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Shirley Valentine’s Lyceum date
Sally Reid to reprise award-winning role
The Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2022 production of Willie Russell’s iconic play Shirley Valentine is touring to the Lyceum in June 2024, with Sally Reid reprising her award-winning turn in the title role.
Lead cast for & Juliet announced
International Women’s Day announcement for Playhouse dates
The three leads have been announced for the UK tour of & Juliet, the jukebox musical which imagines a theatrical universe where Juliet ditches her famous ending with Romeo.
TINA Tours to Edinburgh
Tina Turner musical for Playhouse in 2025
TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is set to play the Edinburgh Playhouse from Tue 11 to Sat 22 November 2025 (tickets), and the Glasgow King’s Tue 23 Sept to Sat 4 Oct 2025 (tickets), with tickets now on sale for both venues.
Buttrey rocks Bedlam
EUTC workshop new rock musical at Bedlam
Thaddeus Buttrey wrote his first song when he was 10 years old and first performed in a musical when he was 13. Now, the Edinburgh University phd student is set to have his rock musical Who We Are Now staged by the EUTC in their Bedlam theatre.
MAMA’s mystery musical
MAMA take the 24 hour musical challenge
This coming Friday, the first of March 2024, the Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association will learn the name of their latest production. Not much unusual in that.
Joseph’s Xmas return
Donny Osmond’s Pharaoh turn in new tour
Seventies heart-throb, Donny Osmond, who played Joseph over 2,000 times in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, returns to the show this Christmas at the Edinburgh Playhouse.
Everybody’s talking about… FCT
Forth Children’s Theatre announce 43rd EdFringe show
Forth Children’s Theatre has put out an open call for the teen edition of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at EdFringe 2024, which it will stage Friday 2 to Saturday 10 August at Broughton High School.
Invitation to Horror
Edinburgh Horror Festival 2024 submissions open
Organisers of the Edinburgh Horror Festival 2024, taking place over Halloween at the Banshee Labyrinth pub on Niddry Street, have put out an open call for submissions to this year’s event.
EAS adds Daytime Actors’ Gym
Morning sessions for Edinburgh Acting School’s acting workout
Edinburgh Acting School’s Actors’ Gym is piloting a new monthly daytime class in addition to its regular Monday evening sessions. The first daytime session will take place on Monday 19 Feb 2024.
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.
