Edinburgh Festival

Discover HAMSTRUNG at the Edinburgh Fringe, a unique take on Shakespeare's Hamlet by George Rennie, showing at The Pleasance Courtyard at 11:30 am.

Emily Markoe's dark comedy solo show MY LITTLE PHOBIA premieres at Greenside during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, exploring the reality of living with emetophobia and OCD. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Writer and performer Mitch Hara is Adam Astra.  Adam is auditioning…  and this is one audition you'll never forget. With his past constantly seeping into his present, Astra breaks the fourth wall, confronts his audience and gleefully spoons out tales of his soul-sucking childhood, monstrous substance abuse, rampant sex, crashed cars & a black cape, all whilst going for a part in Hamilton Unplugged.

Gaslighting is My Love Language, Fielding Edlow’s brutally honest, unapologetically explicit, and darkly comedic solo show, will return to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer, where it began its life in 2023.

A celebration of love and how it eventually triumphs over grief, writer Paul Sellar's collection of new poems takes the audience on a theatrical journey based on his experiences of various forms of love and loss, reflecting on how resilience and hope can come from the darkest times.

Debuting this year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, SMaK Productions will present WORM TEETH: a brand new work of interactive theatre that explores themes of identity, morality, and self-improvement through the eyes of a worm that wants teeth!

Explore the life of 1960s football legend John White and his son Rob's journey in the one-man play THE GHOST OF WHITE HART LANE, commissioned for the Fringe. Discover the story of 'The Ghost' of White Hart Lane.

Writer, performer, and historian (the funny kind) Ellie MacPherson will return to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer with Babe Lincoln. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Exploring the impact of mental illness on family and challenging traditional feminine behaviour, children’s entertainer Fairy Sprinkles is trying to keep it together at a party whilst the rest of her life is spinning out of control.

In this hilarious and heart-warming show, his Fringe debut, Runi showcases his unique blend of cultural insights, captivating storytelling, and sharp wit, as he tackles the complexities of identity and the meaning of fortune, while pondering some of the deeper mysteries of life.

Inspired by Kimberly Prentice’s 25 years of experience as a dresser on Broadway, Unseen is an intimate and inside look at the politics of Broadway’s backstage and how being in the background affects your self-perception and worth.

New dates have been added for the UK premiere of Lien, an extraordinary one-on-one experience between a performer and a viewer, from choreographer-to-watch Lewis Major.  Lien is one of two shows from Major being presented at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival by House of Oz, the philanthropic organisation whose mission is to platform Australian creative arts for export.

Experience the world premiere of SHOWTIME! at the Edinburgh Fringe, created and performed by Em Hoggett, aka EM The Master. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Richard Shelton will bring his acclaimed shows SINATRA: RAW and SINATRA & ME to the Edinburgh Fringe, offering an intimate look at Frank Sinatra's life and legacy. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Join Dolly Diamond at Assembly Roxy for a hilarious and heartfelt cabaret show, THE UNBURDENING OF DOLLY DIAMOND. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Here & Now will present its programme of work created in England, during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024. Learn more about the lineup here!

Edinburgh International Festival has unveiled the first details of the 2024 Festival, and the second from Festival Director Nicola Benedetti, taking place 2-25 August 2024.

BroadwayWorld are delighted to publish the final reviews of their coverage from the 2023 Edinburgh Festivals. Covering 292 shows with thirteen local reviewers, this was our busiest and best year yet.

As someone who is a scaredy cat but loves morbid humour and wanted to test my boundaries during the Fringe, I decided to give Dr. Bonk’s Macarbaret a try. The show, hosted by Edinburgh’s only living plague doctor, Dr. Bonk (played by Eliott Simpson), is a cabaret that promises “laughs, scares, and gore galore in this madcap hour of madness.”

Chris Thorburn shows off his terrific charisma and charming personality through the scope of one of his greatest loves - the movies.

After seeing Police Cops: Badass Be Thy Name and loving the group’s sense of humour and fantastic dynamic, I knew that I wanted to see their 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Police Cops: The Musical. Somehow, this show managed to exceed my already high expectations, making for a perfect last show at the Fringe. 

In this new interpretation of the Greek myth, created by Cassie Muise and Tyler Mckinnon, Arachne uses her weaving to follow in her mother’s footsteps and tell the stories of forgotten women, going against the “truths” told by the elders.

In nearly every comedy show I have seen at the Fringe, there have been sexual jokes, with some going as far as having vibrators and dildos on stage. To be honest, as an asexual, I needed a break from all of that, and I knew Eliott Simpson: (A)Sexy and I Know It would be the perfect place to laugh without the fear of another graphic sex story.

Dark Noon’s description states “They say history is told by the victors; this story is told by the vanquished.” The show is a “brutal recreation of the Wild West” of the United States of America. As someone who grew up in the States, I am quite familiar with the glorified tales of the settling of the West.

The concept of CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation is quite simple. A murder has taken place, and it is up to the audience to not only catch the killer but also to create the crime scene themselves, setting the scene for the actors.