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Filmhouse reopened on Friday after an eventful last 3 years. Where there were 3 screens there will be four. 🤩🎉

Refurbished Edinburgh Filmhouse To Open Tomorrow After three years, Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema is reopening to the public tomorrow, Friday 27 June.

After the Night Afore show was cancelled, Hot Dub Time Machine to play Hogmanay night at Assembly Hall on The Mound.

Hot Dub Time Machine - It Is On! After extreme weather force the late cancellation of the Night Afore Disco Party, Hot Dub Time Machine will play an indoor gig on Hogmanay Night itself

Major Hogmanay events cancelled due to the weather. Indoor events are not impacted.

High Winds Shut Down Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party and Outdoor Events Edinburgh's Hogmanay organiser Unique Assembly has announced that the festival's main outdoor events have been cancelled due to public safety concerns over the bad weather.

The Torchlight Procession was cancelled for the first time ever due to bad weather, but organisers are confident that the worst will be over in time for the Street Party.

Questions Asked as Torchlight Procession Cancelled Due to High Winds The iconic, opening event of Edinburgh’s four-day Hogmanay Festival was cancelled earlier tonight due to high winds.

The "King's Panto" (temporarily staged in the Festival Theatre this year) is as traditional a part of Christmas now as mince pies. Read Viv's review of this year's show - Cinderella.

Cinderella, 2024, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Review The legendary ‘King’s Theatre’ Pantomime, (temporarily staged at the Festival Theatre), once again adapts a favourite fairy tale with a modern Scottified sc

Panto season is upon us! Always popular, is the 's Christmas Show which this year is Treasure Island. Read Dominic's review below.

Treasure Island (2024), Royal Lyceum Theatre, Review Piracy is a formidable ol’ career.

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The outgoing Chief Executive for the Fringe Society (the public face of the Fringe) issues a call for action, in the organisation's annual review of the year.

Outgoing Edinburgh Fringe Boss Urges Action To Prevent Its Decline Outgoing Fringe Society Chief Executive Shona McCarthy has reiterated her message that the Fringe, and the cultural sector at large, need much more support to navigate through their currently “peri

Edinburgh Castle spotlights some of the more colourful aspects of Scottish history for "Castle of Light", a dramatic illuminated tour in the most popular paid attraction in Scotland.

Edinburgh Castle: Castle of Light Castle of Light returns with a new show for a fifth year in 2024, transforming Edinburgh Castle's walls, buildings and ramparts with projected light and sound into a 60-minute h

Opening: Christmas at the Botanics is a 90-minute, illuminated trail that runs at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from now until the end of December.

Christmas at the Botanics Christmas in the Botanics returns for its annual winter trail with new light installations and visual effects.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival started last night and continues til the 21st August. Here's EG's review of the Orkney-set opening film.

EIFF Opening Film: The Outrun, Review Amy Liptot's book The Outrun, charting her personal struggle with alcoholism, has two adaptations premiering in Edinburgh this August.

Reviews are coming in on EG. Here's one of renowned mentalist, Colin Cloud:

Colin Cloud: Consequences, Underbelly Bristo Square, Review Midway through his new Fringe show, local-boy-done-well Colin Cloud shares a story from his armchair about how he became a mind-reader. It’s a card trick his grandfather used to perform on him as a boy, over and over again, and it set him on course from a shy boy growing up in Harthill to an inter...