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‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ Review: Gayle Rankin’s Magnetic Turn

Reviving Muriel Spark’s famous Edinburgh schoolteacher carries the risk of slipping into knowing, witty nostalgia. The new National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum, and Pitlochry…

Dirty Dancing UK Tour Review: All the Moves, None of the Magic

Years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe, in one of the funniest comedy hours I’ve ever seen, Zak Splijt’s alter-ego LJ Da Funk joked that Dirty…

Connor Burns on Bypassing the BBC to Conquer Live UK Comedy

Reader, let me level with you: I didn’t review Connor Burns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, though not for lack of trying! I requested…

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From the Arctic to Antarctica: Barbara Rae’s new RSA exhibition

Dame Barbara Rae is not a painter of traditional, untouched vistas. Her focus has always been on the human history layered within a landscape. Having…

Camille O’Sullivan & Earl Slick on Their Union Chapel Reunion

Thirteen years after they first shared a stage, Camille O’Sullivan and legendary Bowie guitarist Earl Slick are reuniting for a pair of highly anticipated shows…

Connor Burns on Bypassing the BBC to Conquer Live UK Comedy

Reader, let me level with you: I didn’t review Connor Burns at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, though not for lack of trying! I requested…

Voila! Theatre Festival 2026: The Women Breaking London’s Borders

‘There are less and less opportunities for us to experience together, and this rising isolation contributes to stereotypes and prejudices becoming established opinions’, says Katharina…

Inside Operation Mincemeat: The WWII musical conquering the UK

As the Olivier and Tony Award-winning musical arrives for its highly anticipated Scottish dates, cast members Christian Andrews and Charlotte Hanna-Williams discuss the emotional reality…

Sisterhood Under Siege: The Cast of ‘Girls’ at the Young Vic

‘I don’t think many people can pull on their own lived experiences,’ said Tara Tijani. ‘But I think we can use our lived experiences of…

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Welcome to the Fringe Palestine Launches 2027 Open Call

Following a revived iteration in 2025, the Welcome to the Fringe Palestine initiative is set to return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2027. Organisers…

EdFringe Review: Salome – Oscar Wilde’s Tragedy Lost to Fringe Abstraction

Condensing Oscar Wilde’s febrile tragedy Salome into a thirty-minute solo sprint is an ambitious gambit. Staged by international collective Changing Perspectives, this physical theatre adaptation…

EdFringe Review: Desperate Wee Gay Boy

We start with Ollie (Fraser Kelsey, also writer), a bright-faced young lad partying his life away in a London club far from his native Scotland…