Archive for February, 2022
Gary Barlow for Lyceum
Six Edinburgh perfs for Take That singer Gary Barlow
The Take That singer, songwriter and composer Gary Barlow is bringing his theatrical one man stage show, A Different Stage, to the Edinburgh Lyceum for six performances only.
The One Acts Are Back!
SCDA One Act Festival is this week
The Edinburgh region rounds of the SCDA’s One Act Festival return this week, Thursday 17 and Saturday 19 February 2022 to the Church Hill Theatre, with six plays in competition over the two nights.
Listings Mon 14 – Sun 20 Feb 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages This Week..
There’s a blessed sense of normality about this week on Edinburgh’s stages, with something approaching a full house of productions – only the Lyceum has yet to re-open but it will be soon.
Mousetrap hits 70
Record breaker for Edinburgh Playhouse
The world’s longest running production, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, will play the Edinburgh Playhouse in April 2023 as part of a 70 date 70th anniversary tour.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★★★★☆ Visually arresting
The touring production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the King’s is a real spectacle, reproducing the source material faithfully and showing considerable invention.
Bat Out of Hell
★★★★☆ The Bat is Back
Three weeks after the death of Meat Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell, the musical based on the album and songs that made him a household name, roars onto the Playhouse stage for a fortnight’s residency.
Listings Mon 7 – Sun 13 Feb 2022
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week…
Not quite normality yet, but the big shows are beginning to return to the big venues – with Covid mitigation in place – while a couple of online productions remind us that Covid hasn’t gone away.
A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego
★★★☆☆ History reduced
Multi award-winning feminist theatre company Jordan & Skinner has reimagined its 2019 Edinburgh Fringe hit, A Brief History of the Fragile Male Ego, turning it into a zoom style lecture that is available for home streaming through various platforms throughout February.
prism
★★★☆☆ Intriguing
prism, Production Lines’ latest venture into live, interactive online theatre, is very much a curate’s egg. Much of it is interesting and well played, but other parts are less well realised.
Ryan’s Back!
Katherine Ryan books Playhouse night in May
Katherine Ryan, the comedian, TV panel show regular and creator of Netflix’s The Duchess, is bringing her latest show Missus to the Edinburgh Playhouse on Saturday May 28, 2022.
