Listings Mon 23 Feb – Sun 1 Mar 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The big guns of local amateur musical theatre come out to play this week, with a great spread, generally, for fans of the genre.
Theatre, first, though. Congratulations to Wonder Fools, now Glasgow-based, nominated for the Critics Circle Empty Space… Peter Brook Award. The company are back at the Traverse with David Grieg’s heart-wrenching The Events (Fri/Sat: tickets), about a mass shooting at a church choir.
The EUTC’s big show this term is a new take on Ovid’s Metamorphosis at the Bedlam (ends Sat: tickets). Tartan Tabletop’s queer historical farce Mr & Mrs Beard is at the Georgian House (ends Sun: tickets).
So, to musical theatre. Two big jukebox affairs dominate the week. At the Festival Theatre local amateurs the Bohemians have the Queen musical, We Will Rock You (Wed – Sat: tickets). Expect much goodness here.
Steps are to the fore at the Playhouse with Here & Now (ends Sat: tickets). This is a pure, camp, candy floss-on-a-stick affair not always wonderfully sung but nevertheless huge fun.
Edinburgh Studio Opera stage Purcell’s exquisite Baroque The Fairy Queen at the Pleasance (ends Thurs: tickets). Flawed in its theatrical focus, this take on Shakespeare’s Dream is tremendously well sung.
EdGAS are at the Edinburgh New Town Church (previously St Andrews & St George’s West) with a semi-staged production of G&S’s final Savoy Opera, The Grand Duke (Fri/Sat: tickets).
Elsewhere, Paulina Lenoir has Puella Eterna at Assembly Roxy (Fri/Sat: tickets) and there are two left field dance opportunities on Saturday with Himadri Madan’s The Gaze – you, me, us, them (Studio, tickets), while theatrical street dance rules at Dancehouse’s Ignite 2026 (Church Hill: tickets).
Listings
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Assembly Roxy
2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.
Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna
Fri 27/Sat 28 Feb 2026
Daily: 8pm.(Upstairs).
Acclaimed designer and theatre-maker turned “virtuosic clown” Paulina Lenoir presents a tale of birth, life and death told through the eyes of this generation’s most renowned poet, Puella Eterna. Book here.
Bedlam Theatre
11B Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ.
Metamorphoses (EUTC)
Wed 25 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
The House of Bacchus invites you to see a new telling of Ovid’s Epic Poem, set at the un-ending house party of existence. Follow characters you know and characters you don’t, from stories told thousands of times before, in new strange ways . The gods are gracious hosts if you play your cards right. Come join us in the water. Book here.
Church Hill Theatre
33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Ignite 2026 (Dancehouse)
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evening: 6.30pm.
Hip Hop Theatre featuring some of the freshest new dance theatre work from dancers and dance companies based at the Dance House. Expect a dynamic showcase drawing on hip hop, breaking and more with new dance theatre works exploring concepts such as peer pressure, making connections, and the struggle for control. Book here.
Edinburgh New Town Church
13 George Street EH2 2PA.
The Grand Duke (EdGAS)
Fri 27 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Semi-staged production of G&S’s final Savoy Opera. The plot hinges on the mis-interpretation of a 100-year-old law regarding statutory duels (decided by drawing cards). The leading comedian of a theatre troupe, spearheads the rebellion against the hypochondriac, miserly Grand Duke and becomes engaged to four different women before all is resolved. Book here.
Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000
We Will Rock You (The Bohemians)
Wed 25 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm; Mat: Sat: 2.30pm.
The Queen and Ben Elton musical, set in a future where rock music is forbidden, until a group of rock rebels (the Bohemians) make it their mission to bring it back against all odds in their fight against the all-powerful Globalsoft company and its boss, Killer Queen. Book here.
Georgian House
7 Charlotte Square EH2 4DR.
Mr and Mrs Beard (Tartan Tabletop)
Wed 25 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7pm.
A queer historical farce, performed in a real 18th century drawing room. Witty, scandalous and exuberant, think Oscar Wilde meets Blackadder: a couple marry to hide their homosexuality amidst the high society of 18th Century Edinburgh Original historical comedy by local Edinburgh playwright Benjamin Rome Clarke, performed as part of the National Trust for Scotland’s celebration of LGBTQ+ History Month. Book here.
Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848.
One Day – The Musical (25/26 Season)
Book by David Greig. Lyceum production.
Previews Fri 27 Feb – Tue 10 Mar 2026.
Run: Wed 11 – Sun 19 April 2026.
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Mats Wed, Sat: 2.30pm; Sun: 5pm.
Emma and Dexter first meet on the night of their graduation, 15th July 1988 – St. Swithin’s Day. Over the next twenty years we return to them on the same day each year, and through joy and heartbreak, missed opportunities and second chances, they navigate love, ambition, and the unpredictable twists of life. Book here.
Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
Here & Now – The Steps Musical
Tue 24 Feb – Sun 1 Mar 2026
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Sat mat: 2.30pm; Sun 3pm only.
Welcome to seaside superstore Better Best Bargains, where it’s Friday night, the vibe is right, and everyone’s dancing in the aisles. But when Caz discovers the shelves are stocked with lies and betrayal, the summer of love she and her friends dreamed of suddenly feels like a tragedy… Book here.
Pleasance Theatre
60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ.
The Fairy Queen (Edinburgh Studio Opera)
Mon 23 – Thurs 26 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Purcell based The Fairy Queen on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Two human couples, lost in fairy-inhabited woods, are placed under relationship-complicating spells, and experience a fever-dream-like trance through the fairy kingdom. They try to sort out where reality really is, how to get back to it, and, in turn, how to get back to the love they had before this magic took over. Book here.
Studio Theatre
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
The Gaze – you, me, us and them (Himadri Madan)
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm; Mats: Weds, Sat: 2.30pm.
An evocative new performance by Edinburgh-based choreographer and dancer Himadri Madan with music from Ankna Arockiam. Combining vocabulary derived from Indian classical dance with live music and spoken word, this interactive dance and film installation explores society’s critical gaze on women’s bodies. Book here.
Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
The Events (Wonder Fools)
By David Greig.
Fri 27 – Sat 28 Feb 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm (Trav 1).
When Claire, a priest and choir leader, survives a mass shooting in her church, she embarks on a desperate search for answers that will ultimately bring her face to face with the attacker. David Greig’s modern classic returns in a bold new staging by Wonder Fools. Book here.
*NB: This is intended to be a complete listing of all public theatrical productions on in Edinburgh. If you are staging a show which is not listed, or a listing is inaccurate, please get in touch through the contact page, here.
