Get theatre news and discounts for Scotland

Scotland Theatre Newsroom Page 14

Back to Main...
Jamie Lee Brings MY FRIEND KATY to Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2025
2x Emmy-winning comedian, writer, actress (Crashing) and executive producer (Ted Lasso), Jamie Lee will be making her Edinburgh Fringe debut performance with a brand-new darkly comedic hour My Friend Katy.
A JAFFA CAKE MUSICAL Will Give Away Jaffa Cakes at Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2025
After each performance Team Gigglemug will be giving away Jaffa Cakes to audience members in return for donations to the Edinburgh Food Project. Learn more here!
Galway International Arts Festival Will Become Climate Transition Lab During This Year’s Festival
by BWW News Desk - July 16, 2025
Galway International Arts Festival has announced that it is to become a Climate Transition Laboratory during this year’s festival, which takes place this month.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint Announces Autumn 2025 Season
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 15, 2025
PPP announced 12 new plays as part of their 2025 Autumn season. A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) has today announced its Autumn 2025 season, with 12 brand-new productions performing weekly from Monday 1 September to Saturday 22 November 2025 at Òran Mór, Glasgow, and on tour across Scotland in Ayr, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Paisley.
ADA & BRON: THE ORIGIN OF LOVE Comes to Edinburgh Festival Fringe This Summer
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
Following the success of their recently released, BAFTA nominated, Broadcast Award winning Channel 4 comedy short Peaked, Ada & Bron are bringing their debut show The Origin of Love to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
LACHLAN WERNER: WONDERTWUNK Begins at Edinburgh Fringe This Month
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
Following the cult-hit success of Voices of Evil, award-winning ventriloquist and physical comedian Lachlan Werner will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with WONDERTWUNK, a one-man circus fever dream packed with vaudeville, sci-fi, puppetry, and twisted heart.
Ali Brice Returns To Edinburgh Fringe With New Comedy Show ERIC MEAT GETS THE CHOP
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
Celebrated UK alternative comedian Ali Brice will return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August with ERIC MEAT GETS THE CHOP, a brand-new hour of absurdist character comedy, interactive chaos, and heartfelt hilarity.
Connor McKenna to Makes His Edinburgh Fringe Debut With SELTZER BOY
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
Connor McKenna will present Seltzer Boy at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.  Who doesn't love a good fizzy beverage? Join Seltzer Boy on his carbonated adventure, exploring his delicate relationship with his body, what he puts in it, and why.
Candace Bryan to Make Edinburgh Fringe Debut With MILF - MOM I'D LIKE TO FIND
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
In her debut Edinburgh Fringe show, Candace Bryan will share an hour of stand-up anchored around the incredible story of how, after 30 years of absence, her biological mother slid into her Instagram DMs. Learn how to attend!
The Big House Make Edinburgh Festival Fringe Debut With BLAZE FM
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
Revolutionary London theatre company The Big House make their Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut with Blaze FM - explosive gig theatre weaving Drill, Grime and Jungle tracks through an electrifying hour of powerful, political theatre. 
The Monkeypox Gospel Makes International Premiere at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 15, 2025
It's the summer of 2022. Journalist Ngofeen Mputubwele knows he should pitch an article to his bosses at The New Yorker about the global outbreak of “monkeypox” (since renamed mpox).
DEL VALLE: A True Tale of Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll... and Redemption is Coming to Edinburgh
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2025
​​​​​​​Step into the wild, raw, and often shockingly hilarious world of Del Valle - the true tale of a well-born Texas man who made it in Hollywood... and then made it to prison. Coming to Edinburgh Fringe!
Matt Forde Adds Sadiq Khan, Kirsty Wark, and More to His Edinburgh Festival Fringe Political Party Specials
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2025
Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde is set to interview Sadiq Khan, Kirsty Wark, Ian Murray and Joanna Cherry, over four live Edinburgh Festival Fringe Political Party podcast specials.
Full Cast Set For TheatreGoose's AETHER at The 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 14, 2025
Written and directed by Emma Howlett, the show explores the unknown and our insatiable desire to define the universe, which will be performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe next month.
THE SOUND OF WATER at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
by BWW News Desk - July 13, 2025
The Sound of Water is performing at Edinburgh Fringe, The Space @Venue 45 (venue 45) at 11.05 (50 mins) from 11-16th August, and 9.55 (50 mins) from 18th-23rd August.
Cyrus Deboo Will Bring THERE’S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH CYRUS
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2025
Cyrus Deboo is a happy American Indian-Persian gay man born to immigrant parents.   The happy part of all that hasn’t always been a constant though.  It has taken a lot for him to get to that bit.  In There’s Something Seriously Wrong with Cyrus he tells the sometimes turbulent, frequently hilarious and always authentic story of how he did it.
Queer Drama ASCENSION Makes Edinburgh Fringe Return
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2025
Following a successful critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, and sold-out performances at Greenwich Theatre last year, Dan Hazelwood's queer drama Ascension will make its return to Fringe this August.
Sofia Ayral-Hutton, Dana Brooke and Beth Lincks Will Star in SHAKE RAG HOLLOW
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2025
The Journey Company, New Light Theater Project and Fringe Management will soon present SHAKE RAG HOLLOW- A new play by Arlene Hutton, directed by Eric Nightengale, and performed by Sofia Ayral-Hutton, Dana Brooke and Beth Lincks.
Ellis Pear's BITTER BABY Is Coming to Edinburg Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2025
What does it take to juggle academic study by day and sex work by night? What does it take to forget your past? These are questions that Brazillian academic and autistic woman Elis Pear is grappling with. 
Susan Edsall Will Bring BUEN CAMINO to Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 12, 2025
Soaring Solo Studios and Fringe Management will present BUEN CAMINO, written and performed by Susan Edsall, developed with and directed by Jennifer Lynn Johnson.
EDINBURGH 2025: Parker Callahan Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 11, 2025
Soda Pop is an alt-comedy tour de force: a multimedia, stream-of-consciousness ride through the mind of a slightly deranged gay man. Featuring original music and media, Parker keeps audiences laughing and asking, 'is this the gay agenda'?
EDINBURGH 2025: SUGAR Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 11, 2025
Theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy, Tomáš Kantor's award-winning debut is about Sugar – a gender-queer twink who discovers there's money to be made from transactional relationships (though their primary source of information is Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman).
EDINBURGH 2025: DO YOU ACCEPT THESE CHARGES? Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 11, 2025
A bad boy? Hot. A bad person? Not. It’s Christmas Day and Laurie’s on her way to visit her boyfriend… in prison. A must-see fringe debut from US comedian Laurie Magers (Netflix’s Obliterated, Upright Citizens Brigade) about the time she dated an incarcerated multi-felon.
EDINBURGH 2025: HER RAVING MIND Q&A
by Natalie O'Donoghue - July 11, 2025
EL is not well. Her weekly therapy sessions reveal more than she expected. As she shares her story, secrets and dark memories surface through a muddle of cathartic flashbacks and visceral 'rave-clubbing deliriums' played out in her mind. In these frantic moments, all EL can do is dance.
Molly McFadden Will Star in LIVING ON THE MOON at Edinburgh Fringe
by BWW News Desk - July 11, 2025
M & B Productions in association with Fringe Management will present LIVING ON THE MOON, written and performed by Molly McFadden and directed by Michael Glavan. Music performed Jiana Peng and Konrad Binienda.

Videos


The Events
Tron Theatre (2/19 - 2/21)
Friends! The Musical Parody
Edinburgh Playhouse (2/6 - 2/7)
The High Life
National Theatre of Scotland (3/27 - 5/23)
High Society
Edinburgh Playhouse (9/7 - 9/12)
Doctor Bonk''s Macarbaret
Banshee Labyrinth (1/17 - 12/27)
Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks Musical
Edinburgh Playhouse (5/5 - 5/9)
Wait ‘Til You See My Entrance!
MZA, AND YOUR DOG & CHiLL Productions (10/4 - 5/29)
VIEW SHOWS  ADD A SHOW