Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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ArtRachel Adams: Papering Over The Cracks
The Skinny finds Rachel Adams' solo show at The Duchy looks set to make a splash Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
TheatreOvid's Metamorphoses @ Tron
It's wonderful to see a group of people who are not only willing, but who are actually able to completely disregard the limitations of genre: performers who ... Read more »| 04 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Mother Courage @ The Tron
In a time when the arts are under threat, and political unrest is both fashionable and necessary, Birds of Paradise intelligently revive Brecht's celebrated ... Read more »| 03 Apr 2011 -
MusicStarter For Eleven: Adam Goldberg
Facing a pop quiz on the phenomenon of the actor turned musician, Adam Goldberg battles for his supper Read more »| 02 Apr 2011 -
Music
Low – C'mon
Low have been making beautiful albums for almost two decades now, but ninth effort C’mon may stand as their most gorgeous yet. The Minnesota trio have ... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Midsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most read, most performed and most studied plays. It is one of only two Shakespeare plays to co... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011
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MusicMono/Poly – Manifestations EP
Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint does a solid line in off-kilter hip-hop productions with soul; the label counts among its prodigious ranks the like... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Imagineers - See As I Say
Glasgow 4-piece The Imagineers’ debut EP is nothing if not a promising start, an intriguing blend of 50s rock’n’roll, Scottish twang and ci... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Theatre
Scottish Ballet's Alice
Scottish Ballet go through the looking glass to Lewis Carroll's mysterious world Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Film
Film Events in April
The Cameo in Edinburgh continues its Werner Herzog season with Even Dwarfs Started Small (6 April), featuring a cast entirely made up of dwarves. It is follo... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Film
Somewhere
With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie br... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Comedy
Comedy Act of the Month: David Innes
In the vast sea of entrants at last year's Laughing Horse New Act Competition, David Innes shone out. So what's his story? Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Clubs
Coalition presents AC Slater (Trouble & Bass) @ Sneaky Pete's, 17 April
Having recently hosted a packed out night with Dutch wonder kid Dem Slackers last month, Coalition are back with another heavy hitter on the electro scene: A... Read more »| 01 Apr 2011 -
Music
The Goldberg Sisters – The Goldberg Sisters
Adam Goldberg is The Hebrew Hammer, director of I Love Your Work, Julie Delpy’s squeeze in Two Days in Paris – oh, and Chandler Bing’s nutt... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011 -
Music
tUnE-yArDs – w h o k i l l
How do you follow a debut that fashioned pieces of Dictaphone recordings into a dog-eared – but utterly bewitching – showpiece of low-fidelity po... Read more »| 31 Mar 2011