Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMMonday, February 2, 2015
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Flying confidently into a narrative of loves lost and half-remembered, Jennifer Paterson's innovative aerial dance company, All or Nothing, explore new terr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMFriday, January 23, 2015
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: James MacMillan has cut a whole scene and tweaked the vocal score for this new production of his 1996 opera debut. The result, with MacMillan in the pit and given int…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Theatre company Sell A Door is to run Edinburgh Fringe venue St Stephen’s from this year, in partnership with the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Operating under the name of Momen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMMonday, January 19, 2015
A temporary campsite that will offer discounts to performers and allow them to showcase previews of their work is planned for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The site is planned…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Lies, boasts and false memories jostle to be accepted as the truth in Brian Friel's great examination of the nature of reality and performance, which re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Udderbelly, the Edinburgh fringe venue in the shape of a giant upside-down purple cow, will be moving to pastures new at this year’s event and premiering a new show from Australian con…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMMonday, January 5, 2015
Glasgow-based theatre company Untitled Projects has gone dark, after its application for three year regular funding from Creative Scotland was rejected. The company, run by artistic director…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Sumptuous and shimmering, Lez Brotherston's updated and reimagined designs of Philip Prowse's 1970s originals for Peter Darrell's version of The N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMMacrobert, Stirling: Johnny McKnight has achieved near panto perfection with his fantastic Aladdin script at the Macrobert. It is a clever take, with a female Aladdin (Dawn Sievewright) fall…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMMacrobert, Stirling: Gently paced under Heather Fulton's direction, Frozen Charlotte's devised show for three to six-year-olds builds on what they know. Samuel Jameson's stern…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: There is plenty of inspiration in Alan McHugh's Jack and the Beanstalk, what with designer Alison Irwin's giant steampunk robot, the Victorian Edinbu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMCumbernauld Theatre: The story is king in Ed Robson's inventive, small-scale take on Aladdin. Using the conceit of a troupe of storytellers practising their thousand and first tale for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMMonday, December 8, 2014
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Smooth and sumptuous, director Ed Curtis' fast-paced Aladdin at the Edinburgh King's is standout Christmas entertainment. Only the lack of a truly redeem…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Snappy and brief, Andrew Panton's take on David Wood's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel plays up the subversive elements that make the author …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AMMonday, December 1, 2014
The Byre Theatre in St Andrews has reconfirmed its commitment to professional performances, after being taken over by St Andrews University in August. The theatre reopened for professional t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMCarnegie Hall, Dunfermline: Beefing up the traditional take on Snow White, Alan McHugh's script gives plenty of room for director Jonathan Stone to bring out the feistiness of his heroi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Local jokes and references abound in Mark Cox's bright take on the standard Beanstalk plot in his first panto for the Brunton Theatre. In terms of local ow…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Byre Theatre, St Andrews: St Andrews' Byre Theatre reopens for professional productions with a crisply produced and musically charged take on Jack and the Beanstalk. Gordon Barr's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Adaptations of Muriel Spark, a verbatim piece about female genital mutilation, and a Russia/Ukraine season at Oran Mor are among eight world premieres in the National Theatre of ScotlandR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMTuesday, November 18, 2014
Gwilym Gibbons has been appointed as chief executive of Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation behind the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall. Gibbons will take over from interim manager Coli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMFriday, November 14, 2014
The Scottish Government has helped secure the future of Scottish Youth Theatre with the announcement of £1 million over three years for youth arts in Scotland. The funding, £250,000 of whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Created in 2010 as a response to the coalition's cuts in public spending, Theatre Uncut commissions a handful of short, political, quick-response plays and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMThursday, October 30, 2014
Edinburgh’s Lyceum and Traverse theatres have received cuts in the latest round of funding from Creative Scotland. The Lyceum’s grant has been reduced by 17.5% to £3 million for 2015 to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
A new work by Douglas Maxwell is to join David Byrne’s Slab Boys as a cornerstone of Glasgow Citizens Theatre’s 70th anniversary season. Announcing full details of the theatre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMMonday, October 27, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Forthright and never sentimental, director Lu Kemp looks to the poetry of Sue Glover's play about six women working a Borders farm in 19th century Scotl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMFriday, October 24, 2014
Dundee Rep: Selma Dimitrijevic flaunts the deceptions of her artfully cruel production of Gogol's The Gamblers for Greyscale and Dundee Rep. Her all-female cast don their male attire on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Angelina, Rossini's Cinderella figure, disappears into her own dream of faithful love in Sandrine Anglade's clever production of La Cenerentola, recast by S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
The St Stephen’s Centre in Edinburgh is to return as a venue for next year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and is now looking for a tenant to take over the building in 2015. As previousl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMMonday, October 13, 2014
Studio, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Minimal in all its elements, Errol White's latest duet with Davina Givan explores the interdependency between two people as their relationship matur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Delays have once again hit the construction of a new foyer for Scottish Opera’s Glasgow home, the Theatre Royal. The upgrade to the building was originally due to take 18 months and be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AM 
