Tag: Edinburgh Festival Theatre
Out and about in Edinburgh – Rock of Ages and Singin’ in the Rain...
Rock of Ages, Playhouse
Sweet Child O’Mine by Guns N’ Roses plays out as the Edinburgh audience takes their seats. It’s an important reference point as this jukebox musical is set in same year...
Calendar Girls The Musical coming to the Festival Theatre
Ready to turn their other cheeks to bashfulness the utterly bonkers, and discreetly starkers, The Calendar Girls is to hit town with naked ambition.
This October The Festival Theatre welcomes Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s...
At The Festival Theatre – Macbeth
'The Scottish Play’ will visit The Festival Theatre from 23-27 October 2018. Rufus Norris, artistic Director of The Royal National Theatre has crafted a new adaptation of - shush now! Macbeth.
'Sleep no more…' The ruined...
At the Festival Theatre Victoria -Northern Ballet
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Britain’s most iconic monarchs - indeed, one whom one had one’s name given to an ‘Age’ Northern Ballet has announced it is to première Victoria a ballet by...
Theatre preview – Scottish Ballet, Highland Fling
Scottish Ballet’s 'the tour across Scotland' visits Festival Theatre, Edinburgh (10-14 April),
Scottish Ballet presents Highland Fling.
Affectionately known as a ‘Romantic wee ballet,’ this is Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of La Sylphide for the Trainspotting generation...
Theatre – Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella coming to The Festival Theatre
Time to put on your dancing shoes, kick away those summertime blues and be ready to be Bourne to be wild.
New Adventures are delighted to announce the tour dates for the much-anticipated return of...
At the Festival Theatre – Shane Filan
Mark Saturday 23 September 2017 in your diaries now!
Shane Filan will perform music from his brand new album Love Always at the Festival Theatre that evening. He will include all his popular hits in...
At the Festival Theatre in 2017 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in...
In February 2017 The National Theatre are bringing The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time to the Festival Theatre.
From 20 -25 February be prepared to be amazed by the fast moving...
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre – Norma
Italian-born Cecilia Bartoli will sing the title role in a powerful, passionate production of Bellini’s searing opera masterpiece on love, betrayal and revenge. Since its unveiling at the 2013 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, the production...
Review: A Story of Tom Jones. The Musical ***
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, my mother sought an escape from the travails of bringing up her young son on her own by switching on the Dansette record player and putting on...
Review: Footloose: The Musical ****
There has recently been something of an 80s revival in cultural matters with acts such as Rick Astley, Adam Ant and ABC being part of the Rewind Festival which visits Scotland in July. If you...
Saturday Night Fever – Review
For many of us who grew up in the 1970s, the film Saturday Night Fever has iconic status. The disco music classic – if that’s not a contradiction in terms – made John Travolta...
The Nutcracker, Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker is the lightest, most accessible of all Tchaikovsky’s ballets. It’s a Christmas delight, telling the story of a young girl named Clara who is gifted a nutcracker by the mysterious Drosselmeyer. The...
Don Pasquale brings a taste of Rome to Edinburgh this winter
Edinburgh will play host to the sights and sounds of the Italian capital as the Scottish Opera presents Donizetti’s masterpiece Don Pasquale for the first time since 1977.
In a brand new production for Scottish...
Edinburgh Festival Theatre – Hormonal Housewives
Festival Theatre
2- 5 November 2011
Following last year’s sell-out tour, Carol Smillie once again leads the cast in the hilarious comedy Hormonal Housewives, which embarks upon a limited tour of selected venues in Scotland...
Handel’s Orlando comes to Edinburgh for the first time in 25 years
This February, Scottish Opera presents a brand-new production of Handel’s Orlando - an opera that has not been seen north of the border for 25 years.
The production is only the fourth Handel opera to...
COMPETITION! Win tickets for The Blues Brothers at The Festival Theatre
Back once again to bring soul to the British public The Blues Brothers are about to wreak havoc across the UK. The Blues Brothers Party comes to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from Tuesday...