1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Workers and volunteers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are to be questioned about pay and working conditions, as part of a survey
Stark and tense, Ivo van Hove's production of Hedda Gabler for the English National Theatre, is a thoroughly unnerving reading of Ibsen's great play.
The deceptions are hidden in plain sight in Eve Jamieson’s revival of Genet’s 1947 psychodrama. As the two maids act out the
Living with the lights on is centred around my time at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. It was there that the odd and bizarre began happening to me and I had no idea what, why or how t…
Dusty Springfield fans will love Son of a Preacher Man as the 60s return with Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood on both direction and choreographic duties. Just don't hold your breath for a…
Staged on Tanya McCallin’s lavish funereal set, David McVicar’s production of La Traviata, revived by Marie Lambert, gets straight to the tragedy of the courtesan
There are huge and troubling resonances throughout the Lyceum’s startling Cockpit. Fascinating staging and committed performances make for a thoroughly vital production – albeit …
Pulling ghosts out of the air " or rather off the shelves " James Ley’s historical drama recalls the years in the
Raw and powerful, the stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner has lost none of its edge as it returns to the King's for a week-long run, three years after it…
Taking (very loose) inspiration from the 1935 film comedy The Ghost Goes West, Richard Ferguson and Andy Cannon's musical features a Scottish castle that is transported to Florida by an Amer…
Creative Scotland has warned that it will have to reduce its network of regularly funded organisations because of the continuing decline in
Nick Parr, chief executive of Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, has left the companies two years after taking up the newly
Perth Theatre is to reopen on December 9 after a £16.6m restoration project on the 115-year-old building, which has been dark since
It’s taken almost 70 years for there to be a revival of Bridget Boland’s Cockpit. Written in 1948, this immersive play is
Crammed with strong ideas, new musical The Sunshine Ghost combines the cliches of canny Scotts, misguided American billionaires and supernatural hauntings to
There is no doubt that Ria Jones, as Norma Desmond, owns the Curve theatre's production of Sunset Boulevard that lights into the Edinburgh Playhouse on the first date of its major UK tour.
Worthy but earthbound, Rapture Theatre's touring production of Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire never really convinces.
Stretching the edges of where theatre becomes a driver of social change and a place for popular debate, Grid Iron’s Jury Play
Making a virtue of the difficulties of telling a story that rages between two full moon events that are 71 years apart,
The Mercury Theatre, Colchester's touring version of Monty Python's Spamalot for Selladoor Productions is consistently funny and may just be the best version of the show to have come to Edin…
Theatremakers from Scotland, New Zealand and Hong Kong met at this year's fringe in the first part of a three-year collaborative artist
The National Theatre of Scotland returns to what it does best with Rocket Post, a musical tale that explores a little known
Mersey hard to beat: Step inside, love, and see the triumphs and tragedies on the way to Cilla Black becoming an entertainment legend.
Ian McDiarmid's extremely fine performance as Enoch Powell is resentful, fidgety and frustrated, either from feeling overlooked earlier in life or from illness later on.
There's enough pizzaz and passion for a whole production in the opening number of Grease, at the Playhouse to Saturday. Which is a good thing, given that the overture during which the curtai…
