Edinburgh International Festival

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

✭✭✭✭✩ Sultry:
There is a taut emotional quality to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie at the King’s theatre for a two week season as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.

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The #CATS16 winners

The #CATS16 winners

Wait ends for Godot at CATS:
The Lyceum’s production of Waiting for Godot has won the Best Production award at this year’s Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.

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Ghosts In A Garden – Review

Ghosts In A Garden – Review

Idiosyncratic and intriguing, the Love In A… series of pop-up operas staged around Edinburgh out of season by the International Festival always seemed like a great idea. Now the concept has come good in a stunning new song-cycle.

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What do you like?

What do you like?

The Edinburgh International Festival has created a facebook app to help potential audiences find shows they might like.

Jul 19 2013 | By | Reply More
Opinion – Love in a bookshop

Opinion – Love in a bookshop

If you went down to Blackwell’s Bookshop on South Bridge on Tuesday afternoon, you will have got more than a browse amongst the bookshelves, as the Edinburgh International Festival sprang their latest version of Love In A …. on the unsuspecting book-buying public.

Jun 5 2013 | By | Reply More
Guerilla Opera returns to Edinburgh

Guerilla Opera returns to Edinburgh

It’s “go out and find a girl” time for the return of the EIF’s “Love in a…” series of guerilla operas which premiered last year with Love in a Library.

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Fergus Linehan new artistic director of EIF

Fergus Linehan new artistic director of EIF

Fergus Linehan, currently director of Sydney’s Vivid LIVE, is to take over as director of the Edinburgh International Festival from Autumn 2014 when Jonathan Mills leaves the post.

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Snapper Sought for EIF 2012

Snapper Sought for EIF 2012

Post of Official Photographer now open:

The Edinburgh International Festival is looking for an up-and-coming snapper to take over the role of official photographer during this summer’s festival.

Feb 6 2012 | By | Reply More
Carey on snapping up at the Hub

Carey on snapping up at the Hub

Festival 2011: The Big Picture By Thom Dibdin An exhibition of behind-the-scenes photographs from the Edinburgh International Festival has just opened up at Edinburgh’s Hub, the Festival Centre up at the head of the Royal Mile. They are taken by this year’s Festival Photographer, Eoin Carey, who had a hard act to follow in Claudine […]

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Edinburgh Festival Chorus seeks new recruits

Edinburgh Festival Chorus seeks new recruits

Audition opportunity to sing at EIF 2012 By Thom Dibdin The EIF’s much-vaunted Edinburgh Festival Chorus is looking for recruits to add to its existing 120 members. The chorus is looking for “talented and enthusiastic” singers, who are invited to attend an open rehearsal, directed by Chorus Master Christopher Bell, on Tuesday 25 October at […]

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