Category Archives: Theatre

Scotland’s visual theatre, puppetry and animated film festival, Manipulate, that’s been brightening Edinburgh’s dark early months since 2008, announce it’s 2021 return in a new form.  In a brief YouTube video, Puppet Animation’s CEO, Dawn Taylor launched the programme that will run from 21st January till 21st February 2021 with the three aims of provocation,Continue reading “New Version of Annual Manipulate Festival Announced for 2021”

This year’s annual panto in Musselburgh’s Brunton theatre takes a new form. Instead of a live stage production, this season’s version of the Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel from the redoubtable John Binnie, will be screened in the Brunton’s cinema space instead. We will see Rapunzel who was locked in a tower being rescued by herContinue reading “Rapunzel the Pantomime to be Screened at The Brunton”

Fibres, the jointly produced play from Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre and Edinburgh’s Stellar Quines, has been remade as a filmed version that will premiere online on Wednesday 25 November at 7pm. Written by award-winning playwright Frances Poet, Fibres explores the deadly legacy of asbestos in the Clyde shipyards, giving voice to the stories of women andContinue reading “Premiere of New Filmed Version of Stage Play Fibres Announced”

The Traverse Theatre online festival, that takes place in the digital space known as Traverse 3, for the next month presents a rehearsed reading entitled The Bus Stop.  Written by actor Gavin Yule, the play has been developed as part of a new mentoring programme from Lung Ha Theatre, Scotland’s leading theatre company for peopleContinue reading “Lung Ha Theatre Company Brings Play on Disability Experience to Traverse 3”

Writer and sometime pantomime dame, Neil John Gibson, has come up with an idea to bring some panto fun to YouTube this Christmas. Inspired by his recorded Lockdown Diaries for the Howden Park Centre Facebook, when he thought about his fellow thespians who’d be out of work this Festive season, Gibson has put together aContinue reading “Panto Dames Go Digital for Some Festive Fun This Christmas”

Remember The Osmonds? They were the white American boy band of the ‘60s and ‘70s when they enjoyed enormous popularity with teen and older audiences, selling over 100 million records worldwide. In August 2021, The Osmonds: A New Musical will have its world premiere at London’s New Wimbledon Theatre as part of a UK & IrelandContinue reading “The Osmonds: A New Musical Set to Tour UK in August 2021”

The Gaiety Theatre in Ayr was built in 1902. Since its major refurbishment in 2016 it has created well over 30 jobs, supported up to 100 training places a year as well as offering  outreach projects for young people and older people with dementia.  During the Covid pandemic, this centre of the arts in AyrshireContinue reading “New Artist Development Programme Announced by Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre”

Over the course of eight decades, Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre (SDT) have  been at the heart of performance in Scotland when they have grown into a world-class organisation. Over this Yule period, the joint organisation reveals SHINE ON, a 4-part festive offering. While Dundee Rep Theatre remains closed to the public, the showContinue reading “Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Offer Bespoke Dundonian Christmas”

In November, skies are usually lit up by fireworks but this year  it will be Leith Theatre that lights up to show progress of its Crowdfunder campaign  launched on Bonfire Night 2020. Leith Theatre, that remains on the Theatres at Risk register, still has a long way to go on its renovation journey and isContinue reading “Leith Theatre’s Big Radiator Generator Crowdfunder Launches on Bonfire Night”

The Traverse Theatre is able to announce two paid Creative Fellowship opportunities with The University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). One is the IASH/Traverse Digital Fellowship, a full-time 3-month writing Fellowship focusing on new work for digital platforms to take place between May and July 2021.  This paid Fellowship isContinue reading “Two Creative Paid Fellowship Opportunities with Traverse and University of Edinburgh”