Joyce McMillan

Stef Smith on bringing a classic haunted house story to the stage

EIF Theatre Highlights: Joyce McMillan on the 2026 programme

EIF Dance Highlights: Kelly Apter on the 2026 programme

Finn and Lewis Den Hertog on making EIF show When Prophecy Fails

Frances Ruffelle in rehearsals for I Can Die Too with Flora Spencer-Longhurst on violin (Picture: Frederic Aranda)

Songbird Frances discovers a new voice

Theatre reviews: The Hen Night | My Romantic History

Edinburgh Children's Festival reviews: Toto Kerblammo! | Brrr | Gretel

Trams and buses service Edinburgh city centre (Picture: Neil Johnstone)

Readers' Letters: Scotland's transport network needs real coordination

Lærke Schjærff Engelbrecht in What I’m Here For

Scotland's theatre critics announce their nominations for top awards

What I'm Here For is a collaboration between Scottish and Danish theatre makers (Picture: Jacob Stage)

What I'm Here For review: 'Audience breathless after perfectly-shaped play'

The innovative staging of One Day at Edinburgh's Lyceum theatre. Pic: Mihaela Bodlovic

Arts diary: What 'the Scots' actually don't say in One Day

Four must-see shows at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Edinburgh International Festival 2026: 10 shows tipped by our critics

Mandipa Kabanda’s Joan of Arc is a thoroughly contemporary figure (Picture: Mihaela Bodlovic)

Theatre reviews: Saint Joan | The Events

A Play For Torry: looking for justice in the 'just transition'

2026 Arts Preview: The year ahead in theatre

The best theatre shows of 2025: Joyce McMillan picks her highlights

Helen Sharman returning from Mir in 1991.

Arts diary: Why I want to meet my festival space hero Jane Bradley

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage cast shade on Glasgow's migrant population (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Readers Letters: Farage scaremongering highlights important issue

Weans in the Wood at the Macrobert, Stirling

Theatre reviews: Weans In The Wood | Aladdie

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Readers’ letters: Pensioners not to blame for our ills

Ron Coleman often said it was dementia that made him an artist

Obituary: Ron Coleman, mental health activist, artist and ‘demented poet’

Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart is the creator of Windblown.

'Tribute' to 200-year-old botanics plant to tour Scotland

From the Archives: Joyce McMillan on the closure of the Citz in 2013

Ohio

Scotsman Fringe First awards: our final four winners of 2025 revealed

Kylie Westerbeck in I See You Watching

Fringe theatre reviews: I See You Watching | Shake Rag Hollow + more

Alaa Shehada in The Horse of Jenin

Fringe theatre reviews: The Horse of Jenin + more

Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x), Pleasance

Fringe Firsts: five winners of our prestigious theatre prizes revealed

Actor Brian Cox appears in a scene from National Theatre of Scotland play Make It Happen.

Edinburgh International Festival review: Make It Happen

Niall Moorjani and Jonathan Oldfield, stars of Kanpur: 1857

Fringe show about Indian rebellion has 'unavoidable' parallels with Gaza

The best EIF theatre shows - Joyce McMillan on the 2025 programme

Works and Days: celebration of rural life at EIF is 'all about the collective'

The theatrically thrilling first-half finale delivers a stunning visual image of Evan Hansen’s new viral fame

Theatre reviews: Dear Evan Hansen | Oliver in a Twist

James Boal as Oberon in in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Theatre reviews: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Faustus

Playwright Douglas Maxwell on 25 years of hits, from Our Bad Magnet to So Young

Caleb Roberts and Shannon Hayes in rehearsals for The Mountaintop PIC: Daniel Holden

David Greig on his final production at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre

Restless Natives creator Ninian Dunnet on the new stage version

Carrie Hope Fletcher’s star turn as Calamity Jane packs the theatre to the rafters (Picture: Mark Senior)

Theatre reviews: Calamity Jane | Jocasta

Stellar start for new era in women-led theatre

Panto star Johnny McNight on the making of 101 Dalmatians The Musical

Alex Salmond was the man who won Scotland an Independence poll, notes reader (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Alex Salmond's Independence dream won't die

The Scottish Government has scrapped the universal winter fuel payment to pensioners (Picture: Adobe)

Readers Letters: Get civil servants to sort out winter fuel payments nightmare

Liam Gallagher performing with Oasis at Murrayfield in 2009 - the last time the band played at the stadium in Edinburgh (Picture: Ian Georgeson)

Readers' letters: Staging Oasis gigs in middle of Edinburgh Festival is madness
A reader suggests Oasis should be playing Hampden in Glasgow, not Murrayfield in the midst of the Edinbugh Festival

Fiona Bruce and Charlotte Grayson in The Brenda Line at Pitlochry PIC: Fraser Band

The Brenda Line, Pitlochry review - 'an important comment on our sexual culture'

Fringe Society chief executive Shona McCarthy.

Governments 'must unite' to secure future of the Fringe

Very moving: Jessica Regan in 16 Postcodes

Fringe reviews: 16 Postcodes | Don’t Call Me China Doll + more

A History of Paper, Traverse Theatre

The top 5 theatre shows from the Edinburgh Fringe's opening weekend

Street performers on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh PIC: Lisa Ferguson / The Scotsman

The Scotsman’s 2024 Edinburgh Festival coverage: everything you need to know

After The Silence PIC: Nurith Wagner-Strauss

EIF theatre - Scotsman critic Joyce McMillan previews the 2024 programme

Publicity image for The Outrun

Stef Smith on adapting Amy Liptrot's novel The Outrun for the stage at EIF

What If They Ate the Baby by Xloe and Natasha PIC: Rob Warren

Edinburgh Fringe 2024: ten returning shows recommended by Scotsman critics

Gravity and Other Myths

Ten Thousand Hours, Aberdeen review - 'Astonishing feats of athleticism'

Charlene Boyd in rehearsals for June Carter Cash: The Woman, Her Music and Me PIC: Jess Hardwick

Charlene Boyd on her June Carter Cash Fringe show

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Wonder Fools - Glasgow theatre company thriving despite a lack of core funding

Why SNP need to have courage to admit there’s no fast route to independence Joyce McMillan

Frances Poet

Frances Poet on adapting Sense and Sensibility for the stage

Trashedy

Edinburgh Children's Festival reviews: TRASHedy | An-Ki | Cabinet of Miracles

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