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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...
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...
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...
Edinburgh International Magic Festival 2012 launched
Okay, today’s launch of the Edinburgh International Magic Festival (as reported elsewhere) might not exactly have lived up to its hype, and it might...
Theatre review: The Marriage of Figaro, Lyceum Theatre (****)
Thomson brings a manic energy to match Jackson’s bawdy reimagining of the tale in the world of contemporary banking.
It’s not often that you see...
Music review: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Caves (****)
Sunday might be a day of rest for some, but not for the eight brothers from Chicago who stormed the stage in Edinburgh’s Caves...
Review: The Infamous Brothers Davenport/Royal Lyceum Theatre (****)
Can we really communicate with the dead? And why do we need to believe in the possibility that we can? These are the profound...
Concert review: Kirsteen Davidson-Kelly (****)
Tuesday’s lunchtime concert at the Reid Concert Hall – just one of the series of free weekly concerts organised by the University of Edinburgh...
Review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Emmanuelle Haïm (*****)
It’s no surprise that the young French harpsichordist and conductor Emmanuelle Haïm has been dubbed ‘Ms Dynamite’ by certain critics. Her fiery interpretations, brimming...
Review: Beauty and the Beast, Royal Lyceum Theatre (***)
When is a pantomime not a pantomime? Or to look at it another way, when is a Christmas show not just a straight piece...
Review: Cinderella at the King’s Theatre (****)
The King’s Theatre’s panto offering this year is a riot of colour, fast-paced and full of infectious energy. Even before the show starts, the...
Review: Death’s Cabaret (****)
The Caves in Niddry Street offered the perfect venue for the Scottish premiere of Death’s Cabaret on 29 November, with their mix of subterranean...
Review: RSNO Naked Classics: Sibelius 5 (****)
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Naked Classics series has a laudable aim: to pick apart a well-known classical piece and explain its inspiration and...
Review: Going Dark (Traverse Theatre) (****)
Entering the auditorium, you’re ushered into a curtained-off area filled with low stools and strange projectors – which you quickly gather is a planetarium....
Calling all runners!
If a jog around Arthur’s Seat is already something you enjoy, or if you want a fitness goal to work towards before summer 2012,...
Review: 27, Royal Lyceum Theatre (****)
There’s a lot to think about in Abi Morgan’s new play, co-produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh....
Review: You Cannot Go Forward From Where You Are Right Now, Traverse Theatre (****)
You might expect the writers of the successful ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ lunchtime offerings to have rather modest ambitions in their...
Review: Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Ticciati, with Viktoria Mullova (violin), Usher Hall, 13 October 2011 (****)
The world premiere of storm, rose, tiger by the young Glasgow-born composer Martin Suckling opened Thursday night’s concert Usher Hall by the Scottish Chamber...
National Museum of Scotland: Admiral Cochrane, the Real Master and Commander exhibition
If you’ve been fascinated by swashbuckling naval heroes such as Master and Commander’s Jack Aubrey or CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower, then the National Museum...
Edinburgh Author Shortlisted for Scottish Children’s Book Awards
Local writer Nicola Morgan is one of 9 authors to be shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2011, the Scottish Book Trust announced...
Forest Cafe’s Literary Opus
As we type, Edinburgh’s Inky Fingers writing group are holding a 36 hour writing marathon in The Forest Cafe as their mini literary festival...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: The Kist (****)
The Kist is a wonderful educational musical journey of Scottish music from its basic rhythms and Gaelic roots to the contemporary music from all...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Mr Kolpert (**)
Mr Kolpert is a play with some good acting, but the attention to detail lets it down. The premise behind the dark, anarchaic drama...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Review: Mogic (****)
Mogic is comedy magic that has the audience laughing from start to finish. The mail order magic kit has arrived with only an instructional...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe review: Fe Fi Fo Fun, Go and see this ‘Canadiun’! (*****)
Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones.
Underbelly Pasture
August 15 @ 2.20pm/August 16 @ 6.30pm
All ages.
Wowing delighted audiences young and old with his esoteric shadow-puppet paraphernalia, the Canadian-born,...
Swamp Juice: No Shadow Of A Doubt (*****)
Swamp Juice. A Shadow Puppet Menagerie with a 3D FINALE.
Underbelly, Cowgate. All ages.
Sell your souls to Satan, pawn the Pekinese, put your kidneys up...
Fringe Review : Beef (*****)
The prospect of having to climb numerous flights of stairs to be shuffled into a slightly sweaty shoe-box of a performance space by polite but...
The Irrepressible Bean
Rouud, the pop-up Artisan Roast at Bruntsfield, celebrates its opening with a beer tasting today. The cafe at 138 Bruntsfield Place serves lunch as...
Royal Wedding Photo Special
We asked our Twitter followers if they had any photos from Saturday's royal wedding in the Canongate Kirk, and Dai Lowe got back to...
Professor Petra Wend, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University – Profile
Tell us who are you and where you're from.
I come from a working class family and my parents left school before they were 18....
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