What's On In Edinburgh - Week Beginning April 25

Flying into the Festival Theatre this week is the much loved Mary Poppins from 27th April- 21st May. The stage production of Mary Poppins is co-created by Cameron Mackintosh and has a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. It has a timeless score by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman including the songs Jolly Holiday, Step in Time, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Feed the Birds with new songs and additional music and lyrics by the Olivier award-winning British team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe.

For one night only on Sunday 1st May Linda Nolan stars in Cameron Mackintosh and has a book by Oscar-winning screenwriter and Downton Abbey creator, Julian Fellowes. It has a timeless score byRichard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman including the songs Jolly Holiday, Step in Time, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Feed the Birds with new songs and additional music and lyrics by the Olivier award-winning British team of George Stiles and Anthony Drewe. http://www.edtheatres.com/marypoppins For one night only on Sunday 1st May Linda Nolan stars in Menopause: The Musical at the Edinburgh Playhouse. This all-singing, all-dancing comedy is set in a department store where four women with apparently nothing in common meet, by chance, at a lingerie sale. The show features an all-star cast including Cheryl Fergison (EastEnders), Linda Nolan (The Nolans) and Rebecca Wheatley (Casualty). The women make fun of their lives as they go through 'The Change' - the forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges. http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/menopause-the-musical/edinburgh-playhouse/" target="_blank">Menopause: The Musical at the Edinburgh Playhouse. This all-singing, all-dancing comedy is set in a department store where four women with apparently nothing in common meet, by chance, at a lingerie sale. The show features an all-star cast including Cheryl Fergison (EastEnders), Linda Nolan (The Nolans) and Rebecca Wheatley (Casualty). The women make fun of their lives as they go through 'The Change' - the forgetfulness, mood swings, wrinkles, night sweats and chocolate binges.

John Steinbeck's iconic Of Mice and Men comes to the King's Theatre from 26th-30th April. Set in America during the Great Depression, this classic play tells the story of George and Lennie, two migrant farm workers, who go in search of new beginnings, in the hope of attaining their shared dream: of putting together enough money to buy a small piece of land and building a home.

The Iliad runs at the Lyceum until the 14th of May. This great tale of gods and heroes, love, jealousy and revenge is brought to visceral life in a brand new adaptation by award winning Scottish playwright Chris Hannan (Crime and Punishment, Elizabeth Gordon Quinn, Shining Souls).

At the Traverse Theatre, Right Now is taking place until the 7th of May. Right Now is a Traverse Theatre Company, Theatre Royal Bath Ustinov Studio and Bush Theatre co-production Written by award-winning Quebecois playwright Catherine-Anne Toupin and directed by former Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director, Sir Michael Boyd, Right Now is a play with a dark heart, a disquieting exploration of one woman's crisis and darkest desires. It walks a delicate line between playful laughter and deep trauma, teasing and thrilling audiences from beginning to end.

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