Theatre

Theatre at the <a href="/events/edinburghfringe">Edinburgh Fringe</a> and <a href="/events/eif">Edinburgh International Festival</a>.

It’s the first day for Tobias, the new German language assistant at an ordinary English comprehensive school.
Paying homage to via Sistina 125 in Rome where Nikolai Gogol had an apartment may seem to some to be absurd…
'Absurdity', 'Bizarre', 'Weirrrd!' 'The answers to the eternal questions.' These are the notes I wrote while…
Before the USA dragged the willing and the unwilling into the quagmire of Iraq, one play captured the '…
Created by Edinburgh’s own Arthur Conan Doyle, the eccentrically alluring tales of Sherlock Holmes have been…
On the D'Animate website they say "we offer pure escapism to the general public." And that is exactly…
England, Oh England! You float upon the sea and look up at the sky, beaches curving like a smile, if the…
All aboard for a magical realism mystery tour. Like all journeys it starts with a small step, but…
On 26 March 1858 Charles Dickens gave a reading of his Christmas Carol in the Music Hall, George Street.…
Faced with pseudoscience and myths, aspiring scientist Vanessa will need to search out hard facts to discover…
A seemingly nervous conductor squeezes himself along the front row of the auditorium before falling into the…
It was a chance handing of Agnes Owen’s 1998 novel, For the Love of Willie, to Phil Tong, director of the…
One man’s poignant journey to a pivotal political decision.
Afterplay, written by Brian Friel, is most unusual in that he has taken characters from two familiar Chekhov…
Bette Davis, the legendary movie actress who famously commented ā€œI will never be below the title!ā€, was an…
Steinbeck had an ability to portray with abiding compassion characters who had been battered emotionally and…
I AM is a challenging piece that is more to be endured than enjoyed, but if you push on through, you may…
The spirit of Edinburgh’s Fringe festival continues to thrive in the National Theatre of Scotland’s…
Nurturing is at the heart of this year’s flagship play in the Traverse Theatre’s Festival programme, Milk.
An invitation to experience your ā€˜inner cinema’ is thrown to the audience at the start of the joint Danish -…