Queen’s Hall

Compelling: Cowboy Junkies at Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, reviewed

9 May 2026 9:00 am

Anyone who was listening to independent music back in the 1980s and 1990s might find it surprising to learn which…

The decline of Edinburgh International Festival

23 August 2025 9:09 am

Edinburgh International Festival was established to champion the civilising power of European high culture in a spirit of postwar healing.…

West Side Story’s flick-knife-to-the-guts thrill never landed its final blow

17 August 2019 9:00 am

It was as though Damien Hirst had confessed a secret passion for Victorian watercolours, or Lars von Trier had admitted…

Magic in the air: Berlin Comic Opera’s exuberant ‘Magic Flute’ at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre

Shtumming the spiel

5 September 2015 9:00 am

London may cry foul over Hamlet’s misplaced to-be-ing and not-to-be-ing but Edinburgh is in raptures over a Magic Flute which…