Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, March 11, 2018
Despite the best efforts of a committed cast in Bingo!, the end result has a baggy, lop-sided feel. There is enough dark energy here to make a success, but retooling is surely needed to make…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, March 9, 2018
Musical Theatre has its fair share of bloody moments, what with its man-eating plants and demon barbers. Now writers Anita Vettesse and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMThursday, March 8, 2018
Scottish Youth Theatre is to close at the end of July after failing to secure funding in the latest round from Creative
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMSunday, March 4, 2018
Allan Stewart has one against proved himself to be everyone’s favourite entertainer. His Big Big Variety Show is a joyous night of entertainment that should leave you smiling for days.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
Festival City Theatres Trust, the charitable body that runs Edinburgh’s Festival, King’s and Studio theatres, is changing its name to Capital Theatres
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Ira Levin’s tightly plotted thriller, first staged in 1978, is delivered with maximum impact in Johnny McKnight’s entertaining revival. The production boasts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMSaturday, February 24, 2018
Behind all this bold, sensual exploration of the seediest side of life, The Last Bordello becomes nothing less than an affirmation of the need – the absolute need – for people to have th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, February 23, 2018
The City of Edinburgh Council has agreed to set aside a £5 million fund for capital investment in the city’s theatres and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMAn evening of tall tales puts a spotlight on the human heart as the King’s presents Conor McPherson’s modern Irish classic, The Weir.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe Scottish Parliament’s culture committee has labelled evidence given to it by Creative Scotland earlier this week as “unconvincing”, and said its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMEllie Stewart’s reworking of the true story of Martin Guerre examines questions of identity and what “belonging” really means. Guerre was a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMThursday, February 22, 2018
Creative Scotland’s chief executive has apologised for the way the body’s recent funding decisions were handled, as she committed to a root-and-branch
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMIt may be a cliché, but Edinburgh is definitely “alive with the Sound of Music” once again as the classic musical returns to the Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
There is an edge of guerilla theatre to Neon Eye’s theatre debut, The Things I Don’t Say, set and performed in a Bruntsfield flat, which makes it feel special before it even starts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMVivacity, wit and downright stupidity abound in The Belle’s Stratagem at the Lyceum, a production of verve and cheek that produces as much laughter as anything seen on the Edinburgh stage …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMEdinburgh Festival Fringe chief executive Shona McCarthy has warned that the annual arts festival could risk becoming unaffordable if costs continue to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMMonday, February 19, 2018
Hannah Cowley’s biting 1780 comedy of manners has been transplanted to Georgian Edinburgh for a production that feels both timely and timeless.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMMatches are resolutely old-school and capable of being taken for granted, but are just as capable of flaring into life as they always were. Which is pretty much the case with Firebrand’s T…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM“Find your stories from inside yourselves.” This what Mark Thomas tells the students at his comedy workshop in the Jenin Freedom Theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
What happens when a comedian runs a comedy club in one of the most violently repressed areas of the world? Showtime from the Frontline sounds like it should be a recipe for disaster, yet Mar…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Though White Rabbit Red Rabbit could be perceived as a tad gimmicky, the marriage of form and content proves more than satisfying. Nassim Soleimanpour has got himself a winning formula here …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Creative Scotland has reinstated five companies to its network of regularly funded organisations, following an emergency meeting of its board last week.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMMonday, February 5, 2018
David Harrower’s 1995 debut play. Knives in Hens, is a harsh, raw piece of writing. In a superstitious, pastoral age the village
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
On the eve of the centenary of Muriel Spark’s birth, the Usher Hall was packed for Muriel Spark: Creme de la Creme, an evening of readings, reminiscences and a performed reading of the Edi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMManipulate Festival is back and its performance side got off to a smashing start with two hugely inventive and darkly comic shows which both use toys as puppets: Song of the Goat and Plastic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, February 1, 2018
Ruth Wishart and Maggie Kinloch have resigned from the board of Creative Scotland following the arts agency’s controversial funding decisions announced last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
Creative Scotland is to hold an emergency board meeting next week in response to the criticism of funding decisions for 2018-21. Criticism
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Scottish arts organisations have criticised ‘devastating’ cuts to children’s theatre companies in the latest funding round, labelling them a “huge blow” to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThursday, January 25, 2018
There is a bittersweet delicacy to The Lover, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh’s collaboration with Stellar Quines and Scottish Dance Theatre, that cannot quite compensate for a lack of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
When Marguerite Duras was almost 16, she had a relationship with an older man that would inform her life and her writing.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AM 
