Production News
King’s Singers
Southern Light opens public fundraising for the King’s
Southern Light Opera will be opening its 125th season this week with four performances at the Festival Theatre of a greatest hits package, in support of the King’s Theatre redevelopment funding campaign.
Playhouse Curtain snag
Venue delays reopening as Safety Curtain snags
The Safety Curtain failed to rise at the Edinburgh Playhouse today, Sunday 5 September, for what should have been the venue’s first show for 536 days.
Bohemians Bounce Back
Rainbows all over from Bohemians
Edinburgh’s Bohemian’s have been recording all over the world for their latest production, A Bohemians Rainbow, which will be broadcast through the EdFringe online platform for five days only.
King’s Panto cast
Sleeping Beauty cast confirmed for King’s
Edinburgh’s panto triumvirate may be no more, but there will be a Gray on stage at the King’s this year, when panto giants Grant Stott and Allan Stewart are joined by Clare Gray in Sleeping Beauty.
Derren Brown adds Edinburgh dates
Showman tour to play six perfs at Playhouse
Illusionist and psychological manipulator Darren Brown has added six performances at the Edinburgh Playhouse to the eight month UK tour of his latest show, Showman, with tickets to his May 2022 shows now on sale.
Gene Kelly Ballet for SB
Scottish Ballet is planning a hybrid tour and feature-length film this autumn of Starstruck, a reworking with new elements of Gene Kelly’s 1960 ballet Pas de Dieux, which will be getting its UK premiere in the production.
It’s James IV!
Rona Munro revisits and extends James Plays
Rona Munro is to return to the Kings James for her next play, James IV – Queen of the Fight, which will premiere at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in the autumn of 2022 before touring Scotland.
Bat Out Of Hell for Playhouse
UK tour rides into Edinburgh February 2022
Bat Out Of Hell – the Musical, has confirmed dates for Edinburgh’s Playhouse in February 2022, before it heads up to Aberdeen, with an earlier visit to the Glasgow King’s in October this year. Tickets are on sale for all three dates.
Lycett’s Edinburgh Bee
Scottish dates for Joe Lycett tour
Joe Lycett, fresh from his latest spell hosting The Great British Sewing Bee, has announced a major UK tour for 2022, which will arrive at the Playhouse in March.
Gen Z goes live
Strange Town returns to live with multi-artform production
Leading Scottish youth company, Edinburgh’s Strange Town, is returning to live performance with Generation Z: The Future is Unwritten – a hybrid production featuring over 120 young people.
