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Playing Deadinburgh
Will you make it? That is what LAStheatre's Deadinburgh would like to know. Scotland is ravaged by an unknown disease and those of you...
Football Fans targetted by Parenting Across Scotland
A society, founded with a vision of "A Scotland where all parents and families are valued and supported to give children the best possible...
Free support and training Award up for grabs for innovative start-ups in Edinburgh and...
Free support and training Award up for grabs for innovative start-ups in Central Belt
New charities and budding entrepreneurs in and around Edinburgh have the...
Man found in Cumberland St dies
Unexplained death, Edinburgh
Police in Edinburgh are investigating the death of a man who was found unconscious in the New Town area of the Capital...
Five things you need to know today
The Odeon - North Edinburgh Arts Centre today - You could star with East Coast - Tonight at the Filmhouse - Edible Estates
Councillor Cameron...
Theatre review: Takin’ Over the Asylum, Lyceum Theatre (****)
Comedy and tragedy make unsettlingly close bedfellows in Donna Franceschild’s big, popular drama about the precarious revival of a radio station in a Glasgow...
Institut français d’écosse hosts two plays in French
We Edinburghers might like to congratulate ourselves that we’re a cosmopolitan, international lot. Next week the Institut français d’écosse gives us the chance to...
Edinburgh International Festival 2013 revealed
Philip Glass meeting Patti Smith; heavy-metal Shakespeare from China; Beethoven’s Fidelio set in outer space; The Festival Theatre’s nooks and crannies taken over in...
Nicola Benedetti brings The Silver Violin to Edinburgh
Stopping off as part of a nine-venue Scottish tour, violinist Nicola Benedetti brings the glamour of the silver screen to the Usher Hall on...
Theatre review: A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (A Play, a Pie and a...
A friendly sign on the way down to Traverse 2 warns: ‘This production contains a lot of swearing.’ And that’s not the half of...
Theatre review: Time and the Conways, Lyceum Theatre (****)
It’s not for nothing that the word ‘time’ has such prominence in the title of JB Priestley’s 1937 drama. For time is almost the...
Theatre review: 3 Seconds (A Play, a Pie and a Pint), Traverse Theatre (****)
Tense, terse and tight, Lesley Hart’s 3 Seconds makes a powerful and sometimes unsettling start to the Traverse Theatre’s spring season of A Play,...
Theatre review: A Taste of Honey, Lyceum Theatre (****)
A Taste of Honey by 18-year-old Shelagh Delaney first burst onto the stage of the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in May 1958, where its...
Royal Scottish National Orchestra in China for Hogmanay
The Reporter's very own David Kettle accompanied the RSNO on their New Year trip to China.
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra and its music director...
Fifty playwrights help Traverse Theatre celebrate its 50th anniversary
The Traverse Theatre has announced highlights from its 50th anniversary season, which includes two new productions produced by the Traverse, and an ambitious year-long...
Theatre review: Cinderella, Lyceum Theatre (***)
Scottish actor and playwright Johnny McKnight is a busy man this Christmas. He’s directing and starring in his own panto Aganeza Scrooge at Glasgow’s...
Theatre review: Sonata for A Man and A Boy, Traverse Theatre (****)
It starts as a run-of-the-mill cello lesson – scales, tunes, duets. Comments and corrections from the teacher; little attempts at mischief from the pupil....
Theatre review: Charlie and My ’45 & I Promise I Shall Not Play Billiards,...
Edinburgh-based company Tightlaced Theatre’s interesting double bill of new short plays at the Scottish Storytelling Centre has a historical theme, with both works offering...
Theatre review: The Artist Man and the Mother Woman, Traverse Theatre (****)
Morna Pearson’s bold and unsettling new play at the Traverse Theatre at times has the feeling of a fairy tale, with a pretty improbable...
Theatre review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lyceum Theatre (****)
At first glance, it seems deliberately provocative, even perverse, to set Shakespeare’s famous midsummer play in the depths of winter. And the frozen setting...
Theatre review: The Incredible Adventures of See-Thru Sam (****)
Fifteen-year-old Sam McTannan is a superhero. As See-Thru Sam, he can be assured of a quiet life, passing unobserved and dodging any insults hurled...
Theatre review: The Guid Sisters/Lyceum Theatre (****)
Germaine Lauzon has won a million Green Shield stamps: they’re sitting in three huge boxes cluttering up her kitchen. With them, she’ll be able...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe review: Morning ****
British playwright Simon Stephens has past form in dealing with violence between young people: his 2009 play Punk Rock depicted a shooting rampage in...
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Letter of Last Resort/Good With People ****
It’s Britain’s shadowy nuclear deterrent, and in particular Scotland’s role in maintaining it, that’s the fragile yet potent theme binding this duo of plays...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival review: Michael Neto – UPCLOSE (*****)
It’s impossible not to like Michael Neto. The Portuguese-born, Glasgow-based magician has such boundless energy and wide-eyed enthusiasm that his Edinburgh International Magic Festival...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival review: Bruce Glen – The Gentleman Magician (***)
Not for nothing is Australian magician Bruce Glen’s entertaining show called ‘The Gentleman Magician’. Right from the start, you feel welcomed and put at...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival review: Colin McLeod – Sheer Luck? (****)
Young Scottish mind-reader Colin McLeod’s often mind-boggling one-off performance at the Edinburgh International Magic Festival took the deductive skills Sherlock Holmes for its inspiration....
Edinburgh International Magic Festival starts on Friday
From vampire-style illusionists to a week-long kids’ course revealing the secrets of magic; from uncanny mind-readers to comedy and theatre – the Edinburgh International...
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012 launched today
Ian Rankin celebrates 25 years of Rebus as well as giving a sneak preview of his new novel; poet Alice Oswald gives a rare...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012: the weird and the wonderful
Maybe 'weird and wonderful' isn't quite the correct description, but nestling in among the big names and big productions are hidden gems of exotic,...
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