Reading Time: < 1 minutePop Off, Michelangelo! returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after its smash hit run at the festival in 2024. With queer joy and witty flair, this production will leave you in fits of laughter.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteComedian Liz Coin showers the audience in positivity in her one-woman comedy show, Lizzy Sunshine! A show about always trying to stay positive no matter the circumstances.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew York Circus Project have added their high flying expertise to the bardic showings at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Their take on Hamlet was harrowing in its athleticism and commendable for its ingenuity.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAirlock Theatre in association with Soho Theatre have brought this vampiric, musical exploration of queer presentation to the Fringe stage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew York based improv company Thorn and Petal Stick has been quick to show what they’ve got up their lacey Elizabethan sleeves at this year’s Fringe. And the pleasantest non-surprise of any deliciously good improv show? It’s different every night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis dance piece from São José dos Campos Dance Company was a highlight of my 2025 Edinburgh Fringe. It’s difficult to imagine a universe in which this piece and its brilliant company do not get picked up by the end of this run.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery performance of Nina Conti’s Who’s Face Is It Anyway will be entirely unique to the audience afforded the pleasure of viewing it - the show is largely unscripted and relies on improvised comedy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBecoming Maverick is a story like no other. Though inspired by Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca (1938), I was immersed despite having no history with the book – in part to the wonderful script, and in part to the immensely talented Heather Alexander.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew musical Edinburgh Days is making waves this Fringe directed by Bafta, Olivier and Tony award nominee Bob Thomson and musically composed by Brian Spence.
Reading Time: 1 minute‘A gut-punching performance that leaves you questioning your own character’