Whats On Stage

Jill Halfpenny will take a short break from Legally Blonde next month to celebrate the “great British songbook”. Following sell-out seasons with Maria Friedman and Kerry Ellis in 2009, The Great British Songbook series resumes […]

Pleasance Dome10 to 30 August, 15.50The title suggests yet another down and dirty cabaret act. Instead, fictional actor and friend to the stars “Jack Treadwell” presents his farewell discourse to an audience of 500 (a […]

Pleasance Dome10 to 30 August, 20.30 Is Nina Conti the best ventriloquist now in action? She’s certainly the most original I’ve seen since David Strassman first burst on the scene at this festival. She looks […]

Noel Tovey is a national hero in Australia, coming out as an abandoned and sexually abused Aboriginal child, and rent boy, in Melbourne, the grim matter of his solo chat show in a severely truncated […]

Assembly Rooms11-30 August, 22.25I’m a big fan of Camille O’Sullivan, that gothic siren with a combustible artistic temperament, as indicated in her name, of Gallic and Gaelic extraction. But her new show amounts to less […]

Sadie Frost will appear for one night only alongside her friend Frances Ruffelle in Ruffelle’s new show Beneath the Dress at the Pleasance’s cabaret venue, Ghillie Dhu, this Wednesday 11 August 2010 at the Edinburgh […]

This sad, sad play from Michael West and the Corn Exchange in Dublin, is about collapse, disintegration, child abuse… you know the sort of thing, cheery stuff. If it weren’t so attractively performed in Annie […]

The full cast has now been announced for the world premiere stage version of Sebastian Faulks’ best-selling 1993 novel Birdsong, which has a limited season from 28 September 2010 (previews from 18 September) at the […]

Martin Creed is a 42 year-old Scottish artist who sings, paints, and now stages a sad little show for which he rightly apologises all the way through before singing a song inviting us to “F” […]

Pleasance Courtyard6-30 August, 16.45 Last year, Colin Hoult proved himself a writer and performer of extraordinary ability and a pioneer for theatrical comedy. From this year’s opening, a vaudevillian musical number featuring a baby Adolf […]