Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThursday, May 8, 2014
The Edinburgh International Festival is to bring its dates forward by a week in 2015, to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. EIF director designate Fergus Linehan made the announcem…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
The National Theatre of Scotland features strongly in the nominations for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, including a best director nod for John Tiffany. The CATS nominations, o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMTuesday, April 22, 2014
King's Theatre, Glasgow: Scottish Ballet's revival of Krzysztof Pastor's Romeo and Juliet sits well with the recent tenure of Christopher Hampson as artistic director. Created for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMPlans to lease the Byre Theatre to the University of St Andrews have been challenged by Equity, which also condemns the proposal as “catastrophic” for professional theatre in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: Strange, quirky and utterly charming, Vanishing Point's musical play captures the essence of Ivor Cutler, the surrealistic folk musician whose whimsical tunes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Deceptively naive in appearance, Alistair McDowall's one-man play weaves a complex story of hurt and pain that transcends its somewhat static and faltering …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Creative Scotland has announced the creation of nine regional hubs that will be the cornerstone of its Time to Shine youth arts strategy, an initiative that has been allocated £5 million ov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMThursday, April 3, 2014
More than 250 arts organisations are taking part in Get Scotland Dancing, part of the four-year legacy culture programme for Glasgow 2014. Full details of the programme have been announced t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: As the Scottish referendum on independence approaches, the Royal Lyceum looks back to 1707, when the union between England and Scotland was brokered. And in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMThursday, March 20, 2014
The innovative performer and creator of intimate one-to-one shows, Adrian Howells, has died unexpected at the age of 51 in Glasgow, the city he had made his home since 2006, and where he dev…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Wars and their effects inform the majority of productions in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival programme, which includes five world theatre premieres. Running from 8 to 31 A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMFriday, March 14, 2014
The Imaginate festival of theatre for young people has announced a programme of 14 Scottish and international productions for its 25th anniversary event this May. New Scottish works at the E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53PMMonday, February 24, 2014
Scottish company Catherine Wheels is launching a smart-phone app to complement is award-winning children’s show White. The app is due for release on March 10 and aims to help extend th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Crisp in its physicality and punctilious in its delivery, Private Lives at the Royal Lyceum brings out the full verve of Noel Coward's marvellous script…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMMonday, February 10, 2014
David MacLennan, co-founder of the Wildcat and 7:84 theatre companies, has revealed that he has motor neurone disease. MacLennan has been making theatrical waves over the last ten years with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMFriday, February 7, 2014
Edinburgh venue St Stephen’s could be open as a fringe venue this August, if a community trust succeeds in its bid to purchase the historic building from current owner, the Church of S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMThe 48-seat Swallow Theatre, Scotland’s smallest and most southerly theatre just south of Wigtown in Galloway, has been put up for sale for offers over £320,000. Built in an old byre …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMThursday, January 30, 2014
A celebration of emancipation and a world congress of fringe directors and organisers are among a further 42 projects added to the existing cultural programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonweal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Aberdeen’s Victorian Music Hall, the Glasgow Citizens and a new development space for physical performance at Glasgow’s Briggait are among the main beneficiaries of the latest ro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Creative Scotland has published a draft of its 10-year strategic plan online, opening it up to public consultation and clarifying its approach to its three areas or responsibility: the arts,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Director Renaud Doucet and designer Andre Barbe update their Don Pasquale to Italy in 1963, where the old curmudgeon is keeping a run-down pensione with his nephew Er…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThursday, January 23, 2014
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night gets a big, emotionally exhilarating telling at the theatre where it made its British premiere …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMonday, January 20, 2014
The National Theatre of Scotland has announced the remainder of its 2014 programme under the title of Dear Scotland. The programme adds to projects previously announced up until June and cov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:01AMThe national theatres of Scotland and Great Britain are to collaborate for the first time, with a major trilogy of history plays to premiere at this August’s Edinburgh International Fe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Scottish Ballet is to premiere a ballet version of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible by Canadian choreographer Helen Picket next autumn. The world premiere forms part of the company’s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Motherwell Theatre: Ian 'Sheepie' Smith owns the Motherwell stage as Hickery/Scarecrow in this energetic production of John F Spillers' self-indulgently music-heavy adaptation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMThursday, December 12, 2013
The Glasgow Citizens and Untitled Projects are offering a two-year residency to a mid-career director, to study and stage large-scale classic plays. The paid position will be mentored by art…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMMacrobert, Stirling: Specially adapted for the zero to three age group for Macrobert, Fleur Darkin's Innocence is a fully interactive and immersive dance experience for a young audience…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Creative Scotland has announced the appointments of four new directors but has yet to fill the position of director of film and media. The shake-up at the top of CS, announced in October, is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Sweet as sugar but stinging like salt, Christopher Hampsen's scrumptious new ballet is set in 1950s austerity Britain. Constant Vigier and Sophie Martin's b…
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