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[title]The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back for summer 2025. For three weeks (August 1 – August 24), the Scottish capital is home to comedy giants, serious thespians and hilarious first-timers, all putting on shows left, right and centre. It’s a huge, colourful celebration of all sorts of performing arts, and it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
But with so much choice on offer, it’s difficult to know where on earth to start. Here’s our pick of the best theatre shows accounced so far. The programme is famously enormous (over 3,500 shows), so we’ll keep adding to the list in the run up to the festival and will update it based upon reviews when the festival actually starts.
While most of our recommednations are from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2025, the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) is running alongside it as usual – the EIF is slimmed down this year and has fewer big international theatre shows than usual, but it does have one big domestic one by way of compensation…
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