Tuesday, 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 07:44AMSSE Hydro, Glasgow: Popular BBC Scotland sit-com Still Game takes a new step into a 12,000-seat arena theatre, seven years after the last of its six series. In fact, this is a return to the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMFriday, September 26, 2014
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: High-flying and lofty, Richard Burton's recording of Dylan Thomas poems - following a clear narrative from In My Craft and Sullen Art to And Death Shall Have No …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Scabrous humour bursts from DC Jackson's Glasgow gangster comedy like puss from a pricked boil, as the body count mounts along with popular culture refe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Equity has claimed an independent Scotland would not impact on performers’ abilities to work freely across the borders. Lorne Boswell, Scottish secretary for Equity, told The Stage that th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMTuesday, September 2, 2014
Long running children’s entertainment group the Singing Kettle is to close after 32 years of touring and more than 6,500 live shows. The forthcoming Christmas tour will be the last by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMMonday, September 1, 2014
The Edinburgh International Festival has posted ticket sales of more than £3 million for the first time, a 29% increase on 2013 income. More than 162,000 tickets were issued for production…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Tony Reekie, director of Imaginate – the development company for young people’s theatre in Scotland – is to stand down after 20 years, just as the organisation is to be restructure…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMLochgelly Centre, Lochgelly: Rough-hewn and powerful, the National Theatre of Scotland takes Joe Corrie's great cry of pain on behalf of working men and their families, and places it fi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMThursday, August 28, 2014
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe issued more than two million tickets for the first time in its 67-year history during this year’s event. Year on year, tickets increased at a faster rate th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMSaturday, August 23, 2014
John Kearns has won the best show prize at this year’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Kearns, last year’s best newcomer winner, won the award for his show Shtick, which…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThursday, August 21, 2014
John Byrne’s The Slab Boys is to be revived as the first production of the Citizens Theatre’s 70th anniversary celebrations. The show will be designed by Byrne and sees him team up a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
The University of St Andrews has signed a 25-year lease to manage and run the town’s Byre Theatre, with a formal reopening in late autumn. The building is owned by Fife Council, which …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMA new £50,000 study has been launched to help Edinburgh’s 12 key festivals, including Edinburgh Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival, maintain their position as world leaders. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, August 11, 2014
Rory Mullarkey has won the second James Tait Black Prize for Drama with his debut full-length script, Cannibals, which premiered at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester in 2013. The £10…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMAn immersive interaction between live theatre and online gaming to be produced by National Theatre Wales has won the first £20,000 Space Prize for digital innovation in theatre. The new bie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
A giant in the Scottish theatre world, David MacLennan was an inspiration to those around him and a passionate proponent for the cause of theatre, both popular and radical. He was highly reg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Edinburgh fringe venue St Stephen’s has been bought by a local businessman and will be run as a community and arts centre managed by a charitable trust. Leslie Benzies, president of comput…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:05AMGrounded by George Brant is one of three plays nominated for the £10,000 James Tait Black Prize for Drama, organised by the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the National Theatre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMFriday, June 20, 2014
The University of St Andrews is to take over the running of the town’s Byre Theatre from August 1, subject to ratification from Creative Scotland. A proposal to lease the theatre to th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Plans to redevelop Aberdeen’s Music Hall have been given a boost with initial approval for a £700,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The first-round pass is dependent on a stage-tw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMFriday, June 13, 2014
David MacLennan, co-founder of the Wildcat and 7:84 theatre companies and the man behind the A Play, A Pie and A Pint initiative, has died. He was 65 and had been suffering from Motor Neuron…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Development body Creative Scotland has put all new major capital project funding on hold, according to details in its annual plan for 2014/15, published today. The plan, part of the Scottish…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMThursday, June 5, 2014
The number of productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will break the 3,000 mark for the first time this August, with 3,193 shows in its 2014 programme. The figure is an 11% increase on …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Site-specific theatre company Grid Iron is collaborating with the Edinburgh International Book Festival on a show that forms part of Made in Scotland’s programme, which is performe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
BBC programmes dominate the nominations in the drama sections of the inaugural Royal Television Society Scotland Awards. The awards cover all forms of television production in Scotland and a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Roberta Taylor is to return to Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre this autumn to appear in a new production of Hamlet helmed by artistic director Dominic Hill. A regular on the Citizens’ stage f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMThursday, May 15, 2014
Composer James MacMillan is to conduct his opera Ines de Castro for the first time in January, in a new production premiered by Scottish Opera in its 2014/15 season. Directed by Olivia Fuchs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced a £25 million transformation project to be delivered over the next seven years, which will include adding a second 300-seat auditorium and upgrading…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Using transcripts of the libel and criminal trials which led to Oscar Wilde's incarceration in 1895, the European Arts Company seeks to illuminate this les…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMFriday, May 9, 2014
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Tempestuous and highly charged in its opening scenes, but lingering away into domestic affairs, David Haig's Pressure has an unsettled structure. Thanks to John…
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