An extensive programme for all ages, with fun hands-on activities, thought-provoking talks, dynamic performances and more. The 2026 theme, 'Going Global' will showcase the research and innovation created through international partnerships, and highlight Scotland’s contribution to scientific advances. Festival Edinburgh Science Festival Where? V arious Venues, Edinburgh When? until 19th April MIX UP REVIEWS: Overall (only from what we've seen so far!!!) ★★★★★ Giants Exhibitio

The High Life returns in a new musical spectacular featuring all four original cast members - Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart.

Prior to London's West End, witness this Royal Shakespeare Company production about a woman determined to do things her own way.

Agatha Christie's crime classic finds Hercule Poirot thrust into the search for a murderer on the river Nile.

After delighting audiences across the country, and now with a Best Family Show Olivier Award nomination, the smash-hit, joyful play based on the best-selling novel is back with a celebration of friendship, kindness and compassion.

For the very first time, your favourite songs and actors from the BAFTA Award-winning CBBC TV series will be appearing live on stage in a very special production!

Award-winning A Giant on the Bridge reveals the heartbeat within stories of prison-homecoming.

The story of a young climate activist on the run who finds herself face-to-face with a beached whale. Her dad works in the oil industry and her mum just wants her to have a childhood free of worry, but how can she go about ‘business as usual’ when there’s a climate emergency?

A haunting new play from Mix Up Theatre – Edinburgh Seniors 2026

Glasgow's acclaimed Company of Wolves present an earth-shattering solo retelling of the myth of Dionysos: an epic of rejection, vengeance and rebirth told through story, dance and ancient song.

What would you do if order broke down? What would you do to survive? How far would you go to protect your own? Four performers enter the stage with cameras and construct an epic road movie before our eyes.

Emma walks into Dexter's life on the night of their graduation. One unsuspecting day that changes them both forever. But where will they be on this day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?

The multi-award winning musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company is inspired by the beloved book by Roald Dahl.

The first-ever stage adaptation of the iconic detective.

Ben Fogle’s theatre show WILD brings to life on stage, stories and tales of hope, possibility, and positivity.

Matthew Kelly and George Costigan star in a new staging of Samuel Beckett’s classic play – in which absolutely nothing happens.  

Lightning Ridge is a heart breaking and beautiful story about the possibility of dreams, about a community coming together, the preciousness of hope and how, sometimes, we have to believe in the impossible.

Two logs. Two axes. Two people.

Don’t miss this guaranteed comedy catastrophe from Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind 'The Play That Goes Wrong'.

Auntie Empire is an outrageous satire on Britain and the grotesque absurdity of her imperialist self-regard.