1+ week, 4+ day ago   (136+ words) Like so many people around the world, Kento Morita was not able to attend his grandma's funeral due to COVID-19 travel restrictions; unlike most people, he created a deeply heartfelt and year uproariously funny piece of performance art to atone…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (305+ words) If you think you know the Scottish play, think again. In ‘Mrs Macbeth,’ Shakespeare’s tale of treason and treachery is retold through the eyes and ears of Lady Macbeth’s loyal Gentlewoman, a minor character in the sleepwalking scene, Act V,…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (389+ words) There is something tangibly ominous from the very beginning of Mere Mortals, as if humanity has stepped into a man-made machine that it no longer controls. In this dark, surreal reimagining of Pandora’s Box, choreographer Aszure Barton sets the ancient…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (80+ words) The journey shows Miriam through a journey of impending loss, grief and guilt. She asks the question all parents ask when their children go down the wrong path: ‘What did I do wrong?’ It's a powerful, heart-rending and haunting portrayal…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (234+ words) Belief takes physical form in Groupwork’s haunting fusion of theatre, dance, film and sound. Inspired by the true story of an American 1950s UFO doomsday cult, the production enters the fragile territory between certainty and doubt, where faith can become stronger…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (234+ words) Belief takes physical form in Groupwork’s haunting fusion of theatre, dance, film and sound. Inspired by the true story of an American 1950s UFO doomsday cult, the production enters the fragile territory between certainty and doubt, where faith can become stronger…...

2+ week, 1+ day 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…...

2+ week, 5+ 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…...