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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,...
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...
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