Edinburgh Events
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Today to Thu 10 Sep, By Distance closest first.
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They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads
Today 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:...
The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey
Today 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...
How Not to Make it in America
Today 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
Today 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...
Learning to Human
Today 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
Today 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...
Long Way Home
Today to Sun 16 Aug, Tue 18 Aug to Sun 23 Aug, Tue 25 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Gilded Balloon (Snug), 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH8 9ND
Layla, an Iranian refugee, escapes war and rebuilds herself in American television. But when her dream begins to fracture, the past she once fled...
Copycat
Today 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
Today 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...
Remember, Remember!
Today 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!...
Sanctuary
Today 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...
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...
Georgina Thomas: Hysterical Soprano
Today 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
Today 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...
A STAN IS BORN! – Encore
Today 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...
Tap Out! (Or I'll Hit You Again)
Today 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...
Edinburgh Royal Mile International Piano Series -The Beethoven Sonatas
Mon 7 Sep
St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
Following its acclaimed debut in 2024, the prestigious Edinburgh Royal Mile Royal International Piano Series returns with a complete cycle of...
Tale of the Firebird
Today 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...
Big Stuff
Today 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...
Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop
Today 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...
Smash Karts Game Community Championship
Sat 29 Aug
123 Princes Street EH2 2ER
Get ready for an action-packed day of kart battles, friendly competition, and multiplayer fun at the Smash Karts Game Community Championship!...
To Do Lists
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (The Green), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
'No one is coming to save you. Except yourself.' Ever since she can remember, Amy has written a to do list...
Giraffe
Today, Fri 14 Aug, Sun 16 Aug to Mon 24 Aug, Wed 26 Aug to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
Eliana's always felt different – and not in a cute way. In fact, she's grown up with a dark secret: she's almost definitely a...
Forget About Me
Today to Mon 31 Aug
Pleasance Courtyard (Bunker 2), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
In a remote, north-east village, something lurks in the bathroom: something Dylan struggles to remember, which even his dad's deadly DIY skills...
Heart Beats Strong
Today 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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