Production News
Lyceum’s home theatre experience
Sound Stage offers “at home theatre experience”
A new play by Mark Ravenhill is to open Sound Stage, the Lyceum’s latest experimental online theatre season of eight new premieres from leading Scottish and British playwrights, presented in an immersive audio theatre setting.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks for Fest Theatre
World Premiere adaptation tours to Edinburgh in 2022
The new musical production of Bedknobs and Broomsticks is set to tour to Edinburgh’s Festival theatre in 2022, after visiting Glasgow’s King’s in November this year.
White Christmas in 2021
Playhouse confirms Irving Berlin classic for 2021
The West End production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas will now play the Edinburgh Playhouse for the Festival season 2021/2022, with tickets on sale, Monday 21 December 2020.
Beauty and Beast’s Edinburgh Date
Playhouse tickets for 2021 tour on sale Thurs 26 Nov.
Tickets for Edinburgh’s October 2021 dates of the new, “reimagined” production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Playhouse in go on sale at 12 noon today, Thursday 26 November 2020.
Osmonds for Edinburgh
Osmonds musical to visit Festival Theatre
The Osmonds: A New Musical, is set to visit Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre in October 2021 as part of its world premiere tour, starting in London in August and running through to 2022.
Macbeth forced online
E.A.S. abandons plans for al fresco Macbeth
Edinburgh Acting School’s planned outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth on Halloween weekend has been forced to move online, as current Covid-19 restrictions were extended this week.
McGrath’s 80th marked
Magnetic North revive McGrath’s Dream Train
Edinburgh’s Magnetic North theatre company is streaming a new performance of its first ever production, The Dream Train by Tom McGrath, on what would have been the playwright’s eightieth birthday.
Shrapnel Live & Online
Pandemic show Shrapnel gets Zoom premiere
Edinburgh grassroots theatre company Production Lines is staging C.M.F. Wood’s pandemic play Shrapnel live on Zoom for four performances at the end of November.
Outside, Damned Spot
E.A.S. plans al fresco Macbeth at Marchmont St Giles:
Edinburgh Acting School is planning to stage an outdoor production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at St Giles Churchyard, Marchmont, on Halloween weekend.
Take off to Car-Park Panto
Horrible Histories’ drive-in panto for Edinburgh Airport:
Horrible Christmas, Horrible Histories’ live, drive-in panto, will be coming to Edinburgh Airport for five performances only on Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 December 2020.
