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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 earlier today (Friday, April 5)
The man, believed to be in...
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Councillor Cameron Rose was at the recent meeting with Susan Boyle's brother...
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 psychiatric hospital. And although Mark Thomson’s slick, pacey staging –...
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 prove it, with the rare opportunity to see two short...
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 four days of dance. Yes, the Edinburgh International Festival’s 2013...
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 Thursday in a live concert based around her best-selling album...
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 it, for swearing is the whole driving force behind Douglas...
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 play’s secret character, unseen yet stalking the fortunes of 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, a Pie and a Pint lunchtime shows.
The set-up is familiar...
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 brave, unsentimental depiction of working-class life – complete with single...
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 Peter Oundjian have had a pretty hectic Hogmanay. It was...
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 project that brings together 50 international playwrights.
The Traverse Fifty were...
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 Tron theatre, and there’s a revival of his Cinderella at...
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. But Edinburgh-based musician and actor Greg Sinclair’s playful theatre-cum-music-cum-dance piece...
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 new perspectives on episodes from the country’s history. But if...
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 set-up, larger-than-life (some might say grotesque) characters and an inexorable...
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 does, admittedly, raise a few questions, not least of which...
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 in his direction (writing them all down in a book...
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 to transform her pokey home into a paradise by purchasing...
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 a Manchester school. But he takes things further in his...
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 by two of the country’s finest dramatists. David Greig’s The...
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 show grabs you right from the start and doesn’t let...
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 ease by his genial, affable presence, impeccable manners and easy...
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. How the slightest body movements can betray what we’re thinking,...
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 Magic Festival is back this week. And it’s bigger than...
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 reading of Memorial, her reimagining of Homer’s Iliad; and Scottish...
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, eccentric offerings that you might overlook in this year's might...
Traverse Theatre launches its 2012 festival programme
The Traverse Theatre earlier today launched its 2012 festival programme, with eight world premieres and two Scottish premieres among its total of 19 festival shows and events.
The programme showcases new writing from some of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 launched today
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe was launched today, unveiling a huge 376-page brochure with 2,695 shows, over 42,000 performances involving more than 22,000 individual performances and 279 venues. That’s 6% more shows than the Fringe...
Theatre review: Could You Please Look Into the Camera/Traverse Theatre (****)
Mohammed Al Attar’s short lunchtime play is a strong and sometimes shocking start to the Traverse Theatre’s new A Play, A Pie and a Pint season. Given the overall title One Day in Spring,...
