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The King’s Theatre has been part of Edinburgh’s cultural life for over a century. Now it’s time to secure its future. We’re giving the King’s a much-needed transformation, preserving its beautiful historic features, upgrading facilities and making it fully accessible for everyone. Our mission is to ensure the King’s remains a welcoming, inspiring space for generations to come.

With your support we are…

• Making the King’s accessible to everyone with step-free access from street to seat, and street to stage, for the first time in the King’s history. There will be two new lifts front-of-house and one lift backstage.
• Investing in new state-of-the-art facilities, increasing the height of the fly tower by 4.5 metres and installing a new, flat stage, so the theatre can accommodate larger-scale productions and new genres, including dance.
• Incorporating a brand-new double-height Creative Engagement Studio for school and community workshops.
• Building a new street-level café to welcome the community every day.
• Improving everyone’s audience experience with updated bar and hospitality spaces, new audio description and captioning facilities, more toilets and a Changing Places toilet.
• Celebrating over a century of theatre history by preserving key architectural features of the theatre, such as John Byrne’s iconic dome design in the auditorium and installing archive displays of the King’s heritage.

The future of the King’s starts now