Edinburgh News: theatre

Emerging into the light at the end of a performance, and examining the drunken spider’s track marks that comprise the notes made in darkness, can suggest something about what has been seen; the fewer of these, the more the production has to say. This rule of thumb is certainly the case with Gare St Lazare’s production of Samuel Beckett’s ‘The End’. Although a short story in first person form rather than a play, it encompasses enough of Beckett’s thought and style to form an epitome of the greater corpus. That said, a précis intended for the press scarcely does its concerns full justice.

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

The Manipulate Festival at the Traverse Theatre had been due to continue this evening with a performance of Gobo.

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

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

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

Tickets are now on sale for EMT’s Thirtieth Anniversary production of the sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising Stephen Sondheim musical masterpiece, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 

This two person show performed by the two lovely girls complimenting each other, like a modern day Snow White and Rose Red, with their dark and fair hair and smiley positivity, is a relaxed and cas

Everyone loves a good panto, and it doesn’t get any better than the traditional Edinburgh panto at the King’s Theatre.

Not just shaken, stirred but most definitely rocked!