EDINBURGH 2025 Review: MAKE IT HAPPEN, Starring Brian Cox
Set in Edinburgh, Make It Happen sees legendary actor Brian Cox return to the Scottish stage for the first time in a decade as Adam Smith, the ghost of fiscal past.
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EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FLOAT, Gilded Balloon
Join Astronaut Indra on a nine-month mission to the moon.
THE BURTON BROTHERS Channel Comedy Legends in 1920s-Inspired Fringe Show
The Burton Brothers—real-life siblings Josh and Tom Burton—are bringing their vaudeville-inspired sketch show The Burton Brothers: 1925 to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with performances running daily at 16:20 through August 24 at Assembly George Square, The Crate.
EDINBURGH 2025 Review: AMY MASON: BEHOLD! Pleasance Courtyard, Baby Grand
Amy Mason is witty, unfiltered, and enjoyably coarse, diving right into how connection, intimacy, and the chaos of how modern life works in reality.
EDINBURGH 2025 Review: JOZ NORRIS: YOU WAIT. TIME PASSES. The Pleasance Dome
Joz Norris is an enthusiastic lover of fun, concerned with elevating joy and embracing his inner weird.
Edinburgh 2025 Review: JESS ROBINSON: YOUR SONG, Piccolo Tent, Assembly George Square Gardens
Jess Robinson, Your Song: Elton Reimagined is an uproarious triumph which cements Jess Robinson as the reigning diva of comedic musical impressions.
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.
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.
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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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Sister Sophia Kicks the Habit Venue 13 (8/07-8/21) |
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The Last Mad Man Assembly, Roxy (8/05-8/30) |
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Mythos: Ragnarök Assembly Rooms (Music Hall) (8/06-8/29) |
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Tale of the Firebird Assembly Roxy (Central) (8/06-8/30) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alhambra Theatre (10/07-10/10) |
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Felicity Ward: I Wish I Could Come Out Of My Shell Cab Vol 1 @ Monkey Barrell (8/17-8/30) |
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Father, Away She Goes Zoo (Playground 1) (8/07-8/30) |
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Tell Me Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |