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Goh has managed to establish good international art relations, including with the Edinburgh Festival of the UK, one of most prestigious art festivals in the world that attracted more than one million visitors last year ... It's possible in the next events, Singaporean performances, including Awaking, could be staged at the Edinburgh Festival as promised by its director Jonathan Mills, who watched the show in Singapore. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Britons may be jailed if relatives from abroad overstay Jun 26, 2008
The immigration minister also confirmed yesterday that professional and amateur sports people and entertainers who come to Britain to perform at one-off events such as Wimbledon, the Edinburgh festival or the Olympics will be exempted from the new points-based immigration system. They will be able to enter Britain on a special six-month sports visitor or entertainer visa. (guardian.co.uk)
In the name of the mothers Jun 20, 2008
Ten Tiny Toes was born after Wilson's previous script - she was the lead writer on Unprotected, a widely praised verbatim docu-drama based on more than 1,000 interviews with residents, politicians, police, clients and workers in the Liverpool sex industry - won the Amnesty award for Freedom of Speech at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival. Born in the north-west, Wilson, who has spent most of her life in Liverpool and has two grown-up sons, was an actor and university drama teacher before winning a BBC... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Interview: Joan Rivers lets rip after her Loose Women TV swearing row Jun 19, 2008
"Still, it's all good publicity for her upcoming 75-date UK tour with her autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work In Progress By A Life In Progress.It hilariously presents the Joan we all know from her TV appearances and live shows, and it also movingly reveals the woman behind the public face.The break-up with Johnny Carson is there, her husband's suicide, the feuds, firings, back-stabbings and full-frontal calamities. Before coming to London's West End, it will debut at the Edinburgh... (Mirror.co.uk)
Broadway actor to direct local ‘Suessical’ production Jun 18, 2008
Also Off-Broadway, Kevin was an original cast memeber of the rock musical Hedwig and The Angry in the title role and went on to open companies in Boston, The Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and an extended 8 month run at The Victoria Theatre in San Fransisco. On Television Kevin portrayed Ross Rothman on ABC s Six Degrees , Kermit Jones on AMC s The Royale and has guest starred on Cantebury s Law , Hope and Faith , Law and Order , and Law and Order:Criminal Intent. (The Citizen - online, TX)
Edward Norton, Paul McCartney, Snoop Dogg Jun 17, 2008
New York theatergoers have become used to hits from the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe coming to New York ... The Edinburgh festival runs Aug. 3 to 25. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'It's in the blood' Jun 15, 2008
Since taking the Edinburgh festival by storm, Black Watch has been applauded around the world ... A production of the National Theatre of Scotland, it opened to wonderful notices at the Edinburgh festival in 2006. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
S'pore Arts Fest plans more tie-ups with Edinburgh International Fest Jun 14, 2008
Singapore hopes to tap on other festivals such as the Book and Fringe Festivals that run concurrently in Scotland as the Edinburgh festival - so it can promote more Singaporean content. ADVERTISEMENT. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Connery 'exclusive' headlines Edinburgh festival Jun 13, 2008
Lindesay Irvine and agenciesThursday June 12, 2008. Sir Salman Rushdie will be playing a second fiddle to Sir Sean Connery at this year's Edinburgh International book festival, organisers have announced. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Is the Magnetic North Theatre Festival cursed? Jun 11, 2008
And the artistic quality has been consistently high, with Volcano Theatre's production of Michael Redhill's Goodness, winner of the Carol Tambor Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, the latest of the 10 shows to open. And the turnout has been excellent, despite the unseasonably cold weather in Vancouver. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Let's not lose our sense of humour over comedy 'superleague' Jun 8, 2008
In any case, the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe is a series of concentric circles, each containing another layer of hierarchy, so the Comedy Festival has always existed in all but name. Maybe the unilateral decision on the part of the four venues is a bit high-handed, but the hunger for comedy at the Fringe will ensure the other venues won't suffer. (guardian.co.uk)
Fringe venue chief threatens to pull out Jun 7, 2008
" Steve Cardownie, the city's festivals champion, dismissed claims of a lack of consultation as "complete nonsense" and said the council would be happy to put the right to run the Assembly Rooms during the Fringe out to tender. The full article contains 237 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper. Page 1 of 1 Last Updated: 06 June 2008 10:17 PM Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh Related Topics: Bookmark: Labour Sleeze Reporter, 07/06/2008 08:13:06 So Burdett-Coutts wants to leave the... (Scotsman)
Comedy preview Jun 7, 2008
This Tuesday, Manchester-residing geordie comic Jason Cook brings his My Confessions show along on the short walk from his house to Bar XS. My Confessions was one of the most critically overlooked shows at last year's Edinburgh festival, mixing old-school comedy sensibilities with the pathos of Jason's experience of his dad having a stroke. This is an emotional rollercoaster of a show: you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll want to ring your dad and tell him you love him. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Week 1: So to speak Jun 7, 2008
He is scornful of student thespians visiting the Edinburgh festival, "zit-encrusted squeaky-voiced wankers playing oot a miserable pretension tae the arts". But he knows the names of the Brecht plays that they put on. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
This time it's serious, say festival organisers Jun 6, 2008
But performers at this year's Edinburgh festival fringe are also exploring the darker realities of the modern world and the downside of MySpace. In this year's Fringe lineup, released earlier today, theatre companies are focusing on London's brief burst of euphoria between winning the 2012 Olympics and the July bombings, Westerners shopping for cosmetic surgery in Iran, the deaths of recruits at Deepcut barracks and the fate of thousands of Britons still living in caravans after last year's... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
No laughing matter as venues attacked for festival 'breakaway' Jun 4, 2008
"Daniel Kitson, comedian, said: "The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is, to my mind, the greatest festival in the world and its open ethos is more under threat this year than ever, due to the collusion of four major venues in what is little more than a divisive and self-serving exercise in sponsorship chasing. " The full article contains 785 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper. Page 1 of 1 Last Updated: 03 June 2008 10:13 PM Source: The Scotsman Location: Edinburgh Related Topics: , Bookmark:... (Scotsman)
LET'S GET LIPPY May 30, 2008
After this event determines a comedy king or queen of San Francisco, Joke-e-oke is off to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and the Montreal Comedy Festival. Angry Waiter's Harmon Leon (author of the new book "The Brothers Rjukerooka") and Hal Phillips host. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Laughter trackHow comedians are using podcasts to reach wider audiences May 22, 2008
" For the past two summers Walsh has overseen regular podcasts featuring performers from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, while Skinner will return to The Times next month with "lots of video reporting" from Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. 'Easy to do' Back at Time Out, Tim Arthur considers the explosion of comedy podcasts to be "a sign of how healthy things are", rather than a threat to the live scene. Robin Ince won a Time Out Award for his live stand-up show The Book Club "Comedians have... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
James Dunn loves the stage too much to exit it May 18, 2008
After a few years teaching high school, he was offered the job at College of Marin, which led to a career in which he ran a professional company in the South Bay for four summers, taught at Juilliard and has directed at American Conservatory Theater, the Old Globe, Denver Center Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival, including a command performance for Princess Margaret. Meanwhile he was creating a junior college theater program that became something of a legend, both for its shows - including the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Leyla Gencer May 13, 2008 Sponsors for performers scrapped May 8, 2008 Edinburgh festival unveils lineup May 8, 2008 Malthouse program brings out the critics May 5, 2008 Down south, the play's the thing making it swing May 2, 2008 S.F. Ballet: 2003-2008 Apr 20, 2008 Paradise regained in Liverpool Apr 13, 2008 The real tartan army Apr 13, 2008 'Daily Show' Correspondent John Oliver Stars in His First-Ever COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Original Stand-Up Special 'John Oliver: Terrifying Times' World Premiering Sunday, April 20 at 10:00 P.M.* Apr 10, 2008 'What I'm not is a cheery person' Apr 5, 2008 Lofty lineup Apr 3, 2008 Beyond a joke Apr 1, 2008 Tram route shops feel the pinch Mar 31, 2008 Rep Stage show offers pleasure with the 'Pain' Mar 28, 2008 Cosmetic surgeryCrafting a new body for actress Natasha Wood Mar 22, 2008 Urinal For An Experience Mar 20, 2008 'Stuff Happens' in Poland Mar 7, 2008 Obituary: Giuseppe di Stefano Mar 4, 2008 CanStage to work with three other companies Feb 28, 2008 'Ring Round the Moon': Anouilh revival is lacking in style Feb 26, 2008 'UK TV industry ignoring Asian talent' Feb 26, 2008 Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth' Feb 25, 2008 GABE VALASCO and Paige Haber star as Oliver and... Feb 19, 2008 Obituary: Miles Kington Feb 1, 2008 Passion aplenty, now for substance Jan 29, 2008 How was your Sydney Festival? Jan 29, 2008 Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters Jan 29, 2008 Local comedian is taking his show down under. Jan 25, 2008 Comic king in exileHow Holland's top stand-up came to wow British audiences Jan 18, 2008 More than meets the eye for these transformers Jan 9, 2008 TimelineA look at Kenny Richey's 20 years behind bars Jan 8, 2008 Interview: Culture secretary James Purnell Jan 5, 2008 Perfectly Blunt Dec 30, 2007 Further honour for actor McKellen Dec 29, 2007 2007 in the arts Dec 29, 2007 Here, kitty kitty Dec 28, 2007 Gig-a-day ukulele player to complete musical journey Dec 28, 2007 Star qualityThe life and times of actress Pat Kirkwood, who has died aged 86 Dec 26, 2007 Musical star Pat Kirkwood, 86, dies Dec 26, 2007 Duckie: A 'postgay' club show crosses the Atlantic Dec 17, 2007 Fight for tickets Dec 8, 2007 Angry young men Dec 8, 2007 Christians seek right to sue BBC for blasphemy Nov 20, 2007 The name's Norton. Graham Norton. Nov 19, 2007 My Booky Wook Nov 14, 2007 Volvo Cars of North America Present Humanitarian Award to Screenwriter/Philanthropist, Richard Curtis Nov 3, 2007 Naked Samoans Go Home Nov 2, 2007 Gotta sing, gotta dance Nov 2, 2007 Kubrick: a marketing odyssey Nov 2, 2007 While Labour howls, the union is busy disintegrating Oct 31, 2007 How Nuts cracked a new medium Oct 29, 2007 * Messing about with 'The Bard' Oct 26, 2007 Actor Patrick Mynhardt dies Oct 26, 2007 To Tell These War Stories, Words Arent Enough Oct 25, 2007 Lifting the curtain Oct 24, 2007 Pinky and Perky in TV comeback Oct 13, 2007 Not just a real stand-up guy Oct 7, 2007 N. Springs troupe invited to Scotland Oct 7, 2007 Scotland must grow tourist trade by 50%, ministers say Oct 7, 2007 Opera's Runnicles to lead BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Oct 3, 2007 * Festival walks the tightrope of artistic fusion Sep 28, 2007 'The only way to deal with tragedy is to laugh at it' Sep 25, 2007 The air this week Sep 12, 2007 Retirement present Sep 8, 2007 Lord of the dance Sep 8, 2007
Gencer's most memorable UK appearances were undoubtedly in the title role of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1969. The sparks that flew on stage in the confrontation - historically absurd but dramatically thrilling - when Gencer as Mary Stuart ripped off her glove and flung it in the face of Shirley Verrett as Elizabeth I at the words, "Vil bastarda" will surely live in the memory of all who witnessed it. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Get down with the kids ... May 10, 2008
Eco-friendly family fun is presented on the solar-powered Firefly fringe stage, featuring a range of theatrical and cabaret acts, the selection inspired by the multi-disciplinary lunacy of the Edinburgh festival fringe. What happens to the solar-powered stage if, weather-wise, this summer is like the last one. (Guardian Unlimited)
Thousands of performers at the Edinburgh Festival, including the Fringe, will not need an official sponsor this year ... Jon MorganEdinburgh Festival Fringe director ... Jon Morgan, Edinburgh Festival Fringe director, said: "We have been working closely with the Scotland Office and the UK Border Agency towards a favourable outcome which recognises the cultural and economic impact that the Edinburgh Festival Fringe brings, not only to Edinburgh and Scotland but to the UK as a whole. "We look... (BBC News)
Premieres include 'Faintheart,' 'Summer' By Posted: Wed. May 7, 2008, 7:24am PT. (Variety)
He says the company is in talks with interstate companies, as well as London's Barbican Centre and the Edinburgh Festival about taking shows abroad after 2008. He believes his strongest legacy is the improvement of the Malthouse's production strengths, reducing the risk involved in presenting new work. (The Age)
Far from the urbane comfort of the Wharf or the Opera House the critics reported enthusiastically on a performance that had been arranged by Simon Hinton, Merrigong's artistic director and chief executive officer, literally days after he had seen Township Stories at the Edinburgh Festival. "I saw it at the festival," says Hinton as we sit in the art centre's coffee lounge, "and I wanted it. I really wanted it for Merrigong and that agreement happened very quickly. I think it is an extraordinary... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Traveling troupe: Trips include Paris, Greece, the Edinburgh Festival, New York and a special one for Tomasson as the San Francisco Ballet performs in his native Iceland, where he receives the Grand Cross of the Order of the Falcon. In London, the troupe gets the Laurence Olivier Award for its 2004 performance at Sadler's Wells theater. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
When heard, for the first time, as readings at last year's Edinburgh Festival, this series of 20-minute, rapidly written plays had the frisson of unusual timing. They were put on daily at breakfast, and designed (as plays hardly ever are) to be taken on the hoof, as snacks on the way to bigger feasts. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
An Edinburgh Festival hit in 2006, it has been touring the world ever since to rave reviews. As the show returns home to Scotland to kick off a UK tour, Euan Ferguson traces its global appeal and its cast and creators tell their amazing story. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Before coming to New York City, he worked as a stand-up comedian around the UK, entertaining and irritating audiences in equal measure for many years and regularly took shows to the prestigious Edinburgh Festival. When "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" came knocking at his door in 2006, Oliver flung it open and jumped into its arms with a relish which made all parties slightly uncomfortable. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
"For three years, from 1996, she worked as an inept receptionist for an American pensions company by day and did stand-up by night. Her colleagues supported her throughout, made allowances for her, covered for her when necessary. When she made it to the Edinburgh festival, they came along to cheer her all the way. She admits she is nostalgic for those days - "It is more exciting when there is everything to play for than when you're in the game. Things start to go right and you become less happy. (Guardian Unlimited)
Edinburgh festival reflects changing face of Europe - and beyond ... This is the second Edinburgh festival programmed by Australian artistic director Jonathan Mills, who took on the role as a rank outsider for the job in late 2006. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
He has also done two seasons acting at the Edinburgh festival, which for an old-school comedian was "like going into comedy Mordor", and this month he will star in a new production of the festival hit Eurobeat - Almost Eurovision, a song-contest parody and interactive musical, in Wimbledon. In a reality television era that has been unforgiving to the old variety and light entertainment troupers, Dennis's dogged survival could be down to his charm and ability to make people like him, and feel... (Guardian Unlimited)
We are going to have to work even longer hours during the Edinburgh Festival when the road is open again to make up some of the loss. " Some shoppers who use the street have also voiced concerns about the effect of the roadworks. Betty MacInnes, 78, from Dalkeith, said: "I was travelling by bus to Shandwick Place to buy some towels when it changed direction and drove right past. (BBC News -- UK)
The work made its debut at the Edinburgh Festival, where it garnered the First Fringe Award. When it moved off-Broadway, actor James Urbaniak was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performance. (Columbia Flier, MD)
She and her plastic surgeon have built up such a relationship over the years that she includes his character in her one- woman autobiographical show, Rolling with Laughter, which was a hit at the Edinburgh Festival. Mr Perks, a member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) said he had been inspired by dealing with Natasha. (BBC News -- UK)
"Some people from the Edinburgh Festival saw it, and then we moved to . . . a bigger toilet," jokes playwright Paul Walker. Now it's moved here, after two years of untangling the bureaucratic red tape that comes with staging a play in one of New York City's public restrooms. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Pittsburgh theater has had a lot of that, with Quantum Theatre and Squonk Opera joining PICT in touring, and Unseam'd Shakespeare, barebones and Kuntu venturing to the Edinburgh Festival. But Paul had to get used to working with a European company, where the actors usually rehearse for 12 weeks (he had only seven, generous by American standards) and seemed to take cigarette breaks every half hour. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Indeed, he did not do so until he sang Nemorino at the Edinburgh Festival with the Piccolo Scala in 1957, and his first Covent Garden appearance came even later, as Cavaradossi, in Tosca, in 1961, when his voice was already beginning to show signs of decline. He sang only once more in the house, as Rodolfo in a revival of La Bohme in 1963, to be replaced - significantly - by the then little-known Luciano Pavarotti. (Guardian Unlimited)
And Studio 180 will deliver the Canadian premiere of Blackbird, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival and London's West End. Meanwhile, in addition to its annual Dream in High Park Shakespeare production (A Midsummer Night's Dream), CanStage will mount five shows at the Bluma. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Acclaimed on the fringe of last summer's Edinburgh Festival, the writer Fiona Evans has alit upon a hot-button topic: the sexual liaison between a teacher pushing 30 and a student about to turn 16 as their inevitably charged tryst is played out in a hotel room in Scarborough in northeast England, complete with plates of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana adorning the wall by way of "artwork." You enter the playing space through a pitch-perfect facsimile of a hotel corridor, at which... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Syal said she raised the issue in a speech at the Edinburgh festival 20 years ago, but she could make the same speech a 00004000 gain even now since nothing much has changed. Syal is widely known for her comedy acts in the popular television serials Goodness Gracious Me and Kumars at Number 42 , among others. (India Times, India)
Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth. By Sarah WomackLast Updated: 1:48am GMT 02/12/2006. (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)
These plays have been performed at the Questors Theatre in London and the Edinburgh Festival. The production looks at what happens when an earnest but amateur theater company takes on a selection of plays from some of the best known genres. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
He wrote one stage play, Waiting for Stoppard, a comedy for the Bristol New Vic in 1995, and a number of stage shows, with Simon Gilman, for the Edinburgh festival, and, for the radio, Death of Tchaikovsky - a Sherlock Holmes mystery, in 1996. That year he also became co-presenter, with Edward Enfield, of Double Vision. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Performed at the vast, atmospheric CarriageWorks, a venue that comes into its own at festival time, Black Watch was the most talked about show to come out of last year's Edinburgh Festival. It was destined to be at the top of Linehan's wish-list and gave this year's event a production of magnitude and note. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Black Watch wowed audiences and critics alike at Edinburgh Festival, with The Guardian's Michael Billington calling it. Both Brian Wilson and Bjork have toured before and easily managed to fill houses under their own steam. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Barr has received much acclaim for the show, both at the Edinburgh Festival in 2004 and at an off-Broadway festival a year later. But despite his talent and ear for colorful language - delivered in a thick Scottish brogue - the subject matter seems overly familiar in a city with no shortage of talkative cross dressers. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Scotlands Edinburgh Festival Fringe is prominent among international comedy festivals. Bruces domestic shows have already taken him to nearly every corner of the United States, but never California or New York City, where he said the comedy circuits are hard to break into. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
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Held within the Spiegeltent at Hyde Park, the scene duplicates the Spiegel Garden at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last August, where the Shuffle Club also played. Linehan attended the Edinburgh Festival and its fringe offshoot, praising both in a press article last year. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
She makes the appeal following an approach at the Edinburgh Festival by a group campaigning to free him. 3 May, 2003. (BBC News -- UK)
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is about to publish a review of public arts funding put together by Sir Brian McMaster, chairman of the National Opera Studio and a former director of the Edinburgh festival. Brimming with optimism - McMaster talks about a "new renaissance" - it hopes to usher in a new era in which the logic underlying public subsidy moves from "measurement to judgment", and the pursuit of targets (as seen in a long-standing focus on the arts appealing to certain... (Guardian Unlimited)
Blunt - who got her break when a high school play she starred in went to the Edinburgh Festival - knows how to avoid stereotypes. Although she's English - it's hard to tell with her faultless American movie accent - she knows that "when you've done a lot of period pieces and you're British, you can get seriously pigeon-holed. "English rose is a character description I see a lot, and it makes me cringe. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Homosexuality was implicit in the Edinburgh festival production which made him famous in 1969, Marlowe's Edward II. He performed in a touring production and then again for the BBC.. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Alan Cumming descending headfirst, a devilish Dionysus from heaven, in John Tiffany's carnivalesque production of The Bacchae at the Edinburgh Festival. Punchdrunk's outrageously creepy setting in a disused Wapping warehouse of its haunting version of Faust. (Guardian Unlimited)
" But the final punchline came when the mood struck her to get through the pleading "Ne Me Quitte Pas" or the sinister "The German Miserere," revealing a heartrending torch-song alto.The riotous act has made her a fixture on the festival circuit, with recent appearances at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Carnegie Hall's "Berlin in Lights" Festival, and the David Bowie-curated High Line Festival. She has also been tapped for an upcoming hush-hush project with a famed German dance... (Boston Globe)
The 27-year-old, from Glasgow, has played venues in New York, Nova Scotia and at the Edinburgh festival. Some of her performances were notched up in her living room, where the audience consisted of her pet cat - who does not like ukulele music. (BBC News -- UK)
One of the most fitting tributes paid to her in the latter stages of her career came when she performed in a revival of Pal Joey at the Edinburgh Festival in 1976. Daily Telegraph critic John Barber wrote: "All agreed we had not seen for a generation a woman with that easy, glorious command of the stage. "And since the music halls where she learned it have gone we may never see it again. (BBC News -- UK)
In 1976, her performance in a revival of Pal Joey at the Edinburgh Festival was received with critical acclaim. Copyright (c) Press Association Ltd. 2007, All Rights Reserved. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Supported by grants from the British Council and Arts Council England, "C'est Duckie!" has also played in Berlin and Tokyo, as well as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Sydney Opera House. Part of the appeal for the New York producers was the opportunity to do something big and splashy in a location away from PS 122's aging East Village building. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
What he does instead is give an insight into experiences unknown to the customary theatre audience, which became a hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Festival and which premieres in Australia in January as part of the Sydney Festival. The subject of Black Watch is that historic Scots regiment's controversial and deadly tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
" Instead, Burke spent his 20s losing himself in books and cinema -- director Spike Lee is a favourite -- while enduring the drudgery of a series of unsatisfying day jobs. Finally, at 29, he decided to put pen to paper after realising he couldn't keep watching television every night and complaining about how bad the writing was. The result was Gagarin Way, a play that might have ended up in the bin with so many other unsolicited manuscripts but for the fact Tiffany came across it, liked it and... (The Australian)
The British musical, based on the US television programme, was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002. It moved to the National Theatre in 2003, and then to the West End. (Guardian Unlimited)
Though there were still gruelling years waiting tables, he started doing radio and TV (he was Father Noel in Father Ted), and performing stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Festival (The Mother Teresa of Calcutta Farewell Tour; The Karen Carpenter Bar and Grill). Nominated for a Perrier, he stood in for Jack Doherty on his talk show and was voted best newcomer at the British Comedy Awards, the first of many gongs (he has since won several Baftas and an International Emmy). (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
It's obviously difficult to have a genuine friendship when one of you is on the telly and the other is a tramp: "He's a homeless person and I'm a glamorous TV presenter - we're the original odd couple!" Still, the fact that I had a drug problem meant that wherever I went in the world, from Havana to Ibiza to the mean streets of the Edinburgh Festival, I always had to seek out the poor and the dispossessed, as they are the people who generally know where the drugs are. George Orwell, in Homage to... (Guardian Unlimited)
New Zealand-born screenwriter Richard Curtis began his career at the 1979 Edinburgh Festival in Scotland where he received an offer for the BBC-2 series "Not the Nine O'Clock News." Since then, Curtis has collaborated with some of Britain's and America's biggest name actors and comedians, such as Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Andie MacDowell and longtime colleague and fellow Oxford alum Rowan Atkinson. In America, Curtis is most acknowledged for his... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
" The Naked Samoans' shows have had successful runs from Australasia to Europe. They proved the universality of their social satire and physical humour at the famed Edinburgh Festival Fringe. "That was awesome," Kightley says. "That was 2002 and it was our first time. It was interesting because, when you're from our part of the world, Edinburgh takes on some kind of mythical status because it's like the be-all and end-all. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
" He intimates that a work from that company, or from Robert Lepage, could be on the cards for 2009, which opens with Benedict Andrews's two-part version of Shakespeare's epic War of the Roses, featuring Cate Blanchett and the STC's Actors Company. The theatre offerings may be lean but 2008 boasts the Australian premiere of Black Watch by the National Theatre of Scotland, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival and a production that has rapidly become a landmark in Scottish theatre. Based on interviews... (Sydney Morning Herald)
I was at the Edinburgh festival, where Luck, Trust up, my documentary about Robert Altman, was being shown. I had sent him a copy and was eager for his thoughts. (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
This year's Edinburgh festival seemed for the first time to be in a country called Scotland, not in a part of Britain. Though the powers of the Scottish parliament are limited and its economic management dependent on London, the very existence of a parliament has drained accountability from the House of Commons to Holyrood. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
As they prepare to pack up and leave, a mild-mannered English comedian discovered at the Edinburgh Festival does a good turn as Connor the Aussie Barman, conducting a live interview with Towers of London frontman Donny Tourette, better known as Peaches Geldof's on-off boyfriend. Tourette has a reputation for expletive-ridden outbursts that delight the tabloids, but in person he is a polite, intelligent, middle-class musician who is playing the fame game well, feigning rebelliousness with a... (Guardian Unlimited -- Media)
Though South Korea's Yohangza Theater Company has comprehensively reworked the original to create something almost unrecognizable, its production retains the original's impish spirit, which made it the toast of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and one of the few foreign productions of Shakespeare to make it into the hallowed halls of London's Barbican Theater. For all its success, it's hard to understand what relationship Yohangza's production has to do with Shakespeare's play at all, other... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
He went on to work at repertory companies throughout England, and at the Richmond and Wimbledon theatres with West End plays at the Winter Garden and His Majesty's theatres, and appearances at the Edinburgh festival and in BBC plays and serials. He worked with, among others, Tyrone Power, Sir Donald Wolfitt, Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Sir Michael Caine and Dame Judy Dench. (iAfrica.com)
"Black Watch," a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, continues through Nov. 11 at St. Ann's Warehouse. By BEN BRANTLEY Published: October 24, 2007. (New York Times)
One was the end of national service: as the historian Christopher Lee points out, "The first teenagers since 1938 crossed into adult life at their own pace and in their own style." The other key event was a revue, Beyond the Fringe, shunted unceremoniously into a late-night slot at the Edinburgh festival. I was present at that sparsely attended first night at the Lyceum and remember a show that was a technical nightmare - I recall a sudden blackout in the midst of Alan Bennett's parodic sermon -... (Guardian Unlimited)
They include an adult show at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival entitled Sex, Drugs and Bacon Roll. Produced by Lupus Films, the new 52-part series will begin on CBBC towards the end of 2008. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
In August, he appeared at the Edinburgh Festival. Sahl's humour has lost nothing of its bite. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
This weekend and next, you can see why North Springs High School has been invited to Scotland s Edinburgh Festival Fringe - twice. The performing arts magnet school in Sandy Springs opens Bat Boy: The Musical tonight, and it s in the process of trying to raise $250,000 to take the show to the Fringe next summer. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Just for that I am coming to visit my homeland you"ll find me around Duart Castle and Lochbouie; where my anscestors mostly likely fought against yours. 49th State, musing about / 8:16am 5 Oct 2007 # 28And furthermore, who would want to visit the western isles just to see a bunch of small people sporting English derbys and trying to act like cowboys while riding shetland ponies? Conan, Moffat / 8:18am 5 Oct 2007 #29 - I cannot 'shake the hand' of someone who has so consistently and so... (Scotsman)
Runnicles' three-year contract, made public today, calls for a minimum of eight weeks with the Glasgow orchestra, as well as concerts at the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms series in London and other tour appearances. He succeeds Ilan Volkov, who has led the orchestra since 2003. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Notable among these is the Yohangza Company from South Korea, whose interpretation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was the toast of the Edinburgh Festival. It is also earned the honor of being the first Asian theater group to have been invited to perform Shakespeare at the Barbican Theater in London. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
At the Edinburgh Festival I apologised for Animal's constant use of the word that the dramatist Fletcher described as "sunt with a C, which is abominable". After the reading someone came up to me and said, "This is the 21st century. I think you're more shocked than we are.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
1:30 p.m. Robert Spano/BBC Scottish SO at Edinburgh Festival: Bernstein "Candide" (BBC Radio 3). 2 p.m. Simon Rattle/Berlin Philharmonic, live: Debussy, Stravinsky, Sibelius (Deutschlandradio Kultur). (Boston Globe)
But, as the creator of Rebus is our source for the rumour that Rowling is switching to detective fiction - at the Edinburgh festival he joked that Mrs Rankin saw her writing one in a caf; - it's possible that his next novels will involve boy wizards. Whatever he writes, it will be worth reading. (Guardian Unlimited)
David Greig, whose new version of The Bacchae swept the Edinburgh festival, explains why we need to listen to the words of Euripides now more than ever. Saturday September 8, 2007. (Guardian Unlimited)
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