Ballyturk is Enda Walsh's moving meditation on the brevity of our existence - a mundane village with echoes of Dylan Thomas's Llareggub in Under Milk Wood, viewed through a Truman Show style filter of confined artificiality.
Explosions both literal and imagined, music and exhilarating physical c... (more...)
Alice Howland is stubborn, clever and driven - a professional at the top of her game. But, diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's at the age of 50, she is compelled to confront her new reality and draw on her resilience to remain independent for as long as possible.... (more...)
The hugely romantic Cyrano de Bergerac is given a Caledonian heart in a new production of Edwin Morgan's Scots translation that's brimming with Glaswegian patter. This production receives the classic Dominic Hill treatment (The Rivals, The Libertine), with stunning costumes from Scots fashion design... (more...)
In Jericho, an Irish online journalist struggles to focus on her assigned article on professional wrestling. As she disappears down a digital rabbithole of research and procrastination, the show branches off into an examination of social media, fake news, and debate in the digital age.... (more...)
The Oregon Trail is a famous, or perhaps notorious, computer game from the 1970s, originally intended as a piece of educational software to teach US school pupils about 19th century western migration. The fiendish video game was reimagined as a comedy musical in 2014 by Team Starkid, and Gone Rogue... (more...)
It's Mike and Billy's first day on their new job - working as henchmen to supervillain Rapture. Flying in the face of all henchmen tropes, Mike manages to accidentally kill caped do-gooder Captain Hero, and finds himself inducted into the ranks of the supervillains. Meanwhile, his old boss Raptur... (more...)
Tackling Theresa May, Melania Trump, and Nicola Sturgeon, plus more of the world's leading ladies, lip-sync sensation Ripley pushes the boundaries of drag, pop and politics.... (more...)
Drag Superstar, Jonny Woo and Olivier Award-winning composer, Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer The Opera) bring you this sequin-spangled musical ripped straight from the headlines. With a star-studded cast of top Fringe talent, including Jayde Adams as Boris Johnson, this glittering musical satire pac... (more...)
A funny, painfully honest new play about growing up gay in the 80s. School bullies. Heartache. Dancing to Eurythmics and The Smiths on your Walkman to stay alive.... (more...)
Set around a wonderful three course meal, the experience intertwines some of the best of John Cleese and Connie Booth's scripts with innumerable disasters that are carefully orchestrated to keep their audience laughing from start to finish.... (more...)
Briefs are back with a brand-new show. They've come from the future to test the limits of masculinity and decency with their iconic brand of circus, drag, burlesque and comedy. Expect interstellar aerials, incredible artistry, sharp social commentary and warp-speed strippers from outer space. Prepar... (more...)
This summer, four of West End's leading ladies take residence in McEwan Hall - Janie Dee, Danielle Hope, Ria Jones and Claire Sweeney. Each night a different star will take centre stage to perform songs from smash-hit West End and Broadway musicals and iconic movies. Share in the highs and lows of t... (more...)
Australia's favourite feather-ruffling, rabble-rousing, cabaret anarchist and neo-punk diva, Yana Alana bares all in this bent night of blues, boobs and blame. Exposing mental health, sexual politics, feminism and identity. Queer as hell, demonically talented, rudely brilliant.... (more...)
Inspired by real events, Killymuck is a housing estate built on a paupers graveyard in 1970s Ireland. Niamh navigates life through the parameters of growing up, with the trials and tribulations of being a kid from the benefit class system. Lack of opportunity, educational barriers, impoverishment, a... (more...)
Every teenager thinks they're the only one not having sex. For Alana, it might be true. Every time she gets close something gets in the way... Follow Alana on a wickedly funny sexual odyssey: from getting her first period, to watching bad porn, to painful examinations by cheery gynaecologists - all ... (more...)
After television appearances on Penn & Teller: Fool Us and America's Got Talent, plus a Las Vegas residency, Piff the Magic Dragon returns to the Fringe in style.... (more...)
What do I need to do to make you like me? Just tell me so we can all just relax. I promise by August the show will be great, so let's all just have a lovely time and forget that the Great Barrier Reef is completely gone.... (more...)
Tape Face returns to Edinburgh with a brand-new show! New jokes, new props, same tape. After storming into America and being seen by 51 million people online, Tape Face returns to the Edinburgh Fringe with this UK premier of The Tape Face Show. Grab a ticket and prepare for another storm. Putting yo... (more...)
Gigglemug Theatre have created a musical about the origins of the nationwide chain, with sponsorship from Timpson Ltd even adding a stamp of authenticity. In this new musical, two warring families of would-be inventors, the Montashoes and the Keypulets, compete for business and fame at the annual I... (more...)
Thanks to Playlight Robbery, by Hivemind Productions, we have finally found a better use for all of those flyers than papier-mache craft projects or lining a budgie cage. In an admirable bit of recycling, the cast of this improv show will take a flyer that you bring along, and with only the informa... (more...)
Following a whirlwind year of awards, nominations and sold-out shows on top of a run at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lastminute.com Best Newcomer nominee 2017 Lauren Pattison is back in Edinburgh. Come see her deliver some new home truths with her wicked, warm and authentic brand of humo... (more...)
He's been Annie Lennox, Madonna and Cole Porter to great acclaim. Now Helpmann Award winner Michael Griffiths explores the songs, stories and locomotion of pop princess, Kylie Minogue. Put your hand on your heart and step back in time, Kylie wouldn't change a thing!... (more...)
OLD BOY is a show about the bond between grandfathers and grandsons.
It features the real relationships of men and boys from Glasgow in an attempt to explore the love that is shared between men in families and the legacy passed down through generations in Scotland.... (more...)
Sherman Theatre: Regional Theatre of the Year - The Stage Awards 2018. Once our lives are touched by tragedy, can we ever truly move on? Sophie and Tom's relationship fell apart in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Four years on and as they come face to face once again, the aftershocks of that fateful... (more...)
BWW Review: BALLYTURK, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
BWW Review: STILL ALICE, King's Theatre, Edinburgh
BWW Review: BASTIAN BAKER, SSE Hydro, Glasgow
BWW Review: CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Tramway, Glasgow
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: JERICHO, Underbelly Cowgate
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: THE TRAIL TO OREGON!, The Space On North Bridge
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: HENCHMEN, Sweet Grassmarket
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: LIKE A STURGEON, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: JONNY WOO'S ALL STAR BREXIT CABARET, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: REALLY WANT TO HURT ME, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: FAULTY TOWERS THE DINING EXPERIENCE, The Principal
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: BRIEFS: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: DON'T TELL ME NOT TO FLY, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: YANA ALANA- BETWEEN THE CRACKS, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: KILLYMUCK, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: SKIN A CAT, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON AND THE DOG WHO KNOWS, The Stand's New Town Theatre
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: GRAINNE MAGUIRE: I FORGIVE YOU; PLEASE LIKE ME, Gilded Balloon
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: THE TAPE FACE SHOW, Pleasance
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: TIMPSON: THE MUSICAL, C
EDINBURGH 2018 - BWW Review: PLAYLIGHT ROBBERY, Just The Tonic at The Caves
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: LAUREN PATTISON: PEACHY, Pleasance
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: MICHAEL GRIFFITHS: SONGS BY KYLIE, Assembly
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: OLD BOY, Scottish Storytelling Centre
EDINBURGH 2018: BWW Review: TREMOR, Summerhall
