Thursday, October 6, 2016
Impressive and timeless: Poetic, political and dramatic, David Greig’s new version of The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus is a striking statement of intent.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:13AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Funny: Fine comic performances and staging distinguish Breaking The Ice, the first in the latest season of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:10AMDario Fo, the Italian Nobel Prize-winning playwright, has had to cancel his planned personal appearance at Edinburgh's Lyceum Theatre, which was to have taken place this Sunday, 9 October 20…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Dancing with Colours, Whipping with Words: Dario Fo is coming to Edinburgh. This Sunday, 9 October 2016 , the great Italian playwright, performer, comedian, painter and all-round gadfly, wil…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:28AMMonday, October 3, 2016
DC Thomson's comic strip hits the stage:
The new stage production based on DC Thomson's 80 year-old comic strip, The Broons, had its press night at Perth Concert Hall last night, 29 Septemb…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:27AMSunday, October 2, 2016
Static: Much in Rapture’s touring production of Democracy could speak to audiences in 2016 Scotland. However, it is buried in a slow, seemingly interminable production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:45PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Vicky Featherstone, the founding artistic director of the National Theatre of Scotland, has revealed that hit show Black Watch made her believe in theatre again.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:05AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Tutu Good To Miss:Five stars and ten tissues as the smash hit musical of a working class boy's battle to do ballet comes to the Edinburgh Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:27AMWalls feature prominently in the story of the National Theatre of Scotland, which celebrates a decade of existence this year.Which is ironic,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, September 21, 2016
The world premiere of a new play by David Crook, a one-time market hedge fund manager, is opening at Edinburgh's Traverse this week for a strictly limited three-night run. Thom Dibdin speaks…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:12PMMonday, September 19, 2016
Creative Scotland is to carry out a survey on diversity in the arts sector, to support delivery of its recently published arts strategy.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMThursday, September 15, 2016
Serious fun: Tuneful, hilarious and deeply moving, Dundee Rep’s revival of The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil is a triumph.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:50PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
✭✭✭✭✩ Kinky Bootiful:
One of the seminal British bands of the Sixties gets the biographical treatment at The Playhouse this week in Sunny Afternoon, a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:22AMMonday, September 12, 2016
Scotland’s five centrally funded performing companies have pledged to achieve boardroom gender equality by 2020. The National Theatre of Scotland, Scottish Ballet,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMFriday, September 9, 2016
Italian playwright, actor and director Dario Fo is to make a personal appearance in Edinburgh to mark his 90th birthday. He will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
The new production of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s classic opera Così Fan Tutte has attracted no shortage of controversy. After its premiere in Aix-en-Provence in France in July, the org…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:20AMTuesday, August 30, 2016
The Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe have broken box office records for their events this year, with EIF posting ticket sales
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:52AMSaturday, August 27, 2016
Convivial history: Cheery and cheeky, Ideoms' Soddin' Flodden at Spotlites presents a fun and accessible take on Scottish history.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:15AMFriday, August 26, 2016
POP-UP Duets, Janis Claxton’s series of nine dances on the theme of love at various locations in the National Museum in Chambers Street, is refreshing, beautiful and an excellent idea all …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:05AMAssiduously performed, and building up an air of mystery, The Rose and Crown has much about it that is striking.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:41AMLife-affirming: Life According To Saki, Atticist’s production upstairs at Adam House, is a wonderfully staged, hugely appealing production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:54AMSummerhall has continued its awards domination at Edinburgh, garnering a further four Fringe First prizes. This brings its tally of The Scotsman’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, August 25, 2016
There is an interesting premise behind Ronnie and Jonny, the comic play from Steve Griffin and Keith Muddiman at 48 Below underneath the Phoenix in Broughton Street. However, its story is no…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:09AMMy Dog’s Got No Nose, presented by Phil Barnes for Arkle at the Royal Scots Club, is a well acted piece that manages to sustain considerable interest.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:20AMA call to commemorate the recent passing of Scottish councillor Moira Knox – who was dubbed Edinburgh’s Mary Whitehouse – has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMBy turns absurd, winsome and tragic, Theatre Paradok’s Lippy at theSpace on the Mile is a challenging, bleakly funny and ultimately impenetrable affair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:11AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
Comic bravado: The Club, the latest play from Edinburgh-born actor and writer Ruaraidh Murray, has a fiercely humorous energy and drive.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:42PMTender: Affecting and emotional, Charles Hindley's Eugene & Elvis at Silk is a rawly human musing on love, loss, family ties and the healing power of music.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:13PMEmotional: Convincing portrayals and realistic emotions are a feature of the Makars' production of Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady at the Royal Scots Club.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:57AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
Edinburgh Fringe venue Summerhall – currently sweeping the awards ceremonies at the festival – has posted ticket sales up 30% on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMClever: There is a delicate balance between information and entertainment, and between history and contemporary relevance, in Michael Daviot's Nosferatu's Shadow at Sweet Grassmarket.
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