Amateur Company Listings

Upcoming productions from Edinburgh’s amateur companies.

Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.

March 2024

Thurs 21 – Sat 23 March 2024
All Who Wander (EU Footlights Showchoir)
Magnuson Centre, 42 Henderson Row, EH3 5DW
Evenings: 7.30pm, Sat, mat: 2.30pm.
Showchoir with a theatrical journey delving into the profound and multifaceted experiences that make up our lives. Songs from a wide range of musicals will provide a continuous narrative of the milestones in life, revealing that wandering can make us the architects of our own destinies. Book here.

Wed 22 – Fri 22 March 2024

A Taste of Honey (EUTC)
Bedlam Theatre, 11B Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Manchester, 1958. The leaden Irwell flows through Salford as children play make believe in bomb sites. Makeshift families come together and fall apart, exploring new ways of living and loving in the rubble. Written when she was 19, Shelagh Delaney’s play is a gem of postwar British theatre. Book here.

Fri 22 – Sat 23 March 2024
The Music of the Night (Stage Door Entertainment)
Portobello Town Hall, 147-149 Portobello High St, Portobello EH15 1AF.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
A fundraising concert for Stage Door Entertainment’s Stage Door Fund to make theatre accessible for all young people. The concert will feature a “stellar cast of performers from all our recent productions, celebrating the best of musical theatre”. Book here.

Wed 27 – Sat 29 March 2024
Brief Encounter (EPT)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Wed – Fri: 7.30pm, Sat, mat only: 2.30pm.
Edinburgh People’s Theatre with Emma Rice/Kneehigh Theatre’s re-imagining of Noel Coward’s film for the stage. Set in 1930s Britain where ‘doing your duty’ shaped your character, Alec and Laura’s haunting love story plays out at the same time as romances develop between the train station staff. Book here.

Wed 27 – Sat 29 March 2024
Semele (Edinburgh Studio Opera)
Pleasance Theatre 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ..
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Handel’s operatic rollercoaster through love, lust, and divine drama. Mortal princess Semele gets entangled with Jupiter on her wedding day, sparking heavenly jealousy and earthly disapprobation. As gods and mortals collide, Handel’s genius shines in a whirlwind of baroque arias and choruses that are as dazzling as the powerful desires at the heart of the story. Book here.

April 2024

Thurs 4 – Sat 6 April 2024
45th Anniversary Gala (FCT)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Evenings: 7.30pm, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
This year Forth Children’s Theatre is celebrating its 45th Anniversary. This is the company’s big celebration: a Gala Concert featuring some of the highlights of FCT’s history performed by FCT members past and present. Book here.

Mon 8 – Sat 13 April 2024
The Misanthrope (ETA)
St Ninian’s Church Hall, 40 Comely Bank, EH4 1AG.
Mon – Fri: 7.30pm; Sat: 1pm & 6pm.
Edinburgh Theatre Arts take on Roger McGough’s take on Moliére’s classic comedy of manners. Disgusted with French society where powdered fops gossip in code and bejewelled coquettes whisper behind fans, poet Alceste embarks on a one-man crusade against fakery, frippery and forked tongues. But could the woman he adores be the worst culprit of them all? And in this rarefied world will his revolution prove merely revolting? Book here.

Tue 9 – Sat 13 April 2024
The Addams Family: A New Musical (EMT)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Edinburgh Music Theatre take on the musical with a book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, and music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa, which sees Wednesday Addams fall for a normie kid and Gomez have to keep a secret. Book here.

Thurs 11 – Sat 13 April 2024

American Idiot (Never Ending Theatre)
Assembly Roxy, 32 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat Mat: 2.30pm (relaxed perf).
Young Edinburgh company with the Green Day musical about three lifelong friends, forced to choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia as it follows their quest for true meaning in the world. Book here.

Thurs 18 – Sat 20 April 2024
MAMA Spotlight Awards (MAMA)
Portobello Town Hall, 147-149 Portobello High St, Portobello EH15 1AF.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2pm
Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association’s annual revue brings a fun filled evening of iconic Musicals and Artists through the years. This season, the revue also gives the audience a chance to choose one of the numbers MAMA will perform in our Peoples Choice Award. Book here.

Wed 24 – Sat 27 April 2024

Cyrano de Bergerac (Arkle)
Hill Street Theatre, 19 Hill Street EH2 3JP.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur… Cyrano de Bergerac is all these things, but none of them makes him happy. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane. But his problem is as plain as the nose on his face. Surely he is too ugly ever to be loved? Book here.

May 2024

Thurs 2 – Sat 4 May 2024
 All Shook Up (QMU)
Pleasance Theatre 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ..
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 12.30pm.
Queen Margaret University’s Musical Theatre Society with the jukebox musical set in 1955 featuring the songs of Elvis Presley, with a book by Joe DiPietro about a guitar-playing roustabout who rides into a square little town and, well, shakes things up. Booking here soon.

Wed 8 – Sat 11 May 2024
The Gondoliers (EDGAS)
Festival Theatre, 31/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT
Evening: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
The Edinburgh Gilbert & Sullivan Society celebrate their centenary year with an enchanting new production of The Gondoliers – take to the streets of Venice, where love, laughter, and mistaken identities abound. Book here.

Wed 15 – Sat 18 May 2024
Blue Remembered Hills (Leitheatre)
Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR
Wed – Fri: 7.30pm;  Sat mat only: 2.30pm.
Denis Potter’s deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children (played by adults) on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a wood, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasise and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Book here.

Tue 21 – Sat 25 May 2024
The Music Man (Southern Light)
Festival Theatre, 31/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT
Evening: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
When experienced con man Harold Hill arrives in River City he soon convinces the town to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band, but will Mr Hill teach the youth of the town how to play Seventy Six Trombones or will there be Trouble for him yet? Book here.

Tue 21 – Sat 25 May 2024
The Fastest Clock in the Universe (EGTG)
Assembly Roxy (Upstairs), 2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Party preparations are underway for Cougar’s twelfth 19th birthday. Everything is meticulously planned; there’s a very exclusive guest list, a delicious cake and a very sharp knife. Philip Ridley’s drama about ageing, love and delusion is set in a dilapidated room above an abandoned factory that happens to be filled with avian antiques. Tickets on sale soon.

If you would like to add your Edinburgh amateur production to this listing, please email All Edinburgh Theatre using using the contact page here.

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