EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JODIE SLOAN: IS SHE HOT? Pleasance Courtyard
In 2023 TikTok sent a notification to millions of users with Jodie's face, and the caption 'Is She Hot?'.
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The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: JOSH ELTON: AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES, Hoots @ The Apex
Josh Elton makes an assured and highly memorable Fringe debut with Away With The Fairies, a show which captures both the unfiltered chaos of the life of a comic and the mythic absurdity which shapes it.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: LUCY CHURCHILL: BIG B**BS LONG LEGS, Greenside At George Street
This whirlwind show absolutely flies by in the time we wish it took to learn to love ourselves.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: 1612, TheSpace On The Mile
Unsettling music and Chekov's child draw the audience in before 1612 even starts, creating the perfect environment to learn about this historic witch trial.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: MARY: A GIG THEATRE SHOW, Gilded Balloon Patter House
Mary: A Gig Theatre Show is a cool concept.
Review: CHICAGO, King's Theatre
Set amidst the razzle-dazzle decadence of the 1920s, CHICAGO is the story of Roxie Hart, a housewife and nightclub dancer who murders her on-the-side lover after he threatens to walk out on her.
EDINBURGH 2025: Review: THE CRAWL, 10 Dome
Two people.
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.
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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) |