Category Archives: Theatre

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”

Nearly 35 years ago, a film hit the cinemas that has remained in the public consciousness since then. That film was the multi-Oscar nominated blockbuster, Fatal Attraction that told the salutary tale of happily married New York attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) who meets editor Alex Forrest (Glenn Close) on a night out in theContinue reading “Iconic Movie Fatal Attraction Comes to UK Stages in 2022”

Now that Scotland has a newly returned government, a collective call has been made to them by eleven of the country’s leading arts venues, going under the umbrella of the Scottish Theatre Producing Consortium, along with the Federation of Scottish Theatre, with an important message. The message is that the Scottish Government urgently reviews theContinue reading “Urgent Call to Scottish Government from Group of Scottish Arts Venues”

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS), the charity that underpins the Edinburgh Fringe, announces the opening of applications for the Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund 2021. A funding pot containing £75,000, raised thanks to the Fringe Society’s FringeMakers platform in partnership with Crowdfunder and a direct donation and support from AJ Bell, is available toContinue reading “Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund Opened by Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society”

The annual Edinburgh International Children’s Festival (EICF), that’s produced by imaginate, Scotland’s national organisation that promotes and celebrates theatre and dance for children and young people, has launched its 2021 programme. This year, after many months of planning, the result is a programme that will be a hybrid of digital and outdoor events. The Festival’sContinue reading “Edinburgh International Children’s Festival 2021 Launches with Fresh Imagination”

To coincide with this year’s International Dance Day, Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) is showcasing a solo work from Company member Pauline Torzuoli that will take the form of the film adaptation of Thin h/as h/air. The piece was originally developed in December 2019 as part of SPUTNIK, a creative platform showcasing new work from emergingContinue reading “International Dance Day Celebrated by World Premiere from Scottish Dance Theatre”

Vision Mechanics is an Edinburgh based visual theatre company founded in 1995, whose cross-artform productions concentrate on engaging people with their surroundings and communities. This August, as part of North Berwick’s Fringe by the Sea programme, the Company  brings their show Storm.  Storm, that first opened as part of Celtic Connections 2020, was part ofContinue reading “North Berwick’s Fringe by the Sea Welcomes Giant Puppet Storm This August”

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society (EFFS), the charity that underpins the world-renowned Edinburgh Fringe, has announced the opening of this year’s show registration as 5th May 2021. This process is available to artists and venues until the end of the festival with any live performance registered as part of the 2021 Fringe being expected toContinue reading “Show Registration for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2021 Set to Open in May”