There are no talking teapots and dancing jugs as Stage Door Entertainment’s Beauty and the Beast: The Pantomime comes to Portobello, but there is plenty of good-old fashioned panto fun. There’s lovely ...

Moonlight, Mistletoe & Magic (LMTC) Sat 13 Dec 2025 One performance: 8pm. (Dissection Room) A wholesome and heart-warming journey with soaring song, dazzling dance, and evocative spoken word, all ...

Christmas in Edinburgh is that bit more magical than in any other city – thanks to MagicFest, the Edinburgh International Magic Festival, which this year celebrates its 16th edition, writes Matthew ...

December is a-creeping in, with three full-on pantomimes opening this week – two panto versions of Beauty and the Beast and a Dick Whittington – and three non-panto Xmas shows. Pantos first. The St ...

Listings for the week: Monday 15 – Sunday 21 December 2025: For the following week’s listings, look here: On Stage the Following Week. The current week’s listings are here: On Stage This Week.

About Dick Whittington: “A fun read through for interested actors will be held on Mon, followed by friendly open auditions on Wed. Dick Whittington has a small cast of principal actors, who require ...

Cinderella: A Fairytale, this year’s Lyceum Christmas play, is a sparkling, visually wonderful and consistently entertaining piece of family entertainment.

The Scottish Community Drama Association exists to encourage the development of volunteer-led theatre arts in Scotland. The SCDA runs the Scottish rounds of the UK-wide One Act Play Festival. It has a ...

Balerno Theatre Company’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Church Hill may not be a traditional Christmas show but certainly provides a large helping of festive cheer.

In Pickled Republic, Ruxy Cantir has drawn on her Moldovan upbringing, where almost every vegetable can be pickled, and combined it with her exposure to American education and culture to create a ...

Scottish Opera and the D’Oyly Carte Opera celebrate the 150th anniversary Gilbert & Sullivan’s partnership by pairing Trial By Jury with A Matter of Misconduct!, a new operetta commissioned in ...

Edinburgh companies will be staging 253 shows at EdFringe 2025. That is 35% more than a year ago, double the number in 2018 and enough to make up the whole Fringe of 1974. And All Edinburgh Theatre ...