Thursday, May 10, 2018
There is more than one large-scale depiction of World War One on stage in Edinburgh at the moment. While the juggernaut that is War Horse may cause Birdsong to be overshadowed, the returning…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre has taken the lion’s share of nominations for this year’s Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, being shortlisted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06PMThe nominees for the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland have been announced. Of the 180 new productions produced in Scotland from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
As one of Scotland’s flagship producing theatres prepares for a change of scene to allow a multimillion-pound redevelopment of its home, its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Strikingly staged and worryingly contemporary, Creditors at the Lyceum is unsettling and difficult to ignore.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Children’s theatre company Catherine Wheels has never shied away from tackling big issues. In this immersive co-production with the National Theatre of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Stewart Laing’s production of David Greig’s punchy 2008 modern language version of Strindberg’s Creditors is raw and often brutal. This dissection of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Though Tchaikovsky confined himself to a series of lyric scenes from Pushkin’s verse novel for his opera of Eugene Onegin, director Oliver Mears elaborates further on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMMonday, April 30, 2018
There are moments in Gut – presented by the Traverse in association with the National Theatre of Scotland – where it is difficult to breathe, such is the power of Frances Poet’s psycho…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
The fear felt by a parent when their young child disappears from sight is universal. But sometimes that fear can grow out
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Fat Friends The Musical might not be the kind of show you see over and over again, but if you’re looking for a fun, feel-good night out then you can’t go too far wrong with what is an en…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSaturday, April 21, 2018
The touring production of War Horse at the Festival Theatre is involving, emotional, visually spectacular and every bit as good as you have probably heard.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, April 20, 2018
It is 21 years since Steven Greenhorn’s road movie for the stage had its debut at the Edinburgh Traverse. And, while it is firmly set
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMWednesday, April 18, 2018
Margaret Saves Scotland, the latest offering in the A Play, A Pie and A Pint season, marks the return of Val McDermid to the stage. Anyone expecting a taut and bloody crime thriller, however…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Amanda Gaughan, who died suddenly at the age of 35, was a talented director who earned many friends in Scotland’s theatre community
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Scottish Opera celebrates the 10th anniversary of its youth project, the Connect Company, with performances of three short new commissions from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Antony McDonald has relocated Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s mash-up of operatic genres, to a contemporary Glasgow mansion.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
There’s a lot to enjoy in this production of Crazy for You which brings a great deal of talent to the stage and shows it off well. It’s just that it gets caught up in the fiddly bits of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 6, 2018
One of the strongest points of Gary McNair’s lovable, almost-poetic telling of McGonagall’s life is the pathos it evokes when detailing the onstage abuse he received. It also confronts t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling – his updating of La Sylphide to near contemporary Glasgow – is a joyous romp. He floods the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Love him or loathe him there is no mistaking Justin Fletcher. As one of the BBC’s top children’s TV presenters Fletcher – aka Mr Tumble – is one of the most recognisable faces in the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, March 28, 2018
Reliable performances by a host of crowd-pleasing big TV names cannot quite redeem the disappointing script of The Case of the Frightened Lady.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, March 26, 2018
In a time of Facebook rumour, fake news and false narratives, director Lu Kemp’s Richard III provides a reminder that such lies
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:49PMA new body aimed at developing theatre directors’ careers in Scotland is being launched. Theatre Directors Scotland will bring together members who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMFriday, March 23, 2018
The glorious inventiveness on display in Travels With My Aunt never quite banishes the whiff of cynicism about the subject material. However, worries hardly matter when the exemplary perform…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Scottish Youth Theatre will remain open throughout 2018, after securing a short-term funding agreement with the Scottish Government. The agreement sees the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMEdinburgh’s Lung Ha Theatre Company has created a strong and emphatically direct production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters in a new version by Adrian Osmond at the Traverse and on a short to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFunding for the arts in Scotland is at a crisis point. But this time the crisis is no longer about levels of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMSaturday, March 17, 2018
How to Act, the National Theatre of Scotland’s acclaimed production, is intriguingly named. There are shades of meaning behind that phrase, dealing with the expectations of society as well…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 15, 2018
Director Katie Mitchell is to make her Edinburgh International Festival debut this August as part of a residency by Paris-based Theatre des
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Hairspray has been touring for years – it was last here in 2016 – and the reason why people are still flocking to see it is there for all to see. It’s a heart-warming and empowering t…
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