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EdFringe: Made in Edinburgh 2024
All Edinburgh’s Theatre at the Fringe in 2024
Edinburgh is once again hosting the greatest cultural event on earth. People from all over the world who work in and love the performing arts, arrive here for three weeks of brilliant drama, dance, comedy and art. Here’s the guide to Æ’s coverage of everything #MadeInEdinbugh
More Tynecastle Story
This is Our Story adds seven more performances
This is Our Story, the play about the 150-year history of Heart of Midlothian football club has added a further seven performances at Tynecastle Park, following decisions on Hearts’ home fixture list for August.
Nikita: Midnight Dancer
Strictly star’s Midnight Dancer tour for Playhouse
Professional dancer Nikita Kuzmin, joint runner-up with Layton Williams in the 21st season of Strictly Come Dancing, is taking his first solo show, Midnight Dancer, out on UK tour in 2025.
Greig to leave Lyceum’s AD role
David Greig to step away from AD position at Royal Lyceum
David Greig has announced that he will not be renewing his role as Artistic Director of the Royal Lyceum when his current contract ends in 2025, to return to his “first calling” as a writer.
EdFringe 2024!
Call out for Edinburgh writers and shows…
This is a big “hello” and a call out to Edinburgh’s theatre community. Do you want to review Edinburgh’s theatre at the Fringe? Are you an Edinburgh-based company at the Fringe that wants listing and reviewing?
Quadrophenia Ballet for Festival Theatre
Townsend and The Who’s album gets ballet treatment
The Who’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia is to be re-imagined by Sadler’s Wells as a dance production: Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet, which will get its Scottish premiere at the Festival Theatre in June 2025.
Bat out of Hell for Playhouse
Meat Loaf musical opens tour at Edinburgh Playhouse
Bat Out Of Hell – the Musical is set to open a new UK tour in the New Year with a week long stay at the Edinburgh Playhouse from Monday 6 January 2025 and the Glasgow King’s in April 2025.
Edinburgh, Cream of the CATS
Edinburgh companies win half CATS 2024
Three Edinburgh companies shared half the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2024 (CATS), awarded in a ceremony at the Glasgow Theatre Royal today, Sunday 16 June.
SIX not out
Sold out show to return in 2025
This week’s performances of SIX at the Edinburgh Playhouse, like nearly every performance of the show, sold out well in advance. The good news is that SIX is to return in October 2025, with tickets on sale now.
Harris’s Duchess goes West End
Dr Who star plays title role in Lyceum-created play
Jodie Whittaker is to play the title role in The Duchess, Zinnie Harris’s bloody indictment of misogyny, at the Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End, Oct 5 – Dec 20 2024.
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