Listings and Preview: Mon 21 – Sun 27 Oct 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? It’s a pretty full card of theatre this week, topped out by the PFT production of A Streetcar Named Desire opening at the Lyceum for a fortnight run (Fri – 9 Nov: tickets) and the arrival of Michael Maloney as Hurcule Poirot in Christie’s supreme thriller: Murder on the […]
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Naomi Dickie
Lung Ha at 40
To mark its 40th anniversary, Lung Ha theatre commissioned a series of portraits of the 25-strong company from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. We are publishing a new portrait every fortnight. Today our spotlight is on Lung Ha actor Naomi Dickie.
Preview and listings: Mon 14 – Sun 20 Oct 2024.
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The big opener this week comes from amateur company EGTG who are staging J B Priestley’s tense psychological drama Dangerous Corner at the Assembly Roxy. But there is also plenty on for October Week and more…
Brining gets Lyceum AD post
James Brining takes over from David Greig
James Brining, who is currently Artistic Director at the Leeds Playhouse, has been appointed as the successor to David Greig at the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh. He will take up the role of Artistic Director and co-CEO in April 2025.
Scotsman curbs arts coverage
Previews and Scotsman Sessions dropped
We understand that a story we ran yesterday about The Scotsman’s arts coverage is “both inaccurate and damaging”.
In the mix
Nicholas Bone on Magnetic North’s quarter century Edinburgh’s Magnetic North theatre company, creators of some a clutch of quite brilliant pieces of small scale work – and facilitators of even more – is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. We asked company founder and artistic director Nichola Bone, about the company and its work, which […]
It’s pie time!
Susie Dumbreck on directing Sweeney Todd, training with Sondheim and much more… This week local amateur company Blackout Productions step back into the musical theatre genre as they take on the mighty Steven Sondheim and his Penny Dreadful musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The company already has some formidable productions under […]
Preview & listings: Mon 7 – Sun 13 Sept 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
There’s a week of plenty on Edinburgh’s stages, with practically all tastes catered for, from the darkness of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at the Church Hill to Julia Donaldson’s The Baddies at the Lyceum and 1960s racial politics in Hairspray at the Playhouse.
Matilda marches on
Matilda the Musical tour for Edinburgh in March 2026
The RSC’s smash hit production of Matilda the Musical is set to got out on UK tour again in 2025, arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse from Wednesday 4 to Sunday 22 March 2026.
EdFringe CEO McCarthy quits
EdFringe Chief Exec Shona McCarthy to step down in March 2025
Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, will be leaving the post in spring 2025, nine years after taking up the position in March 2016.
