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Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Opera Ventures and Scottish Opera bring ‘Breaking the Waves’ to...
'Breaking the Waves' is a wrenching moral drama about a woman’s twisted bargain with God. Based on Lars von Trier’s controversial film, US composer...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Komische Oper Berlin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ at The Festival Theatre
Eugene Onegin marks the return of Komische Oper Berlin and its Artistic Director Barrie Kosky to the International Festival after their spectacular The Magic...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – LiT Circus Return to the Fringe with ‘Hotel Paradiso’
Irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family.
Thrillingly spectacular circus skills, physical comedy, clowning, theatrical storytelling and slapstick combine in this...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Lost in Translation Circus demo their Guinness World Record
Two of the Fringe’s leading circus performers from the show Hotel Paradiso set a new Guinness World Record for most somersaults on the Korean...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 4, 13th August
Day 4 and a second day in succession at the EIBF. A few more well kent faces this time around. From an Olympic Champion...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Oedipus’ by the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam
The modern age. A plague has ravaged Thebes. The oracle believes the city is doomed because the murder of King Laius remains unpunished.
The...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 3, 12th Aug
And, we're off! Or, at least, we are. The EIBF kicked off on Saturday, but, hey, there's only one of me....
And it was the...
Edinburgh Festival – ‘Hard to be Soft: A Belfast Prayer’ at The Lyceum
Aggression. Sensuality. Vulnerability. 'Hard to Be Soft' is a dance prayer about — and for — the people of Belfast.
Created by...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – ‘Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation’ at The Studio
The writer leads his followers towards the end of this world and the start of a new one. The book he’s written predicts it...
Edinburgh Fringe – Nikki & JD bring ‘Knot’ to the Assembly Roxy
Physically exhilarating and touchingly poignant, 'Knot' is the internationally acclaimed circus and dance work by Nikki Rummer and JD Broussé.
These talented performers use...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – ISH Dance Collective bring ‘Elements of Freestyle’ to the EICC
In this adrenaline-fuelled explosion of extreme urban sports, breakdance, music and theatre, ISH Dance Collective create breathtaking poetry in every single moment.
Elements of...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Company2 Bring ‘Le Coup’ to The Circus Hub
Acrobats from Australian troupe Company2’s Fight Night-inspired, Edinburgh Fringe circus show 'Le Coup' got into the zone for their Edinburgh Fringe run with a...
‘Walter the Wanderer’ comes to the Edinburgh Fringe
Walter the Wanderer is everything a children's illustrated book could ask for and it will be launched in Edinburgh on 12th August at Edinburgh...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Pleasance Press Launch
The Pleasance held their opening Gala today to introduce some of the performers from this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival who will be...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – Sydney Theatre Company’s ‘The Secret River’
Kate Grenville’s The Secret River is widely considered to be one of the most important Australian novels of the 21st century. Playwright Andrew Bovell...
Edinburgh Fringe – Danny MacAskill debuts ‘Drop and Roll Live’
Danny MacAskill’s Drop & Roll Live is a main highlight of this year’s Underbelly Circus Hub programme and is set to astound Big Top...
Edinburgh Festival 2019 – The National Theatre of Great Britain presents ‘Peter Gynt’
Peter Gynt is a provocative, raucous reboot of Ibsen’s epic verse play, created by David Hare and directed by Jonathan Kent, in a major...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Race Horse Company present ‘Super Sunday
This Fringe, prepare to be transported to a dystopian fair ground at the end of the world where acrobatic chaos reigns supreme.
Let Finnish...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – One Two, One Two present ‘Everything I Do’.
Irish live performance company, 'One Two, One Two', is making its debut at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with its award-winning theatre show 'Everything...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Gravity and Other Myths perform ‘Backbone’
A high-octane spree of physical virtuosity, Backbone tests the limits of strength: physical, emotional, individual and collective.
Staged with a deceptively DIY aesthetic and...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019- Machine de Cirque presents ‘La Galerie’
A white room. White walls. Eight performers. Machine de Cirque make their UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with La Galerie. A piece...
Edinburgh Fringe 2019 – Barely Methodical Troupe with ‘Bromance’
International award-winning smash hit 'Bromance' is back!
Five-star circus about camaraderie and affection.
Audacious, touching, exhilarating tour-de-force of physical heroics where handshakes become handstands and...
World Premiere of Scottish Ballet’s ‘The Crucible’ at the EIF 2019
Pioneering choreographer Helen Pickett unleashes the full emotional force of Miller’s gripping, and still fearsomely relevant, drama of suspicion and accusation in a brand-new...
Swim in Colour at Jupiter Artland: Joana Vasconcelos and Trisha Brown
Jupiter Artland introduces its newest spellbinding artwork, a fully functional swimming pool. Pressed into a previously unexplored area of the sculpture park, Gateway, appears...
New Zealand Acts Confirmed for 2019 Edinburgh Tattoo
With ten days until Opening Night, The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has confirmed the New Zealand Army Band, The Lochiel Marching Drill Team and...
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop EAF Exhibitions
As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is holding a series of exhibitions of work from three contemporary sculptors which...
‘Travelling Gallery’ Announces Spring 2019 Exhibition
'Displaced' was announced today as Travelling Gallery's Spring 2019 exhibition, which will tour from 6th March to 30th June 2019 across Scotland. The...
Jupiter Artland’s ORBIT Youth Council needs YOU!
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Celebrate the words and music of Scotland with The Saltire Society
The Saltire Society will host a series of free events celebrating Scottish music and poetry
during this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
The performances will take place throughout August at...
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