Tag: Edinburgh International Festival 2017

A selection of images captured from the press 'bit of grass around the flower bed' area, which brought the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival to a close. Bit windy, but it didn't rain....

Opera’s greatest, most heartbreaking love story. La bohème is a sumptuous, visually magnificent new production direct from the Teatro Regio, Turin – the opera house that gave the opera its very first staging, back...

'MacBeth' is a major new production of Verdi’s dark operatic thriller, given by the International Festival’s 2017 resident company Teatro Regio of Turin, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Emma Dante. The opera...

Formed in 2002 by urban choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and producer/composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Boy Blue Entertainment brings hip-hop from the streets and clubs firmly into the theatre. Blak Whyte Gray is a bold...

Long before pernicious 'post-truth/alternative fact`doggerel insinuated itself within the lexicon of Trump-speak, Ionesco's sobering voice, though often gagged by Romanian state censorship, had raged against the iniquitous corruption of language. Shouting out loud against many...

We met Leo Warner of 59 Productions ahead of the practice run for Bloom which took place last night. Tonight is the opening event of the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival and this event sponsored by...

With just over a week away till the Fringe begins, they are getting very excited at The Queen's Hall. Despite the scaffolding which adorns the outside the inside is very lovely and will welcome...

In a week's time St Andrew Square will no doubt be closed off to traffic amid preparations for the evening ahead. Certainly preparations are already being made with scaffolding structures around the edges of...