Lifelong is a new play by Fringe First winner Lynda Radley, presented by Pepperdine Scotland in association with Scissor Kick, directed by Hollace Starr. Set in a luxurious facility where scientific advances and AI have granted residents impossibly long and youthful lives, the...
Comedian and podcaster Chad Goes Deep brings Chill Towards Enlightenment to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, a live comedy experience blending his perception-altering take on existence with the worlds of TED Talks, wellness retreats, and Tony Robbins-style motivational seminars...
The 2026 OffFEST nominee returns to Edinburgh after a smash-hit debut with five-star sell-out shows, winning a Fringe Theatre Award in 2025. Impressively accoladed solo show written and performed by screen actress Sophie Fisher (The Scotsman's Rising Stars of Edinburgh Fringe...
B48Y Crash Lands on Earth! is a clown and comedy show created and performed by Lukas Meintjes, following an alien who crash lands on Earth and begins mimicking human behavior. The show previously played to sell-out audiences at Melbourne Fringe and Adelaide Fringe. Meintjes is...
A series of one-off readings from the world of Charles Dickens, featuring Frank Skinner, Paul Foot, Elf Lyons, Ahir Shah, Gail Porter, Brian Bilston, Lorna Rose Treen, Mark Steel, John Kearns, Bebe Cave and Sanjeev Kohli among others. Each performance brings a different Dickens...
Gyles Brandreth, podcaster, raconteur, and veteran of numerous television programmes, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe exploring how memory works and sharing stories from his life. He is joined on stage by Harriet Jaine, producer of his chart-topping podcast Rosebud, who...
Slayers is a one-woman play written by Corinne Salisbury and directed by Josephine Rush, centering on Liane, a single mother and survivor of abuse who attempts to shield her ten-year-old daughter from the dangers of the manosphere. When her daughter suffers at the hands of...
Written and composed by ARIA award-winning Bridie Connell, FUCCBOIS: LIVE IN CONCERT is a comedy concert that parodies modern dating culture through the lens of a chart-topping boyband on their final tour. The show blends original music with satire targeting ghosting, fame...
Jess Robinson does not simply impersonate the stars. She appears to possess an entire musical showreel of them. …
The Palestinian Circus brings culture, community and contemporary circus together in Step and a Half, a production which places Palestinian identity firmly at its heart.…
What did our critic think of AOIFE DUNNE: GOOD GRIEF at Gilded Balloon Teviot?…
Earlier this year, Marty Supreme made a case for ping pong as a metaphor for life’s constant ebbs and flows, and an outlet for a particular type of obsessive striver. In New York-based Fat Knight Theatre’s two-hander Chip and Gus: A Comedy with Balls, we hardly need the sport to be there at all,…
“I’ve been thinking about my childhood” is how the Singaporean performer Cheeyang Ng begins Legendary, a show preoccupied with the idea of childhood, and particularly with queer Asian childhood. This overarching theme involves both the messages we learn as a child, and what we pass on to our f…
Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out is a light-hearted, sharp hour of musical talent and witty comedy. It’s not a show you want to miss! …
Sofie won a comedy award in 2015 and she thinks you all stopped talking about it too soon. Anyways, despite being constantly online from 2016-2024, she never saw it coming that the fascists would be taking over. She did so many feminist tweets to prevent it. How can this be happening?…
Krapp's Last Tape is a journey through an old man's life, filled with hilarious memories and hopes for the future, coupled with the mourning of lost love and unfulfilled ambition. This production, directed by Academy Award nominee Stockard Channing and starring David Westhead, tours globally through…
Hasan Al- Habib has a lot to get off his chest, but Stuck in the Middle (East) with You never feels like a therapy session masquerading as stand up.…
The play delights in its ambiguities. Neither character is wrong, yet they’re both somewhat problematic in their own way. They’re complex and real, yet they become the universal representatives of a broader social discourse. The script succeeds in avoiding any kind of forceful rhetoric, opting f…
James Campbell, a children's comedian who pioneered the genre of comedy for kids, brings his acclaimed show to Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show features exploding penguins, seventeen ways to eat jam, and songs to sing to the worms in your dog's bottom. Campbell first...
Watson is alone. His beloved wife, Mary, and the great Sherlock Holmes are gone. London seethes with false reports. It's time to set the record straight. So Watson tells his tale of long-buried secrets, betrayal and death; a journey across Europe pursued by Moriarty, the...
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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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Giovanni: Unstoppable Alhambra Theatre (4/11-4/11) |
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Shamilton! The Improvised Hip Hop Musical Assembly George Square Studios - One (8/05-8/30) |
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Argonauts ZOO (Playground 2) (8/07-8/30) |
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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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A STAN IS BORN! – Encore Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/06-8/16) |
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The List Festival Awards W Edinburgh (8/28-8/28) |
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To Do Lists Pleasance Courtyard (The Green) (8/05-8/31) |
