Ayr's Gaiety theatre is to reopen in December with a pantomime production of Cinderella, produced by Michael Courtney's Mad About Productions and staring Gary Lamont with Leah MacRae.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThe National Theatre of Scotland's A Christmas Carol and Dundee Rep's Further Than The Furthest Thing have both run out double winners at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, announce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41PMDavid MacLennan, artistic director of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint programme of lunchtime theatre at Glasgow's Oran Mor, has won the inaugural CATS Whiskers award at this year's Critics' Awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMLeading Scottish playwright David Greig has called for Creative Scotland to suspend its planned shake-up to its funding strategy, saying that the quango is "haemorrhaging" trust as a result.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AMComedy has increased its dominance of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a record-breaking 964 shows in the official 2012 programme, itself featuring a record 2,695 productions across 279 ve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMJane Spiers, chief executive of Horsecross Arts in Perth, has been appointed to the same position at Aberdeen Performing Arts and will take up the post in September.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMScottish Opera is to mark its 50th anniversary season with four fully-staged, full-length operas in a programme of 11 productions playing 133 performances in 63 venues.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMDundee Rep Theatre is to return to having joint artistic directors when Philip Howard and Jemima Levick take over at the helm in spring 2013.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMA major shake-up in Creative Scotland's funding strategy has left the country's independent theatre sector uncertain for its future.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMThe Famous Spiegeltent will return to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer in a tie-in with the new promoters at the Assembly Rooms which will see George Street closed to traffic.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMCommunicado is to return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a version of Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, as one of 12 companies chosen for the Made in Scotland programme, funded by the Scottish governm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMThe National Theatre of Scotland has emerged as the frontrunner in the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, with nominations in all but one of the ten categories.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:27AMPitlochry Festival Theatre has appointed Mark Da Vanzo, previously manager of arts investments at Creative New Zealand, to the new post of deputy chief executive.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMLeading Edinburgh Fringe operator C Venues is to take over the central India Buildings, just off the Royal Mile, for this year's festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMThe Hub at Pacific Quay, Glasgow: The National Theatre of Scotland's latest verbatim work, edited from interviews with journalists about the death - or otherwise - of the newspaper indu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMThe new operator of Edinburgh Fringe venue the Assembly Rooms has unveiled its programme for this year's event, promising to keep prices down and cut out the venue's infamous queues.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:35AMRoyal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Bloodiness abounds in this laboured production of Martin McDonagh's comic and absurdist take on rural Irish republicanism. There is enough in the produc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMWorld premieres of a new play by David Haig and an adaptation by Donna Franceschild of her BAFTA Award-winning Takin' Over The Asylum are to be presented as part of the Royal Lyceum's 2012/1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMEastgate Theatre, Peebles: Ed Robson has created a fine new touring version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic yarn for Cumbernauld Theatre. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMTraverse, Edinburgh: There is a purity of purpose about Andy Manley's enchanting piece of theatre for Catherine Wheels. Aimed at 2-4 year olds - with perfect attention to all the detail…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMNew short-term insurance packages for fringe participants have been put together by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society working with specialist insurance companies Wrightsure and Rees Astl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMThe Scottish Government has announced allocations of its annual £350,000 international touring fund for the five national performing companies.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMBrunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Tensely comic, the European Arts Company production of this Pinter double bill sets off with a Dumb Waiter that intrigues but doesn't disturb. Nicholas Gas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMThe National Theatre of Scotland is to send the Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, its site-specific hit in rhyming verse inspired by the Border Ballads, on a year-long tour.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMRoyal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Crisp, witty and biting with its language, DC Jackson's adaptation of Beaumarchais updates Figaro to the banking sector in contemporary Edinburgh. Mark Thomson&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMAdam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: In the 25 years since Wildcat first staged The Steamie, it has become a modern Scottish classic, broadcast on television and performed around the world. Its sn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMScotland's five national performing companies achieved a near 20% increase in audience figures in the financial year 2010/11, according to figures published by the Scottish government.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMThe re-opening of Ayr's Gaiety theatre has come a step closer with the approval of £750,000 investment over five years from the South Ayrshire Council.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMThe National Theatre of Scotland is teaming up with the London Review of Books to create Enquirer, a new play which is a response to the crisis in newspaper journalism in the UK
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMEdinburgh International Festival artistic director Jonathan Mills has announced that he is to stand down from the post in 2014, when he will have been in post for eight years.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMTheatre will feature strongly at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival, with 11 separate theatre productions in the programme launched this week.
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