The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Comedian Meg Millane returns to Edinburgh Fringe with BRIDE TO BE, a comedy about wedding planning and the cultural weight of marriage, following her five-star solo debut HOW TO GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS.
New York-based writer and performer Kate Daley will make her Edinburgh Fringe debut with JOIN THE CLUB! A STORY ABOUT THE SEX YOU NEVER WANTED, a solo comedic show about reclaiming agency after trauma, directed by Kelly McAndrew.
Wilison Labs will present Katie Gaven's immersive thriller 00:45:00 at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring moral responsibility and the value of human life through audience participation.
A verbatim drama retelling the events of a local Glaswegian community coming together to stop a dawn raid.
Something’s wrong.
Night Waking follows Anna, an Oxford academic living on a remote Hebridean island with her husband Giles and their two young children.
All Elite Wrestling will return to Glasgow's OVO Hydro for AEW DYNAMITE & AEW COLLISION, serving as the final stop before AEW ALL IN: LONDON at Wembley Stadium.
While The Winter's Tale's regarded as a play of two halves (set in Sicilia and Bohemia), former Royal Shakespeare Company director Greg Doran's poignant and absorbing Walking Shadow is a book of two halves.
When Sally returns to Cowdenbeath from her busy city life for her father’s funeral, she’s pulled back into the world of “The Blue Brazil” – the trials, triumphs, and unbreakable loyalty of a small-town football club with a big heart.
USA Today bestselling author Kate Danley will present Madam(e) Lou at the Edinburgh Fringe, a solo show reclaiming the erased legacy of Lou Graham, a bordello queen credited with shaping the rise of Seattle.
Philadelphia-based performer Donna Oblongata will bring The Van Gogh Shogh to Edinburgh Fringe, a solo comedy show casting Van Gogh as a bewildered food courier, with audience members recruited as live painters.
Comedian and author Olaf Falafel will present his 15th and 16th Edinburgh Fringe shows, including a kids' comedy hour and an adult stand-up show shortlisted for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Best Show Award.
Edinburgh Fringe First winner KANPUR: 1857, a satirical play about colonial history written by and starring Niall Moorjani, will present at Glasgow's Tron Theatre in association with Glasgow Mela.
The Chichester Festival Theatre, Stage Entertainment and Sheffield Theatres production of SINGIN' IN THE RAIN will tour the UK and Ireland, including a summer season at London's Sadler's Wells, following a Christmas run at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.
Palestinian-Syrian actor Arwa Omaren will present a one-woman reimagining of Euripides' 'The Trojan Women' at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, weaving her own experience of displacement and exile into the classical text.
Actor and writer Megan Tomei will make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut this summer with the UK premiere of her darkly comic one-woman show SpinQueen at Jade Studio at Greenside.
After a 30-year delay in the departure lounge, The High Life returns in a new musical spectacular featuring all four original cast members - Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart.
Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre announced TRAVFEST26, its annual August new writing festival, featuring world premieres including CATHY starring Elaine C.
Puppeteer and clown Dik Downey makes his Edinburgh Fringe debut at 63 with DON QUIXOTE (IS A VERY BIG BOOK), a one-man show at the Pleasance Dome blending slapstick, puppetry, and Cervantes' 939-page novel into 55 minutes.
HOLE!, the two-hander musical comedy from American Sing-Song, will transfer to Soho Theatre's main space before returning to Edinburgh Fringe, following a sold-out 2025 run and performances at The Public Theater in New York.
Stephen Webb on touring with The Rocky Horror Picture Show which comes to Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre in June.
Comedian Ron Placone will premiere ANTI-FASCIST PASTA NIGHT at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a political stand-up hour exploring politics, culture, and the anti-fascist roots of pasta, with preview shows in Los Angeles and New York.
Alfie Dundas, a viral comedian with over 100 million online views, will make his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with FIRST CLASS PANIC at Pleasance Courtyard's Bunker Three.
Honk! comedy nights will present a series of Edinburgh Fringe work-in-progress shows at Rebellion Brewery in Marlow and The Relais Henley, featuring acts including Sophie Duker, Rosie Holt, and Catherine Bohart.
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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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Sammy J: Hero Complex Underbelly Bristo Square (8/05-8/16) |
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Spin Cycle Underbelly (Clover) (8/05-8/31) |
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Alhambra Theatre (10/07-10/10) |
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Man or Bear Summerhall (8/06-8/30) |
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Threesome Braw Venues @ Hill Street Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
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Tale of the Firebird Assembly Roxy (Central) (8/06-8/30) |
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Count Arthur Strong - And Its Goodnight From Me! EICC (5/30-5/30) |
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Stayin’ Alive Gilded Balloon Patter House – Coorie (8/05-8/31) |
