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Listings Mon 2 – Sun 8 March 2026

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.

Mar 2 2026 | By More
Here and Now

Here and Now

★★★★☆ Full-on candyfloss

Here and Now, the Steps jukebox musical, jumps headlong onto the Playhouse stage in a production which is all heart and vitality in its telling of a story that is as substantial as candyfloss on a stick.

Feb 27 2026 | By More
Listings Mon 23 Feb – Sun 1 Mar 2026

Listings Mon 23 Feb – Sun 1 Mar 2026

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

The big guns of local amateur musical theatre come out to play this week, with a great spread, generally, for fans of the genre.

Feb 23 2026 | By More
Showcase auditions!

Showcase auditions!

Opportunity to join top local amateur company

Showcase, the Edinburgh amateur company which stages an annual portmanteau musical theatre production in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, is seeking new members.

Feb 22 2026 | By More
Culture Hustings

Culture Hustings

Culture Counts online hustings for Holyrood election

Cultural pressure group Culture Counts is holding a hustings on this Thursday 26 February 2026, with representatives of Scotland’s six main political parties taking part.

Feb 20 2026 | By More
Performing Arts Survey

Performing Arts Survey

Grassroots group seeks to evaluate theatre in Edinburgh

A new grassroots grouping has put out a survey, aimed at all of Edinburgh’s theatre companies and theatre-makers, in an attempt to find out the size and nature of the city’s theatrical community as well as the resources available to it.

Feb 18 2026 | By More
Listings Mon 16 – Sun 22 Feb 2026

Listings Mon 16 – Sun 22 Feb 2026

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

A nice one this, with plenty of home grown talent on offer as the local round of the Scottish Community Drama Association’s one-act festival takes place and QMU is celebrated in theatre.

Feb 16 2026 | By More
Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

★★★★☆ Tight

Mischief Theatre go back to basics in their adaptation for the stage of the 2017 smash hit TV show, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong at the Festival Theatre to Sunday. And their greatest creation, the Cornley Drama Society, are all the better for it.

Feb 13 2026 | By More
Listings Mon 9 – Sun 15 Feb 2026

Listings Mon 9 – Sun 15 Feb 2026

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

It’s a big week, with midterm student theatre mayhem from the big three Edinburgh Uni companies, cracking comedy at the Festival, from those Goes Wrong rascals, Mischief, and some weekend shows that aren’t quite love, actually.

Feb 9 2026 | By More
Listings Mon 2 – Sun 8 Feb 2026

Listings Mon 2 – Sun 8 Feb 2026

What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?

It’s a cracker of a week this, with a bona fide West End star in town (for those who have tickets), a cracking Student company and the return of the magnificent Manipulate Festival.

Feb 2 2026 | By More
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