City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

Theatre


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

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

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”.

Sweeney and Signing go hand-in-hand for Edinburgh Musical Theatre Anniversary Production

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. 

Manipulate Visual Theatre Festival

Five-day festival of new theatre works, workshops, discussions, and other events exploring the intersection of puppetry, physical theatre and animation at the Traverse Theatre.

The King and I, EFT, Review

The King and I. Photo cast

First staged in 1951, Rogers and Hammerstein “The King and I” is based on Margaret Landon's novel, “Anna and the King of Siam”, which was inspired by two volumes of memories

The Lost Sock Princess, Traverse Theatre, Review

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

The Tree of Knowledge, Traverse Theatre, Review

Enlightened

Tree of Knowledge is an attempt to bring its audience face to face with the contradictions of philosophy, or rather the contradictions of two philosophers – Adam Smith and David Hume.

Cinderella, King's Theatre, Review

Cinderella 2011 cast

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

Beauty and the Beast, Royal Lyceum, Review

Stuart Paterson’s Beauty and the Beast masterfully spins the threads of dark fantasy, pantomime slapstick and a romantic ‘happily ever after’ ending to create a production that su

We Will Rock You, Playhouse, Review

Scene from 'We Will Rock You'

Not just shaken, stirred but most definitely rocked!

The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, Traverse, Review

Shona Reppe and her "Curious Scrapbook"

The stage set is suitably neat and compact for the extremely neat and compact, clever wee show that is The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean, from award winning puppeteer, Shona Reppe, whose comp

Lyceum to Open 2012-2013 Season With Guid Sisters

The Royal Lyceum Theatre will open its 2012-2013 season in September with a co-production with the National Theatre of Scotland of Michel Tremblay's The Guid Sisters, translated by Martin Bowman an