Edinburgh Festival

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.

Maryam Garad's one-woman dark comedy REPARATIONS, winner of the Tony Craze Award, heads to the Edinburgh Fringe, following a woman who steals an identity after prison in a story of class, obsession, and survival.

WIT? Theatre's REMEMBER, REMEMBER!, a queer retelling of the Gunpowder Plot, heads to the Edinburgh Fringe. The show, winner of the Pleasance Charlie Hartill Fund 2026, features an original score and stars Lucy Buncombe and Kluane Saunders.

Voloz Collective will present REDACTED: The Cover-Up of a Cover-Up of a Cover-Up at the Edinburgh Fringe, a physical theatre comedy set in Roswell, New Mexico, blending acrobatics, live music, and conspiracy theory satire.

Gail Thomas brings her solo show PATIENT 13 to the Edinburgh Fringe for its European debut, recounting her cancer diagnosis and participation in a US clinical study using psychedelics as mental health treatment.

Tom Brennan and The North Wall will present OVERTONE, a new non-linear play about love, memory and power dynamics, at the Edinburgh Fringe, marking the company's third world premiere at the festival.

ONE HOUR WEDDING, a new interactive theatrical show from R and R Productions, will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, putting audience members in charge of building a real wedding ceremony from scratch in 60 minutes.

NEWSREVUE, the Guinness World Record-holding satirical comedy show, will make its Pleasance One debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, featuring all-new material skewering politics, AI, and modern headlines.

MYTHOS: RAGNARÖK, the cult hit blending comic theatre, Norse mythology, and professional wrestling, returns to Edinburgh Fringe with a new Viking rock soundtrack by Nordic composer Kjell Braaten.

MAN OR BEAR, a darkly comic play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by a viral question, will head to the Edinburgh Fringe featuring co-creator Katie Hurley and Amaia Naima Aguinaga.

SAFE AND SOUND THE MUSICAL, billed as the first musical to incorporate sound healing into its orchestrations, will run three performances at Teatro LATEA during the New York Theater Festival.

Ellen Robertson and Charly Clive, known as sketch duo Britney, will bring their first theatrical two-hander JITTERS to the Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Emily Burns.

Layla Warren's solo show LONG WAY HOME traces her journey from war-torn Tehran to American television, exploring identity, survival, and the diaspora experience at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Quaz Degraft's solo play In the Black follows a first-generation Ghanaian American accountant navigating Wall Street's moral compromises. The darkly comedic production is loosely inspired by Degraft's own journey from finance to acting.

Theatre Republic's How Not to Make It in America, a one-performer show in a story inspired by playwright Emily Steel's experiences on September 11th, will play the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the House of Oz season.

Kara Wilson, an 81-year-old playwright and painter, will bring her sixth 'painter play' to the Edinburgh Fringe, recreating a live oil painting in the style of Lancashire artist Helen Bradley, who began painting at 65.

The Farm's documentary dance-theatre production Glass Child, exploring the sibling bond between Kayah, a dancer with Down Syndrome, and his sister Maitreyah, is set to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the House of Oz season.

Abigail Weinstock's semi-autobiographical comedy Giraffe, about masking and late autism diagnosis, will play the Edinburgh Fringe, directed by Fringe First winner Emma Jude Harris.

American comedian Drew Lausch will perform Friendliest at the Edinburgh Fringe, a show blending stand-up and personal storytelling about queerness, guilt, and growing up in Fargo, North Dakota.

Plexus Polaire will bring the UK premiere of Dracula: Lucy's Dream to Pleasance at the EICC, reimagining Bram Stoker's gothic tale through life-sized puppetry and the female lens of Dracula's first victim, Lucy.

Fringe First winner Joe Sellman-Leava brings COPYCAT to Edinburgh Fringe, a cross-genre solo show exploring AI, creativity, and democracy through impressions of Big Tech CEOs, celebrities, and teachers.

Concerts of the Future, developed at SensiLab, Monash University, will bring a participatory VR music experience to Edinburgh Fringe, allowing audiences to perform Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 alongside the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

Ockham's Razor returns to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since 2019 with Collaborator, an intimate duet performed by Artistic Directors Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney exploring decades of creative partnership through aerial circus.

Canadian comedy duo Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus bring Big Stuff, their improv-driven show about grief and the objects left behind after loss, to the Edinburgh Fringe. The production is directed by Kat Sandler.