A Lad in Cramond – the Boy Who Dared to Dream – follows most of the expected plot points of a Pantomime Aladdin. Here, a Widow Twanky, her love-lorn son Aladdin and his silly brother Wishy Washy, ...

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 ...

Set one year before the Haitian revolution of 1791, Placeholder at the EAS Studios @ Summerhall, powerfully evokes women’s lost voices in a piece that honours the lives of those who were stolen.

Anyone not yet ready for Christmas-themed entertainment should get along to Saughtonhall URC before Saturday. Saughtonhall Drama Group’s production of Murder at Ten Twenty is a reassuringly ...

Inside No. 9 Stage/Fright, the touring production at the Playhouse until Saturday, is as scary and as funny as its many fans would hope.