Grease
★★★★☆ The Word
The Beyond Broadway Experience production of Grease, at the Festival Theatre for three performances only, is as vibrant a staging of the show as you could want.
Billionaire Boy
★★☆☆☆ Unfocussed
The Birmingham Stage Company’s adaptation of David Walliams’ Billionaire Boy splutters into the Playhouse for a half dozen performances, wearing its fun on its sleeve but failing to fizzle as it might.
Troy Wanted!
Casting call for High School Musical’s Troy Bolton
The Brunton Theatre, in association with Tommie Travers and David Ross, is on the lookout for a talented individual to play the leading role of Troy Bolton in High School Musical, the theatre’s 2022 Summer School.
Extra call out
Danish company seeks non-speaking role for Fringe
Danis company Fix&Foxy is looking for an actor to take on the non-speaking (but paid) role of an extra in its production of Rocky!, running at the Zoo From 5 to 20 August.
Kneecaps
★★★☆☆ Bursting with ideas
Fizzing onto the Assembly Roxy’s upstairs space, Kneecaps, the debut production from grassroots company the Moot Point Collective, working in association with Framework Theatre Company, bursts with ideas and opinions.
Enchanted April
★★★★☆ Accomplished
There is a wistful nostalgia almost built in to Threepenny Theatricals’ Enchanted April, which is at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.
Listings Mon 27 June – Sun 3 July
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
As the fallow summer period approaches – ahead of the glut of the Fringe in August, there is time to take note of some of the smaller productions coming our way.
Duggee’s Scottish dates…
It’s time to earn your Theatre Badge, Squirrels!
Hit children’s show Hey Duggee is to tour the UK in a vibrant and interactive stage show that will come to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from Fri 27 Sun 29 January, 2023 and the King’s Glasgow Thurs 25 – Sat 27 May 2023.
New union for actors
Equity breakaway set to Rise Together
Cairn, a new professional association for performance workers and allied trades in Scotland with the slogan “rise together”, has been launched today, Friday 24 June 2022, in Glasgow.
Leithers Live – the Custom House Play
★★★★☆ Intriguing
The Citadel Arts Group sketch out the history Leith as seen through the women folk of one family in this clever piece of promenade drama which plays through the rooms of the Leith Custom House for four performances only.
