1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Magdalena Schamberger, the co-founder of Scottish arts-in-health charity Hearts and Minds, is to stand down as its artistic director and chief executive. Schamberger
A gentle romance combines reinforces the right-on message that you can be who you want, in LYAMC's tuneful take on High School Musical at the Church Hill Theatre to Saturday.
Tony Roper’s great celebration of female unity, set in a Glasgow washhouse " or Steamie " at the turn of 1950, proves
The Fringe First-winning playwright's works have travelled the world while he was unable to leave his native country. Now he's performing his
The Alhambra Theatre Trust in Dunfermline has lodged a planning application to create a new performing arts centre in the town. If approved, the plans
The charity that runs the Regal Theatre in Bathgate, West Lothian, has gone into voluntary liquidation and cancelled all future performances at
Disfunction permeates the revolving house at the centre of Dundee Rep’s magnificent staging of Tracy Letts’ modern American tragedy, August: Osage County.
Love is thoroughly aired in Alex Olle’s Italian-set La Boheme for Teatro Regio. It is all a bit skeletal to start with,
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has posted record ticket sales for the fifth year running with an estimated 2,696,884 tickets sold in its
There is a disconcerting distancing from its subject in Lara Foot’s interesting but flawed The Inconvenience of Wings, which the telling of
Mesmerising: High production values and a compelling narrative make Ross MacKay and Suzie Miller's atmospheric Victorian mystery, Velvet Evening Seance, a suitably haunting experience.
What larks: For careful execution and straightforward fun, it is difficult to imagine many recent productions of Gilbert and Sullivan have beaten Cat-Like Tread’s The Sorcerer at Parad…
Drips grandeur: Huge and elemental forces drive This Restless House, the version of the Oresteia by Zinnie Harris originally produced by the Citizens’ Glasgow and the National Theatre …
Ramy Essam sings with a strong, guttural bass voice, the music rising up from somewhere inside a soul made fierce with his
In the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe’s famous open-access policy, there is surely room for some proper, music hall-based pantomime. And if
Daringly inventive, Mamoru Iriguchi’s Eaten gets right inside the issue of food and what goes into our tummies, in a show for
Comes good: Out of the Bad, by Fair Pley at the New Town Theatre, is a warm and politically informed production distinguished by outstanding performances.
Gripping: Adam McNamara's outstanding Stand By profoundly examines the relationship between four officers amidst the unpredictable rhythms of life on the job.
Charming: Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's 1912 novella, is a graceful spin in a dance theatre adaptation full of character from Edinburgh Ballet Circle.
Entertaining: Enterprise, Americana Absurdum Productions’ inventive comedy at Assembly George Square, is an original and funny experience.
Raw: Stark truths not often portrayed on stage give Doglife at Summerhall a compelling quality, even if the result could never be called attractive.
Andrew Buckland gives new life and an extra level of comedy to William Harding’s adaptation of Chekhov’s On the Harmful Effects of
Magic and clowning are brought together in rounded narrative structure under Gerry Mulgrew’s direction of Jango Starr in One Man Shoe. In
The story as a concept lies at the heart of Karoo Moose " No Fathers, a deeply powerful tale set in rural
Thrilling: Magician-scientist hybrid Kevin Quantum brings a show that truly seems to defy gravity to the Debating Hall of the Gilded Balloon Teviot.
