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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Wizard of Oz -wise, there’s a fun We’re Off to See the Wizard from Dorothy and friends, while Somewhere Over the Rainbow showcases Caitlin Anderson’s lovely voice, though the arrangement is a tad ...

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 ...

Who’s The Fairest of Them All?, written & directed by Holly Wagner at Erstwhile Media’s One Dramatic Night, retells Snow White, while questioning who the true villain of the story is.