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Jacqueline McKay has been appointed chief executive at Horsecross Arts in Perth, the organisation which runs the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall.
Nonsense Room Productions has announced that its hit children's show Hairy Maclary and Friends is to tour Australia for two years with a local cast.
Baroness Elizabeth Smith of Gilmorehill has formally stepped down as chair of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, saying it is "time for some fresh thinking and for someone new to lead th…
Two shows at Summerhall, the arts complex venue now in its second year, have received Herald Angels in the second week of the Edinburgh fringe.
Daniel Kitson has won his sixth ever Fringe First, for his solo performance of As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title at the Traverse.
Venue operators in Edinburgh are reporting fears that the Olympic Games has had a negative impact on sales, with local audiences particularly affected.
Mark Thomas won his second accolade of the Edinburgh Fringe over the weekend, adding a Herald Angel to his Fringe First for Bravo, Figaro!, the story of his difficult relationship with his T…
Billy Mack, a former double winner at The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence, has been recognised in the opening round of this year's Scotsman Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Edinburgh Fringe venues are reporting early ticket sales up between 3% and 5%, like for like, as the event officially opens for business on Friday August 3.
A new £10,000 award for drama has been added to Britain's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Prizes, in a linkup between Edinburgh University and the National Theatre of Scot…
Scottish theatre has a strong buildings infrastructure but is not creating enough product to fill it, according to a comprehensive review of the sector published by Creative Scotland.
Edinburgh's Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King's theatres, has posted a surplus in its 2011/12 accounts, a year after mounting debts saw the company shed a quarte…
Scotland's arts and creative industries are valued at more than £3.2 billion to the nation's economy, according to a benchmark study published on Thursday.
Creative Scotland, the Scottish arts funding quango, has delayed by six months its controversial proposal to remove flexible funding from 49 cultural organisations.
Leading independent Edinburgh fringe venue, the Bongo Club, has been given a "lifeline" extension to the lease of its Moray House premises by landlords, the University of Edinburgh.
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Performing together for the first time ever, the national dance companies of Scotland, England and Wales have created a triple bill of new works celebrating Olympian …
Dominic Hill has set out his second autumn/winter season at the Glasgow Citizens with a trio of world premiere co-productions, which will all open at the theatre before going on tour.
Glasgow's Solar Bear theatre company has set up a Deaf Theatre Club, aimed at increasing attendance and awareness of theatre for members of the deaf community around Scotland.
Tramway, Glasgow: Birnam Wood does not come to Dunsinane in the National Theatre of Scotland's singular production of Macbeth - it becomes lost in the green ceramic brick walls of a old…
Robert Paterson, the Scottish actor who has appeared in more than 50 productions with Dundee Rep Theatre, has died suddenly.
Ayr's Gaiety theatre is to reopen in December with a pantomime production of Cinderella, produced by Michael Courtney's Mad About Productions and staring Gary Lamont with Leah MacRae.
The National Theatre of Scotland's A Christmas Carol and Dundee Rep's Further Than The Furthest Thing have both run out double winners at the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, announce…
David MacLennan, artistic director of the A Play, A Pie and A Pint programme of lunchtime theatre at Glasgow's Oran Mor, has won the inaugural CATS Whiskers award at this year's Critics' Awa…
Leading Scottish playwright David Greig has called for Creative Scotland to suspend its planned shake-up to its funding strategy, saying that the quango is "haemorrhaging" trust as a result.
Comedy has increased its dominance of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a record-breaking 964 shows in the official 2012 programme, itself featuring a record 2,695 productions across 279 ve…
