Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme ...

Join magician, psychologist and writer Professor Richard Wiseman in a fascinating local history talk exploring the surprising ...

The Edinburgh International Festival launched its programme for the 2012 Festival over bacon butties and coffee at fest H.Q. The Hub this morning. Seven performances and productions will form the ...

On the last night of April and first day of May up to 12,000 people take to Calton Hill for a ritualised and pantheistic celebration to mark the arrival of Summer. The event, Beltane Fire Festival, ...

Ekaterina Bulgatova (Kitri), Dimitry Sobolevsky (Basil), Arseniy Bormotov (Don Quixote), Denis Pogorelyy (Sancho Panza), Vyacheslav Kapustin (Camacho), Arkady Zinov (Espada) Going to the ballet should ...

Following an award winning West End run Calendar Girls is returning to Edinburgh for the last time. Original cast member Lynda Bellingham returns to the show, along with Camilla Dallerup, Jan Harvey, ...

Alison Peebles, Isabella Jarrett, Nicola Jo Cully, Kirtsy McDuff, Mark Toddie, Kim Allan, Sarah-Louise Cairney, Charlotte Baker, Lara Jo Bazzu, Joanne Bell, Holly ...

A new charity supporting the work of the Council-owned Lagganlia Centre for Outdoor Learning was launched earlier today at Edinburgh City Chambers. ‘Friends of Lagganlia’ will raise funds to help with ...

Nordic and Baltic choral music speaks clearly and deeply to the twenty-first century soul. Its mystery and clarity, its enfolding of the traditional and the innovative carry the listener from the ...

Illyria was the name of part of the western Balkans in ancient times. Given its turbulent history then and in subsequent centuries, when Viola, in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ asks ‘…what should I do ...

It’s not an Edinburgh Festival, unless everybody is invited. At a time where people and arts organisations are struggling to make ends meet, as shown by the struggles in recent years of the Festival ...