Tag: King’s Theatre

 REBUS: LONG SHADOWS by Ian RankinAdapted by Rona MunroKing’s Theatre Edinburgh Monday 8 to Saturday 13 October 2018This new story exploding on to a home territory stage features crock 'n roll Oxford Bar-fly shamus, John...

Part 2 of L-E-V Dance Company's 'Love Cycle'Sharon Eyal is one of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years. Working with multimedia designer Gai Behar, she formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating...

First piece in the two-part 'Love Cycle'.One of the most exciting choreographic talents to emerge in recent years, Sharon Eyal, worked with multimedia designer Gai Behar, and formed L-E-V Dance Company, creating work that is...

Our friends at Capital Theatres have announced the return of Rowan Glen as the official sponsor of the King’s Theatre Edinburgh pantomime for the second year running.Beauty and the Beast unites dame Allan Stewart,...

Neither Lucy Bailey's taut direction or Mike Britton's ingenious and brooding lateral-shifting set designs, lit with viscous blood-red menace by Oliver Fenwick, can gainsay the inarguable axiom that you can not put lipstick on...

Double Feature by Phil Differ. A Gilded Balloon production | King’s Theatre Edinburgh |Friday 18 & Saturday 19 MayDelightfully pun playing and based on a long time ago cinematic format, the A & B movie programme, this...

This is the first brochure under the new organisational name, Capital Theatres,  as they announce their redesigned Autumn/Winter 2018/19 programme, now available online  or by picking up a copy at their venues.There are details...

Monday 28 May to Saturday 2 June 2018Directed by David GrindleyIt is Holmes on home territory for Conan Doyle's savant sleuth. Doyle took inspiration from the pioneering work of Doctor Joseph Bell whose application...

Tuesday 8th - 12th May 2018Few who have read this landmark novel will forget the early explosive erotic scene involving the naive, protagonist Stephen and the highly charged, marriage-stifled, provincial beauty, Isabelle. Equally, the climatic...

The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King’s Theatres and The Studio in Edinburgh, marks the culmination of three years funding from The Life Changes Trust for its dementia friendly communities...

 27 February –  3 March 2018| King's TheatreAllan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show is back at the King’s for another fabulous night of comedy and song, promising the best in entertainment and the biggest...

DAVID HAIG TO STAR IN TRUE WARTIME THRILLER PRESSURE
 King’s Theatre | 13-17 February 2018D Day, June 1944. 350,000 lives depend on the most important weather forecast of all time. Based on the remarkable real-life tale of two...

In an absolutely packed programme the King’s and Festival Theatres and the Studio are showcasing the very best in live drama, dance, comedy and music and in its role as Scotland’s largest cinema, the Festival...

 A shadowy tale delving into the dark corners of human lives.Not since Ealing Studios' 1945 modern Gothic montage Dead Of Night, where strangers meeting in a storm-tossed isolated house exchange strange tales, has the...

Face it Edinburgh - your childhood days are behind you! Oh No they’re Not! Let all the King’s’ metamorphosed mice Pantomime-horses carry you to the Ball and leave all those winter-time blues behind you.Our friends...

Our friends at The King's Theatre have a tasty Panto treat to announce - and are they not just milking it! With over 70,000 tickets already sold, Rowan Glen, one of Scotland’s  dairy brands,...

Theatre Royal Bath Productions, Cambridge Arts Theatre and Rose Theatre Kingston present The Real Thing.Henry is the smartest and sharpest playwright of his generation. His wife, Charlotte, an actress, has been appearing in a play...

Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weill's subversive 1928 alt.opera-noir, scurrilously drawing on John Gay's satirical 18th century, The Beggar's Opera, allows enfants-terrible, The Attic Collective, their ultimate swansong apotheosis. They are all for cooking the goose that lays...

    Following their successful season at the King’s in 2016, stripped-back Shakespeare company, Merely Theatre, bounce back to Edinburgh with a double-barrelled Bard-fest. They take risks, they take liberties, they take the pithy bits and...

Our thespian thoroughbred friends at The Festival and King’s Theatres are forever burrowing further in to the labyrinthine warrens of theatrical magic. The Edinburgh Reporter takes a peek in to their looking-glass wonders and...

Fame – the Musical, a West End smash hit based on the 1980’s film Fame including the best-selling title song arrives in Edinburgh this summer on an epic scale.Directed by Alan Parker and written by Christopher Gore, the...

If, and it is a big IF, you can deal with the eponymous vocalist naming his band Simply Wed, this touring show is a two hour guilty pleasure. Based on the 1998 money-spinning film...

Our rating ***.5'It's times like this I really wished I'd listened to what my Mother said!' What did she say? 'I don't really know, I wasn't listening!' Counter-intuitively, Galactic hitch-hiker, Arthur Dent's anecdotal bromide...

Edinburgh schools have been invited to take part in a new performance project that breaks down, or shakes down, the plays of William Shakespeare and gives high school students the opportunity to make the...

It is Final Call for  - War In America.The days are counting down to what must be one of Edinburgh’s almost unique ‘found space’ theatrical events – at the former Royal High School.War in...

To multi-star reviews and wildfire word of mouth praise, Jodie Prenger immerses herself in the role of semi-detached from life to rising Phoenix kitchen-sink rebel, Shirley Valentine, with withering Scouse panache. This 30th anniversary...

With a professionally crafted mix of funny, awkward and embarrassing stories, outrageous radio clips, video, offensive reactions on social media and his own cult songs, Grant Stott lifts the lid on his 27 year journey...

The Attic Collective presents
 WAR IN AMERICAby Jo Clifford The Former Royal High SchoolDystopian future nightmares, once moral fictions to frighten domestic-bot appliances with an internet disconnect, are now the shape of things to come...

Read all about it! Girl Power/Sex Strike - Athenian Bookies Put Nookies @ 300/1 - Bar. A week previous to this performance America and beyond witnessed unprecedented scenes of mass protest in which women were...

The King's Theatre is working with the Arts Programme at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, to deliver the first official year of ''Panto Presents''.The event is run by the charity Sick Kids Friends Foundation.The...