Edinburgh Playhouse

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Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland which plays host to numerous tourng musicals as well as many touring bands. It's capacity is approximately three thousand and is owned by Live Nation.

In recent years it has played host to artists such as:

Girls Aloud, Tracey Chapman, Alice Cooper, Journey, McFly, Crosby Stills & Nash, Bottom Live, Michael Ball, Riverdance, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Roy Chubby Brown, Lee Evans

It has a huge team working in all areas to ensure the best quality is served to all customers. It has a unique family feel both from an external customer point of view but also internally among all the staff Iniatives to come out of the Playhouse have included a staff band and a Front of House Choir who sang in the Festival during the summer of 2005. It recently opened its doors to over 100 children for its first community production entitled Stage Experience. Young people from the local area were able to rehearse and perform in a professional production of Oliver. It was a huge success and it looks set to return next year.

There are many bars and restaurants nearby that frequently serve the audiences of the theatre.

The theatre now benefits from a lift to bring up 45' trailers and tractor units up to stage level, which is 3 floors above street level at the rear of the theatre.

The front of house sound position is somewhat unusually located at the rear of the Dress Circle. Another oddity is the motor hanging points for the advance truss, they are not parallel with the line of the front of stage. The Auditorium left point is about 500mm further into the auditorium than the centre and house right. A major blunder but we're not sure why.

Towards the rear of the stalls there is 41mm unistrut Product 221-724 fixed to the ceiling to facilitate the hanging delay speakers. In the Gallery there is also a winch bar across the full width of the auditorium to again facilitate the hanging of delay speakers.

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