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Edinburgh awards scheme the Herald Angels has been put into abeyance for this year’s festival. Founded by newspaper The Herald in 1995,
The premiere of Ross Dunsmore's Milk at the Traverse Theatre is well acted and carefully staged. However, it never overcomes an unsatisfactory construction.
Sultry: There is a taut emotional quality to John Tiffany's production of Tennessee Williams classic The Glass Menagerie at the King's Theatre as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
There is a straightforward effectiveness to Fringe Management and Canny Creatures' version of The Elephant Man at the Gilded Balloon that helps it overcome its comparative lack of inspiratio…
Well acted but confusingly adapted, Frankenstein: In Darkness We Rise at the Gilded Ballon Wine Bar is an unsatisfying hour of theatre.
Energetic and driven, Glasgow Girls at the Assembly Hall has definite imperfections, but sweeps the audience along on a tide of politically charged fun.
Summerhall has bagged half the Fringe First awards given out by the Scotsman newspaper in the first week of the Edinburgh Fringe.
There is a kernel of emotional and poetic truth to Lest We Forget, the latest offering from writer-director James Beagon and Aulos Productions in the Studio at St Augustines.
It’s 6.30pm on Saturday afternoon at the Dissection Room, Summerhall. The show is about to go up. Normality for a habitual reviewer
Full of witty genius, but failing to make the most of its content, Dabster Productions' Jailmates still guarantees an hour of laughs with brutally hone
A cheerful directness and generosity of spirit permeate Waves at the Old Lab in Summerhall. However, there is an underdeveloped feel at times that threatens to detract from its fresh and inf…
There is a reassuring tenacity to Shona McCarthy, the recently appointed chief executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society " the organisation
When the Edinburgh International Festival wanted to make a major statement about its launch in 2015, it called on 59 Productions, the
Thom Dibdin will be putting his mouth where his pen normally goes and appearing in a show during the fringe.
But At The Illusionist's Table is more than a great dinner at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society " home to a mouth-watering number of exclusively bottled, cask-strength single malts and a very s…
The announcement in June of the Theatre in Schools Scotland initiative set a major benchmark for the provision of the performing arts
Scotland is to get its first postgraduate course in stage management as part of a tie-up between Queen Margaret University and the
Creative Scotland has warned that it may have to reduce the number of organisations it regularly funds because of uncertainties created by
There is a real passion to Joyce McMillan, leading Scottish theatre critic and political commentator. It shines out in her writing "
Invaluable and illuminating: Remarkably consistent in quality and generosity of spirit, Joyce McMillan's Theatre in Scotland – A Field of Dreams, edited by Philip Howard, is vital to a…
Scottish secretary for culture and tourism Fiona Hyslop has rejected calls for a ‘bed tax’ on tourists to offset cuts to the
Murderously merry: The musical Chicago is based on a Twenties stage show of the same name, but it's skewering of 'celebrity criminals' makes its story as relevant today as ever it was. Mind,…
Wait ends for Godot at CATS: The Lyceum's production of Waiting for Godot has won the Best Production award at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland.
Romanes warns of "sector of administrators": Muriel Romanes has used her award of a CATS Whiskers at this year's Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland to call for the artist to be put at th…
Glasgow's Citizens Theatre has scooped six prizes at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, where the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh’s production of
