Saturday, 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMBefore she was Carole King, singer-songwriter, she was Carol Klein from Brooklyn, a 16-year-old sharp enough to have skipped two grades whose divorcee mother dreamed she’d become a teacher…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Many stories are told in Suhayla El-Bushra’s new adaptation of The Arabian Nights, but by creating a new telling of Scheherazade’s own
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMThursday, November 30, 2017
“OMG You Guys!” The Festival Theatre is awash with pink as the hilarious Legally Blonde arrives in Edinburgh at the end of the first leg of its extensive UK tour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe first season at the National Theatre of Scotland from artistic director Jackie Wylie will celebrate “the brilliance of Scottish work”, featuring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Big ensemble numbers, some high-kicking choreography and a clutch of stellar solo vocal moments ensure that Gang Show 2017 hits all the expectations for a grand night out.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThe National Theatre of Scotland’s new artistic director launches her first programme this week with the aim of extending the company’s reach
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMIn his ninth consecutive appearance in Motherwell panto, Iain ‘Sheepie’ Smith gives a real spark to Bev Berridge’s basic Jack and the Beanstalk script as Jack’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMMonday, November 27, 2017
Johnny McKnight has gone back to the future for his return to the Macrobert, writing, directing and starring in a plot-heavy update of Dick Whittington. Emma
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMDespite the name, there is nothing Christmassy about the show, bar a couple of nods at either end. Otherwise, La Clique continue to occupy a niche of their own between the underground and th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSunday, November 26, 2017
There’s a hitch at Tango Moderno but there are no missteps. Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are the passionate pair who burned the Strictly floor for years before quitting to take to the …
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Flirting with darkness, Theatre Paradok’s production of Alistair McDowall's Pomona is well performed, but ultimately more staid than it first appears.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMDirector David Bates brings La Clique, the mix of alternative burlesque and music he invented for the 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, back
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Glasgow’s Citizens theatre is to go dark from June 2018 to autumn 2020, while the theatre undergoes a £19.4 million redevelopment. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Chilling in all the right places, the revival of the award-winning tour of Cabaret starring Will Young as the Emcee feels as important a piece of musical theatre as it ever did.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMCreative Scotland has warned all its 119 regularly funded organisations that it will not announce its funding decisions for their 2018-2021 grants
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMFriday, November 17, 2017
Edinburgh International Festival has extended director Fergus Linehan’s contract for an extra three years, meaning that he will run the festival until
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
Leading lady Mona is driving director Hennessy mad with her diva ways. One of the chorus line has gone awol. And little Ruby from Utah has come to Broadway with big dreams.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2017
A major Edinburgh theatre trust has joined up with the city’s Queen Margaret University in a bid to develop new talent and support the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMMonday, November 13, 2017
Tabula Rasa at the Traverse is a collaboration between Scottish Ensemble and Vanishing Point that contains moments of heartfelt beauty but never coheres.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMJohn Durnin is to step down as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre at the end of December after 15 years in the role.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThe music of Estonian composer Arvo Part is at the forefront of this collaboration between Matthew Lenton’s Vanishing Point and the Scottish Ensemble. The acknowledged significance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
Following the fortunes of four first year science students at Girton in 1996, this is a production which feels quite right to stage now. Girton was the first college to admit women and it wa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThis is Cinderella by another name, and Wertenbaker goes beyond the glitter and the glib happy ending in the source to create a version which picks out the darkness and the morality of the t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has called on the UK government to develop a recovery plan to address the decreasing National Lottery
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMTuesday, November 7, 2017
The play opens with unlovely long-time couple, Jo and Harry, having sex on their sofa while watching porn. Cassandra Sawtell’s Jo is bouncing around, munching on a packet of crisps, while …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMSunday, November 5, 2017
The Leith Theatre complex is to be used for a second time by Edinburgh’s pop-up multi-arts festival Hidden Door. The 10-day festival
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Belinda Lang’s performance is beautifully human, encapsulating rage, despair, delusion and self-possession in equal amounts.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Locker Room Talk, the Traverse Edinburgh’s verbatim theatre piece that calls out systematic sexual aggression, will be performed in front of politicians
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PMMonday, October 30, 2017
There is a solidly gothic feel to Blackeyed Theatre’s staging of RL Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMSunday, October 29, 2017
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller’s great tragedy of loyalty and miss-placed love in the tenements of the waterfront slums of 1950s New York is given a solid production from the EUTC a…
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