Tag: The Edinburgh Reporter

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 have left many a bit bewildered. How to convince your...

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 a play’s leading man break into opera arias to cover...

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 with a rough, tough, high-energy performance. The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble...

Can we really communicate with the dead? And why do we need to believe in the possibility that we can? These are the profound human questions behind the Lyceum’s thrilling yet thoughtful new play,...

Tuesday’s lunchtime concert at the Reid Concert Hall – just one of the series of free weekly concerts organised by the University of Edinburgh that runs throughout its term time – showed just how...

 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 over with energy and enthusiasm, were much in evidence in...

When is a pantomime not a pantomime? Or to look at it another way, when is a Christmas show not just a straight piece of theatre? The Lyceum’s seasonal offering this year, enjoyable thought it...

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 atmosphere in the auditorium is electric, and the barrage of...

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 spookiness and decadent splendour.Written by composer Stephen Deazley with a...

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 construction, and then to present a performance of the piece...

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. Here, John Mackay’s understated astronomer shows you the wonders of...

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, sign up now for The Edinburgh International Festival’s Speed of...

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. The reasons for the onset of Alzheimer’s; scientific ethics; dwindling...

 You might expect the writers of the successful ‘A Play, a Pie and a Pint’ lunchtime offerings to have rather modest ambitions in their 45-minute plays. Not so David Watson in this week’s 1pm...

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 Orchestra, and if this astonishingly confident and likeable work is...

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 of Scotland’s new exhibition Admiral Cochrane, the Real Master and...

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 today.Nicola has had around 90 books published, including home learning...

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 comes to a close.  The event, They Shoot Writers, Don’t...

The Kist is a wonderful educational musical journey of Scottish music from its basic rhythms and Gaelic roots to the contemporary music from all over the world today. The large venue suits very well...

Mr Kolpert is a play with some good acting, but the attention to detail lets it down. The premise behind the dark, anarchaic drama is that,  Mr Kolpert has been aparently murdered by the...

       Mogic is comedy magic that has the audience laughing from start to finish. The mail order magic kit has arrived with only an instructional tape cassette, now what can possibly go wrong ...? The...

Sticks, Stones, Broken Bones.Underbelly PastureAugust 15 @ 2.20pm/August 16 @ 6.30pmAll ages.Wowing delighted audiences young and old with his esoteric shadow-puppet paraphernalia, the Canadian-born, goggle-eyed potty Professor maestro of imaginary manipulation, Jeff Achtem, is...

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 on ebay but just find money enough to secure tickets...

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 clearly flustered venue staff  is truly what the Edinburgh Fringe...

 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 well as the usual selection of fine coffees and beverages....

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 us with these snaps of the window display in The...

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. However, due to an inspirational primary school teacher who convinced...

The Scottish Screen Archive (SSA),  a part of the National Library of Scotland, is looking for films and videos shot in Scotland over the last 40 years that may be gathering dust in attics...

What a way to start a festival. The Soul Rebels Brass Band, which had the late-night slot in the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival’s opening evening, really raised the roof of the Spiegeltent and...

The City of Edinburgh Council has become the first urban local authority in the UK to gain a quality standard for its emergency preparation.The 'business continuity management' accreditation, awarded by the British...