Sunday, 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 09:30AMThere is plenty of energy and spectacle in Bruce Guthrie’s 20th anniversary production of Rent, but it is too careful and just too clean to fully persuade.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:30AMThursday, February 16, 2017
There’s been a murder. Well, four murders actually. The Coverdale family, a blended bunch consisting of mum Jacquie, dad George and ‘steps’ Giles and Melinda, have been blasted to obli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Stark and to the point, director Max Webster pares the opening act of The Winter’s Tale right back to the language. Yet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMMonday, February 13, 2017
Tightly paced and with a solidly constructed script from West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin, Beam Theatre’s A Few Good Men has plenty to offer, at the Assembly Roxy to Saturday.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, February 12, 2017
One of the reasons why the story resonates is because of its portrayal of people attempting to carry on ordinary life under extraordinary circumstances, and this production scores highly her…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, February 10, 2017
Accomplished musicality and some excellent dancing distinguish Edinburgh University Footlights’ Urinetown at the Church Hill. However, it is at the service of a damp satire that never trul…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Evita returns to the Edinburgh Playhouse with more than a little starryness about the turns, to match the starry nature of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. Bill Kenwright’s to…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMAlways a company to live up to its name, Matt-hew Bourne’s New Adventures spent a large slice of 2016 on a five-city
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Creative Scotland has launched the fourth phase of its CashBack for Creativity fund, with more than £1.5 million available to support cultural
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMDark, brooding and brutal, Scottish Opera’s take on Kafka’s The Trial, catches several areas of resonance and delivers a piece which is as glorious as it it is forbidding.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMMonday, February 6, 2017
The Edinburgh Iranian Festival, running from 9 to 19 February 2017, will feature the Edinburgh-premiere of solo show Mimi’s Suitcase among the Iranian music and strong offering of Iranian …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:30PMWith Still Game: Live 2 Bon Voyage, Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill go back to the live format show which facilitated the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Pop quiz. Hum a song from Thoroughly Modern Millie, which is at the Playhouse until Saturday. Aha, Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen’s title number. Very good. And?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Fizzing with righteous anger and frothing with near-the-knuckle humour, the Attic Collective’s Lysistrata at the King’s is a breath of fresh air and an undeniable statement of intent. Th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, January 28, 2017
It is with great sorrow that we report the death of Gordon T Blackburn, on 9 January 2017. Gordon was a stalwart of Edinburgh’s amateur theatre scene for many years, a director and back-st…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, January 26, 2017
Alice is having the Worst Day. The controlling ex she’d have back in a second is getting remarried, her car’s been stolen, she’s got the sack…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
David Willetts’ softly-spoken White Rabbit doesn’t fall down a hole in Wonderland, Jack Murphy and Gregory Boyd’s musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s books. Instead h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Dance, perhaps the most ephemeral of the live arts, is given a fresh sense of history in an exhibition from dance artist Janice Parker at Edinburgh's City Art Centre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, January 23, 2017
A decade after it was formed, the National Theatre of Scotland has got itself some walls, in the form of Rockvilla, a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, January 19, 2017
Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre is an imposing feature on the city’s landscape in more ways than one. Here is challenging, provocative theatre, made
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Radio Forth DJ and King’s panto villain, Grant Stott, is planning to bring a new two-man show to this summer’s Edinburgh fringe with fellow panto pal Andy Gray.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMAs a hard man on screen and hard drinker off, Freddie Boardley, who died of cancer at his Glasgow home just before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Picnic at Hanging Rock, presented at the Lyceum by the Australian companies Malthouse and Black Swan, is a well-crafted production that is never quite as frightening as it wants to be.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMMonday, January 16, 2017
Emotion, violence and meaning bubble up like magma in Malthouse Theatre’s scrupulously presented take on Joan Lindsay’s 1966 novel, Picnic at Hanging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMFriday, January 6, 2017
Irvine Welsh is heading a public appeal to support the restoration of Leith Theatre, which has been dark for more than 20
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Edinburgh fringe venue the Counting House will return to being run by the Laughing Horse Free Fringe from 2017, after a year spent under the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Edinburgh’s key festivals are to receive an extra £300,000 government funding to enhance their appeal to an international audience. The announcement comes as the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMTuesday, December 27, 2016
When Jess Peet steps out onto the Lyceum stage as the title character of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which runs at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre until 31 December, she takes on th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMonday, December 19, 2016
Dirty Protest’s production of Last Christmas at the Traverse is an emotional and beautifully acted tale, but is not as much of an alternative to traditional Christmas theatre as it may fir…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSafely playing for every member of the family, Iain Lauchlan and Will Brenton’s Cinderella for Imagine Theatre, the new panto producers for
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