Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme ...

An eight-hour choral extravaganza of a universal prayer is to open the Edinburgh International Festival at the Usher Hall.

Edinburgh International Festival features Brian Cox in a play about the 2008 financial crash, and a new opera blending ...

An eight-hour classical music concert concert, performed in its entirety for the first time in the UK since its premiere, is to open this year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The Veil of the ...

Queen Mary and King Frederik of Denmark recently embarked on a state visit to Finland, where they were nearly unrecognizable ...

Scotland is an old hand at state visit pageantry – and well versed in heckling the great and the good, writes Royal commentator Alastair Bruce ...

Gareth Russell's fabulous new history of the first King of Britain lays bare the voracious gay love life of King James I ...

Princess Anne donned her traditional naval uniform with gold trimming as she handed out honours to recipients at the royal family's official Scottish residence. It marked the first investiture ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the death of King James VI and I. The greatest legacy of his reign was the ...

During the 16th century there were occasional calls for union between England and Scotland. Some believed that the marriage ...

In this Robert Wilson production, Isabelle Huppert is everywhere onstage, all at once, reciting a nonstop script that may ...

From rock and pop to jazz and classical, rap and dance to trad and folk, the new festival season is shaping up to be a crowd pleaser.