Category Archives: Theatre

It’s Peter Pan, Jim, but not as we know it! It is exactly what it says on the tin – The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan. In this tale, the Pixie Dust Waterfall has dried up and calls for characters from J M Barrie’s classic tale to return to Neverland to help save the day.Continue reading “The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan Festival Theatre”

Glasgow based writer and performer and three-time Fringe First winner Gary McNair is hitting the road again with Dear Billy – A Love Letter to the Big Yin from the People of Scotland. Billy Connolly, who  needs no introduction, as he is now regarded as a national treasure who came from the shipyards of theContinue reading “Dear Billy – A Love Letter to the Big Yin returns in 2024”

Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh’s international festival of animated film, puppetry, and visual theatre, returns for its 17th edition in February 2024, marking the start of the 40th year of Manipulate Arts, formerly Puppet Animation Scotland. Manipulate Festival will once more celebrate international and homegrown work that tells stories primarily through imagery instead of text or breathesContinue reading “Manipulate Arts Announce Line Up for Manipulate Festival 2024”

Summerhall announces a new deal format option for Fringe 2024 with 100% of ticket revenue in favour of the artists. Building on the initiatives it launched in 2023 that aim to ‘Support the Artist’ during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Summerhall has introduced a new deal where companies get 100% of the revenue from ticket sales in exchangeContinue reading “Applications Open for Summerhall’s New Deal for Festival Fringe 2024”

The Lyceum’s Christmas shows have, in the past, generally provided something a bit more than the usual pantomime fare on offer at this time of year. And I have to say that has been very much to my personal taste. This year, however, they move right into the panto style of performance, with the actionContinue reading “The Snow Queen Royal Lyceum”

So Far So Good is an adventurous new contemporary circus show for 3-6 year olds exploring flying, falling, steep places, precipices and the sharp rocks you come across on the way up. Created in the Cairngorms with the children who live in wild places, and drawing on their lived experience of false summits, dangerous scrambles andContinue reading “Imaginate Announces Circus Show for Early Years as New Festival Commission”

Even before St Andrew’s Day has had a chance to be marked, Scotland’s Capital is already gearing to full traditional (in the real sense of trees and Santas and in the modern sense of sideshows and markets) festive mode. But this December a different part of the festive shenanigans awaits in the Auld Toun’s RoxburghContinue reading “Boris & Sergey’s Christmas Cabaret Comes to the Roxy!”

The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh presents the Reading Rep Theatre production as the Scottish Premiere of Jekyll & Hyde written by Gary McNair and starring Forbes Masson, who returns to the Lyceum stage for the first time in twenty years, in this one man show. Prolific stage actor Masson is an associate artist with the RSC and National Theatre of Scotland and comesContinue reading “One Man Performance of Jekyll & Hyde Comes to Lyceum This January”

The ninety minute drama that is every game of football, has been brilliantly reimagined as a conduit for a stage drama in this debut play from Eilidh Loan. Set in a small working class town in the West of Scotland, Moorcroft has as its central character Gary, played with believable swagger by Martin Docherty, whoContinue reading “Moorcroft      Traverse”

Citadel Arts Group have a new show coming up, The Ghosts of North Leith. Imagine their surprise when they discovered a connection between one of the main characters in their forthcoming show, Lily Gladstone, and the star of Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon! Lily Gladstone came from Montana and was of Blackfeet Indian stockContinue reading “Citadel Arts Group Discover Leith Link to Scorsese Movie Killers of the Flower Moon”