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Inspired by the gameplay of Dungeons and Dragons, this hilarious adventure is never the same tale twice as audience members control the story from the palm of their hands.

Who are we programmed to save? That's what playwright Ben Norris asks in his new show Autopilot, premiering in Edinburgh this year.

After winning The Total Theatre Award for Best Circus in 2018, multi award winning Australian circus group A Good Catch, return with the international premier of new show Zoë.

You are cordially invited to Jim and Barb's Golden Anniversary.

After performing to sold out crowds in New York and LA, New York City comedians Marcia Belsky and Jake Cornell are making their debut performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Horseplay asks 'would you rather have sex or eternal bliss?' in a new absurd character comedy set for Edinburgh Fringe.

Garrett Millerick, the world's angriest optimist, returns for another bash at sorting out life's inexplicable complications.

Humiliating and outrageous, Fixed is Emily Wilson's Edinburgh Fringe debut, sharing the story of her disastrous experience as a finalist on The X Factor USA at the age of fifteen.

Having won Best Show at New Zealand International Comedy Festival, Eli Matthewson: Daddy-Short Legs is surely one to see at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

Fringe stalwarts, Flabbergast Theatre are returning for the first time since their award-winning dark, sinister immersive 2018 experience, The Swell Mob.

After snagging a Best Newcomer nomination for their show Danger Brigade in 2019, nothing could stop the Crybabies (James Gault, Michael Clarke and Ed Jones).

Lurching between the silly and funny and the dark and ominous, The Fremont's Edinburgh debut, The Failure Cabaret, brings modern topics to life, embracing them through good, old-fashioned sinister vaudevillian charm.

It’s like the sun casts a spell, some hypnotic solar shite, and suddenly ordinary people dae terrible things.

The Pleasance Theatre Trust have been awarded £156,900 out of the £1.

Sophie’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings her mother face to face with three men from her distant romantic past on the eve of a wedding they’ll never forget.

During the month of August the award-winning, in-the-round auditorium will host three premieres from trailblazing playwrights Dipo Baruwa-Etti, Sami Ibrahim and Laura Lindow and the return of Chris Bush's critically acclaimed play HUNGRY which premiered at Roundabout last year.

As previously announced, in autumn 2022 Rona Munro returns to Scottish stages with a bold new production:  James IV – Queen of the Fight, directed by Laurie Sansom - the formidable duo who brought us James I, II and III.

New play 'Brain Hemingway' premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe grapples with the gritty and complicated internal dialogue of Erin Murray Quinlan and a legendary American writer.

Simon Munnery: Trials and Tribulations comes to The Stand, Edinburgh this August! Performances run August 4-28 (not 15) at 3.

Scottish Young Musicians Solo Performer of the Year is a new Scotland-wide music competition run by The Music Education Partnership Group, where funding and expertise is offered to every school and Local Authority, giving all pupils in the country the chance to take part.

Glasgow's contemporary storytelling festival returns in 2022 as part of Scotland's Year of Stories for an eclectic exploration of Re: Connection and Transformation - Storytelling in a Precarious World.

The 2022 Werq The World tour has enlisted Asia O’Hara, Kameron Michaels, Vanessa Vanjie and Yvie Oddly to sashay their way through days past in hopes of getting back to the present.

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, the critically acclaimed international immersive phenomenon, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for a 13th year this August, taking up residence in a brand new venue at the Hilton Edinburgh Carlton.

The series of open space events aims to reignite, reinvigorate and reinterrogate the conversation about an age-old issue: what impact does the patriarchy have on us in the performing arts sector, both collectively and individually, and how are we going to hack the system?

The Pleasance Theatre Trust presents the 2022 Edinburgh National Partnerships, a feast of new work from vibrant theatre makers and performers from across the UK at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.