Festival Theatre

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

★★★☆☆ Reassuring

In many ways The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at the Festival Theatre is exactly what you would expect. In other ways, it very much goes the extra mile.

Jun 1 2023 | By | Reply More
Hit Musicals set Edinburgh dates

Hit Musicals set Edinburgh dates

Come From Away and Bonnie & Clyde to tour to Edinburgh

Two of the biggest recent West End musicals have announced tours which are coming to Edinburgh in 2024, with both putting tickets on sale today, Wednesday 31 May 2023.

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The Stamping Ground

The Stamping Ground

★★★★☆ Vibrant

The Stamping Ground at the Festival Theatre is unabashedly emotional and visually enthralling. Raw Material and Eden Court’s Runrig musical – which played successfully in Inverness in 2022 – is touring Scotland and will surely find appreciative audiences.

May 24 2023 | By | Reply More
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

★★★★☆ Star car

The car is, of course, the star in Southern Light Opera’s production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Festival Theatre all week, but it would be nothing without a tight and committed cast around it.

May 17 2023 | By | Reply More
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

★★★☆☆ Faithful retelling

The Shawshank Redemption at the Festival Theatre provides a dependable evening of cogent storytelling.

Apr 25 2023 | By | Reply More
The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

★★★★★ Breathtaking

Anyone with even a passing interest in fantasy should certainly go and see The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the Festival Theatre. As should anyone who has ever suffered loss, ever been a child, or who wants to see a theatrical production whose storytelling drive is matched by its extraordinary visual power.

Apr 19 2023 | By | Reply More
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

★★★★☆ Enchanting

New Adventures’ magical production of Sleeping Beauty, at the Festival Theatre all week, tells the timeless tale of Princess Aurora with a modern gothic twist that has you hooked from the start.

Apr 14 2023 | By | Reply More
Listings Mon 10 – Sun 16 April 2023

Listings Mon 10 – Sun 16 April 2023

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

The last week of the Easter break marks the arrival of what might be the hottest ticket to come to town this year –  Isobel McArthur’s latest venture into classic adaptations with Kidnapped, at the Lyceum for a limited season.

Apr 12 2023 | By | Reply More
Wish You Were Dead

Wish You Were Dead

★★☆☆☆ Lacks Grace

Two days after the latest series of Grace left our TV screens, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is back on stage in Edinburgh in Wish You Were Dead, Shaun McKenna’s sixth adaption of a Peter James novel.

Apr 5 2023 | By | Reply More
Swan Lake

Swan Lake

★★★★☆ Classically beautiful

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s traditional Swan Lake spellbinds its audience with Tchaikovsky’s iconic and emotive score performed live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, just as Odile spellbinds Prince Siegfried.

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