Thursday, August 1, 2019
As the fringe continues to grow, so does the input from Edinburgh-based companies. This year there are an unprecedented 93 different productions in the theatre section of the Fringe programm…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMTuesday, July 2, 2019
The classic Cold War era monster movie, Them!, in which humanity is under threat from giant mutant ants, played on people’s fear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Amelie is a slick, clever and hugely appealing production which reveals the heart of the original in a way which the initial Broadway production did not, if the clips of the latter are to be…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
In the week when moves to regulate Airbnb failed and it was decided to curtain Princess Street Gardens off during commercial gigs, Active Inquiry’s The Sideshow feels remarkably relevant.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, June 23, 2019
Over 50 years on and the Age of Aquarius is still providing a relevant, controversial (in parts) and – eventually – thunderously entertaining piece of musical theatre in Hair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, June 20, 2019
This touring production of Captain’s Corelli’s Mandolin allows aching heartbreak to overcome any nods to cloying sentimentality.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Edinburgh International Festival is facing a 10% cut to its grant from the city council, prompting fears of “accelerated decline”. The planned
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMThursday, June 13, 2019
Passports at the ready! It’s time to jet off to the Club Tropicana Hotel in this brand new jukebox musical which is touring the country.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
The new show by Wonder Fools tells the story of a group of men from the former mining village of Prestonpans, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMSunday, June 9, 2019
The Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland took place at the Tramway in Glasgow on June 9. Here are the winners in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PMHilariously insightful, touchingly funny, tunefully sharp and filthily charming, Avenue Q is the street where you laugh.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Support for performers at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe is to be boosted, as the organisation behind it announces its biggest programme
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMThursday, May 30, 2019
The Scottish government has announced its intention to hold a summit exploring concerns around the visa difficulties faced by foreign artists performing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
A “hostile immigration policy” is putting Edinburgh’s festivals at risk, according to MSP Gordon Macdonald. Macdonald, who is the SNP MSP for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMGlasgow-based theatre company Fire Exit is to close permanently after 17 years, due to the loss of its Creative Scotland core funding.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMThe world’s longest-running stage production The Mousetrap returns to Edinburgh to thrill a whole new audience in this classic murder mystery tale at the Playhouse
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMA scholarship at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is being launched to commemorate Scottish actor Pauline Knowles, who died suddenly in 2018,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThursday, May 23, 2019
The blood-soaked events of The Duchess [of Malfi], a co-production between the Lyceum and the Citizens Theatre, are almost unwatchably intense at times. As a depiction of timeless and timely…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Zinnie Harris has filleted John Webster’s great Jacobean revenge tragedy in a slick and streamlined adaptation. This is all lean meat and,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Revived and reconfigured with a reduced cast for small-scale Highland touring, the National Theatre of Scotland‘s production of The Cheviot, the Stag
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMMonday, May 20, 2019
There are plenty of laughs to be had in the touring Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the King’s. There are also a couple of gasp-inducing coups de theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 16, 2019
World renowned immersive theatre company Punchdrunk makes its first ever foray to Scotland with a comprehensively startling piece of work, Small Wonders, as part of the Edinburgh Internation…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Broadway star Donna McKechnie is launching a new scholarship fund in her name at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which will support
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMMusic hall informs the tone of Scottish Opera’s 2012 production of The Magic Flute. Thomas Allen’s production, using Kit Hesketh-Harvey’s English translation,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Rapture Theatre shoots, and scores, in Red Lion, a soccer drama by Patrick Marber that even non-sports fans will love.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 9, 2019
My Left/Right Foot – the Musical leads the nominations for this year’s Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland with six nods. Seventeen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Scottish crime writer Denise Mina is to create a gender-swapped version of Bertolt Brecht’s Mr Puntila and His Man Matti for Edinburgh’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33PMThe touring production of The Worst Witch is high-octane, clever and extremely enjoyable.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, May 2, 2019
It’s no trial watching this stage version of the classic film The Verdict at the King’s. In fact, it’s a real pleasure seeing washed-up Boston lawyer Frank Galvin get his mojo back as …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 25, 2019
Edinburgh’s proposed new 1,000 seat concert hall and 200 seat studio theatre space has won planning approval from the city’s council. Previously
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Bursting with emotion and tuneful energy, the return to the Traverse of What Girls Are Made Of is a thing of wonder.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM 
