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The Magic Mountain
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 26th - 28th Aug 2022
Regretfully, International Theater Amsterdaam has had to cancel the Edinburgh performances of The Magic Mountain for technical reasons.
Walking with Ghosts
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 24th - 28th Aug 2022
Irish national treasure Gabriel Byrne weaves a captivating tale that is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking.
An Untitled Love
- Listing Dance Physical Theatre and Circus
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 20th - 21st Aug 2022
Acclaimed choreographer Kyle Abraham’s newest full-length work tells stories of love, solidarity and friendship against a rich score of R&B and soul music by D’Angelo.
Members Event: Backstage Tour of ROOM
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 17th Aug 2022
An exclusive event for members of the Edinburgh International Festival.
ROOM
- Review
- ★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 14th Aug, 2022
Interminable, intellectually pretentious and self-indulgent, former circus performer James Thiérrée’s Room produced by his own Swiss Compagnie du Hanneton, is presented as phys…
ROOM
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 13th - 17th Aug 2022
Swiss artist James Thierrée returns to the International Festival with an unmissable spectacle from his physical theatre company.
Burn
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2022
Alan Cumming is a tour de force as ever.
Avenue Q
- Listing Musicals and Opera
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 25th Jan - 6th Jul 2019
Guess Q’s back! The naughtiest puppets in town will be heading to a theatre near you as comedy musical Avenue Q returns next year to tour the UK with all of your favour…
HOME
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 22nd - 26th Aug 2018
You are cordially invited to a magical house party on the grandest scale.
The Beggar's Opera
- Listing Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 16th - 19th Aug 2018
Swarming with highwaymen, thieves, jailors, pimps and prostitutes, John Gay’s savagely satirical and wildly entertaining ‘ballad opera’ invites you into a world of greed, cri…
Love Cycle: Love Chapter 2
- Review
- ★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2018
Love Chapter 2 by L-E-V, choreographed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, is a twin-piece to OCD Love, both part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Love Cycle: OCD Love
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 12th Aug, 2018
A profoundly disturbing show, OCD Love (part one of Love Cycle) is produced by Israeli L-E-V dance company with original and technically difficult choreography by Sharon Eyal in c…
Cold Blood
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Lynn Rusk
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 7th Aug, 2018
Cold Blood is a unique experience of cinema, theatre, dance and music brought to us by Kiss and Cry Collective.
Legally Blonde
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 29th Apr, 2018
Legally Blonde (based on the movie of the same name) tells the story of Elle Woods, a party girl who decides to go to Harvard Law School to convince her ex-boyfriend that she can b…
The Sound of Music
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 25th Jan, 2018
The Sound of Music is a beautiful, uncomplicated musical about courage, love and doing the right thing, and this production is a beautiful, uncomplicated rendition that stays true …
Letters Live
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 27th - 27th Aug 2017
The joy and the pain, the wisdom and the humour preserved by the humble letter – expertly brought to life by some of the most acclaimed performers from around the world.
The Magnetic Fields 2
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 26th Aug 2017
Leftfield pop’s answer to Stephen Sondheim, Stephin Merritt has been called one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Magnetic Fields 1
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 25th Aug 2017
Leftfield pop’s answer to Stephen Sondheim, Stephin Merritt has been called one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Alfred Brendel
- Listing Workshop
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 23rd Aug 2017
Alfred Brendel does not believe that the merits of an artist can be explained or illuminated by his private life.
Room 29
- Listing Music
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 22nd - 24th Aug 2017
Do you believe in ghosts? What if a room could tell you the life stories of the people that have inhabited it? Better still – what if it could sing you those stories? In this bra…
Paul Auster at 70
- Listing Workshop
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 14th Aug 2017
If you had to pick one writer to sum up the inventive spirit of the post-war transatlantic era, you could hardly do better than Paul Auster.
The Divide - Part 2
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 16th Aug, 2017
In The Divide Pt 2, Alan Ayckbourn answers my primary issues with Pt 1: the lack of a driving narrative force, and an associated lack of meaningful emotional resonance.
The Divide - Part 1
- Review
- ★★★
- Bennett Bonci
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 15th Aug, 2017
Man, I love theatres.
Shirley Valentine
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 5th May, 2017
“I used to be Shirley Valentine,” explains the focus of Willy Russell’s 1986 one-woman play; a 42 year old Liverpudlian woman who, now that the children have flown …
Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 6th Mar, 2017
There’s one deliciously unique—sadly never repeatable—moment during the opening night of Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show, when Stewart introduces the singer Susan B…
We're Going On A Bear Hunt
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 26th Jan, 2017
You can always feel a particular kind of excitement in an auditorium, before “curtain up”, when a significant proportion of the audience are (a) less than five years old, an…
Cinderella
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Glasgow
- King’s Theatre
- 12th Dec, 2016
Pantomime, as we’re reminded by the Ambassador Theatre Group’s pre-show video (narrated by Brian Blessed), is a peculiarly British theatrical tradition, although it’s a sha…
Jack and the Beanstalk
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 3rd Dec, 2016
There’s no doubting the energy in Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre before this show starts; many kids are already singing along to a soundtrack of current chart hits.
Sister Act
- Review
- ★★★★
- Grace Knight
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 6th Oct, 2016
Sister Act, the ever-popular stage musical based on the successful Whoopie Goldberg film, is a feel-good delight, and this latest production starring X-Factor winner Alexandra Bu…
Chicago
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Grace Knight
- Glasgow
- King’s Theatre
- 20th Sep, 2016
World-famous musical Chicago follows the lives of two women in a Chicago prison in the 1920s, both awaiting trial for murder.
Bring It On
- Listing Theatre
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 22nd - 23rd Jul 2016
Nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and inspired by the hit film, we take you on a high-flying journey through the cutthroat world of competitive cheerleading and the fie…
Avenue Q
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 16th May, 2016
All theatre requires some degree of “suspension of disbelief”.
James and the Giant Peach
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Simon Ximenez
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 23rd Apr, 2016
The fantastical, magical stories created by Roald Dahl have proven themselves to have the potential to inspire family shows that enthral rather than patronise with the award-winn…
Jackie! The Musical
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Bronte Nicoll
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 7th Apr, 2016
The atmosphere on New Road was buzzing.
Canned Laughter
- Review
- ★★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 31st Mar, 2016
Some people claim that the 1960s and 1970s were the golden age of British comedy.
TOM, the Musical
- Review
- ★★★★
- Sarah McIntosh
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 17th Mar, 2016
Everyone has a story about Tom, says the narrator.
A Murder is Announced
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 4th Feb, 2016
Coming to a “classic” Agatha Christie whodunnit after a full day’s binging on the latest series of the BBC’s Silent Witness – oh, the life of a reviewer! – is, frank…
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Review
- ★★★★
- James W. Woe
- Edinburgh
- King’s Theatre
- 8th Dec, 2015
It’s that magic time of year when we theatre critics stop watching plays about middle class people and their problems, and get to watch a man in a dress tell dirty jokes to ki…
Yer Granny
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- Edinburgh
- Multiple Venues
- 1st Jun, 2015
Having enjoyed a relatively carefree childhood and colourful teenage youth during the 1970s, I’m often still annoyed by the apparent cultural consensus which dismisses those y…
The Woman in Black
- Review
- ★★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre / Theatre Royal, Glasgow
- 16th Apr, 2015
Written very much in the tradition of the suspense-filled, atmospheric ghost stories by M R James, Susan Hill’s gothic novel, The Woman in Black, has been adapted numerous time…
The History Boys
- Review
- ★★★
- Paul Fisher Cockburn
- UK Regional & Tours
- King’s Theatre
- 24th Mar, 2015
The History Boys – at least according to the programme notes accompanying this latest tour – is “generally regarded as Alan Bennett’s masterpiece”.
The Wizard of Oz
- Review
- ★★★
- Jenny Williams
- Edinburgh Fringe
- King’s Theatre
- 3rd Aug, 2014
It’s called, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ but this isn’t the production you remember from your childhood.
Avenue Q
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Pete Shaw
- UK Regional & Tours
- Multiple Venues
- 29th Apr, 2014
Freshly-graduated and bright-eyed Princeton arrives in Avenue Q looking for his purpose but lacking the funds to afford anywhere better to stay.
Avenue Q
- Review
- ★★★★
- Lauren Humphreys
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Multiple Venues
- 2nd Aug, 2013
An English Lit graduate searching for purpose in his life; a closet homosexual banker with repressed feelings for his straight roommate; a porn obsessed monster; an idealistic kind…
The Secret River
- Review
- ★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 10th Aug, 2019
Who owns the land? What if the land you think is yours already ‘belongs’ to someone else? The tragedy that is Australian history, the encounter between the ‘savages’ and th…
Oedipus
- Review
- ★★★★★
- Stephanie Green
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 17th Aug, 2019
White hot, stripped down to its essentials, this searing version of Sophocles’ Oedipus, adapted and directed by Robert Icke may well be the defining drama for our times, where f…
Breaking the Waves
- Listing Musicals and Opera / Musicals and Opera
- Edinburgh International Festival
- King’s Theatre
- 21st - 24th Aug 2019
Breaking the Waves is a wrenching moral drama about a woman’s twisted bargain with God.
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