Theatre Royal

News in Brief

9 Jul 2009

Scottish opera, in collaboration with the RSAMD, is piloting a new programme to help graduate singers launch their careers. The Emerging Artists programme will offer graduates a wide range of opportunities over the year to help them at the start of…

A View From the Bridge

28 May 2009

One of the gifts that made Arthur Miller such a significant dramatic writer was his ability to capture the world of Greek tragedy – on the face of it an unfamiliar theatrical landscape with its dark blood feuds, incest and primal passions – and make it…

Scottish Ballet Spring Season

2 Apr 2009

BALLET With the news that Scottish Ballet is returning to the Edinburgh International Festival this year, and its new home at Tramway nearing completion, the company has never been in finer fettle. When he first arrived at Scottish Ballet, artistic…

Cabaret

2 Apr 2009

MUSICAL Kander and Ebb’s signature musical beautifully harnesses source material by Christopher Isherwood to recreate the exhilarating debauchery of Weimar Berlin, shot through with punchy reminders of the Nazis’ rise to power. This award-winning…

Ross Noble - Things Change

19 Mar 2009

Despite just losing his farm in Australia to the recent bush fires and flying into the UK on the morning of this interview, Ross Noble maintains he’s completely primed for questioning. ‘Oh, wait, I’ve put too much pressure on myself,’ the Geordie comic…

Raising the curtain

15 Sep 2008

The List steps out from the wings and showcases the very best performance spaces and cherry picks the shows you cannot afford to miss.

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The best events, talks and sport

31 Aug 2006

GB V Netherlands Top level basketball returns to Scotland for the first time in 30 years, as the GB Men’s team play against the Netherlands in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. Meadowbank Sports Centre, 139 London Road, Sat 9 Sep. Look Who’s…