On Stage the following week

Listings for the period: Monday 2 – Sunday 8 November 2026:

The current week’s listings are here: On Stage This Week.

Listings for the coming week are here: On stage Next Week.

Click on the name of the show or the Book here link to go to its ticketing site.

Assembly Roxy
2 Roxburgh Place, EH8 9SU.

The Seamstress (Mad Bad Productions)
By Bryony Barclay
Mon 2 – Tue 3 Nov 2026
Daily: 7pm. (Central).
Once, women came from the sea to dance on land. They slipped from their seal-skins and danced beneath the moonlight. One night, a woman’s skin was taken. And she could not return. Rooted in an ancient story, The Seamstress follows a woman as she confronts the wilderness beyond her – and the wilderness within. Book here.

Bedlam Theatre
11B Bristo Place, EH1 1EZ.
Candlewasters (EUTC)
Wed 4 – Fri 6 t 2026
Evening: 7.30pm.
Edinburgh’s home for fresh student writing. This season, 24 actors bring excerpts from eight original plays: Cockroach on a Wall and I’m Gay by Cyrus Tsang; Mandy’s Driving School by Florrie PJ; Office Boys by Mack Harris; Purgatory by Chiara Martinolli; The Ontological Study of Bathrooms and the recently Deceased by James Harvey; Deadliner by Felix Warner; and Machine Lovers Anonymous by Maya Le Her. Book here.

Festival Theatre
13/29 Nicolson Street EH8 9FT. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.

Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man
Tue 3 – Sat 7 Nov 2026
Evening: 7.30pm; Thurs, Sat mat: 2.30pm.
Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, the familiar 19th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950’s Mid-West garage-diner, where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge. Book here.

King’s Theatre
2 Leven Street EH3 9LQ.

Operation Mincemeat
Mon 2 – Sat 7 Nov 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm; Mats Wed, Sat: 2.30pm.
A fast-paced, hilarious and unbelievable true story… The year is 1943 and right now we’re losing the war. Luckily, we’re about to gamble all our futures on a stolen corpse. It’s Singin’ in the Rain  meets  Strangers on a Train,  in the true story of the twisted secret mission that won us World War II. Book here.

Lyceum Theatre
Grindlay Street EH3 9AX. Phone booking: 0131 248 4848.
1984
A new adaptation by Chris Hannan.
Tue 27 Oct – Sat 7 Nov 2026
Tue – Sat: 7.30pm. Mats Wed, Sat: 2.30pm..
The nightmare of a totalitarian society built on terror and lies is brought to vivid life in this powerful new adaptation of Orwell’s final novel, which dramatises Winston and Julia’s epic battle to be human against all odds.  In 2026, George Orwell’s terrifying post-truth world of ‘alternative facts’ is more relevant than ever before. Book here.

Playhouse
18 – 22 Greenside Place, EH1 3AA. Phone booking: 0844 871 3014.
Queen by Candlelight
Wed 4 Nov 2026
Evening: 7.30pm
Following sold-out performances at New York’s iconic Carnegie Hall and the legendary London Palladium, experience an unforgettable evening of Queen’s greatest anthems, performed live by candlelight at the beautiful Edinburgh Playhouse. Featuring a world-class cast of West End vocalists and epic live rock band, this is your chance to relive the music of Queen, like never before.. Book here.

Paul Smith – Happy
Thu 5/Fri 6 Nov 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
Packed with outrageous audience interaction and stories pulled straight from real life, Happy is a show about finding joy in the chaos, laughter in the everyday, and comedy in absolutely everything. Expect jaw-aching laughs from the first minute to the last. Book here.

Voulez Vous – The Music of ABBA
Sat 7 Nov 2026
Mon – Sat: 7.30pm; Thur, Sat mats: 2.30pm.
Dust off your platform boots and don your finest 70s costumes as we celebrate 50 years of ABBA with the most electrifying tribute show of the year! Join us for an unforgettable evening of non-stop ABBA hits and nostalgia at the Playhouse. Book here.

Pianodrome Bruntsfield
St. Oswald’s Centre, 41 Montpellier Park, Bruntsfield, EH10 4NB.
Dead Souls (EGTG)
Tue 3 – Fri 6 Nov 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm (tbc).
The travels and travails of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov as he seeks his fortune. Hannah Bradley Croall directs Dan Rebellato’s adaptation of Nikolai Gogol. Further details.

Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High St, EH1 1SR. Phone booking: 0131 556 9579.

ART (EPT)
Tue 3 – Fri 6 Nov 2026.
Evenings: 7.30pm
Serge has just bought a very expensive painting. It’s about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal lines. To his friend Marc, the painting is a joke. To Serge, this merely proves that Marc is an intellectual who cannot understand art. Edinburgh People’s Theatre take on Yasmina Reza’s classic script. Book here.

Studio Theatre
The Studio, 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL. Phone booking: 0131 529 6000.

Gateway New Writing Festival (Monday)
Mon 2 Nov 2026 
Evening: 7.30pm.
Three nights of new writing. Tonight’s two plays are:
In a Big Country by Ben Ramsay – A young couple set out to celebrate their anniversary with their first ‘staycation’ in a rural stretch of Scotland, only to find themselves approached by an eccentric, unsettling visitor.
The Tide by Sophie Good – No one is visiting this seaside town any more.There’s not much worth staying for but Helen and Grant can’t leave. Not until they find their son. Book here.

Gateway New Writing Festival (Tuesday)
Tue 3 Nov 2026 
Evening: 7.30pm.
Three nights of new writing. Tonight’s two plays are:
Stomach by Ben Kay – Drawn from post-surgery scribbles, STOMACH follows the shattered self on an absurd and intimate journey toward recovery—an experimental excursion through morphine-fuelled dreams, fragments of consciousness, and the strange alienation of the body.
Dead People Don’t Have Data by Laura Tansley – A palliative care nurse nearing retirement learns that a new AI software allows families to view edited highlights of the deceased’s phone data without needing permission. Book here.

Gateway New Writing Festival (Wednesday)
Wed 4 Nov 2026 
Evening: 7.30pm.
Three nights of new writing. Tonight’s two plays are:
ULTRAVIOLENCE! By Will Osbon – a one-act Dark Comedy about an art lesson that devolves into a hostage situation.
Steam by James Stedman -Deep amongst the engines of a steam train hurtling through space, Frank, an indentured steamworker, falls for a lost passenger, Teddy. Book here.

Dance Horizons: Innovations
Fri 6 & Sat 7 Nov 2026
Evenings: 7.30pm.
This dynamic mixed-bill programme showcases bold new work by four choreographers, bringing together leading artists from across Scotland and international guests from Spain and Germany. Audiences can expect a vibrant exploration of movement, creativity and fresh ideas, celebrating the diversity and innovation of today’s dance scene. Book here.

Summerhall
1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL.

Her Witching Hour (Luna Mageia)
Fri 6/Sat 7 Nov 2026
Evenings: 5pm & 7.30pm. Sat mat: 2.30pm. (EAS Studios).
In true Luna Mageia Theatre Company style, this immersive cabaret is bursting with powerhouse vocalists, magical musicians and hard-hitting spoken word. The stories may have been buried but the voices still echo. Touching on sensitive topics, we bring the many stories of women throughout history. Book here.

Traverse
10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED. Phone booking: 0131 228 1404.
Man to Man
By Manfred Karge.
Thurs 29 Oct – Sat 7 Nov 2026
Daily, not Sun: 7.30pm; Sat mats: 2.30pm (Trav 1)
In 1930s Germany, a woman puts on her dead husband’s trousers and never takes them off.  As the world around her changes, she endures war and dictatorship, hunger and humiliation – always fighting to stay alive.  Tilda Swinton returns to the live theatre stage in a revival of the 1987 production. Returns only.

*NB: This is intended to be a complete listing of all public theatrical productions on in Edinburgh. If you are staging a show which is not listed, or a listing is inaccurate, please get in touch through the contact page, here.