Archive for January, 2024
Pan and Tink join Rydell High
Peter Pan to play Doody, Tink as Rizzo, in UK tour of Grease
Kieran Lynch and Rebecca Stenhouse, who starred as Peter Pan and Tink in the 2023/24 panto at the Festival theatre, have been announced as Doody and Rizzo in the UK tour of Grease, coming to the Playhouse in June 2024, with tickets already on sale here.
Listings: Mon 29 Jan – Sun 4 Feb
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
This week is all about the Manipulate Festival – and that apart, the answer is “not a lot” with the sum total of two one-off touring music shows on Edinburgh’s other stages.
Manipulate live listings
Visual Theatre Fest runs Feb 1 – 11.
The Manipulate Festival, home of animation, puppetry and visual theatre in Scotland, opens this Thursday, 1 February 2024, running for eleven days, with live performances in three Edinburgh venues.
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.
Acaste Wanted!
ETA urgent call-out for April production
Edinburgh Theatre Arts has put out an urgent cast call for an actor with the playing age of 20 – 40 years old to play the role of Acaste in its April 2024 production of The Misanthrope.
Little Shop of Horrors
★★★★☆ Inventive
Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group has brought plenty of invention to the store in its pleasing production of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s B-Movie musical, Little Shop of Horrors, at the Church Hill Theatre.
Shrek the Musical
★★★★☆ Fully rounded
Shrek the Musical’s return in a new production, with a new director and choreographer, is a case of more of the same in terms of plot and songs, but with vibrant new details and framing to their presentation.
Listings Mon 22 – Sun 28 Jan 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
There’s two shows with big green protagonists opening this week. Similar, but oh so very different. At the Church Hill we have Eusog’s Little Shop of Horrors; at the Playhouse the new touring production of Shrek the Musical plays all week.
Horror Shop for Eusog
Schlock horror not Savoy Opera for student company
This week the Edinburgh University’s Savoy Opera company, Eusog, is swapping G&S for Menken and Ashman, with a production of Little Shop of Horrors at the Church Hill Theatre.
Macbeth
★★★★☆ High impact
There’s plenty to mull over in the high concept, high impact, high-everything modern dress production of Macbeth touring to a quartet of created theatre spaces – and this month spending a fortnight at the Royal Highland Centre.
