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A new trilogy commemorating the First World War and the London premiere of Lee Hall's Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour lead the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society chief executive Kath Mainland is stepping down from the organisation after seven years. She is leaving to take
The Edinburgh Fringe has just announced that Kath Mainland is to leave the organisation after seven years as its Chief Executive. She will take on the role of Executive Director of the Melbo…
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Big hits and tight flits are among the Edinburgh shows and events announced in the first six months of the National Theatre of Scotland 2016 season.
Urban Fox has announced a short tour for its Edinburgh fringe hit Heartlands to the home towns of its company before a short stay at London's King's Head Theatre as part of its #Festival45.
Urban Fox has announced a short tour for its Edinburgh fringe hit Heartlands to the home towns of its company before a short stay at London's King's Head Theatre as part of its #Festival45.
It may be a slow starter, but there's no shortage of drama at the Festival Theatre this fortnight with Scottish Opera's production of Carmen.
Set in 19th Century Seville, Georges Bizet's …
Handbagged, touring to the King's all week, is an inventive, very funny and surprisingly subtle piece of theatre.
Moira Buffini's West End hit, originally at the Tricycle Theatre, deals w…
Played out on a stage covered with squelching mud and straw, director Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir ensures that there is an uneasy sense of impermanence to the whole project. The Bruce in Irel…
Gavin Mitchell has just been announced in the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert when it tours to the Edinburgh Playhouse for a three-week run over Christmas and the New Year.
"Ghoulish": Suitably disturbing in its content and pleasingly rounded in its construction, Peapod Productions' The Moonlit Road and other ghostly tales still has uneven patches in its presen…
Words wrap around and claw away at the heart of this week's excellent Play Pie and Pint lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, the last in the current season.
Words define us, giving shape to…
"Slick and sassy"" The vibrant colours of a lush, South Pacific tropical garden, with views to a distant volcanic island, frame Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society's offering for this dre…
David Campton's 1971 script is very cleverly directed by EUTC regular, Marina Johnson. Clearly allegorical, a number of layers and interpretations are waiting to be picked apart.
The plot here reverts to something closer to the celebrated original book " whose first title was too contentious even to be used on the first US edition and has since been quietly dropped "…
★★★★ There are enough inventive designs and well-honed performances about Shrek the Musical to ensure that it hits the spot.
Elliot Davis and James Bourne's 2012 musical comes originally from an album by Son of Dork, the band featuring Bourne between his pop apotheosis as one-third of Busted and his third act as p…
From the bowels of the Lyceum up into its gods, the Lyceum Youth Theatre expose and explore the building's hidden spaces and lost souls. These are the places that are little trod in modern t…
Powerful and shocking, Linda Duncan McLaughlin's Descent at the Traverse's lunchtime theatre season from A Play, A Pie and A Pint, grabs you with an intense passion that doesn't ever hold ba…
There's no doubt that Emma Rice's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel is unique, powerful and faithful to the story, but it's not quite what you might expect.
Unions BECTU and Equity have called for local authority funding of the arts in Scotland to be a statutory obligation. Their pleas
One in a Million, the latest A Play, A Pie and A Pint production from Oran Mór at the Traverse, is a disappointingly insubstantial affair.
There is much to admire in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Bedlam. Accomplished performances of challenging roles and well thought-out direction make for a successful production.
✭✭✭✭✩ Ferocious energy:
Regents Park Open Air Theatre positively tears through the stage at the Festival Theatre this week as its Lord of the Flies leave…
✭✭✭✩✩ Enjoyable fantasy:
Lively and hugely likeable, Opera Camerata’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann is a largely pacy and accomplished aff…
