The latest theatre news from Scotland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Panos Kandunias's solo show I BOUGHT A FLIP PHONE, examining loneliness and digital addiction, heads to Edinburgh Fringe after earning five-star reviews at HOME Manchester, Oxford Playhouse, and Theatre Royal Bath.
The Young Playwrights Award is a free, open-access competition for any teenager in the UK interested in writing a play, spearheaded by Beth Flintoff (Associate Playwright & Young Writers Associate at the Royal Court Theatre).
The Besties, a partnership between Radge Media, Capital Theatres, and Premier Scotland, will return for its third year, with winners chosen weekly by The Skinny and Fest editorial teams across Edinburgh's major festivals.
Tilda Swinton returns to the stage in MAN TO MAN, reuniting with the original creative team for a run at the Royal Court Theatre before transferring to Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre and later the Berliner Ensemble.
Luna Stage and Richard Jordan Productions bring MRS.
Drag comedian Crudi Dench, star of award-winning fringe hits Drag Queens vs Zombies and Drag Queens vs Vampires, will make her solo debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a celebrity-fuelled comedy show at Underbelly Cowgate.
BroadwayWorld caught up with writer and director Fraser Scott and actor Olivia Caw to chat about bringing Common Tongue to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
NYC drag artists Xena Fauxbia and Soda Pressed bring JUDY GARLAND IS FAT AT CARNEGIE HALL to Brooklyn Art Haus' EdFest and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, blending drag, theater, and cultural criticism to examine fatphobia and the entertainment industry.
BWW catches up with Rachel O'Regan to chat about F-Bomb Theatre's FemiFringe guide at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Selected as one of only five winners of the Shedload-of-Future Fund 2026 from Francesca Moody’s Sheinburgh, TOAST is a debut written and performed by Jude Green.
Amy Lever of Lost Girl written and performs TO DO LISTS, a solo show about productivity and list-making, directed by Giulia Grillo and produced by Manchester's Rainy Day Theatre at Edinburgh's Pleasance Courtyard.
Azaelia Slade's solo show THIS IS HOW I GOT ARRESTED explores working-class youth, sensation-seeking and identity through the story of Sophie, a young woman whose search for belonging leads her down dangerous paths.
Nathan Jonathan, known for Hollyoaks and Doctor Who, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new production examining masculinity, class, and boyhood in a small Northern town during the Y2K era.
Lovelock Productions returns to Edinburgh's Summerhall with THERMODRAMA, a new play set inside a sauna where four strangers face rising temperatures and a self-care apocalypse, written by Coco Cottam and directed by Lydia Free.
Scott Turnbull's award-winning one-man show SURREALLY GOOD returns to Edinburgh's Summerhall for a second year, exploring grief, creativity, and corporate absurdity through surreal storytelling and lo-fi illustration.
Following sell-out seasons in Philadelphia and Off-Broadway, Cecilia Corrigan’s The Gay Divorce will transfer to this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Written and performed by Victoria Oxley, STAYIN' ALIVE explores OCD, class, and family resilience at Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh, drawing on Oxley's lived experience and her relationship with her late grandmother.
Actor and comedian Molly Windust will perform ROCKPOOLS, her debut solo show, at Pleasance Courtyard in Edinburgh, exploring hoarding, endometriosis, and the pressures on women around motherhood through darkly comic surreal storytelling.
A new play about the Macedonian teens who sparked a global fake news crisis in 2016 is set to debut at Edinburgh Fringe, co-created and performed by Isabella Heaver, who is herself half Macedonian.
Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody will come to Edinburgh Fringe in August.
Queer opera duo Operotica will bring their debut full-length theatrical piece to Underbelly Bristo Square in Edinburgh, blending operatic artistry, vaudevillian theatrics, and dark comedy with performer Dan Wye.
Alexis Sakellaris will present a season at Gilded Balloon Patter House in Edinburgh featuring A STAN IS BORN! Encore, work-in-progress CHILD STAR, lineup night MCU: Musical Comedians Unite!, and the inaugural CVNTY AWARDS.
Austin-based comic actor Sims Holland brings her acclaimed solo show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, blending clown, stand-up and poetry to chart a journey from addiction to sobriety.
Written and performed by Irish playwright Isolde Fenton, In A Bad Way is a fast-paced, darkly comedic one-woman show exploring health anxiety and the lengths we go to in search of certainty.
Critically acclaimed comic Georgina Thomas (one half of sketch duo Thick 'n' Fast) will make her solo debut with Hysterical Soprano, a high-note-hitting operatic comedy about one woman coming face-to-face with her greatest rival: herself.
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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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Learning to Human Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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One Man Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit and the Pendulum Greenside Venue @ Riddles Court (Willow Studio) – Venue 16 - 322 Lawnmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2PG (8/08-8/28) |
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Rockpools Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 3) (8/05-8/30) |
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Couplet: Folk Marry Kill Assembly George Square (8/05-8/30) |
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A Better Memory The Green at Pleasance Courtyard (Venue 33) (8/05-8/30) |
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Jitters Summerhall (8/06-8/30) |
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Long Way Home Gilded Balloon (Snug) (8/05-8/31) |
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The Second Best School Shooting Pleasance Courtyard (8/05-8/30) |
