Sunday, October 29, 2017
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller's great tragedy of loyalty and miss-placed love in the tenements of the waterfront slums of 1950s New York is given a solid production from the EUTC at …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AM[SHARE]The programme bears an image of a shirtless Fox with a sexy woman draped across him. He's looking past her, the physical definition of agonised. This picture promises passion, Greek drama pe…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Our Fathers, at the Traverse to Saturday and then on tour, has a great deal of talent behind it. The end result is amusing and entertaining but ultimately somewhat too frothy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2017
The relationships between sons and fathers informs everything about Our Fathers, an intriguing first collaboration between Magnetic North and the Traverse Theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Eden Court Theatre in Inverness has appointed James Mackenzie-Blackman as its new chief executive. Mackenzie-Blackman is currently executive director at Matthew Bourne’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AM[SHARE]Workers and volunteers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are to be questioned about pay and working conditions, as part of a survey
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
Stark and tense, Ivo van Hove's production of Hedda Gabler for the English National Theatre, is a thoroughly unnerving reading of Ibsen's great play.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 02:00PM[SHARE]The deceptions are hidden in plain sight in Eve Jamieson’s revival of Genet’s 1947 psychodrama. As the two maids act out the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2017
Living with the lights on is centred around my time at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1995. It was there that the odd and bizarre began happening to me and I had no idea what, why or how t…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
Dusty Springfield fans will love Son of a Preacher Man as the 60s return with Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood on both direction and choreographic duties. Just don't hold your breath for a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Staged on Tanya McCallin’s lavish funereal set, David McVicar’s production of La Traviata, revived by Marie Lambert, gets straight to the tragedy of the courtesan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 19, 2017
There are huge and troubling resonances throughout the Lyceum’s startling Cockpit. Fascinating staging and committed performances make for a thoroughly vital production – albeit …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2017
Pulling ghosts out of the air " or rather off the shelves " James Ley’s historical drama recalls the years in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 14, 2017
Raw and powerful, the stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel The Kite Runner has lost none of its edge as it returns to the King's for a week-long run, three years after it…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
Taking (very loose) inspiration from the 1935 film comedy The Ghost Goes West, Richard Ferguson and Andy Cannon's musical features a Scottish castle that is transported to Florida by an Amer…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Creative Scotland has warned that it will have to reduce its network of regularly funded organisations because of the continuing decline in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
Nick Parr, chief executive of Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, has left the companies two years after taking up the newly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PM[SHARE]Perth Theatre is to reopen on December 9 after a £16.6m restoration project on the 115-year-old building, which has been dark since
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
It’s taken almost 70 years for there to be a revival of Bridget Boland’s Cockpit. Written in 1948, this immersive play is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Crammed with strong ideas, new musical The Sunshine Ghost combines the cliches of canny Scotts, misguided American billionaires and supernatural hauntings to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2017
There is no doubt that Ria Jones, as Norma Desmond, owns the Curve theatre's production of Sunset Boulevard that lights into the Edinburgh Playhouse on the first date of its major UK tour.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Worthy but earthbound, Rapture Theatre's touring production of Tennessee Williams' classic A Streetcar Named Desire never really convinces.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
Stretching the edges of where theatre becomes a driver of social change and a place for popular debate, Grid Iron’s Jury Play
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
Making a virtue of the difficulties of telling a story that rages between two full moon events that are 71 years apart,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 30, 2017
The Mercury Theatre, Colchester's touring version of Monty Python's Spamalot for Selladoor Productions is consistently funny and may just be the best version of the show to have come to Edin…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Theatremakers from Scotland, New Zealand and Hong Kong met at this year's fringe in the first part of a three-year collaborative artist
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2017
The National Theatre of Scotland returns to what it does best with Rocket Post, a musical tale that explores a little known
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
Mersey hard to beat: Step inside, love, and see the triumphs and tragedies on the way to Cilla Black becoming an entertainment legend.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2017
Ian McDiarmid's extremely fine performance as Enoch Powell is resentful, fidgety and frustrated, either from feeling overlooked earlier in life or from illness later on.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2017
There's enough pizzaz and passion for a whole production in the opening number of Grease, at the Playhouse to Saturday. Which is a good thing, given that the overture during which the curtai…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 11, 2017
Magdalena Schamberger, the co-founder of Scottish arts-in-health charity Hearts and Minds, is to stand down as its artistic director and chief executive. Schamberger
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