Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Scotland’s scheduled exit from the European Union is to be marked by the National Theatre of Scotland with a special production on March
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMTuesday, November 27, 2018
La Clique returns with an eclectic array of outrageous and magnificent circus cabaret to Edinburgh this festive season for Noel – Part Deux.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Big of voice and oh so slick in presentation, the West End production of Motown the Musical – which is now on UK tour through 2019 and pausing at the Edinburgh Playhouse for a three-week …
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Rambert’s Life is a Dream is a peculiar, poetic piece that suffers from pulling in too many directions at once.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, November 23, 2018
Motown The Musical has a strangely conceived storyline but is carried along on a wave of wonderful music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMPitlochry Festival Theatre has been awarded £10 million towards its £25 million redevelopment project. The announcement is part of the £700 million
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Motown the Musical is that rare beast: a jukebox musical that has heart, soul and a little bit of social politics, along
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMThursday, November 15, 2018
The Last Days of Mankind, an international co-production at the reborn Leith Theatre, is an exasperating but ultimately worthwhile exploration of the horrors of the 1914-1918 war. Both resol…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Top-notch comic performances and a production that purrs like a Rolls-Royce mean that the touring production of Shakespeare In Love from Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Theatre Royal Bath is e…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Alex McGowan has been appointed executive director and joint chief executive of the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. He joins the theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMThe Last Days of Mankind by Austrian playwright and journalist Karl Kraus has been deemed ‘unstageable.’ Using found texts from newspapers, political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMMonday, November 12, 2018
Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre has appointed Gareth Nicholls as interim artistic director, while the venue enters a period of consultation about plans for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThursday, November 8, 2018
There are some brilliantly imaginative elements to the touring production of Vulcan 7 at the King’s. Unfortunately, none of them are in Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer’s script.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre is to go dark for 23 months from September 2021 for a £20 million refurbishment that will protect the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Pauline Knowles, who has died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 50, was a leading actor on the Scottish
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMThursday, November 1, 2018
Noisy fun is to be had in the touring Dracula at the King’s, in a production that lacks depth but is unashamedly crowd-pleasing, not to say crowd-scaring.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMMonday, October 29, 2018
Edinburgh International Festival has appointed Francesca Hegyi as its new executive director, from February 2019. She is taking over from Joanna Baker,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMSunday, October 28, 2018
There is a peculiar absence of majesty at the heart of the National Theatre’s touring production of Macbeth.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, October 26, 2018
The misogyny in Verdi’s Rigoletto is given an added edge in Matthew Richardson’s timely revival of his 2011 production for Scottish Opera.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
The news of Pauline Knowles’ death has come as a shock to the Scottish theatre community, with an outpouring of sorrow from the many actors and theatre professionals who worked with her as…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, October 22, 2018
An infectious cross between an interactive game and a piece of immersive theatre, Quest for Oz sees the paths around Drummohr House near Musselburgh turned into the land of Oz.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIt’s nearly two decades since Gregory Burke’s darkly comic Gagarin Way first burst onto a stage, but Cora Bissett’s new production for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:10AMThursday, October 18, 2018
It’s 23 years since Mathew Bourne changed the gender of the swans in Swan Lake for his choreography of the ballet but it still stands the test of time.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Madagascar The Musical is very much a show that only young children will enjoy. Unlike other kids shows, however, there’s just not nearly enough adult content to keep them entertained too.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMBrexit has already had a negative impact on the work and business of more than half of Scotland’s arts workers, a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Visually and verbally intoxicating, Cyrano de Bergerac at the Lyceum, Edinburgh is a riotous, joyous expression of the human spirit.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe 306: Dusk is the final part of Oliver Emanuel and composer Gareth Williams’ emotional trilogy for National Theatre of Scotland about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
Despite boasting the talents of two of Scotland’s greatest writers and a more than adequate cast, Rebus: Long Shadows is nowhere near as compelling as the stage debut of Edinburgh’s most…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMCharles Lawson has pulled out of performances of Rebus: Long Shadows after collapsing on stage at the opening night on October 8.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Two Destination Language’s devised piece, Manpower, might have started life in 2016 as an examination of masculinity, but it says just as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMThere are probably enough fans of the original movie to sustain The Classic Screen to Stage Company’s touring version of Rain Man. However, as a piece of theatre, it never makes a successf…
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