Friday, June 23, 2017
Miller’s 1949 depiction of the ageing, failing salesman Willy Loman as he struggles to comes to terms with the death of his dreams – and perhaps of The American Dream itself – has only…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, June 16, 2017
A new website has set out details of a pay-for-review scheme for productions on the Edinburgh Fringe. However, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMThere’s a braw bundle of insight to be had in Citadel Arts Group’s double bill of plays that explore some of the varying aspects of the women of Leith’s relationships with the sea.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
The Theatre in Schools Scotland project will double its capacity in its second year. It will stage four touring productions in its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMSunday, June 11, 2017
Dundee Rep and the Lyceum in Edinburgh have emerged as the biggest victors at the 2017 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMFriday, June 9, 2017
There is an undeniable poetic charm to Blue Raincoat’s Shackleton, at the Traverse to Friday and touring to the Tron next week. The Sligo-based company’s latest touring show, seen here i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Theatre productions registered for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe have hit an all-time high as its 70th-anniversary programme is launched. It comes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Representation will be at centre of the Traverse’s programme for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, according to artistic director Orla O’Loughlin. Speaking at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMFriday, June 2, 2017
Anne Frank’s diary of the time she, her family and four others spent in hiding in an annexe above her father’s business in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, has made many appearances in different…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, June 1, 2017
Written after Educating Rita and Blood Brothers, and very much in a similar tone, Shirley Valentine is the feel-good, feel-sad tale of a woman who realises that the best bits of life have pa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThe Edinburgh International Children’s Festival kicked off in splendid form this year, with an opening weekend of unusual and quirky offerings at the national Museum of Scotland. This is o…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Access and diversity are prioritised in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society’s free events programme at this year’s festival. The Breaking Down Barriers strand of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMSunday, May 28, 2017
The Attic Collective’s War in America is passionate, emotional and committed – but not over-earnest, and certainly not polite. The second production by this company for young performers …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, May 27, 2017
A female Scrooge and the professional Scottish production of August: Osage County feature on Andrew Panton’s first season as artistic director of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:06PMFriday, May 26, 2017
There is a freshness and infectious enthusiasm to Daphne Oram’s Wonderful World of Sound. This, allied to a magnetic central performance, overcomes oddities in the script and staging to cr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWobbly sets, missed cues, mixed-up lines and loudly whispered prompts are all in the script for the mid-eighties am-dram-set comedy taken on by St Serf’s Players for three nights only this…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, May 25, 2017
Extreme care has been lavished on the Lyceum’s Glory on Earth. It has a clarity to its storytelling and performances, backed up by some excellent staging, but never engages the heart or mi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMIn V-TOL’s latest production, Mark Murphy brings the thrill of his Glasgow Commonwealth Games closing ceremony to the stage, immersing the audience in a mix of aerial choreography and proj…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMNew work from Gary McNair and Cora Bissett and the revival of a solo piece by Pauline Goldsmith feature in the ninth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
The historical roots of Scotland’s religious divisions are the inspiration for Linda McLean’s Glory on Earth, which examines the relationship between the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMSunday, May 21, 2017
It’s a brilliant, inventive and perceptive deconstruction of the Saturday night out. Originally performed at the Fringe in 1977 as a two hander it first appeared as a four-hander in the ea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
There is a real energy to McAllister’s creation of Kes, a buzz which infects you as she sits down beside you and looks you straight in the eye. It’s a commanding performance, of the kind…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 18, 2017
Fantastic Mr Fox is a musical for children based on the classic book by Roald Dahl. It is the same basic story as the book, but lots of things that Mr Fox does are not the same. It has been …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Resolutely theatrical and visually arresting, the version of Jane Eyre at the Festival Theatre retains the flavour of that well-loved book while succeeding admirably on its own terms. This a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMMonday, May 15, 2017
VoiceArc’s sci-fi reworking of Don Giovanni, at Broughton St Mary’s Church, lifts itself on the voices of its talented performers despite some questionable set design. With music by Moza…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMScottish Opera’s La Boheme uses a contemporary twist to provide emotional resonance. Wandering through a crowded Parisian flea market, Hye-Youn Lee’s Mimi
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMSaturday, May 13, 2017
My Country – A Work In Progress, the National Theatre of Great Britain’s touring response to the Brexit vote, may very well have its heart in the right place. Unfortunately, it is diffic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMAssured comedy performances and ambitious staging combine to make a success of The Ladykillers for the Grads, at the Assembly Roxy to Saturday. The classic 1955 black comedy film, directed b…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, May 12, 2017
It was the first musical which Rodgers & Hammerstein created as a partnership and is packed with rather more than the usual quota of great and memorable numbers. Small wonder the hairs …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, May 11, 2017
The story of aspiring ballerina Vicky Page, who falls in love with composer Julian Craster while also falling under the spell of controlling dance impresario Boris Lermontov, is of course fr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSasha Regan sets her Mikado in the tents around the camp fire of an English public school camping trip in the 1950s. Here, the bullied boy of the class falls asleep and dreams that his class…
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