Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Theatre 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Macrobert, Stirling: Santa Claus is a rumble-tummied, forgetful old man known as Mr McGregor in Oliver Emanuel and Gareth Nicholls' delightful play for three to six year-olds at Macrobe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMMonday, December 9, 2013
Ivor Cutler, the iconic Scottish comedian, is commemorated in the National Theatre of Scotland’s spring-summer season 2014, announced today. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler, a coll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMCumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld: Storytelling lies at the heart of Cumbernauld's adaptation of Andersen at the Cumbernauld Theatre, as the five-strong ensemble cast draw their audience…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Alan McHugh keeps the big themes intact in his adaptation of the Little Mermaid into pantomime form. Here is a love story with an environmental twist, which st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Stage-wide chorus lines, 10-minute tap routines and a cheesy Christmas plot line are all present, correct and impeccably performed in the Theatre Royal Plymouth&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline: Alan McHugh has kept the plot relatively straight in his adaptation of Collodi to pantomime form, although he doesn't squash Suzi Budd's excitable and p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
The Scottish premiere of Stephen Jeffreys’ The Libertine provides the centrepiece for the Glasgow Citizens’ spring season. The production, to be directed by artistic director Dom…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
Creative Scotland chief executive Janet Archer has committed the arts quango to publish a fully revised organisational plan and details of its new funding system by April 1, 2014. Answering …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Manipulate, the Scottish festival of visual theatre, has launched its 2014 programme with two world premieres in the week of events taking place next February. Now in its seventh year, the P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMMonday, November 18, 2013
Peter Mullan has won the best TV actor award at the Scottish BAFTAs for his performance in The Fear, produced by World Productions for Channel 4. Held at the Radisson Blue hotel in Glasgow o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fascinating, uplifting and inspiring, <a href="http://www.davidhughesdance.co.uk/2013/07/autumn-tour-update/"> David Hughes Dance's new tour…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AMFriday, November 8, 2013
The Scottish Government has launched a £5 million national youth arts strategy, Time To Shine, which will be delivered over two years through Creative Scotland. The strategy has three princ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Creative Scotland is to reveal the first elements of its new 10-year plan and funding programes at three open feedback sessions the end of the month. Although the final long-term plan will b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMMonday, November 4, 2013
Horsecross Arts, the organisation that runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, has been hit with a mass exodus of its board, following news that the organisation is facing a financial crisi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Scottish hit sitcom, Still Game, is to get a theatrical revival next year at Glasgow’s new 12,000-seat Hydro arena, its creators Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill have announced. The show, wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Jacqueline McKay has quit her post as chief executive at Horsecross Arts in Perth, the organisation which runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall. McKay’s resignation “for person…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMMonday, October 21, 2013
King's Theatre, Glasgow: Darkly emotional, Scottish Opera's new co-production with Boston Lyric Opera is a triumphant mix of shimmering performances, strong direction from Thomas Allen …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Perth Theatre has passed the final hurdle for a £14.5 million, two year, renovation, which will see the 460-seat Edwardian auditorium go dark in January. The local council last week approve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Creative Scotland has announced a change in senior management structure as the a first step in a process of restructuring Scotland’s arts funding body. Job titles and roles will be tig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Edinburgh City Council has proposed that all its cultural grants for 2014/15, including those to its festivals and theatres, will be the same as for the current year. Its recently published …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMLyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Psychological revelation and inner turmoil provide the motivation as crime writer Ian Rankin eschews the whodunnit in his first foray onto the theatre stage. Inste…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMFriday, September 27, 2013
Scottish Opera’s musical director, the French conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, has resigned from his post one month after taking it up. A statement from the company said that Joel-Horna…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Writer Robert Alan Evans and choreographer Natasha Gilmore have created one story, of a family overtaken by a wild outsider, which they present in two shows for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThursday, September 12, 2013
The Scottish government has published its draft budget for 2014/15, with a lower than expected cut of £2.1 million to Scotland’s five national performing companies. The companies will…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Tightly elegant in its telling, Michael Cabot's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for London Classic Theatre plays out in what looks like a bomb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Seona Reid has been appointed chair of the National Theatre of Scotland, replacing Richard Findlay, inaugural chair of the seven year-old company. Reid was director of the Glasgow School of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Olga Neuwirth has edited down and completed Alban Berg's Lulu, and in the process transferred the opera to 20th century America where its culmination is in 19…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMThe Edinburgh International Festival has posted the highest number of tickets issued for a decade at this year’s event which finished on Sunday. The increase in tickets issued has lead…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Jose Montalvo's take on the Don Quixote story is an exuberant blending of disciplines on all levels. Presentation, music and choreography all bring disparat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMThursday, August 29, 2013
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: The last of three Gate Theatre Dublin productions at the Edinburgh International Festival of Beckett works adapted for the stage finds Peter Egan attempting First …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AM 
