Listings Mon 2 – Sun 8 June 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.
Church Hill Theatre
33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
A Winter’s Tale (Edinburgh Acting School)
Fri 6/Sat 7 June 2025.
Fri: 8pm; Sat: 3.30pm.
Combining Shakespeare’s text with new material from award-winning playwright Jen McGregor, A Winter’s Tale: Pursued By a Bear turns the original play into a queer fairytale about love, trust, and bewaring of bears in unexpected places. Book here.
Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera)
Thur 29 May – Sat 7 Jun 2025
Both Thurs & Sat 7: 7.15pm; Sun 5: 3pm.
A lavish Parisian party is a grand occasion for dancing, drinking, and (in)discreet love affairs. But Baron Zeta, the ambassador to the fictional cash-strapped state of Pontevedro, has a slightly more serious matter on his mind. Book here.
Trial by Jury (Scottish Opera)
Fri 30 May & Fri 6 Jun 2025
Evenings: 7.15pm.
New production accompanied by the world premiere of Emma Jenkins & Toby Hession’s A Matter of Misconduct! in a double-bill evening. With a comic cast performing contrasting roles in both pieces, this promises an unmissable night of classic G&S comedy and new writing. Book here.
Leith Theatre
28-30 Ferry Road, Leith, EH6 4AE.
Restless Natives
Sat 7 – Sat 21 Jun 2025
Thurs-Sat: 7.30pm; Mats: 12, 14, 21: 2.30pm; Sun 8: 2pm.
The Clown and the Wolfman ride again! The film that paved the way for the boom of Scottish cinema starts a new adventure as a full stage musical, produced and directed by the team that made the original cult classic. Book here.
Lochrin Basin
Union Canal Basin, Fountainbridge.
Pop Up Opera (Scottish Opera)
Sun 8 June 2025
Puffy MacPuffer and the Crabbit Canals: 1pm.
A Little Bit of The Pirates of Penzance: 3pm.
A pair of free pop-up operas (30 mins running time each) in Edinburgh as part of the Scottish Opera 2025 Canal Tour. The pair will be at the Falkirk Wheel on Sunday 15 June. Free & unticketed, details here.
Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848.
The Mountaintop
By Katori Hall directed by Rikki Henry.
Sat 31 May – Sat 21 June 2025
Previews: Sat 31, Mon 2, Tue 3.
Daily (not Mon): 7.30pm. Wed, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
April 3, 1968. Room 306, the Lorraine Motel, Memphis. It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr’s last night on Earth. A funny, compelling drama imagines the man behind the legend on the eve of his assassination; and sees the public façade and the private turmoil, the family man and the martyr, desperate to finish what he started. Book here.
Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Run ends Sat 14 June 2025
Mon – Sat: 7.30pm; Mats: Thurs, Sat: 2.30pm..
Æ review: ★★★★☆ Can-Can do
The most jukebox of jukebox musicals, Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage with a world of splendour, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory. A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Book here.
Pleasance
60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ.
Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay (Strawmoddie)
Pleasance Theatre: Thurs 5 – Sun 8 June 2025
Thurs: 7.30pm; Fri/Sat: 8.30pm; Sun: 5pm.
The Watch returns! Ankh-Morpork’s finest (and weirdest) are back on the case in Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay, adapted by Stephen Briggs. Across the Ankh-Morpork, people are being murdered, but there’s no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene… Can Captain Vimes overcome his distaste for clues and solve the mystery? Part of the Cymera Festival. Book here.
Flora MacDonald and Zombies (Debbie Cannon)
Sat 7/Sun 8 June 2025
Sat: 3.30pm (Cabaret Bar); Sun: 2.30pm (Lomond Room).
Flora Macdonald – Jacobite heroine, saviour of an exiled prince, face of many shortbread tins – and ferocious zombie hunter. Join Flora for a rollicking and completely untrue adventure into Scotland’s past, featuring war, romance, a rogue royal, the undead, a cat assassin, and a Scottish schoolgirl on the best history trip ever. A new fantasy-comedy solo show. Book here.
Dune: The Musical (Dan Collins)
Sat 7 June 2025
One performance: 6pm (Pleasance Bar)
A memoir in song by the Earl of Caladan, trusted adviser to the Padisha Emperor and beloved troubadour-warrior, the bard Gurney Halleck. Following the success of his work on A Child’s History of Muad’Dib Gurney will perform hits from his back catalogue and introduce never-before-heard songs from his time among the Fremen. Sing along with little Paul Atreides on his journey to Sietch Tabr; can he tame the worm, save the world AND get the girl? Book here.
Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
Every Brilliant Thing (Second Half & Paines Plough)
By Duncan MacMillan with Jonny Donahoe.
Wed 4 – Sat 7 June 2025
Evenings: 8pm (Trav 2).
Ten years on from its first performances, the smash hit show by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe returns. You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. So you make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. Book here.
Lear (Raw Material and NTS)
By Ramesh Meyyappan.
Thurs 5 – Sat 7 June 2025
Evenings: 7.30pm. Sat mat: 2.30pm (Trav 1).
Man. Father. Fool. In this dark and claustrophobic world, Lear is the all-powerful patriarch, but he is also his own fool. Being a fool is one thing. Having power and being a fool is quite another. What happens when the power we hold is taken away? Book here.
