Richard Lewis
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
★★★★☆ Dark and epic
There’s a ghoulish and classic Penny Dreadful atmosphere to this epic tale of revenge, as Blackout Productions bring new life to Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, at the Church Hill Theatre until Saturday.
Culture Shock!
Culture convenor loses seat:
Richard Lewis, the City of Edinburgh Council’s convenor of its Culture and Sport Committee, has lost his seat in the council elections to Labour.
Underbelly gets Hogmanay
Unique Events loses out:
Underbelly has been announced as the winning bidder for both of Edinburgh’s major winter festivals: Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay.
£45K culture fund
Edinburgh Council launches performing arts fund:
A new £45,000 fund for Edinburgh-based performing arts artists and companies has opened for applications, with a cut-off date of Friday 10 March 2017.
Church Hill Hits 50
Happy Birthday Church Hill Theatre!
On Saturday 25 September, 1965, the Church Hill Theatre opened with the Scottish Community Drama Association production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.
Usher Hall seating to Church Hill
Church Hill refurb nears completion:
The Church Hill Theatre is to get up-cycled Usher Hall seating this summer as part of a £220,000 refurbishment and upgrade to Edinburgh’s community venue.
Octonauts
✭✭✭✩✩ Thrills spill:
Thrills, spills and exotic undersea animals are all present as expected as the Octonauts take their audience on a Deep Sea Volcano Adventure to explore, rescue and protect.
A kiss in the dreamhouse
Edinburgh Grand Opera stage Verdi’s La traviata – If tragic love is what you want, then it doesn’t come much more tragic than La traviata, Verdi’s opera about the courtesan Violetta and Alfredo, the young man she loves but has to give up.
King’s reopens with new seats installed
Bums will be more comfy on the seats of the King’s when it reopens for this year’s EIF, after being dark since the end of the panto in January.
