Category Archives: Theatre

Like more and more arts organisations, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) are being imaginative under our current restrictions to continue to support their participants. As part of the joint venture’s engagement programme, a week-long digital festival celebrates the creative output of the various groups involved in it. After creating and practicing via ZoomContinue reading “Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Announces Week Long Digital Buzz Festival”

After what must seem like an eternity but is in fact a long 15 months, Capital Theatres confirm that they will again be opening the doors of their venues the Kings, Festival Theatre and the Studio to audiences from 29 June 2021. From the opening date, audiences can enjoy a series of socially distanced performancesContinue reading “Capital Theatres Set to Open Doors to Audiences from 29 June 2021”

Eden Court, the multi-arts venue set in the Highland capital of Inverness, announces the return of its annual outdoor summer festival, Under Canvas, that started back in 2018. Co-curated with Fèis Rois, the organisation that enables to participate in and enjoy traditional music and the Gaelic arts, Under Canvas will run from 1st July till Continue reading “Eden Court Inverness Announces Under Canvas Outdoor Festival”

Strange Town, the Leith based performing arts charity for 5-25 year olds, announces that  their large scale multi-artform project involving theatre, movement, spoken word, film and sound – Generation Z: The Future is Unwritten – will culminate in a live promenade performance and video installation event. The 5 month project,  Strange Town’s most ambitious productionContinue reading “120 Edinburgh Youngsters Create Multi-Artform Production During Pandemic”

Leith based Citadel Arts Group (CAG), that develops new plays by older writers, presents a new audio play from writer Lizzie McLean that will be broadcast via citadelgoesviral.com from 13th June as part of Leithers One Family series of audio plays. Starring in the play as Lizzie, one of the fishwives, is Nicola Roy whoContinue reading “Citadel Arts Group Presents New Audio Play Newhaven Fishwives”

This summer, the Citizens Theatre presents The Comedy of Errors as part of the Live at No.40 Festival, presented by Scottish Opera. Shakespeare’s tale of mistaken identity and reunited families is directed by Artistic Director Dominic Hill in his trademark stripped-back style and performed by a talented ensemble of seven and tickets for the landmarkContinue reading “Tickets on Sale and Cast Announced for Live Performance at Citizens’ Theatre”

Edinburgh-based theatre company Grid Iron, that is one of a group of 15 shows and five venues awarded first ever Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund, can confirm that its site-responsive play,  Doppler, will take place as part of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.     The play was originally scheduled to be presented at last year’s FringeContinue reading “Grid Iron Confirms Doppler to be Part of 2021 Fringe”

On Thursday 3rd June, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS) announced the recipients of the first ever Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund, meaning that fifteen different productions can bring work to the world-renowned festival with shows taking place in both 2021 and 2022. The £75,000 fund was raised in 2020 through the Fringe Society’sContinue reading “First Recipients of Fringe Society Artist and Venue Recovery Fund Announced”

For a few weeks later this summer, Scottish Opera, Citizens Theatre and Scottish Ensemble come together for an outdoor festival of live theatre, music and opera to be held at Scottish Opera’s Production Studio car park at 40 Edington Street, Glasgow. The location, that hosted Scottish Opera’s five-star production of Puccini’s La Bohèmelast September, nowContinue reading “Three Scottish Arts Organisations Join Ranks for Outdoor Festival: Live at 40”

Two years after celebrating its 30th anniversary, Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (EICF)  presents  a hybrid festival of outdoor and  digital events of  theatre and dance for young people with many online shows available to watch any time during the Festival, the first of the Edinburgh festivals to do so in a sector which has been hitContinue reading “Edinburgh International Children’s Festival Blooms in the Botanics and Beyond”