Listings Mon 18 – Sun 24 Sept 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The start of this Autumn’s mini-season of lunchtime theatre at the Traverse is the big news in a week when not a lot is happening. It opens with Ship Rats by Alice Clark.
Cap Theatres dance into 2024
Raft of new shows announced for Spring and Summer next year
The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s centenary production of The Gondoliers heads up an otherwise dance-heavy swathe of new shows at the Festival and Studio theatres that have gone on pre-sale ahead of public sale from 11am Wednesday 20 September.
Football play closes Trav 60
Same Team – Street Soccer Story to play Traverse in December
The final play of the Traverse’s 60th anniversary season is to be Same Team – Street Soccer Story, by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse, created with the women of Street Soccer’s Dundee Change Centre and inspired by the Homeless World Cup.
3d Theatricals’ Cinderella Call Out
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella November 2024
Edinburgh amateur company Threepenny Theatricals is stepping into musical theatre for its seventh outing, in November 2024, when it will stage Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the Church Hill Theatre.
£10 On-the-day tix for Cap Theatres
25&Under scheme goes online.
Capital Theatres has launched a new £10 on-the-day discounted ticket scheme to its theatres for those aged 25 and under, which will be bookable online for the first time.
Next James Play announced
James V: Katherine to premiere at Festival Studio
Rona Munro’s James Plays, her series of Scottish history plays about the Stewart kings, is to continue with James V: Katherine, which will open at Edinburgh’s Studio Theatre in April 2024 ahead of a Scottish tour.
Peaky Blinders returns
Rambert’s dance adaptation sets 2024 Festival Theatre date
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert’s dance theatre adaptation of Steven Knight’s popular TV show, is returning to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in 2024.
Listings Mon 11 – Sun 17 Sept 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The post festival hiatus continues with very little in the way of theatrical pickings on offer this week with the biggest and almost the only show in town the arrival of the big touring Broadway production of The King and I.
Brunton RAAC Update
Haddington venue secured but no timeframe for Brunton’s future
The Brunton Theatre Trust has confirmed that it has taken on a short term lease on the Haddington Corn Exchange as the timeframe for addressing the “crumbling concrete” that has closed the Brunton Theatre has slipped.
Locally Wicked
Fife born Megan Gardiner stars in UK tour opening at Playhouse
Fife-born actor Megan Gardiner is set to star as Nessarose, Elphaba’s wee sister, in the UK and Ireland tour of Wicked which opens at the Edinburgh Playhouse in December for a six week run.
