Peter Mullan has won the best TV actor award at the Scottish BAFTAs for his performance in The Fear, produced by World Productions for Channel 4. Held at the Radisson Blue hotel in Glasgow o…
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fascinating, uplifting and inspiring, <a href="http://www.davidhughesdance.co.uk/2013/07/autumn-tour-update/"> David Hughes Dance's new tour…
The Scottish Government has launched a £5 million national youth arts strategy, Time To Shine, which will be delivered over two years through Creative Scotland. The strategy has three pri…
Creative Scotland is to reveal the first elements of its new 10-year plan and funding programes at three open feedback sessions the end of the month. Although the final long-term plan will b…
Horsecross Arts, the organisation that runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall, has been hit with a mass exodus of its board, following news that the organisation is facing a financial crisi…
Scottish hit sitcom, Still Game, is to get a theatrical revival next year at Glasgow's new 12,000-seat Hydro arena, its creators Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill have announced. The show, whic…
Jacqueline McKay has quit her post as chief executive at Horsecross Arts in Perth, the organisation which runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall. McKay’s resignation “for person…
King's Theatre, Glasgow: Darkly emotional, Scottish Opera's new co-production with Boston Lyric Opera is a triumphant mix of shimmering performances, strong direction from Thomas Allen …
Perth Theatre has passed the final hurdle for a £14.5 million, two year, renovation, which will see the 460-seat Edwardian auditorium go dark in January. The local council last week appro…
Creative Scotland has announced a change in senior management structure as the a first step in a process of restructuring Scotland’s arts funding body. Job titles and roles will be tig…
Edinburgh City Council has proposed that all its cultural grants for 2014/15, including those to its festivals and theatres, will be the same as for the current year. Its recently published …
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Psychological revelation and inner turmoil provide the motivation as crime writer Ian Rankin eschews the whodunnit in his first foray onto the theatre stage. Inste…
Scottish Opera’s musical director, the French conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak, has resigned from his post one month after taking it up. A statement from the company said that Joel-Horna…
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Writer Robert Alan Evans and choreographer Natasha Gilmore have created one story, of a family overtaken by a wild outsider, which they present in two shows for…
The Scottish government has published its draft budget for 2014/15, with a lower than expected cut of £2.1 million to Scotland’s five national performing companies. The companies wi…
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Tightly elegant in its telling, Michael Cabot's production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for London Classic Theatre plays out in what looks like a bomb…
Seona Reid has been appointed chair of the National Theatre of Scotland, replacing Richard Findlay, inaugural chair of the seven year-old company. Reid was director of the Glasgow School of …
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Olga Neuwirth has edited down and completed Alban Berg's Lulu, and in the process transferred the opera to 20th century America where its culmination is in 19…
The Edinburgh International Festival has posted the highest number of tickets issued for a decade at this year’s event which finished on Sunday. The increase in tickets issued has lead…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Jose Montalvo's take on the Don Quixote story is an exuberant blending of disciplines on all levels. Presentation, music and choreography all bring disparat…
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: The last of three Gate Theatre Dublin productions at the Edinburgh International Festival of Beckett works adapted for the stage finds Peter Egan attempting First …
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: There is little to like about Beckett's artfully constructed anti-hero Molloy, who then becomes Malone, in this adaptation of his three novels: Molloy, Malone…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Complexity is created through simplicity in both of Oper Frankfurt's shimmering offerings on this very different double bill. Read the full review
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has closed its most successful year with a record 1,943,493 tickets issued, up 4.6% on 2012 – and 3.5% up on the previous record in 2011. The figures do n…
Charlie Wood, co-director of leading fringe venue operator Underbelly has failed in a bid to be elected to the board of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Wood was beaten by Free Fringe …