Lung Ha at 40: Spotlight on… Lewis Drummond
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 Lewis Drummond.
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.
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.
Conspiracy
★★★★★ Bureaucratic nightmare
Conspiracy, a co-production between Edinburgh-based grassroots companies Strawmoddie and RFT, is a chilling and almost obscenely mundane account of the Wannsee Conference, held in a Berlin suburb in January 1942.
The Devil Went Down to Gorgie
★★★☆☆ Nae fearties
New grassroots company Pasuz Productions play everything just about right for their debut production, The Devil Went Down to Gorgie a piece of comedy horror framed in a dreadful office-workers bonding day, playing the West Port Oracle for the final week of the Fringe.
Macbeth & Dunsinane
Macbeth: ★★★☆☆ Speedy
Dunsinane: ★★★★☆ Bloody
A Necessary Cat have done it again – bringing a powerful double helping of a Shakespeare starter and Shakespeare-adjacent main course to the Fringe in which the whole is better the sum of its parts.
