Category Archives: Theatre

Scottish Ballet has released a notification to the effect that due to the ongoing restrictions around maintaining social distancing, and in consultation with their touring theatres, they have taken the difficult decision to reschedule their winter tour of The Nutcracker to 2021/22. Performances in all six tour cities will be rescheduled, and box office staff are now in theContinue reading “Brief Announcement re Scottish Ballet’s Winter Production of The Nutcracker”

Wonder Fools is a young Glasgow theatre company that specialises in creating contemporary new theatrical work based on a diverse range of current and historical real-life stories. As part of this year’s unique Traverse Festival programme, they have commissioned five new plays to be performed remotely and free for young people from September 2020 –Continue reading “New Commissioning Project Announced by Wonder Fools”

Capital Theatres, Scotland’s largest independent theatre charity, runs over 700 shows at the Festival and Kings Theatre, and The Studio throughout the year. Alongside this programme of national and international artistic work, Capital Theatres also runs an extensive learning and participation programme.  In 2015, Capital Theatres began working to improve the provision of meaningful artisticContinue reading “Capital Theatre’s Sterling Work in Field of Dementia Affirmed in Report”

When the shops put Back to School signs in their windows, at a date that can seem way too early, it has always been a reminder that the long summer days of the holidays really did have an end in sight. After an imposed period away from school for reasons that few of us couldContinue reading “Back to School Videos from Puppet Animation Scotland”

Edinburgh Youth Theatre (EYT), under the artistic directorship of Shauna Macdonald, has built a thriving community of young people gaining confidence and learning life skills through drama classes and training in all aspects of performance from acting to design to film production. Like so many parts of the arts, the EYT weekly classes, held atContinue reading “Edinburgh Youth Theatre gets Support from Glasgow Film Star James McAvoy”

Like every arts venue in the land, the Honest Toun’s wee gem of a venue, The Brunton, has had to cancel its annual pantomime.  This year, it was to have been a production of panto favourite, Aladdin. The temporary cancellation will be a great disappointment to the folks in East Lothian to miss the YuletideContinue reading “Musselburgh’s Brunton Theatre Joins Ranks of Pantomime Postponement”

One of the favourite parts of the normal Traverse Festival programme is the feature of their Breakfast Plays. Traditionally taking place at 9am, with breakfast roll included, it is a part of the Traverse’s talent development programme that showcases new short plays by early career writers who are often alumni of the theatre’s Young WritersContinue reading “Traverse Theatre Iconic Breakfast Plays to be Spread Across the Globe”

The annual pantomime at Edinburgh’s King’s theatre is legendary. It is not only Scotland’s biggest and best-selling panto, with over 90,000 theatregoers attending each festive season, it is a Yuletide institution in the Capital. But not this year. The restrictions due to the Covid crisis mean that this festive production of Sleeping Beauty will beContinue reading “The King’s Sleeping Beauty to Stay Dormant till 2021”

A dog may be man’s best friend but his favourite space is supposed to be a shed. This may or may not have influenced producer Francesca Moody and writer and performer Gary McNair when they decided on the concept of Shedinburgh, but it’s a thought! This August may not have the usual cornucopia of actsContinue reading “It’s the Shedinburgh Fringe Festival!”