Listings: Mon 4 – Sun 10 December 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Good question! Glad you asked – the answer is much and various as the full range of Christmas shows opens, while there are a handful of most excellent local amateur shows to look out for.
Hansel and Gretel
★★★☆☆ Refreshing
What larks are to be had up at the Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre this week, where the St Serf’s Players are staging Norman Robbins’s pantomime adaptation of Hansel and Gretel.
Listings Mon 27 Nov – Sun 3 Dec 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Well here we are, well and truly stuck into prime Panto season, with nothing but The Prime of Miss Jean Brody at the Church Hill Theatre (Wed – Sat, tickets) to keep us focussed.
Faint plays Munro’s Katherine
Catriona Faint takes title role in fifth James Play
The title role of Katherine Hamilton in Rona Munro’s latest James Play, James V: Katherine, will be played by Catriona Faint, who was recently seen as Jonathan in the NTS production of Dracula – Mina’s Reckoning.
Listings: Mon 20 – Sun 26 November 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Time to take a deep breath in the few days of calm, before the storm of Christmas goodies hits stages on Thursday, when the Lyceum is first out of the traps with The Snow Queen (tickets). With The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan at the Festival Theatre (tickets) hard on its tail on Saturday.
Xmas Listings 2023
Pantos and Christmas Shows in Edinburgh
It’s almost panto time again, so here’s a big list of all the Christmas shows, pantomimes and other shows we know of in Edinburgh!
No Spray No Lay
Work in Progress
What a piece of fun is to be had with No Spray No Lay, a new musical staged as a work-in-progress in the decidedly fringe-flavoured lower hall of the Augustine United Church for four performances only.
Listings: Mon 13 – Sun 19 November 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
There’s big news from the amateur scene this week with the Edinburgh Gang Show, Saughtonhall Drama Group, Citadel Arts group and a new musical under the auspices of Bare Productions all on stage.
North Leith Limbo
Slavery “central issue” in play inspired by Leith graves
The Ghosts of North Leith, at North Leith Parish Church for three nights only this week, sees the Citadel Arts Group weave together scripts based on stories behind graves in the Coburg Street Burial Ground.
Mormons return…
The Book of Mormon is returning to the Edinburgh Playhouse for a three week run, from Tue 15 Oct to Sat 2 Nov, 2024, with tickets now on general sale.
