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Opie has redefined portraiture by bringing overlooked communities into sharp focus.
Every year the festival attracts thousands of people to Scotland’s capital, but is the city able to harness this and improve it as a place to live?
There will be almost 3,000 shows playing at this year’s Fringe, which can feel a little daunting, especially for the first timer. Here’s how to get it right.
The survival of the Edinburgh International Festival, and others like it around the world, is testament to ingenuity of organisers and performers. But there’s no substitute for the live experience.
Brain games, learning languages, rowing? Beware of snake oil salesman claiming we know it all.
Mia: Daughters of Fortune is a powerful new play that puts this issue under the spotlight.
The protagonists in real-life dramas Adam and Eve both appear on stage.
The biggest arts festival in the world came from humble beginnings to lift post-war morale, and blossomed into the full-on arts extravaganza it is today.
New Mozart production set in 1930s Eritrea made headlines when ticket holders in Edinburgh were offered refunds – before the event.
Anything That Gives Off Light explores Scottishness from three very different perspectives.
Thick of It satirist’s MacTaggart lecture was a call for unity to secure British public broadcasting.
Positive stories about the mainstreaming of female comedians could become a smokescreen for an industry getting ever less diverse across a number of areas.
One of the highlights of this year’s Edinburgh festival, the confusion and uncertainty in James Hogg’s classic is all too familiar to us.
Darwin’s insights into life on Earth may have revolutionised biology, but scientists sometimes get carried away. It’s not the only game in town.
Bold programming at the Edinburgh Fringe challenges the engrained tick-box culture, which at its worst, serves only to pay lip service to diversity.
Far from supporting risk, the environment of the Fringe is increasingly one in which playing safe is the best way to avoid losing out.
Julia Donaldson’s tale of brains and brawn may only be 16 years old, but like Harry Potter it has joined the ranks of the all-time greats.
Among the 1,000 or so comedians who have been jostling for attention at this year’s Edinburgh festival fringe, two grabbed a disproportionate amount of headlines. Both occupy prime slots in big venues…
This year’s Edinburgh fringe has seen the UK premiere of Siddhartha: The Musical. The show is based on the classic novel Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature…
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