EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACKIE!!! Gilded Balloon
Sex, drugs and coercive control.
Scotland Theatre Newsroom
The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE FIT PRINCE, Pleasance Courtyard
The King is dead and the Prince is unmarried – if he doesn't find someone soon, he must forfeit the crown! In NYC, baker Aaron Butcher is butchering his career as a family baker.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: INSIDERS, St John's Church
With prisons rarely out of the news, Insiders gives insight into the challenges of life in jail.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SARAH BRADLEY: JUST LIKE OTHER GIRLS, Gilded Balloon
After spending her formative years trying to be 'not like other girls', Sarah Bradley is celebrating all things feminine – from rosé to romance novels, horoscopes to hot celebrities, inconvenient crushes to crying at inconvenient times.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROSCO MCCLELLAND: HOW COULD HELL BE ANY WORSE, Monkey Barrel
The winner of the 2025 Sir Billy Connolly Spirit of Glasgow Award, Rosco McClelland brings his brand new show for 2025.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACOB NUSSEY: PRIMED at Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 3)
Jacob Nussey makes his Fringe debut with his stand-up show Primed where he shares stories from his time working at Amazon.
Theatre Channel To Launch WHAT THE FRINGE 2025 Live From Edinburgh
Theatre Channel will debut What the Fringe 2025, a brand-new original live broadcast series sponsored by Pleasance Theatre Trust, offering audiences an insider’s view of the world’s largest celebration of live performance.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STEPHEN BUCHANAN: COLD MEAT, Monkey Barrel Comedy
Stephen Buchanan returns to the Fringe with his new hour, Cold Meat, where he brings dark humour and well-crafted jokes to the Edinburgh stage.
Scottish Comedian Marc Jennings Adds Extra Show
With the rest of Marc Jennings' shows this week sold out and very limited availability for next week, Monkey Barrel Comedy have added a second extra show at 10:40pm on Saturday, August 16.
Comedian Edy Hurst Will Host the Edinburgh Fringe Witch Trials 2025
Edy Hurst, Ingenious Fools & Liebenspiel Productions have joined forces to discover, once and for who shall be named the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's favourite fictional Witch of 2025.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: GUYS SING DOLLS, Studio At Paradise In Augustines
An amazing show all round, Guys Sing Dolls, a cabaret style concert, was expertly executed.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE MANCHESTER REVUE IN CUBICLE LAND, Just The Tonic
An entire sketch comedy show based around real-life graffiti scrawled in toilet cubicles is the sort of premise you could only ever wish to come up with.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHARON WANJOHI: IN THE HOUSE, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker 2
In her debut hour, Sharon Wanjohi strides on stage with dynamic energy on a mission to share her comedic mock wisdom.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: TED MILLIGAN: UNITED, Pleasance Courtyard, Bunker Three
From the moment Ted Milligan strides on to the stage to the roar of football anthems, the atmosphere is electric.
Voting Now Open For The Comedians' Choice Awards 2025
British Comedy Guide and Angel Comedy have announced the return of The Comedians' Choice Awards to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DEAR ANNIE, I HATE YOU, Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Two
Dear Annie, I Hate You is a visceral, captivating account of survival which fuses raw storytelling with inventive theatricality.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: IS THERE WORK ON MARS?, Playground 1, ZOO Playground
Dystopian, semi-autobiographical solo show Is There Work On Mars? returns to the Edinburgh Fringe following a successful 2024 run.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE UNCRACKABLE CASE, Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Two
Front Room Productions and Lawrence Batley Theatre present The Uncrackable Case, a courtroom drama which reimagines fairy tale characters in a tabloid-fuelled whodunnit.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: FLY, YOU FOOLS!: RECENT CUTBACKS, Pleasance Courtyard, Pleasance Beyond
From the creators of Hold On To Your Butts, Recent Cutbacks return with a gloriously inventive UK premiere which transforms an epic fantasy film into a joyous, lo fi theatrical romp.
Natalie Grove’s JELLO BRAIN Adds New Early Showtime At Olive Studio, Greenside
Natalie Grove’s acclaimed solo show Jello Brain—about caring for her mother with early-onset Alzheimer’s—now plays daily at 4:00 p.
Interview: How LUIGI THE MUSICAL Is Pushing the Boundaries of Musical Theatre
Luigi: the Musical – a new comedy inspired by the reality of Luigi Mangione, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Diddy all being incarcerated in the same federal facility—has become a sold-out hit that’s now headed to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: EDINBURGH DAYS, St Bride's Centre
What did our critic think of EDINBURGH DAYS at St Bride's Centre?
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: ROHAN SHARMA: MAD DOG, Pleasance Courtyard
Rohan Sharma makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut with his stand-up show Mad Dog.
M4 Festival Returns To Glasgow With Expanded Lineup and New Venue
After a stand out debut in 2024, M4 Festival is back - returning for its second year at a new home: SWG3, Glasgow.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CHLOE PETTS: BIG NATURALS, Pleasance Courtyard
Chloe Petts love of Big Naturals, regales with a bold and brilliantly crafted hour, in which she tackles her favourite body parts, questions her previously entrenched relationship with lad culture and inspects her own evolving identity.
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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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Copycat Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome) (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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It Couldn’t Get Worse; or, The Margarita Boat Tour Incident theSpace @ Venue 45 (8/24-8/29) |
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Sapphire McIntosh: Squeaky Bum Time Unerbelly Bristo Square - Daisy Room (8/05-8/30) |
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The Time of Your Life The Voodoo Rooms (8/10-8/24) |
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Jerk Off! Underbelly (Dairy Room) (8/05-8/30) |
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To Do Lists Pleasance Courtyard (The Green) (8/05-8/31) |
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An Ode to the Casting Director Assembly George Square Studios (8/05-8/29) |