Edinburgh Fringe
The Skinny guide to Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We bring you everything you need to get the most out of the Fringe, including previews, interviews, reviews and features.
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ComedyCVNT @ Assembly George Square
Sophie Power's show – breaking down barriers around the body, pleasure and fear – is clown as exposure therapy Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
ComedyToussaint Douglass @ Pleasance Courtyard
Toussaint Douglass weaves stories of family, class – and pigeons – in his Best Newcomer-nominated show Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
ComedyChloe Petts @ Pleasance Courtyard
With a fourth great Fringe hour in as many years, stadium-filling stardom surely beckons for Chloe Petts Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
ComedyAndy Barr @ Pleasance Courtyard
Surreal stand-up Andy Barr returns with an unsettling, nostalgic, fourth debut hour Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
ComedyAyoade Bamgboye @ Pleasance Courtyard
Swings and Roundabouts is an impressive, shapeshifting first hour from a future star of British comedy Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
TheatreThis Sh*t Happens All The Time @ Assembly George Square
Amanda Verlaque's true story about queer love calls up powerful queer narratives that remain pressing today Read more »| 21 Aug 2025
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TheatreDeliverance @ Traverse Theatre
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir's innovative at-home experience is an innovative exercise in reflection Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
ComedyDavid’s One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven) @ Underbelly Cowgate
Laurie Stevens' new character comedy is a genuine and hopeful love letter to the mid-noughties emo subculture Read more »| 21 Aug 2025 -
ComedyJoe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time) @ Monkey Barrel
Yorkshire's Biggest Bastard, Frankie Monroe (aka Joe Kent-Walters) is back for another rodeo following his Best Newcomer win last year Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
ComedyMarc Jennings @ Monkey Barrel
Marc Jennings' new show Bread and Circuses sees the Glasgow comic showcase a mixture of political and personal material Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
ComedyHasan Al-Habib @ Pleasance Courtyard
Hasan Al-Habib provides seamless callbacks and crowd-winning call and responses in his first solo Fringe show, Death to the West (Midlands) Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
ComedyKnight, Knight @ Underbelly George Square
Knight, Knight is an hour of medieval silliness from a Knight and their very sexy horse Read more »| 20 Aug 2025 -
ComedyDavid Elms @ Pleasance Courtyard
David Elms Describes a Room is a real triumph of the imagination Read more »| 19 Aug 2025 -
ComedyKim Blythe @ Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
The mischievous Kim Blythe returns to the Fringe with an hour of raucous gags Read more »| 19 Aug 2025 -
ComedyRosa Garland @ Assembly Roxy
Primal Bog is a deliciously warped, deliriously funny lurch into the goop with Rosa Garland Read more »| 19 Aug 2025