Edinburgh International Festival Launches 2025 Edition With Global Artists
The 2025 Edinburgh International Festival will officially open tomorrow, launching a 24-day global celebration of music, opera, theatre, and dance.
Scotland Theatre Newsroom
The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Review: JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT, King's Theatre
The multi award-winning show has been performed hundreds of thousands of times including multiple runs in the West End and on Broadway, international tours in over 80 countries worldwide and has become one of the world’s most beloved family musicals.
EDINBURGH 2025 Q&A: Ned Van Zandt of Del Valle at The Orchard Project
Ned Van Zandt was in the Chelsea Hotel the night of Nancy Spungen’s death, and he was with Sid and Nancy just before her sad demise.
Dynamic Earth Joins the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025
This August, Dynamic Earth is back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as Venue 315, transforming once again into a vibrant Fringe hub at the foot of Salisbury Crags.
Eric Liddell Community Reveals Lineup of Edinburgh Fringe Shows
With August and The Edinburgh Fringe Festival right around the corner, local charity, The Eric Liddell Community has announced its lineup of shows and events taking place in its Bruntsfield-based hub.
EDINBURGH 2025: DIC DIC CHANG CHANG PLAYGROUND Q&A
Our award-winning Cantonese opera adventure is back! Join Captain Dic Dic and Chang Chang at the Cantonese Opera Playground in Edinburgh, where the Cantonese Opera Fairy teaches them skills to outwit the Boring King.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STUART MCPHERSON: CRISPS AND A LIE DOWN, Monkey Barrel
Following his sell-out 2023/24 runs, Stu returns to the Fringe with his highly anticipated new show about settling down, growing up and how he’s being controlled by his step-dog.
Photos: Paines Plough's CONSUMED at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
New production images have been releasedfor Karis Kelly’s dark comedy Consumed, a co-production with Belgrade Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting.
THE MERMAID, THE OTTER AND THE BIG POO Comes to Edinburgh Fringe
Based on her popular children's book, The Mermaid, the Otter and the Big Poo is about Lindsey's 60-kilometre swim adventure down the Bristol Avon in a mermaid tail with her big poo sculpture.
MATILDA THE MUSICAL UK Tour Finds Full Cast
Casting has been announced for the upcoming tour of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The Musical, which this year celebrates 15 years on stage
Keith and Kristyn Getty Bring HOME FOR CHRISTMAS to Glasgow, London, and Belfast This December
Following two sold-out nights at the SSE Arena Belfast last December, world-renowned hymn writers Keith & Kristyn Getty will bring their ‘Home for Christmas' concert to the UK this festive season.
EDINBURGH 2025: Thom Tuck Guest Blog
Written by Justin Butcher.
CRAPP'S RIVER: An Unauthorized Musical Parody of Schitt’s Creek Comes to Edinburgh Fringe
Sacred Heart Repertory Theatre Company will present Crapp's River, an unauthorized musical parody inspired by the beloved Canadian comedy Schitt’s Creek, as part of the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2025: WENCHES! Q&A
In 1423 Berlin, two peasants find themselves at the center of hysteria, hypocrisy and impending doom.
EDINBURGH 2025: Simon Kane Guest Blog
Inspired by the Book of Jonah – and probably God – award-winning shunt veteran, Mitchell and Webb writer, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programmer (and Keith Darren Dean in Ghosts), Simon Kane, regurgitates his highly acclaimed, horrifyingly evergreen divine comedy about the extremist in us all.
EDINBURGH 2025: Rosa Garland Q&A
The gorgeously gross new piece from Rosa Garland, the creator of Trash Salad, one of The Telegraph's Funniest Shows of the Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2025: Pedro Leandro Guest Blog
Debut show from Pedro Leandro, a comedian who has famously been described as 'magnetic' (Guardian) and 'a beautiful bright-eyed joy' (Everything-Theatre.
EDINBURGH 2025: Lorna Rose Treen Q&A
Award-winning character comedian Lorna Rose Treen has made a diner.
EDINBURGH 2025: Hasan Al-Habib Q&A
Winner: 2023 Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award.
Florencia Iriondo Premieres Solo Musical SONG SOCIETY At Edinburgh Fringe With Special Voiceover By Amy Sedaris
Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Amy Sedaris (Strangers with Candy, At Home with Amy Sedaris, BoJack Horseman) has joined the cast of the solo folk-pop musical SONG SOCIETY, providing a featured voiceover in the production’s return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
EDINBURGH 2025: Lily Phillips Guest Blog
'Fresh' from hatching a baby girl and a sold-out Edinburgh run, '.
EDINBURGH 2025: Katie Boyle Q&A
Irish comedian Katie Boyle brings her newest stand-up, a uniquely personal dark comedy, to Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH 2025: Old God Q&A
Old God is a foppish, irreverent oracle.
EDINBURGH 2025: Bryan Safi Q&A
Emmy-winner Bryan Safi (star of ABC's 9-1-1, Netflix's You, Attitudes!) brings his distinctive voice to this solo comedy spiral all about queerness, confidence and the art of being unapologetically too much.
EDINBURGH 2025: James Trickey Guest Blog
James Trickey is throwing it all away.
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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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Safety Underbelly, Daisy (8/05-8/30) |
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Lifelong Studio 2, Assembly George Square Studios, EH8 9LH (Venue 17) (8/05-8/17) |
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Furniture Boys Underbelly (Jersey) (8/05-8/30) |
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Rollers Forever King's Theatre (10/27-10/31) |
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Glob Underbelly (8/05-8/30) |
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Glass Child Summerhall (8/06-8/16) |
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Helen Bradley: Painter and Storyteller Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) (8/05-8/30) |
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Trainspotting The Musical Alhambra Theatre (3/01-3/06) |