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We present, promote and support theatre, new writing, circus, dance, improvisation, musicals and comedy - on a scale of mini to massive. Check out our line-up for Edinburgh 2025, Edinburgh 2024, Edinburgh 2023 and Edinburgh 2022 to see what we've done before.
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Showstopper! The Kids Show
An interactive musical show from Olivier Award-winning improvisers The Showstoppers. See your kids’ ideas turned into marvellous, mischievous adventures from scratch, in front of their very noses. Warning grown-ups: we ONLY take suggestions from kids!
Pleasance Courtyard - Grand
Sun 9th - Sun 30th August 2026 (weekends only)
10:30am (1h)
QFWFQ
Winner of Best Solo Show at the Hollywood Fringe. A razor-sharp, absurdly funny and deeply personal excavation of the power and peril of storytelling, growing up Jewish and queer, grappling with geopolitics, and the art that saves your life.
Summerhall - Former Gentlemen's Locker Room
Thu 6th - Mon 31st August 2026
11:40am (1h)
Daniel Cainer: What Am I, Chopped Liver?
Stories in song from a master songwriter. At times richly funny, at times deeply moving, always sharply-observed. The award-winning creator of ‘Jewish Chronicles’ is back for an incredible 21st year. ★★★★★ (Three Weeks)
Underbelly - Wee Coo
Wed 5th - Sun 30th August 2026
11:50am (1h)
One Million Words
Step into a world of words and human connection, inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letters, love and longing connect a poet of the past with an actor of today. ‘Electric.’ (TheatreBeyondBroadway). Part of the São Paulo Showcase.
Pleasance Dome - Jack Dome
Wed 5th - Mon 31st August 2026
12pm (1h)
Best. Dad. NEVER.
A gay Armenian-American Girl Dad sets out to be the perfect Black Girl Magic-celebrating papa. Inspired by his viral essays in The New York Times, Hike Chahinian stumbles through the humbling and hilarious fumbles of first-time fatherhood.
Just The Tonic (Mash House) - Cask Room
Thu 6th - Sun 30th August 2026
1:05pm (1h)
Doktor Kaboom and the Wheel of Science!
Spin the wheel, wherever it stops, that’s what happens next! Will we fly across the stage on a homemade hovercraft, shrink wrap a teenager, see a gigantic chemical reaction, or watch a child create gravity? Who knows? No two shows will be the same!
Pleasance Courtyard - Beyond
Wed 5th - Sun 16th August 2026
1:30pm (1h)
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Flamenc Oh!!
A brand-new dance comedy show where hilarious physical theatre meets world-class flamenco. From Yllana, the team behind ★★★★★ (Scottish Sun) hit A Comedy of Operas, comes flamenco like you’ve never experienced it before. Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells.
Assembly George Square - Music Hall
Thu 6th - Sun 30th August 2026
2:15pm (1h)
The Woman In The Mirror
Fearlessly honest, bitingly witty, unexpectedly uplifting true story of a mother and daughter navigating the realities of caregiving. Award-winning play based on bestseller ‘Surviving Alzheimer's with Friends, Facebook and a Really Big Glass of Wine’.
ZOO Southside - Studio
Fri 7th - Sun 30th August 2026
3:15pm (1h10m)
The Bob Ross Effect
A happy little show about the big things in life. Artist and unlikely sex symbol Bob Ross taught an entire generation to embrace their inner creativity. Sarah-Louise Young (★★★★★ An Evening Without Kate Bush) celebrates this enduring icon with a big heart (and even bigger perm).
Assembly George Square - Piccolo
Wed 5th - Mon 31st August 2026
4:05pm (1h10m)
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Olivier Award–winning West End hit and ‘the funniest improv on the Fringe’ (BroadwayBaby.com). The Showstoppers improvise a hilarious new musical every night, totally inspired by audience suggestions. ‘Achingly funny’ ★★★★★ (TimeOut) ★★★★★ (Playbill) ★★★★★ (Telegraph)
Pleasance Courtyard - Grand
Wed 5th - Sun 30th August 2026
5:20pm (1h10m)
Dracula: Lucy's Dream
A hypnotic reimagining of Bram Stoker’s immortal gothic masterpiece, from award-winning Plexus Polaire (Moby Dick, Barbican). Dark, sensual and visually breathtaking, life-sized puppets and human performers collide in an intoxicating descent into desire, fear and female emancipation.
Pleasance at the EICC - Lennox
Thu 6th - Sat 29th August 2026
5:30pm (1h)
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Josh Pickar: Getting Off
Law school. Death row. Clown school. Comedian and US capital defense attorney Josh Pickar’s absurd comedy about the American death penalty, the institutions that run it, and how one lapdance took it down. A stupidly smart show about a shockingly stupid system.
Assembly Roxy - Snug
Wed 5th - Sun 30th August 2026
7:40pm (1h)
