Last month I asked the question, “will Enron repeat its West End success on Broadway?”. We now have the answer to this question, which is a categorical no! The show, which had its last performance on Sunday lasted for only 15 performances. It was hoped that the show would be as successful at the […]

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival announced its line up just over a week ago now so it will be interesting to see how this year’s festival fairs compared to last year. Many cynics are predicting a poor turnout with only average acts performing but so far things are looking good. Ticket sales figures are already close […]

The effects of this recession may be set to hit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. After the collapse of its box office computer system last June which saw the resignation of its director Jon Morgan, the festival was already struggling. The recession means that the festivals board are now applying to funding bodies for loans and […]

For those of us who don’t know, ‘Mela’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘gathering’ and it is used across the Indian Subcontinent to refer to all sorts of religious, cultural, sporting and even trade events.
Held at the waterfront beside Ocean Terminal in Leith, this year’s Mela Festival in Edinburgh, one of the biggest of its […]

This August sees the start of the worlds largest culture, theatre, arts and music festival – the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe. Although these two are often conflated, and indeed they do operate as one great whole in a wider cultural sense, they are not just one festival, but in fact many festivals […]