Wednesday, 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 07:52AMMonday, January 22, 2018
It’s safe to say that if you like Les Misérables, also presented by Cameron Mackintosh, you’ll like this too – some of the more familiar songs could probably be slipped into Les Mis, …
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Almost a third of workers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are unpaid, new research has revealed. The results have prompted entertainment union
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMMonday, January 8, 2018
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Peter Schaufuss has revealed plans for a full-time ballet school in Edinburgh at his two city-centre venues.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMTuesday, January 2, 2018
Children take centre stage in Peter Darrell’s first full length piece for Scottish Ballet, devised in 1973 and revived to acclaim in
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Think Christmas and think kids and you think panto – but not anymore. It’s not all about the dames and double entendres, thanks to Nonsense Room Productions.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThursday, December 21, 2017
Old green-lugs is back and as curmudgeonly as ever as Steffan Harri takes over the outsize costume for a new UK tour of Shrek the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMHans Christian Andersen’s story of a broken tin soldier, rejected by his owner, is given an inclusive twist in this new staging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMThere is a warmth and sense of tradition to Jack and the Beanstalk at the Church Hill Theatre that makes it an extremely attractive proposition.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Shona Reppe’s Cinderella established her as the fairy godmother of Scottish children’s theatre. A piece which, with its tabletop set, puppet Cinders
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMA charity has been launched in Edinburgh to support Scottish students who cannot afford to train in the performing arts. The MGA
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMEdinburgh’s ruling panto triumvirate – Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott – return in a Cinderella that is big on laughs,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Big, bright and brash, there are plenty of laughs in the new touring production of Shrek the Musical, which is debuting at the Playhouse until the first week of the new year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMonday, December 18, 2017
Mark Cox’s all-too-brief Beauty and the Beast is a feast of fart gags, local references, and audience participation with a scream of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMThe Glasgow Citizens Theatre has received a grant of £4.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its £19.8 million redevelopment project.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMSaturday, December 16, 2017
With enough spectacle and showmanship to keep kids big and small spellbound, Scottish Ballet’s revival of Peter Darrel’s Nutcracker at the Festival Theatre and on tour is the perfect Chr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMThursday, December 14, 2017
A splendid script and pitch-perfect performances make a tale as old as time feel as fresh as a daisy at Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThe Scottish Government’s draft budget for 2018/19 has set out measures to protect funding for arts organisations, despite earlier warnings that subsidy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMReturning to Kirkcaldy for a second year, Imagine Theatre Ltd rubs its magic lamp and delivers an Aladdin which has all the requisite elements right down
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMThere’s nuggets of gold in those there panto hills up Dunfermline Alhambra’s way, where a Wild West theme, an on-the-button cast, and about a zillion musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
This year’s King’s pantomime – Cinderella – is a more plot-driven and less reliant on effects than many of recent years. It also lacks some of the more interactive elements of panto,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Shona Reppe’s puppet version of Cinderella at the Traverse Theatre until Christmas Eve is a thing of airy, subtle wonder. The familiar fairy story is told with grace, space and imagination…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMGwilym Gibbons is to step down as chief executive of Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation behind Perth’s Theatre and Concert Hall venues.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMThe Traverse continues its tradition of pitch black Christmas shows with a savage yet hilarious indictment of a system that declares patently
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Colourful: A great deal of straightforward fun for young and old is to be had from Shark in the Park in the Festival Square Spiegeltent as part of Edinburgh’s Christmas.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMGlasgow’s annual panto at the King’s has been but sleeping over the last eight years, while Elaine C. Smith was away playing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Beautiful to look at and clever enough to know when to be stupid, The Arabian Nights at the Lyceum in Edinburgh is genuine family Christmas entertainment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe life of country and western singer Patsy Cline is shot through with heartbreak. Morag Fullarton’s sketchy but heartfelt show was originally staged at Glasgow’s Oran Mor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMMonday, December 4, 2017
The use of strong Scottish accents move Andrew Panton’s production A Christmas Carol away from London. But designer Richard Evans faux proscenium
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMClive Webb and Danny Adams own the Theatre Royal’s Peter Pan as they return to the theatre for the 13th consecutive year.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
There’s a fascinating concept behind the Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group’s production of Oliver!, at the Pleasance Theatre until Saturday evening. The simple idea is that there is…
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