The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Award-winning comedian, singer, and actor Michelle Brasier (Ghosts Australia, Aunty Donna, Koala Man) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her most introspective and audacious hour yet, It's a Shame We Won't Be Friends Next Year.
Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs will be performed at 8.
John Tothill will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with This Must Be Heaven - the third chapter in an increasingly baroque saga of poor health, fabulously bad luck, and flamboyant overcommitment.
Yellow is coming to Edinburgh Fringe this summer.
Following a sold-out 2024 run and multiple accolades at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival—including Best Storytelling and the Extension Award—Ansa Edim returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a bold new staging of her solo show Is This Normal?, running 11–23 August at theSpace @ Sur
The Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and comedian Bryan Safi will make his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this summer with his solo comedy spiral, Are You Mad At Me??.
Meet Elysium Court’s newest arrivals - an aspirational couple in their late thirties who’ve recently escaped central London to start family life in earnest.
Comedians’ Choice Award winner Joz Norris returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with You Wait.
Welsh stand-up comedian Steffan Alun returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with his long-awaited debut hour, Steffan Alun: Stand Up.
Award-winning stand-up and drag performance artist Su Mi will present their debut show: an immersive surreal eccentric comedy extravaganza resurrecting every nostalgic moment left forgotten and healing the inner child through play.
The Clown and the Wolfman ride again as the classic Scottish movie starts a new adventure as a stage musical! Forty years after Restless Natives hit the big screen, it has been staged as a musical with songs from Big Country.
SecondAdolesence, the queer-led theatre company from theatremakersStella Marie Sophie and Sammy J Glover (director and co-creator of The Last Show Before We Die) bring their debut show Baby in the Mirror, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Nick Nickolaou.
Fresh from preview performances in the U.
After three consecutive smash-hit, sell-out Fringe runs followed by UK tours, Chloe Petts will present a brand-new show, Big Naturals.
The multi-award-winning, sell-out hit, Why I Stuck A Flare Up My Arse For England returns to Edinburgh for its third and final Edinburgh Fringe run this August.
A sell-out show in 2023 and 2024, Keith Alessi's Tomatoes Tried to Kill Me but Banjos Saved My Life returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the third year running.
Hannah Caplan's mind-bending and heart-wrenching debut play, THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME.
But this isn't your typical coming-out story.
While his sketch duo Pear was one of the Top Ten Best Reviewed Comedy Shows of Ed Fringe 2024, Patrick is returning to Fringe this year to break new creative ground for him as a solo writer with a genuine 'horror' play, Scatter.
PALDEM, a new, sexy and dark play written by BAFTA Rising Star Winner David Jonsson (ALIEN: ROMULUS, RYE LANE), explores the amateur porn industry from the perspective of those who produce it.
I See You Watching, a haunting, rigorous and sometimes brutal theatre show devised by Melanie Stewart, Kylie Westerbeck and John Clancy, is a darkly comic tale of sexual power that exposes the invisible cages confining women in today's world.
HOLE! is a musical comedy about a strict religious sect in Nebraska, who, thanks to an apocalyptic event known as The Great Sucking, are the only humans left on Earth.
GISELLE: REMIX and its anarchic, queer-reimagining of the classic ballet comes to Edinburgh Fringe 2025 to subvert a timeless story of love, lust, loss, revenge, and redemption.
Two-time Emmy award winning US comedian Cory Cavin will debut the immersive food and drink-based comedy show ENJOY YOUR MEAL, at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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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) |
