The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Queer opera duo Operotica will bring their debut full-length theatrical piece to Underbelly Bristo Square in Edinburgh, blending operatic artistry, vaudevillian theatrics, and dark comedy with performer Dan Wye.
Alexis Sakellaris will present a season at Gilded Balloon Patter House in Edinburgh featuring A STAN IS BORN! Encore, work-in-progress CHILD STAR, lineup night MCU: Musical Comedians Unite!, and the inaugural CVNTY AWARDS.
Austin-based comic actor Sims Holland brings her acclaimed solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, blending clown, stand-up and poetry to chart a journey from addiction to sobriety.
Written and performed by Irish playwright Isolde Fenton, In A Bad Way is a fast-paced, darkly comedic one-woman show exploring health anxiety and the lengths we go to in search of certainty.
Critically acclaimed comic Georgina Thomas (one half of sketch duo Thick 'n' Fast) will make her solo debut with Hysterical Soprano, a high-note-hitting operatic comedy about one woman coming face-to-face with her greatest rival: herself.
Forgot About Me will come to Edinburgh Fringe, performed, designed and co-written by Dylan Howells, and co-written and directed by Harry Machray.
Broke & Fabulous in the 21st Century will come to Edinburgh Fringe.
Argonauts will come to Edinburgh Fringe.
Following a critically acclaimed, award nominated, sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025, An Ode to the Casting Director will return as a breakout solo show, heading back to Edinburgh Fringe 2026 with Assembly.
Savannah Hankinson's debut Edinburgh Fringe show blends interactive whodunnit comedy with queer culture, featuring six characters, audience participation, and a different killer revealed at each performance.
Writer-performer Claudia Fielding returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with A COSTUME DRAMA, a comedy following reluctant Ella as she steps into the oversized boots of a football mascot to keep a family tradition alive.
Written by investigative journalist Sean Stillmaker and directed by Adébayo Bolaji, 15 MINUTES OF SHAME follows a young London couple who turn to OnlyFans amid financial insecurity, charting the emotional and relational costs of monetising intimacy.
The next generation find their voices with help from the National Theatre's development programme
Comedian and bookseller Ben Pope will bring BEN'S BOOK CLUB to Edinburgh Fringe for three shows only, featuring guest comedians Ania Magliano, Rhys James, and Celya AB at Assembly Studio 3.
Comedian and lawyer Davina Bentley will bring her debut solo hour DANCING WHILE OLD to Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Fringe, blending stand-up and sketches about identity, ageing, and modern womanhood.
Al Seed Productions announced THRICE, a choral performance responding to Shakespeare's Macbeth, led by nine female performers.
Jack Tarlton and Jessica Hardwick lead the cast of 1984, a new adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel, in a co-production from Citizens Theatre, Dundee Rep Theatre, and The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh touring Scotland.
Grandma Girls Productions will present HOLMES/SHAH, a satirical one-act play imagining Jen Shah and Elizabeth Holmes crossing paths at Bryan Federal Prison, at Edinburgh Fringe.
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2025 character show Side Eye, 'Rock 'n' Roll Star of British Comedy' (Rolling Stone) Rachel Fairburn is back with some new personalities (and some old favourites) for you to love and hate.
Dogstar Theatre's THE TAILOR OF INVERNESS, written and performed by Matthew Zajac, returns to Scottish stages with an extensive tour spanning the length of the country, coinciding with a new paperback edition from Luath Press.
The Dunard Centre, Edinburgh's first new concert hall in over 100 years, welcomed its first royal visitor, The Duke of Kent, to its St Andrew Square site last week.
Comedian Rob Auton announced a 46-date UK tour for his new show JUPITER, about being an estate agent on the planet Jupiter, following an Edinburgh Fringe debut and culminating in a residency at London's Soho Theatre.
Scottish actors Claire Dargo and Scott Fletcher, known for their roles in River City, will reunite for the world premiere of OVERTONE at the Edinburgh Fringe, marking their first stage work since leaving the show.
Olivier Award-nominated playwright John Kolvenbach's STAND UP IF YOU'RE HERE TONIGHT, starring Broadway actor Jim Ortlieb, will receive its UK premiere at Underbelly Bristo Square during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The upcoming musical GAMEPLAY! has released its first teaser trailer and production images, offering an early look at the new show ahead of its opening.
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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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Heart Beats Strong Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2) (8/05-8/31) |
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Mythos: Ragnarök Assembly Rooms (Music Hall) (8/06-8/29) |
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Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Rockpools Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 3) (8/05-8/30) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! EICC (5/30-5/30) |
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In a Bad Way Gilded Balloon Patter House (Blether), (8/05-8/31) |
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Reparations Pleasance Courtyard (Above) (8/05-8/30) |
