Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but a highly successful ...

Alan Borthwick and David Lyle, the Long-time Artistic and Musical Directors of the Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society, ...

Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary Gilbert & Sullivan’s partnership by pairing Trial ...

Perth Theatre’s Restless Natives: The Musical, arriving at Leith Theatre as part of its Scottish tour, is decidedly mixed and ...

The already-announced Front List series of events at the McEwan Hall features such names as Nicola Sturgeon, Maggie O’Farrell ...

Listings for the week to Sunday 15 June 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. This week’s listing ...

Spectacle, that’s what you get when you enter the world of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The first thing you notice is that the neutral lighting of the Playhouse has been replaced by bordello red, and ...

Edinburgh companies are well represented in the Musicals section of the fringe programme, with 25 different productions – thanks largely to the eight musicals being staged by Captivate. As is so often ...

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, remains a huge draw, and with good reason. While using Tchaikovsky’s original music, Bourne jettisoned any of the ballet’s existing ...

Kevin Quantum performs an hour of magic that’s fooled some of the most brilliant and creative people ever to have lived, often times with strong links to Edinburgh and Scotland. An elegant, intimate ...

Good to see a really decent fist of involved drama from Edinburgh’s amateur companies on the stages this week, where they have no less than three plays and a musical on offer. The first of two pieces ...

Theatre is all about stories and performance, but when the two turn in on themselves things can get messy and out of control – as His Final Bow, this week’s lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, shows.