Colour photograph showing the façade of the Playhouse Theatre within a streetscape of Greenside Place in Edinburgh. Taken from across the road, it shows a three-storey symmetrical sandstone façade of eleven bays in debased classical style. A proscenium frame recess denotes the entrance between flanking shop units (including the box office on the far right). Other visible architectural and decorative elements include; a pitched roof, crowning balustrade and canopy.