Edinburgh Festival

Flo & Joan's ONE MAN MUSICAL, winner of Best Production at the Offies 2026, returns to Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Edward Easton stepping into the lead role, presented by Avalon.

BWW catches up with Fletcher Michael to chat about bringing Did You Charge Your Phone For The End Of The World to the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Jeff Whitty's MIDSUMMER!, a modern verse adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, will premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performed by Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama artists before an international run.

With Spice officially launches following a prize-winning proof of concept in 2025, spearheaded by award-winning multidisciplinary artist LULA.XYZ. With Spice arrives in 2026 at the Edinburgh Fringe.

BWW Scotland editor Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top picks from the 2026 Edfringe theatre programme.

RUPTURE theatre company will present the world premiere of SLAYERS, a one-woman play by Corinne Salisbury examining the manosphere's effects on women, at Assembly George Square Studios during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

BWW Scotland editor Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top picks from the 2026 Edfringe musicals programme.

One Table Two Chairs Charitable Foundation will present Dic Dic Chang Chang Playground at Edinburgh Fringe, marking the award-winning Cantonese opera interactive children's production's third and final consecutive year at the festival.

BWW Scotland editor Natalie O'Donoghue selects her top picks from the 2026 Edfringe comedy programme.

Moth StorySlam winner and New Yorker humorist Kristina Libby brings her solo show I ALMOST DIED FOR THIS?! to Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recounting a traumatic brain injury, near-death experience, and pandemic art movement.

The Listies will return to Edinburgh Fringe with 110% Ready, a comedy show about the chaos of leaving the house on time, winner of the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Bestie Award for Best Kids Show.

Benson Drive Productions is launching their inaugural BDP Edinburgh Fringe Artists in Residence program. This August, the production company will bring three US-based artists who have never been to the Edinburgh Fringe before to the 2026 Festival.

Australian comedian Jimmy Rees OAM will bring his viral sketch comedy universe to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with In Reel Life, marking his first-ever UK live performance after selling over 120,000 tickets across Australia and New Zealand.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT will make its Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut following award recognition at Camden Fringe. Written by Izaak Hamilton-New and directed by Michelle Allen.

Maltese artists Angele and Malcolm Galea bring their award-winning two-hander about pregnancy loss to the Edinburgh Fringe, told through a darkly whimsical fairy tale with original music.

Alice Stanley Jr.'s darkly comic play THE SECOND BEST SCHOOL SHOOTING heads to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, produced by Jessica Green Harrison, Matthew Lillard, and Adam McKay, exploring gun violence trauma through the eyes of teenage survivors.

Cabbage Productions, the team behind SPY MOVIE: The Play!, will present THE LIBRARIANS: A Very Serious Comedy! at the Edinburgh Fringe, a new farce written by Matthew Howell and Jack Michael Stacey, produced in association with The Pleasance.

Sadiq Ali Company will present TELL ME, a sequel to award-winning THE CHOSEN HARAM, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Made in Scotland Showcase, blending dance, circus and storytelling to explore HIV through a contemporary lens.

Dan Bishop, whose debut play Brainsluts sold out at the Edinburgh Fringe, brings new dark comedy TARGET AUDIENCE to the festival, a satire about media, government, and tech that descends into a locked room thriller.

Croft & Dye Productions will present TAP OUT! (OR I'LL HIT YOU AGAIN) at the Edinburgh Fringe, a dark comedy starring Matt Ackerman about masculinity, loneliness, and a man who picks street fights to feel something.

The Freestyle Orchestra will present TALE OF THE FIREBIRD at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, marking the Vienna-based ensemble's debut. The production blends live classical music with circus, aerial arts, fire manipulation and physical theatre.

Berserk Theatre's SPIN CYCLE: THE LESBIAN LAUNDRETTE PLAY heads to the Edinburgh Fringe following acclaimed runs in London, Oxford, and New Hampshire. The queer absurdist two-hander explores love, memory, class, and Irish identity between two ex-lovers reuniting in a laundrette.

Kitty Falcon's dark comedy SITTING (IN SILENCE), a personal exploration of grief, mental health, and father-daughter estrangement set during a silent meditation retreat, heads to the Edinburgh Fringe after winning awards at Brighton Fringe.

Jacob Sparrow's debut play SANCTUARY, winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, heads to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The drama draws on real events surrounding an AIDS hospice in a Suffolk village.

Julia Stephens will perform ROOMIES, a darkly comedic solo show based on a true story about a woman navigating a treatment facility alongside an 18-year-old roommate with schizophrenia, at the Edinburgh Fringe.