Anti-Fascist Pasta Night is a political stand-up hour by comedian Ron Placone that takes audiences through politics, culture, travel, relationships, and the small coping mechanisms that keep us sane. The title was inspired by real anti-fascist pasta nights in Italy, rooted in...
Multi award-winning comedian Phil Ellis returns to the Fringe with his hit stand-up show Bath Mat, following a hugely successful first leg of the tour selling out over 50 shows across the UK. Known for his unique brand of chaotic comedy, electric energy and brilliant writing...
Following sold-out London shows at Leicester Square Theatre, Crowd Work makes its Edinburgh Fringe debut. This hour-long interactive show features comedy legend Frank Skinner and two other guest comics working as a team, taking on whatever the audience throws at them each night...
Multi-award winning Australian comedian Dan Rath returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand-new show Help Me Please, performing from 7th to 30th August 2026, excluding 17th August. The show is a one-man hour exploring pressure, perception, and the psychological...
Pierre Novellie presents an hour of his best and finest bits from the last decade of his sell-out stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show features his signature style of masterful observational comedy that has earned him rave reviews and award wins over the...
Ed Gamble returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour-long work in progress comedy show. Fresh off his first ever international show Ed Gamble Live, which saw him perform sold-out performances across major European cities and then the USA and Canada, as well as his...
Ele McKenzie's debut stand-up show explores the experience of moving back in with her parents at 30, examining the gap between adult expectations and reality. The show leans into the idea of arrested development, conceived in the liminal space of McKenzie's childhood bedroom...
Irish comedian, best-selling author, podcast host and online star Emma Doran makes her Edinburgh Fringe debut with her smash hit stand-up show Emmaculate. This rambunctious hour lays bare the many trials and tribulations of Emma's blended family, jam-packed with razor-sharp...
Cecily Hitchcock brings her highly anticipated debut stand-up hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Through Family Recipe, Cecily takes audiences on a nostalgic dive into 2000s Britain, exploring her upbringing by oddball parents in a new-build town, her fixation on Blair and...
Frank Skinner brings his stand-up laboratory to Edinburgh with a work-in-progress show as a new stand-up hour is assembled. Audiences can witness his successes and failures as new material is tried and tested, described as watching Doctor Frankenstein building his monster...
Multi award-winning hip-hop comedian and Edinburgh Fringe favourite MC Hammersmith returns with a brand new show in which his character discovers his parents are MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice and embarks on a quest to find his biological family through an hour of improvised hip hop...
Multi award-winning comedian, writer, podcaster and actor Rob Auton returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to perform a story he has written about being an estate agent on the planet Jupiter. This is his second hour-long story show, following the success of his sold-out debut...
Building on his acclaimed West End Political Party podcast residency, Matt Forde returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to record three live episodes of his podcast, with guests to be announced. With over 11 million downloads, Matt Forde's Political Party has earned multiple...
Katie Norris returns to the Fringe following her Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Show, delivering her signature style of chaotic comedy, delightfully silly songs and pitch perfect vocals. A previous winner of Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2025 and...
Critically acclaimed comedian, podcaster and author Pierre Novellie brings a brand new stand-up show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, described as one final show before bed. One of the UK's most acclaimed stand-ups, Novellie has made the list of Best Reviewed Shows of the...
Comedy writer-performer, actor and filmmaker Rory Cargill presents a show in which his character TV legend Beau Creme hosts a retrospective on British TV, its programmes and stars, examining how the medium shaped 70 years of British society as well as Beau's own storied career...
One Man Musical is Flo & Joan's award-winning smash hit musical returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after a triumphant debut in 2024 and subsequent runs at Melbourne Comedy Festival and London's Soho Theatre and Underbelly Boulevard. The show follows an icon of the...
Award-winning comedian Ania Magliano brings her brand new stand-up hour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a full month run. Following starring in series 20 of Taskmaster and as co-host of the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live UK, the Edinburgh Comedy Award...
Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde embarks on a mission to find joy amid global political turmoil, the rising tide of populism, and his own ongoing health challenges, several years on from a bone cancer diagnosis. Known for appearances on The Royal Variety...
Andrew Doherty returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand new comedy-horror, a late-night-slasher-spooktacular. Known for his sell-out hits Gay Witch Sex Cult and Sad Gay AIDS Play, Doherty is also the creator of the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama The Real Housewives of The...
Russell Howard, described by The Sunday Times as one of the world's top comedians, performs eight intimate work-in-progress shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
James Trickey returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand new hour following his sold-out and critically acclaimed debut Don't Count on Me. An accountant by day and rising star of comedy by night, Trickey crafts a blend of silly gags and physical comedy with clever and...
Mike Wozniak presents his brand-new stand-up show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe mid-way through a sell-out UK tour. Known as a legendary contestant on BAFTA and Rose D'Or winning Taskmaster, star of RTS Award winning Junior Taskmaster, and host of hit cult podcast Three Bean...
Multi-award-winning comedian Kate Dolan brings her third consecutive show to the Fringe, with a brand new hour of rapid fire, high-energy and absurdist stand-up. Trout unspools the idea that in 2026 being a fish in the river might be nicer than a woman on land. Dolan won the...
Award-winning comedian and creator of BBC Radio 4 sitcom Do Gooders, Garrett Millerick returns with a unique live comedy experiment in which he has built an AI of himself to see if it is better at comedy than him. Garrett and his AI double deliver a blistering hour of...
Directed by Michael DeFilippis, 44 Minutes is an unnerving provocation with an exhilarating plot twist. It’s a solid exploration of self-preservation and vengeance, featuring a broader reflection on suspicion, mistrust, and cruelty. John Billingsley, Dorian Missick, Christopher Ryan, and Matthew P…
Slade is remarkably entertaining, but the play is, ultimately rather unoriginal. The story strictly relies on a classist trope and only offers a superficial exploration of the class discourse. Yet, her gags are funny and the structural form makes it worth seeing. Danny Dyer would get a proper a kick…
The show is not quite a musical, not quite a play with music. Marcus accompanies Maddie on the piano, adding a dreamy aura to her prose when he isn’t suspending the narrative action altogether with facts about aging or other adjacent conversations. The result is a blithe, sentimental, almost roman…
Caleb Barron writes and directs a charmingly silly, snappy comedy. As the trio work on their ruse, researching Guy and his sudden retirement, scenarios glide into one another and the actors swap characters with confidence. A dynamic, beckoning comic rhythm is established. The storytelling is intrica…
With Rewilding, Chris Cantrill shows himself off as a veteran of his craft.…
Some plays feel like direct responses to other, more famous, more accomplished plays. There’s a lot of John Proctor Is The Villain in Rip Her To Shreds, but we’re not entirely sure we mean it in a good way. Like Kimberly Belflower’s, Isabelle Barbier’s drama deals with female rage and social…
It’s an addictive project. As our antihero loses the plot and her sabotages become more wacky and extreme, an early allegory of Leung’s comes up again and again, pushing the character (and the Hater) towards a reckoning of sorts. There’s no resolution, no answer to her obsessive compulsion, ju…
Trapped on the sleepy Scottish island of Cumbrae, seventeen-year-old Steven McPhail feels like an outsider dreading a dead-end future. He desperately needs an escape – and he's about to find it. When a dazzling encounter with a flamboyant stranger opens his eyes, Steven steps out of the shadows to…
Ten years after premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe, Team Viking returns for another send-off. The remarkable, hilarious and heart-lifting story of how James managed to give his best mate the send-off he wanted. A comic ode to death, friendship and the beautiful absurdity of life.…
Cinderella's gone – the lucky brat's living it up while her stunning stepsisters are left wondering why they don't get their happily ever after. Witness their magical, musical misadventure as they discover what it truly means to be 'ugly'. Packed with lush, original music, dazzling costumes, outla…
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AUDITION is set to premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2025. The show explores the unique pressures and challenges faced by performers in the competitive world of auditioning. Recognizing the diverse voices of artists, the production includes contributions from...
Fat Bitch is a provocative exploration of modern identity and body image, featuring renowned performer Alison Spittle. Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this show runs from August 1 to August 25, 2025. Combining humor and personal narrative, it...
Well Behaved Women is a thought-provoking performance that delves into the complexities of societal expectations placed on women. With a poignant script and engaging storytelling, this show promises to tackle pressing issues while providing significant insights into the lives of...
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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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Broke & Fabulous in the 21st Century Dram at Gilded Balloon Patter House (8/05-8/31) |
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Felicity Ward: I Wish I Could Come Out Of My Shell Cab Vol 1 @ Monkey Barrell (8/17-8/30) |
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Dracula: Lucy's Dream Pleasance at EICC (8/06-8/29) |
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It's A Struggle Coming Out theSpace @ Niddry Street (8/08-8/13) |
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Jitters Summerhall (8/06-8/30) |
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The Three Marias Voices Collective (8/26-8/31) |
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Burce Tutku Tuncali: Perfectly ımperfeckt! Greenside Venues @ George Street , Ivy Studio (8/17-8/22) |
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Thermodrama Summerhall (8/07-8/31) |
