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Northern Stage is teaming up with theatres in Hull, Leeds and Manchester for its Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme at Summerhall this year.
Offside, Futures Theatre's touring production at the Traverse, is a heartfelt, energetic and ultimately uplifting play about women's football that explores wider issues with humour and intel…
Problematic, simply because of its subject matter, The Nether is given a solid and suitably powerful production by student company Paradok Theatre at Checkpoint to Saturday. Set in the near …
Wilde's comedy of love, class, secret lives and imaginary invalids needs little introduction. Countless numbers who have never seen the play, or witnessed Edith Evans, know exactly how she p…
Written by the late Alan Cochrane, a stalwart of Edinburgh People's Theatre, the piece is a sequel to his Ne'er The Twain (which Saughtonhall presented in last year's Fringe) and is probably…
Seventies teenager Meena lives in Tollington, a former mining village in England's Black Country in Anita and Me. Meena is a thoroughly British Asian, but mum Daljit and dad Shyam have a dif…
The 8th Door, Matthew Lenton and Lliam Paterson’s new companion piece to Bartok’s Bluebeard's Castle, is powerful, intense and utterly moving. A
The complex plans involve work on both the front of house facilities and back stage. The redevelopment is expected to take 18 months, it would start in 2021 and be timed to "mitigate" impact…
Solidly performed and cleverly directed, there is much to enjoy about Edinburgh University Shakespeare Company's lucid production of Twelfth Night at Teviot House to Saturday.
Edinburgh Fringe venue operator Underbelly has won the contract to run Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebration, adding to its control of the city's Christmas
This is not the best-known Savoy Opera, and (perhaps unfairly) was deemed a flop on first production, coming after the all-conquering Mikado. It tells of young farmer Robin Oakapple, who pla…
Rollicking and rumbustious, but with surprisingly deep reservoirs of emotion, the Bohemians' production of 9 to 5 The Musical at the King's is a definite hit. There can be no denying that th…
A major £25 million redevelopment of Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre is being planned, with aims to start building work in 2021. The plans
Solidly acted but only sporadically funny, the Lyceum and the Citizens Theatre co-production of Hay Fever is entirely serviceable but all too forgettable. Noel Coward's 1925 comedy features …
It's nearly 50 years old but Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat doesn't need to be mothballed.
Dominic Hill’s production of Hay Fever for the Lyceum (also touring to the Glasgow Citizens) has plenty of laughs but occasionally stutters
As the middle section of the trilogy that begins with The Slab Boys, some may expect this to provide problems of accessibility as a stand-alone piece. However, it tends to amplify rather tha…
Glasgow Citizens’ multimillion-pound redevelopment project has received a £2.5 million grant from the Scottish government. The money, from the government's regeneration cap…
High kicks and high camp dominate La Cage Aux Folles, at the Playhouse, as it explodes in a glorious melange of sequins, feathers and a timely political message wrapped up in an over-sugared…
The Gaiety Theatre in Ayr has had a third of its council funding cut, in a move that the venue has said
Tense, byzantine and thoroughly hilarious, the EUTC's production of Tom Stoppard's breakthrough play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, at Edinburgh's Bedlam to Saturday, is a properly e…
The power of this production of Death of a Salesman comes from its understanding of the little things. A lone flautist’s melody,
It's Allan Stewart's Big Big Variety Show at the King's this week. Or maybe it's the Big Big BIG Variety Show. It's hard to keep these things straight…but it's fair to say it's big.
Edinburgh venue Summerhall is embroiled in a dispute with former artistic director Rupert Thomson over an alleged debt of £27,000. Thomson was
A new Scottish musical based on a 1935 film has attracted a £99,769 grant in Creative Scotland’s latest round of Open Funding, in which
