1,523 stories by "Thom Dibdin"
Motherwell Theatre, Motherwell: Ian 'Sheepie' Smith is a panto pal to treasure in Bev Berridge's jaunty production of John Spillers' music and comedy-infused script at Mo…
Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum and Chichester Festival Theatre have postponed their co-production of David Haig’s Pressure until spring 2014, citing difficulties in casting the lead ro…
The Edinburgh International Festival has appointed independent producer Roy Luxford as its new planning and operations director. Luxford will be based in Edinburgh and takes up the post in F…
Dominic Hill is to direct the Citizens Theatre Glasgow’s first Doctor Faustus in more than 45 years, as he starts his second year in charge of the theatre. Doctor Faustus will reunite …
The Brunton in Musselburgh has reopened its main hall after a £3.7 million upgrade to create a flexible performance space. Retractible seating gives the hall a capacity of more than 500 s…
Creative Scotland’s project funding is stifling the development of independent artists, according to an internal report released this week by the arts quango. The Producers’ Hub …
Creative Scotland proportionally spends less than half the amount on the dance sector as its counterpart south of the border, Arts Council England. According to a new report on the Scottish …
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: There's enough energy in Cora Bissett's new musical for the National of Scotland to launch it in to the stratosphere, but elements of the production are …
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Fizzing with dark and twisted energy, Morna Pearson's new play for the Traverse throws a 40-year-old innocent into the wilds of dating. She writes in a soft…
The Edinburgh International Festival has begun its search for a “visionary and inspirational” director to replace Jonathan Mills, who will be leaving the post in 2014. Mills was …
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Snow sweeps across Matthew Lenton's new Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Lyceum. A blizzard, beautifully realised in Kai Fisher's austere design,…
Laurie Sansom, currently artistic director of Royal and Derngate in Northampton, has been appointed to lead the National Theatre of Scotland. Sansom will succeed NTS founding artistic direct…
Creative Scotland has announced a major examination of its internal structures, two weeks after a the publication of a highly critical open letter to the arts quango signed by more than 400 …
Ticket sales for Edinburgh’s summer festivals, including those overlapping with the Olympics, dropped by just 0.39% in 2011, according to a report to the City Edinburgh Council. …
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Music-hall variety and steampunk, industrial-revolution design drive Scottish Opera's brilliantly crowd-pleasing new Magic Flute. Director Sir Thomas Allen even …
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: Returning to Traverse Two, the conventional theatre space where they first stepped off, site-specific specialists Grid Iron use it cleverly to examine the nature…
Brunton, Musselburgh: Taking her cue from Charles Bukowski's cult character Henry Chinaski, Kylie Walters has created a testosterone-fuelled frenzy of an evening. In her narrative, a qu…
Leading independent Edinburgh venue, the Bongo Club, has been granted a temporary licence to occupy the space underneath the city’s Central Library until June 2014. The City of …
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Scottish Ballet's autumn trio of ballets - new, refreshed and old - emphatically establishes that new artistic director Christopher Hampson will be building…
Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise, the creators of children's theatre group The Singing Kettle, have announced that they are to stop performing with the act from next year. The forthcoming Chri…
Creative Scotland has reacted in a robust but largely conciliatory manner to its critics, following the publication of a stinging attack on its management methods in a letter signed by 100 p…
Arts Guild, Greenock: Stumbling rather than running into the light, David Hutchinson's touring production of Arthur Miller's 1944 play sets off as if it is unsure of its own luck. …
Musicians from the Orchestra of Scottish Opera have formed a co-operative to market themselves as a commercial operation. This follows a move in 2011 that saw the orchestra's members put on …
A hundred people from across the arts in Scotland, including playwright David Greig and composer Peter Maxwell Davies, have launched a stinging attack on the “ongoing crisis” at …
Two mass meetings of Scottish artists have been organised in response to what are perceived as ongoing problems with Creative Scotland. The separate meetings, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, follo…
