Scotland

Reviews

The Macbeths

Adapted by Dominic Hill and Frances Poet from the play by William Shakespeare

Citizens Theatre

Citizens Theatre, Glasgow

3–30 June 2021

Tennis Elbow

John Byrne

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh in collaboratio...

Sound Stage: Pitlochry Festival Theatre

30 April–8 May 2021

Angela

Mark Ravenhill

Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Royal Lyceum Edinburgh

26 March–2 April 2021

News

Artists and venues supported by Fringe Recovery Fund

6 June 2021

Five venues and fifteen shows are the first to benefit from new Fringe Artist and Venue Recovery Fund.

Edinburgh International Festival 2021

6 June 2021

The EIF has announced its programme for this year with more than 170 live and online events.

Scottish Opera pops up on the road

4 June 2021

Scottish Opera will return to live outdoor performance with its Pop-up Opera Roadshow, featuring 30-minute performances of Gilbert & Sullivan classics.

Scottish Opera puts The Elixir of Love on screen

29 May 2021

Scottish Opera's film of Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) is the latest Scottish Opera: On Screen, filmed at Glasgow’s Theatre Royal.

Barrowland Ballet's interactive Family Portrait

2 May 2021

An interactive video installation, Family Portrait, will be at Glasgow's Tramway and Edinburgh's Assembly Roxy (Edinburgh International Children’s Festival).

New chair for EIF board

25 April 2021

Keith Skeoch is appointed chair of Edinburgh International Festival.

Scottish Opera filmed and outdoor performances

14 April 2021

There will be a new outdoor production of Verdi’s Falstaff, five pop-up Gilbert & Sullivan shows, Roxana Haines directs the latest Scottish Opera: On Screen.

Cast revealed for musical theatre online festival

14 April 2021

A “spectacular company of international stars” has been confirmed for Paul Taylor-Mills’ annual festival of new musical theatre, MTFestUK 2021.

New dates as Grease revs up for 2021 tour

8 April 2021

Producers of a new tour of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical Grease have rescheduled its 2021 dates which will start at Leicester’s Curve in July.

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance launch Rep Studios

6 April 2021

New digital platform Rep Studios' first season includes Smile, Islander, two digital premières from Scottish Dance Theatre and a new mini-festival This Is For You Dundee.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society announces new chair

30 March 2021

Benny Higgins, formally of Tesco Bank and National Galleries of Scotland, takes the chair at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.

Features

Social distancing headaches

30 April 2021

Philip Fisher reports on the latest position on social distancing in Scottish theatres and contrasts it with the stance of the UK government.