Mousetrap hits 70
Record breaker for Edinburgh Playhouse
The world’s longest running production, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, will play the Edinburgh Playhouse in April 2023 as part of a 70 date 70th anniversary tour.
Listings Mon 7 – Sun 13 Feb 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week…
Not quite normality yet, but the big shows are beginning to return to the big venues – with Covid mitigation in place – while a couple of online productions remind us that Covid hasn’t gone away.
Ryan’s Back!
Katherine Ryan books Playhouse night in May
Katherine Ryan, the comedian, TV panel show regular and creator of Netflix’s The Duchess, is bringing her latest show Missus to the Edinburgh Playhouse on Saturday May 28, 2022.
Listings: Mon 31 Jan – Sun 6 Feb 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
A bit of a lull this week, with the theatre world seeming to take a big deep breath, hoping that the steps out of Covid restrictions continue to work.
School of Rock – The Musical
★★★★☆ Belting
Heads up pop pickers! School of Rock – The Musical, which grooves onto the Playhouse stage for a week until Saturday, is a big fat bundle of anarchic rocking-out and feel-good wish-fulfilment.
Theatre Call Out
Hidden Door posts call out for theatre at this year’s festival
The Hidden Door festival has posted a call out to commission three new pieces of work from emerging theatre makers and details of how existing work can apply to be part of this year’s event.
Legally on stage
Eusog return to live with “biggest” show ever
The first of Edinburgh’s Amateurs out on stage following this coming Monday’s lifting of the audience Covid cap will be Eusog with its “biggest production ever” – Legally Blonde the Musical.
Listings: Mon 24 – Sun 30 January 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
The return of what appears to be some kind of normality to theatres gets underway this coming week with two big musical versions of hit films opening at the Playhouse and the Church Hill Theatre on Burns Night.
EPT casting call
Boy wanted for Men Should Weep Due to unforeseen circumstances, Edinburgh People’s Theatre is looking to cast a boy aged between 9 and 13 to play Ernest in its March 2022 production of Men Should Weep. The show is due to open on March 16, exactly two years after it was cancelled due to Covid […]
Covid Capacity Cap lifted
Indoor capacity regs to go from Monday
Scotland is to remove all limits on indoor gatherings in public spaces, imposed because of the Omicron variant of Covid, from Monday 24 January 2022.
