Saturday, May 23, 2015
✭✭✩✩✩ Depths hidden:
Dark and vicious, Andy Corelli's take on Gorky's The Lower Depths for Siege Perilous strikes all the right tones at the Hidden Doo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:48PM✭✭✭✭✩ Hidden talent:
Echoes of times past creep into Hidden Door with Annie E Lord's entrancing piece of site-specific storytelling, Hooves.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:54PMFriday, May 22, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Daft fun:
Uncomplicated belly laughs and complicated plotting are the order of the day in the St Serf’s Players’ production of Wild G…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:58PMThursday, May 21, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Weighty drama:
Darkness and light are so intertwined, it is impossible to have one without the other. In SO's Il Trovatore, love, hope and light …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:56PMGuest review by Charlie Tonner:
Bounce is different because it’s in a Bouncy Castle. I have never seen a show where you can bounce. I liked being able to jump.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:57PM✭✭✭✭✩ Paper cut:
Unfolded and pressed out flat for its audience to see, Faux Theatre's Torn is an intriguing glimpse at how repressed memories both hau…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:11PMEdinburgh’s position as the world’s pre-eminent festival city faces challenges from the digital revolution, public investment and city infrastructure, according to a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMWednesday, May 20, 2015
A new work from Roadkill writer Stef Smith is among the 21 productions in this year’s Made in Scotland programme at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMScottish Opera will premiere a new full-length opera based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story The Bottle Imp as part of its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Solid:
Two excellent central performances dominate The King’s Speech. The rest of the production, while always involving, does not quite hi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:28PMMonday, May 18, 2015
Theatre public relations company The Corner Shop has launched a Scottish office in Edinburgh. The office will be run by Susie Gray,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:25AMThe future of Glasgow’s Arches arts complex is at risk after changes to its licence means it will be forced to close
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMFriday, May 15, 2015
Vicky Featherstone is to return to the National Theatre of Scotland to direct a musical adaptation of Alan Warner’s cult novel The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PM17 noms for Lyceum in critics' awards:
Edinburgh-based companies dominate this year's nominations for the annual Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:08AMThursday, May 14, 2015
The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh dominates the nominations for this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. Six Lyceum productions have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMWednesday, May 13, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Cheeky swagger:
One of the most charming things about an Encore production is that you can always consider yourself part of the family. And their…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:15PMNew writing from Gary Owen, dance from Claire Cunningham and a piece of actorless theatre are all part of the British Council’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Top-hole:
There is as much ridiculous fun and general larking about at the King’s this week as there is at panto time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:18PMPublication of Call to Action:
Desire Lines, Edinburgh's city-wide conversation about the cultural and creative future of Edinburgh, concludes today with the online publication of its Call …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:10AMMonday, May 11, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ A bigger splash:
Diving into a world she makes so real that you can't tell where her story ends and reality begins, Alice Mary Cooper tells the t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06PMMark Thomson is to step down as artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum next May, at the end of the theatre’s 50th
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Luft for life:
When you're Lorna Luft, the shadow of Judy Garland is inescapable. The Hollywood legend introduced her daughter to the world in a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:52AMFriday, May 8, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ There will be blood:
Bloody, nasty and noisy, the Grads’s production of Titus Andronicus at the Assembly Roxy has all of the ingredients of a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:11AM"New adventure" for Lyceum's AD:
Mark Thomson is to step down as artistic director of the Lyceum next May, 2016, at the end of the theatre's 50th anniversary season.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:38AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
Grads' Andronicus steps into modern era:
The buzz has predictably focussed on the blood and the guts in the Grads' new production of Titus Andronicus, which is at the Assembly Roxy to Satur…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:16PM✭✭✭✩✩ Intoxicating talent:
Edinburgh Grand Opera's version of L'elisir d'amore is a reduced arrangement, it's cut in places and designed to suit the in…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:56PMPolling day production:
Culture is on the agenda on polling day, with the Traverse staging a pair of Two Minute Manifesto performances that attempt to capture the spirit of debate.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:15AMTuesday, May 5, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Never Never stop laughing:
To die, that would be an awfully big adventure. So said Peter Pan, but he might have been talking about mounting an am…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:02PMSaturday, May 2, 2015
✭✭✭✭✭ Perfect equation:
Visually slick and intellectually enthralling, the National Theatre's production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nigh…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:44AMFriday, May 1, 2015
Date set for publication and meeting:
Desire Lines, the project to crowd-source input to Edinburgh’s cultural strategy, will publish its initial findings in May.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:13AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Double the fun:
Broad, finely honed and never afraid of a corny joke, The Venetian Twins is a huge, rip-roaring thing. It is all rather silly, bu…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:21PM 
