Archive for July, 2025
Edinburgh-based artists at the 2025 Festivals
Professional Edinburgh-based theatre makers in the 2025 Festivals
Collated in collaboration with EPAD
Edinburgh is home to a fantastic range of theatre artists and producers who live in the city and make work for audiences throughout the year. EPAD is proud to be working with All Edinburgh Theatre to highlight the contribution these artists make to the theatre, dance, physical theatre and storytelling programmes of Edinburgh’s 2025 summer festivals.
Will power
Rebecca Mahar talks to Salvador Kent about form, farce and clowning in political theatre
The General Will is a new play at the Fringe from up-and-coming Edinburgh-based writer and director Salvador Kent, who uses the the meta-analysis of clown to critique current events and the political players who shape them.
Footloose
★★★★☆ Vigorous
Dancing onto the Festival Theatre stage with boundless energy and enthusiasm, The Beyond Broadway Experience presents a Footloose that is a showcase of Scottish talent and training, an invigorating look into the up-and-coming generations of musical theatre performers.
Derren Brown’s Only Human for Edinburgh
Illusionist to visit Playhouse in June 2026
Tickets are now on sale for illusionist Derren Brown’s extended tour of his latest show, Only Human, coming to the Edinburgh Playhouse from Tue 23 to Sat 27 June 2026.
This Is A Gift
★★★★★ Luminous
Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir’s Leith-based retelling of the Midas myth, performed solo by Blythe Jandoo, creeps into your heart and slowly squeezes it in a golden vice.
Listings Mon 7 – Sun 13 July 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Not a lot, to be honest. Three one-off performances equates to not so much a lull before the storm that is the Edinburgh Fringe, but a full-on becalming.
Rambert: KISMET
★★★★☆ Chaotic beauty
Rambert returns to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre with KISMET a fantastic double bill which explores destiny, fate and unpredictability.
Grease
★★★★☆ Raucous
Grease is a raucous, riotous classic of 1970s American musical theatre, and this new co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre is packed with heart, soul, and exceptional actor-musicianship.
The Great Gatsby
★★★★★ Sensational
The Great Gatsby is an extraordinarily difficult story to adapt, but Elizabeth Newman has done it, in a dazzling, hopeful, forlorn and febrile production, helmed by Sarah Brigham and co-produced by Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Derby Theatre.
Waiting for Wonka
★★★☆☆ Overstretched
Half Trick’s Waiting for Wonka at Augustine Church has plenty of ideas, excellent staging and some genuinely terrific performances, but never quite convinces in the way it threatens to.
Connect
Connect with us on the following social media platforms.