1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
✭✭✭✭✩ Loves me true
Crisp, knowing and contagiously fun, Love Me Tender thrusts and gyrates its hips upon the Playhouse Stage for a week-long run as pa…
Big names join Leith collective
Over 70 plays in a dozen themed nights from over 20 playwirghts have been announced by the Village Pub Theatre for its Edinburgh Fringe debut, with big guest…
Neil Murray and Graham McLaren are to leave their key roles at the National Theatre of Scotland next year, to take over as joint directors of Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
Aberdeen’s Tivoli Theatre is to reopen for opera for the first time in more than 50 years, as its £1.5million renovation nears
Mancub: ✭✭✭✩✩ Complex
The Children: ✭✭✭✭✩ Stylish
Children are at the heart of the drama and the performance of …
Frances McCann is performing Flickering Seasons, a monologue about recovery and the hurt and guilt a victim can feel during the recovery process, this Friday 17 July 2015 at St Johns in Edin…
Playwrights Nick Payne, Rona Munro and Gordon Dahlquist are in the running for this year’s £10,000 James Tait Black prize for drama.
When Glasgow's Arches nightclub lost its late-night licence on May 15, the depth of the resulting outcry was understandable. This is, after
Village Pub Theatre in funds drive for #EdFringe15:
Edinburgh's practitioner-run Village Pub Theatre is raising the stakes as it nears the two thirds mark in its efforts to crowd-fund a 72-…
The James Plays are to be revived for a UK and international tour in 2016. Rona Munro’s trilogy of plays about the
Unique touring format for trilogy:
Rona Munro's immense historical trilogy: The James Plays - about the Kings James I, II and III of Scotland - will return to the Festival Theatre in Febru…
Tickets on sale 8.30am, Tue 23 June:
Edinburgh Book Festival 2015 tickets go on sale tomorrow morning with a strong number of theatre-related events in the mix.
✭✭✭✩✩ Fury and fear:
The National Theatre of Scotland’s adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat has a righteous fury, combined…
New play to remember bookshop founders:
James Ley, who helped form the Village Pub Theatre, has won an award to write a new play about LGBT bookshop founders Bob Orr and Sigrid Nieslen.
Based on Frank Wedekind's 1891 German play about repressed sexuality and its manifestations, Spring Awakening gets a a surprisingly refreshing production from MGA that mixes 19th century Ger…
Venue closure casts shadow over award ceremony
"Different type of working model" needed in the future, says founding director as the Arches dominate the speeches at Sunday's Critics Award f…
Politicians in Scotland have rallied to support the Arches in Glasgow, which went into administration last week. At First Minister’s Questions at
The winners and the critics' citations in full:
The Royal Lyceum dominated the awards at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, held at the Glasgow Tron theatre on Sunday 14 June 2014.
All but one Critics' award for Edinburgh companies:
The Royal Lyceum has triumphed at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, with three productions winning a total of six gongs…
Premiere of Pulse at NEA:
Guest post by Jackie Kemp
Mairi Campbell’s new show Pulse opens Friday 12 June 2015 at North Edinburgh Arts, telling the story of her musical coming of age …
Closure devastating for Scottish theatre:
The news that the Arches in Glasgow has gone into receivership and cancelled all future events with immediate effect from Wednesday 10 June 2015 is…
✭✭✭✩✩ Impressive energy:
Accomplished, athletic dancing and clever staging are present and correct in The Car Man. However, it lacks the emotional punc…
Glasgow arts complex the Arches is to go into administration after its operating hours were curtailed last month. The Arches' board of
New members sought for September show:
Hot from its hugely successful three-performance holiday at the King's, Showcase is looking to boost members in time for the next regular Showcase eve…
TV appearances and shows for youth company:
Edinburgh-based Strange Town youth theatre has a double celebration this week as four of its members appear in the BBC's new drama Stonemouth and…
