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Ballet at The Playhouse
The Varna International Ballet and Orchestra return to the UK after their debut tour in 2023.
The company will visit 20 venues around the UK with classics Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet, and will be performing...
Review – & Juliet ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What’ and ‘if’, two powerful words that lie at the heart of Max Martin & Tim Headington’s smash hit musical production, & Juliet.
What if Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers had not died together, their hearts...
Review – The Book of Mormon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Few smash hit musicals come with the tag ‘Not for the easily offended’ but if ever one deserved such a trigger warning, it’s The Book of Mormon, especially if you are of a religious...
Review – Come From Away ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Telling the stories of the first female American Airlines captain, of a quick-thinking town mayor, of the mother of a New York firefighter and of a local news reporter, as well as those...
Tony Blackburn brings his Sounds of the Sixties LIVE to the Playhouse
Tony Blackburn,OBE, was the first voice of Radio 1, opening the very first show with the Controller of the BBC literally looming large over him.
Now he is taking a version of his radio...
Review – Pretty Woman The Musical
Pretty Woman The Musical, at Edinburgh Playhouse
The Playhouse began filling up in droves with a dressed-up Edinburgh audience ready to banish the grey, miserable Easter holiday weather.
Even before the show began, fans were...
Review Peter Pan Goes Wrong ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The show must go on, but even as the audience takes their seats it’s clear that Cornley Drama Society are having problems as auditorium lights flicker and cables are woven through the stalls as...
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Cryptic symbolism, striking iconology and the energy of youth combined with powerful vocal performances are the highlights of this frustrating reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s ‘smash hit’ musical charting the last...
Review – My Fair Lady
While temperatures plummeted the sense of atmosphere and occasion was prevalent at Edinburgh Playhouse for the much-loved revival of Lerner & Lowe’s My Fair Lady.
Charlotte Kennedy produces an earthy cockney accent as...
Edinburgh Playhouse – The Lion King
Nothing quite prepares you for The Lion King. The atmosphere swept over the Edinburgh audience long before the Circle of Life introduction set an early high point.
An array of bright colours is celebrated...
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ★★★★
One of the great strengths of this Leeds Playhouse production is what’s left to the imagination much like the novel by C.S Lewis first published more than 70 years ago.
It’s what we are...
Bat out of Hell Edinburgh Playhouse ★★★★★
A line of motorbikes revved their engines outside the Playhouse setting the tone for a thrilling night of rock theatre.
With the passing of Jim Steinman last April and Meat Loaf just weeks ago...
★★★★★ School of Rock at Edinburgh Playhouse this weekend
The atmosphere felt more akin to a gig than musical theatre with all the band shirts and denim celebrating this much-loved story that first appeared in cinemas almost 20 years ago.
The torch is...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis at Edinburgh Playhouse
With both theatre clocks on either side of him set to twelve Nick Cave appears on stage to a packed Playhouse and takes a bow.
This feels like something of a triumphant return after...
Edinburgh Playhouse ready to welcome capacity audiences back
Edinburgh Playhouse has announced today that audiences will be welcomed back 536 days after the curtain came down due to the pandemic.
The theatre will open on 5 September 2021 with two sold out...
Party with Marti at the Playhouse next spring – tickets on sale on Friday
Marti Pellow has kept in touch with his fanbase during lockdown with very personal Instagram concerts, serenading everyone from his bedroom.
Now he is back.
Thanks to Regular Music, the former Wet Wet Wet...
Hairspray the Musical returns to Edinburgh
After two
successful performances in Scotland’s capital city in 2016 and 2018, Hairspray
the Musical will return to the Edinburgh Playhouse in the New Year.
Based on the
1988 film of the same name the much-loved musical comedy...
An Edinburgh White Christmas – for 2020!
The
Edinburgh Playhouse is confidently predicting a White Christmas – if not this
year then definitely in 2020! The acclaimed West End production of Irving
Berlin’s White Christmas is coming to the Playhouse for the 2020 festive
season.
This
production...
Review: Disney’s The Lion King – a spectacular show ★★★★★
There were a host of ‘well-kent’ faces at the press night for Disney’s The Lion King at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Tuesday evening. Tennis coach Judy Murray, Still Game star Sanjeev Kohli, Olympic medallist...
Review: 9 to 5 The Musical ★★★★★
My first thoughts about 9 to 5 The Musical were – would the story be dated somewhat? The musical is based on the 1980 film of the same name with music and lyrics by...
Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert ★★★★
Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert struts its way into the Edinburgh Playhouse this week to
provide much needed feel-good factor in these turbulent times.
Former Strictly Come Dancing winner and Heartbeat actor Joe McFadden is the...
Dinner and a show – Chaophraya Edinburgh offering deal on Lion King tickets
Fancy seeing the Lion King with dinner beforehand?
Chaophraya have a meal and show ticket deal available for the Lion King between 7 January and 28 March 2020. Prices are from £75 per person...
At Edinburgh Playhouse this week – The King and I
Jose Llana and Annalene Beechey who play the lead roles in The King and I, mark the Scottish premiere of the show with a waltz in the Great Hall at the Scottish National Portrait...
Once – coming to Edinburgh Playhouse in spring 2020
A new recording has just been released of the Academy Award-winning song Falling Slowly ahead of the award-winning musical Once coming to Edinburgh Playhouse next spring. (Listen below!)
The song won the Academy Award...
Review: Mamma Mia The Musical ★★★★★
Mamma Mia The Musical announced its arrival in Edinburgh this week for a ten-day run at the Edinburgh Playhouse. One of the country’s most iconic live shows, the musical is adapted by two members...
The King and I – at Edinburgh Playhouse in October
Annalene Beechey and Jose Llana will star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I when it comes to Edinburgh Playhouse next month, and they were in Edinburgh at the Waldorf Astoria a few...
Review: The Bodyguard: The Musical ****
Having not seen the film, I headed to the Edinburgh Playhouse on Wednesday evening not sure what to expect from The Bodyguard: The Musical. The premise of the show is a star singer, Rachel...
Dita Von Teese to glam it up in Edinburgh
Dita Von Teese, the American burlesque dancer, singer and actress will head to Edinburgh next year for the only Scottish date on her international tour. Dita Von Teese: Glamonatrix will see the Queen of...
Louise Redknapp to star in 9 to 5 at the Edinburgh Playhouse
A former member of the band Eternal and a reality TV
star are to head the cast of the hit musical 9 to 5 when it comes to the
Edinburgh Playhouse in November.
Louise Redknapp, who...
Review: Club Tropicana The Musical ****
There seems to be something of a 1980s revival these days
which, given some of the music and fashion from the decade that style forgot is
something of a surprise. But if you still hanker after...
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