Category Archives: Theatre

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”

Bram Stoker’s late 19th century vampire novel not only became a worldwide classic but, closer to home, put the north English town of Whitby on the literary map. This new radical version takes the chilling story back to its Scottish roots in Cruden Bay where Stoker spent time and gives a nod to forgotten femaleContinue reading “Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning             Festival Theatre “

At a ceremony of the prestigious UK Theatre Awards, held on Sunday 8th October at London’s Guildhall, Capital Theatres was announced as the winner of the ‘Excellence in Inclusivity’ award for the dementia friendly programme. UK Theatre Awards, the only nationwide awards to celebrate outstanding achievements in theatre across the UK, described as “pioneering andContinue reading “Capital Theatres Wins UK Theatre Awards for Excellence in Inclusivity”