3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (340+ words) Twin staircases, shimmering gowns, a gleaming swimming pool and a live band poised for action: Rachel Kavanaugh’s lavish production of High Society sweeps onto the Playhouse stage dressed to dazzle. With Cole Porter’s irresistible music and lyrics, the classic, classy…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (440+ words) EdinburghGuide.com Do Better: A Dramagedy, Greenside @ George St, Review Upon entering the room I'm given a pen and paper an asked to write one thing I'd like to "do better", there's only a moment before the show is due…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (601+ words) As the curtain fell on the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival on Sunday, festival director Nicola Benedetti reflected on the potency and importance of the annual cultural infusion into the city’s blood-stream. “This year’s Festival theme, All Rise, was a rallying cry…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (305+ words) If you think you know the Scottish play, think again. In ‘Mrs Macbeth,’ Shakespeare’s tale of treason and treachery is retold through the eyes and ears of Lady Macbeth’s loyal Gentlewoman, a minor character in the sleepwalking scene, Act V,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (395+ words) With the double bass players already at their instruments, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker quietly and efficiently moved to their desks to be followed by their First Concertmaster. Without delay, on came Kirill Petrenko to conduct two very well known…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (389+ words) There is something tangibly ominous from the very beginning of Mere Mortals, as if humanity has stepped into a man-made machine that it no longer controls. In this dark, surreal reimagining of Pandora’s Box, choreographer Aszure Barton sets the ancient…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (234+ words) Belief takes physical form in Groupwork’s haunting fusion of theatre, dance, film and sound. Inspired by the true story of an American 1950s UFO doomsday cult, the production enters the fragile territory between certainty and doubt, where faith can become stronger…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (234+ words) Belief takes physical form in Groupwork’s haunting fusion of theatre, dance, film and sound. Inspired by the true story of an American 1950s UFO doomsday cult, the production enters the fragile territory between certainty and doubt, where faith can become stronger…...

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (905+ words) Chris Cantrill and Marty Gleeson were announced as winners of this year's prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards tonight. The Audible Best Comedy Show went to Chris Cantrill for Rewilding, a ‘twisted tale’ about how life in Cantrill’s peaceful countryside community was…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (205+ words) The character is reminiscent of a Judy Garland in terms of style and deliver but with only 1% of the former’s talent and even that’s being generous. There’s a rawness to the performance, a strange compelling quality, she’s a ball of…...