After a 30-year delay in the departure lounge, fans of ‘90s comedy classic, The High Life, can buckle up for a new musical version featuring all four original cast members – Alan Cumming as Sebastian Flight, Forbes Masson as Steve McCracken, Siobhan Redmond as Shona Spurtle and Patrick Ryecart as Captain Hilary Duff. In this collaborative work, Cumming and MassonContinue reading “Scottish Cult Classic The High Life Returns in New Musical Form for 2026”
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The Snow Queen Scottish Ballet Festival Theatre
In these cold, damp days of late November/early December various signs of the impending festive season appear on the streets and in shops. But none of these tidings imbue me with much in the way of Christmas spirit. Fortunately, though, the one thing that never fails to relieve the gloom and fill me with anticipationContinue reading “The Snow Queen Scottish Ballet Festival Theatre”
Manipulate Arts Announces Programme for the 2026 Manipulate Festival
Manipulate Arts – Scotland’s home for cutting-edge animation, puppetry and visual theatre – has announced the programme for the 19th edition of Manipulate Festival in its traditional timeslot of February. But that’s about all that is traditional! Its most ambitious programme to date will feature 4 World Premieres and 6 Scottish premieres on stage, artistsContinue reading “Manipulate Arts Announces Programme for the 2026 Manipulate Festival”
First Shows Announced for Soon to be Opened Redeveloped King’s Theatre
The King’s Theatre landmark redevelopment project is now over 85% complete, marking major progress toward securing its future as a fully accessible, world-class venue at the heart of Edinburgh’s cultural life. Since construction began in February 2023, the building has been transformed by dramatic structural improvements, including a raised fly tower to accommodate larger, more ambitious productions, and the replacement of theContinue reading “First Shows Announced for Soon to be Opened Redeveloped King’s Theatre”
Scots Language Theatre Company Braw Clan Starts Fourth Soup and a Story Season
The Lanarkshire village of Roberton may be small but it’s embracing of Hallowe’en tropes outweighs its size with skeletons, pumpkins and scary signs in evidence as soon as you get off the bus for the Village Hall. It is here that one of the first sessions of Biggar based Braw Clan’s popular Soup and aContinue reading “Scots Language Theatre Company Braw Clan Starts Fourth Soup and a Story Season”
Scottish International Storytelling Festival Opens with a Northern Theme
The 36th Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF) has the theme of Lights of the North and takes place in Edinburgh and across Scotland this late Autumn. Over the 11 days of the festival, celebrated storytellers from Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Germany will join leading voices from Scotland in a programme of traditional storytelling. NorwegianContinue reading “Scottish International Storytelling Festival Opens with a Northern Theme”
Night Waking Traverse
An Tobar and Mull Theatre bring to the stage an adaptation by Shireen Mula of the 2011 novel of the same name by the excellent Sarah Moss. Set on a remote Hebridean island, the one woman play centres on Anna, passionately portrayed by Nicola Jo Cully, who also does the impressive feat of voicing ofContinue reading “Night Waking Traverse”
Hercules the Bear The Festival Theatre Studio
The adage that truth is stranger than fiction could not apply more aptly to the story of Hercules the Bear. Who after all would believe that anyone would choose to raise a wild animal as a pet? But that is exactly what Andy and Maggie Robin of Sheriffmuir did when they bought a bear cubContinue reading “Hercules the Bear The Festival Theatre Studio”
Capital Theatres Launches The People’s Archive Celebrating King’s Theatre’s Legacy
Offering free online access to a wide selection of archival materials from the King’s Theatre spanning more than a century of history, The People’s Archive is now available on Capital Theatres’ website where users can immerse themselves in the history of the King’s Theatre through programmes, photo galleries, playbills, newspaper clippings and oral histories. Supported by theContinue reading “Capital Theatres Launches The People’s Archive Celebrating King’s Theatre’s Legacy “
Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund
Scotland’s celebrated producer of work for children and young people, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, announces a new call out with Make Space, whose aim is to appeal to artists and collectives for the research and development of new ideas and new work for children, with a focus on schools. Practitioners can be from any creativeContinue reading “Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund”
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