The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Drag performer and comedian Fanny Bleach makes her solo comedy debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with THE NEARLY NAKED SHOW, blending physical theatre, shock humour, and character comedy at Assembly Roxy Downstairs.
Comedian Eleanor Morton returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with THE MERMAID, a stand-up show blending mythology, folklore, and personal experience to examine gender, beauty standards, and bodily autonomy.
Magician Ben Hart, known for Britain's Got Talent and work with the RSC, will bring THE LABYRINTH, a new theatrical magic show, to Assembly George Square Gardens at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Australian comedian Alice Fraser brings OH MAN to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a stand-up show tackling modern manhood, male loneliness, and the incel movement, directed by Joz Norris.
Comedian Ali Brice returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with THIS IS THE WAY WE BRUSH OUR TEETH, a new solo hour exploring midlife, sobriety, and contentment through crowd-work-fuelled stand-up at Wee Container 1, Hoots Potterow.
Comedian Alex Franklin returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with KISS ME X, a new hour of stand-up, musical comedy, and absurdist humor exploring love and dating as a trans woman.
Baby Lame returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with HIT ME BABY ONE MORE LAME!, an interactive alt-cabaret show blending Britney Spears pop culture, space travel, and punk-horror comedy, directed by Deanna Fleysher.
Comedian Adele Cliff returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a daily-written topical comedy show blending stand-up, news analysis, special guests, and games at The Yurt, Hoots Potterow.
Alex Franklin and Nikola McMurtrie bring their cryptid-based comedy musical MOTHMAN: A ROMANCE MUSICAL to Underbelly's Belly Button at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, following acclaimed runs in London and Brighton.
Multi-award-winning comedian Katie Pritchard transforms into Sir Elton Scone, a fictional Elton John-inspired baking character, in an interactive musical comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Aarian Mehrabani, co-writer of IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE, will bring his debut solo stand-up show HOW'S YOUR HEAD? to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, drawing on his brain cancer diagnosis and personal identity.
theatregoose will present the world premiere of The Plot, a theatrical thriller set after the Gunpowder Plot, written and directed by The Stage Fringe Five honoree Emma Howlett, running at Summerhall's Main Hall during Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedian Sarah Roberts, named in Rolling Stone's Rising Stars of 2024, will bring SCARY MOVIE 7 to Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel 2, blending horror and absurdism to explore loneliness, social media, and human connection.
Starcatchers, Scotland's arts and early years organisation, will present FLOAT at Edinburgh Fringe, a three-hour immersive sensory experience for babies aged birth to 12 months and their caregivers, inspired by the healing properties of water.
GOODBYE DANDELION, written and performed by siblings Maddie Rice and Marcus Rice, will have its world premiere at Underbelly during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the inaugural recipient of the Underbelly Futures Fund Award.
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Scotland's Wonder Fools and South Korea's Theatre SAN have teamed up for TETHER 인연, a cross-cultural music-theatre show blending Scottish ceilidh and Korean Ganggangsullae traditions at Summerhall's Main Hall.
Written and performed by US actor Sally Brooks, STAY follows a woman whose controlled life unravels after a small act of kindness pulls her into a grieving family's world.
Award-winning writer and performer Maddie Rice will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after a seven-year absence with GOODBYE DANDELION, a new play created with her brother, composer Marcus Rice.
Carmen Collective, creators of five-star hit LESSONS ON REVOLUTION, announced GAMEPLAY, an audio-described myth for the end times by Sam Rees and AJ Turner, set to premiere at Pleasance Dome during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Multidisciplinary artist Edwin Chuk will perform DEPARTURE IS MY HOMECOMING at Space 2 at theSpace on the Mile during the Edinburgh Fringe, blending monologue, movement, and traditional fishermen's songs to explore Hong Kong's Tanka boat communities.
Blue Fire Theatre Company's BLOODY MARY(S) profiles around 30 notable women named Mary, from Mary Shelley to Typhoid Mary, letting audiences vote on which they'd invite to a dinner party.
Jade, Amber and Lilac have been organising Coral’s hen night for the past six months and it’s going to be epic! But at the last minute, Coral’s cousin Luna rocks up uninvited.
Following its acclaimed off-Broadway run, HEATED RIVALRY: THE UNAUTHORISED MUSICAL PARODY heads to Edinburgh Fringe for its UK premiere, presented by Klif Entertainment at Underbelly George Square.
Melissa Pullinger's award-winning one-woman show Meteors, about losing her mother at 20, will travel from Adelaide Fringe to Edinburgh's Summerhall for performance dates this August.
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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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Roomies Underbelly (Jersey) (8/05-8/31) |
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NewsRevue Pleasance Courtyard (8/05-8/31) |
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Heart Beats Strong Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2) (8/05-8/31) |
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Friendliest Gilded Balloon (The Nook) (8/08-8/31) |
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One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven Greenside Venue @ Riddles Court (Willow Studio) – Venue 16 - 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PG (8/07-8/29) |
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It's A Struggle Coming Out theSpace @ Niddry Street (8/08-8/13) |
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Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody! Gilded Balloon Patter House - Other Yin (8/05-8/30) |
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Threesome Braw Venues @ Hill Street Theatre (8/07-8/16) |
