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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.
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre (originally Empire Palace Theatre and later shortened to Empire Theatre) is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is used primarily for performances of opera and ballet, large-scale musical events, and touring groups. After its most recent renovation in 1994, it seats 1,915.
The Royal Lyceum has been one of the principal venues for the Edinburgh International Festival since the festival's inception in 1947, its owners renting out the building for three weeks every August for visiting companies, and often for a further week to Fringe companies. [9] The Royal Lyceum has primarily been known for its provision of drama.
The Glasshouse Hotel is part of the Omni Centre complex, and opened in June 2003 [10] It is located on Greenside Place, next to the Playhouse Theatre, on the edge of Edinburgh's New Town. It was built on the site of Lady Glenorchy's Free Church incorporating the façade of the church as its frontage.
The history of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh involves two sites. The first building, on Princes Street , opened 1769 and was rebuilt in 1830 by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd . The second site was on Broughton Street.
The Scottish Storytelling Centre, the world's first purpose-built modern centre for live storytelling, is located on the High Street in Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Scotland, United Kingdom. It was formally opened on 1 June 2006 by Patricia Ferguson MSP, Minister for Culture in the Scottish Executive . [ 1 ]
It is located in the south-western corner of Bristo Square about 0.53 kilometres (0.33 mi) south of the Royal Mile, and is part of the University of Edinburgh. Originally opened in 1859 as the Reid School of Music by the university's professor of music, John Donaldson (1789-1865), it was designed by the Scottish Architect David Cousin and is a ...
The Hub is a public arts and events building in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland.Located at the top of the Royal Mile, it is a prominent landmark as its tall Gothic spire (71.7 meters [1]) is the highest point in central Edinburgh, and towers over the surrounding buildings below Edinburgh Castle.