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59 Productions' Deep Time event at Edinburgh Castle, which opened the Edinburgh International Festival. Photo: Leo Warner 59 Productions' Deep Time event at Edinburgh Castle, which opened the Edinburgh International Festival. Photo: 59 Productions

Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual performing arts festival that takes place in Scotland’s capital city every August. Performances include opera, dance, spoken word, and theatre. The Festival occurs at the same time as the Edinburgh Fringe.

Edinburgh International Festival is facing a 10% cut to its grant from the city council, prompting fears of “accelerated decline”. The planned reduction, which would...

A “hostile immigration policy” is putting Edinburgh's festivals at risk, according to MSP Gordon Macdonald. Macdonald, who is the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, will...

The Edinburgh International Festival is expanding its remit to take on mid-scale work from a much broader geographical reach at this year's edition in...

Edinburgh's King's Theatre is to go dark for 23 months from September 2021 for a £20 million refurbishment that will protect the venue for...

Edinburgh International Festival has appointed Francesca Hegyi as its new executive director, from February 2019. She is taking over from Joanna Baker, who steps down...

Kwaku Mills worked in advertising before training at RADA and then landing his first professional job in the Unicorn Theatre’s production of The End...

A 200-seat studio theatre space is to be included in a new concert and performance venue being planned in Edinburgh's New Town. The £45 million...

Cleverly mixing contemporary and historical, director Stefan Herheim's take on Rossini's already heavily altered account of the Perrault fairytale puts the music (and composer)...

Edouard Louis was just 21 when he wrote The End of Eddy. It’s an astonishing work, an autobiographical chronicling of his childhood in a...
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