Sunday, August 14, 2016
Energetic and driven, Glasgow Girls at the Assembly Hall has definite imperfections, but sweeps the audience along on a tide of politically charged fun.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:38AMFriday, August 12, 2016
Summerhall has bagged half the Fringe First awards given out by the Scotsman newspaper in the first week of the Edinburgh Fringe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMWednesday, August 10, 2016
There is a kernel of emotional and poetic truth to Lest We Forget, the latest offering from writer-director James Beagon and Aulos Productions in the Studio at St Augustines.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:37PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
It’s 6.30pm on Saturday afternoon at the Dissection Room, Summerhall. The show is about to go up. Normality for a habitual reviewer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, August 8, 2016
Full of witty genius, but failing to make the most of its content, Dabster Productions’ Jailmates still guarantees an hour of laughs with brutally hone
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:45AMA cheerful directness and generosity of spirit permeate Waves at the Old Lab in Summerhall. However, there is an underdeveloped feel at times that threatens to detract from its fresh and inf…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:05AMFriday, August 5, 2016
There is a reassuring tenacity to Shona McCarthy, the recently appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society – the organisation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMWhen the Edinburgh International Festival wanted to make a major statement about its launch in 2015, it called on 59 Productions, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMThom Dibdin will be putting his mouth where his pen normally goes and appearing in a show during the fringe.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:38AMWednesday, August 3, 2016
But At The Illusionist’s Table is more than a great dinner at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society – home to a mouth-watering number of exclusively bottled, cask-strength single malts and a ve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:28AMThursday, July 28, 2016
The announcement in June of the Theatre in Schools Scotland initiative set a major benchmark for the provision of the performing arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFriday, July 22, 2016
Scotland is to get its first postgraduate course in stage management as part of a tie-up between Queen Margaret University and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMThursday, July 21, 2016
Creative Scotland has warned that it may have to reduce the number of organisations it regularly funds because of uncertainties created by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMFriday, July 1, 2016
There is a real passion to Joyce McMillan, leading Scottish theatre critic and political commentator. It shines out in her writing –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, June 27, 2016
Invaluable and illuminating: Remarkably consistent in quality and generosity of spirit, Joyce McMillan's Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams, edited by Philip Howard, is vital to a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:24AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Scottish secretary for culture and tourism Fiona Hyslop has rejected calls for a ‘bed tax’ on tourists to offset cuts to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:10AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Murderously merry: The musical Chicago is based on a Twenties stage show of the same name, but it’s skewering of ‘celebrity criminals’ makes its story as relevant today as ever it was.…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:07AMMonday, June 13, 2016
Wait ends for Godot at CATS: The Lyceum's production of Waiting for Godot has won the Best Production award at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:34AMSunday, June 12, 2016
Romanes warns of "sector of administrators": Muriel Romanes has used her award of a CATS Whiskers at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland to call for the artist to be put at th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:22PMGlasgow’s Citizens Theatre has scooped six prizes at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, where the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh’s production of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMFriday, June 10, 2016
The National Theatre of Scotland is offering 10 aspiring theatremakers a funded residency at its new Glasgow home, Rockvilla, when it opens
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme has launched with a 20% drop in the number of free shows in its programme, marking the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMSong of Bernadette: Broadway legend Bernadette Peters graced the Edinburgh Playhouse stage on the final night of her three-date tour, after London and Manchester. And the crowd goes wild.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:06AMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Ross Dunsmore's Milk heads Traverse Edfringe programme:
Ten world premiers will feature in the fringe programme of the Traverse this year. Ten plays which, as I write this, don't even exist…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:01PMEdinburgh’s Traverse Theatre has announced 10 world premieres, including work from Mark Thomas, Rob Drummond and London’s Gate Theatre, as part of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00PMSaturday, June 4, 2016
Bitty: Strong voices and some great tunes give the premiere run of Anne-Marie Fraser’s new musical Goldrush!, at St Bride’s in Edinburgh, an invigorating bounce.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:26AMThursday, June 2, 2016
Muriel Romanes is to receive a CATS Whisker award in recognition of her work to promote women in theatre. The discretionary prize
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Every primary school pupil in Scotland will experience at least one live theatrical performance in their own school every year, under a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMTicketing agent Lastminute.com is to take over from Fosters as the title sponsor of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. The awards, launched in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMI’m a fan of Jane McDonald, for parlaying the publicity she received as resident singer in BBC docusoap The Cruise into a sizeable showbiz career, with tours, a gig on the Loose Women pane…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:29AMThe Glasgow Citizens is to stage Harry Gibson’s adaptation of Trainspotting as part of its autumn 2016 season, marking a return for
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