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A bold town hall musical retelling of Sophocles' tragedy set in 1989 California, where grief, activism, and democracy powerfully collide.
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A bold town hall musical retelling of Sophocles' tragedy set in 1989 California, where grief, activism, and democracy powerfully collide.
Mortal Sin is a two-hander play written and performed by Benjamin Reilly, with Isolde Fenton, set in November 1963 in the rural Irish village of Cundannon. Colm and Peggy, two teenage friends, protest for a day off school to mark the funeral of assassinated American president...
Murder, She Didn't Write is an entirely improvised Agatha Christie-inspired murder mystery performed by the improv ensemble Degrees of Error, returning to the Edinburgh Fringe for its 12th year. Each night, audience members choose the murderer and victim in a Cluedo-esque...
Muse: The Shakespeare Mayhem Musical is a new pop musical comedy created by students at Interlochen Arts Academy, with music and lyrics by Hanna Andréa and book co-written by Lisa Sanderson and a team of students. Set before Shakespeare became the Bard, the show follows a young...
NewsRevue is a Guinness World Record-breaking comedy institution celebrating 47 years, making its debut at Pleasance One. The show features performers Kitty McNeill, Kathryn Pridgeon, Michael Stafford Wells, and Will Usherwood-Bliss, with Harry Gascoigne as musical director...

Guinness World Record-breaking NewsRevue (47 years!), makes its debut in Pleasance One. If the news has got you down, this is your antidote. Expect four preposterously talented performers, a brilliant musical director on keys and a barrage of hilarious sketches and parody songs...
Acclaimed comedian and ventriloquist Nina Conti brings this cabaret show to McEwan Hall, joined by her masks and some of her favourite acts from across the Fringe. The show is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy programme.

After her sold out Dublin Fringe run, Ally Ryan brings Nothing Personal to Edinburgh. Megan's a struggling comedian who discovers that audiences love bad date stories. To get material for her stand-up she sets out to go on as many bad dates as possible. But, when she...
One Hour Wedding is a wildly interactive theatrical event in which the audience becomes the wedding planners for a real couple, with sixty minutes to build an entire ceremony from scratch. Nothing is pre-planned except the 'Yes', leaving theme, music, vows, choreography, and...
Our Other Organ is a performance lecture by Boaz Barkan, presented by NoLands at Summerhall's Anatomy Lecture Theatre. The work blends physical theatre, anatomy, and political inquiry to examine how trauma, racism, and ideology are embodied. It challenges audiences to confront...
PLASTIC is a solo music project by Minyoung Kim, a composer and performer from Seoul who combines geomungo, a traditional Korean string instrument, with jeongga, traditional Korean singing based on poetry, and electronic music. The work explores the contradictions of human...
Prophets is a dark psychological thriller set on the remote British Overseas Territory of Saint John, exploring the interplay between faith and cult, justice, and the search for hope. When Kerris, a researcher, arrives on the island, she finds a colonial outpost gripped by a...

Since Heated Rivalry graced our screens, there's been a collective yearning throughout the world. That yearning comes to the stage with Puck Bunnies: A Heated Rivalry Drag Musical Parody show that's definitely not associated with the TV show. From tuna melts to Rozanov's...
Puck Bunnies is a drag musical parody of the TV show Heated Rivalry, written by Kyra Brown and filmmaker Christan Leonard, starring Brown and Hanna Barlow as Drag Kings Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander respectively. The 8-person ensemble cast features women, queer, trans, and...
PUTTANA is a fragmented performance from Italian theatre company TeatroE that interrogates the sexualisation of women's bodies and the violence that follows. Performer Beatrice Elena Festi embodies five characters — student, sex worker, husband, wife, and young man — each with...
ROLEPLAY is a one-woman comedy turned psychological thriller written and performed by Hannah Reilly and directed by Paige Rattray. The show follows a broke feminist podcaster who rebrands as a provocative 'slutfluencer' in pursuit of fame, only to lose herself in the...

Who are you when everything you were suddenly gets taken away? Sophie was once a Los Angeles it-girl, living a life of enviable, aspirational chaos. Now on the eve of her 30th birthday, she's stuck in a treatment facility with only one VIP on the birthday party guest list: her...
Britain's foremost political impressionist Rory Bremner blends sharp comedy, pitch-perfect impressions and surprising revelations in this show. The performance is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy programme.
Russell Kane, comedian, actor, presenter and author known for Big Brother's Big Mouth, Freak Like Me, and Geordie Shore: The Reunion, brings this high-energy show to the Fringe 16 years after winning an Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Sad Bride is a queer, dark character comedy written and performed by Charlotte Merriam, based on her real-life experiences of the wedding industry. The show follows Bride Thompson, a woman obsessed with becoming the perfect bride, who finds herself unable to shed her weirdness...
Acclaimed Australian comedian Sammy J details the true story of how swapping comic books with his school gardener set off a chain of events leading to both the birth of his daughter and to him committing a crime. The show is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy...

Sanctuary, the debut play from Jacob Sparrow, is the winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, a new playwriting competition. This beautiful, evocative play is about the AIDS epidemic in the 90s and is set in Suffolk. It is about loneliness and the legacy of shame, but also the...
Sara Pascoe, award-winning author, actor and comedian known for Taskmaster, Live at the Apollo, QI, and Mock the Week, performs this show at McEwan Hall. The show is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy programme.
Saving Britney is a WhatsOnStage Award-nominated solo show about celebrity worship and the #FreeBritney movement. The production is part of Fake Escape's Decade of Fringe season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2026.
Internet sensation improv troupe Shoot From The Hip, with 3 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, takes the stage at McEwan Hall. The show is part of Underbelly's 2026 Edinburgh Fringe comedy programme.
Following a sold-out London run, Simon Amstell brings this show to the Fringe. Just after finally finding inner peace at his friend's California beach house, Simon receives an invitation from the man who first ignited his teenage desire, throwing his newfound calm into chaos.
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Antigone 1989: A Town Hall Musical Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/29) |
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Overtone Pleasance (Jack Dome) (8/05-8/30) |
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It Couldn’t Get Worse; or, The Margarita Boat Tour Incident Venue 45 at theSpace (8/24-8/29) |
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Giraffe Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) (8/05-8/31) |
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Tale of the Firebird Assembly Roxy (Central) (8/06-8/30) |
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Chris Grace: 88% Assembly George Square (8/05-8/31) |
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Spin Cycle Underbelly (Clover) (8/05-8/31) |
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Richard Ashcroft Revived My Libido Gilded Balloon Teviot (8/05-8/30) |
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Disney''s Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert Usher Hall (12/03-12/03) |
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Woodcutter Triplex Studio @theSpaceUK (Venue 38) (8/07-8/29) |