EDINBURGH 2025: Review: HOT MESS, Pleasance Courtyard
Hot Mess: a new musical.
The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Hot Mess: a new musical.
How do you rebel against parents who are already rebels? Form a band? Cool.
Henry Cyril Paget was one of the world's wealthiest men, until he lost it all by being too damn fabulous.
When Shaun turned his back on the church, he found a new home in music.
Podcaster, comedian, and bestselling author of The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White wants to know when we stopped talking and, more importantly, listening to each other.
Newly-widowed Mrs Lovett needs to find a way to survive.
Edinburgh-based international magician Kevin Quantum is offering free and cut-price tickets for a special performance in Granton of his hit Fringe show.
Emily Wilson returns to the Fringe at long last and proves herself, yet again, as one of the funniest acts at this years Fringe.
Devil's Point is an interesting show with plenty of potential, but one which never quite succeeds in engaging us fully.
Christopher Macarthur-Boyd proves himself as one of the funniest men Scotland has ever produced.
When two old friends meet at a haunt from their youth they relive their exciting teenage years in the poptastic seventies.
Dundee Rep Theatre has announced the cast and creative team for a major new production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, directed by Dundee Rep Theatre’s Artistic Director, Andrew Panton.
After her hit sold-out show at last year’s Fringe, national treasure Miriam Margolyes returns with a brand new piece.
Advertised as a 'moving and darkly comic remix' of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Lost Lear retells the play through the eyes of Joy, an elderly dementia patient and former actress trapped in a perpetual memory of rehearsing King Lear for the stage.
Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, The Crown) redefines and reclaims the solo show in a lyrical tapestry where resistance, displacement and selfhood are delicately woven through an avant-garde aesthetic.
In a perfectly paced show featuring musical numbers and smooth crowd work, Robyn Reynolds details the ups and downs of her life – or rather, brings out the silver lining in the downs.
Jennifer Irons’ roller-skating solo show Bad Immigrant nearly ended at the Edinburgh Fringe after unsafe stage conditions forced a canceled performance.
In 2023 TikTok sent a notification to millions of users with Jodie's face, and the caption 'Is She Hot?'.
Josh Elton makes an assured and highly memorable Fringe debut with Away With The Fairies, a show which captures both the unfiltered chaos of the life of a comic and the mythic absurdity which shapes it.
This whirlwind show absolutely flies by in the time we wish it took to learn to love ourselves.
Unsettling music and Chekov's child draw the audience in before 1612 even starts, creating the perfect environment to learn about this historic witch trial.
Mary: A Gig Theatre Show is a cool concept.
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her.
Two people.
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