Thursday, 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 …
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Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: There is little to like about Beckett's artfully constructed anti-hero Molloy, who then becomes Malone, in this adaptation of his three novels: Molloy, Malone…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Complexity is created through simplicity in both of Oper Frankfurt's shimmering offerings on this very different double bill.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe Edinburgh Festival Fringe has closed its most successful year with a record 1,943,493 tickets issued, up 4.6% on 2012 – and 3.5% up on the previous record in 2011. The figures do n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Charlie Wood, co-director of leading fringe venue operator Underbelly has failed in a bid to be elected to the board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Wood was beaten by Free Fringe …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMThere are parts of Edinburgh which regard the fringe as something which happens “to them rather than for them”, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has been warned. Speaking at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMMonday, August 19, 2013
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Any lapse in focus to the opening ballet of this quintet of world premiers is soon forgotten as Scottish Ballet set out to charge the emotions and find the thril…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Theatre Uncut, the programme of short, politically engaged breakfast plays, at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre has won a Fringe First for the second year running. The Fringe Firsts are gi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre has celebrated its 50th year by winning half the Fringe First awards given in the first week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The awards, themselves in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMMonday, August 5, 2013
Tim Price has won the inaugural James Tait Black Prize for Drama with The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, about the American soldier recently convicted of espionage for leaking military s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32PMA new way of paying for critics and criticism needs to be found, according to Nica Burns, West End theatre operator and director of the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, speaking at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Creative Scotland has taken another strong step towards reconciliation with its client artist groups, with the publication of new one-year plan. This it the first “public facing”…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
Creative Scotland’s newly appointed chief executive Janet Archer has set out her ambitions for the first year of her tenure, but has held off publishing a new strategic plan until Apri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Equity has published statistics highlighting the disparity between male and female acting roles in Scotland and is now calling on Creative Scotland to fund further research. Basic research b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Theatre on bikes, a celebration of musician Martyn Bennett and dance performances on the Thames and Clyde rivers are among the highlights of the cultural programme supporting the Glasgow 201…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMFriday, June 28, 2013
The National Theatre of Scotland is to engage with the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence by touring a pair of plays examining issues of Scottish national identity according to its new…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMMonday, June 24, 2013
David Greig’s Victoria is to receive its Scottish premiere in a revival by Dundee Rep as part of the company’s autumn season, announced today. Commissioned by the RSC in 2000, Vi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Michael Gambon and Peter Egan have been confirmed to star in two of the Gate Theatre Dublin’s productions in the Samuel Beckett season at this year’s Edinburgh International Fest…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMDostoyevsky sits at the heart of the Glasgow Citizen’s autumn season, reuniting artistic director Dominic Hill with writer Chris Hannan in a new adaptation of Crime and Punishment. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMMonday, June 10, 2013
Two National Theatre Wales-commissioned scripts are among five nominees for the £10,000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama, organised by the University of Edinburgh in partnership wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMDundee Rep, Dundee: Haunting and claustrophobic, John Tiffany's final production as an associate director for the National Theatre of Scotland finds the glacial heart of the Nordic vamp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMSunday, June 9, 2013
Alan Cumming and Blythe Duff have won the best male and female performance awards at the annual Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, held at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre today. Cumm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThursday, June 6, 2013
Janet Archer has been announced as the new head of Creative Scotland, six months after previous chief executive Andrew Dixon resigned. Archer will take up the post of chief executive of July…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMVicky Featherstone is to be awarded a special CATS Whiskers award at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre this weekend. Featherstone has been rec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Scotland’s culture minister Fiona Hyslop has criticised her UK counterpart Maria Miller, claiming that Miller’s focus on the economic benefits of the arts sector “reduce it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMThursday, May 30, 2013
This summer’s Edinburgh Fringe will be the largest ever with a 6.5% increase on last year’s figures to 2,871 shows registered with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The bigg…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre is to revive its summer variety season in June when the All New Gaiety Whirl opens for a two-week run. Producer and star of the revival is Michael Courtney. He dec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThursday, May 23, 2013
Scottish Opera will create new main-stage productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in a 2013/14 season that otherwise focusses on smaller shows. The 14-s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMFriday, May 17, 2013
The Famous Spiegelterrace on George Street will return for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe in a modified format after local concerns following last year’s event. The terrace, which …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMThursday, May 16, 2013
A play about the London riots of 2011 and a piece of dance theatre initially created for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad are among more than a dozen productions to feature in the Scottish Governm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Alan Cumming in his solo version of Macbeth has received one of eight nominations for the National Theatre of Scotland at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, announced today. …
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