The Straw Chair by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✭✩ Ragged glory: There is a warm and thoughtful core to The Straw Chair at the Traverse that sometimes seems in danger of being overpowered by a par…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 1:52pm on April 24, 2015☆⚑

Unions call for living wage for theatre workers in Scotland by Thom Dibdin

The Scottish Trades Union Congress is to campaign for the living wage of £7.85 an hour to be applied to all theatre

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:14am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

Curate the Cameo by Thom Dibdin

Cameo seeks fringe participant partners: The Cameo cinema on Home Street is looking for Edinburgh fringe participants in an innovative programme to help curate this August's season of films.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 9:34pm on April 23, 2015☆⚑

Chitty tours again by Thom Dibdin

Producer hopeful for Edinburgh dates: Leith-based musicals producer Music & Lyrics Limited has announced a new touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with West Yorkshire Playhous…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 8:48pm on April 23, 2015☆⚑

Anything Goes gone by Thom Dibdin

Dates at Edinburgh Playhouse cancelled: The touring production of Anything Goes is to close before arriving at the Edinburgh Playhouse where it was originally scheduled to play June 22 - 27…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 1:52pm on April 23, 2015☆⚑

MagicFest Launched by Thom Dibdin

Festival expands, awakes in wonder at Summerhall: The Edinburgh International Magic Festival 2015 will run for a week from Friday 26 June to Saturday 4 July and has moved its centre of oper…

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 7:39pm on April 22, 2015☆⚑

Birdsong by Thom Dibdin

✭✭✭✩✩ Unsettling: Emotionally uneven, Birdsong at the King’s has much to recommend it but struggles to convince fully.

SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 5:28pm on April 22, 2015☆⚑

Selkirk's Rowan Tree Theatre Company closes by Thom Dibdin

Selkirk-based Rowan Tree Theatre Company is to close after 28 years. Founded in 1987 by Judy Steel, John Nichol and Janice Parker,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:59am on April 22, 2015☆⚑

Scottish Opera appoints Stuart Stratford as musical director by Thom Dibdin

Stuart Stratford has been appointed musical director at Scottish Opera, which he joins on June 1. Preston-born Stratford is the company's sixth

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:49am on April 22, 2015☆⚑

SNP promises to retain BBC licence fee by Thom Dibdin

The Scottish National Party's newly launched general election manifesto includes promises to retain the BBC's licence fee, increase investment through BBC Scotland

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23pm on April 20, 2015☆⚑

Brian Cox and Bill Paterson to star in Waiting for Godot at Edinburgh Lyceum by Thom Dibdin

Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theatre will mark its 50th anniversary with Brian Cox and Bill Paterson starring in a new production of Waiting

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23pm on April 15, 2015☆⚑

James McAvoy funds £125k Royal Conservatoire of Scotland scholarship plan by Thom Dibdin

James McAvoy is funding a 10-year scholarship programme for young people to train on the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's pre-higher education drama

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:01am on April 14, 2015☆⚑

Collective Architecture wins £4m Briggait Creation Centre pitch by Thom Dibdin

Glasgow's £4 million Briggait Creation Centre has taken a step closer to completion with the appointment of Collective Architecture to design the

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:04am on April 14, 2015☆⚑

Zinnie Harris joins Edinburgh's Traverse as associate director by Thom Dibdin

Zinnie Harris, writer of recent Royal Court show How to Hold Your Breath, has been appointed associate director at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48am on March 31, 2015☆⚑

National Theatre of Scotland gains first permanent home by Thom Dibdin

The National Theatre of Scotland has confirmed details of its first permanent home in its nine-year history. Planning permission for the £5.8

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10pm on March 30, 2015☆⚑

Ayr Gaiety Theatre secures extra £590k towards £2.4m refurb by Thom Dibdin

Ayr's Gaiety Theatre has taken a step toward a major refurbishment, due to start in February 2016, with a £500,000 loan from

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 1:08pm on March 27, 2015☆⚑

Complicite and Robert Lepage lead Edinburgh International Festival's 2015 programme by Thom Dibdin

Theatre features strongly in this August's Edinburgh International Festival programme, which will see theatre company Complicite make its debut at the event.

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:00am on March 18, 2015☆⚑

Edinburgh Festival and King's Theatres awarded £320,000 to fund dementia-friendly refurbishment by Thom Dibdin

Edinburgh's Festival and King's Theatres have been given £320,000 over three years by the Life Changes Trust to help turn their venues

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 1:22pm on March 12, 2015☆⚑

Julie Ellen named as Macrobert's new artistic director by Thom Dibdin

The Macrobert Art Centre in Stirling has appointed Julie Ellen as its new artistic director.Macrobert Taking up the post on June 15,

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35pm on March 10, 2015☆⚑

£2.25m for Edinburgh's festivals by Thom Dibdin

Edinburgh's 12 major festivals will receive £2.25 million in 2015/16 through the Scottish Government's Expo Fund. The fund was established in 2008 and

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34am on March 10, 2015☆⚑

Chosen Edinburgh Fringe campsite is eight miles from city centre by Thom Dibdin

Organisers behind a pop-up camp site at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival have revealed the site will be next to the city's

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 8:45am on March 9, 2015☆⚑

Theatre to be protected from Scottish sex licensing plans by Thom Dibdin

Theatres and theatrical performances in Scotland will be protected from new sexual entertainment licensing regulations, the Holyrood justice secretary has promised. Michael

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:03am on February 26, 2015☆⚑

£1.3m awarded as part of Creative Scotland's new funding route by Thom Dibdin

The first tranche of Creative Scotland’s Open Project funding has been announced, with £1.3 million in grants awarded to companies including Dundee

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:46am on February 26, 2015☆⚑

Orfeo ed Euridice , Theatre Royal, Glasgow by Thom Dibdin

Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Ashley Page, one-time artistic director of Scottish Ballet, makes his Scottish Opera debut directing a deliciously abstract and dance-orientated production of Orfeo e…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:52am on February 23, 2015☆⚑

News: Research throws spotlight on theatregoing habits of Scottish audiences by Thom Dibdin

Theatregoing is the second most popular cultural activity in Scotland after the cinema, according to a survey that shows that 32% of Scots went to the theatre in 2013. According to the Sc…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20am on February 4, 2015☆⚑