Join us as we highlight reviews from the world of music, opera, dance theatre and film.
Review: Continuing Edinburgh International Festival’s impressive contingent of contemporary music, international vocal duo Ibeyi lift spirits through the power of song at Leith Theatre.
Review: Muster Station: Leith is the final commission from Edinburgh International Festival’s four-year residency at Leith Academy – a powerful theatre experience from award-winning theatre company Grid Iron.
Review: One room bursts into life in a dizzying series of chaotic illusions and surreal mayhem in James Thierree’s ROOM, at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Review: Liz Lochhead’s bold, brave and blackly humorous adaptation of the timeless Greek tragedy as a 21st century feminist morality play.
Review: Artmag attended the world premiere of Coppélia at Edinburgh International Festival before it goes on tour to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Review: In what looks set to be the band’s final tour, Sons of Kemet’s Edinburgh International Festival show delivers an explosive hour and a half of ecstatic energy and breathtaking musicianship.
Review: Edinburgh International Festival presents Chineke! chamber ensemble’s thrilling display of extraordinary, ethnically-diverse classical musical talent, featuring a truly intercontinental programme.
Review: Made in Stirling Store’s exhibition of Beatles memorabilia was the setting for a specially-written supporting performance.
Review: Impossible to describe in anything other than modern-legendary terms, enduring jazz pianist Herbie Hancock visits the Edinburgh International Festival with a set including glowing career highlights.
Review: Physicality and humour combine with technical accomplishment in Alan Cumming’s one-man journey through the life of poet Robert Burns.
Review: Artist and playwright John Byrne revisits early-1960’s Paisley in Underwood Lane, inspired by his late friend Gerry Rafferty, and a companion piece to The Slab Boys.
Review: Edinburgh’s Jazz & Blues Festival presents the stellar veteran jazz guitarist John Scofield and his trio, reworking standards from his native America, by Leonard Bernstein, Neil Young, Jimmy Webb, and The Grateful Dead, among others.
Review: SCENA Theatre’s one-man production of Franz Kafka’s commentary on ‘civilisation’ and its relationship to animals is based on a fascinating premise.
Review: The intricacies of relationships cut across one family’s navigation of death, violence, race and systemic injustice in The Fellowship, at London’s Hampstead Theatre.
Review: A Southall beauty salon is the setting for an examination of life in mid-1960s London for South Asian and Sikh women, in Hampstead Theatre’s production of Tamasha theatre company’s ‘Lotus Beauty’.
Review: London’s Royal Court Theatre offers a futuristic history of Palestine’s contested land and legacies from a surprising perspective.
Review: Acclaimed veteran rock guitarist Jeff Beck brings his mighty six-string skills to Glasgow – and introduces his not-so-secret star frontman.
Review: The popular ABBA jukebox musical shines just as brightly as the films, with the magical sparkle of the Swedish pop group’s biggest hits.
Review: Pepa Duarte’s one-woman show is an examination of the rich joys of food – and its obsessional, personal aspect of body-image.
Review: Ellen Kent’s touring production of Bizet’s classic opera brings the full flavour of southern Spain to a full Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Review: In its debut as a touring show, the award-winning hit podcast Table Manners arrives in Edinburgh, with special guest Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Review: Part-oral history project, and part-verbatim theatre, Tsunagu bridges Britain and Japan by storytelling – in theatre and by exhibition – in Shoreditch, London.
Review: The popular coming-of-age stage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is a frantic celebration of individuality and drag culture.
Review: Based on the 2007 movie of the same name, Waitress is the ultimate story about a small-town girl with big dreams.
