Church Hill Theatre Listings
Upcoming shows at Edinburgh’s dedicated amateur venue
Church Hill Theatre
The Church Hill Theatre, 33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Website: churchhilltheatre.co.uk.
Tickets are usually sold by the company hiring the venue.
The Church HIll Theatre. Pic: Thom Dibdin
This council-owned venue is run as a sister to the Assembly Rooms and has an audience capacity of up to 353 in its main auditorium as well as a small studio space.
The former Morningside High Church, built in 1892, was bought by the then Edinburgh Corporation in 1963 and opened for the use of Edinburgh’s amateur companies in 1965.
Access: There is ramped access to the box office and bar area, with a lift to the main auditorium.
Click on the name of the show or the Book Here link to go to the ticketing site.
2024
April 2024
Rhythms of Life (Edinburgh Telephone Choir)
Thurs 25 – Sat 27 April 2024.
Thurs/Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 3.30pm.
Variety show featuring the ETC with the K.S. Dance Academy and Livingston and Broxburn Band performing songs, dance and music that explore the many stages of life’s journey. An evening full of well known songs that reflect on the stages and emotions of a life lived. Book here.
May 2024
Blue Remembered Hills (Leitheatre)
Wed 15 – Sat 18 May 2024.
Wed – Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat only: 2.30pm.
Denis Potter’s deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children (played by adults) on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a wood, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasise and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Book here.
Sweeney Todd (Blackout Productions)
Wed 9 – Sat 12 October 2024.
Evenings: 7.30pm, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Stephen Sondheim’s dark, witty and Tony Award-winning take on The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A tale of love, murder and revenge set against the backdrop of 19th century London. Book here.
Halloween Party Show (The McDougalls)
Sun 13 Oct 2024.
One show: 1pm.
The McDougalls are back with a spook-tacular new stage show for all the family – live on stage in Edinburgh! Max and Auntie Aggie (the stars of the show) are dressed to impress for their Halloween Party – and you’re invited too! Come wearing your favourite Halloween costume for some fiendish, fang-tastic fun! Book here.
Annie (Nardone’s Academy of Performing Arts)
Fri 25 – Sat 26 October 2024.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Based on the popular comic strip, Annie tells the extraordinary story of a little orphan who ends up in the lap of luxury with Depression-era billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Unlike most of the other children at Miss Hannigan’s orphanage, energetic Annie believes that her parents are still alive and will one day return to claim her. Book here.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Broadway Cinderella (Threepenny Theatricals)
Wed 13 – Sat 16 November 2024.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Based on the original French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, this romantic musical adaptation has all the ingredients of the spellbinding story we love: A pumpkin coach, glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a masked ball, and much more, all bound together by the glorious music and lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein and lashings of magic, glitter and sparkle. Book here.
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