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.

2025

April 2025

Pirate Adventure (The McDougals)
Sun 27 April 2025.
One show: 1pm.
Ahoy, mateys! Everyone’s favourite children’s theatre company presents a brand new swashbuckling singalong show for 2025. Join Auntie Aggie, Max and Morag the Rabbit as they set sail on a musical treasure hunt, filled with songs and sea shanties such as Row Row Row Your Boat and A Sailor Went to Sea. Book here.

May 2025

Bedroom Farce (Edinburgh Makars)
Thurs 8 – Sat 10 May 2025.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
A highly-strung couple wreak havoc in the bedrooms of three other couples during a single night, in Allan Ayckbourn’s play. While Ayckbourn prefers not to label his plays, this is comedy territory and certainly not farce. Book here.

Quiz (Leitheatre)
Wed 14 – Sat 17 May 2025.
Mon-Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat only: 2.30pm.
James Graham’s thrilling play combines the tension of a courtroom with the energy of a game show as a winning contestant on Britain’s Who Wants to Be A Millionaire? stands trial for cheating. Book here.

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Threepenny Theatricals)
Thurs 22- Sat 24 May 2025.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Comedy adapted for the stage by Constance Cox from Oscar Wilde’s short story about a man told by a chiromantist that he is destined to become a murderer. Comical scenarios, explosions and plot twists abound in a play filled with wonderful Wilde characters. Book here.

The Watsons (EPT)
Wed 28 – Sat 31 May 2025.
Wed-Fri: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Laura Wade takes up the story of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, in which Emma Watson returns to the impoverished family home, after years of living with her rich aunt. Her mother is dead, her father is dying. She and her two sisters need to marry, fast… But from here on in, the myriad characters abandoned by their author have ideas of their own. How on earth is Wade to engineer her heroine’s happy ending? Book here.

October 2025

Come from Away (Blackout Productions)
Wed 29 Oct – Sat 1 November 2025.
Evenings: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Based on the true story when the isolated community of Gander, Newfoundland, played host to the world. What started as an average day in a small town turned into an international sleepover, when 38 planes, carrying thousands of people from around the globe, were diverted to Gander’s airstrip on September 11, 2001. Book here.