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Piano Concertos by Candlelight: Rachmaninoff 2, St. Vincent’s Chapel, Review
1+ week, 3+ day ago (341+ words) Set against the glow of hundreds of candles at St Vincent's, the concert is performed in the charming setting of the historic Church. The pianist, Matthew Shiel, renowned for a repertoire from classical to jazz and film music, is joined…...
Edinburgh Festival Director, Nicola Benedetti: "Culture Gives Us Hope"
1+ week, 5+ day ago (601+ words) As the curtain fell on the 2026 Edinburgh International Festival on Sunday, festival director Nicola Benedetti reflected on the potency and importance of the annual cultural infusion into the city’s blood-stream. “This year’s Festival theme, All Rise, was a rallying cry…...
EIF26, Berliner Philharmoniker: Elgar & Tchaikovsky, Usher Hall, Review
1+ week, 6+ day ago (395+ words) With the double bass players already at their instruments, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker quietly and efficiently moved to their desks to be followed by their First Concertmaster. Without delay, on came Kirill Petrenko to conduct two very well known…...
Edinburgh Comedy Award Winners 2026 Announced
2+ week, 15+ hour ago (905+ words) Chris Cantrill and Marty Gleeson were announced as winners of this year's prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards tonight. The Audible Best Comedy Show went to Chris Cantrill for Rewilding, a ‘twisted tale’ about how life in Cantrill’s peaceful countryside community was…...
Mina Liccione: Arabized, C Arts Online, Review
2+ week, 4+ day ago (70+ words) Mina Liccione is a New York comedian / dancer who moved to Dubai and encountered all forms ‘cultural mishaps, decolonisation, and discovering the Habibi way’! She has foundered Dubomedy - a school for comedy and played a major role in developing the…...
1 King 2 Princes and Shakespeare’s Lie, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, Review
2+ week, 5+ day ago (315+ words) EdinburghGuide.com 1 King 2 Princes and Shakespeare’s Lie, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, Review Richard III is famously portrayed as an evil villain by Shakespeare but through Andrew Slade’s meticulous research and solo performance, we learn that the truth is something vastly different....
Atomic Tales, Zoo Playground (1), Review
2+ week, 6+ day ago (351+ words) As Lyudmila emerges from a hazmat suit, so does her story. Vines cover the chairs and table in her abandoned Pripyat home. She moves them aside, sits quietly, pensively, and with delicate movements puts her wedding ring back on. Then…...
Atticwife, theSpace @ Niddry St, Review
2+ week, 6+ day ago (414+ words) Atticwife dives headfirst with a scathing look into the problematically popular “trad-wife” phenomenon in which primarily (young, white) women are eschewing careers, education, and often their own friends and family in order to serve and submit to their husbands - and…...
Helen Bradley, Pleasance Courtyard, Review
2+ week, 6+ day ago (153+ words) Kara Wilson has created her own unique style of one woman Fringe shows with her series of Painter Plays, previously portraying Beryl Cook and Vanessa Bell. This year, she has selected the artist, Helen Bradley, whose vivid, figurative landscapes capture…...
After Shakespeare, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, Review
3+ week, 6+ hour ago (238+ words) EdinburghGuide.com After Shakespeare, theSpace @ Symposium Hall, Review Looking at four key characters from Shakespeare, Lexi Wolfe explores and brings to life the elements of these characters that we do not see from Shakespeare’s own original text. This is a…...