Wednesday, October 3, 2018
There are probably enough fans of the original movie to sustain The Classic Screen to Stage Company's touring version of Rain Man. However, as a piece of theatre, it never makes a successful…
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Chahine Yavroyan, who has died of cancer aged 68, was known most recently as a talented lighting designer who worked with many
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
The portrayal of early-onset Alzheimer's in Still Alice, touring to the King's all week, will certainly resonate with many, thanks largely to Sharon Small's magnetic central performance.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Benjamin Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace is a clever choice for the first collaboration between Scottish Opera and East Lothian’s Lammermuir Festival.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AM[SHARE]The long-running ITV sitcom Benidorm gets an extended remix by creator Derren Little in this live stage show. It brings together six
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
Shifting emotions are filtered through autumnal sunlight in the Lyceum's Twelfth Night, with as much defiant sadness on view as happy resolution.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
However, by the time the whole auditorium is on its feet for the finale, dancing along to Y Viva Espana, you'd be forgiven for forgetting how many cracks in the Benidorm carapace have been p…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Ludus: Playful Love, Theatre Broad's production of two contrasting plays by early 20th-century poet and playwright Clifford Bax provides an evening that is high on period charm but never rea…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Director Wils Wilson ventures into the parts of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that most productions leave alone, cutting few, if any, lines in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
After a Fringe full of blockbuster productions, the Traverse's autumn season kicks of with Nests, a two-hander that looks at social inequality and considers what we can learn from crows.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Xana Marwick questions whether society is as committed to supporting its children as it believes it is, in her touring two-hander, Nests,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Dominic Hill sets out a strong message of intent with his Citizens Theatre production of Cyrano de Bergerac. This is a glorious
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2018
David Greig is to adapt Stanislaw Lem’s classic science fiction novel Solaris, in a co-production between Edinburgh’s Lyceum and Melbourne’s Malthouse theatres.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2018
A 200-seat studio theatre space is to be included in a new concert and performance venue being planned in Edinburgh’s New Town.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Cleverly mixing contemporary and historical, director Stefan Herheim’s take on Rossini’s already heavily altered account of the Perrault fairytale puts the music
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AM[SHARE]The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has posted record sales across the three-week festival with a year-on-year rise of 5.25% to an estimated 2.8
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, August 24, 2018
There’s lashings of fun and heaps of inventive adventure to be had in Gobbledigook Theatre’s hands-on adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:48AM[SHARE]Scathing wit and the most unflattering self-pity vie for prominence in Simon Callow’s performed recitation of Oscar Wilde’s letter to his former
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2018
In Peter Brook and long-term collaborator Marie-Helene Estienne’s The Prisoner, the interrogative eye on the exotic reveals much more about the beholder
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AM[SHARE]Gleeful physical comedy features in Lucille & Cecilia, a patchy but intriguingly promising piece from new company Bang Average Theatre at C Aquila. (Picture: © Bang Average)
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Scene Change Productions, Greenwich Theatre and Nutshell Theatre's co-production A Good Enough Girl? is enjoyable, involving and deceptively important production.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Ganymede, TypeCast Productions' reworking of Shakespeare at Paradise in Augustines, is an intriguing production that uses the spirit of the Bard to cast light on contemporary concerns.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]American Absurdum returns with all its trademark incision and quick-fire, hyper-stylised delivery in The House, a fable of modern middle-class America. Empty-nesters
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PM[SHARE]"Brexit, Trump " that’s change!" someone shouts early in First Snow/Premiere Neige, the National Theatre of Scotland’s Quebecois co-production. Following the NTS’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PM[SHARE]Bursting with energy and bold theatrical strokes, David William Bryan tells the true story of his great uncle Arthur " known as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AM[SHARE]Male relationships " specifically inter-generational familial relationships " come under intense, if friendly examination in Glas(s) Productions’ Old Boy. The company has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AM[SHARE]Nicely turned as comedy, Sarah MacGillivray and Phil Bartlett’s story of a Scottish actress straight out of drama school who goes down
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM[SHARE]There is a complexity to Matthew Roberts’ one-man show, Canoe, which goes much deeper than the issue of grieving that lies at its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AM[SHARE]Monday, August 20, 2018
Libby McArthur draws on a true story from her own past, when she was arrested and sentenced to prison for non-payment of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AM[SHARE]Tightly wound and shot through with an utterly surprising melancholy, Keir McAllister’s tale of two men feuding over their right to relax
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2018
Twa, the collaboration between writer Annie George and visual artist Flore Gardner at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, is a lucid and involving production.
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