By George Loomis [NY Times, 24 August 2010]

EDINBURGH — The Edinburgh International Festival has gone multicultural. In a sense, when the offerings of a festival number well over 100 and embrace opera, dance, drama, concerts and other categories, it might be hard not to. But the festival’s theme this summer, “oceans apart,” seeks to connect continents, and in a four-day visit, one could experience a number of events that did just that.