1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Plans to redevelop Aberdeen's Music Hall have been given a boost with initial approval for a £700,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The first-round pass is dependent on a stage-tw…
David MacLennan, co-founder of the Wildcat and 7:84 theatre companies and the man behind the A Play, A Pie and A Pint initiative, has died. He was 65 and had been suffering from Motor Neuron…
Development body Creative Scotland has put all new major capital project funding on hold, according to details in its annual plan for 2014/15, published today. The plan, part of the Scottish…
The number of productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will break the 3,000 mark for the first time this August, with 3,193 shows in its 2014 programme. The figure is an 11% increase on …
Site-specific theatre company Grid Iron is collaborating with the Edinburgh International Book Festival on a show that forms part of Made in Scotland’s programme, which is …
BBC programmes dominate the nominations in the drama sections of the inaugural Royal Television Society Scotland Awards. The awards cover all forms of television production in Scotland and a…
Roberta Taylor is to return to Glasgow's Citizens Theatre this autumn to appear in a new production of Hamlet helmed by artistic director Dominic Hill. A regular on the Citizens' stage from …
Composer James MacMillan is to conduct his opera Ines de Castro for the first time in January, in a new production premiered by Scottish Opera in its 2014/15 season. Directed by Olivia Fuchs…
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced a £25 million transformation project to be delivered over the next seven years, which will include adding a second 300-seat auditorium and upgradi…
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Using transcripts of the libel and criminal trials which led to Oscar Wilde's incarceration in 1895, the European Arts Company seeks to illuminate this les…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Tempestuous and highly charged in its opening scenes, but lingering away into domestic affairs, David Haig's Pressure has an unsettled structure. Thanks to John…
The Edinburgh International Festival is to bring its dates forward by a week in 2015, to coincide with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. EIF director designate Fergus Linehan made the announcem…
The National Theatre of Scotland features strongly in the nominations for the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, including a best director nod for John Tiffany. The CATS nominations,…
King's Theatre, Glasgow: Scottish Ballet's revival of Krzysztof Pastor's Romeo and Juliet sits well with the recent tenure of Christopher Hampson as artistic director. Created for …
Plans to lease the Byre Theatre to the University of St Andrews have been challenged by Equity, which also condemns the proposal as “catastrophic” for professional theatre in the…
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: Strange, quirky and utterly charming, Vanishing Point's musical play captures the essence of Ivor Cutler, the surrealistic folk musician whose whimsical tunes…
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Deceptively naive in appearance, Alistair McDowall's one-man play weaves a complex story of hurt and pain that transcends its somewhat static and faltering …
Creative Scotland has announced the creation of nine regional hubs that will be the cornerstone of its Time to Shine youth arts strategy, an initiative that has been allocated £5 million …
More than 250 arts organisations are taking part in Get Scotland Dancing, part of the four-year legacy culture programme for Glasgow 2014. Full details of the programme have been announced t…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: As the Scottish referendum on independence approaches, the Royal Lyceum looks back to 1707, when the union between England and Scotland was brokered. And in …
The innovative performer and creator of intimate one-to-one shows, Adrian Howells, has died unexpected at the age of 51 in Glasgow, the city he had made his home since 2006, and where he dev…
Wars and their effects inform the majority of productions in this year’s Edinburgh International Festival programme, which includes five world theatre premieres. Running from 8 to 31 A…
The Imaginate festival of theatre for young people has announced a programme of 14 Scottish and international productions for its 25th anniversary event this May. New Scottish works at the E…
Scottish company Catherine Wheels is launching a smart-phone app to complement is award-winning children’s show White. The app is due for release on March 10 and aims to help extend th…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Crisp in its physicality and punctilious in its delivery, Private Lives at the Royal Lyceum brings out the full verve of Noel Coward's marvellous script…
