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?

Fans of The Play That Goes Wrong and Noises Off will love this.  Returning to the Fringe for the FIFTH time due to phenomenal demand, this Oscar Wilde twist is guaranteed to have you in stitches.  When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde's classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan... that is, until the lead actor fails to arrive on cue.

30 July - 25 August 2025, 3:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Ginger man with a blue shirt on a pink background

Comedy

Ali Woods: Basher

Join Ali Woods, star of Comedy Central and Stand Up Sketch Show, after his third sell-out Edinburgh Fringe and sell-out UK tour, for his brand-new show. Known for his viral online sketches (@aliwoodsgigs) with millions of views, Ali Woods has supported comedy greats like Russell Kane, Axel Blake, and Adam Kay. With his unique blend of sharp wit and relatable humour, his performances are a must-see. 

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Two women, colourfully dressed, laugh at a shared joke

Theatre

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

In this fierce, funny and frank show, they explore messy realities, fantasies, sexpectations and navigating life and relationships as British Asian women. Their award-winning, groundbreaking BBC Sounds podcast Brown Girls Do It Too, now in its sixth series, has amassed fans who love their honesty and openness, and faced backlash for breaking the silence on sex in Asian communities. With songs, sketches and some graphic content, this is a celebration of brown British women and genital warts.

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

An illustration of a landscape with a path trailing up the middle of the picture, a castle and folk style drawings of a dragon and trees.

Comedy

Cerys Bradley’s Queer Tales For Autistic Folk

You find a mysterious door that you have never seen before. Do you open it? If yes – buy a ticket to see this show. If not – why not? Join Cerys Bradley (Actually Autistic Excellence Award 2022, as seen on Comedy Central, UKTV, BBC One Wales) for their wonderful, expansive, interactive choose-your-own-story comedy show. 

30 July - 25 August 2025, 2:45 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

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

No one knows who the killer is, not even the cast! Following multiple five-star sell-out runs, CSI: Crime Scene Improvisation returns with another rip-roaring crime comedy made up entirely on the spot. Leicester Comedy 2023: Best Improv Show Award. Colchester Fringe Comedy Award 2024. Who? What? How? The choice is yours in this fully improvised, witty and absurd murder mystery where the audience creates the crime.

1 - 17 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

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

Mary Floppins has thrown a shit fit. Wipe the wee from the toilet seat and pick up your dirty undies, because The Perfect Nanny is back to teach all you little boys – and girls – a thing or two about running a prim and proper household. Returning to the UK after sold-out performances at Adelaide Fringe and Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Jessica Barton combines a spoonful of song, dance, clowning, and deep cleaning to present a skanky and empowering Edinburgh Fringe debut.

31 July - 24 August 2025, 5:25 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

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Comedy

Edinburgh Comedy Allstars

The biggest, brightest comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe all in one huge show, staged in the famous Udderbelly. A one-stop shop for your comedy fix right in the beating heart of the festival - the big upside-down purple cow.  Previous performers have included: Jason Byrne, Nina Conti, Phil Wang, Fern Brady, Ivo Graham, David O'Doherty, Sam Campbell, Joanne McNally, Larry Dean, Amy Gledhill, Ian Smith, Flo & Joan, Olga Koch, Ahir Shah, Every weekend – Friday and Saturday nights. Nightly line-ups will be released soon. 

1 - 23 August 2025, 11:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A man with an orange ruff, his upper half is undressed and his lower body is the body of a penguin.

Comedy

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

Literature! Literature! Literature! It might not rhyme with anything but it's still very important.​ Garry Starr is back and he's hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic novel ever written. Mostly naked (but with flippers). Comic wunderkind Starr takes us on a literary adventure through the world's most iconic works of fiction. From The Little Prince to Moby Dick and everything in between, nothing is safe from being lampooned with the utmost nincompoopery. 'A very funny man who is peculiarly averse to wearing trousers' ***** (Scotsman).

30 July - 25 August 2025, 9:30 pm

Underbelly George Square

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Comedy

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

New national tour for star of Have I Got News For You, Is University Really Worth It?, The Last Leg, Would I Lie to You?, Live At The Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Backstage With Katherine Ryan, The News Quiz, Geoff Norcott's Working Men's Club and many more! This will be Geoff's first UK tour under a Labour government, so he's got plenty to get off his chest. Not least because there's nothing quite so British as being promised a brave new dawn then realising it's as crap.

11 - 24 August 2025, 3:50 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

How to win

Musicals and Opera

How To Win Against History

Henry Cyril Paget was one of the world's wealthiest men, until he lost it all by being too damn fabulous. This fierce and tragi-gorgeous comedy musical is a true story about expectations, masculinity, privilege and failure on an epic scale. It's about feeling desperately weird and alone but knowing that to fit in would cost you everything. Bristol Old Vic and The Olivier Award-winning Producers of Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! present the Edinburgh Fringe smash-hit in a new production for 2025, marking the 150th anniversary of Paget’s birth.

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

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Music

MASSAOKE: 90s Live

Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999. Join the greatest party band of all time for an epic 90s sing-along in McEwan Hall – 2 weekends only! Expect everything from rock to rave, girl power to grunge and Britpop to boybands.

1 - 17 August 2025, 11:30 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

The show title is the focus of this image... MASSAOKE: SING THE MUSICALS, the live band sing-along spectacular. It is 3D-rendered logo decorated with theatrical lights and rainbow colours. Around the logo is a montage of energetic musicians and audience

Music

MASSAOKE: Sing The Musicals

This lunchtime sing-along show is a dream come true for musicals fans of all ages, raising the curtain on all your favourite hits from stage and screen. Featuring songs from Mamma Mia, Hamilton, Frozen, The Greatest Showman, Dirty Dancing, Les Mis, Jungle Book, We Will Rock You, Phantom, Mary Poppins and many more... The entire crowd is the real star of this show, singing together guided by lyrics on a giant screen, accompanied by a brilliant live band. Bring the sing!

1 - 24 August 2025, 1:40 pm

Underbelly George Square

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Musicals and Opera

Medusa Uncut: A New Musical

With a pistol in her belt and the god of death in the passenger seat, Medusa's on the road for revenge. But in a world where gods play dice with the lives of men, who can you trust to have your back? From the creators of Unfortunate comes a mythical new musical with a wild western twist. With a dark country soundtrack, Medusa: Uncut is a fast-paced, adrenaline-fuelled car chase loaded with sex, violence and topless minotaurs. Look out, here she comes.

30 July - 25 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

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

The five-star, multi sell-out, Fringe phenomenon is back! With its hilarious combination of an entirely serious adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and an absolutely sh!t-faced actor! It just wouldn't be the Fringe without it. With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same in this raucous, riotous rampage through one of Shakespeare's most mischievous plays. Featuring a rotating cast of the finest classically trained actors, partial nudity, foul language, acts of a sexual nature, and actual Shakespeare. Please remember to always #EnjoyShakespeareResponsibly.

30 July - 24 August 2025, 9:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A stylised illustration of Marc Burrows, drawn in a simplified cartoon style reminiscent of The Best of Blur album cover, sits at the centre of the image. He wears glasses and a red shirt. Surrounding him is a collage of black-and-white cut-out photograp

Comedy

The Britpop Hour with Marc Burrows

Join award-winning writer-comedian Marc Burrows for a multi-media stand up celebration of one of British music's most iconic and enduring moments, marking 30 years since the Blur vs Oasis chart war. Music journalist Marc (Guardian, The Quietus, Big Issue) dives into the stories, rivalries, OTT personalities and some of the finest music the UK has ever produced. Part nostalgic love letter, part send-up, part rock'n'roll party. DoyaknowwhatImean?.

30 July - 25 August 2025, 6:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square