Tag: The Edinburgh Playhouse

“Teenage angst has paid off well, now I’m bored and old”, sang Kurt Cobain on Serve the Servants.Generation X steered an array of dark subjects into the mainstream pre-internet and Heathers began...

I suspect most of the audience at the Edinburgh Playhouse last night to see Wicked – The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz – had watched the classic film The Wizard of Oz,...

Kay Mellor is an award-winning writer for stage and TV. She is the mastermind who wrote Band of Gold, and now she has adapted the very popular Fat Friends as a musical along with...

The brand new stage musical Fat Friends is coming to The Edinburgh Playhouse this weekend.Written by Kay Mellor who also wrote Band of Gold for TV, with music by Nicholas Lloyd Webber this fun...

Next Monday and Tuesday, 16 and 17 April 2018, Gary Barlow is performing at The Playhouse and he will be supported by none other than KT Tunstall.When The Edinburgh Reporter spoke to her in...

When I told my daughter last week that I was going to see Hairspray at the Edinburgh Playhouse she expressed surprise that I was going to such a show, saying she didn’t think this...

Edinburgh opera lovers are in for a treat at the end of this month when Ellen Kent's Opera Festival brings Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Verdi’s La Traviata to the Edinburgh Playhouse.As opera buffs will...

We have a great competition for you this month!Win tickets to see the smash hit musical comedy Hairspray at The Edinburgh Playhouse After a sell-out run last year the all-singing, all-dancing production returns to Edinburgh this...

About seven years ago I watched a documentary on BBC4 about Carole King. It was an intimate telling of her life and her immense song writing talent, showcasing her best-selling album Tapestry which took...

  Three of the biggest names of the 1980s - Midge Ure with his new set Band Electronica, The Christians and Altered Images featuring Clare Grogan, will play at the Edinburgh Playhouse next Sunday, 22nd October.With millions of albums sales and...

 Cilla - The Musical, which made its world premiere yesterday at the Liverpool Empire in Cilla Black’s hometown, is heading to the Edinburgh Playhouse.It’s the extraordinary story of the ordinary girl from Liverpool whose...

Friday evening at the Edinburgh Playhouse saw a concert celebrating legendary ‘knights’ of the entertainment industry who have transformed the face of music, film and theatre in recent decades. The Knights of Music included...

Dreamboats and Petticoats The Musical returns to celebrate 10 years of the multi-million selling albums that inspired the Olivier Award nominated musical. The show comes to the Edinburgh Playhouse this May for a six-day stint...

There are Elvis tributes..... and then there’s Lee Memphis King.  Lee Memphis King, Europe’s most successful Elvis Presley tribute artist, recreates the essence of the King with consummate ease and an almost unbelievable combination of...

Last night the first showing of the classic biblical-based knees-up, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, premiered in front of a large audience at the Edinburgh Playhouse.Despite assumed issues with self-inflating sheep, the opening was one...

Registration for one of Scotland’s biggest running and fundraising events is opening tomorrow 18 October 2013. The Meadows Marathon 2014 will again include the 5.6km fun run, half marathon and full marathon to The...

An acclaimed show which brings one of rock 'n' roll's greatest landmark albums to life is coming to Edinburgh. Hot from a debut UK tour, 'Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Show' will be at the...