Tag: Festival Theatre
Acclaimed West End show comes to Capital
The critically-acclaimed West End musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie is coming to Edinburgh as part of a UK tour from March 2020.
It smash-hit show has has been on London's West End and comes to...
Brum’s Beautiful Beast Feast Ballet coming to Edinburgh
A national tour of David Bintley’s gothic fairytale from January 2019 with exclusive Scottish dates at the Festival Theatre.
The storybook fantasy of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Beauty and the Beast unfolds on a national...
Theatre -Strictly stars Remembering the Movies
Festival Theatre 31 March 2019
Strictly Come Dancing’s very own Janette Manrara and Aljaž Škorjanec have confirmed they will be heading back out on tour in 2019 with their brand new show Remembering The Movies.
Following...
At the Festival Theatre – Kiss Me Kate
COLE PORTER’S KISS ME KATE
Wednesday 4 to Saturday 7 July 2018
Though Shakespeare’s original conceit might be sailing perilously close to the buffeting winds of politically incorrectness and cocking a snook, so to speak, at gender...
Capital Theatres 2018/19 Programme is packed with goodies
This is the first brochure under the new organisational name, Capital Theatres, as they announce their redesigned Autumn/Winter 2018/19 programme, now available online or by picking up a copy at their venues.
There are details...
Theatre : ‘Les Mis’ – Killian Donnelly is the biz
Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed Broadway production of Les Misérables
Festival Theatre | January 22-February 16 2019
Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to announce that Killian Donnelly will play ‘Jean Valjean’ in the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the...
Review – War Horse, Festival Theatre*****
Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel echoed the subtle homage to Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 devastating anti-war polemic, All Quiet On The Western Front, later filmed by Lewis Milestone in 1930. (Unsurprisingly,...
Police Scotland’s Mounted Unit comes Nose-to-Nose with War Horse, Joey
'War Horse' launched with a little help from Lewis and Kilmarnock
The Festival Theatre marked the opening of the Edinburgh run of the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse by introducing Joey to riders...
Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends Heading to Edinburgh
Hollywood star Bill Murray is to appear at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre on 18 June - an exclusive Scottish date for the American’s collaboration with classical cellist Jan Vogler and friends.
The American actor, writer and...
Theatre – This House, Festival Theatre ****
A week is a long time in politics: an adage that needs qualifying with the ever prescient caveat - the weak do not remain a long time in politics.
Clearly written in 2016 for its...
At the Festival Theatre this week – This House
Imagine the Mother of all Parliaments in full agreement on every pressing issue of the day. Full cooperation and compliance. Ideology and historical precedent, class and status left at the Speaker’s door-step. Deference and...
Theatre review – The Little Mermaid, Northern Ballet ****
One classical school of thought holds that the mermaid phenomenon derives from ancient sailors, who combined sightings of lithe flanked silver dolphins with the plaintive cries and rheumy-eyed inquisitiveness of a solitary seal.
A leap...
Theatre preview – War Horse returns
WAR HORSE
Festival Theatre Edinburgh
Wed 18 Apr – Sat 12 May 2018
The Festival Theatre Edinburgh is delighted to welcome back the National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse for a three-week run following its sell-out...
Theatre Review – The Play That Goes Wrong ****
Honestly! Five minutes before curtains up and they've only gone and lost crucial canine cast-member, Winston, again.
In reaching for the stars (or a review rating of 1* at least) Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society throw...
Theatre – ‘Les Mis’ Is The Biz at the Festival Theatre
CAMERON MACKINTOSH’S acclaimed
BROADWAY production of LES MISÉRABLES
22 January – 16 February 2019
After nearly a decade since the last UK tour sold out in only a few days, Cameron Mackintosh said, “Since I first conceived the...
Theatre – ‘The Scottish Play’ comes to The Festival Theatre
Blood will have blood, they say...blood will have blood!
The National Theatre brings Rufus Norris's new production of Macbeth to The Festival Theatre this Autumn, 23-27 October.
Following its sold-out London run, the National Theatre will tour...
Theatre – The Little Mermaid, Festival Theatre
Northern Ballet presents
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Festival Theatre Edinburgh | 22 - 24 March 2018
Northern Ballet is bringing Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale to Edinburgh on the final leg of its World Première tour of The Little Mermaid. Telling the story of...
Theatre – This House, Festival Theatre
Jonathan Church Productions and Headlong present The National Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre production of
THIS HOUSE
Directed by Jeremy Herrin |Festival Theatre|27 – 31 March 2018
1974. The UK faces economic crisis and a hung parliament.
In a...
Dementia friendly projects at Festival and King’s theatres
The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King’s Theatres and The Studio in Edinburgh, marks the culmination of three years funding from The Life Changes Trust for its dementia friendly communities...
Theatre – Calendar Girls The Musical at The Festival Theatre
David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, the producers of Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s musical comedy, CALENDAR GIRLS The Musical, based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth, Calendar Girls,...
At the Festival Theatre – Ballet Hispánico with CARMEN
Ballet Hispánico Performs the
UK Debut of CARMEN.maquia and Linea Recta
Festival Theatre | 6 to 10 March 2018
Ballet Hispánico, the US premiere Latino dance organization, brings its bold and eclectic brand of contemporary dance to Edinburgh.
Don't...
Theatre – The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes Wrong | Festival Theatre |12 – 17 March 2018
DISCLAIMER - The Edinburgh Reporter accepts no liability for injuries sustained through audiences laughing themselves in to apoplectic stupor.
Creator of the 'Art...
Theatre – King’s and Festival Theatres and the Studio Spring programme on sale now
In an absolutely packed programme the King’s and Festival Theatres and the Studio are showcasing the very best in live drama, dance, comedy and music and in its role as Scotland’s largest cinema, the Festival...
Theatre News – More Relaxed & Inclusive Performances Announced
Enabling more accessibility and inclusion our friends at the The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King’s theatres, once again expand their programme of relaxed performances for audiences of all ages...
Theatre – Not to be missed Miss Saigon returns
FESTIVAL THEATRE EDINBURGH -
17 JANUARY – 17 FEBRUARY 2018
MISS SAIGON tells the story of the last days of the Vietnam War, 17 year-old Kim is forced to work in a Saigon bar run...
Sing-a-long-a Beauty and the Beast at the Festival Theatre on 7 October – What...
Who should go to this show? How can you dress up for it?
What should you expect when you get there?
We had so many questions but Charlie Crocker of Singalonga Productions was able to help...
At the King’s and Festival Theatre Autumn 2017
Our thespian thoroughbred friends at The Festival and King’s Theatres are forever burrowing further in to the labyrinthine warrens of theatrical magic. The Edinburgh Reporter takes a peek in to their looking-glass wonders and...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Verdi’s MacBeth
'MacBeth' is a major new production of Verdi’s dark operatic thriller, given by the International Festival’s 2017 resident company Teatro Regio of Turin, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Emma Dante. The opera...
At The Festival Theatre – The Awfey Huge Variety Show
Irresistible resilience shines forth.
The Festival Theatre presents the rather awfully nice and thoroughly inclusive - AWFEY HUGE VARIETY SHOW
Friday 16 June 2017 at 6pm.
The teasingly titled Awfey Huge Variety Show brings together the state-funded special...
Theatre review: The Attic Collective perform War In America – Former Royal High School
Our rating ***.5
'It's times like this I really wished I'd listened to what my Mother said!' What did she say? 'I don't really know, I wasn't listening!' Counter-intuitively, Galactic hitch-hiker, Arthur Dent's anecdotal bromide...
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