Listings for week ending Sunday 31 December 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week before New Year?
As the old year prepares to turn into the new, this week is all about the Edinburgh Magic Festival with many events at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Kevin Quantum’s Christmas Special at the Church Hill Theatre.
Listings Mon 18 – Sun 24 December 2023
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this pre-Christmas week?
With a full card of theatre activity in this week before Christmas, with all the pantomimes now in full flow and the addition of the Magic Festival which starts on Wed 20th, we have looked at ticket availability for those who need a last minute fix of the live stuff!
Magic Fest Listing 2023
There is plenty of magic for all members of the family in this year’s MagicFest, which opens this week with Kevin Quantum’s Edinburgh Magic and continues into next with shows at the Storytelling Centre and Quantum’s big Christmas Special at the Church Hill Theatre.
Listings Mon 11 – Sun 17 December 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Almost Christmas week and there’s plenty on offer for everyone, from a wee one-off Scratch night from a new local grassroots collective, to the big opening of a major new musical tour.
Unicorn Christmas Party
★★★★☆ Boogie time!
It’s a big, glittering, retro disco time at the Studio Theatre, where Unicorns Luna and Melody call on their young (and not-so-young) audience to help save Christmas in Unicorn Christmas Party.
Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
★★★☆☆ Well-turned
Amidst the noise, rituals and trappings of pantomime and Christmas, Strawmoddie’s take on Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather provides a welcome parody of our seasonal excess, at the Pleasance Theatre to Sunday.
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.
