Christmas Listings
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this Festive Season.
It feels like theatre is properly back after the Covid hiatus, as every Edinburgh theatre and amateur theatre company rolls out its Christmas or seasonal offering.
Hidden Door goes hexagonal for 2023
Pop-up festival to take over “Tardis”-like Scottish Widows complex
Hidden Door is to take over the A-listed former Scottish Widows complex at 15 Dalkeith Road for a five-day immersive event running from 31 May to 4 June 2023.
On Stage Mon 21 – Sun 27 November 2022
Listings for week ending Sunday 27 November 2022
Christmas must be just around the corner – the first of the big Christmas shows and the first pantomime of the season have their openings this week.
Mannequins at the Pianodrome
Citadel Arts stages new plays in Ocean Terminal
The Citadel Arts Group is to stage an evening of new works under the title A Mannequin for All Seasons, in the Ocean Terminal, where the Pianodrome has set up its latest temporary residency in the Wee Hub at the Old Debenhams.
A Dolls House
★★★☆☆ Effervescent
The EUTC have taken Ibsen’s great classic, A Dolls House, and given it an immersive telling at the Bedlam all week, in a production which updates the setting to contemporary times.
Take That musical for Playhouse
Greatest Days sets Scottish Dates in August 2023
Tickets have gone on sale for the only Scottish dates of the hit Take That musical Greatest Days, at the Playhouse from 28 August – 2 September 2023 immediately after a week at the Glasgow King’s.
Gang Show 2022
★★★☆☆ Shining
The Edinburgh Gang Show is back, on song and up on its dancing feet – but in a brand new venue as it takes to the Festival Theatre stage while the King’s is being refurbished.
Cam, Die With Me
★★★★☆ Impressively spooky
Cam, Die With Me, upstairs at the Assembly Roxy for one performance only, is a horror spoof which takes a silly pun then riffs and stretches it out into a remarkably successful piece of comedy.
Gang Show Lives!
Edinburgh Gang Show is back, at Festival Theatre
The long-running Edinburgh Gang Show is back this week after the Covid hiatus, opening on Tuesday 1 November 2022 at the Festival Theatre with what its director says is the highest number of new recruits since the first one, back in 1960.
Burns musical’s Edinburgh premiere
Playhouse premiere for Musical based on Burns’ life
Tickets have gone on sale today, for Burns, a new musical based on the life of Robert Burns, which will premiere at the Edinburg Playhouse on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January 20223.
