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. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMThe Studio – a 200-seat theatre in Edinburgh Festival Theatre’s new rehearsal and educational building – will open for this year’s Fringe, when it will be run by leading …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMThe first play by crime novelist Ian Rankin and a new examination of the union of England and Scotland, in the year of the Scottish independence referendum, are the highlights of the Royal L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:31PMAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Forty years on and Hector MacMillan's play about the Irish troubles, revived by Michael Emans for Rapture Theatre, is both dated and disturbingly contempo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:02PMThe Beacon, Greenock: There's a satisfyingly surreal feel to Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty's adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's children's book, as it takes its s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Matthew Bourne's character-driven choreography finds a perfect fit with Scottish Ballet, as the company achieves the distinction of being the first, outside Bour…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Light on its feet, Graham McLaren's production of A Doll's House gives Zinnie Harris' new version of the play a clarity of purpose which was p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMFergus Linehan, former director of both the Sydney Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival, has been appointed director designate of the Edinburgh International Festival. Linehan will begin the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMBrunton, Musselburgh: It's 166 years since John Maddison Morton's one-act farce Box and Cox burst onto the Victorian stage. The title entered the language, its subject precipitated…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMGraeae Theatre’s Judith Kilvington has been appointed executive director at the Glasgow Citizens, working alongside artistic director Dominic Hill as the theatre moves towards a £10 m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMTraverse, Edinburgh: Powerful and spellbinding, Rob Drummond's new play for the Traverse looks and feels exactly as it should - a beautifully defined retro-TV quiz show land. It is a sh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMCreative Scotland has advertised the post of new chief executive, with with a salary of £110,000 a year – £10,000 a year less than outgoing chief Andrew Dixon, who resigned last Dece…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMTrainspotting star Kevin McKidd has joined 51 Moray-based artists and arts professionals who have signed an open letter to Moray Council, arguing for a rethink of the recently announced 100%…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMThe Edinburgh International Festival will examine the relationship between art and new technology this summer, in a programme that is particularly strong in theatre and sees two mini-festiva…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMA new programme of bursaries and awards for individual arts practitioners is part of a new “action plan for change”, published by Scotland’s under-fire arts quango, Creativ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMFestival Theatre, Edinburgh: Large in scale but intimate in feel, director Anna Linstrum's new touring production of High Society bursts onto the stage with a spring in its step. Here, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:49AMCreative Scotland has announced dates for its promised open consultation meetings with arts practitioners in Scotland. The five dates are in Dundee, Edinburgh, Greenock, Teangue (on Skye) an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: There is a compelling sensitivity to Jemima Levick's direction of Priestley's great time play. She allows his craft to engage fully - while bringin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AMGlasgow’s Citizens theatre has announced the first step in a £10 million redevelopment to its public and backstage areas. Architectural practice Bennetts Associates, which worked on S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMUnderbelly Ltd, the company behind the Edinburgh fringe venue and London Southbank Udderbelly festival, is set to revamp Edinburgh’s winter festivals. A consortium formed by Underbelly…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMMoray Council, in the north east of Scotland, has voted to cut all funding to the arts as part of an attempt to save £7 million from its 2013/14 budget. The cut will remove £94,000...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMVicky Featherstone, former artistic director of the National theatre of Scotland, is to join the selection panel for the new chief executive of Creative Scotland. Featherstone, who recently …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMThe Beacon, Greenock: Birds of Paradise was never meant to open the Beacon, Greenock's sparkling new £9.5m successor to the Arts Guild, but chance and new-build overruns have p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMThe National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Macbeth is to transfer to Broadway. The production, in which Alan Cumming plays all the roles, is being presented by independent New Yo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00AMThe Byre Theatre in St Andrews is to go dark and the company running it has ceased trading with immediate effect. The theatre was due to be taken under the wing of the new Fife...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:38PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Tony Cownie's new production for the Royal Lyceum Theatre of Shelagh Delaney's late 50s hit is strangely evocative, amidst a shrillness of tone. Tr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMCreative Scotland has confirmed its commitment to holding consultative meetings across the art forms in Scotland, as it restructures its way of working ahead of the publication of a new corp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMEdinburgh Festival Fringe is to reduce the commission it charges companies and producers on ticket sales from 6% to 4%, starting at this summer’s event. Commission on ticket sales has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMThe National Theatre of Scotland is to consolidate its headquarters in a new £5.5 million home for its rehearsal, administration, technical and storage departments in the north of Glasgow. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe new Beacon Arts Centre building has opened in Greenock to replace the old Arts Guild Theatre, a 500-seat space which was deemed no longer fit for purpose. The new £9.5 million building …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMPat Lovett, the Edinburgh-based theatre agent who started Lovett Logan Associates – formerly Pat Lovett Associates – died on Christmas Eve. Pat Lovett started working as an agent in 1981…
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