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The Grand Old Opera House Hotel, by Isobel McArthur, will get its world premiere at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in August.

Theatre-maker Isobel McArthur on her new operatic comedy set in a haunted hotel

Cameron Fulton and Sean Connor in Sean and Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Theatre reviews: Sean And Daro Flake It 'Til They Make It | The Other Side Of T...

Theatre reviews: Stornoway, Quebec Traverse, Edinburgh | Scots Oran Mor, Glasg...

Aminita Francis is superb as Henreitta Lacks in Family Tree

Theatre review: Family Tree | Wish You Were Dead

Bailey Newsome and Richard Conlon in Write-Off PIC: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan

Theatre reviews: Write Off | Class Act

Poor Thing by Vox Muziek Theatre

Theatre reviews: Love Beyond | Poor Thing | Fantastic Life of Minnie Rubinski

Jersey Boys PIC: Birgit + Ralf Brinkhoff

Theatre reviews: Jersey Boys | Tam O'Shanter – Tales & Whisky

Once Upon a Snowstorm PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Theatre reviews: Once Upon a Snowstorm | Red Riding Hood

Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith has been honoured with a lifetime achiement award for his contribution to Scottish literature. Picture: Kirsty Anderson

Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith gets lifetime achievement award

Abigail Dooley and Emma Edwards in Witch Hunt

Witch Hunt: 'It’s really about embracing your crone'

5. Anna Russell-Martin and Habiba Saleh in Exodus. PIC: Tim Morozzo

Fringe theatre reviews: Exodus | Silkworm | Bogeyman | The Last Return

Anna Russell-Martinand Sophie Steer play Tobi Tucker and Phoebe Bernays in Exodus at the Traverse. Picture: Tim Morozzo

Festival Diary: Move over Malcolm Tucker and make way for Phoebe Bernays

The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Picture: Sally Jubb

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Traverse reveals 2022 programme

Barnaby Power and Steven McNicoll star in the new production of Laurel & Hardy at the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh PIC: Alan McCredie

Laurel and Hardy: The best play about the best comedy duo in history

The Infernal Serpent

Theatre reviews: The Infernal Serpent | The White Chip

Birdboy PIC: Luca Truffarelli

Theatre reviews: Birdboy | Little Murmur | The Hope River Girls | Hermit

Milkshake at Oran Mor

Theatre reviews: Milkshake | Human Nurture

Janie Thomson as Aggy in Yes! Yes! UCS! PIC: Townsend Theatre Productions

Theatre reviews: Yes! Yes! UCS! | Class Act 30th Anniversary

Edinburgh's Greg McHugh

Traverse Theatre’s Class Act brings Greg McHugh full circle

Fruitmarket Gallery. Picture: Chris Scott

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Michael Dylan as Calvin in Wilf, by James Ley

Theatre reviews: Wilf | Hansel & Gretel

Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon of Wonder Fools

Positive Stories For Negative Times: Pandemic theatre project enters second seas...

Domhnall Gleeson in Medicine

EIF theatre review: Medicine, Traverse Theatre

Arthur Parsons and Adam Fullick from experimental acrobatic circus company Barely Methodical Troupe limber up at George Square Gardens. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Edinburgh Festival Fringe chief warns event may take five years to fully recover

Simon Callow will be appearing at the Traverse Theatre as part of its Shedinburgh strand this month.

Edinburgh festivals: Simon Callow to appear as part of 'Shedinburgh' showcase

A new outdoor venue is being created on the roof of the Castle Terrace car park and will be run jointly by Gilded Balloon, the Traverse, Dance Base and Zoo.

Edinburgh's festivals: The best new locations where events are being staged

The Burke and Hare lap dancing club will feature in the Fringe "walking play" Eavesdropping. Picture: Jon Savage

Fringe walking play to take audiences to city’s lap dancing quarter

Queues outside the Pleasance on a normal year.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021: How to buy tickets and what’s on

Paul Brennan launched Dine with Stuart Muir in 2015.

Scottish restaurant hits out after losing £3000 in a night over no-shows

Scotland's own Alan Cumming will be bringing his new cabaret show to the Festival.

Edinburgh International Festival: When is it, what's on, and how to buy tickets?

Lament for Sheku Bayoh PIC: Mihaela Bodlovic

Edinburgh International Festival preview: Theatre

The Traverse Theatre has been one of the mainstays of the Fringe since the early 1960s. Picture: Stuart Montgomery

Indoor and outdoor Fringe shows set to be staged by Traverse Theatre

Jim Haynes back at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016 after his counter-cultural pioneering in the 1960s, bringing radical literature to the city and co-founding the Traverse Theatre (Picture: Awakening/Getty Images)

RIP Jim Haynes, once the grooviest man in Scotland – Aidan Smith

Jim Haynes

Obituary: Jim Haynes, co-founder of Scotland's visionary Traverse Theatre

Jessica Hardwick

The Scotsman Sessions #164: Jessica Hardwick

Jim Haynes moved to Paris in 1969.

11 photos celebrating the life and times of counter-culture icon Jim Haynes

Jim Haynes during a visit to the Edinburgh Festival in 2009. Picture: Neil Hanna

Tributes paid to Jim Haynes after death of Traverse Theatre founder

Scott Silven in The Journey

Theatre Review: The Journey, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Dritan Kastrati

The Scotsman Sessions #139: Dritan Kastrati

Beats is part of Shedinburgh Fringe Festival.

Edinburgh Fringe theatre reviews: Beats | Quarter Life Crisis | Labels

Declan is available for audiences to experience through the Traverse Theatre and Edinburgh International Festival websites for a limited period from Monday, August 24.

Edinburgh International Festival review: Declan

Honeyblood on stage at Leith Theatre for this year's Edinburgh International Festival programme.

Festival chief pledges shake-up to support local culture

Traverse theatre celebrates 50-years with new plays

Traverse Theatre at 50: Vision was to showcase works by Capital playwrights

50 plays to be performed in one night to celebrate birthday of Traverse

Arts blog: ‘Perhaps there aren’t more Scots in arts jobs because they work elsew...

Theatre review: Ménage à Trois, Traverse Theatre

South African Fringe hit wins prestigious transfer to New York

Imaginate Festival preview: Making theatre child’s play

Theatre preview: Imagine Festival highlights

Theatre reviews: Could You Please Look into the Camera | Write Here

Festival preview: Manipulate - Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh

Theatre reviews: Dinnerladies/Pobby and Dingan/Heaven

Interview: Sandy McDade - Potential to get married to a postman

Cordelia Oliver

Fringe 2009: 'We have to get to the essence of things quickly'

The Scotsman Top Stories

The sister of Sheku Bayoh, Kadi Johnston (centre) and Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar (right) during a anti-racism and anti-fascist march in Glasgow,

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What is institutional racism and what does it mean for Police Scotland?

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