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Shows from Scotland will join productions from England and around the world in this year’s Imaginate festival of theatre for young people. The five
Ghosting in under cover of darkness, Clare Duffy's darkly questioning play into the nature of sentience opens the new season of lunchtime theatre at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre by stealth.
Glasgow City Council will make cuts of £208,000 to its cultural budget, reducing support for the two theatres it currently funds. The
Runaway success: Suitably high tempo and jaw-dropping, Cirque Berserk bring the thrills of the circus to the theatre in a pacy, thoroughly entertaining show.
★★★★☆ A lens, darkly:
It is impossible to tell where the theatre starts and ends in Matthew Lenton's brilliant, dense and lethally of-the-moment The Destroye…
Sugar-coated satire: Good satire never dies but is endlessly topical, as Edinburgh Gilbert and Sullivan Society prove in their production of The Gondoliers at Edinburgh's King's Theatre this…
An award that celebrates the most sustainable show at the Edinburgh Fringe has launched an interactive toolkit, designed to make productions more
Theatre creatives top Festival Theatre speakers:
Theatre makers and creatives top the speakers at three free events being held at the Festival Theatre to mark International Women's Day, Tue…
Just 39% of creative roles in Scotland’s publicly funded theatres were given to women in 2014/15, according to a new report. The
The National Theatre of Scotland is considering cuts to the number of productions it tours, following its 3% funding reduction in this
It's a clear, bitterly cold day in Leith, too cold for snow. A perfect day for a big bowl of hot soup
Startling: There is a layer of magic of the theatrical kind to Robert Softley Gale's Purposeless Movements for Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, at the Traverse for a limited run as part of…
Mid-table: A football-themed Julius Caesar at Augustine United Church pitches Shakespeare against the world of agents, bungs and FIFA, but neither can be said to come out the winner.
Scottish venue Eden Court is contemplating reducing its education services or a ticket price hike after a surprise 17% cut to its
Dark energy: There is considerable entertainment in Peter James’ The Perfect Murder, an unremarkable, grimly humorous murder mystery elevated by the efforts of Shane Richie and Jessie …
Joyous yet dark: Death hangs brooding low over Scottish Opera's fine production of Handel's Ariodante, at Edinburgh's Festival theatre for a sadly limited run.
Three Captivate shows for new Gilded Balloon fringe venue: Edinburgh theatre company Captivate, is to take its three hit "Shakin' Shakespeare" adaptations to the National Museum of Scotland …
Stylish: The power of dance, song and big hair are used to heap scorn on all kinds of prejudice as Hairspray returns for a week-long flash of brio and fun at the Edinburgh Playhouse, as part…
Contemporary dance company White and Givan has been appointed dance company in residence at Edinburgh University, in association with the Traverse Theatre.
For their first production in the Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh Studio Opera set Bizet's opera of love, lust and death during the Spanish Civil War.
Local dog cast in Of Mice and Men:
Local dog, Tara, has been cast in the role of Candy's Dog when the tour of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men arrives at the King's in February.
Fantastical extravaganza: The Southern Light Opera Company charm and fascinate as they take the trip over the rainbow every day until Saturday at the Kings Theatre, Edinburgh.
Exceptional clarity characterises the Lyceum's production of The Crucible, whose focus on small details reaps rewards but does so at the expense of dramatic impact.
Tremendously tuneful: Next Stop Broadway, the new production from A-Team that is touring to various parts of Edinburgh, features a huge and impressive cast, with inventive and accomplished s…
Sell a Door Theatre company bring high energy to the stage with the invitation to cut loose with Footloose. But while there's energy aplenty, don't expect it to bring the Bacon.
