Monday, September 1, 2014
As Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webbers Evita gets ready to return to the West End stage, we take a look at productions through the years Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
The puppetry team behind War Horse turn their hands to post-apartheid South Africa for this imaginative reframing of Alfred Jarrys 19th-century play, Ubi Roi Mark Fishers review of the Edinb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2014
Flamenco guitarist Paco Peñas new show, Patrias, is part of this years Edinburgh international festival. Heres a reminder of his colourful and electrifying stage shows Review Paco Peñ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PM[SHARE]Friday, August 22, 2014
In this exclusive video, Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Bartók's 2nd violin concerto and discusses its themes as she prepares to perform it with the London Philharmonic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PM[SHARE]Monday, August 18, 2014
From Hoovers to badgers, here are the quips voted funniest in Dave's competition at the festival Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PM[SHARE]From George RR Martin to Phill Jupitus and Ali Smith, Murdo MacLeod has been turning his lens on more authors at the 2014 festivalMurdo MacLeods Edinburgh authors in pictures, part I Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2014
As she presents a 10th anniversary show at the Edinburgh festival, Camille OSullivan remembers her first fringe gigs and explains how she puts together her set list Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Tim Key is back at the Edinburgh festival, slipping on his denim onesie to perform Single White Slut at the Pleasance Grand. Tim popped by the Guardian's house to answer readers' questions a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AM[SHARE]Comedy sketch group The Pin explain how their festival performance finds them creating a screenplay with the audience Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
Pankovs flamboyant psychodrama exploring Russias relationship with the first world war has already left Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington scratching his head at the Edinburgh Intern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:11AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
In the first of a series of exclusive videos from this year's classical programme at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Hebrides Ensemble perform an extract from Stravinsky's 1918 par…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
Four Australian Ballet dancers took to Bondis Icebergs pool in their tutus to celebrate a new Sydney season of Swan Lake in February 2015. The oceanside sea water pools are emptied every Thu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38PM[SHARE]Watch rehearsal footage of the new trilogy about kings James I, II and III of Scotland plus interviews in which the playwright explains why she wanted to redress a lack of Scottish equivale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:15AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2014
Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev rehearse in California for the English National Operas performance of Solo for Two at Londons Coliseum from 6 to 9 AugustAll change for Osipova and Vasiliev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM[SHARE]Mark Thomas was moved by Bill Hicks. Tim Key loved Jackson's Way. Olivia Poulet loved Tim Key Performers and theatre-makers pick their all-time festival favourites Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2014
The Edinburgh mainstays switch identities to interview each other. It doesnt take long for the insults to start flying Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 31, 2014
Lucy Beaumont, Susan Calman, Carl Hutchinson and others survive humiliation in a homemade sandwich board, a hex involving the number two, and being upstaged by a giant rabbit in the audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Watch a clip from The Tempest recorded live at Shakespeare's Globe, in London, in the summer of 2013. Jeremy Herrin's production stars Roger Allam who, in the words of Michael Billington, 'e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
So you're taking a show to the Edinburgh fringe. What's the worst that could happen? Vomiting, fainting, break-ups and malfunctioning smoke machines Felicity Ward, Josie Long and WitTank st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]It is one of 2014's hottest tickets. Before A Streetcar Named Desire opens at the Young Vic tonight, take a look at Gillian Anderson's Blanche Dubois. Photographs by Tristram Kenton Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2014
Open thread: we'd like to hear about your best-loved comic albums, whether they're stand-up, sketch comedy or something completely different Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2014
Readers panel: A week before the culture spectacle begins, we want to look back at the most memorable performances, events and experiences from past Edinburgh festivals. Tell us yours, and w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Were you paying attention before the curtain fell? See if you recognise these closing lines of 10 great plays Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2014
Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of money. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Enter to win a night at the theatre! Grand Prize includes: two tickets to A Delicate Balance in New York. Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AM[SHARE]The acclaimed US not-for-profit, storytelling organisation the Moth is coming to the UK. Since its launch in 1997, the Moth has presented thousands of stories, all true, told to live audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]Hollywood actor Molly Ringwald performs for the Moth, the US-based not-for-profit storytelling organisation which is coming to the UK for the first time in September Find out how to perform …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM[SHARE]As Gillian Anderson prepares to play Tennessee Williams's troubled heroine at the Young Vic in London, take a look at the other stars who have depended on the kindness of strangers Continue …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AM[SHARE]The four finalists in the Keir choreographic award square off in the first instalment of this biennial dance-off, a new prize that recognises choreographic work and innovation in contemporar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Do you know your Lear from your Leontes? Your Macbeth from your Mercutio? Match these lines to the right characters Continue reading...
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