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Festival Theatre

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Can't Smile Without You »

'Can't Smile Without You'

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Sometimes one enters a theatrical show with a completely open mind; at other times it is with a conviction that the show in question is going to be bad – but there is a subtle difference, and a gratification, in finding out whether it will be &ls...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

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Lesley Garrett & Carousel

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Carousel, the second of the acclaimed musical collaborations between Rodgers and Hammerstein, tells of the turbulent relationship between day-dreaming Julie Jordan (Alexandra Silber) and Billy Bigelow (Jeremiah James), a brooding carousel worker. After...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Claire L Jarvis | Read more »

Scottish Ballet: Autumn Season 2008 »

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Ashley Page, artistic director of the Scottish National Ballet, opens his Autumn season via the public address system. He's asking for assistance in raising £400,000 to help re-locate the ballet to its new home at Glasgow's Tramway. In return, he...

Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Ella Hickson | Read more »

Come with us now on a journey through time and space... »

The Mighty Boosh

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“How does it feel to be number one, Edinburgh?” Noel Fielding asks the packed Festival Theatre audience. A wall of deafening screams is his reply, which can probably be interpreted as a positive response. It's fitting that the Mighty Boosh have ch...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Chris McCall | Read more »

Theatrical by convention »

The Penny Dreadfuls: Aeneas Faversham Forever

Edinburgh's busy seasonThe Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe may be over but there’s no rest for the keen theatregoer. The Lyceum Theatre opens its 08/09 season on Friday 12th September with its production of Macb...

Fri 19 Sep 2008 by Lucy Jackson | Read more »

Lloyd-Webber's lost musical »

Shona Lyndsay & David Essex

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Aspects of Love is one of the lesser known of Andrew Lloyd-Webber's musicals and as it focuses on the darker side of love—envy and adultery—it is easy to see why: Starlight Express it ain't. Of all the aspects of love, it is love's conqueri...

Thu 14 Feb 2008 by Rosie Hedger | Read more »

Rambert Dance Company prove they're still one of the best »

Rambert Dance Company's expressive movements captured in a moment.

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Rambert have the reputation of being one of the best dance companies in Britain, and their World View Tour 2007 is everything contemporary dance ought to be: emotional, theatrical, and accessible to a lay audience. The evening's programme consists of f...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Colleen Patterson | Read more »

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