Production News
Odd Couple pulled
Covid hits Leitheatre’s Studio show
Positive testings for Covid in Leitheatre’s cast have caused it to abandon its production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple which had been due to play the Studio this week.
Charlie’s Edinburgh Ticket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for Edinburgh Playhouse
Tickets go on sale on Friday April 22 for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical which is touring to Edinburgh for three weeks in April 2023.
FCT Picks Oliver!
Forth Children’s Theatre picks a pocket of Oliver! for return
Forth Children’s Theatre returns to live this week with a new production of Oliver!, playing the Edinburgh Tabernacle at Inverleith Gardens from Wednesday through to Saturday 23 April 2022.
Easter Play Rises
Passion Play returns to Princes St Gardens
Edinburgh’s open-air Easter Play returns to Princes Street Gardens West on Saturday April 16 with a fresh take on the Easter story which brings it right up to the present day.
Addams Family Cancels
Festival Theatre’s June dates fall to Covid
The producers of The Addams Family have cancelled its dates in the Festival Theatre, where it was booked to run Tue 14 – Sat 18 June 2022, blaming the effects of Covid in its audiences.
Carr’s new Edinburgh date
Jimmy Carr adds Edinburgh Playhouse to major tour
Tickets have gone on sale for a new date on Jimmy Carr’s Terribly Funny 2.0 tour at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday 12 February 2023.
1902 returns – home and away
Theatre’s going home for Saltire Sky
Saltire Sky’s award-winning EdFringe hit show, 1902, will be visiting its spiritual home this week when it plays Easter Road stadium, for four nights from Thursday to Sunday, ahead of a planned tour.
A Double on Hill Street
Arkle to bring Venetian Twins to Hill Street
Audiences at the Hill Street Theatre will be seeing double at the end of the month when local amateur company Arkle Theatre stages Tony Cownie’s adaptation of Goldoni’s The Venetian Twins.
EPT Won’t Weep
Men Should Weep makes the stage – eventually
Of the many productions which fell foul of the Covid lockdowns, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s production of Men Should Weep was perhaps the most unlucky not to have made it to the stage on time.
An F-Bomb on IWD
F-Bomb celebrate International Women’s Day
F-Bomb Theatre, the Edinburgh and Glasgow-based women’s theatre company, is handing over its platform to six emerging writers for International Women’s Day, today, March 8.
