The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Australian comedian Dan Rath will bring his new hour, HELP ME PLEASE, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, following his Director's Choice Award win at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and a viral Just For Laughs Montreal set.
Charlene Kaye, known for 100 million views of pop music parodies and a viral K-Pop TED Talk, will perform DIVERSITY SHREDDER at Gilded Balloon Teviot, following her sold-out Edinburgh debut with Tiger Daughter.
Chad Goes Deep, known from the Netflix mockumentary Chad and JT Go Deep, will perform CHILL TOWARDS ENLIGHTENMENT at Assembly George Square, blending comedy, guided meditation, and self-improvement parody at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Sketch duo Burger and a Pint will bring their debut full Edinburgh Festival Fringe run of TREATS FOR THE SOUL to Pleasance Courtyard, following a sold-out short run and a Leicester Square Sketch Off win.
Bebe Cave brings her new character comedy SWOON to Edinburgh's Pleasance Dome, following her award-winning debut CHRISTBRIDE.
BBC New Comedy Award winner Anna Thomas brings her debut hour, HOW TO JUGGLE A FERRET, to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, drawing on grief, loneliness, and a childhood bedroom converted into a rhubarb lab.
Amanda Knox will bring her first full hour of stand-up comedy to the Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with CARTWHEEL, a show blending personal storytelling and dark humor about identity and life after trauma.
It’s been another long, wet summer in Panto Land, it’s enough to make you right bloody miserable, so it is! But, on the edge of Woodlands Road, Gran’s not letting that get her down.
A breathtaking collaboration between acclaimed poet Len Pennie and BAFTA-winning composer Paul Leonard-Morgan is set to tour venues across Scotland this summer for the first time, celebrating the release of their new album, Delusions.
BWW caught up with Mike Hatchard to chat about bringing Ludwig: Unfinished Business to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BWW catches up with Bryn Woz to chat about bringing Smut to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BWW catches up with Kristina Libby to chat about bringing I Almost Died For This?! to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Reuben Solo will present an expanded version of Someone In This Crowd Will Betray Me [Revenge Edition] to Gilded Balloon Teviot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, followed by a UK and European tour.
Tip Top Theatre Collective will present THE PAINTED REVOLUTIONARY, a political satire reimagining ideological abstractions as characters, at Edinburgh Festival Fringe's theSpace @ Surgeons' Hall.
Music journalist and author Marc Burrows will bring a rewritten edition of THE TEN BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, counting down the ten greatest records in history with stand-up comedy and music criticism.
Cal Newman's award-winning one-man play about footballer John White returns to Edinburgh Fringe, now featuring voice cameos from Paul Whitehouse and Allison O'Donnell of BBC's Shetland.
Caitlin McEwan brings TWO LITTLE PIGS back to Edinburgh Fringe at Pleasance Courtyard, a dark absurdist two-hander tackling hypermasculinity, male loneliness, and a feminist talking pig.
Ros Watt's pitch-black comedy thriller TRANS PEOPLE ARE AWFUL heads to Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, co-produced by Camden People's Theatre and backed by Francesca Moody Productions.
BAFTA-nominated comedian Tom Neenan returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with PORTRAIT OF A TOM AS A YOUNG NEENAN, a new hour blending stand-up and storytelling about art, body image, and self-perception.
Don’t miss the unforgettable theatrical experience of the season as this heartfelt coming-of-age story takes flight with spectacular musical numbers and dazzlingly inventive choreography.
Stuart Goldsmith will perform CANARY, his second climate comedy stand-up show, at Edinburgh Fringe's Monkey Barrel before a UK tour, tackling climate dread with humor after performing at Netflix Is A Joke.
Goodbye Dandelion, a humorous, moving new work by award-winning writer and performer Maddie Rice and composer Marcus Rice, has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Underbelly Futures Fund Award.
BWW catches up with Mike McShane to chat about bringing The Event to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
BWW catches up with Sam Hume to chat about bringing Adults Only Magic Show to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Likewise, produced by ShowTown Theatricals, will play 59E59 Theaters as part of East to Edinburgh before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe 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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Tale of the Firebird Assembly Roxy (Central) (8/06-8/30) |
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Jitters Summerhall (8/06-8/30) |
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Safety Underbelly, Daisy (8/05-8/30) |
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Roomies Underbelly (Jersey) (8/05-8/31) |
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100 Years of Magic Aberdeen Arts Centre (9/04-9/05) PHOTOS |
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Kevin Quantum: Invisible Force Ballroom at Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) (8/06-8/30) |
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Heart Beats Strong Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2) (8/05-8/31) |
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Parking Spot: The Musical! Lime Studio Greenside@George Street (8/07-8/22) |
