Previews
Complicite’s Encounter goes online
2015 EdIntFest hit to get free YouTube streaming:
Simon McBurney’s hit show The Encounter for Complicité theatre company, which premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh International Festival, is to get a free online streaming from this Friday, 15 May 2020. It will remain online for a week.
Getting a kick out of SLO…
It’s De-Lovely at the King’s this week:
Edinburgh’s oldest musical theatre company, Southern Light Opera, is taking to the High Seas this week with a production of Cole Porter’s breakthrough musical, Anything Goes, at the King’s.
Big MAMA is Back
MAMA’s Revue 2020 for Brunton Theatre:
The Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association returns to the Brunton Theatre this week for their annual musical Revue.
It’s Barry to be Barry
Shrinking Violet remount James Barry show:
The extraordinary tale of Dr James Barry, the Irish born surgeon and Edinburgh University alumnus, is told in Edinburgh-based Shrinking Violet’s play about him which it is taking on a brief tour this month.
It’s Hairspray for the 45!
Balerno TC hit Baltimore:
Balerno Theatre Company is moving away from its traditional pantomime for this year’s seasonal offering at the Church Hill Theatre and returning to its roots to stage the Edinburgh amateur premiere of Hairspray, The Musical!.
Six Decades of Neckies
Gang Show Goes 60:
This coming Tuesday, 19 November 2019, the Edinburgh Gang Show will open its sixtieth production, having first hit the King’s stage on Monday November 14 1960.
EGTG Catch their 22
Pace, Panto and Pathos promised at Biscuit Factory:
Stage adaptations of literature have been pouring off Edinburgh’s stages in the last wee while, but amateur company EGTG has gone to the top of the tree marked Iconic.
The Bodyguard Returns
Burke is back and better than ever:
When Alexandra Burke takes to the Edinburgh Playhouse stage on Tuesday July 9 2019, as The Bodyguard returns for a fortnight stint, she will be in very familiar territory on several counts.
Wake up!
Strange Town looks to the future for its tenth anniversary:
Edinburgh youth company Strange Town is taking to the Traverse stage this week with a pair of new plays loosely inspired by the theme of The Future, but both going in very different directions.
Lark rising
EGTG give modern eye to historical story:
Edinburgh amateur company EGTG is digging back 600 years to the story of Joan of Arc this week with The Lark, a play that just seems to get more relevant as time goes on.
