What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? Not a lot, to be honest. Three one-off performances equates to not so much a lull before the storm that is the Edinburgh Fringe, but a full-on becalming. The ...

The Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group brings a new festive folktale to the Pleasance stage this weekend in the form of baba, a new take on the old tales of Baba Yaga and her house on chicken legs. This ...

Half Trick’s Waiting for Wonka at Augustine Church has plenty of ideas, excellent staging and some genuinely terrific performances, but never quite convinces in the way it threatens to.

Dear Evan Hansen ★★★★☆ Impressive Playhouse: Tue 1 – Sat 5 Jul 2025 Review by Hugh Simpson Dear Evan Hansen has become one of the most successful musicals of recent years, and the Nottingham Playhouse ...

The big bit of amateur theatre is at Augustine United Church, where Half Trick have a new play Waiting for Wonka (Wed – Sat: Tickets). An interesting premise, this, from the company which had a both a ...

Thomas Mugglestone, Emer Conway, Jenny Quinn, Serena Doran and Les Fulton in Aulos Productions’ Antigone na h’Eireann. Publicity pic Aliza Hoover ...

Grease is a raucous, riotous classic of 1970s American musical theatre, and this new co-production between Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Blackpool Grand Theatre is packed with heart, soul, and ...

The Counterminers’ Lost and Found at Just the Tonic at The Caves fairly crackles and fizzes with life. Humorous and heartfelt, it heads into some well-trodden territory at times, but always has enough ...

Users of the Brunton Theatre in Musselburgh are being urged to take part in a survey on the RAAC-hit venue before a consultation on its future comes to a close this Sunday 29 June 2025.

Dundee-born actor Brian Cox is heading out on his first ever solo tour, It’s All About Me, arriving at the Edinburgh ...

Dundee-born actor Brian Cox is heading out on his first ever solo tour It’s All About Me, arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse on Sunday October 5 2025.