Pat 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMOcean Terminal, Edinburgh: There is no need for overarching narrative in this Christmas Gift - the Moscow State Circus's thrilling aerial acts speak for themselves. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMCreative Scotland’s senior director of creative development, Venu Dhupa, who was behind the arts quango’s controversial restructuring, is to leave her post in February. Dhupa is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMAlhambra, Dunfermline: Writer and director Liam Rudden has moved into the large space of the Alhambra with all guns blazing. Even before the main curtain has risen his excited dance troupe a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMEdinburgh’s Traverse theatre has announced the first half of its 50th anniversary season, starting with a reading of the winning scripts from the Traverse Fifty project. The season als…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMThe Gaiety Theatre in Ayr has reopened with the announcement that it will remain active throughout 2013 before closing for further refurbishment after next year’s pantomime season. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMVicky Featherstone, outgoing artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland, has praised under-fire Scottish arts quango Creative Scotland for “listening to the artists”. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMMacrobert, Stirling: Eilidh MacAskill and Fiona Manson let their audience provide the vocabulary in this delightful new piece from Fish and Game, aimed at under-sixes. They play a pair of ad…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: There is dark ambivalence to Ashley Page's Nutcracker in its examination of taboo, bound up with the coming of age of Marie (Sophie Martin) and her relationship …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Paris provides a happy hunting ground for Alan McHugh's script in Sleeping Beauty at the Adam Smith Kirkcaldy. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phantom and Mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMCreative Scotland is to abandon strategic commissioning, offer long-term funding to organisations and slow down the pace of change, as part of wide-ranging changes to its ways of working ann…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Comedy, pratfalls and deep philosophical investigation abound in the Traverse's hilarious hook-up with Peepolykus. Director Orla O'Loughlin's ligh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMKing's Theatre, Edinburgh: It's all about the boys at the Edinburgh King's family show this year, with the return of the dream team of Allan Stewart as the dame (Mother Goose), And…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:10AMCitizens Theatre, Glasgow: Dominic Hill has got just the right level of scary in this dark and lush production of Rufus Norris' take on the Sleeping Beauty story. Parents might be frigh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMMacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling: A sparkling script and ebullient plot from Johnny McKnight are the galvanising forces of the MacRobert's Cinderella, directed by Julie Brown. He returns…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMCumbernauld Theatre, Cumbernauld: Storytelling is the key to Ed Robson's portmanteau Christmas show, combining ten different tales into one extended story session as five clown figures …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Tim Licata keeps it local, current and very much on traditional Scottish lines as he takes over the director's chair at the Brunton for his pantomime debut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMCarnegie Hall, Dunfermline: Jonathan Stone puts the story first in a vaguely Bavarian-set Hansel and Gretel which has plenty of fun but smacks of inhibition, as if it were itching to release…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMCreative Scotland has announced that Andrew Dixon will step down as chief executive with effect from January 2013. Dixon has been under intense scrutiny since May this year, following a seri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: There's no breaking of the fourth wall in Johnny McKnight's dark but hilarious new take on Cinderella. His script relocates the musical play - not …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMMotherwell Theatre, Motherwell: Ian 'Sheepie' Smith is a panto pal to treasure in Bev Berridge's jaunty production of John Spillers' music and comedy-infused script at Mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMEdinburgh’s Royal Lyceum and Chichester Festival Theatre have postponed their co-production of David Haig’s Pressure until spring 2014, citing difficulties in casting the lead ro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMThe Edinburgh International Festival has appointed independent producer Roy Luxford as its new planning and operations director. Luxford will be based in Edinburgh and takes up the post in F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMDominic Hill is to direct the Citizens Theatre Glasgow’s first Doctor Faustus in more than 45 years, as he starts his second year in charge of the theatre. Doctor Faustus will reunite …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMThe Brunton in Musselburgh has reopened its main hall after a £3.7 million upgrade to create a flexible performance space. Retractible seating gives the hall a capacity of more than 500 sea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMCreative Scotland’s project funding is stifling the development of independent artists, according to an internal report released this week by the arts quango. The Producers’ Hub …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMCreative Scotland proportionally spends less than half the amount on the dance sector as its counterpart south of the border, Arts Council England. According to a new report on the Scottish …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMCitizens Theatre, Glasgow: There's enough energy in Cora Bissett's new musical for the National of Scotland to launch it in to the stratosphere, but elements of the production are …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fizzing with dark and twisted energy, Morna Pearson's new play for the Traverse throws a 40-year-old innocent into the wilds of dating. She writes in a soft…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMThe Edinburgh International Festival has begun its search for a “visionary and inspirational” director to replace Jonathan Mills, who will be leaving the post in 2014. Mills was …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Snow sweeps across Matthew Lenton's new Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Lyceum. A blizzard, beautifully realised in Kai Fisher's austere design,…
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