Bathgate Events
Learning to Human
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Gilded Balloon Teviot (Wee Room), 13 Bristo Square EH8 9AJ
Award-winning solo show. Join US comic actor Sims Holland on her Edinburgh debut as she recounts her rollercoaster journey from the depths of...
Friendliest
Sat 8 Aug to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon (The Nook), Teviot Row House, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ
Drew Lausch grew up gay in Fargo, North Dakota. So he did what any emotionally stable teenager would do: invented the world's first gay...
Copycat
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Jack Dome), 2 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
'This technology is being pushed on us at a time when the world is moving towards authoritarianism' (Geoffrey Hinton)...
Overtone
Wed 5 Aug to Tue 11 Aug, Thu 13 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance (Jack Dome), 1 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AL
When two teenagers meet after choir practice, they begin the most important relationship of their lives...
Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again)
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House (The Coorie), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Realising that his life is going nowhere, a man decides to go out in a mask and pick fights with random people on the street...
A STAN IS BORN! – Encore
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Gilded Balloon Patter House, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Born in New York City, Alexis is forced to follow his family to... rural Germany. Trapped in a culture clash, discovering pop divas online is his...
FREE taster session with the Penicuik Rock Choir
Wed 16 Sep
Penicuik Town Hall, 33 High Street, Penicuik, Midlothian EH26 8HS
Ever wondered if there is a 'local ladies choir near me or nearby'?
The local Penicuik choir is run by choir leader Chris Duke...
Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dairy Room), Bristo Place EH8 9YL
Operotica: The UK's premier kinky opera duo. Classically trained, fetish-approved and, as of yesterday, dead...
Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Underbelly Bristo Square (Dexter), Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9YL
Some might say Georgina is a narcissist, but she prefers the term Soprano. Trapped in the echo chamber of her own vibrato, Georgina is forced to...
Burn the Floor: Supernova
Sun 12 Jul
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9FT
Following his show-stopping partnerships on Strictly Come Dancing, Nikita Kuzmin will take centre stage in the high-octane new dance spectacular Burn...
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop
Sat 18 Jul to Tue 15 Sep
Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT
‘We entered Cosprop as ourselves and walked out as the person we were playing.’ – Helena Bonham Carter
Founded by Oscar and BAFTA-winning costume...
Big Stuff
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 10 Aug, Wed 12 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Assembly (Roxy Boxy), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Acclaimed Canadian Second City comedy duo, Matt Baram and Naomi Snieckus, directed by genius collaborator Kat Sandler, bring their signature mix of...
Tale of the Firebird
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Assembly Roxy (Central), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Classical precision meets circus adrenaline in this genre-bending re-imagining of a violin concerto composed by Chloé Charody for The Freestyle...
The List Festival Awards
Fri 28 Aug
W Edinburgh, 1 Saint James Square, Edinburgh EH1 3AX
Following the success of the first two editions of The List Festival Awards, the ceremony will return to Edinburgh in August 2026 to celebrate the...
Glass Child
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab) 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Powerful, raw and emotional, Glass Child goes beyond fiction and theatre to showcase the extraordinary love of two siblings, Kayah, a young man with...
They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Boys are shaped by the men around them. So what makes a man? It's Y2K and a teenage boy has been caught between two very different influences:...
TOAST
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
A dark and unrelenting comedy about starving for your art. As negotiations with employers, agents and Universal Credit crumble, one actor drags you...
Sitting (In Silence)
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Kid has come to find herself, but quickly gets caught up in Dad's wild antics. When the two share a rare moment of privacy in the heavenly...
The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Red Lecture), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
A broken fairy tale for broken people. In a whimsical land of broken toys, Magnus Coffinkey must fix a bell atop an impossibly high spire...
Jitters
Thu 6 Aug to Mon 17 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
'I've dreamed of this day. My whole life.' There's one hour to go before the wedding, but now the wedding may not be going...
Man or Bear
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Summerhall (Red Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Man or Bear is a fast-moving, darkly comic new play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by the viral question: Would you rather be alone in...
How Not to Make it in America
Thu 6 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Former Gent’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
It's 2001. A naive young Australian actor arrives in New York. One man plays twenty-eight characters in this heartbreakingly funny...
Thermodrama
Fri 7 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Four people enter a sauna, three walk out. Over an hour, a group of strangers get hotter and hotter. So hot, they start to cook...
Surreally Good
Fri 7 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Former Women’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Say hello to Scott – the finest Edutainment Officer in the business, a leading expert in overhead animation and lo-fi storytelling, a renowned...
Tell Me
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 9 Aug, Wed 12 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Wed 19 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Two timelines collide in this bold fusion of dance and circus, offering a fresh perspective on HIV. When Grace receives a diagnosis, she is...
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