Edinburgh
It’s Tuesday, it must be Ednaburgh!
Australia’s most famous export, that’s Dame Edna Everage possums, is to make a personal appearance at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on Tuesday 26 March.
Unique and Underbelly get Edinburgh’s winter fests
Unique Events look set to hang on to their contract to run Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as they join up with Underbelly Ltd to take over the running of both it and Edinburgh’s Christmas Festival.
Review – Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty
A clatter of thunder heralds Matthew Bourne’s darkly disturbing new take on the Sleeping Beauty fairytale.
Brian Cox joins Lyceum as Honorary Patron
Shonaig Macpherson replaces Donald Emslie as chair By Thom Dibdin Brian Cox CBE is to become the Royal Lyceum’s honorary patron. He will help promote individual philanthropic support for the theatre’s development as it moves towards the 50th anniversary of its current incarnation, in 2015. The Dundee born actor most recently appeared at the Lyceum […]
Review – Tightlaced Double Bill 2012
Charlie and My ’45 * * I Promise I Shall Not Play Billiards * * * Scottish Storytelling Centre Review by Thom Dibdin Quietly cynical and tantalisingly brief, Tightlaced Theatre’s pair of plays at the Storytelling centre until Saturday delve into the past in two quite contrasting fashions. Opening the evening, Robert Howat’s Charlie and […]
Ferguson gets Scotsman art beat
Brian Ferguson is to move up to the post of Arts Correspondent for the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday from the beginning of October.
Review – Heroes
★★★☆☆ Musical heroics:
There is an audacious opening to Showcase’s latest musical offering up at the Church Hill Theatre all this week. Heroes might be the show’s title and theme, but instead of extracts from the evening, the overture uses a certain Stranglers number to gets the audience bobbing in their seats.
Review – Ne’er the Twain
✭✭✭✩✩ Ever-bubbling:
Couthie comedy is given full and adequate reign in the Edinburgh People’s Theatre fast-moving production of Ne’er The Twain – set in a tenement flat on the Leith-Edinburgh border in October 1919.
Review – Curtains
✭✭★✩✩ Royal Lyceum Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin It is unclear whether the book for Curtains, Southern Light Opera’s latest offering which is at the Royal Lyceum all week, is brave or simply foolhardy. But it certainly leaves its performers with a mountain to climb. Not content with killing off its leading lady within five […]
Leith Theatre to get new lease of life
Leith Theatre is set to get a new lease of life, if plans by the Leith Theatre Trust to take over the building get approval from Edinburgh Council on Thursday 24 April.
