Tag: Edinburgh theatre news
Calendar Girls are taking off at Churchill Theatre
Local Edinburgh theatre group, Blackout Productions, is bringing the UK’s fastest selling play, Calendar Girls, to Morningside’s Churchill Theatre, from 9 – 12 November.
The director James Dickson has worked with an outstanding female...
‘9 to 5: The Musical’ – Edinburgh University Footlights
Edinburgh University Footlights opens tonight at The Pleasance
In 1963 the Equal Pay Act was passed in the United States.
The UK had to wait until 1970 to see its own legislation enacted. By 1980
things hadn’t changed much; the daily...
Theatre preview – Oh! What a Lovely War. Captivate Theatre give it some front.
'There was a front but damned if we knew where’
2018 - this centenary year marks the end of a cataclysmic carnage known as The Great War - and fifty-five years since the 1963 staging...
Theatre Preview – at The Lyceum this autumn
If music be the food of love, you can have you cake and eat it - take your ice-pick. Autumnal mellow melodrama and on the edge of your seats frightfulness is a guaranteed given...
Life of Mary Shelley at the Brunton in May
On Saturday 5 May 2018 the Occasion Theatre will bring their tour of the Life of Mary Shelley to The Brunton, Musselburgh.
The new production directed by Peter Clerke and written by Stewart Ennis will be...
Theatre – Starcatchers present The Attic
THE ATTIC
The Studio, 22 Potterrow
9 -13 January, 20 & 21 January 2018.
Starcatchers and Hazel Darwin-Clements present The Attic – an intimate and participative theatre experience for 2 – 5-year-olds and their grown-ups telling a...
At the Lyceum – Cockpit ****
One of the best things about seeing something really good at the theatre is that it serves to remind you just how many good plays there are available to us here in Edinburgh. It...
Theatre – Thingummy Bob, Lung Ha Theatre Company
Lung Ha Theatre Company |Thingummy Bob by Linda McLean
Bob is an ageing disabled man in a care home and he has lost something important, something that might make him happy, he just can’t remember where...
Theatre – Love Song To Lavender Menace, The Lyceum Studio
Written by James Ley and Directed by Ros Philips
Starring Matthew McVarish and Pierce Reid
A radical, time-travelling, disco dancing, LGBT+ love story, Love Song to Lavender Menace pays homage to the founders of Lavender Menace, a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – How to Act ***
Internationally renowned theatre director Anthony Nicholl has travelled the globe on a life-long quest to discover the true essence of theatre. Today, he gives a masterclass, demonstrating first-hand the methods he cultivated in Africa...
Theatre preview : Shirley Valentine – King’s Theatre
To multi-star reviews and wildfire word of mouth praise, Jodie Prenger immerses herself in the role of semi-detached from life to rising Phoenix kitchen-sink rebel, Shirley Valentine, with withering Scouse panache.
This 30th anniversary...
Theatre review: Charlie Sonata – The Lyceum ****
Charlie aka 'Chick' (Sandy Grierson) is a dive-bar wreck reject from London sloshed back upon the shores of his native Scotland.
Time has changed all.
He and his two old Uni pals are now in their...
Theatre preview: Jane Eyre at the Festival Theatre
National Theatre and Bristol Old Vic co-production of Jane Eyre
‘Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties –they suffer from too rigid...
Theatre preview: Sasha Regan’s all-male Mikado – at the King’s Theatre
The make-believe town of Titipu, a name that has brought sniggering delight to schoolboys for a century and more and Gilbert & Sullivan's fourteenth operatic collaboration, was set in a mythical Japanese location. It...
Theatre preview: Heroine – Festival Theatre Studio
On a dangerous mission inside a combat zone, Sgt Davis must rely on the perpetrator of her sexual attack to get her squad home safely. Can peace ever be possible?
Heroine is based on the true...
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