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Afghanistan is Not Funny

Henry Naylor

Redbeard Theatre

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–29 August 2022

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

August Wilson, co-conceived with Todd Kreidler

Saints & Poets Theater

Assembly Rooms

3–28 August 2022

The Ballad of Mulan

Ross Ericsson

Grist to the Mill and Red Dragonfly Productions

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–28 August 2022

Billy Boy

Rosemary Jenkinson

East Side Arts

Gilded Balloon Teviot

18–28 August 2022

Buffy: Revamped

Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy presented by James Seabright

Pleasance at EICC

18–29 August 2022

Candide

Babolin Theatre

Paradise in Augustines

8–13 August 2022

An Evening with Great Irish Writers

Neil O'Shea

Neil O'Shea Productions

C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo

18–28 August 2022

Garry Starr: Greece Lightning

Lauren Eisinger Productions and DWS Productions

Underbelly, Cowgate

5–28 August 2022

Johnny Got His Gun

Essi Rossi after Dalton Trumbo

Rossi, Holopainen, Riikonen in association with From Start to Finnish

ZOO Southside

5–28 August 2022

Jonny & The Baptists: Dance Like It Never Happened

Assembly George Square Studios

3–28 August 2022

Little Women

Allan Knee (book) Jason Howland (music) Mindi Dickstein (lyrics) based on the...

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Assembly Rooms

7–27 August 2022

Men With Coconuts

Gilded Balloon Patter House

6–28 August 2022

Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

Mischief Theatre

Pleasance Courtyard

3–28 August 2022

MOTHERLOAD!

Elena Voce and Saskia Marland

Urban Foxes Collective

Summerhall

6–14 August 2022

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Alison Skilbeck

Hint of Lime Productions

Assembly George Square Studios

18–29 August 2022

A Place That Belongs to Monsters

Casey Jay Andrews

Lion House Theatre

Summerhall

7–27 August 2022

Project Dictator

Julian Spooner and Matt Wells

Rhum + Clay

Pleasance Courtyard

6–27 August 2022

Splinters

Judy Seal

Dolphin Youth Theatre

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

8–13 August 2022

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

David Greig

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Double M Arts and Events

University of Edinburgh Playfair Library

8–28 August 2022

Thunderstruck

David Colvin

Scottish Storytelling Centre

3–29 August 2022

The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Flabbergast Theatre

Assembly Roxy

6–29 August 2022

The Trial

Tim Norton

Young Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

5–14 August 2022

Truth's A Dog Must to Kennel

Tim Crouch

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

6–28 August 2022

Vermin

Benny Ainsworth

Triptych Theatre

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–29 August 2022

Zoë

A Good Catch and Cluster Arts

Assembly Roxy

6–14 August 2022

Fringe news

Accommodation costs biggest threat to Fringe

28 August 2022

Eight of the biggest Edinburgh Fringe venues said that soaring accommodation costs are the biggest risk to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s future.

Tenderfoot steps up to Edinburgh

4 August 2022

Tenderfoot Theatre take their show Stop the World, We're Getting Off to Edinburgh Fringe this August.

Sticky Door opens for Katy in Edinburgh

28 July 2022

Birmingham born writer and performer Katy Arnstein is to take her “ukulele-spun storytelling show” Sticky Door to the Edinburgh Fringe.

Jon Culshaw is Flying High with Les in Chorley

12 July 2022

When Jon Culshaw takes to the stage of his hometown’s Chorley Theatre on Sunday night, one funnyman with deep Lancashire roots will be paying tribute to another...

Rachel's Fat Chance in Newcastle

10 July 2022

A politically-powerful one-woman play Fat Chance explores people’s fear of fatness and class stigma.

Live and sizzling in Newcastle

10 July 2022

Live Theatre in Newcastle serves up a sizzling summer line-up.

Lizard Boy licked into shape

3 July 2022

The UK cast for new indie rock musical Lizard Boy has been announced ahead of its première at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.

Make-up in Salford & Buxton

24 June 2022

Make-up at Kings Arms Theatre Salford July 16–17, as part of GM Fringe, is also at Underground Venues for Buxton Fringe July 15.

Work in a Gilded Balloon

19 June 2022

Edinburgh’s Gilded Balloon has more than a hundred summer jobs for a festival with a different perspective.

City dates for Classic!

13 May 2022

Classic! is a new comedy play directed by Joyce Branagh that Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre and HER Productions are taking to the Edinburgh Fringe this year.

This is not a show about Hong Kong: Max Percy + Friends

Untapped Award winners

8 May 2022

Four Untapped Award winners will see their work presented at Underbelly Cowgate as part of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

Lizard Boy debut in Manchester & Edinburgh

8 May 2022

Lizard Boy, a new indie rock musical from the US, makes its UK debut at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Pleasance Futures 2022

3 May 2022

Pleasance Futures supports a record number of artists and companies at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Edinburgh Festivals - An Anniversary Declaration

Edinburgh Festivals 2022

27 March 2022

There's so much to do in Edinburgh, it's time to start planning your trip.

EIF news

Edinburgh Festivals 2022

27 March 2022

There's so much to do in Edinburgh, it's time to start planning your trip.

Benedetti appointed new EIF Director

1 March 2022

Following the announcement of Valery Gergiev's resignation as President yesterday, violinist Nicola Benedetti has been appointed Director of Edinburgh International Festival.

Gergiev removed as EIF President

28 February 2022

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Edinburgh International Festival has "asked for and accepted" the resignation of Valery Gergiev as Honorary President.

Book Festival news

Edinburgh Festivals 2022

27 March 2022

There's so much to do in Edinburgh, it's time to start planning your trip.

Fringe Features

Edinburgh 2022 reflections

25 September 2022

David Chadderton reflects on his own experience of the first post-COVID Edinburgh Festivals.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe at 75

5 September 2022

Sandra Giorgetti is an unreliable narrator looking back on this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The top of the Royal Mile at Fringe time in 2006

Visiting the Edinburgh festivals

7 August 2022

David Chadderton has a few pointers for anyone visiting Edinburgh this August—or any August.

The Joys of Edinburgh in August

5 August 2022

As the Edinburgh festivals reopen, Philip Fisher explains their attraction.

Edinburgh Fringe under attack

8 July 2022

As Edinburgh attempts a return to normality in 2022, the organisers of the Fringe have been taken to task by almost 1,700 interested parties.

EIF Features

Edinburgh 2022 reflections

25 September 2022

David Chadderton reflects on his own experience of the first post-COVID Edinburgh Festivals.

Visiting the Edinburgh festivals

7 August 2022

David Chadderton has a few pointers for anyone visiting Edinburgh this August—or any August.

The Joys of Edinburgh in August

5 August 2022

As the Edinburgh festivals reopen, Philip Fisher explains their attraction.

Book Festival Features

Edinburgh 2022 reflections

25 September 2022

David Chadderton reflects on his own experience of the first post-COVID Edinburgh Festivals.

Visiting the Edinburgh festivals

7 August 2022

David Chadderton has a few pointers for anyone visiting Edinburgh this August—or any August.

The Joys of Edinburgh in August

5 August 2022

As the Edinburgh festivals reopen, Philip Fisher explains their attraction.

Book Festival reviews

Alan Cumming: Unpacking a Life

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Central Hall, Edinburgh

21 August 2022

Armando Iannucci: An Epic Poem for Our Times

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Central Hall, Edinburgh

19 August 2022

Charlie Higson: Glamour, Gangs and Greek Islands

Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh College of Art

19 August 2022

Chitra Ramaswamy: Homelands

Chitra Ramaswamy

Edinburgh International Book Festival and Scissor Kick

Edinburgh College of Art

21 August 2022

Sarah Smith: Hear No Evil

Sarah Smith

Edinburgh International Book Festival

14 August 2022

This Is Memorial Device

Adapted by Graham Eatough from the book by David Keenan

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Edinburgh International Book Festival

Edinburgh College of Art

13–29 August 2022

EIF reviews

Burn

Alan Cumming and Steven Hoggett

National Theatre of Scotland

King's Theatre Edinburgh

4–10 August 2022

Medea

Liz Lochhead

National Theatre of Scotland

The Hub

10–28 August 2022

Fringe reviews

Shannon Yuen as the victim and Louisa Chang as the victims sister

20 Minutes of Action

Pollyanna Esse

Lionheart Theatre

Pleasance Courtyard

3–29 August 2022

The Actress

Long Lane Theatre Company

Underbelly, Bristo Square

3–29 August 2022

Admiral

Christopher Tajah

Resistance Theatre Company

theSpaceTriplex

15–22 August 2022

Adventures of Straker

26 Crowndale in association with Kyriacos And Company

theSpace @ Niddry St

15–20 August 2022

Afghanistan is Not Funny

Henry Naylor

Redbeard Theatre

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–29 August 2022

Alternate Endings

Jonathan Price

SkyPilot Theatre Company

Online@theSpaceUK

5–31 August 2022

Americana: A Murder Ballad

Morna Young

Pepperdine Scotland and Morna Young

Assembly Checkpoint

3–17 August 2022

Angel

Henry Naylor

Torch Theatre Company

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

3–28 August 2022

The Anorak

Adam Kelly Morton.

No Frills Theatre Company

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

3–13 August 2022

Antigone: The Musical

Book by Marina McCready. The music by Marina McCready and Felix Elliott

Hard Luck Musicals

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

15–27 August 2022

Apartness

Kevin Short

K4K Films and Shortcut Productions

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

5–27 August 2022

Assassins

Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman

the Pacarts ensemble from Los Angeles, California

theSpace @ Niddry St

8–12 August 2022

August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

August Wilson, co-conceived with Todd Kreidler

Saints & Poets Theater

Assembly Rooms

3–28 August 2022

Autopilot

Ben Norris

Bill's Mother, Beth Shouler and Nic Doodson Productions

Pleasance Courtyard

3–29 August 2022

The Ballad of Mulan

Ross Ericsson

Grist to the Mill and Red Dragonfly Productions

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–28 August 2022

The Beast Will Rise

Philip Ridley

Stepping Out Theatre

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

5–13 August 2022

The Beatles Were a Boyband

Rachel O'Regan

F-Bomb Theatre

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

6–12 August 2022

Beneath

Daniel Gee Husson

Lighter Fluid Theatre Company and New Celts Productions

theSpace on the Mile

7–27 August 2022

Billy Boy

Rosemary Jenkinson

East Side Arts

Gilded Balloon Teviot

18–28 August 2022

Birds of Passage in the Half Light

Kat Woods

Tinderbox Theatre Company

Gilded Balloon Teviot

16–28 August 2022

The Birds

Conor McPherson

St Michael's Players

theSpace @ Symposium Hall

22–27 August 2022

Blodlina: The Viking Musical

Marcus Wood, Nathan Rees and Vicky Club

VNM Musicals & Townley Productions

Pleasance Dome

3–29 August 2022

Josias Dos Moleele, as Langston Hughes and Anele Nene as Bloke Modisane

Bloke and His American Bantu

Siphiwo Mahala

Assembly George Square Studios

3–14 August 2022

Blood and Gold

Mara Menzies

Royal Lyceum Edinburgh

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

14–28 August 2022

Bloody Difficult Women

Tim Walker

Wind of Change in association with Cahoots Threatre Company

Assembly Rooms

5–28 August 2022

BOGEYMAN

Lagahoo Productions

Pleasance Dome

6–29 August 2022

Boy Ant

Myles Wheeler

Fringe Online

5–29 August 2022

Buffy: Revamped

Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy presented by James Seabright

Pleasance at EICC

18–29 August 2022

Bunker

Noga Flaishon

Harpy Productions in association with Stepping Out Theatre

theSpace on the Mile

5–13 August 2022

Burnt Out

Penny Chivas

Dance Base, Edinburgh

23–28 August 2022

Butchered

Expial Atrocious

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

8–12 August 2022

Café van der Brocke

Aquila Youth Theatre

theSpaceTriplex

6–13 August 2022

Caino – Il Figlio del Primo

Torre del Drago aps

Paradise in Augustines

16–20 August 2022

Call Mr Robeson

Tayo Aluko

Inspiral Films and Media

Online@theSpaceUK

5–31 August 2022

Candide

Babolin Theatre

Paradise in Augustines

8–13 August 2022

The Chairs Revisited

Eugène Ionesco

Vagabond Productions

Pleasance Dome

19–29 August 2022

The Choir of Man

Nic Doodson and Andrew Kay

Andrew Kay and Associates, Nic Doodson Productions and Assembly

Assembly Hall

22–29 August 2022

Classic!

Lindsay Williams and Peter Kerry

Hope Mill Theatre in association with HER Productions (UK)

Pleasance Courtyard

3–28 August 2022

Concept for a Film

Second Body

Assembly George Square Studios

18–27 August 2022

Cooperstown

Sasha Matson

We Are Vocal

Fringe Online

From 5 August 2022

Coward Conscience

Eleventh Hour Theatre

theSpace on the Mile

22–27 August 2022

Daniel Cainer: More Jewish Chronicles (and Other Musical Stories)

Daniel Cainer

Underbelly, Bristo Square

3–28 August 2022

Daniel Defoe – The Lockdown Diaries

Suzanne Hawkes

Black and White Productions

Greenside @ Riddles Court

21–27 August 2022

Domitius – An Original Musical

Book by Henry Gu Cao and Lux Knightley, music and lyrics by Luke McCormick an...

Domitius Production Collective LLP

Fringe Online

15–31 August 2022

Dots and Dashes: A Bletchley Park Musical

Charlotte Henning and Katie Damer

ChopLogic Productions

Army @ The Fringe

16–28 August 2022

Dream of a King

Christopher Tajah

Christopher Tajah Resistance Theatre Company Ltd

theSpaceTriplex

10–26 August 2022

Dreams of the Small Gods

Zinnia Oberski

Summerhall

6–28 August 2022

Eglantyne

Anne Chamberlain

Gilded Balloon Teviot

18–29 August 2022

Eulogy

Darkfield

Summerhall

5–28 August 2022

An Evening with Great Irish Writers

Neil O'Shea

Neil O'Shea Productions

C ARTS | C venues | C piccolo

18–28 August 2022

Aaron J Gordon and Shôn Dale Jones and Karolien De Bleser OG ANIMAL ©Mirjam Devriendt.jpg

Every Word Was Once an Animal

Alexander Devriendt, Angelo Tijssens, Charles Purcell

Ontroerend Goed

ZOO Southside

5–28 August 2022

Everything Has Changed

Julian Spooner

Rhum and Clay and New Diorama

Pleasance Courtyard

3–16 August 2022

Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World

Adapted by Chris Bush from the book by Kate Pankhurst, lyrics by Chris Bush &...

Kenny Wax Family Entertainment in association with MAST Mayflower Studios

Pleasance Courtyard

4–29 August 2022

Far Gone

John Rwothomack

Roots Mbili Theatre and Sheffield Theatres

ZOO Southside

5–20 August 2022

Finding Magic

Beverley Bishop

C ARTS | C venues | C digital

From 6 August 2022

Floodgate

William Nye

Theatre Paradok

theSpace @ Niddry St

22–27 August 2022

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

AHSTF presents Leysin American School

theSpace @ Venue45

6–9 August 2022

Fool Muun Komming! [BeBg/YEsyes/ Hi5.4sure.TruLuv;Spank Spank:SOfun_Grate_Times]

Sam Kruger

Assembly Rooms

6–27 August 2022

Foundations

Wrong Tree Theatre Company and Ultraviolet Productions

Underbelly, Cowgate

6–21 August 2022

Frank Sanazi's Das Vegas Nights

Frank Sanazi, Blond Ambition and Voodoo Rooms

The Voodoo Rooms

12–28 August 2022

Freddie Hayes: Potatohead

Freddie Hayes in association with Pleasance and York Theatre Royal

Pleasance Courtyard

3–29 August 2022

Garry Starr: Greece Lightning

Lauren Eisinger Productions and DWS Productions

Underbelly, Cowgate

5–28 August 2022

Gatsby: A New Musical

Helen Brown and John Moore

1552 Productions Shrewsbury School

Paradise in Augustines

22–27 August 2022

Ghosts of the Near Future

emma + PJ

Summerhall

6–28 August 2022

The Gods, The Gods, The Gods

Alex Wright and Phil Grainger

Wright & Grainger in association with Hartstone-Kitney Productions (HKP)

Assembly Rooms

6–27 August 2022

Growing Up Ringside

Mina Liccione

Fringe Online

5–31 August 2022

Hamlet

William Shakespeare, adapted by Peter Schaufuss

Ashton Hall Saint Stephens

2–28 August 2022

Hedda

Dafna Rubenstein after Henrik Ibsen

Wonderlabs

Greenside @ Infirmary Street

15–27 August 2022

Helter Skelter

Mike Narouei

Veto Productions

Assembly George Square

3–29 August 2022

Horse Country

C J Hopkins

Guy Masterson, TTI in association with Flying Bridge Theatre Company

Assembly George Square Studios

8–28 August 2022

Hotel Paradiso

Lost in Translation Circus

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

6–27 August 2022

Hungry

Chris Bush

Paines Plough, 45North and Belgrade Theatre

ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall

3–28 August 2022

I Am Gavrilo Princip

Oliver Yellop

Further Theatre

Army @ The Fringe

22–28 August 2022

I Feel the Need

Loree Draude

Fringe Management

Assembly Rooms

19–27 August 2022

I Shall Not Be Moved

Isaiah Reaves

Pereko Makgothi alongside the Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati

Greenside @ Riddles Court

22–26 August 2022

I'm Just Saying

Cecelia Settem

C ARTS | C venues | C digital

5–31 August 2022

In Her Defence

Helen Saxon

Dead Herring

theSpace on North Bridge

22–27 August 2022

In the Name of the Son

Richard O’Rawe and Martin Lynch

GBL Productions, Green Shoot Productions

Assembly George Square Studios

3–28 August 2022

It All

Cameron Cook

Assembly Rooms

6–26 August 2022

It's Not Rocket Science

Cecilia Alexander

Letter for Letter Theatre

theSpace @ Symposium Hall

15–27 August 2022

Jack Docherty: Nothing But

Jack Docherty

Gilded Balloon at the Museum

3–19 August 2022

Jazz Emu: You Shouldn't Have

Archie Henderson

London Limelight

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

6–21 August 2022

John Hegley's Biscuit of Destiny

John Hegley

Summerhall

3–28 August 2022

John Lloyd: Do You Know Who I Am?

John Lloyd

The Stand's New Town Theatre

5–15 August 2022

Johnny Got His Gun

Essi Rossi after Dalton Trumbo

Rossi, Holopainen, Riikonen in association with From Start to Finnish

ZOO Southside

5–28 August 2022

Jonny & The Baptists: Dance Like It Never Happened

Assembly George Square Studios

3–28 August 2022

A Journey Within: An Artistic Blend of Sufi Music and the Motions of Sama

School of Islamic Sufism

Fringe Online

5–29 August 2022

Julia Masli: CHOOSH!

Julia Masli

Impatient Productions Ltd

Assembly Roxy

6–28 August 2022

KIN

Barely Methodical Troupe

Assembly Rooms

4–28 August 2022

Kurt Vonnegut: My Lives' Stories

Todd Wronski

Dickinson Theatricals

theSpace on North Bridge

5–13 August 2022

The Last Return

Sonya Kelly

Druid Theatre Company

Traverse Theatre

4–28 August 2022

Leaving Vietnam

Richard Vergette

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

5–27 August 2022

Les Dawson: Flying High

Tim Witnall

So Comedy and Broken Robot Productions

Assembly George Square

3–28 August 2022

Little Women

Allan Knee (book) Jason Howland (music) Mindi Dickstein (lyrics) based on the...

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Assembly Rooms

7–27 August 2022

Lizard Boy

Justin Huertas

Creative Endevor Office and Blair Russell Productions

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose

3–28 August 2022

Lost Voice Guy: Cerebral LOLsy

Lost Voice Guy

Gag Reflex

Gilded Balloon at the Museum

23–28 August 2022

Lots and Not Lots

Greg Sinclair

Greg Sinclair & Scottish Theatre Producers in Association with Lyra and t...

Summerhall

16–21 August 2022

Rebecca Johnson and Robert Bathurst, Love, Loss & Chianti

Love, Loss and Chianti

Christopher Reid

Assembly Rooms

3–28 August 2022

Malone Dies

Samuel Beckett

Shanghai Shakespeare

Fringe Online

5–29 August 2022

Mama Love

Lea Blair Whitcher

Summerhall

3–28 August 2022

Manbo

Sam Dugmore

Gilded Balloon Teviot

6–29 August 2022

Marrano, a Tale from the Inquisition

LaPercha Teatro

St Andrew's and St George's West, George St

6–7 August 2022

Men With Coconuts

Gilded Balloon Patter House

6–28 August 2022

Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

Mischief Theatre

Pleasance Courtyard

3–28 August 2022

Mischief Movie Night

Mischief Theatre Company

Pleasance at EICC

24–28 August 2022

Moira in Lockdown

Alan Bissett

Alan Bissett / Sacha Kyle

Scottish Storytelling Centre

3–23 August 2022

MOTHERLOAD!

Elena Voce and Saskia Marland

Urban Foxes Collective

Summerhall

6–14 August 2022

Mrs Roosevelt Flies to London

Alison Skilbeck

Hint of Lime Productions

Assembly George Square Studios

18–29 August 2022

Murder Ballads

The B Collective

Underbelly, Cowgate

16–28 August 2022

My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored

Nana-Kofi Kufuor

Red Ladder Theatre Company

Summerhall

3–28 August 2022

Name of the Game

Paul Ricketts and Steve Gribbin

Comedian Theatre Company

PBH's Edinburgh Virtual Fringe 2022

6–28 August 2022

Pip Utton as Bacon

Jeremy Towler and Pip Utton

The Stand's New Town Theatre

5–28 August 2022

A Place That Belongs to Monsters

Casey Jay Andrews

Lion House Theatre

Summerhall

7–27 August 2022

Posey Mehta: I Am Not a Gorilla

Posey Mehta

Babycakes Theatre

Underbelly, Bristo Square

3–29 August 2022

Press

Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller

Black Bat Productions

Pleasance Courtyard

17–28 August 2022

Project Dictator

Julian Spooner and Matt Wells

Rhum + Clay

Pleasance Courtyard

6–27 August 2022

The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Luke Wright

Pleasance Courtyard

3–29 August 2022

Rich Hall SOLD OUT: TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Rich Hall

Assembly Rooms

13–28 August 2022

Room – A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Heather Alexander Theatre

Pleasance Courtyard

3–27 August 2022

S.O.E.

Deborah Clair

Clair Obscur

Assembly Rooms

19–27 August 2022

Salamander

Mhairi McCall & Cal Ferguson

Pretty Knickers Productions

Greenside @ Riddles Court

22–27 August 2022

Sandcastles

Brite Theater

Assembly Rooms

4–27 August 2022

See You Later Mum

Christine Firkin

Family Production Company

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

15–20 August 2022

Shadow Under a Setting Sun

Christopher Tajah

Resistance Theatre Company

theSpaceTriplex

15–20 August 2022

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

The Showstoppers/Something for the Weekend

Showstopper

Pleasance Courtyard

3–28 August 2022

The Sian Clarke Experience

Sian Clarke

Underbelly, Cowgate

4–28 August 2022

Silent Night

Colin Crowther and Mary Crowther

Arkle Theatre Company

The Royal Scots Club

15–20 August 2022

Space Hippo

Mochinosha Puppet Company

Assembly George Square

19–29 August 2022

Speed Dial

Ollie Norton-Smith, Hannah Lloyd Barnes and Joe Large

Spies Like Us in association with the Pleasance

Pleasance Dome

3–29 August 2022

Splinters

Judy Seal

Dolphin Youth Theatre

theSpace @ Surgeons Hall

8–13 August 2022

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

David Greig

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh and Double M Arts and Events

University of Edinburgh Playfair Library

8–28 August 2022

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

Sami Ibrahim

Paines Plough, Rose Theatre Kingston, in association with Gate Theatre

ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall

3–27 August 2022

This is Not a Show About Hong Kong

Max Percy + Friends

Underbelly, Cowgate

5–28 August 2022

A Thousand Sons

Jamie Sefton

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

5–20 August 2022

Thunderstruck

David Colvin

Scottish Storytelling Centre

3–29 August 2022

Tickled: The Ken Dodd Story

Searchlight Theatre Company

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

8–20 August 2022

The Tiger Lillies: One Penny Opera

The Tiger Lillies

Underbelly, Bristo Square

4–28 August 2022

Time's Plague

Chris Dolan

Fair Pley / The Stand Comedy Club

The Stand's New Town Theatre

15–28 August 2022

Tom

Met on the Road Theatre Company

Assembly Rooms

4–17 August 2022

The Tragedy of Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Flabbergast Theatre

Assembly Roxy

6–29 August 2022

The Trial

Tim Norton

Young Pleasance

Pleasance Courtyard

5–14 August 2022

The Trojan Women

Euripides

The Riverside Theatre Company

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

15–20 August 2022

Truth's A Dog Must to Kennel

Tim Crouch

Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh

6–28 August 2022

Under Heaven's Eyes – The Systemic and Systematic Unjustified Killings of Black Lives

Christopher Tajah

Resistance Theatre Company

theSpaceTriplex

5–27 August 2022

Vermin

Benny Ainsworth

Triptych Theatre

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–29 August 2022

Visiting Cézanne

Duane Kelly

Red Rover Theatre Company

Hill Street Theatre

4–28 August 2022

The War of the Worlds

Based on the novel by H G Wells

Grist to the Mill

Gilded Balloon Teviot

4–29 August 2022

What Broke David Lynch?

Twonkey's Drive In

Greenside @ Nicolson Square

5–27 August 2022

Who Here's Lost?

Ben Moor

Pleasance Courtyard

3–29 August 2022

Winston and David

Robert Lloyd George

Maverick Theatre Company

Underbelly, Bristo Square

3–29 August 2022

Wolf Song: Journey to Valhalla

Livewire Theatre

Paradise at Augustines

6–12 August 2022

Yippee Ki Yay

Richard Marsh

Richard Marsh presented by James Seabright

Gilded Balloon Teviot

3–29 August 2022

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