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New Play SCAFFOLDING Comes To London For The Pleasance Theatre's Best Of Edinburgh Season


by A.A. Cristi - October 21, 2024

SCAFFOLDING, a new play developed by an award-winning Devon company and Bristol Old Vic, arrives in London for The Pleasance Theatre’s Best of Edinburgh season....

Review: EDINBURGH 2024: STAMPTOWN, Pleasance Courtyard


by Kat Mokrynski - September 16, 2024

As someone who has seen versions of Stamptown in both Edinburgh and London, I was very much looking forward to seeing the show at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the Pleasance Courtyard - Grand, a 750-seat venue....

Review: EDINBURGH 2024: ABBY WAMBAUGH: THE FIRST 3 MINUTES OF 17 SHOWS, Pleasance Courtyard


by Christiana Rose - August 20, 2024

For Wambaugh’s debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024, the shows premise is the offering of a top 17 set of ideas for beginning a comedy show. This provides a light-hearted exploration of varied comedic styles, of which all work superbly....

Review: EDINBURGH 2024: TOM BRACE: THE RIDE 4D, The Pleasance Dome


by Christiana Rose - August 19, 2024

Tom Brace: The Ride 4D opens with Brace bounding onto the stage, setting up the premise for the hour of magic and dreams. He introduces us to ‘Tomland’, a theme park he claims is entirely his own creation, with a wink and a nod to certain other famous theme parks....

Edinburgh 2024 Review: DOKTOR KABOOM: MAN OF SCIENCE! Pleasance Courtyard


by Christiana Rose - August 12, 2024

Clad in an orange lab coat, silver googles and a superhero Kaboom t-shirt, David Epley, plays Doktor Kaboom, a scientist-comedian. Kaboom returns to the EdFringe for a third run, with an honourable mission of making science accessible to all, by educating using child-friendly experiments....

Edinburgh 2024 Review: ROSIE AND HUGH'S GREAT BIG ADVENTURE, Pleasance Courtyard


by Christiana Rose - August 12, 2024

Rosie and her best friend Hugh the hedgehog find themselves in a bit of a prickly pickle, on the final day of their summer holiday, before the new school term begins....

Edinburgh 2024 Review: READING THROUGH SINGING TIME, Pleasance Courtyard


by Christiana Rose - August 12, 2024

Happy Singing Kids makes its debut at The Edinburgh Fringe 2024, at the baby-centric and much-loved child friendly area Kidzone at sub-venue The Green at The Pleasance Courtyard....

WILLY'S CANDY SPECTACULAR Musical Parody Will Feature a Scratch-and-Sniff Ticket


by Stephi Wild - August 08, 2024

Willy's Candy Spectacular: A Musical Parody, will feature a special scratch-and-sniff ticket when it makes its premiere at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Not only will audiences SEE the show and HEAR the music… they will be able to SMELL the show, too! ...

VIRTUOSO is Now in Performances at Pleasance Courtyard Cellar


by Blair Ingenthron - August 04, 2024

Casey Filips discusses his show VIRTUOSO, featuring Tobias Finley-Fraser, at the Pleasance Courtyard's The Cellar during this year's Edinburgh Festival. Discover the story behind the greatest actor of his generation....

IN THE LADY GARDEN is Coming to The Edinburgh Fringe


by Chloe Rabinowitz - July 29, 2024

The Lady Gardeners, a theatre company of women over sixty, debut at the Edinburgh Fringe with a play about Alice Parminter's reflections on life, performed by Julia Faulkner in a one-woman show. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

Past Shows

Amy Mason: Free Mason
Amy Mason: Free Mason
7/31 - 8/26/2024


After coming out in her late 30’s, the off-kilter Funny Woman finalist and  BBC New Act nominee talks raising kids, rinsing homophobes and confronting her ...

The Devil in the Belfry
The Devil in the Belfry
6/2 - 6/4/2023


Handel Fledermaus has travelled from the distant town of Vondorvotteimittiss, where the cabbage is king and time is sacred. A supernatural invader has plunged his ...

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