Archive for January, 2021
Whose Festival Is It Anyway?
Cockburn conference questions role of the Festivals in Edinburgh
The news this week that the Book Festival is to move from its original home in Charlotte Square to the Art College is a timely reminder of the impermanence of our annual cultural binge.
Lyceum’s L20 artists
All 21 Lyceum L20 artists announced
The Lyceum has announced the 21 creatives have been invited to join the pilot year of its multi-discipline artists attachment programme, L20, which will run through 2021.
Islander on Radio 4
Award-winning musical hits the airwaves
Amy Draper’s two-hander musical Islander, a sell-out hit at the Fringe of 2019, has had a new interpretation for radio and is available on BBC Sounds.
Bookfest Moves
Bookfest to move to College of Art
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is to make a permanent move to the Edinburgh College of Art on Lauriston Place from this year’s event, running Sat 14 to Mon 30 August 2021.
Andy Gray RIP
Panto pal dies
All Edinburgh Theatre is devastated to have to report the death of Andy Gray, the star of many King’s Theatre pantomimes.
Lyceum extends Xmas
Xmas shows available through January
The Lyceum has extended the on-demand availability of its twelve Christmas Tales through to the end of January.
Cap Theatres new £800K Covid funds
Capital Theatres gets share of extra £3m Scot Gov funding
Capital Theatres is one of three Scottish performing arts organisations to benefit from their share of £3 million additional emergency Covid-19 support.
Lyceum’s home theatre experience
Sound Stage offers “at home theatre experience”
A new play by Mark Ravenhill is to open Sound Stage, the Lyceum’s latest experimental online theatre season of eight new premieres from leading Scottish and British playwrights, presented in an immersive audio theatre setting.
Bedknobs & Broomsticks for Fest Theatre
World Premiere adaptation tours to Edinburgh in 2022
The new musical production of Bedknobs and Broomsticks is set to tour to Edinburgh’s Festival theatre in 2022, after visiting Glasgow’s King’s in November this year.
Remembering Andy Gray
Memories of the comic genius who was Andy Gray
The news of Andy Gray’s death over the weekend has prompted an outpouring of sorrow, all the more heartfelt because the memories of those who knew him are so joyful.