Edinburgh International Festival
The original "official" festival
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…
A loving and moving cinematic tribute to Scots at work and play.
This flagship drama of the 2015 EIF, with screen star Juliet Binoche in a leading role, was highly…
For twenty five minutes Scottish percussionist Colin Curry mesmerised the audience as he seemingly pranced…
Hervé Niquet conducted his five choirs, forty voices in all, accompanied by cornett, dulcians, sackbutts,…
After the fun of the night before when the lit-up and musical Usher Hall was the focal point of the…
Performer and musicologist Jordi Savall has almost ten years on this reviewer.
Théâtre de Complicité was co-founded by actor and director Simon McBurney in 1983, a Lecoq-inspired company…
Put Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh in the same space and watch the sparks fly.
Musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) are being encouraged to leave the car and take…
The Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has announced a high profile array of performers for its Edinburgh…