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.
Clue sets Edinburgh date
ISIHAC for Playhouse, March 2023
Tickets have gone on sale for the Official Stage Tour of I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, playing one night only at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday 12 March, 2023.
Kissing Linford Christie
★★★★☆ Tenacious
Youthful dreams and adult reality rub into each other with pleasing effect in Victoria Beesley’s Kissing Linford Christie, based on her own life, and seen at the Brunton before touring around Scotland.
On Stage Mon 17 – Sun 23 October 2022
Listings for week ending Sunday 23 October 2022:
Musicals, of a kind, dominate Edinburgh’s stages this week, with the national tour of the Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country coming to the Playhouse and the return of Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) to the Lyceum for an extended stay.
Don’t. Make. Tea.
★★★★☆ Surprising
Don’t. Make. Tea., at the Traverse for four nights only, finds Rob Drummond scripting a dark tale of the labyrinthine benefits system for Birds of Paradise Theatre Company.
The Satyricon
★★★☆☆ Smutty
Martin Foreman’s new adaptation of Petronius’s first century bawdy comic romp, The Satyricon, is at Assembly Roxy to Saturday in an initially awkward staging that eventually finds its pace and pomp.
Filmhouse calls in administrators
Filmhouse and Filmfest close with immediate effect
The “perfect storm” of increased costs, the impact of the pandemic and the ongoing cost of living crises have caused the trustees of the charity which runs Filmhouse and the Edinburgh International Film Festival to fold, calling in the administrators with the immediate loss of 102 jobs.
