The return of Anthony Besch's celebrated production of Puccini's merry tale of political oppression, betrayal, torture, murder and suicide. Susannah Glanville (star of Opera North's highly-praised…

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The Lady Boys of Bangkok: Carnival Queens
Date	Location
The new show from the Lady Boys is an energetic, bright affair with a carnival theme. Enjoy cabaret, comedy, colours and costumes as 16 of the divas put on a show to be remembered. View full details
6 Aug–23 Aug Mon–Fri 6.45pm & 9pm	The Meadows, Edinburgh

The Idiot at the Wall
Date	Location
Premiere of a new play by Elspeth Turner, performed as the inaugural show from new theatre company FirstBicycle. Modern meets traditional and Gaelic meets English in this tale of myth and reality set on a Hebridean island during World War I. View full details and ticket info
31 May–9 Jun Thu–Sat 7.30pm	The Pleasance, Edinburgh

Porgy & Bess
Date	Location
Cape Town Opera return with Gershwin's popular opera, featuring 'Summertime', 'I Got Plenty of Nuttin'' and 'It Ain't Necessarily So'. View full details and ticket info
15 Jun–16 Jun Fri 7.30pm; Sat 2pm & 7.30pm	Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

The Phantom of the Opera
Date	Location
Andrew Lloyd Webber's vastly popular melodramatic musical comes to Scotland at last, with John Owen-Jones and Earl Carpenter sharing the role of the Phantom. Tickets on sale Fri 10 Feb 2012. View full details and ticket info
19 Sep–20 Oct Not Sun	The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

Gulliver's Travels
Date	Location
Irish writer Jonathan Swift’s savage political satire is seen through the eyes of visionary theatre maker Silviu Purcărete with an original score by Irish composer Shaun Davey. Driven by Davey's musical journey, Purcărete's production gathers cultural and social aspects of contemporary society and explores themes of voyage, dream, exile, immigration, emigration, solitude and togetherness. Supported by The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Romania, The Romanian Cultural Institute and… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
17 Aug–20 Aug Mon, Fri & Sat 8–10pm; Sun 2.30–4.30pm & 8–10pm	King's Theatre, Edinburgh

A Play, a Pie & a Pint: One Day in Spring
Date	Location
Continuing the lunchtime theatre slot's theme of writing from the Arab world, 24 young playwrights from the region each present a dramatic snapshot of one moment in places from Tunis to Alexandria and beyond. Ticket price includes a pie and a drink. View full details and ticket info
29 May–2 Jun Tue–Sat 1pm	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Opera North: Ruddigore
Date	Location
Opera North brings to life Gilbert and Sullivan's melodramatic story of witches, maidens and curses from beyond the grave. View full details and ticket info
7 Jun–9 Jun Thu & Fri 7.30–10pm; Sat 2.15pm & 7.30pm	Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Plu Edinburgh
Date	Location
Weekender aimed at parents with kids under 6, offering products, demos, activities from science to sports, theatre, storytelling and music workshops to keep little people busy. View full details
1 Jun–3 Jun Fri–Sun 10am–5.30pm	Leith Links, Edinburgh

2008: Macbeth
Date	Location
Set in a contemporary and brutal Middle Eastern conflict, TR Warszawa's 2008: Macbeth is unflinching in its depiction of the machine of violence that, once set in motion, works faster and ever more efficiently. With spectacular pyrotechnics, immersive video effects and an extraordinary, layered soundscape that plays tricks on the ear, Shakespeare’s web of politics, ambition and the supernatural is transformed into a contemporary, and highly physical, theatrical film. Supported by Adam… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
11 Aug–18 Aug Mon 7.30–9.40pm; Wed 2–4.10pm; Thu–Sun 7.30–9.40pm	Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh

Festival of the Erotic Arts
Date	Location
A new festival for Scotland, specialising in all things naughty and arty. The programme is set to include performance, visual arts and crafts, film and more. View full details
22 Jun–24 Jun Times vary	Edinburgh, Edinburgh

Oliver!
Date	Location
After last year's 50th anniversary, Lionel Bart's musical take on Dickens' classic transfers to Scotland, featuring Brian Conley as Fagin. View full details and ticket info
30 May–23 Jun Not Mon	The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

An Appointment with the Wicker Man
Date	Location
National Theatre of Scotland / The Assembly Rooms. By Greg Hemphill and Donald McLeary. On a remote Scottish island, amateur theatre company @LochParryPlayer are rehearsing their stage version of cult film The Wicker Man. Their unique approach to this classic horror owes more to Glee than Christopher Lee, but as they say themselves – we're all about the fun! Cast: Sean Biggerstaff, Jimmy Chisholm, Greg Hemphill, Johnny McKnight, Sally Reid, Paul Riley and Ros Sydney. 'It was brilliant, just… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–2 Aug Wed & Thu 3.10pm Preview performance.	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
3 Aug–26 Aug Tue–Sun 3.10–4.50pm	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

Dirty Dancing
Date	Location
See Baby not put in the corner in the musical based on the late Patrick Swayze's popular film. We can't promise you'll have the time of your life, but you'll probably leave singing as much. View full details and ticket info
4 Dec 2012–12 Jan 2013 Not Sun	The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

For the Love of Willie
Date	Location
City of London Freemen's School. This adaptation of Agnes Owens' novel tells the tragic story of Peggy, an ordinary girl in extraordinary times. One day delivering newspapers, the next, her life spiralling out of control. At the heart of the play is Peggy's brief and unexpected affair with her employer, with whom she falls madly in love. Initially imagining that her lover will leave his wife, Peggy is soon abandoned - pregnant, shamed and forced to fall back on her mother who makes… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
13 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 11.30am–12.45pm	Quaker Meeting House, Edinburgh

Jason Byrne: People's Puppeteer
Date	Location
Livewire Byrne returns with another frantic show full of props, clowning and fast-paced lunacy. View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–2 Aug Wed & Thu 9.20–10.20pm 3 Aug–12 Aug Mon–Sun 9.20–10.20pm	Venue 150 @ EICC, Edinburgh
6 Sep 8pm	Music Hall, Aberdeen
7 Sep 8pm	Alhambra Theatre, Dunfermline
8 Sep 8pm	King's Theatre, Edinburgh

The Most Dangerous Toy
Date	Location
Playades. When Nietzsche meets Lou Salome, he feels he has found 'a voice, for which I have waited and waited since childhood'. One year later, he has retreated to a remote mountain village, madly scribbling Thus Spake Zarathustra. And advising men to take a whip, when they go to women. Working exclusively with original texts, Playades Theatre Company explores what happened in that seminal year of 1882: philosophy versus reality, society versus individual fulfilment, man versus woman - and… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
3 Aug–4 Aug Fri & Sat 7.05–7.55pm Preview performance.	theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 7.05–7.55pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh
8 Aug–18 Aug Mon–Sat 7.05–7.55pm	theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh

1,000 Suns
Date	Location
VF Theatre. This folk-rock musical is set in an alternate future where the American survivors of a nuclear war shelter in a huge crater from the fallout that remains in the world above. A group of young people struggle with their own identities, the harshness of their world and the ignorant authority of their elders. A story of wanderlust, love, fear, hope and pioneers. 1,000 Suns: An American Afterlife is an emotional rollercoaster and a display of young and inventive musical theatre at… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
6 Aug–11 Aug Mon–Sat 7.35–8.50pm	theSpaces on North Bridge, Edinburgh

The Chairs
Date	Location
Ireland's Blue Raincoat Theatre Company are masters of physical theatre; here they take on Eugene Ionesco's absurdist parable about how you just can't get a decent orator anymore. View full details and ticket info
7 Jun 7.30pm 8 Jun–9 Jun Fri & Sat 7.30pm	Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

The Cocktail Party
Date	Location
Theatre Alba's Adult Leisure Group presents a production of TS Eliot's absurdist drawing-room satire. View full details
15 Jun–16 Jun Fri & Sat 7.30–9.30pm	Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh

The Singing Kettle: Shake, Rattle and Roll
Date	Location
Join Cilla, Artie, Gary and Kevin to make a right old racket – bang on a homemade instrument to accompany all the old favourites like ' Music Man' and 'Ants Went Marching'. View full details and ticket info
3 Jun Sun noon & 3pm	Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh

Beth
Date	Location
Violet Shock. Beth sees Violet Shock return to the Festival Fringe after huge success with Something Wicked … * (2008) and *Little Shop of Horrors (2011). Shakespeare's Macbeth is given a new, powerful and unexpected voice in 90 minutes of sword swinging, blood drenched cursed ambition as Violet Shock's trademark dark originality is set to a soundtrack of powerful, original rock songs. Visceral, raw and delightfully twisted – not to be missed. Follow the trail of bodies: @violet_shock. All… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
6 Aug–7 Aug Mon & Tue 10.15–11.45pm Two-for-one ticket offer available.	theSpace on Niddry Street, Edinburgh
8 Aug–11 Aug Wed–Sat 10.15–11.45pm	theSpace on Niddry Street, Edinburgh

The Colour Ham
Date	Location
Magical comedy sketch group comprising Colin McLeod, Gavin Oattes and Kevin McMahon, making good use of absurdity, magic and mentalism. Member Gavin Oattes allegedly once licked Paul Daniels' face, so anything could happen, really. Over 18s only. View full details and ticket info
5 Jul 8.30pm Part of Edinburgh International Magic Festival.	The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh

The Elf of Glen Fern
Date	Location
A show for kids telling the tale of a brownie (a helpful elf) with colourful fabric puppets. Ages 3–6. Part of Plu Edinburgh. View full details
1 Jun 1.30pm	Leith Links, Edinburgh

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Show - Live!
Date	Location
Do you know where your towel is? If not, you need to book now for this touring reunion of (most of) the original cast of the greatest cult radio show ever to blow up the planet. Starring Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Wing-Davey, Susan Sheridan and VIP guests performing the voice of the Book, it's a treat for anyone who's only seen the movie and is wondering what all the fuss was about. Each show will be recorded live and made available for download. If you do know where your towel is… View full details and ticket info
21 Jul 7.30pm	The Edinburgh Playhouse, Edinburgh

Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory
Date	Location
Lyric Theatre Belfast / The Stand Comedy Club. The whole town gets an unexpected makeover when a stranger arrives on Mammary Lane in this musical comedy by Paul Boyd. Join the good shopkeepers of Little Happening as they plot to get a few things off their chests. Heavily laden with big laughs, catchy songs, and leaky implants, Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory sticks a finely-tuned musical hypodermic firmly into the bosom of today's surgery-obsessed culture. A must see for fans of The Rocky Horror… View full details and ticket info (Edinburgh Festival Guide)
1 Aug–2 Aug Wed & Thu 4.45–6.15pm Preview performance.	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
3 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 4.45–6.15pm	Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

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