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This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe features 3,314 productions, up 3.8% on 2014. Comedy and theatre continue to dominate the programme, although the
✭✭✭✩✩ Saucy:
Hugely – if inconsistently – funny, but lacking real dramatic impact, Yer Granny at the King’s is certainly crowd-pleasi…
✭✭✭✩✩ Visually stunning:
Opera North's production of Rodger and Hammerstein's Carousel is a curious combination of drama, dance and song that on occasi…
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre will feature the European premiere of Lucas Hnath’s The Christians among its 20-strong programme for this year’s fringe. The
✭✭✭✭✩ Showstoppers:
Working the surprise factor to great effect, Showcase rises to the challenges of staging a big choral show on the King's stage with…
Playwrights Ross Dunsmore and Martin McCormick have won at the inaugural Scotland Short Play awards. They join Cameron Forbes and Emily Ashton
Quarter Century Celebrations:
After 25 years, Showcase is moving down the hill from the Church Hill Theatre for a couple of nights on the big stage of the Kings.
✭✭✭✭✭ Feisty fighting:
Dolly West's Kitchen tells the tale of war: war between countries, war within families and the personal wars everyone fights. Le…
✭✭✭✭✩ Head and heart:
Informative, intelligent and packing a considerable emotional punch, Edinburgh People’s Theatre’ world premiere of A …
Hidden Door Festival struggling:
The innovative Hidden Door Festival 2015, which has taken over King's Stable Yards to huge critical acclaim, needs to hike ticket sales to reach its break-e…
✭✭✭✩✩ Honest reflection:
Sexuality, drugs and respect come under the spotlight in Musselburgh youth company Scratch the Surface's semi-devised producti…
Glasgow arts venue the Arches is to appeal against a decision to limit the venue to a midnight licence. The Arches board
Novelist Irvine Welsh, director Dominic Hill and Scots Makar Liz Lochhead are among more than 400 figures from the theatre and arts
Dundee Repertory Theatre has appointed Nick Parr as its new chief executive officer, starting in September 2015. He takes over from Philip
✭✭✭✩✩ Noisy experiment:
It's hardly silence in which the Ludens Ensemble perform their three person take on Macbeth, seen in its first work-in-progress…
✭✭✩✩✩ Depths hidden:
Dark and vicious, Andy Corelli's take on Gorky's The Lower Depths for Siege Perilous strikes all the right tones at the Hidden Doo…
✭✭✭✭✩ Hidden talent:
Echoes of times past creep into Hidden Door with Annie E Lord's entrancing piece of site-specific storytelling, Hooves.
✭✭✭✩✩ Daft fun:
Uncomplicated belly laughs and complicated plotting are the order of the day in the St Serf’s Players’ production of Wild G…
✭✭✭✭✩ Weighty drama:
Darkness and light are so intertwined, it is impossible to have one without the other. In SO's Il Trovatore, love, hope and light …
Guest review by Charlie Tonner:
Bounce is different because it’s in a Bouncy Castle. I have never seen a show where you can bounce. I liked being able to jump.
✭✭✭✭✩ Paper cut:
Unfolded and pressed out flat for its audience to see, Faux Theatre's Torn is an intriguing glimpse at how repressed memories both hau…
Edinburgh’s position as the world’s pre-eminent festival city faces challenges from the digital revolution, public investment and city infrastructure, according to a
A new work from Roadkill writer Stef Smith is among the 21 productions in this year’s Made in Scotland programme at the
Scottish Opera will premiere a new full-length opera based on Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Bottle Imp as part of its
✭✭✭✩✩ Solid:
Two excellent central performances dominate The King’s Speech. The rest of the production, while always involving, does not quite hi…
