Monday, 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.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMSunday, April 2, 2017
Offside, Futures Theatre’s touring production at the Traverse, is a heartfelt, energetic and ultimately uplifting play about women’s football that explores wider issues with humour and i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMProblematic, simply because of its subject matter, The Nether is given a solid and suitably powerful production by student company Paradok Theatre at Checkpoint to Saturday. Set in the near …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Wilde’s comedy of love, class, secret lives and imaginary invalids needs little introduction. Countless numbers who have never seen the play, or witnessed Edith Evans, know exactly how she…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, March 31, 2017
Written by the late Alan Cochrane, a stalwart of Edinburgh People’s Theatre, the piece is a sequel to his Ne’er The Twain (which Saughtonhall presented in last year’s Fringe) and is pr…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, March 30, 2017
Seventies teenager Meena lives in Tollington, a former mining village in England’s Black Country in Anita and Me. Meena is a thoroughly British Asian, but mum Daljit and dad Shyam have a d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
The 8th Door, Matthew Lenton and Lliam Paterson’s new companion piece to Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, is powerful, intense and utterly moving. A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
The complex plans involve work on both the front of house facilities and back stage. The redevelopment is expected to take 18 months, it would start in 2021 and be timed to “mitigate” im…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSaturday, March 25, 2017
Solidly performed and cleverly directed, there is much to enjoy about Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company’s lucid production of Twelfth Night at Teviot House to Saturday.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMFriday, March 24, 2017
Edinburgh Fringe venue operator Underbelly has won the contract to run Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebration, adding to its control of the city’s Christmas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMThis is not the best-known Savoy Opera, and (perhaps unfairly) was deemed a flop on first production, coming after the all-conquering Mikado. It tells of young farmer Robin Oakapple, who pla…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
Rollicking and rumbustious, but with surprisingly deep reservoirs of emotion, the Bohemians’ production of 9 to 5 The Musical at the King’s is a definite hit. There can be no denying tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 17, 2017
A major £25 million redevelopment of Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre is being planned, with aims to start building work in 2021. The plans
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMSolidly acted but only sporadically funny, the Lyceum and the Citizens Theatre co-production of Hay Fever is entirely serviceable but all too forgettable. Noel Coward’s 1925 comedy feature…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
It’s nearly 50 years old but Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat doesn’t need to be mothballed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMDominic Hill’s production of Hay Fever for the Lyceum (also touring to the Glasgow Citizens) has plenty of laughs but occasionally stutters
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMFriday, March 10, 2017
As the middle section of the trilogy that begins with The Slab Boys, some may expect this to provide problems of accessibility as a stand-alone piece. However, it tends to amplify rather tha…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMGlasgow Citizens’ multimillion-pound redevelopment project has received a £2.5 million grant from the Scottish government. The money, from the government’s regeneration capital g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThursday, March 9, 2017
High kicks and high camp dominate La Cage Aux Folles, at the Playhouse, as it explodes in a glorious melange of sequins, feathers and a timely political message wrapped up in an over-sugared…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMThe Gaiety Theatre in Ayr has had a third of its council funding cut, in a move that the venue has said
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMFriday, March 3, 2017
Tense, byzantine and thoroughly hilarious, the EUTC’s production of Tom Stoppard’s breakthrough play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, at Edinburgh's Bedlam to Saturday, is a proper…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMThe power of this production of Death of a Salesman comes from its understanding of the little things. A lone flautist’s melody,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMThursday, March 2, 2017
It’s Allan Stewart’s Big Big Variety Show at the King’s this week. Or maybe it’s the Big Big BIG Variety Show. It’s hard to keep these things straight…but it’s fair to say it�…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMEdinburgh venue Summerhall is embroiled in a dispute with former artistic director Rupert Thomson over an alleged debt of £27,000. Thomson was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMTuesday, February 28, 2017
A new Scottish musical based on a 1935 film has attracted a £99,769 grant in Creative Scotland’s latest round of Open Funding, in which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThursday, February 23, 2017
The portrayal of how maths whizz Christopher attempts to solve the mystery of the killing of a neighbourhood dog, instead discovering buried secrets about those around him, continues to thri…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMEdinburgh fringe producer Assembly will stage live performance at the city’s Assembly Rooms for the first time since 2010. It follows a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMWednesday, February 22, 2017
Southern Light Opera returns to the King’s Theatre this week with its 120th annual show, a mammoth production of Titanic The Musical that the company hopes will get right into the soul of …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMMonday, February 20, 2017
A pair of very fine interpretations, backed by a company intent on performing at the peak of their abilities, mark out an Oliver! which aims high but suffers from the constraints of its own …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMCombining thought-provoking intelligence and the genuinely moving, Made In India at the Traverse is a very fine production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, February 19, 2017
Lucid and engaging, the Lyceum’s Scottish-set production of The Winter’s Tale has much to recommend it, even if it does not quite convince.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AM 
