Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe duo, doing separate shows for children and adults at the fringe, have hit on a winner " their daft pranks bring the young audience right in It's a thing, co…
Patsy Ferran takes on Eliza in Pygmalion, Andrew Scott plays multiple characters from Uncle Vanya and Mlima's Tale tells a powerful tale of the ivory trade. Here's what's in store on stage C…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghThe Australian comedian makes it immediately clear you are in safe hands with a show of sketches and characters It's a thrill when a comic you're seeing for …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghSchoolteacher-by-day Tothill's foppish persona is a delight and his thesis, that hedonism died with the Reformation, is convincing There are newcomers on the fr…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe conceit in the comic's fringe debut is that his sleazebag persona has been #MeTooed and returns with a barrage of bad-taste jokes "Too dark and weird for m…
Pleasance Dome, EdinburghRamoso delivers an irresistible show featuring dozens of characters in sketches, improv and a comic play Sketch is usually a team game " and you could believe there'…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAbdulrashid is emerging as one of comedy's most honest chroniclers of life's complexities and contradictions There are few acts in Edinburgh right now quite lik…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghThe physical assault Deol underwent in the US informs a set that comes alive when the audience join her search for agency Who wouldn't want to hold the fate of those…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup makes his fringe debut with songs, set-pieces and self-acceptance in a winning show Do we need more gay heroes? Daniel Foxx thinks so. If you are wa…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe smoothest of standups offers polished punchlines in a warm and perfectly wrought hour on imminent parenthood No comedy expertise is required to deduce, the …
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghSome gags are queasy and others are thrillingly bleak from the Mancunian comic whose outbursts are often directed at himself This cramped space at the back of …
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghFrom a nine-year-old misfit to Sally Rooney writing a children's book, Treen's characters are pitched at a sharp angle to the real world Funny Women winner 2022…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAssuming the guise of 'an old-school entertainment type', this fringe debutant is hypnotically unusual The fashion is for fringe newcomers to deliver solo shows…
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh In an affecting set, the comic reflects on his younger brother's death and the importance of holding loved ones close It is said that comedy is tragedy plus time " …
Having built his reputation as a comic and podcaster on his candour about anxiety and addiction, Robins is facing a new comedy challenge " happiness 'There is no greater sorrow," as Dante ha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe standup delivers an energetic set about trying to live up to his parents' expectations and the ethics of his corporate day job "I am unhinged!" There's nerv…
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghHenry Naylor's well-intentioned drama about deaths in care homes lets anger cloud its judgment Hyde, Manchester, in the 1990s. Frank and Georgie's 78-year-old mum ha…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe nerdy comic takes his standup in a new direction with this partly participatory show but it doesn't exploit his strengths He may be making his 10th Edinburg…
Monkey Barrel Comedy, EdinburghA clown by trade, Masli here sets about tackling the audience's problems. Her leftfield efforts to ease them are one of this fringe's true tonics At any given …
Monkey Barrel @ the Tron, EdinburghAsh's audacious conceit dares to find the funny side of tragic events, and partly succeeds, until this rawly emotional show slips comedy's moorings If you …
After the pain of the Covid years, the festival has returned with a roar. It can make a new standup's career " if they are willing to sleep in a nuclear bunker and expose their own trauma So…
Theatre Royal, GlasgowDelivering his own 'origin story', with interruptions encouraged, Acaster skilfully pieces together big-yield routines from inauspicious beginnings We all learned some…
Assembly George Square, EdinburghSeventies spy novels, sexually frustrated poultry, an April Fools' Day breakup … it's all here in the sophomore show from Rosie Nicholls and Sullivan Brown…
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThe US writer, comedian and actor's cabaret show includes potent songs about sexuality, identity and police violence Triple-threat doesn't begin to describe the abili…
Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAudiences will fall for upbeat stooge Magliano, who delivers a fun, well-wrought follow-up to last year's sellout show " and ends on a perspective-shifting twis…