Jillian Edelstein
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Hal Cruttenden, Pleasance Courtyard ★★...

You know those people who claim to literally only like the very first music a band does at the start of their career, then kind “Meh” decades-...
Two quirky concertos – one for orchestra, though it might also be called a sinfonietta – and a big symphony: best of British but, more important,...

"I feel I owe you an explanation." That much James Thierrée concedes partway through his sprawling, freewheeling, dream-like, hallucinatory ...

The year 2024 will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of the phenomenal Gabriel Fauré. For Tristan Raës and me, who have been...

Randy Feltface, Assembly George Square ★★...

It is quite some years, if not decades, since the Edinburgh Interntional Festival had any claim to be a festival of staged opera. This year we...

Buster Keaton made his name in a series of two-reel shorts made from 1917 onwards; The Saphead, from 1920, was his first starring...

“Variety is the spice of life! Vive la difference!,” chirrups the ensemble at the end of this giddying double bill. And there could hardly be more...

The gifted writer-director Stefan...