On Stage This Week
Listings for the week to Sunday 27 October 2024:
Listings for the coming week are here: On stage Next Week.
For the following week’s listings, look here: On Stage the Following Week.
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 Boys in the Band (EUTC)
Wed 23 – Sat 26 October 2024.
Evenings: 7.30pm (tbc).
Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play (pre-Aids, pre-Stonewall) about gay life in New York City. In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self- avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. Book here.
Church Hill Theatre
33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
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.
Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
Murder on the Orient Express
Tue 22 – Sat 26 Oct 2024
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm; Thurs, Sat: 2.30pm.
Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops The Orient Express dead in its tracks. One murderer. A train full of suspects. An impossible case. Trapped in the snow with a killer still on-board, can the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case before the train reaches its final destination? Book here.
Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848.
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Pitlochry Festival Theatre production.
Thurs 24 Oct – Sat 9 Nov 2024
Preview: Thurs 24.
Daily (not Mon): 7.30pm. Wed, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
After losing her family home and prosperous life, former southern belle Blanche Dubois moves into the shabby apartment of her younger sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski in a poor neighbourhood in New Orleans. Book here.
Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
The Book of Mormon
Tue 15 Oct – Sat 2 Nov 2024.
Mon – Sat: 7.30pm; Fri, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Æ Review: ★★★★☆ Something incredible.
This outrageous musical comedy from the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and Bobby Lopez, the Co-writer of Avenue Q and Frozen, follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent on a mission to a place that’s about as far from Salt Lake City as you can get… Book here.
Studio Theatre
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
That Feeling When (Lyra Young Company)
Fri 25/Sat 26 Oct 2024
Fri: 7.30pm; Sat: 2pm.
From the softest new gloves in winter to screaming on rollercoasters in summer, That Feeling When is a sensory dance theatre and live music production, which asks how the seasons can be a guide to what feels good in the cycle of teen-hood Book here.
Summerhall
1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL.
Creepy Boys (So.Glad Arts)
Sat 26 Oct 2024
Evenings: 7pm (TechCube 0).
You’re invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true. Book here.
Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
Detained (PPP)
By Michelle Chantelle Hopewell.
Tue 22 – Sat 26 Oct 2024
Lunchtimes: 1pm (Trav 2).
The British immigration system is broken. Between slogans and party-political hard lines, the people in the middle go unnoticed. The people clearing your plates, serving your drinks, your colleagues, your friends. A tense new drama about two best friends and the broken British immigration system. Book here.
Aran & Im (Once Off Productions)
By Manchán Magan.
Fri 25 – Sat 26 Oct 2024
Evening: 8pm (Trav 2).
A theatrical performance in which Manchán Magan bakes sourdough bread while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world. 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.
