Hosts ballet and opera performances, touring productions and comedy on the largest stage in Scotland.
A circus spectacular re-imagining of Swan Lake by the Circa company, featuring acrobatics, aerials and humour.
Matthew Bourne's award-winning dance thriller on its 2026 UK tour at the Festival Theatre, reimagining the 19th-century Spanish cigarette factory as a 1950s garage-diner.
A gentle dementia-friendly session of chosen poems, sensory items, storytelling and music led by Xa Shaw Stewart.
A dementia-friendly choir session with the Forget Me Notes choir, in which people with lived experience of dementia choose and perform the songs.
A contemporary dance evening featuring works by Jemma Stein, Untold Productions, Frantics Tanz and Cia Laia Santanach, exploring themes of home and community.
Scottish Opera marks its centenary with David McVicar's production of Puccini's Turandot, sung in Italian with English supertitles.
A powerful historical drama set in Tudor England, following Sir Thomas More as he faces a moral crisis under King Henry VIII.
Bimonthly social gathering for people with lived experience of dementia, their families, friends and carers, with tea, a guest speaker or performer and a quiz.
The Olivier Award-nominated musical, billed as 'the best pub in the world', on its first UK tour.
Scottish Ballet's playful and gender-fluid retelling of the Cinderella story, set in a family-run emporium at the turn of the 20th century.
A behind-the-scenes talk by the Scottish Ballet artistic team about its production of Cinders, part of the Festival Theatre's Take Part programme.
Stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel, directed by Marianne Elliott, in which a fifteen-year-old boy with a brilliant mind for numbers becomes both detective and suspect in a mystery.
A high-energy live tribute show featuring classic rock anthems from legends such as Led Zeppelin, Queen and AC/DC, with a light and projection show.
A new staging of Agatha Christie's mystery with Hercule Poirot, directed by Lucy Bailey, exploring a family's struggle with nostalgia and the future.
Stand-up comedy tour of Ed Gamble, co-host of Off Menu, following his sold-out world tour.
The 10th anniversary tour of the musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie, with an all-star cast, telling the true story of drag queen Jamie New.
Scottish Opera production of Handel's opera Alcina, directed by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Dmitri Jurowski.
Scottish Opera production of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, marking the 200th anniversary of the composer's death.
A hilarious family musical based on the worldwide bestselling book series by Dav Pilkey, following the adventures of the crime-biting hero Dog Man.
Stand-up show by Gregor Fisher at Capital Theatres in Edinburgh.
The wickedly funny musical Heathers arrives in Edinburgh for one week only as part of its UK & Ireland tour.
Northern Ballet brings to the stage the extraordinary story of Anne Lister, the 19th-century Yorkshire diarist and lesbian pioneer, through a narrative ballet co-produced with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
The world's greatest cabaret troupe return with a brand new show, presented by John Mackay and Sally Homer, featuring Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman.
Comedy band The Horne Section return to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh with their 2027 tour 'Six Absolute Helmets'.
Monthly, dementia-friendly jam session at the Festival Theatre where anyone can bring an instrument, a singing voice or a song suggestion.
Monthly free dementia-friendly community sessions at the Festival Theatre for people living with dementia and their families, with song, poetry and music-making.
A hip-hop, funk and soul musical about Sylvia Pankhurst, starring Beverley Knight as Emmeline Pankhurst, arriving in Edinburgh from London's Old Vic.
