Category Archives: Theatre

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”

Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025

Established in 2019 by the film and theatre production company Popcorn Group, Popcorn Writing Award 2025 is now open for submissions. This unique award celebrates bold, imaginative new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, offering a £6,000 prize fund that goes directly to writers recognised for their notable, groundbreaking scripts. Further to the prize fund,Continue reading “Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025”

Celebrate Edfest.Com’s Love The Fringe Day with Fringe Benefits for All

Link up to Edfest.com‘s brand new LOVE THE FRINGE DAY on social media on Saturday 2nd August and discover a host of deals and discounts for ticket buyers and performers alike. After a hugely successful launch in 2024, this will be the first-ever Love the Fringe Day, a social media celebration of the people, shows and spirit that make the EdinburghContinue reading “Celebrate Edfest.Com’s Love The Fringe Day with Fringe Benefits for All”