Wednesday, 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 02:21PMCircus is to get its first dedicated venue at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, as Underbelly takes over the Meadows area previously
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM✭✭✭✩✩ Honourable:
A strange and mysterious 1950s New York is explored in the Consortium Theatre Company's take on Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:29AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
The University of Cumbria is to demolish its only on-site theatre, ahead of its drama course relocating from Lancaster to Carlisle. Students
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMA bus service dedicated to audiences at His Majesty’s Theatre (HMT) in Aberdeen will be launched in September. Theatrebus is aimed at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMFriday, April 24, 2015
✭✭✭✭✩ Ragged glory:
There is a warm and thoughtful core to The Straw Chair at the Traverse that sometimes seems in danger of being overpowered by a par…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:52PMThe Scottish Trades Union Congress is to campaign for the living wage of £7.85 an hour to be applied to all theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Cameo seeks fringe participant partners:
The Cameo cinema on Home Street is looking for Edinburgh fringe participants in an innovative programme to help curate this August's season of films.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:34PMProducer hopeful for Edinburgh dates:
Leith-based musicals producer Music & Lyrics Limited has announced a new touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with West Yorkshire Playhous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:48PMDates at Edinburgh Playhouse cancelled:
The touring production of Anything Goes is to close before arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse where it was originally scheduled to play June 22 - 27…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:52PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Festival expands, awakes in wonder at Summerhall:
The Edinburgh International Magic Festival 2015 will run for a week from Friday 26 June to Saturday 4 July and has moved its centre of oper…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:39PM✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling:
Emotionally uneven, Birdsong at the King’s has much to recommend it but struggles to convince fully.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:28PMSelkirk-based Rowan Tree Theatre Company is to close after 28 years. Founded in 1987 by Judy Steel, John Nichol and Janice Parker,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMStuart Stratford has been appointed musical director at Scottish Opera, which he joins on June 1. Preston-born Stratford is the company’s sixth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMMonday, April 20, 2015
The Scottish National Party’s newly launched general election manifesto includes promises to retain the BBC’s licence fee, increase investment through BBC Scotland
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre will mark its 50th anniversary with Brian Cox and Bill Paterson starring in a new production of Waiting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
James McAvoy is funding a 10-year scholarship programme for young people to train on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s pre-higher education drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMGlasgow’s £4 million Briggait Creation Centre has taken a step closer to completion with the appointment of Collective Architecture to design the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Zinnie Harris, writer of recent Royal Court show How to Hold Your Breath, has been appointed associate director at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMMonday, March 30, 2015
The National Theatre of Scotland has confirmed details of its first permanent home in its nine-year history. Planning permission for the £5.8
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMFriday, March 27, 2015
Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre has taken a step toward a major refurbishment, due to start in February 2016, with a £500,000 loan from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
Theatre features strongly in this August’s Edinburgh International Festival programme, which will see theatre company Complicite make its debut at the event.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Edinburgh’s Festival and King’s Theatres have been given £320,000 over three years by the Life Changes Trust to help turn their venues
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMTuesday, March 10, 2015
The Macrobert Art Centre in Stirling has appointed Julie Ellen as its new artistic director.Macrobert Taking up the post on June 15,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMEdinburgh’s 12 major festivals will receive £2.25 million in 2015/16 through the Scottish Government’s Expo Fund. The fund was established in 2008 and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMMonday, March 9, 2015
Organisers behind a pop-up camp site at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival have revealed the site will be next to the city’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMThursday, February 26, 2015
Theatres and theatrical performances in Scotland will be protected from new sexual entertainment licensing regulations, the Holyrood justice secretary has promised. Michael
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThe first tranche of Creative Scotland’s Open Project funding has been announced, with £1.3 million in grants awarded to companies including Dundee
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMMonday, February 23, 2015
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Ashley Page, one-time artistic director of Scottish Ballet, makes his Scottish Opera debut directing a deliciously abstract and dance-orientated production of Orfeo e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Theatregoing is the second most popular cultural activity in Scotland after the cinema, according to a survey that shows that 32% of Scots went to the theatre in 2013. According to the Scot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Greenock’s Beacon Arts Centre has been given a £2.5 million funding package to save it from going into administration following “significant” variations to the cost of bui…
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