Archive for May, 2025
Children’s Fest programme
The Joy of Imaginate is back!
The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival returns this weekend for a day of free family events at the Museum of Scotland on Saturday, followed by a full dozen shows for children, at venues across Edinburgh.
Wee Man
★★★★☆ Powerful
Exploring themes of masculinity and mentorship, Wee Man from Barrowland Ballet at the Studio Theatre for two performances only, is an engaging show which uses movement to provoke a debate around behavioural expectations for young men.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
★★★★☆ Timely
Arkle Theatre Company mix humour and deadly reality at the Hill Street Theatre, in their take on Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a farce that keeps living up to its genre with more and more irony.
KELI
★★★★☆ Affecting
First seen in preview at the Lyceum, and having gone through several different incarnations, Martin Green’s play KELI is finally a full-length stage drama
Quiz
★★★★☆ Strong
Quiz, from Leitheatre at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday, is a cleverly staged revival of James Graham’s play about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? “Coughing Major” scandal.
Brunton panto up for a CATS
Traverse, Lyceum & Grid Iron shows also nominated
The Brunton and Wonder Fools co-production of A Christmas Carol is one of four productions nominated in the new Outstanding Pantomime category in this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★★★★★ Exceptional
Brimming with music and whimsy, fear and wonder, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, touring to the Festival Theatre all week, is a spectacular interpretation of C.S. Lewis’s classic novel.
Dracula
★★☆☆☆ Atmospheric
Blackeyed Theatre’s Dracula is an atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker’s seminal Gothic novel, with more ambitions than successes.
Listings Mon 12 – Sun 18 May 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
It’s a busy week on Edinburgh’s stages with no less that two world premieres, a trio of amateur and student theatre, musical theatre and a much anticipated touring show at the Traverse.
Legally Blonde – The Musical
★★★★☆ Perky
Queen Margaret University Musical Theatre Society brings Legally Blonde – The Musical to the Pleasance Theatre for three performances only, in a fun perky production fizzing with energy.
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