EdFringe
EdFringe 2025: Musicals and Opera
Edinburgh-made musical theatre & opera at #EdFringe 2025
Edinburgh companies are as well represented as ever in the Musicals section of the fringe programme, with 35 different productions – thanks largely to the nine musicals being staged by Captivate.
EdFringe 2025: Theatre for children and young people
Edinburgh-made theatre for children & young people at EdFringe 2025
There is a strong showing of theatre for children this year, with 22 shows in the listing, aimed at audiences ranging from babes in arms to early teens.
EdFringe 2025: Professional & Funded Theatre
Edinburgh-made theatre from professional and funded companies at #EdFringe 2025
Here are listings for the 21 theatre productions by Edinburgh-based professional and funded companies on in Edinburgh during the Fringe in 2025.
EdFringe 2025: Youth and Student Theatre
Edinburgh-made youth and student theatre at #EdFringe 2025
There’s a good showing from Edinburgh’s student and youth companies this year; the core of the 19 on offer remains the ten co-productions from the New Celts – a welcome initiative from Napier University to give their students a professional platform on the Fringe.
EdFringe 2025: Amateur Theatre
Edinburgh-made theatre from amateur companies at EdFringe 2025
Edinburgh’s amateur companies were at the first ever Fringe and they are still here, with an intriguing and hugely ambitious programme of theatre that spans the genres.
Rock of Ages
★★★★★ Phenomenal
Bare Productions continue their streak of high-calibre musicals with a Rock of Ages that roars onto the Sanctuary stage at Paradises at Augustines with an all-star company.
It’s Edinburgh’s Fringe
Largest ever Edinburgh presence at EdFringe
Edinburgh companies will be staging 250 shows at EdFringe 2025. That is 35% more than a year ago, double the number in 2018 and enough to make up the whole Fringe of 1974.
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.
Fringe appoints Riverside’s Lankester
Riverside Studios’ CEO Tony Lankester next head of EdFringe Tony Lankester has been named to take over from Shona McCarthy as Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, the charity which oversees the running of the Edinburgh Fringe. McCarthy announced in October 2024 that she would be stepping down from the role in March, […]
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