Archive for February, 2022

EIF drops Russian conductor

EIF drops Russian conductor

Valery Gergiev dropped as Festival’s Honorary President

Leading Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been removed as the Edinburgh International Festival’s Honorary president out of sympathy with the people of Kyiv.

Feb 28 2022 | By | Reply More
Playhouse pulls Russian ballet

Playhouse pulls Russian ballet

Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia cancelled

The Edinburgh Playhouse has cancelled next week’s performances from Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Feb 26 2022 | By | Reply More
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Live at Leith Theatre

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Live at Leith Theatre

★★★☆☆  Mixed bag

There is much to recommend in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Live at Leith Theatre, which is due to be live-streamed into cinemas on Sunday 27 with as-live screenings on March 6.

Feb 26 2022 | By | Reply More
Covid delays Lyceum show

Covid delays Lyceum show

The Scent of Roses opening delayed a week

The cast and company of the new Zinnie Harris play, The Scent of Roses, has been effected by Covid, delaying the play’s opening by a week.

Feb 23 2022 | By | Reply More
Rocky Horror Show

Rocky Horror Show

★★★★★ Damn it!

Loud, brash and very, very slick, Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show rock’n’rolls into the Kings with pinch of glitter, a fist-full of glitz and a whole bucket of on-the-nose comedy.

Feb 22 2022 | By | Reply More
Listings: Mon 21 – Sun 27 February 2022

Listings: Mon 21 – Sun 27 February 2022

What’s on Edinburgh’s Stages this week

Damn it, Janet, the Rocky Horror Show is back in town – again – and this time it’s Ore Oduba in the hot seat as Brad Majors.

Feb 20 2022 | By | Reply More
The Roses of Eyam

The Roses of Eyam

★★★★☆ Unexpected insights

Disconcertingly relevant, the EUTC’s production of Don Taylor’s The Roses Of Eyam at the Augustine United Church until Sunday provides unexpected insights into our own plague years.

Feb 19 2022 | By | 1 Reply More
Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

★★★★☆ Spellbinding

Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the musical based on the 1971 Walt Disney film, flies into the Festival Theatre for a short but spellbinding stay, until this Sunday.

Feb 18 2022 | By | 1 Reply More
The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer

★★★☆☆ Gutsy

There’s plenty of gutsy delivery and vocal attack in the Edinburgh University Footlights production of The Wedding Singer, which takes to the main stage of the Rose Theatre until Saturday.

Feb 17 2022 | By | Reply More
The Dresser

The Dresser

★★★☆☆ Sterling performances

That The Dresser, a play dealing with that old cliché that ‘the show must go on’ should lose one of its two stars on opening night in Edinburgh is oddly fitting, if unfortunate.

Feb 16 2022 | By | Reply More