1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Alan Cumming in his solo version of Macbeth has received one of eight nominations for the National Theatre of Scotland at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland, announced today. …
The Studio – a 200-seat theatre in Edinburgh Festival Theatre’s new rehearsal and educational building " will open for this year’s Fringe, when it will be run by leading pr…
The first play by crime novelist Ian Rankin and a new examination of the union of England and Scotland, in the year of the Scottish independence referendum, are the highlights of the Royal L…
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: Forty years on and Hector MacMillan's play about the Irish troubles, revived by Michael Emans for Rapture Theatre, is both dated and disturbingly contempo…
The Beacon, Greenock: There's a satisfyingly surreal feel to Lu Kemp and Abigail Docherty's adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's children's book, as it takes its s…
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Matthew Bourne's character-driven choreography finds a perfect fit with Scottish Ballet, as the company achieves the distinction of being the first, outside Bour…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Light on its feet, Graham McLaren's production of A Doll's House gives Zinnie Harris' new version of the play a clarity of purpose which was p…
Fergus Linehan, former director of both the Sydney Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival, has been appointed director designate of the Edinburgh International Festival. Linehan will begin the…
Brunton, Musselburgh: It's 166 years since John Maddison Morton's one-act farce Box and Cox burst onto the Victorian stage. The title entered the language, its subject precipitated…
Graeae Theatre’s Judith Kilvington has been appointed executive director at the Glasgow Citizens, working alongside artistic director Dominic Hill as the theatre moves towards a £10…
Traverse, Edinburgh: Powerful and spellbinding, Rob Drummond's new play for the Traverse looks and feels exactly as it should - a beautifully defined retro-TV quiz show land. It is a sh…
Creative Scotland has advertised the post of new chief executive, with with a salary of £110,000 a year – £10,000 a year less than outgoing chief Andrew Dixon, who resigned last …
Trainspotting star Kevin McKidd has joined 51 Moray-based artists and arts professionals who have signed an open letter to Moray Council, arguing for a rethink of the recently announced 100%…
The Edinburgh International Festival will examine the relationship between art and new technology this summer, in a programme that is particularly strong in theatre and sees two mini-festiva…
A new programme of bursaries and awards for individual arts practitioners is part of a new “action plan for change”, published by Scotland’s under-fire arts quango, Creativ…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Large in scale but intimate in feel, director Anna Linstrum's new touring production of High Society bursts onto the stage with a spring in its step. Here, …
Creative Scotland has announced dates for its promised open consultation meetings with arts practitioners in Scotland. The five dates are in Dundee, Edinburgh, Greenock, Teangue (on Skye) an…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: There is a compelling sensitivity to Jemima Levick's direction of Priestley's great time play. She allows his craft to engage fully - while bringin…
Glasgow’s Citizens theatre has announced the first step in a £10 million redevelopment to its public and backstage areas. Architectural practice Bennetts Associates, which worked on…
Underbelly Ltd, the company behind the Edinburgh fringe venue and London Southbank Udderbelly festival, is set to revamp Edinburgh’s winter festivals. A consortium formed by Underbelly…
Moray Council, in the north east of Scotland, has voted to cut all funding to the arts as part of an attempt to save £7 million from its 2013/14 budget. The cut will remove £94,000...
Vicky Featherstone, former artistic director of the National theatre of Scotland, is to join the selection panel for the new chief executive of Creative Scotland. Featherstone, who recently …
The Beacon, Greenock: Birds of Paradise was never meant to open the Beacon, Greenock's sparkling new £9.5m successor to the Arts Guild, but chance and new-build overruns have p…
The National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Macbeth is to transfer to Broadway. The production, in which Alan Cumming plays all the roles, is being presented by independent New Yo…
The Byre Theatre in St Andrews is to go dark and the company running it has ceased trading with immediate effect. The theatre was due to be taken under the wing of the new Fife...
