The Very Best of the Edinburgh Festivals (2026)

Our continually updated round-up of all the four and five star shows seen by our writing team

Han Whyte, a white woman with brown hair, is dressed in a suit and glasses with drawn-on mutton chop facial hair, in character as drag persona Roger Prick
Han Whyte as Roger Prick | Photo by Stanley Greengrass

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Comedy

★★★★★

Elf Lyons is The Woman on the Edge
Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70
Milo Edwards: Catamaran

★★★★

Adi Parmar: Sunny Boy
Amanda Dwyer: Better Than Revenge
Amy Matthews: Definitions of Toast
Ania Magliano: Peach Puzz
B48Y Crash Lands on Earth
Cecily Hitchcock: Family Recipe
Dee Allum: Raumdeuter
Demi Adejuyigbe Sells Out
Ethan and Gigi Present: THE MOVEMENT
Eva Peroni: Jungled
Harriet Dyer: Easily Distra…
Harriet Richardson: Creep
Ifrah Qureshi: 48 Flaws of Power
Jack Brookmyre: Impressionable
Jenny Gorelick: SORRY
Jess Fuchs: Feral
Jonathan Oldfield: Exquisite Corpse
Jordan Brookes: The Part of You That’s Always Screaming
Kate Dolan: Trout
Kemah Bob: Love Child
Lara Ricote: INKLING
Lizzy Hoo – Says Hoo?
Maya Ricote: Ay Am!
Nate Kitch: Replica
Olga Koch: Fat Tom Cruise
Paul Foot: The Future
Rob Preston: Amazing Global Solutions
Roger Prick: Sexopolis
Sami Abu Wardeh Hates You
Scout Boxall: God’s Favourite
Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection
Tamsyn Kelly: Rat’s Ass
Those People
UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW

Theatre

★★★★

Bog Witch
Cathy
Krapp’s Last Tape
Man or Bear
Mayflies
[seagull]
The Second Best School Shooting

Music and Musicals

★★★★

Badgers
EVITA TOO
One Man Musical
PLASTIC
The Galloping Cure

Cabaret

★★★★

Acid’s Reign
House of Life

Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus

★★★★★

Bigfoot Ripped My Dog In Half I Saw It
Dracula: Lucy’s Dream
The Yellow Wallpaper

★★★★

Boys Don’t Dance
House Fly