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Jane Spiers, chief executive of Horsecross Arts in Perth, has been appointed to the same position at Aberdeen Performing Arts and will take up the post in September.
Scottish Opera is to mark its 50th anniversary season with four fully-staged, full-length operas in a programme of 11 productions playing 133 performances in 63 venues.
Dundee Rep Theatre is to return to having joint artistic directors when Philip Howard and Jemima Levick take over at the helm in spring 2013.
A major shake-up in Creative Scotland's funding strategy has left the country's independent theatre sector uncertain for its future.
The Famous Spiegeltent will return to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer in a tie-in with the new promoters at the Assembly Rooms which will see George Street closed to traffic.
Communicado is to return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a version of Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, as one of 12 companies chosen for the Made in Scotland programme, funded by the Scottish governm…
The National Theatre of Scotland has emerged as the frontrunner in the Critics Awards for Theatre in Scotland, with nominations in all but one of the ten categories.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has appointed Mark Da Vanzo, previously manager of arts investments at Creative New Zealand, to the new post of deputy chief executive.
Leading Edinburgh Fringe operator C Venues is to take over the central India Buildings, just off the Royal Mile, for this year's festival.
The Hub at Pacific Quay, Glasgow: The National Theatre of Scotland's latest verbatim work, edited from interviews with journalists about the death - or otherwise - of the newspaper indu…
The new operator of Edinburgh Fringe venue the Assembly Rooms has unveiled its programme for this year's event, promising to keep prices down and cut out the venue's infamous queues.
Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Bloodiness abounds in this laboured production of Martin McDonagh's comic and absurdist take on rural Irish republicanism. There is enough in the produc…
World premieres of a new play by David Haig and an adaptation by Donna Franceschild of her BAFTA Award-winning Takin' Over The Asylum are to be presented as part of the Royal Lyceum's 2012/1…
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles: Ed Robson has created a fine new touring version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic yarn for Cumbernauld Theatre.
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Traverse, Edinburgh: There is a purity of purpose about Andy Manley's enchanting piece of theatre for Catherine Wheels. Aimed at 2-4 year olds - with perfect attention to all the detail…
New short-term insurance packages for fringe participants have been put together by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society working with specialist insurance companies Wrightsure and Rees Astl…
The Scottish Government has announced allocations of its annual £350,000 international touring fund for the five national performing companies.
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: Tensely comic, the European Arts Company production of this Pinter double bill sets off with a Dumb Waiter that intrigues but doesn't disturb. Nicholas Gas…
The National Theatre of Scotland is to send the Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, its site-specific hit in rhyming verse inspired by the Border Ballads, on a year-long tour.
Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh: Crisp, witty and biting with its language, DC Jackson's adaptation of Beaumarchais updates Figaro to the banking sector in contemporary Edinburgh. Mark Thomson&…
Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy: In the 25 years since Wildcat first staged The Steamie, it has become a modern Scottish classic, broadcast on television and performed around the world. Its sn…
Scotland's five national performing companies achieved a near 20% increase in audience figures in the financial year 2010/11, according to figures published by the Scottish government.
The re-opening of Ayr's Gaiety theatre has come a step closer with the approval of £750,000 investment over five years from the South Ayrshire Council.
The National Theatre of Scotland is teaming up with the London Review of Books to create Enquirer, a new play which is a response to the crisis in newspaper journalism in the UK
Edinburgh International Festival artistic director Jonathan Mills has announced that he is to stand down from the post in 2014, when he will have been in post for eight years.
