Category Archives: Theatre

The Royal Edinburgh Lyceum has announced that two new members of Senior Management will join the Company through Summer 2023 to steer the team into the theatre’s biggest programme in years. Anna Astell, who has most recently worked for BT Consumer and was previously at the BBC, joins the team in the new role of Director ofContinue reading “The Royal Lyceum Theatre Announces Two New Directors”

A blue skied Edinburgh, with all the optimism that brings, played a sunny host to the Lyceum Theatre’s new season’s announcement. Mirroring that optimism was Artistic Director David Greig who spoke with a quiet and modest enthusiasm for his upcoming programme that is pleasingly both literary and Scottish. He did this while acknowledging the impactContinue reading “Lyceum Announces Biggest in Years Season with Distinct Scottish Slant”

The current major development of Edinburgh’s belovèd King’s Theatre started earlier this year after a crisis campaign brought the project back from the brink. Capital Theatres, the charity that manages the Council owned King’s as well as the Festival Theatre, has released a fly through digital animation giving an artist’s impression of the redevelopment voicedContinue reading “King’s Theatre Honorary Patron Brian Cox Narrates Animation of Its Redevelopment”

One of the beloved characters created by the late great Glasgow cartoonist, Bud Neill, was the GI Bride whose catchphrase was ‘Dae ye go as faur as Pairtick?’  Conversely, and ironically, Partick’s most famous son, Billy Connolly, did go very faur fae Pairtick to become one of the best known and best loved coupons inContinue reading “Dear Billy – A Love Letter to the Big Yin from the People of Scotland Traverse”

Leith-based theatre company Citadel’s Arts Group makes its 12th foray into Leith Festival this year with an exploration of the atmospheric North Leith Burial Ground. Curious about what lies beneath Coburg Street, they found a number of interesting characters interred in this small cemetery leading to seven members of Citadel’s group of older writers to chooseContinue reading “Citadel Arts Group Brings the Ghosts of North Leith to Leith Festival”

After a sellout debut at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre in 2022, Edinburgh based theatre company, Surrogate, brings Who Killed My Father back to the stage for a Scottish tour. The play, that has been adapted and directed by the company’s founder and artistic director, Nora Wardell, is based on the 2018 autofiction book Qui a TuéContinue reading “Who Killed My Father Traverse Theatre”

Dance Base, Scotland’s National Centre for Dance, is inviting everyone to celebrate this year’s International Dance Day on Saturday 29th April and take part in the summer term starting just two days after, on 1st May. Audiences can now choose from over 50 dance classes for people of all ages and all levels of dance experience forming Dance Base’s summerContinue reading “Dance Base Celebrates International Dance Day This Weekend”

Pibroch is a multimedia theatre production exploring the parallels between the current Climate Emergency and the Piper Alpha disaster that took place in the North Sea in 1988. Pibroch uses  poetry created by Aberdeenshire-based writer and artist John Bolland, who is a former oil worker, climate activist, member of North East Scotland Climate Action NetworkContinue reading “Multi Media Climate Production Pibroch Set to Tour Scotland”

Who doesn’t know the man affectionately known as The Big Yin, Billy Connelly? Certainly nobody in Scotland, but his reputation as a uniquely skilled comic is universal in the Western world, if that’s not a contradiction in terms! The story of his life growing up in Glasgow and influencing his work is legendary. From workingContinue reading “Tour Dates Announced for Dear Billy, NTS’  Love Letter to Billy Connolly”

Award winning Scottish writer Andrew O’Hagan, whose last novel Mayflies was successfully adapted for television, brings his first play, The Ballad of Truman Capote, to premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Already the subject of two films, Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006), the radical American novelist will now be the focus of a ScottishContinue reading “Novelist Andrew O’Hagan Premieres First Play at 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe”