Listings: Mon 9 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
Listings
Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.
Bedlam Theatre
11B Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ.
The Importance of Being Earnest (EUTC)
Wed 11 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
This paradigm of Wildean comedy follows characters, richly saturated with eccentricity, and their romantic ramblings within the rigidly ritualistic Victorian upper class. The play holds a looking glass to society, reflecting the hilarity of its behaviours, superfluous as well as profound, revealing through preposterous circumstances that “the truth is rarely pure and never simple”. Book here.
Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
Horrible Histories The Concert
Fri 13 – Sun 15 Mar 2026
Fri: 6.30pm; Sat: 2.30pm & 6.30pm; Sun: 11am & 2.30pm.
When William Shakespeare is asked to create the greatest show on earth, he has no idea how much trouble he’s going to get from monstrous monarchs like Henry VIII, Queen Victoria and Mansa Musa. But things hot up when Death appears – and now Boudica, Napoleon and Cleopatra all want to take over! Can things get any worse? Of course they can – Loo Man’s in the building! 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 to Tue 10 Mar 2026; PN Mar 11.
Run: Th 12 Mar – 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.
Out of the Blue
Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street, EH6 8R.
Platformed (Active Enquiry)
Thurs 12 – Sat 14 Mar 2026
Thurs/Fri: 6.30pm; Sat: 5pm & 7pm.
A host of characters must confront the question of who best represents Edinburgh whilst protecting their secret at all costs. The warehouse is normally a quiet place where the statues of Edinburgh can rest. But the arrival of a new tenant and some shady characters means that The Great Lafayette, Sherlock Holmes, Cowboy Joe and others can no longer stay in their sculpted poses. Book here.
Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
Matilda the Musical
Wed 4 – Sun 22 Mar 2026
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Thu 5, Wed 11&18, Sat/Sun mats: 2.30pm.
Æ review: ★★★★☆ Huge energy
With book by Dennis Kelly, music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and directed by Matthew Warchus, Matilda is the story of an extraordinary little girl who, armed with a vivid imagination and a sharp mind, dares to take a stand and change her own destiny. Book here.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High St, EH1 1SR. Phone booking: 0131 556 9579.
Maya and the Whale (Hazel Darwin-Clements)
Sat 14 Mar 2026.
One performance: 7pm
The story of a young climate activist on the run who finds herself face-to-face with a beached whale. Her dad works in the oil industry and her mum just wants her to have a childhood free of worry, but how can she go about ‘business as usual’ when there’s a climate emergency? Book here.
Balancing in Freedom (Iddo Oberski)
Sun 15 Mar, Sat 13 June, Fri 20 Nov.
Mar & June: 2pm; Nov: 7.30pm;
A journey through the landscape of personal story, searching for meaning, connection and expression. In this unique blending of multiple art forms, Iddo Oberski takes us on a deeply personal exploration of his family’s Holocaust history, his own disability and Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom. Book here.
Studio Theatre
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
The Bacchae (Company of Wolves)
Mon 9/Tue 10 Mar 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
EdFringe 2025 review: ★★★☆☆ Ethereal.
An earth-shattering solo retelling of the myth of Dionysos, written and performed by Ewan Downie. An epic of rejection, vengeance and rebirth told through story, dance and ancient song which blurs the lines between binaries: human and animal, male and female, victim and perpetrator, and takes us on a transformative journey from repression and denial to renewal and release. Book here.
A Giant on the Bridge
Fri 13/Sat 14 Mar 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
EdFringe 2024 review: ★★★☆☆ Insightful.
Every year in Scotland thousands of people return home from prison to an uncertain future. A Giant on the Bridge reveals the intimate human experiences within this prison-homecoming journey, in a compelling narrative-gig which fuses acoustic songwriting, Scottish hip hop & original storytelling. Book here.
Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
The Legend of Davie McKenzie (PPP)
By Stephen Christopher & Graeme Smith.
Tue 10 – Sat 14 Mar 2026
Lunchtime: 1pm (Trav 2).
When Sean’s best pal Davie tragically dies on the day of his release from prison, the system prepares to cremate him in a council funeral with no guests, no gravestone, and no story. From his prison cell, Sean makes a promise: Davie won’t go out like that. Book here.
A Grain of Sand (Good Chance)
By Elias Matar.
Tue 10 – Thur 12 Mar 2026
Evening: 7.30pm (Trav 1).
Renad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother’s tales and the spark of her own imagination, she searches for her family and the ‘Anqaa’ – the mythical Palestinian Phoenix. Book here.
Usher Hall
Lothian Road, EH1 2EA.
Tristan und Isolde (Scottish Opera)
Wed 11 Mar 2026
Evening: 5.30pm.
Wagner at his most intoxicating and transcendent. A love potion sets off a tragic chain of events. This opera in concert, musically emphasises the deep bond between Tristan and Isolde, from hatred to lust, from love to death, and how far they will go to be together. NB: Early start! 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.
