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( www.edtheatres.com/kings ; 2 Leven St; box office open 1hr before show) King's is a traditional
theatre with a program of musicals, drama, comedy and its famous Christmas panto-
mimes.
EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE
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( www.edinburgh-playhouse.co.uk ; 18-22 Greenside Pl; box office 10am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 8pm show
nights) This restored theatre at the top of Leith Walk stages Broadway musicals, dance
shows, opera and popular-music concerts.
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
August kicks off with the Edinburgh Military Tattoo ( 0131-225 1188; www.edintattoo.co.uk ; Tattoo Of-
fice, 32 Market St) , a spectacular display of military marching bands, massed pipes and drums, acrobats, cheer-
leaders and motorcycle display teams, all played out in front of the magnificent backdrop of the floodlit castle. Each
show traditionally finishes with a lone piper, dramatically lit, playing a lament on the battlements. The Tattoo takes
place over the first three weeks of August (from a Friday to a Saturday); there's one show at 9pm Monday to Friday
and two (at 7.30pm and 10.30pm) on Saturday, but no performance on Sunday.
Shopping
Princes St is Edinburgh's principal shopping street, lined with all the big high-street
stores, with many smaller shops along pedestrianised Rose St, and more expensive de-
signer boutiques on George St. There are also two big shopping centres in the New Town
- Princes Mall , at the eastern end of Princes St, and the nearby St James Centre at the
top of Leith St, plus Multrees Walk , a designer shopping complex with a flagship Har-
vey Nichols store on the eastern side of St Andrew Sq. The huge Ocean Terminal in
Leith is the biggest shopping centre in the city.
For more off-beat shopping - including fashion, music, crafts, giftware and jewellery -
head for the cobbled lanes of Cockburn, Victoria and St Mary's Sts, all near the Royal
Mile in the Old Town; William St in the western part of the New Town; and the Stock-
bridge district, immediately north of the New Town.
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