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Greenock’s Beacon Arts Centre has been given a £2.5 million funding package to save it from going into administration following “significant” variations to the cost of b…
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Flying confidently into a narrative of loves lost and half-remembered, Jennifer Paterson's innovative aerial dance company, All or Nothing, explore new terr…
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: James MacMillan has cut a whole scene and tweaked the vocal score for this new production of his 1996 opera debut. The result, with MacMillan in the pit and given int…
Theatre company Sell A Door is to run Edinburgh Fringe venue St Stephen's from this year, in partnership with the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Operating under the name of Momentu…
A temporary campsite that will offer discounts to performers and allow them to showcase previews of their work is planned for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The site is planned…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Lies, boasts and false memories jostle to be accepted as the truth in Brian Friel's great examination of the nature of reality and performance, which re…
Udderbelly, the Edinburgh fringe venue in the shape of a giant upside-down purple cow, will be moving to pastures new at this year’s event and premiering a new show from Australian con…
Glasgow-based theatre company Untitled Projects has gone dark, after its application for three year regular funding from Creative Scotland was rejected. The company, run by artistic director…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Sumptuous and shimmering, Lez Brotherston's updated and reimagined designs of Philip Prowse's 1970s originals for Peter Darrell's version of The N…
Macrobert, Stirling: Johnny McKnight has achieved near panto perfection with his fantastic Aladdin script at the Macrobert. It is a clever take, with a female Aladdin (Dawn Sievewright) fall…
Macrobert, Stirling: Gently paced under Heather Fulton's direction, Frozen Charlotte's devised show for three to six-year-olds builds on what they know. Samuel Jameson's stern…
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: There is plenty of inspiration in Alan McHugh's Jack and the Beanstalk, what with designer Alison Irwin's giant steampunk robot, the Victorian Edinbu…
Cumbernauld Theatre: The story is king in Ed Robson's inventive, small-scale take on Aladdin. Using the conceit of a troupe of storytellers practising their thousand and first tale for …
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Smooth and sumptuous, director Ed Curtis' fast-paced Aladdin at the Edinburgh King's is standout Christmas entertainment. Only the lack of a truly redeem…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Snappy and brief, Andrew Panton's take on David Wood's adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel plays up the subversive elements that make the author …
The Byre Theatre in St Andrews has reconfirmed its commitment to professional performances, after being taken over by St Andrews University in August. The theatre reopened for professional t…
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline: Beefing up the traditional take on Snow White, Alan McHugh's script gives plenty of room for director Jonathan Stone to bring out the feistiness of his heroi…
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Local jokes and references abound in Mark Cox's bright take on the standard Beanstalk plot in his first panto for the Brunton Theatre. In terms of local ow…
Byre Theatre, St Andrews: St Andrews' Byre Theatre reopens for professional productions with a crisply produced and musically charged take on Jack and the Beanstalk. Gordon Barr's …
Adaptations of Muriel Spark, a verbatim piece about female genital mutilation, and a Russia/Ukraine season at Oran Mor are among eight world premieres in the National Theatre of ScotlandR…
Gwilym Gibbons has been appointed as chief executive of Horsecross Arts, the creative organisation behind the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall. Gibbons will take over from interim manager Coli…
The Scottish Government has helped secure the future of Scottish Youth Theatre with the announcement of £1 million over three years for youth arts in Scotland. The funding, £250,000 of…
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Created in 2010 as a response to the coalition's cuts in public spending, Theatre Uncut commissions a handful of short, political, quick-response plays and …
Edinburgh's Lyceum and Traverse theatres have received cuts in the latest round of funding from Creative Scotland. The Lyceum's grant has been reduced by 17.5% to £3 million for 2015 to 2…
A new work by Douglas Maxwell is to join David Byrne’s Slab Boys as a cornerstone of Glasgow Citizens Theatre’s 70th anniversary season. Announcing full details of the theatre…
