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A man with a mustache and a brown cardigan stands in profile lit by a dramatic yellow beam, with his hands raised near his chest.

Comedy

"Be Good!" with Paulette

30 July - 24 August 2025, 10:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A bright orange image with a group of actors looking like things are going wrong. Scripts are flying through the air. A quote from reviewer 'Lost In Theatreland' saying

Theatre

...Earnest?

30 July - 25 August 2025, 3:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Three people are dressed as chickens locked up behind bars

Theatre

3 Chickens Confront Existence

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two people look surprised and fearful as yellow banana peels fall around them against a dark background. One wears glasses and a hat, the other has curly hair and an open mouth.

Comedy

A Night of Drama

31 July - 24 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A newspaper collage with cut outs of lads magazines and old archive family photos. In the centre there is an old mobile phone with a small child smiling and the title of the show inside.

Theatre

A Small Town Northern Tale

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Text stating

Comedy

Adam Kay - A Particularly Nasty Case

22 - 23 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Alex Mitchell sits on a large black arm chair, wearing a blue feather bower, positioned next to a pot plant.

Comedy

Alex Mitchell: Tough

30 July - 25 August 2025, 6:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A white man in his early 30s with mid-length curly brown hair and a short brown beard, wearing a blue t-shirt, lies on a piano keyboard with his hands clutching at the sides. He is looking directly at the camera and has a slight smirk on his face.

Comedy

Alex Prescot: Cosy

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:45 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A close up of a man lying down, there is a silver lamp above him and he is staring into it. He is wearing a green patterned shirt and there is a green background.

Comedy

Alfie Packham: My Apologies to the Chef

30 July - 24 August 2025, 7:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt. He is holding his head up with his hand sulkily.

Comedy

Ali Woods: Basher

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Ali Woods: Basher - EXTRA PERFORMANCES

9 - 16 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man embraces a woman in a red dress

Comedy

Alice Fraser: A Passion for Passion

11 - 25 August 2025, 6:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman (pronouns she/they) holding a rock over her head. She looks wistful in a green, collared shirt on a lavender backdrop.

Comedy

Alice Tovey: Glass Houses

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman in the centre of the screen is wearing a white vest top and is looking up. Her left hand is pointing up and her right hand is lowered and holding a dark blue ribbon.

Comedy

Alice-India: See You In Hell

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Sutton is hiding under a pearl encrusted veil. Matching pearl earrings dangle from her ears. She is looking straight down the barrel at you. She has green eyes. She looks guarded and concerned, with her lips slightly parted, ready to say something.

Theatre

ALTAR

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man in a hat and black clothes holds a large bubble containing a tornado of fog. He looks excited and surprised.

Children's Shows

Amazing Bubble Man

31 July - 25 August 2025, 11:20 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two white eighteen year old Boys are mid Rugby Scrum. They are both looking forward wearing matching white and red rugby kits. The boy on the left is wearing a black scrum cap and looks nervous, the boy on the right has blonde hair and looks prepared.

Theatre

An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo

30 July - 25 August 2025, 12:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A green apple sits on a wooden rocking chair. Two eyes and a mouth have been bitten out of her.

Cabaret and Variety

An Evening with Dame Granny Smith

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Annie Boyle sitting on a chair backwards with a spotlight

Comedy

Annie Boyle: Smooth Criminal

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A photograph of a woman with dark brown hair sitting in a light pink sparkly leotard.

Cabaret and Variety

Apocalypse Cabaret: Songs for the End of the World

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

8 people in Regency costume stand and look out towards the viewer. They are holding Regency era props – a violin, a fan, a book.

Comedy

Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

2 - 10 August 2025, 1:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

The show's mascot Mr Chicken poses in front of a white background, with the words BATSU! emblazoned in red across the image.

Comedy

BATSU! Cowgate

31 July - 23 August 2025, 10:45 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

The show's mascot Mr Chicken poses in front of a white background, with the words BATSU! emblazoned in red across the image.

Comedy

BATSU! George Square

10 - 24 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly George Square

Ben Goldsmith stands on stage wearing a blue suit jacket with a red hankerchief in the top pocket. He is holding his hands out infront of him and clasping them together, he is pulling a sad expression on his face.

Comedy

Ben Goldsmith: CrimeLandTown

12 - 24 August 2025, 1:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A musical comedian lying on the floor

Comedy

Bennet Kavanagh: Crank Up the Volume!! (To a Reasonable Volume)

31 July - 22 August 2025, 8:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Cabaret performer in fishnet top and black bob haircut poses seductively with her hand on her chin. Collage includes images of fire-breathing and aerial acts on stage with a live band and dramatic lighting.

Cabaret and Variety

Bernie Dieter's Club Kabarett

1 - 23 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

5 performers are on stage all wearing a suit with waistcoat and tie. Three are center stage performing an acrobatic handstand, the other two are stood slitghtly behind them one off to the left and the other on the right

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Black Blues Brothers: Let's Twist Again!

31 July - 25 August 2025, 3:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

The backdrop is purple curtains and candles with Jon Gracey in a dramatic Storyteller pose in the foreground

Comedy

Blood on the Clocktower: Live

12 - 24 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman cries tears made of blue glitter

Comedy

Britt Migs: Dolphin Mode

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

Theatre

Brown Girls Do It Too: Mama Told Me Not To Come

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

a man in a velvet tuxedo without trousers, he is holding his trousers up with a pair of scissors

Comedy

Bryan Safi: Are You Mad at Me??

30 July - 25 August 2025, 5:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman in a green outfit is sat in the cinema holding a bag of popcorn. Kernals are flying everywhere and she is wearing 3D cinema glasses

Comedy

Cabbage the Clown: Cinemadrome

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

Connor Delves as Cadel Evans in the new play CADEL: Lungs On Legs. Delves, as Evans, rides a BMC road bike, following the 2011 win of the Tour de France.

Theatre

CADEL: Lungs on Legs

31 July - 24 August 2025, 1:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Woman in red dress against red backdrop looking at camera

Theatre

Cecilia Gentili's Red Ink

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two stone walls either side of the photo. Inside the image a photo of a person with short brown hair and clear glasses staring out into the distance. They are wearing a turquoise jacket and a white shirt.

Comedy

Cerys Bradley’s Queer Tales For Autistic Folk

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Channel 4’s A Comedy Thing LIVE!

20 August 2025, 11:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

Tegan Verheul's face against a grey background. She has curly blonde hair and a bloody nose.

Theatre

Chokeslam

30 July - 25 August 2025, 8:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedian Chris Turner, wearing a black jersey and silver chain, stands in front of a blue background, pointing both fingers at the camera, moderately distorted by a prism to seem as if he's in motion.

Comedy

Chris Turner: Spontaneous

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A performer in a pink apron and hat holding a wooden spoon. Behind her is a man wearing a pink apron and holding a guitar.

Children's Shows

Cinderella Ice Cream Seller – A Musical

30 July - 17 August 2025, 11:40 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

Image of female performer in a cropped bodysuit standing on a male performers head.

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Circa: Wolf

1 - 23 August 2025, 6:20 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

8 actors dressed in blue and black sit on and around a bench. They are comedically handcuffed to each other, eating doughnuts and wrapped in police tape.

Comedy

CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation

1 - 17 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A man in the middle of the image is smiling and holding onto a keyboard. Behind him is a backdrop of newpapers.

Cabaret and Variety

Daniel Cainer: Topical

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:50 am

Underbelly George Square

An image of David and Katie. Katie is lying on the floor and David is standing over her in a squatted position.

Theatre

David and Katie Get Re-Married

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

David's One-Man Band (F*ck You, Steven)

31 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Theatre

Del Valle: A True Tale of Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll... and Redemption

6 - 25 August 2025, 2:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

DeliaDelia has a green face and is wearing a witch's hat in full black dress, squatting in the middle of a ring of green fire, holding a wand

Comedy

DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 11:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

- Three toilet cubicles in colours: pink, green/blue and purple. - Cubicle one (left): A man (Ollie) dangling off the door with a mahoosive smile on his face. - Cubicle two (middle): Ollie sat on the toilet seat with his legs crossed and his hand on his

Theatre

DESPERATE WEE GAY BOY

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:45 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman is dressed in a white shirt, red bowtie, black jacket and a black hat with flowers and cherries on them. She is looking into the camera with a confused look, wide eyes and red liptick.

Comedy

Dirty Work

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two friends lie on a green carpet surrounded by cut-outs of Princess Diana and sewing materials. One wears her iconic black revenge dress and holds white rosary beads; the other wears a white YALE jumper and holds a measuring tape. They face each other,

Theatre

Don't Tell Dad About Diana

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two women are stood in the middle of the frame, one is holding a glass of Prosecco, one is holding her hand to her mouth in shock. Both wearing back in front of a black background.

Comedy

Drunk Women Solving Crime

15 - 24 August 2025, 5:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

silhouette upside down against a night sky with stars. The text in neon lights says 'edinburgh comedy allstars'

Comedy

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

8 - 23 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly George Square

At the centre of the image is an illustrated egg being fried in a black and orange pan, against a light blue watercolour painted background. Coming in from the top left corner is a black and white photo of a hand holding half a cracked egg, and another c

Theatre

Eggs Aren't That Easy to Make

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Eli matthewson stares at the camera terrified in bed at night.

Comedy

Eli Matthewson: Night Terror

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man with a drawn on monobrow and beards wearing a yellow fishermans Sou'wester stares down the camera.

Comedy

Fisherman Jon: What's on the End of My Rod? A Clown Odyssey

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

5 members of FLIP fabrique are scattered around the page doing tricks with hoops. There is a baby blue background and in the centre of the page is the company name in white.

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

FLIP Fabrique: Six °

2 - 23 August 2025, 2:05 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Comedy

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo 2.0

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Peter and Lloyd wearing yellow shirts with Mr Bing robot head between them, against a red background with bingo balls suspended from the ceiling.

Children's Shows

Foxdog Studios: Robo Bingo Kids

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A smiling person in a Giraffe costume, in front of a yellow Giraffe patterned background.

Comedy

Francisco de Nata

30 July - 24 August 2025, 10:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Furiozo leaps across a road bare-chested, with limbs splayed in every direction.

Comedy

Furiozo: Man Looking for Trouble

31 July - 10 August 2025, 8:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Theatre

FURNITURE BOYS

30 July - 25 August 2025, 12:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

Half man half penguin in the middle of the poster. He is wearing an orange neck ruff and is looking directly into the camera

Comedy

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

5 - 25 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly George Square

A photo of Geoff Norcott, wearing a light blue tshirt with a black blazer on top

Comedy

Geoff Norcott: BASIC BLOKE 2 - There's No Bloke Without Fire

16 - 23 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

man with a beard and short dark hair wearing a black blazer and blue tshirt in front of a grey background

Comedy

Geoff Norcott: BASIC BLOKE 2 - There's No Bloke Without Fire

11 - 24 August 2025, 3:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour

22 - 23 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

An image of Gianmarco Soresi. He is wearing a light brown jacket and stares into the camera

Comedy

Gianmarco Soresi: The Drama King Tour

23 August 2025, 5:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two men in prison officer uniform, in a multi-coloured ball pit

Theatre

Going Soft

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:35 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A girl smiling on a bus

Comedy

Grace Jarvis: Just Because I'm Crying Doesn't Mean I'm Not Having a Nice Time

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:50 pm

Underbelly George Square

An illustration of two people holding up a butt plug, next to this is the title 'HOLE' in yellow block capitals

Musicals and Opera

Hole!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman leaning against a kids toy car, she is wearing long black boots and has brown curly hair.

Comedy

Holly Spillar: Tall Child

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two white men face the camera in a mysterious way. One holds a rolled up paper tied with an orange bow while the other holds an empty jar with its cap on the other hand.

Cabaret and Variety

Honest Fraud

30 July - 25 August 2025, 4:40 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

How to win

Musicals and Opera

How To Win Against History

30 July - 24 August 2025, 7:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A dark skinned woman (the creator Lula Mebrahtu) wears a sheer white wrap around her head and shoulders. Behind her is an orange and red headpiece in a halo effect, framing the woman's head and shoulders.

Theatre

I AM – A Walking Universe

1 - 24 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A dark skinned woman (the creator Lula Mebrahtu) is wearing MiMu gloves in one hand and gold jewellery in the other. She is looking directly into the camera as she holds both hands up just under her chin

Theatre

I AM – One of many, many of One

31 July - 23 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A black and white image of a woman looking down

Theatre

I Dream in Colour

30 July - 24 August 2025, 2:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Holly Redford Jones, a white woman with short blonde hair wearing a teal green velvet suit and a white t-shirt, looking straight forward with a smile, and holding in her right hand a gold bar tray with three drinks - a whiskey glass, a martini glass and

Comedy

I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A group of 5 performers holding various musical objects and wearing red and black are laughing and smiling.

Comedy

Impromptunes – The Completely Improvised Musical

30 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman with windswept red hair and black-framed glasses wears a bright pink ruffled dress and holds a daffodil-yellow shoe.

Cabaret and Variety

In These Shoes

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Jain Edwards: She-Devil

30 July - 25 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A young dishevelled man with dark shades on

Comedy

Jake Roche: Neporrhoids!

11 - 24 August 2025, 8:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedian James Barr in a blue cardigan, close up and looking hopeful, with a slightly shaded face and a light ish blue background.

Comedy

James Barr: Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex to My Mum)

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man is on a cobbled street, he is smiling and holding onto a lamppost in one hand and an umbrella in the other hand. Playing cards are spiralling out of the umbrella. There is a newspaper on the floor.

Cabaret and Variety

James Phelan – The Man Who Was Magic

31 July - 13 August 2025, 5:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two men dressed as Jesus hold each other in a field

Theatre

JEEZUS!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Jeromaia Detto is a baby sat in front of a wall of portraits depicting other babies doing grown up jobs.

Comedy

Jeromaia Detto: When I Grow Up...

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Jessica Durand is dressed in a historical World War 1 soldier's uniform covered in dirt. She leans forward with her hands, shouting with an intense expression. She has curly red hair partially covered by a helmet. The background is a deep burgundy colour

Comedy

Jessica Durand: Over The Top

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

Joe Sutherland: Miss World

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Joe Tracini jumping up in the air whilst wearing a red and black leotard. Next to him the title reads 'Joe Tracini 10 things I hate about me'

Comedy

Joe Tracini: Ten Things I Hate About Me

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:25 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Karen, dressed up in white feathers, yawns. Crash of the expectations of a

Theatre

Karen Houge: DREAMGIRL

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Kathryn has big blonde hair and is wearing a pink dress and a yellow apron. She is using a blender.

Comedy

Kate Owens: Cooking with Kathryn

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Killian Sundermann stands posing over a fence.

Comedy

Killian Sundermann: This Boy is Cracking Up

30 July - 21 August 2025, 5:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A drag artist in white clown make up stands in front of a mirror that has been adorned with many little photographs and images.

Theatre

KINDER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A photo of a woman wearing a knight's costume and hugging a toy horse

Comedy

Knight, Knight

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

A women stands on stage with a microphone.

Comedy

Kyla Cobbler: Gone Rogue

13 - 17 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

Kyla Cobbler: Gone Rogue - EXTRA PERFORMANCE

14 - 15 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two twins stand shoulder to shoulder wearing green suits against a similarly green background, a pear rests on their shoulder between them.

Comedy

Late with Pear

1 - 23 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Laura Benanti

Theatre

Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

LEMONFACE

22 - 23 August 2025, 11:05 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Lulu holds bouquet of roses, mascara tear stains down her cheeks, in all white.

Comedy

Lulu Popplewell: Love Love

30 July - 24 August 2025, 6:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

A black and white collage of british pop icons

Music

Marc Burrows' Britpop Disco

10 - 24 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Mario the Maker Magician throws red clown noses and large balloons from stage to the kids in the audience.

Children's Shows

Mario the Maker Magician

30 July - 17 August 2025, 10:30 am

Underbelly George Square

Mhairi MaCall as 'Mary' surrounded by the cast of 'Mary Queen of Rock!'

Musicals and Opera

Mary, Queen of Rock!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Music

MASSAOKE: 90s Live

1 - 17 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

An image of a stage with 4 performers on holding instruments. Above is a projection which reads 'This is the greatest show'

Music

MASSAOKE: Sing The Musicals

1 - 24 August 2025, 1:40 pm

Underbelly George Square

Man in a white t-shirt is entangled in multiple strips of red tape.

Comedy

Max Fosh: Loophole

17 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A flamboyant MC in front of a row of four misses. The misses stand like dolls and the MC holds an intriguing pose.

Musicals and Opera

Miss Brexit

30 July - 24 August 2025, 1:25 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Cartoon featuring an old fashioned mic, piano with a picture of Tom Lehrer on it and Mitch Benn playing guitar

Comedy

Mitch Benn: The Lehrer Effect

30 July - 25 August 2025, 4:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman with long blonde hair is wearing headphones and speaking through an attached headphone mic. She is mid dance.

Wellness

Move to Feel

2 - 23 August 2025, 11:00 am

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Mr. Cardboard and Huxley fly through the sky.

Comedy

Mr Cardboard

31 July - 10 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Norse Gods wrestling.

Theatre

Mythos: Ragnarök

1 - 23 August 2025, 8:40 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Two women hugging each other. One dressed in a curly wig with a bow and corset. The other dressed in a leotard and ponytails.

Comedy

Naughty Cabaret

1 - 23 August 2025, 11:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

White door in the middle of a plain dark wall with white skirting running along bottom of the wall. The door has four panels with performer Neil Frost in four different costumes. Top left door panel - white shirt and black bowtie costume, Top right door

Theatre

Neil Frost: The Door

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A yellow background with two cropped black and white images of two men on the front. small icons of a laptop, light savers, money signs and old photos swarm around them.

Musicals and Opera

Nerds: the Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs comedy musical

30 July - 25 August 2025, 12:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Nick Hornedo: Watch This When You Get Home

30 July - 24 August 2025, 2:25 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Nina Conti smiles and holds a face mask.

Comedy

Nina Conti: Whose Face Is It Anyway?

7 - 15 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Darryl is crampped into a large pink box, he is holding a small dog. surrounding darryl, who is a smily white male with a pink suit on and a bright orange wooly hat is a selection of objects that have cascaded out of the box, including toothbrushes, a ru

Children's Shows

Out of the Box

30 July - 25 August 2025, 11:30 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A starry night sky with the title Outback Comedy

Comedy

Outback Comedy

31 July - 23 August 2025, 10:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Three childlike astronauts in white school polo-neck t-shirts look on in awe. Behind them we see the Yorkshire Dales beneath a starry sky. A rocket takes off, the planet mars lies on the horizon, Cleggy, Compo, and the third one sit, whilst Dame Jessica

Comedy

Pat Rascal: Space Gravy

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Two men stand in the centre of the screen wearing green suits. They are both looking worried, gazing out in front of them. There are hands behind and around them holding bananas.

Comedy

Pear: Phobia

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

a poster for pigs fly easy ryan with a person wearing a clown make up in an airhost uniform on a pink background

Theatre

Pigs Fly Easy Ryan

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

The statue of David, wearing sunglasses and featuring a saintly halo, sits in front of two Doric columns, surrounded by pink clouds and a blue background.

Musicals and Opera

Pop Off, Michelangelo!

31 July - 25 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A woman wearing sunglasses sits cross-legged in front of a bright blue background. Behind her are images of sunshine, clouds, flowers and a hummingbird.

Comedy

Prashasti Singh: Divine Feminine

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two men stand in a forest, in between them is another person with a urinal on his head. They all look into the camera.

Comedy

Readymades

12 - 24 August 2025, 3:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Sara, an Iranian women with light olive skin is dressed in a dark blue Iranian girls school uniform (blazer, trousers & headscarf). She smiles like a cheshire cat, dancing, with her arms out to her side. The image is edited with a bright Yellow filter.

Theatre

Saria Callas

12 - 24 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

man wearing an open white shirt with a white tshirt on underneath stares at the lighter he is holding in his hand. the background is black and he is been lit with an orange light

Theatre

Scatter: A Horror Play

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

4 Athenian well dressed nobles are looking on terrified/worried to the centre of the image where Puck, the Fairy, from Shakespeare's a Midsummer Nights Dream, is holding the long ears of a half donkey, half man. This is the character Bottom, from Shakesp

Comedy

Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night's Dream

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Shane Daniel Byrne: Who's a Big Boy?

2 - 24 August 2025, 7:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

An man in a naked body suit is being soaped-up by giant pair of hands. The soap bubbles are illustrated in a Japanese Ukiyoe style painting and projected onto a screen behind the man to create the illusion that he is interacting with the painting.

Theatre

SHUNGA ALERT

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman is tied up with a tape measure longingly looking into the camera

Cabaret and Variety

Skinny

30 July - 10 August 2025, 6:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A pixellated image of two playable characters in a video game. The woman on the left is dressed as an 'e-girl' with black hair, catgirl headphones and holds a GameCube controller while posing seductively. The woman on the right is dressed in bright pink,

Theatre

Sluts With Consoles

31 July - 10 August 2025, 11:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

balck and white image of a women looking to the right wearing a dress agagint a blue background

Musicals and Opera

Song Society

30 July - 25 August 2025, 1:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

One man stands legs akimbo, arms open, he stares into the darkness. Above him a woman is suspended in the air. Separately they are just 2 people in funny positions, together they are circus.

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

Sophie's Surprise 29th

1 - 23 August 2025, 9:45 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Wellness

Soul Water Sauna at Circus Hub!

1 - 23 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A wooden spoon being poured onto a bunch of greenery, there are sauna stones underneath.

Wellness

Soul Water Sauna at Circus Hub! - Ritual Sessions

2 - 23 August 2025, 2:15 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A shadow puppetry scene where a hippo walks through a mysterious crystal cave.

Theatre

Space Hippo

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Kat McGarr dressed all in gold, skin and all, holds up a gold telephone.

Cabaret and Variety

STARDUST Starring Star Dust (In Person)

30 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman on a red motorcycle with a backdrop of a street in italy

Comedy

Stefania Licari: I Can Make You Italian in 55 Minutes

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A ballerina with blue hair in a blue dress smoking a cigarette

Theatre

SWAN?

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Dazed and confused Stage photo／Photographer: Wong de. A man staring at a variety of playing cards floating through the air.

Theatre

Taiwan Season: Dazed and Confused

30 July - 25 August 2025, 12:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

3 comedians holding saucepans all laughing together

Comedy

Talking Bottom LIVE

24 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

a picture of the comedian Ted Hill pointing at himself

Comedy

Ted Hill: Weird in Progress

16 - 24 August 2025, 11:25 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

To the right of the image a man in jeans and a waistcoat holds a large gold letter A, and a woman in a rainbow striped dress holds an orange and blue zig-zag patterned letter Z To the left of this image, the same two people conduct a series of science de

Children's Shows

The Alphabet of Awesome Science

30 July - 24 August 2025, 12:00 pm

Underbelly George Square

Black and white cut out images of British musicians including Oasis are scattered across the background. In the middle there is a drawing of a man with dark brown hair and glasses wearing a red t-shirt.

Comedy

The Britpop Hour with Marc Burrows

30 July - 25 August 2025, 6:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Black background with yellow Durham Revue logo showing the silhouette of a group of students

Comedy

The Durham Revue: Sketch Marks the Spot

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Actor Alex Medland, dressed as the devil with red horns and a grin to match, takes a lit match to a contract signed by 'Faustus.'

Theatre

The Faustus Project

31 July - 24 August 2025, 9:05 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Maxwell the Bubbleologist is flying in the air making millions of bubbles

Children's Shows

The Flying Bubble Show

2 - 23 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Image of a white background with two colourful shapes and text that says The Front List

Talks and Events

The Front List: Ally McCoist

18 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Side by Side photos of Anne Applebaum and Edward Wong

Talks and Events

The Front List: Anne Applebaum & Edward Wong

17 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Photo of Asako Yuzuki in the irght hand corner she wears a red knitted jumper

Talks and Events

The Front List: Asako Yuzuki

23 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Photo of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Talks and Events

The Front List: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

19 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

A photo of Ian Mcewan against a white backdrop.

Talks and Events

The Front List: Ian McEwan

24 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Maggie O'Farrell in the right hand corner. she has red curly hair and is wearing lots of silver rings.

Talks and Events

The Front List: Maggie O’Farrell: Celebrating 25 Captivating Years

15 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Mark Kermode in the right corner of the screen looking out. He is wearing a black suit and tie and black framed glasses.

Talks and Events

The Front List: Mark Kermode MK3D

13 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Nicola Sturgeon in the right hand corner of the screen is sat down looking outward.

Talks and Events

The Front List: Nicola Sturgeon

14 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Headshot of author R F Kuang she is weating a white shirt with a green top layered over the top

Talks and Events

The Front List: RF Kuang

24 August 2025, 7:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Photo of Ruth Jones wearing a light grey jumper her head is resting on her arm as she smiles at the camera

Talks and Events

The Front List: Ruth Jones

12 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Photo of Ta-Nehisi Coates on a white backdrop

Talks and Events

The Front List: Ta-Nehisi Coates

16 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

A photo of Yulia Navalnaya. She is wearing a dark blue dress and is smiling at the camera with her hands clasped infront of her.

Talks and Events

The Front List: Yulia Navalnaya

22 August 2025, 1:30 pm

McEwan Hall

Theatre

The Horniest Girls in New York City

31 July - 11 August 2025, 2:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

In the picture, a smiling, white-haired clown sits with his body tied under a railway track. Next to him is a colourful barrel representing a locomotive.

Children's Shows

The Mequetrefo

30 July - 10 August 2025, 11:20 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A painting of a young man with dark hair facing away from us, toward the mountains. The man's jacket is made only of simple red outlines, revealing the mountains through him and giving him the appearance of a transparent ghost.

Theatre

The Monkeypox Gospel

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:50 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

The wheel of death is at both sides of the image, an acrobat is in each wheel and the title reads 'The Nose Dive Assembly' in colourful text

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

The Nose Dive Assembly

2 - 23 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Comedy

The Political Party with Matt Forde: Sadiq Khan

17 August 2025, 5:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Dance Physical Theatre and Circus

The Ruckus

2 - 23 August 2025, 1:05 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A purple background, in the centre a woman is holding up a cardboard blue whale on sticks. The woman has her mouth open and eyes wide with enthusiasm.

Children's Shows

The Tale of the Loneliest Whale

31 July - 10 August 2025, 11:25 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

A sketch style illustration of three golden ducks walking up a hill, one is juggling while standing on one hand, one is balancing three balls on its beak, one is hula hooping. Behind them a grey duckling has fallen over and dropped their juggling balls.

Children's Shows

The Ugly Duckling

2 - 23 August 2025, 11:00 am

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

Theo lies on a mattress in a large body of water. He is wearing a suit and has a rose inbetween his teeth.

Comedy

Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing

30 July - 24 August 2025, 10:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

The side of a person's face close up. Their eye is outlined with a thin white line in the shape of a box and a target point x. on the other side is the title this blighted star

Theatre

This Blighted Star

30 July - 24 August 2025, 3:45 pm

Underbelly George Square

Tim Reeves holds his hands behind his head and looks into the camera. There is a green background with the show title above Tim in pink font.

Comedy

Tim Reeves: Give This A Miss

30 July - 24 August 2025, 10:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man looks shocked while a toddler's small hand covers his right eye

Comedy

Tom Skelton: VIP (Visually Impaired Papa)

30 July - 11 August 2025, 1:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Three performers are dressed as bin men in grey dungarees with two of them wearing hard hats. They are in front of a black and yellow striped and paint-splattered background, with two of them in wheelie bins and the other one balanced with their hand on

Children's Shows

Trash Test Dummies Circus

2 - 23 August 2025, 12:05 pm

Underbelly's Circus Hub on the Meadows

A person dressed in a tree costume made of green felt leaves and a leafy crown poses with their face resting in their hands. They are looking at the camera with a serene expression. The background is a lush, green forest.

Children's Shows

Treeeeee

31 July - 12 August 2025, 11:45 am

Underbelly Bristo Square

Barnie and Trygve in a dressing room somewhere with buckets of hot chips.

Comedy

Trygve Wakenshaw and Barnie Duncan: Hot Chips

2 - 24 August 2025, 11:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Music

Underbelly After Dark - Bristo Square

31 July - 23 August 2025, 8:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Events

Underbelly After Dark - Cowgate

31 July - 24 August 2025, 11:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Comedy

Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit

13 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Smoke drafts from a recently snuffed candle, nestled with a notebook and pen inside a dark wooden box.

Theatre

Undersigned

31 July - 12 August 2025, 12:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Vittorio Angelone, a moustached man, with his finger up his nose

Comedy

Vittorio Angelone: you can't Say Nothing any more

8 - 22 August 2025, 11:00 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A close up of a woman. She is wearing orange and is staring right into the camera.

Theatre

WANTED

31 July - 24 August 2025, 12:40 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

Theatre

Ways of Knowing

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:30 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

An image of the back of a man wearing a bucket hat and holding his arms up in the air. He is wearing england pants that are straddled at his lower thigh and there is a red flare stuck in his arse.

Theatre

Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse for England

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

two men sit on a large black leather armchair, they have phones for heads and their faces are on the screens of the phone

Comedy

Will & Noah: Too Much Time on Their Phones

30 July - 25 August 2025, 3:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Sketch comedy odyssey through the best worst film never made!

Comedy

Will BF: MOON TEAM IIIV

12 - 24 August 2025, 11:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A woman with long brown hair, wearing a beige floral cardigan, is awkwardly smiling while a small squirrel sits on her shoulder nibbling a nut. To her right, an oval-framed portrait of another squirrel hangs on a deep red, patterned wallpaper.

Theatre

Yes, We're Related

31 July - 24 August 2025, 2:00 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

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