Thursday, May 11, 2017
Sasha 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The four Scottish theatremakers of colour who will be supported by the £12,500 Megaphone fund have been announced. Bibi June Schwithal, Mara
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMMonday, May 8, 2017
The 306: Day is the second part in the National Theatre of Scotland’s trilogy inspired by the 306 British soldiers shot for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMSunday, May 7, 2017
There are plenty of Good Things in the Edinburgh Makars’ production of Liz Lochhead’s play of that name, in a production that is solid if not spectacular.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, May 5, 2017
Director Michael Emans delivers a sparkling, sprawling Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He lets Edward Albee’s script breathe. He glories in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMThree friends from university in the 1990s occasionally stage reunions that show how two of them – Gary and Jackson – have moved on to careers and respectability (or something approximat…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Charlie Sonata is a fairytale for grownups. Douglas Maxwell brings all the mythic properties of his writing for younger audiences to bear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMFriday, April 28, 2017
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice’s book features a somewhat conventional love story, as daughter Wednesday wants to marry her more commonplace boyfriend Lucas Beineke. This involves enlist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 27, 2017
There are some very good performances of recognisable human dilemmas in Edinburgh Theatre Arts’ production of The Memory of Water at St Ninian’s. Shelagh Stephenson’s dark comedy, abou…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
David Greig’s second season as artistic director launched Ian McDiarmid returns to Lyceum stage after 45 years New work by Suhayla El-Bushra,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMQuincy meets Crossroads as the latest adaptation of a Peter James thriller, Not Dead Enough, hits the King’s Theatre. Literally. There’s a killer on the loose in Brighton.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMLove, quite incongruously, is all around in the musical comedy version of The Addams Family, which sees Charles Addams’ famously morbid cartoon
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMIn Peter Arnott’s splendid account of the final hours of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who murdered President Lincoln, the two are shown so entangled and engorged that the performance of th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is uniting with other international arts festivals to launch World Fringe Day in July. The event, which will take
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:54AMMonday, April 24, 2017
Sandy Thomson dives deep into Dundee’s hidden history to create a powerful and triumphantly entertaining piece of theatre that speaks a with a voice that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMFlying, film, dance and dynamic stage design are used to augment reality in Out of This World, an exploration of the moments
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMSunday, April 23, 2017
This is the story of the forever young Duke Orlando who wakes from a deep, trancelike sleep to discover that he is now a she. Neither ageing naturally nor staying the same gender for long, i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMFriday, April 21, 2017
This version from Chocolate Factory Productions returns to the original – with some updates – and is now touring after an acclaimed West End run. Much of the publicity has centred on She…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMDeliberate and calculated in every facet of its delivery, David Leddy’s Coriolanus Vanishes explores a complex mix of guilt, trust and the perpetuation of abuse through
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMThursday, April 20, 2017
An initiative to give free tickets to disadvantaged young children and their families has been launched by Scottish early years company Starcatchers. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMEdinburgh Festival Fringe producer Gilded Balloon is to expand into the city’s New Town for this year’s festival, taking on a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMA musical about Nell Gwynn, when ‘orange’ is notoriously the most difficult word with which to rhyme? Sounds a tough prospect. As it happens, this isn’t strictly a musical, it’s a co…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 12, 2017
Giles Croft, the artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, is perhaps best known to Edinburgh audiences as the director of the West End and touring adaptation of The Kite Runner, but here t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFootball does not feel like a metaphor for life in director Max Roberts’ intense and heartfelt production of Patrick Marber’s 2015 play,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMMonday, April 10, 2017
Philosophical questions that have puzzled us for centuries are given a contemporary yet timeless spin in A Number, presented by the Lyceum in partnership with the Edinburgh International Sci…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMZinnie Harris’ revival of Caryl Churchill’s A Number is the perfect show to present in partnership with the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMFriday, April 7, 2017
Danish choreographer Peter Schaufuss is buying long-term Edinburgh Fringe venue St Stephen’s and plans to turn it into a world-class theatre for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMStef Smith’s haunting and prescient Girl in the Machine is set in the near future. Rosalind Sydney plays harassed lawyer, Polly. Michael
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMThursday, April 6, 2017
If you like musical comedy you really should catch up with nun on the run Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act at the Playhouse this week. The wannabe disco diva is forced to hide out in a conv…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Ding-Dong (A Bit of a Farce), the first offering in the new series of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at the Traverse, has its heart in the right place and provides some laughs, but ultimately fail…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, April 3, 2017
Northern Stage is teaming up with theatres in Hull, Leeds and Manchester for its Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme at Summerhall this year.
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