The portrayal of how maths whizz Christopher attempts to solve the mystery of the killing of a neighbourhood dog, instead discovering buried secrets about those around him, continues to thri…
Edinburgh fringe producer Assembly will stage live performance at the city’s Assembly Rooms for the first time since 2010. It follows a
Southern Light Opera returns to the King's Theatre this week with its 120th annual show, a mammoth production of Titanic The Musical that the company hopes will get right into the soul of th…
A pair of very fine interpretations, backed by a company intent on performing at the peak of their abilities, mark out an Oliver! which aims high but suffers from the constraints of its own …
Combining thought-provoking intelligence and the genuinely moving, Made In India at the Traverse is a very fine production.
Lucid and engaging, the Lyceum's Scottish-set production of The Winter's Tale has much to recommend it, even if it does not quite convince.
There is plenty of energy and spectacle in Bruce Guthrie's 20th anniversary production of Rent, but it is too careful and just too clean to fully persuade.
There's been a murder. Well, four murders actually. The Coverdale family, a blended bunch consisting of mum Jacquie, dad George and 'steps' Giles and Melinda, have been blasted to oblivion.
Stark and to the point, director Max Webster pares the opening act of The Winter’s Tale right back to the language. Yet
Tightly paced and with a solidly constructed script from West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin, Beam Theatre's A Few Good Men has plenty to offer, at the Assembly Roxy to Saturday.
One of the reasons why the story resonates is because of its portrayal of people attempting to carry on ordinary life under extraordinary circumstances, and this production scores highly her…
Accomplished musicality and some excellent dancing distinguish Edinburgh University Footlights' Urinetown at the Church Hill. However, it is at the service of a damp satire that never truly …
Evita returns to the Edinburgh Playhouse with more than a little starryness about the turns, to match the starry nature of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. Bill Kenwright's tourin…
Always a company to live up to its name, Matt-hew Bourne's New Adventures spent a large slice of 2016 on a five-city
Creative Scotland has launched the fourth phase of its CashBack for Creativity fund, with more than £1.5 million available to support cultural
Dark, brooding and brutal, Scottish Opera's take on Kafka's The Trial, catches several areas of resonance and delivers a piece which is as glorious as it it is forbidding.
The Edinburgh Iranian Festival, running from 9 to 19 February 2017, will feature the Edinburgh-premiere of solo show Mimi's Suitcase among the Iranian music and strong offering of Iranian ci…
With Still Game: Live 2 Bon Voyage, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill go back to the live format show which facilitated the
Pop quiz. Hum a song from Thoroughly Modern Millie, which is at the Playhouse until Saturday. Aha, Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen's title number. Very good. And?
Fizzing with righteous anger and frothing with near-the-knuckle humour, the Attic Collective's Lysistrata at the King's is a breath of fresh air and an undeniable statement of intent. The fi…
It is with great sorrow that we report the death of Gordon T Blackburn, on 9 January 2017. Gordon was a stalwart of Edinburgh's amateur theatre scene for many years, a director and back-stag…
Alice is having the Worst Day. The controlling ex she'd have back in a second is getting remarried, her car's been stolen, she's got the sack…
David Willetts’ softly-spoken White Rabbit doesn't fall down a hole in Wonderland, Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd’s musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s books. Ins…
Dance, perhaps the most ephemeral of the live arts, is given a fresh sense of history in an exhibition from dance artist Janice Parker at Edinburgh's City Art Centre.
A decade after it was formed, the National Theatre of Scotland has got itself some walls, in the form of Rockvilla, a