EDINBURGH 2025: Review: RAJIV KARIA: MAN ALIVE!, Pleasance Courtyard
Rajiv Karia’s Man Alive! is a thoughtful and sharply observed hour, which asks big questions with a light, playful touch.
Scotland Theatre Newsroom
The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LOVE ME LIKE A CHAI TEA LATTE, Assembly Roxy
Love Me Like a Chai Tea Latte is a comedy/theatre show making its Edinburgh Fringe debut this year.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: POP OFF, MICHELANGELO, Underbelly
After a smash hit 2024 season and fresh off a 9-week London run, best-pals-turned-bitter-rivals Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci return to Edinburgh! A bloodthirsty friar is on the hunt for homosexuals in Renaissance Italy just when childhood friends Mike and Leo realise they both like boys.
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE 2.0: Martin Brock Brings World-Class Magic to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Danish magician Martin Brock is dazzling audiences at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his fast-paced, family-friendly show Almost Impossible 2.
#CHARLOTTESVILLE Performed for Visiting Team from Virginia at Edinburgh Fringe
Members of the Live Arts Fringe Team from Charlottesville, Virginia, attended #CHARLOTTESVILLE at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, meeting creator-performer Priyanka Shetty.
Brian Cox Postpones IT'S ALL ABOUT ME! National Tour
Award-winning stage and screen actor Brian Cox has postponed his upcoming national tour, saying he has been “very busy” and that October was “too soon” to proceed.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DUNHUANG, The Space @ Symposium Hall
I would be unsurprised to learn that Dunhuang was directed by a composer.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SCATTER: A HORROR PLAY, Underbelly
Horror media, in any form, is often one of the most difficult genres to get right.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOHNNY WHITE REALLY-REALLY: AM/PM, Monkey Barrel Comedy (Hive 2)
Unusual comedian Johnny White Really Really is back at the Edinburgh Fringe with new show am/pm.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MICHELLE BRASIER: IT'S A SHAME WE WON'T BE FRIENDS NEXT YEAR, Gilded Balloon At The Museum
In Year 6 Michelle Brasier’s mate uttered nine words that, at 30, still ring in her ears.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LUCY PEARMAN: LUNARTIC, CabVol 1 At Monkey Barrel Comedy
Alternative, kooky character comedy great Lucy Pearman (BBC Three’s Please Help, BBC’s The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk, BBC2’s Mister Winner) is back with her first Edinburgh Fringe hour since 2019’s Baggage.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DIVAS: FROM STAGE TO SCREEN, Studio @ Paradise In Augustines
Don’t be fooled by the gentle, speakeasy vibe of the entrance music: these are certified divas, here to take you through a showstopping mix of music from various films and musicals.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DOUGLAS WIDICK: PAPERCLIP, The Penny, Gilded Balloon, Patter House
Douglas Widick’s Paperclip is a witty, genre-bending thrill ride, which imagines a world where the fate of humanity rests in the hands or rather, the wires of Microsoft Word’s long-forgotten writing assistant Clippy.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: GRACE HELBIG: LET ME GET THIS OFF MY CHEST, Jack Dome at Pleasance Dome
For the past 17 years, Grace Helbig has been building her online presence as a content creator.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CHURCH OF THE CLITORI, The Annexe At Paradise In The Vault
Prepare to be indoctrinated into your new favourite cult! This show is exactly as it says on the tin: a pseudo-religious service with all the elements required to make up (or make fun of) a church.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE DURHAM REVUE: SKETCH MARKS THE SPOT, Underbelly
The Durham Revue's latest may not be their finest hour, but it sure is a fun one.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: AYO ADENEKAN: BLACK MEDIOCRITY, Monkey Barrel
Ayo Adenekan makes his highly anticipated Fringe debut with a hilarious and heartfelt show about growing up in Scotland.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP OF FEATHER BOY AND TENTACLE GIRL, Assembly
Two friends perform breathtaking aerial shows.
EDINBURGH 2025: FACILITY 111: A GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENT Q&A
Facility 111 is a surreal new audio play, written/performed live by Inge-Vera Lipsius.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: AN ADEQUATE ABRIDGEMENT OF BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE AS A HOMO, Underbelly
Like Fleabag meets Normal People, this play from writer/star Ned Blackburn is one of the greatest Fringe shows you will ever see.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SKETCH THIEVES at The Laughing Horse
Sketch Thieves provides a solid afternoon of laughs.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ALASDAIR BECKETT-KING: KING OF CRUMBS, King Dome At Pleasance Dome
The King of Whimsy is back at the Edinburgh Fringe…it’s Alasdair Beckett-King with his hour of the silly and the fantastical with King of Crumbs.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DIONA DOHERTY: GET YOUR PINK BACK!, Monkey Barrel Comedy
Diona Doherty: Get Your Pink Back is a confident, hilarious and heartfelt Fringe debut.
Deaf Gay Drag Queens Come to Edinburgh
Cheeky charm and outrageous wit come together at this year’s Edinburgh Deaf Festival when drag queens Mary and Danielle take to the stage this weekend as part of the Edinburgh Deaf Festival.
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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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Woodcutter Triplex Studio @theSpaceUK (Venue 38) (8/07-8/29) |
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years The Stand 1 (9/23-9/23) |
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Venue Premium - Two Doors Down OVO Hydro (9/25-10/11) |
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Overtone Pleasance (Jack Dome) (8/05-8/30) |
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Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force Ballroom at Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) (8/06-8/30) |
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One Hour Wedding Underbelly (The Friesian) (8/05-8/23) |
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DECKHAND theSpace @ Niddry Street (8/24-8/29) |
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Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square (8/05-8/31) |