Sunday, November 8, 2015
Urban Fox has announced a short tour for its Edinburgh fringe hit Heartlands to the home towns of its company before a short stay at London’s King’s Head Theatre as part of its #Festival…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:23AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
It may be a slow starter, but there’s no shortage of drama at the Festival Theatre this fortnight with Scottish Opera’s production of Carmen.
Set in 19th Century Seville, Georges Bize…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:44PMHandbagged, touring to the King’s all week, is an inventive, very funny and surprisingly subtle piece of theatre.
Moira Buffini’s West End hit, originally at the Tricycle Theatre, dea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:03AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Played out on a stage covered with squelching mud and straw, director Kolbrun Bjort Sigfusdottir ensures that there is an uneasy sense of impermanence to the whole project. The Bruce in Irel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:17PMGavin Mitchell has just been announced in the cast of Priscilla Queen of the Desert when it tours to the Edinburgh Playhouse for a three-week run over Christmas and the New Year.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:49AMFriday, October 30, 2015
"Ghoulish": Suitably disturbing in its content and pleasingly rounded in its construction, Peapod Productions’ The Moonlit Road and other ghostly tales still has uneven patches in its pres…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:13PMWords wrap around and claw away at the heart of this week’s excellent Play Pie and Pint lunchtime theatre at the Traverse, the last in the current season.
Words define us, giving shape …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:45AMThursday, October 29, 2015
"Slick and sassy"" The vibrant colours of a lush, South Pacific tropical garden, with views to a distant volcanic island, frame Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s offering for this d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:44AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
David Campton’s 1971 script is very cleverly directed by EUTC regular, Marina Johnson. Clearly allegorical, a number of layers and interpretations are waiting to be picked apart.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:31PMThe plot here reverts to something closer to the celebrated original book – whose first title was too contentious even to be used on the first US edition and has since been quietly dropped…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:01PMFriday, October 23, 2015
★★★★ There are enough inventive designs and well-honed performances about Shrek the Musical to ensure that it hits the spot.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:41AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
Elliot Davis and James Bourne’s 2012 musical comes originally from an album by Son of Dork, the band featuring Bourne between his pop apotheosis as one-third of Busted and his third act as…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:45PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
From the bowels of the Lyceum up into its gods, the Lyceum Youth Theatre expose and explore the building’s hidden spaces and lost souls. These are the places that are little trod in modern…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:56PMPowerful and shocking, Linda Duncan McLaughlin’s Descent at the Traverse’s lunchtime theatre season from A Play, A Pie and A Pint, grabs you with an intense passion that doesn’t ever h…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:08AMMonday, October 19, 2015
There’s no doubt that Emma Rice’s adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's classic novel is unique, powerful and faithful to the story, but it’s not quite what you might expect.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:59PMUnions BECTU and Equity have called for local authority funding of the arts in Scotland to be a statutory obligation. Their pleas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PMFriday, October 16, 2015
One in a Million, the latest A Play, A Pie and A Pint production from Oran Mór at the Traverse, is a disappointingly insubstantial affair.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:10AMThursday, October 15, 2015
There is much to admire in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Bedlam. Accomplished performances of challenging roles and well thought-out direction make for a successful production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:19AM✭✭✭✭✩ Ferocious energy:
Regents Park Open Air Theatre positively tears through the stage at the Festival Theatre this week as its Lord of the Flies leave…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:22AMThursday, October 8, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Enjoyable fantasy:
Lively and hugely likeable, Opera Camerata’s production of The Tales of Hoffmann is a largely pacy and accomplished aff…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:26PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
The National Theatre of Scotland has launched a fundraising campaign to raise the remaining £1.9 million towards its new permanent headquarters in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Nicely done:
It's never easy to get a handle on Adam Peck's slightly obscure new offering, 140 Million Miles, at the Traverse all week as part …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:31AMMonday, October 5, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Hopeful:
Cast in the shadows of the Shank, Bill Kenwright breathes life into a new stage production of the Stephen King short story and iconic 1…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:11PMPriscilla tour seeks boy actors:
The Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical tour is looking for two young male actors to share the role of Benji when it arrives at the Edinburgh Playhous…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:47PMSunday, October 4, 2015
FCT old-girl is last Scot in X-Factor:
The last Scot left on ITV's X-Factor is Caitlyn Vanbeck, who has been a member of Forth Children's Theatre for the last two years.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:55AMWhen you want something done, ask a busy person. So when artistic director Mark Thomson wanted a memorable start to the Royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMSaturday, October 3, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Simmering emotion
Rapture Theatre's touring production of Arthur Miller's The Last Yankee has an emotional depth and psychological realism that …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:37AMFriday, October 2, 2015
Muriel Romanes is to step down as artistic director of Stellar Quines Theatre Company after 22 years with the organisation. Romanes was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:31PMNew scheme supports Edinburgh's performing arts:
A new scheme to support and benefit those working within the performing arts in Edinburgh has been set up by consultant Lucy Mason and direc…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:24AMMuriel Romanes to step down as Stellar Quines AD:
Muriel Romanes has announced, "with much sadness", that she is to resign her post as artistic director of Stellar Quines in April 2016.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:57AMThursday, October 1, 2015
✭✭✭✩✩ Tasty appetiser:
Community and ritual lie at the heart of Nalina Chetty's clever new play Kontomble, the opener to the latest A Play, A Pie and …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:40PM 
