What happens when a comedian runs a comedy club in one of the most violently repressed areas of the world? Showtime from the Frontline sounds like it should be a recipe for disaster, yet Mar…
Though White Rabbit Red Rabbit could be perceived as a tad gimmicky, the marriage of form and content proves more than satisfying. Nassim Soleimanpour has got himself a winning formula here …
Creative Scotland has reinstated five companies to its network of regularly funded organisations, following an emergency meeting of its board last week.
David Harrower’s 1995 debut play. Knives in Hens, is a harsh, raw piece of writing. In a superstitious, pastoral age the village
On the eve of the centenary of Muriel Spark's birth, the Usher Hall was packed for Muriel Spark: Creme de la Creme, an evening of readings, reminiscences and a performed reading of the Edinb…
Manipulate Festival is back and its performance side got off to a smashing start with two hugely inventive and darkly comic shows which both use toys as puppets: Song of the Goat and Plastic…
Ruth Wishart and Maggie Kinloch have resigned from the board of Creative Scotland following the arts agency’s controversial funding decisions announced last
Creative Scotland is to hold an emergency board meeting next week in response to the criticism of funding decisions for 2018-21. Criticism
Scottish arts organisations have criticised 'devastating' cuts to children's theatre companies in the latest funding round, labelling them a "huge blow" to
There is a bittersweet delicacy to The Lover, the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh's collaboration with Stellar Quines and Scottish Dance Theatre, that cannot quite compensate for a lack of e…
When Marguerite Duras was almost 16, she had a relationship with an older man that would inform her life and her writing.
It's safe to say that if you like Les Misérables, also presented by Cameron Mackintosh, you'll like this too " some of the more familiar songs could probably be slipped into Les Mis, changi…
Almost a third of workers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are unpaid, new research has revealed. The results have prompted entertainment union
Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Peter Schaufuss has revealed plans for a full-time ballet school in Edinburgh at his two city-centre venues.
Children take centre stage in Peter Darrell’s first full length piece for Scottish Ballet, devised in 1973 and revived to acclaim in
Think Christmas and think kids and you think panto " but not anymore. It's not all about the dames and double entendres, thanks to Nonsense Room Productions.
Old green-lugs is back and as curmudgeonly as ever as Steffan Harri takes over the outsize costume for a new UK tour of Shrek the
Hans Christian Andersen’s story of a broken tin soldier, rejected by his owner, is given an inclusive twist in this new staging
There is a warmth and sense of tradition to Jack and the Beanstalk at the Church Hill Theatre that makes it an extremely attractive proposition.
Shona Reppe’s Cinderella established her as the fairy godmother of Scottish children’s theatre. A piece which, with its tabletop set, puppet Cinders
A charity has been launched in Edinburgh to support Scottish students who cannot afford to train in the performing arts. The MGA
Edinburgh’s ruling panto triumvirate " Allan Stewart, Andy Gray and Grant Stott " return in a Cinderella that is big on laughs,
Big, bright and brash, there are plenty of laughs in the new touring production of Shrek the Musical, which is debuting at the Playhouse until the first week of the new year.
Mark Cox’s all-too-brief Beauty and the Beast is a feast of fart gags, local references, and audience participation with a scream of
The Glasgow Citizens Theatre has received a grant of £4.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its £19.8 million redevelopment project.