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Scottish Dance Theatre is to tour to four Indian cities this autumn, including a performance at the Delhi International Arts Festival. The tour, which is supported by Creative Scotland and t…
Citizens Theatre, Glasgow: Rage and fear seep through Mike Bartlett's domesticated updating of Euripides, clashing brashly and inviting its protagonists to step outside. They simmer beh…
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Rising to the challenge of making contemporary dance for a young audience, choreographer Christine Devaney creates a world of butterflies and crawling insects. …
A stage adaptation of vampire film Let the Right One In and a site-specific revival of a classic Scottish play about striking miners are among ten new productions for 2013 revealed by the Na…
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Serge Denoncourt has created a big, exciting and vibrant production for the Royal Lyceum and National Theatre of Scotland, in this revival of the 1989 translation in…
Creative Scotland has announced that 17 projects, five of of them theatre-based, are to share nearly £15 million of capital grants this year.The post Creative Scotland reveals £6m…
Creative Scotland has announced that 17 projects, five of of them theatre-based, are to share nearly £15 million of capital grants this year.
Arts agency Creative Scotland has been asked to clarify its role in commissioning the arts and urged to "work constructively" with the sector in a letter from Scottish culture secretary Fion…
Arts agency Creative Scotland has been asked to clarify its role in commissioning the arts and urged to "work constructively" with the sector in a letter from Scottish culture secretary Fion…
Creative Scotland and the culture sector are to receive relatively small cuts in the Scottish government's draft budget for 2013/14, published on Thursday at Holyrood.
The first tickets for next August's Edinburgh Festival Fringe have gone on sale an unprecedented 11 months before the start of the event.
Andrew Dixon, chief executive of Creative Scotland, has given a robust defence of the body's financial plans to the Scottish Parliament's education and culture committee.
Scottish Ballet's new artistic director Christpher Hampson has announced a new version of Hansel and Gretel and the first ever production of a full-length Matthew Bourne ballet outside the c…
Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre has announced two world premieres for its autumn season and released details of the year-long Traverse 50 writers initiative which will begin in January to mark …
The Edinburgh International Festival has announced record income for this year's event, which has closed in Edinburgh with box office income of £2.83 million, a rise of 9% on 2011.
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Smooth and accomplished to listen to, like a calmly swelling sea, Craig Armstrong's new opera version of Ibsen's play, with a libretto by Zoe Strachan, f…
King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Visually exciting, through Alex Eales' clever triptych set, and musically engaging with James MacMillan's hardworking score, this product of Scottish Ope…
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh: There is a real intensity and sense of purpose to both these two new operas, created as the culmination of Scottish Opera's Five:15 - Operas Made in Scotlan…
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Character is all, in Alexei Ratmansky's 2002 choreography of Prokofiev's Cinderella for the Mariinsky ballet. Which leaves little room for the accoutre…
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Using pornography as the subject of an artistic endeavour always runs the risk of creating something as voyeuristic as the subject matter. Matthew Lenton, wh…
Scottish theatregoing remains steady with 27% of the adult population attending a play, drama or other theatrical performance in 2011, according to the latest Scottish Household Survey.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe has closed reporting ticket sales of 1.86 million, down 1% on last year's record figures.
Doctor Brown, with his show Bedfrdfgh at Underbelly has become the first non-speaking comedian to win the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards since Avner the Eccentric in 1991.
Summerhall has picked up another four accolades in the final round of Edinburgh Fringe Firsts, at a ceremony which included details of a five further major awards.
A play based on the experiences of army veterans - who also perform in the play - has won Amnesty International's Freedom of Expression award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
