SEASON LISTINGS

February 2025

6 February, Edinburgh: We’re excited to unveil seven new shows coming to the Festival Theatre and Studio, including: Aaron Sorkin’s sell-out production of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scottish mystery The Croft led by Liz Goddard, and a screening from the Ocean Film Festival. Babies from birth to 12 months can relax with Float, Gregor MacGregor presents his part confessional storytelling, part TED Talk The Land That Never Was and new musicals include Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s Fiddler on the Roof and The Beyond Broadway Experience Footloose.

Full details of all shows can be found online at www.capitaltheatres.com/whats-on.

Listings information:

Manipulate Festival: Snapshots

Wed 12 Feb 2025
The Studio

Dance, Drama, Physical Theatre

A regular feature at Manipulate Festival, Snapshots is a platform for artists based in Scotland to try out new or developing work across puppetry, circus, physical theatre, visual theatre and dance.

Manipulate Festival Snapshots (capitaltheatres.com)

Manipulate Festival: When Prophecy Fails

Fri 14 & Sat 15 Feb 2025
The Studio

Drama

Award-winning ensemble Groupwork present a daring new piece of physical theatre. Based on a 1954 study outlining a groundbreaking theory of human behaviour now known as “cognitive dissonance”.

Manipulate Festival When Prophecy Fails (capitaltheatres.com)

Imaginate: Ideas Exchange

Fri 21 Feb 2025
The Studio

Family

Ideas Exchange is an Imaginate event for the young audiences sector to share new performance ideas for children, to talk about interesting ideas and challenges, and to meet each other including a chance to meet new people.

Imaginate Ideas Exchange (capitaltheatres.com)

BANFF Mountain Film Festival 2024

Sat 22 Feb 2025
Festival Theatre

Screening

Enjoy epic adventure films celebrating mountains and wild places!

BANFF Mountain Film Festival RED (capitaltheatres.com)
BANFF Mountain Film Festival BLUE (capitaltheatres.com)

Lost in Music

Sun 23 Feb 2025
Festival Theatre

Music

Embark on an electrifying journey through the sensational 70s with iconic hits.

Lost in Music (capitaltheatres.com)

Scottish Opera: The Makropulos Affair

Thu 27 Feb 2025
Festival Theatre

Opera

This co-production of Janáček’s mature masterpiece returns to Scottish Opera in its first full staging since 1993.

The Makropulos Affair (capitaltheatres.com)

An Evening With mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart

Fri 7 & Sat 8 Mar 2025
Festival Theatre

Music

An evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis, and Karine Polwart performing with their stellar international band, playing songs from their new album Looking For The Thread and from across their catalogues.

An Evening With Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart (capitaltheatres.com)

Shakespeare Schools Festival

Tue 11 Mar 2025
The Studio

Family

Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at The Studio. Join us for an exhilarating evening of live theatre, featuring a reimagined Shakespeare production by Longstone Primary School.

Shakespeare Schools Festival (capitaltheatres.com)

Bohemians – Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Wed 12 to Sat 15 Mar 2025

Festival Theatre

Community

After a sell-out 2024 production, the Bohemians are returning to the Festival Theatre. Packed full of pop anthems, including ‘I Will Survive’, ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ and ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’, this show is sure to dazzle with all of your dancefloor favourites.

Priscilla Queen of the Desert (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) The Land That Never Was

Fri 14 Mar 2025
The Studio

Comedy

The Land That Never Was tells the true story of Gregor MacGregor (yes that is his real name), a Scottish conman who sold a country that literally did not exist. It’s a story about a group of strangers who collectively believed in something that doesn’t exist… yet. It’s a story about us.

The Land That Never Was (capitaltheatres.com)

Death of a Salesman

Wed 19 to Sat 22 Mar 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production. This Pulitzer Prize and multi-award-winning classic play isn’t to be missed and comes to Edinburgh for one week only.
Death of a Salesman (capitaltheatres.com)

Northern Ballet: Hansel & Gretel

Sun 23 Mar 2025

Festival Theatre

Family

Come on an enchanting adventure in Norther Ballet’s brand-new children’s ballet.

Hansel & Gretel (capitaltheatres.com)

Ghost Stories

Wed 26 to Sat 29 Mar 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

Enter a world full of thrilling and epic turns, where the ultimate love-letter to horror is imagined live on stage. A fully sensory and electrifying encounter, Ghost Stories is one of London’s best reviewed plays of all time and will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Ghost Stories (capitaltheatres.com)

Nessie

Fri 28 to Sat 5 Apr 2025

The Studio

Musical

Nessie is a captivating Scottish musical that celebrates bravery, the strength of friendship and the courage to follow one’s own heart.

Nessie (capitaltheatres.com)

Little Women

Tue 1 to Sat 5 Apr 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

Anne-Marie Casey’s masterful new adaptation of Little Women that breathes new life into one of the best loved novels of all time. This beautiful new adaptation is a celebration of women, filled with laugher, tears and a theatrical, heartwarming lifting of the spirits.

Little Women (capitaltheatres.com)

Alas! Poor Yorick.

Tue 8 Apr 2025

The Studio

Drama

Using every trick in their theatre playbook, existential clowns take on the famous Hamlet graveyard scene.

Alas! Poor Yorick. (capitaltheatres.com)

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
Tue 8 to Sat 12 Apr 2025
Festival Theatre

Dance

Matthew Bourne’s audacious, rule-breaking reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago.  It has now become the most successful dance theatre production of all time, creating new audiences and inspiring generations of young dancers.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (capitaltheatres.com)

Calamity Jane

Tue 15 to Sat 19 Apr 2025

Festival Theatre

Musical

Based on the much loved Doris Day movie, this plumb fancy new production stars the multi-award-winning West End actress and singer Carrie Hope Fletcher.

Calamity Jane (capitaltheatres.com)

Tim Rice: My Life in Musicals

Sun 20 Apr 2025

Festival Theatre

Tim Rice reflects on his illustrious career at the heart of musical theatre, sharing anecdotes behind the songs – the hits and the misses along with stories of his life and live musical accompaniment from the Duncan Waugh Band & West End Singers.

Tim Rice (capitaltheatres.com)

Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)

Tue 22 to Sat 26 Apr 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

Men, money and microphones will be fought over in this irreverent but affectionate adaption where the stakes couldn’t be higher when it comes to romance. Theis multi-award-winning production features a string of pop classics including Young Hearts Run Free, Will You Love Me Tomorrow and You’re So Vain.

Pride & Prejudice *sort of (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) Float

Fri 25 & Sat 26 Apr 2025
The Studio

Family

Float is a beautiful and immersive world for babies from birth to 12 months old and their grown-ups, with a performance that will ebb and flow through the space during the 3-hour experience. Your ticket with allow you to come and go as you as want during this time, so you don’t have to worry about arriving later, leaving earlier, or taking a wee break in between.

Float (capitaltheatres.com)

Scottish Ballet: The Crucible
Thu 1 to Sat 3 May 2025
Festival Theatre

Dance

Scottish Ballet’s iconic adaptation of Arthur Miller’s famous play about the Salem witch trials.
The Crucible (capitaltheatres.com)

In Other Words
Fri 2 & Sat 3 May 2025
The Studio

Drama

A deeply moving love story about Alzheimer’s disease and the transformative effect of music.
In Other Words (capitaltheatres.com)

Southern Light: Jesus Christ Superstar
Wed 7 to Sat 10 May 2025
Festival Theatre

Musical

The first musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice to be produced for the professional stage, Jesus Christ Superstar has wowed audiences for over 40 years. A timeless work, the rock opera is set against the backdrop of an extraordinary and universally known series of events, but seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot.
Southern Light Jesus Christ Superstar (capitaltheatres.com)

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Tue 13 to Sat 17 May 2025
Festival Theatre

Theatre

The nation’s favourite novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe come to life on stage in this spectacular production which is guaranteed to delight all ages. Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they meet new friends, face dangerous foes and learn the lessons of courage, sacrifice, and the power of love.
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (capitaltheatres.com)

Ballet Black: SHADOWS

Wed 21 May 2025

Festival Theatre

Dance

Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black returns to Festival Theatre with the darkly comic adaptation of international bestselling novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. For her debut ballet for Ballet Black, Chanel DaSilva explores the intense practice of shadow work and how it can reveal our true selves.

Ballet Black (capitaltheatres.com)

Ballet BC (British Colombia)

Fri 23 & Sat 24 May 2025

Festival Theatre

Dance

Canada’s leading contemporary dance company make their Festival Theatre debut with a double performance of PASSING and Frontier. In PASSING, legendary Swedish choreographer Johan Inger traverses a vast landscape of human emotion, taking audiences on an epic, theatrical, often touching ride. Frontier, by four-time Olivier award-winning Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite examines the unknown – the characterization of dark matter, the personification of shadows

Ballet BC (capitaltheatres.com)

The Ultimate Classic Rock Show
Sun 25 May
Festival Theatre

Music

Dust off your air guitars for an evening of the very best classic rock anthems from legends past and present!
Ultimate Classic Rock Show (capitaltheatres.com)

Scottish Opera: The Merry Widow

Thu 29 May, Sun 1, Thu 5 & Sat 7 Jun 2025
Festival Theatre

Opera

Director John Savournin brings his joyful touch to Lehár’s waltz-filled charmer.

The Merry Widow (capitaltheatres.com)

Scottish Opera: Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct!

Fri 30 May & Fri 6 Jun 2025
Festival Theatre

Opera

An unmissable night of classic Gilbert & Sullivan comedy and new writing.

Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct (capitaltheatres.com)

Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet

Tue 10 to Sat 14 Jun 2025

Festival Theatre

Dance

Written by guitar smashing rock legend Pete Townshend, orchestrated by Rachel Fuller and with costumes by iconic British fashion house Paul Smith, this new version of Quadrophenia brings together some of the UK’s finest creative talent from the worlds of music, theatre, film and dance. Prepare to be blown away as the power of dance brings a whole dimension to the raw energy and emotion of one of the UK’s most iconic rock albums.

Quadrophenia (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) The Croft

Wed 25 to Sat 28 Jun 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

ased on a true highland story. In the remote Scottish Highlands two women arrive at a former Crofters Hut in the deserted village of Coillie Ghille. When suddenly the weekend getaway takes an unexpected turn. Cut off from the modern world, Laura and Suzanne find themselves drawn into the dark history of the Croft and the lives that passed before them. Starring Liza Goddard.

The Croft (capitaltheatres.com)

Anton & Giovanni: Together Again
Sat 12 Jul 2025

Festival Theatre

Dance

The nation’s favourite dance double act, Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice are Together Again in 2025 for more Ballroom and Latin fun and entertainment.

Anton & Giovanni: Together Again (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) The Beyond Broadway Experience: Footloose
Fri 18 & Sat 19 Jul 2025

Festival Theatre

Musical

To the rockin’ rhythm of its Oscar and Tony-nominated Top 40 score, augmented with dynamic new songs, Footloose celebrates the wisdom of listening to young people while guiding them with a warm heart and open mind.

Footloose (capitaltheatres.com)

Gary Meikle: Neurospicy
Fri 5 Sep 2025

Festival Theatre

Comedy

On 23 January 2024, standup Gary Meikle was diagnosed as being neurodivergent which was kind of a surprise to him, but funnily enough, not to anyone that knows him.

Gary Meikle Neurospicy (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) Ocean Film Festival 2025
Sat 6 Sep 2025

Festival Theatre

Screening

The Ocean Film Festival World Tour features a new collection of the world’s most incredible ocean films. Brought to you by the team behind the Banff Mountain Film Festival UK & Ireland tour, this selection of short films combines breath-taking marine life and wild seafaring voyages in a cinematic celebration of our oceans.

Ocean Film Festival (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) Fiddler on the Roof
Tue 9 to Sat 13 Sep 2025

Festival Theatre

Musical

A theatrical triumph, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s sold-out electrifying Fiddler On The Roof is coming to Edinburgh in what is set to be the theatre event of 2025.

Fiddler on the Roof (capitaltheatres.com)

War Horse

Thu 2 to Sat 11 Oct 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

The National Theatre’s acclaimed production of War Horse returns to Edinburgh in an all new UK and Ireland tour. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.

War Horse (capitaltheatres.com)

(NEW) To Kill a Mockingbird
Tue 21 to Sat 25 Oct 2025

Festival Theatre

Drama

Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic. Now this thrilling courtroom drama embarks on a UK & Ireland tour for the very first time.

To Kill a Mockingbird (capitaltheatres.com)

Scottish Ballet: The Snow Queen
Thu 27 to Sun 7 Dec 2025
Festival Theatre

Dance

This glittering production is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale – which was also the basis for Frozen. Choreographed by Christopher Hampson and designed by the award-winning Lez Brotherston, this story of love and friendship is a delight for the whole family.

Scottish Ballet The Snow Queen (capitaltheatres.com)

Jack and the Beanstalk Pantomime 2025

Sat 13 Dec to Sun 11 Jan 2026

Festival Theatre 

Family

Join Allan Stewart, Grant Stott and Jordan Young for the GIANT of a pantomime we’ve all BEAN waiting for. Jack and the Beanstalk will be spectacularly brought to life by sensational song and dance numbers, fantastic special effects, magic beans and bundles of audience participation in this giant of a pantomime!
Jack and the Beanstalk (capitaltheatres.com)