Archive for March, 2025
Ghost Stories
★★★★☆ Supernatural thrills
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost Stories is a very successful piece of theatre, and a suitably scary excursion into the supernatural. After a successful West End run, the play’s first attempt at a tour was cut short by Covid lockdowns, but it is finally touring nationwide.
The Dark Up Close
★★★★☆ Stark warning
In The Dark Up Close, Strange Town’s Young Company have co-created a new play with writer Jack MacGregor foretelling a new war and mandatory conscription for young people.
PPP: Wasps
★★★★☆ Emotional clarity
Wasps by Cameron Forbes, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a touching coming-of-age story.
Listings & Preview Mon 24 – Sun 30 March 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Musicals and work by young companies dominate the listings this week, with a special mention to Nessie – the second new Scottish musical of the Spring season.
Death of a Salesman
★★★☆☆ Modern Tragedy
Arthur Miller’s enduring tragedy Death of a Salesman leaves no question of the play’s outcome in its title, or in this new production from Trafalgar Theatre Productions and Raw Material touring to the Festival Theatre.
Quartermaine’s Terms
★★★★☆ Considered
Quartermaine’s Terms, from Edinburgh People’s Theatre at the Church Hill, is a thoughtful, almost stately tragicomedy that is here staged with considerable attention to detail.
PPP: Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh
★★★★☆ Accomplished
Eilidh, Eilidh, Eilidh, by Lana Pheutan, is gently humorous and thoroughly involving. Pheutan, from Skye, has been involved in Fringe stalwarts Pretty Knickers Productions and in writing for TV Alba, and also directs what is the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse.
Jodie Comer for Lyceum
Prima Facie sets Feb 2026 dates for Lyceum
Jodie Comer will return “one last time” to her award-winning performance as barrister Tessa in Suzie Miller’s one-hander Prima Facie, in a nine stop tour visiting the Lyceum in February 2026.
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Colin McIlveny
Lung Ha at 40
To mark its 40th anniversary, Lung Ha theatre commissioned a series of portraits of the 24-strong company from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. We are publishing a new portrait every fortnight. Today our spotlight is on Lung Ha actor Colin McIlveny.
Preview and listings: Mon 17 – Sun 23 March 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week? It’s all about the Lyceum this week, where the first reviews are in for Wild Rose – and the news is that the show is a five star corker which uses country music to its best advantage in what is essentially a high-grade juke-box musical (ends April 19: tickets) […]
