Edinburgh International Festival

The original "official" festival

In what is now the eighth partnership between them and Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre…
Another festival - Edinburgh Guide's 18th festival - has officially drawn to a close marked by last night's…
The Edinburgh International Festival draws to a close tonight with the traditional Festival Fireworks finale…
A seemingly nervous conductor squeezes himself along the front row of the auditorium before falling into the…
At the end of the UK premiere of ‘Kairos’ last night, Ballett Zurich received a standing ovation from the…
A black-clad man sits centre stage playing harpsichord while the sound of wind and rain clawing at unseen…
Situated in Old College, the Playfair Library is the most sumptuous environment for Rudolf Buchbinder to have…
Sounding brass and clashing cymbals!
Dame Mitsuko Uchida was the pianist in this recital of compositions by Schubert and Beethoven.
Alasdair Gray’s seminal Scottish novel Lanark: A Life in Four Books dared within its pages to create a…
Anna Calvi stands transfixed in spotlights while shredding electricity from her fingertips like a Young God…
This is one of those "only in Edinburgh" moments. A brass band floats down the Union Canal in Edinburgh…
Lo Real is an intense and uncomfortable theatrical experience that apparently does not appeal to everyone.
Iván Fischer makes you look and listen to opera differently by knitting music and the theatre more closely.
James Hogg’s 1824 novel Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been described as “stunningly duplicitous”.…
Mozart is believed to have visited Prague three times. His Symphony No 38 was first performed there on his…
Last night’s concert with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the second of its two EIF concerts, featured…
It's late and the lighting in The Hub theatre is so dim that it becomes impossible to read the free…
Robert Lepage and his creative team, collectively known as Ex Machina, reconstruct memories from his past in…
Failing to fall asleep is young Tommy, tormented by nightmares not of monsters but of the death of his mother…