1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
There's a hitch at Tango Moderno but there are no missteps. Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are the passionate pair who burned the Strictly floor for years before quitting to take to the ro…
Flirting with darkness, Theatre Paradok's production of Alistair McDowall's Pomona is well performed, but ultimately more staid than it first appears.
Director David Bates brings La Clique, the mix of alternative burlesque and music he invented for the 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, back
Glasgow’s Citizens theatre is to go dark from June 2018 to autumn 2020, while the theatre undergoes a £19.4 million redevelopment. The
Chilling in all the right places, the revival of the award-winning tour of Cabaret starring Will Young as the Emcee feels as important a piece of musical theatre as it ever did.
Creative Scotland has warned all its 119 regularly funded organisations that it will not announce its funding decisions for their 2018-2021 grants
Edinburgh International Festival has extended director Fergus Linehan’s contract for an extra three years, meaning that he will run the festival until
Leading lady Mona is driving director Hennessy mad with her diva ways. One of the chorus line has gone awol. And little Ruby from Utah has come to Broadway with big dreams.
A major Edinburgh theatre trust has joined up with the city’s Queen Margaret University in a bid to develop new talent and support the
Tabula Rasa at the Traverse is a collaboration between Scottish Ensemble and Vanishing Point that contains moments of heartfelt beauty but never coheres.
John Durnin is to step down as artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre at the end of December after 15 years in the role.
The music of Estonian composer Arvo Part is at the forefront of this collaboration between Matthew Lenton’s Vanishing Point and the Scottish Ensemble. The acknowledged sign…
Following the fortunes of four first year science students at Girton in 1996, this is a production which feels quite right to stage now. Girton was the first college to admit women and it wa…
This is Cinderella by another name, and Wertenbaker goes beyond the glitter and the glib happy ending in the source to create a version which picks out the darkness and the morality of the t…
Scottish culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has called on the UK government to develop a recovery plan to address the decreasing National Lottery
The play opens with unlovely long-time couple, Jo and Harry, having sex on their sofa while watching porn. Cassandra Sawtell's Jo is bouncing around, munching on a packet of crisps, while Sa…
The Leith Theatre complex is to be used for a second time by Edinburgh’s pop-up multi-arts festival Hidden Door. The 10-day festival
Belinda Lang's performance is beautifully human, encapsulating rage, despair, delusion and self-possession in equal amounts.
Locker Room Talk, the Traverse Edinburgh’s verbatim theatre piece that calls out systematic sexual aggression, will be performed in front of politicians
There is a solidly gothic feel to Blackeyed Theatre’s staging of RL Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller's great tragedy of loyalty and miss-placed love in the tenements of the waterfront slums of 1950s New York is given a solid production from the EUTC at …
The programme bears an image of a shirtless Fox with a sexy woman draped across him. He's looking past her, the physical definition of agonised. This picture promises passion, Greek drama pe…
Our Fathers, at the Traverse to Saturday and then on tour, has a great deal of talent behind it. The end result is amusing and entertaining but ultimately somewhat too frothy.
The relationships between sons and fathers informs everything about Our Fathers, an intriguing first collaboration between Magnetic North and the Traverse Theatre.
Eden Court Theatre in Inverness has appointed James Mackenzie-Blackman as its new chief executive. Mackenzie-Blackman is currently executive director at Matthew Bourne’s
