Tag: Festival Theatre
Theatre review: The Attic Collective perform War In America – Former Royal High School
Our rating ***.5
'It's times like this I really wished I'd listened to what my Mother said!' What did she say? 'I don't really know, I wasn't listening!' Counter-intuitively, Galactic hitch-hiker, Arthur Dent's anecdotal bromide...
FINAL CALL! Theatre preview: War In America – Former Royal High School
It is Final Call for - War In America.
The days are counting down to what must be one of Edinburgh’s almost unique ‘found space’ theatrical events – at the former Royal High School.
War in...
Theatre review: Jane Eyre – Festival Theatre *****
Charlotte Brontë's Yorkshire Grit lit, Jane Eyre, was more than just a conscience pricking social critique of class and gender injustice. Its humane realism and decidedly tenacious female protagonist/narrator also promised Gothic-lite, on the...
Theatre preview: War In America at the former Royal High School
The Attic Collective presents
WAR IN AMERICA
by Jo Clifford
The Former Royal High School
Dystopian future nightmares, once moral fictions to frighten domestic-bot appliances with an internet disconnect, are now the shape of things to come...
Theatre preview: Out Of This World – Festival Theatre
Mark Murphy’s V-TOL presents
OUT OF THIS WORLD
Mark Murphy's return to the stage after a ten year absence comes with his signature, very decidedly multi-media, extra-terrestrial montage approach to storytelling with labyrinthine twists and turns.
Researched...
At the Festival Theatre in March – The Northern Ballet in Casanova
From 23 to 25 March 2017 the stage at the Festival Theatre will be taken over by Northern Ballet who are presenting their World Premiere Tour of Casanova.
This production will transport audiences to 18th century Venice,...
Theatre review – Lysistrata: King’s Theatre ****
Read all about it! Girl Power/Sex Strike - Athenian Bookies Put Nookies @ 300/1 - Bar.
A week previous to this performance America and beyond witnessed unprecedented scenes of mass protest in which women were...
Season of Secrets: Opera North reveals Hidden World
This winter, Opera North will be exploring the unspoken, the hidden and the mysterious as they bring three compelling operas to the Festival Theatre, each with a secret at its heart.
A double-bill of operas...
The Festival City Theatres Trust – The Attic Collective project 2017.
The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King’s Theatres in Edinburgh, has announced the appointment of the actors who will take part in the inaugural year of The Attic Collective.
This is a new theatre company for...
Edinburgh International Festival – Scottish Ballet
Sensuality, brutality and spellbinding spectacle come together in a double bill of major contemporary dance works from Scotland’s national ballet company, radically contrasting in their dance styles, but equally powerful in their extreme emotional...
Edinburgh College Dance Fest at the Festival Theatre
You still have time to get tickets for Edinburgh College’s DanceFest 2016 which will be staged tomorrow night at the Festival Theatre.
The college's performing arts students are ready to mesmerise the crowd tomorrow at...
Dinosaurs are on the loose on the Royal Mile!
To celebrate the return of Dinosaur Zoo to Edinburgh, dinosaurs have been roaming around on The Royal Mile once again.
They came to Edinburgh once before in September 2013, but now the ingenious puppets rampaged the High Street earlier...
Investment at the King’s and Festival Theatres to make theatre ‘dementia friendly’
A major investment from a charity set up with money from the Big Lottery Fund has just been announced whereby the Festival and King's Theatres in Edinburgh will become 'dementia friendly'.
The two theatres want...
Tuesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Spanish Rhymetime! Sesiones de Rimas en Espanol! Rhymes and songs for babies and children aged 0-4 and their parents or carers. For Spanish speakers and non-Spanish speakers. 10.30am today and the last Tuesday of each...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2014
Mrs Mash at The Skylark: songs, stories and joining in fun from Mrs Mash aka Marie Louise Cochrane, the Storytelling Cook, for the under-5s and their parents and carers - this week...
Scottish Opera : Inés de Castro
If you already have your tickets organised for the Christmas period then perhaps this will allow you to look beyond the festive madness and plan for January when acclaimed Scottish composer, James MacMillan will conduct his...
War Horse: the epic sellout show comes to Edinburgh
War Horse the epic, award winning stage play opens tonight to a total sell-out run at the Festival Theatre. This is part of a UK wide tour that will run until September. Since its...
War Horse coming to the capital in 2014
War Horse, the critically acclaimed play based on the beloved Michael Morpurgo novel about the First World War, and one young man’s devotion to his horse, is coming to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre next year.
The...
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival announced
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival has unveiled the line-up for its 35th anniversary events.
The festival, which was originally established in 1978 by Mike Hart, will see the likes of Mud Morganfield, Jools Holland...
Edinburgh International Film Festival – Closing Night Gala Premiere – Brave
We're almost at the end of the festival now for another year. I hope at least some of you have tried out one or two of the movies I've recommended over the last two...
Review – Anne Boleyn
By Jessica Owen
Following two sell-out London seasons, Howard Brenton’s production of ‘Anne Boleyn’ is now enjoying a five night run at the Festival Theatre.
This engaging and vibrant Shakespeare’s Globe production gives an insight into...
Scottish Opera – Tosca at the Festival Theatre
IN DEMAND TOSCA PRODUCTION RETURNS TO SCOTTISH STAGE
One of Scottish Opera’s most popular productions, Puccini’s Tosca, returns to the Scottish stage this Spring.
The internationally celebrated production was first seen in 1980 and has since...
Ah har, Me Lads & Lasses! It’s Swallows & Amazons Time
Outside The Festival Theatre yesterday, a chilly February frost soon melted to the warming chirps and trills of excited pupils from Sacred Heart Primary School, Penicuik.
Eager eyes sparkling in brilliant sunshine were looking forward...
Numberjacks comes to Edinburgh
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Mon 10th – Tues 11th Oct
An award winning television series running on BBC TV’s CBeebies since 2006, the animated Numberjacks help young children learn about numbers, shapes and sizes in a fun and imaginative way. The Numberjacks...
Lenny Henry – Cradle to Rave
Lenny Henry's new one man show is on at the Festival Theatre tonight. You might be lucky enough to get a ticket. If you do let us know what you think - room for...
Edinburgh Jobs – Student Ambassadors
This is an unpaid job but could be one worth putting on your CV.
The job advert reads as follows:-
In January 2010 the Festival City Trust launched a new Student Ambassador Scheme. Students from...
Lenny Henry coming to Edinburgh
Lenny Henry returns to his musical roots in his new one man comedy
show
Cradle To Rave
Tues 26th April 2011 - Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
Music has always been a huge part of Lenny’s life and it was...
Blues Brothers competition – We have winners!
The question was:- Apart from The Blues Brothers name two other films in which John Belushi starred with Dan Aykroyd.
The answer is:- 1941 and Neighbors
We have emailed the winners. Well done to all three...
Maria Callas at The King’s
Actress Stephanie Beacham, known worldwide for her role as Sable Colby in The Colbys and Dynasty, takes to the stage this season as the great diva Maria Callas, in the award winning Master Class...
Pinocchio at The Festival Theatre
Opera North's production makes a return to entertain a new generation of opera-goers, after its great success when it premiered three years ago and their website promises that they have loads to...
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