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EdFringe CEO McCarthy quits
EdFringe Chief Exec Shona McCarthy to step down in March 2025
Shona McCarthy, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, will be leaving the post in spring 2025, nine years after taking up the position in March 2016.
Les Mis arena Pics & Tix
Pics of Les Misérables arena spectacular released
There are a handful of tickets left for the Glasgow Ovo Hydro dates of the Les Misérables arena spectacular, this week: Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 October 2024 with best availability on Friday.
Mamma Mia! Here we go again…
Abba jukebox musical for Xmas 2025
Tickets are now on sale (here) for the return of the Abba jukebox musical, Mamma Mia! to the Edinburgh Playhouse for the 2025 Christmas season.
Open Fund is back
£6.6M reinstated with Creative Scotland review
Creative Scotland has committed to reinstate the Open Fund for Individuals, while reporting an “unprecedented” number of applications, amounting to almost twice its annual allocation, since the fund’s shock closure in August.
Moulin Rouge! Tix on sale
World tour sets off from Edinburgh Playhouse, April 2025
Tickets go on sale at 12 noon, this Thursday 5 September for the eight week run of Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Edinburgh Playhouse, which opens in April 2025.
Æ at the 2024 Summer Festivals
All Edinburgh Theatre’s coverage of the 2024 festivals
Edinburgh’s theatre makers excelled themselves this year, with over 180 theatre, musical theatre, children’s theatre and dance shows at the Fringe. Which is a wonderful testament to the theatre bones of the city.
It’s a wrap
#NoArtWithoutArtists as EdFringe posts 2.6 million tix
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has posted near-final figures of 2.6 million tickets issued for EdFringe 2024, along with a severe warning from Chief Executive Shona McCarthy against boring and elitist art.
Palette to take Summerhall lease
Edinburgh Palette is set to take over the building and tenant management of Summerhall, from the current entity responsible, Summerhall Management, and is negotiating a three year lease with the current owners Oesselmann Estate Limited.
New campaign to save Summerhall complex
Campaign to retain city-centre home for artists and businesses
A new group, #MadeinSummerhall, has been set up by 110 artists and businesses at under-threat Summerhall, to campaign to retain their city-centre homes, which make up 60% of of the Summerhall complex.
Summerhall reprieved as a Fringe venue
Future of whole complex not clear as sale date set.
Summerhall appears to have been reprieved as a Fringe venue for at least three years, as responsibility for running the venue element of the Summerhall complex is taken over by a new charity ahead of its sale going to a closing date of September 18, 2024.
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