The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
After years of sold-out shows, international acclaim, and a global cult following, Stamptown returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025 with a rendition that promises to be the most intense, unpredictable, and unrepeatable version yet.
Long before she vanished into the margins of music history, Maria Anna Mozart (known as Nannerl) dazzled Europe as a musical prodigy, performing alongside her brother Wolfgang Amadeus.
Orange Squeeze Theatre will bring their brand new play Single Use to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.
Panic! In Swedonia.
Dare Theatre will present a powerful new work, set against the backdrop of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Seemia Theatre will return with Saria Callas, a sexy, camp, pop-filled multimedia production that confronts the taboo of women's voices and explores the shifting terrain of gender, family, and self-expression.
Corporeal Imago, the company founded by former Cirque du Soleil artists Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes, presents their latest work Imago - an enthralling, emotionally charged exploration of the space between holding on and letting go.
Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!t is a raw, radical, and unflinching exploration of pain, pleasure, and the power of performance to reclaim agency over the body; an unforgettable love letter to the transformative power of the flesh.
Scaramouche Jones is a haunting and lyrical one-man play by Justin Butcher, chronicling the life of a man who has seen too much.
Suzanna Rosenthal Productions will present the premiere of ROTUS: Receptionist Of The United States, a sharp new political satire written and performed by queer, Irish-American comedian Leigh Douglas.
Rebecca Perry's internationally acclaimed solo show, Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl, is set to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025 for a special 10th anniversary run.
Award-winning comic actor and Shunt associate artist Simon Kane is bringing his acclaimed solo performance piece Jonah Non Grata to the Edinburgh Festival for its debut Fringe run, marking the show's first performance in nearly 15 years.
Jessica Aszkenasy is bringing her debut solo clown show, TITCLOWN, to the Edinburgh Fringe.
James Barr will bring his fearless, critically acclaimed stand-up show Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum) back to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Max Fulham, a young and astoundingly talented ventriloquist with a fresh approach to the classic art form, is set to make his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this August with Full of Ham.
Acclaimed New Zealand comedian Eli Matthewson returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with his new hour, Night Terror – a sharp, relatable, and often absurd look at the chaos of modern life, long-term relationships, and the thin line between safety and panic.
Award-winning comedian, singer, and actor Michelle Brasier (Ghosts Australia, Aunty Donna, Koala Man) returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with her most introspective and audacious hour yet, It's a Shame We Won't Be Friends Next Year.
Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs will be performed at 8.
John Tothill will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with This Must Be Heaven - the third chapter in an increasingly baroque saga of poor health, fabulously bad luck, and flamboyant overcommitment.
Yellow is coming to Edinburgh Fringe this summer.
Following a sold-out 2024 run and multiple accolades at the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival—including Best Storytelling and the Extension Award—Ansa Edim returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a bold new staging of her solo show Is This Normal?, running 11–23 August at theSpace @ Sur
The Emmy Award-winning actor, writer, and comedian Bryan Safi will make his Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut this summer with his solo comedy spiral, Are You Mad At Me??.
Meet Elysium Court’s newest arrivals - an aspirational couple in their late thirties who’ve recently escaped central London to start family life in earnest.
Comedians’ Choice Award winner Joz Norris returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with You Wait.
Welsh stand-up comedian Steffan Alun returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with his long-awaited debut hour, Steffan Alun: Stand Up.
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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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I'm Still Not That Girl Braw Venues (8/07-8/30) |
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Thermodrama Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |
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You Are What You Eat theSpace on the mile (8/07-8/22) PHOTOS |
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Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit Venue 13 (8/07-8/21) |
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Giraffe Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) (8/05-8/31) |
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Black Blues Brothers: Let's Twist Again! Underbelly (8/05-8/31) |
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Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Baby Wants Candy Assembly George Square Studios - One (8/05-8/30) |
