Reading Time: 2 minutesThe newest musical comedy on the block is a jaw-dropping co-creation by American duo Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, two outrageously talented artists who form the company American Sing Song (A.S.S.).
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is an all encompassing variety night of well performed Burlesque. It celebrates the traditions of the art form, while introducing new and innovative acts that live in the memory long after the show ends.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs soon as the band makes their way onto the stage, we jump straight into a funky beat that doesn't let up until the final song. This is a story about bugs coming together and creating music, and you cannot help but love the music.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommon Tongue follows the life of Bonnie as she fights class, prejudice and a language barrier that is not often explored.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is much easier to understand how cults form after seeing Rob Auton. His latest show, JUPITER, sees him as an estate agent on the planet Jupiter.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Safety’, the debut show from company Light Mends Carefully, centres a queer psychotherapist’s attempt to reconnect with a former patient after they unexpectedly cease their therapy sessions.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The RemAIns of the Butler’ comes to the Edinburgh Fringe from English Germany-based performer and former butler himself Mike McAlpine, who uses physical comedy and seamless character transformations to pose the very relevant questions of how can we live alongside AI and its integration into primarily human-based roles?
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou don’t need to have seen much stand-up before thinking that a lot of comics could benefit from therapy. Shrink Wrapped goes one step further and builds a whole show around it - three comics and a real-life clinical psychologist get together onstage, perform some routines, and sit down together to analyse them.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBedlam Theatre, the home of the Edinburgh University Theatre Company (EUTC), returns to the Fringe with a programme spanning theatre, musicals and comedy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIsabella Pettite, or Izzy, stands on stage with a guitar, a projector displays explosions of colour in the background and Nikki Lawrence readies herself on the keyboard.