1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
There are parts of Edinburgh which regard the fringe as something which happens “to them rather than for them”, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has been warned. Speaking at…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Any lapse in focus to the opening ballet of this quintet of world premiers is soon forgotten as Scottish Ballet set out to charge the emotions and find the thril…
Theatre Uncut, the programme of short, politically engaged breakfast plays, at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre has won a Fringe First for the second year running. The Fringe Firsts are gi…
Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre has celebrated its 50th year by winning half the Fringe First awards given in the first week of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The awards, themselves in th…
Tim Price has won the inaugural James Tait Black Prize for Drama with The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, about the American soldier recently convicted of espionage for leaking military s…
A new way of paying for critics and criticism needs to be found, according to Nica Burns, West End theatre operator and director of the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, speaking at th…
Creative Scotland has taken another strong step towards reconciliation with its client artist groups, with the publication of new one-year plan. This it the first “public facing”…
Creative Scotland’s newly appointed chief executive Janet Archer has set out her ambitions for the first year of her tenure, but has held off publishing a new strategic plan until Apri…
Equity has published statistics highlighting the disparity between male and female acting roles in Scotland and is now calling on Creative Scotland to fund further research. Basic research b…
Theatre on bikes, a celebration of musician Martyn Bennett and dance performances on the Thames and Clyde rivers are among the highlights of the cultural programme supporting the Glasgow 201…
The National Theatre of Scotland is to engage with the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence by touring a pair of plays examining issues of Scottish national identity according to its new…
David Greig’s Victoria is to receive its Scottish premiere in a revival by Dundee Rep as part of the company’s autumn season, announced today. Commissioned by the RSC in 2000, Vi…
Michael Gambon and Peter Egan have been confirmed to star in two of the Gate Theatre Dublin’s productions in the Samuel Beckett season at this year’s Edinburgh International Fest…
Dostoyevsky sits at the heart of the Glasgow Citizen’s autumn season, reuniting artistic director Dominic Hill with writer Chris Hannan in a new adaptation of Crime and Punishment. The…
Two National Theatre Wales-commissioned scripts are among five nominees for the £10,000 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Drama, organised by the University of Edinburgh in partnership …
Dundee Rep, Dundee: Haunting and claustrophobic, John Tiffany's final production as an associate director for the National Theatre of Scotland finds the glacial heart of the Nordic vamp…
Alan Cumming and Blythe Duff have won the best male and female performance awards at the annual Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, held at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre today. Cumm…
Janet Archer has been announced as the new head of Creative Scotland, six months after previous chief executive Andrew Dixon resigned. Archer will take up the post of chief executive of July…
Vicky Featherstone is to be awarded a special CATS Whiskers award at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, at Edinburgh’s Traverse theatre this weekend. Featherstone has been rec…
Scotland’s culture minister Fiona Hyslop has criticised her UK counterpart Maria Miller, claiming that Miller’s focus on the economic benefits of the arts sector “reduce it…
This summer’s Edinburgh Fringe will be the largest ever with a 6.5% increase on last year’s figures to 2,871 shows registered with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The bigg…
Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre is to revive its summer variety season in June when the All New Gaiety Whirl opens for a two-week run. Producer and star of the revival is Michael Courtney. He dec…
Scottish Opera will create new main-stage productions of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in a 2013/14 season that otherwise focusses on smaller shows. The 14-s…
The Famous Spiegelterrace on George Street will return for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe in a modified format after local concerns following last year’s event. The terrace, which …
A play about the London riots of 2011 and a piece of dance theatre initially created for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad are among more than a dozen productions to feature in the Scottish Governm…
