2026 Edinburgh Fringe Reviews & Interviews
All of our 2026 Edinburgh Fringe reviews & interviews in one place! Scroll down to see them all…
And don’t miss our 75 Unmissable Shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 Preview!
- The Last Mad Man at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
In The Last Mad Man, Steven Phillips-Horst fights to remain relevant as a copywriter when he is asked to re-brand ‘The Apocalypse’. - Legendary at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
Legendary mash up of queer identity, musical theatre via ‘Mandopop’ and myths. - Doomsday Jockeys at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
The indescribably outre Hey Mum team deliver a triple bill of brilliantly bonkers anti-comedy which will leave you equal parts tickled and tormented. - Circo Valise at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
Eduardo Salzane brings the magic of the big top to the fringe in a tiny suitcase - Anatomy of Survival at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Playwright Vivienne Franzmann and choreographer-psychotherapist Frauke Requardt combine for this engrossing and thought-provoking inquiry into the human nervous system, performed with gusto by a talented cast. - Yes Person at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
Punk circus duo Based on Kimberly present a gloriously DIY hour of failed ideas - CAMPITALISM: Three Gays Try to Fix The Economy at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
An exhilaratingly pointed queering of the androcentric world of economics which should be required watching for anyone who still thinks that capitalism is doing just fine. - Cameron Sinclair Harris: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace (WIP) at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Fearless character comedy as Cameron Sinclair Harris’s bride awaits husband-to-be Nathaniel at the altar. You are cordially invited to laugh, cry, and bear witness to gothic-clown greatness. - Fanny Bleach: The Nearly Naked Show at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
A delightfully different Geordie drag WTF freak show experience from Emma Crowley Bennett - Lawrence Dodd: This Can’t Be It at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Transcendental meta-improv which places performance art and comic clowning at the heart of a revelatory group therapy session. - Creepy Boys: SLUGS at Edinburgh Fringe ★★★★★
Sam Kruger & S E Grummett return to the scene of 2023 cult-hit Creepy Boys – and transcend to a whole new level of nightmarish brilliance. - Final Queen at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
The circus skills and camp horror shine in this high-energy queering of the road-trip slasher genre. - Safety at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
What truly can be explored between two people in a room? Written and performed by Michael Reid and directed by Chloe Champken, this new one-man play, Safety, is an articulation of the senses that works to answer Adam’s (a psychotherapist) “human instinct to finish the shape” of his Bipolar Disorder-diagnosed client, Bill. - I Made You A Mixtape at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
Imagine you’ve time traveled back to the 90’s. No smart phones or YouTube– just digital cameras, camcorders, glow sticks, and the game of Dream Phone with you and your closest girl friends. I Made You A Mixtape is a nostalgic musical journey that will have you dancing and screaming along to You Oughta Know from Alanis Morissette, as well as other classics from the 90’s era. - Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Charlene Kaye shreds up the racist idea of the ‘diversity hire’ in the music industry. - Gameplay at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Artists Carmen Collective aka Sam Rees and AJ Turner use audio and apocalypse politics to turn the fringe on its head in Gameplay - Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
It is unfathomable that this show is not nominated for – let alone winning – the Edinburgh Comedy Award. Perhaps this standout comedy show of the Fringe proves just how out of touch that institution is. - Forest Fringe: And then we walked at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
SeekSaw is a thoughtful performance around spirituality in an age of AI and the pressure on young people to explain themselves. - SeekSaw at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
SeekSaw is a thoughtful performance around spirituality in an age of AI and the pressure on young people to explain themselves. - Sofie Hagen – I Think Some of This Is My Fault at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
A beautifully paced hour which sees Hagen dissecting her own feminist activism – and extolling the virtues of Peter Brixtofte. - Wisard at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★
A touchingly funny, deeply emotional, and powerful promenade performance on the rituals of death and the feeling of community these can create. - Crowd Work with Frank Skinner at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★
A slightly chaotic hour of improvised crowd work, with Frank Skinner keeping the show on the road. - Circle of Fifths at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
A touchingly funny, deeply emotional, and powerful promenade performance on the rituals of death and the feeling of community these can create. - An Echo in the Void at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
Like watching a Black Mirror live show, this four-hander is a neatly packaged hour of entertaining theatre. - Megasquirt at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★
A juvenile Gen Z romp with little to say. These BFFs promise a splash zone but may leave you bone dry. - Selina Mosinski: Puss in Boots – A Working Class Fairy Tale at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
Selina Mosinski successfully escapes her Charity Shop Sue character for a working class wake up call to the fringe - Tom Short: I Get ChatGPT To Write My Edinburgh Show at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★
Tom Short does himself a disservice by crediting AI for any of the fun to be had here. - Two Little Pigs at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
The manopshere is skewered in this surreal take on hypermasculinity, the myth of male superiority – and feminism through a porcine lens. - BIRDS: Alex Hines and Sarah Stafford at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
The standout comedy show of the fringe – this Gallows humour laden caper is made to be a TV show or film a la Barb and Starr. Fight the endless summer sun, and run to get a ticket to this unmissable fever dream! - Adam Larter: Who Remembers the 90s? at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
The joy of silliness lives on at the Fringe, embodied by weirdo Adam Larter! - Forget About Me at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★½
Designer-performer Dylan Howells knows how to pull off a jump scare – but this ghost story one-hander falls a few chills short. - Afronauts at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Finally, there is pure joy to be had at the circus this year and Zambia’s irresistible Afronauts are here to take you on the ultimate space odyssey and rewriting the history books - Unmissable Shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2026
We’re heading back to Edinburgh later in the month, but before we arrive to cast our beady eyes across the great and good of the performing arts, we’re sharing our round up of the most hotly anticipated shows at the Edinburgh Fringe! - The Pieces by Aloft at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★
Sadly not a musical, but a concert of random songs with some bits of the infamous panorama interview. Shame on the company for misleading audiences. - Princess Diana: The Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★
Sadly not a musical, but a concert of random songs with some bits of the infamous panorama interview. Shame on the company for misleading audiences. - A Foot is Not an Appropriate Prize for the Tombola at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
A slightly too cozy crime caper crossed with sci-fi mystery from future camp character comedy star Daniel McVey - Good Enough? at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★
3 dancers and one omnipresent director explore their chosen queer family dynamic, life stories and self-image in a self-indulgent dance theatre hour - Turn Your F*cking Phones Off at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
A powerful tour-de-force from Hannah Maxwell, angrily dismantling our reliance on smartphones whilst sounding a stark warning about fake news and dwindling attention. - Love’s Labour’s Found at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★
A glimpse into the madness of the contemporary university, as a pair of at-risk lecturers concoct a fake new Shakespeare play to save their jobs. - Harriet Richardson: Creep at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
Part stand-up, part performance art, Harriet Richardson’s debut comedy hour is essentially a funny story about obsession which ultimately pulls its punches. - You and Me (and Whoever Comes Next) at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Keron Day is a magnetic stage presence in this beautiful (and laugh-out-loud funny) exploration of care & co-dependence. - Come Back Home at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
Fadi Murad’s exploration of grief and memory feels deeply personal – but the broader picture is tantalisingly elusive. - As Far As We Know at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
A thrillingly relentless fable delivered with breakneck urgency, As Far As We Know is a cold splash of water to the face. - Will Adamsdale: AI, AI, Oh… (Or How I Wrote a Hit Sitcom with ChatGPT But We’re Not Talking Now) at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★½
More spoken word theatre than stand-up, this gentle exploration of AI-aided creativity is a charming way to pass an hour. - Gutter at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
You will feel violated – in a good way?! - FOC IT UP! with Kemah Bob at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
Comedy isn’t progressing quickly enough. Kemah Bob’s firework of a concept challenges the very essence fringe and comedy industry by platforming women and trans people of colour. - Timberlina’s FFS!! – A Noodle Doodle Cabaret About Edges at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
You really can’t pretend you don’t know what to expect – the title really says it all (except how fabulous it is)! - The Palestinian Circus: Step and a Half at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★★
An exhilarating, foot-stomping fringe debut for The Palestinian Circus – joy is resistance. Free Palestine. - Racists, Recessions and Revolutions at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★½
A trip down the rabbit hole of clickbait and fake news generation – via Macedonia. - CODE at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
An energetic and engaging insight into the scourge that is the county lines drug trafficking which exploits vulnerable children and young adults. - Julian Clary: Fully Dilated at Edinburgh Fringe 2026 ★★★★
Julian Clary dazzles in this early work in progress with a generous retrospective slathering filth and biography all over the audience.
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