The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Pop Off, Michelangelo!, written by Dylan MarcAurele, will run on the Udderbelly stage at Underbelly, George Square following its hit 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe season and 8-week London run.
Edinburgh art lovers are being given the opportunity to enjoy not one but two stunning multimedia experiences this Christmas.
BroadwayWorld's guide to the top comedy debuts at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
After a very average hook-up, Jordan realises this particular ‘gentleman caller’ has stolen his irreplaceable Beyoncé concert tickets for her Murrayfield show the next day.
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
Brazilian theatre collective Cênica will make its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 with a vibrant reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, blending bilingual performance, post-colonial commentary, and guava paste.
Two-time Fringe First Award-winning and Total Theatre Award nominated writer and performer Emma Frankland will bring her raucous and powerful new show No Apologies to Summerhall for its Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut.
Actor, writer, clown, comedian and all-round nincompoop Scott Turnbull invites you into an absurd foray into the wonderful world of love, death and everything in-between.
Gracing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her presence for one night only, Auntie Empire will perform on Friday 22nd August in Summerhall's The Dissection Room.
This August, Nora, Dora and Kat - the team behind such anarchic hits as WE ARE IAN (2017), TRICKY SECOND ALBUM (2019), and PRIME_TIME (2021) - present their first fringe show in six years: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD.
This August, acclaimed writer, theatremaker, and performer Suzy Crothers presents Troubled - a show filled with gallows humour about the domestic impact of societal violence, conflict and intergenerational trauma in Northern Ireland.
INSIDERS, a bold and emotional play created with Scottish prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic, is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
KELI tells the story of a fiery, sharp witted seventeen year-old in a former mining town.
Few stories capture the wonder of childhood and the weight of war as gracefully as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In a physical theatre and martial arts performance that intertwines dance, street art and circus influences, Hong Kong Soul headline company TS Crew transports audiences to the nostalgic, vibrant heart of a Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng.
This cross-cultural music performance brings together the Chinese Zheng, and Celtic harp and Scottish Bodhrán in a contemporary concert setting that explores connection through sound.
Featuring an unrehearsed Fringe performer from another show in the titular role each night, The Faustus Project is part improvisation, part roast and full-blown chaos.
Experience an acrobatic journey as 17 international artists from Denmark, Australia, Peru, Canada, UK, Uruguay, Chile, Portugal, USA, Germany, Ireland, France and Guinea unite to celebrate the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BWW Scotland editor lists her top picks from the comedy section of the 2025 Edfringe programme.
CBeebies megastar Justin Fletcher has announced that his brand-new live theatre tour Justin Time To Rock will now continue into Spring 2026, with final tour dates just announced.
Charis King will make her debut in her one-woman play Wummy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.
Gwen explores the trauma caused by an abusive student affair with her improv teacher and, just as importantly, the aftermath of the relationship.
The offbeat one-man show A Gerry Christmas Carroll is coming to the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe from July 31 – August 24 (not 12th) at 14:40, performed at Just the Tonic at the Mash House – Just the Attic (Venue 288).
The Ideal Men Productions will present What Gets Better?, a raw, riotous, and sharply honest new solo show from five-star performer Tomás Bepalo, coming to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fresh off a sold-out 2024 U.
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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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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Father, Away She Goes Zoo (Playground 1) (8/07-8/30) |
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An Ode to the Casting Director Assembly George Square Studios (8/05-8/29) |
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Glass Child Summerhall (8/06-8/16) |
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Thermodrama Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |
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A STAN IS BORN! – Encore Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/06-8/16) |
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The List Festival Awards W Edinburgh (8/28-8/28) |
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Roomies Underbelly (Jersey) (8/05-8/31) |
