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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

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

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Comedy

Adam Kay - A Particularly Nasty Case

23 August 2025, 7:20 pm

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

Ginger man with a blue shirt on a pink background

Comedy

Ali Woods: Basher

30 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 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 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

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, 11:15 pm

Underbelly George 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

Two women, colourfully dressed, laugh at a shared joke

Theatre

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

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo 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

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

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

1 - 17 August 2025, 3:10 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

A woman dressed as an emo teenage boy stands at a mic, singing and playing an electric guitar.

Comedy

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

31 July - 24 August 2025, 4:10 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 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

1 - 23 August 2025, 11:15 pm

Underbelly George 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 throws Fish Food (corn flakes in disguise) into the audience to catch some fish.

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

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 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

30 July - 25 August 2025, 9:30 pm

Underbelly George 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

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

Two people holding a butt plug floating in the heavenly sky

Musicals and Opera

Hole!

31 July - 24 August 2025, 8:20 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

How to win

Musicals and Opera

How To Win Against History

31 July - 24 August 2025, 7:15 pm

Underbelly George Square

A dark skinned woman (the creator Lula Mebrahtu) wears a traditional Ethiopian dress holding a small baby.

Theatre

I AM – A Walking Universe

1 - 24 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A dark skinned Ethiopian woman in a white traditional headcloth looks directly at the audience. In the background the same woman without a headdress and with long afro-style hair throws her hands around in a circle with lights emanating off them. The tit

Theatre

I AM – One of many, many of One

31 July - 23 August 2025, 5:10 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

A young woman sitting looking into the distance with warm light falling onto her face., against a dark background.

Theatre

I Dream in Colour

30 July - 24 August 2025, 2:20 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

Comedy

Jain Edwards: She-Devil

30 July - 25 August 2025, 4:15 pm

Underbelly Bristo 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

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 person dressed in chainmail in front of a light blue background. They are looking off in the distance as a crown is placed on their head from above.

Comedy

Knight, Knight

30 July - 25 August 2025, 7:20 pm

Underbelly George Square

Theatre

Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares

30 July - 24 August 2025, 4:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

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

A band of 5 spandex-clad rockstars stand against a backdrop of brightly coloured stadium lights and smoke

Music

MASSAOKE: 90s Live

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

1 - 24 August 2025, 1:40 pm

Underbelly George Square

Text that reads Medusa Uncut - A New Musical. On a black background

Musicals and Opera

Medusa Uncut: A New Musical

30 July - 25 August 2025, 5:15 pm

Underbelly George 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

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

A man wearing glasses in the middle of the screen. Popcorn is being poured onto his head and he is looking worryingly at the camera.

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

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

A young man sits cross-legged against a red background, cradling an old-fashioned iMac. The iMac screen displays an image of his younger self, smiling brightly.

Theatre

Playback

31 July - 24 August 2025, 3:55 pm

Underbelly Cowgate

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

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

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

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

Wellness

Soul Water Sauna at Circus Hub!

2 - 23 August 2025, 10:15 am

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

A person in white face make-up wearing a bright orange spiked wig, bright red lipstick and a black-and-white checkered-pattern morphsuit snarls and sticks their tongue out in front of a black background.

Comedy

Su Mi: THISMOTHERPHUCKER

31 July - 24 August 2025, 6:40 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

Cabaret

test zara

Zara Test Venue

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

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

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

Theo Mason Wood lies in a neatly made bed, wearing a striped suit and loosened tie. He gazes directly at the camera with a subtle smirk, holding a single red rose in one hand. The crisp white bedding contrasts with his slightly disheveled outfit, creatin

Comedy

Theo Mason Wood: Legalise Kissing

30 July - 25 August 2025, 10:00 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

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

Black text on a white background with a purple border. The text says 'Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit'.

Comedy

Underbelly's Big Brain Tumour Benefit

13 August 2025, 7:20 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

Will and Noah; grimacing for the camera. They (not brothers) hold a phone! :)

Comedy

Will & Noah: Too Much Time on Their Phones

30 July - 25 August 2025, 3:55 pm

Underbelly Bristo Square

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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