Category Archives: Theatre

Entering the Main Hall at Summerhall feels like you’re part of an elaborate Yoga class as Ashtar Muallem sits on the floor doing a live warm up while chanting in Arabic to the sounds of circling a metal bowl before her show Cosmosofficially kicks off. Already mesmerised by this slight woman, whose limbs are as Continue reading “Cosmos Summerhall Fringe”

Michael Maloney to Star as Hercule Poirot in UK Tour of Murder On The Orient Express Agatha Christie Ltd and Fiery Angel bring Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic Murder On The Orient Express to the stage with a UK tour that includes two Scottish dates (details below) opening on 6th September atContinue reading “Michael Maloney to Star as Hercule Poirot in UK Tour of Murder On The Orient Express”

Citadel Arts are returning to their Leith roots this August with Leith Customs, a new play based on memories and stories of retired officials who worked in Leith Custom House when it still functioned for the busy port of Leith. Custom House was used by a range of workers from sailors, betting shop managers, watchmen fromContinue reading “Citadel Arts Announce This Year’s Fringe Productions”

Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre is celebrating a significant new funding partnership with The William Syson Foundation that is donating £45,000 per year over three years to the pioneering Participate programme. The Foundation has introduced a new strategic programme of Core Support Grants for selected Scottish arts and cultural organisations and this award to the Citizens TheatreContinue reading “New Funding Partnership Marks New Era in Participatory Arts at Citizens Theatre”

Award winning writer Ian Rankin, creator of maverick Edinburgh polisman, John Rebus, who was recently been brought to life by Richard Madden in the recent BBC television adaptation, will see his beloved character on stage this autumn. Rankin’s thirty plus novels have been translated into thirty-six languages and adapted for radio, the stage and theContinue reading “Ian Rankin’s New Rebus Story, A Game Called Malice, Brought to the Stage”

Upcoming performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe have been given awards supporting artists to partake in a Summerhall Fringe run – The Mary Dick Award, The Autopsy Award, and The Meadows Awards and  the Edinburgh Touring Award. With a host of engaging, boundary-pushing work hitting on the biggest themes of the time, Summerhall is proudContinue reading “Marginalised Artists Supported by Summerhall’s Bursary Awards for Fringe”

Shirley Valentine has become embedded in our language and culture thanks to Liverpudlian writer Willy Russell’s 1986 one woman play having been so successfully   adapted to film, musical and radio over the years. Sally Reid, who received Outstanding Performance Award for her version of the eponymous character in 2022, has reprised her role in thisContinue reading “Shirley Valentine Lyceum”

No strangers to the Traverse stage, Sligo theatre company Blue Raincoat returned for three performances of their latest work, The Last Pearl, that is loosely based on the ideas of the scientist and environmentalist James Lovelock. The piece is the fourth in a series of devised works  that include Shackleton, The School Days of ThaddeusContinue reading “The Last Pearl Traverse”

Since 1994, Out of the Blue Arts and Education Trust has developed from a wee gallery space in Edinburgh to six buildings, including the A-listed Out of the Blue Drill Hall in Leith and the iconic Bongo Club in the city centre. Over its 30 years existence, over two million people have come through its doors where creativeContinue reading “Out of the Blue Celebrates 30 years as a Creative Development Organisation”

Established in 2017, Wonder Fools is a theatre company with a track record of delivering relevant arts projects and theatre productions with young people and communities across Scotland and beyond. They have announced their season of programmes for the coming year. Starting at Ayr’s Gaiety theatre and commissioned by Greenspace as part of the Covid memorialContinue reading “Wonder Fools Announces New Season of Socially Engaged Theatre for 2024/25”