1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Three friends from university in the 1990s occasionally stage reunions that show how two of them " Gary and Jackson " have moved on to careers and respectability (or something approximating …
Charlie Sonata is a fairytale for grownups. Douglas Maxwell brings all the mythic properties of his writing for younger audiences to bear
Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice's book features a somewhat conventional love story, as daughter Wednesday wants to marry her more commonplace boyfriend Lucas Beineke. This involves enlistin…
There are some very good performances of recognisable human dilemmas in Edinburgh Theatre Arts' production of The Memory of Water at St Ninian's. Shelagh Stephenson's dark comedy, about thre…
David Greig’s second season as artistic director launched Ian McDiarmid returns to Lyceum stage after 45 years New work by Suhayla El-Bushra,
Quincy meets Crossroads as the latest adaptation of a Peter James thriller, Not Dead Enough, hits the King's Theatre. Literally. There's a killer on the loose in Brighton.
Love, quite incongruously, is all around in the musical comedy version of The Addams Family, which sees Charles Addams’ famously morbid cartoon
In Peter Arnott's splendid account of the final hours of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who murdered President Lincoln, the two are shown so entangled and engorged that the performance of the …
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is uniting with other international arts festivals to launch World Fringe Day in July. The event, which will take
Sandy Thomson dives deep into Dundee’s hidden history to create a powerful and triumphantly entertaining piece of theatre that speaks a with a voice that
Flying, film, dance and dynamic stage design are used to augment reality in Out of This World, an exploration of the moments
This is the story of the forever young Duke Orlando who wakes from a deep, trancelike sleep to discover that he is now a she. Neither ageing naturally nor staying the same gender for long, i…
This version from Chocolate Factory Productions returns to the original " with some updates " and is now touring after an acclaimed West End run. Much of the publicity has centred on Sherida…
Deliberate and calculated in every facet of its delivery, David Leddy’s Coriolanus Vanishes explores a complex mix of guilt, trust and the perpetuation of abuse through
An initiative to give free tickets to disadvantaged young children and their families has been launched by Scottish early years company Starcatchers. The
Edinburgh Festival Fringe producer Gilded Balloon is to expand into the city's New Town for this year's festival, taking on a new
A musical about Nell Gwynn, when 'orange' is notoriously the most difficult word with which to rhyme? Sounds a tough prospect. As it happens, this isn't strictly a musical, it's a comedy wit…
Giles Croft, the artistic director of Nottingham Playhouse, is perhaps best known to Edinburgh audiences as the director of the West End and touring adaptation of The Kite Runner, but here t…
Football does not feel like a metaphor for life in director Max Roberts’ intense and heartfelt production of Patrick Marber’s 2015 play,
Philosophical questions that have puzzled us for centuries are given a contemporary yet timeless spin in A Number, presented by the Lyceum in partnership with the Edinburgh International Sci…
Zinnie Harris' revival of Caryl Churchill’s A Number is the perfect show to present in partnership with the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Danish choreographer Peter Schaufuss is buying long-term Edinburgh Fringe venue St Stephen’s and plans to turn it into a world-class theatre for
Stef Smith’s haunting and prescient Girl in the Machine is set in the near future. Rosalind Sydney plays harassed lawyer, Polly. Michael
If you like musical comedy you really should catch up with nun on the run Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act at the Playhouse this week. The wannabe disco diva is forced to hide out in a conv…
Ding-Dong (A Bit of a Farce), the first offering in the new series of A Play, A Pie and A Pint at the Traverse, has its heart in the right place and provides some laughs, but ultimately fail…
