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Edinburgh Castle Bandstand (Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo) - 8,800 seated [35] Edinburgh Park Arena - 8,500 with standing, 6,450 all seating, 5,475 family show mode, 3,950 'auditorium mode'. [1] Planned to open in 2027. [36] Edinburgh Playhouse – 3,059 seated [3] Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 3,000 for concerts [4]
Edinburgh Playhouse stage and right hand box in 2023. In recent years, The Playhouse has played host to a wide variety of artists and shows. It also caters to the youth of the surrounding area who are involved in stage experience projects and youth musicals projects in which children as young as 10, and young adults as old as 21, can take part in shows on the stage.
The following is a list of active theatres and concert halls in Scotland. They are organised alphabetically by name. In rural areas, church halls and town halls may double up as theatres, and many colleges and universities also have their own auditoria.
The Royal Lyceum Theatre is a 658-seat theatre in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English Opera House, the residence at the time of legendary Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
Edinburgh Festival Theatre: Edinburgh November 7, 1892 1,915 Operator – Capital Theatres Edinburgh Playhouse: Edinburgh 1929 3,059 Owner – Ambassador Theatre Group: Empire Theatre (Glasgow) Glasgow 1897–1963 2,100 Empire Theatre (Hackney) Hackney 1901; rebuilt in 2004 1,275 Empire Theatre (Liverpool) Liverpool March 9, 1925 2,348
The Traverse Theatre Club, originally opened by Cambridge Footlights as "The Sphinx Nightclub", began at 15 James Court, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh, on 20 August 1962.The location was a former doss-house and brothel also known as Kelly's Paradise and Hell's Kitchen.
The present theatre's location is Edinburgh's longest continuous theatre site, for there has been a theatre in that location since 1830. From being Dunedin Hall, the Royal Amphitheatre, Alhambra Music Hall, the Queen's Theatre, Pablo Fanque's Amphitheatre, and Newsome's Circus, the site became the Empire Palace Theatre, the first of the famous Moss Empires’ chain, opening on 7 November 1892.
Summerhall arts hub, 2013. Summerhall is an arts complex and events venue in Edinburgh, Scotland.Formerly home to the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies of the University of Edinburgh, it is now a major Edinburgh Festival Fringe visual and performing arts venue.