Archive for May, 2021
Partridge’s Stratagem
Stratagem with Alan Partridge for Playhouse
The Edinburgh Playhouse is the only non-arena venue planned for Steve Coogan’s 14-venue tour of Stratagem with Alan Partridge Live, which will arrive in town on Thursday May 27, 2022 for one night only.
Hindu Times
★★★☆☆ Fierce Originality:
Hindu Times – the latest audio offering from the Lyceum and Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Sound Stage – is a wildly original piece. Although cumbersome at times, it has a raucous energy that is frequently arresting.
Cher Show for Edinburgh
The Cher Show for Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre
A new production of The Cher Show, a jukebox musical telling the story of Cher’s rise to fame through 35 of her hits, is touring to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in October 2022.
Children’s Fest Listing
What’s on at the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
As the end of May looms, thoughts turn to the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, which this year runs from May 25 through to the first weekend of June.
Class Act Online
The Traverse’s annual schools script project goes online
Seventeen short scripts, created by the student participants of the Class Act 2020 programme, have been used to create short films and will be available online from the Traverse 3 website.
EMT Get Drowsy
EMT Announce Spring 2022 return
Edinburgh Music Theatre has given advance notice that it is to stage The Drowsy Chaperone as its Spring 2022 production at the Church Hill Theatre.
Theatres can reopen
Limited reopening set for Monday May 17
Theatres will be allowed to reopen, albeit with strict social distancing requirements and limited audiences, from Monday May 17 2021 as most of Scotland moves into Level 2 of Covid lockdown.
Tennis Elbow
★★★★☆ Linguistic luxury
Thoroughly enjoyable on its own terms, Tennis Elbow – the latest offering from Pitlochry Festival Theatre and the Lyceum’s Soundstage – is a flawed but very funny piece.
