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Monday, August 10, 2015

Comfort Slaves by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling: Not for the fainthearted, Comfort Slaves performed by Immersive Acting Movement deals with horrible issues that have become part of o…

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Swallow by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Human: There is a strongly beating human heart behind the Traverse Theatre Company’s Swallow. The cleverly staged production from a largely…

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HAIRY MACLARY’S CAT TALES – Edinburgh Fringe by Thom Dibdin

Hairy Maclary is a dog from Donaldson’s dairy. He is a character from books by Lynley Dodd. The play is mostly music but is not a musical.

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Eejits and Hissy Fits – junior review by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Junior Review by Cora Dibdin One woman, a small room, three stories.

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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Heartlands by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Heartwarming: In a multi-layered and engaging performance, Urban Fox Theatre Company deliver a wonderfully warm and intimate insight into modern …

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Children’s shows by Thom Dibdin

At All Edinburgh Theatre, we are covering as many shows made in Edinburgh being staged during the fringe as we can. Here is our alphabetical listing of the children's shows which are made b…

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Barnum by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ That’s showbusiness: Featuring a huge variety of talents and radiating the joy of putting on a show, Forth Children’s Theatre’s…

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Saturday, August 8, 2015

Dead Letter Office by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✩✩ Philosophical potential: Some Company Productions deliver a thoughtful performance with a lot of potential, but struggle to reconcile the show wi…

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Crash by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✩✩ A desperate poetry: Dark, troubling and involving, the Traverse Theatre Company’s Crash may not succeed on every level but certainly benefi…

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Friday, August 7, 2015

EIF, Fringe Open by Thom Dibdin

Lothian Road blocked for EIF opener: Almost 20,000 people witnessed the opening event of this year's Edinburgh International Festival when The Harmonium Project lit up the outside of the Us…

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The Bookbinder by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✭ Beautiful craftsmanship: A book is a beautiful thing, a story is a work of art, a fairytale is a thing of dreams. The Bookbinder is all of these …

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

Baba Yaga – junior review by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Exciting Junior review by Cora Dibdin Baba Yaga at Duddingston Kirk gardens was magical for everyone.

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Baba Yaga (And The Girl With The Kind Heart) by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Spine tingling: Magnificently malevolent when it needs to be, Theatre Alba's take on the great Russian folk tale Baba Yaga thrills and frightens …

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Back in the Woods by Thom Dibdin

Æ's young critics go Into the Woods: Four young Edinburgh-based theatre critics will be reviewing for All Edinburgh Theatre this fringe, in a new mentoring scheme. Here are their early…

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Pitlochry Festival Theatre accused of misleading audiences by Thom Dibdin

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is “in danger of misleading its audience” by using star ratings from other theatres’ productions in its advertising and

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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Into The Woods by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Dark magic: Wise beyond their years, the young performers of Stage Experience find the dark corners of Sondheim and Lapine's great musical Into t…

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Equity calls on Mull theatre’s board to resign over axed jobs by Thom Dibdin

Equity has called on the board of Scottish arts centre Comar to resign en masse after it made the creative director of

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Designs unveiled for Perth Theatre’s £16.6m revamp by Thom Dibdin

Perth Theatre has released images of how it will look once a £16.6 million redevelopment is completed. When finished, the venue, run

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Monday, July 27, 2015

Edinburgh Fringe hit by £220k fraud by Thom Dibdin

An internal fraud totalling more than £220,000 has been discovered by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The fraud was carried out by an

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Mancub and The Children by Thom Dibdin

Reviews from All Edinburgh Theatre's new writers This August, All Edinburgh Theatre is proud to be taking on four young Edinburgh-based reviewers in a new mentoring initiative.

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Love Me Tender by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Loves me true Crisp, knowing and contagiously fun, Love Me Tender thrusts and gyrates its hips upon the Playhouse Stage for a week-long run as pa…

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VPT announce #EdFringe shows by Thom Dibdin

Big names join Leith collective Over 70 plays in a dozen themed nights from over 20 playwirghts have been announced by the Village Pub Theatre for its Edinburgh Fringe debut, with big guest…

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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

NEWS: Dublin’s Abbey poaches National Theatre of Scotland duo by Thom Dibdin

Neil Murray and Graham McLaren are to leave their key roles at the National Theatre of Scotland next year, to take over as joint directors of Dublin's Abbey Theatre.

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Tivoli Theatre in Aberdeen to stage first opera in 50 years by Thom Dibdin

Aberdeen’s Tivoli Theatre is to reopen for opera for the first time in more than 50 years, as its £1.5million renovation nears

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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Summer on Stage 2015 by Thom Dibdin

Mancub: ✭✭✭✩✩ Complex The Children: ✭✭✭✭✩ Stylish Children are at the heart of the drama and the performance of …

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Recovering from abuse in Scotland by Thom Dibdin

Frances McCann is performing Flickering Seasons, a monologue about recovery and the hurt and guilt a victim can feel during the recovery process, this Friday 17 July 2015 at St Johns in Edin…

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Shortlist announced for James Tait Black drama prize 2015 by Thom Dibdin

Playwrights Nick Payne, Rona Munro and Gordon Dahlquist are in the running for this year’s £10,000 James Tait Black prize for drama.

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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Loss of the Arches will be felt beyond Glasgow by Thom Dibdin

When Glasgow’s Arches nightclub lost its late-night licence on May 15, the depth of the resulting outcry was understandable. This is, after

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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

VPT Goes Fringe Tastic by Thom Dibdin

Village Pub Theatre in funds drive for #EdFringe15: Edinburgh's practitioner-run Village Pub Theatre is raising the stakes as it nears the two thirds mark in its efforts to crowd-fund a 72-…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AM
Monday, June 22, 2015

The James Plays trilogy to tour in 2016 by Thom Dibdin

The James Plays are to be revived for a UK and international tour in 2016. Rona Munro’s trilogy of plays about the

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The James Plays Return by Thom Dibdin

Unique touring format for trilogy: Rona Munro's immense historical trilogy: The James Plays - about the Kings James I, II and III of Scotland - will return to the Festival Theatre in Febru…

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Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
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Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
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Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
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