The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Award-winning writer, comedian and music journalist Marc Burrows will bring The Britpop Hour - a multimedia stand-up celebration of one of Britain's most iconic and chaotic musical eras to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Samia Rida's autobiographical comedy-drama will explore Saudi, family, disability, and how the act of kidnap can involve a swimming pool at Dram at Gilded Balloon Patter House.
In More To Life, Aaron describes the everyday dramas of growing up in a Northern, working class household, living on a council estate, and the relentless optimism needed to pursue your dreams.
Celebrating over 80 years since the publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and marking 30 years of continuous performance, globally, Guy Masterson’s solo adaptation returns to the Edinburgh.
Comedian Will Owen returns for his second year to the Edinburgh Fringe with Looking Fab At Fifty - a brand new hour about connection, commitment issues, and why Bake Off is easier to love than people.
One Table Two Chairs Charitable Foundation will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the interactive children’s hit Dic Dic Chang Chang Playground, running 1–9 August 2025 at 13:10 in Theatre 3 at theSpaceUK @ Surgeons' Hall.
BroadwayWorld recommend their top musicals from the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme.
Pop Off, Michelangelo!, written by Dylan MarcAurele, will run on the Udderbelly stage at Underbelly, George Square following its hit 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe season and 8-week London run.
Edinburgh art lovers are being given the opportunity to enjoy not one but two stunning multimedia experiences this Christmas.
BroadwayWorld's guide to the top comedy debuts at this years Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
After a very average hook-up, Jordan realises this particular ‘gentleman caller’ has stolen his irreplaceable Beyoncé concert tickets for her Murrayfield show the next day.
Paul’s about to be a dad, but doubt clouds his excitement.
Brazilian theatre collective Cênica will make its international debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 with a vibrant reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, blending bilingual performance, post-colonial commentary, and guava paste.
Two-time Fringe First Award-winning and Total Theatre Award nominated writer and performer Emma Frankland will bring her raucous and powerful new show No Apologies to Summerhall for its Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut.
Actor, writer, clown, comedian and all-round nincompoop Scott Turnbull invites you into an absurd foray into the wonderful world of love, death and everything in-between.
Gracing the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her presence for one night only, Auntie Empire will perform on Friday 22nd August in Summerhall's The Dissection Room.
This August, Nora, Dora and Kat - the team behind such anarchic hits as WE ARE IAN (2017), TRICKY SECOND ALBUM (2019), and PRIME_TIME (2021) - present their first fringe show in six years: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WORLD.
This August, acclaimed writer, theatremaker, and performer Suzy Crothers presents Troubled - a show filled with gallows humour about the domestic impact of societal violence, conflict and intergenerational trauma in Northern Ireland.
INSIDERS, a bold and emotional play created with Scottish prisoners during the COVID-19 pandemic, is coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
KELI tells the story of a fiery, sharp witted seventeen year-old in a former mining town.
Few stories capture the wonder of childhood and the weight of war as gracefully as The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In a physical theatre and martial arts performance that intertwines dance, street art and circus influences, Hong Kong Soul headline company TS Crew transports audiences to the nostalgic, vibrant heart of a Hong Kong Cha Chaan Teng.
This cross-cultural music performance brings together the Chinese Zheng, and Celtic harp and Scottish Bodhrán in a contemporary concert setting that explores connection through sound.
Featuring an unrehearsed Fringe performer from another show in the titular role each night, The Faustus Project is part improvisation, part roast and full-blown chaos.
Experience an acrobatic journey as 17 international artists from Denmark, Australia, Peru, Canada, UK, Uruguay, Chile, Portugal, USA, Germany, Ireland, France and Guinea unite to celebrate the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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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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Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! Gilded Balloon Patter House - Other Yin (8/05-8/30) |
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The Time of Your Life The Voodoo Rooms (8/10-8/24) |
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Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again) Gilded Balloon Patter House – Coorie (8/05-8/31) |
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Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/30) |
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Sitting (In Silence) Summerhall (8/06-8/31) |
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Long Way Home Gilded Balloon (Snug) (8/05-8/31) |
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In a Bad Way Gilded Balloon Patter House (Blether), (8/05-8/31) |
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Tell Me Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |
