Arts and Culture

Jordan Young in Man's Best Friend

Theatre reviews: Man’s Best Friend | The Inquisitor | The Croft
Jordan Young shows himself to be a fine tragi-comic actor as grieving dog-walker Ronnie in a new production of Douglas Maxwell’s 2022 play Man’s Best Friend, wr...

Lana Del Rey performing at Hampden Park, Glasgow, 26 June 2025

Lana Del Rey, Glasgow review: 'an unlikely pop superstar'

Lewis Capaldi has released comeback single Survive ahead of his rumoured appearance at Glastonbury.

Listen: Lewis Capaldi release comeback single Survive

Installation view of John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh, showing The Kiss

John Bellany: A Life in Self-Portraiture, Edinburgh review

Lorde

Album reviews: Lorde | Barbra Streisand | Conscious Route & Supermann

(L-R) Filmhouse programmer director Rod White and executive director Andrew Simpson inside cinema one. Picture: Andy O'Brien/The Scotsman

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South Uist and Eriskay as seen from the north end of Barra

A Summer Like No Other by Martin MacIntyre review: ' a time machine'

Sean Shibe PIC: Iga Gozdowska

SCO & Sean Shibe, East Neuk Festival review: 'tenderness and intimacy'

Big Little Sister is one of the shows which will be fully accessible to people with visual impairment.

First 'fully accessible' Fringe venue to be launched this summer

Sting

Sting, Glasgow review: 'polite and occasionally perky'

Edinburgh Festivals

Edinburgh’s Royal Mile during August: never a dull moment

The Scotsman’s 2025 Edinburgh Festival coverage: everything you need to know
The Scotsman has been proud to cover the Edinburgh festivals since they began in 1947, and as the festivals have grown, our coverage has grown too. We are not a...

AL Kennedy

AL Kennedy: ‘I get fed up with depictions of glamorous sociopaths’

Figures in Extinction

Edinburgh International Festival: Scotsman critics on what to see

Arkle's 2010 production of a Midsummer Night's Dream.

Exclusive The amateur theatre directors retiring after 30 years at the Fringe

The Edinburgh International Book Festival ended its sponsorship with Baillie Gifford last year

Explainer Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025: Tickets, dates and authors

Two friends, one year, two births, a death, 18 bursts of laughter, 34,000 tears (each) and one piece of chunky jewellery. It was a year to forget but instead Natasha and Jude turned it into a show. This performance by Barrowland Ballet is described as a comedy that bites.

An achingly joyous celebration of sisterhood, taking the audience on an emotional rollercoaster with open-hearted, brutal honesty. The performers team up with Olivier Award-nominated Ben Duke of Lost Dog to create this "unflinchingly honest, human and hilarious" show.

Assembly Rooms, Music Hall, 1-24th August. 1.30pm.

Edinburgh Fringe: Nine shows in the Made in Scotland showcase

Author Maggie O'Farrell, whose nine novels to date are being republished this year.

Maggie O'Farrell talks manuscripts, motherhood and Paul Mescal

Music

Stephen Wilson Jr performs at a sold out Barrowlands Ballroom in Glasgow.

Stephen Wilson Jr, Glasgow review: 'a collective shoulder to lean on'

Oasis are playing three sold out shows at Murrayfield Stadium this summer.

More than 8,000 new tickets to go on sale for Oasis gigs in Edinburgh

Singer songwriter Lewis Capaldi walks onto the Pyramid Stage during day three of the Glastonbury festival. Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Capaldi makes emotional 35-minute Glastonbury set return

Glastonbury is now underway.

Who's playing Glastonbury today? Full listings and BBC TV schedule

Iron Maiden have a date with Glasgow.

Iron Maiden Hydro set times, support, tickets, setlist, restrictions

Diana Ross

Diana Ross & the RSNO, Glasgow review: 'her sweet tone shone through'

Lana Del Ray played a sold out gig at Hampden Park this week.

Lana Del Ray at Hampden Park: 22 pictures of concert - and setlist

Books

Allan Gaw

Books: The Moon's More Feeble Fire& To The Shades Descend by Allan Gaw

Campaigners celebrate the recent Supreme Court ruling about the definition of the word 'woman' (Picture: Henry Nicholls)

What it's like to be 'cancelled' for your beliefs amid trans debate Jenny Lindsay

Illustration showing Judah seeking sanctuary at the altar, taken from the Philologus Hebraeo-Mixtus by Johann Leusden, professor of Hebrew, Utrecht, 1657

Books: Sanctuary by Marina Warner | The World Within by Guy Stagg

Tickets for Sam Heughan's Edinburgh International Book Festival event sold out quickly at the weekend.

Book festival warning after 'huge' demand for Sam Heughan tickets

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Film and TV

Lorraine Kelly abseils from the mast of the RRS Discovery at Discovery Point in Dundee (Picture: Andrew Milligan)

Lorraine Kelly shows real courage in daredevil ascent of ship's mast Scotsman comment

Lorraine Kelly abseils from the mast of the RRS Discovery at Discovery Point in Dundee. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Lorraine Kelly in 25m-high daredevil act just weeks after keyhole surgery

Matt Damon will lead the all-star cast as Odysseus, the legendary Greek king of Ithaca. It is Damon’s third time appearing in a Christopher Nolan film, though it will be his first leading role for the director.

Matt Damon spotted in Moray ahead of The Odyssey filming

Theatre and Stage

Tutor Rob Myles teaches arts correspondent Jane Bradley to stage fight at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Watch: I learned to stage fight at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Brian Cox is embarking on a UK tour.

Brian Cox presales and prices: Get tickets for 'It's All About Me!'

Theatre reviews: Grease | The Haunting of Alice Gilfrey

Gordon Barr

Gordon Barr on the Bard in the Botanics festival in Glasgow

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

Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall star as Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew as Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley in the new Netflix series One Day, which is based on author David Nicholls' best-selling novel. Picture: Netflix

Exclusive Popular city pub to be recreated on stage for One Day musical

Theatre reviews: Just Between Ourselves | EH7

Art

Fallen Angels by Tom Pow in Out of Chaos at the City Art Centre, Edinburgh

Art reviews: Out of Chaos | Doug Cocker | Kenny Hunter | Paul Furneaux

Curators examine drawings in the exhibition to be held at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci to go on show in Scotland for first time

Ad Feature New exhibition: Rare chance to see work of leading Scottish sculptor

Installation view of the Gray's School of Art Degree SHow 2025

Art reviews: Gray’s School of Art Degree Show | GSA MFA Show

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