What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? There is not a huge amount, it must be said. Unless you are reading this at the ...

The Karate Kid – The Musical, at the Festival Theatre this week and the Glasgow Theatre Royal next, is one of those shows that is touring ‘ahead of its West End debut’. While there are many things to ...

Two of my diligent actors were crawling about the carpet floor whilst I was trying to work out how best to explain a hole in the darkness. I wasn’t doing the best job, and I had spent a week trying to ...

The Hen Night by Debbie Hannan, the last in the current season of A Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at Assembly Roxy, is a wonderfully performed piece that is great fun as well as deceptively ...

BookFest: Booking opens today, Thurs 28 June. The Edinburgh International Book Festival, now firmly established at the Edinburgh Futures Institute in Lauriston Place, has its usual quota of ...

The Effect by Northern Assignment, upstairs at Assembly Roxy as part of a series of one-nighters in Edinburgh and Glasgow, is an intelligent production, staged with care and performed with distinction ...

Set out for a short run at the Traverse, Lung Ha’s The Table is a curious hybrid of immersive theatre, dance, spoken word and imagery. A hybrid that draws you in and leaves you asking more. The ...

Ben Martin Byrne’s play follows five restaurant workers down on their luck struggling in a minimum wage job in a capitalist world gone mad. A comedic tale on one of societies unfunny topics. From ...

One Day: The Musical, from the Royal Lyceum and Melting Pot, is a hugely ambitious production that has a correspondingly large impact, even with the odd problem in execution.

Developers have today been given permission to convert the B-listed Rose Theatre on Rose Street into a 43 bedroom hotel with cafe/bar at rooftop level at the second time of asking. Having had their ...

Hotdog by Ellen Ritchie, this week’s lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, is a powerful if uneven production, extremely well performed.

Edinburgh companies will be staging 253 shows at EdFringe 2025. That is 35% more than a year ago, double the number in 2018 and enough to make up the whole Fringe of 1974. And All Edinburgh Theatre ...