Festival City Theatres, the company that runs Edinburgh's Festival and King's Theatres is now trading in the black, having cleared a deficit of £935,000, its annual review revealed yesterday.
The results which exceeded a five-year plan to clear the debt by March 2016 by a full financial year, showed a surplus of £172,000 at the end of March this year. Welcoming the report, Chief Executive Duncan Hendry paid tribute to
"the hard work and dedication of the extraordinarily talented team of people who work in our theatres".
The review shows an increase in 41% on sales of tickets for drama at the King's, record pantomime box office income and a 17% increase in the number of dance performances at the Festival Theatre, with record-breaking houses for Scottish Ballet's Nutcracker.
edtheatres.com
Japanese musician Taro Takeuchi, pictured, gives a recital of baroque music in Glasgow University Chapel at lunchtime today from 1pm. Admisson is free. His programme includes Handel's Pieces for Mechanical Clock, music by Henry Purcell and Edward Light's Pleasure of Ladies, performed on a 12 string harp lute from 1815, designed by the composer.
glasgow.ac.uk/concerts
Glasgow Film Theatre's July programme has a string musical theme. As well as Brain Wilson biopic Love & Mercy, Davor Radic's Station to Station and the reissued This Is Spinal Tap, all reviewed by Alison Rowat today, the cinema is screening acclaimed Winehouse documentary, Amy, and Julien Temple's The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson. The uplifting tale of the cancer diagnosis and subsequent recovery of the rhythm and blues guitarist who co-founded the band Dr Feelgood will be followed on Wednesday July 22 by a live Q&A with Temple.
The Sound & Vision season also includes another chance to see Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (Wednesday July 29) and Martin Scorcese's The Last Waltz, which documented the final performance by The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom in 1976 in the company of a host of stars.
glasgowfilm.org
Edinburgh promoters Soundhouse present two more concerts in their Music Mondays series before taking a break for the capital's main festivals season. Scottish/Norwegian group As the Crow Flies, featuring former Young Scottish Traditional Musician of the Year, fiddler Rona Wilkie and her regular partner, mandola player Marit Fält with fiddlers and singers Maja Toresen and Nina Fjeldet, appear at the Traverse Theatre on July 13, followed by Michigan-based string band Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys, who return to Edinburgh after a successful concert during Tradfest earlier this year to play at Victoria Park House Hotel on July 20.
lindsayloumusic.com
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