New York, dancing and growing up.
Taiwan is a country located in Asia, and many people say that the most beautiful scenery in Taiwan is its people.
No.
In Deptford, South London, a routine hair appointment becomes a *slightly* less intense version of John Tucker Must Die.
‘At that time, I told myself not to cry, and so I didn’t.
In this non-stop series of wordless comedy sketches, Hank Curry embarks on a picaresque journey through the pitfalls and pratfalls of modern life by trying on several unique identi…
In the glamorous, bohemian world of pre-war Paris, a beautiful American heiress meets a dashing British diplomat.
Chaos reigns in the courtroom when jilted bride Angelina and her fully frocked bridal party arrive to sue Edwin for abandoning her at the altar.
August 1815.
Musician-turned-stand-up comedian Holly Redford Jones is dancing in a Lesbian Bar and you’re invited.
In the dimly lit corners of the stage, shadows whisper tales of a young prince: Pippin.
This award-winning one-woman show is about eight diverse characters’ dance with cancel culture and how our mental and spiritual health are connected.
A multimedia concert experience calling attention to the urgency of the climate crisis through original songs by American musician and songwriter Dan Sheehan.
Set in modern-day America, this Broadway style musical does not hold back on ambition.
Welcome to Yew Nork City, 3724.
HuXi or Breath is a dance revelation, that explores the symbiosis of breath and existence through Chinese Qi and Yin-Yang.
Some lie for attention.
By Kate Hamill and based on the novel by Jane Austen… a playful adaptation, with a fresh female voice.
Omigod You Guys! Viva Arts are back with their usual brand of high-quality, energetic musical theatre – this time with this all-singing, all-dancing, feel-good comedy.
After a sell-out show in 2023, award-winning magician Dan Bastianelli returns with an all-new evening of close-up magic.
Holy monster by Atrix Cragnotti.
History can do strange things to a person’s reputation, and Sarah ‘Sallie’ Lockwood Winchester (née Pardee,1839-1922) has probably not fared too well in those stakes.
We need not stay dormant forever… When everything around Devin continues to grow and decay, why is the flower in his room showing no signs of change? Intertwined with a score ins…
Alright, stop, collaborate and listen! Safety expert Ian Crawford is back with a brand-new presentation.
Expect talking toothbrushes, competitive siblings and a variety of funny sketches full of heart and absurdity.
When that I was but a little tiny dot, I would sit with my grandfather and solemnly play both the Owl and the Pussycat whilst he transformed into a pig, a turkey and a runcible spo…
The Slick Skillet Serenaders are a New Orleans-based band playing American blues, jazz, jug band and string band music.
1914.
A fusion of storytelling and a one-person show, keeping as close as possible to the original text.
A queer adaptation of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years presents an emotionally charged musical following Jamie and Cathy as they fall in and out of love over their turbul…
Delighting audiences with sell-out shows since 2017, we are back! Experience the fiery passion and irresistible allure of our home-grown hotties at a burlesque show like no other.
An exploration of gender dysphoria, bodily autonomy and celebrity crushes from a non-binary perspective.
It’s the year 1954.
One of the most famous classical poems of all times is the Iliad.
A Show About Tomorrow is a one-act musical set in the 90s at Bailey’s 21st birthday party, which happens to be in the middle of nowhere.
A heartfelt, heartbreaking, crass and hilarious look into the relationship of two childhood friends gone wrong reuniting at a wedding.
A solo show exploring life and light.
Hilarious epic 50s rock musical following Shakey Sean (Elvis character) working in an Arbroath egg’n’roll van.
Alfie is an original musical about two boys, their journey through life and experiences in the army.
An ode to the macabre, a salute to your inner demons and a sacrifice for our audience.
Sara Wesker – trade unionist, political activist and radical – led the singing strikers of 1928, to improve the working conditions of female garment workers in London’s East …
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with their five-star show, which made Best Production lists from London Theatre (2022) and Theatre Scotland (2022 and 2023).
Lock up your garden chairs, dismantle your altar tables, nothing is safe around Binocchio the bisexual Christian! She’ll sleep with anything with legs – after Bible Study, natu…
I used to have a difficult relationship with Into The Woods; as someone who primarily watches musicals at Fringe, where it is often cut to just the first act, I have felt like I’…
Grab your parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and goldfish, and go buy your tickets for the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam…
In this laid-back cabaret hour filled with vocal impersonations, live singing and bluesy banter, drag king Mr Brake Down pays tribute to the wit and wonderment of the iconic Tom Wa…
I never met a man I so disliked and yet I can’t describe him.
Hole by Drew Gill.
A strange and emotionally stunted young woman is on an all-consuming mission to be the most special person in every room.
If you like it you really shouldn’t put a ring on it because it turns out I actually hate you and want to get a divorce.
There’s nothing like the power of unaccompanied human voices singing together.
St Andrews University’s Gilbert and Sullivan Society is in sparkling form with their presentation of this little known show.
Inspired by Georges Seurat’s painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Sondheim’s classic follows George as he strives to finish his masterpiece while his ne…
Cat-Like Tread makes a welcome post-Covid return to the Fringe with this ever-popular jolly romp, a Gilbert and Sullivan classic and a dashed good night out.
His father died at 45.
The Brighton Fringe sell-out show is coming to Edinburgh Fringe.
10 years after being refused entry to Edinburgh, Mustafa Algiyadi returns with a work-in-progress show.
Drawing on inspirations from his Scottish-Italian heritage, Edinburgh magician Dan Bastianelli presents an incredible close-up magical experience that explains the difference betwe…
Edinburgh’s best homegrown student comedy show is back! Featuring talent from the city’s finest up and coming student comics, witness the Edinburgh Revue’s triumphant return …
A stunning song cycle by Jason Robert Brown centring human relationships in all their messy beauty.
It’s 1723 and writing while Black could get a girl hanged in Virginia.
A Chorus Line - and what a chorus line! I was wowed by this performance of A Chorus Line presented by the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group.
Reconnected with each other at a funeral, Charlotte and Hope question what the meaning of life is.
Bare Productions return following a string of five-star, sell-out Fringe runs with the rousing and heartfelt musical, Little Women.
Alma is a whale specialist on her final field mission before being forced into an early retirement.
The classic musical The Legends of Mountains and Seas is a representative work of the Graduate Institute of Performing Arts of National Taiwan Normal University.
The Great Lakes High School board bans the graphic novel Maus.
From musical theatre greats, Stephen Schwartz and John Caird, comes a joyous and inspirational musical about parents, children and faith.
This is a heartfelt piece, in which a group of intrepid teens set out to discover monsters… and discover them in the last place they thought to look.
Gordonstoun Youth Theatre brings a high-energy performance in this physical theatre and rock adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
A knockout solo show about one woman’s love of pro wrestling.
Delighting audiences with sell-out shows since 2017 we are back! Experience our new glitter and glamour extravaganza from Edinburgh’s only school of homegrown hotties.
This musical, composed by Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne, with a new script by Joan Greening is a journey through the extraordinary life of Alan Turing.
Dogfight follows the exploits of three marines who are about to be deployed in the conflict in Southeast Asia.
It is a time of great ups and downs, when wars of all kinds have filled our lives – wars between men, wars between nations, wars with guns, and wars without guns, and we lived in…
In a world of lies, big lies and total whoppers, one way is invent your own even bigger lies.
Fresh from Vietnam, a past colony of France for more than 100 years, comes an expat Parisian to give you a better perspective on the global epidemic: French Bashing.
La vie Bohème! I can’t believe it’s been nearly 30 years since the rock musical RENT hit the stage and almost 20 years from the film version.
This intensely personal show is a fascinating performance with hints of a lecture about it and a suggestion that it is really an audience, in this case with Simeon Morris, as he in…
A WIP comedy-cabaret show, tracking one woman’s life from the same night every year of her life, from childhood sleepovers to first sexual experiences and her changing relationship…
‘He was a traitor boy, he killed a dictator boy.
Join the adventure as we bring to life the classic, Journey to the West, in an interactive children’s show which is a part of Chinese Culture and Art Festival! With amazing visual …
Do you ever experience the feeling of missing out? Maybe the Fringe makes you confused – where to go, what to choose with so many options? Worry not! Dr King of More is here to h…
Full of fantastic music, scheming fairies and hapless peers, the University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society is proud to present Iolanthe.
Four young New Yorkers’ lives intertwine in unexpected ways as they try to figure out life, relationships and whether Cabernet goes with fish.
The year is 1925; the place is New York City.
The world is ending.
The verbal battle between Cain and Lucifer.
A rock concert in a courtroom.
Rural Ireland meets the Middle East when Paddy, a proud Irish man, loses his lust for life after a family tragedy.
Dr Glas, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the notorious 1905 Swedish novella by Hjalmar Soderberg, translated by David Barret.
A striking and ferocious new play which dares to explore the pressures and societal demands that one couple confronts in their desire to procreate.
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 …
All About the Drama is an insight to the worrying mind of Jovis Hart.
Should I shave off my beard, and grow a pencil-thin, rock-style goatee? Is it OK to fall asleep in a bin, if it’s comfortable? What would you do if I died? In the midst of all the …
Pulp is a hilarious and provoking piece exploring themes of uncertainty, failure and spontaneity.
Our biggest problem is one we don’t know we have.
Pangu is a 50-minute physical dance play based on a Chinese mythic story in the Classic of Mountain and Seas.
A fast, unexpectedly heart-warming play written by Paul Richards.
The Beacon Boys return to the Sanctuary to stage Guys and Dolls Jr – an adaptation of the show considered by many to be the perfect musical comedy! Set in New York City, Guys and…
From #1 best-selling author on Amazon, unicycle jousting champion of New Zealand and performer of the best (and first) English comedy show ever in Madagascar, John Allis gets into …
Würk is an American stand-up showcase using the word work in all its forms as a jumping off point to comedy.
Nuance is hard to find at the Fringe.
Set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, The Wait revolves around Maura Devlin’s process of grief.
Absolute Burlesque Cabaret are back! Returning after multiple sell-out years and promising to be the biggest and best yet.
This celebration of the mating game takes on the truths and myths behind that contemporary conundrum known as: ‘the relationship.
Help Mike Lemme leave his NYC apartment.
Long before Private Eye, Charlie Hebdo, and even before Bill Bailey – there was Voltaire.
Paul Richards returns as Harvey; always running, always late and now about to get married.
Jane Waters, mother of three, was murdered in her home on Easter Sunday, 2001.
The Saga of the Norse Gods.
The work is created by Chinese dancer/choreographer Zhibo Zhao, a Chinese National First-Rank Dance Artist now based in London for her PhD research.
Barcelona-based Scottish stand-up comedian Stuart Kennedy presents his solo comedy show Shitegeist – a show about life, death, sheep and bad endings to TV shows.
Living in Barcelona may seem like living in paradise, but for the English-speaking comedians it’s not always so rosy.
Bare Productions return following their five-star, sell-out Fringe 2019 run with the fabulous musical – Kinky Boots.
Brexico is an hour of stand-up comedy that is half Mexican, half British, full Madness.
Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy? Enjoy Shakespeare’s spooky tragedy like never before, as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics, uproariously silly comedy and…
Zav is a comedy drama, a one-person show set over 20 years in the life of Zav, an ordinary road worker who becomes a successful photographer.
The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group is back at Paradise Green with a musical whodunit by Kander and Ebb, the pair behind Chicago and Cabaret.
Ceara Dorman’s one woman play poignantly explores the abuse that countless women were subject to within the Magdalene laundries.
Side by Side Theatre Company, serving learning disabled performers from the West Midlands, returns to Paradise in Augustines this year with their adaptation of As You Like It, the …
The University of St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes their regular contribution to the Festival Fringe, this year with HMS Pinafore.
Anorexia takes centre stage in this emotional piece devised by eating disorder sufferers and survivors.
Katherine O’Neil really knows gin.
This play is an abridged version of the stage adaptation of late novelist Terry Pratchett’s sixth Discworld book which is in itself a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Billed as a uniquely grotesque combination of satire, horror and comedy, Bat Boy: The Musical has a small but dedicated cult following.
Doctor Faustus is a new musical based on the Christopher Marlowe play/ancient story archetype.
Hotter is a stellar exploration of the body, intimacy and what makes all of us feel hot.
The concept behind Sunscreen Productions’ Radio is pretty familiar: a group of flatmates at the end of their university careers grapple with past tensions and future anxieties wh…
An excellent concept is given a bit of a rough delivery in this immersive fantasy adventure, where you decide the outcome and save or scupper the future of Gobland.
This new piece of writing is an enjoyable, silly slice of sitcom, covering the last few days of student life amidst a diverse bunch of friends.
Company, Sondheim’s second Tony Award winner, is a difficult show to get right: it’s disjointed, complex, and built on subject matter that can be uncomfortable to look at.
In Shakespeare Tonight, the famous playwright gives his first ever television performance on a talk show with host Martina, only to be confronted by his so-called ‘enemy’, huma…
A short and well-formed chamber opera, which shows lots of potential, but needs to pick up on the details.
The Spelling Bee is a beloved American pastime, encouraging good sportsmanship and the pleasure of taking part; however, deep down it becomes clear every contestant has a thirst fo…
Molodyi Teatre combine verbatim accounts of migration from the Ukraine to the UK with a Britain’s Got Talent pastiche in a bizarre satire of modern-day xenophobia.
In true Terry Pratchett style, this rendition of Terry Pratchett’s Mort brings along a sly mixture of complex fantasy and comedy.
An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s 1921 absurdist piece, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Barrie Wheatley’s modernised version blends the source material’s meta-theatr…
St Andrews Gilbert and Sullivan Society with Mermaids Performing Arts return to the Festival Fringe with their typically entertaining style of presenting Gilbert & Sullivan, this t…
One of the primary aims of The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten, an opera for children, is to demystify the genre to a younger generation.
Though the second act is cut completely, half the first act also cut and music transposed into keys more accessible to younger voices, Into The Woods is still a sophisticated show …
It is a story well-known to millions, made all the more poignant and absorbing for its absolute authenticity.
Renaissance tragedies are rarely as enjoyably silly as Wanton Theatre’s ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore.
Dark Heart is a Shrodinger’s Cat of a show, managing to be both hopelessly amateurish and professionally polished at the same time.
Lest We Forget is a play centered on the human cost of World War One directly in its aftermath.
A darkly absurd exploration of power dynamics, this latest production from Dutch Kills Theater is a thrillingly surreal family drama by playwright Eric John Meyer.
Spring Awakening won an impressive list of Tony, Grammy and Olivier Awards.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Romantic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner already exists as a work of enviable length.
First of all – a confession.
Death Actually sets out to bring ‘lethal puns and dead funny songs’ in a larger than life musical.
While it is laudable to have an open policy for membership of an amateur operatic society the knock-on effects can be dire as demonstrated in Cat-Like Tread’s production of H.
Cluedo Inc is an upbeat, farcical musical inspired by everyone’s favourite murder-mystery board game, Cluedo.
Mark Ravenhill’s play uses the metaphor of two brothers – twins – to represent the former partitioning of Germany into East and West during the time of the Berlin wall.
From the very moment you walk into the space, the aesthetic style of the piece is made abundantly clear.
Sebastian was born in Paris, but raised by his adopted parents in the mountains of Tennessee.
Closer Than Ever is a revue musical wherein each song takes us to a different scenario within the complex theme of love and relationships.
“In Pirates, there are gems from the first to the last minute.
It might be a good idea to take five drinks into the auditorium, to see you through a play that has moments of wit and humour but contains nothing profound.
The best thing about Terry Pratchett’s work was his ability in world creation.
Fans of Rent will love this full length presentation and for those who have never seen it, this is a great opportunity to watch a rip-roaring production.
It might be difficult to see why someone would bother writing a comedy pastiche of a girls’ boarding school when a perfectly good one already exists in Daisy Pulls It Off.
This fun new adaptation of JM Barrie’s classic story begins in Priceland.
Bob Martin and Don McKellar’s The Drowsy Chaperone is a musical comedy set in the 1920’s and was initially written as a comic stag gift before being altered into a full length…
Performed by the award-winning Side by Side Theatre Company for actors with learning disabilities, Illyria on Sea takes Twelfth Night to a 1950s seaside resort in this refreshing a…
Shakespeare’s School brings Malorie Blackman’s much loved novel Noughts and Crosses to the stage in a performance that falls disappointingly flat despite the potential of the w…
Michelangelo Drawing Blood explores the artist’s fascination with the male form, partly inspired by his sketches for the unfinished fresco The Battle of Cascina.
Farce is easy to laugh at and difficult to perform.
I had high expectations for this adaptation of one of my childhood favourites.
And The Horse You Rode In On begins with the easy unfolding of soldiers’ badinage.
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boubil’s classic Miss Saigon is currently enjoying a revival at the Prince Edward Theatre in the West End.
KD Theatre’s Anything Goes is cheerfully cheesy, well-done Cole Porter in an hour and a half.
Forget the defendant, it is the cast of this excruciating production who should be in the dock.
Paper Play is the story of a boy who climbed to a great height to see what he could see.
“I always had a good experience with nuns,” said Dan Coggins, who wrote the book, music and lyrics we all know as Nunsense to show us what nuns are “really like.
Robert Lopez and Jeff Whitty’s Avenue Q is brought to the Fringe by the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group, to sell-out audiences.