Scottish actor Mark Bonnar, recently seen on in Edinburgh-set TV dramas Department Q and Guilt, as well as Celebrity Traitors, has been made honorary president of local amateur company Leitheatre.

Jack and the Beanstalk, the last time the ‘King’s panto’ appears at the Festival Theatre before its long-awaited return to the actual King’s, is another hugely enjoyable run-out for the established ...

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, ...

It’s fair dreich in Haddington but beyond the rainbow The Wizard of Oz brings the sunshine, courtesy of The Brunton’s panto. We begin not in Kansas but in Pansas – well, we’re not far from Prestonpans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Edinburgh People’s Theatre’s annual pantomime is always one of the most keenly-awaited festive shows, and Sinbad the Sailor lives up to the anticipation.

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 ...

Anyone who relishes old-fashioned pantomime, and in particular the chance to boo and shout ‘oh no it isn’t’ will find much to enjoy in St Serf’s Players’ Dick Whittington, at Inverleith St Serf’s ...

There are some tremendous performances from the young cast in LYAMC’s The Wizard of Oz, at the Church Hill until Saturday. Much of the production is very impressive, with only some uneven staging ...