Tag: Theatre
Osmondmania returns to the capital in time for Christmas
Adding together group and solo recordings, members of the Osmond family charted an incredible 13 singles on the UK charts during 1973 resulting in the coining of a new word, "Osmondmania", to describe the...
Frogs and Theatre at Sciennes Primary School
Pupils at Sciennes Primary School in Marchmont were thrilled to win a Scotland-wide playwriting competition with UK wildlife charity Froglife last week. Combining theatre with frogs, pupils across Scotland were given the chance to...
Music legend Don McLean chats to the Edinburgh Reporter
Music legend Don McLean, renowned as one of the most enduring singer-songwriters and forever associated with his classic hits American Pie and Vincent (Starry Starry Night) is looking forward to coming home to his...
Bella Hardy to appear at Queen’s Hall next month
Acclaimed folk singer and song writer Bella Hardy is appearing at the Queen's Hall on 1st May to promote her seventh solo album 'With The Dawn' .
The album is her first since being named...
Investment at the King’s and Festival Theatres to make theatre ‘dementia friendly’
A major investment from a charity set up with money from the Big Lottery Fund has just been announced whereby the Festival and King's Theatres in Edinburgh will become 'dementia friendly'.
The two theatres want...
Chess at the Church Hill Theatre
Edinburgh Music Theatre took to the stage last night to present the first performance of a week's run of Chess: The Musical.
EMT will be performing the musical theatre classic, best known for the popular...
Oliver: Southern Light Opera at King’s
For those of us of a certain age, Oliver means ones thing: Carol Reed's 1968 film with Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger and Mark Lester as the eponymous orphan child - but Oliver...
Festival Theatre hosts dementia friendly event
In collaboration with Edinburgh’s Health and Social Care Partnership and Alzheimer Scotland, the Festival Theatre yesterday hosted a pilot event for dementia friendly audiences.
The event was the beginning of the city centre theatre’s work in...
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle to play Queen’s Hall
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle three members of the BBC acclaimed Transatlantic Sessions will play the Queen's Hall on Thursday 12 March as part of a unique European tour. With both Mike McGoldrick and...
Saturday Night Fever – Review
For many of us who grew up in the 1970s, the film Saturday Night Fever has iconic status. The disco music classic – if that’s not a contradiction in terms – made John Travolta...
The Nutcracker, Festival Theatre
The Nutcracker is the lightest, most accessible of all Tchaikovsky’s ballets. It’s a Christmas delight, telling the story of a young girl named Clara who is gifted a nutcracker by the mysterious Drosselmeyer. The...
Review – Aladdin at The King’s Theatre
Year after year, a trio of talented actors holds the King’s Theatre pantomime together. Allan Stewart as Widow Twankey, Andy Gray as Wishy Washy and Grant Stott as Abanazar the Wizard are the lifeblood...
Review: ‘Wicked’ at the Playhouse *****
There is very little that Wicked cannot do. Throughout its near three hour run time, the Playhouse is bathed in a vivid green light. The magic and mystique shimmers from the stage; the stunning...
Letters From Area C – Rehearsed Reading to be Performed
Letters From Area C is a play about a land where ordinary people have to keep going in the face of extreme hardship. Facing prison and war, they find ways to hold onto dignity...
Funding for youth theatre in Scotland
The First Minister Alex Salmond has given a parting gift to secure the future of Scotland’s national youth theatre. He announced a £1 million package of public and private funding to engage more young...
Review: The Kite Runner at King’s Theatre
Khaled Hosseini's acclaimed tale of guilt and salvaging redemption through the eyes of Afghan children, The Kite Runner, has had its fair share of adaptations over the years. Adding to a list that's already...
Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook returns to Capital
Following the huge success and popularity of Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook over the last 8 years, he is delighted to announce they will be returning once again and this time taking to the road for 5...
Visual feast in the woods this autumn
Visual theatre company, Vision Mechanics, is taking its new production, Embrace, to a range of woodland areas around Scotland this autumn. As well as being staged in ambitious outdoor settings, the piece features an...
Not About Heroes at Craiglockhart 8-10 September
1917. After protesting against the continuance of the war, Siegfried Sassoon, a decorated war hero and celebrated poet is sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital to silence him. There he meets shell-shocked Lt Wilfred Owen...
Ninth Annual Summer Youth Theatre Project
There are currently 12 places remaining on this year’s Summer Youth Theatre Project which takes place at Southside Community Centre from June 30th – July 11th.
Supported by The City of Edinburgh Council’s Department of...
Scottish financial firm supporting new Lyceum play
Grant Thornton UK LLP, the leading business and financial advisory firm, has sponsored the production of ‘Pressure’ which opens at The Lyceum in Edinburgh this May.
The firm has offered its backing to bring the...
The King’s Dome Commission
A launch event is being held at the King's Theatre in May to show off the photographic display of how the new dome was created.
Over the course of 35 days in the summer of...
Queen Margaret University and Brunton Theatre collaborate on the stage
Community drama specialists from Queen Margaret University have joined forces with The Brunton Theatre to bring to the stage a moving musical black comedy about local ned culture.
Following the success of the previous production...
Eddi Reader looking forward to Queen’s Hall concert
Eddi Reader is back in the capital this month, appearing at the Queen’s Hall on the 25th as part of her ‘Vagabond’ tour, and today she kindly took time out from her busy schedule...
PREVIEW: Boogie Nights The Musical
PREVIEW: Boogie Nights, 1-5 April 2014, Church Hill Theatre 7:30pm, Tue: £10, Wed-Sat: £14 (£12 concessions), Sat 2:30pm matinee: £12 (£10 concessions)
Edinburgh Music Theatre (EMT), the company that brought you Footloose, RENT, Sweeney Todd:...
The Taking of Zena Charbonne at the Roxy
The Occasional Cabaret presents Retour 2014 – for a captive audience – The Taking of Zena Charbonne
Who calls the shots?
Sometimes stuff happens.
We prepare for it, try to avoid it, visualise how to cope. . . ...
Leith theatre project funded by Creative Scotland
Resilience, an exciting theatre project exploring how community groups can thrive whilst under attack, working with people with experience of homelessness, violence and mental health issues, has received backing from the Scottish arts funding...
Spy Week to run from Sunday 6 April – Saturday 12 April.
The intriguing world of espionage will take centre stage next month in a spy fiction festival organised by the University of Edinburgh.
Screenings of classic spy films, a talk by former MI5 Director General Dame...
Eddie Izzard hosts ‘Please Don’t Go’ gig at Festival Theatre
Comedy legend Eddie Izzard will be hosting a one off gig on Friday, April 4th at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh to launch a campaign for people in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who don’t...
Eddi Reader to play the Queen’s Hall next month
Eddi Reader is returning to the capital next month, playing the Queen’s Hall on 25 April as part of her ‘Vagabond’ tour.
Vagabond was released by Reveal Records last month and was recorded by Mark...
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