International

  • Home
  • International
Buy cheap tickets for Mamma Mia
The Scent of Jasmine

The Scent of Jasmine

A heartwarming, dynamic piece of musical theatre presented by a talented young cast and an award-winning professional team from Yuxin School based in Beijing, China. 

Must I Cry

Must I Cry

‘At that time, I told myself not to cry, and so I didn’t. 

La Voix Humaine – Starring Jennifer Witton, Soprano (Conceived and Produced by Ian McFarlane)

La Voix Humaine – Starring Jennifer Witton, Soprano (Conceived and Produced by Ian McFarlane)

A Fringe premiere of Francis Poulenc’s early 1950s iconic opera La Voix Humaine (lyrics by Jean Cocteau). 

Sing Me Sunshine!

Sing Me Sunshine!

The Falu Miner Chords Chorus, from the copper mining town of Falun, Sweden, celebrate their 40th Chorus anniversary at the Fringe with Edinburgh’s Rolling Hills Chorus who celebr… 

Ananta, The Eternal by Aparna Ramaswamy

Ananta, The Eternal by Aparna Ramaswamy

‘Aparna Ramaswamy preserves ancient dance forms with stunning virtuosity and expressiveness to create a living tradition that is resonant for modern times’ (Boston Globe). 

Comedy with an Accent

Comedy with an Accent

Comedy with an Accent, comedy with a different point of view! Join your host the mischievous Taiwanese comedian Kuan-wen for an hour of brilliant international comedians and the tr… 

Ulysses in Babel

Ulysses in Babel

How We Sound. 

LIVE MANGA

LIVE MANGA

Twelve years from the 2012 Fringe Street Events, GABEZ return with their international award-winning performance Live Manga! GABEZ create non-verbal performance based on mime. 

Seckou Keita – Homeland Band

Seckou Keita – Homeland Band

Nicknamed ‘the Hendrix of the Kora’, Seckou is celebrated for his ingenious tunings and virtuosity. 

Little Beast

Little Beast

‘No woman should touch pen and ink: they had too much passion and too little sense. 

Adrian Minkowicz: Latin America

Adrian Minkowicz: Latin America

Adrian is an Argentinian comedian based in New York and Oslo. 

Bad Mums

Bad Mums

They’re outrageous, late for school drop-off and definitely not on the PTA! After a sold-out Aussie tour, Gill Cordiner and Nikki Valentine bring you Bad Mums: an hour of hysteri… 

Kavin Jay: Unsolicited Advice

Kavin Jay: Unsolicited Advice

Star of Netflix stand-up special Kavin Jay: Everybody Calm Down! makes his Fringe debut with a brand-new show about the worst part of bad news: what will your family say? Big laugh… 

Salomé, Tragedy of the Femme Fatale

Salomé, Tragedy of the Femme Fatale

Taking a cue from Oscar Wilde’s play, this one-woman piece, written and performed by newcomer Maryam S Holleman, explores the complex untold and ruinous motivations of the tantal… 

Matt Davis: Colorful

Matt Davis: Colorful

Dubbed ‘an intellectually-driven stand up comedy king’ by the Australian press, Matt Davis brings his internationally minded approach to take on challenging topics. 

50 Ways Jesus (Almost) Ruined My Life

50 Ways Jesus (Almost) Ruined My Life

Can too much religion in your teens screw up your sex life in your 50s? Then how come Mormons have so many babies? Is eternal life really worth the hassle? Forever is a long time. 

Women's Shout: The Happy Hour

Women's Shout: The Happy Hour

‘Alright you lot. 

Taiwan Season: Little Drops of Rain

Taiwan Season: Little Drops of Rain

A family show like no other from a company that specialises in creating original, innovative theatrical stories. 

Filthy Funny Females

Filthy Funny Females

‘Filthy Funny Females deserves an award. 

Devin Gray: How To Get Away With Marriage

Devin Gray: How To Get Away With Marriage

Comedy Central featured comedian Devin Gray is ready to wow you with his new show How To Get Away With Marriage. 

#1 All-Time Best Comedy Champion: War of the Flags

#1 All-Time Best Comedy Champion: War of the Flags

Who are the funniest comedians? The Americans? The English. 

Nick Schuller: Still Dry White

Nick Schuller: Still Dry White

Dry (adjective) – a subtle, ironic or matter-of-fact joke or sense of humour. 

Stories from the Office of a Sex Dungeon

Stories from the Office of a Sex Dungeon

A BDSM dungeon is only as good as its staff: the dommes, the subs and of course, the manager. 

Dima Watermelon: Ukrainian Dream

Dima Watermelon: Ukrainian Dream

The best comedy comes from tragedy. 

100% C*ntinental

100% C*ntinental

What’s the difference between expats and immigrants? Can Americans get deported from countries? What even is Europe after being dumped by the UK? These global comedians are putti… 

Chanel Ali: Break Up With Your Dad

Chanel Ali: Break Up With Your Dad

If you can break up with your dad, you can break up with anyone. 

2 and a Half Women

2 and a Half Women

Three queer international comedians (Ann Vaida, Annick Adelle and Mari Volar) bring their WIP shows to Edinburgh and band together to make their solo debuts less harrowing. 

André De Freitas: As Yet Untitled

André De Freitas: As Yet Untitled

André De Freitas welcomes us into the room with a “come in, grab a bed. 

Namaste Bae: Blessings and Kombucha

Namaste Bae: Blessings and Kombucha

A healing ceremony unlike any you’ve ever experienced brought to you by the New Age satirical guru taking social media by storm. 

CHALLENGE

CHALLENGE

Japanese comedian NON STYLE Akira Ishida teams up with actors and performers to present a non-verbal comedy show with traditional Japanese sword fighting. 

Divine Invention

Divine Invention

Sergio Blanco’s latest offering with Tangram Theatre Company, which he directs, is radically different from his other works. 

Ray O'Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger

Ray O'Leary: Your Laughter Is Just Making Me Stronger

Every time Ray O’Leary (Taskmaster New Zealand) does stand-up comedy and people laugh, he gets a little bit more strong. 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment. 

Horsesh*t Happens

Horsesh*t Happens

Parodying the famous male philosophers of ancient Greece as a funny woman-horse thinker – whose punchline is ‘sh*t happens’ – Laura Fincias makes her Edinburgh solo debut in th… 

Yuriko Kotani: The Meanings of Life

Yuriko Kotani: The Meanings of Life

Join BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian Yuriko Kotani. 

Made in Bangladesh

Made in Bangladesh

Fresh from his hilarious performances at the New York Comedy Festival, Halifax Comedy Festival, and CBC Canada, Ali Mehedi is ready to dazzle you with his otherworldly wit. 

Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class

Ari Eldjárn: Saga Class

Iceland’s biggest comedian (and first-ever Netflix star) Ari Eldjárn returns for his eagerly awaited third show which includes Nordic observations on drumbeats, sleep, parenthood … 

Legend of the White Snake

Legend of the White Snake

A classic love story portrayed in traditional Kunqu opera form. 

Chin Wang: Wang's Republic (WIP)

Chin Wang: Wang's Republic (WIP)

Born and raised in China, Chin Wang left her homeland for the UK at the tender age of 18. 

The Style Shanghai Cheongsam Show

The Style Shanghai Cheongsam Show

A fashion show produced by a Shanghai-based female fashion club for women over 40, originally founded in November 2022 to enable its members to express their artistic creativity an… 

Chanel Ali: Joint Ventures

Chanel Ali: Joint Ventures

Comedy Central’s Chanel Ali (USA) brings her no-holds-barred stand-up from Philly to Fringe for the first time for a strictly limited run. 

Machine Man Spectacle

Machine Man Spectacle

Join us in a sensational visual performance from an object-theatre master. 

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and Other Works

The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto and Other Works

Sixty musicians perform one of the most popular works in the modern Chinese classical canon, in which Western orchestral influences combine with Chinese folk opera, conducted by it… 

Mixed Bills: An International Comedy Showcase

Mixed Bills: An International Comedy Showcase

Catch top comedians from the US, UK, China, Japan, Germany, Russia, Australia and Canada in this packed showcase, hosted by stand-up comedian Leah Renee. 

China Culture Week

China Culture Week

The Chinese Culture Week is a week-long programme showcasing the best of Chinese theatre and traditional culture co-organized by the Art Development Center of the Ministry of Cultu… 

Jeanette Wheatley: Imported Cheesehead

Jeanette Wheatley: Imported Cheesehead

This hilarious hour will cover a couple of decades of adventures as a fish-out-of-water around the globe, culminating in the exotic locale of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. 

Il Wol Dang

Il Wol Dang

Join Il Wol Dang in a mesmerizing journey through Korean culture with their 13 musical pieces, a unique fusion of traditional Korean and modern electronic sounds. 

The Princess Pyunggang

The Princess Pyunggang

The Bibimbab Theatre (BT) participated and got enthusiastic applause at the 2010, 2012 and 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2011 Brighton Cultural Olympiad, 2014 NYF, and 2011, 2017… 

Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work

Yuriko Kotani: This Is My Work

BBC New Comedy Award winner, UK-based Japanese comedian. 

Ibrahem Al Hajjaj: From Riyadh to Edinburgh

Ibrahem Al Hajjaj: From Riyadh to Edinburgh

Saudi stand-up Ibrahem Al Hajjaj brings his act to the UK for the first time. 

Symphonic Highlights

Symphonic Highlights

Symphonic music usually needs over 100 players to realise. 

24 Solar Terms

24 Solar Terms

24 Solar Terms – an immersive theatre production, created based on the 24 solar terms, condensing the time of each season into a performance. 

Bridges Between Worlds

Bridges Between Worlds

Alafia ensemble aims to build bridges between worlds of sound. 

159th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography

159th Edinburgh International Exhibition of Photography

Edinburgh Photographic Society held its first international exhibition in 1861. 

Circus Abyssinia: Tulu

Circus Abyssinia: Tulu

Returning after a dazzling Circus Hub season in 2022, Tulu celebrates the true tale of an Ethiopian icon, Derartu Tulu, the first African woman to win Olympic gold. 

Amalgamando

Amalgamando

Alafia Ensemble play music from their upcoming album. 

Mother Courage and Her Children

Mother Courage and Her Children

A powerful new adaptation of Bertold Brecht’s classic anti-war play, interpreted by one of China’s leading directors of physical theatre and Edinburgh Fringe veteran Zhao Miao … 

Adrián Minkowicz: Brown Privilege III

Adrián Minkowicz: Brown Privilege III

For they last part of his trilogy about (de)colonisation, Adrian travelled to Ecuador to experience the life of some of the original inhabitants of the American continent. 

Right Here, Right Now

Right Here, Right Now

Right Here, Right Now. 

Vanya Is Alive

Vanya Is Alive

A powerful new play from today’s Russia brought to the Fringe by artists in exile due to their anti-war position. 

AnotherKind

AnotherKind

AnotherKind is a collaborative theatre project presented by South African theatre-makers, performers, sound, collage and video artists. 

Can You Tell Me Where This Is?

Can You Tell Me Where This Is?

Three hilarious comedians, three different nationalities (Israel, Ireland and Germany), three different types of humor. 

Can You Put This in the Bin For Me?

Can You Put This in the Bin For Me?

An hour too long a commitment for you? Come see the best international comics in Edinburgh fringe do 15 minutes of their best stuff and decide if you want more, think of it like fu… 

Overthinking It

Overthinking It

Tired of overthinking things?! Let our comedians do it for you! In this interactive show, you get to write anything you are overthinking on a piece of paper and the comedians will … 

Green Bird

Green Bird

Two colliding worlds: Italian commedia dell’arte and Eastern traditions with the use of magic, on the international stage. 

Donna and Kebab are Martha and Eve – A Celebration!

Donna and Kebab are Martha and Eve – A Celebration!

Martha D Lewis and Eve Polycarpou made their first television appearance in 1987. 

Tonight Only Comedy: Sid Singh & Friends

Tonight Only Comedy: Sid Singh & Friends

From the crazy mind of Sid Singh (Comic Relief, Muzlamic) comes the most diverse show on the whole Fringe! Its half comedy show and half game show as every night a brand new lineup… 

James Nokise – Right About Now

James Nokise – Right About Now

An electric, joyful hour packed with fun and skewering takes on society, Right About Now is the brand-new show from the award-winning James Nokise. 

Fall and Flow

Fall and Flow

Telling five short tales from the mystical fictional world of Jianghu, Fall and Flow showcases the beauty and physicality of Hong Kong theatrical traditions in combination with Th�… 

The Messenger

The Messenger

Breaking up with a beloved one is always heartbreaking. 

North Americ*nts

North Americ*nts

A show featuring the best comedians from North America. 

100% C*ntintental

100% C*ntintental

Can British people even be immigrants? Can Americans get deported from countries? What even is Europe after being dumped by the UK? These global comedians are putting their lives (… 

RVG's International Comedy Club

RVG's International Comedy Club

Hello, asalaam alaikum, bienvenido and welcome to RVG’s International Comedy Club! Resident MC of Malaysia’s first comedy cub Rizal Van Geyzel (as seen on Comedy Central) introduce… 

The Shit Kid

The Shit Kid

Sibling rivalry. 

Heaven by Eugene O'Brien

Heaven by Eugene O'Brien

Heaven is set in County Offaly, Ireland, during the weekend of a local wedding. 

Hysterical

Hysterical

Fierce, feminist, and f*cking funny. 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Jive along to jazz, party to punk rock, cavort to classics and experience electropop with our cherry-picked musical assortment. 

Île

Île

Île, by award-winning writer/actor/comedian Sophie Joans, from Cape Town, South Africa, takes you on a fast and funny excavation of her maternal roots on the island, Mauritius. 

Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy

Yoga with Jillian – A New Comedy

‘Such a discovery is playwright Lia Romeo’ ***** (TheaterMania. 

Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West

Indonesia Presents (Far) East Meets West

Indonesia’s leading English language stand-up comedians visit Edinburgh for the first time! The Indonesian stand-up comedy scene exploded 15 years ago and since then many performer… 

Amos Gill: The Pursuit of Happy(ish)

Amos Gill: The Pursuit of Happy(ish)

Amos Gill: The Pursuit of Happy(ish). 

Beyond Borders International Festival 2022

Beyond Borders International Festival 2022

The Beyond Borders International Festival is a weekend of discussion, debate, music, art, food and drink with Scottish and international artists, authors, broadcasters, politicians… 

Hedda, Nora, Julie and Me

Hedda, Nora, Julie and Me

This new theatre piece looks at the four heroines from the classical theatrical canon: Nora from Ibsen’s Doll’s House, Julie from Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Hedda from Ibsen’… 

Another Universe

Another Universe

What might have been if you hadn’t taken that job? Missed your flight home? Stayed with your ex? Poet and producer, Miss Leading presents her solo poetry show Another Universe us… 

Is This the Real Life?

Is This the Real Life?

As an international Chinese student who has been impacted by different thoughts from the East and the West, he often loses sleep and has many weird dreams from the anxieties of Uni… 

Schalk Bezuidenhout: I'll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To)

Schalk Bezuidenhout: I'll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To)

Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket. 

Miss Magics

Miss Magics

Do you believe in magic? Boo and Bunny are best friends. 

Beyond Signs – European Project – Access for Deaf in the Art Sector

Beyond Signs – European Project – Access for Deaf in the Art Sector

From the experience of the Europe Funded Deaf-led project Beyond Signs, we invite professionals and artists from Scotland and abroad to support and participate in the International… 

David Vernon and Dick Lee: The Sound of Musicals

David Vernon and Dick Lee: The Sound of Musicals

The brilliant accordion and clarinet duo perform much-loved favourites from the musicals with their legendary skill and infectious enjoyment. 

La Merda

La Merda

10 years on from its 2012 Fringe debut, La Merda remains raw and relevant. 

Are You Guilty?

Are You Guilty?

Korea’s TOB Group presents a double bill of contemporary dance shows exploring the bystander effect and mass consumerism. 

Found Our Funny at the Fringe

Found Our Funny at the Fringe

After searching far and wide, Barcelona’s finest comedic talents have Found their Funny, packed it in a bag and brought it all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe for your amusement! B… 

Geraldine Quinn: BROAD

Geraldine Quinn: BROAD

Nominee: Best Show 2022 Melbourne Comedy Festival. 

Sobriety on the Rocks

Sobriety on the Rocks

It’s Richard’s fourth day in hospital, involuntarily detoxing, and he’s itching for a drink. 

The Mostest Colour

The Mostest Colour

A childless man volunteers to mentor a troubled, fatherless boy. 

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered. 

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Taiwan Season: Loud and Clear and in Sight: Female Visibility and Creative Voices in the Performing Arts

Following Taiwan’s first-ever edition of WOW (Women of the World) Festival, this illuminating live/online talk considers how it was set up and delivered. 

The One TEEN Show

The One TEEN Show

A Sri Lankan teenager’s quest to stage a live theatre show amidst post-AL angst, a pandemic and a country in crisis, told through a comedic, musical and dramatic multi-character … 

Kuniko Plays Reich: Drumming

Kuniko Plays Reich: Drumming

A tour de force performance of the work which is widely considered musical minimalism’s first masterpiece. 

2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

Award-winning comedy from the reigning title holder since 2018. 

Korean Yeonhee Concert

Korean Yeonhee Concert

Variety E-Seo is a young company taking the Korean traditional performing arts in a new direction: this concert takes the form of four pieces of yeonhee music and dance, with rhyth… 

Six Stories

Six Stories

Taking inspiration from the Korean shamanic rituals known as Gut, WeMu reimagines the traditional in a concert combining Western and Korean instruments, creating modern music based… 

Circus Abyssinia: Tulu

Circus Abyssinia: Tulu

A dazzling display of speed, skill and flight lands in Edinburgh this summer, celebrating the first African woman to win Olympic gold. 

Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege II

Adrian Minkowicz: Brown Privilege II

After the success of Brown Privilege, the Argentinean comedian will keep exploring the colonization of the American continent plus vaccines, Ukraine, Prince Andrew and travels to M… 

Marriage in Progress

Marriage in Progress

Marriage in Progress playfully sends up lifelong commitment while celebrating it, and critiques the vanity of performance while revelling in it. 

2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

2022 Greek Comedian of the Year – George Zacharopoulos

Award-winning comedy from the reigning title holder since 2018. 

I Got Bit by a Monkey Once

I Got Bit by a Monkey Once

A comedic storytelling show with four true stories: a monkey bite, a bus trip, an arrest, and a mugging. 

Art27's Saber Came to Tea

Art27's Saber Came to Tea

Saber Came to Tea is an entertaining short play with original music and magic that tells the story of one young woman’s defiant stand against the constraining social norms of her f… 

Comoedia

Comoedia

The most famous characters of the Commedia dell’arte in a one-man show: two couples of lovers, a silly old father, two twin brothers detached for a long time… Among funny and u… 

drop dead gorgeous

drop dead gorgeous

The sparkling eyes. 

Filthy Fringe

Filthy Fringe

The best comedians at the Fringe do the dirtiest jokes they have in hopes that they will get cancelled. Hosted by Chicago comedian Matt Castellvi. 

Tea Ceremony

Tea Ceremony

Developed around the ancient tradition of a Tea Ceremony, a male geisha (award-winning actor Marios Ioannou) begins to question her role as “servant” and “entertainer” operating in… 

Maternity

Maternity

‘I’m still waiting for my child. 

The Princess Pyunggang

The Princess Pyunggang

The Princess Pyunggang exemplifies Korean traditional culture and history through the story of a fool, Ondal and the Princess Pyunggang. 

We Should Be Dancing

We Should Be Dancing

After observing young children in parks, streets and squares, five diverse and talented performers identically reproduce the natural movements generated by the pure, intense and de… 

Puppet Pansori Sugungga

Puppet Pansori Sugungga

An untraditional staging of classical Korean themes using the traditional puppetry of pansori and live music. 

Comedy with an Accent

Comedy with an Accent

Comedy with an accent; comedy with a different point of view! The show is curated by your mischievous Taiwanese comic Kuan-wen and features comedians from all over the world who a… 

Blanket Ban

Blanket Ban

Winner of Underbelly, New Diorama and Methuen Drama’s hit-making Untapped Award, 2022. 

Mum's the Word

Mum's the Word

Mum’s the Word is a special story about a comedian from India growing up with her mum, who is a single parent, and how she’s never met her dad. 

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Best of Adelaide's Fringe Comedy

Constantly rotating line-up of the best comedians at this year’s festival. 

Aliya Kanani: Where You From, From?

Aliya Kanani: Where You From, From?

“Excuse me sir, would you mind if I gave this gentleman the free seat beside you?” says a keen and kind Aliya Kanani before the beginning of her sold-out show. 

Ballet Freedom

Ballet Freedom

Spectacular world renowned ballet company journey from Kyiv. 

Festival Music Nights

Festival Music Nights

Discover new artists from around the world! Come and enjoy the warmth of the world through a hand-picked selection of of bands, singers and instrumentalists, and soak up their soun… 

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back

Reuben Kaye: The Butch is Back

If you want to discover – or further explore – cabaret, you couldn’t do better than to start with Reuben Kaye. 

Sam Taunton: Yoho Diabolo

Sam Taunton: Yoho Diabolo

One of Australia’s best stand-up comedians returns with his new show Yoho Diabolo. 

Yuriko Kotani: Kaiju About

Yuriko Kotani: Kaiju About

Like Edinburgh, London is not an easy city to live in. 

Mary, Chris, Mars

Mary, Chris, Mars

Mary, Chris, Mars tells the story of two astronauts who share a Christmas Day together after a chance encounter pushes them away from the crippling isolation of their solitude and … 

Kafka and Son

Kafka and Son

When well done, the biographical show is one of the purest theatrical events known to man. 

Tehran Von Ghasri: GONNA GET CANCELLED

Tehran Von Ghasri: GONNA GET CANCELLED

Named to honour the city of his birth, Tehran Von Ghasri is a true comedian of the world. 

Schalk Bezuidenhout: I'll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To)

Schalk Bezuidenhout: I'll Make Laugh To You (Like You Want Me To)

Following an incredible Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 and fresh from a 2022 Netflix special, Schalk Bezuidenhout is back with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket. 

Emo Majok: African Aussie

Emo Majok: African Aussie

Award-winning Sudanese-Aussie comedian Emo Majok, on his Edinburgh debut, will be digging into his experiences of culture clashes, with side-splitting stories of adjusting from a r… 

Zimbabwe Sculpture

Zimbabwe Sculpture

An exhibition of remarkable stone sculptures from new and established Zimbabwean artists. 

Le Coup

Le Coup

Le Coup, in the Underbelly Circus Hub’s ‘The Beauty’ tent, is perfectly programmed. 

Bleeding Black

Bleeding Black

Christopher Watts returns to the Festival Fringe with his one-man-show, Bleeding Black, at Greenside, Nicolson Square. 

The Perfect Body

The Perfect Body

The Perfect Body is a one woman show written and performed by Lavinia Savignoni. 

Taiwan Season: Monster

Taiwan Season: Monster

Monster choreographed and performed by Yen-Cheng Liu of Dua Shin Te Production is a show about the monster within us but the trouble with alienation is that it alienates the audien… 

Don't Do It, Don't Do It, Do It!

Don't Do It, Don't Do It, Do It!

Zuma Puma is an accomplished clown, who uses her skill to draw an audience in to a compelling narrative about what it is to experience shame as a woman. 

Smoke

Smoke

What happens when you’re at a private fetish party, and you bump into the daughter of your boss? Such is the premise of Kim Davies’ Smoke. 

Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed

Are we not drawn onward to new erA – Ontroerend Goed

What’s done is done. 

Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!

Meet Sam Morrison: a 24-year old American comedian with a theatrical flair and a penchant for daddies. 

Full Moon Cabaret

Full Moon Cabaret

Every night, a debauched affair of revelries and frivolity can be found in the depths of the Raging Bull bar on Lothian Road. 

Forest

Forest

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the Forest in question refers to the cast – a fourteen strong group of graduates from the Moscow Art Theatre School. 

Buzz

Buzz

A body is washed up on the shores of the Faroe Islands, rain softly splatters on a coat, a video projection comes into view and live music fills our ears. 

Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real

Lucie Pohl: Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Real

Lucie Pohl is an extremely talented performer; this is a statement I cannot stress enough. 

Reigen

Reigen

Some plays lend themselves to radical reinterpretations and stagings while others need handling with more care. 

The Troth

The Troth

Based on Chandradhar Sharma Guleri’s iconic Hindi short story Usne Kaha Tha, The Troth is about one soldier, Sardar Lehna Singh, and the sacrifice he makes to keep his secret pro… 

The Basement Tapes

The Basement Tapes

Cleaning out her grandmother's old basement after her death, amongst the usual detritus a woman finds a tape recorder and an accompanying tape which tells the kind of story usu… 

Huff

Huff

It’s hard to tell you to go see Huff at Summerhall’s CanadaHub, but I absolutely must. 

Rose Matafeo: Horndog

Rose Matafeo: Horndog

As the audience file in Rose Matafeo is playing table tennis with members of the front row, in a gimmick that does not factor into the later story at any point. 

Jogging

Jogging

Hanane Hajj Ali is a Lebanese performer with French citizenship who jogs daily to prevent osteoporosis, depression and obesity. 

Locus Amoenus

Locus Amoenus

Locus Amoenus is a poignant, slightly absurdist masterpiece in dramatic irony, in which the audience watches three strangers on a train slowly, unknowingly, going towards their de… 

Maklena

Maklena

Perhaps at the time it was first written this play would have been seen as fantastic, dealing with themes that were deeply entrenched in many of the Soviet plays of the early 1930s… 

The End, the End, the End…

The End, the End, the End…

The amount a show takes liberties with narrative should be directly compensated by how much it has to say. 

Kara Sevda

Kara Sevda

In the post apocalyptic world of nuclear winter, two strangers with the world on their shoulders, meet on a bench. 

The Gun Show

The Gun Show

A thoughtful and well-realised production, this play provides a personal perspective on the debate surrounding American gun ownership. 

Working Method – Enkidu Khaled

Working Method – Enkidu Khaled

Part of Summerhall’s Big in Belgium season, Working Method is an interactive piece which explores the process of making art. 

£¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend Goed

£¥€$ (LIES) – Ontroerend Goed

What is money? For Belgian theatre group Ontroerend Goed, money isn’t actually metal coins or pieces of paper with numbers printed on them, no, money is so much more than a physi… 

Cirkopolis

Cirkopolis

Cirkopolis begins from the moment the doors open and the audience filters into the massive space at the EICC. 

Pike St.

Pike St.

I’ll make no bones about it: Pike St. 

John Hastings: Audacity

John Hastings: Audacity

John Hastings is back at the Fringe and this time he’s in love - for real. 

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

Brendon Burns and Craig Quartermaine in Race Off

Burns and Quartermaine are the yin and yang of righteous anger. 

Pip Utton's Greatest Hits

Pip Utton's Greatest Hits

Pip Utton is a veteran of the stage, and of the Edinburgh Festival. 

Sasquatch: The Opera

Sasquatch: The Opera

I’m not sure where to begin in dissecting Sasquatch: the Opera. 

The Dreamer

The Dreamer

Chinese physical theatre influenced by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the contemporary Tang Xianzu’s The Peony Pavilion. 

The Fool

The Fool

The Fool follows the events leading to the incarceration of its 3 main characters thanks to a law known as ‘Kevin’s Bill’. 

All In

All In

Here’s what happens in order: A parody of bourgeois conversation by actors in black morphsuits; a light show to the gaiety of the Ode To Joy; unembellished description of said pi… 

Chinese Women’s Whispers

Chinese Women’s Whispers

Chinese Women’s Whispers provides an oasis of calm for weary festival goers. 

The Blue Box: Memories of the Children of War

The Blue Box: Memories of the Children of War

A twelve-year-old girl writes a poem. 

Best Intentions

Best Intentions

Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Company’s Best Intentions focuses on the perspectives of two regularly overlooked characters in Shakespearean fiction: Angelica the nurse from Romeo and … 

Under Ice

Under Ice

Lithuanian director Arturas Areima mounts an adaptation of Falk Richter’s play of the same name, Under Ice. 

On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover

On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover

On the Conditions and Possibilities of Hillary Clinton Taking Me as Her Young Lover definitely wins the title of most intriguing show title at the Fringe, and it’s definitely wor… 

Machina

Machina

In the prologue to Malcostume Compagnia Teatrale’s show Machina, the company explains that the word ‘machina’ roughly translates to machine or structure and the company’s n… 

Dreaming Under the Southern Bough

Dreaming Under the Southern Bough

stage@leedscompany mount an original adaptation of Tang Xianzu’s A Dream Under the Southern Bough. 

Bubble Revolution

Bubble Revolution

George Orwell once wrote a fairy tale in order to avoid accusations of criticising reality. 

Lies. All Lies.

Lies. All Lies.

Through a series of devised monologues, pieces of physical theatre and slam poetry, Lies. 

Loyiso Gola: Dude, Where's My Lion?

Loyiso Gola: Dude, Where's My Lion?

Loyiso Gola is a rare kind of stand-up comic. 

Orlando Baxter: Suspensions, Detentions and Summer Vacations

Orlando Baxter: Suspensions, Detentions and Summer Vacations

Watching Orlando Baxter perform is like sitting down with your favourite teacher again: you hang on his every word. 

Neel Kolhatkar: Neel Before Me

Neel Kolhatkar: Neel Before Me

If you are a millennial/Gen-Y/Gen-X-er you need to see Neel Kolhatkar. 

Alice Fraser: The Resistance

Alice Fraser: The Resistance

You are immediately struck by Alice Fraser’s triumphant gentility as she graces the stage. 

Teatro Delusio

Teatro Delusio

Possibly the most beautiful show you will watch at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, Teatro Delusio is a marvel: original, stunningly choreographed, very funny and incredibly moving. 

Sweet Child Of Mine

Sweet Child Of Mine

Life has given Australian performance artist Bron Batten what she calls ‘theatrical lemons’. 

It Folds

It Folds

Both touching and humorous, It Folds is an experimental exploration of grief, death and the human condition. 

Krapp 39

Krapp 39

Michael Laurence’s dense, complex and lyrically-beautiful script reworks Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape in an exploration of expectation, ageing and memory. 

Hamlet in Bed

Hamlet in Bed

Hamlet in Bed is an exploration of one man’s obsession with Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece ‘The play’s the thing’ that forms the subject of the production and also the m… 

World Without Us

World Without Us

Ontroerend Goed’s World Without Us imagines a future in which humanity has simply ceased to exist, and it’s surprisingly soothing. 

Mungo Park – Travels in the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park – Travels in the Interior of Africa

Mungo Park proved that any true Scotsman would do almost anything to avoid spending another bloody day in Selkirk. 

Wank Bank Masterclass

Wank Bank Masterclass

The Aussies have a certain way with words and in the case Adam Seymour with his hands also. 

Tomorrow's Parties

Tomorrow's Parties

Forced Entertainment have a legendary reputation for creating innovative, engaging and challenging theatre and performance. 

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy

Antigone: An Arabian Tragedy started out as two plays in a year-long project by One World Actors Centre (Kuwait) to produce Jean Anouilh’s Antigone in both English and Arabic. 

Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Lunch in Cairo

Big Bite-Size Lunch Hour: Lunch in Cairo

This double bill of new writing by Tom Coash brings us to Cairo, where we’re welcomed with dates and hookah pipes. 

The Mountain Top

The Mountain Top

In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr went to Memphis. 

Christian Schulte-Loh: Return of the 50 Foot German Comedian

Christian Schulte-Loh: Return of the 50 Foot German Comedian

I don’t know exactly how many German comics there are on the circuit but, as Christian Schulte-Loh points out, such is their rarity that he has managed to secure both the germanc… 

Taiwan Season: The Paper Play

Taiwan Season: The Paper Play

This charming double bill from Puppets Being Theatre uses poise and precision to bring to life ingenious paper creations. 

The Sacred Room of Desire

The Sacred Room of Desire

The Sacred Room of Desire, written and directed by Carola Benedetto tells the story of the Hindu pantheon family of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha. 

Pajama Men: 2 Man 3 Musketeers

Pajama Men: 2 Man 3 Musketeers

Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez have once again brought their surreal blend of comedy and physical theatre to Edinburgh, and this time they’re taking on a classic of world literatu… 

Ashes Afar

Ashes Afar

Ashes Afar follows the story of a migrant couple from different cultures in a volatile relationship. 

Flight Lessons

Flight Lessons

A new play from South African playwright Amy Jephta, Flight Lessons sees actress Saria Steel play two friends on opposite sides of the world. 

Budge3

Budge3

At once frenetic and contemplative, Budge3 is an intricate knot of elastic energy, dance that is fit to burst at any moment. 

Traces

Traces

Traces has been amazing audiences around the world for nigh on a decade; it is a testament to the visual and theatrical power of the show that it’s lasted as long as it has. 

Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

Filthy Talk for Troubled Times

One of several pieces of modern American writing brought to the Fringe by Phantom Owl Productions, Neil Labute’s 1989 play Filthy Talk for Troubled Times takes a frank look at ge… 

Little Thing, Big Thing

Little Thing, Big Thing

A nun and an ex-con find themselves on the run across Ireland, carrying two film rolls, identical in appearance but with very different sets of pictures on them. 

Winter is Coming. Again.

Winter is Coming. Again.

Winter Is Coming. 

Alex Williamson: That Guy from the Internet

Alex Williamson: That Guy from the Internet

Alex Williamson possesses the confidence and charisma necessary for performing for large crowds, a man who grasps the essence of comedy with a promising career ahead of him. 

Gruesome Playground Injuries

Gruesome Playground Injuries

From the title, Gruesome Playground Injuries sounds like grim viewing. 

Abacus

Abacus

That the character of Paul Abacus was created in 2009 – three years after TED talks became available to watch online – is no surprise at all. 

The Christians

The Christians

The team behind the Fringe First winning Grounded (2013) are back with a powerfully human tragedy – one that grapples with issues of belief clearly and concisely, without recours… 

Buy cheap tickets for Wicked
Buy cheap tickets for Mamma Mia
Buy cheap tickets for Stranger Things

Broadway Baby has been covering performing arts across the UK and beyond since 2004.

Please note ticket prices displayed on our homepage are based on best prices seen in an overnight scan. For up-to-the-minute pricing, please visit our Ticketing Site

Popular Articles

Popular Sections

Contact Us

Press Releases: [email protected]

2004-2024 © Broadway Baby. Broadway Baby and the logo is a registered trademark. All Rights Reserved.
Data provided courtesy of the Edinburgh Festivals Listings API, Brighton Fringe, LTD, Encore, Eventotron, OutSavvy and user submissions. We accept no liability for errors or omissions.
Privacy Policy | Terms of Service