Scotland Theatre Newsroom
The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
EDINBURGH 2025: Saria Callas Guest Blog
This sexy, camp, pop-filled tragicomedy unpacks aspirations of becoming a singer while growing up where it is forbidden for women to sing.
EDINBURGH 2025: Rebecca Perry Guest Blog
Recent anthropology graduate and feisty redhead Joanie Little is stuck working as a barista, studying the 'creatures' (customers) as if she were Jane Goodall, bushwhacking through the jungle to study chimpanzees! In her 'coffeeshop jungle,' hilarity ensues, with jazzy tunes, co-worker showdowns and
EDINBURGH 2025: FORGET ME NOT Guest Blog
Orange is the New Black’s Julie Lake and songwriter Annie Macleod join forces in Forget-Me-Not, a true story of motherhood, lost love and hauntings set to original music and heart-exploding harmonies.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHANTIFY, Assembly
Returning to the Edinburgh Fringe following it’s debut in 2024, Shantify is a jukebox musical following the lives of 6 men from a fishing town, who are part of a band that take pop songs and ‘shantify’ them
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SUSIE MCCABE: BEST BEHAVIOUR, Assembly
Following her sell out show last year, Susie McCabe is back at the Fringe again with her latest show Best Behaviour.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: A JAFFA CAKE MUSICAL, Pleasance
A Jaffa Cake Musical returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this year following a sell out run in 2024.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: NERDS, Underbelly
If South Park and the IT Crowd had an affair, Nerds would be the unapologetic lovechild they put up for adoption to avoid a scandal.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOSIE LONG: NOW IS THE TIME OF MONSTERS, Pleasance
A new show about extinct, gigantic, charismatic megafauna from three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Josie Long.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 8 WAYS TO BREAK A GLASS (WITH AN AMERICAN OPERA SINGER), Laughing Horse @Dragonfly
Greeted on the door by the very enthusiastic Steph and welcomed into a cosy, intimate venue.
Lillie Langtree Returns to Edinburgh This Month
Brilliant actress, phenomenal beauty, mistress of the Prince of Wales – Lillie Langtry was an international Victorian superstar celebrity.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARC JENNINGS: BREAD AND CIRCUSES, Monkey Barrel Comedy
'Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.
EDINBURGH 2025: REVIEW: BEBE CAVE: CHRISTBRIDE, Jack Dome And Pleasance Dome
This debut hour from Bebe Cave has enough energy to power Murrayfield and enough whimsy to dazzle even the staunchest of stoics.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MOTORHOME MARILYN, Gilded Balloon
Michelle Collins makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut in Motorhome Marilyn, a dark comedy by Ben Weatherill.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARJOLEIN ROBERTSON: LEIN, Pleasance
Her last two sold-out, award-nominated Fringe shows explored the mind and body - and then Marjolein died.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MISS CONGENIALITY: THE UNAUTHORISED MUSICAL CONCERT, The Space
With music based on the 2000 comedy classic, Gracie Hart is a clumsy yet brilliant FBI Special Agent who must go undercover as a beauty pageant contestant! Come hear the original songs inspired by the movie as the cast retell the story of this cult classic.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: RHYS DARBY: THE LEGEND RETURNS, Pleasance
Rhys Darby's brings his stand-up routine back to the Edinburgh Fringe and proves, yet again, why he is a true legend of the festival.
EDINBURGH 2O25: Review: TIFF STEVENSON: POST-COITAL, Monkey Barrel Comedy (The Hive)
Tiff Stevenson: Post Coital is a stand-up show that brings Tiff Stevenson's post-coital thoughts, and Google search history, to the Edinburgh Fringe Stage.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF GIANTS, Traverse Theatre
It's the early noughties and Lucie Barât is fresh out of drama school busy auditioning for laxative-ads and flipping burgers.
LUIGI: THE MUSICAL to Have Edinburgh Fringe Run
Luigi: The Musical, the dark comedic musical, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe for 5 shows at Just the Tonic/ Just the Club.
Jennifer Irons' BAD IMMIGRANT comes to Edinburgh
Jennifer Irons' new show Bad Immigrant will open at the Edinburgh Festival beginning in August.
Ivo Graham, David O'Doherty, and More Set For Underbelly's 7th Annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit
Underbelly has announced a powerhouse line-up of comedy acts for the 7th annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit.
Traverse Theatre Reveals Industry Events For Travfest25
The Traverse Theatre will host two industry-facing events as part of its Travfest25 programme this August, bringing together artists, academics, and audiences to look into what the future may hold for Scottish theatre.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE TALE OF THE LONELIEST WHALE, Underbelly
'I can hear someone out there.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: COMEDIANS ON STAGE AUDITIONING FOR MUSICALS, Gilded Balloon at Appleton Tower
One hour of pure mayhem, Comedians on Stage Auditioning for Musicals is the perfect junction between laugh out loud comedy and genuinely stellar musical theatre performance with a dash of good old-fashioned humiliation and gossip thrown in for good measure.
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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) |