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THE Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) has suffered a 3.3 per cent drop at the box office since last year’s record-breaking event, organisers have admitted.
A LEADING Australian businessman has revealed he has helped to bankroll this year’s Edinburgh International Festival to the tune of £200,000.
A REWORKING of Faust by the veteran Scottish author Alasdair Gray, brought to life by a cast of literary superstars, last night brought the Edinburgh International Book Festival to an unforgettable...
EDINBURGH Festival Fringe organisers are celebrating record-breaking box office success for the third year in a row.
What were the highlights and low points of this year's festival?
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AT THE end of what has been a genuinely successful music programme at the Usher Hall – EIF director Jonathan Mills’ best so far – the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra’s closing concert, under its s...
Last year was a bumper one for outstanding performances of Chopin’s piano music to mark the composer’s bicentenary.
OF ALL the shows in all the festivals in Edinburgh this August, this was the one I wanted to like the most. Ea Sola’s 2011 re-creation of her 1995 work Drought and Rain is embedded with so much pai...
CHOREOGRAPHER Shen Wei travelled to Tibet, Cambodia and China before creating the three works that make up Re-Triptych.
AS SHE LAUNCHED straight into Seven Early Songs by Alban Berg on Thursday evening, it was immediately evident there was no messing with Karita Mattila.
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TODAY I will deliver a lecture at the Edinburgh Book Festival that I first gave as the WG Sebald Memorial Lecture, in London, in January of 2010.
How has this year’s Fringe been for you? It seems to have been a success, given your nomination for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award...
Tim Key’s Masterslut is a cool hybrid of poetry, stand-up and character comedy, with a bit of stalls scaling thrown in, writes Bruce Dessau
AN Wilson has a string of biographies in his back catalogue, but none of those writers has fired his imagination in the same way as his latest subject, hears David R...
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