Production News
Strawmoddie go American gothic
Beth Henley’s play about fierce, complicated love is upstairs at the Roxy
This week sees the ever impressive Strawmoddie Theatre take on another piece of award-winning theatre. This time it is to the States that they turn, and Beth Henley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Crimes of the Heart, playing the Assembly Roxy from Thursday to Sunday.
Mary is first act of Union
New company Union Theatre announces first production
Union Theatre, a new Edinburgh-based independent theatre company, operating in the amateur sphere was on Friday 13 March 2026, and announced that its first production will be the Scottish premiere of Mary, by Rona Munro.
Paper Factory re-opens its doors
Hidden Door announces venue and dates for 2026 event
Edinburgh’s pop-up arts festival Hidden Door has announced that it will return to The Paper Factory, a massive industrial site in west Edinburgh, for the 2026 edition of the multi arts festival.
All Rise for a little bit of politics
Political edge to EIF 2026 theatre programme
Under the festival theme of All Rise, the Edinburgh International Festival’s theatre programme challenges the myths and stories that the ruling class in the United States of America would like to tell for the country’s 250th anniversary of independence.
Summer lunching at Roxy
PPP to stage four productions at Assembly Roxy
Assembly Roxy is to host four productions from Glasgow’s famed lunchtime theatre producers, A Play, A Pie and A Pint (PPP) in April, May and June 2026.
Cinders! steps out
Scottish Ballet’s Cinderella story returns for Xmas 2026
Boy can meet boy and girl meet girl in Scottish Ballet’s latest iteration of their hugely popular 2023 ballet Cinders! which returns to the Festival Theatre for Christmas 2026 with tickets on sale this coming week.
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.
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.
Strawmoddie strikes ten
Scratch Night at St Brides
Edinburgh’s grassroots theatre company Strawmoddie celebrates its tenth anniversary this week with a scratch night including script-in-hand extracts from its first four productions.
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