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Following a successful return, the 17th Edinburgh Art Festival draws to a close
Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 closed on Sunday 29 August, following a successful return which saw the month-long programme of 35+ exhibitions programmed in partnership...
The return of live performances celebrated by Edinburgh International Festival 2021
The 2021 Edinburgh International Festival has drawn to a close following 170 live performances in bespoke outdoor venues and iconic theatres across the city....
Post-pandemic turbulence can’t stop Pleasance from presenting exciting Fringe programme
Thanks to the unwavering support of its audiences, the Pleasance Theatre Trust returned to its Edinburgh home this summer, presenting a defiant programme of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Assembly Festival gears up for final week
Assembly Festival still has plenty to offer as the Edinburgh Fringe enters its final week for 2021; with world-class circus, big-names in comedy, live...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Bromance
The Internationally acclaimed show, Bromance, explores concepts of friendship, subverting conventional circus tricks and styles with its playful techniques.
Highly entertaining, Bromance is a show...
Assembly Festival 2021 – Watson: The Final Problem
Watson is alone. His beloved wife Mary and the great Sherlock Holmes are gone. London seethes with false reports and rumour. It is time...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 2
This year's EIBF galleries will be somewhat lacking in comparison to days of yore. Arrangements for the Festival were put in place before various...
Edinburgh International Book Festival – Day 1
There's a new venue and a new format for Edinburgh's renowned International Book Festival as the traditional site in Charlotte Square Gardens has been...
Edinburgh International Festival 2021 – Violinist Nicola Benedetti selected as a resident artist
2021's International Festival has one of the world’s most sought-after violinists of her generation as a resident artist, the Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti. The...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – What’s on at Multistory
The Traverse will be presenting three productions at Edinburgh’s newest Festival venue, MultiStory, including two 'A Play, A Pie and A Pint' shows which...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – 2021 offers up a range of Industry events
Next week, the 74th Edinburgh International Film Festival gets underway presenting a fantastic programme of 31 new features and 73 short films celebrating the...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – More shows announced for Assembly Festival
This year, Assembly Festival will be operating two sites and three venues at the Fringe including a new Outdoor Stage in George Square Gardens....
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – At The Scottish Storytelling Centre
The Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Royal Mile is open again and there is a lot to see and hear this month.
Here is a...
LMNS extends festival season into September
From tea parties catering for those with dementia, to a continued collaboration as part of Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Live Music Now Scotland is excited...
Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Field – Something For the Future Now’
Curious Seed, one of Scotland’s most innovative dance companies, presents 'Field – Something For the Future Now', a durational outdoor dance happening conceived in...
Edinburgh International Festival – Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason will perform Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and new Music Director Vasily Petrenko on 9th August.
Kanneh-Mason first...
Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Falstaff’ at the Festival Theatre
Freeloader, past-it playboy, incorrigible rake, – Sir John Falstaff needs a ruse so that he can continue his life of excess. He decides to...
Just Festival launches at St. John’s Church with Peace Cranes Exhibition
Edinburgh's Lord Provost, Frank Ross attended the Just Festival's Peace Cranes Exhibition launch in St John's Church on Lothian Road with Just Festival Director,...
With a programme of over 700 shows, Edinburgh Festival Fringe gets underway
The world-renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe officially comes to life today, Friday 6 August, with an exciting hybrid programme of over 700 in-person and online...
Police appeal for witnesses to assault
Edinburgh Police have issued an appeal for anyone who witnessed an assault with intent to rob on Thursday in the city centre.
A 23-year-old woman...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 – Assembly Festival begins today
The Palais du Varieté Spiegeltent is back in George Square Garden ready for the Assembly Festival to fill it up with a variety of...
Edinburgh International Festival World premier for Enda Walsh’s ‘Medicine’
Edinburgh International Festival, the world’s leading performing arts festival, pioneers the return of live performance in Scotland from 7 – 29 August with a...
Pleasance’s Edinburgh programme joined by Seann Walsh and Tall Stories
In the latest on-sale, the Pleasance have ensured the programme is packed full of the best comedy, theatre and performance! Pleasance favourites Seann Walsh...
Simon Thacker presents the World Premiere of ‘Pashyanti on Guitar’
Musician Simon Thacker premieres a live music experience for the 2021 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thacker is a Scottish composer, classical guitarist, improviser and ensemble...
Variety, music and a celebration of Edinburgh talent live @ The Drill Hall
Following a tough year for the performing arts Army@TheFringe is offering two special variety nights that celebrate Edinburgh talent.
It includes everything from stand up,...
‘Film Fest on the Forth’ gets underway in Queensferry
Film Fest on the Forth will run at the Marina, which is located at South Queensferry on the banks of the Firth of Forth overlooking the three...
£6.5M Government grant contribution secured by Capital Theatres toward King’s redevelopment
The Minister for Culture and International Development, Jenny Gilruth MSP, has confirmed total grant funding of £6.5 million from the Scottish Government for the...
30 Festival Favours gifted to the People of Edinburgh by EIF
The Edinburgh International Festival will gift the first of 30 Festival Favours to the people of Edinburgh, in an initiative that will see residents...
Edinburgh’s main conference centre returns as a major venue for EFF 2021
Returning this August as one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s main venues, The Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC) is set to deliver what the...
‘Joan Eardley – Centenary’ at the The Scottish Gallery
This new exhibition from The Scottish Gallery seeks to show that Eardley’s cultural capital has never been higher. In the fifty-eight years since her...
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