Archive for April, 2025
Listing: Mon 14 – Sun 20 April 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
This Easter Week sees one of Edinburgh’s biggest community productions return for the Easter Play on Saturday, the final week of Wild Rose and a whip-cracking Calamity Jane.
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Liza Gogoliuk
Lung Ha at 40
To mark its 40th anniversary, Lung Ha theatre commissioned a series of portraits of the 24-strong company from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. We are publishing a new portrait every fortnight. Today our spotlight is on Lung Ha actor Liza Gogoliuk.
Amadeus
★★★★☆ Intimate
Edinburgh-based Strawmoddie theatre company bring Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus to the Pianodrome in a powerful examination of the jealousy of mediocrity in the face of genius.
The Sound of Music
★★★★☆ Exuberant
Forth Children’s Theatre’s The Sound of Music at Broughton High School is a splendid night’s entertainment, well acted, beautifully sung and performed with the utmost commitment.
Through the Shortbread Tin
★★★★☆ Charismatic and witty
Through the Shortbread Tin, written and performed by Martin O’Connor, is a captivating exploration of Scottish identity, history, myth and the truth.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
★★★★☆ Emotional artistry
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, remains a huge draw, and with good reason.
PPP: Night, Idiot
★★★☆☆ Compelling
Night, Idiot by Zoe Bullock, the latest Play, Pie and a Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse co-presented by Aberdeen Performing Arts, is a deceptively serious and emotionally intriguing piece of writing.
Listings Mon 7 to Sun 13 April 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s pages this week?
It’s another big week of musicals from Edinburgh’s amateur and professional theatre communities with a spot of dance from the boundary-pushing Mr Bourne.
Little Women
★★★★☆ Heart-warming
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s classic and well-loved tale of four sisters’ tumultuous lives during the American Civil War, arrives at the Festival Theatre this week in Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation first seen at Pitlochry in 2022.
Nessie
★★★★☆ Myth-buster
Nessie is visiting the Studio Theatre this week in the world premiere of a new musical co-production from Festival Theatres and Pitlochry Festival Theatre, which challenges the myths and legends around Scotland’s best known mysterious creature.
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