Tag: Theatre
Traverse Theatre Company heads for Broadway
Traverse Theatre Company will be in New York this April, taking Fringe 2013 hits A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity and Clean for a month-long run at 59E59 Theaters, marking New York’s Scotland Week...
Under the Mulberry Tree at Festival Theatre
A new play by Timothy Jones, directed by Hannah Eidinow
“Secrets shouldn’t be hidden but when revealed they’re even more dangerous...”
Desire, adultery and forbidden love resonate in this powerful new play about the darker side...
The Usher Hall celebrates 100th birthday today
Edinburgh’s iconic Usher Hall celebrates its 100th birthday today and The Royal Scottish National Orchestra will tonight perform a replica of the opening night concert to mark the occasion.
The hall was built after whisky...
The Edinburgh Reporter meets………THE FONZ
Happy Days are here again or rather will be here in May when the tour based on the hit TV series of the 70s featuring the unforgettable King of Cool Arthur ‘The Fonz’ Fonzerelli,...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at Bedlam
“Oz is beautiful but it has its perils.”
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company (EUTC) is excited to announce a production of L. Frank Baum’s beloved series The Land of Oz books is coming to the...
Allan Stewart to stage a big show at the King’s Theatre
Proving that Variety still packs a punch, legendary Scottish comic Allan Stewart has assembled the best talent around for his Big, Big Show at the King’s Theatre. Not content with taking up residence at the King's...
Yellow Moon at the Bedlam Theatre
The Edinburgh University Theatre Company (EUTC) staged David Greig's 'Yellow Moon: the Ballad of Leila and Lee' last night at the Bedlam Theatre but there is still time to see what is dubbed 'a modern day...
War Horse: the epic sellout show comes to Edinburgh
War Horse the epic, award winning stage play opens tonight to a total sell-out run at the Festival Theatre. This is part of a UK wide tour that will run until September. Since its...
Edinburgh International Festival unveils the James Plays 2014
A trilogy of plays about James I, II and III of Scotland was unveiled at Edinburgh Castle this morning, and the plays are promised to be a vividly imagined and mysteriously playful version of...
Look behind you! It’s Peter Pan!
Peter Pan - The Swashbuckling Pantomime Adventure!
Edinburgh’s favourite friends are heading to Neverland for another spectacular King’s pantomime adventure! Join Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott as this enchanting tale, Peter Pan, is brought...
Northern Lights coming to the Queens Hall next month
Edinburgh’s music fans are in for a treat next month when Northern Lights take to the stage at the Queens Hall.
Northern Lights brings together six world-class musicians from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Scandinavia in...
Eddi Reader chats to The Edinburgh Reporter ahead of Usher Hall concert
Scots singer/songwriter Eddi Reader will be back in the capital on Saturday night performing to a packed Usher Hall, and as an added bonus , fans can buy an advanced copy of her latest...
Sleigh The UK 2013 at the Picture House next month
Following a phenomenal response to ‘Sleigh The UK 2012’, The Wonder Stuff have announced that they will once again join their two old sparring partners, Pop Will Eat Itself and Jesus Jones, for another run...
VIDEO – The Edinburgh Reporter bumped into Jekyll & Hyde….
DR. JEKYLL and Mr. Hyde have been caught lurking around the streets of Edinburgh ahead of an annual event dedicated to the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Today acting students from Edinburgh Napier...
Theatre review: Dragon, Traverse Theatre (****)
It’s a rare piece of theatre that can move you both with its themes and with its execution. But the almost entirely wordless Dragon, a three-way co-production between the National Theatre of Scotland, visual...
Theatre review: Crime and Punishment, Lyceum Theatre (****)
For anyone unfamiliar with Dostoevsky’s original novel, the thing about Crime and Punishment is that there’s not a huge amount of crime – nor, indeed, a great deal of punishment. What there is, though,...
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland – born today!
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland – a new name and patron for Promote YT
The national development organisation for youth theatre arts in Scotland is changing its name: from Promote YT to Youth Theatre Arts Scotland from...
Theatre Uncut hosting evening of Political Theatre at Summerhall
Theatre Uncut: Edinburgh artists unite for night of cutting edge political theatre
What happens to political views in times of economic austerity? On Friday 15th October six Edinburgh theatre groups perform a series of short plays...
VIDEO – Slade arrive in the capital ahead of charity concert tomorrow!
Dave Hill and Don Powell from seventies super-group Slade have arrived in the capital ahead of Saturday’s ‘Rewind to the Seventies’ concert at the Assembly Hall.
The pair will join Alvin Stardust and The Rubettes...
Mansfield Park at The King’s this November
Directed by Colin Blumenau, Tim Luscombe’s sharply drawn adaptation of one of Austen’s most challenging novels premiered to critical and popular acclaim last year, and the Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is delighted to...
So Mr McCartney, have you ever met the Rubettes? Alan Williams speaks to The...
Yesterday, the Reporter spoke to music legend Alvin Stardust ahead of Saturday’s ‘Rewind to the Seventies’ concert at the Assembly Hall, and today we hear from another star of the show, Alan Williams, the...
Alvin Stardust speaks to The Edinburgh Reporter
Three of the biggest acts from the seventies will appear together on stage in Edinburgh on Saturday night with all proceeds going to the National Autistic Society.
Alvin Stardust, Slade and the Rubettes will team...
James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan to appear together at Queens Hall
In 2012, Dewar's hosted an experiment when musicians from India and the UK were placed in a makeshift recording studio in Edinburgh for a week and asked to come up with an album of...
Strange Theatre bring Couldn’t Care Less to Edinburgh
Inspired by the experiences of carers “Couldn’t Care Less” is a dark, surreal, funny and moving story of two women whose lives are disappearing. When Elspeth develops Alzheimer’s, Lilly embarks on a journey of frustration,...
Theatre review: Dark Road, Lyceum Theatre (***)
Why do we see so many cop shows on TV and so few on the stage? That’s precisely the question that Edinburgh’s renowned crime writer Ian Rankin poses in the programme to his new...
VIDEO City Art Centre – The Lion King exhibition opens today
‘Exploring THE LION KING’ exhibition opens today at The City Art Centre
This free exhibition opens to the public today ahead of The Lion King show at the Playhouse which begins its run on 11...
Hurry! Win tickets to James and the Giant Peach at the King’s this week!
To recognise our fabulous August visitor numbers we asked some of our contacts to offer our readers something as an Edinburgh Reporter Reward.
Our unique users in August were over 100,000 which is an amazing...
Emma Thompson becomes face of Edinburgh College’s Performing Arts Studio Scotland
British superstar and Oscar award winning actress Emma Thompson has become the new face of Edinburgh College’s Performing Arts Studio of Scotland (PASS).
The Nanny McPhee and Sense and Sensibility star, who is also a...
Twelfth Night at Inveresk for one night only
Let the team at Quantum Theatres take you to the magical world of Illyria for the tale of Twelfth Night at the National Trust for Scotland’s Inveresk Lodge Garden.
Go and enjoy this wonderfully merry...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe REVIEW – Feral ****
Angle-poise lamps dangle above a peculiar holed table-cum-writing desk, with a video mixing console and sound desk crammed in to the left and right of the stage. There’s no hiding the show’s mechanics in...
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