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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...
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...
Theatre REVIEW — Once Upon a Time in Wigan ***
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company's Once Upon a Time in Wigan has a lot going for it. An enthusiastic young cast, an audience of...
Theatre REVIEW – Crude *****
There's a moment during Grid Iron's production of Crude when the multi-award-winning Edinburgh-based theatre company takes full advantage of the cavernous, industrial performance space...
Theatre REVIEW – The Broons: Maggie’s Wedding *****
As we wait for Scotland's favourite family to take the stage, it seems an incongruous setting. Perth's sleek twenty-first century concert hall is filled by...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: People of the Eye *****
As the Fringe draws gradually to its close, it seems apt to reflect on the highs and lows of this unique month. Those of us...
The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil – Lyceum Theatre
The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh.
Dundee Rep Ensemble present
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
Dates: 14 – 24 September
With recently appointed Artistic Director,...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Smother (V82)
"Can you stay true to yourself, when everything suggests you change? 201’s raw, contemporary hip hop returns in Smother: a story of two men's...
Music maverick Roy Harper coming to the Usher Hall next month
The music maverick and radical ultra-folk icon Roy Harper has announced four live dates in the UK to celebrate his 75th this September. The tour takes in Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and London and will feature...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 REVIEW: BLUSH****
At Underbelly's Cowgate venue, BLUSH is another play on this year's Fringe that incorporates glitchy sound design, a stripped-down setting, actors taking on multiple...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe at The Circus Hub – The Hogwallops
We reported favourably on these guys during last year's Festival and they were every bit as entertaining this time around. And, rather than repeat...
Review: Bring It On – The Musical ****
It’s fair to say many people could do with a pick-me-up right now. One is almost at the stage where one is wary of...
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Dublin Oldschool
This garrulous blizzard of Gælic word wizardry, riotous punchy patois and infectious urban guerilla idiom screams from the eclectic, eclectic pen of Award...
Syrian refugees at the Assembly Roxy – Queens of Syria
An all female cast will bring the Queens of Syria to the Assembly Roxy on 19 and 20 July.
This is part of a three...
Ten – A Celebration of Ten Years of the MGA Academy of Performing Arts...
Photographs courtesy of AJG Photography
2016 is the tenth anniversary of one of Scotland’s leading performing arts academies - Edinburgh’s very own MGA Academy of...
Theatre – interview with Siobhan Redmond
The Edinburgh Reporter was given the opportunity to interview Siobhan Redmond who has been appearing at The Royal Lyceum Theatre during this last week. The...
Je Suis Un Baroque Star
Thon Man Molière by Liz Lochhead at The Royal Lyceum
until 11 June 11 2016
'or whit got him intae all that bother...'
This salaciously delicious, self referencing...
At the Festival Theatre – The Mikado
Scottish Opera reunites with D'Oyly Carte to bring this new production of The Mikado to Edinburgh.
Written in 1885 and set in the fictional Japanese...
Thon Man Molière – Liz Lochhead’s new play
Edinburgh Royal Lyceum
Thon Man Molière.
20 May 2016 to 11 June 2016
Archived on BBC iPlayer is (the rather dashing) Dr Michael Scott's revelatory series exploring...
David Greig takes over at the Lyceum
The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh launched its 2016-17 programme with dazzling derring-do earlier today.
Newly appointed Artistic Director, David Greig’s, tenure has not so much...
REVIEW – The Iliad – A Kingdom For A Gift Horse
“… There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible – magic to make the sanest man go...
The Iliad – War Horse with Attitude!
It’s the same old story, bored, beautiful young wife of grizzly warrior King Menalaus, Spartan by birth, Spartan by nature, elopes with Adonian handsome...
Bella Hardy to appear at the Brunton in Musselburgh
Multi award winning singer and songwriter Bella Hardy will be appearing at the Brunton in Musselburgh on 9 April.
2015 was a breathless year for...
Review: A Story of Tom Jones. The Musical ***
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, my mother sought an escape from the travails of bringing up her young son on her own...
Review : The Crucible Royal Lyceum Theatre
Will America buy in to Donald Trump's vision of a God-fearing New Jerusalem? (Terms & Conditions apply).
Was the Holy Father's perceived interference in the...
Review: Footloose: The Musical ****
There has recently been something of an 80s revival in cultural matters with acts such as Rick Astley, Adam Ant and ABC being part of...
The Lyceum Theatre : The Crucible
The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh presents
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Directed by John Dove
From 18 February – 19 March 2016
“I danced for the Devil; I saw...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – SANCTUARY
HEARTBREAK STORIES BEHIND SOLDIERS’ THANK-YOU NOTES
An actress has written a play about the impact of war on women – after receiving heart-wrenching letters from soldiers...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 Review – I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue *****
Aficionados of BBC Radio Four’s long-running antidote to panel shows I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue knew what to expect when host Jack Dee...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – 2015 – Rap Guide to Climate Chaos interview
Rap Guide To Climate Chaos. Baba Brinkman explains why building an Ark is not an option.
2014’s Fringe welcomed the return of Vancouver, verse-wrangling hip-hop...
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