Royal 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,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMLaurie Sansom, currently artistic director of Royal and Derngate in Northampton, has been appointed to lead the National Theatre of Scotland. Sansom will succeed NTS founding artistic direct…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMCreative Scotland has announced a major examination of its internal structures, two weeks after a the publication of a highly critical open letter to the arts quango signed by more than 400 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMTicket sales for Edinburgh’s summer festivals, including those overlapping with the Olympics, dropped by just 0.39% in 2011, according to a report to the City Edinburgh Council. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Music-hall variety and steampunk, industrial-revolution design drive Scottish Opera's brilliantly crowd-pleasing new Magic Flute. Director Sir Thomas Allen even …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMTraverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Returning to Traverse Two, the conventional theatre space where they first stepped off, site-specific specialists Grid Iron use it cleverly to examine the nature…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMBrunton, Musselburgh: Taking her cue from Charles Bukowski's cult character Henry Chinaski, Kylie Walters has created a testosterone-fuelled frenzy of an evening. In her narrative, a qu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMLeading independent Edinburgh venue, the Bongo Club, has been granted a temporary licence to occupy the space underneath the city’s Central Library until June 2014. The City of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMFestival Theatre, Edinburgh: Scottish Ballet's autumn trio of ballets - new, refreshed and old - emphatically establishes that new artistic director Christopher Hampson will be building…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMCilla Fisher and Artie Trezise, the creators of children’s theatre group The Singing Kettle, have announced that they are to stop performing with the act from next year. The forthcoming Ch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMCreative Scotland has reacted in a robust but largely conciliatory manner to its critics, following the publication of a stinging attack on its management methods in a letter signed by 100 p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMArts Guild, Greenock: Stumbling rather than running into the light, David Hutchinson's touring production of Arthur Miller's 1944 play sets off as if it is unsure of its own luck. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMMusicians from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera have formed a co-operative to market themselves as a commercial operation. This follows a move in 2011 that saw the orchestra’s members put o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMA hundred people from across the arts in Scotland, including playwright David Greig and composer Peter Maxwell Davies, have launched a stinging attack on the “ongoing crisis” at …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMTwo mass meetings of Scottish artists have been organised in response to what are perceived as ongoing problems with Creative Scotland. The separate meetings, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, follo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMScottish Dance Theatre is to tour to four Indian cities this autumn, including a performance at the Delhi International Arts Festival. The tour, which is supported by Creative Scotland and t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:04AMCitizens Theatre, Glasgow: Rage and fear seep through Mike Bartlett's domesticated updating of Euripides, clashing brashly and inviting its protagonists to step outside. They simmer beh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Rising to the challenge of making contemporary dance for a young audience, choreographer Christine Devaney creates a world of butterflies and crawling insects. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMA stage adaptation of vampire film Let the Right One In and a site-specific revival of a classic Scottish play about striking miners are among ten new productions for 2013 revealed by the Na…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Serge Denoncourt has created a big, exciting and vibrant production for the Royal Lyceum and National Theatre of Scotland, in this revival of the 1989 translation in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMCreative Scotland has announced that 17 projects, five of of them theatre-based, are to share nearly £15 million of capital grants this year.The post Creative Scotland reveals £6m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMCreative Scotland has announced that 17 projects, five of of them theatre-based, are to share nearly £15 million of capital grants this year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMArts agency Creative Scotland has been asked to clarify its role in commissioning the arts and urged to "work constructively" with the sector in a letter from Scottish culture secretary Fion…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMArts agency Creative Scotland has been asked to clarify its role in commissioning the arts and urged to "work constructively" with the sector in a letter from Scottish culture secretary Fion…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMCreative Scotland and the culture sector are to receive relatively small cuts in the Scottish government's draft budget for 2013/14, published on Thursday at Holyrood.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMThe first tickets for next August's Edinburgh Festival Fringe have gone on sale an unprecedented 11 months before the start of the event.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMAndrew Dixon, chief executive of Creative Scotland, has given a robust defence of the body's financial plans to the Scottish Parliament's education and culture committee.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMScottish Ballet's new artistic director Christpher Hampson has announced a new version of Hansel and Gretel and the first ever production of a full-length Matthew Bourne ballet outside the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMEdinburgh's Traverse Theatre has announced two world premieres for its autumn season and released details of the year-long Traverse 50 writers initiative which will begin in January to mark …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMThe Edinburgh International Festival has announced record income for this year's event, which has closed in Edinburgh with box office income of £2.83 million, a rise of 9% on 2011.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMKing's Theatre, Edinburgh: Smooth and accomplished to listen to, like a calmly swelling sea, Craig Armstrong's new opera version of Ibsen's play, with a libretto by Zoe Strachan, f…
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