1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Visa issues have forced the cancellation of a production in the first showcase of Arab theatre and dance at the Edinburgh Fringe,
Capturing much of the whimsy and regret of David Greig's 1999 play for young people, the younger of the Lyceum's Summer on Stage companies make a descent fist of Danny 306 + Me 4eva. More th…
The show opens with the students auditioning to get into PA, the city's High School of Performing Arts, but this production has a Scottish twist as one of the students is playing the bagpipe…
Underbelly has announced its main programme and creative team for its first year in charge of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival. The live entertainment company took
Rachel Tucker is to play a solo show in Scotland for the first time, with two dates at the Pleasance during the Edinburgh
A new award for the best female solo performance by an emerging artist at the Edinburgh Fringe has been announced by Gilded Balloon. The
Explosive and full of energy, Edinburgh based youth company Shoogly Peg bring the house down at the King's with rock'n'roll musical American Idiot.
The young company is packed with enough talent to have two casts for some of the key roles not to mention a chorus which brings the cast on stage up to 24. And, when the acoustic of St Steph…
For a production which lasts just over an hour, Roberts has dropped all the characters in Theseus and Hippolyta's court " and concentrated on the essential mix of the four miss-matched lover…
Opening up the scope of the Edinburgh International Film Festival's retrospective on noted Scottish polymath Tom McGrath, the staged script reading of his 1977 play The Hard Man sits perfect…
The website which proposed a controversial pay-for-review scheme for productions on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has postponed its plans. The edfringereviews.com site
A new award recognising the show that most successfully explores the subject of mental health has been launched for the 2017 Edinburgh
The Edinburgh International Festival will open its 70th-anniversary year with a major public event in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square. Bloom will be
The theatre element of the Edinburgh International Film Festival got off to a cracking start on Thursday, with This Story of Yours the first of three one-off rehearsed script readings in Tra…
There's bundles of fun and bonkers B-movie mayhem in Little Shop of Horrors, the debut musical from TBC Productions, which is at the Studio on Potterrow to Saturday. Adapted from a Roger Cor…
Miller's 1949 depiction of the ageing, failing salesman Willy Loman as he struggles to comes to terms with the death of his dreams " and perhaps of The American Dream itself " has only gaine…
A new website has set out details of a pay-for-review scheme for productions on the Edinburgh Fringe. However, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
There's a braw bundle of insight to be had in Citadel Arts Group's double bill of plays that explore some of the varying aspects of the women of Leith's relationships with the sea.
The Theatre in Schools Scotland project will double its capacity in its second year. It will stage four touring productions in its
Dundee Rep and the Lyceum in Edinburgh have emerged as the biggest victors at the 2017 Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
There is an undeniable poetic charm to Blue Raincoat's Shackleton, at the Traverse to Friday and touring to the Tron next week. The Sligo-based company's latest touring show, seen here in it…
Theatre productions registered for this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe have hit an all-time high as its 70th-anniversary programme is launched. It comes
Representation will be at centre of the Traverse’s programme for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, according to artistic director Orla O’Loughlin. Speaking at
Anne Frank's diary of the time she, her family and four others spent in hiding in an annexe above her father's business in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, has made many appearances in different ada…
Written after Educating Rita and Blood Brothers, and very much in a similar tone, Shirley Valentine is the feel-good, feel-sad tale of a woman who realises that the best bits of life have pa…
