Musicals
Iolanthe
★★★★☆ Satirical fairytale
The Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society makes a triumphant return to the King’s Theatre with Iolanthe, a magical musical experience in which the British government comes face to face with immortal fairies.
Jersey Boys
★★★☆☆ Nostalgic
The twentieth-anniversary of Jersey Boys hits the Edinburgh Playhouse stage with pizzazz and plenty of nostalgia for fans of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons in this jukebox musical tracing the rise, fall, and reinvention of the legendary group.
Sylvia
★★★★☆ Thrilling
Sylvia is a gorgeously melodic, exciting piece of theatre, sung brilliantly. The musical itself has undoubted flaws, but the performances more than compensate.
Legally Blonde
★★★★☆ Courtroom Diva
Amber Davies shimmies her way into Harvard Law School as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, which drops into the Playhouse this week on an impressively high octane and entertaining national tour.
Showcase 2026 – Dream as One
★★★★☆ Appealing
In 36 years Showcase has raised over £385 000 for Macmillan Cancer Care, and the annual production at the Church Hill continues to provide an upbeat and thoroughly entertaining selection of music.
SIX The Musical
★★★★☆ Energetic
SIX The Musical at the Festival Theatre is a lively, noisy entertainment whose popularity shows no sign of abating. And while it continues to be performed with this much skill and spirit, quite right too.
Annie
★★★★☆ A belter
Little orphan Annie comes out belting in a most commanding fashion in Crossroads Live’s touring production of Annie, which is showing off its positivity at the Playhouse through to a Sunday matinee.
High Society
★★★☆☆ Slow burner
High Society, the Cole Porter jukebox musical based on the Philadelphia Story, flew into the Edinburgh Playhouse on Tuesday night with almost everything swellegant and elegant, even though its two big stars were not on board.
Spring Awakening
★★★★☆ Bittersweet
Kingston Grammar School Theatre Company presents the folk-rock cult hit musical Spring Awakening at Surgeons’ Hall, following a group of teenagers as they discover their emerging sexualities in 19th-century Germany.
Techies
★★☆☆☆ Diffuse
Techies from Yonder Window at Hill St is a promising new musical that has come over wholesale from New York but seems to have lost something on the way.
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