Festivals
Step into a vibrant celebration of culture with The Skinny festival guide. We bring you the latest UK and international festival news; you'll find festival information, previews, reviews, features, and interviews.
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Edinburgh FringeAideen McQueen @ Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose
Aideen McQueen's Waiting for Godot parody doesn't quite hit all the right buttons Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeJohn Tothill @ Pleasance Courtyard
This Must Be Heaven is a breakout hour of gossipy gluttony from John Tothill Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeJain Edwards @ Underbelly Bristo Square
Cult comic Jain Edwards displays a flair for the weird in an under-powered hour Read more »| 28 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringePickled Republic @ Summerhall
Ruxandra Cantir's solo show is a charming, weird, and timely reflection on society, via some truly unique characters Read more »| 27 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeEd Night @ Monkey Barrel
Your Old Mucker is an hour of solid gold gags from the incomparably offbeat Ed Night Read more »| 26 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FestivalsEIF: Figures in Extinction @ Festival Theatre
Nederlands Dans Theater's EIF co-production with Complicité examines how artists, and by extension people, can meaningfully exist in the face of extinction and mortality. Read more »| 25 Aug 2025
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Edinburgh FringeClub NVRLND @ Assembly Checkpoint
In its perhaps overly successful attempt to replicate a club environment, elements of the immersive Club NVRLND get lost in the fray Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeBalfour Reparations @ Summerhall
Farah Saleh's genre-bending piece is timely, memorable and innovative Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeVENUS 2.0 @ ZOO Southside
An ever-changing cabaret of dance, theatre and puppetry retells the life of suffragette-turned-fascist Mary Richardson Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeLost Lear @ Traverse Theatre
Venetia Bowe shines in this intensely moving and astonishingly clever production about an actress lost in her memories Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeConsumed @ Traverse Theatre
Karis Kelly's Consumed is a fantastically paced and multi-layered tale of intergenerational trauma in one Northern Irish family Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeRosco McClelland @ Monkey Barrel
A searching hour touching on mental health, roombas and crows from one of the Scottish scene’s brightest and best Read more »| 25 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeThe Besties 2025: Week Three Winners
Liam Withnail, Rosa Garland, Emma Frankland and 404 Ink are among the winners at the final round of our Edinburgh Festivals awards, The Besties Read more »| 23 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeBebe Cave @ Pleasance Dome
With a winning combination of lo-fi charm and high ambition, Bebe Cave's CHRISTBRIDE is a Monty Python-meets-Clueless medieval romp Read more »| 22 Aug 2025 -
Edinburgh FringeThor Stenhaug @ Pleasance Courtyard
Thor Stenhaug brings a relentless positivity and charming happiness to his debut hour at the Edinburgh Fringe Read more »| 22 Aug 2025