Festival Theatre
Footloose
★★★★☆ Vigorous
Dancing onto the Festival Theatre stage with boundless energy and enthusiasm, The Beyond Broadway Experience presents a Footloose that is a showcase of Scottish talent and training, an invigorating look into the up-and-coming generations of musical theatre performers.
Rambert: KISMET
★★★★☆ Chaotic beauty
Rambert returns to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre with KISMET a fantastic double bill which explores destiny, fate and unpredictability.
The Croft
★★★☆☆ Confusing
The Croft, from Original Theatre at the Festival Theatre, is a peculiar production – acted with the maximum of dedication and impressively staged, but rather lacking in impact.
Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet
★★★★☆ Innovative dynamism
Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet, at the Festival Theatre until Saturday, is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but a highly successful piece of dance.
Scottish Opera Double Bill
Trial by Jury – ★★★★☆ Absurd
A Matter of Misconduct! – ★★★★☆ Shrewd
Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary Gilbert & Sullivan’s partnership by pairing Trial By Jury with A Matter of Misconduct!, a new operetta commissioned in response to it.
The Merry Widow
★★★★★ Scintillating
Scottish Opera presents a scintillating new adaptation of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Festival Theatre, bringing its setting into the twentieth century, and its sensibilities into the twenty-first.
Ballet BC
★★★★☆ Dynamic
Ballet BC’s double bill showcases the company’s range and cohesion through two very different pieces: Crystal Pite’s enigmatic Frontier, and Johan Inger’s theatrical and emotional Passing.
Ballet Black: SHADOWS
★★★★☆ Haunting
Ballet Black’s SHADOWS, a double bill of new work seen at the Festival Theatre and then going on tour through the coming autumn, is a darkly compelling exploration of the psychological and the surreal.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
★★★★★ Exceptional
Brimming with music and whimsy, fear and wonder, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, touring to the Festival Theatre all week, is a spectacular interpretation of C.S. Lewis’s classic novel.
Jesus Christ Superstar
★★★★☆ It’s the buzz
Southern Light blaze onto the Festival Theatre stage with their production of the Lloyd Webber & Rice rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, tackling this modern classic with a monstrous cast and ambitious production values.
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