Tag: Theatre
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Puccini’s ‘La Boheme’
Opera’s greatest, most heartbreaking love story. La bohème is a sumptuous, visually magnificent new production direct from the Teatro Regio, Turin – the opera house that gave the opera its very first staging, back...
Edinburgh Festivals Fringe 2017 – A Heart at Sea
A Heart at Sea at the Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance Courtyard: BELOW 11:50am
Be enthralled by this epic musical folktale told on a miniature scale. A Heart at Sea uses haunting live music to tell the story of a young...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Professional
PROFESSIONAL by CHARLOTTE CROMIE
6:15pm 21st - 26th August
TheSpaceontheMile2, The Radisson, The Royal Mile, EH1 1TH
Half past five on a Friday evening, and a school’s electronic door-locking system shuts down for the weekend… with four...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Woman on Fire
Certain Curtain Theatre presents
'Woman On Fire'
WOMAN ON FIRE is an original play that will take you into the fiery heart of one of the most dangerous women, in history. Ruthless terrorist or impassioned freedom...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – My Leonard Cohen
Assembly Rooms – Ballroom (Venue 20),
Edinburgh │Thursday 3 – Sunday 27 August │ 7.45pm (1 hr 20 min)
Following acclaimed seasons at the Sydney Opera House and Adelaide Fringe Festival, My Leonard Cohen returns to the Edinburgh...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Verdi’s MacBeth
'MacBeth' is a major new production of Verdi’s dark operatic thriller, given by the International Festival’s 2017 resident company Teatro Regio of Turin, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and directed by Emma Dante. The opera...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – TuTu Mucky Photo Call
Scottish Dance Theatre return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a brand-new piece made for the company by star hip hop choreographer Botis Seva. Seva's TuTuMucky has received rave reviews since its debut at...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – ‘Blak Whyte Gray’ Photo Call
Formed in 2002 by urban choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and producer/composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Boy Blue Entertainment brings hip-hop from the streets and clubs firmly into the theatre.
Blak Whyte Gray is a bold...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A Hunger Artist
Cheering, laughing crowds once flocked to see the hunger
artist, but now he sits alone in his cage forgotten by everyone but his former manager.
In years gone by audiences had gorged themselves on the sight of a...
Edinburgh International Festival – ‘Vuelos’ Photo Call
Created by Aracaladanza, a multi award-winning dance theatre company from Madrid specialising in works for children and young people, Vuelos is a magical dance theatre work for children and families that challenges you to...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Gent
Part ghost, part protector “The Gent” is 221 years old and has been assigned to the other side
of the planet to minister to Morgan, a young modern Sydneysider living with Schizophrenia.
Shifting between families, centuries and hemispheres,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Stegosaurus
The world of Stegosaurus is one of exposed bones, black coffee, cigarettes and self-loathing. Yet there is hope.
It’s somewhere familiar to millions struggling with anorexia, bulimia and depression in a society where women are bombarded with images...
2017 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – In Pictures
The sights. The sounds. The smells. Somehow take on a different perspective - and intensity - when you're in amongst it all. The ER were there, on the floor to bring, hopefully, some of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Giant Jam Sandwich
The picture book that generations of parents and children still refer to as their all-time favourite, THE GIANT JAM SANDWICH, is coming to the Edinburgh Festival as a first ever British stage adaptation.
After a hugely successful national tour...
Just Festival 2017
Just Festival 2017: Press Release
The world is in a difficult place at the moment. From the domestic to the global, the personal to the political, for those who wish to make the world a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Second Coming by Simply Surreal
The Second Coming is a farcical, contemporary retelling of the Nativity story.
This debut performance of The Second Coming by Dougal Thomson is a thoroughly humorous and modern examination of faith and miracle in the 21st century. The play...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Nature of Forgetting
Following a sell-out run at the 2017 London International Mime Festival, Theatre Re’s The Nature of Forgetting is a powerful, explosive and joyous piece about what is left
when memory and recollection are gone.
It is part of...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – THE END, THE END, THE END…
A new international multimedia ensemble from seven countries and across America ritualizes their exile experience in the United States. The result is a defiant theatrical collage that enlists the audience in a revolution for...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – 100 Ways to Tie a Shoe-Lace
Forget about the Dog Theatre Company bring a comedic and imaginative take on the realigning of one person’s mind. Plunged into a world of confusion, she’ll have to confront her situation if she’s going...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Katsura Sunshine: Rakugo!
The first Western Rakugo Master, Katsura Sunshine, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe following a sell-out shown last year with a new one-hour show of Japanese comic storytelling – in English! With only a...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – A Fayre Tale
“Brontë for the 21st century?”
As a failing theatre company rehearse the old time classic, Jane Eyre, complex desires within a love triangle emerge reflecting the timelessness of Brontë’s themes.
The Brontë Actors present Priscilla Berringer’s...
Queen of the F*cking World – Marysia Trembecka
Never be a Princess – be the Queen
Don’t ever be a princess – be queen of your own f*cking world. Join Marysia Trembecka and her wild bass guitar on an audience-empowering ride through the...
Beltane Fire Festival Returns to Set Edinburgh Alight
Fire Festival returns to Calton Hill on 30th April
On Sunday 30th April, the Beltane Fire Festival will return to Edinburgh’s Calton Hill to welcome the onset of Summer. With one week to go, Beltane...
‘Hidden Door’ Launch Crowd-funding Campaign to Restore Leith Theatre
£20,000 Target set to aid restoration of the derelict Art Deco Theatre
(Photo credit - Eoin Carey)
A local non-profit arts festival is setting its sights on raising £20,000 to help restore the old Leith Theatre - unused...
King’s Theatre: EDGAS presents Ruddygore or The Witch’s Curse
Do we have to live by the rules? Can we bend them, break them, ignore them altogether? And who makes them in the first place?
Gilbert & Sullivan’s tenth operetta Ruddygore considers these questions as...
Make Your Dog a Star at the Edinburgh Playhouse
On March 30th 2017, The Edinburgh Playhouse will star Alyona Kistenyova and Olga Perrier on stage as the ‘most romantic opera ever written’, Puccini La Boheme, comes to the Scottish Capital.
Award-winning opera director and...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – our first recommendations
EIF unveiled its 70th Anniversary programme from the august Church Of Scotland Assembly Hall on The Mound earlier today.
To an accompanying sleek and chic audio-visual platform, Director, Fergus Linehan, extended the city's welcome to...
A new season at Bedlam Theatre
If you've ever walked past the corner of Forrest Road and Bristo Place, you may well have wondered what actually goes on inside the church behind the bright red door. The place is clearly...
King’s Panto 2016 : Jack and the Beanstalk *****
As I write this, I’m listening to BBC Radio 1’s Review of 2016. It does not make for happy listening. As years go, this one has been one many of us would rather forget.
This...
At the Lyceum – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Can you imagine six impossible things before breakfast? Try these words -Donald/Trump/In/The/White/House.
Perhaps Anthony Neilson’s ingenious take on Lewis Carroll’s timeless psycho-charade of childhood fantastical philosophical conundrums might explain it.
The impossible becomes incredible. With Nick...
