August 2025 Highlights

1st – 25th August

Edinburgh Fringe: 

ALISON SPITTLE, ALFRUN ROSE, AMY ANNETTE, AYOADE BAMGBOYE, JORDAN GRAY, PEDRO LEANDRO, TAMSYN KELLY, THEO MASON WOOD, JOSH GLANC, SHAWN UYOSA

Limited runs: GLAMROU, LAUREN PATTISON, RAJ POOJARA, and a short run for DARREN JONNO JOHNSON

14th – 24th August

Edinburgh International Film Festival:

Bulk – Director: BEN WHEATLEY. Starring: BILL NIGHY (voiceover), SAM RILEY premieres on 14th August

Islands – Starring: JACK FARTHING, SAM RILEY and STACY MARTIN premieres on 15th August

Brides – Starring: EBADA HASSAN premieres on 15th August

Christy – Starring: HELEN BEHAN premieres on 15th August

Dragonfly – Director and Writer: PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS. Starring: ANDREA RISEBOROUGH, BRENDA BLETHYN premieres on 16th August

On The Sea – Starring: LIZ WHITE premieres on 16th August

Crushed – Starring: STEVE ORAM premieres on 16th August

Grow – Starring: JEREMY SWIFT, PRIYA-ROSE BROOKWELL, NICK FROST premieres on 16th August

All The Devils Are Here – Starring: SAM CLAFLIN premieres 19th August

The Toxic Avenger – Starring: JULIA DAVIS premieres on 19th August

Reality Is Not Enough – Starring: IRVINE WELSH, STEPHEN GRAHAM premieres on 20th August

1st August 

My Oxford Year – Starring: DOUGRAY SCOTT, COREY MYLCHREEST, BARNEY HARRIS

1st – 3rd August

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – performing in Japan – Starring: ALEX YOUNG

3rd August

The Beautiful Future is Coming at Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh- 1st performance – Starring: NINA SINGH

6th August

Good Night, Oscar press night @ The Barbican – Starring: DANIEL ADEOSUN

Fortune Hotel – Starring: STEPHEN MANGAN

Wednesday – Series 2, Part 1 release – Starring: EVIE TEMPLETON, THANDIWE NEWTON

8th August

Choir – press night at Chichester – Starring: LAURA CHECKLEY

My Mother’s Wedding – Starring: KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS. Director: KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS

12th August

Alien: Earth FX’s on Hulu – Starring: KIT YOUNG, LLOYD EVERITT, MAX RINEHART. Production Designer: ANDY NICHOLSON

13th August

The Weir – Opening Night in Dublin – Starring: KATE PHILLIPS

14th August

King and Conqueror – Premiere – Starring: JULIET STEVENSON and ELLIOT COWAN. Writer: RACHEL KILFEATHER (ep. 6). Producer: ROBERT JONES

Hedda – press night at Bath – Starring: BRENDAN COYLE

15th August

Red Sonja – Starring: MATILDA LUTZ, WALLIS DAY, TREVOR EVE. Editor: ANDREW MACRITCHIE

Night Always Comes – debuts on Netflix – Director: BEN CARON

16th August

Juniper Blood – Starring: NADIA PARKES, SAM TROUGHTON

19th August

Twelfth Night – The Globe – Starring: SOLOMON ISRAEL

Misper – World Premiere – Starring: DAN RYAN

The Gathered Leaves – Press Night – Starring: JOANNE PEARCE. Director: ADRIAN NOBLE

20th August

The Map That Leads to You – TX Amazon – Starring: ORLANDO NORMAN

The Life of Chuck – Director of Photography: EBEN BOLTER

21st August

NYE – 1st performance in Cardiff – Starring: TONY JAYAWARDENA

Hostage – releases on Netflix – Starring: COREY MYLCHREEST, MARK LEWIS JONES, SOPHIE ROBERTSON, ASHLEY THOMAS, HIFTU QUASEM. Creator & Writer: MATT CHARMAN 

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Press night at Sadler’s Wells – Starring: KATY STEPHENS

As You Like It – press night in Bath – Starring: PAUL JESSON, AMBER GRAPPY

22nd August

Your Host – Premiere at FrightFest – Starring: DAVID ANGLAND

22nd & 28th August

Thursday Murder Club – TX’s select cinemas on 22 August and Netflix on 28 August – Starring: BEN KINGSLEY, DAVID TENNANT, INGRID OLIVER. Costume Designer: JOANNA JOHNSTON. 1st Assistant Director: JOSH ROBERTSON. Production Sound Mixer: DANNY HAMBROOK

29th August

The Toxic Avenger – Starring: JULIA DAVIS

The Roses – 1st Assistant Director: JESSICA LAWS