Edinburgh FestivalsTop-Rated Shows

Edinburgh Fringe & festivals shows ranked by highest rating, featuring every published review we can find.

Updated 3 August 2026, 17:10 BST · 119 rated reviews across 119 shows

Age Is a Feeling

★★★★★ The Guardian

Jordan Gray

★★★★★ The Guardian

Learning to Fly

★★★★★ The Guardian

Medea

★★★★★ The Guardian

A Little Life

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Aberdeen

Cassie Workman

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Amy Gledhill

★★★★☆ The Guardian

An Untitled Love

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Ania Magliano

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Bergen Phil/Gardner/Ólafsson

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Boom

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Boy

★★★★☆ The Guardian

BriTANick

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Brown Boys Swim

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Burn

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Cassie and the Lights

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Colin Hoult

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Coppélia

Scottish Ballet

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Counting and Cracking

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Crizards

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Deep History

You're Safe Til 2024

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Emily Wilson

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Every Word Was Once an Animal

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Everything Has Changed

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Frankie Boyle

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Frankie Thompson

★★★★☆ The Guardian

From junkie poets to jailtime: August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Half-Empty Glasses

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Happy Meal

★★★★☆ The Guardian

How to Build a Wax Figure

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Ivo Graham

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Jessica Fostekew

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Josh Pugh

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Kahlo's corset, dippy the dinosaur and the blasted garments of Hiroshima - Edinburgh Art festival

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Lara Ricote

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Leith

Muster Station

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Leo Reich

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Maisie Adam

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Manic Street Creature

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Masterclass

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Olga Koch

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Phil Wang

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Psychodrama

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Runners

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Sam Campbell

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Sami Abu Wardeh

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Samsara

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Sap

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Seann Walsh

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Shelf

★★★★☆ The Guardian

The Book of Life

★★★★☆ The Guardian

The Last Return

★★★★☆ The Guardian

The Rest of Our Lives

★★★★☆ The Guardian

The week in classical at the Edinburgh festival, from Salome to Madame Chandelier

★★★★☆ The Guardian

This Is Memorial Device

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Truth's a Dog Must to Kennel

Tim Crouch

★★★★☆ The Guardian

We Were Promised Honey!

★★★★☆ The Guardian

When You Walk Over My Grave

★★★★☆ The Guardian

With the Devil's Assistance

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Yippee Ki Yay

★★★★☆ The Guardian

Also reviewed — no 4 or 5 star reviews yet

A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain 3★

Anthony DeVito 3★

As British as a Watermelon 2★

Atsuko Okatsuka 3★

Autopilot 3★

Ballet Freedom 2★

Black Sheep 2★

Bogeyman 3★

Boris the Third 2★

Breathless 3★

Caste-ing 3★

Charlie Russell Aims to Please 2★

Coming Out of My Cage (and I've Been Doing Just Fine) 3★

Emmanuel Sonubi 3★

Eunice Olumide 2★

Exodus 2★

False Start 3★

Finlay Christie 3★

Guide to Surviving Masculinist Territory 3★

Hamlet 2★

Head Set 3★

Humans 2.0 3★

Irvine Welsh's Porno 3★

Jamali Maddix 3★

Javelin 3★

Jayde Adams 3★

Kylie Brakeman 3★

Larry Dean 3★

Lauren Pattison 3★

Lizard Boy 3★

Lots and Not Lots 3★

Mind Mangler 3★

NewsRevue 3★

Night Dances 3★

Nightlands 3★

One of Two 3★

Payday Party 3★

Please, Feel Free to Share 3★

Rachel Parris 3★

Red 3★

Rosie Holt 2★

Sarah Sherman 3★

She Wolf 3★

Sikisa 3★

Silkworm 3★

Snort 3★

Still Floating 3★

Svengali 3★

Thanyia Moore 3★

The Bush 3★

The Great Almighty Gill 3★

The Not So Ugly Duckling: A Play for Grown-Ups 3★

This Is Not a Show About Hong Kong 3★

Today I Killed My Very First Bird 3★

Tomato 3★

Troy Hawke 3★

We Are Monchichi 3★