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Review: Annie The Musical ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This return of the musical Annie to the Edinburgh Playhouse is a particularly poignant one.
The 2023 production starred Paul O’Grady, back in...
Review: High Society ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Slow Horses star steals show as understudies warm to roles.
GENTLE, if not always genteel, this new production of High Society proves an enjoyable dalliance...
Review – David Byrne at Edinburgh Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Opening with the Talking Heads classic "Heaven", Byrne immediately sets the tone, blending concert, theatre, dance and multimedia.
The stage feels like a small...
Review – The Bodyguard The Musical
Opening with a bang and a series of impressive projections, the cinematic nature of Michael Harrison and Crossroads Live’s production of The Bodyguard The...
Review – Waitress ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Waitress musical serves up joyous slice of laughter and love.
From the rich red cherry pie with perfectly baked crust that provides a tempting preset...
Review – Friends The Musical Parody ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Edinburgh Playhouse Until Saturday 7 February
Bitty Friends musical is must see for fans but will leave others lost.
Friends The Musical Parody is not so...
Review – Inside No 9 Stage/Fright ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Inside No 9, the warped world of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
There were 55 episodes, that’s nine series, over 10 years and Inside No...
Edinburgh Playhouse goes back to the future at Christmas… 2026
Great Scott! The first ever UK tour of the multi award-winning Back To The Future The Musical is heading to Scotland and the Edinburgh Playhouse for...
Alice Cooper live at the Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
What better venue than the Playhouse Theatre for the Alice Cooper show with its resident ghost, Arthur, knocking about on the ninth floor?
Opening act...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
★★★★★ 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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