Blackwood Events
Spotlight: Antimony
Wed 29 Jul
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
11 Queen Street EH2 1JQ
Join us to explore the ‘everlasting medicine’!
Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12...
Modern Medicine: Menstruation
Wed 12 Aug
Physicians Gallery, 11 Queen Street EH2 1JQ
Join menstruation specialists Prof Anne MacGregor and Prof Hilary Critchley for a groundbreaking discussion busting myths and sharing their expertise...
Spotlight: Straitjacket
Wed 30 Sep
Physicians Gallery, 11 Queen Street EH2 1JQ
Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12.30pm for a curator-led talk exploring one of the objects on display in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sanctuary
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, A EH8 9
Sanctuary, the debut play from Jacob Sparrow, is the winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, a new playwriting competition...
Remember, Remember!
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Dome (Queen Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, A EH8 9
Gather around the bonfire, girlies. You think you know the story of the Gunpowder Plot? You don't!...
LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting
Wed 9 Sep
Dugald Steward Building DSB 3.10/3.11, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Conference 2026 brings together linguists from across the UK and beyond for peer-reviewed...
The Sixteen's Choral Workshop for Wellbeing 2026: Edinburgh
Sun 18 Oct
Binks Hall, Charteris Centre, 138-140 The Pleasance EH8 9RR
The Sixteen’s Choral Workshops for Wellbeing are a fun and engaging way to explore a variety of music inspired by The Sixteen’s own performances...
Father, Away She Goes
Fri 7 Aug to Tue 18 Aug, Thu 20 Aug to Tue 25 Aug, Thu 27 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Zoo (Playground 1), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Introducing Sarah Jones – 'A masterclass in the love-to-hate character. Think Succession. Think Fleabag, with teeth' (Scotsman)...
Argonauts
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Opinions are weapons. Friendship is the casualty. Liz and Sam host a theatre podcast. When Sam champions a radical new production, Liz's fury...
Racists, Recessions & Revolutions
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
In 2016 an unprecedented wave of fake news exploded across our screens. Public trust was devastated as Brexit, Trump and an ever-powerful far right...
Patient 13
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Zoo (Playground 2), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
'I got rid of all the toxic people and there was no one left.' Gail is good at setting boundaries and staying busy until a scary...
I Bought a Flip Phone
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard EH1 1LZ
Charlie's sick of his iPhone. His best friend never replies, his mum nags him and everyone else's life looks better than his own...
15 Minutes of Shame
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Why not do OnlyFans? Plunge into the desperate world of a young London couple facing the brutal reality of financial struggle...
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border bu
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border but never actually getting caught with any drugs) is a tightly structured, fourth...
A Costume Drama
Fri 7 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
With the 2026 Mascot Grand National rapidly approaching and her shell-suit sporting dad indisposed, reluctant Ella must fill Eddie The Egg's...
Target Audience
Wed 5 Aug to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 30 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
A TV production company gets word from Whitehall that they must adapt their programming to align with the government's new policy to rapidly...
Heart Beats Strong
Wed 5 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
An antidote to the crisis of masculinity we're having in our culture, but make it funny and dance-y and a little bit silly...
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