On Stage This Week

Listings for the week to Sunday 7 December 2025:

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.

Church Hill Theatre
33 Morningside Road, EH10 4DR.
Beauty & The Beast The Pantomime (BTC Productions)
Wed 3 – Sat 6 December 2025.
Wed – Sat: 7.30pm; Fri mat: 2.30pm, Sat mat: 2pm.
The Balerno Theatre Company with a traditional family pantomime, based on the fairytale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Bardot de Villeneuve. The new script is by director Lewis T Baird, James McCutcheon is MD and choreography is by Sophie Williams. Book here.

Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.
The Snow Queen (Scottish Ballet)
Thurs 27 Nov – Sun 7 Dec 2025 
Wed – Sat: 7.30pm; Mats Sats, Sun 30: 2.30pm; Sun 7: 1.30pm.
Scottish Ballet’s spectacular and much-loved Snow Queen returns, after its hugely popular tour in 2022. This glittering production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale – which was also the basis for Frozen. Set to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov which will be performed live by the full Scottish Ballet Orchestra. Book here.

Inverleith St Serf’s Church Centre
1a Clark Road, EH5 3BD.
Dick Whittington (St Serf’s Players)
Wed 3 – Sat 6 Dec 2025
Wed – Fri: 7.30pm; Sat: 2pm & 6.30pm.
James Barry’s take on the rags-to-riches pantomime with Andrew Henderson as Dick and Amber Skelton as Catwith with guest director Rik Kay at the helm. Book here.

Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848.
Cinderella: A Fairytale
A Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh production.
Fri 28 Nov 2025 – Sat 3 Jan 2026
This week: Fri: 6pm, Sat: 2pm, 7pm, Sun 1pm, 6pm.
Æ review: ★★★★☆ Magical.
Sally Cookson’s celebrated adaptation of Cinderella in a new production from The Lyceum. With music, puppetry and Dr Martens, this festive story adds a magical flutter of wings to happily ever after. Ella and her devoted father share a love for woodland birds and their calls, but when her father remarries, everything changes. Now Ella’s feathered friends feel like her only true family. Book here.

Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
A Fairytale for Christmas
Sat 6 Dec 2025
One perf: 7.30pm.
‘Tis the season to be jolly as the ultimate Irish Christmas concert is coming to Edinburgh! From the producers of Seven Drunken Nights – The Story of The Dubliners, immerse yourself in the spirit of Christmas as talented singers, musicians and dancers perform dashing renditions of Yuletide favourites. Book here.

Pleasance Theatre
60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ.
Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant (Strawmoddie)
Thurs 4 – Sun 7 Dec 2025
Thurs – Sat: 7.30pm; Sat/Sun 2.30pm.
They say that diplomacy is a gentle art. That mastering it is a lifetime’s work. But you do need a certain inclination in that direction. It’s not something you can just pick up on the job. Sam Vimes faces his toughest test yet, travelling to distant Uberwald to make a deal with the new Dwarven King, in Strawmoddie’s latest visit to the Discworld in an adaptation by Stephen Briggs. Book here.

Portobello Town Hall
147-149 Portobello High St, Portobello EH15 1AF.
Beauty and the Beast – the Pantomomime (Stage Door)
Fri 5 – Sun 28 Dec 2025
Various times: Mainly Fri/Sat: 2pm & 7pm; Suns: 5pm.
Angus, Prince of Summer has been transformed by Beira, Queen of Winter. Can he be saved, or will he remain a Beast forever? Join us at Portobello Town Hall this December to meet a host of colourful characters in a festive treat of fun, frolics, thrills and true love.. Book here.

Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High St, EH1 1SR. Phone booking: 0131 556 9579.
Queer Folks’ Tales (Turan Ali)
Thur 4 Dec 2025.
Evening: 7.30pm
Æ Review: ★★★★★ Triumphant
Turan Ali is joined by Sadiq Ali, Megan Black and Amanda Dwyer for the bi-monthly storytelling series where queer storytellers from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and cultures around Edinburgh and Scotland share stories of LGBTQ+ lives, past, present and future. Sometimes hilarious, often moving, occasionally shocking, the mix of true and fictional stories across the year is as varied as the invited storytellers. Book here.

Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
Dancing Shoes (Traverse in association with PPP)
By Stephen Christopher and Graeme Smith.
Thurs 4 – Sat 20 Dec 2025
Evening: 7.30pm; Sat Mat 13 & 20: 2.30pm (Trav 1).
Donny lives with his mum and has been struggling with addiction most of his life. He also has a secret hobby… dancing alone in his bedroom. A life-affirming comedy-drama about isolation, support groups and bedroom dancing that challenges how we treat the most vulnerable people in society. Previously seen at PPP (★★★☆☆ Joyful) Book here.

Untethered (A rehearsed Reading)
By Sally Hobson.
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Evening: 7pm (Trav 2).
Emily has lost track of where she is; something has happened. In a simple story of a person who dies, unaware of her passing, Untethered explores the journey Emily’s consciousness might take as gravity lets her go. 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.