Scotland

Reviews

In Someone Else’s Shoes: Edinburgh’s Unexpected Summer

Hannah Price

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

28 September–25 October 2020

The Water Cooler

Uma Nada-Rajah

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

28 August–10 September 2020

Shielders

Matilda Ibini

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

27 August–2 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Matterhorn

Amy Rhianne Milton

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

27 August–9 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Doomsdays

Conor O’Loughlin

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

26 August–8 September 2020

Declan

Kieran Hurley

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

25 August–3 September 2020

Breakfast Plays: Rabbit Catcher

Rebecca Martin

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

25 August–7 September 2020

Removed

Fionnuala Kennedy

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

24–30 August 2020

Breakfast Plays: Contemporary Political Ethics (or, How to Cheat)

Jamie Cowan

Traverse Theatre

Traverse 3

24 August–6 September 2020

My Light Shines On: Ghost Light

Hope Dickson Leach

National Theatre of Scotland

Edinburgh Festival Theatre

From 8 August 2020

The Telephone

Gian Carlo Menotti

Scottish Opera

From 8 August 2020

Carmina Burana (excerpts)

Carl Orff

Edinburgh Festival Chorus

From 8 August 2020

News

Live performance returns to Scotland

4 October 2020

Dumfries and Galloway Council's funding sees live performance return to the region next year, National Theatre of Scotland augment their online programme with live streams, but horror from Edinburgh is delivered safely online.

Scotland's Capital Theatres get support for heritage properties

30 August 2020

The National Lottery Heritage Fund support will help towards maintenance costs of three cash-strapped heritage venues.

Scottish Opera to perform outdoors

28 August 2020

Scottish Opera has announced a programme of outdoor performances, including Puccini’s La bohème and Pop-up Opera performances of Don Giovanni, The Gondoliers and new work The Song of the Clyde.

Fringe Central goes virtual for 2020

5 August 2020

Fringe Central, the Fringe Society's hub for supporting participants in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, will this year reappear in an online form, like many of the productions in this year's Fringe.

EIF reveals digital line-up

5 August 2020

National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera and artists including Laurence Power, Aidan O'Rourke, Honeyblood and Breabach will work with Edinburgh International Festival on a new series of original digital content.

Edinburgh Book Festival goes online

31 July 2020

This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival will feature more than 140 online events over 17 days in August 2020.

theSpace launches online Edinburgh Fringe programme

29 July 2020

[email protected] will offer more than 80 shows online for free during August plus live shows every Saturday.

Features

Favourite theatres on death row and an extra-terrestrial solution

11 September 2020

Philip Fisher highlights the plight of the Finborough Theatre in London and some of Edinburgh's finest, while remaining cynical about the government's Moonshine project.