The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Recent anthropology graduate and feisty redhead Joanie Little is stuck working as a barista, studying the 'creatures' (customers) as if she were Jane Goodall, bushwhacking through the jungle to study chimpanzees! In her 'coffeeshop jungle,' hilarity ensues, with jazzy tunes, co-worker showdowns and
Orange is the New Black’s Julie Lake and songwriter Annie Macleod join forces in Forget-Me-Not, a true story of motherhood, lost love and hauntings set to original music and heart-exploding harmonies.
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
Following her sell out show last year, Susie McCabe is back at the Fringe again with her latest show Best Behaviour.
A Jaffa Cake Musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year following a sell out run in 2024.
If South Park and the IT Crowd had an affair, Nerds would be the unapologetic lovechild they put up for adoption to avoid a scandal.
A new show about extinct, gigantic, charismatic megafauna from three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Josie Long.
Greeted on the door by the very enthusiastic Steph and welcomed into a cosy, intimate venue.
Brilliant actress, phenomenal beauty, mistress of the Prince of Wales – Lillie Langtry was an international Victorian superstar celebrity.
'Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
This debut hour from Bebe Cave has enough energy to power Murrayfield and enough whimsy to dazzle even the staunchest of stoics.
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
Her last two sold-out, award-nominated Fringe shows explored the mind and body - and then Marjolein died.
With music based on the 2000 comedy classic, Gracie Hart is a clumsy yet brilliant FBI Special Agent who must go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant! Come hear the original songs inspired by the movie as the cast retell the story of this cult classic.
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.
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.
It's the early noughties and Lucie Barât is fresh out of drama school busy auditioning for laxative-ads and flipping burgers.
Luigi: The Musical, the dark comedic musical, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for 5 shows at Just the Tonic/ Just the Club.
Jennifer Irons' new show Bad Immigrant will open at the Edinburgh Festival beginning in August.
Underbelly has announced a powerhouse line-up of comedy acts for the 7th annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit.
The Traverse Theatre will host two industry-facing events as part of its Travfest25 programme this August, bringing together artists, academics, and audiences to look into what the future may hold for Scottish theatre.
'I can hear someone out there.
One hour of pure mayhem, Comedians on Stage Auditioning for Musicals is the perfect junction between laugh out loud comedy and genuinely stellar musical theatre performance with a dash of good old-fashioned humiliation and gossip thrown in for good measure.
A new British musical based on the iconic TV series following the fall and rise of captain's wife Tanya Turner as she schemes to save her marriage and her husband's career.
Acclaimed stage and screen actress Dawn Steele will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer in the world premiere of SKYE: A Thriller, a new play by Ellie Keel.
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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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Long Way Home Gilded Balloon (Snug) (8/05-8/31) |
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Giraffe Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) (8/05-8/31) |
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The Second Best School Shooting Pleasance Courtyard (8/05-8/30) |
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They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads Summerhall (8/06-8/16) |
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Revelation theSpace @ Niddry Street (8/08-8/13) |
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The Great Shakespeare Showdown in Silver City Haldane Theatre at theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall (Venue 53) (8/07-8/22) |
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Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force Ballroom at Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) (8/06-8/30) |
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Father, Away She Goes Zoo (Playground 1) (8/07-8/30) |
