Following a sell-out 2022 run at Glasgow’s Oran Mor, acclaimed chanteuse Christine Bovill conjures Kiki de Montparnasse, the celebrated model and painter, as she relives her glory …
Popular South African production, Baked Shakespeare, is coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! Baked Shakespeare – a group of professionally trained actors – performing Shakespeare ho…
The cosy, safe world of three flatmates is rocked by a woman’s murder.
In 2009, from his derelict flat in South Wales, Ignacio scored tickets to see his favourite band, Nine Inch Nails, in Los Angeles.
When you think of cabaret you might think of bawdy strip teases, caricatures of femininity, and lewd jokes.
Puppets.
Twice nominated for Young Musician of the Year, acclaimed Edinburgh singer-songwriter Adam Holmes is one of the brightest stars on the UK roots music scene.
A smooth, classy, and technically dazzling show of jazz a cappella performed acoustically by students of the University of Oxford, with a set of songs by Chet Baker, The Beatles, S…
‘Forget Pitch Perfect, Aquapella are the real deal!’ (TheWeeReview.
Insurgent alt-country outfit led by legendary Rezillos’ frontwoman, Fay Fife.
After his much younger girlfriend leaves him for a better-looking, richer, more successful friend, Searles dissolves into a gibbering, chain-smoking, suicidal insomniac! In despera…
Singer/songwriter Kirsten Adamson, daughter of rock legend Stuart Adamson (Big Country, Skids) summons the same heart-stopping purity as Sandy Denny, by way of Emmylou Harris and K…
Hosted by Mark Olver, this is a showcase of some of the best new acts on the Scottish circuit! Catch them while you can!
Glasgow’s collective of clowns, comedians and creatures of calamity come together to take you on their sell-out tour of pure imagination around the moon and back.
When his daughter Elodie is born, Ben realises the closure he thought he’d found with his own long-dead father needs to be re-examined.
From the maker of Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale – **** (BroadwayBaby.
Prepare to have your Disney fantasies shattered like an ill-fitting glass slipper.
Do you believe in ghosts? Let’s find out, in this recreated Victorian séance.
Monahan has performed in over 1,000 cities and towns, and dozens of countries around the world! Travelling more miles than the whole of NASA’s space flights! Come see him now befor…
Chris and Noah aren’t real Bishops, but what they lack in divinity they make up for with sensational sketches at a ‘cracking pace’ (Chortle.
The world is desperate for more one-man musical-comedy magic mind-reading shows about a break-up in your early thirties, and actor and magician Sam Lupton (Wicked, Avenue Q) is mor…
The Improv Musical returns to Fringe as strong as ever with a silly, fun, toe-tapping show.
A vital new comedy play by Glaswegian playwright Mikael Philippos about the real struggles, judgement and most importantly, laughs, a family affected by the incarceration of a love…
This returning musical is an exceptionally joyful and tremendously funny look into the lives of food delivery drivers.
To breed or not to breed? Award-winning writer/performer Joyful Raven wrestles with this questions in her new hit show.
Politically charged gag merchant Don Biswas returns to the Fringe to take on the status quo.
'I need tae make ma ain decision, even if it's wrang.
Vault Festival People’s Choice Award nominee 2023.
It’s Friday morning.
What if Shakespeare had a daughter who inherited his wit and creativity? A retelling of the life of Judith Shakespeare, Upstart gives voice to a feminist born before her time.
The Oxford Imps are what you might expect from your standard university improv show.
Blossoming (You Undo Me) is a straightforward one-person musical about a young Chinese man growing into his queerness and yet it weaves several narrative threads and theatrical for…
What if Beatrice came through space and time to find her long-lost Dante? Now researching the sequel to his Inferno at the Large Hadron Collider? Dahlia Wilde – Walt Disney Writi…
Welcome to this live episode of the podcast! Well, sort of.
Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit is an improvised murder mystery presented by improv comedy group, Pinch Punch.
As hypnotist Matt Hale enters the stage to '80s music, in '80s clothing, it is apparent this is going to be a very '80s hypnosis show.
Everyone’s favourite sailing instructor is back, and ready to rock the boat (but only if everyone’s wearing a buoyancy aid, and comfortable getting splashed.
No one knows what happens after we die.
Put the fun back into funeral! Award-winning writer-performer Niamh Denyer is funeral celebrant Áine Reilly, here to teach you the art of the perfect send off.
Do you have a critical inner voice? Join Alexander as he interrogates his own, tries to kill it, then comes for yours.
In Married at First Sleight, married magicians Kat and Alan Hudson introduce their show with boundless enthusiasm, demonstraing the obvious chemistry you'd hope to witness from…
The world’s favourite orphan is back, and just like you, she is, unfortunately, a grown-up.
Right here.
Packed into a very small room on Chambers Street, Almost Adult certainly didn’t win the venue lottery, but once settled into your seat Charlotte Anne-Tilley’s protagonist Hope …
Have you ever had an all-consuming infatuation? Have you ever lied to a crush? Have you ever betrayed your boyfriend for a woman?Junk Monkey’s Olivia Mcleod has.
From a producer on Silicon Valley and Beavis and Butt-head comes an irreverent true story about belly dance, cancer, fiddling, beekeeping, and a psychotic deathbed wish.
Car-Crash Magic is a debut Edinburgh Fringe show presented by JezO, winner of the Family Entertainer of the Year Competition 2022 and member of the prestigious Magic Circle.
Lena is on a mission to veganise her tinder dates.
This is a wickedly fun idea for a production, a retelling of 80s favourite, Die Hard, as a pantomime/musical parody.
Which ethnicity will he be? Come join us to see! You are invited to Michael Welch’s Ethnic Reveal Party in which he will finally answer that age-old question: ‘where are you really…
Kristina DeGiovanni commands the stage in her new play, The Temp, which follows a pretentious actor who is employed by an egomaniacal CEO.
This new Chordstruck Theatre production is a feel-good, comedy musical cram packed with hilarious original jingles, as well as a message for a better world.
Loveable Kentish comedian Jaz lives to delight his audiences.
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with their five-star show, which made Best Productions of 2022 lists from London Theatre and Theatre Scotland.
Tartan Tabletop: The Neverending Quest is not your average improv show.
What does it mean to be a man in the 21st century? How does toxic masculinity affect those of us assigned male at birth? What’s so great about sex, and why won’t people shut up abo…
Join Cambridge’s longest running improvised comedy troupe for your daily dose of short-form shenanigans.
Pip is a whimsical hour of stand-up from Icelandic comedian Laufey Haralds.
Grief is such a powerful and universal part of the human experience.
Based in a Men’s Shed in East Lothian, The Collie’s Shed follows four retired miners as they discover how a review into the policing of the ’80s mining strikes and a potential Mine…
The holiday meal gone wrong is a classic sitcom episode and genre of comedy, as surprise revelations and drama abound.
The sold-out NYC hit from award-winning actor Grant Lancaster comes to Fringe! Follow Grant on an outrageous journey home from the mountains of Thailand, all while handling an undi…
Total sell-out show 2005-2022 returns with a brand-new line-up.
Join chanteuse and sommelier Anna Lou in her wine bar as she invites you to discover the world of wine and solve the mystery of her lover’s death.
Globetrotting comedian Nick Wilty has been touring the world for over 30 years, playing festivals, comedy clubs and appearing on TV in every continent.
If you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t.
Answering the question, “what if Avenue Q took place in a hospital?” Potty The Plant is a dark, tongue in cheek, comedic musical that subverts our expectations time and time ag…
Halle-berry-lujah! Your sassy, dyslexic King of the shoes is heaven scent in a cloud of Febreze to tell you how he came to be the fabulous influencer that he is whilst setting the …
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.
This show revolves around a fairly well-trodden premise: idealistic young creative seeks similar to make beautiful art with.
The Other Guys are back again! After being crowned the Scottish a capella champions The Other Guys are making a triumphant return to Edinburgh to show their award-winning moves, be…
‘Forget Pitch Perfect, Aquapella are the real deal’ (TheWeeReview.
Debut Fringe show from one of Ireland’s fastest rising stand-ups, award-winning writer, creator and star of BBC NI sketch series The Paddy Raff Show and host of BBC Three’s Stand U…
Sad that Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for over 400 years? Well, hold onto your doublets, ruffs and trunk hose.
A big old extravaganza from your new favourite production company.
Works by Anton Chekhov, translated and adapted by Michael Frayn.
Have you ever considered how much easier it would be to stop trying to be a nice person and just be a dick to everyone? You will after watching this show.
Violet’s scared walking home.
A Romantic Comedy.
‘Come on Angel, don’t you ever want to fly?’ 1948.
You never know who Tehran Von Ghasri’s bringing to his stage.
Here comes the bride, forty-foot wide! It’s the wedding of the century and you’re invited as Lucy Frederick – ‘Eye wateringly honest’ (Scotsman) – walks down the aisle.
Inspired by tales of Sir Lancelot and Robin Hood, plucky heroine Will Tell disguises herself as a knight and rides off on a chivalric quest to rescue her freedom-fighting dad from …
An interactive late-night quiz for musical theatre queens.
Three performers.
Will used to think his life was a joke – but he was wrong, it’s more like 300.
Sweet sixteen would’ve been alright.
Brenda (Jacqueline King), a marriage counsellor, is faced with multiple challenges.
This personal account from Ian Lynam draws on his own experiences and research to break down the superficial stereotypes, misleading media presentations, and poor psychological pra…
This new folk musical seeks to explore our heritage and legacy, weaving two parallel stories; one of a crofter and a wandering soldier in the 18th Century, and one of an old pensio…
The multi award-winning story of Rehana, Angel of Kobane, returns to Edinburgh in a new production from Torch Theatre.
Internationally renowned jazz a cappella group The Oxford Gargoyles make their return to the Fringe.
Official Selection: New York Times Great Performers List (2020).
The Ghosting of Rabbie Burns by Gillian Duffy.
When the pandemic hit, comedian Pernille Haaland found herself moving back home to her parents in rural Norway.
The award-winning production Grav returns for 2022.
Harriet Dyer (as seen on Russell Howard Hour) is an award-winning comedian, mental health advocate and an experience to behold.
No imaginary babies are safe in Business Casual: FERAL, a slice of enjoyably daft sketch comedy from American trio Jeremy Elder, Hunter Saling, and Corey Peter Lane.
As the crescendo of complaints and controversy was rising over the comedy circuit I was persuaded to abandon the safe confines of the theatre category and go in at the deep end, so…
After far too long, Magic Roman is finally off on the trip of a lifetime and he couldn’t be more excited! He’s packed the essentials: a toothbrush, a camera and plenty of magic tri…
From Gigglemug comedy duo Sam Cochrane and Alex Prescot, Runesical is an amusing, action packed quest based on the role-palying game Runescape.
The multi award-winning Scottish improv troupe are back! Men With Coconuts use audience suggestions to create an hour of emotional balladry, lyrical wizardry and musical husbandry.
From the girl who brought you The Girl Who Thought She Was Irish (Edinburgh, 2011), comes Funny Girl, Sad Songs.
A young couple are separated by an outbreak they cannot speak of.
From sketches to songs aboot aw things Scottish, come see these wee comical dafties dae what they dae best.
Award-winning actor and cabaret artist, Keith Ramsay, blends live music and and spoken word to deconstruct the concepts of camp and queer mythology for a post-Stonewall generation.
Simon David belongs to the most toxic, self-destructive (and annoying!) demographic there is: the white gay.
Alexander S.
What happens when you give a bearded, northern lad with a voice of silk and an ass that won’t quit a loop station and a room at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? You get an hour of R’…
As the discourse on trans people becomes more toxic in the UK – comedian, trans woman and nuisance Jen Ives is here to sort it all out, hun.
Three Performers.
After almost two years of silence, Oxford’s critically acclaimed student sketch troupe are making a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Fringe with The People vs.
From voice-straining high notes to limb-spraining high kicks, via on-stage smooches and offstage feuds, award-winning musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical reveals ever…
What have I been doing this past two years? Apart from sitting on the settee in my pyjamas, squeezing my ingrowing hairs whilst watching documentaries on Ted Bundy? I have been sta…
‘There’s no access guide to sex; how to consensually sh*g your blind girlfriend.
Two’s Company is Gillian Duffy’s take on rekindled romance and finding new direction in later life, following 55-year-old Maureen as she navigates life after her second divorce…
The Spice Girls of improv return for a fifth triumphant year in their five-star, sell-out, totally improvised musical comedy.
The Oxford Alternotives were the first a cappella group set up at the University of Oxford as an alternative to the chapel choirs which dominated the music scene.
Now in our 10th year! Smash-hit production, The Improv Musical returns to take the Fringe by storm.
Hope’s leaving her home town up north for the bright lights of London.
A ‘new comedy phenomenon’ (Hollywood Times), this Fringe debut is a stand-up hour showcasing Lamarr’s trademark brand of edgy comedy; complete with a splash of tech, NFT’s and Broa…
It’s the Fringe.
Debut hour from one of the most exciting acts on the UK comedy circuit and one of the most pathetic cringing worms (as seen on The Mash Report (BBC2), BBC3 and Channel 4 Online.
Spain’s best export, Ignacio Lopez, scrutinises his family tree and his immigrant upbringing in a relentlessly funny show about clashing cultures, legacies, and never fitting in.
Blood-curdling, side-splitting, wig-snatching extravaganza! Award-winning drag stars Kate Butch and Crudi Dench have their star-studded cabaret show crashed by brain-hungry zombies…
A new valiant attempt to perform 30 plays in just one hour! Chaotic and courageous, gleeful and gamified, The Dirty Thirty PLUS is the live-est of live theatre exploding the conven…
How does a queer, GenZ comedian survive her past, the pandemic, and the indignities of a stand-up career? Vincent (aka Bird) takes the audience on a (seriously) funny flight, often…
A new comedy by Bert Tyler-Moore co-creator of The Windsors.
A family show filled with singing, dancing, comedy and even a sea monster.
Oxford’s wittiest minds return with their spectacular smorgasbord of devastatingly funny improvised comedy! Attacking the stage with made-up-on-the-spot games, stories and songs, c…
The Yorkshire scamp has had enough! Time to take a stand against housemates, homeowners and the North/South divide.
Tatum, a university student, becomes the virgin bride of her sweetheart, entering an eternal marriage in the the Mormon church.
One of the Scotsman’s Best Duos at the Fringe, Thick ‘n’ Fast return to take on the world.
During a bizarre childhood accident, Trevor was drenched head to toe in dragon’s blood.
Tired of all the scripted “reality” TV? Keeping Up With the Kimprov is your daily dose of reality TV, but actually unscripted! What minor inconvenience could lead to drama for this…
In this high-impact dark comedy half-brothers Odin and Loki must overcome primordial giants, rival Gods and Goddesses, and their own ambitions – in their quest to seize power ove…
Fringe favourites Theatre Fideri Fidera are back with a hilarious comic reimagining of the tale of Wilhelm Tell.
Uber ratings, patisserie and misophonia.
FOC It Up is a comedy collective aiming to showcase the talents of women and non-binary people of colour, in a comedy world that is mostly made up of straight white men.
Limbo: The Twelve is one of the latest pair of musicals from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, allowing a group of talented young performes the opportunity to perform an origina…
Limbo: City of Dreams charges itself with the difficult task of cramming an entire world into its hour-long runtime.
Catapulting Dickens into the 21st century, this masterstroke genius of spin-offs introduces Emily Halloran, live streaming to us from her penthouse honeymoon suite.
This interesting two-hander from writer and director Lucy Bird paints a raucous, vivid picture of a lonely life, that of wage-slave Kate, played by Dru Stephenson, and what happens…
Eddy Brimson hasn’t been on his best behaviour.
“An improvised cinematic musical using a cast of actors performing alongside untested hypnotised volunteers expected to act, dance and even rap under the same impromptu condition…
Edinburgh Fringe has a number of shows that have a real cult status among festivalgoers, and up there with the cultest of them is the self-explanatory Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet…
It’s a secret epidemic, one that affects every new generation of young people.
B-movies typically have negative connotations.
Ahh, Love Island.
Rebecca Perry’s one-women tribute to four icons of the Golden Age of cinema is a cheery and bouncy hour celebrating Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball.
A gay themed Friends for the Grindr generation, Fudge, playing now at the Gilded Ballroom Patter House, is a funny slice of gay life play.
Tinder, TGI Friday’s and haunted houses; Men with Coconuts throws the witty and the wild into a wonderful hour of improv comedy.
Louisa Fitzhardinge’s magnum opus, Comma Sutra, promises to twang on the heartstrings of all us self-appointed vigilante protectors of the fundamental principles of the English L…
New Yorker Zach Zimmerman packs a breath-taking number of laughs into his 50-minute slot; delivering a narrative about the relationship with his mother at a speed that leaves no ti…
A packed room at Gilded Balloon’s new Patter Hoose venue shows that even a rainy Friday morning can’t dampen the enthusiasm for bubbles.
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
The Crown Dual is a play within a play.
An hour with Harriet Dyer is an hour of absurdism where literally anything can happen.
Some assert that homophobia, for the most part, has been eradicated.
Fat Rascal Theatre should be pleased with their Fringe so far.