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 · 128 rated reviews across 128 shows

1

A Boy Band Christmas Musical

Chriskirkpatrickmas
1

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
1

Brave Space
1

Buddha Passion
1

Dark Noon
1

Ends

Ahir Shah
1

Frankie Thompson and Liv Ello: Body Show
1

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Julia Masli
1

Lankum
1

Phaedra/Minotaur
1

The Amazing Banana Brothers

Bill O'Neill
1

The Last Show Before We Die
1

Trojan Women
1

Woodhill
15

30 Years of Dirt

Frank Skinner
15

After All
15

An Interrogation
15

As Far as Impossible
15

Baklâ
15

Becoming John Travulva

Jodie Mitchell
15

Big in Scotland

Kieran Hodgson
15

Blizzard
15

Blood of the Lamb
15

Chris Grace as Scarlett Johansson
15

Crushing

Ian Smith
15

Dissolve

Paul Foot
15

Don't Panik

I'm Muslamic
15

England & Son
15

Frances

Laura Ramoso
15

Funeral
15

Heart
15

Heaven
15

High Steaks
15

I Can't Believe You've Done This

Ania Magliano
15

Inhaus / Darkroom

Klanghaus
15

Lie Low
15

Life and Times of Michael K
15

Lorenzo

Ben Target
15

Man'oushe

Janine Harouni
15

Mass Effect
15

Party Ghost
15

Piece of Work

James Rowland
15

Pilot
15

Prawn Cocktail

Olga Koch
15

Rage, ecstasy and painting turned up to 11 - Edinburgh art festival
15

Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel
15

Strategic Love Play
15

Tannhäuser
15

The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria
15

The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
15

The Kids' Show

Shelf
15

The Last Living Libertine

John Tothill
15

The Last of the Soviets
15

The Purple Pill

Nabil Abdulrashid
15

The Threepenny Opera
15

Tragedy Plus Time

Ed Byrne
15

Troll

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Actually, Good 3★
Adults 2★
Ageless 3★
Amusements by Ikechukwu Ufomadu 3★
Andronicus Synecdoche 3★
Apology Comeback Tour 3★
Avital Ash Workshops Her Suicide Note 3★
Bird 3★
Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz 3★
Composition 3★
Curriculum Vitae 3★
Dances Like a Bomb 3★
Drew's Adventures 3★
Duel Reality 3★
Dusk 3★
Feral 3★
Food 3★
Fool's Paradise 3★
Fugue 3★
Going Under 3★
Guffy 2★
Helios 3★
Hello Kitty Must Die 2★
Hello, Hi 3★
Hysterical 2★
iCON 2★
If You Can't Say Anything Nice 3★
Inhibition Exhibition 3★
Inside Everyone 3★
Joysuck 3★
Kyiv City Ballet 2★
Lady Dealer 3★
Larry Owens 3★
Lena 2★
Let the Bodies Pile 2★
Lolly Bag 3★
Meat 2★
Mikhail Pletnev 3★
No Love Songs 3★
Not Overthinking Things 2019 3★
Nova 2★
Oh No! 3★
On the Run 2★
One Way Out 3★
Organised Fun 2★
Oscar at the Crown 2★
Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show 3★
Pink Tinge 3★
Pleasure Little Treasure 3★
Polko 3★
Ramalama Ding Dong 3★
Remoulded 3★
Roadman 3★
Salty Irina 3★
Sean and Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It 3★
Self-Raising 3★
Shadow Game 3★
Shoot the Cameraman 2★
Skin Pigeon 3★
Terrence the T-Rex 3★
The Ballad of Truman Capote 2★
The Life Sporadic of Jess Wildgoose 3★
The Retreat 3★
The Van Paemel Family 3★
The week in theatre: Thrown; Dusk; Food 3★
Thrown 3★
Two Cats on a Date 3★
Until Death 3★
Vanessa 5000 3★
Villain 3★
What Happened to Agnes 3★