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Let’s Forget

Sat 14 Jun, Mon 16 Jun, and more dates until Wed 13 Aug 6 Dundas Street EH3 6HZ Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter brings his contemporary works to Edinburgh this summer. Known for his high-profile sculptures including I Goat (2010)... READ MORE>

IKEA: Magical Patterns

Fri 18 Jul to Mon 15 Sep Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LT IKEA Museum's Magical Patterns exhibition comes to Edinburgh, celebrating 60 years of innovative textile design... READ MORE>

Lunchbox

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Pleasance Courtyard ( The Green) 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Acclaimed Scottish theatre-maker Lubna Kerr presents the final chapter of her insightful trilogy, a theatrical series inspired by Kerr’s own... READ MORE>

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Basically Nocturnal

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose (Blether) 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT Fresh from sell-out success in Australia, Thomas Currie blends powerful vocals, razor-sharp piano, electric cello and witty storytelling in this... READ MORE>

LOLA: A Flamenco Love Story

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Lennox Theatre at Pleasance at EICC 150 Morrison Street EH3 8EE A vibrant new dance musical fusing passionate contemporary flamenco with the rousing rhythms of Latin pop and jazz... READ MORE>

The City for Incurable Women

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Ladies and Gentlethem - feeling a little upset Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts and it just doesn’t work... READ MORE>

Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Assembly George Square Studios One George Square Edinburgh Midlothian EH8 9JZ Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence is powering onto the courts at the Edinburgh Festival. CRASH Theatre Co shoots and scores with a hilarious... READ MORE>

Midnight at the Palace

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 11 Aug, Wed 13 Aug to Mon 18 Aug, Wed 20 Aug to Sun 24 Aug Gilded Balloon Patter House (Big Yin), 3 Chambers Street EH1 1HT Packed full of on-your-feet numbers and raucous hilarity, the rebellious new musical Midnight at the Palace dismantles the lines between art and... READ MORE>

Murder, She Didn’t Write

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Assembly George Square (Gordon Aikman Theatre), Edinburgh EH8 9JU Fresh from a sell-out UK tour, the Edinburgh Fringe-favourite Murder, She Didn’t Write is back. This improvised whodunnit will see improv legends... READ MORE>

Dear Annie, I Hate You

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ The award-winning 2024 smash-hit is back – bigger, bolder and more visceral than ever. Based on Creator Sam Ipema's real-life experiences, this... READ MORE>

Odds Are

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 2 Roxburgh Place EH8 9SU Ever feel like the universe has it in for you Award-winning storyteller Smita Russell knows the feeling... READ MORE>

No Good Drunk

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 60 Pleasance EH8 9TJ History doesn’t always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. From American writer and performer Stacie Burrows, No Good Drunk confronts the ghosts we... READ MORE>

Kanpur: 857

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Pleasance Courtyard (Beneath), 60 Pleasance EH8 9TJ Strapped to a cannon, an Indian rebel finds themselves answering to a British officer for the crimes of Kanpur – an Indian uprising against British... READ MORE>

Bury The Hatchet

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Lizzie Borden took an axe... Andrew Borden and his wife Abby are found dead in Fall River, Massachusetts August 1892... READ MORE>

The Unstoppable Rise of Ben Manager

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Winner of the Charlie Hartill Theatre Fund 2025, The Unstoppable Rise of Ben Manager is an absurdist dark satire around office culture... READ MORE>

Beth Wants The D

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ A comedy about all the times Beth May has thought about killing herself! This autobiographical one-woman show puts you in the splash zone of death... READ MORE>

Brainsluts

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Pleasance Dome 1 Bristo Square EH8 9AL Quick-witted new comedy play Brainsluts is a sharp and hilarious look at the gig economy, drug trials and desperate times from gleefully weird and... READ MORE>

All Fired Up: An 80's Mixtape Musical

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 11 Aug, Wed 13 Aug to Mon 18 Aug, Wed 20 Aug to Mon 25 Aug Assembly George Square Studios (Studio One), Edinburgh EH8 9JU Tammy Tooth's midlife crisis hits rock-bottom when an 80s mixed tape sends her back to 1987. Face to face with her teenage self, Tammy gets a... READ MORE>

The Listies: Make Some Noise

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 40 George Square EH8 9LD Back by POOPular demand, award-winning Edinburgh Fringe Family Favourite, The Listies, are back with their hilarious music and comedy show The... READ MORE>

Jackie!!!

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose (Big Yin), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT Sex, drugs and coercive control... Jackie! is a new musical comedy that follows the young Jacqueline Bouvier as she dreams of becoming the first... READ MORE>

Footballers' Wives: The Musical

Wed 30 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Assembly Rooms (Music Hall), 54 George Street Edinburgh Midlothian EH22LR EH2 2LR A new British musical based on the iconic TV series following the fall and rise of captain's wife Tanya Turner as she schemes to save her... READ MORE>

Falling: A Disabled Love Story

Wed 30 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Bunker Two, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Aaron walks with a cane, and everyone asks 'what happened'. Aaron answers the question twice, first with a story you've heard a... READ MORE>

NewsRevue

Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug 54 George Street EH2 2LR In a world where politics dominates the headlines, Guinness World Record-holder NewsRevue aims to shine a light in the darkness... READ MORE>

NIUSIA

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL After a sell-out development season at La Mama Theatre and two further award-winning seasons at Melbourne Fringe (2023) and Adelaide Fringe (2025),... READ MORE>

The Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again!

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Bristo Square EH2 2LR After wowing over 50,000 Fringe spectators, The Black Blues Brothers now make their McEwan Hall debut with a brand-new circus show for the whole... READ MORE>

Trouble, Struggle, Bubble and Squeak

Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ Collaborating for the first time with acclaimed political comedian and director Mark Thomas, award-winning theatre maker Victoria Melody (Northern... READ MORE>

KINDER

Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Underbelly Cowgate (Big Belly), 66 Cowgate, Edinburgh EH1 1JX A drag artist. A library. And a catastrophic misunderstanding of a ‘reading hour’. Fresh from its award-winning, critically-acclaimed run at Adelaide... READ MORE>

Madonna On The Rocks

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug Assembly (Roxy Boxy), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU She used to have dreams, now she has a baby. A sad, aging sack full of milk and regret. Madonna On The Rocks is a visceral, hilarious call to arms... READ MORE>

3 Chickens Confront Existence

Thu 31 Jul to Sun 10 Aug, Tue 12 Aug to Sun 17 Aug, Tue 19 Aug to Sun 24 Aug Belly Button, Underbelly, Cowgate. 66 Cowgate EH1 1JX Following their critically acclaimed run at last year’s festival, Three Chickens Confront Existence returns with their eggs-traordinary show,... READ MORE>

Buzz

Thu 31 Jul to Sun 24 Aug Front Room at Assembly Rooms, 54 George Street EH2 2LR Buzz is a raw, stand-up tragedy chronicling events in the life of Trish Lyons, an artist whose sense of self is shattered by tragic events... READ MORE>

Wild Thing!

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL Herald Angel award-winning performer Tom Bailey and his company Mechanimal return to Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Wild Thing!... READ MORE>

Centre of the Universe

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 1, Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL 'This has never been done before. No person, no woman, no young woman has ever admitted to being the Centre of the Universe... READ MORE>

Yes, We’re Related

Thu 31 Jul to Mon 25 Aug 66 Cowgate EH1 1JX Following a sold-out run at London’s The Other Palace, the award-winning dark comedy Yes, We’re Related comes to Edinburgh offering a hilariously... READ MORE>

I Was a German

Fri 1 Aug to Sun 24 Aug ZOO Southside 117 Nicolson Street Edinburgh Midlothian EH8 9ER Berlin, 1933. Heinz goes out to the cinema and never comes home. London, 2023. Clare claims the German citizenship her grandad Heinz gave up, but is... READ MORE>

Mind How You Go

Fri 1 Aug to Sun 24 Aug ZOO (Playground 1), High School Yards Teaching Hub EH1 1LZ Debuting her new music-theatre show, folk singer-songwriter and theatre-maker Michelle Burke (Step into My Parlour, Edinburgh Fringe, European Tour)... READ MORE>

Truckfest Scotland 2025

Sat 2 Aug and Sun 3 Aug Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NB Join us on 2nd & 3rd August at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh, EH28 8NB, for another epic Truckfest!... READ MORE>

The Nature of Forgetting

Sat 9 Aug to Tue 12 Aug, Thu 14 Aug to Tue 19 Aug, Thu 21 Aug to Sat 23 Aug 60 Pleasance EH8 9TJ Theatre Re, one of the UK’s leading theatre groups, returns to the Fringe bringing their explosive and joyous five-star sell-out international hit... READ MORE>

Moonlight Sonata by Candlelight

Fri 22 Aug St Giles Cathedral, St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE Treat yourself and your loved ones to an exceptional early evening piano recital at the beautiful candlelit venue of St Giles Cathedral on the Royal... READ MORE>

Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight

Sat 23 Aug St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE The exceptional musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta perform Vivaldi's masterpiece The Four Seasons and other magnificent works in the... READ MORE>

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