Theatre
Theatre Review: The Pitmen Painters, Edinburgh
FIRST performed in 2007, under a Labour government, it is no doubt a grave disappointment to Lee Hall that his most recent play has acquired greater relevance in the intervening years.
Paul Kieve talks about special effects and magic of Ghost
THE mysterious art of the illusionist lies at the heart of Ghost, which floats onto the Playhouse stage today, for a three-week haunting.
Preview: Deathtrap, Pleasance Theatre
THEATRE Broad bring Ira Levin’s ingeniously constructed Deathtrap to the Pleasance Theatre tomorrow, for one night only.
Edinburgh People’s Theatre celebrate 70 years
EVENING News Drama Award-winners Edinburgh People’s Theatre celebrate an impressive milestone in 2013 - it was 70 years ago that the then fledgling club tentatively trod the boards for the first time.
Downton Abbey’s Elizabeth McGovern to play Fringe
DOWNTON Abbey’s lady of the manor, actress Elizabeth McGovern, is to make her Fringe debut at this year’s Festival, the Evening News can reveal today.
Preview: La traviata, King’s Theatre
IT’S a big week for Edinburgh Grand Opera (EGO) who take to the stage of the King’s Theatre this week in the ever popular operatic classic La Traviata.
Review: Thriller Live, Edinburgh
AS an opener, five lads with bushy afro hairstyles belt out the Jackson 5’s 1970 number one hit ABC.
Ian Rankin working on first play for Royal Lyceum
HE MADE his name bringing the dark underbelly of the Athens of the North to the page with his gritty Inspector Rebus novels.
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Jane McCarry talks of sectarian study in The Sash
‘DESPITE its title, The Sash really is for anyone,” insists Still Game favourite Jane McCarry, who returns to the Capital this week in Rapture Theatre Company’s production of Hector MacMillan’s 1973 bittersweet study of sectarianism, The Sash.
Theatre review: The Woman in Black, King’s Theatre
IF The Mousetrap, as the longest running play staged in London, is the Everest of West End theatre, then The Woman In Black is K2.
And like K2, The Woman In Black is a far more compelling, frightening creature than its better known front-runner.
Theatre preview: The Woman in Black, King’s Theatre
HARRY Potter star Daniel Radcliffe may well have sent a chill or two down your spine as Arthur Kipps in the recent movie version of The Woman In Black but, take my word for it, nothing prepares you for Susan Hill’s original stage play which is guaranteed to make audiences jump screaming from their seats in terror.
2 commentsTheatre review: A Doll’s House, Royal Lyceum
FIRST staged in 1879, Henrik Ibsen’s original play was heavy going. However, in this National Theatre of Scotland adaptation of A Doll’s House, Edinburgh-based playwright and director Zinnie Harris lifts the story by placing it in Edwardian London.
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Sunday 19 May 2013
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