Edinburgh
Dan Arborise, The Roxy Room, EdinburghWednesday, 21 April 2010
Sometimes the back story doesn’t lead you to where you expect it might. Sometimes that turns out to be a good thing. Dan Arborise was born in Borneo to Polish parents, which opens up all sorts of musical possibilities, most of them probably far less... Read more... |
New World theme for Edinburgh International Festival 2010Wednesday, 17 March 2010Jonathan Mills has announced the programme for Edinburgh International Festival 2010, on a theme of modern culture in the New Worlds of the Americas and Australasia. Ranging from California to Canberra, New York to New Zealand, from Santiago to... Read more... |
Karine Polwart, Roxy Art House, EdinburghFriday, 12 March 2010
If ever there was a classic case of artist and audience meeting on terribly comfortable ground, Karine Polwart's performance at last night’s fundraiser for the Green Party was it. Held in a beautiful converted church, there was more than a trace of... Read more... |
First Aid Kit, Sneaky Pete's, EdinburghFriday, 19 February 2010
There is something eternally refreshing about catching a band on the first show of their first tour after the release of their first album. Banter remains untarnished by overuse; smiles appear spontaneous and gratitude genuine; mistakes are swatted... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright David GreigSaturday, 06 February 2010
A new play by David Greig opens at the Hampstead Theatre for the Royal Shakespeare Company next week. A theatre director as well as playwright, Greig (b. 1969) is one of the most prolific and artistically ambitious playwrights of his generation and... Read more... |
Midsummer, Soho TheatreWednesday, 13 January 2010
David Greig’s delightful Midsummer (a play with songs), opened at the Traverse in Edinburgh in 2008, was revived for last year’s Fringe and now provides a warming tonic for frozen winter nights in London. A knowing, modern romcom about two... Read more... |
Don't Mention the RBS in EdinburghTuesday, 22 December 2009
It was a month before Christmas and I was watching venerable folkies the Battlefield Band at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall. Halfway through their set they played “Robber Barons”, a new song about the nefarious medieval practice of German feudal lords... Read more... |
Kim Noble, Soho TheatreThursday, 10 December 2009
‘'You must see this show!” “You must not go to this show!” Faced with those exhortations from friends and colleagues who had already seen (and been quite shocked by) it, I of course go to Kim Noble Will Die at the Soho Theatre. I was trepidatious... Read more... |
LAU, Queen’s Hall, EdinburghSunday, 06 December 2009
While we’re busy falling over ourselves in the rush to laud the latest beard-and-guitar export from Wisconsin tundra or Williamsburg tenement, it’s easier than ever to undervalue home-grown talent. Lau formed in 2006, a coming together of three... Read more... |
The Stefan Golaszewski Plays, Bush TheatreSaturday, 05 December 2009
Passion, pain and loss: they are companions in life more faithful than many a lover. This duo of solo dramas by Stefan Golaszewski, which opened last night in London after success in Edinburgh, turns its perceptive gaze upon them through the eyes of... Read more... |
Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine: A passionate love letter re-openedSaturday, 22 July 2006
"It was more than just 'I love you'," Suzanne Farrell, America's nonpareil ballerina, the love and inspiration of 20th-century ballet's greatest choreographer, is telling me at breakfast in a little bar in Lee, Massachusetts. "When people ask me to... Read more... |
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