Strange Town actor for West End Macbeth
David Tennant’s hit Macbeth transfers to Harold Pinter theatre
Edinburgh’s Strange Town theatre company and young acting agency has another West End star in its books as Raffi Phillips joins his fellow cast members in the transfer of the Donmar Warehouse’s Macbeth to the Harold Pinter theatre.
Preview & listings: Mon 22 – Sun 29 April 2024
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
There’s not a lot of choice this week, with even the top local amateur production Cyrano de Bergarac seeing Arkle in the tiny 45-seat Hill Street Theatre (Wed – Sat: tickets), previewed here: Arkle nose what’s up.
MAMA’s venue reprieve
M.A.M.A finds replacement venue for 2024 revue
The Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association has found a new venue and posted new dates for its postponed annual revue, the M.A.M.A Spotlight Awards.
Arkle nose what’s up
Arkle sniffs out Maxwell adaptation of Cyrano for Spring show
Edinburgh’s Arkle Theatre bring Edmond Rostand’s swashbuckling 1897 tale of panache, poetry, romance and a prominent proboscis Cyrano de Bergerac, to the Hill Street theatre next week.
Preview and Listings: Mon 15 – Sun 21 April 2024
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The big news is the opening of The Girls of Slender Means at the Lyceum (ends Sat 4 May, tickets) in a week which is otherwise surprisingly, well, slender, on new shows.
Jojo gets Kinky at Playhouse
Johannes Radebe to star in Kinky Boots tour coming to Playhouse
A new production of Kinky Boots the Musical, staring Johannes Radebe as Lola and Dan Partridge as Charlie Price, will tour to Edinburgh’s Playhouse and the Glasgow King’s in February 2025.
The Addams Family
★★★★☆ Finger clicking good
Edinburgh Music Theatre have a beautifully concise production of The Addams Family at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday. It hits its mark bang on, from the very first finger click of that iconic introduction right up its full blown love-in finale.
Preview & Listing: Mon 8 – Sun 14 April 2024
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Musical theatre or straight theatre? The choice is yours this week, with plenty of both on offer and a couple of juicy one-off events thrown in for good measure.
MAMA pulls annual revue
M.A.M.A Spotlight Awards postponed
Rising costs and low ticket sales have forced the Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association to postpone its planned revue, the M.A.M.A Spotlight Awards at Portobello Town Hall.
Page2Stage hits pause
No CS funding? No P2S playing, says long running scratch night.
Edinburgh scratch-night Page2Stage is putting its script development evenings on hold “for the foreseeable future” after a second application for funding from Creative Scotland was turned down.