
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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) |
