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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.
Edinburgh Playhouse – 3,059 seated [3] Edinburgh Corn Exchange – 3,000 for concerts [4] Usher Hall, Edinburgh – 2,200 seated, 2,900 with standing, 1,970 cabaret [5] Ross Bandstand, Princess Street Gardens - 2,500 seated [6] Edinburgh Festival Theatre – 1,915 seated [7] Leith Theatre, Edinburgh – 1,500 seated [8] King's Theatre ...
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.
ATG manages the theatre under a 15-year contract (from 2010 to 2025) with Aylesbury Vale District Council, with the council paying ATG approx £1.75m for the 2010–2015 period. [50] [51] Bristol Hippodrome: Bristol: 2009: 1,951 [52] ATG acquired the theatre as part of the Live Nation deal. [24] Edinburgh Playhouse: Edinburgh: 2009: 3,039 [53]
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Opening night was 10 September 1883 [7] with a performance of Much Ado About Nothing by the company of the London Lyceum Theatre, and starring Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. [ 8 ] In 1965, the building was purchased by the Edinburgh Corporation from Meyer Oppenheim to house the newly formed Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , who are now the ...
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.
The construction of the hall was funded by Andrew Usher, a whisky distiller and blender, who donated £100,000 to the city specifically to fund a new concert hall. [2] The choice of site caused early delays but in 1910 an architectural competition was announced with the requirement that the hall be simple but dignified.