Archive for March, 2026
Casting Magic
Hampson talks Cinders! and fluid gender roles in ballet
Cinders! has been announced as Scottish Ballet’s Christmas treat for 2026 at the Festival Theatre. Here, choreographer and company AD Christopher Hampson talks about the latest iteration in this hugely popular ballet.
Cinders! steps out
Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella story returns for Xmas 2026
Boy can meet boy and girl meet girl in Scottish Ballet’s latest iteration of their hugely popular 2023 ballet Cinders! which returns to the Festival Theatre for Christmas 2026 with tickets on sale this coming week.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
★★★☆☆ Clear
New grassroots company Gutter Theatre give a commendably solid showing for their inaugural production: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, playing upstairs at Assembly Roxy to Saturday.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
★★★★☆ Pleasing
The touring production of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts at the Festival Theatre will certainly please any fans of the grumpy detective, but is also an impressive, intelligent piece of theatre in its own right.
PPP: Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door
★★★☆☆ Charming
Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door, the first in the new batch of A Play, A Pie and A Pint from Òran Mór at the Traverse, is a well-performed and pleasing – if ultimately insubstantial – production
Forth Act’s final act
Amateur company calls it a day
Local amateur company The Forth Act has announced that it is closing after six productions, including two memorable al fresco Shakespeares in the Italian Garden of Saughton Park.
Listings Mon 2 – Sun 8 March 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
A week of big theatre, this with plenty to offer on all levels of the professional touring circuits, a great grassroots show, two works in preview and, of course, that “revolting” musical.
The Grand Duke
★★★★☆ Inspired merriment
The Grand Duke, from EdGAS, is a pleasurably silly delight from start to finish. Consistently stylised to the perfect degree of deliberate overacting, it elicits laughs without being overdone.
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