The Lyceum's 2026/27 season emphasizes ambitious storytelling, showcasing classic works reinterpreted through contemporary lenses. Highlights include adaptations like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Mother Courage, alongside musicals like Guys & Dolls. The season aims to engage diverse audiences while balancing cherished traditions with fresh interpretations, reflecting theatre's shared essence.
The Edinburgh Playhouse and Waverley Care are launching HIV ALOUD: RAISE THE CURTAIN, a collaborative initiative focusing on the voices of people living with HIV. Funded by £20,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund, it aims to challenge stigma through creative writing workshops, culminating in a public performance, promoting accessibility and inclusion.
Bard in the Botanics celebrates its 25th anniversary with the upcoming season, Lovers and Madmen, emphasizing bold risk-taking, fresh interpretations, and a commitment to engaging, actor-driven storytelling in classical theatre.
Bard in the Botanics celebrates its 25th anniversary with the upcoming season, Lovers and Madmen, emphasizing bold risk-taking, fresh interpretations, and a commitment to engaging, actor-driven storytelling in classical theatre.
Keep it Fringe 2026: Sixteen Artists Share £40k as the Fringe Society Sounds the Alarm on Sustainability There’s a rhythm to the build up of the Festival Fringe, usually picking up pace around Springtime: the clocks go forward, the posters get sent away for vetting, baked potatoes become more valuable than gold, and the Fringe … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – Keep it Fringe 2026: Sixteen Artists Share £40k
There’s turning seventy‑five with a polite slice of Victoria sponge… and then there’s turning seventy‑five the Pitlochry Festival Theatre way: by calling in a trio of Scotland’s most recognisable exports and handing them the mic. Growing old tastefully no longer fits the theatre's dynamic: it's here to stir up momentum and energy. If there was ever any … Continue reading Have a Gander at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s 75th Anniversary Appeal
There’s a particular sound that echoes across Edinburgh every year. It’s not the seagulls, nor the clatter of scaffolding as yet another venue sprouts from a car park. It’s the collective gasp of Fringe‑goers realising the programme has ballooned again — this time by 1,730 new shows, bringing the total to 2,083; so far. And … Continue reading Have A Gander at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026 – 1,730 New Shows Confirmed as Edinburgh Braces for Impact
Just when you thought the news from Pitlochry Festival Theatre was about to halt; here they go rolling out another big hitter for Alan Cumming’s inaugural season — and this time it’s Beckett. The Theatre has announced that Siobhán Redmond (currently starring alongside Cumming, Forbes Masson in The National Theatre of Scotland’s The High Life … Continue reading Have a Gander at Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days – Siobhán Redmond Digs Into Beckett’s Bleak Brilliance at Pitlochry
Pitlochry Festival Theatre is limbering up the ankles and clearing the floor, because this October the town’s in for a stoater. The UK première of CEILIDH, a new musical steeped in Scotland’s favourite communal chaos ritual, will take over Pitlochry Town Hall from 7–17 October — and it’s arriving with some serious creative heft behind … Continue reading Have a Gander at CELIDH – Pitlochry’s Set for a Right Good Knees-Up
Imaginate’s 2026 Children’s Festival – Edinburgh’s Most Essential Festival Steps Into a New Era Edinburgh is never short on festivals, but only one of them quietly shapes the cultural future of the city. The Edinburgh International Children’s Festival has long been the place where imagination is taken seriously, where young audiences are treated as thinkers, … Continue reading Have a Gander at Edinburgh’s International Children’s: Imaginate
