Hit the Groove Running: Orchestra Baobab at the Hub, Edinburgh
29 August 2026
Review: the long-established Orchestra Baobab bring their infectious West African rhythms to Edinburgh International Festival.
Performing Arts
Join us as we highlight the news and reviews from the world of music, opera, dance theatre, screenings and more.
State Circus: Clown Show at King’s Theatre Edinburgh
28 August 2026
Review: on the 250th anniversary of the founding of modern America, its descent into the ludicrous is highlighted by New York-based clown Geoff Sobelle and his company, in a world premiere spectacular at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Deliver on the Promise: corto.alto at The Hub, Edinburgh
19 August 2026
Review: Edinburgh’s Hub hosts a dizzying set from acclaimed Scottish jazz-electronic project corto.alto.
Scottish Ensemble’s Summer Nights Return
28 May 2026
16 – 20 June: Scottish Ensemble’s Concerts for a Summer’s Night series returns for 2026, promising vibrant strings and dancing rhythms in radiant venues.
Lone Wolf at the Feast: The Bacchae Reimagined
21 April 2026
Until 23 May: Scottish theatre company Company of Wolves is touring the country with a radical reimagination of Euripides’ perennial drama The Bacchae.
Vive La Déferlance: Quebec Comes to Òran Mór for Celtic Connections
27 January 2026
Review: La Déferlance from Quebec step-up to fill a last-minute vacancy at Òran Mór for Celtic Connections, alongside Scottish electro-folk quartet Birdvox.
Baiuca and Malin Lewis Bring the Energy at Celtic Connections
24 January 2026
Review: Dazzling Scottish multi-instrumentalist Malin Lewis and the Galician rhythms and dance electronica of Baiuca light-up Glasgow St Lukes for Celtic Connections.
In Shostakovich’s Defiant Footsteps: Aurora Orchestra at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall
19 August 2025
Review: Playing from memory, out among the audience, Aurora Orchestra play Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, and examine the story behind it.
Cutting Through: Alabaster DePlume at The Hub
10 August 2025
Review: Edinburgh’s Hub hosts improvisational saxophonist, spoken-word poet and activist Alabaster DePlume’s fusion of creative music-making and political passion.
Festival Theatre Edinburgh’s Bank Balancing-Act
4 August 2025
Review: Edinburgh International Festival’s flagship production at the Festival Theatre, Make It Happen combines boardroom drama and the truth coming home to bite.
Quadrophenia: the Album, the Film, Now the Ballet, at Edinburgh Festival Theatre
10 June 2025
10 – 14 June: Pete Townshend’s 1973 rock masterpiece Quadrophenia, which spawned the 1979 film, is now a ballet, staged by Sadler’s Wells, with June dates at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre.
Invitation to Join Maria MacDonell’s Art-Life
19 May 2025
Written and performed by Maria MacDonell, ‘LIFE’ is touring Scottish theatres, with the opportunity for the audience to join-in by painting and drawing on-stage.
Music Festival Continues Govan’s Upward Direction
20 March 2025
26 – 29 March: the Govan district in Glasgow continues its cultural renaissance as Govan Music Festival returns for its fourth annual edition.
From Bulgaria with Love at Kelvingrove
3 February 2025
Review: The warmest of welcomes for the staggering polyphonic vocals of Bulgarian Voices, visiting Celtic Connections at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove.
On Your Feet! Femi Kuti at Celtic Connections
31 January 2025
Review: Femi Kuti and his band’s joyously infectious Afro-beat gets folk up and dancing at Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall.
Give the People What They Want: corto.alto’s Celtic Collective
20 January 2025
Review: The corto.alto project brought together an almighty collective experience at Glasgow’s Barrowland for Celtic Connections on Sat 18th Jan, in the festival’s first weekend.
Bringing Folk Together: Celtic Connections 2025
19 December 2024
Having grown from relatively modest beginnings in 1994, Celtic Connections is the world’s premier folk and roots music festival, this year welcoming around 1,200 musicians and artists from 20 countries for 300 events in 25 venues across Glasgow.
Thinking Outside the Box at at Studio Theatre Edinburgh
10 December 2024
In a beautiful production taking ordinary objects and making them extraordinary and magical, Barrowland Ballet return to Edinburgh’s The Studio theatre with their award-winning production, The Gift.
Never Growing Up at King’s Theatre Glasgow
7 December 2024
Review: Glasgow pantomime legends Elaine C Smith, Darren Brownlie and Jonny Mac are back, bringing Peter Pan to the stage once more.
The Weekend Means Music: The Soundhouse Winter Festival
29 November 2024
A new music festival has kicked-off in Edinburgh: The Soundhouse Winter Festival features big names alongside up-and-coming artists from across Scotland.
You Shall Go to the Panto: Edinburgh Festival Theatre’s Cinderella
26 November 2024
Edinburgh’s Christmas-Hogmanay pantomime returns with a reliably spectacular family panto, Cinderella.
Basquiat and Cage Return to Fruitmarket Edinburgh in Deep Time
19 November 2024
The festival of new music Deep Time returns to Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket, inspired by composer John Cage and artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who made their marks there 1984.
Mist & Wing Single Takes Off
16 November 2024
Scottish Country-folk duo Mist & Wing – Alan and Grace Murray – are launching a new single, Fade, with a short Scottish tour.
Aladdin at Theatre Royal, Glasgow
12 November 2024
Review: Aladdin has boarded the magic carpet and arrived in Glasgow (in style!)
