Listings Mon 1 – Sun 7 Dec 2025
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week…
December is a-creeping in, with three full-on pantomimes opening this week – two panto versions of Beauty and the Beast and a Dick Whittington – and three non-panto Xmas shows.
Listings Mon 24 – Sun 30 November 2025
What is on Edinburgh’s stages this week
Listings for the week to Sunday 30 November 2025:
Christmas Listings 2025
All the pantos and Xmas shows in one place…
Despite the traditional cries of “Oh no it isn’t!” it really is panto time. And for those who want something different – or indeed extra – to the tradition King’s Panto at the Festival Theatre, there is plenty on offer.
Listings Mon 17 – Sun 23 Nov 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
No big openers this week, although Scottish Opera is still at the Festival Theatre with their magnificent La Bohéme (tickets), and the Tina Turner Musical is still at the Playhouse (tickets).
Defying Gravity
Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman and Rachel Tucker for Playhouse gig
Three West End stars who have all taken on the role Elpheba in Wicked, will be performing am “epic” night musical hits at the Edinburgh Playhouse and Glasgow King’s in April 2026.
The Cher Show
★★★★☆ Boisterous
Allegro come out canny with their big and incorrigibly bold production of The Cher Show at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday, engaging fully with Cher’s story, her hits and the legend she has become.
Listings: Mon 10 – Sun 16 Nov 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
A relatively quiet week this, in terms of amount of shows on stage; but there’s little that is quiet about what is on those stages.
Council rejects Rose Theatre hotel plan
Plans for 47 bed hotel deemed “cultural vandalism”
Plans to turn the B-listed Rose Theatre on Rose Street into a 47 bedroom hotel with cafe/bar at rooftop level have been rejected by city councillors.
Jean Brodie for Lyceum
NTS tour kicks off in October 2026
A new adaptation by David Harrower of Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will open at the Lyceum on Friday 9 October 2026 ahead of a tour to the Glasgow Citizens, His Majesty’s Aberdeen and Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Listings Mon 3 – Sun 9 November 2025
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
In what is surely the busiest week of theatre outside the Fringe for ages, Edinburgh’s stages have everything from Dundee Rep’s ★★★★☆ Reflective The Glass Menagerie at the Lyceum to a student Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Bedlam.
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