New Year Listings

Jan 1 2016 | By More

Fri 1 – Sun 3 January 2016

Several of the big Christmas shows have their last performances over the weekend.

NB: All theatres are closed on 1 Jan: Ne’er Day. See separate listing here for details of free Scot:Lands events.

The Brunton
Ladywell Way, Musselburgh EH21 6AA. Phone booking: 0131 665 2240
Cinderella
Last performance Sat 2: 7pm.
Richard Conlon and Mark McDonnell return as the Ugly Sisters in a classic take on Cinders written and directed by Mark Cox (Still Game’s Tam Mullen) and with design by the Brunton’s former artistic director, Robin Peoples.

Mark McDonnell, Sean Hay, Richard Conlon. Photo Colin Hattersley

Mark McDonnell, Sean Hay, Richard Conlon. Photo Colin Hattersley

King’s Theatre
2 Leven Street EH3 9LQ. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Sat 2 – Sun 10 (not Thurs 7). Run ends Sunday 17 Jan, 2016)
Mon-Sat: 2pm, 7pm; Sun: 1pm, 5pm. (No perfs Thurs 7, Fri 8: 7pm only.
Edinburgh’s panto triumvirate of Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Andy Gray return with their big sparkly production values and familiar old routines in a pantomime take on the Snow White story.
Read Æ’s review here: ✭✭✭✭✩ Comic spectacle.

Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Last performances: Sat 2: 7pm. Sun 3: 2pm.
Theresa Heskins’ 2009 adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ classic novel about the four children who go through the wardrobe into Narnia and an epic battle between good and evil. Brought to the stage by director Andrew Panton and the team behind last year’s production of the BFG.
Read Æ’s review here: ✭✭✭✭✩ Charming.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at the Royal Lyceu.Ewan Donald and Claire-Marie Seddon as Mr Tumnus & Lucy. Photo Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe at the Royal Lyceu.
Ewan Donald and Claire-Marie Seddon as Mr Tumnus & Lucy. Photo Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Paradiso Spiegeltent
St Andrew Square. Box office: 0844 545 8252
Circa: Beyond
Last performances: Sat 2/Sun 3: 4.15pm, 7.30pm.
Acclaimed international circus company Circa make their Edinburgh’s Christmas debut, having wowed at Edinburgh’s Fringe. Get up close and personal with extraordinary circus performers: enter an intimate, red-curtained realm which is cabaret, zoo, asylum… and a stage.

Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Last performances: Sat 2: 2.30pm, 7.30pm.
The bus is back! Based on the hit movie, this is the heart-warming, uplifting adventure of three friends who hop aboard a battered old bus searching for love and friendship – and who end up finding more than they could have ever dreamed of. Staring Jason Donovan with guest stars Gavin Mitchel and Karen Dunbar.
Read Æ’s review here: ✭✭✭✭✩ Glorious.

ENDS

Tags:

Comments are closed.