Meteor Shower
★★★☆☆ Strong performances
Nothing is quite what it appears to be, in Steve Martin’s fractured marital comedy, Meteor Shower, being staged at St Ninian’s Hall by Edinburgh Theatre Arts until Saturday.
Fringe names new hub
Infirmary Street venue preferred for Community Hub
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has named the South Bridge Resource Centre on Infirmary Street as its preferred site for a new Community Hub, using the £7 million allocated to it in the UK Government’s spring budget.
Kidnapped
★★★★★ Rattling adventure
Isobel McArthur has excelled herself in her latest adaptation of a classic story to the stage, this time giving Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped a music-filled, comic and heartfelt makeover.
Listings Mon 10 – Sun 16 April 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The last week of the Easter break marks the arrival of what might be the hottest ticket to come to town this year – Isobel McArthur’s latest venture into classic adaptations with Kidnapped, at the Lyceum for a limited season.
EGO bows out
Fat lady sings for Edinburgh Grand Opera
The charity running Scotland’s oldest opera company, the Edinburgh Grand Opera, is to be wound up at its own request, having failed to come through Covid unscathed.
Family Tree
★★★★☆ Illuminating
Family Tree, by Mojisola Adebayo, at the Traverse for three nights only, is a word-spitting, poetic and coruscating piece of theatre that brings light to a shameful corner of the scientific world.
Listings: Mon 3 – Sun 9 April 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
There’s plenty to chew over and plenty to enjoy in Edinburgh this week, with EMT going 9 to 5 at the Church Hill, EUSOG playing Pinafore at the Bedlam and a new play about Henrietta Lacks at the Traverse.
Walden
★★★★☆ One golden pond
Magnetic North brings back its magnificent adaptation of Henry David Thereau’s Walden to the Fruitmarket until Saturday, with a fresh production that has a newly found vigour and depth.
Listings Mon 27 Mar – Sun 2 April 2023
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
The big noise this week is the arrival of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – the Musical, at the Playhouse, but the big news comes from a couple of much smaller productions – at the Storytelling Centre and the Fruitmarket.
Brunton bouncing back
Venue trust “upbeat about sourcing alternative venues”.
The Brunton Theatre Trust says its programme of work will go on, even though The Brunton venue is temporarily dark due to the emergency structural surveys taking place in its performance spaces.
