Joyce McMillan

Kieran Hodgson is among the contenders for the main prize in this year's Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

Festival Diary: Kieran Hodgson’s new ‘People Make Glasgow anthem’

Nicola Benedetti at the Edinburgh International Festival programme launch (pic: Mihaela Bodlovic)

Nicola Benedetti unable to sleep as Edinburgh International Festival director

Isobel McArthur wrote in Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) and starred in the Tron Theatre show alongside Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Christina Gordon, Tori Burgess and Meghan Tyler. Picture: Matt Crockett

Six venues set to share resources under Scottish theatre survival plan

Matthew Pidgeon and Omar Austin in the play Enough of Him. Picture: Sally Jubb

Play recalling slave who won bid for freedom in Scotland honoured at awards

Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti was interviewed by The Scotsman critic and commentator Joyce McMillan at The Hub. Picture: Scott Louden

Edinburgh International Festival: Nicola Benedetti reveals her 'biggest fear'

Game Of Thrones actor John Stahl has died at the age of 68, his agent has confirmed.

Tributes to Game of Thrones and Take the High Road actor

Ewan Miller, Laura Lovemore and Michael Guest appeared in Joke, at Oran Mor, in Glasgow.

Theatre company apologises after backlash over 'cancel culture' play

Contemporary Political Ethics (or How to Cheat), one of five Breakfast Plays appearing as a podcast at the Traverse.

Fringe theatre reviews: Traverse Breakfast Plays

An acrobatic launch for this year's Fringe programme. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Edinburgh’s festivals are loved by residents… and here’s why – Donald Anderson

Joyce McMillan: Don’t blame the festivals for Edinburgh’s problems

Everything Theresa May said about the UK in her address to the nation was nonsense (Picture: Jonathan Brady/WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Brexit: Tories have brought Union to brink of collapse – Joyce McMillan

Edinburgh's city centre is under increasing pressure from the wealthy, as well as the Festival. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Joyce McMillan: Edinburgh Festival is infected by the age of rage

St Margaret's House at Meadowbank has become a hive of creativity, but the artists based there are set to be evicted to make way for student flats.

Joyce McMillan: Scotland's cities are turning into theme parks

Margot Fonteyn performs at The Empire

Window to the world: Edinburgh Festival at 70

Co-director Forest Fringe director with colleagues Andy Field, Ira Brand and Deborah Pearson. Picture: Contributed

Leading Free Fringe promoters pull plug on programming shows

Theatre critics award contender Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour. Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic

Play about riotous schoolgirls in running for Scots theatre awards

A musical play about a group of schoolgirls running riot, a revival of the Samuel Beckett classic Waiting for Godot and an adaptation of Alasdair Gray's iconic novel Lanark are among the contenders for Scotland's annual theatre awards.

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Romeo and Juliet at the Festival Theatre. Picture: Ian Rutherford

Budget cuts to ‘force up Edinburgh theatre prices’

Cinderella to magically appear at Royal Lyceum