Listings Mon 1 – Sun 7 June 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
The big news of the week is the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival, the EICF, which runs all week at various venues around town. But there is plenty else on offer.
Waiting for Elvis
★★★☆☆ Roadworthy
St Serf’s Players take a trip off in a new direction this week, with Waiting for Elvis, Philip Goulding’s road movie for the stage, which delivers modern comedy with a nicely historical edge.
It’s the community’s King’s!
Community companies first on King’s stage
Seven of Edinburgh’s community theatre companies will be joining panto favourites Clare Gray and Gail Watson for A Great Night Out, the very first test production on the King’s Theatres newly revamped stage.
Listings: Mon 25 – Sun 31 May 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s stages this week?
It’s a big week, with two major local companies putting on theatre, a touring scarer, Scottish Opera’s in town and the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival opens.
Baby Mash-up, what on Earth are you doing?
★★★★☆ Extraordinary
Sally Hobson’s extraordinary new play, Baby Mash-up, what on Earth are you doing? from stillpoint theatre company, slips onto the stage with a sly sense of otherworldliness for the first of two performances in Traverse One at the end of a short Scottish tour.
Zinnie Harris leaves Lyceum
Harris to step down from Associate AD role
Playwright Zinnie Harris is to step down as Associate Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, according to a statement issued by her and the theatre today, Thursday 21 May 2026,
McAllan is Culture Sec
Màiri McAllan appointed CabSec for Culture at Holyrood
Màiri McAllan, the MSP for Clydesdale, will take responsibility for culture in First Minister John Swinnie’s new “streamlined” cabinet, announced today, Wednesday 20 May 2026.
Listings: Mon 18 – Sun 24 May 2026
What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week?
It’s mostly musicals for Edinburgh’s bigger stages, in a week where the less established and up-and-coming young bloods of the scene are the pick of the theatre offerings.
FCT, Leitheatre team up for Xmas show
Leading amateur companies to stage contemporary take on Dickens
Forth Children’s Theatre and Leitheatre are teaming up to create The Tale of Eliza Scrooge, a female-led modern adaptation of Charles Dickens, to be staged at the Church Hill Theatre this November, 2026.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
★★★★☆ Heartfelt
There is a big heart and an even bigger sense of injustice done in Leitheatre’ powerful production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, playing at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday afternoon.
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