Archive for 2024
Open Fund is back
£6.6M reinstated with Creative Scotland review
Creative Scotland has committed to reinstate the Open Fund for Individuals, while reporting an “unprecedented” number of applications, amounting to almost twice its annual allocation, since the fund’s shock closure in August.
Moulin Rouge! Tix on sale
World tour sets off from Edinburgh Playhouse, April 2025
Tickets go on sale at 12 noon, this Thursday 5 September for the eight week run of Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Edinburgh Playhouse, which opens in April 2025.
Æ at the 2024 Summer Festivals
All Edinburgh Theatre’s coverage of the 2024 festivals
Edinburgh’s theatre makers excelled themselves this year, with over 180 theatre, musical theatre, children’s theatre and dance shows at the Fringe. Which is a wonderful testament to the theatre bones of the city.
An A-Z of #MadeInEdinburgh EdFringe 2024 reviews
All the reviews in a big alphabetical list
Here, because it might be useful, is a big alphabetical list of links to all our reviews of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 and EIF that were Made in Edinburgh.
Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Mark Howie
Lung Ha at 40
To mark its 40th anniversary, Lung Ha theatre commissioned a series of portraits of the 25-strong company from Edinburgh-based photographer Peter Dibdin. We are publishing a new portrait every fortnight. Today our spotlight is on Lung Ha actor Mark Howie.
Book Festival: Final round-up
Performance and discussion at the Futures Institute
The Book Festival closed its first year at the Futures Institute with the normal eclectic mix of events. The centrepiece of the second week as far as performance was concerned had to be Justified Sinner – New Myths. Writer Kirsty Logan, folksinger Kirsty Law and harpist Esther Swift came together for an intriguing combination of story, music and visuals.
It’s a wrap
#NoArtWithoutArtists as EdFringe posts 2.6 million tix
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has posted near-final figures of 2.6 million tickets issued for EdFringe 2024, along with a severe warning from Chief Executive Shona McCarthy against boring and elitist art.
A Girl Gets Naked In This
★★★★☆ Intimate and raw
A Girl Gets Naked In This from St Andrews-based People You Know, is a series of raw monologues about sex from nine young women’s perspectives. While all of the monologues are broadly about sex, they manage to cover a lot of ground – the good, the bad, and the mohawked.
Trainspotting Live
★★★★★ Visceral
Overstimulating, intense, shocking, and emotional, Trainspotting Live at Pleasance at EICC isn’t afraid to take it too far – and has become a sensation by doing just that.
Book Festival round-up part 2
Writing and performance from all corners of Scotland
Now firmly at home in the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Book Festival continues to feature theatre-related events, performances and much else of interest.
