EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE CRAWL, 10 Dome
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The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JESSICA FOSTEKEW: ICONIC BREATH, Monkey Barrel
A monster's guide to tolerance and temperance.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 113, The Space
49 and 64 are in the room.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DIRTY MONEY, TheSpace On The Mile
Following the arrest of a famous billionaire, four unlikely friends team up to break her out of prison in return for half her fortune.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: DANNY O'BRIEN: ADULTING HARD!, Beehive 2 (The Attic)
Adulting Hard! is an energetic stand-up show where Irish comedian Danny O’Brien tells us about his attempts at buying a house in Dublin.
State of the Nation Gathering Will Take Place For Scotland’s Arts Sector
In the face of ongoing funding cuts, political instability and a fragmented sector, Scotland’s arts organisations are coming together in an attempt to spark change.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CAROLINE MCEVOY: TRAIN MAN, Assembly Roxy
Caroline McEvoy: Train Man is an honest yet lively stand-up show at the Fringe this year.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: PICKLED REPUBLIC, Anatomy Lecture Theatre At Summerhall
Described by its creator as “50 minutes of vegetable insanity”, this surrealist and entirely enjoyable hour of physical theatre, tragicomedy and puppetry has a certain ‘je nais sais quoi’.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: AVENUE Q, Braw Venues At Grand Lodge
What did our critic think of AVENUE Q at Braw Venues At Grand Lodge?This smash hit musical is a hilarious satire of modern life starring a mixed cast of humans and puppets.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SHE'S BEHIND YOU, Traverse Theatre
Scottish comedy legend Johnny McKnight examines the panto dame through an inventive new lens in She’s Behind You.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: CONSUMED, Traverse Theatre
Four generations of Northern Irish women gather for a 90th birthday party in Karis Kelly’s Consumed, and what unfolds is a pitch-black dark comedy with razor wit and gasp-inducing shock.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE BEAUTIFUL FUTURE IS COMING, Traverse Theatre
Flora Wilson Brown’s six-hander examines climate change across 250 years of real and imagined history.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: STEFFAN ALUN: STAND UP at Hoot 4, Hoots @ The Apex
Welsh comedian Steffan Alun brings warmth, wit and a proudly offbeat perspective to his debut Fringe hour, Steffan Alun: Stand Up.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: TARTAN TABLETOP: A DUNGEONS & DRAGONS COMEDY, Bramley, Gilded Balloon, Appleton Tower
Tartan Tabletop is a Dungeons and Dragons panel show which thrives on live comedic improvisation, uncertainty and risks, which results in riotous game play.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MESSY MAGIC, Assembly Festival, Bijou
Written and Performed by Lizzie T Ollemache and David Ladderman from Rollicking Entertainment, a riot of magic, slapstick and sparkle is brought to the stage with Messy Magic, a family show which manages to be silly, but skilful.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LEVEL UP! Gilded Balloon, Patter House
Goldspun Media’s Level Up! begins with a promising burst of nostalgic energy.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: SIGNOR BAFFO, Assembly Rooms, Bijou
There is nothing quite like the delicious mix of chaos and charm that Josh Burton brings to his gleeful children’s show Signor Baffo.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: A SMALL TOWN NORTHERN TALE, Underbelly
A Y2K-drenched coming-of-age comedy-drama: ASTNT follows David’s move from the city to a small Northern town where being the only Black kid means fitting in isn’t an option.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JACKIE!!! Gilded Balloon
Sex, drugs and coercive control.
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.
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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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Mythos: Ragnarök Assembly Rooms (Music Hall) (8/06-8/29) |
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Disney''s Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Usher Hall (12/03-12/03) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! EICC (5/30-5/30) |
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Mark Thomas: 40 In Stand Up Years The Lemon Tree (9/24-9/24) |
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Venue Premium - Two Doors Down OVO Hydro (9/25-10/11) |
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A Better Memory The Green at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) (8/05-8/30) |
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The New Year Lime Studio Greenside@George Street (8/07-8/15) |
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Trainspotting The Musical Edinburgh Playhouse (10/19-10/24) |