Festival Theatre Studio
Next James Play announced
James V: Katherine to premiere at Festival Studio
Rona Munro’s James Plays, her series of Scottish history plays about the Stewart kings, is to continue with James V: Katherine, which will open at Edinburgh’s Studio Theatre in April 2024 ahead of a Scottish tour.
Help Save the King’s
Capital Theatres in desperate straits:
Edinburgh’s Festival, King’s and Studio theatres have put out an emergency appeal for money and vocal support, in the face of going dark permanently.
King’s, Festival & Studio dark
Capital Theatres “cancels or postpones” all March & April shows
Capital Theatres, which runs the King’s, the Festival and the Studio theatres, has announced that it is cancelling or postponing all performances at the three venues in March and April 2020.
Covid-19 update
First cancellation and latest info
Edinburgh’s first theatrical cancellation due to Covid 19 has happened with American drag artiste Sasha Velour pulling out of his European tour, including his Usher Hall date on Saturday 14 March 2020.
Manipulate is nigh!
Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival 2020:
As the year turns chillier and darker, it’s always good to have good things to look forward to warm the heart and soul if not the body.
Spring Awakening Auditions
TBC Productions sets audition date:
Edinburgh amateur musicals company TBC Productions has announced audition dates for its June 2018 production of Duncan Sheik’s musical version of Spring Awakening.
Time for the Tin Soldier
Birds of Paradise retell Hans Christian Andersen for the stage:
The Festival Theatre Studio is being taken over by Birds of Paradise theatre this December with a brand new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s first ever story for children – The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Production team call-out
Production team wanted for Spring Awakening:
Recently formed Edinburgh-based musical theatre company TBC Productions has put out an open call for the production team to steer it through its second production, Spring Awakening, in June 2018.
The House of Bernarda Alba
★★★☆☆ Direct:
Intense and mannered, Leitheatre’s production of Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at the Festival Theatre Studio strikes a chord with contemporary events.
Moonlight and Magnolias
★★★☆☆ Intriguing:
Race, politics and melodrama battle it out with pure farce in Leitheatre’s take on Moonlight and Magnolias, the story behind the making of Gone with the Wind.
