Festival Theatre

Hamilton

Hamilton

★★★★★ The storm’s eye

Event theatre has arrived in Edinburgh with the major production of Hamilton at the Festival Theatre, where it will sit down for nearly nine weeks in a run that was all-but sold out before it even opened.

Mar 10 2024 | By | Reply More
Graham Simpson, unsung hero

Graham Simpson, unsung hero

Festival Theatre usher surprised at Night of Musicals

Graham Simpson, who has been an usher at the Festival Theatre for 30 years, was the surprise winner of the Unsung Hero Award at The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals 2024.

Jan 29 2024 | By | Reply More
The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan

The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan

★★★★☆ Highflying

The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan turns out to be about 98% pantomime and 2% Peter Pan, but is tremendous fun nevertheless.

Nov 29 2023 | By | Reply More
Edinburgh Gang Show 2023

Edinburgh Gang Show 2023

★★★★☆  Riding high

Boasting a cast of (nearly) thousands and as much entertainment as you could wish for, the Edinburgh Gang Show 2023 hits the odd wrong note but in the end its sheer momentum brooks no argument.

Nov 15 2023 | By | Reply More
Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning

Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning

★★★★☆ Angry

You can’t keep a good vampire down for long, and the story of Dracula keeps coming back to the stage, with its depictions of transgressive behaviour making it a constant candidate for reinvention.

Oct 12 2023 | By | Reply More
Sister Act

Sister Act

★★★★★ Joyful

For an evening of laugh out loud entertainment which will send you home singing, look no further than the UK tour of Sister Act, playing all week at the Festival Theatre.

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2:22 A Ghost Story

2:22 A Ghost Story

★★★☆☆ Spooky

On tour after an award-winning (and still-current) London run, Danny Robins’s 2:22 A Ghost Story at the Festival Theatre is an entertaining horror story. It largely justifies the confidence displayed in putting the word ‘ghost’ right up there in the title.

Sep 28 2023 | By | Reply More
SB’s Cinders! surprise

SB’s Cinders! surprise

Male Cinderella for Scottish Ballet Xmas production

Scottish Ballet’s new show, Cinders!, which comes to the Festival Theatre in January 2024, is to feature gender-swapped roles for Cinderella and Charming – but only in half the performances.

Sep 28 2023 | By | Reply More
Cap Theatres dance into 2024

Cap Theatres dance into 2024

Raft of new shows announced for Spring and Summer next year

The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s centenary production of The Gondoliers heads up an otherwise dance-heavy swathe of new shows at the Festival and Studio theatres that have gone on pre-sale ahead of public sale from 11am Wednesday 20 September.

Sep 18 2023 | By | Reply More
People Huv Tae Know

People Huv Tae Know

★★★☆☆ Homely

Twenty years on from its first television outing, Still Game has enough followers to pack out theatres, as could be seen from the record-breaking runs of the stage adaptations at the Hydro. Indeed, there was a play before there was ever a television version. So a theatre event featuring the cast would seem to be a no-brainer.

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