City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh News


RSNO’s New Home in central Glasgow

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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra  has announced details of its proposed move to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

Avenue Q, Edinburgh Playhouse, Review

Avenue Q

It’s worth crossing the tracks or in New York terms the West River to find Avenue Q all this week at the Playhouse. This is a musical with a difference full of catchy songs and lyrics with a message.

Three City Properties To Gain £2,145,000 Heritage Grants

Greyfriars Kirk

Greyfriars Kirkyard (famous resting place of Greyfriars Bobby), a hidden Victorian shopfront on Nicolson Street, and a Victorian communal courtyard in

Video: Edible Garden Project at RGBE

With food security and food miles increasingly on people's minds, and lengthy allotment waiting lists, the Edib

Luvos, Traverse Theatre, Review (Manipulate Festival)

Luvos dancers

Editta Braun, an influential Austrian choreographer who has been referred to as the ‘Grande Dame of contemporary dance theatre’, has been creating unconventional and unique pieces of vi

Return of the Great Puppet Horn, Traverse Theatre, Review (Manipulate)

The Return of the Great Puppet Horn

The white screen that was to be host to the mad shenanigans of The Great Puppet Horn is quite small but managed over the hour long show to contain pretty much all the big topics of the day as seen

RSNO Tasmin Little’s Elgar Review

Tasmin Little

On arrival at the Usher Hall, the audience has to get its bearings.

Film of the Week: Chronicle

Chronicle Still

I have to admit this was a very pleasant surprise, perhaps because it’s the first film in months I haven’t seen endless trailers or saturation TV ads for, but then again I went to sleep

SCO Langrée Conducts Beethoven Review

Alistair Miles

Coming in to a concert from a busy and wintery world outside takes a mental adjustment, and so what better than a thoughtful opening overture.

Swallows and Amazons, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Review

A recent episode of Family Guy parodied a scene from 1987 movie The Princess Bride in which the grandson tells the grandfather he doesn’t want him to read the “stupid” fairytale b

Polaris, Traverse Theatre, Review (Manipulate Festival)

Polaris performers

The Manipulate Festival aims to highlight the many different styles and techniques practitioners are blending together to create pieces that in

Times Launches 8 Point Manifesto to "Make Cities Safe For Cyclists"

Cyclists crossing High Street

The Times newspaper has launched a campaign today to make cities safer for cyclists.

Film Review: Chico & Rita (Manipulate Festival)

Chico & Rita in Havana

One of the animation components in the Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival, running at The Traverse, was Chico & Rita, a certificate 15, fea

Plucked, Traverse Theatre, Review (Manipulate Festival)

Plucked puppet

The Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival at the Traverse until the weekend, is back for its fifth year with its curious mix of avant-garde visual

The Infamous Brothers Davenport, Royal Lyceum, Review

The Davenport brothers, Willie and Ira, were among the most famous of the spiritualists operating in the Victorian era.

February at the Storytelling Centre Gives Voice to All

LGBT History Month takes place throughout February, aiming to replace ignorance and prejudice with knowledge and understanding, yet those who watched BBC Three doc

Hamletmachine, Traverse Theatre, Review

Hamletmachine

Hamletmachine, written in 1977 by German playwright Heiner Muller, is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Save The Last Dance For Me, Playhouse, Review

Cast of Save the Last dance for me

“1-2-3, it’s so easy, it’s like taking candy off a baby”.

Elisabeth Murdoch To Give The MacTaggart Lecture

Elisabeth Murdoch, Chair and CEO of Shine Group, has been confirmed as this year's MacTaggart Lecture speaker at the

Czech Music Fest Review

Helena Buckmayer

As a tribute to Holocaust Memorial Day, the first part of the concert was dedicated to two composers who were victims of the Holocaust.