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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.
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.
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.
Horror show Hiatus
Edinburgh Horror Festival takes 2026 out
The volunteer committee running the Edinburgh Horror Festival (EHF) have announced that they are going to take a hiatus from staging the Festival in 2026, saying “after ten years, we need a break”.
Bonnar for Leitheatre Hon Pres
Mark Bonnar re-joins Leitheatre as Honorary President
Scottish actor Mark Bonnar, recently seen on in Edinburgh-set dramas Department Q and Guilt, as well as Celebrity Traitors, has been made honorary president of local amateur company Leitheatre.
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.
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.
ELC tests the market on Brunton replacement
Preliminary Market Consultation issued for Brunton Hall
The East Lothian Council has issued a Preliminary Market Consultation (PMC) for Musselburgh’s Brunton Hall, in an attempt to find suppliers, funders, or developers who are capable of delivering a new theatre.
Polwart blows into Lyceum
Windblown announces 2026 Lyceum dates
Karine Polwart to bring Windblown, her five-star EdFringe hit, to the Lyceum in April 2026, as preview briefs for the Lyceum’s Xmas show go on sale.
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