Beauty and the Beast
Beauty & the Beast: The Panto
★★★☆☆ Charming
Beauty & the Beast: The Panto, the Christmas offering from Forth Children’s Theatre, has the appeal of a traditional pantomime. Like many pantos, it lacks a little in subtlety and smoothness, but makes up for it in determination and pizzazz.
Listings: Mon 22 – Sun 28 Nov 2021
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week
Not quite a lull before the Christmas storm, but as close as we are going to get to one, as the King’s Panto, Sleeping Beauty, opens its eyes to previews and at the Playhouse, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast drops its petals for the last time.
Listings: Mon 15 – Sun 21 Nov 2021
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week
There is a wide range of shows on Edinburgh’s stages this week with not one, but two five star shows as well as a good handful of touring productions and the debut from new local company Warped Productions.
Beauty and the Beast
★★★★★ Bountiful
The roses are back at the Edinburgh Playhouse and they smell sweeter than ever – be they named Belle or Beast – in Disney’s newly reimagined version of Beauty and the Beast, playing to the end of November.
Beauty & Beast cast
Casting for Playhouse dates of Beauty and the Beast
Casting has been announced for the UK tour of Disney’s “reimagined” Beauty and the Beast musical, booked in to the Playhouse for six weeks from October 21 to November 27 2021.
Beauty and Beast’s Edinburgh Date
Playhouse tickets for 2021 tour on sale Thurs 26 Nov.
Tickets for Edinburgh’s October 2021 dates of the new, “reimagined” production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at the Playhouse in go on sale at 12 noon today, Thursday 26 November 2020.
King’s Wins Panto Award
Beauty and the Beast is panto of the year:
The Edinburgh King’s 2018 panto, Beauty and the Beast, has won Pantomime of the Year at the Great British Pantomime Awards 2019.
Gray back at King’s
Andy Gray on stage at panto:
The audience at the Edinburgh King’s were treated to an emotional return to the stage of panto legend Andy Gray on Saturday night, January 12.
Beauty and the Beast
★★★★☆ Sparkling:
Beauty and the Beast comes to the King’s in pantomime form for the first time since 1946 in a show that continues a classic run of hits – and is sticking around well into January next year.
Gray pulls out of Panto
Illness forces Andy Gray to withdraw from King’s:
Andy Gray has announced that he will no longer be able to perform at this year’s pantomime at the King’s Theatre Beauty and the Beast, on medical grounds.
