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EDINBURGH City Council has admitted it is still trying to get to the root of power problems at Usher Hall - after the last-minute cancellation of a festival show last night.
COMEDY promoter Tommy Sheppard has admitted mistakes were made over the opening weekend at the new-look Assembly Rooms after the venue was inundated with complaints about overcrowded foyer areas, l...
THE Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has suffered a 3.3 per cent drop at the box office since last year’s record-breaking event, organisers have admitted.
A LEADING Australian businessman has revealed he has helped to bankroll this year’s Edinburgh International Festival to the tune of £200,000.
A REWORKING of Faust by the veteran Scottish author Alasdair Gray, brought to life by a cast of literary superstars, last night brought the Edinburgh International Book Festival to an unforgettable...
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UNIQUE is a grossly overused and even more grossly misused word – which I am about to use.
A CHURCH hall provides the site-specific location for the new play by Edinburgh-based Nutshell, whose Fringe First-winning Allotment makes a return to the festival this year.
IN A SENSE, we are all familiar with images of death in recent wars across the Middle East; of people shot by snipers in narrow streets between white walls, or bayoneted to oblivion in small concre...
IT WAS about 11:30pm on a still, mild night when my group reached the summit of Arthur’s Seat, and stood for a few minutes on that slippery knoll of rock, while light skeins of haar blew in from th...
HOW do you weave together the Arab Spring, the study of ants and the repatriation of museum artefacts with a lost coal miner, nuclear waste and the dying days of empire? Very cleverly, if you’re Cu...
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Fulfilling a long-held ambition, Angelin Preljocaj has brought his ground-breaking contemporary dance company to Edinburgh. Kelly Apter hears how the founder turned heads at the Bolshoi Ballet and ...
GREG Proops is back at the Fringe, ready to prove what anyone who has downloaded his podcasts already knows – that he’s the smartest man in the world.
BENJAMIN Wood’s debut novel is an ambitious exploration of doubt, hope and faith.
AFTER a 15-year break, The Lumberjacks are back with their infectious three-for-the-price-of-one formula. They take a trip down memory lane with Kate Copstick
A NEW episode in the history of iconic Arthur’s Seat will be written by the thousands who take part in the art project Speed of Light, writes Susan Mans?eld
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